The sun has arisen from the bosom
of darkness,
The light has spilled over earth
And the space is filled with an
energy
Awakening lovely flowers, sweet
birds and noble people.
In a little spiritual land at
southern India,
A young sage, wise and spirited,
Blossoms his eyes to the touches
of fresh light,
A day is in his hands, a blank
page,
Looking forward to new
experiences,
He brightens up to write the song
for the day
To create treasures that will
live on through ages.
Bhavathi
Bikshandhehi, Bhavathi Bikshandhehi,
Reverberates
his sweet voice through the streets of the town.
His
seer’s eyes capture a rickety old hut
And
he stops by, asking for alms, enlivening the spaces.
The
door of the hut creaks open, slowly and carefully,
Walks out an old woman, very poor, very noble.
“Greetings!
O Sage. We are blessed to have your presence.
Poor
and old we are though, and do not have anything to give you”
Speaks
the woman to the sage, humbly, in a gentle voice.
“Perhaps,
there must be something, something very little,
Little
that you can offer this young sage” is the sage’s response,
His
heart brimming with blessings for the poor woman.
The
old woman walks in for a search,
Searches
her old small hut,
And
she spots a mellow little amla fruit at one corner.
Mustering
a lot of courage, full of reverence,
She
places the little fruit in the hands of the sage.
“Forgive
me for it is old and too small,
But
this is all we have”.
The
sage is pleased with her offering.
A
beautiful song he sings, a song of Sanskrit verses.
Living
in the song, Goddess Lakshmi.
Delighted
by the young sage’s praise,
She
appears before him in all splendor and glory.
“O
living symbol of my Light,
what
is it that you need?”
“Poor
is the woman, but her heart, a glory of diamonds.
Grant,
Goddess, that the woman be filled with riches,
And
she has a lot more to give to all”
There
comes a shower of gold and rubies
And
the Generosity of the wise woman’s heart,
Converts
her into a woman of riches.
The song of
Sanskrit verses is revered as Kanakadhaara stotram,
And the young
sage, Adi Shankara.
- Sandhya
References: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanakadh%C4%81ra_Stotra%E1%B9%83
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