Joy Poem

Joy

Poem

By Subramania Bharati

I

The world is charged with sweetness.

The sky is sweetly fashioned.

The air is sweet.

Fire, water, earth,

all is sweet.

The sun is beneficent, the moon is beneficent. The stars in the sky are wondrous beautiful.

Sweet is rain, lightning, thunder.

 Sweet is ocean, mountain, forest.

 Rivers are joy-giving. 

Ore, tree, plant, creeper, 

Flower, fruit, 

all give joy. 

Bird, insect, animal,

 all, all good creatures are.

 Fishes and the denizens of the deep are good. Men are very good too. 

Male and female are alike good.

Childhood is blessed.

Sweet is youth, and age is sweet.

Welcome life, and welcome, death!

II

Our bodies are good: the senses are sweet. 

Life has its fragrant flavour. 

Mind is honey. Knowledge is honey. Feeling is nectarean.

Feeling is nectar.

Feeling is God.

III

Mind is God. Will is God. Life is God.

 Forest, mountain, water-falls, river, 

sea, earth, water, air, 

fire, sky, 

the sun, moon, the stars of the sky,

 all-all are Divine. 

Ore, trees, plants, 

animals, birds, creatures that crawl.

 fishes that swim, human beings- 

all are nectarean.

IV

This world is one.

Male, female, mortal, immortal, 

snake, bird, air, sea,

 life, death-everything is one.

 The sun, the wall, bee, water-fall, 

flute, emerald-everything is one. 

Joy, sorrow, music,

 washerman, the sparrow, 

lightning, cotton 

all these are one. 

The fool, the poet,

 iron, grasshopper

 -these are one being. 

Vedas, sea-fish, storm, jasmine blossoms- 

these are the varied forms of the same.

All that are, are one thing, One. 

The name of this 'one' is 'self'

 'Self' is God.

Self' is ambrosial, immortal.

V

Let all lives attain joy. 

May all bodies be rid of ills. 

Feel all senses becoming 'one'.

Hail the 'self'!

May nectar be a joy for ever.

VI

Praise we the Gods.

May the Gods attain joy.

May they abide.

May they be victorious.

Oh Gods!

Stay for ever; achieve joy for ever.

 Live always; pour your grace always.

Protect all things.

Oh you Gods!

All good to you.

Eat us; be our food;

eat the earth; be food to the earth.

Oh you Gods!

All good to you.

Fostering is sweet; being protected is also sweet.

Destroying is good; to be destroyed is also good.

Eating is good; to be eaten is also good.

Taste is good, life is good, good, good.

VII

Senses, may you thrive.

You are one, you are light.

You are one, you are many.

You are friendship, you are enmity. 

That which is, and is not, is also you.

You are knowledge and ignorance.

You are both good and bad.

You are nectar, you are taste.

You are good, you are joy.