Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 90

8901. A Series Of Daring Visions

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A series of daring visions:

I shall love the world

The way my Lord Supreme

Loves the world.

I shall become as perfect

As my Lord Supreme

Wants me to be.

I shall never, never miss

My God-appointment-hour.

```

8902. The Spiritual Message Of Tennis

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The spiritual message of tennis:

Love, serve

And finally surrender

To the Supreme in the winner.

The loser who cheerfully surrenders

To the Supreme in the winner

Becomes himself a real winner

In the inner world. ```

8903. My Heart Is Meant For Crying

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My heart is meant for crying,

Crying for oneness, constant and inseparable,

With my Lord Supreme.

My soul is meant for smiling,

Smiling in oneness, constant and inseparable,

With my Lord Supreme.

```

8904. When My Soul Identifies

```

When my soul identifies

With my body, vital and mind,

It embraces suffering.

When my soul identifies

With its own highest Reality,

Easily it can remain

Far beyond the realm of sorrow.

```

8905. God's Monument Of Delight

```

If you can sincerely feel

That your mind is an instrument of God,

Then God will definitely turn your mind

Into His own Monument of Delight. ```

8906. Adversity May Hide

```

Adversity may hide

Possibility-buds,

But adversity can never hide

Inevitability-flowers. ```

8907. Be Wise And Accept

```

Although you do not care

To have anything from God,

God wants to give you His Kingdom.

Although God does not need

Anything from you,

He wants to give you His Throne.

Be wise and accept them

With a gratitude-heart. ```

8908. Establish Your Friendship

```

God is more than eager

To cancel your teeming weaknesses

If you are ready to cancel

Your friendship with fleeting faith

And establish your friendship

With abiding and soulfully childlike faith. ```

8909. A Life Of Unanswered Questions

```

Your life will remain

A life of unanswered questions

Because your heart does not keep alive

The Message of God’s Love. ```

8910. You Will Be Able To Escape

```

Sooner or later

You will be able to escape

Your mind’s stupidity-sea,

But your life will never

Be able to escape

God’s Compassion-Sun. ```

8911. Its Cynical Eye Of Distrust

```

Alas,

This world of ours

Takes enormous pride

In its cynical eye

Of dark distrust.

```

8912. Your Life Is Begging For Happiness

```

Your mind thinks

Nothing is worth believing.

Your heart feels

Nobody is worth loving.

No wonder your life

Is constantly begging for happiness

Here, there and everywhere.

```

8913. A Very Strange Life

```

His is a very strange life:

He soulfully keeps his heart

In the company of God,

While he deliberately keeps his mind

In the company of man.

```

8914. False Friends

```

It is good to have friends,

But be careful of those

Who try to lean very heavily on you

And sap every drop of your spiritual energy.

Are they friends?

No, they are just leading your soul

To a life of bankruptcy.

```

8915. Each Uttered Word

```

Each uttered word

Can be a revealing experience.

Each unuttered word

Can be a rewarding experience. ```

8916. My Soul Is Smiling Blissfully

```

My mind is crying pitifully

At the confusion-shore.

My heart is crying sleeplessly

At the frustration-shore.

My soul is smiling blissfully

At the perfection-shore. ```

8917. My Lord Is Postponing His Visit

```

Impurity,

Stop biting my mind!

Ingratitude,

Stop killing my heart!

Because of you two

My Lord is postponing His Visit.

Needless to say, I am miserable.

```

8918. Only The Chosen Few

```

Only the chosen few

Will not be subdued

By the ruthless torture

Of inhuman earth-life. ```

8919. Absolutely No Difference

```

There is absolutely no difference

Between his pleasure-life

And his unholy mind.

```

8920. You Are Now Fully Ready

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You are now fully ready

To accept God’s Vision for your life,

Because you feel you have been tortured enough

By the agony of your long-lingering

Pleasure-life.

```

8921. The Corruption Of Your Mind

```

Do not allow your pure flower-heart

To inherit the shameless corruption

Of your blind and wild mind.

```

8922. A Conscious God-Manifesting Machine

```

His hands are concern-machines.

His eyes are compassion-machines.

His heart is an illumination-machine.

And he himself is a conscious

God-manifesting machine.

```

8923. If I Love God

```

If I love God,

Then what is wrong in expecting God

To help me?

If I love my ignorance,

Then how can I blame my ignorance

For embracing me?

```

8924. The Key To Your Success

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Not your mind’s Himalayan excellence

But your heart’s sleepless surrender

Is the key to your inner and outer success.

```

8925. A Self-Giving River

```

Your vision-light will have

No reality-delight

Unless your life becomes

The constant flow

Of a self-giving river.

```

8926. Attraction And Aversion

```

Attraction unconsciously binds

The human in us.

