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TUNE FOR LIFE

0 Master-Musician,
Tune me for life again.
The awakening of new music
    My heart wants to become.
My life is now mingled
    In ecstasy's height.[87]

The poem moves from orison to hope and lastly to a state in which prayer is answered and hope is fulfilled. These distinct areas of development are assimilated by the poet into a fluid process. The fruits of prayer are simultaneous with its utterance. The shifting and combining of the various emotions that precede ecstasy and that are associated with it is also evident in this last example from Illumination-Song and Liberation-Dance:

Beloved Supreme,
Come in silence, come in supreme silence
You will hide in my dark heart.
Like the lightning in the sky,
Someday You will illumine my heart.
Someday You will truly become
    my Beloved Supreme
And my little world will be flooded
    with Your Infinite Light.[88]

In the hands of Sri Chinmoy, poet of ecstasy, the brief lyric form becomes once more a song of untrammelled sweetness. Within the conventions of a lyric-persona that is without history, Sri Chinmoy has created a speaking voice that would seem to be the voice of the world-soul itself. Using the lyric or present tense, he has conferred on these ecstatic experiences an eternal now and with the language of intuition appropriate to lyric feeling he has penetrated far beyond the everyday emotions of the human heart to what St. Augustine, in the epigraph to this section, referred to as "the splendour of that ever stable eternity."