Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 30

2901. A good thought

```

A good thought gently knocks

At your heart’s door

And enters with your full permission

To see your face of truth

And feel your heart of love.

```

2902. The most expensive thing

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Wisdom-delight is the most

Expensive thing on earth.

But no matter how expensive it is,

Every peace-loving

And God-becoming human being

Must have it. ```

2903. The spiritual Master

```

The parents tell the children

What to do.

The schoolteacher tells the children

How to do it.

The spiritual Master

Does it for them. ```

2904. My image of life-perfection

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I shall always maintain

My image of life-perfection

For the full Satisfaction

Of my Beloved Supreme. ```

2905. The destruction-game

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When the mind becomes selfishness,

When the heart becomes loneliness,

When the life becomes fruitlessness,

These three friends together play

The destruction-game.

```

2906. Three uncompromising worlds

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Uncompromising is the physical world.

More uncompromising is the vital world.

Most uncompromising is the mental world.

At every moment what I need

Is the indomitable stamina of my soul

To brave these three uncompromising worlds. ```

2907. A better citizen of the world

```

Each time I enjoy freedom

From the confines of my doubting mind,

I see a clearer guidance

And become a better citizen of the world. ```

2908. You are terribly alone

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You are terribly alone,

Not because your busy mind has deserted you,

But because your heart’s purity-oneness

Is totally disappointed in you. ```

2909. The courage to tell the world

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My Beloved Supreme,

Do give me the courage to tell the world

That my judgment-mind was absolutely wrong

And I am sincerely sorry.

My heart really means it.

```

2910. My compassionate Lord

```

Although I am quite often nervous,

Although quite often

I am about to faint with anxiety,

I still feel that my compassionate Lord

And my liberating Lord

Cannot and will not remain away from me

For a long time.

```

2911. Excruciating pangs

```

My Lord, my Lord,

My purity-flower fades away

Before it is fully blossomed.

Therefore, every day I am compelled

To experience excruciating pangs.

```

2912. A constantly peaceful mind

```

O my Lord, do tell me,

How can I ever be grateful enough?

“My child, you do not have to be grateful.

What I want from you

Is a constantly peaceful mind,

For that will give Me

An eternal Satisfaction-Sun.”

```

2913. The results of my impurity

```

Because I was not pure,

My heart was bruised yesterday.

Because I am not pure,

My life is battered today.

Because I shall not be pure,

I shall be forced to live

In annihilation-night tomorrow.

```

2914. Will You not come to me?

```

My Lord, when I had a series

Of serious crises,

You came to me with Your Power.

My Lord, when I had a series

Of serious problems,

You came to me with Your Guidance.

My Lord, what I have now

Is gratitude.

This time, will You not come to me

With Your Satisfaction-Smile? ```

2915. My tiny world and God's big World

```

When my tiny world,

My Lord, is in Your big World,

I feel extremely peaceful.

My Lord, what happens to You

When Your big World

Enters into my tiny world?

“My child, I feel then perfectly fruitful.”

```

2916. I am happy only twice

```

I am happy only twice:

Once when I place my loving heart

At the Feet of my Beloved Supreme,

Once when I command my fleeting thoughts

To obey His Will.

```

2917. I have not been dreaming

```

My Lord, You know how I have been suffering

Inwardly and outwardly.

“My child, I have not been dreaming.

I have been living

Inside your life-killing pain-reality.”

```

2918. What will happen?

```

My Beloved Supreme,

What will happen when I

Sincerely, soulfully and sleeplessly

Rely on You?

“My child, your teeming weaknesses

Will become My illumining Strength,

And your heartbreaking failures

Will become My Vision-fulfilling Triumphs.” ```

2919. What pains You most?

```

My Lord, what is the thing that I do

That pains You the most?

“My child, when you carry your fruitless past

Along with you

And tell the world at large

That for you there can be

No fruitful present.”

```

2920. Your complete Manifestation

```

To me, my aspiration

Is not everything.

To me, my dedication

Is not everything.

To me, my realisation

Is not everything.

To me, Your complete Manifestation

In perfect Perfection

Is everything.

