Question: Similarly your famous song Sundara hate has the line Chaudike mor bishwa bhubane bedanar sur baje.

Sri Chinmoy: Yes, that line means “all around me is the melody of suffering.” How much joy I get when I am singing those songs! I do not take them as negative. Only the helplessness aspect I see. There are two or three songs that I play on the cello which are so painful, but I do not get pain as such. Inside the pain I feel so much sweetness, and that sweetness helps me.