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6 THE SPIRIT OF ORIENTAL POETRY full realization of the Divine within our own soul. The full richness of our soul lies in its own centre. In that ever un-balanced balance of our repose lies Salvation. I do not believe that nature or man can make us free unless we, through His grace, realize for ourselves the truth of things and engraft ourselves on the Infinite. What has not yet gained its own freedom cannot free us. “Let me but once engraft myself on Thee, 0 Infinite! as a branch on a whole tree, and then let me slowly drink the life sap of Thy immortal Being and just blossom there."--Guru Nanak.

“Just blossom there" is poetry, spirituality, Immortality. Life is lightest in its own blossom!

Touch me with a song; if it be the song of the Emancipated Ove, I shall straightway be borne away in His arms above Illusion into the verity of all things. The true song is Immortal, ministering supreme fulfilment, where nothing is lacking! He takes me there and says: "Behold the Glory--God's soul runs through all things. Ag beads are strung on one thread so all things are in Him. It is all God.”— Guru Arjun Deva. The Sun shall pass away and the Moon, And all shall pass away, But ever abideth the word of the      Emancipated One! It must come to pass.            (From Guru Grantha.) Our highest poetry, therefore, is the birth of God on earth. It is as silent and as loud as the burst of the white lotus on the blue waters. The Name alone is the highest of the vitalising song: