God touches my heart
So that I can fly on the wingsOf His ever-ascending Vision-Smile.
```Be brave
Where your heart is concerned.Be sincere
Where your mind is concerned.Then you will see how easy it is
To live your lifeIn a supremely better consciousness.
```My will was made
For God’s Satisfaction.God’s Will was made
For my perfection. ```Curb your negative feelings.
Otherwise, before long,You will have to retreat
From the world’s heart-garden. ```I cry because
I am so imperfect.I smile because
My Lord tells meThat I am not a hopeless case.
```God the Compassion
Is before my eyes.God the Satisfaction
Is within my heart.God the Perfection
Is inside my aspiration-cry. ```I must not forget
To tell HeavenThat poor earth
Is always willing to try. ```There is no difference
Between collecting and storing garbageAnd identifying with the impure thoughts
Of the human mind. ```Look at yourself soulfully sometimes
So that you do not exaggerateYour imperfection-cry.
```Since each thought
Is an atomic power,You can give each thought
A diplomatic death. ```If my heart
Knows you well,I shall not keep
My mouth shutWhen the world does not value
Your aspiration-heartAnd dedication-life.
```The unaspiring human mind
Is forced to enjoyThe tug-of-war
Between strangling doubtAnd embracing faith.
```No matter what you say,
No matter what you do,God will not discredit your talents,
For His Heart of SatisfactionHe has already placed inside you.
```My aspiring heart is familiar
With sincerity-seekers.My undivine mind is familiar
With anxiety-mongers. ```My Lord Supreme,
I desperately need YouEarly in the morning
To tell me that my heartCan be as pure
As Your Vision-Eye.My Lord Supreme,
I desperately need YouLate in the evening
To tell me that my lifeCan be as perfect
As Your Compassion-Heart. ```Simplification is nothing other
Than unification.When I simplify my complex
And complicated mind,I unify my earth-bound life
With my Lord’s eternally free Life. ```There can be no iota of doubt
Inside your illumined mind.Such being the case,
Your heart is now in a positionTo enjoy citizenship in Heaven.
```If you can cheerfully veil
Your spiritual greatness,God will quickly unveil
Your spiritual goodness,Plus tell the whole world
That you are His unparalleled instrument. ```God is his life’s unwritten compassion.
God is his mind’s mystic inspiration.God is his heart’s psychic aspiration.
Therefore,God dreams of His own perfect Satisfaction
In and through him. ```What is the difference
Between falsehood and truth?Falsehood is not afraid
Of earth’s ignorance-night,But it is afraid
Of Heaven’s wisdom-light and delight.Truth is not afraid
Of earth’s ignorance-nightOr of Heaven’s wisdom-light and delight.
Therefore the omnipotent Supreme,Omniscient Supreme
And omnipresent SupremeLoves truth and not falsehood.
```Even during the sunset years
Of his life,His heart longed for solid security
And his mind longed for bright hopes. ```His days die with sombre sleep.
His nights die with giant groans.What can you expect
From such an ill-fatedAnd Heaven-denied man?
```We imitate a person
For our self-glorification.We imitate God
For our life-liberation. ```Just because you have
The opportunity-hour,You cannot say you are going to use
Your creativity-power.But if you have creativity-power,
Someday, somehow,You will discover
Your opportunity-hour. ```If you remain in your child-heart,
No matter how many mistakes you make,You will try to rectify them
And not repeat them.If you remain in your adult-mind,
You will not even try to rectifyYour mistakes.
You will only prepare yourselfFor your coffin.
```When the hour strikes,
Nobody is going to look for you.You have to remain wide awake
And respond immediately. ```Silence speaks soulfully and powerfully.
Everybody loves to hear it speak,And so do I.
Sound speaks loudly and foolishly.
Nobody understands a word it says.Everybody laughs,
And so do I. ```The satisfaction of life
May not be ours,But the beauty of hope
Is all ours. ```God is more than willing
To grant me the beautyOf perfection-blossoms.
But alas, where is my receptivity?Where is it?
```Where can I announce my Lord’s Victory?
Not inside my mind’s sound-sea,But inside my heart’s silence-sky.
```No sincere heart-cries
Will give birthTo devastating frustrations
And heart-breaking realisations. ```My Lord,
I pray to You to shelter meAnd everything of mine,
Except two things which I have created:My fearful vital and my doubtful mind.
```Two ancient universal questions:
How can I realise GodImmediately?
Is unconditional surrenderEver possible?
