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Yogananda's Life's Dream
Paramahansa Yogananda's poem, "Life's Dream," celebrates Mount Washington as a spiritual oasis in the middle of the large city of Los Angeles.
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Yogananda's Listen to my Soul Song
In Paramahansa Yogananda's "Listen to my Soul Song" from Songs of the Soul, the great yogi offers a perfect blend of three poetry forms: song, chant, and prayer.
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Yogananda's Whispers
The speaker dramatizes the journey of the soul as it evolves from plant life to human life. Each stage of evolution allows the soul to express itself in greater portion.
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Yogananda's Mohawk Trail
Even a God-realized guru/saint can become bored by too much confinement in a city setting, and the non-realized can learn how to enjoy nature from the guru's experience.
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Yogananda's To the Aurora Borealis
The speaker in "To the Aurora Borealis" compares the awe-inspiring northern lights to the inner vision experienced in divine perfect union of soul and Divinity.
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Yogananda's My Kinsmen
The speaker in Yogananda's "My Kinsmen" declares his unity with all of creation, celebrating the progression of stages through which he has evolved.
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Yogananda's Friendship
The speaker in Yogananda's poem, "Friendship," explores and dramatizes the unique bond that exists between friends and reveals its rôle in serving soul progress.
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Amichai's Near the Wall of a House
Amichai's versanelle expands its focus through a divine realization, one begun in utterly humble circumstances.
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Yogananda's I Am Lonely No More
The speaker in Paramahansa Yogananda's "I Am Lonely No More" celebrates his freedom from the human malady of loneliness.
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Yogananda's My Prisoner
The speaker in "My Prisoner" begins with a prison metaphor that transforms into a cloister, wherein the devotee/speaker will retain his Divine Captive.
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Yogananda's Some Treasure of my Own
The speaker in Yogananda's "Some Treasure of My Own" elucidates his understanding regarding the importance of loving the Giver more than the gifts.
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Yogananda's God's Boatman
The eternal relationship between the Guru and his devotees is dramatized in Yogananda's reassuring poem, "God's Boatman."
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Yogananda's When I Cast All Dreams Away
Guruji often likens the unreal nature of the material world to "dreams"; the speaker in "When I Cast All Dreams Away" dramatizes his awakening to true Bliss.
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Yogananda's When I Am Only a Dream
Paramahansa Yogananda's "When I Am Only a Dream" offers all devoted disciples the reassurance and comfort that the guru is always guiding and guarding them.
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Yogananda's The Toiler's Lay
The speaker in "The Toiler's Lay"expresses a sentiment that is universally common to humanity laboring in this material world to keep body and soul together.
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Yogananda's Nature's Nature
Guruji's "Nature's Nature" is one of those poems that portrays the bliss of samadhi so tangibly that the devotee cannot help but pine for attainment of that state.
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McKay's Spring in New Hampshire
McKay offers a refreshing and delightful glimpse at the feeling one experiences when the grass turns green again, and the sky is too blue not to notice with enthrallment.
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Yogananda's The Royal Way
Many of Yoganandaji's poems offer introductory glimpses into the science of yoga, on which his teachings are based; "The Royal Way" dramatizes one such glimpse.
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Okri's They Say
Ben Okri's "They Say" offers a technically brilliant drama that underscores the power of the soul in the face of devastating danger and impending death.
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Yogananda's My Cosmic Mother's Face
At age eleven, Paramahansa Yogananda grieved the loss of his mother, but his spiritual nature impelled his search for and ultimate success in realizing his Divine Mother.
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Yogananda's The Noble New
The theme of "The Noble New" is individualism; the speaker is urging the devotee not to be dragged down by a herd-mentality when journeying toward self-realization.
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Persian Poet Moslih Eddin Saadi
A master of the versanelle, Medieval Persian poet, Moslih Eddin Saadi portrays colorful imagery, while dramatizing philosophical views, often emphasizing a moral.
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Yogananda's God! God! God!
Paramahansa Yogananda's poem, "God! God! God!," dramatizes the speaker's one-pointed concentration on the Divine from waking, through daily activities, to sleeping.
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Yogananda's Divine Love Sorrows
The epigraphic inscription accompanying "Divine Love Sorrows" says, "The music of Fritz Kreisler's 'Liebesleid' inspired Paramahansaji to write these words for it."
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Mckay's If We Must Die
According to Marcellus Blount, Winston Churchill utilized Claude McKay's sonnet, "If We Must Die," to "rally[ ] . . . the British into sustained battle against the Nazis.
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