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As affectionate parents

Immediately try to take away

Their little child’s suffering,

So also the Supreme,

Our affectionate Father,

Has many times tried

To take away our self-inflicted pain.

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From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 169, Agni Press, 1992
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