```You will be able to outlast
The perils of your temptation-lifeIf your aspiration is intense
And your dedication is immense. ```Because you do not believe
In the mind’s search,Because you do not believe
In the heart’s cry,Your joy is speeding
Towards death. ```O chosen son of God,
Yours is not the life of empty hopes.Therefore, for you
Every hour is a long strideTowards God.
```Cherish not, even unconsciously,
The cave of despair.Only then will you be able
To sing and danceOn the silver mountain
Of satisfaction-delight. ```His heart’s light-giving lamp
God lovingly takesAs His own unveiling
Satisfaction-Sun. ```“I love God.”
This thought starts from my heartAnd runs and runs towards God.
“I do not love God.”
This thought starts from my mindAnd carries me away from God.
```Since you immensely enjoy
Dry intellectual jargon,You are blessed with
A mercilessly perplexing labyrinthOf futile human opinions.
```What have I to conceal?
My ignorance-night?No, I shall not conceal it.
The sooner I reveal it,The sooner my Lord’s Compassion-Eye
Will be able to transform itInto wisdom-delight.
```God laughs and laughs
When He sees that I am not at all anxiousTo come out of my failure-night,
That on the contrary,I am quite comfortably sleeping there.
```Nothing gives me greater joy
Than to see my exorbitant prideWeeping bitterly.
```Dedicate your life divinely
And dare to smile soulfully.Soon you will hear
God knocking at your heart’s door.Once He comes in,
He will stay there forever and forever. ```Every day you can walk along
The inner roadWith your life of prayer
And your heart of meditation. ```Purity is the Heaven-born music,
And this Heaven-born musicCan be heard only by those
Who are spiritually strong. ```Silence was my goal.
But my Lord Supreme tells meThat He will take me far beyond silence
To an infinitely superior goal. ```As an individual
Often dresses in different clothes,Even so, Krishna, the Buddha, the Christ
And many othersAre the same God
Clothed in different garb. ```If you see a hungry heart
Inside someone,That means his truth-life
Has already begun. ```He is totally lost
Between his happy dream of HeavenAnd his sad existence on earth.
```O my mind’s suspicion-night,
Do you not realiseThat you are nothing other than
A joy-devouring beast? ```My gratitude-heart
And my surrender-lifeAre already stationed
Among the immortals. ```Everything is imperfect.
Everyone is imperfect.But God has promised me
That He will definitely makeHis entire creation perfect,
And it will be done quite soon. ```A seeker of the supreme Truth
Has only one necessity,And that necessity is
The earth-liberatingAnd Heaven-manifesting God.
```Do you want to know
How close you are to God?Then dive deep within,
To the inmost region of your inner life.Only there will you find
The correct answer. ```Your thunder-vital will never be able
To conquer the heart of the world.It is your sweet violin-heart
That will conquer —In fact, has already conquered —
The heart of the world. ```Because of my surrender-light
Of today,My Lord Supreme has forgiven
My neglected aspiration of the past. ```The stupid mind thinks
That time is sleeping.The wise heart knows
That time is perishing.And I know
That time is illumining. ```If you cling desperately
To your desire-life,You will never be able to deny
The stark frowns of dissolution-night. ```Neglect not
Your heart of promise-light.If you neglect it,
Yours will be, before long,The destruction-doom.
```You want your mind to wither.
But how can it witherAs long as you allow it
To nourish itself with false imaginings? ```Man speaks ill of God.
Man revolts against God.Yet God does not change His decision
That man will be His chosen instrumentTo manifest Him here on earth.
```What can doubt do?
It can easily destroyThe beauty and purity
Of oneness-friendship-joy. ```Remove resentment
From your entire beingIf you want enlightenment
Within and without. ```Unless you sever yourself
From the obscurityOf your suspicion-mind,
How can your heartEver be happy?
```Happiness
Will follow youIf your heart remains
Undisturbed by trifles. ```Man’s first disobedience-night
AndHeaven’s first indifference-torture
Are inseparable. ```As a tree that has countless leaves,
Flowers and fruitsBows down to offer them
To the world at large,Even so, a truly great seeker
Humbly bows downTo offer the fruits of his inner life
To mankind. ```Unless we invoke today
The presence of tomorrow’sAll-illumining dawn,
Our life may sadly endIn a heart-breaking,
All-important failure. ```Heaven’s first-born child:
Promise-sun.Earth’s first-born child:
Hope-sea. ```Your monstrous anger
Heralds the fast-approaching hourOf your life’s
Total destruction. ```Alas, the forest of uncomely thoughts
In your mindIs threatening and frightening
Your heart’s climbing cry. ```Soulfully try to accept
God’s timeless Compassion-Height.Your heart-cries will be transformed
Into blossoms of enlightenment. ```To feed a seeker’s heart,
Heaven, in its infinite beauty,Every day smilingly, lovingly
And compassionately descends. ```Your constant craving
For world praiseHas forced your heart’s aspiration-cry
To cease speedily. ```A defective and contagious
Loneliness-heartSleeplessly breeds
Hidden fears. ```Your inner wound is deepening
And will continue to deepenUnless you stop obeying
Your mind’s loud voiceAnd listen only to God’s
Secret and sacred Whispers. ```It is you who have allowed yourself
To become a slaveTo your stark fate.
