Translation

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Far have I walked along the highway.

The more I have lost the outer world,

The more I have gained the inner world.

O Queen of my life-illumining vision,

I have discovered nectar-delight,

Yet my hunger remains the same.

O my heart’s consolation-queen,

O remover of my life’s excruciating pangs,

Today I am returning home in a beggar’s garb

With an unclean body and an unlit mind.

The smiling world has left me.

Utterly empty of beauty my life has now grown.

O Goddess Lakshmi, Queen and Mother of my heart,

Do grant me one solitary boon:

Place Yourself once and for all

Inside the crying pages of my life’s sorrowful

And closing chapter.

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