42. Obedience

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Obedience

Is not blind self-giving

To another individual.

Obedience

Is not the play of compulsion.

Obedience

Has to be full of inner recognition

Of our high, higher, highest part

Playing its role

In different human beings.

Obedience

Is the acceptance of our higher life,

Of which we are not yet conscious.

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From:Sri Chinmoy,Union and Oneness, Agni Press, 1976
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