Because your heart needs God,
God is calling you.Because God is calling you,
You can rest assuredThat He will make you feel
He loves you infinitely moreThan you love yourself
And His Concern for youWill stay with you for all Eternity.
```Earth-bound time
Drives the desiring man backwardFast, very fast.
Heaven-free time
Pilots the aspiring man forwardFaster than the tornado-speed.
```Perfection-race
Is the old race on earth.Hope-race
Is the older race on earth.Promise-race
Is the oldest race on earth. ```The human realisation
Sees no armour against fate.The divine realisation
Sees that fate is nothingBut a man-made toy.
```Your uncertain mind,
Your doubtful mind,Your suspicious mind
Is only an inch awayFrom your total destruction-dance.
```God openly shows me
What He does for me:Compassion-cultivation.
God secretly hopes
For something from me:Satisfaction-harvest.
```Eternity’s Beauty-Cry
AndInfinity’s Perfection-Smile
Are Immortality’s Satisfaction-Treasure. ```If your life needs beauty’s speed
And your heart needs purity’s speed,Then the Goal of the Beyond
Cannot remain a far cry. ```Oblivion is challenging you
Because you are not crying sleeplesslyFor God’s God-Satisfaction
Inside your aspiration-life. ```Unless you become today
God’s Satisfaction-Grace,How will you see tomorrow
God’s Perfection-Face? ```What he has
Is a dangerous vital.No wonder he is craving
Instant enlightenment. ```You can expect God to be
Your constant supporterOnly after you have become
His sleepless lover. ```When my heart’s faith is dry,
My mind’s doubt provesThat life is a useless
And ceaseless cry. ```O seeker of the Absolute Truth,
You want your life to beFruitful of transcendental deeds.
Then why are you delayingIn smashing the shackles
Of your little “I”? ```Perhaps you do not know,
Perhaps you may never know,That your suspicious mind
Has the capacity and is the potentialityFor your universal disaster.
```I saw myself forsaken.
I knew not why.God came to me and said
Unless I look for the way outOf the forest of my desire-life,
I shall forever remain forsaken. ```A seeker’s life
Lives in betweenThe evolution of possibilities
And the perfection of necessities. ```In the morning he is drunk
With aspiration-light.In the afternoon he is drunk
With surrender-light.In the evening he is drunk
With gratitude-light. ```At long last
He is determined to sendHis mind’s curiosity
And his heart’s insecurityInto Eternity’s exile.
```The aspiration of a soaring seeker
At once renouncesMan’s failure-night
And announcesGod’s Victory-Delight.
```Because of your unlit sound-life
You are deniedGod’s sunlit Silence-Sky.
```At the eleventh hour
His soul-bird flew downAnd snatched away the inner victory
From the grasp of his outer failure-life. ```Man’s first suspicion-night
Tells himGod does not exist.
Man’s last suspicion-night
Tells himGod does not care for him.
```Nobody has to stumble
At the feet of Truth.Everybody can sit and take shelter
At the feet of Truth. ```Each Heaven-descending message
Accepted soulfullyMarks the beginning
Of my self-discovery. ```If you want to make
Real and safe progress,Then forcefully silence
Your outer noise-world. ```Earth’s aspiration-ascent
Is dutiful and beautiful.Heaven’s illumination-descent
Is powerful and fruitful. ```Surrender, surrender!
During the dayYou must surrender
Your fear of God’s Power.Surrender, surrender!
During the nightYou must surrender
Your fear of God’s Peace. ```My mind is completely lost
Between my fruitless self-assertionAnd
My hopeless desire-choice. ```If you can regain
Your aspiration-flames,You will eventually rediscover
Your realisation-sun. ```During the day I pray
To the illumination-increasing sun.During the night I pray
To the compassion-flowing moon. ```The beauty of Heaven
Descends speedilyWhen the purity of earth
Ascends soulfully. ```As there are only two problems,
Birth and death,Even so, there are only two solutions,
Surrender and smile. ```What the demanding vital
Sees as progressMay easily be a regression
In the heart’s aspiration-life. ```Because you have
A heart of vision-delight,God is granting you
A death-challenging dart. ```Because of your self-announcement-song,
God has withdrawn todayHis yesterday’s unconditional Grace.
