When the Master Lord Supreme
Plays on His cosmic Harp,His transcendental Life-Heart
Simply explodes with Delight. ```Every morning God comes down
And blessesThe sacred altar of my self-offering
With His divine Pride. ```Only the beauty and love
Of a childlike heartCan transform the nature of the world.
```There are many people on earth
Who love to liveWith their delusion-fantasies.
```The soul is every day,
Every hour and every minuteAsking the body, vital, mind and heart
To enter into the soulAnd become as enriched as the soul is.
```Even the worst possible beggar
Can have a loftier than the loftiest aimFor the transformation of mankind.
```If you do not have inner strength,
Then God will not welcome youTo be on His Path.
```Among the spiritual qualities,
Humility’s role can never beAdequately described.
It can only be felt. ```Fear, doubt, jealousy
And insecurityHave such power to ruin
Our God-blessed happiness. ```It is useless to ask the doubting mind
And the strangling vitalTo stop fighting.
Let us deal only with the heart —The heart that aspires
AndThe heart that wants to love God.
```The soul touches the Feet
Of the Lord SupremeEvery morning and evening.
It is the heart, vital, mind and bodyThat have no time even to look at Him.
```No matter how many ways
We try to escape from the reality-world,We shall never be able to.
Therefore, it is advisableTo be in the reality-world
And become true citizensOf the reality-world.
```The soul silently tells us
What to do.The soul secretly tells us
What to do.But alas, we do not pay any attention
To the silent and secret messagesOf our soul.
```The mind-train
May perpetually move forward,But it has no destination.
```The soul-driver of my life
Is always careful and blessingful.The heart-driver of my life
Is careful and prayerful.The mind-driver of my life
Is never careful. ```A world-peace-dreamer,
A world-peace-loverAnd
A world-peace-serverIs the most dedicated exponent
And highest expressionOf the Absolute Lord Supreme.
```Unless we transcend
Our earthly speech and earthly thought,We shall not be able to arrive
At the Golden ShoreOf God-Perfection and God-Satisfaction.
```Either consciously or unconsciously
We are searching for the highest Self,Which is at once eternal and infinite.
```The experience of God’s Compassion-Eye
And Forgiveness-HeartCan never be compared
With any other experience. ```Definitely the Real in us
Is always eager to come to the fore,But we do not allow, we do not allow!
```To bring about the harmony
Of all humanity,We must not allow ourselves
To feed the quenchless thirstOf ego.
```To love the Supreme’s Way
Of doing thingsIs to become the Supreme’s Way
Of Divinity and Immortality. ```Unless and until
Oneness with the SupremeIs achieved,
Nothing is beautiful,Nothing is encouraging,
Nothing is illumining,Nothing is fulfilling.
```My Lord’s blessingful Eye
Is my ecstasy’s height,Ecstasy’s depth
And ecstasy’s length. ```Along with spiritual food,
Earthly food also is necessaryTo make the journey of the spirit
Towards the Absolute Height. ```I am advancing my simplicity-mind,
Purity-heart and self-giving lifeEach day.
```Alas, I do not know
How I can get out of the disorderOf the mind,
Which I have cherishedFor a great many years.
```My awareness of my spiritual life
Is doomedBecause I deliberately shook hands
With the pride of ignorance-night. ```Oneness is complete
Only when compassionIs infinite.
```Our Lord Absolute
Is always readyTo rescue us from danger,
If we just let Him. ```How can I have peace in my world
Amid the turmoil of the outer world?My Lord says to me:
“Just feel that there is only one world,And that is My world,
My Divinity’s all-illumining world.” ```You are looking for the centre
Of the universe.I am saying to you that the true centre
Of the universeIs inside the little room
Of your God-worshipping heart. ```May my morning lotus-prayers
Awaken my sleeping mindTo join me.
```My faith in God
Is my heart’s beautyAnd my soul’s fragrance.
```If you want to love and serve someone,
Then love and serve that personWith your newness-mind,
With your oneness-heartAnd
With your fulness-hands. ```To tear our mind’s worries
Into shreds,We need very special Blessings,
Very special LoveAnd
Very special CompassionFrom our Lord Supreme.
```Gratitude, only gratitude,
Is what we needTo have a receptivity-heart.
```May my mind also cherish,
The way my heart cherishes,My God-dedication-life.
```Our sweet, sweeter, sweetest
Gratitude-tear-dropsExpedite our Godward journey
Far beyond our imagination. ```Our determination-power
Will eventually bring inOur life’s transformation-satisfaction.
```God-dreamers live inside the heart.
God-lovers live inside the heart.But God-examiners live inside the mind.
```The eagerness of the heart
And willingness of the mindHave discovered the shortest road
To arrive at God’s Feet. ```My morning God-obedience-songs
AndMy evening God-obedience-songs
Are the only realities in my lifeThat I can truly be proud of.
```To hoist our faith-banner,
We must every dayIncrease our love for God.
```My Lord, why are You crying?
“My child, I am cryingBecause you are not smiling.”
```There are different types of tears,
But the tears that we shedTo develop our unconditional love
For GodAre the only tears that I really need.
```To make the fastest progress,
Every day I pray to GodTo give me the sweetness-innocence
Of a child-heart. ```Do not mock any God-lover
Or God-server,For everybody at one time
Has to play the role of a beginner. ```Be extremely careful.
