Translation
A man of sorrow thinksThat there can be nobody
Who will surpass him in suffering.
The fire of suffering dances inside his heart.
A man of joy feels
That he alone is happy.
There can be nobody else
Who can have even an iota of happiness;
He alone is flooded with happiness.
In my abode of light
I shall receive boundless peace
The day I forget the attachment-bondage
Of happiness and sorrow.
Sri Chinmoy, Illumination-Song and Liberation-Dance, part 5, Agni Press, 1976