Aversion consciously strengthens

The inhuman in us. ```

8927. A New Future

```

Anyone who will listen to his soul

Will see a new future

Blossoming in the heart

Of his tomorrow’s happiness. ```

8928. The Ignorance-Child

```

Rock the ignorance-child to sleep.

Otherwise,

This child will, without fail,

Destroy your love of God

And your oneness-joy with God.

```

8929. Completely Lost

```

The world is completely lost

Between your manifested stupidity

And your unmanifested divinity.

```

8930. The Secret Of Success

```

The secret of success

Is an outer commitment

And an inner enlightenment.

```

8931. A Man Of Integrity

```

If you want to be a man of integrity,

Then what you need

Is a heart of morning purity

And a life of evening simplicity. ```

8932. The Futility-Night Of Ignorance

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Ego-boosting praise

And a self-defeating life

Will eventually be found living together

Inside the futility-night of ignorance. ```

8933. A Life Of Illumination-Day

```

I was what I was:

A mind of phantom-moment.

I am what I am:

A heart of aspiration-hour.

I shall be what I shall be:

A life of illumination-day. ```

8934. The Silence That Illumines

```

Mine is the silence

That hurts my Lord Supreme.

My Lord’s is the Silence

That illumines my life. ```

8935. Wrong Seeing

```

Wrong seeing

Is torturing the world.

Wrong thinking

Is ruling the world. ```

8936. Your Meditation-Passport

```

When the time arrives for you

To leave this life for another life,

If you wish to go

To a beautiful and soulful world,

Then you will need a valid passport,

And that passport is your meditation

Here on earth.

```

8937. You May Not Be Able To See Him

```

Do not take your Lord Supreme for granted.

When you go to the other world,

You may not be able to see Him

At your sweet will

If you have not sincerely tried to satisfy Him

During the years and years He offered you

Countless opportunities on earth.

```

8938. An Unfortunate Master

```

He was an unfortunate Master.

He had poor instruments.

But still he continued to serve his Beloved Supreme,

Only waiting for the day

When his fate would change

And he would have new and excellent instruments

To manifest the Vision

Of his Beloved Supreme. ```

8939. Your Wandering Thoughts

```

You are sitting at the feet

Of your Master,

But your wandering thoughts

Are taking you away from him

Farther than the farthest!

```

8940. To Invite Your Spiritual Death

```

How to invite your own spiritual death?

Make friends with

Self-satisfied complacency.

How to prove you are a real God-seeker?

Climb higher and dive deeper

To transcend your teeming weaknesses.

```

8941. Precious Chances

```

Many precious chances

Have passed away.

Alas, my heart is still without

A soulful cry

And my life is still without

A fruitful smile. ```

8942. Do Not Expect

```

Do not expect

Anything from Heaven.

Do not demand

Anything from earth. ```

8943. Heaven's Brightest Morning

```

Heaven’s brightest morning

Shines only on the minds

That live far away from

The doubt-country. ```

8944. Miracles Are Everywhere

```

Miracles are everywhere to be found

When I surrender my infinite desires

To my immortal aspirations.

```

8945. Late In Almost Everything

```

I was late in almost everything.

I did not mind.

I am late in almost everything.

I do not mind.

I shall be late in almost everything.

I shall not mind.

But I was not late,

I am not late

And I shall never be late

In one thing:

My awareness of

My Lord’s Compassion infinite

Since He began His Vision-Reality-Game

In and through my Heaven-free soul

And my earth-bound life.

```

8946. Be It Known

```

Be it known

To the whole world

That I am no longer

Desire’s friend. ```

8947. Do You Know?

```

Do you know

That you have deliberately enchained

Your soulful heart?

Perhaps not!

Do you know

That you have completely forgotten

Your fruitful soul?

Perhaps not! ```

8948. Become A Universal Light

```

I do not mind

If you want to become

A missionary,

As long as you first become

A universal light

And a transcendental delight. ```

8949. I Sincerely Feel Sorry

```

O my mind,

I most sincerely feel sorry

That you have been suffering

So much from yourself. ```

8950. The Illumining Beginning

```

The longing for perfection

Is the illumining beginning

Of God’s God-Satisfaction in man.

```

8951. Ask Truth

```

Ask Truth if you are correct.

