Translation

```

While I suffer

I enjoy perfect peace.

Unlike joy, suffering

Is a real stranger

To false deception.

While I enjoy

I keep my eyes shut.

Mother, I fail to see You.

It is only the excruciating pangs

That grant me

The vision to see You,

And invoke You. ```

From:Sri Chinmoy,Illumination-Song and Liberation-Dance, part 1, Agni Press, 1976
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