Age does not matter

1.

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Age does not matter,

Unless you love to surrender

To your age.

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2.

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Age does not matter,

Unless you feel

Your life is

Empty of hope. ```

3.

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Age does not matter,

Unless you yourself wish to sing

Your own swansong

Long before it is due. ```

4.

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Age does not matter,

Unless you so lovingly care

To bring your past with you.

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5.

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Age does not matter,

Unless you do not care

To climb up the life-tree.

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6.

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Age does not matter,

Unless you do not mind

Being devoured

By depression and frustration. ```

7.

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Age does not matter,

Unless you allow yourself

To be frightened

By the beauty and fragrance

Of newness.

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8.

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Age does not matter,

Unless your failure-experiences

Have given you a very bitter taste

Of life. ```

9.

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Age does not matter,

Unless you pay no attention

To the beckoning hands

Of the golden future. ```

10.

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Age does not matter,

Unless you deliberately ignore

The inner whispers

Of your heart-breath. ```

11.

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Age does not matter,

Unless you want your armchair

To be your inseparable friend!

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12.

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Age does not matter,

Unless you allow fear-butterflies

To flutter

Inside your chest. ```

13.

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Age does not matter,

Unless you stop

Feeding your heart.

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14.

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Age does not matter,

Unless you do not care

For your hope-starvation-heart.

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15.

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Age does not matter,

Unless you have done away

With your soul-instruction-school.

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16.

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Age does not matter,

Unless you prefer

Your mind-thorns

To your heart-roses. ```

17.

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Age does not matter,

Unless you replace

Your heart-light

With your mind-night. ```

18.

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Age does not matter,

Unless you prefer

Your mind-jungle

To your heart-garden. ```

19.

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Age does not matter,

Unless you feel there is no such thing

As a blossoming Goal.

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20.

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Age does not matter,

Unless you feel that soon

Your life-boat will be a victim

To thunder-cyclone-tornadoes. ```

21.

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Age does not matter,

Unless you feel that your life-boat

Will at any moment sink.

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22.

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Age does not matter,

Unless you feel the newcomers

Are turning your life

Into an object of ceaseless ridicule. ```

23.

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Age does not matter,

Unless you feel both God and man

Have no concern for you.

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24.

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Age does not matter,

Unless you feel there is no forward march

But only a backward run.

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25.

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Age does not matter,

Unless you feel your life-tree

Is completely barren

Of flowers and fruits. ```

26.

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Age does not matter,

Unless you feel your life

Shall forever remain

An unending train-journey

To the Unknown.

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27.

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Age does not matter,

Unless you feel that both the giver in you

And the taker in you

Have come to a complete halt. ```

28.

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Age does not matter,

Unless you choose to obey

Your tired mind-instructor-commander

And not your heart-prompter-tutor. ```

29.

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Age does not matter,

Unless you yourself have removed

Your heart’s entry sign

And replaced it with

An exit sign.

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30.

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Age does not matter,

Unless you are all sympathy

For your poor, overworked

Body, vital and mind. ```

31.

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Age does not matter,

Unless the beauty of your life

And the fragrance of your heart

No longer inspire you. ```

32.

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Age does not matter,

Unless you feel your mind’s desire-thirst

And your heart’s aspiration-hunger

Are deceased. ```

33.

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Age does not matter,

Unless there is nothing on earth

To sweeten

Your breathing days. ```

34.

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Age does not matter,

Unless you think

The wheels of your life-chariot

Are punctured. ```

35.

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Age does not matter,

Unless you feel you have been forced

To extinguish

Your earth-attachment. ```

36.

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Age does not matter,

Unless you are all eagerness

To bid farewell

To Mother Earth. ```

37.

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Age does not matter,

Unless you are tortured

By the eagerness of meeting with

And being with Father Heaven. ```

38.

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Age does not matter,

Unless you are fed up with

The impermanence-experiences

Of the world. ```

39.

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Age does not matter,

Unless you are not sure

Of God’s Concern for you.

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40.

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Age does not matter,

Unless you feel your hopeless life

Will never be blessed

With a new chance. ```

41.

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Age does not matter,

Unless your life is full

Of unhappy, torturing arrows.

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42.

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Age does not matter,

Unless your life has become

A most powerful sigh.

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43.

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Age does not matter,

Unless you feel earth is cruel to you

And Heaven is indifferent to you.

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44.

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Age does not matter,

Unless you feel that you have become

Your mind-desert everywhere.

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45.

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Age does not matter,

Unless you have come to believe that

Nothing is new

And nobody is lovable. ```

46.

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Age does not matter,

Unless you feel that even God

Does not pay any attention

To your secret and sacred tears. ```

47.

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Age does not matter,

Unless you are incapable of snatching

Even a fleeting moment of joy.

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48.

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Age does not matter,

Unless you feel that once upon a time

You were a hero

And now you are nothing but a zero. ```

49.

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Age does not matter,

Unless you are convinced

That human love

Has totally failed you

And that divine love

Is far beyond your reach. ```

50.

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Age does not matter,

Unless you feel God is no longer yours

And you are no longer God’s.

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51.

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Age does not matter,

Age does not even know

How to count,

Unless you take the trouble

Of teaching it.

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52.

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Age does not matter,

Unless you fail to become

A wisdom-hunter.

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53.

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Age does not matter,

Unless you are willing

To be assailed

By a puzzling life. ```

54.

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Age does not matter,

Unless you want to be lost

In the shadows

Of your declining thought-life. ```

55.

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Age does not matter,

Unless you do not care for

God’s Hope and Promise

Operating in and through you. ```

56.

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Age does not matter,

Unless you no longer try to become

Great and good.

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57.

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Age does not matter,

Unless you deliberately call your life

A weed and not a flower.

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58.

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Age does not matter,

Unless we give unnecessary importance

To our enemies —

Our outer enemies

And our inner enemies.

Alas, why do we forget that

Even God has detractors?

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59.

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Age does not matter,

Unless we decide

It is time to go

And not to prolong our stay. ```

60.

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Age does not matter,

Unless we forget that the hunger

Invariably finds the feast.

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61.

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Age does not matter,

Unless we do not care

For the duty-fulfilled life.

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62.

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Age does not matter,

Unless nowhere

We feel at home.

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63.

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Age does not matter,

Unless we forget how to free ourselves

From our own mind-prison.

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64.

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Age does not matter,

Unless we fail to discover

The straightest path to Heaven.

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65.

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Age does not matter,

Unless we do not care for

God-Enlightenment.

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66.

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Age does not matter,

Unless we neglect to pray to God

To escort us

Wherever we go. ```

67.

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Age does not matter,

Unless we refuse to focus

On the true Reality of life.

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68.

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Age does not matter,

Unless Heaven says to you,

“Welcome Home.”

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69.

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Age does not matter,

Unless your mind

Is overwhelmed with doubts.

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70.

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Age does not matter,

Unless you have become

A confidence-empty life.

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71.

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Age does not matter,

Unless your life has become

A colossal indifference

To the world. ```

72.

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Age does not matter,

Unless your smiles and tears

Are empty of sun-flames

And moonbeams. ```

73.

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Age does not matter,

Unless your life has become

A lumbering unwillingness

Both to God and to man. ```

74.

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Age does not matter,

Unless you have completely forgotten

That you came into the world

From the Fragrance-Heart of God. ```

From:Sri Chinmoy,Age does not matter, Agni Press, 2005
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