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These poems are taken from an early compilation of Sri Chinmoy’s poetry – entitled ‘Selected Poetry of Sri Chinmoy’. Many of these poems are Sri Chinmoy’s own poetic translations of his Bengali songs.<\/p>\n

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My heart longs to be dissolved
\nIn wings of air
\nAnd fly in the unhorizoned sky.
\nI long to open up
\nAll my heart-doors
\nIn the delight of my liberation-life.
\nMay my life begin
\nWith the breath of a new hope.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

– Sri Chinmoy<\/span><\/p>\n

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In the universal heart all hearts, are one, inseparable, I know.
\nYet knowing this, I hurt the hearts of others day and night.
\nWe are all the slaves of fate;
\nIt dances on our foreheads.
\nIn peace sublime is the extinction-sleep of fate.
\nI know this secret.
\nO Jewel of my eye, pour into my heart
\nYour golden Silence.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

– Sri Chinmoy, [songbook Patience-Groves<\/em>, #14]<\/span><\/p>\n

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The wave subsides and the wave rises.
\nThe flower withers and the flower blossoms.
\nThere is no end to human wants
\nAnd human achievements.
\nNothing is permanent and nothing is fleeting.
\nThen for whom shall we cry,
\nFor what shall we cry?
\nWhom shall we invoke
\nWith a new thought and new form?
\nEverything eventually blossoms.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

– Sri Chinmoy, [songbook Illumination-Song and Liberation-Dance, Part 5 <\/em>, ]<\/span><\/p>\n

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I just walk on;
\nMy walking never ends.
\nI have never calculated
\nThe loss and gain of my journey.
\nAlas, am I to go on
\nEternally in vain
\nIn this earth-desert
\nFull of dust and sand, thorns and smoke?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

– Sri Chinmoy, [songbook Supreme, I sing only for You <\/em>, ]<\/span><\/p>\n

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By whose touch does the lily smile
\nAnd open its beauty-bud?
\nWhose moonlit beauty
\nDo I see in the lily?
\nWho is the Eye of my eye;
\nWho is the Heart of my heart?
\nAlas, then why do I not see Him,
\nHis Face of transcendental Beauty,
\nEven in my dreams.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

– Sri Chinmoy, Supreme, teach me how to cry<\/span><\/p>\n

Yonder I hear in the depth of my heart
\nYour Nectar-Silence.
\nThere shall be no problems,
\nNo complications in my life any more.
\nFrom now on I shall be the child of light
\nIn the ocean of life
\nAnd there my little boat is sailing,
\nSailing with enormous delight.
\nMy life is the game of hundreds of waves
\nIn the great ocean of life.<\/div>\n

Sri Chinmoy, Pole-star promise-light, part 4<\/span><\/p>\n

To see the light,
\nA tiny blade of grass remains wide awake all night.
\nTo see the light,
\nThe buds offer their devoted eagerness.
\nAlas, neither a blade of grass nor the buds
\nCan awaken my aspiration-flame.
\nI sleep and sleep,
\nMy ears tightly closed.<\/div>\n

Sri Chinmoy, Illumination-song and liberation-dance, part 5<\/span><\/p>\n

In how many ways You have sung
\nThe song of liberation in my heart.
\nIn return You have received only
\nUnbearable pain.
\nI see all around me
\nThe heavy load of poverty
\nAnd the slumber of inconscience.
\nHow can I lose myself in the waters of peace?<\/div>\n

Sri Chinmoy, Patience-groves<\/span><\/p>\n

You have made me discover
\nIn the depth of my heart
\nThat You are at once great and small,
\nYou are at once the finite and the Infinite.
\nYou are everybody\u2019s Lord
\nAnd, at the same time, everybody\u2019s slave.
\nSmiles and sorrows in one tune
\nAre being played inside Your Heart.
\nThe game of opposites always I notice in You.
\nThe opposites always dance in You.<\/div>\n

Sri Chinmoy, Pole-Star Promise-Light, Part 2 [song #33]<\/span><\/p>\n

True, I do not know
\nThe language divine.
\nTrue, I do not know
\nMy true self-form.
\nBut I know, Mother,
\nYou are the Mother of Compassion;
\nTherefore, ignorance-ugliness
\nWill not last in me for long.
\nYour Light of Infinity
\nWill illumine me within and without.<\/div>\n

Sri Chinmoy, Pole-Star Promise-Light, Part 2 [song #33]<\/span><\/p>\n

In my heart-forest
\nI heard the jingling of Your ankle-bells.
\nI see You in my dreams.
\nBut alas, when I am awake,
\nI see You not.
\nHow I wish to see You during the day
\nAnd not at night in my dreams!
\nMay the dream-reality be manifested
\nIn my outer life of existence.
\nO Beauty unparalleled,
\nMay Your Beauty be manifested
\nIn my day-to-day activities
\nAt every moment of my wakeful life.<\/div>\n

Sri Chinmoy, Pole-Star Promise-Light, Part 2 [song #11]<\/span><\/p>\n

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