18.
Even when I am shamelessly ungrateful   To my Lord Supreme,
He forgives me immediately,
And my soul forgives me ultimately.
But I want to dislike my heart,
   My mind, my vital and my body
      Vehemently and ceaselessly.
I shall not forgive them so easily.
TAF 18. 6 December 1987↩
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Five Aspiration-Flames, Agni Press, New York, 1994
