22 January 1967
When we are in Ignorance,    AUM feeds us.
When we are in Knowledge,
    AUM feeds us.
When we are beyond both
    Ignorance and Knowledge,
    AUM still feeds us,
For it is the Nectar which gives
    life to creation,
    born and unborn.
Sri Chinmoy, Meditations — Weekly Meditations — No. 1, Dec, 1966 to May 1967, Aum Centre, Inc., 1967