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In a uniquely compelling way, with searching questions and a mysterious Tagore-like touch to his images, Sri Chinmoy forces the reader to plumb the depths of his intuitive faith in order to meet the basic aesthetic demands of the poem. Poems of this kind awaken in us a new sensibility and this in itself constitutes a new understanding of God.
Inevitably, the link between God and the unknown figure in these poems is always made correctly for the poet has knit into his verse significant emotional pointers. At the same time, he steers clear of the more sensual language which has on occasions emerged in the divine poetry of both East and West. Sri Chinmoy's words shine with a purity that could never, even in the most unsympathetic reading, be interpreted as outpourings of profane love:
Where Sri Chinmoy's language becomes most loving and most tender, it is- still characterised by a reverence for God, a soulful quality which irradiates both language and scene. Man's true dignity, he infers, consists in being the focus of God's boundless love:
Inevitably, the link between God and the unknown figure in these poems is always made correctly for the poet has knit into his verse significant emotional pointers. At the same time, he steers clear of the more sensual language which has on occasions emerged in the divine poetry of both East and West. Sri Chinmoy's words shine with a purity that could never, even in the most unsympathetic reading, be interpreted as outpourings of profane love:
My Beloved, I love you.
For you I have brought
A few beautiful flowers
That I have collected early in the morning.
I wish to adore you with these flowers.
Ah, you are smiling at me because you know
That these flowers actually belong to you.
I am decorating you with your own gifts.[50]
Where Sri Chinmoy's language becomes most loving and most tender, it is- still characterised by a reverence for God, a soulful quality which irradiates both language and scene. Man's true dignity, he infers, consists in being the focus of God's boundless love:
