Translation

```

Mother Kali, I have not invoked You

With my heart’s aspiring eagerness.

I have paid You only lip-service.

Therefore, I have failed to see You in my heart,

Which is all empty in Your absence.

You do not expect anything from me;

You make no demands whatsoever.

You do not want from my life the soulful message.

You want only one thing from me:

‘Happiness within and happiness without.’

Alas, where is peace, where is peace?

Peace has left my abode

And has made its abode elsewhere.

Here the life of sorrow and I

Now become inseparably one.

```

From:Sri Chinmoy,Illumination-Song and Liberation-Dance, part 3, Aum Press, 1976
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