2719. Save me from both!
My Lord,Is there no way
To ask my vital
To stop keeping up appearances?
My Lord,
Is there no way
To ask my mind
To keep down expenses?
I am dragged down
Either by appearance-power
Or by expense-power.
My Lord, save me from both!
Sri Chinmoy, Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 28, Agni Press, 1982