Triveni Journal
1927 | 11,233,916 words
Triveni is a journal dedicated to ancient Indian culture, history, philosophy, art, spirituality, music and all sorts of literature. Triveni was founded at Madras in 1927 and since that time various authors have donated their creativity in the form of articles, covering many aspects of public life....
PRAYER (A Prose Poem)
R.S. Murty
Ye up from bed, it is prayer time
Pure in mind, raise your voice in His praise,
Is it one god or many
Is it one shape or many shapes
Or is it shapeless
Or is it female form
Makes no difference to the devotees
As each form touches deep chords of devotion
Each has regal splendour of its own
And makes you feel equally at home
Instils in you high moral virtues
Of love, sympathy and forgiveness
Lays claim to govern the moral order
The cosmic phenomena
While being part there of
To sustain it, to keep it going,
Each endowed with enormous power
To subdue mind, to thwart evil,
To make you feel humble to flush out all impurities
(As no prayer is worthwhile with mind remaining impure)
And allow peace to reign while the prayer goes on.
Ye up from bed last you miss the prayer
For there is no better way to cleanse the mind
Prayer the only escape route for the woes of man
To provide the grip to lift yourself up from the quagmire
To develop detachment to things ephemeral
To rouse the divine lament in you
Or bring you near to the divine
And aspire to become part of the great Reality.