POEMS WHICH SRI RAMANA BHAGAVAN ENJOYED third part

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IT">That pride has died away, I have ceased to be the potter And have

learned to be the clay.

mso-ansi-language: IT">In other days I used to be A poet through whose

pen Innumerable songs would come To win the hearts of men;

mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: IT">But now, through

new-got knowledge Which I hadn’t had so long, I have ceased to be the

poet And have learned to be the song. I was a fashioner of swords,

In days that now are gone, Which on a hundred battle-fields Glittered

and gleamed and shone; But know that I am brimming with The silence of

the Lord I have ceased to be a sword-maker And learned to be the

sword. In by-gone days I used to be A dreamer who would hurl On every

side an insolence

14pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;

mso-ansi-language: IT">Of emerald and pearl. But now that I am

kneeling At the feet of the Supreme I have ceased to be the dreamer

And have learned to be the dream. From the diary of A Devaraja

Mudaliar Day by Day with Bhagavan 5-6-1945 afternoon ...this is the

third visit of H.C. to Bhagavan in which he gave us a recitation of

two of his earliest poems and one out of those made at

Pondicherry...Bhagavan enjoyed the recitatations.

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