```

2921. A time when You do not love me

```

My Lord, do You love me

Even when I kill time?

“Yes, My child, I love you.”

My Lord, is there any time

When You do not love me?

“Yes, My child, there is a time

When I do not love you.”

When, my Lord, when?

“When you think that you are not

A budding God.” ```

2922. The real difference

```

My Lord, what is the real difference

Between my smallness and Your Greatness?

“My child, the difference is very simple:

Your smallness foolishly tries

To hide from Me.

My Greatness compassionately tries

To live inside you

Even when your anger-mind and frustration-vital

Ignore Me deliberately.”

```

2923. We must soulfully combine

```

We must soulfully combine our vision-heart

With our fruitful reality-life.

Then God will be able

Neither to keep His smiling Face

Away from us

Nor to keep our tearing and bleeding hearts

Away from Him.

```

2924. The capacity to become

```

My mind has the capacity

To become beautiful.

My heart has the capacity

To remain beautiful.

My soul is eternally beautiful.

```

2925. Open my eyes

```

My Lord Supreme,

Open my eyes

So that I can see Your Beauty.

Open my mind

So that I can appreciate Your Beauty.

Open my heart

So that I can surrender myself completely

To Your Beauty. ```

2926. My only needs

```

Awareness is the only thing

That my mind needs.

Soulfulness is the only thing

That my heart needs.

Oneness — my constant, sleepless,

Inseparable oneness with my Lord Supreme —

Is the only thing that I need.

```

2927. God has transcended Himself

```

Look forward,

Dive within,

Fly above.

Lo!

You have gone beyond yourself,

And God has transcended Himself

In and through you.

```

2928. Self-mastery and God-discovery

```

Self-mastery and God-discovery

Are the only two things

That each human being on earth

Must take seriously.

Everything else can be taken lightly.

```

2929. I followed you closely

```

O my vital,

I followed you closely.

At the end of your path

What I discovered was frustration.

O my mind,

I followed you closely.

At the end of your path

What I discovered was contradiction.

O my heart,

I followed you closely.

At the end of your path

What I discovered was illumination.

O my soul,

I followed you closely.

At the end of your path

What I discovered was perfection.

It was there that God blessed me

With His most powerful

Reality-Existence-Smile.

```

2930. Purify and intensify

```

If you can purify

The quantity of your mind,

You will be able to intensify

The quality of your heart

And satisfy the God-hunger inside you.

```

2931. A new boon

```

What you need is a new approach.

What you need is a new path.

What you need is a new goal.

Lo, right in front of you is God

With a new boon:

His Ecstasy’s transcendental Height. ```

2932. If you want God to crown you

```

Go beyond your thinking mind

If you want to succeed.

Listen to the illumining voice

Of your loving heart

If you want God to crown you.

```

2933. You are a fool

```

You are a fool if you think

That you will be able to save yourself.

You are a fool if you think

That your Master will be able to save you

Without your express consent.

```

2934. Only one way

```

There is only one way,

All-illumining and all-illumined,

And that way

Is the sincerity-determination-way. ```

2935. Look for perfection

```

Look for perfection in others.

Your very search will give you abundant joy.

Look for perfection inside your nature.

Your very search will awaken you

To love perfection evermore.

```

2936. Courage produces a great man

```

Courage produces a great man.

Love produces a good man.

Gratitude produces a perfect man.

Surrender produces a satisfied man. ```

2937. Two divine gifts

```

My Lord Supreme,

Out of Your boundless Bounty,

Yesterday You gave me a heart of duty

And today You have given me a heart of purity.

What will You give me tomorrow?

“My child, in the inner world

I shall give you a heart of gratitude.

In the outer world

I shall give you a life of plenitude.”

```

2938. Because He is my only Friend

```

Because He is my only Friend,

He is correcting my mind,

Perfecting my heart

And liberating my life. ```

2939. God will pay you every day

```

If you live in the mind,

Then every time you visit God’s Heart-Home

You have to pay God.

If you live in the heart,

Then God will pay you every day

For taking care of His Heart-Home.

```

2940. A man of wisdom-delight

```

If you are a man of knowledge-light,

You will know what the world has.

If you are a man of wisdom-delight,

You will know who God is

And where God is.

```

2941. Three teachers

```

My stupidity-mind

Learns from the outer world.

My simplicity-life

Learns from the inner world.

My purity-heart

Learns from God Himself. ```

2942. Courage means readiness

```

Courage means readiness.

Readiness means willingness.

