Poetry: Guru Prakasham

Many many years ago our Gurus

lit the lamp

And the prakasham was born

carrying power of the soul

This light of truth on the lands of

five rivers

It orbited and orbited around the

sun

Along with the earth that carried

it as sindhur

This earthly prakasham s so

powerful

Of human’s universal message of

one God

Four hundred orbits gone in no

time

The great Prakasham has even

out-glowed the son

As it orbits all around the sun,

even sun bows in enhanced

reverence

And salutes the earth, for all that

it carries

The Greatest Prakasham of Guru

Granth Sahib.

-A.P.J Abdul Kalam