Forms Of Faith

Forms of Faith

P K Routray

Without doubting its mother a trace

Kitten is fearless while moving from place to place

held tightly by the jaws and the teeth of its mother

as in the love of its mother its faith  does never flutter.

Least afraid it is of the sharp teeth of its mother

even though fearsome they are,  to pieces, rats they can tear.

But the baby of a monkey remains full of fear

while moving from place to place clinging to its mother dear

even knowing that its mother loves it very much

but love to its own life shakes its faith in mother as such.

The mother monkey jumps from one tree to another

with the baby hanging on its own tightly holding her.

but when its baby is in adversity beyond its capability

jumps the monkey to protect the child to the best of its ability.

Between child and mother love remaining the same, faiths differ

as the examples here of kitten and cat, monkey and its bay offer.

The act of kitten is total surrender with love and absolute trust

the act of baby monkey though not devoid of love but is having degrees of distrust.

Let us follow the kitten completely surrendering with unflinching faith in the Almighty

to cross across the turbulent ocean of the mortal life without worry and anxiety.