Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 73

7201. A Masterpiece Of Devotion

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The more I think of Him

And the more I speak of Him,

The more my heart is transformed

Into a masterpiece of devotion. ```

7202. His Is The Mind

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His is the mind

That enjoys sleepless struggles.

His is the life

That enjoys useless unrest. ```

7203. Teachers

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My soul taught my heart

How to fly.

My heart taught my mind

How to cry.

But my mind is now teaching my life

How to sigh. ```

7204. The Silence-God Of The Beyond

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The Silence-God

Of the ever-transcending Beyond

Has opened my heart’s

Aspiration-room

And my life’s

Dedication-door. ```

7205. An Unappeasable Hunger

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A desire-bound life

Is ruthlessly and inevitably seized

By the indomitable strength

Of an unappeasable hunger. ```

7206. You Cannot Judge

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Your life can succeed

And your heart can proceed,

But you cannot be the judge

Of their success and progress. ```

7207. No Insignificant Work

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There is no such thing

As insignificant work.

Therefore, we must needs do everything

With our heart’s love

And our life’s respect.

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7208. My Heart's Silence-Tears

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Sweet are my heart’s silence-tears.

How I wish I could keep them

Safe inside the happiness-palace

Of my soul. ```

7209. His Mind Never Proceeds

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His mind never proceeds

Further than his long-treasured

Himalayan plans.

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7210. Three Imperishable Sorrows

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An impurity-mind,

An insecurity-heart

And a futility-life:

These are his

Three imperishable sorrows.

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7211. To Preserve Is To Unveil

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To preserve my heart’s

Burning faith

Is to unveil my soul’s

Sacred promise. ```

7212. The Aimless Contours

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Alas, my mind does not want

To stop following

The aimless contours

Of the confusion-shore. ```

7213. Fly Like Your Soul

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Do not encage your earthly minutes

If you want to fly

Like your soul

In the liberty-firmament. ```

7214. Liberal Imaginations

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The imaginations

Of the human mind

Are quite liberal.

The realisations

Of the divine heart

Are quite conservative.

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7215. The Panorama Of God's Sweetness

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In a seeker’s gratitude-heart

God finds the panorama

Of His own transcendental Sweetness.

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7216. If Your Faith Wavers

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If your mind’s faith wavers,

How can your heart breathe in

Adoration for your Lord Supreme?

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7217. You Have Discovered

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My Lord,

I came to You with empty hands,

But You have discovered

My empty heart too. ```

7218. Man's Undeniable Name

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Ingratitude is man’s

Undeniable name,

All due to his excess

Of ignorance-dream. ```

7219. A New Success

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Each time I long for

A new success

And get a new success,

What do I see?

The usual disillusionment.

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7220. Depression

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Depression exhausts me.

Depression blinds me.

Depression strangles me.

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7221. Let Me Give Credit

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Let me give a little credit

To my life of outer sincerity.

Let me give a little more credit

To my life of inner purity.

Let me give all credit

To my Lord’s Compassion-Heart. ```

7222. An Unforgivable Fantasy

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My strong desire

To bind the heart of humanity

And blind the eye of humanity

Is unfortunately and unmistakably

An unforgivable fantasy.

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7223. Heaven's Ecstasy-Nest

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My heart of unconditional oneness

With the Will of my Lord Supreme

Is Heaven’s ecstasy-nest.

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7224. My Desires

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My desires make my vital ugly,

My mind lonely

And

My life unfriendly. ```

7225. A Self-Giving Breath

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My Lord,

Your boundless Bounty

Has granted me breath.

Now I am praying to You

To grant me a willingly

Self-giving breath. ```

7226. God's Secrets

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Yesterday God taught me one secret:

How to transcend my mind.

Today God is teaching me another secret:

How to please Him

In His own Way.

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7227. My Heart's Real Helplessness

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My heart’s real helplessness

Someday, somehow

Will reach God’s God-Ecstasy.

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7228. He Expects God To Satisfy Him

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Since he satisfies God

In his dream-world,

He expects God to satisfy him

In the reality-world. ```

7229. Mother India Commands

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My Mother India commands me

To learn that there is no such thing

As confusion.

Everything in God’s creation

Is on the clear road

To illumination. ```

7230. Mother India Announces

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My Mother India announces

The synthesis between

Her mountain-high promises

And her ocean-vast hopes. ```

7231. Now My Heart Is Crying

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There was a time

When my heart cried and cried

To find God.

Now my heart

Is crying and crying

Not to lose God.

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7232. A Chosen Instrument Of God

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A chosen instrument of God

Will undoubtedly become

An all-around excellent seeker.

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7233. Man's Ingratitude

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God’s Compassion-Eye

And God’s Forgiveness-Heart

Work even in the face

Of man’s inborn ingratitude. ```

7234. I Met God

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The other day I met God

Walking down the street.

To my extreme happiness

He said to me

That His Heart of Compassion-Ocean

Would wash away

All my teeming imperfections.

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7235. Seek God's Companionship

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This world will try to corrupt you.

Before it can do so,

Try to seek God’s Companionship.

Do it as soon as possible! ```

7236. Some Special Rules

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When great souls come down

They try to make some special rules

To better the consciousness

Of this eyeless and stone-deaf world. ```

7237. The Desire-River

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The desire-river of our human vital

Finally enters into

The destruction-sea

And nowhere else. ```

7238. To See Tomorrow

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I shall live on earth

To see tomorrow,

Not the way my vital desires

To see tomorrow

But the way my soul envisions

Tomorrow’s perfection

And tomorrow’s satisfaction.

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7239. Be Patient With Yourself

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Be patient with yourself

In exactly the same way

That God is patient with you.

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7240. A Universal Man

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A universal man

Does not have to claim anyone.

He is more than satisfied

That he has been claimed by everyone

And by everything.

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7241. My Mind Says To My Heart

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My mind, in a terrible rush,

Says to my heart,

“O heart, why are you so insecure

All the time?”

My heart quietly, very quietly,

Says to my mind,

“O mind, why are you so impure

All the time?” ```

7242. If You Want Perfection

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If you want perfection,

Then long for truth.

If you want satisfaction,

Then long for constant self-giving. ```

7243. Hunger For World-Applause

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His hunger for world-applause

Does not allow him to live

Inside his own heart-poise.

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7244. The Quest For Truth

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The very quest for truth

Is not only challenging and gratifying

But also illumining and fulfilling.

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7245. Two Supreme Gifts

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Two supreme gifts

From the Absolute Supreme:

A heart of oneness-duty

And a life of fulness-purity. ```

7246. God-Lovers Surprise Us

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The soulful purity of God-lovers

Surprises all human beings,

Especially the intellectual giants.

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7247. Choose Your Thoughts Carefully

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Choose your thoughts carefully

At every moment

If you want your life-boat

To sail in the sea

Of light and delight.

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7248. We Still Have Not Forgotten

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You and I are two human beings

Who are now on our way

To transformation.

One day we shall become perfect.

How is it that we still

Have not forgotten

Our animal life

And find it so hard

To appreciate each other?

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7249. No Time To Criticise

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Those who serve the world constantly

Do not have time

To criticise others,

While those who do not serve

Others selflessly

Have endless time

To criticise the whole world.

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7250. If You Think Of Ignorance

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How can you live

In wisdom-delight

If you think always of the snares

Of ignorance-night? ```

7251. True Truth Tells Me

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Falsehood tells me

That I simply cannot do it.

True truth tells me

That I have already done it.

Something more,

Since I have already done it,

I have not only become

But I am, eternally am. ```

7252. My Heart's Gates

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God opens up my heart’s gates

Every morning

Only to see them in the evening

Automatically plus firmly closed. ```

7253. No God-Becoming

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There is no self-offering

Without God-becoming,

No God-becoming

Without universal oneness-revealing. ```

7254. The Message Of Human Life

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The eternal and uninterrupted message

Of human life:

Today’s cry is unknown;

Tomorrow’s unknowable. ```

7255. Your Foolish Insecurity

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Give up your foolish insecurity.

It is destroying your heart’s purity,

Your soul’s beauty

And

Your inborn liberty.

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7256. Why Have You Postponed?

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My Lord, why have You postponed

Your visit?

Is it because I no longer

Have any special love for You?

Is it because You are tired of loving

The ingratitude-heart in me? ```

7257. Even The Unwilling Souls

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A truth-seeker and God-lover

Has abundant capacity to awaken

Even the unwilling souls

From the world of lethargy. ```

7258. Consumed With Pride

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If your mind is consumed

With disproportionate pride,

How can your heart be inundated

With oneness-delight? ```

7259. I Have Already Enjoyed

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I have already enjoyed

My life’s ignorance-sleep.

Now I want to enjoy

Immortality’s infinite Deep. ```

7260. The Eternal Sufferer

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My soul is the eternal sufferer

Caught between my mind’s confusion

And my heart’s frustration.

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7261. I Am Giving You Back

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My sweet Lord,

I am giving You back

My soft heart.

Will You not give me back

Your strong Feet?

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7262. God's Cherished Friend

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On the road of self-giving

The seeker is most generously blessed

With God’s cherished Friend:

Smile. ```

7263. Although You Are Roaming Blindly

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Do not falsely and stupidly think

That God is not granting you

His Heart’s Compassion-Sky

Although you are roaming blindly

In the dark alleys of ignorance.

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7264. Silence And Fulfil

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Silence your endless

Earth-necessity

Secretly.

Fulfil your soulfully pure

Heaven-necessity

Immediately.

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7265. He Knows Who Loves

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He knows

Who loves.

He is right

Who does.

He is perfect

Who is God-revealing.

He is another God

Who is Truth-manifesting. ```

7266. His Revolt Continued

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Although he was forced

To kiss the humiliation-dust of defeat,

His blind-elephant-revolt continued

Against the Wisdom-King. ```

7267. A Life Of Self-Sufficiency

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A life of self-sufficiency

Will always remain

Beyond my imagination’s flight.

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7268. Beauty

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Beauty tempts the weak.

Beauty inspires the strong.

Beauty gladdens the Supreme.

