POEMS WHICH SRI RAMANA BHAGAVAN ENJOYED third part

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Friday, December 30, 2005 9:01 PM

POEMS WHICH SRI RAMANA BHAGAVAN ENJOYED third part

SHAPER SHAPED

In days gone by I used to be

A potter who would feelHis fingers mould the yielding clay

To patterns on his wheel;

But now, through wisdom lately won,

That pride has died away,

I have ceased to be the potter

And have learned to be the clay.

In other days I used to be

A poet through whose pen

Innumerable songs would come

To win the hearts of men;

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

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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