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An inner defeat:

A great seeker has fallen

And lost his progress-chance

For this entire lifetime.

An inner victory:

The same seeker may return

To earth

With renewed aspiration

And more powerfully proceed

To a higher level than before. ```

From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 57, Agni Press, 1984
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