(1991,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:45','2021-11-23 17:58:45','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>A Programme for the Second Century of </title>\r\n\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=blue style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n<h3 align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 200%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>\r\nA Programme for the Second Century of the <o:p></o:p></b></h3>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<h3 align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 200%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>\r\nDivine Manifestation<o:p></o:p></b></h3>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><o:p>\r\n<font size=\"4\">&nbsp;</font></o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>IT IS <i>Integration. </i>I am\r\nusing a much used, much abused word but it happens to be <i>the </i>word. We\r\nhave reached a status of consciousness within as distinct units, individual or\r\ncollective: our effort should now be to co-ordinate, to harmonise the different\r\nand differing units or separate elements into a well-knit single whole. That\r\nmeans, the ego-centres that are still left and active are to be exorcised,\r\npurified – the separative knot has to be dissolved and the true centre of unity\r\nto be found – the psychic divine centre.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.15in;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>First each element in the\r\nindividual, each level of his being must find its centre, its soul or psychic\r\nbase – and then only a co-ordination of all would be possible. Next through the\r\npsychic level the general level of the being and consciousness, that is to say,\r\nits expression and its field of action should be lifted and raised to a higher\r\npotency of poise – the higher the better – towards the higher mind, towards\r\nthe overmental – and beyond.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.15in;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The Divine Presence in the\r\nheart – the central psychic – should not only be felt constantly there in the\r\nheart but in all other parts or levels of the being: it must create or awake\r\nits figure or norm everywhere so that it can inspire and control directly all\r\nactivities and movements in a global and total gesture. It has to be an\r\nintegral dynamic Presence, that is the way of uplifting the poise of the <i>adhara,\r\n</i>its global existence. The process is first to deepen the Presence, that is\r\nfrom the surface to dive into the inner realm and then float up again into a\r\nwider and higher expanse, deeper and deeper means truer and </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 15<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.0pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>truer truth – nearer the pure fundamental reality –\r\nthe Eternal and Infinite, the supreme Spirit, the bedrock of existence. Higher\r\nand higher means formulations of the Reality in a gradually evolving expansion\r\nup the ladders of the physical, the vital, the mental consciousness and towards\r\nthe higher mental and overmental, indeed towards the Supramental.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n10.05pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>II</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.4pt;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>It is not sufficient that\r\nthe central psychic being comes forward and exercises what is at most a\r\ngeneral influence on the other limbs of the being. It should enter into its\r\ncounter-parts or counter-points – the inherent psychic centres of each part and\r\nparcel and make them directly active. The central psychic – self – has its\r\ndelegated selves everywhere in the global being. Indeed each particle of the\r\nbeing must itself be a psychic or psychicised particle: a consciousness-photon.\r\nThere is thus a vital photon, a mental photon, a photon of the physical consciousness\r\neven as the material photon. And all these in their hierarchic harmonious\r\narrangement shall constitute the global system of the new person.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.0pt;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Even so, there is to be a\r\ntransmutation of the environment also: the outer objects and circumstances and\r\nhappenings will be a field – an Einsteinian field – of modulations, pulsations,\r\ntensions, of these consciousness-particles of the psychic.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>An uplift of consciousness\r\nis a natural consequence of the psychic\'s aspiration. The psychic has the power\r\nto call down the rain of higher existence, a wider law of being-higher means,\r\nas I have said, higher than the highest mental yet achieved by man normally and\r\ngenerally-stepping by the intermediary gradations towards the Supermind.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>This, on the whole, is the\r\ninherent activity of the inferior or subordinate nature in its aspiration to\r\nmove upward and transform itself. This activity in us all, it must be noted, is\r\nsupported, initiated and inspired by the self-action of the higher nature, the\r\ndescent of the above-mental regions.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\r\nmso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 16<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.0pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n10.05pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>III</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.15in;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The first definitive and\r\ndistinctive higher status is that of the Overmind. Its character is a global\r\nand entire being and consciousness, a cosmic and universal all-inclusive existence.\r\nEach being attains its self and each self lives <i>in </i>every other self and\r\nall selves together and at the same time live <i>in </i>each self. The\r\ndiversities are not abolished – as <i>in </i>the unitary consciousness and\r\nbeing of the absolute Existence, Brahman – variations<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span>are maintained as the <i>multiple </i>aspects\r\nor modalities of the same single infinite eternal power.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.15in;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span>I am now speaking here of <i>samrajya-siddhi, </i>the\r\nrealisation of the world-empire, the spiritual or Divine Empire. First of\r\ncourse there is, as the basis of the <i>samrajya, </i>the <i>svarajya, </i>the\r\nkingdom or reign of the individual\'s own self. In effect, the world-empire or\r\nthe imperial <i>reign </i>of the Spirit has three gradations. At the outset\r\neach element, that <i>is, </i>each individual human being (we limit ourselves\r\nto the human collectivity at present) has to attain <i>svarajya, </i>self-rule,\r\na perfectly homogeneous integral spiritual whole in himself: then all such\r\nindividuals should achieve integrality with one another. Each lives in and\r\nthrough every other and all together live in everyone. The whole forms an\r\nindissoluble integral and <i>unitary </i>life. This collective integration\r\nmeans all individuals have one mind, one vital being, even one physical\r\nconsciousness, not of course one material body but still a feeling of the\'\r\nkind. One mind or one vital or one physical consciousness does not mean\r\neveryone has the same identical formations and movements in these respective\r\nregions, but all possess substantially the same stuff belonging to a self-same\r\nunit. A comparison or analogy may explain and illustrate the point. For\r\nexample, the different parts of a human body form one integrated texture: they\r\nare all bound up, united although not fused together, in an inextricable,\r\n&quot;inexorable&quot; unity. Action in one part creates a reaction, re-echoes\r\nor re-doubles in every other part: they all rise up like one man as it is\r\npopularly said, at a single touch. Different in form, different in function,\r\nthey are identical in their substantial composition, in their fundamental\r\nstuff-the organic plasma; even so, the minds of all, their vital movements,\r\ntheir physical movements too, however different and diverse, contrary or </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 17<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:16.3pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>contradictory, are in their own respective domains\r\npart and particles of the one and the same substance and all together\r\ncontribute to form, to create a symphony, a grand Beethovenesque orchestra.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The next grade of\r\nintegration in the Divine world-empire comes when not only individuals but\r\ngroups and collectivities find and establish their own selves – each its <i>svarajya,\r\n</i>and all combined in a yet larger and greater organisation: combined and\r\nunified they act in a unified and homogeneous living as individuals do in the\r\nworld aggregate. Although the individual is the basic reality, aggregations and\r\ncollectivities also are realities, even spiritual realities in the progressive\r\nunfoldment of the cosmic spirit.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n10.55pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>IV</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:10.55pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.2pt;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Such a consummation, so\r\ncomplex in composition, so global in scope would be possible only when the above-mental\r\nor the overmental world-consciousness descends into the mental and lower\r\nhemisphere and takes possession of it and becomes active and dynamic there. The\r\nmovement upward, the evolutionary force in nature inclusive of the human\r\naspiration is the spearhead to break through the solid frontier wall of\r\nignorance and inferior consciousness; the luminous point that breaks through\r\nis, as I have said, the soul-power, the psychic. That creates the rift in the\r\ndense covering through which can pour down the rains and streams of the\r\nuniversal consciousness with its purificatory ablution of the lower nature and\r\nconciousness. But this again becomes not only possible but inevitable when this\r\nnew consciousness contacts openly and directly its master and overlord, the\r\nsupreme Supramental Consciousness, which is the true reality pressing down\r\nalways upon the lower creation, rejecting whatever has to be thrown out,\r\nsifting and screening the mixture, sublimating, subsuming all that has to be\r\nretained within itself.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.75pt;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The problem, the\r\nfundamental problem is not merely to extract the Truth out of its covering of\r\nfalsehood-in the image of the Upanishads, to pull the inner stem out of its\r\nsheath. It is not sufficient to liberate the spirit from the obscuring matter<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\r\nmso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 18<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.0pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>but to instal the spirit in the body of matter and\r\ntransfigure it into the substance of the Spirit, build it in its own image. It\r\nis not sufficient to arrive at the One without the second, the Unitary Unit,\r\nbut to realise the Unit in its most concrete multiplicity. </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span>To\r\nspiritualise Matter does not mean dematerialising Matter! It means rather\r\nre-materialising the Spirit. And that is the task of the Supermind and its\r\nintermediate and immediate helpers – agents and emissaries – the Overmind and\r\nAbove-mind. </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>V</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span>The Supermind\r\nis of Course the last and ultimate or other wise the first and original\r\nSupport and inspiration of all other levels of being and living. Apart from\r\nthis fundamental, this one source of sustenance, each intermediary level depends\r\ndirectly and leans upon the one that lies just above it, over arches it as it\r\nwere. Thus speaking of the major intermediaries, the Overmind is under the\r\ndirect control and guidance of the over-arching Supermind. And Overmind itself\r\nover-arches, broods over the mind and from behind guides and controls it. The\r\nMind has evolved primarily because of the pressure of the Overmind standing\r\nimmediately above it in the hierarchy of the grades of existence. And because\r\nof this constant ruling presence of the Overmind, the mind in man is a\r\nprogressive entity unveiling powers lent or delegated to it, sent down into it\r\nfrom the Overmind. The animal, on the contrary, is not a progressive being like\r\nman, for the Overmind does not reach it. The animal is not in contact with the\r\nOvermind. It is in contact, a somewhat precarious contact, with the Mind.\r\nSomething of the Mental has made an inroad into him, into his vital texture. It\r\nis to be noted that the mind in the animal is of a different kind from the\r\nhuman mind: it is only in the domesticated animals, the animals living in the\r\nneighbourhood of man, having contact with him, that something of the human mind\r\npercolates Or is imbibed. As I have said, the human mind has developed and is\r\ndeveloping fast, specially in recent years, to an extraordinary degree, in the\r\ndomain of physical science leading to discoveries that appear so subtle and\r\ndistant, far off</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-19<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:22.8pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>as almost to be out of reach of his normal means of\r\nexperience. Discoveries of other kinds, hints and intimations with regard to\r\nother forms and fields of knowledge and experience are explained most logically\r\nand adequately by the fact of an interruption or intervention of another type\r\nof consciousness into the present constitution of the human mind. We are\r\nreferring to the influence of the Overmind, gradually becoming more and more\r\nexplicit, extensive and effective, the immediately directing power, the guide\r\nof the new age. And this naturally because of the operative presence, in and\r\nthrough the Overmind, of the Supramental upon earth and in earth.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'margin-top:0;text-align:center;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page\r\n– 20</span></p>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal align=right style=\'text-align:right; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal\'><a href=\"-01-Index\"><span style=\'text-decoration:none;\r\ntext-underline:none\'></span><span style=\'text-decoration:none;\r\ntext-underline:none\'></span><span style=\'text-decoration:none;\r\ntext-underline:none\'><a href=\"-00_-Content\"><img border=0 width=77 height=20 id=\"_x0000_i1033\"\r\nsrc=\"_Jpeg%20image/set10_home_on.gif\" alt=Home></a></span></a><o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-03_A Programme for the Second Century of the Divine Manifestation','','publish','closed','open','','03_a-programme-for-the-second-century-of-the-divine-manifestation','','','2021-11-23 17:58:45','2021-11-23 17:58:45','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/03_a-programme-for-the-second-century-of-the-divine-manifestation/',0,'post','',0),(1992,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:45','2021-11-23 17:58:45','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>Modern Poems</title>\r\n\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"6\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center;line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><font size=\"4\">Modern Poems</font><o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>O GODDESS, VENDOR\r\nOF </b><st1:City><st1:place><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>LIBERTY</b></st1:place></st1:City><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>O goddess, vendor of\r\nliberty!</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Bind me not in thy\r\nboundlessness; </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And in the unending path\r\nof destiny </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Happy <span class=GramE>be</span>\r\nthy unmoving voyage.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Goddess,\r\nveiling the Love Eternal,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Come to our\r\nmortal <span class=GramE>land,</span> here bring Heaven\'s nectar, </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>To this\r\ntransient pilgrim life;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>O Guide\r\neternal! <span class=GramE>draw</span> the pause of our tiresomeness.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>O Mind of magic!</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>A stirless stream art thou\r\nupon our stilled earth,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>As though the sweet\r\nenchanted ocean engulfing a golden boat – </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>O I kiss the Twin Hearts!</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:125.55pt;text-align:center;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; THE VIGIL <o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n18.45pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(A Surrealistic Poem)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:18.45pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Twigs and straws, broken\r\nbits, strewn about</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:42.45pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span class=GramE>in</span> a\r\nlumber room – all nettles\' teeth.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Shadows, somewhat old and\r\nfamiliar, humming low</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:149.5pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span\r\nclass=GramE>make</span> a merry band.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>If you have the trump card\r\nto flick down,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:right 250.3pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span class=GramE>the</span>\r\nwhole game would turn right about:</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>In the blue hibiscus bush\r\nof adolescence – Io,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:right 250.3pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span\r\nclass=GramE>the</span> dumbfounded Sesame!<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:137.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page –\r\n166<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.0pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:137.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.5in;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>THE NET IS CAST<o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The net is\r\ncast and the pool is a drunken</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:center 171.6pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span\r\nclass=GramE>swell</span> and swirl:</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Shrunken\r\nblackened petals are afloat,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:21.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Oh, the children that came\r\ndown under a curse:</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Fortunate\r\nare they who remember past lives; here</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:42.2pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span class=GramE>it</span>\r\nis a <st1:time Minute=\"0\" Hour=\"0\">midnight</st1:time> trap for rats­ – </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>If this\r\nwere all the shelter, the other shelter</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:center 171.6pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span\r\nclass=GramE>would</span> be nowhere.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:center 171.6pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>No more time to lose – whose\r\nis the refrain</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:42.45pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span class=GramE>coming</span>\r\nback again and again?</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>Whose</span>\r\nthe image looking straight into your eyes</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:85.2pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span class=GramE>level</span>\r\nto level – since when?</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Under the rotting weeds\r\nthey go down</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:85.2pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span class=GramE>into</span>\r\nthe depths one by one</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Flowerets that grandmother\r\nwove into a pattern,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:21.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span class=GramE>as</span> though with\r\nthe lightest strokes of a brush!<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:21.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; RUHIRA SHYAM</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.5in;mso-line-height-alt:10.55pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.5in;mso-line-height-alt:10.55pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.5in;mso-line-height-alt:10.55pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>BARITONE<o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:10.55pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Let us all\r\nmove together, one and all, </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Together\r\ninto the cavern of the ribs, </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Raise there\r\na song of discordant sounds­ – </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>Red and blue and white, kin or alien.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Listen,\r\nthe groan plays on:</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Dreams\r\nas if possessed</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Swing,\r\nlike bats on branches;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Is\r\nnow the time for dance?</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>Come,</span> let us all move together, one and all.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Let the\r\nstreams meet in the body, one and all; </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>Yea,</span> let the bones brighten up still more,<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 167<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.0pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Let\r\nus all go around the fire</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And\r\nscrape and eat of the very liver of the Muse. . . </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Let\r\nus go, let us go, <span class=GramE>let</span> us go one and all.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:0.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>TO THE MOTHER <o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:0.5in;text-align:center;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span><st1:date Year=\"1959\" Day=\"21\" Month=\"2\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 21\r\n February 1959</st1:date></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Hold me so\r\nto Thy breast, O Mother, </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Let aeon\r\nafter aeon pass,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I\'d on Thy\r\nbosom, Mother,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Rest my\r\nhead for e\'<span class=SpellE>er</span>.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Closed are\r\nall my concerns with life, </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Closed are\r\nall my dealings with the world, </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Renounced\r\nare all my desires,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>For the celestial sweetness of Thy Love.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Not for me\r\nthe royal seat,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Not for me\r\nruby and robe,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Nothing,\r\nnothing but Thy touch alone </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>Can fill the thirst of my soul.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Immersed\r\nThou art in bliss,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>In the\r\nboundless bliss of Thy infinite consciousness, </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Hold <span\r\nclass=GramE>me,</span> bind me, 0 Mother,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>To Thy breast of eternal ecstasy.</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>DAYS. . . NIGHTS. .\r\n. AGES<o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Days. . .\r\nNights. . . Ages. . . </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>A shattered mind without solace.</span> </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>Words.</span> . . tunes. . . rhythms. </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>What else\r\nbut sighs of misery.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page – 168<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.0pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Eyes\r\nunwinking and tearful</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Close at\r\nthe lashing even of a frown; </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Vain lament\r\nweeps its winding ways </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>Only to mock at me.