Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 205

20401

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Enlightenment

Comes from commitment.

Commitment

Comes from eagerness.

Eagerness

Comes from soulfulness.

Soulfulness

Comes from purity.

Purity

Comes from sincerity.

Sincerity

Comes from necessity,

My God-necessity.

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20402

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My God-satisfaction-promise

I have not kept,

But once more I promise

That I shall fulfil

My God-satisfaction-promise.

This time I can and I shall! ```

20403

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Who is waiting for me?

God Himself.

Whom am I waiting for?

I am waiting for

The God-doubt-lover in me.

Alas, alas! ```

20404

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When I am happy,

I say to myself,

“So much I have done!

Just a little more to do.”

When I am unhappy,

I say to myself,

“Just a little I have done.

So much more to do!” ```

20405

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Impossibility

Is my mind-thorn.

Possibility

Is my heart-rose.

I have made my choice

Once and for all.

I want my heart-rose.

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20406

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I must not destroy

My God-fulfilment-dream

With my self-doubt.

Reality is at God’s Feet.

Dream is inside my heart.

Let me place my heart

At God’s Feet,

Him to fulfil in His own Way

In and through me.

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20407

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So many God-dreamers

And God-lovers

Have realised God.

Today is my turn —

Today, here and now.

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20408

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This morning

My Lord Beloved Supreme

Is telling me

That before I dare to claim

His immortal Love, immortal Joy

And immortal Pride

As my own, very own,

My own faith-heart-garden-blossoms

Must infinitely increase

Their beauty and fragrance

Inside His Compassion-flooded Heart.

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20409

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Yesterday nothing was possible.

Today everything is possible.

Why?

Because yesterday my mind talked

For the admiration of the world.

Today my heart acts

For the liberation of the world. ```

20410

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My Absolute Lord Supreme,

No more my face-lift!

From today on I shall pray to You

Only for my heart-lift —

High, higher, highest,

Self-givingly and unconditionally. ```

20411

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My Beloved Supreme,

Do tell me

How I can please You most

In the New Year.

“My child, you will be able

To please Me most

If you just give Me two things

Once and for all:

Your mind’s ceaseless deception-night

And your heart’s sleepless aspiration-light.” ```

20412

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The longer your mind refuses

To bow to your heart,

The further away you are

From true happiness. ```

20413

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Insecurity-barriers

Can be surmounted

Only by tearful prayers

To the Lord Supreme. ```

20414

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At every moment

We shall have to be careful

In our aspiration-life.

If not, we shall be swept away

Ruthlessly

By ignorance-current. ```

20415

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When there is a tug-of-war

Between my desire-mind

And my aspiration-heart,

God always takes the side

Of my heart.

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20416

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My Lord,

As You need no audience

When You speak to me,

How is it

That I always long for an audience

When I am with You

And around You?

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20417

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My fame-fed ego

Has forced me

To be the possessor

Of constant unhappiness. ```

20418

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If your heart and mind

Are schooled in patience,

Then there is nothing

That you cannot accomplish

Either in the world of aspiration

Or in the life of dedication. ```

20419

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There is and there can be

No specific “right moment”

For God-adoration

And God-satisfaction

In God’s own Way.

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20420

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The mind’s jealousy-jungle

Does not have a long life.

Sooner or later,

It has to wither away. ```

20421

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As ignorance does not want

To let me go,

Even so, I do not want

To let God go from me. ```

20422

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My aspiring heart shuns

Everything that is detrimental

To my spiritual development.

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20423

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Plunge deep,

Spread wide

And rise high!

Lo, your heart becomes one

With God’s Smile-Blossom.

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20424

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If you have unwavering aspiration,

Then God will appear before you

With His Rainbow-Happiness.

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20425

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Each time a doubt

Attacks my mind,

My soul-bird suffers

In my heart-cage. ```

20426

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Disobedience-destruction,

Disobedience-danger,

Disobedience-disaster

Is lowering the consciousness

Of the loving, aspiring, self-giving

And peace-dreaming humanity. ```

20427

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O my compassion-heart-eye,

My mind needs you

For its purification and perfection.

