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One of the richest symbolic areas for the poet is that of the solar cycle, with its interchange of day and night, sunrise and sunset. Like the Vedic seers who wrote hymns dedicated to "Usha," goddess of dawn, Sri Chinmoy makes reference to that tradition which sees nature as anthropomorphic. It is a tradition that was evolved by men who worshipped God through the splendour of nature and who befriended nature by perceiving in each of its changes the action of a divine personality. Although Sri Chinmoy writes with a far greater maturity of belief, he is able to capture this glow of original faith in the following poem:
 

The golden door of light
Opens up,
And my life dances
With the ecstasy of the Beyond.
The dawn-goddess has arrived,
Sailing the boat of light.
It has touched my life of somnolence
And awakened me to the heights of light. [16]

We feel that it is the poet's own image-seeking faculty which has alighted upon the word "goddess" as an appropriate description for the beauty of the dawn, rather than any debt to tradition. The poet's purity of vision is accompanied by a clearing of the senses which allows him to immerse himself in the inner light of consciousness in the same way that the light of dawn saturates the earth. This delicate interpenetration of inner and outer light suggests that every chiaroscuro of nature raises a corresponding vibration in the human soul.

The dance of light through each living thing is one of Sri Chinmoy's most frequent themes. This light-the light of the illumined consciousness-forms the golden link between the inner and the outer worlds and, in many respects, it is the key to Sri Chinmoy's poems of nature, as we may observe in the following poem: