by Tukaram Bolhoba Ambile (flourished 17th century)
Translation by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
This heart of mine is fixed and set
Language: English after the Sanskrit (संस्कृतम्)
This heart of mine is fixed and set: Life holds, for me, Nought beyond this: One end and object is there only Of all my thought, my aspiration: Awake, or dreaming, One vision only do I see: Body and soul One yearning fills me wholly: God: And I — Ah wonder, even I — Have seen him.
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Confirmed with Songs from Prison. Translations of Indian Lyrics Made in Jail by M. K. Gandhi, adapted for the Press by John S. Hoyland, New York, The MacMillan Company, 1934, page 146.
Text Authorship:
- by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869 - 1948), no title, appears in Songs from Prison. Translations of Indian Lyrics Made in Jail by M. K. Gandhi, first published 1934 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Sanskrit (संस्कृतम्) by Tukaram Bolhoba Ambile (flourished 17th century) [text unavailable]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Fritz Bennicke Hart (1874 - 1949), "The heart of mine is fixed and set", op. 123 no. 4 (1938) [ voice and piano ], from Two Sets of Five Songs Each. Set II: Tukaram: Songs from Prison, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2022-01-21
Line count: 13
Word count: 58