Kagga 354
D. V. Gundappa · from the Kannada original

Transliteration
lOkavellavu daivalIleyambare, pELishOka sOnkiradoDA lIle nIrasavEm?mUkange kaL juDisi cheL kaTukipATaviduaikapakShada lIle – MANKUTIMMA
Interpretation
The Creator makes his omnipresence & omnipotence known in many ways
He makes his presence & powers known to man not only in the most unexpected of circumstances but also in a way that makes people wonder at why a person is behaving the way he is..
Mankutimma, many philosphers have said that the entire Universe & life in this Universe is a big divine game in which at a macro level there are no winners or losers…we are all just a piece of a large jigsaw puzzle. When such is the case, why do we struggle so much? Why do we respond to materialistic stimuli & not to spiritual ones? Is it that we do not recognise the true spiritual influence or that we cannot express it? Our condition is similar to that of a deaf & dumb person who is drunk & gets bit by a scorpion…he is jumping up & down in agony; but people feel that it is the alcohol that is making him do so. Such is our life too…it is because of His influence that we respond the way we do; but people are under the illusion that it is our relentless pursuit of material things that make us behave so.
Did this poetry & its translation speak to you?
