Dark Eyes (A Beautiful Choir Song Dedicated to Paramhansa Yogananda's Mother and the Divine Mother)

Listen to this beautiful song by Swami Kriyananda inspired by a poem by Paramhansa Yogananda, in which he describes a vision he had after his mother eearly passing. In the vision, he saw those “lost two black eyes” in the form of the Divine Mother, and he realized that it’s the Cosmic Mother Herself who had been taking care of him in the form of his earthly mother.

Recorded in the Temple of Light at Ananda Village on the anniversary of Yogananda's Mahasamadhi, March 7 2024.

Lyrics:

I’ve known them forever:

They’ve haunted my slumber,

And called to me out of the deeps of space.

The love that they promise

Has helped me remember

Another time, a caring embrace.

Dark eyes in the morning,

Dark eyes in the evening,

Dark eyes in the starlight at end of day:

Dark eyes that speak silence,

They whisper, “Come find me:

You’ll never know true love, if you stay.”

Now I seek them in the wintertime,

Oh, I seek them in the spring:

Those two dark eyes draw my heart away

To where sun and moon sing!

I laugh now in the summertime,

When ripples on the river play.

I laugh, soaring with the meadowlarks.

Love has made my heart gay.

I’ve known them forever:

They’ve haunted my slumber,

And called to me out of the deeps of space.

The love that they promise

Has helped me remember

Another time, a caring embrace.

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