Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 242

24101

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The real happiness

Is an insatiable hunger

For sleepless God-Satisfaction

In God’s own Way. ```

24102

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My mind waits

For the return of God’s Power.

My heart waits

For the return of God’s Peace. ```

24103

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Our Lord Supreme tells us

That He wants to be sought

And not to be bought.

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24104

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The surrender beyond all surrenders

Is our constant willingness

To please God in His own Way.

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24105

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God-Compassion

Is necessary.

God-obedience

Is more than indispensable. ```

24106

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Expectation and despair

Always move together,

Although they do not care for each other

At all. ```

24107

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God has been waiting

For a long, long time

To greet my eagerness-heart.

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24108

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There are many ways

To make God smile,

But the easiest way

Is to tell God sincerely,

“You are my All,

My Eternity’s All.” ```

24109

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There are many enemies I have,

But I feel that expectation

Is my worst enemy.

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24110

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A heart of faith

Is not a fairytale.

A heart of faith

Is the beauty and perfection

Of the angelic world.

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24111

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It is simply impossible to create

An anxiety-worry-free territory

Inside one’s mind.

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24112

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A transformation-life

Is within the reach

Of every human being.

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24113

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Today we call it

The darkest night.

Tomorrow that very thing

We will call the brightest dawn. ```

24114

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Gratitude

Is the very breath

Of our constant love of God.

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24115

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God asks us

Not to think of the Goal.

He just asks us

To take a first step. ```

24116

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God has quite a few

Closely-guarded secrets.

The most important one

Is man’s unexpected total transformation. ```

24117

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A goalless seeker

Will eventually have frustration

As his sad finish.

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24118

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If you want to be another God,

Then renounce your life

Of pleasure-illusion.

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24119

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Each and every human being

Will realise God eventually.

But if one wants to expedite

One’s God-journey,

Then one has to take God-choice

As the first and foremost choice. ```

24120

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The art of self-giving

Is, indeed, a supreme promoter

Of God-manifestation

Here on earth. ```

24121

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God the Compassion

Knows when to caress our hearts.

God the Justice

Knows when to smite our minds. ```

24122

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God never justifies Himself,

For He knows that in the end

We are bound to justify Him ourselves.

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24123

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What is enmity?

Enmity is nothing other than

The inner wrestling of human beings.

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24124

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O my mind,

No matter how many times

You refuse to be transformed,

There shall come a time

When you are bound to be transformed —

Of course, at God’s choice Hour! ```

24125

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To strengthen our capacities

We need assistance from two divine helpers:

A sympathy-heart

And an encouragement-hand. ```

24126

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My love of God

Has no need of Heaven’s Bliss,

For my love of God

Itself is the highest Bliss. ```

24127

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When we aspire

Most sincerely and most soulfully,

We come to realise

That there is no such thing

As an unattainable goal.

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24128

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God tells the human mind,

“My ignorance-child,

You are hating the world today,

But tomorrow I shall change your hatred

Into amusement-laughter.”

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24129

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Although we may not agree,

According to God

Everything a genuine God-lover has within

Is lovable. ```

24130

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Each good thought

Immediately opens

The gate of inner strength.

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24131

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The shortest short-cut

To Heaven’s highest Height

Is our sleepless and breathless self-giving

To the Will of our Lord Supreme. ```

24132

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My Lord tells me

That for the fastest progress

In my spiritual life

I have no need for the past or the future. ```

24133

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When God clothes Himself

In a physical body,

He is not only misunderstood

But also ridiculed

By humanity.

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24134

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My Lord Supreme,

I pray to You to bless my gratitude-heart-bird

With the strongest wings

To fly at every moment

In the sky of Your Compassion-Light.

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24135

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Do not try to bribe Fate;

You will fail!

Do not try to chase Fate;

You will fail!

Try to conquer Fate;

You will succeed,

For success is your ultimate birthright.

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24136

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God within me

Is not the critic

But the audience,

Filled with curiosity and concern. ```

24137

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Nobility in the mind

And generosity in the heart

Are two most essential friends

That make our spiritual progress

Faster than the fastest.

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24138

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What God finds difficult to pardon

Is not our misdeeds

But our unwillingness to confess.

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24139

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My Lord,

Do not allow my tiny aspiration-sun

Either to fall asleep

Or to be eclipsed! ```

24140

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O my inspiration-mind,

O my aspiration-heart,

I want you both to work together.

Never quarrel, never! ```

24141

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God the Justice we can never bribe —

No, not even God the Compassion.

Why?

Because He has not yet developed

That weakness.

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24142

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God does not like to be

On the side of the past.

He does not like to be

On the side of the future either.

He likes only to be

On the side of the present. ```

24143

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My Lord Supreme,

Keep me awake all the time

So that I can fulfil You

Whenever Your Command comes. ```

24144

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My Lord,

I do not want to remain

Inside any man-made pocket.

I want to be always

Inside Your Heart-Pocket.

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24145

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There is nothing

That is not within the reach

Of an aspiring human being.

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24146

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Problems there are,

But they do not have to exist

Any longer

If we make our surrender

Absolutely complete.

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24147

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The darkest nights of the mind

Must eventually surrender

To the illumination

Of the brightest dawns. ```

24148

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My Lord Supreme,

I am offering my gratitude-breath

To Your Eternity’s Patience-Life.

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24149

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Upon mankind’s obedience-rock

Only

Can a peace-world ever be built.

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24150

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Promise

Is only a first step,

And not the goal.