Do not ask anybody,

Not even yourself,

If Truth is correct. ```

8952. Meditate Now!

```

Meditate now,

At this very moment!

Who knows?

Your soul may not get

Another opportunity to inspire you

In this lifetime. ```

8953. God Loves To Live

```

God the Beauty

Loves to live

Inside my heart’s cry.

God the Power

Loves to live

Inside my life’s smile.

```

8954. Opportunity Asks

```

Opportunity enthusiastically

Asks me to run.

Ability cautiously

Asks me to crawl. ```

8955. The Same Mistake

```

Every day I make

The same stupid mistake:

I do not care to speak to God

Inwardly or outwardly,

Prayerfully or selflessly.

```

8956. Infinity's Eternal Truth

```

A brilliant mind

May know where the truth is,

But a pure heart

Unmistakably and lovingly

Embodies Infinity’s eternal Truth.

```

8957. A Few Speeches Undelivered

```

O my mind,

Can you not leave a few speeches

Undelivered here on earth?

I would be so happy;

The entire world would be so happy;

Perhaps, eventually, you too! ```

8958. No Substitute

```

As there is no substitute

For a gratitude-heart

In my inner life,

Even so, there is no substitute

For a surrender-mind

In my outer life. ```

8959. The Land Of Soulful Action

```

The human mind enjoys

Living in the land

Of perpetual preparation.

The divine heart enjoys

Living in the land

Of soulful action.

```

8960. Danger Will Meet You

```

You are swayed

By the winds of emotion.

Therefore, danger will meet you

In the morning,

Disaster

In the afternoon

And destruction

In the evening. ```

8961. See Divinity In Everything

```

If you sincerely want to make progress,

Try to see divinity in everything.

If you don’t want to make progress,

You need not see divinity in anything,

Not even inside

God’s own transcendental Perfection. ```

8962. My Purity's Love-River

```

I may not be succeeding,

But I am soulfully trying

To bathe all human beings

In my purity’s love-river. ```

8963. O World

```

O world, although I am in you,

Since I am not of you,

I am not for you.

Because I am of God,

I am not only with God

But also for God.

```

8964. Each Divine Thought

```

Each divine thought

Is a new window

Which a God-lover can open

Onto a realm of God’s

Self-Transcendence-Delight.

```

8965. Immortality's Satisfaction-Smile

```

His heart of consolation,

His soul of illumination

And his life of perfection

Have the stamp of Immortality’s

Brightest satisfaction-smile.

```

8966. Your Shameless Ingratitude

```

You say that you are all alone,

But I see within you and without you

God’s Compassion-Flood and Forgiveness-Sea.

Such being the case,

Are you not your shameless ingratitude?

```

8967. We Worship The Elusive Flame

```

Alas, we worship the elusive flame

Inside our mind

Instead of the illumination-sun

Inside our heart. ```

8968. Each Other's Company

```

A mind of wisdom-light

And a heart of vision-delight

Breathlessly enjoy

Each other’s company. ```

8969. The Abyss Of Lifeless Nothingness

```

Self-delusion

Is the root cause

Of your continued existence

In the abyss of lifeless nothingness. ```

8970. God Is Right Inside

```

God is away, far away

From my sound-prayer.

God is near, very near,

In fact, right inside,

My silence-meditation.

```

8971. The Footsteps Of Faith

```

My heart shall sleeplessly follow

The footsteps of faith

So that it can safely and swiftly reach

The Palace of my Lord Supreme. ```

8972. His Soul Knows Who He Is

```

His mind does not know who he is.

Yet it tries to describe him.

His heart does not know who he is.

Yet it tries to reveal him.

His soul knows who he is.

Therefore, his soul and his God

Are taking care of him

All the time. ```

8973. God Wants You To Be Sincere

```

Do not pretend

To be good.

God wants you to be sincere.

Your sincerity-drops

And God’s Satisfaction

Will, without fail, meet together. ```

8974. Looking For The Unknown

```

You are looking for the unknown.

Someday you are bound to meet with it.

Will you be happy then?

No, you will not!

You will be happy

Only when you meet with the Unknowable,

For that Unknowable Reality

Is your Beloved Supreme. ```

8975. A Life Of Surrender

```

A life of surrender is always needed

Either to please the soul of Heaven

Or to please the body of earth.

```

8976. Yours Is The Heart That Longs

```

You will be happy only when

Yours is the heart that longs

For the Transcendental Smile

And yours is the life that longs

For the Universal Cry.

```

8977. Promise, Promise

```

Promise, promise,

How beautiful you are,

How powerful you are!

Each time my soul comes down,

It brings you

With a higher and deeper inner conviction

To manifest my Lord Supreme.

