My Christmas-New Year-Vacation Aspiration-Prayers, part 6

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My aspiration-heart has covered

The faraway land

Of Immortality’s Nectar-Dreams.

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APR 517. These prayers were given in Bagan, Myanmar — 30 December 2000.↩

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God’s Heart hungers

Every day

For my heart’s morning prayers.

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3

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My heart sleeplessly cries,

Not for my mind’s immediate demise,

But for my mind’s full illumination.

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4

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O my mind, I am telling you

That you will not be able to deny

My soul’s life-transforming delight

Indefinitely. ```

5

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The outer advice

Is utterly useless.

The inner prayer

Is absolutely fruitful. ```

6

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I call it

My heart-expansion.

God calls it

His Satisfaction-Delight. ```

7

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My Beloved Supreme,

Your single Touch

Has brought me back

My inspiration-mind,

My aspiration-heart

And

My dedication-life.

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8

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Desire comes to torture my heart.

Desire comes to kill my life.

Desire comes to take me away

From my Absolute Lord Beloved Supreme. ```

9

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If you really love God,

Then you must never, never

Be pleased with yourself

In your own way.

God’s Way is the only Way

For you to be pleased with yourself. ```

10

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What now I have

Is an earthly mind,

But I must become

A Heavenly heart. ```

11

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My Beloved Supreme

Throws and throws and throws

Aspiration-seeds

Inside my heart-garden. ```

12

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A desire-life

Strikes the mind

Hard, very hard.

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13

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The fragrance of a devotion-heart

Is unparalleled

In our spiritual life.

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14

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In my outer life,

My Supreme wants me to be

His Body.

In my inner life,

My Supreme wants me to be

His Breath. ```

15

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If I do not show my Supreme

My gratitude-face,

He will not help me win

My inner race. ```

16

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My meditation-silence

Reverberates

In the Heart-Sky

Of my Lord Supreme. ```

17

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O my foolish mind,

You do not have to understand anything.

Just do one thing:

Love and love

Our Lord Beloved Supreme.

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Implicit faith expedites

Our God-realisation-journey

Unimaginably.

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19

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An acute shortage

Of gratitude:

This is what a human heart is.

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20

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The power of patience

Knows

No equal.

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21

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The mind is deliberate

Truth-limitation.

The heart is constant

Truth-expansion. ```

22

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As doubt is

The most powerful deceiver,

Even so, faith is

The ultimate saviour. ```

23

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We must be extremely,

Extremely careful:

Ignorance-forces are always working,

Sleeplessly and vigilantly,

To lord it over us all the time.

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24

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He who gives joy to others

Unconditionally

Is God’s choicest instrument.

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25

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God, out of His infinite Bounty,

Asks me to collect

His Compassion-Smiles

Infinitely more

Than I have ever expected.

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26

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Let us bind and blind

All our desires

To please God

In His own Way. ```

27

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If you want to sing

God’s Victory-Songs,

Then never yield any space

To self-doubt. ```

28

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God blesses me

With His infinite Pride

When I offer Him gratitude

From the very depths

Of my surrender-life.

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29

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Two equally formidable discoverers:

Mind the war-discoverer,

Heart the peace-discoverer.

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30

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When we desperately

Need God’s help,

God immediately comes

As a human friend. ```

31

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When I am in my mind,

I become the night of sorrows.

When I am in my heart,

I become the beauty

Of a rainbow-dawn.

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32

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God’s Compassion-Tree blossoms

Only when

The tears of my heart

Are absolutely sincere and pure. ```

332

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Meditation is

Desire-reduction

And aspiration-multiplication.

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APR 549. These prayers were given in Bagan, Myanmar — 31 December 2000.↩

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When I pray,

I breathe in God’s Light.

When I meditate,

I breathe out God’s Power. ```

35

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True, the mind does not respond,

But the heart does respond

To God’s morning Call.

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36

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If we want to make the fastest progress

In our spiritual life,

Then we needs must have

A doubt-proof enthusiasm-mind

And

A doubt-proof eagerness-heart. ```

37

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When I pray,

I become a crying heart.

When I meditate,

I become a soaring soul. ```

38

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God has a very special fondness

For my whisper-prayers

And whisper-meditations.

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39

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God wants me to think

Of only peace and bliss

When I look at others.

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40

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Not our outer government

But our inner enlightenment

Can give us peace.

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41

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My unconditional surrender

To God’s Will

Is God’s Heart-Throb.

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42

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A desire-companion I was,

But now I am

An aspiration-champion.

