If you plant a seed of purity
Inside your heart,Then God Himself will water it every day
And take care that it growsInto a tree of divinity.
```Everything is possible.
Fear-tremor can be transformedInto destruction-terror,
And destruction-terrorInto perfection-love.
```The desire-life vacillates
Between hope and fear.The aspiration-life oscillates
Between perfection and satisfaction. ```His vital is all
Vainglorious demonstration.His heart is all
Auspicious aspiration.Unbelievable, but true.
```Self-mastery
Has a free accessTo an ultramundane life.
```Flattery now titillates your mind.
Therefore, for you to realise GodIs an impossible task.
```The presence of teeming doubts
In the mindIs tantamount to the beginning
Of a destruction-life. ```Only a heart
Of soulful silenceCan have a life
Of sacrosanct blessing. ```The pride of personality
Will one day hideUnder the warm blanket
Of satisfaction-unity. ```Cancel your impotence-heart.
God is all ready to grant youHis indomitable Strength-Delight.
```Aspire, aspire!
Your heart’s aspiration-flamesWill unmistakably show you
The way to come outOf your thick desire-forest.
```Value the perfection
Of your heart’s soft voiceIf you want your outer confusion-life
To be illumined and perfected. ```I have not seen the Face of God.
I have not felt the heart of man.Therefore, I am wrapped
Only in my powerfully painful thoughts. ```You will see yourself forsaken
If you denyThe indomitable strength of hope.
```Each time you compromise
With ignorance-night,You tarnish the beauty
Of your soul’s perfection-promiseTo the world.
```Cheerfully accept your heart’s way
And vehemently reject your mind’s wayIf you really want to free yourself
From the fetters of ignorance. ```If your outer name is obedience
And your inner name is surrender,Then you will never suffer
From periods of spiritual dryness. ```My aspiration means
My heart’s non-stopFast-rising flames.
```If you just extinguish
The fire of desire,Then you do not have to relinquish
Anything else. ```When even his worst adversary
Does something great and good,He will extol his foe to the skies.
Indeed, such nobilityIs not foreign to his nature.
```A genuine seeker’s life-story
Is nothing other thanGod’s own Satisfaction-Glory.
```Those who tolerate ignorance-night
Cannot expect to reachThe wisdom-sky of vision-light.
```Your do-nothing attitude
Is responsibleNot only for the complete failure
Of your own lifeBut also for the sad failure
Of your big world-family. ```If you are great,
Then nobody will be ableTo understand you.
If you are perfect,Then nobody will be able
To replace you. ```A mind without inspiration,
A heart without aspirationAnd a life without imagination
Will be deniedGod’s Satisfaction-Smile.
```God’s Compassion helps me walk
On the road to perfection.God’s Forgiveness helps me walk
On the road to satisfaction. ```If you do not aspire
Soulfully and sleeplessly,Then God’s Dreams for you
Will turn to useless dust. ```Unless I destroy
My life’s ignorance-night,How can I ever reach
God’s God-Height? ```Because my life
Is a visionless ignorance-sky,I am doomed to become
The king of stupendous failure. ```What is impossibility
If not its own lifeless obscurityAnd its own useless futility?
```Not because I insult God,
Not because I find fault with God,Not because I cannot see
Eye-to-eye with God,But because I love only myself,
I am compelled to dwellIn my own abysmal ignorance-cave.
```You say that you have nothing to do.
Then will you do something for me?Will you dispatch your frustrated failure
Once and for all,Just to please me?
```If you invite God
To enter into your heart-room,Do not forget to ask Him
To push you forwardTo see His Eternity’s Light
And to pull you upwardTo feel His Infinity’s Delight.
```Hope-tree protects my life.
ThereforeI see satisfaction,
Feel satisfactionAnd become satisfaction,
No matter where I am,No matter what I am doing.
```As night is the precursor
Of a beautiful and fruitful dawn,May my mind become the precursor
Of a prayerful and soulful heart. ```In my hermit-heart
I pray to feel only one thing:God’s ocean-deep Victory-Delight.
