543. WHEN HE DESCENDED

When he descended out of the morning sky
He was happy.
      Beauty’s Light garlanded him.
His desire itself was perfected
  By divinity’s touch.
He discovered that his true love of Truth
  Was the shortest way to find
    God the Eternal Reality.
Sri Chinmoy, Transcendence-Perfection, Agni Press, New York, 1975