442. SUCCESSFUL AND HAPPY WAS I
Successful was IWhen I did business
With God and God alone.
I gave Him my centuries’ possession:
Ignorance.
He gave me His Eternity’s possession:
Love.
Happy was I
When the all-forgiving Compassion
Of the Lord Supreme
Married the extremities of my ceaseless pride.
Sri Chinmoy, The Wings of Light, Part 9, Aum Press, Puerto Rico, 1974
