Gratitude-Flower-Hearts

The New Year's Message for 1985

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Don't expect!

Don't expect!

Give, give and give

If you want to really survive. ```

February 1985

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In this month

I shall succeed,

I shall definitely succeed

In my outer life.

Do you know why?

Because

I have compelled my old enemy, ignorance,

To return my determination-fire.

In this month

I shall proceed,

I shall amazingly proceed

In my inner life.

Do you know why?

Because

My old Friend, God, my Beloved Supreme,

Is once more blessing me

With His infinite Compassion-Suns.

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March 1985

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A sleepless self-giver

Is another name

For God's Victory-Banner.

A sleepless self-giver

Is God's Victory-Banner-carrier.

A sleepless self-giver

Is God's Dream-fulfiller.

A sleepless self-giver

Is God's creation-transformer.

A sleepless self-giver

Is God's Heart-biographer.

A sleepless self-giver

Is God's Life-publisher.

A sleepless self-giver

Is God's Breath-giver.

Although there have been few,

Very few in number,

Mother-Earth is extremely happy

To have such sleepless self-givers.

Give; you become.

Give; you are.

Do not give; you are lost.

Do not give; you are dead.

Give and give and give

Only to the Supreme in humanity. ```

April 1985

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We must not and must not surrender

To the bitter frustrations

Of the past.

We must and must make friends

With the sweet hopes

Of the present and the future.

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May 1985

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Darkness-temptation there is.

That does not mean

I shall have to surrender

To darkness-temptation.

Failure-frustration there is.

That does not mean

I shall have to become

A giant failure-frustration.

God-Perfection there is.

Who dares to tell me

That I cannot become

Another God-Perfection? ```

June 1985

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My Beloved Lord Supreme,

You have forgiven me limitless times.

Will You not forgive me this time?

"My sweet child,

There was a time

When you used to please Me

In My own Way.

But alas, those golden days

Are buried in oblivion.

Will you not start pleasing Me once again

In My own Way?" ```

July 1985

I have to take seven steps in order to become a perfect instrument of my Beloved Supreme:

1. Love

2. Devotion

3. Surrender

4. Gratitude

5. Obedience

6. I belong to my Beloved Supreme.

7. Him to manifest in His own Way I came into this world.

If I take all these seven steps cheerfully, willingly and unconditionally, then my Beloved Supreme, without fail, will consider me a supremely chosen instrument, an absolutely perfect instrument of His.

August 1985

The Supreme and your soul are not going to please your body, vital, mind and heart with the hope that in return your body, vital, mind and heart will please your soul and the Supreme. If you have an iota of wisdom, then start threatening your idle body, aggressive vital, suspicious mind and insincere heart.

Just think for five minutes of what you were before you joined the spiritual path. Just think for ten minutes of what you have become on the spiritual path. Just think for an hour of what you will become in the future if you leave the spiritual path.

May this calamity-month be transformed into a prosperity-month for those who are doing extremely well and are trying most sincerely to please their Beloved Supreme in His own Way.

September 1985

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If your mind has sincerity,

Then only

The Supreme will tell you

What to do.

If your heart has determination,

Then only

The Supreme will teach you

How to do everything.

If your life has unconditional surrender,

Then only

The Supreme Himself

Will do everything and everything

For you.

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October 1985

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My Lord Supreme,

I am alive

Because You are

Your Eternity's Compassion.

My Beloved Supreme,

I shall remain alive

Because You will be

Your Immortality's Forgiveness.

My Lord Supreme,

You are alive

Because my heart

Sleeplessly needs You.

My Beloved Supreme,

You will remain alive

Because my life

Will unconditionally love You. ```

November 1985

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Let us not take a break, let us not.

Let us continue

With our poor aspiration

And with our feeble dedication.

Let us not take a break, let us not.

For God-realisation is still a far cry,

God-manifestation is almost an impossible task

And God-satisfaction is far, far, far

Beyond our imagination.

Let us not take a break, let us not.