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7269. I Think Of God

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I think of God

So that I can immediately become good.

God thinks of me

So that I can eternally be perfect. ```

7270. Each Desire-Bound Life

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Each desire-bound life,

In a spiritual sense,

Is not only mischievous

But also treacherous. ```

7271. Each Pure Thought

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Each pure thought

Is a perfection-builder

In man and for God.

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7272. When I Am Weak

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When I am weak,

I think of others’ capacities.

When I am strong,

I think of my own

Yet unnoticed incapacities.

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7273. Ambition Wants To Befriend Him

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Ambition cannot challenge him.

Ambition cannot even find him.

Yet ambition wants to befriend him.

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7274. A Peerless Bridge

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My faith is a peerless bridge

Between my heart’s soulful hope

And my Lord’s fruitful Self-Giving.

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7275. Already Deeply Attached

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Heaven is a place I cannot reach.

Why can’t I reach it?

Because my life does not want to.

Why not?

Because I am already deeply attached

To the place where I am now:

Hell.

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7276. The Lamp Of The Mind

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The lamp of the mind

Thinks it is most powerful.

The lamb of God

Knows that God alone is most powerful

And most beautiful.

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7277. The Secret Of Contentment

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The secret of contentment:

Give what you have,

Your mind’s poise,

And become aware of what you truly are,

A perfect choice and immortal voice

Of God. ```

7278. Harsh Words

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Harsh words

Slay everybody

And delay everything.

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7279. My Soul's Lustre-Surrender

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In my soul’s lustre-surrender

I give to God

What God Himself needs

For His own Self-Transcendence

And His own earth-Manifestation.

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7280. The Fragrance Of A Purity-Flower

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You do not have to be

Completely versed

In any sacred book.

Just make your heart

The fragrance of a purity-flower.

Lo, God the Compassion-Satisfaction-Heart

Is fast approaching you.

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7281. Rapture-Realisation

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Rapture-realisation is not founded

Upon torture-experience.

Rapture-realisation is founded

Upon the oneness-manifestation

Of the aspiring heart.

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7282. Three That Are One

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A born sacrificer,

A God-lover and

A truth-seeker:

These three are inseparably one

In the same body.

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7283. Nobody But God Himself

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Nobody but God Himself

Encourages and energises me

To walk fast, very fast,

Along my realisation-road. ```

7284. A Surrender-Heart

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A surrender-heart

Is purity’s smile

And beauty’s dance.

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7285. Man's Companions

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God and His Satisfaction-Smile

Always accompany man

On his aspiration-journey.

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7286. God's Compassion-Readiness

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What can God’s Compassion-Readiness do

If my body wants to sleep

And my mind wants to daydream?

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7287. When I Do Not Aspire

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When I do not aspire,

I enjoy the world’s thunder-noise.

When I aspire,

I love God’s self-transcending

Silence-Voice.

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7288. Each Soul-Prayer Of Mine

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Each soul-prayer of mine

Is my life’s heart-fragrance

Which pleases at once

Both Heaven and earth. ```

7289. Tremendous Confidence

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As you have tremendous confidence

In your heart,

Even so,

God has tremendous Love and Fondness

For you.

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7290. Each Unfulfilled Hope

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Each unfulfilled hope

Of humanity

Is an unmanifested promise

Of divinity. ```

7291. Your Heart-Hotel

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Have you reserved

The most special room for God

In your heart-hotel?

If so, then God is definitely

And gladly going to take it

At your highest rate. ```

7292. My Heart's Ecstasy-Palace

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My heart’s ecstasy-palace

Is built upon the foundation of

God’s Self-Dedication-Palace.

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7293. Forgotten How To Sleep

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The impurity-elephant

Inside mankind

Has completely forgotten

How to sleep. ```

7294. Perpetual Necessity

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Perpetual necessity means

The perfect revelation

Of an inner inevitability.

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7295. Trust Your Hope-Dreams

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Trust your hope-dreams;

They are harmless.

Trust your promise-realities;

They are peerless. ```

7296. God Wants To Know

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God does not want to know

Why I cry

But He does want to know

Why I do not smile. ```

7297. My Words Shall Live Longer

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My words shall live longer

Than my deeds.

Therefore, my words have to be

At once cautious and precious. ```

7298. It Is Enough!

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Is my sincerity-mind enough?

Perhaps it is enough.

Is my surrender-life enough?

Definitely it is enough! ```

7299. Practising Self-Control

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When I started practising self-control,

The animal in me frowned,

The human in me

Was totally dismayed

And the divine in me

Came to the fore to crown me. ```

7300. My Soul's Rainbow-Sky

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Breathlessly I cry

And selflessly I try

Only to see my soul’s

Rainbow-sky. ```

Editor's introduction to the first edition

This is the seventy-third 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 meditates with Pablo Casals at the Maestro’s home in Puerto Rico on 5 October 1972. After the meditation, Don Pablo said, “I am most grateful to you for granting me the most wonderful moment of my life. Bless you, bless you! Thank you, thank you!”

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-7264: FFP 124 (revised version).

From:Sri Chinmoy,Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 73, Agni Press, 1983
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