Come, my non-English friends! Let us together climb up the English Himalayas, part 1

Chide: Scold

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Chide: scold.

I chide my mind

When it steals

My heart’s happiness.

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Concomitant

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Concomitant: that which accompanies.

Failure is always a concomitant of doubt.

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Condone: Forgive

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Condone: forgive.

The nature of a purity-heart

Is to condone an unruly mind. ```

Disgruntle: Discontent

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Disgruntle: discontent.

Remain always cheerful.

Do not be disgruntled

In your climbing Heavenward journey.

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Disparage: Belittle

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Disparage: belittle.

Do not disparage anybody,

For it does not become you. ```

Effrontery: Shameless Boldness

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Effrontery: shameless boldness.

Because you have the effrontery

To disobey your Master,

I take you as a useless human being.

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Exonerate: to Acquit

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Exonerate: to acquit.

To tell the truth is to exonerate one’s self

From the impure falsehood-crime. ```

Extricate: Free

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Extricate: free.

If you really want to be a genuine God-lover,

Then you must extricate

From the imaginary temptation-life.

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Fealty: Faithfulness

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Fealty: faithfulness.

No fealty, no progress in the inner life.

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Gainsay: Deny

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Gainsay: deny.

O my mind, O my mind,

Why do you gainsay the fact

That you have stolen

My heart’s child-like joy? ```

Hedonism: Excessive Pleasure-Life

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Hedonism: excessive pleasure-life.

Hedonism means world-life pleasure-enjoyment.

Asceticism means self-torture-life-enforcement. ```

Insipid: Tasteless

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Insipid: tasteless.

O my mind, I am sick of your

Constant, insipid doubt-talk. ```

Magnate: Man of Prominence

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Magnate: man of prominence.

No doubt you are a magnate.

But because you do not believe in God,

I have nothing to do with you.

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Perforce: of Necessity

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Perforce: of necessity.

I must perforce be happy, be happy, be happy

To become a nicer world citizen. ```

Presage: Foretell

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Presage: foretell.

I cannot presage

The perfection of anything. ```

Proximity: Nearness

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Proximity: nearness.

A doubtful mind vehemently avoids

The proximity of a faithful heart. ```

Sub Rosa: in Strict Confidence

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Sub Rosa: in strict confidence.

I tell you sub rosa

God will make you another God. ```

Subjugate: Conquer

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Subjugate: conquer.

The fear of death

We must subjugate. ```

Sunder: Separate

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Sunder: separate.

Do you know what the mind knows?

It knows how to blunder.

It knows how to plunder.

It knows how to sunder.

It knows how to thunder.

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Ultimatum: Last Demand

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Ultimatum: last demand.

O my doubting mind

My last ultimatum:

Either surrender to my faith-life

Or I will leave you for good. ```

Unfeigned: Genuine

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Unfeigned: genuine.

Your love of God and surrender to God

Must be unfeigned at every moment. ```

From:Sri Chinmoy,Come, my non-English friends! Let us together climb up the English Himalayas, part 1, Manifestation-Glow, 1993
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