```At any time I can pierce
Everything that I seeWithin and without
Save one thing:The Compassion-Canopy
Of my Beloved Supreme. ```My Lord,
You have come to meTo revive my climbing heart.
My Lord,Will You not allow me
To clasp Your descending Feet? ```What my life needs
More than anything elseIs the fire of certainty.
Therefore, I am now sendingMy uncertainty-thoughts
Into destruction-exile. ```Because of my soulful morning prayer
I am immensely enjoyingTwo most special things:
The burial of my deceased mindAnd
The fragrance-beauty of my Himalayan smile. ```When we live in the body,
The animal in us bites the world.When we live in the heart,
The human in us inspires the world.When we live in the soul,
The divine in us illumines the world. ```Today’s self-giving seed
Germinates into tomorrow’sGod-becoming plant.
```You can become
Divinity’s reverberating clarion-callIf you do not allow
Your mind to be affectedBy the world’s venom-doubts.
```Powerful is his success,
Fruitful is his progressBecause he has become
The naked swordOf his own conscience-light.
```His mind is
The arrow of concentration.His heart is
The bow of meditation.His soul is
The target of contemplation. ```In the morning
My Lord secretly uncovers Heaven.In the evening
My Lord blessingfully shows meHow to discover Heaven.
```In your life’s journey
Let God make the choice for you.Rest assured,
God will let you enjoy the victoryAll by yourself.
```If you can think and feel
That God is yours,You can easily cross to the other shore
Of the uncharted ignorance-sea. ```Insecurity is a disease
That is unconsciously cheerless withinAnd consciously shameless without.
```Perfection-poise
Is the satisfaction-heartOf God’s God-Beauty
In man. ```A confidence-heart
And an assurance-mindAre undoubtedly
Two immortal boons from AboveTo humanity.
```To intensify my commitment-life,
What I need firstIs an enlightenment-heart.
```When I pray to God for my own sake,
I see His Compassion-cultivation.When I pray to God for His sake alone,
I enjoy His Satisfaction-harvest. ```The desire-life is good.
It liberates us from unpardonable idleness.The aspiration-life is better than the best.
It helps us reach God’s PalaceAnd freely and confidently
Dine with God. ```To think of the past
Is indeed a painful task.To carry the past
Is indeed a fruitless burden. ```Every day try to meditate
On God’s Silence-Beauty.Then you are bound to become
His Heart’s Flower-Fragrance. ```A doubting mind and a dividing life
Are the unmistakable sourcesOf man’s teeming maladies.
```Discard your worthless worries
As dirty, worn-out garments,If you never want to abandon yourself
To wild despair-disaster. ```If yours is a life of devoted service,
Then yours is alsoA mind of inspiration,
A heart of aspirationAnd
A soul of God-manifestation. ```Your mind may be enjoying
An encircling gloom.Your heart may be enjoying
An increasing confusion.But your soul will always remain
A beckoning light. ```An insincere seeker
Can unimaginably weakenThe life of a sincere seeker.
A sincere seeker
Can unimaginably inspireThe life of an insincere seeker.
```To look at him
Is to be thrilledWith a silver faith in man
And a golden satisfaction in God. ```An impossible task:
For a borrowing mindEver to console
A sorrowing heart. ```A foolish mind thinks
That it needs a mountain-caveFor its illumination.
A stupid heart feels
That it needs a forest-groveFor its satisfaction.
```You are wise twice:
Once when you are readyTo live in the world,
And once when you are readyTo look far beyond the world
While remaining in the world. ```When the vital weaves
The rope of desireIt does not know
That it violently stranglesThe climbing child in man.
```You can remain
Not only unchangedBut also unchangeable
In this world of cataclysmic changesIf you can make your life
Into a soulful flower-offering. ```If you think of God,
God will love you more.If you love God,
God will need you more.If you need God,
God will be at onceMore proud of you
And more proud of Himself. ```You are a sinner:
You have allowed your mindTo convince you of this.
You are a saint:
When are you going to allow GodTo convince your heart of this?
```His life is totally lost
Between his mind’s emptinessAnd his heart’s fulness.
```You do not want to stop living
In the uncertain future,Yet you do not realise
What you are doing:You are driving your life-car
From danger to disaster. ```You want to remember
What you were in substance:A sinner.
