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<font size="4">Living Matter</font><o:p></o:p></b></h2>
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none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><i><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></i></p>

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none;tab-stops:184.3pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; 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>I
KNOW not</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:
184.3pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Where had I wandered about
and then reached afar this dreamland: </p>

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184.3pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>I found myself standing
on the brink of a fluent river.</p>

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none;tab-stops:184.3pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Above,
the vast empty pale azure</p>

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184.3pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Firm and high up. Here
upon our globe</p>

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none;tab-stops:184.3pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Twin
comrades Earth and Heaven ever</p>

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184.3pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Play their love-game
intimate together.</p>

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184.3pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Green earth only looks
upward</p>

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184.3pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Towards her lover's
face, shivers in intense delight</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:
184.3pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>In the thousand
tremblings of the leaves, among the cool grasses.</p>

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184.3pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The blue sky holds in embrace</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The whole body of his Beloved enveloping it with
delight,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Lifts up his high head, spreads aloft his laughter of
love. </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>This is the play here. In our ealm here</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Exists no cruel separation. But there</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Earth is dying as though in grief, in fear,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Left alone in an empty universe. Swallowed in that
Infinite, </p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Frightened by the heights, surrounded by nightmare,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Lies the little human life. Limitless expanse of land</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Silent vast empty pale grey</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Extends the unbroken wideness of the lifelessness</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Of the great Void. No tree is there,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>No grass, no stone, nor any human habitation</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Could one see. The eyes move ever forward, move ever,
</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>No end is there; yet though tired</p>

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style='font-size:10.0pt;'>Page-179<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>I am unable to return! A cruel landscape in its
cruel pull</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Carries away a prisoner as though to an enemy-land </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Afar, afar into a bourneless world</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>In the stilled infinity.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&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
style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>I forced my eyes to return<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Towards the other shore. It is hard stone</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>A fierce strength has moulded together, a long
labour,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>As though the artifact of a titan. During the wild
rains</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>On the banks abroad spreading its body allover the
skies </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>In rude delight the titan has laboured,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Happy at Nature's cruel game.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Fancy dawned in him to make it still more cruel.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Line after line it has carved smilingly on the stone.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Like a huge skeleton lies the wet shore of the river,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The mere bones as it were, bereft of flesh, of dead
earth: </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>It lies immemorially with no solace of last rites
done for </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>At that solitary end of things on that river-verge. I</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>No bend is in view, no grass nor flower. Erect,
proud, </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Firm, solid, despising, all softness</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Goes down into the water the lifeless heartless
stone.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Beyond afar, the desert land has moved lazily</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>To unite with the stone. No softness,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>No love is there in the union, it is matter's love,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Stone's kiss.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:260pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I looked towards the
stream.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>It flows in silent speed - the stream of dreamland;</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Asleep, mighty, calm, as though the violent
life-force</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Is imprisoned in Nature's arms on the crest of the <st1:place>Himalayas</st1:place></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Away lies the exit, the way out. Where the meadow</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Meets the stone, a narrow space, as though</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The throat of hungry death, there</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>In the land's perilous life-line, Death himself</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Lay asleep like a python with his stone-figure </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Possessing the universe. With slow wide-moving speed</p>

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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-180</span><o:p></o:p></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%;text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0">Proud of its long strides advances the dream-river.</p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>In its winding, the miraculous vedic steed Dadhikra,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>God incarnate as life-force, bridled in his breast
and face, </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Lifting his proud neck rushes on taking man</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>On heaven's path to the world of Truth. But on that
way</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Is this the cataract of Life's river flowing down?</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Is this the true consummation?</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>It hurtles down like a sinner in an unmeasurable
speed </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Towards a crueller country. The wailing</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Of the river adown comes into my ears as though from
a</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:260pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>thousand sufferers!</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:260pt;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='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>I looked about, my mind full of sadness,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>And thought, &quot;Oh, the dead land! the still
world!</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>In the noise what a silence, in the speed what an
immobility!</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Will ever man come to live in this inert country?</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Pour his own life-force and make it living?</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Is there no purusa for this prakriti?&quot;</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Rejected, as if through fear, thought returns</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Into her own dwelling. Motionless is the earth-life
as ever.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:260pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; All on a sudden I woke up
and looked within myself.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;</span>With a startle
I saw the inert realm alive,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Alive the waters, alive the cruel</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Endless wasteland, even the sky up above</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Conscious, alive the stretched neck of death, ­</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The stone-figure has assumed the shape of a sleeping
python.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>And the sound of the waterfalls carries afar</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The mourning of a living soul.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>I understood why it is there Erect and proud the
stone with no softness</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>No pity no happiness in it. I understood the hope</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The river nourishes in its bosom, flowing towards its
vast end</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Beyond sight, as if the mighty life-force is in
trance</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Filled with its own force of speed. And I knew here</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>None speaks of any other person, they know not each
other</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>They want not each other. Each is engrossed in
trifles, </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Each is bound to himself, muses all alone,<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-181<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Each is confined to his own act and own mood.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>But when they stumble upon each other, they tremble
within,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The body, stunned and bound, thinks, &quot;Lo, this
is another I</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>That falls upon my body, this touch is full of
joy!&quot; </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>That is the end of it. There does not bloom the
secret </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;</span><span
style='mso-tab-count:6'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&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>Yearning</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Neither in speech nor in movement nor in thought.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:260pt;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-indent:260pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In my hopelessness</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>I see as though the whole world is a prison.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>All on a sudden a sweet voice sounded within me:</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&quot;Look back, understand the hope of Prakriti,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Understand the dead prison-house is a mother's heart,
</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The hidden significance understand that is in this
game.&quot;</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>I lifted my burning eyes, I saw afar</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>In the wasteland human figures. A boy and a girl </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Embracing each other in mad delight in this expanse
of</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:260pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; matter,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>In this inert dreamland two living beings are there
free </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>With no fetters, rapt in trance in each other's delight.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>They disappeared from the sight. And that living
matter</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>With no hope in it, is bound in its own mood as
always.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>But my mind freed out of the matter's touch,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>I recognised the intent of the veiled conscious
Being,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>I captured in my spirit Nature's hidden desire.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>My eyes capturing the whole landscape, consoled I
returned </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>To earthly sphere.</p>

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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-182<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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