Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 57

5601. The year of meditation

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This entire year, 1983,

Has a very special significance.

This is the year of meditation.

I most sincerely urge you

To meditate, meditate, meditate!

Alone or with others,

At home or anywhere,

Whenever you are free

Meditate, meditate, meditate!

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5602. The golden opportunity

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As God’s choice Hour does not arrive

Every hour, every day, every week,

Every month or even every year,

Who knows, a year of this kind

May not appear again for a long time.

If you want to become God’s choice instrument,

Then avail yourself of the golden opportunity

That this year of meditation offers. ```

5603. Meditate, meditate, meditate!

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Meditate, meditate, meditate!

Pay more attention to your meditation.

Spend more time in meditation.

Meditate soulfully, prayerfully and devotedly. ```

5604. If you do not meditate

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If you do not meditate,

Then your heart will remain insecure

And your mind will remain impure.

With an impure mind

And an insecure heart

You will not be able to please

Your Beloved Supreme.

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5605. Purity and security

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Security, which is confidence,

You badly need.

Purity, which is inner assurance,

You badly need.

Both purity and security can and will come

Only from your meditation. ```

5606. Your Master's inner guidance

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Whether you are meditating

In your Master’s physical presence

Or somewhere else is unimportant.

No matter where you are,

If you think of your Master

And meditate soulfully,

You are bound to get his inner guidance.

And this inner guidance,

Which is his inner oneness with you,

Will last forever and forever. ```

5607. Be regular, punctual and sincere

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In your early morning meditation

Be regular, be punctual and be sincere.

If you do not meditate regularly and punctually,

The Supreme will forgive you,

Your Master will forgive you,

But you will never be able

To forgive yourself, never!

If you deceive yourself in your meditation,

There will eventually come a time

When you will spontaneously become

Absolutely sincere.

Then it is you who will not be able

To forgive yourself.

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5608. My self-transcending horizon

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My aspiration’s self-transcending horizon

Tells me what I can do for God.

My dedication’s all-loving service-hands

Tell me and show me

What God has already done for me.

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5609. If you resist God's Compassion-Light

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If you resist God’s Compassion-Light,

Then nothingness-night

Will haunt you at every moment

And destroy your hope-paradise. ```

5610. When God chooses

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When you choose,

You choose a better life

For yourself.

When God chooses,

He chooses a supremely perfect life

For you.

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5611. Two common sense experiences

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Two common sense experiences:

I need God’s Heart of Compassion,

God loves my heart of aspiration.

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5612. In disguise

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Enthusiasm has determination inside it

In disguise.

Determination has peace inside it

In disguise.

Peace has perfection inside it

In disguise. ```

5613. Absolutely negligible

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The difference between

Your mind’s impurity

And your heart’s insecurity

Is absolutely negligible.

The difference between

Your heart’s purity

And your life’s luminosity

Is absolutely negligible. ```

5614. Suffering is an inner thief

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Suffering is an inner thief.

We must by all means try to catch it.

If we cannot,

Our life will remain a victim

To untold miseries.

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5615. Immortality likes to grow

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Beauty likes to touch

The feet of Divinity.

Divinity likes to feel

The heart of Immortality.

Immortality likes to grow

With God’s ever-transcending Vision-Eye. ```

5616. If man offers

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If man offers

His service-hands

And his love-heart,

Then God grants him

His Compassion-Eye

And His Satisfaction-Crown. ```

5617. A completely new vision

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A completely new vision:

My aspiration-flame,

No matter how weak and feeble,

Can never be doomed to a failure-life.

A life of success

Lovingly, cheerfully and proudly

Awaits my aspiration-life.

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5618. Divinely inspired God-affirmations

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As the human mind

Quite often enjoys

Turbulent self-contradictions,

Even so, the divine heart

Always enjoys

Divinely inspired God-affirmations. ```

5619. An indefinite delay

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Your mind is eclipsed

By worldly thoughts.

Alas!

Therefore, your soul is forced to suffer

An indefinite delay.

Alas, alas! ```

5620. An ever-fresh luminosity

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O my mind,

Instead of dying for

An ever-new curiosity,

Can you not long for

An ever-fresh luminosity?

Thus you will be able to please

The Real in you:

Your own Eternity’s blue bird,

Your soul.

