My Lord,
Do make my life a heartOf ceaseless, selfless prayer.
My Lord,
Do make my life the victoryOf Your Vision-Manifestation on earth.
```For speedy God-realisation,
The seeker needs the sleepless throbbingsOf a gratitude-heart.
```Every day God visits me
And invites me to rideHis Illumination-Train
To His Perfection-Kingdom. ```If you want to expedite
Your God-appointment-hour,Then wear the armour
Of world-detachment. ```The mind feasts on
Uncertainty-nothingness.The heart feasts on
God’s Satisfaction-Manifestation-Delight. ```Silence, you are
My unparalleled friend.You are
My God-blossoming heart-garden. ```To your Beloved Supreme
Offer a monumentOf your heart’s gratitude.
Lo, transcendence-blissIs beckoning you!
```Bid farewell to frustration-clouds.
God will be truly happy.Declare war on your unwillingness.
God will immediately embrace you. ```Each gratitude-teardrop
Of my heartWill eventually be transformed
Into my soul-beauty’sSatisfaction-smile.
```Am I a fool,
That I continually force myselfTo carry the mountain-heavy weight
Of expectation? ```In man’s body-family,
His mind and its well-fed doubtsAre his strongest foes.
```What I need every day
To please my Lord SupremeIs a whisper-sweet prayer-cry.
```How can you see
God’s smiling FaceIf your enthusiasm-mind
Is poverty-stricken? ```My obedience-mind,
My surrender-heart,You two are my dedication-life’s
Quick-spreading fulfilment-joy. ```My heart’s gratitude-cries
Have astonishingly widenedMy life’s Heaven-manifesting smiles
On earth. ```Because of my mind’s
Teeming doubts,My heart is in
Imminent danger. ```Enjoy roaring laughter
If you want to free yourselfFrom attachment-forest.
```Inspire your mind to learn
Beauty’s oneness-song.Then it will escape
Its jealousy-insecurity-storms. ```The breath of my meditation-silence
Shall be the lifelong companionOf my gratitude-heart-smile.
```Because you never say farewell
To your undisciplined mind,You have become a critical complainer
About your life. ```If you cheerfully accept
All challenges, big and small,Then God will claim you
As His miracle unparalleled. ```Your success starts
When you become a determination-mind.Your progress begins
When you become a oneness-heart. ```When I make the quantity-choice,
The human in me is excited.When I make the quality-choice,
The divine in me is delighted. ```I refuse to see yesterday’s
Ignorance-insect-infested life.I dauntlessly and sleeplessly refuse!
```What is my final goal?
My final goal is to becomeThe God-Heart’s quality-tree,
The God-Life’s quantity-leaves. ```When I offer God
My heart-gratitude-breath,He immediately leads me
To my fastest progress-elevator. ```What is my soulful obedience?
My soulful obedienceIs my Lord’s cherished Fragrance.
```No happiness can be seen,
No happiness can be felt,Without the heart’s
Peace-smile. ```Each aspiring man
Is a hope-seed and a promise-treeOf God the Absolute Supreme.
```Alas, I know not how
I can help my mind escapeFrom its constantly biting
Thought-monkeys. ```My heart of faith
Every day receivesSpecial love-attention
From the Heart of my Lord Supreme. ```An insecurity-heart
Tries to hideEven from God’s
Compassion-flooded Smile. ```Your life’s liberation-bell will ring
Only inside your heart’sOneness-aspiration-cry.
```Because I love God
Unconditionally,God has given me His golden Boat.
Because I serve man
Unconditionally,God has given me His silver Sails.
```An aspiration-heart
SmilesEven at the frowns
Of a doubting mind. ```With your mind’s impurity-ink
You can writeOnly doubt-letters to God.
```Your heart’s fearful breath
Will never be able to seeGod’s blessingful Compassion-Smile.
```An impure mind and a fearful heart
Are two deplorableOneness-friends.
```One uncomely thought
Can easily shatterThe seeker’s hard-earned mind-poise.
```Divinity’s heart-illumination
Or humanity’s mind-confusion:O seeker, it is you
Who have to make the choiceHere and now!
```He is his life’s deplorable fate!
The outer world hatesHis powerful vital,
And the inner world does not care forHis fearful heart.
```O my mind,
Transcend, transcendThe confines of attachments
And arrive at freedom’sIllumination-shore.
```False concern-ears
Are available everywhere.True compassion-hearts
Are almost nowhere to be found. ```Each unaspiring life
Is an uncompromising decisionMade by an ignorance-nourished mind.
```Keep your mind under arrest.
You will be happy.Keep your vital under arrest.
You will be peaceful. ```My heart’s purity-smile
Has finally illuminedMy mind’s doubt-cave.
```Although humanity is tearful,
Humanity does not want to readGod’s blessingful and fruitful Letters.
```My heart invokes God’s Love
Because my heart feelsThat God’s Love is its very own.
But my mind wants to preserveIts supremacy as its own,
Very own. ```If you do not intensify
Your heart’s aspiration-cry,How can God pacify
Your mind’s frustration-unrest? ```Alas,
When will my mind-trainStop?
When will my heart-planeFly?
```You just sail
Your aspiration-boat.God will broadcast
Your supreme adventure-glories. ```Each gratitude-smile of mine
Immediately draws inGod’s Perfection-Breath.
```Mind, my mind,
Allow not yourself to becomeA waning moon.
Heart, my heart,
Allow not yourself to becomeA setting sun.
```Do not allow your aspiration-boat
To sink.Do not allow your realisation-shore
To recede. ```Alas,
Just because I steppedOn ignorance-thorn,
I cannot see my heart-beauty’sWisdom-flooded dawn.
