There I Am Present

I am present! At Pralaya time,
    When this vast universe is swallowed up,
    Knowledge, and knower, and the known
Merged into one.

The universe no more
    Can be distinguished or can be conceived
    By intellect. The sun and moon and stars are not.
    Over the bosom of the darkness, darkness moves
    Intense. Devoid of all the threefold bonds,
    Remains the universe. Gunas are calmed
    Of all distinctions. Everything deluged
In one homogeneous mass, subtle,
Pure, of atom-form, indivisible --

There I am present.

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