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Glimpses of Sentiments
EVEN IN DEFEAT, THERE IS MY VICTORY
Oh all Powerful ! From the time immemorial, against you, I have always shown my adamancy. All the pious things to be made polluted; that is my adamancy. You gave me eyes, ears, hands, legs, heart ~ all these were cultured But by putting here and there in evil circle my leg I made all of them spoiled with an aim to defeat you; at no time, at nowhere I left this adamancy. Your never ending shower of compassion also I avoided. But now I want to change my this reverse walk continued since time immemorial. I want to give a final farewell to my undue insistence on obstinancy. Now you have to win and I have to get defeated. In real terms I have been already defeated. But now I want to get defeated in a different manner. Now I have realised that real joy is in getting defeated. I want to win by getting defeated by you. I do want to get drowned in intoxication of winning against yourself. Even after getting defeated by you I wish to swim across. A defeat of mine against you is only my freedom. A win against you is nothing but hell for me. Only if I get defeated against you, this life of mine which has
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