Prayer-Songs for the New Year

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These are the lyrics of songs Sri Chinmoy composed for the New Year, published in the songbook: In The New Year, A New Dawn.

In the New Year, a new dawn
Is beckoning me.

In the New Year I do not want liberation.
I want only devotion.

O doubt-thief, I shall strike you hard,
Very hard, in the New Year.

I shall give and give
And I shall not ask for anything
In return in this New Year.

With a loving heart,
I shall invoke my psychic being.

I shall worship, I shall please
My Lord Supreme
In this New Year.

With the Goddess Dawn in her chariot,
I shall go to the country unknown
In this New Year.

I shall become my heart’s
Fragrance in this New Year.

In the New Year only rose and lotus
Will be my friends.

Hundreds of hope-doors
I shall keep open in this New Year.

With a rainbow I shall sing and dance
In this New Year.

O my pride-foe,
I shall destroy you in this New Year.

Inside a vastness-heart,
I shall lose my little “i”
In this New Year.

I have kept my heart-door
Open today.

Into the world I came
Not to satisfy me, but to worship You.

I long to fly with my soul
In Infinity’s sky.

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