God wants you to see
What you are in essence:A perfect saint.
```The imperfections of your life
God has already forgiven,But the exploitation of your mind
God is not sureWhether He will forgive or not.
```To be late to pray
Is common,But to patiently wait to receive
Is always uncommon. ```You have a humility-life.
What does it mean?It means that you have
A magnanimity-life.What else does it mean?
It means that you have embarkedOn Eternity’s Quest.
```Only two indispensable realities
Can conquer the world:A humility-mind
AndA purity-heart.
```The cross of Christ
At CalvaryWas astonishingly prayerful.
The meditation of Buddha
At the foot of the Bodhi treeWas astonishingly beautiful.
The flute of Krishna
At BrindabhanWas astonishingly soulful.
```If you can give up
The desire to be known,Your aspiration-heart
Will not be ableTo remain unknown.
```What your mind has
Is a storm-tossed boat.What your heart knows and sees
Is a silence-flooded shore. ```There are two ways
To make constant progress:The way of the heart
And the way of the life.The way of the heart
Is to look upHigh, higher, highest.
The way of the lifeIs to look ahead
Far, farther, farthest. ```Anxiety hounds your steps
Not because you have notDone the right thing
But because you are unwillingTo accept the right thing
As your own, very own. ```If your heart really loves
The mount of vision,Then your life can easily,
Soulfully and satisfactorilySing the song of perfection.
```Each time my aspiration ascends
I clearly see two things:The assurance of my inner revolution
And the confidence in my outer resolution. ```To destroy the shackles
Of my earthly bondageI must become inseparably one
With my soul’s silence-worldAnd renounce my mind’s sound-world.
```God feels sad
When he sees that you are caughtIn unnecessary struggles
Against the wrong forcesOf your unaspiring friends,
For He knows that you also haveYour own problems and shortcomings
Which you have to conquerIn order to become perfect.
```I weep
Not because I have not tried,But because I have never asked
My Lord SupremeWhat I am supposed to be
In His own Eternity’s Vision-Light. ```Don’t watch for your weaknesses.
Pray firstAnd then watch for your weaknesses.
After you have prayedYour weaknesses will lose their strength
And be ready to acceptThe life of illumination.
```The thought-world is a beggar’s world.
Nobody can force youTo stay in this beggar’s world
Unless you yourself are willing.You can easily remain
In an emperor’s will-power-worldIf that is what you ever long for.
```If you do not cooperate
With the desire-world,Then the aspiration-world
Will wing towards youTo liberate your self-tortured life.
```A humility-life,
A purity-heartAnd a spontaneity-mind
Are the three special requisitesNeeded for a free access
To God’s infinite personal Property. ```Aspiration is the beginning
Of my journey’s start.Surrender is the perfection
Of my gratitude-flooded heart. ```A life of silence
Is the fragrance and beautyOf God’s Self-Transcendence-Song.
```Your teeming doubts
And your strangling suspicionsWill eventually bury you alive
Long before death invites you. ```When you learn the art of self-giving,
You definitely becomeA conscious and inseparable part
Of the world-soul. ```Today I have only an iota of soulfulness
Because I am spiritually weak.Tomorrow I shall become spiritually strong
And become a sun-vast soulfulnessPlus fulness.
```Your life may perish,
But your oneness-smile with HeavenAnd your gratitude-heart to earth
Will always survive. ```The wise man
Is he who prays to GodNot to show him
The ugly face of problemsUnless it is absolutely necessary
For his self-perfection. ```You can start
With either sincerity or purityOr with both.
But you can never stopWith either of them.
You have to continue with themForever and forever,
For your realisationAnd for God’s Manifestation.
```Hope-flames are purifying my heart
So that I can appreciate,Admire, love and grow into
Heaven’s ceaseless sun-vast smiles. ```My Lord,
You have given me what I wanted.How is it that I am not happy?
“My child,How can you be happy
Unless you ask MeFor what you actually need?”
What do I need, My Lord?Please tell me.
“My constant Satisfaction in you.” ```From:Sri Chinmoy,Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 63, Agni Press, 1983
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