The heart-home of the immortals

Fountain-Art, No Chain (2)

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Fountain-Art, Fountain-Art.

Fountain, fountain,

No chain, no chain.

Art, art, art,

Vision's start.

Jharna-Kala, Jharna-Kala.

Fountain-fuara, fountain-fuara,

No dry Sahara.

Fuara-fountain, fuara-fountain

Supreme Victory-Reign.

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Albert Einstein

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Einstein, your Theory of Relativity,

The supreme boon to humanity.

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One Hundred Indian Stories

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One hundred Indian stories,

American heart in Indian glories.

Bande Mataram, Mother, I bow to Thee.

Independence-Light are one eternally.

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Albert Einstein, Scientist-Sage!

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Albert Einstein, scientist-sage!

The wonder supreme of a vision-blaze.

A power-tower in a tiny frame.

Energy and mass enjoy their game

Of oneness-fulness, perfection-height.

Einstein, all-where your sleepless light.

In your greatest revolution-role

The world’s fastest evolution-goal.

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Bill Rodgers

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Bill Rodgers, Bill Rodgers, Bill!

O runner world’s Himalayan thrill.

Bill Rodgers, Bill Rodgers, Bill!

O king of the road,

O hero of the race,

Sun-joy treasures

Your heart, your face. ```

New York, the Empire State

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New York, the Empire State!

Supreme Lord’s Victory-Gate.

‘Excelsior’ forward ever,

No sad failure, never!

O world-capital sure,

Almighty Lord’s Vision pure.

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Doctor, Doctor

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Doctor, doctor, O save my life!

Hurry up, use your proudest knife.

Doctor, doctor, O cure my health,

My tiny world’s most precious wealth.

Doctor, doctor, for me no death.

Help me discover my endless breath.

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Gratitude Is the Sign of Noble Souls

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Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.

[Words of Aesop]

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I Looked for My Soul

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I looked for my soul, but my soul I could not see.

I looked for my God, but my God eluded me.

I looked for a friend and then I found all three.

[Words of William Blake]

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O God, If There Be a God

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O God, if there be a God, save my soul, if I have a soul!

[Words of Robert Ingersoll]

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God Loves All Men

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God loves all men, but is enchanted by none.

[Words of Isaac Asimov]

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What Does Farewell Mean?

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What does farewell mean, if not death?

But will death itself be a farewell?

[Words of Honore de Balzac] ```

Tyger! Tyger!

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Tyger! Tyger! burning bright

In the forest of the night,

What immortal hand or eye

Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

[Words of William Blake] ```

A Truth That Is Told with Bad Intent

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A truth that is told with bad intent

Beats all the lies you can invent.

[Words of William Blake,

from “Auguries of Innocence”]

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I Don't Want to Be Quoted

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I don’t want to be quoted, and don’t quote me that

I don’t want to be quoted.

[Words of Winston Burdett]

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Give Me a Spark Of Nature's Fire

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Give me a spark of Nature’s fire.

That’s all the learning I desire.

[Words of Robert Burns]

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God Is Love, I Dare Say

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God is Love, I dare say,

But what a mischievous devil Love is.

[Words of Samuel Butler] ```

The Mountains Look on Marathon

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The mountains look on Marathon,

And Marathon looks on the sea;

And musing there an hour alone,

I dreamed that Greece might still be free.

[Words of Lord Byron] ```

Veni, Vidi, Vici

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Veni, vidi, vici.

I came, I saw, I conquered.

[Latin words of Julius Caesar] ```

Don't Walk in Front of Me

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Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow.

Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead.

Just walk beside me and be my friend.

[Words of Albert Camus] ```

I Don't Know of a More Exciting Athlete

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I don’t know of a more exciting or more modest or more

competent athlete in the world than Bill Rodgers.

[Words of President Jimmy Carter]

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I Have Nothing to Offer (1)

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I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

[Words of Sir Winston Churchill]

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Alone, Alone, All, All Alone

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Alone, alone, all, all alone,

Alone on a wide, wide sea!

And never a saint took pity on

My soul in agony.

[Words of Samuel Taylor Coleridge,

from “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”]

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Swans Sing Before They Die

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Swans sing before they die — ’twere no bad thing

Should certain persons die before they sing.

[Words of Samuel Taylor Coleridge] ```

Every Day, In Every Way

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Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better.

[Words of Emile Coue]

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Because I Could Not Stop for Death

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Because I could not stop for Death —

He kindly stopped for me —

The Carriage held but just Ourselves —

And Immortality.

