Dedication-Drops

1. Dedication

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Dedication

Is God's Satisfaction

In Heaven's soul

And

In earth's heart.

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2. Surrender

```

The finite surrenders

To the Infinite

Not because the Infinite

Is all-powerful,

But because the Infinite

Is all-love;

Plus the Infinite

Is the yet unrecognised reality

Of the finite itself.

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3. Consciousness

```

Consciousness

Is the bridge between

Earth's aspiration-cry

And

Heaven's satisfaction-smile.

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4. Purity

```

Purity

Is the supreme necessity

To grow into

Divinity's

Immortality.

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5. Light

```

Light

Is oneness-perfection

In Eternity's Height,

Infinity's Length

And

Immortality's Depth. ```

6. Cosmos

```

The divine in us

Is not only conscious of everything

That exists in the cosmos,

But also embodies everything

That is inside the cosmos.

Something more,

The divine in us

Is the cosmos,

The entire cosmos,

Itself. ```

7. Consistency

```

Consistency

For a divine purpose

Is a continuous forward movement

Along Eternity's road toward

Self-perfection

And

God-satisfaction.

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8. Courage

```

The human courage

Wants to break.

The divine courage

Wants to sail.

The supreme Courage

Wants Perfection-manifestation

Here on earth.

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9. Peace

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Peace

Is in minimising and diminishing

The desire-life

And

Increasing and fulfilling

The aspiration-life,

The life divine.

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10. Life

```

The animal life

Finds satisfaction

In destruction-night.

The human life

Finds satisfaction

In temptation-day.

The divine life

Finds satisfaction

In the aspiration-moon,

The liberation-sky

And

The reality-sun. ```

11. Worship

```

We worship Someone

Who is not high above our heads,

But who is inside the very depth of our hearts,

And who loves us infinitely more

Than we love ourselves.

Not only that,

He alone loves us

Really,

Truly,

Divinely

And

Unconditionally,

And nobody else,

Not even we ourselves. ```

12. Devotion

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Devotion

Is the magnet

That pulls us towards the ecstasy-height,

The height that makes us see and feel

What we truly are:

Unmanifested divinity. ```

13. Detachment

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Detachment

Does not mean negligence.

Detachment

Does not mean lack of concern for humanity.

True detachment means

Not to try to influence the world,

Convince the world

Or guide the world

In one's own way,

But to allow the world to grow

In God's way,

For in each individual

There is a spark of divinity.

Let divinity act

In and through each individual —

Seeker or non-seeker —

For the Inner Pilot knows best

How to operate

In and through each human being.

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14. Humility

```

Humility

Is the mental clarity in us,

The vital reality in us

And

The physical divinity in us.

Humility

Is the most fruitful

Consciousness-reality in us. ```

15. Union

```

Union

Is God-Vision in us.

Oneness

Is God-Reality in us.

Perfection

Is God-Satisfaction in us. ```

16. Simplicity

```

In the divine ladder

Simplicity

Is the first rung,

Sincerity

Is the second,

Humility

Is the third,

Purity

Is the fourth and highest.

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17. Transformation

```

Transformation

Of the body-consciousness

Has been a dream of the Supreme

For millennia.

This transformation

Of the body-consciousness

Will be the real Reality,

The perfect Perfection-Reality

On earth.

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18. Work

```

To work under compulsion

Is to eventually revolt.

To work because that is the only thing

That can give us satisfaction

Or bring about our perfection

Is to become conscious and constant friends

Of our eternal Pilot Supreme.

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19. Love

```

We love God

Because He is great:

This is what our desire-life

Has taught us.

We love God

Because He is good:

This is what our aspiration-life

Has taught us.

As long as we remain in the desire-world,

We shall love God

Because He is all-powerful.

The moment we enter into the aspiration-world,

We love God

Because He is all Goodness,

All Kindness,

All Compassion

For us.

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20. Delight

```

Delight is our source,

Delight is our course

And

Delight is the all-illumining,

All-fulfilling force

In us,

With us

And

For us.

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21. Sincerity

```

Sincerity

Is not the seed.

Sincerity

Is the fruit

Of God-action

In us,

Through us

And

For us.

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22. Patience

```

Patience

Is not helpless surrender

To one's fate.

