God is giving you a special chance
To please Him.You have only to sleeplessly feel
That He loves you most. ```He lives with the hope
That someday, somehow,Someone will realise the Supreme in him
So he can fulfil his LordHere on earth.
```O truth-seeker, aspire,
Aspire constantly!Otherwise, you will be fooling
Not your Lord SupremeBut only yourself.
```Alas, it often happens
That the good souls must sufferBecause of the bad ones.
Such is the fateOf God’s creation.
```In his Master’s presence
He pretended to be full of light,But out of his Master’s sight,
He became the darkest possible night. ```One does not have to be
A God-realised soulTo know what is happening
Inside others’ hearts.Just raise your consciousness high enough
And you will be able to knowWhat others are feeling.
```My mind quite often makes me feel
That it is drinking nectarEven while it is drinking
Doubt-poison. ```No other power on earth
Will be able to please GodExcept your heart-power.
It is heart-power aloneThat God will always treasure.
```When God says
That He is not completely satisfiedWith any human being,
Each individual thinksThat he is an exception.
When God changes His opinion
And says that He is pleasedWith each and every human being,
Each individual thinksThat God is infinitely more pleased with him
Than with the rest of the world. ```Only a gift
That has been offeredWith the heart’s oneness-power
Is worth receiving. ```Your Beloved Supreme is ready to give you
Something infinitely more significantThan God-realisation,
And that is His supreme SatisfactionUnparalleled.
```God is far more satisfied
With a blade of grassEmbodying the message of humility
Than with a highly advanced seekerWho still embodies the message of pride.
```Alas, most seekers love the Supreme,
Manifest the SupremeAnd please the Supreme
In their own wayAnd not in His Way.
```Your soul wants to be proud of you
At every moment.Therefore, sleeplessly your soul
Encourages you,Inspires you
And energises youTo become a most perfect instrument
Of your Beloved Supreme. ```If you want to lead the life
Of a god or goddess on earth,Love your Beloved Lord
In His own Way. ```When your Lord Supreme blesses someone,
If you expand your consciousness,You can receive the same blessing.
```Widen your vision-eye,
Intensify your aspiration-heart,Enlarge your dedication-life.
This is all God wants from you,And it will always remain so.
```Do not wait for tomorrow
To listen to God’s blessingful Requests,For that tomorrow may never dawn
In your aspiration-life. ```When his Lord Supreme
Finally lost faith in him,His own soul, out of bitter disgust,
Weakened his spiritual capacityAnd diminished his inner receptivity.
```When a soul enters into a body,
The Lord Supreme dreams the DreamOf His Manifestation-Light.
When a body becomes the soul-consciousness,
The Lord Supreme smiles the SmileOf His Satisfaction-Delight.
```If there is something divine
That you are planning to do,Do it immediately.
If there is something undivine
That you are planning to do,Think of doing it tomorrow.
```When God the Captain
Blows His divine whistle,He wants His team to run
And cheerfully do the needful. ```The cosmic gods never sleep.
At every moment they serve the SupremeBoth here on earth and there in Heaven.
```For an unaspiring man,
Work is punishment,Work is torture.
For an aspiring man,Work is a blessing,
Work is a joy. ```The spiritual Master is a flower
And his students are the petals.Without the flower,
There can be no petals.Again, if the petals have fallen away,
Who will appreciate the flower? ```He endured humanity’s physical pain
Because he saw the AbsoluteNot only inside the smile of Heaven
But also inside the cry of earth. ```True, he is an unfortunate seeker
Because he wants to reach his goalBy false means.
But, alas, you are no better.You are so complacent
That your goal does not even exist! ```The energising power
Of your own climbing aspirationCan prevent those who are still
Wallowing in the pleasures of ignorance-nightFrom making deplorable mistakes.
```Because of his disobedience,
He was unable to progress.Because he could not progress,
He fell far behind in the inner race. ```As long as your heart compels you
To remain in God’s Boat,God will exercise His divine Authority,
Which is nothing other thanHis inseparable oneness with you.
```You feel that your Master
Has achieved somethingWhich you have not yet achieved.
But can you not feelThat just because you are
His spiritual child,You also have achieved that very thing
In and through Him? ```The heart believes that purity
Is the beginning of the spiritual life.The mind believes that sincerity
Is the beginning of the spiritual life.The vital believes that obedience
Is the beginning of the spiritual life.The body believes that wakefulness
Is the beginning of the spiritual life.And I must say
That their beliefs are perfect. ```Talent is not unattainable.
