Translation of Mangesh Padgaonkar's Poem

Translation of the poem. 

Life is a page from god's book 

Blank but if written, it's beautiful 

Birth, the first page, the death, the last one 

Pages in between to be filled by us. 

Because it's our fate. 

Try to avoid misdeeds 

Can't leave any page blank

Shouldn't tear a page with errors.

Because we have to learn from it.

There's fun in cherishing bonds. 

There's fun in weaving webs of life. 

There's fun in singing union of melodies. 

There's fun in togetherness, 

Though came lone and alone.

 Fortune is written by none

 It is in our tough hands. 

Bringing nothing by birth. 

Taking nothing on death. 

For whom do we live this life then? 

We take birth to search the answer of this.

 Translated by Prafulla Mahure