I am your spiritual Father. You have an earthly father. Your connection with him lasts fifty or sixty years — for one incarnation. But your connection with me will last for eternity. In the ordinary life the father demands of the children and the children demand of the father. But we do not demand anything. In the spiritual life the relationship depends on give and give and give. What you have you give me and what I have I give you. What you have is your aspiration and what I have is my realisation. Here everything is self-offering. I am offering you what I have — realisation, and you are offering me what you have — aspiration. This is spiritual self-giving. Yours is spiritual self-giving and mine is spiritual self-giving. When we do this devotedly our oneness, inseparable oneness, will last for Eternity.
AUM 1124. London↩
O Lord of inseparable oneness,
Come to me first.O Lord of supernal love,
Come to me next.O Lord of supreme glory,
Come to me last, very last. ```Nowhere to live?
Try my heart-home.I think you will like it.
Nowhere to sleep?
Try my soul-room.I am sure you will love it,
Just love it. ```Father, here is my crying heart.
It is all for You,For You alone.
Daughter, here is My shining Pride.
It is all for you,For you alone.
Father, here is my smiling soul.
It is all for You.For You alone.
Daughter, here is My ever-transcending Height.
It is all for you,For you alone.
```Father, what do You do
With Your excess Beauty?Daughter, with My excess Beauty
I perform My extra Duty.Daughter, what do you do
With your excess stupidity?Father, with my excess stupidity
I delay Your Manifestation-necessity. ```Truth, my truth,
You are still unemployed.Heaven, my Heaven,
You are still ignored.God, my God,
You are still unsought. ```THE PEOPLE OF PUERTO RICO
TAKE GREAT PRIDE IN HONORINGSri Chinmoy Kumar Ghose
The world renowned Spiritual Master,
for his unprecedented and illuminingservice to the Soul of our Island
and Humanity at largeHON. RAFAEL HERNANDEZ COLON
Governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto RicoJune 12, 1974
[Sri Chinmoy with Governor Colon.]The occultist, who happened to be a family friend, was extremely kind to Goroksha. He asked Goroksha about his wife and children, and Goroksha gave him all the news about them. The occultist was pleased with Goroksha and said, “Look here, I shall write down on a piece of paper exactly when your Master is going to die. There, now I have written the exact date, but I am sealing it in this envelope. It is entirely up to you to decide what to do with this envelope. If you open the envelope and see that your Master will live for a long time, then you will be very happy. On the other hand, if you see that your Master is going to live for only a few days, then because of your extreme sorrow you will be of no further use to your Master during the brief remainder of his stay on earth. But if, out of fear of losing your Master very soon, or out of a smug feeling that your Master will not die for another twenty or thirty years, you one day have the inclination simply to discard the envelope, I tell you, on that very day you yourself will die.”
One month passed and Goroksha did not open the envelope, nor did his Master die. Then Goroksha had a dream. In the dream he saw that his Master had died. His whole being was thrown into a sea of grief, and he became senseless. The next morning, even when he saw that his Master was still alive, his whole body continued trembling with uncontrollable fear. He felt that on that very day his Master was going to leave the body, so he told his family that he intended to discard the envelope. They immediately protested, “How can you do that? If you discard the envelope, you will die today.”
“That is what I want to do,” he replied. “I don’t want to see my Master’s death.”
Goroksha’s wife pleaded with him. “Master is an old man,” she said. “Even if he dies today, he has played his role. But you are only fifty years old. You should stay on earth for a long time to do Master’s work.”
“After Master’s passing, what joy will I have in life? If I will never see his beloved face again, what beauty will there be to appreciate on earth?” said Goroksha. “Other people can do Master’s work as well as I. I don’t want to stay on earth after his death. There will be nothing for me to live for.”
“But you know that for a great spiritual Master, the inner world and the outer world are the same,” said Goroksha’s son. “He does not have to stay on earth physically in order to guide us; his spiritual light and power will guide us even after he leaves the body.”
“True,” said Goroksha, “even when he leaves the physical body, he will continue guiding everyone as he does now. But I wish to say that I won’t be able to bear the loss of my Master. I strongly feel that Master will die soon, either today or tomorrow, and so the best thing will be for me to discard the envelope and die.”
Again Goroksha’s wife, daughter and son vehemently protested, but he was adamant. He tore the envelope into shreds and discarded it. And lo and behold, Goroksha got an immediate heart attack and died then and there.
