Rudraksha - Cv To Cviii Poem by Parameswaran Nair Damodaran Nair
Rudraksha - Cv To Cviii
Cv
Why build mountains taller than neighbour's hills
Creating valleys of troubles and sufferings down
Waste not time building and measuring hills and valleys
Haste, fight from the heights privations in the depths
Cvi
Bless us build a garden in the heights far above the soil
With witherless flowers of love-scenting eternal bliss
Make all six stages of our life a pleasant experience
Like flooding Ganges in all six seasons round the year
Cvii
I am thankful to you, my lord, for making the earth an inn
Comfortable and pleasant for us to come and go
I confide my aspirations to you to let prevail on earth
Shanti, the eternal peace to make life a pleasant journey
Cviii
Lead us, my lord, from dreadful darkness to light
Turn us from the worthless to the worthiest ever
Ferry us, as the nectar, from mortality to immortality
Across the life between ignorance and realities
With this 108th stanza I complete The Rudraksha. It represents 108 beads of a Maala of Rudraksha.
With this I've read quite a few of the quatrains called Rudrakha beads and they are well-crafted as I see to stand out and apart.
Thank you Pathakji. Comments from people like you actually hail me to the heights of inspiration and satisfaction as well
This is a beautiful prayer of supplication and gratitude! The last one I consider as the best......! Sounds like a prayer in Tagore's Gitanjali! Relished reading the poet's notes. A sure 10
I am thankful to you dear friend. My old brain is too poor to recollect.any verse of Tagore that is similar to this. Anyhow I will try to locate if there is any. One thing I have to mention in particular that your unreserved appreciation and appraisal have helped me a lot to reach this stage of the series. My gratitude to you is endless
A word of gratitude goes a long way. We have to extend the vision of personal happiness to all and make a conscious effort towards it. Our thoughts and prayers and efforts need to be directed for this goal in unisom. Thank you DP Nair ji for creating this beautiful correction of poems. Each poem certainly stands as a bead of Rudraksh creating inspiration and determination for the readers.
I am thankful to you Savitaji for this elation comments. It's the comments like this has energised me to finish this series successfully. There are some people without remembering whom we cannot cherish our achievements in life. You certainly deserve much in this line. Thank you
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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8/11/2025 5:05:53 PM # 1.0.0
A heartfelt prayer, indeed! " Asatoma sat gamaya, Tamaso ma jyotir gamaya" . In this prayer, you echo the wisdom of the Upanishads -' Lead me from darkness to light'. I immensely liked the second line: 'Turn us from the worthless to the worthiest ever'! A wonderful conclusion to the Rudraksha poems.......10
Thank you very much Geeta Menon
Thank you very much Geeta Menon. I am personally very much attached to the Upanishad verses and I can say that I am living a life enlightened by their glory