Parabels of Mahavir

Author(s): Harindranath Chattopadhyaya
Publisher: Shri Kiran Publishers

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SOM (sings, striking a pose)
I am lazy, ever lazy
And the world thinks I am crazy;
I am lazy like the clouds, I am lazy like the flowers.
I do nothing which is something, I do something which is nothing
For hours and hours and hours,
For hours and hours and hours!
I am lazy, ever lazy
And the world believes I'm crazy!
I am lazy like the far
Unreachable evening star;
I am lazy, ever lazy
Like the lily and the daisy;
I am lazy like a stone
That is glad to lie alone,
Without a sense of duty and without a
sense of strife,
There is laziness in beauty, yea! and
laziness is life!
Why should, at all I roam
When I have a happy home
Even though the woman of my house, most beautiful and young,