Wednesday, August 28, 2019

As Hair on Human Brow

All things that are, down to the ocean's depths,
         Up to sun, moon, and stars in spanless space --

The Mind, the Buddhi, Chitta, Ahamkar,
          The Deva, Yaksha, man and demon, all,

The quadruped, the bird, the worm, all insect life,
             The atom and its compound, all that is,

Animate and inanimate, all, all --
           The Internal and the External -- dwell

In that one common plane of existence!
          This outward presentation is of order gross,

As hair on human brow, Ay! very gross.

           - Swami Vivekananda, 
              from ‘A Song I Sing to Thee’ - poem in Bengali

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