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