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In this poem Sri Chinmoy urges the seeker to win for himself the rights to kingship or that theopathetic state which signifies the completion of the mystical life. Several things are accomplished in the poem: firstly, it offers the seeker three directions in which to make progress-forward, upward and inward. Secondly, it describes his threefold destination-the shore, the stars, the source. Thirdly, it reassures the seeker that God awaits his arrival at the end of all three roads. Finally, it measures the seeker's achievement in terms of the gift he acquires from God-God's silver Throne, golden Crown and diamond Heart. A steadily increasing mineral wealth transforms this series into a valued progression and enables us to see the gifts in their order of ascending importance: to win God's Throne suggests that the seeker has gained the whole of God's kingdom. To win God's crown may be taken as attaining God's role or position. But to win God's Heart can only mean that the seeker has won God Himself and that this is the most precious gift of all.

One feature of an authority figure such as King is that it implies a relationship of obedience and, often, of social subordination on the part of the soul. Although Sri Chinmoy places the fully enlightened soul on an equal footing with God, he constantly emphasises that the path to this deified state is one of implicit surrender to God:

DRUNK WITH SURRENDER

    Drunk with power
I came to my Lord.
    He ignored my power.

    Drunk with beauty
I came to my Lord.
    He ignored my beauty

    Drunk with surrender
I came to my ord.
He offered me His Throne of Light,
        His Crown of Delight,
        His Palace of Truth,
        His Kingdom of Love.[6]