149. Jibaner sukh maraner dukh

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Jibaner sukh maraner dukh

Micha maya kigo sakali

Hetha jato jani tato nahi jani

Tabu janibar akul pipasa

Hetha jato pai tato nahi pai

Andhar bhariya hriday akashe bijali

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Is it all utterly false and illusory,

What I call happiness in life

And what I call suffering in death?

Here in this world, the more I know,

The more I do not know.

Knowledge-light and ignorance-night

Have equal hold on my life.

Yet I cherish an insatiable thirst for wisdom-light.

Here in my life, fulfilment and unfulfilment together live.

My heart-sky is all dark,

Yet I see there illumining flashes of lightning. ```

From:Sri Chinmoy,Illumination-Song and Liberation-Dance, part 3, Agni Press, New York, 1976
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