Illumination-Song and Liberation-Dance, part 1

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The body exists,

Therefore, suffering, too.

Inseparable they are.

He who owns a body

Is always assailed by countless ailments.

World-suffering befriends him.

For him there is no peace of mind.

But he who has conquered

His earth-bound mind

Has made friends with Eternity’s Delight.

The rest are doomed to suffer,

Like a flower forcibly plucked from the tree. ```

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