753

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Why must you always ask,

“When will I become beautiful,

When will I be free from ignorance?”

If you think that you are ugly,

All your joy disappears,

And ugliness becomes your name.

If you think that you are caught

In the meshes of ignorance,

You become bound, totally bound.

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From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 8, Agni Press, 1983
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