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5621. Unthinkable stupidity

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Alas, your innocent heart

Has to perish

Because of your mind’s

Unthinkable stupidity:

Your mind has feasted

On poison-doubt. ```

5622. When the hour of death approaches

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When the hour of death approaches,

With your heart’s aspiration-cry

You can secretly climb up

God’s hidden Tower of Immortality. ```

5623. The duty of a seeker's heart

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The bounden duty of a seeker’s heart

Is not to allow

Teeming doubt-clouds

To eclipse his inner sun. ```

5624. A perfection-life

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A perfection-life

We can never acquire

On our own.

But God the Compassion-Heart

Is more than ready

To acquire it for us. ```

5625. The glorious beginning

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A self-giving heart

Marks the glorious beginning

Of a God-becoming soul.

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5626. The transformation of ambition

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What I need

Is not the extinction

Of ambition

But the fire-pure transformation

Of ambition

Into an astounding dedication. ```

5627. Not beyond the range

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God-realisation is not beyond

The range of aspiration.

God-manifestation is not beyond

The range of dedication. ```

5628. A self-giving heart

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A self-giving heart

Is a beautiful nest of security.

A self-doubting mind

Is a desolate cave of insecurity. ```

5629. My obedience means

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My obedience means

My higher life is successfully operating

In and through my lower life.

My disobedience means

My higher life and my lower life

Are both in trouble.

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5630. What is belief?

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What is belief?

A flight into the realm of fulness.

What is disbelief?

A plunge into the abysmal abyss

Of useless nothingness.

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5631. How can you hope to succeed?

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How can you hope to succeed in life

When you are allowing

Your disappointed mind

To accompany you on your journey? ```

5632. One step forward

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A searching mind is one step forward

Towards the aspiration-goal.

An aspiring heart is one step forward

Towards the realisation-goal. ```

5633. Gifts I need from Above

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From Above

What my body needs

Is a compassion-gift.

What my vital needs

Is a salvation-gift.

What my mind needs

Is an illumination-gift.

What my heart needs

Is a liberation-gift.

What my life needs

Is a perfection-gift.

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5634. A miracle-achievement

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Surrender is a miracle-achievement.

This my mind knows.

Gratitude is a miracle-achievement.

This my heart knows. ```

5635. Faith helps my heart-flower

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Faith helps my heart-flower blossom

Petal by petal in perfect perfection

So that it can respond

To my soul’s delight-call. ```

5636. The soul-birds come down

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The soul-birds come down

Into the world-arena

To awaken the higher realities

That are fast asleep

Inside the earth’s ignorance-body.

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5637. Yesterday Eternity came to me

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Yesterday Eternity came to me

With its oneness-soul.

Today Infinity has come to me

With its oneness-role.

Tomorrow immortality will come to me

With its oneness-goal. ```

5638. A Heavenly silence-heart

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I desired,

Yet not quite desired,

An earthly sound-mind.

I loved,

Yet not quite loved,

A Heavenly silence-heart. ```

5639. A stepping-stone

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To take shelter inside

The fragrance-purity of your heart

Is to discover a stepping-stone

To God-realisation. ```

5640. Even a great mind

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Even a great mind

Can be invaded

By chaotic confusion.

But a good heart

Is always embraced

By kaleidoscopic beauty. ```

5641. Immediately choose to serve

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Do not wait!

If you really want God

To be always on your side,

Then immediately choose to serve. ```

5642. Your gratitude-companion

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Not your solitude-companion

But your gratitude-companion

Can definitely and will immediately

Please God. ```

5643. Round my silver dreams

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Round and round my silver dreams

Revolve my Lord’s Vision-Eye

And my Lord’s Compassion-Heart.

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5644. The high road to Heaven

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If you can have a free access

To patience-light,

Then you can run very fast

On the high road to Heaven. ```

5645. A heart-winning man

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A universally

Heart-winning man

Is a breathlessly

Self-giving soul. ```

5646. He is weighed down

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Outwardly and openly

He shows a face of joy,

But inwardly and secretly

He is weighed down

By his heart’s excruciating pangs.

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5647. Souvenirs from my trip to Heaven

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This time I have brought down to earth

Two souvenirs from my trip to Heaven:

A heart-awakening conch

And

A life-transforming flute.

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5648. The free play of God's Heart

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If you are preoccupied with yourself,

How can you watch

The life-transforming free play

Of God’s Heart? ```

5649. Miscellaneous thoughts

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Your mind’s miscellaneous thoughts

Will never allow you to build

A monument that will withstand

Time’s giant frowns. ```

5650. My foolish prayers

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God overheard

My foolish prayers.

