Translation
Just for a short visitWe come into the world.
Here we cry and smile
And then we do not know
Where we go.
Yet we think that our presence here on earth
Is indispensable.
We do not know who we are,
Yet we want to embrace each and every one
As our very own.
When we want to glorify our own lives,
Immediately we cast a slur
On our true aspiration-life.
Sri Chinmoy, Illumination-Song and Liberation-Dance, part 1, Agni Press, 1976