```Your stupidity’s existence-reality
Will never be able to discoverGod’s Compassion-Sun
Inside your heart. ```My Eternity’s
Indispensable necessityIs my Immortality’s
Perfect gratitude. ```If yours is a life of prayer
And a heart of meditation,Then you will not try to cover
Your outer lifeAnd you will not hesitate to offer
Your inner lifeTo your Inner Pilot.
```Because you have been convicted
By your conscience-light,You have every chance to look
For a better day,A brighter sun
And a more nourishing delight. ```If you do not cancel
Your own ignorance-night,Then God will be unwilling
To inundate your mindWith His own God-Thoughts.
```Humility is exempt
From fear.Purity is exempt
From division.Nobility is exempt
From frustration. ```Constant somnolence
Is the source of humanity’sTeeming incurable maladies.
```O my mind,
You are always enjoyingA useless tornado-motion.
Do you not care for a promotionFrom your long-lasting
Nothingness-futility? ```In me, science wants to show
Its amazing capacity.In me, spirituality wants to show
My own ever-transcending capacity. ```He no longer gives himself
To noisy boasting.Therefore, he is now ready
To partake of the concentratedWisdom of the ages.
```He is not the Lord
Who demands obedience-flames.He is the Friend
Who begs for oneness-sun. ```If you renew your heart’s beauty
Every morning,God will come to you
Every eveningWith His multiplying Divinity.
```Each century has
Something special to offer.The special offering
Of the twentieth centuryIs that despair shall not mark
Its journey’s close. ```Two realities
Are not born for death:My surrender-life
AndMy gratitude-heart.
```Do not foretell a hopeless battle
Even if you have failed time and againIn the battlefield of your aspiration-life.
You are bound to eventually succeed.What you always need
Is a mind of patienceAnd a heart of fortitude.
```My heart is pleased with me,
My soul is pleased with meAnd
My Lord Supreme is pleased with meOnly when I water
My life’s gratitude-plantWith my streaming tears
Born and yet to be born. ```Paradise is the place
Where my heart wants to grow.Paradise is the place
Where my mind wants to know.Paradise is the place
Where my soul wants to sow —Sow the seed of perfection.
```When hope guides my steps,
The vision of Eternity’s RealityComes running towards me.
```If you can intensify
Your mind’s commitment to God,Then God will not only
Purify your mindBut also beautify your thoughts.
```Science tells me
How I can be proud of myself.Spirituality tells me
How I can make God proud of me. ```If you cannot make friends
With hope-light and promise-delight,Then you will be forced to live
In the kingdom of perpetual night. ```The inner revolution
Longs to seeThe Arm of God’s Power.
The outer resolution
Longs to seeThe Eye of God’s Beauty.
```I spoke ill of God.
Nevertheless,God does not hesitate
To obliterate my hostile past. ```Each time I compromise
With ignorance-nightI kill the beauty and purity
Of my climbing heart-plant. ```My heart’s heavenward history
And my soul’s intimate friendshipWith God’s Vision-Light
Can never be fables. ```If you are a staunch votary
Of ignorance-night,Naturally destruction-sleep
Will linger longInside your body-bound earth-life.
```Yours is a mind of dangerous curiosity.
Destroy it sooner than at once!Otherwise, the brooding forces
Of darkest nightWill envelop the real in you:
Aspiration. ```There are two sleeping secrets
Inside my heart:God loves me infinitely more
Than I can possibly love myself.God needs me infinitely more
Than I can ever need myself. ```While others dream,
He asks his mindTo climb far above the doubt-clouds,
And he asks his heartTo dine with the vastness
Of perfection-sun. ```What my heart needs
Is a tiny gratitude-flame,For this flame alone
Will show my entire lifePerfection’s core.
```The cry of insufficiency
Was not born with me.I was born
Not only with my sufficiency-smileBut also with God’s Infinitude-Smile.
```If you can become
Your heart’s surrender-light,Then you can most soulfully play
On God’s Self-Amorous Flute. ```My humility-breath
Is every day expandingGod’s Vision-Light for me.
```As long as you keep the mind-wall
Of doubt and disbeliefIn your aspiration-life,
You will always be carrying with youA heap of useless ashes.
```Just beyond your thought-dominion
Is your today’s impossibility-peak:God’s Perfection-Eye and Satisfaction-Heart.
```O my heart’s little hope-birds,
Every day you are inundating my lifeWith your beauty-making powers.
