This is my day;
I love it.This is my morning God-Hour;
I need it.This is my supreme moment;
And I am it. ```My Lord Supreme,
My heart is all gratitude to YouBecause I am able to begin again.
```Two totally new ways of thinking:
To love God the Creator unconditionally,And to serve God the creation unreservedly.
I shall unmistakably achieveThese two new ways of thinking
In this lifetime. ```I have only one aim:
God-realisation in this incarnation.I shall have no multiplicity of aims.
```I have only one divine interest:
God-manifestation in this incarnation.I shall not tolerate slavery
To any human interest. ```Mind, my mind, I warn you:
No more gloom of doubt.Heart, my heart, I warn you:
No more faltering of faith. ```Yesterday my mind treasured
The fantasy of desire-fire.Today my heart is treasuring
The ecstasy of aspiration-flames. ```Give your soul the right to choose,
Give your mind the right to express.You will be able to enjoy infinite Delight
In your Lord’s complete Satisfaction-Heart. ```Against my heart’s climbing cry
No opposition can dareTo have any permanency.
```The poor cry of my aspiration-heart
And the rich SmileOf my Lord’s Compassion-Eye
Forever and foreverShall live in each other.
```It is absolutely unnecessary
For your mind to pray to GodSince your heart is playing with God
All the time. ```If you are truly faithful,
Then only are you entitledTo worship the true God.
```There is only one way
To do the right thingAnd that is by becoming another God.
```First be sure
That your heart is crying.Only then can you expect
God’s Eye to smile. ```To be truly happy
You must do two things:You must overlook
The imperfection-evenings of others;You must look over
Your own imperfection-nights. ```O fault-finder,
I have all along been with you.Now I definitely want to switch sides.
I want to spend the rest of my lifeWith the fault-mender.
```You have only two questions to answer:
Earth wants to knowWhere you have come from;
Heaven wants to knowWhere you are going.
```For your permanent safety
Find God’s Compassion-HeartImmediately.
Nobody will be able to bind your lifeAnd nobody will be able to blind your eyes.
```Seconds count,
Especially when you wantYour doubting mind to starve.
Seconds count,Especially when you want
To regularly feed and strengthenYour aspiring heart.
```If you want to alter your life
Totally,Then place your gratitude-heart
On the altar of your life. ```I admire your mind
Because you are a believer.I admire your heart
Because you are a lover.I admire your life
Because you are a server. ```Everybody has a free access
To my outer home.But I shall grant free access
To my inner homeOnly to the God-lover.
```Two persons love me:
Satan and God.Satan loves me so that
He can use me as his faithful slave.God loves me so that
He can have me as His cheerful friend. ```Aspiration without dedication
Will not win the race.Dedication without aspiration
Is bound to make a false start. ```Thank God for everything you have.
For example,If you thank God
For your vital impurity,It will diminish.
If you thank GodFor your psychic purity,
It will increase beyond measure. ```The inner cry of a seeker’s heart
Is not an emergency call.It is a regular and unfailing response
To God’s Call. ```The difference between
My mind and my heartIs this:
My mind wants to play with God,My heart longs to work for God.
```Everything that is
Is a golden opportunity to realise God.Therefore, do not withdraw
From the battlefield of life. ```The outer world gave me fantasies,
And the outer world can and willTake them away
Sooner or later.The inner world gives me ecstasies
And it will never take them away. ```My mind studies compassion.
That’s all.My heart practises compassion.
Something more:It practises forgiveness too.
```Determination unleashed,
Destination reached,God the Satisfaction-Dreamer
Within and without pleased. ```There are two ways
To while away your time:Pray to God’s Heart
AndMeditate on God’s Eye.
```I am completely safe
Only when I am in betweenMy heart’s ascending cry
AndMy soul’s descending smile.
```Your mind’s tempest-doubts
Can easily be brought under your control.Just place them immediately under the eye
Of your heart-haven. ```A true God-server knows
That his heart’s gratitude-speedIs infinitely faster
Than anything else in God’s entire creation. ```A faithful seeker stays.
A faithless seeker betrays.Something more:
He eventually destroys himself. ```Those who are not consciously aspiring
Will ultimately come to realiseThat they have all along been utterly false
And completely empty to the core. ```I do not need and I shall never need
The illusion-bound intellect.I need and I shall always need
The vision-free intuitionTo please my Lord Supreme
In His own Way. ```My mind’s silence-sea
Means God the BeautifulIs all for me.