Patience

Is one's secret and sacred

Undying cry

To see the face of satisfaction-light. ```

23. Manifestation

```

Sincere aspiration itself

Is God-manifestation

For God-revelation

And

God-satisfaction in us.

Manifestation-divinity

Is Perfection supreme

And

Perfection supreme

Is Reality absolute. ```

24. Silence and sound

```

In silence

We grow and glow;

In sound

We love and serve.

Silence-life

Is the tree.

Sound-life

Is the fruit.

If there is no tree,

There can be no fruit

And if there is no fruit,

There is no need for a tree.

Silence and sound both

Are of paramount importance. ```

25. Dynamism

```

Dynamism of the soul

Is the illumining discovery

Of the seeker in us.

Dynamism is not aggression.

Aggression is the precursor of destruction.

Dynamism is God-enthusiasm in us

For God-realisation,

God-revelation,

God-manifestation

And

God satisfaction.

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26. Joy

```

Joy is our progress.

Progress is God's Choice.

God's Choice is our inner Immortality's

All-illumining,

All-fulfilling

And

All-liberating

Voice. ```

27. Soulful invocation

```

A soulful invocation

Of God's Presence

Brings God's immediate Satisfaction-Smile

To the seeker's promise-heart. ```

28. God's Feet

```

God's Feet do not kick us.

God's Feet only shelter us,

And show us the goal.

Furthermore,

God's Feet walk on our behalf

And reach the goal for us,

And bring the infinite Light,

Peace and Bliss

To offer to us,

For our own use. ```

29. Patience

```

Patience

Is not forced surrender

Or helpless surrender

To the reality-existence.

Patience

Is the secret of secrets

That allows God's Hour to dawn

According to God's own Will.

Patience

Means allowing God to arrive

Before our heart's door

At His own time. ```

30. Family

```

In a human family

We quarrel and struggle

Because we feel that each one

Has to survive

For his own earth-satisfaction.

In a divine family

We strive devotedly and soulfully

Because we feel that each individual

Is responsible for the collective satisfaction

And collective perfection.

In a divine family

God plays the preparation-role,

The perfection-role,

The satisfaction-role.

The divine family

Is the only thing

That God desperately needs

Here on earth. ```

31. Gratitude-flower

```

Lord Supreme,

Make my heart gratitude-flower

Not for my satisfaction,

But for Your Satisfaction

In and through me.

Lord Supreme,

Make my heart gratitude-flower

So that You can grow and glow and flow

In my universal Reality

Inside Your Dream-Boat —

The Dream-Boat You have made of me

And, at the same time, for me.

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32. God-Realisation

```

My desire-life tells me

That I do not need God;

What I need is God's creation.

My aspiration-life tells me

That I do not need God's creation;

What I need is God alone.

My surrender-life tells me

That I need only the thing

That God wants me to have,

For His constant Satisfaction. ```

33. Supreme's Justice

```

The human in us will never know

What the Supreme's supreme Justice is.

The divine in us always knows

What the Supreme's supreme Justice is.

The Supreme's supreme Justice

Is Forgiveness-Light

In order to prove the Supreme's

Oneness-Might

In His eternal Perfection-Height.

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34. Love

```

The animal love in us

Is the dance of destruction.

The human love in us

Is the song of temptation.

The divine love in us

Is the game of perfection.

The supreme Love in us

Is the satisfaction of constantly

Self-transcending heights

Of Delight. ```

35. Surrender

```

There was a time

When I surrendered out of fear,

But that surrender only made me feel

How useless, hopeless, worthless

I was.

But now I surrender to whom?

To the real in me,

To the Supreme in me,

To the Inner Pilot in me,

To the divine Lover

And

To the divine Beloved in me.

Now my surrender is not imposed.

Now my surrender is my expansion.

Now my surrender is the song

Of self-illumination,

Self-perfection

And

God-satisfaction

In me. ```

36. Delight

```

There are two oceans in front of me:

The ocean of night

And

The ocean of delight.

The ocean of night tells me,

"Child, I shall give you

What you need.

Come and take it from me."

The ocean of delight tells me,

"Child, I shall give you

What I am.

Even if you do not care for

What I am,

I care for you.

I shall always care for you

And wait for you,

For your God-Hour,

For it is I who have to make you feel

That you are of the Source

Which is Delight

And

You are for the Goal

Which is equally Delight."

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37. Truth

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A painful truth

Is worse than a lie.

