My age according to my human father and according to my Divine Father

```

Inside the elevator

the cashier of the hotel and I

were stuck on the seventh floor.

Both of us were generous enough

to exchange smiles.

"Mr.

Ghose, how old are you?"

he asked.

"My human father says I am

thirty-eight years old.

My Divine Father says I am

older than Heaven and Earth combined."

"Who is your human father?

Who is your Divine Father?"

"My human father is aspiration.

My Divine Father is realisation.

My cashier friend continued:

"What is realisation?

What is aspiration?"

"Realisation is my room

on the tenth floor.

Aspiration is the Chinese restaurant

in the basement."

My hotel friend

became my aspiration and

realised my realisation.

Lo, the elevator did not want

to lag behind.

It displayed its proud velocity:

its soul-ascending

and

soul-descending

capacity!

```

From:Sri Chinmoy,My salutation to Japan, Vishma Press, 1973
Sourced from https://srichinmoylibrary.com/sjp