#word # ParamahansaYogananda: Whispers from Eternity Hello, playmate, I am here! Alone I roamed the ocean shore, and saw The wrestling waves in brawling roar, Expressing Thine own restless life- Thine angry mood in ripply quiver. The violent vastness made me shiver And turn away from Nature's strife. And then A spreading sentinel tree Waved friendly arms to comfort me, With gentle look sublime. Its swaying leaves in lull'by rhyme A message sang I knew was Thine. Above I scanned the gaugeless sky; Within its bosom dim I childlike tried on Thee to spy, In play with Thee. In vain I sought Thy body, hiding nigh, Cloud-veiled, foam sprayed, leaf-garlanded, Too fine mine eyes to see; Thy voice too pure mine ears to hear. And yet I knew that Thou wert always near, At hide-and-seek with me; Receding, spirit dear, When almost I had touched the robe of Thee. I groped for Thee through fold on fold Of ignorance old, as time is old. At last My search I stopped in dull despair, My search for Thee, O Royal Sly Eluder! ...everywhere, Yet seeming nowhere...lost in unplumbed space, Where none may clasp Thee nor behold Thy face. In haste, I hied away from Thee. Still, still no answer from rageful sea, And whispers only from the kindly tree; Just silence from infinitudes of sky, From valleys low and mountains high. Hurt child, within the depths of me I hid sulked, not seeking Thee. When lo! Unheralded, an Unseen Hand Removed the maddening band That blinded me in darkness old. With joy untold I turned and saw A laughing sea, not one of wrathful roars; A gay glad world, and open astral doors. With only mists of dreams between, Beside me Someone stood unseen, And whispered to me, sweet and clear: "Hello, playmate! I am here!"