LAXMI NARAYAN MAHAPATRA
From your great fulgent flare
I
receive the photons of light
In
your golden beautitude
I
am adorned
with a halo.
Up, above, down, below
in the middle wherever I go
in sun or shade
light or dark.
I walk to.
an encounter with you.
Why shall I attain
to a state sublime?
Why
should I be transformed
into some being
noble and high?
–Translated from Oriya by the poet