The worry of a man should be
Not how much wealth
But how much joy
And happiness he has left behind.
Dr. Jernail Singh Anand, a renowned poet and writer from Chandigarh, India, shares his poetry
Dr. Jernail Singh Anand, based in Chandigarh, is an Indian poet and scholar credited with 170 plus books of English literature, philosophy and spirituality. He won great Serbian Award Charter of Morava and his name adorns the Poets’ Rock in Serbia. He was honored with Seneca Award LAUDIS CHARTA by Academy of Arts & Philosophical Sciences, Bari, Italy 2024. He is Founder President of the International Academy of Ethics and conferred Doctor of Philosophy (Honoris Causa) by University of Engineering & Management, (UEM) Jaipur. Email anandjs55@yahoo.com

OF PASSION AND COMPASSION
We often see with our own eyes
And this vision is incomplete
Because we cannot see
Ourselves in Toto.
What we are, where we are
And how we are
Only a third eye
Can measure it up.
An eye which we lack
But if we can look at ourselves
With that objective piercing eye
Much of what is not required would go.
We are absorbed with ourselves
Like ants, busy with their food
Always carrying the burden
Of our dreams.
I see the world lost in a self-chase
Running around in circles
Never able to break out of it
And see what is amiss and where.
The highest passion a man harbors
Is his own joy, his own happiness!
And this reduces him
To the level of underdeveloped minds
Men should have a developed consciousness
A mind on fire with compassion
And possessed by a desire
Not for self, but for sublimation.
The worry of a man should be
Not how much wealth
But how much joy
And happiness he has left behind.
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THE RESPONSIBLE MEN
The best men were not those
Who were recognized by gods!
The best of this world
Were those who had!
The best mental and physical
Assets to wrest power
And then stay in it.
They knew what was to be done
And they were final arbiters too
Of the good and evil
For the world lying prostrate
At their feet
They held the levers of power
And unleashed it on the unwilling mass.
When some world leaders reached
The joint Reception of hell and heaven
Ten thousand were directed to hell
For one who was seen
Moving to heaven.
Do the people on the earth
Have no idea these is a heaven also?
This world what it was and what it is
The credit or discredit goes
To the power wielding junta
In every nation
For whom the greatest issue
Was their own survival in power!
Who lives who dies, not our business.
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