Every day a new chance

1.

```

To my extreme joy,

There is no such thing

As a last chance

To please God! ```

2.

```

My mind-prayer cries

For God the Power.

My heart-meditation dreams

Of God the Love.

My soul-surrender dines

With God the Satisfaction. ```

3.

```

I could not realise God

In the heights of my reach.

But I did realise God

In the depths of my love. ```

4.

```

I may not know what it means

To be perfect,

But I do know what it means

To be happy. ```

5.

```

Today's hope

And tomorrow's promise

Are universal experiences.

```

6.

```

The unknown

Can not only be known,

But can also be

And must be

Fully manifested.

```

7.

```

God, I do not love You,

Yet You love me.

Why do You do that,

My Lord?

"My child, I cannot help it.

I just cannot do otherwise!" ```

8.

```

I love God,

And next to God

I love the God-seeker

Who loves God infinitely more

Than I love God.

```

9.

```

I have perfectly realised

Three important things:

My Lord's Compassion

Is never unwilling,

My Lord's Compassion

Is never slow,

My Lord's Compassion

Is never insufficient. ```

10.

```

Faith is God's Power,

Loving, illumining and fulfilling,

In the hearts of His human children.

```

11.

```

Freedom is God-discovery.

Freedom is self-mastery.

Freedom is satisfaction-recovery.

```

12.

```

My freedom to choose:

A God-surrender-life,

A God-gratitude-heart!

```

13.

```

Forgive

If you want to regain

The full freedom-joy

Of your mind and heart. ```

14.

```

Yesterday I performed

Three real miracles,

And these three miracles

Lasted for the entire day:

I conquered my negativity-mind,

I proclaimed the victory

Of my willingness-heart,

And I became my life's

Unconditional surrender

To God's Will. ```

15.

```

My aspiration-heart

And my dedication-life

Fondly and proudly

Depend on each other. ```

16.

```

"God"

Is not the Name of God

But man's experience-description

Of God. ```

17.

```

My aspiration-heart asks me

To look upward and see God's Feet,

Which are so merciful.

My dedication-life asks me

To look forward and see God's Eyes,

Which are so beautiful. ```

18.

```

God forgives us

So that

His Compassion-Affection-Heart-Home

Does not remain empty. ```

19.

```

Forgiveness is

The unparalleled capacity

To swim in the ecstasy-sea.

```

20.

```

If you forgive the world,

God will use your fragrance-heart

As His cherished Throne.

```

21.

```

I am in between

My Lord's blessingful Invitation

And my mind's awful rejection.

```

22.

```

What my heart needs every day

Is lightning-speed

To serve humanity.

```

23.

```

Hope-beauty starts

The inner journey.

Faith-purity completes

The inner journey. ```

24.

```

My ego-balloon

Will soon burst,

For God's all-illumining Wisdom-Light

Has entered into my mind. ```

25.

```

From God's point of view,

Honesty and integrity

Cannot be separated.

```

26.

```

Willingness-capacity

Is at once

Most beautiful and most powerful.

```

27.

```

May my life-dictionary

Have only four words:

Aspiration,

Dedication,

Gratitude,

Surrender. ```

28.

```

Alas, my heart stands

In between

My delayed aspiration

And my decayed perfection. ```

29.

```

The mind's happiness

Indicates

The heart's purity-prosperity.

```

30.

```

Unlike my mind,

My heart does everything

Sooner rather than later

To please my Lord Supreme. ```

31.

```

Not a fear-prompted prayer

But a love-inspired meditation

Can and does

Gladden God's Heart. ```

32.

```

A fault-finding seeker

Is a colossal failure

In the aspiration-world.

```

33.

```

God has categorically told me

That He will never listen

To my prayers,

No matter how sincere and pure

They are,

If I do not love my heart

Dearly

And show respect to my heart

Soulfully.

```

34.

```

God is proud of me

When I have measureless

Enthusiasm.

God is disgusted with me

When I have bottomless

Depression. ```

35.

```

An unconditional lover of God

Is the only human being

Who will always be a God-winner

At every hour of the day

And every hour of the night.

```

36.

```

An ego-mind is by far

The best listener

To its own louder-than-the-loudest

Voice. ```

37.

```

A sincere seeker

Deserves a truly God-realised Master.

A God-realised Master

Deserves at least one

Unconditionally surrendered disciple.

```

38.

```

O my mind,

Be not a stupid stranger

To forgiveness!

```

39.

```

A doubting mind

Is always at war

With itself.

```

40.

```

Not one, but two new realities

I have discovered:

A breathless aspiration-heart

And a sleepless dedication-life. ```

41.

```

I shall delay

No more

My unconditional surrender-joy-day.

```

42.

```

Doubt, are you deaf?

Are you blind?

Can you not hear and see

That I am defying you

And saying good-bye to you?

```

43.

```

If you are prepared

To trust God.

Only then should you test Him.

```

44.

```

With his mind's capacities,

He is surprising the world.

With his heart's capacity,

He is obeying and pleasing

His Lord Supreme.

```

45.

```

Strength indomitable

Comes not from outer exercise

But from inner awakening.

```

46.

```

My earth-bound cries

Will eventually rest

In my Heaven-free smiles.

```

47.

```

May each day for me

Usher in

A God-Satisfaction-hope.

```

48.

```

The mind's jealousy

And the heart's insecurity

Like to coexist.

```

49

```

A sleepless

Surrender-heart-river

Runs fast, very fast,

Towards God's

Fulness-Satisfaction-Shore.

```

50.

```

Alas,

Not even God's

Indulgent Compassion

Sees any progress

In my aspiration-heart.

```

51.

```

Alas,

When God's Compassion-Eye

Called me,

Immediately my mind forced me

To run the other way.

```

52.

```

Yesterday God the Compassion

Took away from me

My ego-bloated mind.

Today God the Satisfaction

Is receiving from me

My aspiration-flooded heart.

```

53.

```

Instead of inventing excuses,

Why do you not prevent yourself

From making mistakes?

```

54.

```

You can directly enter

Into aspiration-garden

Without tiptoeing

Through desire-forest. ```

55.

```

When I am in my mind's

Possession-world,

My life is a problem.

When I am in my heart's

Renunciation-world,

My life is a privilege.

```

56.

```

A doubting mind

Violently reacts.

An aspiring heart

Soulfully acts. ```

57.

```

Never too late for the mind

To lose excessive doubt-weight

Or for the heart

To gain impressive faith-strength. ```

58.

```

Finally I have dethroned

Ignorance-king

From my life-kingdom!

```

59.

```

Illumination my mind needs.

Realisation my heart needs.

Transformation my life needs.

And what do I need?

I need God's Compassion-Forgiveness.

```

60.

```

You do not need God

To tell you

If you have a pure heart.

God has already given you

The capacity

To examine your heart faultlessly. ```

From:Sri Chinmoy,Every day a new chance, Agni Press, 1991
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