Truth that hurts,

Truth that destroys,

Is no truth.

Truth that illumines,

Truth that reveals,

Truth that perfects,

Truth that transforms the animal in us

And

Satisfies the human in us

And

Fulfils the divine in us

Is the only Truth. ```

38. Discipline

```

The discipline of the body

Culminates in glorious awareness.

The discipline of the vital

Culminates in glorious dynamism.

The discipline of the mind

Culminates in glorious clarity.

The discipline of the heart

Culminates in glorious oneness,

Inseparable oneness

With the world of inner aspiration

And

With the world of outer dedication. ```

39. Song

```

The song that carries me

To the world of depression-frustration

Is the song of my desire-life.

The song that carries me

To the world of salvation-liberation

Is the song of my aspiration-life.

The song that carries me

To the world of God-satisfaction

Is the song of my self-giving,

Constant self-giving. ```

40. Bliss

```

Sweet is bliss

When I see the Face of my Beloved

The way I want to see it.

Sweeter is bliss

When I feel the Heart of my Beloved Supreme

The way I want to feel it.

Sweetest is bliss

When I see His Face

And

Feel His Heart

The way my Beloved Supreme

Wants me to. ```

41. Courage

```

The supreme courage lies

In demanding and commanding the mind

To live in the oneness-love of the heart.

The supreme courage lies

In demanding and commanding the vital

To live in the heart of the illumining mind.

The supreme courage lies

In demanding and commanding the body

To live in the vast receptivity of the dynamic vital.

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42. Sacrifice

```

When I sing the song of duality —

You as an individual,

I as an individual —

The song of sacrifice I sing.

When I sing the song of oneness-reality,

There is no sacrifice,

For in the realisation of oneness-light,

There can be no sacrifice,

Only the song of transformation,

Constant transformation.

The lower and the higher

Fulfil each other.

The lower in me fulfils the higher

By serving the higher.

The higher in me fulfils the lower

By transforming the lower.

In the real fulfilment of one's total existence

There is no sacrifice;

It is only the game of

Oneness-song

And

Oneness-dance. ```

43. Faith

```

With personal effort we start.

With personal faith we continue.

With divine faith we complete the game.

With supreme awareness of constant God-faith

In us and for us,

We eternally remain the chosen instruments

Of the Absolute Supreme

In His Heart of Divinity

And

In His Life of Infinity

And

In His Dream of Eternity. ```

44. Humility

```

Humility

Is the purity-eye in us.

Humility

Is the beauty-heart in us.

Humility

Is the reality-soul in us.

With purity-eye we measure the distance

To our Goal.

With beauty-heart we run the fastest

Towards our Goal.

With reality-soul we eventually become

The Goal itself. ```

45. Gratitude

```

In the life of aspiration and dedication

The gratitude-deer always runs the fastest,

Always achieves the most,

Always becomes the perfection-satisfaction

Of the highest

And

Most fulfilling and fulfilled

Supreme in us.

Gratitude is not a human achievement.

Gratitude is a divine treasure

Granted to us

By the Inner Pilot within us,

The Absolute Supreme.

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46. Oneness

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When I aspire,

I know my oneness-role

With aspiring humanity.

When I serve,

I know my oneness-soul

With smiling Divinity.

When I become gratitude-perfection,

I become the oneness-goal

Of the Divine within

And

The Divine without.

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47. Willpower

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Willpower

Is the soul's light within us.

Willpower

Is the hero divine within us.

Willpower

Is the self-giving love in us

For the Reality in us.

And the Reality in us

Is the Inner Pilot,

The Supreme. ```

48. Oneness

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What we call consecrated oneness

In the morning,

We call that very thing

Inseparable oneness

In the afternoon.

What we call inseparable oneness

In the afternoon,

We call that very thing

Perfection-oneness

In the evening. ```

49. Perfection

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Perfection

Smiles at justice-light.

Perfection

Laughs at injustice-might.

Perfection

Fulfils itself in compassion-delight. ```

50. Independence-day

```

Independence-day

Is not the day of equality

But the day of

Human life's equanimity

And

Human heart's beauty. ```

Editor's preface to the first edition

The poems in this book were composed spontaneously by Sri Chinmoy from words given by his disciples at various Centres.

From:Sri Chinmoy,Dedication-Drops, Agni Press, 1976
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