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And yet\r\ndesires cry out in despair </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And hopes\r\nrise in life\'s bosom. . . </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>The path ahead lies through dust and gale.</span> </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I hear afar\r\nthe breathings of a high flood.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I long for\r\nthe song of freedom,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>But\r\nhelpless the mind is bound in its own webs </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And I\r\nfollow the tortuous path in front </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Through <span\r\nclass=GramE>nights.</span> . . ages.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; LABANYA PALIT</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.5in;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.5in;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.5in;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>IN THY NAME</b><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:7.2pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>In Thy name the eyes are\r\nstill dim with tears </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>And the\r\nheavens tremulous with the song of birds.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>In Thy name\r\na world of flowers is still in bloom</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And on\r\nmemory\'s waters spread grey yearnings and illusions.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>In Thy name Love lingers\r\nstill in the bosom</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And the wounded heart\r\nweeps and laughs in silence.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>In Thy name a blue spell\r\nstill dwells upon life</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And eyes in their depths\r\nenshrine a mournful dark shadow.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; PARIMAL CHAKRABARTY</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 169<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.2pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:0.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.5in;mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>YESTERNIGHT<o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>There\r\npassed a storm last night:</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>A whole\r\nforest of trees that grew lush in my mind </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Now stand\r\nshorn of their leaves</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>Like rows of skeletons.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Last night\r\na cruel, ruthless storm</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>Passed by.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Yet in its\r\nvery wake,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>A crescent\r\nmoon,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Like a\r\nnecklet</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>Rose in a corner of the sky.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I gazed at\r\nit</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And the\r\nmemory of the storm vanished: </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\nwithered forest of the mind </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>Bathed in a wondrous light.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\ncrescent moon, like a necklet . . . </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Was it your\r\nmouth, was it your eye? </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>O my far\r\none!</p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; RAMAKRISHNA PRASAD\r\nCHATTOPADHYAYA</span><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n10.8pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.5in;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.5in;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>A FIRE-FLY IS THIS\r\nMIND<o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n10.8pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>A fire-fly\r\nis this mind,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Now it\r\nflares, now it fades; </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>It must\r\ncross the darkness, </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>So runs\r\nabout here and there.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>As\r\nif a needle of light</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I t\r\npierces the mighty curtain:</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>On\r\nan edge of the inner being</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>It\r\nweaves a fringe of glimmering consciousness.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 170<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Even\r\nlike a lightning flash </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>In\r\nthis small bit of my sky </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>That\r\ntoo gleams</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>Off and on.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>A fire-fly\r\nis this mind</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And I know\r\nit will never receive an answer: </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Around lies\r\na blind Night, dark, impenetrable </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>Ever dumb.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Within\r\nthere as if the spark of a question </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>This\r\nfire-fly of the mind</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>With no\r\nreason blooms and withers.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>It vainly\r\nbelieves that all existence hangs on it </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>As a flower on its stem.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And yet</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>There is a\r\nsecret <span class=SpellE>rumour</span> in the darkness</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>As creation rows along dashing and splashing.</span> </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>To that\r\nmeasure does this fire-fly of the mind </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Glimmer – flare\r\nand fade</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Seeking an\r\nascension elsewhere</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>Beyond knowing and unknowing.</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; PREMENDRA MITRA</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.5in;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.5in;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:0.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.5in;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>ON LOSING<o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Have\r\nyou ever lost your <span class=GramE>way</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Mar\r\nfrom marts and paths and cities</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:.6in;\r\nmso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>in</span> an endless meadow Where with a\r\nlone <span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>simool<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\nsky passes its life-long day?</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>There\r\nafter a long search for a road</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\nearth lies down, eyes closed,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Heart\r\nreposed,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>The lone <span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>simool<i> </i></span>at\r\nher head standing silent.</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 171<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Tired in\r\nthe search for a road</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Some chance\r\none day to arrive at the meadow, </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Amazed they\r\nlook</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>About and above.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>There where\r\nno road exists</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:-1.2pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Just a trail appears of a new hope, </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:-1.2pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Where all other ways are lost </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:-1.2pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>One seems to find one\'s own.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:-1.2pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:6.45pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>One day, why not, go out and lose your way,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:0in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>leave</span> your familiar city for the unknown meadow,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:6.45pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>There where a lone <i>simool </i>and the sky</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:6.45pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Stand and look into each other\'s eyes.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:6.45pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; PREMENDRA MITRA</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:10.55pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:0.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.5in;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>INTO THE BOAT<o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.8in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Trampling\r\nmy own shadow</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.8in;text-align:center;text-indent:.3in;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>on</span> a long, long path I came </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.8in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And saw a\r\nriver of gladness.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.8in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I pushed\r\nthe bank with my left foot </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.8in;text-align:center;text-indent:.3in;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And with the right landed</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.8in;text-align:center;text-indent:.3in;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:64.05pt;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span\r\nclass=GramE>into</span> the boat.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.8in;text-align:center;text-indent:.3in;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:64.05pt;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.8in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Here\r\na straw canopy over the head, </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.8in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>A\r\nwooden floor to sit upon,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.8in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>A\r\nhelm sure and certain,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.8in;text-align:center;text-indent:22.05pt;\r\nmso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>an</span> oar within reach</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.8in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And\r\na sail to unfurl in the sky, – </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.8in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>All\r\nwere there:</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.8in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>A\r\nwhole lung-full of breath </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.8in;text-align:center;text-indent:22.5pt;\r\nmso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>turned</span> into a flight of pigeons</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.8in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:64.55pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp; </span><span class=GramE>that</span>\r\nfound the sky.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.8in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:64.55pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; PURNENDUPRASAD\r\nBHATTACHARYA<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page – 172<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n10.8pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n10.05pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\' align=\"center\"><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>TREMBLINGLY&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; WAIT<o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I know not\r\nwhen you may arrive </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>From behind\r\nthe light:</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The waves\r\nmay break upon the door </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And I shall\r\nstretch out my hands <span class=GramE>In</span> a tremor.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I have\r\nlived ages in the embrace of the shade: </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Now I do\r\nnot see the earth\'s sun</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I have made\r\na home of the shade:</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I have not\r\nseen myself</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Mirrored\r\nnor in the light, nor in the air</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>Nor in the water.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:151.65pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Tremblingly I wait:</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I\r\nknow not when you may arrive </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>From\r\nbehind the screen of light,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Out\r\nof my sight, in the pattern of cruel falsehood </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I\r\nhave been used</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And\r\nfor ages I know not myself.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Tremblingly\r\nI <span class=GramE>await</span>:</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I know not\r\nwhen you may arrive </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Just from\r\nbehind my own self!</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:10.55pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:0.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.5in;mso-line-height-alt:10.55pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>TIMELESS<o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:10.55pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Time and Space endless,\r\nseamless the grey ocean,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Then aeons of trance broke\r\ninto a voiceful play of tossing waves </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And last an insentient\r\nearth now holds in her womb the seed of </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:3.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>consciousness</span>.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>We who have\r\nseen a red lotus blazing ceaselessly </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>And a white lotus ever winkless upon the earth. . .</span> </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Do we yet\r\nunderstand? Can we assess the value?<span style=\'font-size:\r\n10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 173<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Even today the earth is\r\nsundered and man goes hungry and</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:96.25pt;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n155.75pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>tortured</span>,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Blood burns in pain, life\r\nlives barren in the veins;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And still, O Lord, thou\r\nhast sent thy messengers time and</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:262.05pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>again</span> </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Who brought with them the\r\nlegacy of the starry lights. . <span class=GramE>.</span> </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Another hunger, another\r\nuntamed pain now</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Has awakened a sudden\r\nmighty restlessness in the roots of </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:3.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>the</span> being!</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>It is Night\'s low tide: in\r\nthe dark we tug the boat on . . . </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Sinews we have none, when\r\nshall we fly our wings,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>when</span> shall the consciousness\r\ndawn?<b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.5in;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.5in;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.5in;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>NIGHT&nbsp; COMES&nbsp; BACK<o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Night comes back again and\r\nagain, and yet</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>It goes back again and\r\nagain, and</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The morning sky rings with\r\nthe quiet and tranquil music of Light.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Sorrow comes back again\r\nand again, and yet </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>It goes back again and\r\nagain, and</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Life swells with the\r\nbillowing <st1:place><st1:PlaceType>ocean</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName>Delight</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Death comes back again and\r\nagain, and yet </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>It goes back again and\r\nagain, and</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Man\'s deathless world\r\nsings the hymn of Birth.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:2.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; NIRENDRA\r\nLAL CHAKRAVARTI<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 174<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:13.4pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>CLOUDS, EVENING AND&nbsp;\r\nI<o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n8.85pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Clouds,\r\nevening and I</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:45.0pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>stand</span> under the sky.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>It appears</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Daylight is\r\nan illusion</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And\r\ndarkness is real:</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And I have\r\ngone back again into the womb</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:43.4pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>and</span> effaced the scars of time.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Time here\r\nis timelessness.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>When you\r\nare in its embrace</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:43.4pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>there</span> is no death nor birth,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>You are\r\njust a grey notch upon the sky – </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Ended the\r\nearth\'s business, vanished the crowd.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:2.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\"Courier New\"\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'><font face=\"Times New Roman\">SANJOY\r\nBHATTACHARYA</font><o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:2.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:2.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.5in;mso-line-height-alt:11.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.5in;mso-line-height-alt:11.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>MY&nbsp; MIND&nbsp; MUST&nbsp; HAVE&nbsp; YEARNED<o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>My mind\r\nmust have yearned for some purest white: </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>That is why\r\none day the sunbright embrace of hills</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:21.8pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>and</span> clouds left me enchanted­ – </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And I find\r\nanother light in the light of my eyes. </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>This is\r\nalso the whiteness of the soul in its vastness: </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>It\r\nillumines smoothly</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:21.8pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>the</span> thickened darkness among the stars;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Its silence\r\ndescends like moonbeams­</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The whole\r\nbusiness of life seems</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:22.05pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span class=GramE>to</span>\r\npossess that alone;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>and</span> in the dark cave of the heart it is that I seek,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:22.05pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>I seek.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:22.05pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:2.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>SANJOY BHATTACHARYA</span><span style=\'font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page – 175<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:13.65pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.5in;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>THE SHADOW OF THE\r\nHARBOUR<o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>A\r\ndismal shadow upon the harbour,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:42.7pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>A broad day in swoon. . .</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>But\r\nyou are restive, my beauty! <span class=GramE>my</span> love!</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Wipe then\r\nthe red mark on your memory,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:42.7pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span\r\nclass=GramE>forget</span> the words of promise. . .</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The bank\r\nheaves with the rising tide. . .</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:42.7pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span\r\nclass=GramE>all\'s</span> ready for the drift!</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:42.7pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Boats and\r\nmasts and sails and the</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:43.4pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span\r\nclass=GramE>bustle</span> and hubbub. . .</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And <span\r\nclass=GramE>your</span> secret desire and the boundless swell of waters.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I too cast\r\nmy blood\'s yearning into the streaming flow. . . </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>My destiny, the gloomy shadow upon the harbour.</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:2.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; SUNIL KUMAR NANDI</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.5in;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.5in;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:0.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.5in;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>BEYOND SOUND AND\r\nLIGHT<o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Oh,\r\nwipe out all the light of the sky,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\nwhole world of the sun must never be seen </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>Anywhere.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Kindle\r\nthe flame of the eye that is turned </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Inward­\r\n– </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\ndarkness in the heart – and see</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>If it does not grow yet more dark.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And\r\nthen, the sounds surging mountain-high, </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Let\r\nthem, even like a landslide, hurtle down, </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>One\r\nand all of these shouting particles </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Under\r\nthe shelter of Night\'s solitude:</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Seal\r\nup your ears, listen to the stillness </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Within\r\nthe heart, listen</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>If it is yet more still...</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 176<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.0pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:\r\n0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:0;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Silence\r\nevermore, solitude evermore,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Darkness\r\nevermore – </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>In\r\nmy heart shines the light of countless suns </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And\r\nI shall know if you are there!