Bhagwan

BHAGAVAN HAD NO INCLINATION TO WRITE

“Somehow it never occurs to me to write any book or compose poems. All the songs I have made were made at the request of someone or other in connection with some particular event. Even the Reality in Forty Verses, of which so many commentaries and translations now exist, was not planned as a book but consists of verses composed at different times and afterwards arranged as a book by Muruganar and others.

The only poems that came to me spontaneously and compelled me, as it were, to compose them, without anyone urging me to do so, are the Eight Verses to Arunachala and the Eleven Verses to Arunachala. The first day the opening words of the Eleven Verses suddenly came to me one morning, and even if I tried to suppress them, saying, ‘What have I to do with these words?’ they would not be suppressed till I composed a song beginning with them, and all the words flowed easily without any effort...."

-Day by Day