Ignorance vast we hug

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Our life abides within;

Our outer sheath is a cloak

Ignorant of truth sublime.

Outside the more we block,

The deeper within we go.

We all are nature's slaves,

Ignorance vast we hug.

Even death our Spirit braves.

Alas!

In vain for us.

We cry to live in chains

With blind personality.

Before us the sombre main.

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From:Sri Chinmoy,AUM — Vol. 7, No.10, 27 May 1972, AUM Centre Press, 1972
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