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Kali the MotherAngels Unawares I-IIITo the Awakened IndiaRequiescat in PaceHold on Yet a While, Brave HeartNirvanashatkam, or Six Stanzas on NirvanaThe Song of The SannyasinPeace …

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(Composed at Ridgely Manor, New York, 1899.) Behold, it comes in might,The power that is not power,The light that is in darkness,The shade in dazzling light. It is joy that never spoke,And grief …

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(Composed at the Thousand Island Park, New York, in July, 1895.) Wake up the note! the song that had its birthFar off, where worldly taint could never reach,In mountain caves and glades of forest …

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(Translation of a poem by Shankarâchârya.) I am neither the mind, nor the intellect, nor the ego, nor the mind-stuff;I am neither the body, nor the changes of the body;I am neither the senses of …

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(Written to H. H. The Maharaja of Khetri, Rajputana.) If the sun by the cloud is hidden a bit,If the welkin shows but gloom,Still hold on yet a while, brave …

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