As a result,

His Heart is extremely sad. ```

5651. My soul sings

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To unfold the heart-flower

Of my life,

Every day my soul sings

A sun-song to my Beloved Supreme. ```

5652. The Lord of my dreams

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You are already the Lord

Of my illumination-dreams.

Do also be the Lord

Of my oblivion-sleep. ```

5653. A faithful companion of God

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To be a most faithful

Companion of God,

What I need is a tiny gratitude-plant

Inside my heart. ```

5654. God will love me infinitely more

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God loves me,

And He tells me that

He will love me infinitely more

If I attempt for Him

Any so-called impossible task.

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5655. Do not ask for too little

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Do not ask for too little.

When you do that,

God’s Heart of Magnanimity

Is embarrassed. ```

5656. Your light-forsaken life

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A lingering thought

In a poverty-stricken mind:

This is what your light-forsaken,

Deplorable and doomed life is. ```

5657. Exulting in Ecstasy

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I dearly love

The abode of the ancient sages,

For there they are always exulting

In Ecstasy supreme. ```

5658. You are heartlessly indifferent

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Is it possible for you to be loved

By God powerfully,

When you are so heartlessly indifferent

To His creation-child? ```

5659. God's Forgiveness-Depth

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If you meditate on

God’s Forgiveness-Depth,

Then you are repaying

God’s Compassion-Height. ```

5660. You will remain unnoticed

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You will remain unnoticed

Both by Heaven and by earth

If you do not show your heart’s

Flaming and glowing compassion-touch. ```

5661. My inner world

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The more my outer world

Consciously needs perfection,

The sooner my inner world

Shall grant its prayer. ```

5662. My heart's peerless friend

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You have not forgotten me

Even at the end

Of your life’s long dream.

Therefore, you are my heart’s

Peerless friend.

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5663. A confessed failure

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His mind is now a confessed failure

Because it allowed itself

To be possessed by an irresistible desire

To command others. ```

5664. No necessity

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If necessity demands,

You can speak well of yourself.

But there is no necessity

For you to speak ill of others. ```

5665. The best prayer

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“My Lord,

Do show me the way.”

This is a good prayer.

“My Lord,

Do be my Guide.”

This is a better prayer.

“My Lord,

Do manifest Yourself in Your own Way

Through any heart You choose.”

This is by far the best prayer. ```

5666. New discoveries

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My mind’s new discovery:

God loves my mind.

My heart’s new discovery:

God is for my heart.

My life’s new discovery:

I shall unmistakably please God

From this very moment.

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5667. My heart's inner revolution

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My mind’s outer resolution

Shall make my body

A fit instrument of God.

My heart’s inner revolution

Shall make my life

A perfect instrument of God.

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5668. From now on

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From now on I shall keep

The suspicion-snake behind me,

The faithfulness-dog beside me,

The promise-deer before me. ```

5669. Humanity's dream

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Humanity’s dream

Is perfect perfection.

Divinity’s dream

Is supreme satisfaction.

The Dream of the Supreme

Is to make each human being

A conscious and living God.

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5670. Disobedient people will always fail

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Disobedient people God created.

So what can the Master do?

But this much the Master knows:

Disobedient people will always fail. ```

5671. Is the Master such a fool?

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If disciples cannot meet

With their Master’s simplest request,

Is the Master such a fool

To believe that these unfortunate disciples

Will ever please him?

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5672. The easiest thing

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You may feel that something

Is the easiest thing,

But the easiest can be the most difficult.

For when you consider something to be easy,

That is the time

The hostile forces attack you

And make you feel how weak you are.

You say that you can do it,

But the world will see and God will see

That you cannot! ```

5673. Four forbidden words

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Four words your Master

Does not want to hear

When he has asked you to do something:

“I did not know!”

If you always say you did not know,

Then you will remain ignorant

Throughout Eternity.

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5674. A good disciple

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If you are a good disciple,

You will always try to please your Master.

If you are satisfied

With being a bad disciple,

Then just stay in his boat,

Sleeping all the time,

Snoring all the time.

But remember,

A good disciple will behave

In a totally different way. ```

5675. Three goals in life

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I have only three goals in life:

I shall continuously fight

Against ignorance-night.

I shall cheerfully unlearn the lessons

That my earth-bound mind has taught me.

