A PRAYER FOR MY COUNTRY

O GOD, let thy tender light of love always shine unto me

Let there be thou in everything I do,

Let everything I do

be in service of my country

and in service of thou.

- Naresh 4 Mar 1998 6:30pm

Where the mind is without fear & the head is held high;
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;
Where words come out from the depth of truth;
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;
Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action -
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake

- from Geetanjali by Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore, 1910