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<font size="4">Ashram Poets</font><o:p></o:p></b></h1>
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none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><i><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></i></p>

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none;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>

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none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:23.0pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Goddess
Supreme, Mira! Creator of the Worlds, </p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=SpellE>Nourisher</span> of the Worlds, Benefactor of the Worlds! Mother! </p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Goddess
Supreme, Mira! The infinite mother of the Gods,</p>

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line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE>the</span> universal Goddess!</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The
Home of the Worlds, thy gracious feet!</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Rays
of the immeasurable light, descending from</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:70.05pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
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; </span><span
class=GramE>the</span> divine family of the Gods,</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>We
shall take birth as the new race,</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:26.85pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span class=GramE>spreading</span> wide thy
force of light by our <span class=SpellE>valour</span>.</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>A
new humanity, a new race of beauty, </p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:26.85pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span class=GramE>they</span> bear in their
eyes the tranquillity of thy eyes.</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Train
all thy children, Mother, under thy training,</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:48.2pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span
class=GramE>give</span> them thy own initiation.</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:right 179.25pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>We shall pin thy
words upon our flag</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:70.05pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
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; </span><span
class=GramE>and</span> march on from peak to peak,</p>

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line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE>firm</span> in heart, towards the goal. </p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Ever
shall we hold in front our <span class=GramE>ideal.</span> </p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>We
are seekers who seek to lay themselves</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:48.2pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
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; </span><span class=GramE>at</span> thy feet,</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:26.85pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span class=GramE>ever</span> shall we seek
refuge in thee.</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:26.85pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Sun
Goddess, O Mother Mira!</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Origin
that has no origin and no end!</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>On
thy forehead shines the glorious heaven,</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>At
thy feet lies the Path freed of darkness!</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>New
lights shine in thy limbs,</p>

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23.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE>new</span> <span class=SpellE>lightnings</span>
flash in thy glances;</p>

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23.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE>thy</span> steps measure out the rhythm
eternal;</p>

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23.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE>thy</span> smile bewitches our prone
heart to surrender. 
<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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style='font-size:10.0pt;'>Page – 184<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;text-align:center;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Thy
touch pours abroad thy supreme blessings,</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:21.8pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span class=GramE>thy</span> face
irradiates thy overflowing grace.</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>O,
thy feet, the wide open eternal refuge of all!</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Goddess
Mira, Mother of the Worlds, </p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Without
thy upholding strength</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:22.05pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span class=GramE>the</span> universe is a
helpless orphan.</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>With
thy Presence upon earth,</p>

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.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE>dispel</span> all evil, all untruth. </p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Victory,
Victory to the giver of victory, </p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>We
bow down to the Supreme Ruler</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.9in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
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; </span><span
class=GramE>of</span> the worlds, the Mother!<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>
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150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.9in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;</p>

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.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>SAHANA DEVI</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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mso-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>

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mso-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>

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mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0' align="center"><b>THE
SWAN-BOAT<o:p></o:p></b></p>

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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>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The
swan-boat</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>
On its two wings – its twin oars – </p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Moves
afar towards the far</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Where
the last shade of the horizon</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>Fades away into the bright bosom of the Void.</span></p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;
line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Where is the Path, where the Shore? </p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Only
a vast unbounded expanse – </p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>A
calm sea of blue <span class=SpellE>veilless</span>, stainless,</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Engulfing
the horizon's belt, spreading out </p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>Tranquil and steady within its own self eternally.</span></p>

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.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>And below all along</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The
swan-boat moves on its two wings – its twin oars</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.75in;text-align:center;text-indent:
.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Seated in her frozen light,</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Drowned
in her dreams, the moon sails</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>In
the Night bereft of sense,</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>Bewitched by the toxic gleam.</span></p>

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.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Whose is the gathering lustre?</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>At
His feet Night's hushed soul lies prone and immobile:<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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style='font-size:10.0pt;'>Page – 185<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Her
veil withdrawn, she bids farewell</p>

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11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>As
the last ferry comes <span class=SpellE>a<span class=GramE>:Iong</span>
the shore.</span></p>

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mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The Unseen</p>

