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PoetSeers The Poet Seers Sri Chinmoy Sri Chinmoy Poetry The Upanishads I have known this great being

I have known this great being

Transliteration

 

Vedaham etam purusam mahantam

Aditya-varnam tamasah parastat.

 

Translation

 

I have known this Great Being,

effulgent as the sun

beyond the boundaries of tenebrous gloom.

 

Comment

 

Before our realisation this Great Being quenched our heart’s thirst.

After our realisation we feed the soul’s hunger of this Great Being.

As man’s eternal grandfather the soul perpetually enjoys.

 

 

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Excerpt from The Upanishads: The Crown Of India's Soul by Sri Chinmoy.

 

 

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The Upanishads

Hindu Poets

The Bhagavad Gita

Sri Chinmoy