You have an invisible Friend
Who is always eager to help you.You may not see Him
With your human eyes,But you can feel
His compassionate PresenceInside your aspiring heart.
```My Lord Supreme,
Do meditate on my heartWith all Your Compassion-Love,
And do acceptMy gratitude-flower-heart.
```Our inalienable birthright
Is to claim God.Our only goal is to become
His choicest and most perfect instrumentTo love Him and serve Him
In His own Way. ```God celebrates
His creation’s birthdayOn earth
With His Vision’sBlessingful Joy and Pride.
```Inspiration-lion will come
And energise youIf you can bring your inner joy
To the foreOn the strength of your prayer-life.
```My heart of silence
Is not only God’s AnswerTo my life’s teeming questions
But also His divine Pride in me. ```Abandon the dying realities
Of the past!Welcome the smiling dreams
Of the future! ```I really do not want
To remain lost any moreBetween
My mind’s hesitationAnd my heart’s fear.
```An inspired action
Is a confidence-step forwardTo arrive at the perfection-goal.
```The shortage of faith
Immediately hastens the birthOf destruction-crisis.
```What I always need
Is a God-hungry heartAnd not
A man-nourished mind. ```Each self-giving thought
DescendsFrom a higher world
Of illumination-delight. ```Alas,
Many human beingsHave fragile and fleeting
Gratitude-hearts. ```O my confusion-mind,
Do you think my heart’s lightWill allow you to remain
Forever unchallenged? ```What I need
At every momentIs a God-seeker’s mind
And a God-lover’s heart. ```Without God’s Compassion-Eye
And Forgiveness-Heart,My heart is homeless.
```I want my mind’s freedom
To be founded uponMy gratitude-heart
To God. ```The heart’s willingness
And cheerfulnessAre needed
To extinguish the mind’sDesire-flames.
```I love myself
Only whenI think of my Lord’s
Compassion-flooded Feet. ```Never falter
When you are marchingWith your soul’s ecstasy
Towards the Ultimate Goal! ```What the doubting mind needs
Is not retributionBut illumination.
```What my mind needs
Is not a colourful imaginationBut a prayerful inspiration.
```Before I entered into the spiritual life,
I was a division-loving mind.Now that I am in the spiritual life,
I am a oneness-manifesting heart. ```My Lord Supreme,
Do make my heart and life worthyOf Your tomorrow’s fast-approaching,
Abundant Compassion-Light. ```There is nothing wrong
If we start our journeyWith a question mark-mind.
But eventually we must discontinueThat friendship
And establish a newAnd permanent friendship
With our God-seeking heart. ```The new hope of my eyes
And the new promise of my heartHave brought me ecstasy’s flood.
```Only from the realisation-summit
Does this world of ours lookMeaningful and purposeful.
```Success-certainty
Is not given to thoseWho have surrendered
To the restlessness-mind. ```A God-loving life
And a God-dreaming heartAre fond children of God.
```My heart’s
Aspiration-companionIs my soul’s
Benediction-smile. ```The angels are always comfortable
In the companyOf God-lovers and God-servers.
```The doubting and unaspiring mind
Dances happilyWhen it sees the long-sought demise
Of the aspiration-heart. ```All my life I have been longing
Only for one thing:A compassion-flooded heart
That sees no wrong in others. ```Alas, every day
God has serious problemsWith His peace-manifestation staff.
```My Lord, I desperately need
To be a memberOf Your Vision-fulfilment Committee.
```Each good thought
Is indeedA forward march,
An upward flightAnd an inward dive.
```It is not for the mind’s
Narrow visionTo grasp the future total perfection
Of mankind. ```A man of aspiration
Is a flaming towerOf God-fulfilling hope.
```May my life
Be in betweenGod’s Vastness-Compassion-Eye
And God’s Oneness-Fulness-Heart. ```The thought-bound seeker
Can never succeed and proceedIn the inner world.
```Each newness-moment
Fulfils itselfWhen it grows into
Fulness-satisfaction-hours. ```Frustration-night
Unmistakably followsImpatience-day.
```Each step away
From responsibilityIs a step nearer
To life’s futility. ```A self-giving heart
Has a free accessTo the soul’s higher worlds.
```The soul may be invisible,
But the soul’s wisdom-lightIs not only visible
But also usable. ```My mind’s simple thoughts
God loves.My heart’s simple feelings
God loves.My life’s simple faith
God loves. ```My Lord,
Do never allow meTo be dumbfounded
By my mind’s doubt-strengthAnd suspicion-power.
```My Lord,
May I thrive onMy heart’s soulful hope-plant
And my life’s fruitful promise-tree. ```His overcalculating mind
Is utterly responsibleFor his life’s despair-day
And his heart’s despair-night. ```O humanity-inspiring heart,
Where are you, where?I sleeplessly need you!
O Divinity-serving life,Where are you, where?
I breathlessly need you! ```My Lord,
May I be sleeplessly enslavedBy Your Compassion-Eye
And Forgiveness-Heart. ```My Lord,
May my heart beA newborn champion
Of hope-lightAnd promise-delight.
```May my aspiration-life
Eventually become God’s ownCosmic Vision-Fulfilment-Delight.
```Who wants
A life that shuttlesBetween “maybe” and “certainly”?
Not me! ```Thought-bridge
I wanted.Will-bridge
I want.Oneness-bridge
I need. ```Is there any human being
Who is not expertIn the ego-collision-game?