If you aspire,God’s Grace will descend
And God’s own Talent will developIn and through you.
```If you have been blessed with talent
In any field,Take the golden opportunity
Not only to use itBut also to increase it
As quickly as possible. ```A heart that is pure
Is Heaven’s perpetual Bliss.A mind that is impure
Is hell’s dragon-frown. ```Tremendous success,
If it is to last,Must always be followed
By continuous progressBoth inner and outer.
```To meditate longer
Will be of no avail to you.What you must do
Is meditate more soulfully. ```Your Beloved Supreme may forgive you
If you want to please HimIn your own way,
But your own soul will not be satisfied,Never!
```At every second you may give God
Earthly poison,But God will always offer you
Only Heavenly Nectar. ```Sweeter than the sweetest
And purer than the purestIs our gratitude
To our Beloved Lord Supreme. ```God’s Compassion and your receptivity
Together make it possibleFor God to keep you safely
Inside His Golden Boat. ```Only if you live in your heart
Will your soul be able to offer youIts divine messages.
```When he told God
That he didn’t want to serveGod’s divine Mission on earth,
God appreciated his sincerityBut was totally ashamed
Of his lack of dedication. ```At each moment we are surrendering,
But it is up to usWhether we surrender to the undivine forces
Or to the Will of our Beloved Supreme. ```If you want to take God’s side,
At every moment you have to beAlert, aspiring and self-giving.
```If you make your life
An emblem of sincerity,God will definitely give you
An invaluable gift in the inner world. ```If you see where you are
And where you once stood,You will realise one undeniable truth:
There is no one who more deservesYour constant gratitude-heart
Than your Beloved Supreme. ```When gratitude is absent,
There is only inner destruction.When gratitude is present,
There is continuous inner progress. ```Because of your obedience,
Both inner and outer,You are everything to God
And He is everything to you. ```Each wrong thought,
No matter how tiny,Can easily become as destructive
As an atom bomb. ```Everything in your life
Can and will desert you,Except your pure oneness-heart
With your Beloved Supreme. ```If God sees His children aspiring,
He gets tremendous joy.If He sees them not aspiring,
A sharp, pointed arrowEnters into His Heart.
```There is Someone in Heaven
Who loves you infinitely moreThan you can ever love any human being,
Including yourself,And that Person is none other than
Your Beloved Supreme. ```Because he failed to please his soul,
There came a time when his soulBecame indifferent to him,
And totally withdrewFrom his false aspiration-dedication-life.
```Work devotedly.
Lo, you are meditating soulfully.Meditate soulfully.
Lo, you are serving devotedly. ```On the strength of his oneness with God,
He is all securityWithin and without.
```No one expects a child to carry
Too heavy a load.Since you are a child of the Supreme,
Do you think He will ask you to do somethingWithout giving you
More than the necessary capacity? ```Gratitude that starts in the mind
Cannot last.Each time an unhealthy,
Contradictory thought arises,Sooner than at once
Mental gratitude disappears. ```If you feel that your Beloved Supreme
Is disappointed with your inner life,Then bring back your determination
And aspiration,And again do the right thing.
Lo, His blessingful SmileWill once more be yours.
```O foolish seeker,
You have developed your egoTo such an extent
That you are trying to make God feelAs you yourself already feel:
That you are indispensable. ```Why do you worry?
You worry simply becauseThe physical reality in you
Is hopelessly attachedTo the earth-consciousness.
```The earth-magnet pulls
Our body-reality.The Heaven-magnet pulls
Our soul-reality. ```Always identify with the highest reality
In yourself, your soul-bird,Which flies above and beyond
All the worries of the earth-plane. ```Devotion and gratitude
Are like two spiritual legs.Both should be equally strong
If we are to run the fastest. ```The desire-world unconsciously craves
And seeks satisfaction from excitement.The aspiration-world consciously strives for
And finds satisfaction in enlightenment. ```How can God be happy
If your lack of oneness with othersIs making them sad?
How can you be happy
If your lack of oneness with othersIs making God sad?
```The human in us says,
“His misconduct is intolerable.I will punish him
So he will change.”The divine in us says,
“Perhaps I would have done the sameIn his position.
