How many times a day?⁵

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Captain, please tell me how many times a day

You think of me.

“Once, My child.”

Alas, only once? You are so unkind to me!

Captain, how many times a day

Do You bless my heart

With Your Love?

“Once a month.”

Alas, alas, only once a month!

Captain, You are so unkind to me!

Captain, please tell me how many times a day

You speak well of me to others.

“Once in three months.”

Once in three months! Alas, alas, alas!

Captain, Your dislike of me is unimaginable!

Captain, why do You think of me

Only once a day?

“My child, what can I do?

When I think of you,

I see that you are thinking of the whole world

And not of Me.”

Captain, why do You bless my heart

With Your Love

Only once a month?

“My child, your heart is full of insincerity,

Plus, you keep your heart’s door

Closed so often.

Do you not realise

That you give Me a shocking experience

With your frequently closed heart?”

Captain, why do You speak well of me to others

Only once in three months?

“My child, if I use My Justice-Light,

Then I will not be able to speak well of you

Even once a year.

It is because to you I am

My Heart’s Compassion-Height

That I speak well of you once in three months.”

But, Captain, I think of You every day

More than once.

I offer my heart’s love to You every day

More than once.

I speak well of You

More than once a day.

“True, you think of Me every day

With no sincerity at all.

Be sincere in your thought!

True, you offer your love to Me

More than once a day,

But your love has no soulful, devoted oneness.

Be soulful in your love!

True, you speak well of Me

More than once a day,

But I clearly see

That there is no inner conviction

In what you say to others about Me.

In a very clever way

You like to draw admiration from others

By speaking well of Me.

Be certain in your pronouncement!”

Captain, that means I will never be able

To please You.

“Not true, My child. You can and you will.”

Captain, when?

“From the day you start feeling

That your life is the beauty of surrender

And your heart is the purity of gratitude.”

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From:Sri Chinmoy,Captain, my Captain, Agni Press, 1994
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