```

8978. A Child Of God

```

My mind is a sleeping

Child of God.

My heart is a crying

Child of God.

My soul is a self-giving

Child of God.

And I am a dreaming

Child of God. ```

8979. Shoplifting In The Ignorance-Store

```

You think you are very wise,

But you are not.

You are just a clever man.

What you have learnt is nothing

But how to shoplift in the ignorance-store.

```

8980. Live In Today's Joy

```

God does not want you

To relearn yesterday’s sorrow.

He just wants you

To learn and live in

Today’s joy.

```

8981. Only One Answer

```

There are countless questions

About God,

But only one answer:

God is His own Eternity’s

Satisfaction-distribution.

```

8982. The Less The Human Mind Knows

```

The less the human mind knows

About ignorance-night,

The better.

The more the divine heart knows

About God’s Vision-Eye,

The better.

```

8983. If You Hide Your Aspiration-Cry

```

If you hide your aspiration-cry

From your own heart,

Then who is going to look for it?

Nobody!

No, not even God,

The Compassionate One. ```

8984. There Is Nothing Wrong With You

```

There is nothing wrong with you.

What you need is only

A little more soulful effort

To satisfy your Eternity’s Inner Pilot. ```

8985. My Tearful Failure-Cry

```

Why do you ask me to repeat

My frustration-life, O earth?

Do you get malicious pleasure

In my tearful failure-cry,

Or is it all due

To your brutal indifference? ```

8986. My Heart Is Suffering

```

My heart is suffering

From chronic pain,

Not because my mind

Does not love God,

Not because my mind

Does not need God,

But because my Lord Supreme

Has tried in vain, time and again,

To illumine and immortalise my mind.

```

8987. You Are Abandoning God

```

You are abandoning God

In order to make friends

With doubt’s insecurity-cry.

Ask your soul if you are doing

The right thing.

Ask your soul if there is any way

It can awaken you.

```

8988. Your Unconsidered Action

```

Your unconsidered action

Is a well-preserved complacency

That will meet in the end

With the wildest destruction-frown. ```

8989. I Am My Mind's Sound-Fear

```

I am my mind’s sound-fear.

I am my heart’s silence-tear.

I am my life’s helpless beggar.

Yet I long to be a faithful instrument

Of my Lord Supreme.

```

8990. Another Heart

```

My Lord must give His world

Another heart,

So that this new heart can capture

His Aspiration-Vision

And His Perfection-Manifestation.

```

8991. If You Sing Heedlessly

```

O God-seeker,

If you sing heedlessly

The glory of the world’s desire-life,

Then you are painting disaster

And nothing else

In your Heaven-forsaking and earth-bound life. ```

8992. One Fragile Hour

```

If a seeker can remain

Inside his aspiration-heart

For one fragile hour,

He can stem the flood

Of all his yesterday’s sorrows.

```

8993. Your Soul's Unmeasured Flames

```

If you can treasure

Your soul’s unmeasured flames,

God will definitely ask you

To become a choice instrument

In His Vision-Reality-Manifestation-Game.

```

8994. A Heart Flooded With Peace

```

A self-giving seeker

Has a heart flooded with peace,

And this heart can easily outlive

The world’s inner war

And outer destruction.

```

8995. Do Not Listen To Your Mind!

```

Do not listen to your mind!

If you listen to your mind,

You will not see the Golden Boat

That plies between your soul-shore

And your God-Shore.

```

8996. His Only Rival

```

There was a time

When adversity

Was his heart’s only rival.

Now prosperity

Is his life’s only rival.

In the future he himself

Will be his only rival.

Himself he will transcend

Not in his own way,

But in God’s Way. ```

8997. The Song Of Newness

```

When my heart sings

The song of newness,

My life becomes

The dance of fulness. ```

8998. There Is No Difference

```

There is no difference

Between today’s desire

And tomorrow’s shame.

There is no difference

Between today’s aspiration-cry

And tomorrow’s realisation-smile.

```

8999. Chained To Mortal Fame

```

If you allow yourself

To be chained to mortal fame,

How can you play with God

His immortal Game? ```

9000. Surrender Your Common Sense

```

Surrender your common sense:

That you are only a human being.

Surrender your earthly goal:

Name and fame.

Receive immediately what God has for you:

His Eternity’s Immortality-Crown. ```

Editor's introduction to the first edition

This is the ninetieth 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 soulfully dedicates this book to his beloved brother Mantu, whose picture appears on the cover. The photograph of the poet has been superimposed alongside it.

From:Sri Chinmoy,Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 90, Agni Press, 1983
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