```O my beautiful world,
Speak ill of meIf you want to,
Spread gossip about meIf you want to,
But please, please,Do not ignore me.
```There is only one way to be free,
And that way is to be always boundTo God’s Compassion-Eye
And God’s Forgiveness-Heart. ```If you think,
You will be far awayFrom Oneness-Home.
If you cry,
You will be on your wayTo Oneness-Home.
```Believe and obey,
Obey and believe:This is the only way
To manifest the Lord’s DayEvery day.
```Keep your heart always open
Save and exceptTo the frequent invitation
Of ignorance-night. ```Who is right
If not my God, the Compassion-Sun?What is right
If not my constant attemptTo achieve an unconditional surrender-life?
```God will send you
A gracious early-morning invitationTo come to His Heart-Abode
If you can keep your heartEvery morning
Pure and spacious. ```I must not delay!
My Lord Supreme HimselfIs eagerly waiting for me.
I must not fear!My Lord Supreme Himself
Is running speedilyTo my immediate rescue.
I shall quench His earth-bound ThirstAnd He will feed my Heaven-free hunger.
```Examine your love.
Is it self-love?Then transform it into God-love.
Is it God-love?Then multiply it quickly
In the urgency of todayAnd in the immediacy of now.
```I use my mind
To see God’s Beauty-EyeIn your mind.
I use my heartTo feel God’s Bounty-Heart
In your heart.Can you not do the same,
So that we two can be perfect instrumentsOf our Beloved Supreme?
```Quality, not quantity!
Quantity is whenMy pride-intoxicated mind
Talks about God.Quality is when
My heart’s mounting cryUnconditionally obeys God.
```I am praying most soulfully
So that my Lord SupremeCan enjoy His most perfect holiday
Inside my heart today. ```I admire only two kinds of persons:
The heart-crierAnd
The life-smiler. ```With my teeming desires
I richly experience life.With my glowing aspiration
I go beyond the experience of death. ```There is a special inner cry
For every hour,And I wish to be that inner cry
To illumine the human in me,To manifest the divine in me
And to satisfy the Supreme in me. ```Unless I vehemently and permanently
Disown my bondage-life,How can my Lord Supreme grant me
His Eternity’s Freedom-Breath,And how can I claim Him
As my own, very own? ```From my mind
I need a new departure.With my heart
I need a new start. ```The outer difficulties come
Eventually to go.The inner courage comes
Permanently to stay. ```Two most powerful realities
Do not meet with any opposition:My life’s humility-light
AndMy heart’s oneness-delight.
```An insecure heart
Is a panic-monger.A secure heart
Is not only a God-loverBut also a God-distributor.
```You must not declare
To the world at largeYour vast capacity-sky.
Do not even dare to commit itTo writing!
```Is it true
That I love myself all the time?Is it true
That God needs me every day?These two questions torment me
Constantly. ```Yesterday I was a fault-maker.
Today I am a fault-finder.Tomorrow I shall be a fault-mender.
And the day after tomorrowI shall be a fault-redeemer.
```In your life
Give God the first choice.God will definitely share with you
His Satisfaction-Voice. ```I have two very special homes:
My life’s newness-homeAnd my heart’s oneness-home.
My Lord Supreme has a very special fondnessFor these two homes.
```Where is my perfect Perfection?
My perfect Perfection is inMy self-transcending and God-pleasing
Dream-Reality. ```You fool,
How and why do you thinkThat you are alone?
Why do you forgetThat your heart is of God
And your mind is all the timeClose to God?
```With my desire-life
I went away from my home.But now, with my aspiration-life
I am on my way backTo my Eternity’s sweet and trance-bound home.
```Do not just sit there.
Stand up!Do not just stand.
Start running!If you cannot run,
Start walking at least.Can you not see that your Beloved Supreme
Is eagerly waiting for you? ```Your great mind
Either may not or cannotHelp you reach the shoreless Shore
Of Silence-Delight.But your good heart
Can easily help youAnd definitely will help you
Reach your Golden Shore. ```My aspiration is not for self-denial.
My dedication is not for self-assertion.My aspiration is for
My Lord’s Compassion-Eye.My dedication is for
My Lord’s Satisfaction-Heart. ```Today you are not advanced enough
To live by faith alone.Tomorrow you will not be advanced enough
To live only for God.But the day after, you will be both.
