God-Compassion and God-Justice

1. Aspiration

```

Indeed,

Today's

Aspiration-seed

Is tomorrow's

Realisation-fruit.

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2. Surrender

```

Forgetfulness

Of one's oneness with one's own omnipotence

Compels man's forced surrender

To God's Will. ```

3. Compassion

```

God-Compassion

Is man's

Opportunity-perfection,

Opportunity-satisfaction. ```

4. Devotion

```

Devotion

To God

Is the liberation

Of the human

In us.

```

5. Gratitude

```

Gratitude

Is the only aspiration-soul

In our life of

God-invoking,

God-embodying,

God-revealing

And

God-manifesting

Reality.

```

6. Charity

```

Charity

Is the perfect clarity

Of the mind-existence.

Charity

Is the oneness-luminosity

In the heart-consciousness.

Charity

Is the satisfaction-unity

In God's Life of fulfilling multiplicity.

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7. Sweetness

```

Love

Is sweetness embodied.

Devotion

Is sweetness revealed.

Surrender

Is sweetness manifested. ```

8. Oneness

```

Oneness

With the earth-consciousness

Shows me what I am not:

I am not God's chosen son.

Oneness

With the Heaven-consciousness

Shows me what I eternally am:

I am God's chosen son.

Oneness

With God

Shows me what I am and who I am:

I am man and I am God —

Man preparing for realisation,

God preparing for manifestation. ```

9. Satisfaction

```

Possession is not satisfaction.

Renunciation is not satisfaction.

Liberation from possession

And

Liberation from renunciation

Are indeed satisfaction-perfection

In our life of aspiration.

```

10. Absolute

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The Absolute in us remains mute

Because He does not want to be involved

In our sound-life —

The life that does not want to construct,

But wants to destroy.

The Absolute tells us He is in us and for us

Only when we sing the song

Of constant construction,

Not destruction.

```

11. Boundless

```

The moment you discover

That you are boundless Reality,

You will in no time realise

That your life was never,

Never

A groundless experience

Of Mother-Earth and Father-Heaven.

```

12. Silence

```

Silence

Prepares

The God-man

In us. ```

13. Complete

```

A complete man is he

Who longs for

Silence-perfection within

And

Sound-satisfaction without.

```

14. Harmony

```

Look in the mirror

And what you see in yourself,

Try to see in others.

If you see perfection in your life,

Then see perfection in others.

If you see imperfection in yourself

And forgive yourself for your imperfection,

Then try also to forgive others

Who have the same imperfection.

The experience of oneness

In darkness or light

Brings about harmony. ```

15. Willingness

```

Human willingness

Is nothing

But God-cheerfulness

In man's life

Of self-transcendence.

```

16. Power

```

The power that says

"I have"

Is not the power divine.

The power that says

"God is"

Is the power divine. ```

17. Compassion

```

God-Compassion

In the seeker

Is God unrecognised.

God-Justice

In the seeker

Is God recognised.

```

18. Balance

```

A life of balance

You discover within yourself

The moment you tell Mother-Earth:

"I am for you,"

And the moment you tell Father-Heaven:

"I am of you."

When you tell Earth

That you are for Earth

And when you tell Heaven

That you are of Heaven

Then you ensure a life of balance.

```

19. Wisdom

```

Because of its lack of wisdom,

A snake drinks milk

And emits poison.

Because of his vast wisdom,

A saint drinks poison

And offers milk.

This is wisdom in oneness,

Wisdom in perfection,

Wisdom in God-satisfaction.

All of us must act like a saint. ```

20. Gentleness

```

Gentleness

Is one of the roads

That leads us far,

Very far,

Towards our self-perfection.

```

21. Happiness

```

If we can cry with the human in us

When the human in us cries,

Then there is happiness.

If we can smile with the divine in us

When the divine in us smiles,

Then there is happiness.

Happiness is in identification;

Happiness is in oneness-reality. ```

22. Persistence

```

True persistence is not and cannot be

The quality of a stubborn human being.

In the spiritual life,

Persistence is the aspiration

Of one's continuous patience-light.

And in this patience-light

Man eventually realises

That he is the Truth supreme. ```

23. Spirituality

```

The zenith

Of spirituality

Lies

In the equanimity

Of the seeker's searching mind.

```

24. Guru

```

A Guru is he

Who asks God

For only one favour,

And that favour

Is for God to give him time,

Endless time,

Before God examines

The Guru’s expansion-reality:

His spiritual children.

```

25. Grace

```

Do you want to see God's Face?

If so, then right from today

Call yourself,

And tell others to call you,

God's unconditional Grace.

```

26. Humility

```

What is humility?

