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Sri Chinmoy » Library of Poetry » The Dance of Life » Part 1 » The Collector

The Collector

Man’s mind is an eager searcher of space.
Man’s heart is a torch-bearer of God’s Grace.
Man’s soul is the transformer of human
contempt into divine praise.
Man’s God-life is the collector of the broken ones,
the forsaken and forlorn.

From ‘ The Dance of Light ‘  by Sri Chinmoy

© 1973 by Sri Chinmoy – All rights reserved

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