Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 73

7201

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How can you falter,

How can you fail,

When you know perfectly well

That God was, is

And forever will be

On your side? ```

7202

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There are only two

Supreme words

That can save his outer life

And illumine his inner life:

Gratitude and surrender.

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7203

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Your heart can enjoy a holiday

Every day

If it gives its dedication-life

To earth

And its aspiration-life

To Heaven. ```

7204

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Do you want to make

Your life sublime?

If so, then make

Your goal sublime first. ```

7205

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Why do you have to die

Without hope?

Can you not live

With your soul’s indomitable courage?

Try!

You certainly can. ```

7206

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Do not worry.

God will speak to you first

When you go to visit Him.

He will make the conversation

Extremely easy

And at the same time

Extremely fruitful.

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7207

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Since purity is your oneness-friend,

Why do you have to cry?

Why do you have to even worry?

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7208

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No matter how many times

I say good-bye

To my suspicion-mind,

Alas,

It never leaves me alone.

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7209

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His heart lives

In purity’s brightness-home.

His mind lives

In impurity’s darkness-cave. ```

7210

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In the spiritual life

Constant trust

In one’s inner guidance

Is of paramount importance. ```

7211

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A spiritual Master is he

Who is a tireless guide

To God-searching human beings.

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7212

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Perversity and adversity

Are always attracted

To each other.

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7213

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My perfection does not ascend

Alone.

God-Satisfaction

Ascends with my perfection. ```

7214

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What can I do

With a God-defiance-mind?

What can I not do

With a God-reliance-heart? ```

7215

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Alas,

He does not feel

Any inner urge

To declare his independence

From eternity’s ignorance-home.

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7216

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You can easily pay back

Your God-debts

Through your life’s

Service-smile. ```

7217

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Even an emperor

Cannot claim

To equal the power

Of a tranquillity-flooded mind. ```

7218

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My heart is employed

By God’s Compassion-Eye.

My soul is employed

By God’s Satisfaction-Heart. ```

7219

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Your heart’s aspiration-river

Has to do only one thing:

It must flow and flow,

And never be allowed to ebb. ```

7220

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God wants you to come to Him

Whenever you want to,

For your frequent coming

Is the only way you can establish

Your heart’s oneness with Him.

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7221

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Desire-thoughts are strangling you.

Every day can you not try

To free yourself

With the help of your soul’s

Adamantine will?

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7222

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God is nearer

Than you imagine.

Therefore, your mind of doubt

And your life of fear

Will before long be illumined

By God’s Compassion-Eye. ```

7223

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Every day throw your doubt-javelin

As far as you can,

For that is the only way

You can derive happiness

From what you say

And what you are. ```

7224

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You say that you do not see God.

I believe it.

But can you ever say

That you do not hear God’s Voice

Inside your heart every day?

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7225

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God has forgiven

Your ingratitude-crime.

Now He wants you

To do Him a big favour

By forgetting all about

Your ingratitude-crime. ```

7226

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My Lord Supreme,

Do grant me a boon.

Do give me a life

That will long for only one thing:

God’s Satisfaction-Fulness

Inside my aspiration-heart. ```

7227

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The easiest way to manifest God

And please God

Is to grow the devotion-plant

To satisfy the human in you

And the divine in God.

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7228

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God invites me every day

To join Him

In His Satisfaction-Dance.

Alas, why do I allow hesitation

To lord it over my mind?

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7229

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My Lord,

Do give me the capacity

To love You

Infinitely more than ignorance-night

Loves my entire being.

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7230

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God is going to forgive

Your impurity-mind.

But are you going to love

Your purity-heart only

From now on?

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7231

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The soul knows

How to wait.

The heart does not know

How to wait.

The mind does not want to know

How to wait.

God the Emperor

Does not wait.

God the Lover

Is always ready to wait. ```

7232

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What each human being needs

Is the body

Of a universal man

And the heart

Of a universal soul.

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7233

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God is not going to move away

From your next-door apartment.

