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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=347662" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Miser</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I had the money<br>To buy aplenty<br>And I did spend<br>On buying gold<br>For the temple deity.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Prayed, I diligently<br>Every morning of<br>Every day, <br>Even my night<br>Ended in prayers<br>To the almighty.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I spent lavishly<br>On incense, <br>To get the best<br>Fragrance ~<br>For my favourite<br>Gods – Rama, Krishna<br>And Sai Baba.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I made sure the<br>Purohits had<br>Enough booty<br>From my share of wealth<br>To perform<br>All the holy functions<br>Impeccably without<br>Any dearth of<br>Religious amenities<br>So that I and my family<br>Are blessed by the<br>Holy trinity of <br>Om Shivai Namaha, <br>Vishnu and Brahma.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And yet after spending<br>So much on so many<br>Candles, sweets, savouries<br>And garlands of flowers<br>In their beautiful bounty, <br>I understand not<br>Why people still call me<br>A Miser, <br>When I tell them that my money<br>Is for the good, noble cause of<br>Sanctity, upholding the<br>Sanctum sanctorum of the<br>Temple deity, <br>And not squandering<br>On giving alms to<br>Beggars and lepers<br>Who line the streets<br>Anticipating my pity.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I, a miser? <br>God Almighty<br>I gift you so much<br>Out of love, affection<br>And duty.<br>They misunderstand me, <br>Don’t they? <br>For they call me a miser<br>As I feed you instead of<br>The hungry souls staring<br>At me with hunger, poverty<br>And depravity…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But then, for me, <br>Religion comes first<br>So does the opulence<br>In religious duty.<br>Hence, I please you<br>Almighty, with all the<br>Frills and fills of<br>Sumptuous feasts and <br>Social elaborations of<br>Kali Pooja, Durga Pooja, <br>Ganesha Chaturthi, Dussehra<br>And Diwali, not to mention<br>My very own home worship<br>Of the goddess of wealth<br>And prosperity – Lakshmi Pooja</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet, they say I’m a miser? <br>Can they not see how lavishly<br>I spend to please thee…<br>O God Almighty, <br>Are they blind? <br>Give them some vision<br>So that they can see some<br>Clarity in my charity that I do<br>To appease the purohits -<br>So that they take good care of you<br>And in turn, I’m taken care by you.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The lepers and the beggars, <br>May they suffer their Karma<br>Let them go bothering others<br>But not me – as I’m with thee.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In your esteemed comradeship, <br>I’m above and beyond them.<br>Let me not stoop below to uplift them<br>Lest I fall and slip on the very floor<br>They are on, and in the process, <br>Lose thee, O God Almighty.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Me, a miser? <br>Let them say<br>And call me such<br>Miserable names.<br>I, once and for all, <br>Will always…<br>Classify myself<br>As an ardent devotee.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Aparna+Chatterjee">Aparna Chatterjee</a><div class=q>
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To buy aplenty
And I did spend
On buying gold
For the temple deity.

Prayed, I diligently
Every morning of
Every day, 
Even my night
Ended in prayers
To the almighty.

I spent lavishly
On incense, 
To get the best
Fragrance ~
For m..."></div>
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