Part 11 (1/2)

Therein the plan was made;

The will, the thought, to that conform, To that the outer frame;

No one but me to blame.

Love comes reflected back as love, Hate breeds more fierce hate,

They mete their measures, lay on me Through life and death their claim; No one but me to blame.

I cast off fear and vain remorse,

I feel my Karma's sway

I face the ghosts my deeds have raised - Joy, sorrow, censure, fame;

No one but me to blame.

Good, bad, love, hate, and pleasure, pain Forever linked go,

I dream of pleasure without pain, It never, never came;

No one but me to blame. I give up hate, I give up love, My thirst for life is gone;

Eternal death is what I want, Nirvanam goes life's flame; No one is left to blame.

One only man, one only G.o.d, one ever perfect soul, One only sage who ever scorned the dark and dubious ways, One only man who dared think and dared show the goal - That death is curse, and so is life, and best when stops to be.

Om Nama Bhagavate Sambuddhya Om, I salute the Lord, the awakened. *

Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Volume 8