WHAT
I READ TODAY
- Blessed am
I that I am born to this land and that I had the luck to love her.
What
care I if queenly treasure is not in her store but precious enough is for me the living wealth of her love.
Ref: These lines are from “Motherland” a poem in Gitanjali written by the
Indian poet, writer and philosopher Rabindranath Tagore (1861- 1941).
Comment:
It is unfortunate that what Tagore believed and pacticed is missing in present day young and old
persons. Most of them are running after
power and pelf.
- Come,
come, whoever you are ,
Wanderer, fire worshipper, lover of leaving.
This is not a caravan of despair.
It does not matter that you have broken your vow
A thousand times, still come,
And yet again come.
Ref: I have taken these lines from a book on Rumi which was
not published long ago. But I had read the same lines in in another anthology
of Persian poetry.
Comment: The world is full of sinners. They commit many types
of sins in spite of knowing that they shall be punished by God. Each time they
commit a new sin, they promise not to commit it again. They swear but their
character is not stable. They are vagabonds, fire-worshippers and unfaithful. They break their vows thousands of times. The
poet advises them to reform themselves even after thousands of atonements. God’s caravan is not of despair and disappointment.
It is always accommodating and forgiving. So give up your vicious deeds even
now after committing them repeatedly.
*****
G.R.Kanwal
12 December 2025
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