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43

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If our hearts are empty of tears,

Then we shall not be able

To claim God as our own,

Very own. ```

44

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To feel God’s Presence

Inside our hearts all the time,

Our faith has no equal.

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45

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Nothingness-fulness

Is another name

For Nirvana.

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463

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The mind tries

And fails.

The heart cries

And sails.

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APR 562. These prayers were given in Bali, Indonesia — 5 January 2001.↩

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Like your soul,

Fear not, fear not!

Go forward, go forward,

O heart, mind, vital and body—

Go forward, go forward!

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48

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Aspiration and temptation

Should be taken

As the North Pole

And the South Pole. ```

49

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Sweeter than the sweetest,

When the tears from man’s eyes

And the Tears from God’s Heart

Meet together. ```

50

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There is a secret and sacred God-society

That thinks and feels

That e-mail is synonymous

With evil mail.

Fortunately or unfortunately,

I am a solid member

Of that society.

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51

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My heart-aspiration

Wants me to be

Expectation-rejection.

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52

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The mind-dictionary houses the word

‘Additional’.

The heart-dictionary houses the word

‘Unconditional’. ```

53

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The human in us died

And

The divine in us was fortified

When the Saviour was crucified. ```

54

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The human mind can win the election

In the world-mind.

The divine heart always wins the election

In God’s own Heart. ```

55

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O my desire-life,

Be fully prepared

For the fast-approaching

Nightmare-attacks. ```

564

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Two are the greatest achievements

Of my Beloved Supreme

Here on earth:

My gratitude-heart

And

My satisfaction-mind.

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APR 572. These prayers were given in Bali, Indonesia — 7 January 2001.↩

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Two are my invaluable treasures

Here on earth:

My Lord’s Compassion-Eye

And

My Lord’s Forgiveness-Heart.

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58

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My Lord Supreme,

Do give me the eagerness-capacity

To co-operate

With Your sweet Will

In every way.

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59

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I must surrender my all

To my Lord Supreme

If I want to bask

In God’s Nectar-flooded,

Sunlit Attention.

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60

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God wants me to approach

His Throne

Not only with my tearful heart,

But also with my blissful breath. ```

61

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I value infinitely more

The Compassion-Feet of God

Than the Beauty of God’s Eye.

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62

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Alas,

When will my heart be eager

To agree with everything

That God says? ```

63

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From my gratitude-heart-balcony

I have an excellent view

Of God’s Sweetness-Eye.

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64

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My promise to God

Is my God-fulfilment.

God’s Promise to me

Is my life-transformation. ```

65

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I must cheerfully follow

My gratitude-heart-road

To the very end.

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66

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God says to me

That He will never be satisfied

With what I am

Until I become unconditionally

What He wants me to be:

A God-realised soul. ```

675

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Now is the time for me

To claim

My divinity’s immortal blue bird

Inside my aspiration-heart.

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APR 583. These prayers were given in Bali, Indonesia — 8 January 2001.↩

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There is only one way

To have peace on this planet,

And that way

Is through constant remembrance

Of God’s Love

For each and every human being. ```

69

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It is so heartbreaking

That my mind is always unwilling

To visit

God’s Compassion-Eye. ```

70

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In this new century,

I shall have no room

For frustration and failure.

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71

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I shall keep always

God’s Compassion-Feet

In all challenges of life.

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72

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Without peace in my mind,

I shall not be able

To see peace-blossoms

In my heart-garden. ```

73

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If I have an iota

Of self-doubt,

Then I shall lose

My God-receptivity-heart. ```

74

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God wants us to have

Only a purity-heart,

And not an austerity-life.

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75

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Just an inch

When my aspiration ascends,

Immediately

God’s Satisfaction-Smile descends. ```

76

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The moment God reads

My mind’s

God-existence-doubt-letters,

He swims in the sea of tears. ```

77

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God wants me to drive

My God-service-chariot

At top speed

All the time. ```

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The desiring mind never gives.

The aspiring heart gives,

Cheerfully and unreservedly,

Everything that it owns.

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APR 594. These prayers were given in Bali, Indonesia — 9 January 2001.↩

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The depression of the vital

Is the sad failure

Of life.

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80

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Readiness I have.

Willingness I have.

Eagerness I have.

What I need

Is intensity.

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Editor's preface

Sri Chinmoy offered these morning prayers during his visit to Myanmar in December 2000 and Indonesia in January 2001

From:Sri Chinmoy,My Christmas-New Year-Vacation Aspiration-Prayers, part 6, Agni Press, 2001
Sourced from https://srichinmoylibrary.com/apr_6