It reads:

"I am to the world
as rain is to water
and as petals are to the lotus."

Thank you for any help that you can provide me, this is for a Tattoo...

It reads:

"I am to the world
as rain is to water
and as petals are to the lotus."

Thank you for any help that you can provide me, this is for a Tattoo...

Yata jalena varsham,
Yata pushpena dalah
Thatha lokena aham

Born into a Sikh family which had earlier been involved in revolutionary activities against the British Raj, as a teenager Singh studied European revolutionary movements and was attracted to anarchist and marxist ideologies.