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India’s Poet, India’s Seer,
India’s Yogi,The transcendental Sri Aurobindo,
Direct Descendant of the Absolute Supreme,To you I bow and bow and bow.
Bharater kabi bharater rishi
Bharater jogi AvatarSri Aurobindo he ati manab
Pranati janai barebar```
MLH 13. As a prelude to the lifting part of the ceremony, Sri Chinmoy performed his own compositions for several minutes on the esraj, a slender North Indian bowed instrument with sympathetic strings. During his esraj performance, Sri Chinmoy offered the English translation of his Bengali song Bharater Kabi<em> before singing the song a capella<em>.↩
From:Sri Chinmoy,The mind loves the heart, the mind becomes the heart, part 2, Agni Press, 2003
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