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11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Breaks
through the barriers, comes nearer: </p>

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11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>A
guarded secret signal peeps out</p>

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mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE>On a pregnant moment's brink.</span></p>

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11.75pt;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>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.6in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
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; </span>He at the helm­ – </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The
swan-boat moves slowly onward</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.6in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
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; </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>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.6in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
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;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:159.1pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><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;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&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
DEVI</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:1.75in;line-height:
150%;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>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:1.75in;line-height:
150%;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>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:0.5in;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b>THE
DREAM-JOURNEY<o:p></o:p></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The first tremor of the
Light, 10 the dream-journey!</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Night's desire is now
appeased, she feels the Sun within her­ – </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The Mother of Infinity
holds in her bosom her first Guest: </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The Call awakes in the
lotus-scented senses!</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>On the far shore where <span
class=GramE>moves the fiery Wheel</span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Rose, unheeded, the cry of
the Spaces – </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>It spread and enveloped
even our shadowy horizons:</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>A golden vision flutters
on Earth's eye-lids,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>As the flaming Spider
weaves his luminous web around himself!</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-bottom:0'>The Bard
wheels onward in his sweeping march:</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>He gathers in perfect
rhythm the soul's <span class=SpellE>obeisances</span>,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Urges secreted in the
heart of the sun-flower,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Hymns limned in her <span
class=SpellE>petalled</span> gold!</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Darkness massed on
darkness has burst all on a sudden: <span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;</span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Eyes once closed open to
the Lightning's flare!<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:3.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:
.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>SAHANA DEVI<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:3.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:
.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:10.55pt;
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>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:0.5in;mso-line-height-alt:
11.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b>AN
ETERNAL MIRACLE.POWER<o:p></o:p></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.0pt;
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>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>An eternal miracle-power
gleaming in infinite beauty </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Drew an arabesque on
Time's wide forehead</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>And hid within it an
unseen radiance – ­</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The sweet cup-bearer to
creation, embosomed</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;
line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE>in</span> its first articulations.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>
<span
style='font-size:10.0pt;'>Page – 186<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'>

<hr size=2 width="100%" align=center>

</div>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>A lightning
sunk in the Night flared a moment</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>And with
its eyes lone and aloof, washed in loveliness' own hue,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;
mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE>beheld</span> there:</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>A boat on a
stream of flames moving towards the far Morn</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:.9in;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>in</span> the orbit of the sun; </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The
Dawn-world flashed, the Night tore open! </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>And yet
Doomsday clouds came down, one knows not from</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:.9in;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:249.6pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-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
class=GramE>where</span> – ­</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:.9in;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:249.6pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>All hint of
light vanished in a dead obscurity. . . </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Suddenly
quivered overhead the vehement urge </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Of a voyage
in an aerial chariot of flowers</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;
mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE>bathed</span> in <span class=SpellE>bloodred</span>­
– </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>And the
full Moon smiled and blew its flute</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;
mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Dripping with solar light!<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;
mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:2.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:
.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>SAHANA DEVI<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:2.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:
.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:10.55pt;
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>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:0.5in;mso-line-height-alt:
10.55pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b>GODDESS
THAT HAST DAWNED<o:p></o:p></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:10.55pt;
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>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Goddess that hast dawned
upon the horizon!</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Hast thou crossed the
infinitude of <span class=GramE>Darkness</span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>And come into the timeless
moment?</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Thou hast revealed thyself
in thy complete regalia­ – </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The hem of thy garment
sweeps my heart.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Countless are the seeds of
rhythms and songs thou hast sown </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE>Within
the bosom of the Earth, throbbing for expression.</span> </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Thou hast descended like a
lightning flash</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;tab-stops:4.5pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='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
class=GramE>with</span> thy swift motion of delight</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>To gather in thy gracious
hands the sheaf of songs</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;tab-stops:0in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;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; </span><span
class=GramE>offered</span> to thee.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;tab-stops:64.3pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Goddess of
dream, hast thou shed upon the Night</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The hue of
thy perfect vision of creative might?</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Celestial
moments reddened with thy kisses</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Weave an
unseen bond between Earth and <st1:place>Paradise</st1:place> – </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>On their
wings often and anon falls in showers</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The
glorious dust of thy feet, my Goddess, O Word divine!<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:3.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:
.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>SAHANA DEVI</span><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>
<span
style='font-size:10.0pt;'>Page – 187<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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10.55pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'>

