For this Cosmic Chant Yogananda wrote lyrics to the tune of ‘Liebesleid’ by Fritz Kreisler, the famous violinist and composer.
SRF uses this song during their yearly 8-hour Christmas meditation.
Yogananda referred to it in a talk: “The greatest romance you can have is the romance with God. Human love goes away in a little while, but your romance with God is eternal. Not one day must pass without seeing Him. That is why I wrote, “Through endless incarnations I called out Thy name, searching by the streamlets of all my silvery dreams.” I always tell Him that He is to blame for sending me out; but at last I realize that all life’s illusions were to make me appreciate Him more, to excite me to seek Him. It was always He, the Father behind all fathers, the Mother behind all mothers, the Lover behind all lovers, that I sought through incarnations. He is the Lover and our souls are the beloved, and when the soul meets the greatest Lover of the universe, then the eternal romance begins. The love that you have been seeking for incarnations through all human loves is at last yours. You will never want anything else. (The Divine Romance, The Eternal Romance)
Yogananda included these lyrics in his Metaphysical Meditations and in his Super Advanced Course (1930).
He apparently loved this Cosmic Chant: as Durga Mata recounted before, he asked her “to sing ‘Divine Love Sorrows’”. It is also part of her chanting album, sold by SRF. Why it was eliminated in the future Cosmic Chants book is therefore not quite clear.
LYRICS:
I have been roaming, forsaken by Thee.
Who hast seen me groping, hardly ever answering.
I shall be roaming, roaming, bursting all boundaries of heart,
Ever more moving toward Thee, to Thy vast unthrobbing heart.
Come Thou to me, Oh Lord, oh, come at last to me!
Centuries and centuries I have waited now for Thee.
Through endless incarnations I called out for Thy name.
Searching by the streamlets of all my slivery dreams.
I knew that Thou must come at last to steal the flowers of my heart.
In sorrow-thrills I piped my love, I sadly sang my song to Thee.
And yet I knew my love would reach Thee, though many lives I had to wait.
On mountain crags of high devotion I sadly sang my song, my song, my song.
WHEN TO USE THIS SONG:
Not given
SING ALONG:
Swami Kriyananda sings Divine Love Sorrows with the harmonium given to him by Yogananda.