Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 19

1801. How to suffer less

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My Supreme Lord,

How can a seeker’s mind

Suffer less?

How can a seeker’s heart

Suffer less?

“My child,

A seeker’s mind will suffer less

If the seeker accepts the fact

That his days on earth are short,

Very short.

A seeker’s heart will suffer less

If the seeker accepts the fact

That his needs on earth are few,

Very, very few.” ```

1802. Seven aspiration-flames

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Out of His boundless Bounty

My Lord Supreme has granted me

Seven aspiration-flames

And seven dedication-drops.

Why, why, why?

Him to please in His own Way

Sleeplessly and unconditionally.

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1803. Purity-heart and beauty-face

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My Lord Supreme,

First please make me feel

The purity-heart of Your creation

And then show me

The beauty-face of Your creation.

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1804. Great and good

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My Beloved Supreme,

When I become great,

What shall I do?

“My child,

When you become great,

You should think of Me more,

So that you can become greater.”

My Beloved Supreme,

When I become good,

What shall I do?

“My child,

When you become good,

You do not have to do anything else.

I shall think of you more,

I shall love you more,

I shall do everything and everything

For you.” ```

1805. In vain

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In vain

My mind is searching for truth.

In pain

My heart is crying for light. ```

1806. Experience and reality

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My Supreme Lord,

What is the difference

Between happiness and delight?

“My child,

Happiness is an experience,

And delight is a reality

That transcends experience.”

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1807. The greatest masterpiece

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My pen will never be able

To write the greatest masterpiece.

My heart alone can,

And it has already done it.

What is that greatest masterpiece?

My God-realisation is for God’s sake.

My God-manifestation is for God’s sake.

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1808. Free yourself from tension

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My Supreme Lord,

How can I free myself

From tension?

“My child,

You can free yourself

From tension easily

If you do not cling

To an astonishingly fleeting

Pleasure-life.”

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1809. How can I be constantly happy?

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My Beloved Supreme,

How can I be constantly happy?

“My child,

Renounce the desire

To be widely known.”

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1810. We must wrestle

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We must wrestle

With teeming temptations

In the darkness-cave

Before we ascend the mount

Of Vision Transcendental.

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1811. Immortality will conquer

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Because sincerity has conquered

Our minds,

Because purity has conquered

Our hearts,

Because beauty has conquered

Our eyes,

Immortality will conquer our lives.

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1812. If we think of God

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If we think of God sleeplessly,

Then let us love Him unconditionally.

If we love God unconditionally,

Then let us think of Him sleeplessly. ```

1813. A tremendous success

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Yesterday

I was a colossal failure.

Today

I am a tremendous success.

How and why?

How?

Because my Beloved Supreme

Has done everything for me.

Why?

Because my Beloved Supreme

Wants to have the new experience

Of success-satisfaction-light

In and through my life.

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1814. My prayers

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My supreme wisdom

And

My divine wisdom

Pray to the Absolute.

My human stupidity

And

My animal audacity

Pray for the Absolute. ```

1815. I love God

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I love God

Because I need Him

Desperately.

God needs me

Because He loves me

Sleeplessly.

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1816. I shall become tomorrow

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Perfection is something

That I am not today

But I can and I shall

Become tomorrow.

God is Someone

Who I am not today

But I can and I shall

Become tomorrow. ```

1817. This world can be truly happy

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Sweet Lord,

How can this world of ours

Be truly happy?

“My child,

This world can be truly happy

If and when the machine-mechanised men

Listen to the God-realised souls.”

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1818. What I do not have

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My Beloved Supreme,

How can I give You

What I do not have:

A feeling of constant satisfaction? ```

1819. What I have been preserving for You

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My Beloved Supreme,

I am now giving You

What I have been preserving for You

Throughout Eternity:

My Infinity’s constant Satisfaction.

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1820. Surmount your faults

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Because you can count

Your faults,

Your life is divinely great.

Because you can surmount

Your faults,

You are supremely good. ```

1821. Reveal an unknown world of beauty

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If you have haunting music

In your mind

And a soulful song

In your heart,

Then easily you will be able

To reveal an unknown world of beauty

For the God-lovers.

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1822. Man's mind

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Fortunately

Man’s mind

Is a fleeting

Experience-incident. ```

1823. Today's machine-man

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Fortunately

Today’s surprisingly incompetent

Machine-man

Will surrender to

Tomorrow’s astonishingly competent

God-man. ```

1824. Today's man of thought

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Fortunately

Today’s strikingly incompetent

Man of thought

Will surrender to

Tomorrow’s amazingly competent

Man of will-power. ```

1825. A creative newness-satisfaction

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O my doubting mind,

You are indeed a destructive

Nothingness-ambition.

O my crying heart,

You are indeed a creative

Newness-satisfaction. ```

1826. I must be receptive

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I must make my entire being

Absolutely receptive

Before I can bear

God’s Forgiveness-Shower

And see

His Compassion-Tower. ```

1827. God will not deny me

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If God’s supreme Necessity

Demands that He delay,

He will delay,

But He will not

Permanently deny me.