<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:2.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>DEBIPRASAD MAITRA</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:10.55pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>A BIT OF LIGHT<o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>A bit of light within my soul,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>But more perhaps is there of darkness. </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Darkness hides in secret</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>In the fathomless depths.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>A streak from some Dawn</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Shall touch one day this soul</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And this soul shall rise</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Out of the Darkness</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And in its body of a flooding fountain </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>Shall achieve a full-throated cadence.</span>\r\n</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>So shall the Secret be <span class=SpellE><span\r\nclass=GramE>relumed.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>My love in the core of my heart</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I have borne everywhere around. </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>You will see every breath</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Has left there its imprint­ – </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Oh, you will see there a child</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Pure and innocent</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And you will long to clasp it</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>Within your bosom.</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:2.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'>SANJAYA\r\nBHATTACHARYA</span><span style=\'font-size:\r\n10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 177<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:13.9pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:0.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\' align=\"center\"><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>WATER LOTUS<o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.5pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Oh,\r\nthe deep, the unerring aim:</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.5pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:195.6pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>In a moment you did it, Ocean.<span style=\'mso-tab-count:\r\n1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.5pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And\r\nyou knew not even the gift you made. . .</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.5pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>In\r\nbarren June you brought down the whole monsoon.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.5pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:-1.65pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Jewels and pearls, emeralds and sapphires, </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:-1.65pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Summer and autumn, rain and spring, </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:-1.65pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Dreams and desires and gains, all</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>All are\r\nfaint images of inanity.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Towers and\r\narches, columns and corridors </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Crumble\r\ndown, huge abysses fade out: </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Decline or\r\nfall effaced in a moment.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Alone\r\nsurvives the heaving flatness,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\nhumid heart seeps with its dripping liquid,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>It\r\nmelts in an ardent embrace, in an unerring gesture!</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Into your\r\nwaters, this water is poured out,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:64.3pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>offering</span> all unto the last, </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>O, the\r\nDeep, the Vast, receive within you </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>This lotus,\r\nflower of the water!<span\r\nstyle=\'font-family:\"Courier New\"\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:2.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>NABENDRA CHAKRABARTY</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-family:\"Courier New\"\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>SOBS SWAY NATURE...<o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Sobs sway <span\r\nclass=GramE>Nature.</span> . . whose are the sobs?</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>In the sky even beyond\r\nSight: drops of <span class=GramE>pain.</span> . . whose are these?</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The blue is <span\r\nclass=GramE>mute.</span> . . aeons pass. . . a frozen stillness. . . </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Even now here am <span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:bold\'>I<b>, </b></span>an illusory proxy bird. . .</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I write poems picking up\r\nthe twinkles of stars</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>as</span> they scatter their hues and shed their petals,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>In this\r\ndwindling glow of footlights. . .</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The shadows sway timidly,<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 178<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.0pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-top:0;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\ndarkness stretches hesitant her arms,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Thoughts\r\nare a-cold in doubt and fear,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The dense\r\nsilence of a <span class=GramE>dark age</span> spreading mist and haze, </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>A sky of hard concrete.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:8.6pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Termless concepts piled\r\nsomewhere beyond ken­</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Pain drips in the blue\r\nmute and mystic. . .</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Ages past bring down their\r\nprimal stillness,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The stars make an\r\nillegible script on heaven\'s glowing slate. . .</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Who has scribbled this\r\npoem unutterable and <span class=GramE>undecipherable,</span> </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Who has written down these\r\nunending <span class=GramE>ideas,</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Who has painted this image\r\nof the mind, beyond <span class=GramE>understanding,</span> </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>An epistle of things\r\nsecret... a throbbing heart... <span class=GramE>Stars sleepless.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>A sob sways <span\r\nclass=GramE>Nature.</span> . . the whole night </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Someone is in pain, a\r\nmuffled and repressed pain.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:2.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>RABINDRA NATH</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:0.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>STILL I WADE\r\nTHROUGH<o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>His name is\r\nwritten on the wings of sunlight, </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>His thought\r\n<span class=GramE>lies</span> a harvest field of autumn. . . </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And under\r\nthe sky of the ending day</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Often do I\r\nlay down my <span class=GramE>head</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>with</span> eyes shadow-bedimmed.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I\r\nglide into the sun-flooded waters </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And\r\nI look for a shade­ – </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>No\r\nshore anywhere,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I\r\ntrudge on foot upon dusty roads­ – </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Oh,\r\nthese roads of our earth.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Shall I\r\nfind it at last shall I?</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>In the sun, in the fields, at the end of the day?</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 179</span><span\r\nstyle=\'color:blue\'><o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.45pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Still I\r\nwade through billowing waters­ – </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:64.3pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span class=GramE>the</span>\r\nunmoving goal in front.<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:64.3pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:2.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>BASABI DUTT A</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.5in;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.5in;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:0.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.5in;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>I CAN LEAVE\r\nEVERYTHING<o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I can leave\r\neverything, but not the tree; </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>May it <span\r\nclass=GramE>remain,</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Straight\r\nand simple, may the tree remain </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>in</span> my life,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>May it\r\nremain, remain ever wakeful.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I can leave\r\neverything, but not the river; May it remain,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>By the side\r\nof the tree, may it remain in my <span class=GramE>life,</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>May it\r\nremain, remain ever wakeful.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I can leave\r\neverything, but not the boat; May it remain,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>May the\r\nboat remain upon the river, remain in my life,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>May it\r\nremain ever <span class=GramE>wakeful.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>All I can\r\ngive up, not you, O my pole-star!</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>You must\r\nremain – ­</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Tree and\r\nriver and boat, when all are swept away</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:64.3pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>in</span> the black darkness,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Even then,\r\ndo remain transfixed in the night sky.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 180<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.0pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>THE CENTRE OF THE\r\nBODY</b><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The centre of this body is\r\na sun</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:64.3pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span class=GramE>with</span>\r\nits seven-winged flames.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Burn the strings of the\r\nbody – the fire is pitiless,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:22.05pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span class=GramE>he</span> does not\r\nknow, if it is soft or hard, high or Iowa scale.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>He dissolves in the fiery\r\nheat the thin cord that links me</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:64.3pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span class=GramE>to</span>\r\nthe earth.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>In the heavens of your\r\nheart</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:65.0pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I am\r\na flying light, a flame bird. </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The pair of wings is\r\nloosened by the heat­ – </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The body drunk with the\r\nblack smoke of gold</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:65.0pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:64.3pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>is</span> sunk in a swoon­</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Both lie out-stretched,\r\nthe front veering upward.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The wandering stars in the\r\nspaces are in flight,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.9in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>in</span> flight – out of sight. </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The sun has absconded, the\r\nmoon a handful of ashes. </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Draining life to a pale\r\nemptiness, a bunch of roses</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.9in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.9in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>blooms</span> in the crimson garden of the veins,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The pupil of the eye is\r\ntorn out, the tired eye-lashes</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:.9in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span class=GramE>droop</span>\r\ndown stilled.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Time trembles with the\r\nrise and fall of the breast.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Life with its wings of\r\nfire is a soaring light: </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Your heavens are a\r\ncloudless beauty – ­</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Love and affection, memory\r\nand happiness </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>Are now\r\na cascade</span> of gold-dust, as though </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:67.5pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>drifting</span> autumn leaves.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:67.5pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; UMA DEVl</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:0.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.5in;mso-line-height-alt:11.5pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>RAINS COME DOWN<o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.5pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.75in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Rains\r\ncome down in a sudden burst,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.75in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Overcasting\r\nall the ego-skies,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.75in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\ndestitute traveller turns to penance and solitude: </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.75in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Yesteryear\'s\r\naccounts are settled and closed.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page – 181<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.0pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.75in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>Tearing open the heart\'s poignant secrecy.</span> </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.75in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Chunks\r\nof darkness crash down,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.75in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\neye shades within it a splashing stream, </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.75in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Footprints\r\nleave their echoes behind.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.75in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.75in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>A\r\nlong night stops stilled in pain,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.75in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Hard\r\nit is to forget even if one wishes to; </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.75in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>It\r\nlashes and breaks upon the inner soul­ – </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.75in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>The promise of a </span><st1:City><st1:place><span class=GramE>Sunrise</span></st1:place></st1:City><span\r\nclass=GramE>.</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.75in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:2.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>SISIR BHATTACHARYA</span><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:0.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>ONE BY ONE I CATCH THE STARS<o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>One by one I catch the stars</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.3in;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>And I\r\nbring them to touch my body one by one:</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.6in;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>They all\r\nturn into birds and flyaway.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.6in;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.6in;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The stars glow like fire-flies</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.6in;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>They come and settle all over my body:</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.6in;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Indeed my\r\nbody is made of countless stars.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.6in;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>At long last I have found out:</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:16.55pt;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>I exist\r\nno longer,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:42.7pt;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Filled\r\nwith stars, am myself a Star.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:42.7pt;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;\r\nmso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Take away the stars and I am no longer in the body,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;\r\nmso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.3in;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>I leave my\r\nstar-filled body</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;\r\nmso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:43.4pt;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>And go up\r\ninto the star-filled sky.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;\r\nmso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:43.4pt;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Now I am a heavenly star</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Hence I shall become a starry heaven.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:2.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>JAGADISH CHANDRA DAS</span><span style=\'font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page – 182<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:13.65pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:0.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.5in;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>I AM A SWEET\r\nFONDLING<o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I\r\nam a sweet fondling of the Sky,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I\r\ncondescended to come down upon earth.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Whoever\r\nmakes a link with <span class=GramE>me</span> </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>Creates a link with the sky.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I am a\r\nhuman from the sky treading upon this mud, </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>At every\r\nstep my anklets ring through earth\'s bosom.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Upon the\r\nsoft breast of earth</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I draw the\r\nvery image of the sky.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>With my\r\ntinkling anklets on</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I walk\r\nthrough the bosom of the earth.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>This earth\r\nis a stage for me,<b><o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I play\r\nthere a celestial drama – </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>a</span> true and real drama!<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:2.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>JAGADISH CHANDRA DAS</span><span style=\'font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page – 183<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:14.85pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; 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line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><font size=\"4\">ON EVIL</font><o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:10.55pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>[1]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Hasten towards the <span\r\nclass=GramE>Good</span>, turn the mind away from evil; if you do good in sloth,\r\nthe mind will indulge in evil.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>[2]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>If a man does an evil\r\nthing, he must not repeat it, he must not indulge it. Painful is the\r\naccumulation of evil.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>[3]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>If a man does a good\r\nthing, let him repeat it, let him indulge it. Happiness comes of the accumulation\r\nof the good.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>[4]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The evil-doer finds it all\r\ngood, so long as the evil does not ripen. As soon as evil ripens than the\r\nevil-doer finds it all evil.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>[5]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The goodly man finds it\r\nall evil, so long as the good does not ripen. When the good ripens then the\r\ngoodly man finds it all good.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>[6]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Think not lightly of <span\r\nclass=GramE>Evil</span>, saying, &quot;It will not come to me&quot;.\r\nWater-drops falling constantly fill up the <span class=GramE>jar,</span> even\r\nso the ignorant man gathers evil little by little and becomes full of it.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>[7]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Think not lightly of the\r\ngood, saying &quot;it will not come to me&quot;. Water-drops falling constantly\r\nfill up the jar, even so the wise man gathers the good little by little and it\r\nis full of it.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>[8]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>A merchant who has few\r\ncompanions but a great treasure avoids dangerous <span class=GramE>roads,</span>\r\neven so a man who loves his life should avoid evil.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>[9]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>If the hand has no wound,\r\nit can carry poison even. Poison<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 214<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n13.4pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.0pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>cannot</span> affect one who has no wound. Even so, sin does not\r\ntouch him who has done nothing.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.25pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>[10]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>If a man offends a person\r\nwho is harmless, pure and innocent, the evil falls back on him, like fine dust\r\ncast against the wind.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>[11]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Some come to birth <span\r\nclass=GramE>again,</span> the evil-doers go to hell, the righteous to heaven,\r\nthe desireless to Nirvana.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>[12]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Neither in\r\nthe sky, nor in the depths of the ocean, nor within the mountain <span\r\nclass=GramE>cave is</span> there a spot in the whole world where one can escape\r\none\'s evil deeds.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>[13]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Neither in the sky, nor in\r\nthe depths of the ocean, nor within the mountain <span class=GramE>cave is</span>\r\nthere a spot where Death cannot assail.