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24151

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Today’s God-realisation

Will definitely add to

Tomorrow’s God-manifestation.

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24152

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Two inconstant realities:

My self-doubt

And my self-assertion.

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24153

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I am precious

In God’s Eyes

Only when my heart becomes

Sleeplessly gracious. ```

24154

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As century after century dawns,

Humanity’s heart

Will eventually awaken

To Divinity’s Light. ```

24155

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The day I made

My unconditional surrender complete,

I was embraced by God

With all His Enthusiasm-Pride. ```

24156

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We get joy

In keeping some secrets,

But God does not subscribe

To our philosophy.

He keeps no secrets

From His close associates:

Self-giving God-lovers.

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24157

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Alas,

I never knew how beautiful

My God-surrender-tears would be!

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24158

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As it requires

Full-time devotion

For mankind to please God,

Even so, it requires

Full-time attention

For God to please mankind. ```

24159

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The mind, vital and body of those

Who do not want to be

Acquainted with God’s Will

Will eventually sink into the abysmal abyss. ```

24160

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Those who have

Invaluable inner insights

Will have the power

To help transform man into God. ```

24161

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The transformation

Of a single bad thought

Can be the manifestation

Of something divine, absolute

And supreme.

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24162

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Our heart’s cries

Are our special messengers

From our soul to God.

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24163

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When I am determined

To have God-choice

As my only choice,

My goal does not remain

A far cry any more.

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24164

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My Lord,

Do tell me the choice Hour

That You have selected

To liberate me

From unending bubbles of thought.

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24165

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My Lord,

Will we ever realise

The gravity of our spiritual disaster

When we criticise You

And do not see eye to eye with You?

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24166

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The choicest Blessing-Smile of God

Descended upon him

When he remained unmoved

By world-appreciation

And unperturbed by world-deprecation.

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24167

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No, not even hell

Can smash a gratitude-heart

That wants to please God always

In His own Way. ```

24168

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Our aspiration-thirst

God will gladly quench

At His choice Hour.

But our ego’s thirst

Definitely He will not quench

Permanently. ```

24169

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Peace will be

By far the best promoter

Of God-manifestation on earth.

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24170

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Be not caught

In your self-criticism-net.

Be not caught

In your world-criticism-net. ```

24171

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To have a good idea

In the mind,

And to perform a better action

From the heart,

Will definitely expedite

Our journey towards our goal. ```

24172

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The best way to liberate ourselves

From the confusion-mind

Is to live inside

The cries of our heart. ```

24173

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Every morning

I get tremendous satisfaction

When I look at the delight-rainbow-smiles

Of the dawn. ```

24174

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We must offer

Our gratitude-heart to God

For our every progress-breath.

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24175

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We must transcend

Our inferiority feelings

At every moment

To be one with

The ever-transcending Reality.

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24176

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The ignorance-mind plays

Win-and-lose games.

The wisdom-heart plays

Only oneness-game. ```

24177

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Right from the very beginning

Conquer your small worries and anxieties.

Otherwise, they can grow into

Very serious problems. ```

24178

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O my Lord Supreme,

Do grant me one single boon.

Do liberate me

From my human one-track mind

That always runs towards

Ignorance-destruction. ```

24179

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If we act from the very depths

Of our inspiration-heart

Sleeplessly,

Then God is bound to extol our virtues

To the skies.

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24180

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Wherever there is a oneness-heart,

God the Singer of Joy-Songs

Is available there.

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24181

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I thrive on my life’s

Unending

God-surrender-victories.

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24182

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What is ignorance?

Ignorance is something

That always tempts us

To run backwards. ```

24183

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God Himself shows our hearts

How to walk along

His Compassion-flooded Path.

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24184

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Wherever God goes,

He always allows

His Peace and Delight

To accompany Him. ```

24185

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Of all the inner world’s hooligans,

Disobedience

Is the worst.

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24186

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God has invited my soul

To give a lecture on obedience,

And He has compelled

My heart, mind, vital and body

To attend.

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24187

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When your life is clothed

In obedience and gratitude,

God-realisation will not remain

A far cry. ```

24188

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Only our inner gratitude

Has the capacity

To multiply and magnify

The beauty of our aspiration-hearts. ```

24189

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Because my heart cries

Prayerfully and soulfully,

God always has a soft spot

For my heart. ```

24190

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My Lord Supreme

Again and again tells me

That I came into the world

Only to realise and not to socialise. ```

24191

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My heart always comes first

In my God-expansion-life.

My soul always comes first

In my God-satisfaction-life. ```

24192

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Because you did not

Take God unconditionally,

God cannot

Take your life seriously. ```

24193

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Endless

Is our mind’s expectation.

Beginningless and deathless

Is our heart’s gratitude. ```

24194

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We empty the mind

So that God can enter.

We fill the heart

To sing God’s Glories. ```

24195

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If you want to climb

Surrender-ladder,

You must have the courage

To change your mind. ```

24196

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We compel God to change His Mind

Countless times.

But, poor God!

When He asks us to change our mind

Only once,

We immediately refuse. ```

24197

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My stupid and senseless mind,

No more shall I allow you

To torture my heart-bird.

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24198

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Aspiration-mountain,

Realisation-mountain

And God-satisfaction-mountain

Do not have any topmost peak. ```

24199

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Every day my soul comes

To unlock my mind-door,

But every day it sadly fails.

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24200

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If you want to astonish God,

Then on the strength

Of your unconditional surrender,

Open all your heart-petals

As quickly as possible.

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From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 242, Agni Press, 1998
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