On the bank of the Rupa-narayana33
I woke up,
I knew that this world
Is not a dream.
I read my own name
In letters of blood,
I recognised myself
Blow after blow,
With pain after pain;
Truth is stern,
33 A river with a significant name : Rupa ("Form" or "Beauty") + Narayana (another name of Vishnu, the Lord of Love)
I loved the stern
Which never deceives.
This life until death
is an ascetic quest of sorrow,
To earn the terrible price of Truth
Pay off all debt while dying.
[ shesh lekha, "Last Writing", No.11, 1941]