Great Regulars: Taunted by his sister-in-law's sarcasm,

Narsi Mehta went and meditated before Shiva for seven days, whereupon Siva granted him darsan. Telling him, 'Your bhakti delights me,' Siva placed his hand on Narsi's head, purified him, cleansed him of his sins and awakened his 'sleeping speech.' Narsi Mehta asked HIM for a boon. Let us hear him.

from V Sundaram: News Today: The bard from Gujarat

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Through his great poetry Mahakavi Bharathi made it clear that when we drink deep at this fountain of love, that we feel that, out of clay we have been made into men and from men we have risen with gods. According to Mahakavi Bharathi it is this gospel of love that binds the highest with the humblest, the lowest with the loftiest and creates a common comradeship that can be strengthened by common endeavour and unity of purpose.

from V Sundaram: News Today: Eternal flame of nationalism nay, rather universalism

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Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev has this to say about sacred poetry and poems: "When your heart bursts with love, ecstasy or sorrow, poetry is the only succour. Though words can never find expression for the deeper dimensions of life, poetry at least manages to tell you that it can not be said."

Absence

from V Sundaram: News Today: Evergreen mystical verses

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We can see the genial ring of common sense about such lines as,

"For his aunt Jobiska said 'Everyone knows
That a Pobble is better without his toes'"

Edward Lear seems so easy on the matter that we are almost driven to pretend that we see his meaning.

from V Sundaram: News Today: Sense and nonsense--poet and painter -I

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On the Coast of Coromandel
Where the early pumpkins blow,
In the middle of the woods
Lived the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo.
On this Coast of Coromandel
Shrimps and watercresses grow,
Prawns are plentiful and cheap,
Said the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo

Edward Lear visited Mahalipuram on the 25th of August, 1874. He then visited Kanchipuram, Trichy and Thanjavur. He also went to Bangalore and the West Coast.

from V Sundaram: News Today: Sense and nonsense--poet and painter -II

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