Willingness means newness.

Newness means closeness.

Closeness means fulness.

```

2943. A poor man wants something

```

A poor man wants something.

A rich man wants many things.

A greedy man wants everything.

A wise man wants only the things

That God wants him to have.

```

2944. My life wants

```

My desire-life

Wants the wealth of Heaven.

My aspiration-life

Wants the beauty of Heaven.

My realisation-life

Wants the satisfaction of Heaven.

My perfection-life

Wants God to make of earth

Another Heaven.

```

2945. Do not whisper

```

You are whispering;

That means something has gone wrong.

But you have to know

That your whispering only increases

The curiosity-hunger in others.

Eventually you and they

Will die a barren death

In the world of curiosity-destruction.

Therefore, do not whisper.

Speak loudly.

Become a God-instrument

Divinely and proudly. ```

2946. If you believe in God

```

If you believe in God,

Then God will come and stand before you.

If you believe in yourself,

Then you will be able to come

And stand before God.

If you believe in yourself

And believe in God at the same time,

Then God does not have to stand before you

And you do not have to stand before God.

Both of you will only enjoy

God’s sleepless Oneness-Breath.

```

2947. Think of God

```

Think of God.

He will bless you with His Faith-plant.

Meditate on God.

He will bless you with His Perfection-tree.

Surrender your outer world

And your inner world to God.

He will feed you

With the same Satisfaction-Nectar

That He drinks every day.

```

2948. My Immortality's Reality-Shore

```

My Lord Supreme,

I do not know where You are,

I do not know who You are,

But I know for certain

That I am Your Eternity’s Dream-Boat

And You are my Immortality’s Reality-Shore. ```

2949. God's Capacity and Quality

```

Everything else in God

Is either God’s Quality or God’s Capacity.

But Love is at once

The Capacity and the Quality of God. ```

2950. My life can be satisfied

```

My aspiration-life can be satisfied

With well-wishers.

My dedication-life will be satisfied

Only with divine servers. ```

2951. Inside God

```

Now that I know

Death is outside God,

I am really happy.

What is inside God?

My Eternity’s selflessness

And

His Immortality’s Oneness.

```

2952. The supreme fulfiller

```

My body,

I have been helping you

For such a long time.

Nevertheless, you are an idler.

My vital,

I have been helping you

For such a long time.

Nevertheless, you are an aggressor.

My mind,

I have been helping you

For such a long time.

Nevertheless, you are a doubter.

My heart,

I have been helping you

Since this morning.

I clearly see that you are a born lover.

My soul,

I have just started serving you.

To my extreme joy I find

That you are the supreme fulfiller. ```

2953. Three kinds of love

```

I have three kinds of love:

My thoughtful love,

My soulful love and

My fruitful love.

My thoughtful love

Does everything.

My soulful love

Has everything.

My fruitful love

Is everything. ```

2954. My Beloved Krishna

```

The Cow-Light of my Beloved Krishna

Has illumined my earth-bound mind.

The Flute-Delight of my Beloved Krishna

Has immortalised my Heaven-free heart. ```

2955. If you have no courage

```

If you have no courage,

How can you see the face of Truth?

If you cannot see the face of Truth,

How can you feel the Love of God? ```

2956. Your best friend

```

Who is your best friend?

Not he who tells you

That he will give you everything

That he has and he is,

But he who has sown the aspiration-seed

Inside the very depths of your heart. ```

2957. Two inseparables

```

You can separate night from day,

You can separate milk from water,

But you cannot separate

God’s Compassion-Height

From His Justice-Light,

For they are His selfsame Vision-Reality. ```

2958. An insincere aspiration

```

An insincere aspiration

Brings false rewards

And true punishment.

Therefore, all seekers of the Absolute Supreme,

Beware of your insincere aspiration!

```

2959. Only one thing

```

We ask God to do many things,

But God asks us to do only one thing.

He asks us only to give up the things

That make our life miserable

And

Keep our life unfulfilled. ```

2960. Question yourself

```

There is only one person

Who hates to be questioned.

That person is an insincere man.

Therefore, do not waste your precious time

In questioning an insincere man.

Question yourself.

Question your own sincerity.

Deep inside your heart

You will be immediately and richly rewarded.

