Puratan Smriti Mane Mor Jage
Puratan smriti mane mor jageBahu puratan smriti
E dharar lagi atma tyajiya
Chahi nai kabhu priti
Nahi jani hai dainya kemane
Hanila aghat shire
Bishal hriday jachi ami mago
Phirite shanti nire
Today my old reminiscences take shelter in my mind.
I have offered myself to please this world,
Yet I have not asked for its love in return.
I do not know why I am in the poverty world today.
I need world-appreciation.
O Mother of the Universe, I need a boundless heart.
What for? To enter into the nest,
Illumining and fulfilling, of Yours.
Sri Chinmoy, Pole-star promise-light, part 4, Agni Press, 1977