<hr size=2 width="100%" align=center>

</div>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:0.5in;mso-line-height-alt:
6.7pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b>THE
UNKNOWN CREEPER<o:p></o:p></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:4.3pt;
mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:90.95pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-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; </span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Behold! From where comes
this unknown Creeper</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE>Along
the woodland path anointed by the rising Moon?</span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>All pain she has tinged
with the blue of the Heart-stream, </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>She has made Heaven unveil
and break out into murmuring </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:243.0pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>billows</span>.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The magic of her
compassion flowers in hand,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>And the thunder-roar that
booms the world's end is hushed</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:242.85pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>suddenly</span>; </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>In the morn that is the
death of the naked skeleton</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>She stalks over the world,
a gathered Fire, voicing her approach.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0;text-align:center;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-bottom:0'>The
Dark One has put on a golden garland,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>And on her delicate
forehead burns the flame of red sandal­ – </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>She, the eternal Memory,
from within the forgetfulness of</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:223.65pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>earth's</span> depths </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE>Kindles
the first spark of the Word born of churning.</span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:223.65pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The eye of the waxing Moon
at night-end</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE>Pours
out of her blue the golden gleam of a dark <span class=SpellE>Collyrium</span>.</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:2.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:
.5in;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-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>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:0.5in;mso-line-height-alt:
10.55pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b>THE
HEAVENLY STEED<o:p></o:p></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:10.55pt;
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>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The
heavenly steed speeds away</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;
mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE>in</span> sheer darkness,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Scattering
with its hooves the hot sands</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;
mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE>of</span> the desert;</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Untiring,
through the fiery tongues of the wind,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Its
breath blazes up in a neighing blare.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0;text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;
mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-bottom:0'>A <span class=SpellE>thunderflash</span> gleams in its
eyes, in its manes:</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>It
hurries shaking the skies with its flares;</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The
swooning lips of the stilled Night</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Spouts
a stream of blood as though at the approach of </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:3.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>Death.</span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;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>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The steed
halts all on a sudden. It looks and sees </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Far on the
faint rim of a horizon</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>A peak
lifts high its blue banner. . .<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>
<span
style='font-size:10.0pt;'>Page – 188<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:12.2pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'>

<hr size=2 width="100%" align=center>

</div>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Plunging in
that luminous moment, the steed </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Once more
speeds away, towards the far hills </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Where <span
class=GramE>lies</span> its whole haven of life.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:2.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:
.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>NIRODBARAN<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:10.55pt;
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>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:0.5in;line-height:
150%;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
NIGHT IS GONE!<o:p></o:p></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;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
Night is gone! The Dawn breaks, O Traveller!</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The rosy
morn blows its conch!</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Dreams glimmer from house
to house,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Wreathed are garlands of
glory,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>New hopes pour their
perfume­ – </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The heart
leaps up in joy!</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Youth's sun is up in the
sky,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The bugle roars out
victory­ – </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Men and
women troop forth in battle array!</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Light sings in every
heart, the demon flees at the angel voice.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Onward!
Onward! A new race awakes to life</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Agleam with
a new love!</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:9.35pt;
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>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Trampling falsehood and
fear and evil,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Welcoming
the true, the good, the heart's treasure </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Every soul
shall burn bright to the end of time:</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Happy
worshippers of the Ever-Beautiful,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Makers of
the age, shine fearless,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:44.15pt;
line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Raise high the deathless chant!</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:23.0pt 205.4pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>For the New Age to come</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>They utter
the word of victory, the word bringing</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:45.0pt;
line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>God's gifts­ – </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:23.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>They fashion the New Word of triumph.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0;text-align:center;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:2.85pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-bottom:0'>Light sings in every
heart, the demon flees at the angel voice!</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;tab-stops:0in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;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; </span>Onward! Onward! A new race awakes to
life</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;tab-stops:0in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;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; </span>Agleam with a new love!<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;tab-stops:0in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:2.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:
.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>DILIP </span><st1:City><st1:place><span
  style='font-size:10.0pt'>ROY</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>
<span
style='font-size:10.0pt;'>Page – 189<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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10.8pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'>

