Sri Yoganandaji and Poetry

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Dear Friends,

 

Paramahansa Yoganandaji is my beloved Gurudeva. Two poems from

Guruji -

 

FREEDOM

 

Brave cords, bind me hand and foot;

Yet lo, I am free, ever free.

Disease, ply your tortures;

Still I am free, ever free.

Health, try your lures;

But see, I am free, ever free.

Death, destroy if you will

My body-prison; caged or uncaged,

I am free, ever free.

 

Forged in the furnace of incarnations,

Long chains of earthly desires

Have tried to bind me;

But I escaped from life to life,

And at last I am free, ever free.

Through the portal of the rainbow

I entered heaven's free skies;

Now I am free, ever free.

 

Naught can bind me

If I bind not myself.

None can free me

If I know not I am free.

Knowing that naught exists to bind me,

I know I am free, ever free.

 

METHOUGHT I HEARD A VOICE

 

While singing by the rill

My voice did softly thrill

With echoes of my thought

By fancies brought.

 

I wandered in my play

On faerie field away;

And stopped to muse, rejoice -

Methought I heard a Voice!

 

The flowers of that field,

Of wondrous hues, perfumed

With essence of the heart, did yield

Delicious joys undreamed.

 

Behind the thin bright veiling

Of blossom-scented feelings,

I saw a fitful flash -

Some Glistening Presence rush!

 

I tiptoe stood,

Listening, watching;

I poured my heart,

Listening, watching.

 

 

 

"All the world's great religions are based on common

universal truths, which reinforce rather than conflict with one

another. I have often said that if Jesus, Krishna, Buddha, and other

true emissaries of God came together, they would not quarrel, but

would drink from the same one cup of God-communion."

 

~Sri Paramahansa Yogananda~

 

Love, Peace,

Mazie