Sri Aurobindo
Translations
CWSA.- Volume 5
Part One. Translations from Sanskrit
Section Four.
Bhartrihari. The Century of Life
Miscellaneous Verses
Dear as his own sweet mother to the man
Of truth his word is, dear as his heart’s blood.
Truth, ’tis the mother of his soul’s great brood,
High modesty and virtue’s lordly clan.
Exceeding pure of heart as to a youth
His mother, and like a mother to him cleaves
This sweet proud goddess. Rather life he leaves
And happiness puts away, not divine Truth.
Others clasp some dear vice, gold, woman, wine;
He keeps for Truth his passion fiery and fine.