I shall, without fail,

Manifest my Lord Supreme

When the supreme Hour strikes. ```

5676. Our journey's course

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We can fulfil

Our journey’s course

Only if we can regulate

Our thought-life

And emancipate

Our action-life. ```

5677. An adamantine determination

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If your mind is charged

With an adamantine determination,

Then your heart is bound to enjoy

A satisfaction-feast. ```

5678. Your life of perfection

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If your mind can be

Brutally sincere

To your heart,

And if your heart can be

Sleeplessly sincere

To your soul,

Then your life of perfection

Can never, never remain a far cry. ```

5679. God's transcendental Pride

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If you live in the desire-world,

Then God’s transcendental Pride

Will never be able to claim you

As its own, very own. ```

5680. The heart's perfecting life

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If the mind can derive satisfaction

From its promising life,

Then the heart can derive satisfaction

From its perfecting life. ```

5681. Longing for a satisfaction-life

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O bewildered humanity,

You are longing for a satisfaction-life.

You can fulfil your longing

Only by crying for the capacity

To unreservedly listen

To your heart’s inner dictates. ```

5682. The currents of your desires

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If you want to see

The complete exhaustion and extinction

Of your sorrows,

Then control the turbulent currents

Of your teeming desires.

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5683. The lesson of perfection

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Tranquillity will inundate your mind

If your mind gets a new lesson:

The lesson of breathless perfection.

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5684. A lover of all that breathes

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If you are a lover

Of all that breathes in God’s creation,

Then God the supreme Lover

Will not only crown you

But also place you

On His transcendental Throne. ```

5685. Your mind is pierced

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Each time an uncomely thought

Invades your mind,

Feel that your mind is totally pierced

By a venom-arrow. ```

5686. The miracle-net

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A beginner may be caught

In the tenacious miracle-net.

But a well-advanced seeker must escape

The miracle-net

To run always the fastest

In his heart of aspiration

And his life of dedication.

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5687. A soulful and aesthetic silence

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A seeker does not need

A monastic silence.

He does not need

An ascetic silence.

What he needs

Is a soulful and aesthetic silence

To dive deep within

And reach the deepest depth

Of an all-embracing reality.

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5688. God has fed your aspiration-life

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Secretly, cheerfully and unconditionally

God has fed your aspiration-life.

Will you not offer Him

One soulful smile

From your life’s perfection-satisfaction?

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5689. The tears of a new creation

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Your long and eager expectation-night

Will now be transformed

Into satisfaction-day

Because your heart is flooded

With the fresh tears

Of a new creation. ```

5690. Transform your lower self

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If you try to desert your lower self,

You will not succeed.

When the opportunity arises,

Your lower self

Will bite you very hard.

So do not try to desert your lower self;

Only try to transform your lower self.

Once your lower self is transformed,

Light and delight will be

Your life-long friends. ```

5691. God the Beauty will come to you

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If your outer steps lead you

To your inner shrine,

God the Beauty will come to you

With a never-dying

And ever-illumining sweetness.

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5692. The duty of your gratitude-heart

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Since God’s Forgiveness-Heart

Has not allowed God to defend Himself,

It is the bounden duty of your gratitude-heart

To defend God. ```

5693. There is always a choice

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There is always a choice

Between what your desire-life

Wants you to be

And what God’s Compassion-Eye

Wants you to be.

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5694. Returning to your stone-life

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If you do not care for

A purer heart and a better life,

It is as good as returning

To your stone-life. ```

5695. A very simple question

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God has asked a very simple question:

Do you want to be like Him?

He is eagerly waiting

For your open-hearted answer. ```

5696. Your powerful unwillingness

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What indefinitely delays

Your God-realisation?

Not your feeble incapacity

But your powerful unwillingness. ```

5697. When God smiles

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When God smiles,

Even the doubting mind

Totally forgets

That it has the capacity to doubt. ```

5698. The voice that says you can

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If you are seeking something

Beyond your present capacity,

Do not listen to the dictates

Of the false voice that says you cannot.

Listen only to the dictates

Of the voice that says

You can and you shall.

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5699. The promise-maker

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The promise-maker

Has a great mind.

The promise-fulfiller

Is a good heart. ```

5700. Each prayerful day

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Each prayerful day

Of my heart

Is a blessingful and fruitful Smile

Of my Beloved Supreme. ```

Editor's introduction to the first edition

This is the fifty-seventh 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 welcomes United Nations Ambassador Ralph L. Harry of Australia to a programme in honour of Australia’s Foundation Day on 27 January 1978.

Editor's note

Some poems in this first edition were later selected by the author for a special collection of 207 Flower-Flames (FFP). The author also chose to revise some of his original poems for this anthology: FF-5655: FFP 157 (revised version).

From:Sri Chinmoy,Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 57, Agni Press, 1983
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