[Words of Emily Dickinson] ```

My Life Closed Twice

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My life closed twice before its close —

It yet remains to see

If Immortality unveil

A third event to me.

[Words of Emily Dickinson] ```

The Soul Selects Her Own Society

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The Soul selects her own Society —

Then shuts the Door —

On her divine Majority —

Obtrude no more.

[Words of Emily Dickinson] ```

I Never Spoke with God

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I never spoke with God,

Nor visited in Heaven —

Yet certain am I of the spot

As if the chart were given.

[Words of Emily Dickinson] ```

The Only News I Know

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The only news I know

Is Bulletins all Day

From Immortality.

The only Shows I see —

Tomorrow and Today —

Perchance Eternity —

The only one I meet

Is God — The only Street

Existence — This traversed

If other news there be —

Or Admirabler Show —

I’ll tell it You —

[Words of Emily Dickinson] ```

If I Can Stop One Heart from Breaking

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If I can stop one heart from breaking

I shall not live in vain;

If I can ease one life the aching,

Or cool one pain,

Or help one fainting robin

Unto his nest again,

I shall not live in vain.

[Words of Emily Dickinson]

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The Heaven Below

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Who has not found the Heaven—below—

Will fail of it above—

For Angels rent the House next ours,

Wherever we remove—

[Words of Emily Dickinson] ```

The Softer You Sing

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The softer you sing, the louder you are heard.

[Words of Donovan]

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I Am Not Only a Pacifist

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I am not only a pacifist, but a militant pacifist.

I am willing to fight for peace.

[Words of Albert Einstein] ```

I Was Born

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I was born, and that is all that is necessary.

[Words of Albert Einstein]

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The Best Work Is Done Not By Rules

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The best work is done not by rules but by imagination.

[Words of Albert Einstein]

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I Never Think of the Future

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I never think of the future, it comes soon enough.

[Words of Albert Einstein]

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The League of Nations

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I am rarely enthusiastic about what the

League of Nations has done or not done,

but I am always thankful that it exists.

[Words of Albert Einstein]

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Nothing I Can Do or Say

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Nothing I can do or say will change the structure

of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice,

I can help the greatest of all causes: good-will

among men and peace on earth.

[Words of Albert Einstein] ```

Perfection of Means

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Perfection of means and confusion of goals

seem to characterise our age.

[Words of Albert Einstein] ```

Real Human Progress

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Real human progress depends not so much on

inventive ingenuity as on conscience.

[Words of Albert Einstein] ```

Make a Peace

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Make a peace that does not conceal a future war.

[Words of Albert Einstein]

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I Am Always Working on Something New

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I am always working on something new.

[Words of Albert Einstein]

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God Is a Scientist, Not a Magician

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God is a scientist, not a magician.

[Words of Albert Einstein]

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I Believe in a God

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I believe in a God who reveals Himself in the harmony

of all beings.

[Words of Albert Einstein] ```

Try Not to Become

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Try not to become a man of success

but rather try to become a man of value.

[Words of Albert Einstein] ```

Don't Complain

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Don’t complain, don’t explain, don’t.

[Words of Henry Ford II] ```

The Woods Are Lovely, Dark and Deep (1)

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The woods are lovely, dark and deep,

But I have promises to keep,

And miles to go before I sleep,

And miles to go before I sleep.

[Words of Robert Frost] ```

In Three Words

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In three words I can sum up everything

I have learned about life: It goes on.

[Words of Robert Frost] ```

There Is More to Life (1)

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There is more to life than increasing its speed.

[Words of Mahatma Gandhi]

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France Cannot Be France

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France cannot be France without greatness.

[Words of President Charles de Gaulle]

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Thin People Are Beautiful

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Thin people are beautiful.

Fat people are adorable.

[Words of Jackie Gleason] ```

Divide and Rule

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Divide and rule, a sound motto.

Unite and lead, a better one.

[Words of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe] ```

Tomorrow Is Just a Fiction

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Tomorrow is just a fiction of today.

[Words of Rex Harrison]

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A Friendless Man

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A friendless man is like a left hand without a right.

[Jewish proverb]

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Free at Last

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Free at last, free at last,

Thank God Almighty,

I’m free at last.

[Inscription on the gravestone of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.]

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Religion Is in the Heart

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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

[Words of Douglas William Jerrold]

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We Did Not Choose

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We did not choose to be the guardians at the gate.

But there is no one else.

[Words of President L.B. Johnson] ```

True Happiness

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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends

but in the worth and choice.

[Words of Ben Johnson] ```

A Thing of Beauty

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A thing of beauty is a joy forever:

Its loveliness increases; it will never

Pass into nothingness.

