42. Obedience

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.
Sri Chinmoy, Union and Oneness, Agni Press, New York, 1976