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20428

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God has blessed us

With not one,

But a thousand exits

If we want to escape

From our mind’s doubt-prison.

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20429

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The mind-cancer

Is doubt.

The heart-cancer

Is insecurity.

The life-cancer

Is fear. ```

20430

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Companionship

I try to enjoy.

But solitude

I do cherish. ```

20431

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Since you have not made

A life-long commitment to God,

How do you expect God

To bless you with enlightenment? ```

20432

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At every moment a desiring man

Is assaulted

By the forces of chaos.

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20433

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A genuine seeker

Orbits only around

His Lord Beloved Supreme.

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20434

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Take all activities

Not as obligations,

But as opportunities

To arrive at the destined shore. ```

20435

```

Alas, when we descend considerably

In our spiritual life,

How difficult it becomes for us

To mend God’s broken Heart! ```

20436

```

A hostile force can easily,

Ruthlessly and effectively

Pounce on our life

Without any warning. ```

20437

```

My mind wants

God’s Arms.

My heart wants

God’s Feet.

I cry for

God’s Heart. ```

20438

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I am safe only when

My surrender-heart

Is functioning well.

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20439

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Since God has done you

A great favour

By forgiving you,

Can you not do God the favour

Of expressing your gratitude to Him?

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20440

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If you want to make

A world-evolution-contribution,

Do not question the world.

Just love the heart of the world

And serve the life of the world.

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20441

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When your mind continues

To question God,

Embarrassment becomes your soul’s name.

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20442

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O my innocent heart,

I simply do not know

Why and how

You can always be deceived

By the shamelessly clever mind.

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20443

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O world,

Do call me by my true name:

God’s Compassion-Success-Life.

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20444

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When I stand

Side by side with God,

God teaches me how to smile

Sweetness-fragrance-smile. ```

20445

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We must prayerfully accomplish

Everything

That we are supposed to accomplish

As soon as possible,

For we are endowed

Only with brief and flickering

Life-flames.

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20446

```

The mind does not come

When it is called.

It comes only

When it is chosen. ```

20447

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If you do not water

Your heart’s faith-plant

Every day,

Your mind’s doubt-dragon

Will before long devour you.

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20448

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A sleeplessly God-loving heart

Can make no mistake

Along the God-Realisation-Road.

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20449

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Self-giving

Is always a two-way street.

It reaches God’s Home

And comes back

To adorn its own home.

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20450

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God’s Compassion-Eye-Road

Is the oldest road

That the seekers walk along.

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20451

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God sadly accepts

My daily late attendance

At His Heart-School.

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20452

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The pleasure-mountain-peak

Will definitely crumble

Beneath you

Sooner or later. ```

20453

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Not by begging,

But by threatening

Your ego

Can you conquer

The pride of ego.

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20454

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God expects a seeker

To do his aspiration-heart-homework

First,

Before he becomes anxious

To approach God.

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20455

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Lethargy is always unhappy

When it sees

Readiness and eagerness

All around. ```

20456

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One life for each to give —

Therefore,

Each can smilingly choose

To give his own life to God. ```

20457

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In vain

My aspiration-heart tries

To offer God-advice

To my restless vital

And my soulless mind.

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20458

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Disobedience

Has had many warnings.

Therefore,

It does not deserve

One more last warning.

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20459

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The very nature

Of powerful meditation

Is to expand

The aspiring heart’s

Silence-fragrance-room.

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20460

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What I need is

Sleepless receptivity

To throw open

All my heart-doors. ```

20461

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Impurity-thoughts

Immediately weaken the mind.

Purity-thoughts

Immediately sweeten the heart. ```

20462

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My surrender-life

God declares

As His own stupendous success.

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20463

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The invitation of eagerness

God always

Delightedly accepts.

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20464

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There really are no short-cuts

To reach

God’s Perfection-Satisfaction-Shore.

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20465

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O seeker,

You must never violate

The rules

Of your aspiration-heart-temple. ```

20466

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Those who yield to threats,

Although they eventually surrender,

Will never become the friends

Of their tormentor. ```

20467

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If you can happily surrender

Your earth-existence to God,

Then no hope of yours

Will ever be able to desert you. ```

20468

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In your spiritual life,

If your heart-flames are not mounting,

Then there may come a time

When you will be buried

By your own doubt-avalanche.

