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

Notes of Cla.s.s Talks and Lectures

Notes of Cla.s.s Talks

Man the Maker of His Destiny

G.o.d: Personal and Impersonal

The Divine Incarnation or Avatara

Pranayama

Women of the East

Congress of Religious Unity

The Love of G.o.d I

The Love of G.o.d II

India

Hindus and Christians

Christianity in India

The Religion of Love

Jnana and Karma

The Claims of Vedanta on the Modern World The Laws of Life and Death