A Great Festival In Nine And One Nights! Poem by Ramesh T A

Music, song and dance in all the nine nights
With a grand finale on the tenth finishes
Happily Navarathri and Dussehra for the work and victory
Of the year in Spring, Summer and Autumn before Winter.

Everyday as ants men toil under the hot sun,
That drys the land and boils the ocean annually;
Never the less 'It's a natural phenomenon, '
Men heave a sigh of relief!
But the grass hoppers among them coolly spend in gambling
Time, wealth and energy till they become bankrupt;
Naturally how can the ant entertain the hopper in the winter?

Nine and one nights, the bridge between the vestige
Of the Summer and the beginning of winter
Reminds men to prepare ready to face
The darkness of the mind in the coming dark cold nights.
For the last quarter of the year to win in the quarrels with the evils
Both fanciful and fantastic ensuring final victory
Ever for the good only.

Why the good should win and survive ever?
If the good wins the whole world will survive for ever.
A colossus, the creature of evil may be;
Yet there is an end for anything that goes beyond every limit.
Instance: The celebration of Dussehra
in memory of the slaying of Maheshasura,
A formidable asura by the universal Mother Goddess
In the legendary age.

Nine nights in nine exquisite attires the Goddess appears
And kills the formidable foe of the universe on the tenth day.
Perhaps this reason why moods of men are also nine,
And the nine moods of men make the nature of man.
If not courage, anger, hatred; calmness, lust, fear;
And mercy, humour, wonder, what else it is?

Besides; zero natural numbers are also nine;
Effective gems are usually numbering nine;
The reason for all is perhaps the planets
Of the Solar Systems are also nine.
The full circle zero adds power to all numbers;
Remaining nothing it makes known things powerfully notable!

Education, knowledge and art make one a wise person;
Money, property and gold make one a solid person;
Courage, boldness and bravery make one a strong person;
Combination of these nine things make one a complete person
Capable of tackling human life in any situation!

Knowledge, wealth and power thrice each thrives each human life
As creation, preservation and destruction of God's natural act
Depend on these three thrice!
Hence circling round the temple thrice
Or thrice three has become a custom!
But one complete circle comprises of all nine in one too!

Nine planets without the one Sun are nothing in Solar system!
Nine planets with the Sun only make one complete system.
Perhaps nine and one nights also follow this magic system!

Dark and cold circumstances give weakness and fear
To the meek to think about fate and destiny
Leading the thought process to hopelessness and death.
But to the alert, balanced and disinterested minds
Hot or cold, day or night is one and the same;
This attitude for a person of aptitude is the fortitude
Called resourcefulness one learns from
The desolation, rejection and failures.
So, preparation for the worst at first
Gives power to face adversities for the rest.