<hr size=2 width="100%" align=center>

</div>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:0.5in;mso-line-height-alt:
11.5pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b>MY
MARVELLOUS MOTHER<o:p></o:p></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.5pt;
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>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>Marvellous. . .</span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>My Mother marvellous.</span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>That is
what matters about me,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>that</span> and nothing else,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>that</span> this frail death-bound body should carry</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:44.15pt;
line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Her blessings,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>the</span> blessings of <span class=SpellE>lmmortality</span>.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>That is why</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>crossing</span> a hundred deaths</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>these</span> arms stretch towards the life everlasting.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'>Bird in a
cage</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>the</span> music of the spheres I sing,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>O <span
class=GramE>gift</span> of Mother mine.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'>Strewn with
thorns my path,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>feet</span> bound in chains. . .</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>yet</span> a Pilgrim on the march am I!</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Seat in the
dust</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>with</span> the stars do I hold my tryst and</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:44.85pt;
line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE>my</span> rendezvous,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>such</span> is my Mother's will!</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'>Weak flame
of a little lamp,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>it</span> blows out again and again,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>but</span> then how it blazes up too, again and</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:43.65pt;
line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE>yet</span> again!</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>O the
alchemy of Mother mine!</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'>Wherever I
turn</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>beauty</span> unending startles my eyes. . .</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>in</span> specks of dust I see the <span class=SpellE>Taj</span>,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>in</span> dew drops are written</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>the</span> Vedas and the Upanishads,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>in</span> leaves and creepers whisper the holy hymns in every eye
the fire of sacrifice,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>in</span> all sounds a prayer, an incantation,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>the</span> murmur of the Mother's name I hear </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>everywhere</span>...<span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:2.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:
.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>NRIPENDRAKRISHNA</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>
<span
style='font-size:10.0pt;'>Page – 190<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:12.0pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'>

<hr size=2 width="100%" align=center>

</div>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:0.5in;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b>ON
LOOKING AT A PHOTO OF THE MOTHER<o:p></o:p></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Two Great
Mysteries­ – </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>the</span> sky and the sea­ – </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>have</span> held an ageless attraction</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>for</span> the mortal mind and eye.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'>From the
shores of a small island</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Victor
Hugo, in exile,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>kept</span> looking at the sea</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>all</span> day long.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>How
was he going to pass his days of exile? </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>they</span> asked him.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>I
shall keep looking at the sea,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>he</span> spoke in reply.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The sea and
the sky,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>for</span> ever they gaze at each other. . .</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>the</span> shades of the sky change the hues of the sea </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>and</span> it stretches its arms of wave</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>to</span> touch the rim of the sky. . .</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>In between,
here below, on the sandy shore,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>plays</span> about the child of Man,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:-.95pt;
line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE>just</span> as he likes. . .</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>But all the
time someone or something draws him to the horizon, </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>there</span> where the sky meets the sea!</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The more he
advances</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>the</span> more recedes the skyline.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Amazed and
bewildered, he seeks for the point</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>where</span> the Great Mysteries meet.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>Two pictures in a frame.</span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>In
the Mother's face have I <span class=GramE>seen,</span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=SpellE><span class=GramE>tht</span> Meeting of the Mysteries:</span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>while</span> Her one eye mirrors</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>the</span> measureless sky,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>the</span> other holds the mystery of the blue. </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>Two pictures in one frame.</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:3.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:
.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>NRIPENDRAKRISHNA</span><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>
<span
style='font-size:10.0pt;'>Page – 191<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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10.55pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'>

