I know, I know,
My heart’s purity-lifeIs my safest haven.
```If discouragement defeats your heart,
Then God will not be enthusiasticIn accepting you
As His Eternity’s partner. ```My Lord Supreme,
I need only one thing from You:Do give me the capacity
To startle and awaken my bodyFrom its easy slumber-life.
```My mind does not get tired
Of doing everything wrong.My heart does not get tired
Of doing everything right.My Lord does not get tired
Of transcending His outer BeautyAnd His inner Divinity.
```My mind is dealing with
An unreachable God.My heart is dealing with
A distant God.My soul is dealing with
An immediate God. ```My life has misused
God’s Freedom-Gift.Therefore, my Lord does not want
To unveil my heart. ```He is soulfully trying
To be himself.Therefore, God is inviting him
To bask in the golden raysOf His transcendental Sun.
```You have the master key
To unlock God’s secret Heart-Door,And that master key
Is your sleeplessly unconditional surrender. ```Each moment my heart tries
To sacrifice itself on God’s Altar.Each moment God grants my heart
The Ecstasy of His Eternity’s Oneness. ```His mind is willing.
His heart is obedient.Therefore, God has appeared before him
With His Delight-Embrace. ```God wants to hear
All your problems,But your unlit mind
Does not want you to shareYour problems with God.
```If your life has a moment
Of true consecration,Then God will have a full day
Of true Satisfaction. ```Because his life-arrow
Has missed its mark,His is an inner life of turmoil,
Beginningless and endless. ```You think it is necessary to worry.
I tell you, it is absolutely unnecessary.What is worse, when you worry,
God feels sadThat His Vision of Perfection
Is not revealing itself inside you. ```You cannot win God’s Love
By surprise,But God can catch
Your careful unwillingnessBy surprise.
```Why are you grumbling against God?
Is it because you feelHe does not love you enough?
Is it because you feelThe need for a better God?
Or is it because you areA total failure?
```My climbing prayer
Cannot persuade God,But my divine surrender
Can and does persuade God. ```When a world of doubt
Captured his searching mind,No other reality,
Either from the inner worldOr from the outer world,
Came to his rescueSave and except God’s Compassion-Sun.
```The outer voice demands.
The inner voice commands.But God’s Voice neither commands
Nor demands.It only unconditionally awakens
The seeker in me. ```If your mind strives to think divinely,
Then you are bound to be embracedBy God’s transcendental Delight-Beauty.
```The sigh that the sound-life heaves
Can eventually touchThe Compassion-Feet
Of the Lord Supreme. ```Respect your hopes,
Love your hopes,For your hopes are destined
To see God’s Vision-EyeAnd feel God’s Salvation-Heart.
```God is ready
With His Saviour-Heart.Alas, when shall I be ready
With my believer-heart? ```When I pray,
My prayer tries to reachGod the tallest Height.
When I meditate,
My meditation tries to reachGod the vastest Breadth.
```The silence of the heart
Is an unparalleled joyUnattainable by the doubting mind
And the strangling vital. ```The heart is born to pray.
The mind is born to hesitate.The vital is born to fight.
The body is born to forget.The soul is born to forgive
And illumine. ```A doubting mind knows how
To plague the heart.A loving heart knows how
To illumine the mind. ```A realised soul
Is a fortress of EternityTo protect humanity
From the inconscience-blows of death. ```It is not responsibility
That weighs you down.It is insensibility
That weighs you downAnd destroys your heart’s
Oneness-happiness. ```His doubt-enemy is in his grasp.
Do you know why?Because his faith-friend has given him
A most powerful gift:Confidence.
```Do not keep God waiting
Any longer.He has been waiting for you
For millennia. ```So far your unconscious life
Is unforgettable,But do not allow it to become
Unforgivable. ```When the purity-channel is open,
Your higher nature gets an immediate chanceTo reign supreme.
```What foolishness is this?
Your mind will not give you peace,Never!
It is your aspiration-heartThat will give peace
Not only to youBut to your uninspired mind as well.
```Heaven and earth, sooner or later,
Will pass away.What will forever remain
Is your life’s eternal hunger,And something more:
Your heart’s infinite thirst. ```His heart is a river
Of hopelessness.His mind is an ocean
Of sadness.His life is a desert
Of helplessness.Yet he dreams of God’s
Constant Closeness. ```His mind was born to satisfy God
In His own Way.His heart was born to love God
Unconditionally.His soul was born to grow into
Another God. ```If your mind is driven
By demonic dreams,How can the lustre
Of your hidden divinityShine on your outer life?
```When a human being puts his ego
On display,His love-life with himself
Needs immediate correction. ```At last my mind and my vital
Have signed a peace treaty.Therefore, my soul-bird is flying
Happily and proudlyIn God’s Satisfaction-Firmament.
```Compassion and justice
Need each other.Compassion needs justice
For newness-light.Justice needs compassion
For oneness-delight. ```When will you realise
That your self-righteous prideIs the constant companion
Of your failure-life? ```God has given me the responsibility
To love Him and serve Him.I have given God the responsibility
To strike me and perfect me. ```His heart’s soulful smile
At once disarms the uglinessOf his doubting mind
And captures the beautyOf his loving soul.
```Insecurity-drops
Have paralysed your heart.Impurity-flood
Has paralysed your mind.Ignorance-sea
Has paralysed your life. ```When his mind became
A silenced noise,God gave him His own Heart’s
Satisfaction-flooded soundless Voice. ```I can escape
Neither my powerful mind-forestNor my soulful heart-garden.
```Justice is not enough.
