982 Impossible to utter
This is not
A simple task
All cannot be
Communicated through words
There is no language
To communicate
A noble thing
That goes within us
All the messages
That we try to share through language
Are nothing but
The task that we gave to our brain
Anything that
We proclaim making it as the base
Is nothing but
Half backed message
Any idea that we
Put forth only based on it
Will disappear
In the course of time
The one thing that
We understood through silence
Will remain firmly
By dwelling in our heart
When we long
To know that
His grace will come
And inform it to the atman
The atman which
Understood it
Will attain peace
By reaching his feet
Then transcending the
Limitation of language
Unable to communicate
It will remain silent
Mathigiri, 2-10-2018, 10.10 p.m.
The book which I am reading now (Graham Kings, Christianity connected: Hindus, Muslims and the World in the Letters of Max Warren and Roger Hooker, New Delhi, (2002), Indian Edition, ISPCK, 2017.) often forces me not only to think but record my reflections on the same day as brain storm. But while I type my reflections, apart from my limitation in English, the lack of proper words to express my thoughts often took a toll on me. While typing I will stop typing and began to think to find proper words to express my views, then I will remain silent. Several times in that silence I find some kind of comfort. The realization of my relationship with the Lord transcending words and language will compel me to give up even such attempts to record them. Though I still like to read, I wish I could stop further reflections and recording them which definitely cannot give expression to my inner relationship with the Lord.
As I took the book again to read, as I began to reflect the subject which I already read in the afternoon, stopping reading, I say quietly and said to myself in Tamil the first line of this poem as my prayer. Then as the inspiration came, stopping reading I first wrote this song and then continued my reading.
982 சொல்லிட முடியாது
இதுஒன்றும் எளிதான
காரியம் ஆகாது
எல்லாமே எழுத்திலே
சொல்லிட முடியாது
உள்ளாக உயிர்தேடும்
உயர்வான ஒன்றை
உரைத்திட நமக்கிங்கு
மொழியேதும் கிடையாது
மொழிமூலம் கூறும்
செய்திகள் யாவுமே
மூளைக்கு நாம்தந்த
வேலையே ஆகும்
அதைஒன்றை மட்டுமே
ஆதாரம் ஆக்கியே
அறிவிக்கும் ஏதுமே
அரைகுறை ஆகும்
அதைமட்டும் சார்ந்து
அடுக்கடுக்காய் வைக்கும்
கருத்துகள் யாவும்
காலத்தில் மறையும்
மவுனத்தின் மூலம்
அறிந்திடும் ஒன்று
உள்ளத்தில் இறங்கி
உறுதியாய் நிற்கும்
அதையுமே அறிந்திட
விழைந்திடும் போது
அவனருள் வந்து
உயிருக்குக் கூறும்
அதையும் அறிந்த
உயிரும் இறுதியில்
அவனடி நாடி
அமைதியை அடையும்
அதன்பின் மொழியின்
எல்லையைக் கடந்து
அறிவிக்க இயலாமல்
மவுனமும் காக்கும்
மத்திகிரி, 2-10-2018, இரவு, 10.10