My bondage-life is my self-invention

1.

```

Little do I know

Or care to know

That my bondage-life

Is my self-invention. ```

2.

```

Prayer-tears

Are indeed pure.

Meditation-smiles

Are supremely sure. ```

3.

```

We cannot solve life's riddles

On our own.

Each riddle of life

Needs a special

Compassion-Smile from God

For its liberation. ```

4.

```

We celebrate

The supremacy

Of the division-mind,

Which is absurdity itself.

We must celebrate

The satisfaction-ecstasy

Of the oneness-heart.

```

5.

```

Ego and fear

Chase each other.

Doubt and faith

Chase each other.

Confidence and insecurity

Chase each other. ```

6.

```

Forgiveness

Is a matter

Of luminous choice.

Forgiveness

Can enter

And does enter

The heart

Of progress-delight. ```

7.

```

We do not need a mind

Of constant contradiction.

What we need is a heart

Of constant

Heaven-climbing aspiration.

```

8.

```

Aspiration-shortage

Is a very old story.

Let us write

A new story:

Aspiration-plenitude.

```

9.

```

May each seeker's love of God

And surrender to God's Will

Be a fragrance-flooded

One-way street

With no U-turn.

```

10.

```

Our world-attachments

Will vanish

Only when our minds

Sincerely care for

The world-transforming

Illumination. ```

11.

```

Alas,

Long lost are

My God-loving days

And

God-worshipping nights.

```

12.

```

At last wisdom-light

Has dawned in my heart.

No more

Shall I be trapped

In the net

Of unhealthy,

Earth-bound thoughts.

```

13.

```

The complexity-challenges

Of life

Are outwardly hurtful

But inwardly fruitful. ```

14.

```

The triumphant

God-loving hearts

Are happily treasured

By God's Compassion-Eye

And Satisfaction-Heart.

```

15.

```

Each seeker-heart realises

That his Master-Saviour

Is an extraordinary member

Of God's immediate Family. ```

16.

```

Mortal

Is the life of hope.

Let us try to place

Immortality

Inside the heart-breath

Of hope. ```

17.

```

Aspiration and dedication

Are by far

The best instruments

Of the God-manifesting souls. ```

18.

```

Let us abandon

Our yesterday's minds.

Let us deal with

Our today's

God-manifesting hearts.

```

19.

```

When I treat others

As God-manifesting

Divinity-souls,

I feel that I am

Safely on my way

To God-manifestation-lands. ```

20.

```

Try to live

According to your heart's

Aspiration-wisdom-dictates.

```

21.

```

The man-made life

Is too weak to climb up

To the highest.

The God-made life

Remains always

At the summit-heights. ```

22.

```

Be not infatuated

With money-power

Or possession-power,

For their lives

Are extremely short.

Frustration

And

Destruction

Quickly follow them.

```

23.

```

The failure

Of desire-life

Is the satisfaction

Of earth's

Aspiration-victory.

```

24.

```

The capacities

Of the inner man

Far transcend

The impossibility-barriers

Of the outer life.

```

25.

```

Continued effort

Is the open secret

Of success-life.

Continued surrender

Is the open secret

Of progress-heart. ```

26.

```

My success-choice

Has made my life

Miserable.

My progress-choice

Will make my heart

Always laudable. ```

27.

```

O man, hide not

Your earth-bound desires.

Bring them to the fore,

Illumine them

And help them reach

Their destined goal:

Satisfaction divine.

```

28.

```

Since the mind-prison

Is never locked,

Insincerity and impurity

Frequently visit there. ```

29.

```

Blameless people

Never dream of blaming

The blighted

Imperfection-world. ```

30.

```

When I invite

God the Voice

To fulfil me,

I reach the heart

Of my own

Perfection-choice. ```

31.

```

He who has

The abundant capacity

To forgive others

Sees that he has

Nobody to forgive.

```

32.

```

To forgive

Is to identify oneself

With

God's God-Satisfaction. ```

33.

```

Nobody else

Causes my suffering.

My own choices

Are the only cause

Of my suffering.

```

34.

```

My mind

Wants to change

The minds of others.

My heart

Does not want to change

Any other heart.

It only wants to become

Part and parcel

Of all hearts.

```

35.

```

Listen to the soundless voice

To give you the capacity

To make the perfect choice

In your outer life. ```

36.

```

Mine is the choice

Either to blindly bind

Or to smilingly liberate

The world. ```

37.

```

Spirituality is not like

A scientific experiment.

Spirituality is divinity's

God-fulfilment-experience. ```

38.

```

He who has faith

In abundance

Can never lose

The reality,

For he has already

Become the reality. ```

39.

```

The clever man does not know

That God is great.

The wise man knows

That God is not only

Divinely great

But also supremely good. ```

40.

```

The congregation

Of aspiring hearts

Is the liberation

Of binding lives. ```

41.

```

Each man must try

Not only to curtail

But actually to end

His self-indulgence

Pleasure-life.

```

42.

```

To see

The perfection-divinity

In a human being

Is the most precious

Opportunity

Of a lifetime. ```

43.

```

The mind is always eager

To export stupidity.

The heart is always eager

To import wisdom. ```

44.

```

My life's

Heavenward journey

Is the liberation

Of my mind's

Ignorance-night.

```

From:Sri Chinmoy,My bondage-life is my self-invention, Agni Press, 1993
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