THE
CONTRAST
H.
N. HARI
The
seducted people of these ages
Are
in the sensual pleasure cages;
Drowned
in misery are these people,
If
their minds turn spiritual,
For
they remember unmanly things
They
did, to keep this body and mind,
In
perfect state, which none can achieve
For,
this is the nature of human life.
Show
thou a man who says he is happy
For ever, having friends, loves and money.
But
a man with spiritual strength
Is
to the brim of life satisfied;
He
knows the vanity of human life,
And
that man reaches his stature
only, when he contemplates the divine
Which has come to us from the line,
Of great sages of past Hindusthan.
One
can see the ever-happy sages,
Who
abound in the slopes of