When the Master learned of his dearest disciple’s death and of his dealings with the occultist from Goroksha’s grief-stricken family, he felt miserable. He said to himself, “I never knew, I never even suspected that my Goroksha was a rogue. I thought that he would work for me in my physical absence. Such a clever fellow! He has deserted me. Now I won’t be able to punish him here in this world, but I can enter the other world and send him back to earth again.” With that, using his occult power, the Master left the body and entered into the higher worlds in search of his dear disciple.
While he was travelling through the vital world in eager quest of Goroksha, the denizens of that world asked the Master, “Have you really entered into the soul’s world with the idea of sending your dearest disciple back to earth to work for you and propagate your views, or have you come here because you badly missed your dearest spiritual son on earth?”
The Master gave a broad smile to the denizens of the vital world and said, “It is up to you to decide.”
If you sincerely want peace in the outer world, then offer all your wisdom.
If you sincerely want peace in the inner world, then offer all your silence.You have to aspire for purity in the gross physical. How can you do it? It is through constant elevating prayer and constant inner cry for light. Light and darkness cannot stay together; it is impossible. Similarly, purity and impurity cannot stay together. When you pray for purity you have to feel that what you actually need is light. And you must not just repeat the word “purity” like a parrot. You should meditate on the transcendental Light. When light descends into your emotional vital and physical body, then automatically, spontaneously, the light will purify the conscious, the superconscious and the unconscious or lower worlds within you.
Please pray for and meditate on the inner light, the higher light, so that light can enter into your system and illumine you. First it will purify and then it will illumine your consciousness, which is now unconsciously expressing the physical truth: the world of temptation, frustration and destruction. You should try always to invoke light in the unaspiring body. The heart is aspiring, so you do not have to worry about it right now. It is the physical in you that needs radical transformation, and for that what you need is physical purity. Purity in the physical can be established only by bringing down light from above into the physical and lower vital consciousness, especially below the navel centre.From the past you cannot expect anything. It has already given you what it had to offer. The past offered you its wealth, but this wealth was not fulfilling; it was all frustration. And when you dwell upon this frustration you have to feel that you are consciously and deliberately entering into something obscure, uncertain, and more than that, unfulfilled.
What is unfulfilled, unrealised, unmanifested, from the spiritual point of view, is now unwelcome. Things that we want to manifest and reveal in a spiritual way have to be pure. When you concentrate on your third eye, try to look forward and envision the future — a future which is flooded with light and delight, where there is no darkness. When we see something with our ordinary eyes, very often we see through uncertainty, through bias, through unclear light, and whatever we see is not clear, certain or fulfilling. But when the third eye sees something, it sees through light, and it sees the light that is embodied in that thing. When we concentrate with the third eye everything is clear; there is no darkness; there can be no impurity.
So concentrate on the third eye and see the light, enter into the light, grow into the light. You will see that this light has given birth to purity. If you cherish the past, if you constantly dig up the grave of the past, you will only find obscurity and impurity. Run toward the light. Concentrate on the third eye, the Ajna Chakra, and you will see only light around you, before you and within you. Purity is there, within the light that you envision and the light that you are growing into.
[to be continued]Deeper than the sea
Is devotion.Who has it?
Not I, not I,I solemnly declare.
God compassionately says:“Amen.”
Needless to say, God is divine.Vaster than the sky
Is surrender.Who has it?
Not I, not I,I solemnly declare.
God proudly says:“Amen."
Needless to say, God is perfect. ```I was the frustration-despair-bridge
BetweenMy vital’s first dark hour
AndMy body’s last deep sleep.
I am the rapture-treasure-bridge
BetweenMy heart’s birthless hour
AndMy soul’s deathless life.
```Man’s passion-flood
Speaks louder than reason-sun.Man already knows it.
God’s Compassion-sea
Speaks louder than temptation-moon.When will man learn it?
Will man ever learn it?No, never!
```What is Heaven?
Harmonious madness.What is earth?
Contagious sadness.Who is God?
Precious Dream-sky.Who is man?
Suspicious reality-sigh. ```Do you want to exclude something
From your life-book?Then
Exclude your doubt-chapter.God will bless you
Immediately.Do you want to include something
In your life-book?Then
Include your confidence-chapter.You will bless yourself
Eternally. ```With Compassion-rain
God will clasp your life-dreams.Just wait and see.
With Liberation-train
God will carry your heart-blossomsTo His Promise-Paradise.
Just wait and see.With Perfection-reign
God will offer youHis Throne of Infinity’s Silence-light
AndHis Crown of Eternity’s Sound-might.