```Wild criticism-arrows
Cannot torture youIf you study regularly
At your heart’s dedication-school. ```Definitely each heart is bound to enjoy
Its aspiration-voyage.Ultimately each life is bound to enjoy
Its realisation-shore. ```Each time I offer my heart’s
Gratitude-breath to God,I amazingly shorten the distance
Of my destination-journey. ```Be careful!
At any momentYour cruel doubt-mind-frost
Can destroy your heart’sInfant-plant-poise.
```Only your heart-smiles
Can and willLift your life’s
Heavy frustration-weights. ```My Lord Beloved Supreme,
Out of His infinite Bounty,Has hired my completely fallen
Seeker-heart. ```God’s Museum welcomes
Only the devotedAspiration-heart-visitors.
```Since Divinity has compassionately
Accepted humanity’s life,My life-train is bound to reach
Its destination: Perfection. ```Confidence-light,
Where are you?Can you not illumine
My fear-infested forest-life? ```The soul-touch shall conquer the world
To prove that God’s Compassion-EyeSleeplessly loves
The heart of the worldAnd unconditionally cares for
The life of the world. ```Every day
The truth-seeker and God-loverMust faithfully and soulfully sing
One song:The song of his surrendered life’s
Progress-light. ```If you do not empty
Your heart-vessel every day,How can God pour in
More illumining LightAnd more fulfilling Peace
To make you a choice instrumentOf His transcendental Vision?
```God’s Compassion-Light
Is never discouragedNo matter how bad I was yesterday,
No matter how useless I am today,For it knows that I embody
His cosmic Vision’sPerfection-manifestation-promise.
```I may not know much
About the cosmic gods,But I do know much
About the Supreme Being,Who is the only Source-Light
Of the cosmic gods. ```Keep knocking at God’s Heart-Door,
Even though you do not hear any reply.Your knocking cannot and will not
Remain unheardIndefinitely.
```Invite your soul to watch
When your mind searches for truth,When your heart longs for God
And when your life offers gratitudeFor God’s Compassion.
```You may forget anything you want to,
But never forget the sunlit pathThat leads to your heart-temple.
```If you can love God
And manifest GodAll the time in His own Way,
Then God Himself will grant youHis own impenetrable
Peace-Delight-Armour. ```My Lord Supreme,
I may not see the PresenceOf Your entire Being,
But I do see the BeautyAnd Divinity
Of Your Compassion-Eye,Which has surrounded my life.
```When we desire freedom
For ourselves,We do not realise
That we enter intoA dark and dangerous desire-cave.
```Alas,
Where is my searching mind’sLost purity-flower?
Alas,
Where is my aspiring heart’sLost divinity-garden?
```The only answer
To my earth-existence-question is:God and I can appreciate
Our mutual beauty’s heartAnd admire our mutual duty’s life.
```To become a perfect instrument of God,
The seeker has to feelThat his aspiration-life
Is the ticking of God’s Eternity-Clock. ```To have a good meditation means
To climb up highIn the sunlit summit-silence-light
And converse with God’sGod-Manifestation-Peace on earth.
```A God-lover
Is he whose aspiration-heartHas made friends with
The beauty of the dreaming nightAnd the duty of the singing day.
```Have you decided
To return to your heart-homeOnce again
To dine with yourEternity’s best friend:
Soul? ```When the mind
Sincerely prays and meditates,It sees it has the capacity
To journey into another partOf its existence-reality,
A part that is alwaysFlooded with peace.
```Your future may not be visible,
But your present is visible.Now pray to God to carry you
To your highest destinationThrough the invisible ignorance-night.
```The God of Compassion
Will not be able to use your loveIf your love does not have in it
Your heart’s purity-gratitude. ```God is ready to spring a surprise
Every day in my aspiration-lifeIf I renounce my expectation-mind
Once and for all. ```Only a God-focused mind
Can challenge all doubt-stormsAnd all jealousy-trains.
```Confidence can flow
From your heart-riverOnly when your mind receives
Compassion-Light from Above. ```If yours is a God-forsaken mind,
Then your heart will know the despairOf truth-broken promises.
```If your life swings
On your heart’s surrender-swing,Then God will make you
Another God-King. ```Even if you do not believe in God now,
God is determined to proveTo Himself and to you
That one day He will turn you intoAnother God.
```How can man’s perfection
Remain a far cryIf it does not reject
The ceaseless flowFrom God’s Compassion-Eye?
```Do you think
That God will not care forYour perfection-life
Just because you do not believe inHis Compassion-Heart?
```If your mind is shopping
Every day in desire-store,How can you carry
Your life’s perfection-beautyTo God’s Golden Shore?
```If you are too busy
With your excuse-presence,God will also be too busy
With His Withdrawal-Absence. ```May my purity-heart-room
Invite bothGod the Compassion-Eye
And man the dedication-life. ```Who can build his life’s
Dedication-templeWithout his heart’s
Aspiration-foundation? ```O Heaven,
I shall not imitate you.O earth,
I shall not duplicate you.I shall only liberate myself
From Heaven-expectationsAnd earth-procrastinations.
```Forget the computer.
It may help you.Again, it may confuse you.
Think of the Liberator.He will only love you
And liberate you. ```Alas, why do I still love my mind,
The phenomenal fault-finder,And not love only my heart,
The universal God-lover? ```Soul, my soul,
Do teach me how to flyInto tomorrow’s
Newness-vastness-fulness-sky. ```From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 111, Agni Press, 1987
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