object:04.26 - To the Heights-XXVI
book class:Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02
author class:Nolini Kanta Gupta
subject class:Integral Yoga
class:chapter
To the Heights-XXV To the Heights-XXVII
Other Authors Nolini Kanta Gupta To the HeightsTo the Heights-XXVI
To the Heights-XXVI
I am not ashamed of my failings,
I do not claim to be an angel of heaven,
I cannot boast that I have never faltered -
I am not ashamed of my humanity.
I possess not the halo of saintliness,
nor do I wear the tares that tangle me round as a crown of glory-
Lord, thou hast made me humble,
But I have known to be humble with humility.
Through all my failings and errings
thou hast proved me to be the commonest of men,
a child of clod and clay-
Through my failings too thou hast led me on:
across the shoals and marshes and quagmires
thou hast guided me on to higher and firmer and surer footings-
thy Grace in its chrysaline warmth has enveloped
this earth-bound worm.
Thou hast proved, O mighty one,
that the meanest of things here below is rounded
with a divine ending,
and man is not all too human:
there is a prophecy in mortal creature that only bides its time,
nothing is impossible even in this sorry world-
For, behold, I am no longer what I was.
April 14, 1935
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To the Heights-XXV To the Heights-XXVII
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