Sweet music makes the heart melt;
Such joy can never be felt
As when you hear a sweet song-
So sweet as a nightingale’s song.
Twins born together do not die together;
God determines when to gather
His children to His Eternal Home
If they do not shun the Home.
If two people agree on everything,
One of them is doing the thinking.
For differences are bound to occur
When two working brains cannot concur.
Not to take a decision is itself a decision-
This is a lame excuse for indecision.
For men required to take action it is no tribute
Whatever reasons they may attribute.
Splendid indeed is the earth’s contour,
But if into the interior you could make a detour,
What a boiling inferno would it be
That you would shudder to see!
When nature kills a vast number
Why should man add to the number?
Death and destruction are heart-rending;
Let us hear less of things harrowing.
People sometimes donate to earn a name.
This is not a laudable aim.
Donations are for helping the needy;
A part of it sometimes goes to the greedy.
When we hear of sufferings galore
We from our hearts deplore
The fate of the victims that are helpless
But, by God’s grace, are not hopeless.
The peacock dances gloriously in the forest,
But nobody’s attention can it arrest.
Brilliance should come out into the open
And should never happen to be hidden.
Virtue is born in the human heart;
Of one’s character it is a part.
Virtue should always be appreciated
Whereas vice has to be deprecated.
In many places the sea has washed off the land;
What can be done by the human hand?
If God does not provide succour,
No improvement in life can occur.
Beware of making an island
Your much cherished home-land
Tsunami may hit you by surprise
And you may not see the next sunrise.
For every earthly show
There is a common flaw.
It doesn’t last for all time;
It ends in a short time.
Evening shadows on earth fall
And then comes the night fall.
But let not the spirit fall
When for prayer comes a call.
Some are by nature chicken-hearted;
Some others become broken-hearted
When woes and sufferings engulf them
And they have no strength to withstand them.
If one makes rules for others to obey
And oneself those rules disobey,
Rule-making becomes ironical;
Some may call it farcical.
Thousands gather at places of worship
For which they find no hardship.
But hundreds sometimes die in a stamped
Which no miracle helps to impede.
Bad indeed is victimisation;
Worse still is brutalisation.
A man may be killed in a shoot-out;
But why should his vitals be pulled out?
Some people are known to have heaps of wealth
Much of which may have been earned by stealth.
Wealth is not meant for accumulation
But for proper utilisation.
Some people are good at conceptualisation
But poor or weak in execution.
To concepts we should have no allergy
But they should be fulfilled with energy.
One law in the world never does change
What is that but all things change?
Rapid change in the world to-day
Is bewildering every one to –day
Some people gain from a windfall;
Some others suffer from a snow fall;
Many people gain from a rainfall.
None of these come when they call.
Life should be for good deeds a depository;
It should not for good thoughts be a dormitory.
Only from good thoughts can good deeds flow
And only with good deeds life will glow.
To lead a life of ideals,
To walk the path of ordeals,
To make sacrifices for common good
Are for thought a proper food.
Idealism must be the realism of tomorrow;
If not, idealism is just hollow.
Idealism can more be preached than practised;
This is the bane that is often witnessed.
The lonlier you are, the more pensive you are;
The healthier you are, the stronger you are;
The more religious you are, the less secular you are;
The more angry you are, the less patient you are.