Just wait and see. ```Do you want to know
Why she is chosen?She is chosen
BecauseShe loves nobody else
But God.Do you want to know
Why he is chosen?He is chosen
BecauseHe wants to challenge nobody else
But God. ```Here on earth we try to establish friendship with our fellow human beings. Sometimes we are successful, sometimes we are not. But even when we are successful, this friendship does not satisfy us completely. Then we go deep within and discover our Eternal Friend, God, the Inner Pilot. God and each individual on earth are eternal friends. But only when we begin to aspire do we come to realise this truth.
There are three types of friendship: animal friendship, human friendship and divine friendship. The friendship that exploits us is animal friendship. The friendship that mutually helps two persons is human friendship. The friendship that unconditionally gives, that gives with no expectation whatsoever, is divine friendship.
Friendship can arise out of necessity and also out of generosity. If two human beings are in the desiring world, their friendship is founded upon necessity. But if one is in the desiring world and the other is in the aspiring world, then yre have to know that the friendship of the aspirant is founded upon generosity, while the friendship of the desiring person is based upon necessity.
Desire makes unending demands; its hunger can never be appeased. No matter how much experience or possession is accumulated, still satisfaction does not dawn in the heart of a desiring individual. Aspiration also has an eternal hunger, but when aspiration achieves an iota of Peace, Light and Bliss, it feels a kind of satisfaction. Although an aspirant aims to reach the Highest, the Absolute Pinnacle, although he longs for infinite Peace, Light and Bliss, an iota of Peace, Light and Bliss satisfies his grateful heart. But he knows that today’s achievement is not complete. If he looks forward, or dives deep within, or climbs high, higher, highest, he knows he is bound to be inundated with Peace, Light and Bliss in boundless measure. At God’s choice Hour, God will give the aspirant infinite Peace, Light and Bliss.
In our ordinary human life we have two friends: fear and doubt. Fear tells us, “Stay inside your body-cage, where you are safe. If you come out, the ferocious world-tiger will devour you, so don’t come out of the cage of your body.” Doubt tells us that our real friend is our physical mind, the mind that cautions us, that warns us, that tells us that the outer world is a real stranger. Doubt says, “If you allow the outer world to enter into you, it is like dealing with a stranger. At any moment you may be exploited, deserted and destroyed for good. Have no faith in anybody on earth. Expect nothing good from anybody on earth. You are your own saviour, you are your own salvation — you and nobody else. Exist for yourself.”
Now, the moment we are awakened, the moment our inner light comes to the fore and awakens us from our ignorance-sleep of millennia, we discover that fear and doubt are not our friends at all. Our true friends are courage, indomitable courage, and faith, boundless faith. Our inner courage tells us, “Go out, look around the rest of the world; all of earth’s inhabitants are your friends, your brothers and sisters. If you stay in your physical consciousness, you are binding yourself, you are limiting your possibilities and potentialities. Go out. The world is eagerly awaiting your arrival.” Our dear friend, faith, tells us, “We are all of the same Source and for the same Source, so how can we be afraid of others? The Source is one, but the One wanted to play the game of many. The tree is the Source, and the branches, flowers, leaves and fruits are the many. From the same root we all came into existence, so let us consciously establish our inseparable oneness with all human beings. Let us sing together, dance together and play together. In this way we will please and fulfil the Absolute Supreme with our universal oneness.”
Each individual has faith in something or in someone. We cannot say that someone has no faith at all. This moment he has faith in God, another moment he may have faith in himself and a third moment he may have faith in somebody or in something else. Now, when an individual has faith in God, he is in the world of aspiration and vastness, in the world of Infinity, Eternity and Immortality. When he has faith in himself, he is in the world of desire, in the world of possession, limitation, bondage and death. When he has faith in neither God nor himself, then he has faith in destruction — in world-destruction or in self-destruction. But he always has faith either in God or in himself or in some undivine force.
Here we are all seekers, so we shall have faith in God. If it is impossible for us to establish divine faith today, we can start with faith in ourselves. In spite of knowing that we are limited and bound, let us have faith in ourselves. Then this limitation and bondage of ours can be transcended on the strength of our inner cry. But if we have faith in an undivine force, a force that destroys, then in addition to destroying others, we will ourselves be destroyed. A similar thing happens when we have faith only in ourselves. We try to possess others, but before we can actually possess them, we are ourselves possessed. It is only in divine faith that we do not possess. There we just expand — expand our consciousness, expand our reality, expand what we have and what we are. But let us start, if necessary, with faith in ourselves, and then go beyond and attain divine faith. In divine faith we see that there is no end to our journey and achievement. We are in the flow of an ever-transcending, ever-illumining Reality, which is perfection.
