SRI AUROBINDO
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Kalidasa
Bhartrihari. The Century of Life
On Virtue
How rare is he who for his fellows cares!
His mind, speech, body all are as pure jars
Full of his soul’s sweet nectar; so he goes
Filling the world with rows on shining rows
Of selfless actions ranked like the great stars.
He loves man so that he in others’ hearts
Finding an atom even of noble parts
Builds it into a mountain and thereon
His soul grows radiant like a flower full-blown;
Others are praised, his mind with pleasure starts.