But if ever you move

Out of your apartment,

Rest assured, God will follow you

Without fail. ```

7234

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Why exploit God’s

Universal Compassion?

Can you not exercise

Your God-serving and God-fulfilling will?

Can you not?

Just try! ```

7235

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When words become swords,

What will you do?

You will immediately pray to God

For more Compassion

And more Forgiveness.

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7236

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My Lord,

What shall I do with my mind,

Especially when it makes me work

In its complaint-factory? ```

7237

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Where does he live?

He lives

In the green hills of hope.

Where did he live?

He lived

In the grey hills of doubt.

Where will he live?

He will live

In the blue hills of satisfaction.

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7238

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Ask the right questions:

Does God need you?

Does God have anything special

For you to do? ```

7239

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O my vital,

When are you going to stop

Your empty ego-talk?

Do you not see

That you have talked too much,

Senselessly? ```

7240

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His heart’s surrender-lotus

Opened

The moment God’s Compassion

Touched it. ```

7241

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I am so happy now

To see you every day

Walking along the road

Of aspiration-purity

And dedication-luminosity.

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7242

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I love the Beauty

Of my Lord’s Compassion-Eye.

My Lord loves the satisfaction

Of my surrender-heart. ```

7243

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Already he has rented

An apartment in Heaven.

Therefore

His present life on earth

Is not giving him any joy.

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7244

```

Everything in him has ended

Except one thing:

The ego-exhibit

Of his ever-hungry vital. ```

7245

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You are trying to fly away

From God’s Love-Nest.

Is it possible?

Will it ever be possible,

You fool?

```

7246

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Live inside the aspiration-cry

Of your heart.

You will see that God has reduced

His Compassion-Price

Unbelievably low.

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7247

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O Heaven, you are near,

But not as near

As God’s Compassion.

O earth, you are dear,

But not as dear

As God’s Life.

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7248

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I cannot expect you to finish

Your desire-life

All at once.

But I do expect you to diminish

Your desire-life

At the end of each day. ```

7249

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Alas, alas, he never thought

That his dream-bridge

Would one day collapse

Right in front of

His hope-heart.

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7250

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It is quite possible for you

To knock down your ego-mind

So it will never rise again.

But do it

With your soul’s determination-blow!

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7251

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O mind,

Why have you allowed yourself

To be invaded by suspicion-thoughts?

O vital,

Why have you allowed yourself

To be invaded by vanity-thoughts?

O heart,

Why have you allowed yourself

To be invaded by impurity-thoughts?

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7252

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Although He lives inside my heart

All the time,

His Compassion remains always

Beyond my comprehension. ```

7253

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When your intuition-eye opens,

God gives you the ticket

To ride in His Heart’s

Perfection-Train. ```

7254

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Self-transcendence is possible

Only through

Aspiration-ascendence.

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7255

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My mind begs God

To grant it prominence.

My heart begs God

To grant it His bountiful Presence. ```

7256

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Aspire!

Aspire!

This is the only way

You can shatter the walls

Of imperfection-mind

And frustration-vital. ```

7257

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Indeed, this is a strange world!

Cleverly and secretly

It takes shelter

Under the God-seeker’s aspiration-tree. ```

7258

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God does not want to escort

Your lonely mind.

But He definitely wants to escort

Your loving heart. ```

7259

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Be happy, be happy, be happy!

Allow not your doubting mind

To torture you

With untold miseries. ```

7260

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The sound-sermon

Is for man’s tongue

To appreciate.

The silence-sermon

Is for God’s Heart

To love.

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7261

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A sudden purity-shower

From Above

Has completely changed

Not only his mind

But also his entire being.

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7262

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A peace-receptivity-mind

Can easily strengthen

All insecurity-nerves.

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7263

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His present hope

Always enjoys interviews

With his future determination.

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7264

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Ignore the warnings of hesitation

If you want to succeed

In the battlefield of life.

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7265

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Every day he walks

Along the road of misinformation

That endlessly stretches

Into nothingness. ```

7266

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The mind’s suspicion-attacks

Can easily be destroyed

By the heart’s aspiration-sword.

