Like a Dust Particle

 

Following is the poem by Mataji Nirmaladevi when she was just seven years old. 

Like a Dust Particle

I want to be smaller,
Like a dust particle
Which moves with the wind.
It goes everywhere.

Can go
Sit on the head of a king,

Or can go
And fall at the feet of someone.

And it can go
And sit everywhere.

But I want to be a particle of dust
That is fragrant,
That is nourishing,
That is enlightening.


Nirmala Salve, aged seven

who later became H.H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi