Brave cords bind me hand and foot
Yet lo, I am free, ever free.
Disease, try your tortures,
Yet, I am free, ever free.
Health, try your lures,
Yet, I am free, ever free.
Death, destroy my body-prison if you will,
Yet, I am free, ever free.
Long chains of desires
Forged in the furnace of incarnations
Have tried to bind me,
But I escaped from life to life
And I am at last free, ever free.
I enter through the rainbow
Into the free skies
I am free, ever free.
None can bind me
Unless I bind myself.
None can free me
Unless I know I am free —
When I know naught exists
To ever bind me,
Then I know I am free, ever free
— From Inner Culture Magazine, August 1937