It was nineteen sixty nine
October twenty nine to be exact,
She appeared there on the scene
At Asha Sadan in a coastal town
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He and she, young sanyasins
Together served a brahmacharin guru
In an ashram isolated in a wood;
Both virtuous, deeply enlightened souls,
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Marriage is a long and blind bridge
Of only hopes and nothing more;
Marriage is climbing a messy ridge,
Filled in smoke, for its fresh air.
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Though one in soul and mind and body,
In several lives, we consoled each other,
And yearn to sail together to eternal time,
Why unseen hands enjoy keeping us apart?
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Honesty is like lovely flowers,
Blossoming in their own trees,
Fair and simple without strains;
Honesty is pure inner voice,
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Reality is truth; truth, reality,
This is how the world is made;
Truth is cause; reality, becoming,
This is how the world operates.
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You don't know how deep I carried within
When I came with flowers and lighted lamp
And offered to you in silent prayers;
But you knew, in grief I was falling apart
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India, not a country,
India is Universe itself;
A mini Universe
Of gargantuan galaxies
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Fear not, o soul, the vagaries of life,
The rise and fall and harmonies and strife;
Days and nights are the rules of nature,
Nothing of past hold steadfast for future;
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