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Because of the dignity and elevation of their subject matter, some of Sri
Chinmoy's poems in this area, while conforming to the dominant patterns of
lyrical poetry as discussed under the heading of "Dark Lyrics," overstep the
temporal and spatial confines of the lyric mode. They replace transitory feelings
with immortal states, personal sentiments with universal aspirations and
the episodic and isolated moment with an eternal dimension.

Four of Sri Chinmoy's poems in particular exemplify this change of lyrical
emphasis and subsequent recasting of the lyric's cardinal points. All are
contained within the volume entitled My Flute, first published in 1972. The
poems are "The Absolute," "Apocalypse," "Immortality" and "Revelation."[49]
They are poems in which God ceases to be the object that is addressed and
becomes a tangible experience. Hence, they are poems not of becoming but of
being, poems in which the idea of God so fills the consciousness of the poet
that the distance between man and God is annihilated. Man is merged in God.
The opening poem of the volume, "The Absolute," announces this coronation
of the self