My Fifty Gratitude-Summers

1.

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Aspiration begins.

Surrender continues.

Gratitude concludes.

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2.

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Enthusiasm is

God's God-Beauty

In His seeker-children.

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3.

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Sincerity is my heart's

Silver dawn.

Purity is my soul's

Golden sunrise. ```

4.

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We know and we do not know.

We know how to roam,

But we do not know

How to return Home. ```

5.

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My Beloved Supreme,

I prayed to You to make me

A realised soul.

Alas!

Instead of making me

A realised soul,

You have made me

A mechanised human body. ```

6.

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Aspiration

Is my heart's beauty.

Illumination

Is my soul's beauty.

Satisfaction

Is my Lord's Beauty. ```

7.

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Forget what God has

Already forgotten:

Your insincerity-mind,

Your impurity-heart

And

Your ingratitude-life. ```

8.

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How can I have

A new king: my God,

In my heart-kingdom

If I do not dethrone

The present king: my ego?

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9.

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My psychic gladness

And

My vital madness

Never live together. ```

10.

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A God-dreamer.

All your fear-tortures

Will leave you. ```

11.

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When

I am sincere,

My Beloved Supreme

Is pleased with me.

When

I am pure,

I am satisfied

With my Beloved Supreme. ```

12.

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God

Is for

My aspiring heart.

Spirituality

Is for

My searching mind. ```

13.

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I pray to God

For His Absolute Vision

And not for

His Possession-Universe. ```

14.

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My mind's discovery:

God has given me

Heavy burdens.

My heart's discovery:

God has given me

Strong shoulders. ```

15.

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The gift of my outer life

To my inner life

Is my constantly soulful

Service.

The gift of my inner life

To my outer life

Is my sleeplessly fruitful

Love. ```

16.

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Yesterday

My mind was

An uneducated and ignorant fool.

Today

My mind is

An educated and learned fool.

Tomorrow

My mind shall be

A sleepless ignorance-hunter.

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17.

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Am I ready to scold

My impurity-mind?

Am I?

Am I ready to warn

My insecurity-heart?

Am I? ```

18.

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Because

You are a childlike believer,

Your God is a constant

Giver. ```

19.

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He had to enter into

His own spiritual grave.

Why?

Because he was

Sleeplessly fond of his

Confusion-mind. ```

20.

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I may not know

The beginning.

But

I shall definitely know

The end.

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21.

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Simplicity

Is and will forever remain

A perfect stranger

To the modern mind. ```

22.

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A purity-life

And

A gratitude-heart

Are immediate neighbours. ```

23.

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The most glorious beginning

Of my miracle-life: I have

Started loving God, my Beloved

Supreme, in His own Way. ```

24.

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God is ready to give me

Another chance.

Alas, am I ready?

Will I ever be ready

To accept it?

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25.

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Each aspiring life

Is a prolonged and

Extensive Dream

Of God. ```

26.

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My past was completely

Destroyed on the day

I employed my surrendering

Thoughts to help me

Reach my God.

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27.

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O my vital, do not complain;

You may be totally wrong.

O my mind, do not assert;

You too may be

Totally wrong.

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28.

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Be not afraid of God,

Be not afraid.

Your sweet reunion

Need not be delayed. ```

29.

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Reveal constantly

What you are: a supremely

Chosen instrument of God.

Conceal powerfully

What you are not:

A giant prince of

Ignorance-dream.

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30.

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An uninspiring thought,

Short or long, is spiritually

Wrong.

An unaspiring life,

Short or long, is spiritually

Wrong. ```

31.

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My wisdom-flames

Pray to God.

My stupidity-seas

Pray for God. ```

32.

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Self-perfection:

Yes!

Self-annihilation:

No! ```

33.

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I export

Aspiration-flames

From earth to Heaven.

I import

Satisfaction-suns

From Heaven to earth. ```

34.

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Each time

You have a chance,

Hurl your wisdom-lance

At ignorance-tiger. ```

35.

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The divine

Will definitely conquer

The human, the way

The human

Has conquered the animal.

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36.

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If you accept

Fantasies,

Ecstasy will not

Receive you. ```

37.

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O my mind,

You have talked enough.

Now begin to listen.

I have got a superb teacher

For you.

You will simply

Love your new teacher: heart.

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38.

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Confusion

Cannot last.

Just change

Your direction. ```

39.

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When told that all human beings

Are by nature ungrateful,

Everybody thinks that

He is an exception. ```

40.

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I see you

As an ordinary man.

You see yourself

As a demigod.

God sees you

As another God. ```

41.

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Do you want to be

The real winner,

Do you?

Then lose to Truth,

Lose!

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42.

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It is not enough

To love God

In the God-lover.

We must also love God

In the God-hater.

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43.

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The illumining soul

Uncovers,

And

The aspiring heart

Discovers.

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44.

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Success

Is an incident.

Progress

Is an experience. ```

45.

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Make your choice:

Do you want to be

The servant of a book

A good student

Of your soul? ```

46.

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God-seekers

Feast

On God's great

Silence. ```

47.

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There is only

One perfect road

And

That road is ahead of

You,

Always ahead of

You.

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48.

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Only

The God-centred souls

Can spread

Their victory-trophies

At God's Feet.

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49.

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His mind lives

inside the secret

Sorrow-cave.

His heart lives

Inside the sacred

Sorrow-home. ```

50.

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His life's late-evening discovery:

God's Forgiveness-Power

Has smashed

God's Justice-Tower. ```

From:Sri Chinmoy,My Fifty Gratitude-Summers, Agni Press, 1981
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