[Words of John Keats

from “Endymion”] ```

Heard Melodies Are Sweet

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Heard melodies are sweet,

But those unheard are sweeter.

[Words of John Keats] ```

Man Seeks Freedom

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Man seeks freedom and pursues captivity.

[Words of Hazrat Inayat Khan]

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To Life There Is No Death

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To life there is no death, and to death there is no life.

[Words of Hazrat Inayat Khan]

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The More You Depend upon God

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The more you depend upon God,

the more God becomes dependable.

[Words of Hazrat Inayat Khan] ```

God Is God and Man Is Man

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God is God and man is man.

Yet God is man and man is God.

[Words of Hazrat Inayat Khan] ```

Death Is a Tax

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Death is a tax the soul has to pay

for having had a name and a form.

[Words of Hazrat Inayat Khan,

from “Sayings: The Bowl of Saki”, 8:28]

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The First and Last Lesson of Love

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The first and last lesson of love

Is: “I am not”.

[Words of Hazrat Inayat Khan] ```

An Ideal Is Beyond Explanation

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An ideal is beyond explanation.

To analyse God is to dethrone God.

[Words of Hazrat Inayat Khan] ```

Two Men Look Out

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Two men look out through the same bars.

One sees the mud, and one the stars.

[Words of Frederick Langbridge] ```

The Better Part of One's Life

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The better part of one’s life consists of his friendships.

[Words of President Abraham Lincoln] ```

I Am Going Your Way

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I am going your way, so let us go hand in hand.

[Words of William Morris]

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I Teach You the Superman

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I teach you the Superman.

Man is something to be surpassed.

[Words of Friedrich Nietzsche] ```

Through Obedience

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Through obedience, learn to command.

[Words of Plato]

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True Friendship Between Two People

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True friendship between two people is infinite and immortal.

[Words of Plato]

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I Am Self-Employed

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I am self-employed.

[Words of Prince Phillip]

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If You Want To Get Along

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If you want to get along, go along.

[Words of Samuel Rayburn]

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Co-existence

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It is co-existence or no existence.

[Words of Bertrand Russell]

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To-morrow and To-morrow

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To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,

Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,

To the last syllable of recorded time.

[Words of William Shakespeare,

from “Macbeth”, Act 5, scene 5] ```

If I Am Sophocles, I Am Not Mad

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If I am Sophocles, I am not mad

and if I am mad, I am not Sophocles.

[Words of Sophocles] ```

Half a League

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Half a league, half a league,

Half a league onward,

All in the valley of Death

Rode the six hundred.

Theirs not to make reply,

Theirs not to reason why,

Theirs but to do and die.

Into the valley of Death

Rode the six hundred.

[Poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson]

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Love Conquers All

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Love conquers all.

[Omnia vincit amor — Latin phrase of Virgil]

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I Disapprove of What You Say

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I disapprove of what you say but I will defend

to the death your right to say it.

[Words of Voltaire] ```

It Is Chance That Makes Brothers

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It is chance that makes brothers, but hearts that make friends.

[Words of Von Geibel]

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The Music in My Heart I Bore

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The music in my heart I bore

Long after it was heard no more.

[Words of William Wordsworth] ```

Thakurer Pran

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Thakurer pran thakurer dhan

Thakurer jaya gan

Vivekananda trilokananda

Shoirjyer tuphan

Jagale Bharate jagale manabe

Phutale bishwa rup

Vir sannyasi dharar hiyai

Atmahutir dhup

[Dedicated to Swami Vivekananda]

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Translation

```

O Swami Vivekananda!

Sri Ramakrishna’s life-breath!

Sri Ramakrishna’s supreme gift to mankind!

Sri Ramakrishna’s victory-song all-where!

The victory-world’s delight you were.

Lo, the cyclone-valour of the Absolute.

You awakened your slumbering India,

You awakened humanity’s sleep.

In you blossomed the Form Universal.

O hero-warrior sannyasi,

In the core of the creation sleeplessly shall burn

The incense of your self-offering.

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Scientist Einstein

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Scientist Einstein, Scientist Einstein, Scientist!

Your vision-boon our age-old hunger-feast.

O brave thinker-mind,

O hallowed seeker-heart,

You are the pioneer

Of a great progress-start.

O good God-lover,

O true truth-server,

O pure earth-awakener,

O sure Heaven-bringer!

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From:Sri Chinmoy,The heart-home of the immortals, 1979
Sourced from https://srichinmoylibrary.com/hhi