the Vedantins all-sufficing comment that clinches the dialogue: If what you look for in the end is but a small garden—house, why are you now driven by the desire to conquer all the world? Here, now, prepare to live is: sweef-contenisieref in a garden—sanctuary: and joy will soon be yours. Like the two earlier volumes, the latest— SIRIKKUM POOKKAL–is also structured with 5 sections of children's verse, and a section each of story-poems and humorous verse. The highest vaiues, the sublimest verities, achieve recordation in the simplest possible living language of the tribe '. Yes, this our right hand, these our two hands, are God's gifts of Grace-but to what end? %hat’s this God-given hand for? For gathering food and eating it. %hat's this God-given hand for? For bathing and keeping the body clean. What's this God-given hand for? For wearing clothes with elegance. What's this God-given hand for? For writing fair and for reading. What's this God-given hand for? For hand-labour day after day. What's this God-given hand for? For rendering service to others. ΧΧ
