Part IV — The body and the soul

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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-bird

That flies in Infinity-Sky;

I am the soul-child

That dreams on the lap

Of the immortal King Supreme.

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From:Sri Chinmoy,Pioneer-runners of tomorrow’s world-peace-dawn: ultramarathon running and self-transcendence, Agni Press, 1998
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