<hr size=2 width="100%" align=center>

</div>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:0.5in;line-height:
150%;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
<o:p></o:p></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:0.5in;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><i>(On
his birthday</i>¹<i>)<o:p></o:p></i></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:11.5pt;line-height:
150%;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>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:10.55pt;
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>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>WHAT we
understand easily we believe we understand rightly,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>We make <span
class=GramE>a confusion</span> between the face and its mask.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>We think
the horizon line is the finishing line,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>We forget
that a blue sky stretches still beyond.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;
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>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The world
is built with the tears and smiles of the gods. . . </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>A child is
at play on the sandy beaches:</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>He is never
to be met in the crowd. . .</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>A jewel
knows not itself, nor does a pearl know that it is a <span class=GramE>pearl !</span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.0pt;
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>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The goal fixed for ever,
for ever he goes on,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The path offers no bar, no
call reaches from behind:</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Lo! The eternal voyager,
eternally free,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Eyes ever turned to the
dawning East, never to the setting West.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-bottom:0'>He hides
behind a veil and moves on . . .</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Is it the stream? Is it
the ocean vast?</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:2.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:
.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>ROBI GUPTA<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:8.85pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>¹ <st1:date
Year="1962" Day="19" Month="9">19-9-1962</st1:date></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:8.85pt;
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>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:0.5in;mso-line-height-alt:
11.5pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b>THE
CREATOR IN HIS DREAMING<o:p></o:p></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.5pt;
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>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The Creator
in his dreaming has created</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:21.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;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; </span>This immortal thing in
creation,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Figuring as
a common creature,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:21.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;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; </span><span class=GramE>forgetful</span>
of his self:</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>A mystic
reason makes him hide</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:21.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;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; </span><span class=GramE>his</span>
own form and nature,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Ever at
labour in working out</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:21.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;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; </span><span class=GramE>the</span>
Impossible:</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>To
transfigure Nature, to establish the Transcendent</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:21.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;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; </span>Here on the bosom of
material Earth,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>To feed the
divine sacrificial Fire</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>with</span> this human body, with this bounded frame. </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Lo, the
timeless hero worker</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:.3in;
line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:21.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span
class=GramE>with</span> this flaming faith,<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>
<span
style='font-size:10.0pt;'>Page – 192<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'>

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</div>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Indifferent
to the rude impacts of Reality, </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Dreaming
the victorious Mother's</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:21.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-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
class=GramE>wonder</span> dreams,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Shaping
in his heart of hearts</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:21.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-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
class=GramE>the</span> golden <st1:place><st1:PlaceType>garden</st1:PlaceType>
 of <st1:PlaceName>Paradise­</st1:PlaceName></st1:place></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>A
faultless, sleepless, pure</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:21.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-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
class=GramE>self-</span> dedication</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Has
built this life into a piece of</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;
line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>IMMORTALITY.</span></span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:2.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:
.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>CHINMOY</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:1.75in;line-height:
150%;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>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:1.75in;line-height:
150%;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>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:0.5in;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b>THE
AUSTERE SOUL<o:p></o:p></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:10.55pt;
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>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Who are
you, young austere <span class=GramE>soul,</span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Standing
before the temple</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:21.8pt;
line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE>as</span> the night draws to its end?</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The sky has
not begun yet its festival of <span class=SpellE>colours</span>,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:22.3pt;
line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE>the</span> fair has not assembled yet.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>You came
plying your life's boat, you did not loiter.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'>Long, long
ago in a bygone age,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>In a great
conquering gesture,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>You leaped
into the arms of the Mother crying,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.5in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; 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
Mother, here I am!&quot;</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Nor doubt
nor hesitation could seize and shake you</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.5in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; 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
class=GramE>in</span> their whirls.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;tab-stops:21.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Abandoning
home, abandoning your own, </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Escaping
all ties of affection,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>You
did not fall into the trap that the sly Mind</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:21.35pt;
mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE>lays</span> with its duplicities.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Unmoved,
unchallenged you clung to your Path,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:22.05pt;
mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>With the Grace upon you.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;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>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Even
as Ekalavya of old you hit the mark straight </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Shutting
out all else around your path.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>In your
one-pointedness, in your heart's yearning,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:22.5pt;
mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:21.1pt;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE>in</span> your natural pull of love</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>You
move with eternal pilgrim steps towards</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;
mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.5in;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;</span><span
class=GramE>the</span> Supreme Presence on the peak.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;'>Page – 193<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:1in;mso-line-height-alt:
11.0pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:76.05pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>ON AMRITA'S
BIRTHDAY <span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><o:p></o:p></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;
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>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>His
Grace pours down ceaselessly</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Along
the path of His manifestation.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>It
is that which showers its love upon your life</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:64.3pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-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
class=GramE>and</span> moulds it anew,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>It
is that which makes of your birthday</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:64.3pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-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
class=GramE>always</span> a day new and green.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:64.3pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Today
I join my prayer with yours</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>And
implore at the Mother's feet:</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>May
we make of our life a constant <span class=GramE>surrender,</span> </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>May
we fulfil the great work she is <span class=GramE>pursuing</span> </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:
.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE>ceaselessly</span> in and through us.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:
.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:2.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:
.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>ARUNA DEVI</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:10.55pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;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>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:10.55pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;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>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:1in;mso-line-height-alt:
10.55pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>A PRAYER<o:p></o:p></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:10.55pt;
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>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;text-align:center;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Take
it, take it, Mother, whatever I have anywhere,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;text-align:center;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:1.0in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
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; </span>Take
it all.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;text-align:center;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>I
renounce the demand – &quot;give me, give me&quot; – I want</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.75in;text-align:center;text-indent:
.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE>that</span> only which you want.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;text-align:center;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:42.7pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-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
are all now yourself,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;text-align:center;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:42.7pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>You alone
shine everywhere,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;text-align:center;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>You
alone find yourself in me ever in new forms.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The
python ego hisses always all around,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>He
swallows utterly all the riches you give me.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:9.0pt;
line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>That is why although I want to give, yet cannot </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:9.0pt;
line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>And all the more cling to him­ – </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>And
never remember that your feet alone are the eternal</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:256.05pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
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;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&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>refuge</span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;tab-stops:256.05pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Crush
this I of me, O Mother, let its hungers end, </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Keep
in your own hands the key of your golden gate.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>
<span
style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;'>Page – 194<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'>

