When hostile forces attack you,
Have nothing to do with them.
Create a world of indifference
Within and around you.
Their own pride will compel them
To leave you.
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 12, Agni Press, 1983
The following is a selection of poems from the collection called My Flute. They include Sri Chinmoy's first poem written in English, The Golden Flute.