How then can you enterInto the delight-palace
Of silence-kingdom? ```A succession of calamities
Shall without failMark the reign
Of your wild desire-life. ```We think that opportunity leads us
To something precious:God-realisation.
But opportunity not only leads usTo something precious.
Opportunity itself is precious. ```Because your mind is a slave
To teeming doubts,You cannot enjoy
The beauty and satisfactionOf a perfect reality.
```My heart’s
Shadowless satisfaction-cryIs the crown of my life’s
Soulful efforts. ```Can you believe that your mind
Is not missing God right now?Can you believe that your heart
Is not loving God any more? ```God needs manifestation.
That is why He is touching our feet.We need realisation.
That is why we are breaking God’s Head. ```When he was in Heaven,
His heart-flower openedAnd he compassionately said:
“Let me go down and helpThe suffering earth.”
Alas, when he came to earth,He immediately said:
“Is there anybody in God’s universeAs stupid as I?
Let me go back to Heaven!” ```A sense of incompleteness even God has.
He has divided HimselfInto two realities:
Heaven and earth.These two realities need each other
And fulfil each other.Only when Heaven and earth are united
Will God feel complete. ```Our goal is not fixed;
It is always transcending itself.When we are about to reach
Our long-awaited goal,We immediately see a new goal
In front of us.To reach this new goal
Is not a one-inch journey.It is also a very long distance away.
```Our first goal in meditation
Is not to have undivine, ordinary thoughts.Our second goal
Is to have divine, progressive thoughts.Our third goal
Is to have no thoughts at all.Consciously or unconsciously,
We must always strive for a new goal. ```God always keeps His Promises to man.
If He does not fulfil one of His Promises,We have to know
That He will fulfil a new and better Promise. ```You were waiting for
A phone call from God.But poor God was exhausted
And could not dialHis Heavenly telephone.
Instead, God just grabbed your soulAnd fed it,
Giving it divine and supreme joyFar beyond your expectations.
```An immature seeker may believe
That the faster he chants the namesOf the cosmic gods and goddesses,
The faster will beHis inner progress.
A mature seeker knows
That the more soulfullyHe prays and meditates,
The more fruitful will beHis inner progress.
```Since during the day
He sings soulful God-songs,At night God allows him
To have beautiful God-dreams. ```A true spiritual Master must shoulder
The countless responsibilitiesOf his spiritual family.
But still he remainsIn a childlike consciousness
To fill his seeker-childrenWith the joy and delight
Of God the eternal Child. ```If you feel you are young,
Then you will see each momentAs an opportunity to grow.
If you feel you are old,
You may not be able to seeAny opportunities at all
In your life. ```Opportunities appear before us
In millions of ways.Alas,
To lose these opportunitiesWe have also found
Millions of ways. ```If you are unable to reveal
The light you have receivedDuring your meditation,
Do not worry.You will not lose it.
It will only remain dormantUntil God’s Hour,
When you will have the inner wisdomTo use it in the right way
For the right purpose. ```Every new year
The Supreme gives us a new Message.If we take His Message seriously,
Our progress can be great,Greater and greatest.
```In the inner world
You can never sayYou have received enough.
While God’s Love is enteringInto your heart,
It is creating even more hungerFor His Love.
While God’s Compassion is descendingInto you,
It is creating an even larger vesselTo hold His Compassion.
```Our earthly hunger can be fed
With a limited amount of earthly foodAnd then be satisfied.
Our Heavenly hunger can be fedWith Peace, Light and Delight
In infinite measureAnd still cry for more.
```Give me, give me.
This was the prayerI offered to God yesterday.
Receive me, receive me.
This is the prayerI am offering to my Lord today.
Transform me, transform me
And make me Your very own.This is the prayer
I shall offer to my Lord Supreme tomorrow. ```From:Sri Chinmoy,Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 77, Agni Press, 1983
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