Sanu Ghimire, Australia
holding a firebrand of peace in your hand
Muttering the rhymes of non-violence taught by you
Trampling along the roads of humanity guided by your hand
and strivings hard to resuscitate
The dormant wisdom almost forgotten in human soul
This transcendental sermon of yours I repeat,
Be a light in yourself
Mankind, driven crazy by the transient opulence that lasts no long,
Mankind, being painted with the stroke of comfort and material prosperity,
though inside they squirm in pain with their tormented heart
so I ask let’s congregate together and search
your prayer and your recitations
Let’s plant them in our heart and cry
Be a light in yourself
A heart thirsting for eternal redemption of soul
A heart questing for requital for an unreturned love
You say let a distilled river of unconditional love flow hereafter
Lets yourself be drenched and let others drench.
In the cesspool of pains caused by sorrows
Do not linger on drugged by boundless passions
You the one unperturbed in the repose of a sage
That unexpressed tunes of your un-fluttering eyes
You who dissent the worship of stone gods
You who preach others to be the slave of our own the inner being
While spilling the sermons of what is being religious?
You show us the path of eternal redemption
Spurning all kinds of heretic beliefs
I determinedly advocate for purification of your soul
and I am desperate to trace out your footprints
O envoy of peace! O Buddha, the wisdom in yourself!
O designer of human hearts! O the Cosmic Soul!
Those golden formulae that you have produced
those endless mantras that you handed down
Be a light in yourself
Be a light in yourself
Translated by Rabindra Poudel
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