```

2961. I want to go beyond myself

```

Why do I want to go beyond myself?

I want to go beyond myself for two reasons:

Because my present life is extremely painful,

And because my Lord Supreme assures me

That then my spiritual life

Will be extremely cheerful. ```

2962. My present life

```

What is my present life?

My present life is my desire-hunger.

What is my future life?

My future life is my aspiration-hunger

In the finite for the Infinite.

```

2963. Jump off the boat

```

If your mind is afraid

Of accepting the spiritual life,

Then think that you are in a sinking boat.

What would you do then?

You would jump off the boat

To reach the shore, the Golden Shore. ```

2964. Develop the capacity

```

If your doubting mind

Has the capacity to create problems

Both out of everything and out of nothing,

Then your heart should develop the capacity

To solve both imaginary problems

And real problems. ```

2965. God is exceptionally pleased

```

Your imaginary life tells you

That you can become exceptionally great.

Your real life tells you

Not only that you are exceptionally great

And exceptionally good,

But also that your heart’s sleepless cry

Has pleased God exceptionally.

```

2966. God is turning towards you

```

If you are really turning

Towards God’s Compassion-Sea,

Then God is also turning towards you

With His Satisfaction-Sun. ```

2967. A new game

```

You have all along been playing one game:

The game of insincerity and guilt.

Can you not now play a different game,

The game of insincerity and sincerity?

And after some time

Can you not start playing

An altogether new game?

This will be your last game:

The game of sincerity and surrender.

```

2968. God wants to be saved

```

Why do you want to save the world?

Does the world really want

To be saved by you?

No!

Why do you want to save yourself?

You want to save yourself

Because God Himself wants to be saved

In you and for you. ```

2969. Sincerity has the capacity

```

Sincerity has the capacity

To simplify your mind.

Sincerity has the capacity

To purify your heart.

Sincerity has the capacity

To glorify your life.

Sincerity has the capacity

To intensify your God-hunger. ```

2970. He will take care of everything

```

God asks us to love Him.

No matter how impure our mind is,

No matter how weak our heart is,

He will take care of everything

If we love Him.

```

2971. To make progress

```

Do you want to make progress?

If so, then take each problem

Not as a challenging

But as an encouraging friend of yours

Who is helping you to arrive

At your ultimate Destination. ```

2972. God's own Treasure

```

The vital calls it

A life of pleasure.

The mind calls it

A life of pressure.

God tells me

Not to call it by either name,

For He wants to have no connection

With my unaspiring vital and mind.

He wants me to call my life

A life of His own Treasure. ```

2973. Before your mind tells you

```

Every day, before your mind tells you

That it has something special

To give to the world,

Let your heart tell you

That it has something special

To receive from Heaven. ```

2974. Change your course

```

Change your course

At this very moment!

Soon you will see God’s Beauty

And God the Beauty

Instead of man’s ugliness

And man the ugliness. ```

2975. He who is divinely practical

```

He who is divinely practical

Will first put an end to his inner battle

Before he enters into his outer battle.

```

2976. God wants you to do that

```

Who wants you to admire

A fruitless dream-world?

Who wants you to remain

In a useless dream-world?

You must know by this time

That others want you to do that.

Who wants you to run

Into the ever-illumining

And ever-fulfilling reality-world?

God, without fail,

Wants you to do that.

```

2977. Who will save me?

```

Yesterday I called it

Self-accusation.

Today I am calling it

Self-injury.

Tomorrow I shall call it

Self-destruction.

Alas, who can and who will save me

If not my life-boat’s Beloved Boatman! ```

2978. What you want

```

What you want

Is a life of prosperity.

What your heart wants

Is a life of beauty.

What your God wants

Is a life of self-giving spontaneity. ```

2979. My unmistakable assurance

```

Since you know all your problems

Arise from your wrong thinking,

Why don’t you try

To remain beyond your mind?

Soulfully try.

You will immediately succeed.

This is my unmistakable assurance to you.

```

2980. You want only to rise

```

You tell me that you do not want

To fall any more.

You want to rise, only rise.

I tell you the secret of secrets:

This moment, cry like a child.

Next moment, smile like a child.

This is the way

You can rise and rise at every moment. ```

2981. Do you want to be happy?

```

Do you want to be happy?

If so, then conquer yourself.

Do you want to be happier?

