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The poem 'Look To This Day', written by Sanskrit classical poet Kalidasa, is philosophical in nature. Kalidasa asks the readers to listen what the dawn says. The dawn says to see the day, the day is the truth and only it can tell the real nature of human existence. Today is the day to realize the bliss of life and endure, for growth is from it. Most people exist, but don't know how to live. In this life poem, Kalidasa tells them precisely how to do that. He says that yesterday was a dream and tomorrow is a vision. It is today that counts. Don't live in yesterday or tomorrow, rather enjoy the present. Kalidasa says that a life lived in today makes yesterday a happy dream and tomorrow a perfect vision.
Look To This Day
Listen to the exhortation of the dawn!
Look to this day!
For it is life, the very life of life.
In its brief course lie all the
Verities and realities of your existence.
The bliss of growth,
The glory of action,
The splendor of beauty;
For yesterday is but a dream,
And to-morrow is only a vision;
But to-day well lived makes
Every yesterday a dream of happiness,
And every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Look well therefore to this day!
Such is the salutation of the dawn!