Compassion is not enough.Oneness is not only enough,
But more than enough. ```The outer world is suffering
From its immoral insanity.The inner world is suffering
From its indifferent insanity. ```How can you have a glimmer of hope
When your hope does not long forThe august company of your soul?
```Your life is filled with
Love-seeds,Devotion-plants
And surrender-trees.No wonder you have a safe path!
```There are only two indispensable things
On each man’s life-agenda:Complete perfection
Of his outer natureAnd total satisfaction
Of his Beloved Supreme. ```Your mind has extinguished
Your hope-flames.Therefore, stark disappointment
Is hammering at your heart’s door. ```The human mind
Is dying to see God’s Face.But, at the same time,
It does not want to shunThe company of ignorance-night.
```A determination-eye
Is his life’s outer history.An aspiration-heart
Is his life’s inner history. ```Mental love is investment
In the outer world.Psychic love is enlightenment
Within and without. ```To graduate
From the life-experience-school,The seeker has to be rescued
From his own ordinary self. ```Because you do not love
God the Creator,Yours is a life
Of teeming questions unanswered. ```You have allowed your mind’s impurity
To poison your heart.Therefore, yours is now the untimely
Death-grave. ```When the human in me
Unconsciously goes to sleep,The divine in me
Immediately wakes upAnd also dives deep.
```When the mind is ready
For self-examination,It sees God the Dreamer
Dancing inside it. ```As earth has no monopoly
On God’s Compassion,Even so, Heaven has no monopoly
On God’s Pride. ```Do not discard your mind-instrument.
It is just out of tune.Tune it carefully and devotedly.
It is bound to give youBoundless satisfaction.
```You are stamped as a second-rate seeker
Because you are not willingTo be a caretaker
Of this doleful earth. ```A purity-mind,
A gratitude-heartAnd a surrender-life
Are born of their own divine needs. ```If I desire to conquer the world
By God’s Grace-Flood,Then I am bowing
To a false God. ```His heart is totally indifferent
To its own needs.Therefore, God Himself is secretly
And proudlyNourishing his heart
With His own Love-Delight. ```What can poor God do
When the seeker begins hero-worshippingHis own deplorable self ?
```His powerful heart
Deliberately chose to be weakSo that he could become inseparably one
With earth’s excruciating pangs. ```No difference between
My heart’s aspiration-powerAnd my life’s liberation-hour.
```In the mind
There is only one question:“How long?”
In the heart
There is only one answer:“Not too long!”
```Earth knows how to hope.
Heaven knows how to be indifferent.God knows how to smile at earth
And frown at Heaven. ```Alas, the human mind
Not only lovesBut also accepts
The unacceptable: doubt. ```Your mind’s impurity is secretly sapping
Your heart’s strength-tree.How then can you ever hope to see
The Face of your Beloved Supreme? ```When his suffering finally ceases,
Man will have a new name:God’s Self-transcendence-Song.
```Sincerity is meant for living.
Purity is meant for loving.Oneness is meant for fulfilling.
Satisfaction is meant for being. ```If your heart has climbing aspiration,
Then you cannot go backward.You can only go forward.
```He ran down the stairs of memory
Only to be bittenBy a destructive ignorance-wolf.
```Together God and I have seen
My mind’s failure-life.Now together God and I are seeing
My heart’s success and progress-life. ```Nothing divine
Can be accidental,But everything divine
Can be ephemeral. ```My Lord Supreme,
You have given meAn innocent heart.
Can You not also give meA translucent mind?
```Ask nothing!
Lo, you are ascending.Give everything!
Lo, God is descending.Finally, you are unmistakably
In the company of God. ```Why do I seek my Beloved Supreme?
I seek Him because I need to seeHis Vision-Eye in me
For my perfection-satisfaction-smile. ```Suppression is not transcendence.
Suppression is future destructionIn perfect disguise.
```Desire, please say good-bye
To my tired mind.Aspiration, please say hello
To my freshly awakened heart. ```Do not say,
“I am going to try”Or “I am going to do”.
Only say,“God is doing it in me”
And “God has done it for me”. ```There was a time
When I could not live a momentWithout ignorance-night.
Now I cannot live a momentWithout my Lord’s Compassion-Eye
And Forgiveness-Feet. ```O desire-life,
Now that I knowYou have hidden dangers,
I have nothing to do with youAny more.
```Now I weep, now I laugh
Because of my mind’s impurity-frownAnd my heart’s purity-crown.
```The mirror reflects
His diamond-face,Flooded with the delight
Of his soul’s infinite Peace. ```When your heart and mind
Greet each other,Your soul’s promise-beauty
Is bound to increaseIn a most astonishing way.
```Since impurity-thoughts are darting
Through your mind,How can your heart dare to sing
Fruitful songs of hope? ```My Lord, my heart is tied
To Your divine Feet.Therefore, mine is the perfection-beauty
That will never fade. ```The sons of morning sang
And reminded me of God the Power.The daughters of evening sang
And reminded me of God the Peace. ```May each page of my aspiration-life
Contain only two messages:Gratitude-song and surrender-dance.
```God has not asked you
To become a lover of loneliness.How then can you blame Him
For your life of utter uselessness? ```The day you deliberately started
Making friends with ignorance-night,You saw the farewell-beam
Of your inner sun. ```A life of increasing perfection
Is undoubtedly a peerless solaceTo every aspiring heart.
```Each human being is nothing
But a tiny drop in the Eternity-Sea.Yet quite often he enjoys
His superb frown of pride. ```My heart is so grateful
To have only You, my Lord,And to claim You as the sole possession
Of my surrender-life. ```From:Sri Chinmoy,Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 84, Agni Press, 1983
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