Translation
While I sufferI enjoy perfect peace.
Unlike joy, suffering
Is a real stranger
To false deception.
While I enjoy
I keep my eyes shut.
Mother, I fail to see You.
It is only the excruciating pangs
That grant me
The vision to see You,
And invoke You.
Sri Chinmoy, Illumination-Song and Liberation-Dance, part 1, Agni Press, 1976