If wealth is lost, <br />Something is lost. <br />If health is lost, <br />Everything is lost. <br />So, health is the best. <br /> <br />If wealth is given, <br />The unsatisfied receiver <br />Still asks for more, <br />And unhappy the donor <br />Becomes being the loser. <br /> <br />If food is offered, <br />The satisfied receiver <br />Says 'Enough, no more, ' <br />When the zealous Feeder <br />Still offers to give more. <br /> <br />If knowledge is imparted, <br />The disciplined receiver <br />Wants it more and more, <br />While the intelligent master <br />Perfects himself still further. <br /> <br />When one lamp lights <br />Many other lamps, <br />It doesn't lose its <br />Self-effulgent brightness. <br />So is the knowledge, as the light is. <br /> <br />It's needless to say, <br />The darkness goes away <br />In the presence of light, <br />So the ignorance exits <br />When the knowledge exists.<br /><br />Rajaram Ramachandran<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/light-of-knowledge/