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1828. What we are today

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Remember, what we are today

Will not prevent us from becoming

What we should become tomorrow.

Today we may be

An insincere cry,

But tomorrow we

Can unmistakably become

Not only a sincere cry,

But also a perfect smile —

The smile that will fully satisfy

God’s Heart, our Eternal Home.

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1829. Infinity's Abode

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God’s Compassion-Eye

Is God’s

Infinity’s Abode.

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1830. Gratitude

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Gratitude

Is at once

Beautiful

And

Fruitful.

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1831. Commitments and involvements

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My commitments

And

My perfect satisfactions

Live together.

My involvements

And

My devastating frustrations

Live together. ```

1832. An absurdity

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Spirituality

Without difficulty

Is an absurdity.

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1833. The inner hunger

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The inner hunger

Is conscious progress.

The inner hunger

Is fast progress.

The inner hunger

Is perfect progress. ```

1834. To love the ungrasped

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I am happy

Because

I have the capacity

To love the ungrasped. ```

1835. God the Tree

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When I aspire,

I love God the Tree.

When I serve,

I love the branches

Of the God-Tree.

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1836. Love and service

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Love is

Preparation.

Service is

Perfection. ```

1837. Under the Banner of God

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Under the Banner of God

The Truth-seeker will become

The God-lover,

And the God-lover will become

The man-server.

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1838. Why do you bind me?

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O my vital,

Why do you bind me

All the time,

Why?

O my mind,

Why do you blind me

All the time,

Why? ```

1839. Inspiration-flood

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Inspiration-flood

Is my mind’s beauty.

Aspiration-sea

Is my heart’s duty. ```

1840. My soulful aspiration

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My soulful aspiration

Is my Lord’s

Only powerful Satisfaction

In me. ```

1841. Arrangement and rearrangement

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Through arrangement

And rearrangement

The human life

Achieves its fulfilment. ```

1842. God is asking

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God is asking you

To be His lover

Precisely because

You are not

A self-deceiver.

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1843. One step at a time

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Take one step at a time.

The first step

Is to develop a pure heart.

The second step

Is to live a self-giving life.

The third and last step

Is to smile a God-pleasing smile.

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1844. My heart must succeed

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My heart must succeed

Against my mind’s

Tremendous resistance.

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1845. If you know

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If you know what you want,

Then grasp it,

Immediately!

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1846. An indispensable life

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A sound-life

Is not indispensable,

But a silence-life is.

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1847. Be faithful

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Be faithful

If you want to

Be fruitful.

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1848. Human nature

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Human nature

Does not change

And cannot change

Without selfless service. ```

1849. Change your attitude!

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Change your attitude!

Lo, look what stands before you:

Plenitude!

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1850. No deception

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No inner

Self-deception,

No outer

Temptation. ```

1851. When you become the Infinite

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When you become

The Infinite,

Then only

The Absolute will bless you. ```

1852. Happiness

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Happiness

Is in the affirmation

Of faith-sun

And the negation

Of doubt-night.

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1853. Reject not!

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Reject not!

Accept and transform.

You will prosper.

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1854. Each thought

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Each thought

Is important.

Each action

Is meaningful. ```

1855. I need a new start

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What I need

Is a new start.

My enthusiasm will replace

My indolence.

My satisfaction will replace

My imperfection. ```

1856. The protection-cross

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The protection-cross

Is for those who know how to cry.

The illumination-sun

Is for those who know how to smile. ```

1857. God-discovery

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Art

Is God-discovery.

God-discovery

Is life-mastery. ```

1858. Imitation is not art

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Imitation

Is not art.

Newness in fulness

Is art. ```

1859. You have made me happy

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My Lord,

You have made me happy

By making me Your servant.

Will You not make me

Infinitely happier

By making me Your slave? ```

1860. I experience life

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When I pray soulfully,

I experience

The richness of life.

When I meditate calmly,

I experience

The goodness of life.

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1861. Fulness and emptiness

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The heart calls fulness

What the mind calls emptiness.

I see eye-to-eye

With the heart. ```

1862. Nobody else

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Nobody else

Except your Lord Supreme

Can or will

Do anything good for you. ```

1863. Satisfaction dawns

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Satisfaction dawns

The moment you discover

That yours is not

The only way. ```

1864. Let your heart

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Let your heart

Think of quality

While your mind

Thinks of quantity. ```

1865. How can you expect?

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How can you expect

To learn something

New, soulful and fruitful

From your mechanical mind? ```

1866. The true truth

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Try to realise

The true truth

That you are infinitely better

Than what you think of yourself. ```

1867. Be aware of everything

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God does not want you

To be afraid of anything.

He just wants you

To be aware of everything. ```

1868. Wake up!

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Wake up, wake up!

Don’t you know

That it is spiritually dangerous

To sleep for a very long time? ```

1869. A good intention

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A good intention

Can change

A great many conditions.