```To live a life
Without the purity of prayerAnd without the divinity of meditation
Is to live in Eternity’s failure-cry. ```Freedom from the mind’s imperfection-cave
Automatically shows youThe beauty, purity and divinity
Of your heart’s perfection-palace. ```Unless I am all ready
To forget my most deplorable past,How can my Lord Supreme
Forgive my deplorable past? ```As the seed germinates
At God’s choice Hour,Even so, your heart’s aspiration-flower
Will bloom at God’s choice Hour.Just wait and see.
```A genuine God-lover has no time
To be mentally stupidIn his outer life
Or emotionally sickIn his inner life.
```In the mental world
Teeming clouds appearWhen the seeker is false
To his heart’s aspiration-flamesAnd
His life’s dedication-plants. ```Remember,
Your own aspiration-absenceAnd your own dedication-failure
Will definitely bring aboutA tremendous loss to the world at large.
```In the spiritual life
A hopeless beggar-seekerIs a complete stranger
To God’s Compassion-Eye.In the spiritual life
A hopeful prince-seekerIs extremely dear
To God’s Satisfaction-Heart. ```You pretend, he pretends, I pretend —
Alas!Will we ever learn
How powerful and destructiveThe pretence-sword is
When we cleverly and unnoticeablyThrust it at one another?
```As long as you enjoy
The game of self-interest,You will not be able to take
The God-discovery test. ```Pray like a truth-seeker.
Your searching mind will be happy.Meditate like a God-lover.
Your aspiring heart will be happy. ```My Lord’s Forgiveness-Light
Outlives my ignorance-night,And my ingratitude-depth
Outlives my Lord’s Forgiveness-Light. ```A beautiful thought and a soulful cry
Are entitled to sing and danceIn silence
With the morning stars. ```You want somebody else
To carry your load.Granted, somebody else is ready
To carry your load.But do you ever think
Who will carry his load?Perhaps your own oneness-heart.
```“Thinking forbidden!”
This is the first message I read this morningOn the silver tablet
Of my God-searching mind.“Worrying forbidden!”
This is the second message I read this morningOn the golden tablet
Of my God-loving heart. ```The noisy self-assertion of my vital,
The busy self-confusion of my mindAnd the crazy self-perfection of my body
Are preventing me every dayFrom walking with my Lord Supreme.
```My sound-mind thinks:
“I possibly can.”My silence-heart knows:
“I eternally am.” ```Before meditation
Pray to God to give youA silence-mind.
During meditation
Pray to God to give youDirection to reach your destined goal.
After meditation
Pray to God to give youA surrender-heart and a gratitude-life.
```Not how busy you are
But why you are busyIs what matters.
Are you busy becauseYour mind is criticising everyone
Or because your heart is loving everyone? ```Were you there
In front of your shrineThis morning
To increase your heart’s aspiration-cryAnd your life’s dedication-smile?
```I am so happy and fortunate
That my mind deeply appreciatesMy heart’s God-delight
And my heart deeply appreciatesMy mind’s God-search.
```I have created today
For my Lord Supreme,And my Lord Supreme
Is creating for meAn eternal Now.
```Make up your mind!
Don’t allow your mind to sleep.Be determined!
Ask your vital to shut up.Even the all-compassionate God
Is sick of its boasting. ```Where is the difference
Between a mind of insincerityAnd a life of incapacity?
No difference! ```You are old;
That everybody knows.But how you are old —
That you alone know.And why you are old —
That you can dare to hearOnly from yourself.
```The creation of Light
Knows what it has:A cry for Divinity’s unknown Love.
The creation of Delight
Knows what it has:A cry for Immortality’s
Unknowable Oneness. ```He and I exchanged our precious gifts.
He gave me His boundless JoyAnd I gave Him my ignorance-toy.
```In the vital world
Every day I used my ambition-mindTo make my life happy.
Now in the psychic world
All the time I useMy aspiration-heart
To make myself happy. ```If you just think of your transformation,
Then it may seemThat you have to do it yourself.
If you feel the need for transformation,Then it may seem
That God may do it for you.But if you have started working
On your transformation,Then God will, without fail,
Complete it for you.Not only that,
He will do it amazingly fast. ```From:Sri Chinmoy,Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 45, Agni Press, 1982
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