III. Now
"N" No.
I needs must say 'No' to desire's arrival,
'No' to fear's embrace, 'No' to doubt's poison,
'No' to ignorance's leadership and 'No' to death's reign.
"O" Open.
I needs must open myself to the smile of the farthest beyond, to the love of the deepest beyond and to the blessings of the highest beyond.
"W" Without and with.
Without God's Dream, I was. Now, with His Dream, I am. Without the living, protecting, transforming and immortalising God, I was. That past of mine is buried in oblivion's hush. With me NOW is God's living Breath, His protecting Silence, His transforming Will and His immortalising Delight.
Sri Chinmoy, AUM — Vol. 3, No. 5,6, Dec. 1967 — 27 Jan. 1968, Boro Park Printers -- Brooklyn, N. Y., 1968
