16.
AsaraBarren
When we do not aspire, our very life becomes barren. 
A barren life and God’s Compassion compete with each other. 
Eventually we see that God’s Compassion wins the race. 
And then what does it do? 
It immediately changes a barren life into the life of an aspiration-sun.  
        Sri Chinmoy, The core of India's Light, part 2, Agni Press, 1992