<hr size=2 width="100%" align=center>

</div>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0;text-align:center;text-indent:45.0pt;
line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-bottom:0'>Nothing else, Mother, nothing else any more­ – </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:45.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:
11.5pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Fill
all, all with your own self,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;text-align:center;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Leave
no corner whatever for anything else to stay.</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;text-align:center;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>
<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:2.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:
.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>ARUNA DEVI</span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:3.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:
.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>
<b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>
<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:1.75in;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:1.5in;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>ONWARD<o:p></o:p></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>You
must tear off the bonds of the finite: </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Mother
Infinity has sent you the call.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>How long
would you remain a prisoner?</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>She
is waiting for you, the Mother.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;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>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The endless
path of Her Grace She has <span class=GramE>laid</span> </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>That
welcomes you in your journey to <span class=GramE>Her</span>.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The Mother
Light signals you the way</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Lifting <span
class=GramE>Her</span> finger, a beacon sun – Arise and onward!</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0;text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;
line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-bottom:0'>The ties that bind you to your own,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>O <span
class=GramE>traveller,</span> must not hold you down</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Any more – Stand
unflickering – ­</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>And listen,
in your heart, the ringing Word</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Shankara
uttered, his soul transfixed on the Mother:</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:41.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; 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>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:41.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; 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
class=GramE>you</span>, alone, O Mother!”<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:41.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:2.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:
.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>NISHIKANTA<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:1.75in;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:1.75in;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:1.75in;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:1in;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>THE SECOND CRESCENT MOON<o:p></o:p></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:9.0pt;
line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>I looked up and gazed</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:9.0pt;
line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>And saw all at once on Infinity's brow</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:9.0pt;
line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Amidst bright clusters of stars</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:9.0pt;
line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Swinging in faint flush a linear golden moon­ – </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:9.0pt;
line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The second crescent moon. <span style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>. .</span><span style='font-family:
"Arial Narrow";mso-bidi-font-family:"Arial Narrow"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-indent:3.1pt;
line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
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One without a second</p>

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her own single peerless Fire.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>
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