III
Transliteration:"Asato ma sad gamaya
Tamaso ma jyotir gamaya
Mrtyor ma amrtam gamaya."
Translation:
Tamaso ma jyotir gamaya
Mrtyor ma amrtam gamaya."
Lead me from the unreal to the Real. Lead me from darkness to Light. Lead me from death to Immortality.
Comment:
The unreal in us desires the pleasure-life of the finite. The Real in us aspires for the God-Life of the Infinite.
Darkness is the discoverer of the doubting and frustrated mind. Light is the discoverer of the aspiring and dedicated heart.
Death — where is the cat? Miaowing nowhere. Immortality — where is the lion? Roaring all-where.
Sri Chinmoy, The Upanishads: the Crown of India's Soul, Sri Chinmoy Lighthouse, New York, 1974
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