For there may come a time

When our Beloved Lord Supreme,

Out of His unconditional Compassion,

Will infinitely increase

The purity of our aspiration

And infinitely increase

The beauty of our dedication

To realise Him,

To manifest Him

And to satisfy Him

In His own Way. ```

December 1985

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My Beloved Lord Supreme,

I have failed, I have failed, I have failed.

I have failed in the world of aspiration-cry.

I have failed in the world of dedication-smile.

I have failed in the world of manifestation-dance.

My Lord,

I implore You to give me one more chance

To be worthy

Of Your Eternity's Compassion-Feet,

To be worthy

Of Your Infinity's Forgiveness-Eye

And to be worthy

Of Your Immortality's Satisfaction-Heart. ```

The New Year's Message for 1986

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The New Year will be

The year of teeming surprises —

Heaven-descending golden Dreams,

Earth-ascending silver realities —

For the seekers

Who sleeplessly and unconditionally live

For the Compassion-Eye-Manifestation

And

For the Satisfaction-Heart-Manifestation

Of their Beloved Supreme

Throughout the length and breadth

Of the entire world. ```

January 1986

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My dear Lord Supreme,

From today on I shall please You,

Please You,

Please You

In Your own Way,

For that is my heart's only choice. ```

February 1986

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In the month of February

There will be a continuous fight

Between the hope of surrender-dream

And the frustration of ego-reality.

I am praying to my Beloved Supreme

For the supreme victory

Of the hope of surrender-dream.

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March 1986

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This is the month

Of visible and recognisable self-transcendence.

If I am a genuine seeker,

In this month my supreme achievements

Will surprise my own imagination.

And even if I am not a genuine seeker,

I shall feel something divine, inspiring

And illumining

In my unlit mind.

Whether or not

I am genuine in my aspiration,

This month I shall treasure

In the very depths of my heart.

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April 1986

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The Golden Boat of our Liberator Supreme

Is sailing unimaginably fast,

Carrying the silver heart-passengers.

May my sincerity-cry tell me

That I am a supremely choice passenger.

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May 1986

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Some seekers have failed.

That does not mean you also will fail.

No!

You can and you must succeed

In the spiritual battlefield

Of your divine life.

If you are simple,

If you are sincere,

If you are humble,

If you are pure,

If you are devoted,

If you are disciplined,

If you are determined

And if you are surrendered

To your Lord Beloved Supreme,

Then you are bound to succeed.

The Absolute Supreme needs your heart

And wants your life

To manifest His transcendental Vision

Here on earth. ```

June 1986

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In the month of June

The Inner Boat of the Absolute Supreme

Will be sailing extremely fast.

Only those who dare to claim Him

As their own, very own,

Will be able to dive deep

Into the Supreme's

Supreme Heart-Destination. ```

July 1986

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The strength of my sound-life

Surrenders to the power of my silence-life.

The power of my silence-life

Surrenders to the Vision-Eye

Of my Lord's Compassion-Heart.

My Lord's Compassion-Heart

Is now telling me,

"My child, My Immortality's Dream-child,

Speed up! The Goal is within your easy reach.

The Goal is all yours.

You and My Eternity's Liberation-Light

Will before long be transformed

Into My Infinity's

Absolute Satisfaction-Delight." ```

August 1986

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My Lord Supreme,

My Soul-Reality's All,

Countless times I have withdrawn from You.

I have withdrawn my promise-oneness.

I have withdrawn my willingness-oneness.

I have withdrawn my soulfulness-oneness.

I have withdrawn my surrender-oneness-bliss.

Still You have not withdrawn from me.

You remain Your Eternity's Compassion-Eye.

You remain Your Infinity's Forgiveness-Heart.

You remain Your Immortality's Vision-Fulfilment-Cry.

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September 1986

"Who is telling you that you will not be able to surrender to God's Will cheerfully and unconditionally? Do not listen to your mind. Your mind is a fool!

"Who is telling you that you will not be able to become a supremely perfect instrument of your Beloved Supreme? Do not listen to your mind. Your mind is a fool!

"Who is telling you that you will never be able to please your Beloved Supreme even for a single day in this lifetime? Do not listen to your mind. Your mind is a fool!

