Maa Bharath! <br />To alleviate money-making disease <br />You exiled me to a foreign desert. <br />Could You reduce flames by petrol? <br />The disease goes beyond any control! <br /> <br />Maa Bharath! <br />Take me back to Your pious lap comfort <br />Which alone can heal even birth-ailment <br />Where wind sings songs of divine names <br />To elevate the soul from temporal frames. <br /> <br />Maa Bharath! <br />How I was happy to hear splendid Ramayana <br />And the world’s longest legend Mahabharata <br />From Your perpetual lips sweet and skilled <br />Mixed with judicious ethics vital and valued! <br /> <br />Maa Bharath! <br />Which land had ever seen an Avatar like Krishna <br />Fusion of all fine personalities world witnessed <br />Sweet child, witty friend, winner of hearts, warrior, <br />Orator, Karma Yogi, Lord still rules many followers? <br /> <br />Maa Bharath! <br />Buddha carried message of Love churned out of Veda. <br />Ramanuja opened to downtrodden the path of Dvaita. <br />Sankara brought out the hidden precious treasure Advaita. <br />Countless gems of spirituality took birth from Your lap! <br /> <br />Maa Bharath! <br />In my teens, I was stirred by Vivekananda a holy lion <br />All my time I must read Ramakrishna’s Gospel line by line <br />My life’s ambition to achieve even a tiny fraction of Love <br />That of Amrita Devi embodiment of Your mission and motto. <br /> <br />Maa Bharath! <br />You being the heart of earth emitting waves of wisdom <br />Sending Your children of genius like Gandhi to inform <br />The value of non-violence and renunciation to the world. <br />Shelter foreigners who come in search of spiritual gold. <br /> <br />Maa Bharath! <br />Forgive me who forgot You in search of asset. <br />Let me lie as a tiny dust at Your saintly feet. <br />Take me again to Tamilnadu a part of Your land <br />A nation of temples, devotion and devotees band! 080208<br /><br />Raman Savithiri<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/955-mother-bharath-080208/