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 215<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; 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margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\nThe Golden Rule</h3>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b><i><span\r\nstyle=\'font-family:\"Arial Narrow\"\'><![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>TODAY I shall speak to you\r\nof the golden rule. When we were children we were taught, specially at school,\r\nat home too, certain golden rules. If you observe these rules you become good,\r\ngood boys and good girls, you are loved and appreciated by all. These rules are\r\nsimple and very commonplace; you know them all and must have tried them. For\r\nexample such things as &quot;speak the truth, do not tell a lie, obey your parents,\r\nrespect your teachers, do not hurt anybody&quot; etc., etc. That was the basis\r\non which one was to build one\'s character, mould one\'s nature, prepare for a\r\npure stainless noble life.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.1in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>They are\r\ngood, these rules, so far as they go: but to say the truth, they do not go very\r\nfar. They do not touch you intimately. They enter, as it is said, your head\r\nthrough one ear and pass out through the other. They do not quicken your heart\r\nand involve your soul. You follow if you are very earnest one rule or another\r\nfor a few days and then you forget.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.75pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\nother day I spoke to you of Yajnavalkya; he gave a better rule that was nearer\r\nto the golden rule. What he said in effect was that instead of following these\r\noutward rules or formulas you must leave them aside, go within yourself and\r\nfind your self. Yajnavalkya said: you love your <span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>neighbour</span>, not because he is your\r\nneighbour or brother, but because you find yourself in him. Find the Self, that\r\nis the golden rule. Find the Self that is in you, you will find that very Self in\r\nyour neighbour, in all.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Here\r\nhowever you must take care not to confuse yourself with your Self. When it is\r\nsaid that you find your Self it is not your personal self that you find in\r\nanother as if you grasp it as your own, exclusively your own possession. This\r\nSelf is not the ego, it is beyond ego, it is not the kind of self-hood that\r\nShake<![if !supportEmptyParas]><![endif]>speare <![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 58</span></p><hr>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-top:0;text-align:justify;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-bottom:0\'>depicts in King Richard where the King, deprived of everything, left all alone\r\nin the whole world, exclaims: &quot;Richard loves Richard; that is, I am\r\nI&quot;¹, for it is not a <span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>separative</span>\r\nI-ness; the other I\'s are dissolved as well as the one I that I am, and all\r\nbecome one person or self. It<b> </b>is all one self, one soul although they\r\nmay appear different, as different I\'s. </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-top:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:\r\n.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-bottom:0\'>Here I will tell you a story narrated to our children.\r\nThere used to be every evening a meeting where seekers and enquirers after the\r\nspiritual life assembled and conversed or meditated on the subject. There used\r\nalso to come to that meeting a remark able woman who had true <span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>realisations</span> and was ready to\r\nhelp others on the path. Once the talk turned on souls and their re-birth and\r\nshe was telling how after the death of the body souls pass out into another\r\nworld, and when the time comes each one returns to the earth and takes a human\r\nbody. Now there was one in the audience who felt a little puzzled about this\r\nmatter of birth and wanted clarification. She put a question: (it was a she):\r\n&quot;You say that souls come down and take birth, that is to say, assume a\r\nhuman body. But people are increasing in number upon earth, every year the\r\nhuman population becoming larger and larger. Now the question is: the\r\nadditional number of people born every year, where were they before? Were they\r\nthere all along since the creation, waiting? Do they appear gradually as time\r\npasses and bide their hour?&quot; We in the modern age may suggest an analogy.\r\nIs it like the stars or galaxies that are gradually coming into our ken,\r\nphenomenally distant stars whose lights are taking time to reach the present\r\nday earth? The questioner asked: &quot;Is there a fixed number of souls, can\r\nthey be counted?&quot; The speaker answered, &quot;Yes, they are limited and\r\nthey can be counted.&quot; With great curiosity and eagerness the questioner\r\nasked: &quot;How many? how many?&quot; Quietly the one who was speaking\r\nextended her hand and put out one single index finger, and said: &quot;Only\r\none.&quot;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.15in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>So,\r\nthat is the truth. All these many bodies, many persons you see, it is only\r\nappearance, there is only one Soul and every one is that. If you <span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>realise</span> this truth, you can\r\nlove everyone equally, not merely love but be one with all, because you are all\r\nand all are you. That universal Self, your own true Self</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.15in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.15in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'>¹ Shakespeare: <i>Richard\r\nthe Third, </i>Act V, Scene 3.<![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 59<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.0pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>you have to find, you have\r\nto know, you have to become. That is the golden rule as the ideal.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>How\r\nto attain, how to realise it? The Mother in this matter has given us a golden\r\nrule, a truly golden rule and very simple. Generally we are confused as to our\r\nduty – what to do, what not to do, how to do, how not to do. The Mother says to\r\nher children: &quot;Do not do what you will hesitate to do or be ashamed of\r\ndoing in my presence. Do not say anything which you will hesitate to say or be\r\nashamed of saying in my presence. Do not think even what you will find awkward\r\nto think in my presence&quot; Well, try this way and you will find what a\r\ngolden rule and a simple rule it is. Sri Aurobindo confirmed and said the same\r\nthing. He says, – you all know the well-known phrase – &quot;Always behave as\r\nif the Mother was looking at you; because she is, indeed, always present.&quot;\r\nYou need not imagine that she is there; for she is actually always there\r\nwhether you imagine or not; you do not know, for you are blind but she is\r\nalways there, seeing you, observing you, guiding you, protecting you. She not\r\nonly sees what you do, but even what you feel inside you, even your. most\r\nsecret thoughts. A child asked the Mother in his simplicity: “How do you know,\r\nMother, what we do, what we think, what we feel, how do you know it?&quot; The\r\nMother smiled and answered, &quot;My child, because you are within me, within\r\nmy embrace always. Therefore I know. I know what is happening in me, isn\'t it?\r\nThat is why I see what is happening in you. You are not outside me, you are\r\npart of myself, I am you.&quot;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.2pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Now\r\nif you follow this simple rule sincerely and persistently you will see the\r\nchange miraculously happening in you, you will become the golden child of the\r\ngolden Mother. You will find your thoughts, your words, your feelings, your\r\nimpulses putting on a new <span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>colour</span>,\r\neven your body will take a new glow of health and beauty. Normally our brain is\r\nmade of mud, our thoughts are unclean – we have wrong thoughts, dark thoughts,\r\nour tongue also is made of mud or clay, we speak wrong things, impure things,\r\nour heart too is made of the same substance, giving out wrong feelings and\r\nunclean feelings; lower down in our nature in the vital region our impulses are\r\nalso wrong and muddy and unclean, finally, the body is mud itself, it is made\r\nof diseases and weaknesses and incapacities. We are, as<![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 60<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.0pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>it were, a container\r\ncontaining this ugly and unclean mixture. What we have to do is to pour into it\r\nthe golden liquid, molten gold that will wash away all that impurity and filth,\r\nclean the vessel and fill it with its own radiant substance, the molten gold\r\nwhich is the Mother\'s presence.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>This\r\nprocess has been beautifully described by Sri Aurobindo in one of his poems. I\r\nconclude by reading out those magnificent lines:</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n10.8pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>THE\r\nGOLDEN LIGHT ¹</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:2.75in;text-indent:-1.0in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Thy\r\ngolden Light came down into my brain</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:2.75in;text-align:justify;text-indent:\r\n-1.0in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.15in;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>And\r\nthe grey <span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp;</span>rooms of mind sun-touched\r\nbecame</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:2.75in;text-indent:-1.0in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>A\r\nbright reply to Wisdom\'s occult plane,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:2.75in;text-align:justify;text-indent:\r\n-1.0in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.15in;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>A\r\ncalm illumination and a flame.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:2.75in;text-align:justify;text-indent:\r\n-1.0in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.15in;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:2.75in;text-indent:-1.0in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Thy\r\ngolden Light came down into my throat,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:2.75in;text-align:justify;text-indent:\r\n-1.0in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.15in;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>And\r\nall my speech is now a tune divine,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:2.75in;text-indent:-1.0in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>A\r\npaean-song of thee my single note;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:2.75in;text-align:justify;text-indent:\r\n-1.0in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.15in;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>My\r\nwords are drunk with the Immortal\'s wine.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:2.75in;text-align:justify;text-indent:\r\n-1.0in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.15in;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:2.75in;text-indent:-1.0in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Thy\r\ngolden Light came down into my heart</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:2.75in;text-align:justify;text-indent:\r\n-1.0in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:10.55pt;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Smiting\r\nmy life with Thy eternity;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:2.75in;text-indent:-1.0in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Now\r\nhas it grown a temple where Thou art</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:2.75in;text-align:justify;text-indent:\r\n-1.0in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:10.55pt;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>And\r\nall its passions point towards only Thee.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:2.75in;text-align:justify;text-indent:\r\n-1.0in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:10.55pt;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:2.75in;text-align:justify;text-indent:\r\n-1.0in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Thy golden Light came down into my feet:</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:2.75in;text-align:justify;text-indent:\r\n-1.0in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>My earth is now thy playfield and thy seat.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:\r\n10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'>¹ <i>Collected Poems, </i>Sri Aurobindo Birth\r\nCentenary Library, Vol. 5, p. 134.<![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 61<![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n10.55pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n<a href=\"-00_-Content\"><img src=\"_Jpeg%20image/set10_home_on.gif\" width=\"69\" height=\"18\" border=\"0\"></a></p>\r\n<div align=\"right\"> \r\n	<p style=\"line-height: 150%; 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margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>ON a sea-coast – a fairly\r\nlarge tract of land opening out on the vast sea and the infinite sky – among\r\nrocks and cliffs there lived a flock of sea-gulls, rather flocks of sea-gulls, –\r\nfor they were almost innumerable, in hundreds and perhaps in thou sands – a\r\nwhole colony of them. Have you seen a sea-gull, at least in a picture? This\r\nbeautiful bird, spotlessly white end to end, and when in flight with outspread\r\nwings and its delicate supple body so pleasing, so wonderful to look at! Do you\r\nknow their routine, their daily preoccupations? Of course, the first thing in\r\nthe morning for them to do was to fly out and look for food. Their food is naturally\r\nfishes. So these birds used to fly a certain distance out to sea and from above\r\nlook down and spot the swimming fishes below and dart down, catch them and fly\r\nup again; then they came back to their places and shared their catch among\r\nthemselves. Naturally there was a good deal of scrambling and fighting but that\r\nwas part of the life. And there after, most of the time, they passed in dozing\r\nor sleeping or at times flying out once again to sea for <span class=GramE>a\r\nforage</span>. And of course there was the item of mating and begetting\r\nchildren. That was their life and they continued it day after day, year after\r\nyear. They were, I suppose, quite content with the life they were leading. </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.5pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Now,\r\nit happened that one of these sea-gulls thought otherwise. Yes, a thought\r\nentered into him. Why should not a thought enter into the head of a bird? A new\r\nthought, a faith did enter into the heart of a human child as reported in the\r\nUpanishads, so this bird with his questioning thought found the ordinary\r\nbird-life quite uninteresting. He wondered: why lay so much stress upon food\r\nand sleep and <span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>quarelling</span>\r\nand increasing the population? He found flying itself a beautiful</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 76</span><span\r\nstyle=\'color:blue\'><o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.7pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>adventure</span>.\r\nWhy fly just a few miles, only to come back, flop down and roost? Why not fly\r\nout, out into the vast sea abroad and the limitless sky overhead? Having wings,\r\nhe thought they were strong enough to fly him far and high; he would try.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>So\r\nfrom that time he separated himself from his tribe and went out on his own for\r\nthe joy of long journeys and long flights. It was pure delight for him and he\r\nincreased the distance of his flight from day to day, from a hundred to a thousand\r\nmiles or more. And he found himself gradually incredibly stronger in body,\r\nunbelievably happy within. Food or sleep or rest did not trouble him any more.\r\nWhen he was thus practising this new adventure, two or three of his comrades\r\nnoticed it and became interested. So these approached him and asked what the\r\nmatter was. He explained to them what he was about, he was not happy with the old\r\ncommon <span class=GramE>life,</span> he wanted a new, broader, more vigorous\r\nlife. The newcomers were allured by the project and they wanted to join the new\r\nadventure. They were gladly accepted.</p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 2.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.0pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;\r\nborder:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;\r\nmso-padding-alt:0in 0in 2.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>So these three or four friends joined\r\ntogether and resolved to start a new life. These new-comers were first taught\r\nthe lessons of long flight – perhaps now they could fly some thousands of\r\nmiles at a stretch without rest. One day the pioneer bird – let us give him a\r\nname &quot;Shobhanaka&quot;, <span class=SpellE><span style=\'font-family:\"Lucida Console\"\'>à</span><i>\r\nla manière de Panchatantra </i>e.g. Damanaka, Karataka, Bhasunaka etc. for <span\r\nclass=GramE>he</span> was very fine to look at, so Shobhanaka told his\r\ncomrades: Long flight is not sufficient, not only horizontal flight but a\r\nvertical flight should be also our asset. So they attempted to fly up and up,\r\nup into the clouds and beyond as far as possible, to the extent that earth\'s\r\natmosphere and gravitation would allow. They achieved this feat also and in\r\ndoing so they pondered upon another mystery. Shobhanaka said: long-distance\r\nflight whether horizontal or vertical is not sufficient, we must increase our\r\nspeed, the speed of flight. And the way to increase the speed is to speed down\r\nfrom above – dart headlong towards earth. In this way in place of a bare fifty\r\nor sixty miles per hour they calculated they could attain the speed of sound.\r\nTo break the sound-barrier is indeed an achievement for bodily speed. Now they\r\nwanted to go farther on. Added to the flight they now learnt all kinds of\r\nacrobatic movements of the body – exactly as expert pilots do with their\r\naeroplane, that is to say, with</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;border:medium none;\r\nmso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 2.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 77</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>their</span> gathering speed they\r\nwent through all movements of vaulting, somersaulting, twirling, twisting and\r\nso on. They made their bodies a wonderful mass of supple energy and even\r\nradiant energy. </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span>At this point one day all on a sudden they saw\r\nat a distance a bird of their kind but somewhat different, more beautiful, more\r\nglorious. They approached him, or perhaps he approached them and said, &quot;I\r\nwas observing you and I found what you were doing is wonderful. Your\r\nachievement is really marvellous. But there is something more yet to do. I\r\nhave come to teach you what you have still to do for your true fulfilment. Till\r\nnow you were moving on the same plane, all your progress has been made in one\r\ndimension. I will explain: <span class=GramE>&quot; –</span> You have learnt\r\n\'moving\' flight. You have to learn now un-moving or still flight. This is a\r\ncontradiction in terms? In the new dimension you have to reconcile or unify\r\nthe contradictions. Listen <span class=GramE>carefully,</span> I give you the\r\nmystery of still flying. It is getting as I said into another dimension of\r\nspace, or another kind of space – it is better I give you a practical\r\ndemonstration.&quot; &quot;Come,&quot; he said addressing Shobhanaka,\r\n&quot;Stand here on your legs straight, firm and unmoving – by my side. Normally\r\nwhen you fly, first you have the will to fly, then that will you put forth into\r\nyour body, into your muscles and nerves spreading it out as it were into your\r\nwings, making your wings mobile. Now what you have to do is an opposite\r\nmovement. Instead of sending your will and energy outward, as if throwing it\r\nout, you gather the will and energy within yourself, that is, concentrate\r\nwithin you your will and energy instead of spilling them out. The whole thing\r\ndepends upon this concentration, this gathering up your energy and will on one\r\npoint within you and then just look, that is to say, with your thought or\r\nconsciousness, at the point where you<span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;\r\n</span>ant to go. It is like a strung-bow with its arrow pointing at the target.\r\nAnd then let yourself go as it were. Indeed if your concentration is perfect\r\nyou will leap straight into your target without, as it would seem, passing\r\nthrough the intermediary stages – telescoping, as it were, all the intervening\r\nsteps into one single step – a long jump at a lightning speed. Now try to do\r\nwhat I told you. Feel what I am doing.&quot;</p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:12.2pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;\r\nborder:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;\r\nmso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Miraculous\r\nit was, Shobhanaka saw the Elder-one who had<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:12.2pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;\r\nmso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n12.0pt;\'>Page – 78<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>been</span>\r\nby his side but now, there afar on another cliff. At the next moment the expert\r\nflyer was back at his place as before by the side of his pupil. The pupil\r\nexclaimed in admiration: &quot;It is an impossibility, but since you have done\r\nit I will try to do it.&quot; &quot;Yes&quot;, the Elder-one said, &quot;I too\r\ndid not succeed in one day or in one attempt. It takes some time, even a long\r\ntime. But persistence, perseverance and faith undiscouraged will bring you the\r\nvictory.&quot;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&quot;Here\r\nI give you the ultimate, the supreme secret,&quot; the Elder continued,\r\n&quot;the inner core of the teaching. This body, this substance made of solid\r\nmatter that seems so rigid, compact, hard, is really not so; you must have realised it by this time. You cannot even say that this body-material is an\r\nencasement for the storage and play of energy which is the true reality\r\nbehind: it is not so. The body, the physical structure is only an idea, it is a\r\nperception: you perceive that there is your body, it does not exist outside\r\nyour perception, <span class=GramE>your</span> perception is an immaterial\r\nthing. The whole body so neatly outlined, so concretely static is only a\r\ncombination of ideas and precepts, a projection of your mind: from tip to tip\r\nyour outspread wings consist only of your thoughts as if strung together. If\r\nthat is so you can naturally manipulate thought by thought, in other words your\r\nbody, that is, what appears as your body is at your mercy, which means, at the\r\nmercy of your thought. You can move the body as you like, for you can move\r\nnaturally thought by thought. So what is needed is a withdrawal of the mind\r\ninto its thought-stuff and to control it, <span class=GramE>make</span> use of\r\nit from that centre. I have shown you how one can be this inner motive-thought\r\nand not obsessed by its apparent so-called material formulation. It is\r\ndifficult to understand but by practice as I have shown you, you will\r\nunderstand.&quot;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:10.3pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>A\r\nfew days passed, thereupon Shobhanaka was practising the new technique and was\r\non the way towards success. The Elder-one came another day and said to the\r\ngroup of the three or four aspirant-birds, &quot;My mission is ended, I have\r\ntaught you what was intended to be taught and you are a fair way towards\r\nsuccess: A last word you must remember, your achievements are not for\r\nyourselves alone but you must go back and try to instill these new virtues into\r\nyou comrades left behind, they too must share the joy and the glory of this new\r\nlife. I<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 79<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.0pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>have</span>\r\nto go; for there are tasks still to be done by me and other and higher\r\ndimensions of real living. But help will always come to you; whether I come or\r\nanother one comes, you will always be companioned by happy helpers.&quot; So\r\nsaying this Elder-bird flew up and up and gradually turned into a blazing point\r\nand disappeared among the stars.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.75pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Now\r\nthese transmuted sea-gulls met and consulted together. They were required to go\r\nback in the midst of their old comrades but how could they? Naturally they\r\ncould not go back to the old mode of life. Besides, they would not be accepted\r\nby their old community. They were ostracised and they were now an outcaste\r\ngroup. If they ventured into the society of their old comrades they would\r\nlikely be violently dealt with or perhaps even killed. However, there was no\r\noption left, they were ordained and it was now their duty to go back and try to\r\nget in touch with their old friends and influence them, guide them in the new\r\nmode of life to whatever extent it was possible.