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God Smiled And Cried

God smiled at me twice:
Once when I meditated
To renounce the world;
Once when I renounced
The world to meditate

Excerpt from ‘The Wings of Light Part 1‘ by  Sri Chinmoy

Copyright © Sri Chinmoy 1975

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