SUBRAMANIA BHARATI
Translated from Tamil by
R. Sundaresan
O ignorant, roaming about
everywhere
and seeking a thousand
gods!
will you listen to me if
I say
that the thousands of
Vedas proclaim
that God is but the flaming knowledge!
O ignorant, worshipping
Nadan, Kadan and Vedan in frenzied devotion!
Realise that knowledge
that is immanent in everything is God.
Have you heard epics say
that pure knowledge is Sivam!
Will you lose your
direction
having lost yourself in
the maze of fanatical religions?
Vedas enjoin on you to
live care-free,
but as one who eats the
chaff
imagining the pleasure
of eating rice,
you pursue purposeless acts.