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.0pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>So\r\nthey flew back to their old domain and as soon as they were in sight of their\r\nformer friends, all these almost in a body rushed out and raised a hue and cry,\r\nsounded an alarm as it were: &quot;the enemies are come!&quot; But these new\r\nbeings, a new type of sea-gulls, were not <span class=GramE>daunted,</span>\r\nthey approached bravely and calmly without fear, without any intention of\r\nopposing or giving battle. They passed by over their ancient habitat sailing in\r\na beautiful formation with their beautiful white, all-white bodies aglow with\r\na new radiance, pulsating with a new charm. All who rushed out to engage in a\r\nfight and combat, full of anger and fury, halted, stood agape in confusion and\r\nwonder.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.5pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Thus,\r\nthe battle was won, marvellously, peacefully. The older race, specially the\r\nyounger generation, could remark and appreciate the gait and the manner of\r\nflight in these newcomers. They now found out that the old mode of life was\r\nnot interesting enough, there was no special joy in flying to procure only\r\nfood-stuff, in merely catching fishes and gobbling them up: doing that\r\neternally, repeating over and over again the same dull routine. Instead, there\r\nwas the joy in flying simply (or the sake of flying, in flying far, far into\r\nthe distant horizon, far into the infinite spaces overhead into the unfamiliar\r\nand the unknown. Thus slowly the old community began to change<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 80<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.0pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>its</span> mode of life adding a\r\nnew meaning to their movements – a new limb and direction to their body and\r\nexistence.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:12.45pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>This healthy influence\r\nbecame more effective since they witnessed a strange and curious event\r\nhappening in their presence.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>A\r\ndemonstration was being given by Shobhanaka of the art of flying, of all the\r\ndifficult and artistic modes of flying. He was showing the speed with which one\r\nis capable of flying, literally lightning speed. A large crowd of spectators\r\nhad gathered around an arena-like opening and was intently observing all the\r\nwonderful and almost impossible acrobatics and calisthenics. They suddenly saw\r\nthe bird from one far corner of the sky speeding across to the other end and,\r\nas I said, beating lightning\'s speed, but suddenly one stray bird happened to\r\nbe there up directly in the way of the speeding bird. So in order to avoid\r\ndashing against the intruder, Shobhanaka swerved around but hurled itself straight\r\nupon... Oh! <span class=GramE>what</span> horror! <span class=GramE>a</span>\r\ncry of pity and pain rose up from the crowd – in swerving away from the bird on\r\nhis path Shobhanaka in his incredible speed dashed and crashed against a cliff\r\nthat was blocking the sides. Everyone thought, that was the end of the poor\r\nflying expert, he must have been reduced to mere pulp now. But no, what a\r\nmiracle! Hale and hearty he was there flying up slowly and at ease, then\r\ngracefully descending upon the earth as if nothing had happened. Well, his body\r\ndid not seem to be made of flesh and bone but of some ethereal substance, so\r\nsupple, so elastic, <span class=GramE>so</span> resilient that nothing offered\r\nany resistance to it. It could pass through like a beam of the invisible light.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.75pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\nupshot was that the old community gradually changed its habits slowly but\r\ninevitably, they took to adventure and&nbsp; far-flights, over the unknown waves\r\ninto the infinite blue. Many became experts and given to this new life they\r\nformed gradually a community by themselves and found for themselves another\r\nhabitat nearby. Those old experts, Shobhanaka\'s group, the masters, were with\r\nthem as teachers and guides. And thus new guides and new teachers arose and community\r\nafter community leading this new life, a life in which the old and unclean\r\nhabits were eliminated and there was a life of exquisite beauty and harmony\r\namong all.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:13.5pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\nHere ends my story. It is the story, rather a vision and as<span\r\nclass=GramE>piration</span> </p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center; line-height:150%;margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page – 81<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:14.6pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>in a beautiful symbol of a pilot, ¹ a real pilot\r\nwho was flying real aeroplanes. When he flew with his hard mechanical rigid\r\nmechanical wings into other regions free from earth\'s gravitational control, he\r\nimagined or aspired to fly with other wings, golden <span class=GramE>wings</span>,\r\ninto other regions, golden regions of another kind of consciousness,\r\nsupra-human consciousness.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.5pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\nsymbol used here is very appropriate and meaningful. The sea-gull has normally\r\na very beautiful appearance: Its snow-white body, out-spread wings, all\r\nspotless white and its gracefulness in flight is indeed a delightful spectacle\r\nfor the eyes to contemplate. Even so man also, even this earthly creature has\r\nwithin him a beautiful being snow-white in its purity and exceedingly graceful\r\nin gait and movement; that being has to be brought out and displayed even as\r\nthe sea-gull transformed itself – transformed its very nature and substance\r\ninto a vibrating mass of light with its diamond sheen, its material body itself\r\na packet of intense and yet controlled radiating energy.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.5pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'>¹ A re-creation of the story of <i>Jonathan Livingston Seagull </i>by\r\nRichard Bach, published by Turnstone Press Ltd, London, 1972.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page – 82</span></p><hr>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n<a href=\"-00_-Content\"><img src=\"_Jpeg%20image/set10_home_on.gif\" width=\"70\" height=\"19\" border=\"0\"></a></p>\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-13_A Parable of Sea-gulls','','publish','closed','open','','13_a-parable-of-sea-gulls','','','2021-11-23 17:58:46','2021-11-23 17:58:46','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/13_a-parable-of-sea-gulls/',0,'post','',0),(1996,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:46','2021-11-23 17:58:46','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>OF THE SELF</title>\r\n\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"6\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n<p align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><font size=\"4\">OF THE SELF</font><o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.5pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.5pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>[1]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.5pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.5pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>If you\r\nconsider the self dear to you, guard it well and protect it. <span class=GramE>In\r\none or other of the three vigils, (youth, ripe age, old age), keep awake.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.5pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>[2]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Establish yourself first\r\nin the right way, <span class=GramE>then</span> you may instruct others. Thus\r\nthe wise one will avoid all blame.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>[3]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>One must practise oneself\r\nwhat one teaches others. Being self­-controlled he can control others. It is\r\ndifficult indeed to control <span class=GramE>oneself</span>.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>[4]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>One\'s own self is one\'s\r\nmaster. Which other can be the master? By self-mastery one attains a mastery\r\nthat is rarely achieved.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>[5]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The evil done to oneself,\r\nthe evil born of oneself, the evil going out of oneself crushes the evil-minded\r\nman, even as diamond crushes a stony gem.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>[6]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>One\r\nwhose evil character has no limit, even like a pine tree entwined by a creeper,\r\ndoes to himself exactly what his enemies would like to do to him.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.25pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>[7]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.25pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.25pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>To do evil,\r\nto do wrong to oneself is very easy; but to do what is good, to do what is\r\nright is extremely difficult.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>[8]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>One with a wrong mind who\r\ntakes to wrong views reviles the teaching of the noble, the virtuous, the\r\nperfect; he flourishes in order to bring about his own destruction, even as the\r\nbamboo tree does producing its poisonous fruit.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\r\nmso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 219<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>[9]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>By doing a wrong one does\r\nwrong to oneself; by not doing wrong, one purifies oneself. Purity or impurity\r\nbelongs to one\'s own self, none can purify another.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>[10]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>One must not give up one\'s\r\nown <span class=GramE>good</span> for the sake of another\'s good, however great\r\nit may be. Know your own good and adhere to it.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 220<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span style=\'font-size:20.0pt;color:blue;\r\nmso-bidi-font-style:italic\'><a href=\"-00_-Content\"><img src=\"_Jpeg%20image/set10_home_on.gif\" width=\"68\" height=\"18\" border=\"0\"></a></span></p>\r\n<div align=\"right\"> \r\n	<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"> </div>\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-44_Of the Self','','publish','closed','open','','44_of-the-self','','','2021-11-23 17:58:46','2021-11-23 17:58:46','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/44_of-the-self/',0,'post','',0),(1997,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:46','2021-11-23 17:58:46','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>Twin Prayers</title>\r\n\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=blue style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"6\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style=\'text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal\'><span lang=EN-GB><font size=\"4\">Twin Prayers</font><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><i><span lang=EN-GB><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:27.0pt;text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>Lord, this morning Thou hast given me the assurance that Thou\r\nwouldst stay with us until Thy work is achieved, not only as a consciousness\r\nwhich guides and illumines but also as a dynamic Presence in action. In\r\nunmistakable terms Thou hast promised that all of Thyself would remain here and\r\nnot leave the earth-atmosphere until earth is transformed. Grant that we may be\r\nworthy of this marvellous Presence and that henceforth everything in us be concentrated\r\non the one will to be more and more perfectly consecrated to the fulfilment of\r\nThy sublime Work.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span lang=EN-GB><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB>THE Mother\'s\r\nprayer to Sri Aurobindo – so beautiful, so poignant and so true – we, her\r\nchildren, now turn round and readdress to Her own sweet self. .</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>The new creation that the Mother embodied is not lost, it is not\r\nwiped out with the disappearance of the material body. It has been a true\r\ncreation and is indelibly implanted in the earth-atmosphere and will remain\r\nthere for eternity. And it is not merely a static structure, it is a living and\r\ngrowing entity. It is not in the earth\'s atmosphere a mere image or a lifeless\r\npicture transfixed there as on a canvas strip. It is living and growing –\r\nliving and growing not only in itself and for itself, but making its habitat\r\nthe atmosphere also live and grow in new dimensions, that is to say,\r\ntransforming it in accordance with its own developing truth and reality. It is\r\ngrowing and characteristically growing downwards, that is to say, extending\r\nitself more and more towards an earthly manifestation or incarnation. It is\r\nlike the ashwattha tree spoken of by the rishis of old that stands upside down,\r\nthe roots upward and the branches spreading out downwards – indeed it is\r\ngrowing downward – drawing its life-<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – </span>\r\n<span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;\r\n\'>95<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB>sap from above. The\r\nphysical embodiment, the materialisation of the inner formation will happen in\r\ncourse of time inevitably. It will touch the ground, the very ground of the\r\nearth and stand as its marvel-creation – through a process of calamities and\r\ncatastrophes perhaps – which may indeed be minimised if circumstances permit\r\nand the Grace admits; but however the process, the end is decreed, for the\r\ndecree is that of the Divine and it is the destiny of earth-consciousness.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span lang=EN-GB><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB>(2)</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span lang=EN-GB><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB>This is however\r\nthe Mother\'s part of the work and she is doing it perfectly, on her side. But\r\nwhat about ourselves? What is our share of the work? For it is intended that\r\nwe, her children, should be collaborators in her work, so that we too may be\r\nintegrated into the Divine realisation. The Mother herself has indicated the\r\nline of service we can render to her in the communication I just read out to\r\nyou:</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span lang=EN-GB><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>. . . henceforth everything in us be concentrated on the one will to\r\nbe more and more perfectly consecrated to the fulfilment of Thy sublime Work.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span lang=EN-GB><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>The situation has somewhat changed since then and has become more\r\ndifficult. On the departure of Sri Aurobindo, sometime after, Mother gave us a\r\nmessage, an admonition, pointing to us the difficulty:</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><span lang=EN-GB><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>Pour suivre Sri Aurobindo dans la grande aventure de son yoga\r\nintégral, il fallait toujours être guerrier; mais maintenant qu\'il nous a\r\nquitté physiquiment, il faut être un héro.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><span lang=EN-GB><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>To follow Sri Aurobindo in the\r\ngreat adventure of his integral yoga, one needed always to be a warrior; but\r\nnow that he has physically left us, one needs to be a hero.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:4.5in;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><st1:date\r\nYear=\"1952\" Day=\"24\" Month=\"11\"><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\n italic\'>24-11-1952</span></st1:date><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'><o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>At present when the Mother too is no more\r\nthere – apparently – we seem to be abandoned children, what are we to do or\r\nbe? It is no longer sufficient to be a warrior, not sufficient<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'>Page – 96<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>even to be a hero. What should we be?\r\nSomething greater than the hero. One must be a Yogi. The yogi is one who has\r\nthe Divine Consciousness or the Mother\'s consciousness. If you find that it is\r\nnot so easy for one to be a yogi, even if one tries sincerely, I suggest to you\r\nanother alternative. It is to leap into another dimension: to be a child, a\r\nchild of the Mother.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:13.5pt;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>I give you this subject for\r\nmeditation: on becoming. . . a child, an ideal child of the Mother.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;border:medium none;\r\nmso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>Page – 97</span><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal align=right style=\'text-align:right; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><span lang=EN-GB><a\r\nhref=\"file:///F|/Inetpub/wwwroot/new-saa.info/_StaticContent/SriAurobindoAshram/-04-Early-Disciples/-01-Nolini-Kanta-Gupta/Works-of-Nolini-Kanta-Gupta/Volume-1/index\"><span style=\'text-decoration:none;text-underline:\r\nnone\'></span><span style=\'text-decoration:none;text-underline:\r\nnone\'><a href=\"-00_-Content\"><img border=0 width=69 height=19 id=\"_x0000_i1028\"\r\nsrc=\"_Jpeg%20image/set10_home_on.gif\"></a></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>\r\n  <i>\r\n\r\n  <div align=right> \r\n	<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"> </div>\r\n\r\n</i></div></td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-18_Twin Prayers','','publish','closed','open','','18_twin-prayers','','','2021-11-23 17:58:46','2021-11-23 17:58:46','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/18_twin-prayers/',0,'post','',0),(1998,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:46','2021-11-23 17:58:46','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>ACT II: THE PLAY ON EARTH</title>\r\n\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=blue style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"6\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center; text-indent:-7.5pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><b>\r\n<span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'><font size=\"4\">ACT II: THE PLAY ON EARTH</font><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:2.0in;text-align:justify;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:2.0in;text-align:justify;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>SCENE\r\nI: THE MOTHER AND THE CHILD</span></b><span\r\nlang=EN-GB><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.25pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>THE MOTHER<span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>You touch\r\nnow the dome of your parents. </span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>You have reached your peak.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:2.0in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB>Your\r\ntender body, my child,</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:2.0in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB>fills up\r\nthe triumphal arc of its destiny. </span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:2.0in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB>I must\r\nonce again</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>cut the cord that bound you to me. </span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>You are free.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB>THE CHILD\r\n<span style=\'mso-tab-count:2\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Mother, you wound me. </span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>To be your child,</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>is it not for ever?</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>THE MOTHER <span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>I am with\r\nyou through eternity. </span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>But in another way.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>It is in you and everywhere </span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>that I must be.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>It is time to go</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>where you must.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.0pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB>THE CHILD\r\n<span style=\'mso-tab-count:2\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>A strong and gentle wind\r\nswells my sails </span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>light and heavy with all their future. </span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>All the ships of the world<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page – 295<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.0pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;\r\nmargin-left:2.0in;margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'><span lang=EN-GB>fulfil in\r\nme their glorious voyage.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:2.0in;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>I started already</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:2.0in;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>and am back already.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:2.0in;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>And whosoever I meet has an ancient face, </span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:2.0in;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>I know them all.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:-13.5pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>THE MOTHER <span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>These streams of delight, and of sun,\r\nand of<span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:-13.5pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB><span style=\'mso-tab-count:9\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>kisses,</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>your tresses, my child,</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>do not let them fall in floods upon your shoulders;</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>they would be caught in the brambles and roses.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n10.8pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:2.0in;text-align:justify;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>SCENE\r\n2: THE TRAVELLERS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:2.0in;text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.5pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:2.0in;text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.5pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>First Tableau: The Tree</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB>HE <span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:3\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>A bed of the\r\npetals of shadow for my rest. </span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>A column for my thought.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>A nave for my dream.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:2.0in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB>A robe of\r\nhappiness envelops me, with the evening!</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>Tree, your sap</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>beats gently against mine.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB>TREE <span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:3\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>I waited for you</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>to clasp you with my arms of dream </span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>before nightfall.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>Have you a wish to express?</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:10.55pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB>HE<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:3\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>O tree,</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>mighty sacred Androgyne, </span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>initiate me into your mystery.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB>TREE <span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:3\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Look! my roots plunge</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>into the very source of life.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>He who can drink of it becomes immortal. </span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>Look! my branches plunge into the infinite; </span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>I am the whole space<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page –\r\n296<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n10.55pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>which the sun fills up.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>In me stones, flowers, animals, </span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>children, lovers, stars</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>sing for ever.