The human in me wants success.
The divine in me wants progress.The human in me wants success-might.
The divine in me wants progress-light.The human in me wants
Success-might-supremacy.The divine in me wants
Progress-light-ecstasy.```
My success wants to subjugate the whole world. My progress wants to liberate the world from its limitations, imperfections, bondage and ignorance-night. My success wants to challenge the world. My progress wants to illumine the world.My success-life has a fleeting breath. My progress-life is an enduring reality. My success-life has an all-conquering thirst. My progress-life is an all-loving thirst. My success-life has a world-devouring hunger. My progress-life is a world-illumining hunger.
The moment I enjoy success, I proudly shake hands with greedy division-superiority. The moment I make progress, I am embraced by the world’s oneness-longing divinity.
My Lord, I am never happy with my success-life. No matter in how many ways I am successful, I always see a beggar in myself. And this beggar in me cries and cries because he feels that there is insufficient reality in him.
But when I make progress, my Lord, I see in myself a king, an emperor. At that time I see the whole world as my own, very own, for I claim the entire world and the entire world claims me.
O my Lord, do make my success-life and my progress-life inseparably one. Do give me the capacity to see my success-life as the divine beauty of my heart-rose and to feel my progress-life as the celestial fragrance of my heart-rose.
May the beauty and the fragrance of my heart-rose please You, my Lord Supreme, in Your own Way at every moment.
OEH 7. University of Vienna; Vienna, Austria, 1 April 1989.↩
From:Sri Chinmoy,The oneness of the Eastern heart and the Western mind, part 1, Agni Press, 2003
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