SRI AUROBINDO
Translations
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Kalidasa
Bhartrihari. The Century of Life
On Karma
Protection from behind the Veil
Safe is the man good deeds forgotten claim,
In pathless deserts or in dangerous war
Or by armed foes enringed; sea and fierce flame
May threaten, death’s door waiting swing ajar;
Slumbering or careless though his foemen find,
Yea, though they seize him, though they smite or bind,
On ocean wild or on the cliff’s edge sheer
His deeds walk by his side and guard from fear;
Through death and birth they bore him and are here.