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:2.0in;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>I am the </span><st1:place><span lang=EN-GB>Paradise</span></st1:place><span\r\nlang=EN-GB> believed to be lost. </span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:2.0in;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>I am the cavern of the witch</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>and the abode of the fairy.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:right 2.85in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n10.55pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>HE<span style=\'mso-tab-count:3\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>O\r\ntree,</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>mighty sacred Androgyne,</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>child of the Earth, lover of the sun,</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>flow into my veins, O Paradise, O Immortality!</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>Second Tableau: The Companions</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n10.8pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>HE<span style=\'mso-tab-count:3\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Who\r\nis the craftsman that conceived</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>the vibrant column of our body</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>wherein the wind enters with its musical fingers</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:2.0in;text-align:justify;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>and that the forest prolongs. . .</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n10.8pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>THE SHEPHERD<span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>In us, each\r\nflower</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>sees itself in a dazzled swoon.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:-.25in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB><span style=\'mso-tab-count:4\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Each\r\nstar finds itself again</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>in the depths of the golden lake of our eyes.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n10.55pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>HE<span style=\'mso-tab-count:3\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>When\r\nwe sing,</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>even in daylight,</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>the Moon and Venus hear us</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>and the Great Bear and Arcturus and Capella.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>The Adventure is our secret Bride. </span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>She awaits us, masked,</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>at the turn of the road,<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>THE SHEPHERD <span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>She is the\r\nfar Princess,</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>from her we come,</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>from her castle between heaven and earth,</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page –\r\n297<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;\r\nmargin-left:1.5in;margin-bottom:0;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>and to her,</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>hand in hand, </span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:2.25in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list 2.25in;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><![if !supportLists]>\r\n<span style=\'mso-list:Ignore\' lang=\"EN-GB\">–<span style=\'font:7.0pt \"Times New Roman\"\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n</span><![endif]><span lang=EN-GB>warriors, builders, companions,\r\n    </span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:2.0in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB>eternal\r\ntravellers, wanderers eternal – ­</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:2.0in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB>we walk\r\non.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n10.55pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>HE<span style=\'mso-tab-count:3\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Shepherd,\r\nmy friend,</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>who is the craftsman that tuned </span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>the luminous lyre of my soul, </span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>so that we vibrate together,</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>to the same breath?. . . </span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-align:justify;text-indent:\r\n.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'>SCENE 3: THE LOVERS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.0pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n10.8pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>HE<span style=\'mso-tab-count:3\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Hardly\r\nan hour ago</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>I was still wandering</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>at hazard.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>But every one of my steps was sure of itself. </span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>You made a sign to me,</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>You called me, O my star.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>One hour only </span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>or long ages. . .</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>We have lived,</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>sung, danced together,</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>on her paths of sand, of water, of snow, </span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>her carpets of rock and moss and fern, </span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>all the unforgettable festivals of Earth. </span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>Happiness invited us</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>into her grottoes, her palaces,</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>her fields of wheat, her fields of war. </span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>Happiness, faithful,</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>the wave or the flower in its arms,</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>the tool, the torch, the weapon in its grip </span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>joy on its lips,</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>awaited us everywhere.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-align:justify;text-indent:\r\n.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB>That smile,<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page –\r\n298<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.95pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.5pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>it is You, </span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.5pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>my Beloved.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:11.5pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:11.5pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>SHE<span style=\'mso-tab-count:3\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>We\r\nplay together,</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>joined in one single flame,</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:2.0in;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>the immense symphony of the Universe.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>Thousands of festivals still calf us: </span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>those of yesterday,</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>those of to-morrow,</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:2.0in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB>those of\r\nour eternal Meeting. </span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:2.0in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB>Here,</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>now,</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:4.05pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB><span style=\'mso-tab-count:5\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>for\r\never.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:4.05pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-align:justify;text-indent:\r\n.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'>SCENE 4: THE INITIATES<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>HE<span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:2\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>O my sweet Master, </span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-align:justify;text-indent:\r\n.5in;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB>I thirst for Eternity!</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>THE MASTER<span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>I shall\r\nlead you to thy eternal Truth.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>HE<span style=\'mso-tab-count:3\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>The\r\nocean of life</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:2.0in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB>spreads\r\nbelow me its tranquil lagoons </span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:2.0in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB>where\r\ncorals build up the living house</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>of hours and minutes.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:2.0in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB>But each\r\nsparkle of the waters</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>breaks the shell of my dream.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>The call of the Infinite tears me.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>The ecstasy of the Infinite possesses my soul. </span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>The Earth and the Universe capsize.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>Who awaits me there?</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>Who calls me?</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>THE MASTER <span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Thyself.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>INITIATE (Left) <span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>He the\r\nSupreme Beloved. </span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>INITIATE (Right) <span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>The\r\nAbsolute.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>INITIATE (L)<span style=\'mso-tab-count:2\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Be\r\npure of all taint!<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page –\r\n299<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:13.65pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-top:0;text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB><span style=\'mso-tab-count:3\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Be\r\npure of all thy rainbows.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-align:justify;text-indent:\r\n.5in;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB>Enter into thy original Whiteness!</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>INITIATE (R) Enter into thy\r\noriginal Whiteness! </span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>INITIATE (L) Be pure of thy\r\npresent,</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-align:justify;text-indent:\r\n.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB>Be pure of thy past and of thy future! </span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-align:justify;text-indent:\r\n.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB>Enter into thy original Candour! </span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>INITIATE (R) Enter into thy\r\noriginal Candour! </span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>INITIATE (L)<span style=\'mso-tab-count:2\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Die\r\nto thyself!</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>INITIATE (R)<span style=\'mso-tab-count:2\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Die\r\nto thyself!</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>THE MASTER <span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Become\r\nThyself!</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><span lang=EN-GB><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-align:justify;text-indent:\r\n.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><span lang=EN-GB>The Song of Triumph<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-align:justify;text-indent:\r\n.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB>THE\r\nMASTER <span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Solitary,</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>eternal,</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>enter into thy original Splendour!</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-align:justify;text-indent:\r\n.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-align:justify;text-indent:\r\n.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>SCENE 5: THE ADVERSARY<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:10.55pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB>SHE <span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:3\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>My spouse, my\r\nbrother,</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>we have sworn to be eternal enemies.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>It is our secret.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>And now we are ready to melt</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>into our Unity.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:2.0in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB>The earth\r\nin alarm reels under our steps. </span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:2.0in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB>My brother,\r\nmy spouse,</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>to honour our vows</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>you are in duty bound to kill me.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n10.55pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>HE<span style=\'mso-tab-count:3\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>My\r\nsister, my spouse,</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>you have chosen to live by my side </span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>like an impalpable shadow</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>that I may rule alone.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>But it is you who rule.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>The strength of my arms,</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>the power of my eyes,</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>the love of my heart,</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>it is you in me.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>If one of us has to pass,<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page –\r\n300<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.0pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>if the great sacrifice of separation </span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>has to be performed once again, </span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>it is I, my sister,</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>who will go.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>Fulfil the act</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>of our most secret nuptials.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n10.8pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>SHE<span style=\'mso-tab-count:3\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Oh!\r\nmy brother,</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>my great sacred enemy,</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>my hand does not tremble,</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>but my reason fails.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:2.0in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB>In me let\r\nus live then,</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>in you let us die,</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>since it is decided.</span></p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB>HE<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:3\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>To die by you,\r\nfor you</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>to be annihilated into the ether</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>of the new beginnings of the world,</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>O supreme delight</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:2.0in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB>of going\r\nby a new path, virgin and unknown </span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:2.0in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB>to meet\r\nyou.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page –\r\n301<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.0pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal align=right style=\'text-align:right; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><a\r\nhref=\"file:///F|/Inetpub/wwwroot/new-saa.info/_StaticContent/SriAurobindoAshram/-04-Early-Disciples/-01-Nolini-Kanta-Gupta/Works-of-Nolini-Kanta-Gupta/Volume1/index\">\r\n	<span style=\'text-decoration:none;text-underline:\r\nnone\' lang=\"EN-GB\"></span>\r\n	<span style=\'text-decoration:none;text-underline:\r\nnone\' lang=\"EN-GB\"><a href=\"-00_-Content\"><img border=0 width=71 height=19 id=\"_x0000_i1034\"\r\nsrc=\"_Jpeg%20image/set10_home_on.gif\"></a></span></a></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-61_The Play on Earth','','publish','closed','open','','61_the-play-on-earth','','','2021-11-23 17:58:46','2021-11-23 17:58:46','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/61_the-play-on-earth/',0,'post','',0),(1999,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:46','2021-11-23 17:58:46','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>VIGILANCE</title>\r\n\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=blue style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"6\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal\'><font size=\"4\">VIGILANCE</font></b><o:p><font size=\"4\">&nbsp;</font></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>[1]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Vigilance is the way to immortality.\r\nNegligence the way to Death. The vigilant never dies; the negligent is already\r\ndead.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>[2]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>They know this thoroughly\r\nwell, the wise in vigilance and they rejoice in their vigilance, ever in the\r\npresence of the Great Ones.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>[3]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>They who are intelligent,\r\nmeditative, persevering, combat ceaselessly against themselves, reach the\r\nNirvana that is supreme felicity.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>[4]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>He who is full of zeal, he\r\nwho is mindful, he who is pure in deed, and acts thoughtfully, who is\r\nself-controlled and lives in accordance with the Law sees his fame ever\r\ngrowing.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>[5]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>By his zeal and vigilance\r\nand discipline and self-control, the intelligent man should create an island\r\nfor himself which no flood can overwhelm.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>[6]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The stupid, devoid of\r\nintelligence, give themselves to negli­gence. The intelligent guards vigilance\r\nas the supreme treasure.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>[7]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Do not give yourself to\r\nnegligence nor to the enjoyment of the passions. It is the vigilant, given to\r\nmeditation, that attains the vast happiness.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>[8]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The wise dispel negligence\r\nby vigilance, they climb to the heights of wisdom and griefless themselves they\r\ncontemplate from a hilltop as it were the ignorant ones grieving on the plains.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page - 202</span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\">\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-family:\"Courier New\"\'>[9]<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-family:\"Courier New\"\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Vigilant among the\r\nnegligent, wide awake among the slumber­ous, one intelligent goes fast like a\r\nsteed that leaves behind a faint mount.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>[10]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>By vigilance Indra has\r\nbecome supreme among the gods. Vigilance is praiseworthy. Negilgence is always\r\nblameworthy.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>[11]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The Bhikkhu who is given to\r\nvigilance and who shuns negli­gence moves forward like a fire consuming all\r\nbonds, great or small.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>[12]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The Bhikkhu who is given\r\nto vigilance and who shuns negli­gence never goes astray, he moves near unto\r\nNirvana.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page - 203</span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n10.55pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal align=right style=\'text-align:right;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n10.55pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><a\r\nhref=\"file:///F|/Inetpub/wwwroot/new-saa.info/_StaticContent/SriAurobindoAshram/-04-Early-Disciples/-01-Nolini-Kanta-Gupta/Works-of-Nolini-Kanta-Gupta/Volume-1/index\"><span style=\'text-decoration:none;text-underline:\r\nnone\'></span><span style=\'text-decoration:none;text-underline:\r\nnone\'><a href=\"-00_-Content\"><img border=0 width=72 height=19 id=\"_x0000_i1029\"\r\nsrc=\"_Jpeg%20image/set10_home_on.gif\"></a></span></a></p>\r\n\r\n  <div align=right> \r\n	<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"> </div>\r\n\r\n</div></td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-34_Vigilance','','publish','closed','open','','34_vigilance','','','2021-11-23 17:58:46','2021-11-23 17:58:46','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/34_vigilance/',0,'post','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (2000,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:46','2021-11-23 17:58:46','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>Ashram Poets</title>\r\n\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"6\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n<h1 align=\"right\" style=\"text-align:center;line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><b>\r\n<font size=\"4\">Ashram Poets</font><o:p></o:p></b></h1>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:1in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\' align=\"center\"><b>HYMN TO THE MOTHER<o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:23.0pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Goddess\r\nSupreme, Mira! Creator of the Worlds, </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:23.0pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=SpellE>Nourisher</span> of the Worlds, Benefactor of the Worlds! Mother! </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:23.0pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Goddess\r\nSupreme, Mira! The infinite mother of the Gods,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>the</span> universal Goddess!</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\nHome of the Worlds, thy gracious feet!</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Rays\r\nof the immeasurable light, descending from</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:23.0pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:70.05pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span\r\nclass=GramE>the</span> divine family of the Gods,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>We\r\nshall take birth as the new race,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:23.0pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:26.85pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span class=GramE>spreading</span> wide thy\r\nforce of light by our <span class=SpellE>valour</span>.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>A\r\nnew humanity, a new race of beauty, </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:23.0pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:26.85pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span class=GramE>they</span> bear in their\r\neyes the tranquillity of thy eyes.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Train\r\nall thy children, Mother, under thy training,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:23.0pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:48.2pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span\r\nclass=GramE>give</span> them thy own initiation.