SreeNarayanaGuru

[gopu]

Man’s humanity marks out the human kind
Even as bovinity proclaims a cow.
Brahminhood and such are not thus-wise;
None do see this truth, alas!

One of caste, one of relegion and one in God is man;
Of one womb, of one form; difference therein none.

Within a species, is it not, that offspring truly breed?
The society of man thus viewed, to a single caste belongs.

Of the human species is even a Brahman born, as is the Pariah too,
Where is difference then in caste as between man and man?

In bygone days of a Pariah woman the great sage Parasara was born,
As even he of Vedic aphorism fame of a virgin of the fisher-fold.

[gopu]

High scriptures meaning, antique, rare
Or meaning as by Gurus taught,
And what mildly a sage conveys,
And wisdom's branches of every stage,
Together they belong,
As one essence, In substance same.