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1870. Absence demonstrates

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Quite often

Absence demonstrates

The inner character.

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1871. An inspiration-sky

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O my mind,

Look what I have for you:

An inspiration-sky.

It is extremely precious.

Never lose it!

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1872. Time's error

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Time’s long error:

It had tremendous faith,

Faith in man.

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1873. Signs of God

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Forgiveness-Light

Is the sign

Of the visible God.

Justice-Height

Is the sign

Of the invisible God.

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1874. Aspiration lives

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Aspiration lives

In the vast land

Of hero-promise.

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1875. A God-dreamer

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A God-dreamer

Does not live

In the mind’s darkness-cave.

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1876. He who has no faith

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He who has no faith

Either in himself or in God

Lives in a compound-fracture-day

And a compound-fracture-night. ```

1877. My dream, my vision

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My dream

Wakes me up.

My vision

Helps me fly. ```

1878. What more do I need?

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What more do I need?

My Beloved Supreme has already given me

Two soulful eyes

And

One prayerful heart.

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1879. An unconditional marriage

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Heaven’s day

Has unconditionally married

Earth’s night.

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1880. Look beyond appearances

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Do not allow circumstances

To frighten you.

Do not allow situations

To torture you.

Look beyond appearances.

Yours will be

The unmistakable happiness.

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1881. A single blessing-smile

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You can pierce through

Your ego-ceiling

With a single blessing-smile

From your soul. ```

1882. Do not allow tension

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Do not allow tension

To stab your life

If you want to succeed

In your prayer-life

And proceed

In your meditation-life. ```

1883. Infinite choices

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Each aspiring life

Can live inside

The beautiful newness

And soulful fruitfulness

Of infinite choices.

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1884. Be not afraid

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O aspiration-dedication-heroes,

Be not afraid

Of the adamantine gates

Of tomorrow! ```

1885. What my Lord calls protection

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What my Lord calls

Protection,

I call that very thing

My salvation. ```

1886. Nothing to fear

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I have nothing to fear,

For I unmistakably know

That there is nothing dangerous.

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1887. My soulful prayers

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My soulful prayers

Have saved my heart.

My fruitful meditations

Have liberated my life. ```

1888. An unnecessary companion

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Success is an unnecessary

Plus undesirable companion

On the path of progress.

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1889. No answer

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His mind searched

For God’s Will

But found no answer.

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1890. Allow God to become real

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You are bound to know

God’s Will

If you allow God

To become real to you. ```

1891. His life's early morning

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His life’s early morning

Saw God’s Forgiveness-Feet.

His life’s late evening

Shall see God’s Compassion-Eye. ```

1892. Soulless competition

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Never love the field

Of ruthless and soulless

Competition.

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1893. Heaven's gratitude-heart

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Heaven’s gratitude-heart

Was created by God Himself

For Heaven’s use.

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1894. Two Himalayan blunders

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Two Himalayan blunders:

To love ignorance

And

To hate oneself. ```

1895. Is there any difference?

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My beloved Lord,

Is there any difference

Between Your Eternity

And Your Infinity?

“Yes, there is.

I live inside My Eternity’s Cry,

Treasuring the hope that

Someday, somewhere and somehow

I shall be able to live

Inside My Infinity’s Smile.” ```

1896. Pray in the morning

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Pray in the morning

And meditate in the evening.

You will be able to stab the sighs

Of your deep unhappiness. ```

1897. A fertile mind

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A fertile mind

Is nothing but a stream

Of soulless information.

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1898. Oneness-satisfaction

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Oneness-satisfaction

Is the death

Of the doubting mind.

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1899. The unrewarded service

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Every second of every day

Reveals to me

That God alone

Does the unrewarded service. ```

1900. Three Himalayan prayers

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Three Himalayan prayers:

Lord, do give me the capacity

To love Your Forgiveness-Feet

Unreservedly.

Lord, do give me the capacity

To love Your Compassion-Heart

Untiringly.

Lord, do give me the capacity

To love Your Justice-Eye

Unconditionally. ```

Editor's introduction to the first edition

This is the nineteenth volume in a series of ten thousand “flaming flower-poems” which Sri Chinmoy is placing devotedly, unreservedly and unconditionally at the Compassion-Feet of God, our Beloved Supreme. They stand as a supreme offering from the unfolding beauty of his flower-heart and the flaming heights of his realisation-sun. Indeed, a treasure-tower which will at once be claimed by humanity’s self-ascending cry and Divinity’s God-descending Smile.

Editor's note to cover photo

Sri Chinmoy meets with the late President of Ireland, Eamon de Valera, on 15 June 1973 in Dublin. “I am grateful to you for illumining me and encouraging me in the evening of my life,” de Valera said. Sri Chinmoy told the Irish leader, “God has granted you inner vision... I see this in your ever-increasing love and ever-increasing compassion for your country.”

From:Sri Chinmoy,Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 19, Agni Press, 1981
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