635. Kitten’s Mewing Poem by Raman Savithiri

Neither devotion nor Love do I have on You
But daily I chant Your numerous names
Neither focus nor revere do I have in tune
But daily I chant Your gorgeous names

Like a greedy trader I expect a great profit
A pure mind full of bliss of a realized
I ask in turn though I am unlikely to get
A pure mind void of distress of a realized

I merely cling to the power of Your names
To wash my dirty mind where I am bound
I take refuge in the divinity of your names
Save me from my own mind faster than wind

I know not if my enemies are within or without
But I suffer from the pangs of hatred and anger
I know not where my enemies are. I fail to find out!
I know Your thousand names only. To them I linger!