491. Alone I live

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I avoid God

When I want to lead

My animal-pleasure life.

I avoid my lower self

When I want to drink

God’s ambrosial Light.

Alone I live to dig my mortal grave,

Alone I live to quench my eternal thirst. ```

From:Sri Chinmoy,The Wings of Light, part 10, Aum Press, Puerto Rico, 1974
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