Front PageGOLDEN WORDS FROM SAINT POET VEMANA...........VI
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GOLDEN WORDS FROM SAINT POET VEMANA.................VI
Prof Dr Colonel (Retired) K Prabhakar Rao Vemana a saint poet is believed to have lived in the state of Andhra Pradesh in India during 17-18 centuries. He enjoyed worldly pleasures and company of women in his youth without a check and is believed to have renounced the world at a later stage much disillusioned with the way of world. His poems are popular with common men and he spelt out his poems in simple Telugu poetey that could be very easily understood. His poems reflect the social and political conditions of that age and ills in the society. The European officer C Brown of British Government who was an officer in the related district where Vemana roamed and lived has done a great amount of research work. Some of his Telugu poems are presented as translated English poems that send an universal message to the people of the world.
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Blaming astrology is of no use after failures
Although the task is taken up at appropriate auspicious time
God is aware of every ones fate although people know it or not
Thus Vemana spoke in his poems with a rhyme
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God is merged in a five-letter word*
Know! the God is manifesting in everything in world
That would lead to the realization
And thus spoke Vemana the truth that he could
( * Om…. Na –ma –shi –va -ya is a five letter Sanskrit word saluting Lord Shiva)
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One can not describe God and his shape
As God manifests too in the smallest atoms
How can one describe him and his form?
Thus spoke Vemana exploring secrets deep in fathoms
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It is futile to worship idols kept in Temples
That are built from scores of pieces of stone
One can not realize God in this way
Thus spoke Vemana in an appealing and firm tone
Continued
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