When anyone tries to divide life in watertight compartments and try to seek easy ready-made solutions, particularly from some instant gurus, I warn them that life is not that much simple to make it another business. After one such sharing, I wrote this song.
97A race
Why this race and to reach what
Why this much trouble within us
We run to attain something
Not realizing what it is
‘Life is there to live’
Remains merely a slogan
And this kind of life
Remain mere drama
Just twisting the word
Dividing life as ‘spiritual’ and ‘mundane’
Adding more advertisements in it
We made this life another business
In the name of seeking answer
Spirituality become another business
Both the spirituality and mundane life
Play a life of seek and hide
O poor ‘atman’
Your condition become indeed pitiable
Therefore, we who run
In an unknown path
To attain the goal which is not clear?
Stopping for a while when we get stumbled in it
Removing the blindfold again
Keeping a clear goal for life
Running in a proper track
Let us take new efforts
To live a meaningful life
Erode 24-12-1998, 5.45 p.m.
an alternative translation
To attain which we run like this
Why so many twists within us
We run to attain something
Not knowing what actually is it
‘Life is here only to live”
But this remains only a slogan
As such life always remain
Merely an entertainment
Using so many magical words
Like ‘pleasure’ [trishna] and ‘bliss’ [anand]
By advertising it more and more
We converted life as a business
In the name of seeking answer [to life]
Spirituality [atmikta] is now commercialized
As both ‘pleasure’ and ‘bliss’
play hide and seek
And trapped in between them
O my atman your situation become very pitiable indeed
Therefore as we run to reach the non-understanding target
in a path that we don’t know properly
When we are stumble
Taking a break from the race
Removing all the blind folders
and keeping a known target before us
Let us run in a path which is clear
to reach the goal to live a meaningful life
Erode 24-12-1998, 5.45 p.m.
97 ஒரு ஓட்டம்
To attain which we run like this
Why so many twists within us
We run to attain something
Not knowing what actually is it
‘Life is here only to live”
But this remains only a slogan
As such life always remain
Merely an entertainment
Using so many magical words
Like ‘pleasure’ [trishna] and ‘bliss’ [anand]
By advertising it more and more
We converted life as a business
In the name of seeking answer [to life]
Spirituality [atmikta] is now commercialized
As both ‘pleasure’ and ‘bliss’
play hide and seek
And trapped in between them
O my atman your situation become very pitiable indeed
Therefore as we run to reach the non-understanding target
in a path that we don’t know properly
When we are stumble
Taking a break from the race
Removing all the blind folders
and keeping a known target before us
Let us run in a path which is clear
to reach the goal to live a meaningful life
Erode 24-12-1998, 5.45 p.m.
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