```The more you enjoy empty moments,
The nearer will you beTo the kingdom of self-doubt
And self-mockery. ```If you want to distinguish yourself
By your mind’s giant actions, you can.But God is not going to grant you
His smiling Face.If you want to distinguish yourself
By your heart’s selfless deeds,Then God will grant you
Not only His smiling FaceBut also His Vision-feeding Nest.
```You never have enough time
For your conscious self-mastery.But you always have unbounded time
For your unconscious self-mockery. ```I do not need admiration
From Heaven.I do not need admiration
From earth.What I need is affection
From my Beloved Supreme. ```What are my credentials?
My credentials are these:My Lord Supreme sleeplessly cries
In me, through me and for me,And I cheerfully and confidently dance
With His Vision-Light. ```His heart is empty of hope
And his life is a perfect strangerTo perfection,
For his mind’s senseOf perfection and satisfaction
Is founded upon human love. ```Who says that I am alone?
Am I not with the broken wingsOf my hopes
Inside the abyss of darkness?Who says that tomorrow
I shall be alone again?No, I shall not!
Tomorrow my entire earthly existenceWill swim in the sea of God-Delight.
How?I do not know.
But it is all God-plannedAnd God-arranged.
```My Lord Supreme,
Do grant me a boon.“My child, I am giving you the boon
To come near Me selflessly.”My Lord Supreme,
Do grant me another boon.“My child, I am giving you another boon:
To see the worldThe way I see the world.”
My Lord Supreme,
May I have one more boon,A last boon, from You?
“Certainly, My child.I shall make you
My perfect emissary on earth,To become inseparably one
With earth’s excruciating pangsAnd streaming tears
The way I have been doingThroughout My entire Eternity.”
```When I free myself
From my ego-interference,I really and truly appreciate
God’s Compassion-Magnet. ```God’s Feet blessingfully touched
My surrendered head.Lo, I have now touched the peak
Of my hope-perfection-mountain. ```The rapture of inspiration
Does not believe inEither the intellectual climate
Or the ultramodern climate. ```Unless we appreciate and admire
The most powerful silenceOf our soul,
Our doubtful mind will always createAn explosive noise.
```Do you not realise
That your mind’s perpetual procrastinationIs shamelessly useless
In your heart’s aspiration-life? ```Your heart is timid.
It is always frozen with fear.It does not look forward,
Upward and inward.Its blindness-night is the root
Of all your ceaseless problems. ```Because of his mind’s doubt-wars,
His heart is deniedHis soul’s treasure-dream.
```Two warnings from God:
I must not belittle myself.I must not delay in inviting God
To enter into my heart-room. ```Alas, my strong desire
For world-dominionHas overpowered not only
My reasoning mindBut also my Heaven-climbing heart.
```Existence-Consciousness-Bliss.
Existence I needTo tell the world
How great God is.Consciousness I need
To tell the worldHow good God is.
Bliss I needTo tell the world
That God’s Greatness and GoodnessAre not only for me
But also for His entire universe. ```What God has and is
All the timeIs Concern for you.
Can you not show GodEven on rare occasions
Your inner courageAnd outer adamantine will?
```If you believe in God,
God will grant you His Beauty.If you believe in God’s Compassion,
God will grant you His Smile.If you believe in God’s Forgiveness,
God will grant you His Protection-Feet. ```If you want to go
Beyond the body,Then try to remember
Only one thing:Your Beloved Supreme
Is your Eternity’s Oneness-Companion. ```If I want my Lord’s Prosperity,
He will grant me His Prosperity.But if I want my Lord’s Divinity,
He will grant meNot only His Divinity
But also His Life of Immortality. ```Attention is preparation.
Preparation is the beginningOf perfection.
Satisfaction is the culminationOf perfection.
```A sincere self-giving seeker
Feels and knowsThat his life is at once
God’s Compassion-LightAnd
God’s Satisfaction-Delight. ```God has given man
The power to hopeIn wisdom-light.
Man has given himself
The power to gropeIn ignorance-night.
```You can best your enemy
Either by virtue ofYour unprecedented determination
Or on the strength ofYour unconditional love.
```War-mongers
Are around us.Peace-lovers
Are within us. ```I am happy
Not because I have doneSomething momentous.
I am happy
Not because I have becomeSomething precious.
I am happy
Because inside my tiny little heartGod has sowed the seed
Of His Confidence-Light and Delight. ```From:Sri Chinmoy,Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 62, Agni Press, 1983
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