If it Rains Fire

If it rains fire

you have to be as the water;

if it is a deluge of water

you have to be as the wind;

if it is the Great Flood,

you have to be as the sky;

and if it is the Very Last Flood

of all the worlds,

you have to give up self

and become the Lord.

By Allama Prabhu  

                                Translation by A. K. Ramanujan