```Alas, why do I remain
All the timeA dormant God-gratitude-seed?
```It is not an easy task,
But we must try to succeedIn liberating ourselves
From earth-frustrationWhile living on earth.
```Long
Is the life of love.Longer
Is the life of oneness.Longest
Is the life of fulness. ```Because I am pleasing God
In God’s own Way,My mind’s insincerity,
My heart’s insecurityAnd my life’s impurity
Have left me for good. ```A dividing mind
Will always be a victimTo fear, doubt and anxiety.
```The God in my friends tells me:
“Go forward, go forward!Life is nothing but progress.”
The God in my enemies tells me:“Are you sure that you are sincere?
Are you sure that you are pure?Are you sure that you are perfect?
Be carefulWhile you are proceeding forward!”
```A purity-mind
Will definitely be protectedFrom the web
Of complexity-world. ```The pinnacle
Of the mind’s achievementIs a song
Of universal oneness-smile. ```Divine love, divine compassion
And divine forgivenessAre themselves their own
Infallible delight. ```There is no mind
That has never sufferedFrom unwillingness.
There is no heartThat has never suffered
From insecurity.There is no life
That has never sufferedFrom failure.
```O desire-temptation,
I do not need you any more.O aspiration-illumination,
I need you ever more. ```When you do not want to play with God
Lovingly, devotedly and soulfully,You make God suffer infinitely more
Than you can ever imagine. ```The surrender of one’s individuality
To GodIs embraced by the Satisfaction-Universality
Of God. ```The freedom to believe in
The unseen divinity in othersIs the freedom that longs for
A heart of oneness-world. ```The pride of ignorance
Does not have a fleeting moment.It has an abiding life.
```The vastness of the mind
And the hallowedness of the heartAre the seeker’s invaluable
Inner wealth. ```The mind’s desire-storms
Are helplessInside the vastness
Of aspiration-ocean. ```The daily collection
Of earth’s streaming and unending tearsIs the favourite task
Of my Lord Beloved Supreme. ```O my mind,
I assure youThat there shall come a time
When you will be embarrassedAt your own too-frequent
Ego-performances. ```If you laugh
At the world’s stupidity-mind,The world will laugh
At your insecurity-heart. ```Alas, how stupid
A human being is!He asks his mind-thief
To guard his heart-room. ```My Lord,
I am sure I will be ableTo protect myself from others.
But I beg of YouTo protect me
From my ever-incorrigible,Ever-shameless
And ever-destructive self. ```Only the aspiring heart
Can be aware ofThe unaspiring mind’s
Clever and ruthless hostility. ```O my mind’s humility-footsteps,
Where are you?I have not seen you
For a long, long time. ```Each good thought
Is a productOf our heart’s
Sweetness-fragrance-fulness. ```I am sure that someday
My heart’s hope-roadWill lead my life
To my soul’s promise-destination. ```O my heart,
Never, never allowYour eagerness-enthusiasm
To sleep,Or even to go
On vacation. ```I wish to make friends
Only with my heart’sGod-loving tears,
And with nobody else. ```May my God-hungry heart
Become a self-givingFountain-heart-song.
```God’s Beauty in my body
Fades at God’s choice Hour.God’s Beauty in my heart
Remains permanent.God’s Beauty in my soul
At every moment increasesAt a very high speed.
```Nobody will be
Left aside permanentlyFrom God’s
Earth-transformation-team. ```Do not try to understand
The purpose of God’s Existence,But try to claim
The Fragrance-Breath of GodAs your own, very own.
```The vital and the mind
Are always the possessorsOf a very small
Forgiveness-supply. ```If we have implicit faith
In our Lord Supreme,Then we are bound to see
That this world will haveA new, all-illumining dawn,
Not when we want,But at His choice Hour.
```There is no human being on earth
Who does not have the capacityTo offer the message of peace
To the world at large.But what is needed now
Is the soulful willingness. ```Peace does not mean only silence.
Peace is also somethingSoothing, thrilling, enchanting,
Illumining and fulfilling. ```What is the source
Of our Heavenly achievements:Peace, bliss and perfection?
Spirituality is the source.What is spirituality?
A sincere inner hunger for God. ```The only Blessing-Boon
I need from You,My Lord Beloved Supreme,
Is this:If it is Your Will,
I want to succeed,And if it is not Your Will,
Then I do not want to succeed.This is my life of surrender-light
Which I offer to YouAt every moment.
```There is no such thing as a miracle.
When I throw myselfInto God’s Compassion-Sea,
My life becomesA natural God-serving experience-delight.
```Everything I am doing
Is aimed at one goal:A prayerful and soulful awareness
Of a universal oneness-familyFounded upon peace.
```If we feel secure
In the depths of our heart,We shall not challenge anybody,
For inner confidenceIs nothing short of complete satisfaction.
```What can prayer
And meditation do for us?Prayer and meditation
Give us inner strength,And this inner strength
Can lead to a lofty peaceAnd a world-oneness-family.
```I want to live on earth
Not by means of material food,But by means of my heart-to-heart talks
With my Lord Beloved Supreme. ```Not because I am a poet,
Not because I am a philosopher,But because I am a God-lover,
I see my Beloved SupremeIn each and every human being.
All human beingsAre my heart’s brothers and sisters,
And the whole worldIs my oneness-home.
```From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 190, Agni Press, 1993
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