Upadesa Saram, Major Alan Chadwick version - verses 1,2,3

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UPADESA SARAM

 

Rendered into verse by Major Alan Chadwick

 

 

1. Karma must ever yield its proper fruit,

For thus it is ordained by God, Himself,

Supreme Creator. Then is Karma God?

No, for it is itself insentient.

 

 

2. Of Karma the results must pass away,

Yet it leaves seeds which, in their turn sprout forth

And throw the actor back into the flood

Of Karma's ocean. Karma cannot save.

 

3. But acts performed without attachment's urge

And solely for the service of the Lord

Will cleanse the mind and indicate the way

Which leads at length unto the final goal.

 

............. to be continued