Translated by Muni Narayana Prasad
This work in Malayalam language was written in the 1920’s when a rich man, who donated a piece of land in Madras to Guru, attempted to take it back because of some legal hurdles.
Forgetting something good
Done by someone else
Is no good at all.
It is good to forget instantly
What is not at all good. – 1
Righteousness becomes victorious,
Truth too is likewise;
Always it is so.
Unrighteousness as well as
Untruth do not become
Victorious at any time. – 2
Water-source directed
To the paddy field
Makes the water reach
Useless grass as well.
If the way to paddy
Is closed, the water
Benefits rocks alone. – 3
No one victorious does
Forsake good fame
As also good status
These two accrue not on
Those who are mean;
The opposite happens to them. – 4
One reality alone exists;
All these are not real.
All men needs must
Abide by Truth
And righteousness.
No one should think of
Life as ever-lasting. – 5
Taking back what is
Already gifted to someone
Causes sufferings in life
Even to the highborn.
This ancient saying
Being exceptionally true
Is not at all meaningless. – 6
He who takes back
What is gifted already
Is the most impoverished.
Impoverished more than him
No one is there in the world. - 7
This work in Malayalam language was written in the 1920’s when a rich man, who donated a piece of land in Madras to Guru, attempted to take it back because of some legal hurdles.
Forgetting something good
Done by someone else
Is no good at all.
It is good to forget instantly
What is not at all good. – 1
Righteousness becomes victorious,
Truth too is likewise;
Always it is so.
Unrighteousness as well as
Untruth do not become
Victorious at any time. – 2
Water-source directed
To the paddy field
Makes the water reach
Useless grass as well.
If the way to paddy
Is closed, the water
Benefits rocks alone. – 3
No one victorious does
Forsake good fame
As also good status
These two accrue not on
Those who are mean;
The opposite happens to them. – 4
One reality alone exists;
All these are not real.
All men needs must
Abide by Truth
And righteousness.
No one should think of
Life as ever-lasting. – 5
Taking back what is
Already gifted to someone
Causes sufferings in life
Even to the highborn.
This ancient saying
Being exceptionally true
Is not at all meaningless. – 6
He who takes back
What is gifted already
Is the most impoverished.
Impoverished more than him
No one is there in the world. - 7
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