Swami's love for Bharath

A correspondent wrote in response to an Independence Day mail I had sent out:

I wonder if any other country has this concept of revering the country as a mother the way India does. What an unique people we are, who see God in everything. Long live our culture and tradition. Vande Mataram.

Every Independence day reminds me of Swami's patriotism and love for Bharath. Whats it with this land that draws God it. Forget the establishment of righteousness, I guess God just loves this place so much. He just cant get over it. He gets "Bharath-sick" from to time and finds some reason to take an earthly form and experience the joys of this land. Why this partiality to this holy land.

I remember His poem, His voice rings in my head.

ఖండ ఖండాంతర ఖ్యాతి నార్చించిన మహనియులను గన్న మా ​త్రు భూమి
పాస్చాత్య వీరుల పారద్రొలించియు స్వాంతంత్రమును గన్న సమరభూమి
సంగీత సాహిత్య శాస్త్రీయ విద్యలందు ధి శక్తి చూపిన దివ్య భూమి
చిత్ర కళల చూడ చిత్రమై వున్నట్టి భరత భూమియందు జననమొంది
భరత మాత ధర్మ భాగ్యంబు కాపాడ బాధ్యతంతయు మీదే భక్తులార

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KhanDa khanDaantara khyaati naarchinchina mahaniyulanu ganna maatRu bhoomi
Paaschaactya veerula paaradrolinchiyu swaantantramunu ganna samarabhoomi
Sangeeta saahitya Saastriiya vidyalandu dhi Sakti choopina divya bhoomi
Chitra kaLala chooDa chitramai vunnaTTi Bharata bhoomiyandu jananamondi
Bharata maata dharma bhaagyambu kaapaaDa baadhyatantayu meedae bhaktulaara

​​From her soil have risen noble souls; her matchless glory sung in every land

She sent scurrying her captors from the west, and shattered her shackles

​Nonpareil 

is her brilliance shining through her music, literature and 

science

Having been born in this picturesque land of Bharath embelished by fine arts

Its the duty of every devotee to safeguard the spiritual riches of this mother

​He would also then deplore the current state of affairs through another beautiful poem

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Parama Pavana maina Bharata vani Yandu

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Sahana man

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ade manaku chakka danamu

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vratamu lanniti yandu vane ganchina Yatti Ghana Sathya sheelame kathina tapamu

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madhura bhavambedi mana desa mandanna matru bhavamu kanna manya medi

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pranambu kantenu manambe ghanamanu mana desa neethini manta galipi

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neti kichiri Paradesha Neetula Rasi vese vichitra swetcha anu vichu kathe

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enugu etla tana balamu eruga ledo attu lainaru mana bharatheeyulu nedu

​​Forbearance is the charm that Bharateeyas effuse in this holy land

Adherence to truth is the penance of the highest order they adhere to

The sweetest of experiences in this land is gained by devotion to parents

In a land where self respect rivals life itself, values today are incinerated

in the garb of new found freedom chaperoned by foreign ideologies

Bharateeyas today are subdued like the elephant that knows not its own strength.