A man-lion, striving at his best,
Begets home a lot of fortune.
Fate giveth on its own behest,
A coward croons pretty soon.
I’ll fight the fate and do my best
To make some odd things opportune,
Even then should I not succeed,
Who can fault me indeed?
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Translation |28.09.2025| fate, fight, fortune
Note: Ottava Rima (AB/AB/AB/CC), based on a Sanskrit Subhaashhitam transliterated as under:
Udyoginam purusha-simham upaiti lakshmi,
Daivena deyam iti kaapurushaa vadanti ||
Daivam nihatya kuru paurisham aatma-shaktyaa,
Bale krte yadi na sidhyati kah atra doshah ||
“Purusha is covered by five koshas or sheaths.”
~ extract from ‘The Holy Science’
Forged from the elements, our form is dust,
enlivened by spirit, the breath of God,
layered by our lower and higher mind,
with bliss manifesting when heart has thawed.
Safely encased in these sheaths, is the Self,
which is who we are, a divine God-spark
and when the five sheaths dissolve one by one,
shining as Self, we then banish the dark.
Purusha, the consciousness, and prakriti, the matter,
Like glass vessels in the basket of existence clatter;
Beyond corporal, cerebral, and emotional realms,
To Spiritual reality the consciousness whelms...!
Like a migratory bird, having its mission fulfilled,
The soul flies to its homeland exhilarated and thrilled;
Exploring silent salient lands of known and unknown,
Reaches the zone and milestone of peace and joy sown and grown...!
Like a flower and plant and tree encounters the seasons,
Of summer, monsoon, spring, winter, and autumn with reasons;
So too the spirit, mind, and soul passes all fine phases,
Like a horse single-mindedly towards its goal races...!
The lithosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, and atmosphere,
The exosphere, geosphere, hemisphere, and hydrosphere;
Across each realm, the creature reaches with no resistance,
Attains pilgrimage of perfection and pure existence...!!!
07 May 2023
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Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent – 53
Must appearance differ from reality
In as much as front and back of the same body
To negate existence in non-duality
Being the non-existence of duality
Existence displaces both in one body
Must appearance differ from reality
Either and neither one incongruity
Make both come alive in one busy-body
To negate existence in non-duality
Everything comes from nothing logicality
Open your eyes you’re the Purusha body
Must appearance differ from reality
Every time you conceive the entirety
You affirm existence in your own body
To negate existence in non-duality
Time’s the hand draws curtain of eternity
Past nor future exists in any body
Must appearance differ from reality
To negate existence in non-duality
© T. Wignesan – Paris, 2015
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