804. Your obedience

You fool,
Your obedience does not
Humiliate you.
Your obedience illumines you,
Your obedience takes you
To your own long-forgotten heights.
Your obedience
Is your earth-life's
And
Heaven-life's
Friend unparalleled.
Sri Chinmoy, Europe-Blossoms, Aum Press, Puerto Rico, 1974