Light the Lamp of Thy Love (Yogananda's Chant)

Let's sing together this beautiful devotional chant by Paramhansa Yogananda from his "Cosmic Chants". Recorded during Spiritual Renewal Week at Ananda Village in 2025.

Lyrics:
words by Rabindranath Tagore
music and adaptation into English by Paramhansa Yogananda

In my house, with Thine own hands,
Light the lamp of Thy love!
In my house, with Thine own hands,
Light the lamp of Thy love!

Thy transmuting lamp entrancing,
Thy transmuting lamp entrancing,
Wondrous are its rays.

Change my darkness to Thy Light, Lord!
Change my darkness to Thy light,
and my evil into good.

Touch me but once and I will change,
Touch me but once and I will change
All my clay into Thy gold.

All the sense lamps that I did light sooted into worries.
Sitting at the door of my soul,
Sitting at the door of my soul,
Light Thy resurrecting lamp.

"Cosmic Chants" (1938).

ABOUT PARAMHANSA YOGANANDA

Paramhansa Yogananda, born in 1893, was the first yoga master of India to take up permanent residence in the West. He arrived in America in 1920, and proceeded to travel throughout the United States on what he called his “spiritual campaigns.” Hundreds of thousands filled the largest halls in major American cities to see the yoga master from India. Yogananda continued to lecture and write up to his passing in 1952.

Paramhansa Yogananda’s initial impact on the western culture was truly impressive. But his lasting spiritual legacy has been even greater. His *Autobiography of a Yogi*, first published in 1946, helped launch a spiritual revolution in the West. Translated into more than a dozen languages, it remains a best-selling spiritual classic to this day. [Read free at http://ananda.org/autobiography.]

Yogananda brought the path of Self-realization and universal spirituality for daily life.

“Self-realization is the knowing in all parts of body, mind, and soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God; that you do not have to pray that it come to you; that God’s omnipresence is your omnipresence; and that all that you need to do is improve your knowing.
As the means of attaining this exalted spiritual state Yogananda initiated his followers into the ancient technique of Kriya Yoga, which he called the “jet-airplane route to God.”

The path of Kriya Yoga, which combines the practice of advanced yogic techniques with spirituality in daily life, can be learned at http://ananda.org/kriya-yoga.

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