Buddhist prayer or poem by Tagore ?

[Rahni Ennor]

> Laura Fiori <gd.fiori at FLASHNET.IT> wrote in Buddha-L :
>
>  BODHISATTVA'S PRAYER
>  Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers
>  but to be fearless in facing them.
>
>  Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain
>  but for the heart to conquer it.
>
>  Let me not look to allies in lifeís battlefields
>  but to my own strength.
>
>  Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved
>  but hope for patience to win my freedom.
>
>Can someone tell me what its source is? I thought it might be the
>Bodhicharyavatara, but couldn't locate it in the text.
>Thanks, laura
>
>jonathan lawson <jlawson at post.harvard.edu> responded :
>Laura, I think the poem you mention is "Fruit Gathering" by
>Rabindranath Tagore.
>
>Anybody on this list knows the exact source ?
>
>Thanks,  Richard


I don't have the exact source with me, but it is definitely Tagore.

Rahni Ennor