Translation

```

There is nothing permanent.

Transient are the lives of sorrow and joy

Founded on human love.

Nobody knows what is going to happen

In the near future,

Or even tomorrow.

O darkness, let me live alone.

O Light, do enter into my heart,

Even if it is for fleeting days.

```

From:Sri Chinmoy,Illumination-Song and Liberation-Dance, part 3, Aum Press, 1976
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