My Lord,
May I make itMy only satisfaction-ocean
To do immediatelyAll the things that You command.
```Who wants to prolong a useless
Marathon discussionWith humanity’s unwilling
And unaspiring mind? ```Imagination
Is birthless and deathless.Its power
Is inexhaustible. ```His disproportionately overgrown
Doubt-mindHas sent a tornado of fear
To his hope-heart. ```How can you have
Even an iota of trustIf you so obstinately adhere
To your giant mistrust? ```Your imagination-dawn does not create
Your golden future.It is your aspiration-day that creates
Your golden future. ```I do not care to know
What will happen to my stupid mindIf it does not surrender
To my wise heart. ```The dust of my Lord’s Feet
Gives me the unparalleled faithTo brush aside
My teeming self-doubts. ```Unravel the tangles of your mind
To travel with your soulIn God’s Immortality-Country.
```If you can flatter yourself
With self-love,Then you can easily lie
To God. ```Your heart is under
No obligationTo fear the monster-doubts
That your mind has created. ```I wish to live always
In the adamantine securityOf God’s choicest God-Hour.
```An express train
Of consecutive great ideasHas brought me to my Himalayan goal:
The sleepless service of humanity. ```A shout of success
He wants.A song of progress
He needs. ```My heart loves
Your sincerity-drops,But it does not need
Your stupidity-flood. ```I am happy
Because my mindIs shock-proof.
I am happy
Because my heartIs despair-proof.
```My mind’s
Insecurity-thought-childrenWill not leave my heart
In peace. ```Easily you can exhaust
Your heart’s gratitude,But not your mind’s ingratitude.
```His stupendous self-devoted love
Does not allow him to receiveThe life-transforming Love
From Above. ```Simplicity, sincerity, humility,
Purity and divinity:A series of man’s gradual
God-approaching ascents. ```You are a genius.
So what?Unless your heart is precious to God,
I shall never need you. ```What is my despair-heart
Gazing at?It is gazing at the unmistakable
Statue of death. ```My mind has at last admitted
That it has not thought of God enough.My heart has always admitted
That it can never think of God enough. ```Each daily prayer of mine
Is a sincere God-adorer.Each daily meditation of mine
Is a pure God-lover. ```God is inside my heart.
I have seen Him there.Now let me look for Him
Inside my mind,In case He happens to be there, too.
```My humility-light
Is the directAnd immediate result
Of my sincerity-cry. ```O earth’s orphan-cries,
You belong to me.O Heaven’s emperor-smiles,
I belong to you. ```Father, my Father Supreme,
Do give me a guilelessMorning prayer.
Father, my Father Supreme,
Do give me a thought-freeEvening meditation.
```God is always fond
Of climbing downMan’s obedience-tree.
```My prayer unmistakably means
My preparation.My meditation inevitably means
The start of my Eternity’s conscious journey. ```I was totally mistaken
When I thought I loved GodUnconditionally.
I was completely mistaken
When I thought God did not need meAt all.
```God is eagerly waiting
To demolish my fault-tower.But what can He do,
Since I am not ready to believeIn His Mercy-Power?
```Three things every day I need:
The inspiration of giving,The aspiration of becoming,
The realisation of loving. ```When we worship
We sincerely feelThat there is no need
For us to have any warship. ```All I need to know
Is if my heart’s cry for GodIs completely genuine.
```Dedication
My Lord needs from me.Perfection
I need from myself. ```O earth, my earth,
I shall pray to GodSoulfully.
Do not worry about me.O Heaven, my Heaven,
I shall serve the God in manDevotedly.
Do not worry about me. ```My Lord and I constantly argue
With each other.My Lord tells me I can,
And I tell my Lord I can’t. ```This time my soul
Has come back to the worldWith a more sublime promise
To God. ```What is my surrender-delight?
The compass to guide meTo my Beloved Unknown.
```His mind carefully watches.
His heart soulfully waits.His soul peacefully smiles.
```My Lord,
Do release meFrom the endless round
Of bitter failure-memories. ```Alas, there is a yawning gulf
Between your imagined selfAnd the Truth of the Beyond.
```Each man
Is an information-expert.Each angel
Is an illumination-expert. ```Try to maintain
Your heart’s beautyIn spite of your mind’s
Disheartening uncomeliness. ```Do not quote me
When I say,“I am not God.”
Quote me
When I say,“No matter what you and I do,
God always loves usUnconditionally.”
```When God gives you His soulful Smile
And His powerful Blessing,Do not feel your role is over.
You must now carefully preserveWhat you have received from God,
Or it will all vanish. ```Your aspiration, dedication, surrender
And gratitudeBring you measureless Heavenly treasures.
Alas, so often you carelessly loseYour hard-earned inner wealth.
So often you foolishly squanderGod’s precious Blessings.
```He was struck
By the sudden realisationThat the worst disaster
Is the heart’s loneliness. ```How can I possibly forgive
My mindWhen it has dashed
My heart’s dreamsTo pieces?
```God’s Satisfaction in God’s own Way:
This, indeed, is the only thingThat is always worth treasuring
In your aspiration-heartAnd your dedication-life.
```His useless mind
And his helpless heartAre the fragments
Of his shattered past. ```Your doubting mind is fully responsible
For the loss of your heart’s lustreAnd the loss of your soul’s rapture.
```God has forgiven him.
Whether or not he wantsGod’s Forgiveness
Is altogether a different matter,A totally unimportant thing.
```His hopes are soaring
And his promises are manifestingFor the first time in years.
```To combat your mind’s confusion
Open your heart’s doorAnd gather strength
From its inmate: your soul. ```I am sure my ancestors
Have not suffered as much as IFrom the self-destructive disaster:
Doubt. ```Dauntlessly he said good-bye
To his past despair-life.Soulfully he is saying hello
To his future hope-life. ```I have two constant visitors:
My eternally doubting mindAnd
My infinitely forgiving God. ```Because I am not a real
And divine friend to myself,I cannot get rid of my unwanted
And constant companion:Fear.
```If you correct yourself,
God will gladly direct HimselfTo you.
```Death is at once
The end of the body’sOld journey
And the beginning of the soul’sNew journey.
```A life of surrender
May seem like a bitter medicine,But it is by far
The best oneness-remedy. ```Two things he does not know:
Where his love of sincerityHas gone
And where God’s bright SatisfactionHas gone.
```With my prayer
I have bound God mercilessly.With my meditation
I am slowly and steadilyLiberating God.
```My duty is
The Voice of GodAnd the smile of Heaven.
```How to change your world?
Just commit fewer mistakesAnd smile heartily.
```When you sing, remember,
You are singing for thoseWho appreciate you
And not for thoseWho criticise you.
```My prayer is a dark road
For the beggar in me to walk on.My meditation is a sunlit road
For the prince in me to march along. ```A flood of joy
Comes to my mindNot only when I least expect it
But also when I least deserve it. ```A self-giving heart
Will, without fail,Win what it so rightly deserves.
```I offered my Lord
My mind full of facts.My Lord gladly accepted it and said:
“I shall treasure your head.Now I am offering you
My Heart full of Love.Accept it and treasure it
In the same sincere wayThat I shall treasure your mind.”
```A dedication-life
Likes to proveThe immortality of oneness-love.
```To have a gratitude-heart
Is a supreme artThat we all must learn.
```The mind needs
A listening ear.The heart needs
Another receiving heart. ```An ambition-mind
Hates comparison.An aspiration-heart
Needs no comparison. ```Humility is the conscious expansion
Of our vastness.On the strength of our inner oneness
With God’s entire creation,We use our humility-light.
```If the father does not reach down,
His child cannot receive anything from him.It is the father’s oneness-compassion
That compels him to reach down. ```Humility is not humiliation.
Just as a tree is not humiliatedWhen it bows down
To offer its fruits,Even so, by showing humility
We offer the best in ourselvesTo humanity.
```If we do not have humility,
It is because inwardlyWe have nothing to give.
```As a mother reaches down
To offer a fruit to her child,Even so, God the Infinite
Reaches down to offer HimselfTo the finite.
```When God reaches down
To touch the finite,We call it Compassion.
When man bows down
In self-offering to humanity,We call it humility.
```Keep all your meditation-wealth
Safe inside your heart-wallet.Then when you are attacked by fear,
Doubt, anxieties or worries,Just bring forward the peace, joy and love
Which you have safeguarded. ```His prayer is thoughtless,
His meditation is soulless.Therefore, his outer life
Is denied earthly success,And his inner life
Is denied Heavenly progress. ```O Heaven, my Heaven,
I shall once more renew my promise:I shall never disobey you.
O earth, my earth,
I shall once more renew my promise:I shall ever love you.
```The Master’s fruitful answers
To his children’s soulful questionsAre as meaningful to them
As their highest meditation,For his answers convince
Their physical mindOf the messages they receive
From their spiritual heart. ```Two earth-born companions of mine:
Desire-cry and bondage-tear.Two Heaven-born companions of mine:
Aspiration-smile and freedom-dance. ```Heaven does not want
To correspond with me,For my heart is wanting
In purity-flames.Earth does not want
To correspond with me,For my mind is wanting
In certainty-light. ```His choice of peace
Sleeplessly gives himA voice of love.
```Today’s struggling heart
Is, without fail, going to becomeTomorrow’s beckoning hand.
```In the inner world
I can have sunshine every day,For my inner faith is founded upon
God’s infallible Promise-Light. ```From his morning thought
He comes to learnThat life is a love-pretending snare.
From his evening thought
He comes to learnThat love is life illumined.
```Your faith in yourself
Works only after you think.Your faith in God
Works long before you dream. ```You just think
Of your own aspiration-flame.God has already started meditating
To grant you a realisation-sun. ```The prayer that soars above
Unlocks the perfection-door for you.The mind that dives within
Shows you the satisfaction-room. ```If you want to live
Beyond the snare of doubt,Then stay in the freedom-sky
Of your blossoming heart. ```To the unawakened earth
My message is:“I shall be for you.”
To the illumined Heaven
My message is:“I shall be with you.”
```You will see your heart’s inner bird
Singing and soaringBeyond your expectation-summit,
If you can allowYour heart’s morning star
To beckon your outer life. ```Congratulations!
Your doubting mind has finally exploded.Today you have made your inner world
Really happy, supremely happy. ```Between sunrise and sunset
He has only one silentExpress train of thought:
“I love God the man only,I serve man the God only.”
```From:Sri Chinmoy,Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 69, Agni Press, 1983
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