III

Transliteration:
"Asato ma sad gamaya
  Tamaso ma jyotir gamaya
  Mrtyor ma amrtam gamaya."

Translation:

Lead me from the unreal to the Real. Lead me from darkness to Light. Lead me from death to Immortality.

Comment:

The unreal in us desires the pleasure-life of the finite. The Real in us aspires for the God-Life of the Infinite.

Darkness is the discoverer of the doubting and frustrated mind. Light is the discoverer of the aspiring and dedicated heart.

Death — where is the cat? Miaowing nowhere. Immortality — where is the lion? Roaring all-where.

Sri Chinmoy, The Upanishads: the Crown of India's Soul, Sri Chinmoy Lighthouse, New York, 1974