Probal Mondal

“Never quarrel about religion. All quarrels and disputation concerning religion simply show that spirituality is not present. Religious quarrels are always over the husks. When purity, when spirituality goes, leaving the soul dry, quarrels begin, and not before.”

——The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda


O heart, lets return to the real abode!

Here in this foreign land, why wander aimlessly

in stranger's guise?

Your material senses and all earthly bindings

All are strangers to you, none are really yours;

Blinded by infatuations with strangers,

why do you forget Who is truly yours?

Ascend the path of Truth, O mind!

Kindle your lamp of love, always be guided by its light

As your provision for the journey, bring with you

the virtues, carefully concealed; for, like highwaymen,

Greed and delusion wait to rob traveler's wealth.

And keep beside you constantly as guards,

Tranquility of mind and self-control.

Companionship with the saintly being will be for you

a welcome rest-