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Here the poet has woven two fundamental aphoristic units into a testament of faith. His strong, affirmative tone is conditioned at the outset by the power of the opening statement:

Every life is a rich
    Storehouse
Of experience.

The statement is formal and complete. Like most aphorisms, it carries a sense of finality, of being the last word. It is bold, unafraid and unequivocal, qualities which recall Emily Dickinson's "The life we have is very great."[12] To continue the poem in a looser and more meditative vein might pose serious problems for the poet in terms of bringing about a disintegration of this powerfully charged opening. He overcomes this weaker option through the sheer force of his speaking voice and the impressiveness of his stand against the prevailing world view. He at once adopts an expansive Whitmanesque "I" which "dares" to proclaim a new interpretation of reality and to set personal experience against the foothold of an outmoded philosophy It is the courage of one who acts upon events in a vigorous and resourceful way. In essence, what Sri Chinmoy is offering in this poem is not an and conception of the universe but an image of a passionate, thinking man, a man whose emphatic rebuttal of existential chaos is founded upon direct inner knowledge:

I plumb the depths
    Of light
At each hush-gap.