Yesterday I prayed to God
To let me know who I really am.Today I am praying to God
To make me feel that my heartReally loves Him
And that my lifeReally needs Him.
```Why do I cry?
I cry becauseMy clever mind
Has betrayed my soulful heart. ```No matter where you are,
You do have the hidden capacityTo climb higher and dive deeper,
Even if it is just an inch. ```Self-examination means
Self-perfection.Self-perfection means
God-satisfaction.God-satisfaction means
Universe-transformation. ```If you are suffering
From world-doubts,Then learn the art of inner deafness.
You will be happyAnd your life will be amazingly progressive.
```Your mind’s blind restlessness
And your vital’s dark attachmentCause your life’s ceaseless pangs.
```Walk along the path of purity.
Easily and effectivelyThe smile of your heart
Will be able to eradicateYour imperfection-life.
```If you become a prayerful seeker
Of God’s Love-World,God will grant you His Vision-Delight
To treasure always. ```In the heart of life
There is only one thing: hope.In the heart of death
There is only one thing: peace. ```Not your mind’s restless
And incessant callingBut your heart’s love
Is the quickest fulfillerOf your dreams.
```The Silence-Blessing
Of my Lord’s Vision-EyeIs my Eternity’s Nectar-Food.
```What can force you to improve?
Not the expectations of others.No, not even your own desires.
Then what can?Only your constant love of God.
```When my consciousness lives on earth,
I see and become frustration-night.When my consciousness lives in Heaven,
I become Heaven’s illumination-flightAnd satisfaction-delight.
```If your life is swimming
In the river of sorrow,Then burn the incense of your heart
And inundate your entire beingWith Eternity’s Light and Infinity’s Delight.
```If you can make your heart become
A ceaseless flow of love,Then the waters of liberation
Will not remain a distant goal. ```When I dive deep within,
I see no imperfection-jungleOr even difficulty-fern,
But only the smile of perfectionAnd the dance of satisfaction-delight.
```I can conquer my body’s pitiful poverty
And make my life happyIf I listen to the sweet melody
Of my divinely wealthy heart. ```Who asks you to walk
Through an endless darkness-tunnel?Do you not see that the road of light
Can easily be part and parcelOf your life’s treasure-trove?
```If you love your heart’s journey,
Then rest assured the nectar-goalWill not be able to forget you
Or ignore your life. ```If you have a life of dreams
And want your dreams to be fulfilled,Then be as pure as the dew of the dawn
And play on your heart-violin every day. ```If you truly have
An illumined mind-life,Then my heart and I are more than ready
To be your regular supportive listeners. ```You have shattered all earthly bondage.
Therefore, the doors of HeavenAre wide open for you
To see God’s Smile of Vision-Plenitude. ```Rest assured, I never see
The heavy weight of your imperfection-plight.What I always see is
The crown-glory of your self-offeringTo the supreme cause of life-perfection.
```If God is His
Compassion-Flow,Then I am my
Aspiration-gratitude-flow. ```If you cry with hope,
Your liberated heart will one dayBe able to experience the silence-delight
Of God’s Transcendental Heights. ```How long can you continue
With your false hope-dreams?Do you not realise that your life
Is as useless as dust?Is it not high time for you
To end your friendshipWith self-deception-night?
```My tenebrous mind
Is enveloped in the black shadowOf my world of sorrow
And desperate self-destruction. ```If you want to throw away
Something from your life,Then throw away
Your fear-arrow and your doubt-spear. ```His right eye embodies
The eternal sun of power.His left eye embodies
The eternal moon of love.His outer heart embodies
God-Confidence.His inner heart embodies
God-Satisfaction. ```Ask your mind to create something
That is infinitely faster than thought.Then ask your heart to purify it,
Your soul to liberate itAnd God to play with it.
```As long as you love
Your questioning mind,How can you expect a smile
From your illumining soulAnd a dance
From your loving heart? ```My Lord, I see Your Smile-River
Flowing across my eyes.Can I not show You
Soulfully and unconditionallyMy heart’s dance of flame-delight?
```My Lord,
When I tell You that I am a hopeless case,What do You think of me?
“My child,
I think of giving you immediatelyA new dream:
The dream of God-SatisfactionIn your giant mind.”
```What the world needs
Is an all-loving God-Hour,But what the world is running after
Is an all-devouring giant power. ```If you can think of yourself
As a true earth-child,Then God will definitely think of you
All the timeAs a satisfied Heaven-Father.
```If you keep your heart-fountain flowing,
Your body and vitalWill be able to play sleeplessly
In the fields of Immortality. ```Today your heart is
Your unconscious incapacity.Tomorrow your life will be
Your fulfilled capacity. ```The beauty of his soul
Has penetrated his outer life.The confidence of his outer life
Has satisfied his Inner Pilot. ```Since my body
Lives in this world,Can my heart not be
For this world? ```Failure is at times
A blessing-gift in disguise.Even then, nobody likes
To accept this gift. ```Those who want to destroy the world
Have already become preyTo their own suicidal commitment.
```If you want to protest,
Then protest against your ownHidden inner crimes
By virtue of your ownSterling faith in God.
```Bury all your mental education
If necessity demands,But never bury the beauty,
Purity and divinityOf your intuition-flames.
```The prayerful life you now lead
Has the powerful capacityAnd the fruitful necessity
To disown your deplorable past. ```His life is all happiness
Because sincerity-inevitabilityAlways holds his heart
In its adamantine embrace. ```By nature
Each and every earth-bound thoughtIs inhospitable.
By nature
Each and every divine thoughtIs not only cordially hospitable
But also astonishingly adorable. ```Each special prayer to God
Is a green hopeAnd a blue promise
To emancipate the human in usFrom the binding shackles
Of the animal in us. ```A seeker’s soulful smile
Is an everlasting flowerIn the Heart-Garden
Of his Beloved Supreme. ```If there is any purpose in thinking,
It is so the thinking process itselfCan try to transcend
Its own extremely limited existence-reality. ```Each preceding sorrow
Tells us that life is a journeyInto the unknowable.
Each succeeding sorrow
Tells us that everythingHas its own preordained
Earth-limited finality. ```Even if you fail time and again,
Never surrender your precious hope-heartTo eyeless, life-denying despair.
```With your heart’s loving gratitude
You can easily gainGod’s Transcendental Beatitude.
```Your breath of cunning
And intoxicating maliceHas lowered the climbing
Heart-beauty of humanity. ```Each stupid man
Thinks he is entertaining a foolish hopeWhen he thinks of the transformation
Of his own nature. ```My heart’s gratitude-breath
Is constantly blessedWith the beautiful ripples
Of dynamic energy-light. ```Be careful of your mind’s
Undivine thoughts.Not only do they increase and multiply,
But also they can force youTo die a million deaths
Before your life’s final hour strikes. ```You talk so much
About your mind’s maladies.When will you start talking
About your heart’s remedies? ```Unless your mind cares
To be useful to your heart,How can anyone
Make your life fruitful? ```The human life
Is like a frustration-lionLoving a frustration-tiger.
```If you want to understand a thing
Sooner than the soonest,Then do not try to interpret it.
Just love itAnd become inseparably one with it.
```Suspicion
Is the poison-foodPrepared by the weak
For the weak. ```What you have inside you
Is a heart of beauty’s dawnAnd a soul of divinity’s day.
```The human mind does not progress
Because it wants to haveAn independent life
In the heart of a dependent life. ```If you love the world,
Then why do you hide from it?If you hate the world,
Then why do you live in it? ```If you want your mind
To understand the world,If you want your heart
To be loved by the worldAnd if you want your life
To be treasured by God Himself,Then do not think!
```A life of silence
Is always an inner challenge.Its goal:
To hasten the choice Hour of God. ```Fear and doubt
Never want to listen to anybodyEven though they are tortured
Not only by othersBut also by themselves.
