Blind Beliefs Are For Beasts Alone Poem by Ch J Satyananda Kumar

Ch J Satyananda Kumar

Ch J Satyananda Kumar

Amadalavalasa, Srikakulam, AP, India, now living at Visakhapatnam

Blind Beliefs Are For Beasts Alone



Telugu original: Narla Venkateswara Rao
English Translation: Ch J Satyananda Kumar

Goppa satyamaina guddigaa nammina
Kurchaledu kanti konchamaina
Guddi nammakaalu godduke tagunu raa
Navayugaala baata naarla maata

Lokamella kalasi yekamainanu gaani
Dheerudaina vaadu maara bodu
Dheera gunamu naruni divyuni jeyuraa
Navayugaala baata narla maata

Kannulela nijamu kanaka poyina
Nalka yela nijamu palka kunna
Medha yela nijam shodhincha lekuna
Navayugaala baata narla maata

Manchi chedda levo panchangamanduna
Kaana vacchunanuta kalla maata
Manchi cheddar lanevi manalone kalavu raa
Nava ygaala baata naarla maata

Gata vibhuti toda, mruta bhashatodanu
Jaati mundu ketlu saga galadu?
Arina diviteelu daarelaa choopuraa?
Nava yugaala baata narla maata



Even a great truth, if believed blindly
Can’t gather light even a slight
Blind beliefs are meant for beast alone
Modern times’ way, Narla’s sway

Even if all world is united as one
One who is courageous won’t change
Courageousness makes a man divine
Modern times’ way, Narla’s sway

Why to have eyes when can’t view truth
Why to have tongue when can’t say truth
Why to have mind when fails to search the truth
Modern times’ way, Narla’s sway

To say, Good and bad would be found in an almanac
Is nothing but a vague claim
Good and bad are found in us alone,
Modern times’ way, Narla’s sway

With the past sacred ash and dead lingo bash
How the nation would march ahead?
How the unlit torches would show the way?
Modern times’ way, Narla’s sway

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Ch J Satyananda Kumar

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Amadalavalasa, Srikakulam, AP, India, now living at Visakhapatnam
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