Translation

```

Nobody knows

What fate has in store.

Nobody knows

Whether joy and sorrow

Are going to be a permanent reality.

Alone I came into this world.

Nothing can I claim.

I shall be my very own.

I shall no longer

Act like a lifeless reality.

Yet I think the whole world

Is for me,

There at my command.

When the body plays its role

And ceases functioning,

Everything that we do or become

Is non-reality.

```

From:Sri Chinmoy,Illumination-Song and Liberation-Dance, part 5, Agni Press, 1976
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