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7267

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At long last

He is able to transfer

His mind’s frustration-funds

To his soul’s

Illumination-savings bank.

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7268

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Either you have to enjoy

Your heart’s oneness

With Immortality

Or live in your mind’s

God-oblivion-chasm.

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7269

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When aspiration-plants

Start growing,

Frustration-trees

Start dying. ```

7270

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Do not delay, do not delay!

Your soul is asking you

Every day

To kidnap your life’s

Ignorance-criminal.

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7271

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I really do not have

Anything to say

Against God.

I wish only to love Him

The way He loves me:

Sleeplessly and unconditionally. ```

7272

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A hero-soul is he

Who is always eager to lighten

God’s universal Burden.

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7273

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God’s Heart-Clock

Is neither slow nor fast.

It goes at precisely the right speed

To give God the opportunity

To grow inside my mind

And to glow inside my heart. ```

7274

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Your unaspiring life

Will not allow you

To walk along the road of truth.

You will falter,

Your life will falter,

Your entire being will falter

While walking

Along the road of truth. ```

7275

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God the Compassion-Producer

Is the only Owner

Of my life.

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7276

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I have been meaning to tell God

That I am truly fed up

With my desire-life,

And I am all ready

To please Him

Even beyond His Imagination. ```

7277

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Alas, he has not read correctly

The God-posted signs.

Therefore, he is now misled

By the world’s lower nature. ```

7278

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My Lord,

You have the time

To break my life.

Do give me not only the time

But also the capacity

To remake my life. ```

7279

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God sang before him

When he climbed up

The outer Himalayas.

Now that he has climbed up

The inner Himalayas,

God is asking him

To dance with Him.

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7280

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Alas,

He is simply frightened to death.

The crowning glories of his outer life

Are too much for him. ```

7281

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God ignores me when I go to Him

As a beggar.

God treasures me when I go to Him

As a lover. ```

7282

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There is no difference between

My life’s blossoming progress

And my heart’s lasting satisfaction.

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7283

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God has listened to me.

He has forgiven my failures.

But alas,

I am not listening to God!

In vain He has been asking me

To forget my failures. ```

7284

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When you realise that you are

Your soul’s divinity,

You will be able to free yourself

From your mind’s ego-stupidity. ```

7285

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Since you are a sincere candidate

For your life’s total transformation,

God’s powerful Satisfaction

Shall be all yours. ```

7286

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Your heart’s boundless love

And your life’s fathomless peace

Shall always live together

In God’s stupendous Vision-Reality. ```

7287

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Do not give up!

You are brave.

You must continue

Your yesterday’s pilgrimage. ```

7288

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If you lead the desire-life,

Then you are bound

To be haunted

By hopelessness-ghost. ```

7289

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When the doubt-storm

Disappears,

Perfection-delight

Nears. ```

7290

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Each silence-moment

Is a supremely glorious

Aspiration-ascent.

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7291

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Can you not ask your mind

To do you a big favour

And exile all impurities?

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7292

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Look what your stark stupidity

Has done!

It has overthrown

Your Lord’s Compassion-Eye. ```

7293

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Your prayerful life

And your soulful heart

Do have the capacity

To tame the temptation-tiger

For you.

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7294

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The life-boat

Of a gratitude-heart

Is always tied

To God’s supreme Satisfaction-Ship. ```

7295

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Ask your purity-heart

To feed your faith.

Ask your clarity-mind

To starve your fear. ```

7296

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Every day

My mind goes to the hospital

To visit with the sinners.

Every day

My heart goes to school

To study with the God-lovers. ```

7297

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Can you not see

That your wild desire-life

Has led you

To a dark frustration-destruction? ```

7298

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Alas, every day

My mind is engulfed

In a shoreless sea

Of complaints! ```

7299

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You are right.

God loves you dearly.

You are perfect.

God needs you daily. ```

7300

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God’s Heart-Door

Is always wide open

For you to come and go.

But if you are wise,

You will come only to stay.

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From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 73, Agni Press, 1984
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