If so, then do not even think

Of conquering others.

Do you want to be

The happiest person on earth?

If so, then pray to God soulfully

And meditate on God calmly

To conquer you

And each and every one

In His entire creation

At His choice Hour.

```

2982. God has something to tell me

```

When I am inside my mind,

I shall tell you

That I have nothing to say.

When I am inside my heart,

I shall tell you

That God has something to tell me,

And I shall be more than happy

To share it with you.

```

2983. My successful day begins

```

My successful day begins

When I feel that I can give God

What I have:

My surrender-life.

My successful life begins

When I feel that I can give God

What I am:

My gratitude-heart. ```

2984. My experience

```

My animal experience

Destroys the world

And then enjoys it.

My human experience

Repairs the world

And then enjoys it.

My divine experience

Prepares the world

And then enjoys it.

```

2985. I can never stop

```

The outer run intimidates my body.

The inner run liberates my body.

The outer run tells me

When to start and when to stop.

The inner run tells me

Once I start I can never stop. ```

2986. My life's dedication-smile

```

My heart’s aspiration-cry

Helps me reach the boundless sky.

My life’s dedication-smile

Helps me dine with the shadowless moon. ```

2987. Simplicity is the preparation-seed

```

Simplicity is the preparation-seed

That gives birth to a perfection-tree

At the destined hour.

```

2988. What can be more heartbreaking?

```

What is more inspiring and encouraging

Than to see the Boatman in His Boat

Ready to sail you across your life-river?

What can be more heartbreaking

Than missing the Boat?

```

2989. The Kingdom of Heaven

```

The Kingdom of Heaven

Is not for a darkened mind.

The Kingdom of Heaven

Is not for a trembling heart.

The Kingdom of Heaven

Is not for an unloving life.

The Kingdom of Heaven

Is only for the God-dreaming

And God-pleasing soul.

```

2990. If you pray to God

```

If you pray to God,

Then God will come to you as

God the Quality and God the Quantity.

If you meditate on God,

Then He will teach you

How to become His inseparable friend

So that you can enjoy, like Him,

The ever-illumining, ever-fulfilling

And ever-transcending Vision-Reality.

```

2991. Quite often I see a stranger

```

Quite often I see a stranger

Inside my mind.

That stranger is an unknown thought.

I can grasp it, make friends with it,

And ultimately use it in my own way.

```

2992. A false life

```

A false life fights only against

Another false life.

A false life either consciously or unconsciously

Surrenders to the real life. ```

2993. Your extraordinary love-power

```

If somebody asks you for your kindness,

Do you know what you give

To that person actually?

You give him

Your extraordinary love-power.

```

2994. I shall never forget

```

I shall someday forget

What I have not done for myself.

But I shall never forget

What I have not done for God

And His Eternity’s chosen children.

```

2995. Peace you get

```

Peace you get

Only by helping others

To become peaceful.

Bliss you get

Only by helping others

To become soulful.

```

2996. Now that you are not praying

```

Now that you are not praying to God

And not meditating on God,

In which way can you claim to be better

Than a God-denying culprit-atheist? ```

2997. What you have lost

```

What you have lost

Will not make your life miserable.

What you do not accept

To change your life

Will make your heart miserable.

```

2998. Gratitude

```

Gratitude carries the message of Immortality

And enters into God’s Heart

To see God’s universal Satisfaction-Smile.

```

2999. Why do we fail?

```

Why do we fail?

Not because we do not have

Enough capacity to reach the destination,

But because we reached, by mistake,

A wrong destination

And took it for the right one

And stayed with that one

Quite complacently. ```

3000. Just do one thing selflessly

```

Just do one thing

Correctly and selflessly every day.

Then you are bound to see and feel

That God will do everything for you

Not only sleeplessly

But also unconditionally. ```

Editor's introduction to the first edition

This is the thirtieth 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

India’s Foreign Minister Narasimha Rao pays his respects to Sri Chinmoy at a meditation the Master was conducting at the United Nations on 3 October 1980. Addressing the group, the Foreign Minister said that “in many respects the work I am doing and the work which you, Sri Chinmoy, are doing are supplementary and complementary.” Then he added, “I wish you greater and greatest triumph in this sacred task which you are doing here.”

From:Sri Chinmoy,Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 30, Agni Press, 1982
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