2719. Save me from both!

```

My Lord,

Is there no way

To ask my vital

To stop keeping up appearances?

My Lord,

Is there no way

To ask my mind

To keep down expenses?

I am dragged down

Either by appearance-power

Or by expense-power.

My Lord, save me from both! ```

From:Sri Chinmoy,Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 28, Agni Press, 1982
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