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20469

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Hard is it

For any human being

To go beyond

His desire-reach

To arrive

At his destination. ```

20470

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Now that your heart

Is free of ignorance-night,

Your heart-love-blossoms

Will have no thorns. ```

20471

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Educate at and graduate from

The soul-university

To be a perfect human being.

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20472

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God surprised me

By coming into my life

Quite unexpectedly.

I am surprising God

By staying inside His Heart-Garden

Permanently. ```

20473

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Only our surrender-joy

Has the capacity

To climb up to

God’s Transcendental Height. ```

20474

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Dream of the future’s sweetness

By casting aside

The bitterness of the past.

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20475

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Every day, at every moment,

God treasures

Our heart’s gratitude-fountain

And our life’s surrender-fountain. ```

20476

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Indeed, today’s life

Is a painful experience.

But this painful experience

We can transform into

Our Godful realisation.

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20477

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By expecting nothing

From this world

We can definitely gain

God-fulfilment-experiences. ```

20478

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In our aspiration-life,

Simplicity is beautiful,

Sincerity is powerful,

Purity is fruitful. ```

20479

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The day God showered detachment

Upon my life,

I became the possessor

Of joy infinite. ```

20480

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Today’s hope-dreamer

Will definitely be

Tomorrow’s reality-possessor.

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20481

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My Lord,

When will You come to see me?

“I shall come to see you,

My child,

Only when you take

My tearful Eyes seriously.” ```

20482

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Wait for God’s choice Hour.

Do not pressure Him.

Nothing good

Can ever come into existence,

Nothing good

Can ever be achieved

By pressure.

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20483

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I want to discover myself

In the depths

Of my tearful heart

And in the heights

Of my delightful soul.

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20484

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Now that God Himself

Is giving me surrender-lessons

Once more,

I am truly happy. ```

20485

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God keeps calling my mind

Incessantly.

Alas, my mind does not believe

In answering. ```

20486

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When the heart-lotus blossoms,

The mind becomes

A God-dreamer

And the life becomes

A God-lover.

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20487

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God, will You leave me

If I speak ill of you?

“No, My child, I will not.”

When will You leave me then?

“I shall leave you

Only when you underestimate yourself.” ```

20488

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The philosophy of the mind

Is good.

The poetry of the heart

Is better.

The song of the soul

Is by far the best. ```

20489

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God does not want to know me

By my mind’s thought-jugglery.

He wants to know me

By my heart’s fountain-deeds. ```

20490

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To think of

God’s infinite Breath

Is to live in

God’s immortal Life. ```

20491

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Ignorance-foundation

Has to be broken

If we want to awaken

The dormant perfection in us. ```

20492

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An unhappiness-free life

Sees the beauty of Light

Even inside

The ugliness of darkness. ```

20493

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If you invoke God

With your heart’s gratitude-tears,

Then God will expand and expand

Your dream-flooded-horizons. ```

20494

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In the morning

I directly receive

Inspiration from God’s Smile,

Aspiration from God’s Heart

And dedication from God’s Life,

And from nobody else. ```

20495

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Alas, when will my unhappy mind

Ever know

What my heart’s happiness embodies?

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20496

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I believe in you, O my soul.

But, unfortunately,

I am unwilling

To walk with you,

Listen to you

And follow you. ```

20497

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My mind’s mind-philosophy

Confuses God.

My heart’s heart-song

Amuses God.

My soul’s soul-silence

Fulfils God. ```

20498

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Before long,

God’s Infinity-Peace

Will prevail in my life

Because my mind has become

A vast silence-sea.

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20499

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God’s Justice

Does not silence man’s ignorance,

But illumines man’s ignorance.

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20500

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My Absolute Lord Supreme,

May my mind today and every day

Think of You only.

May my heart today and every day

Love You only.

May my life today and every day

Serve You only.

May I today and every day

Place my success-joy and my progress-peace

At Your Compassion-Feet. ```

From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 205, Agni Press, 1994
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