Therefore, let me cultivateCompassion and forgiveness
To illumine both him and myself.” ```If I cannot have compassion-power,
Let me have forgiveness-power.If I cannot have forgiveness-power,
Let me have tolerance-power.If I cannot have tolerance-power,
Let me at least delayMy judgement-power.
```Because he contained his anger,
The divine forces had the opportunityTo act in and through him
And finally to illumine him. ```My Lord Supreme,
One thing I know for sure:I can be truly happy
Only when You replace my angerWith forgiveness,
Then with compassionAnd finally with oneness.
```The vision-light of America’s creators
Is not being accepted by America today,But a day will dawn when a new generation
Will manifest the divine visionOf America’s immortal founders.
```If you do something right,
You will see God’s Smile.If you do something wrong,
You will feel God’s Sadness. ```He lived in the world of jealousy,
Insecurity, impurity and ingratitude.But he smiled at his Master
Just to get a smile in return,So he could fool himself into thinking
That everything was all right. ```You say your present-day problems
Are killing you.But do you not remember
That once upon a timePeace, Light and Bliss
Were absolute realities for you?Those were not your fantasy-days!
They were as real as today.If you want to have them back,
Nothing on earth can prevent you. ```To be well-established
In the spiritual lifeIs to be happy in the only way
One can really be happy. ```When advanced seekers lead
A pure spiritual life,Their very presence transforms
Their younger brother-seekers. ```Beauty is the enrichment
Of the aspirant’s heart.Beauty is the enlightenment
Of the heart’s cry. ```When the soul comes forward,
The heart very often offersIts special gratitude to the Supreme
Through human tears.Remember those tears and treasure them,
For they are something most precious. ```If you want to study yourself,
Remember that your heartIs your own true mirror.
```His are not the tears
Of disappointed expectation.His are the tears
Of unexpected inner joy. ```Do you not see
That you are comfortableBut not soulful
When you ask God for His Forgiveness-Light?Such being the case,
God and His Forgiveness-LightWill never knock at your heart’s door.
```When God remains
In His highest HeightsAnd ignores the demands
Of His earth-bound children,You can be sure
It is always for their own good. ```If your outer sincerity
Is based on inner insincerity,Then your service to others
Has no real value. ```To see a glimpse of the highest Truth
Is an easy task.But to be absolutely obedient and faithful
To that highest TruthIs a most difficult task.
```Today you may think of God
And feel God,But tomorrow, without fail,
You must becomeAnother God.
```If your suffering, frustration
And undivine qualities can reach God,Do you not think that your love,
Devotion and surrender can also reach Him? ```Try to live a life
That breathes an everlasting hopeWhich can never be subdued
By frustration-dragon. ```You are forcing your heart
To become an exact duplicateOf your mind.
Even God cannot believe it! ```If you mercilessly weigh
Your faults,Then God will cheerfully weigh
Your heart’s mountain-faith. ```People have many dreams,
But I have only three:Perfect peace between
The soul and the body,The total transformation
Of my nature,And complete satisfaction
In God’s entire creation. ```The world can tell you
Where to go unmistakably.But the world can never tell you
How to go,Even slowly,
Not to speak of speedily. ```I want my animal life
To become totally extinct,But my Lord says this is wrong.
What He wants from meAnd for me
Is the transformation of my animal lifeInto an illumined and manifested divine life.
```Because he did not want
Satan in him,He started praying to God.
Because he did not likeThe impurity in him,
He started meditating on God.Therefore, he is grateful
Even to the undivineFor helping him on his spiritual journey.
```I was wrong and you were right!
Each human beingIn God’s creation
Is the World-CreatorIn complete disguise.
```Doubt is extremely poisonous.
Don’t mix with doubt,And don’t mix your dark doubts
With your bright faith.Otherwise, your faith, too,
Will become poisoned. ```Direct your vision-eye
In every conceivable direction.You will be able to illumine
Even the world’s division-eye. ```Because his earthly existence
Is in stark bondage-chains,His heart is compelled to live
In the desertsOf birthless and deathless frustration.
```If you are restlessly
And blindly searchingFor the beauty and fragrance
Of nectar-delight,How can God’s Hour
Knock at your heart’s peace-door? ```What he wants to see
Is only a God-ThroneAnd nothing else
Inside the aspiration-cryOf his surrendering heart.
```You alone and nobody else
Can be an absolutely divine soldier,The world’s most remarkable,
Powerful and beautifulChosen child of God.
```From:Sri Chinmoy,Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 89, Agni Press, 1983
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