FOR EMMA

The matchless Gurus of India

Were led to bring kriya to Western shores

Kriya is practices described in matchless sutras

There is no universal save what is

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So Yogananda came to the US

To create what now bears its massive fruits

In his matchless autobiography

He celebrates some matchless words from here

Their author Emma Lazarus

Her matchlessness by Yogananda shared

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“From her beacon-hand

Glows world-wide welcome;

Her mild eyes command

The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.

In these immortal words of liberty

‘Keep ancient lands your storied pomp

Give me your tired, your poor

Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free

The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,

I lift my lamp beside the golden door’

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We all do what we are here to do

Best we cleave to the One

And hear the matchless voices

From which speech emanates

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Those who desecrate

Are no less love

Than bards and gurus

They merely stray from

choices that

could save them

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Good choices create waves of

Cleansing God response