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:right 179.25pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>We shall pin thy\r\nwords upon our flag</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:23.0pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:70.05pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span\r\nclass=GramE>and</span> march on from peak to peak,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>firm</span> in heart, towards the goal. </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Ever\r\nshall we hold in front our <span class=GramE>ideal.</span> </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>We\r\nare seekers who seek to lay themselves</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:23.0pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:48.2pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span class=GramE>at</span> thy feet,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:23.0pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:26.85pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span class=GramE>ever</span> shall we seek\r\nrefuge in thee.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:23.0pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:26.85pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Sun\r\nGoddess, O Mother Mira!</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Origin\r\nthat has no origin and no end!</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>On\r\nthy forehead shines the glorious heaven,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>At\r\nthy feet lies the Path freed of darkness!</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>New\r\nlights shine in thy limbs,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:23.0pt;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n23.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>new</span> <span class=SpellE>lightnings</span>\r\nflash in thy glances;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:23.0pt;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n23.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>thy</span> steps measure out the rhythm\r\neternal;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:23.0pt;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n23.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>thy</span> smile bewitches our prone\r\nheart to surrender. \r\n<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page – 184<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.0pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.25in;text-align:center;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Thy\r\ntouch pours abroad thy supreme blessings,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.25in;text-align:center;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:21.8pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span class=GramE>thy</span> face\r\nirradiates thy overflowing grace.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.25in;text-align:center;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>O,\r\nthy feet, the wide open eternal refuge of all!</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.25in;text-align:center;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.25in;text-align:center;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Goddess\r\nMira, Mother of the Worlds, </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.25in;text-align:center;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Without\r\nthy upholding strength</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.25in;text-align:center;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:22.05pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span class=GramE>the</span> universe is a\r\nhelpless orphan.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.25in;text-align:center;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>With\r\nthy Presence upon earth,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.25in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>dispel</span> all evil, all untruth. </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.25in;text-align:center;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Victory,\r\nVictory to the giver of victory, </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.25in;text-align:center;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>We\r\nbow down to the Supreme Ruler</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.25in;text-align:center;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.9in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span\r\nclass=GramE>of</span> the worlds, the Mother!<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.25in;text-align:center;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.9in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:2.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>SAHANA DEVI</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:1.75in;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\' align=\"center\"><b><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:1.75in;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\' align=\"center\"><b><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:1in;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\' align=\"center\"><b>THE\r\nSWAN-BOAT<o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.75in;text-align:center;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\nswan-boat</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.25in;text-align:center;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\nOn its two wings – its twin oars – </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.25in;text-align:center;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Moves\r\nafar towards the far</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.25in;text-align:center;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Where\r\nthe last shade of the horizon</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.75in;text-align:center;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>Fades away into the bright bosom of the Void.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.25in;text-align:center;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Where is the Path, where the Shore? </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.25in;text-align:center;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Only\r\na vast unbounded expanse – </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.25in;text-align:center;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>A\r\ncalm sea of blue <span class=SpellE>veilless</span>, stainless,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.25in;text-align:center;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Engulfing\r\nthe horizon\'s belt, spreading out </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.25in;text-align:center;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>Tranquil and steady within its own self eternally.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.75in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And below all along</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.25in;text-align:center;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\nswan-boat moves on its two wings – its twin oars</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.25in;text-align:center;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.75in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Seated in her frozen light,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.25in;text-align:center;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Drowned\r\nin her dreams, the moon sails</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.25in;text-align:center;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>In\r\nthe Night bereft of sense,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.25in;text-align:center;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>Bewitched by the toxic gleam.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.75in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Whose is the gathering lustre?</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.25in;text-align:center;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>At\r\nHis feet Night\'s hushed soul lies prone and immobile:<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page – 185<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.0pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Her\r\nveil withdrawn, she bids farewell</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>As\r\nthe last ferry comes <span class=SpellE>a<span class=GramE>:Iong</span>\r\nthe shore.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;\r\nmso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The Unseen</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Breaks\r\nthrough the barriers, comes nearer: </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>A\r\nguarded secret signal peeps out</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;\r\nmso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>On a pregnant moment\'s brink.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.6in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>He at the helm­ – </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\nswan-boat moves slowly onward</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.6in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>On its two wings – its twin oars.<span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.6in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:159.1pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:\r\n3\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>SAHANA\r\nDEVI</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:1.75in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:1.75in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:0.5in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b>THE\r\nDREAM-JOURNEY<o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The first tremor of the\r\nLight, 10 the dream-journey!</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Night\'s desire is now\r\nappeased, she feels the Sun within her­ – </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The Mother of Infinity\r\nholds in her bosom her first Guest: </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The Call awakes in the\r\nlotus-scented senses!</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>On the far shore where <span\r\nclass=GramE>moves the fiery Wheel</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Rose, unheeded, the cry of\r\nthe Spaces – </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>It spread and enveloped\r\neven our shadowy horizons:</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>A golden vision flutters\r\non Earth\'s eye-lids,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>As the flaming Spider\r\nweaves his luminous web around himself!</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-top:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-bottom:0\'>The Bard\r\nwheels onward in his sweeping march:</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>He gathers in perfect\r\nrhythm the soul\'s <span class=SpellE>obeisances</span>,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Urges secreted in the\r\nheart of the sun-flower,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Hymns limned in her <span\r\nclass=SpellE>petalled</span> gold!</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Darkness massed on\r\ndarkness has burst all on a sudden: <span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Eyes once closed open to\r\nthe Lightning\'s flare!<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:3.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>SAHANA DEVI<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:3.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:10.55pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:0.5in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b>AN\r\nETERNAL MIRACLE.POWER<o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.0pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>An eternal miracle-power\r\ngleaming in infinite beauty </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Drew an arabesque on\r\nTime\'s wide forehead</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And hid within it an\r\nunseen radiance – ­</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The sweet cup-bearer to\r\ncreation, embosomed</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>in</span> its first articulations.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page – 186<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>A lightning\r\nsunk in the Night flared a moment</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And with\r\nits eyes lone and aloof, washed in loveliness\' own hue,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;\r\nmso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>beheld</span> there:</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>A boat on a\r\nstream of flames moving towards the far Morn</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.9in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>in</span> the orbit of the sun; </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\nDawn-world flashed, the Night tore open! </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And yet\r\nDoomsday clouds came down, one knows not from</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.9in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:249.6pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span\r\nclass=GramE>where</span> – ­</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.9in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:249.6pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>All hint of\r\nlight vanished in a dead obscurity. . . </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Suddenly\r\nquivered overhead the vehement urge </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Of a voyage\r\nin an aerial chariot of flowers</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;\r\nmso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>bathed</span> in <span class=SpellE>bloodred</span>­\r\n– </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And the\r\nfull Moon smiled and blew its flute</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;\r\nmso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Dripping with solar light!<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;\r\nmso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:2.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>SAHANA DEVI<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:2.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:10.55pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:0.5in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n10.55pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b>GODDESS\r\nTHAT HAST DAWNED<o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:10.55pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Goddess that hast dawned\r\nupon the horizon!</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Hast thou crossed the\r\ninfinitude of <span class=GramE>Darkness</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And come into the timeless\r\nmoment?</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Thou hast revealed thyself\r\nin thy complete regalia­ – </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The hem of thy garment\r\nsweeps my heart.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Countless are the seeds of\r\nrhythms and songs thou hast sown </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>Within\r\nthe bosom of the Earth, throbbing for expression.</span> </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Thou hast descended like a\r\nlightning flash</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:4.5pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp; </span><span style=\'mso-tab-count:2\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span\r\nclass=GramE>with</span> thy swift motion of delight</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>To gather in thy gracious\r\nhands the sheaf of songs</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:0in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span\r\nclass=GramE>offered</span> to thee.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:64.3pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Goddess of\r\ndream, hast thou shed upon the Night</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The hue of\r\nthy perfect vision of creative might?</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Celestial\r\nmoments reddened with thy kisses</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Weave an\r\nunseen bond between Earth and <st1:place>Paradise</st1:place> – </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>On their\r\nwings often and anon falls in showers</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\nglorious dust of thy feet, my Goddess, O Word divine!<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:3.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>SAHANA DEVI</span><span style=\'font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page – 187<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n10.55pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:0.5in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n6.7pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b>THE\r\nUNKNOWN CREEPER<o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:4.3pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:90.95pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Behold! From where comes\r\nthis unknown Creeper</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>Along\r\nthe woodland path anointed by the rising Moon?</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>All pain she has tinged\r\nwith the blue of the Heart-stream, </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>She has made Heaven unveil\r\nand break out into murmuring </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:243.0pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>billows</span>.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The magic of her\r\ncompassion flowers in hand,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And the thunder-roar that\r\nbooms the world\'s end is hushed</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:242.85pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>suddenly</span>; </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>In the morn that is the\r\ndeath of the naked skeleton</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>She stalks over the world,\r\na gathered Fire, voicing her approach.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-top:0;text-align:center;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\nDark One has put on a golden garland,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And on her delicate\r\nforehead burns the flame of red sandal­ – </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>She, the eternal Memory,\r\nfrom within the forgetfulness of</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:223.65pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>earth\'s</span> depths </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>Kindles\r\nthe first spark of the Word born of churning.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:223.65pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The eye of the waxing Moon\r\nat night-end</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>Pours\r\nout of her blue the golden gleam of a dark <span class=SpellE>Collyrium</span>.</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:2.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.5in;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>NIRODBARAN<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:0.5in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n10.55pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b>THE\r\nHEAVENLY STEED<o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:10.55pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\nheavenly steed speeds away</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;\r\nmso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>in</span> sheer darkness,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Scattering\r\nwith its hooves the hot sands</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;\r\nmso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>of</span> the desert;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Untiring,\r\nthrough the fiery tongues of the wind,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Its\r\nbreath blazes up in a neighing blare.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-top:0;text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;\r\nmso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-bottom:0\'>A <span class=SpellE>thunderflash</span> gleams in its\r\neyes, in its manes:</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>It\r\nhurries shaking the skies with its flares;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\nswooning lips of the stilled Night</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Spouts\r\na stream of blood as though at the approach of </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:3.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>Death.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The steed\r\nhalts all on a sudden. It looks and sees </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Far on the\r\nfaint rim of a horizon</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>A peak\r\nlifts high its blue banner. . .<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page – 188<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.2pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Plunging in\r\nthat luminous moment, the steed </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Once more\r\nspeeds away, towards the far hills </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Where <span\r\nclass=GramE>lies</span> its whole haven of life.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:2.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>NIRODBARAN<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:10.55pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:0.5in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><st1:country-region><st1:place><b>INDIA</b></st1:place></st1:country-region><b>\'S\r\nNIGHT IS GONE!<o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><st1:country-region><st1:place>India</st1:place></st1:country-region>\'s\r\nNight is gone! The Dawn breaks, O Traveller!</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The rosy\r\nmorn blows its conch!</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Dreams glimmer from house\r\nto house,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Wreathed are garlands of\r\nglory,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>New hopes pour their\r\nperfume­ – </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The heart\r\nleaps up in joy!</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Youth\'s sun is up in the\r\nsky,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The bugle roars out\r\nvictory­ – </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Men and\r\nwomen troop forth in battle array!</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Light sings in every\r\nheart, the demon flees at the angel voice.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Onward!\r\nOnward! A new race awakes to life</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Agleam with\r\na new love!</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:9.35pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Trampling falsehood and\r\nfear and evil,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Welcoming\r\nthe true, the good, the heart\'s treasure </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Every soul\r\nshall burn bright to the end of time:</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Happy\r\nworshippers of the Ever-Beautiful,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Makers of\r\nthe age, shine fearless,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:44.15pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Raise high the deathless chant!</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:23.0pt 205.4pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>For the New Age to come</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>They utter\r\nthe word of victory, the word bringing</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:45.0pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>God\'s gifts­ – </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:23.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>They fashion the New Word of triumph.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-top:0;text-align:center;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:2.85pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-bottom:0\'>Light sings in every\r\nheart, the demon flees at the angel voice!</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:0in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Onward! Onward! A new race awakes to\r\nlife</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:0in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Agleam with a new love!<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:0in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:2.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>DILIP </span><st1:City><st1:place><span\r\n  style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>ROY</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style=\'font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page – 189<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n10.8pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:0.5in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.5pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b>MY\r\nMARVELLOUS MOTHER<o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.5pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>Marvellous. . .