Remembering Gandhiji - Oct 2, 2022

എത്ര മിഴികൾ കൊണ്ട് കാണ്കിലും കാഴ്ചകൾക്കപ്പുറം നിൽക്കുന്നു  ഗാന്ധി 
എത്ര വർണ്ണം മാറ്റി  എഴുതിലും  എഴുത്തുകൾക്കപ്പുറത്തെഴുതുന്നു ഗാന്ധി

Etra mizhikal kontu kaankilum kaazhchakalkkappuram nilkkunnu Gandhi

Etra varannam maatti ezhutilum ezhuttukalkkappurattezhutunnu Gandhi 

How much so ever I look around, Gandhi transcends all my visualisations
How soever I shift the letters in my writings Gandhi still transcends all those writes... (Madhusoodhanan Nair - Malayalam poet). 

Bapu, our beloved father
I see him grow taller in stature
And I discover dimensions deeper
That me and you are challenged to gather.      

He is a mahatma
But was never born thus
Bit by bit he grew into a Maha Atma
Perseverance paying the price to be thus

I see him shirtless 
To showforth oneness with those who had less
An emboldened decision to be useful by using less
Which amidst the people of the more, never made him any the less

We salute him on his birthday
With the nation stopping by in a holiday
Missing his call to 'do or die' never missing a day 
In ceaseless pursuit of truth n' love to make evryday a holy day!

Imitation of Christ my Lord

Disloyal tho, I see the goal set for  a Christian 

And as I struggle with its 'sweet' but tiring load

Bapu walks before me surefooted sans  label, but full a  Christian!

P.S. And he provokes me to: 'to live as if I were to die tomorrow; to learn as if I were to live forever'