Published on 12:00 AM, November 07, 2020
Poetry : A Pair of Lalon Songs
Man is the Measure
(bhobe manush guru nishtha jar)
Subrata Augustine Gomes
Serve your human guru first
With your heart and soul
If you feel like fulfilling
Your yearnings in this world.
In lakes and rivers and canals
It's the self-same water that prevails,
My lone lord roams from home to home
In humans he turns manifold.
Pure light at first, he anon
Assumed myriad forms then on—
The truth is evident to the enlightened,
Man's the final form of God it's told.
Arguments won't take you far;
Want him? Listen to your heart.
Siraj Sain warns: "Listen, Lalon,
In dialectics don't get enthralled.".
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