Humility is our oneness-purity

In the heart

Of the absolute Reality. ```

27. Certainty

```

Certainty

Is not in the sleeping body.

Certainty

Is not in the demanding vital.

Certainty

Is not in the hesitating mind.

Certainty

Is not in the worrying heart.

Certainty

Is in the self-giving soul. ```

28. Goal

```

If you know what you truly are,

Then your goal does not remain

A far cry.

Your goal runs towards you

To offer its infinite wealth.

And what is it you truly are?

Your are of God-Life

And

You are for God-Love.

```

29. Friend

```

With my human friend,

I tried to build a cottage.

Alas, we failed.

With my divine friend, eternal friend,

I don't build;

We just live here,

There, everywhere,

For our oneness is our omnipresence.

And our omnipresence is

What God eternally has

And

What God eternally is. ```

30. Yogi

```

A Yogi is he

Who consciously knows

What God has already done for him

And

What God will always do for him.

```

31. Dynamism

```

Dynamism

Is the fulfilment

Of inspiration

And

The progress

Of aspiration. ```

32. Progress

```

Success

Is what we always

Want.

Progress

Is what we always

Need. ```

33. Father

```

A spiritual father

Is he who kindles

Our inner hunger,

And at the same time

Feeds us,

Nourishes us,

And immortalises us,

The divine in us. ```

34. Selflessness

```

Human selflessness

Is nothing short of

God's all-fulfilling goodness

For God-Satisfaction

Here on earth

And there in Heaven. ```

35. Freedom

```

Inner freedom

Is as beautiful

And as fruitful

As our conscious and constant

Unconditional obedience

To God's Will. ```

36. Life

```

Alas,

My own animal life frightens me.

Alas,

My own human life weakens me.

But there shall unmistakably come a time

When my own divine life

Will illumine not only me,

But will illumine

The length and breadth

Of the entire world. ```

37. Truth

```

To see the body of truth,

I shall have to run and run.

But to see the heart of truth,

I shall have to live inside

My self-giving breath.

```

38. Necessity

```

For a sincere seeker,

A genuine seeker,

There is and there can be

Only one necessity,

And that necessity

Is God-Satisfaction

Before the day dawns

And after the evening sets in. ```

39. Purity

```

Purity

Is the divine safe in us

In which God's

Eternal,

Infinite

And immortal Reality

Abides.

```

40. Discipline

```

The life of discipline

Is God-assurance

In our nature's cry for

Absolute perfection. ```

41. Sincerity

```

Sincerity

Is the revelation

Of our inner

Purity. ```

42. Dependence

```

Dependence

On one's own personal effort

Is a dance with futility.

Dependence

On God's Grace and Oneness

And the seeker's surrendered effort,

Is the assurance of God-Victory

In the seeker. ```

43. Transformation

```

Transformation

Of the physical consciousness

Is by far the most difficult task

For us.

Once the physical consciousness

Is transformed,

There is nothing,

Either on earth

Or in Heaven,

That one has to acquire. ```

44. Faith

```

Belief tells you

What you can become.

Faith tells you

What you have always been:

A conscious search

For God-realisation. ```

45. Unity

```

Unity

Is the trunk

Of the reality-tree.

Oneness

Is the essence

And substance

Of the reality-tree. ```

46. Security

```

Do not grasp.

If you do not grasp

World-security,

God-security

Will run

And grasp you. ```

47. Beauty

```

The beauty of the soul in us

Is crying for its revelation,

But we are crying

For the manifestation

Of our body's beauty.

The day we stop crying

For the revelation

Of our body's beauty,

The beauty of our soul

Will play its role

In and through us.

When this beauty of our soul

Plays its role satisfactorily,

The beauty of the physical

Becomes divine, perfect and immortal.

```

48. God's Face

```

In order to see God's Face,

I have to participate in

Self-giving love-race,

Self-giving devotion-race

And

Self-giving surrender-race. ```

49. Heart's door

```

The moment I open

My heart's door,

I see God's Infinity-Shore

Smiling at me. ```

50. Tomorrow

```

Yesterday

I touched God's Feet

And pleased Him;

Therefore

God became preparation for me.

Today

I feel God's Heart;

Therefore

God has become

My only indispensable necessity.

Tomorrow

I shall smile at God;

Therefore

God will be all-Satisfaction

In my life of inner aspiration,

In my life of outer dedication. ```

50. Editor's preface to first edition

During a meeting of his Connecticut Centre on 11 August 1975, Sri Chinmoy asked each of his disciples to give him a spiritual word, and he then extemporaneously composed a poem based on the word. The words, and Sri Chinmoy's poem are published here.

From:Sri Chinmoy,God-Compassion and God-Justice, Agni Press, 1975
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