O world-ignorance,
Although you have shackled my feet, I am free.Although you have chained my hands, I am free.
Although you have enslaved my body, I am free.I am free because I am not the body.
I am free because I am the soul-birdThat flies in Infinity-Sky;
I am the soul-child
That dreams on the lapOf the immortal King Supreme.
```From:Sri Chinmoy,Pioneer-runners of tomorrow’s world-peace-dawn: ultramarathon running and self-transcendence, Agni Press, 1998
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