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EACH SONG IS A FLAME

Each soulful song is a flame
In the aspiring heart.
Where is that heart?
It is in the supreme art
    Of constant self-giving.[29]

The self-giving referred to by the poet in this poem is that of the finite to the Infinite. It is the "art of the heart" that the poem signals.

In another poem, Sri Chinmoy declares that his songs are his outbursts of joy at living in the Supreme:

I HAVE FOUND YOUR NEST

0 Lord,
In Your Eyes of Beauty
I have found Your Nest.
Delight is my name
    When I live in Your Nest.
The heart of a singing bird
My life becomes
    In songs world of silence.[30]

And he dedicates his life to ushering forth songs "from Eternity's Songbook":

0 BEAUTY'S PEACE

Sleep, sleep, 0 Beauty's peace,
    Sleep within me.
I shall give you a song from Eternity's Songbook,
Sleep, sleep within me.[31]