If you criticise others,Yours will be the spiritual doom
Sooner than the soonest. ```My mind,
Believe me when I tell youThat the time is fast approaching
For you to surrender to God’s Will. ```Your temporary failure
Is not the end.It is the beginning
Of a new illumining hopeAnd the beginning
Of a new fulfilling progress. ```When I give something
And I remain unrecognised,Then only my self-giving
Is true and perfect. ```I do not know how many more heartaches
I must sufferBecause my desires are not fulfilled
In my own way. ```God never appreciates
My cleverness-mind.He appreciates and admires
Only my sacredness-heart. ```O my mind,
Every day you are makingFeeble attempts at obedience.
How can you then ever succeed? ```Next time I get a chance
To speak to God,I shall ask Him, without fail,
To tell me the secretOf unconditional surrender.
```God loves me most
When I cheerfully agreeTo play with
His ill-fated children. ```For me there is no day,
No night!I follow my Lord’s express Will.
```My Lord, if You wish to use me,
I shall be grateful.If You do not wish to use me,
I shall be equally grateful.Only to please You in Your own Way
I saw the light of day. ```It is God who creates opportunities for us
In boundless measure.And what else?
He also appreciates us for using them. ```When I try to fool someone
In the spiritual life,I do not realise that I am dealing with
The Real in him — God. ```When I give my Lord Supreme
A small quantity of my love and faith,He blessingfully and proudly tells me:
“My child, I have come.Receive from Me My All.”
```I am happy when I see
First my Lord’s Eye and then His Feet.But I am infinitely happier when I see
His Feet first and then His Eye.God’s Eye is my Protection.
God’s Feet are my Salvation. ```My Lord Supreme,
Do tell me where I am supposed to liveEvery day.
“My child,I want you to live every day
Inside your heart-garden of self-giving.” ```Each time I disobey God,
Either consciously or unconsciously,I am forced to take a giant step
Away from God. ```Every day I face
My heart-faith-challenges,And every day I succeed.
```Every day increase your love for God.
Then you will seeThat the darkness of your mind
Will, without fail,Be completely dissolved.
```What is my heart?
My heart is a dream of GodThat every day is increasing
Its beauty, its lustre and its divinity. ```My Lord,
I need my heart-freedom firstFor the establishment
Of my mind-illumination. ```What I need is a mind of patience.
What I need is a heart of poise.What I need is a life of surrender,
Constant God-surrender. ```Secretly the angels guide us,
And proudly they tell GodThat we are quite receptive
To God’s Will. ```You have to compel your mind
To take a long vacationSo that you and your heart
Can work togetherFor the manifestation of God’s Will
On earth. ```In the mind-jungle we notice
That gratitude is out of seasonAll the time.
```All your secrets are safe
When you keep themIn your aspiration-heart
And dedication-life. ```When I offer an aspiration-rose
To my Lord Supreme,He blesses me with a bouquet
Of His Compassion-Blossoms. ```The climbing earth-cries
Breathe the Heavenly fragranceOf Delight.
```When we live
In the unsearching mind,We live in the age
Of total uncertainty. ```My mind does not believe in
World-information any more.It wants only world-illumination,
And for that it is going to studyAt God’s God-Surrender-School.
```What is it
That touches my heart?My Lord’s Compassion-Eye-Delight.
```Faith and doubt
Course through me.I am so happy
Faith always wins. ```My mind’s complexities
Are totally destroyingMy simplicity-sincerity-heart.
```My body lives inside
The purity of my heart-smiles.My life lives inside
The divinity of my soul-smiles. ```After a long time,
My long-lost inspiration-mindAnd aspiration-heart
Have come back to me. ```I tremendously fear
Only one thing:My God-unwillingness-mind.
```O seeker, do not forget
That you entered into the spiritual lifeFor inner accomplishments
And not for outer fulfilments. ```When our mind is flooded
With inner silence,Then our mind will have
Free access to GodThe way our heart of aspiration
Already has. ```At the last moment of our life,
If we pray to God for His Will to be done,Then we are fooling ourselves.
We must pray for His FulfilmentThroughout our life.
```Every day God is blessing us
With God-manifestation-possibilitiesOf the most startling nature.
```At every moment we need
Tremendous self-confidence,Founded upon God’s Compassion-Light,
To fulfil GodAnd thus fulfil ourselves.
```If our journey’s goal is success,
Then we will be totally fooled.If our journey’s goal is progress,
Then God will be proud of usAnd we shall be proud of ourselves.
```In the spiritual life,
Nothing is of minor importance.Everything
Is of supreme importance. ```Sometimes when we take
Our spiritual lifeWith utmost seriousness
And give no relaxation to the mind,We are not able to enjoy the Playfulness
Of the Absolute Supreme. ```At every moment
We need the heart-nurturingAnd life-giving springs
Of devotion. ```We must destroy the prison-house
Of our name and fameTo be inside Divinity’s
Immortality-Palace. ```The mind’s screen
Has ever-flickering images —Nothing permanent,
Nothing useful,Nothing fruitful!
```This morning when I went to see God,
His Compassion-Heart gave meA broad Smile of Acceptance.
```Every day
I keep my appointment with GodEarly in the morning.
I give myself no way to missMy regular duty.
```My mind is roaring with determination.
My heart is flying with aspiration.Therefore, I know my Goal
Is just next door. ```My soul wants me to enjoy
The brilliance and radiance-ecstasyOf my God-seeker-victory
Over ignorance. ```When we really love God
With our every breath,Then God gives us
His Dream-fulfilled, sumptuousReality-Feast.
```From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 267, Agni Press, 1998
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