```What have you done with
The time that God has given youTo love the beauty of His creation
And inspire the worldWith the purity of your inner vision?
```If you want to know more
About God the Creator,Then become a song of service
To God the creation. ```I believe,
Therefore I see.I believe,
Therefore I become.I believe,
Therefore I eternally am. ```Each uninspired day
Marks the beginningOf a painful failure
That ends in an inner death. ```Do not accept the spiritual life
Unless it means everything to youNow and from now on.
```In the morning
His heart’s sincerityMakes him soulful.
During the rest of the day
His life’s purityKeeps him soulful.
```If your aspiration-heart
Spreads the beauty and purityOf sunshine,
Then your life becomesAn unparalleled blessing
To yourself and to others. ```I have nothing to do
With failure.I run my life’s business always
With successJust by virtue of my heart’s
Inner surrender-light. ```A soul of beauty
Is the perfection-searchFor a life of duty.
```A heart of tranquillity
Is the beauty of the BeyondThat nourishes the hunger
Of unawakened humanity. ```Your love for God
Can make your life beautiful,But it is God’s Love for you
That can make your life fruitful. ```Do not try to satiate
The wild vital.It is undoubtedly
An endless and useless task. ```God usually does not hide from me
Except when I search for HimInside my doubtful mind.
```My Lord,
I am grateful to YouBecause yesterday You did not listen
To my prayer for desire-fulfilment.My Lord,
Tomorrow I shall be grateful to YouIf You do not listen
To my prayer for life-satisfaction.My Lord,
I beg You to listenTo only one prayer of mine:
“Let Thy Will be done.” ```Your heart’s excellence
You do not have to advertise.That is God’s job,
And He does not want youTo take it away from Him.
```Self-control in the outer life
Is another name forGod’s Compassion-Patrol
In the inner life. ```His mind’s love of God’s creation
Is very limited.His heart’s love of God’s creation
Is unlimited.His soul’s love of God’s creation
Is not only unlimitedBut constantly self-transcendent.
```As imagination runs
Before reality,Even so, aspiration can run
Before imagination. ```You are unwilling to be brave.
Indeed, you are a fool!You are unwilling to accept the light
From others who are already brave.That means you are
Worse than a fool! ```There can be only one reality
In my life, not two:Either my daily God-appointment
Or my daily sad disappointment. ```If you rely on your friends,
You are clever.If you rely on yourself,
You are wise.But if you rely on God alone,
You are perfectBoth inwardly and outwardly.
```When I look up to Heaven,
I have only one urgent duty:My surrender-duty.
When I look at the world,
I have only one urgent duty:My gratitude-duty.
```You are sailing
Your mind-boat and your heart-boatIn two directions at the same time.
What can poor God do?He wants to be a passenger
In only one boat,For the Goal cannot be
Here, there and everywhere. ```If you have a pure heart,
Definitely it will addTo others’ happiness.
If you have a clever mind,
Definitely it will subtractFrom others’ happiness.
```God does not want you
To criticise your mind all the time.He only wants you
To love your heartMore, ever more.
```O dark world-ignorance,
I am not afraid of you.You will soon see my soul’s smiles
Even inside your wildest frowns. ```He was tired of life.
Therefore he was constantly lookingFor something that would
Lovingly and convincingly lure himTowards dear and sweet death.
```Pleasure-thoughts before long
Will be shroudedWith abysmal torture-experiences.
```I shall have to know the difference
Between the sacred happinessOf the heart
And the secret happinessOf the mind
So that I can perfect my lifeIn God’s own Way.
```A soulful song
Can easily soothe the torturesOf any cruel day.
```If you can sing soulfully
And love the world unconditionally,Then you are bound to hear
The soul-illumining musicOf the trance-world.
```Inner beauty has to penetrate
The outer world.Outer surrender has to penetrate
The inner world. ```I love God,
Not because one dayHe will make me perfect
But because He has given me,Out of His infinite Bounty,
The capacity to be happyAll the time.
```From:Sri Chinmoy,Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 81, Agni Press, 1983
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