"My child, I am your Eternity's Friend, and you are My Immortality's friend. I am telling you only one thing: do not try to possess Me; do not try to possess Me; do not try to possess Me.

"If you want to possess Me, you will badly fail in your inner heart of aspiration, and you will miserably fail in your outer life of dedication.

"But if you pray to Me to possess you in My own Way, then your Eternity's earth-existence and your Immortality's Heaven-existence will be inundated with My Infinity's Light and my Infinity's Delight."

October 1986

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My Supreme, my Supreme, my Supreme,

I shall never, never taste

The bitterness of frustration-night-defeats.

I shall forever and forever enjoy

The sweetness of satisfaction-light-victories,

For it is You who want to manifest

Your Immortality's Delight

Completely and permanently

In and through

The purity of my aspiration-heart

And the beauty of my dedication-life.

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November 1986

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Supreme, my Supreme, my Lord Supreme,

My Absolute Supreme, my Beloved Supreme,

You are Your Immortality-Infinity's

Unconditional Compassion,

And I am my mortal life's

Fleeting gratitude-breath. ```

December 1986

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No undivine strength,

No hostile force,

No inconscience-monster

Can slow down the fastest speed

Of our aspiration-dedication-boat

That is arriving at the Golden Shore

Of our Beloved Supreme

At His own choice Hour. ```

The New Year's Message for 1987

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For the Mountain-Truth-climbers

And the Fountain-God-lovers,

The New Year will be the year

Of unprecedented inner aspiration-progress

And unlimited outer manifestation-success.

The Truth-climber

Is a God-chosen God-compeer.

The God-lover

Is a God-crowned future world-liberator.

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February 1987

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The beauty of a sweet hope

Has to be transformed into

The duty of a powerful promise,

And the promise has to be manifested

As the divinity of an infallible fulfilment.

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March 1987

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Go fast, My sweetness-child!

You are of My Immortality's Vision-Eye.

Go faster, My fondness-child!

You are inside My Eternity-Infinity's

Heart-Nest.

Go fastest, My oneness-child!

I am for you,

I am all for you

And I am only for you. ```

April 1987

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My child,

My Infinity's blue child,

I love you,

I love your Eternity's hunger-cry.

My child,

My Immortality's gold child,

I need you,

I need your Divinity's progress-promise. ```

May 1987

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They came only to go,

But I came to stay —

Forever to stay —

Inside the Golden Boat

Of my Beloved Lord Supreme.

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June 1987

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Supreme, my Supreme,

My Lord Supreme, my Beloved Supreme,

My soul came from

Your Compassion-Light-Eye,

And at the end

Of my earth-journey's close

My soul will go back

To Your Satisfaction-Delight-Heart. ```

July 1987

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My Lord Supreme, my Lord Supreme,

My Lord Supreme,

You are utterly displeased with me

Not because my mind

Is completely ungrateful to You,

Not because my heart

Is completely ungrateful to You,

But because I have totally forgotten

My yesterday's aspiration-cry-promise,

My today's realisation-smile-promise

And my tomorrow's

Transformation-dance-promise.

Yet, my Beloved Supreme,

Out of Your boundless Bounty,

You are giving me another chance.

This time, my Beloved Supreme,

I am praying to You to make me worthy

Of Your Forgiveness-Light,

For in Your Forgiveness-Light

Is the perfect fulfilment of Your Dream,

Eternity's Dream, Infinity's Dream,

Immortality's Dream.

This Dream of Yours will grow into

Your supreme Reality

At Your choice Hour.

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August 1987

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Supreme, my Supreme, my Lord Supreme,

My Beloved Supreme!

Do give me the sleepless willingness,

Willingness,

Willingness

To change my entire life.

Supreme, my Supreme, my Lord Supreme,

My Beloved Supreme!

If my life remains unchanged,

Then how can I love You,

How can I serve You,

How can I manifest You,

How can I fulfil You

And, finally, how can I please You

In Your own Way?

Supreme, my Supreme, my Lord Supreme,

My Beloved Supreme!