Friendship is harmony, friendship is peace, friendship is bliss. Friendship is harmony. Mutual harmony removes all dark conflicts. Each individual has opinions of his own, but when friendship becomes the connecting link between two persons, all conflicts are removed and they become one.
Friendship is peace. Here, peace means confidence. I have confidence in you and you have confidence in me; our mutual confidence is peace. I shall not speak ill of you or try to ruin you; you will not speak ill of me or try to ruin me. On the contrary, I shall give you what I have: my love, my sympathy, my concern, my compassion, my total support of your cause, and you will do the same for me.
Friendship is bliss. When friendship lasts, it offers bliss. The Kingdom of Heaven is established when love inundates our beings, when the feeling of oneness reigns supreme and there is no sense of separativity. At that time illumining, fulfilling and perfect Perfection dawns in our life of aspiration. Thousands of years ago the Vedic seers offered us the message of bliss.
Ᾱnandādd hy eva khalv imāni bhūtāni jāyante...
> From Delight we came into existence.
> In Delight we grow.> At the end of our journey’s close, into Delight we retire.
Friendship is sweet when it is all harmony.
Friendship is sweeter when it is all peace.Friendship is sweetest when it is all bliss.
Friendship is service, the dedicated service we offer to Mother Earth and Father Heaven. When we want to offer our dedicated service to Mother Earth, we pray to the Lord Supreme to grant us a life of ceaseless duration. When we want to offer our dedicated service to Father Heaven, we pray to the Lord Supreme to grant us a life of selfless contribution. With our service, Heaven gets the opportunity to manifest itself here on earth, and earth gets the opportunity to realise the Highest, the Absolute.
In the spiritual life friendship is founded on inner acceptance. A spiritual teacher and a seeker become one on the strength of their inner friendship. The seeker goes to a Master and says, “Master, I love you, I trust you, I give you my life.” The Master immediately says, “My son, I love you, I trust you and I give you my life and also God’s Life.” The disciple says, “Master, I offer you my solemn promise that I shall serve the Supreme in you.” The Master says, “Son, I offer you my solemn promise that unless and until I have taken you to our Father, the Absolute Supreme, I shall not rest. Your promise is just to me, but my promise is to two persons. Here on earth I am promising you that I shall carry you and guide you to the Golden Shores of the Beyond, and the same promise I am making to the Inner Pilot, who is your Master, my Master, the Eternal Master; to Him I am giving the same promise. With your friendship you will give me what you have: ignorance. With my friendship I will give you what I have and what I am: Wisdom-Light. This Wisdom-Light the Supreme has granted me out of His infinite Bounty, and this I offer to you. If you think that you are a beggar, then you must know that I am more of a beggar than you. You have to go begging only to one place, but my condition is more deplorable; I have to go to two places. I go to you with folded hands and beg you to give me your ignorance. Then I go to God with folded hands and beg Him to give me His Compassion-Light for you. I am the messenger between you and God. This is the friendship that I have established with earth and Heaven. Earth’s pangs and penuries I take to Heaven, to the Eternal Father in Heaven, and from Heaven I bring down Peace, Light and Bliss in abundant measure for sincere seekers.” This is the eternal friendship between the Master and the disciple.
The Master also says something else to his disciples. He says, “Your Master is not and can never be myself. The real Master is somebody else — the Supreme, the Absolute Supreme.” A spiritual teacher is only an elder brother to humanity. When seekers are aspiring for the Highest, the teacher shows them where the Father is. Once he leads them to the Father, his role is over. And the seeker of today becomes the leader, the teacher of mankind tomorrow. When his time comes, he shows aspiring humanity, his younger brothers and sisters, the same God, the same eternal Friend, the same transcendental Supreme, that his own teacher once showed him.
AUM 1154. Student Centre, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, 7 March 1974-9:00 a.m.↩
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/Tumi shudhu bandu amar//Tumi amar pran/
/Baul haye desh bideshe//Gahi jena bhalobese/
/Jiban bhare tomar jaya gan//Tumi shudhu bandu amar/
/Tumi amar pran/```
[English Translation]```
You are my only Friend,
You are my life.Like a divine mendicant,
From one country to anotherMay I sing a song of You
With all my love.May I sing the Song of Your Victory
all my life. ```Peace has no enemy.
Peace has a special friend: Joy. Anger has only one friend: Destruction.From:Sri Chinmoy,AUM — Vol. 1, No. 6, 27 June 1974, Vishma Press, 1974
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