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XV

SERVICE :

THE HUMAN HEART THE HOLIEST TEMPLE.

(1905)


ABADHANA.

Hymn— A khilabvaJunandapathi (Bengali)-

Lord of myriad worlds ! Lord of countless seas and oceans deep ! All bowing to Thee; all held in the hollow of Thy hand, Lord ! Supreme Master ! Sole Sovereign ! Thou art the only everlasting Protector and Purveyor unto these myriad worlds! We, too, prostrate ourselves before Thy majesty. In this little world, tiny atoms, mere dust-grains as we are, we yet bold the sweetest communion of brotherly fellowship will all, even through Thy grace, out of Thy sole fatherhood of all. Unknown yet felt, unseen yet realised, in Thy marvellous methods, Thou hast knit together the denizens of these countless orbs by one family tie, ruled by one law of love, designed for one destiny of a divine