Laxmi Prasad Devkota's poem

Muna Madan written by Laxmi Prasad Devkota:
http://literature.wnso.org/2002/munamadan.htm

We Nepalese

Poet:Laxmi Prasad Devkota Translated by:David Ravin

We are the children of Aurora,
Offspring of Asia's reawakened age,
Sons of the Hiamlayas we crave,
To climb the peaks wreathed with the golden rays.
We are the products of the Buddha's soil
The honey-sweet playmates of Janaki,
the flower of our earth,
We are the fulgence of the fingers of Araniko,
And the ripe harvest of Prithvinarayana.
We are the golden dreams of Tribhuvana.
We are Mahendra's garden rich in flowering shrubs,
We are the rivals of the tiger,
And the sentinels of demaocracy.
We are the still small voice of humanity;s dove,
With the Danphe's prismatic plumes of fancy,
We are the scented breath of the Himalayan flowers that grow
out of the dust of the sages that lie in their long silence.
We are the songsters of the luxuriant wilds
That trill and warble love upon the leafy boughs of the world,
We are the mountain temples, of humanity,
We are the liberal liquefaction of the Himalaya's snow-breast
that nourishes the life of India in network of serpentine rills.
We are the prophetic angels of the east,
That dwell in the dominion of the first sun-beam.
We are the partners of this round home,
this terrestrial sphere,Partaking of a single plate.
We are the worshippers of self sacrifice,
We are the citizens of the world.

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The reason I worship:

The reason of worship, I believe is to keep people out of the way of progress. Obviously, everybody is not going to follow a given culture. My mother used to hand me a toy while she cook food in kitchen which I realised now a good strategy to keep me out of her way till she finished cooking. Today, my mother’s strategies are being widely used by Politicians by raising "non issues" to divert public attention from more important things to their momentary profit. Sometime, she used to tell me story before going to bed and I started to dream. She used to make somebody good character who used to do some extraordinary things in our daily life. Then I used to reflect in my mind: How did they do it? I want to do same thing when I will grow up. Next night, I used to ask again to continue that story. Today, I found that story had great impact in my development process. May be the strategy was that some bright minds would progress while others merely were engaged in worship for their images of "salvation" or "moksha". Many say that all great men were created with the flow of culture, or because of their cultural heritage, but I don’t agree in it. Most of the great men had to learn to swim before jump in the river. The person who created a new path for the followers and try to prove that he/she is the great soul should be a great politician who can fool human being. They have put a fear in our mind that if we don’t follow them we will be Hell (which is too wicked place to live) and if we follow them then we will get a place in Heaven (where those clever guys live to make us fool). At last not the least may be I am giving too much credit to a badly designed system of worshipping and praying. Before doing anything, think yourself because you are human not animal. Don’t become slave like animal who just follow the order, try to become master as well.

"Religions were ancient tools that were a holistic means to a value system, education, knowledge, wisdom, science, medicine, research, worship, spirituality, government, law, morality, ethics, cleanliness, poetry, mythology, history and way of life. Today each of this is a separate field making religions irrelevant in each one of it. For instance, separation of religion from law, from education and from medicine is seen in everyday of life."

"Religion is the God made law to dictates what we should do or not to do. Democracy is the man made law which prescribes only what we should NOT do."