The highest state is, translates Ayyangar, oneness with the inmost Brahman. One is the great Outward God; the other is the Inmost God. I am dying with a very special love of the people in my inmost heart. Although educated in Rome, in his "Meditations", Marcus would write his inmost thoughts in Greek. The human voice (the song proceeds) cannot express so sweetly what is inmost. Her second book, "Inmost", won the 2011 Nightboat Poetry Prize.