2. Three lessons

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Self-abnegation teaches me

I do not need earth-life.

Self-purification teaches me

I need God’s living Breath in Heaven.

Self-realisation teaches me

Earth-life I need to please God;

Heaven-life I need to please myself.

```

From:Sri Chinmoy,The Golden Boat, part 12, Agni Press, 1974
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