</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>My Mother marvellous.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>That is\r\nwhat matters about me,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>that</span> and nothing else,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>that</span> this frail death-bound body should carry</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:44.15pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Her blessings,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>the</span> blessings of <span class=SpellE>lmmortality</span>.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>That is why</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>crossing</span> a hundred deaths</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>these</span> arms stretch towards the life everlasting.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;\r\nmargin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>Bird in a\r\ncage</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>the</span> music of the spheres I sing,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>O <span\r\nclass=GramE>gift</span> of Mother mine.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;\r\nmargin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>Strewn with\r\nthorns my path,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>feet</span> bound in chains. . .</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>yet</span> a Pilgrim on the march am I!</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Seat in the\r\ndust</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>with</span> the stars do I hold my tryst and</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:44.85pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>my</span> rendezvous,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>such</span> is my Mother\'s will!</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;\r\nmargin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>Weak flame\r\nof a little lamp,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>it</span> blows out again and again,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>but</span> then how it blazes up too, again and</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:43.65pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>yet</span> again!</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>O the\r\nalchemy of Mother mine!</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;\r\nmargin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>Wherever I\r\nturn</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>beauty</span> unending startles my eyes. . .</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>in</span> specks of dust I see the <span class=SpellE>Taj</span>,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>in</span> dew drops are written</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>the</span> Vedas and the Upanishads,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>in</span> leaves and creepers whisper the holy hymns in every eye\r\nthe fire of sacrifice,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>in</span> all sounds a prayer, an incantation,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>the</span> murmur of the Mother\'s name I hear </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>everywhere</span>...<span style=\'font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:2.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>NRIPENDRAKRISHNA</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page – 190<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.0pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:0.5in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b>ON\r\nLOOKING AT A PHOTO OF THE MOTHER<o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Two Great\r\nMysteries­ – </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>the</span> sky and the sea­ – </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>have</span> held an ageless attraction</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>for</span> the mortal mind and eye.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;\r\nmargin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>From the\r\nshores of a small island</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Victor\r\nHugo, in exile,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>kept</span> looking at the sea</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>all</span> day long.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>How\r\nwas he going to pass his days of exile? </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>they</span> asked him.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I\r\nshall keep looking at the sea,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>he</span> spoke in reply.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The sea and\r\nthe sky,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>for</span> ever they gaze at each other. . .</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>the</span> shades of the sky change the hues of the sea </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>and</span> it stretches its arms of wave</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>to</span> touch the rim of the sky. . .</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>In between,\r\nhere below, on the sandy shore,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>plays</span> about the child of Man,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:-.95pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>just</span> as he likes. . .</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>But all the\r\ntime someone or something draws him to the horizon, </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>there</span> where the sky meets the sea!</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The more he\r\nadvances</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>the</span> more recedes the skyline.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Amazed and\r\nbewildered, he seeks for the point</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>where</span> the Great Mysteries meet.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>Two pictures in a frame.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>In\r\nthe Mother\'s face have I <span class=GramE>seen,</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=SpellE><span class=GramE>tht</span> Meeting of the Mysteries:</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>while</span> Her one eye mirrors</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>the</span> measureless sky,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>the</span> other holds the mystery of the blue. </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>Two pictures in one frame.</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:3.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>NRIPENDRAKRISHNA</span><span style=\'font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page – 191<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n10.55pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:0.5in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; AMRITA\r\n<o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:0.5in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i>(On\r\nhis birthday</i>¹<i>)<o:p></o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:11.5pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:10.55pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>WHAT we\r\nunderstand easily we believe we understand rightly,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>We make <span\r\nclass=GramE>a confusion</span> between the face and its mask.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>We think\r\nthe horizon line is the finishing line,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>We forget\r\nthat a blue sky stretches still beyond.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The world\r\nis built with the tears and smiles of the gods. . . </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>A child is\r\nat play on the sandy beaches:</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>He is never\r\nto be met in the crowd. . .</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>A jewel\r\nknows not itself, nor does a pearl know that it is a <span class=GramE>pearl !</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.0pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The goal fixed for ever,\r\nfor ever he goes on,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The path offers no bar, no\r\ncall reaches from behind:</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Lo! The eternal voyager,\r\neternally free,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Eyes ever turned to the\r\ndawning East, never to the setting West.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-top:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-bottom:0\'>He hides\r\nbehind a veil and moves on . . .</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Is it the stream? Is it\r\nthe ocean vast?</p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:2.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>ROBI GUPTA<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:8.85pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>¹ <st1:date\r\nYear=\"1962\" Day=\"19\" Month=\"9\">19-9-1962</st1:date></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:8.85pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:0.5in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.5pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b>THE\r\nCREATOR IN HIS DREAMING<o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.5pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The Creator\r\nin his dreaming has created</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:21.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>This immortal thing in\r\ncreation,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Figuring as\r\na common creature,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:21.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span class=GramE>forgetful</span>\r\nof his self:</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>A mystic\r\nreason makes him hide</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:21.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span class=GramE>his</span>\r\nown form and nature,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Ever at\r\nlabour in working out</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:21.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span class=GramE>the</span>\r\nImpossible:</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>To\r\ntransfigure Nature, to establish the Transcendent</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:21.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Here on the bosom of\r\nmaterial Earth,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>To feed the\r\ndivine sacrificial Fire</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>with</span> this human body, with this bounded frame. </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Lo, the\r\ntimeless hero worker</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:.3in;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:21.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span\r\nclass=GramE>with</span> this flaming faith,<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page – 192<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Indifferent\r\nto the rude impacts of Reality, </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Dreaming\r\nthe victorious Mother\'s</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:21.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span\r\nclass=GramE>wonder</span> dreams,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Shaping\r\nin his heart of hearts</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:21.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span\r\nclass=GramE>the</span> golden <st1:place><st1:PlaceType>garden</st1:PlaceType>\r\n of <st1:PlaceName>Paradise­</st1:PlaceName></st1:place></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>A\r\nfaultless, sleepless, pure</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:21.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span\r\nclass=GramE>self-</span> dedication</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Has\r\nbuilt this life into a piece of</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>IMMORTALITY.</span></span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:2.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>CHINMOY</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:1.75in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:1.75in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:0.5in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b>THE\r\nAUSTERE SOUL<o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:10.55pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Who are\r\nyou, young austere <span class=GramE>soul,</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Standing\r\nbefore the temple</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:21.8pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>as</span> the night draws to its end?</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The sky has\r\nnot begun yet its festival of <span class=SpellE>colours</span>,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:22.3pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>the</span> fair has not assembled yet.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>You came\r\nplying your life\'s boat, you did not loiter.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;\r\nmargin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>Long, long\r\nago in a bygone age,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>In a great\r\nconquering gesture,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>You leaped\r\ninto the arms of the Mother crying,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.5in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:2\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>&quot;O\r\nMother, here I am!&quot;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Nor doubt\r\nnor hesitation could seize and shake you</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.5in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:2\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span\r\nclass=GramE>in</span> their whirls.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:21.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Abandoning\r\nhome, abandoning your own, </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Escaping\r\nall ties of affection,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>You\r\ndid not fall into the trap that the sly Mind</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:21.35pt;\r\nmso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>lays</span> with its duplicities.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Unmoved,\r\nunchallenged you clung to your Path,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:22.05pt;\r\nmso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>With the Grace upon you.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Even\r\nas Ekalavya of old you hit the mark straight </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Shutting\r\nout all else around your path.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>In your\r\none-pointedness, in your heart\'s yearning,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:22.5pt;\r\nmso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:21.1pt;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>in</span> your natural pull of love</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>You\r\nmove with eternal pilgrim steps towards</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;\r\nmso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.5in;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span><span\r\nclass=GramE>the</span> Supreme Presence on the peak.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page – 193<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n10.05pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:1in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.0pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:76.05pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>ON AMRITA\'S\r\nBIRTHDAY <span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>His\r\nGrace pours down ceaselessly</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Along\r\nthe path of His manifestation.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>It\r\nis that which showers its love upon your life</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:64.3pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span\r\nclass=GramE>and</span> moulds it anew,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>It\r\nis that which makes of your birthday</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:64.3pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span\r\nclass=GramE>always</span> a day new and green.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:64.3pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Today\r\nI join my prayer with yours</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And\r\nimplore at the Mother\'s feet:</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>May\r\nwe make of our life a constant <span class=GramE>surrender,</span> </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>May\r\nwe fulfil the great work she is <span class=GramE>pursuing</span> </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>ceaselessly</span> in and through us.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:2.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>ARUNA DEVI</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:10.55pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:10.55pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:1in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n10.55pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>A PRAYER<o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:10.55pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.25in;text-align:center;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Take\r\nit, take it, Mother, whatever I have anywhere,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.25in;text-align:center;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:1.0in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Take\r\nit all.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.25in;text-align:center;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I\r\nrenounce the demand – &quot;give me, give me&quot; – I want</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.75in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>that</span> only which you want.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.25in;text-align:center;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:42.7pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>I and mine\r\nare all now yourself,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.25in;text-align:center;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:42.7pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>You alone\r\nshine everywhere,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.25in;text-align:center;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>You\r\nalone find yourself in me ever in new forms.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\npython ego hisses always all around,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>He\r\nswallows utterly all the riches you give me.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:9.0pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>That is why although I want to give, yet cannot </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:9.0pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And all the more cling to him­ – </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And\r\nnever remember that your feet alone are the eternal</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:256.05pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span\r\nclass=GramE>refuge</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:256.05pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Crush\r\nthis I of me, O Mother, let its hungers end, </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Keep\r\nin your own hands the key of your golden gate.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 194<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-top:0;text-align:center;text-indent:45.0pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-bottom:0\'>Nothing else, Mother, nothing else any more­ – </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:45.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.5pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Fill\r\nall, all with your own self,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.25in;text-align:center;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Leave\r\nno corner whatever for anything else to stay.</p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.25in;text-align:center;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:2.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>ARUNA DEVI</span></p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:3.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>\r\n<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:1.75in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:1.5in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>ONWARD<o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>You\r\nmust tear off the bonds of the finite: </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Mother\r\nInfinity has sent you the call.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>How long\r\nwould you remain a prisoner?</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>She\r\nis waiting for you, the Mother.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The endless\r\npath of Her Grace She has <span class=GramE>laid</span> </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>That\r\nwelcomes you in your journey to <span class=GramE>Her</span>.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The Mother\r\nLight signals you the way</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Lifting <span\r\nclass=GramE>Her</span> finger, a beacon sun – Arise and onward!</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-top:0;text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-bottom:0\'>The ties that bind you to your own,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>O <span\r\nclass=GramE>traveller,</span> must not hold you down</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Any more – Stand\r\nunflickering – ­</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And listen,\r\nin your heart, the ringing Word</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Shankara\r\nuttered, his soul transfixed on the Mother:</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:41.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>“You are my refuge, my sole refuge, <span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:41.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:3\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span\r\nclass=GramE>you</span>, alone, O Mother!”<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:41.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:2.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>NISHIKANTA<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:1.75in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:1.75in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:1.75in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:1in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>THE SECOND CRESCENT MOON<o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:9.0pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I looked up and gazed</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:9.0pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And saw all at once on Infinity\'s brow</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:9.0pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Amidst bright clusters of stars</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:9.0pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Swinging in faint flush a linear golden moon­ – </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:9.0pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The second crescent moon. <span style=\'font-family:\"Arial Narrow\";\r\nmso-bidi-font-family:\"Arial Narrow\"\'>. .</span><span style=\'font-family:\r\n\"Arial Narrow\";mso-bidi-font-family:\"Arial Narrow\"\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:3.1pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page –\r\n195<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:3.1pt;\r\nmso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:45.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\nOne without a second</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:45.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>But\r\nin and through the thousand flames </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:45.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Kindles\r\nher own single peerless Fire.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:45.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:2.5in;text-align:center;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; 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