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September 1987

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My Supreme, my Lord Supreme,

My Absolute Supreme, my Beloved Supreme,

During my soulful meditation

I have seen Your Divinity's Face

Many, many times.

How is it that still I am unhappy?

"My child, My dear child,

My sweet child, My Eternity's child,

You can be happy

Only when you need and have

My Immortality's Heart-Nest,

And nothing else." ```

October 19871

My dear Lord Supreme, many have failed; many more are failing; still many more may eventually fail. Please tell me my status. Where do I stand with regard to my spiritual life?

"My child, because of your disobedience you have already failed once. My child, because of your impurity in your entire being you are failing now. My child, because of your ingratitude you will eventually fail again."

My dear Supreme, that means mine is a hopeless case!

"My child, perhaps it is so.

"Now, My child, I want to tell you something most secret and most sacred. Listen to Me devotedly and soulfully once and for all. When I talk to you about your soul, you have to realise that your soul is always, always aware of My infinite Compassion, of My infinite Concern, of My infinite and unconditional Affection and Love for you. Your soul is always and always at My Protection-Feet, and from My Protection-Feet sleeplessly it receives My Illumination-Light.

"I am proud of your soul because it knows who I am, because it wants to please Me always in My own Way. Because of your soul I repeatedly forgive you. Because of your soul I grant you again and again chance after chance to please Me in My own Way.

"Your soul has not yet accepted defeat, and it will never accept the final defeat. Therefore, I shall give you innumerable chances to please Me and be a perfect instrument of Mine.

"I consider you a human being just because of your soul. I consider you an instrument of Mine just because of your soul. If your soul gives up the fight in the battlefield of your life, then yours will be a perpetual failure.

"So, My child, believe in your soul, the real reality, and not in your body, vital, mind or even your heart. If you do what I am asking you to do, then your soul and I will definitely succeed, not only in the battlefield of your life but also in manifesting My Immortality's Divinity in and through you."

GFH 35. Sri Chinmoy later gave a commentary on this talk. It was distributed privately to disciples, but not officially published. See: GFHC 1.↩

November 1987

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My Lord Supreme, my Justice-Light Supreme,

I have so many things to tell You,

And I have so many things to ask You,

My Lord Supreme, my Justice-Light Supreme.

But You are never available;

You are never approachable.

Will You ever be available,

Will You ever be approachable,

My Lord, My Eternity's Lord Supreme?

"My child, My dear child, My sweet child

And My fond child,

My Compassion-Height is speaking to you.

I shall be available only when you give Me

Your purity's heart-lotus.

I shall be approachable only when you give Me

Your humility's life-grass."

My Lord, my Lord, my Lord,

Do You have anything to tell me?

Do You have anything to ask me?

"My child, I have only one thing to tell you:

I loved you, I love you

And I shall forever love you unconditionally.

My child, I have only one thing to ask you:

When will you claim Me

As your own, very own,

To make Me happy in My own Way?"

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December 1987

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Since I am one

Of the supremely fortunate chosen few,

My Lord Beloved Supreme,

Out of His infinite Compassion-Light,

Is telling me that He will definitely finish

My self-perfection-journey.

I just have to start, here and now —

Here, at this angel-blessed place;

Now, at this gratitude-blossomed moment.

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The New Year's Message for 1988

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My only Lord Beloved Supreme,

Do bless me

With Your absolutely choice,

Secret and sacred Advice

For the New Year.

"My child, win My Heart

And thus win My All —

My Eternity's All,

My Infinity's All

And My Immortality's All."

My only Lord Beloved Supreme,

How can I win Your Heart?

"My child, by loving Me only

And by needing Me only."

My only Lord Beloved Supreme,

How can I love You only?

How can I need You only?

"My child, be punctual in your heart's

Aspiration-cry.

Be regular in your life's

Dedication-smile."

My only Lord Beloved Supreme,

I have badly failed You this year.

I have all along failed You unquestionably.

But, my Lord, will I ever succeed?

"My child, you must and you will.

Just sleeplessly illumine your mind

And convince your heart

That you are of My Eternity's Hunger only

And you are for My Immortality's

Satisfaction only."

My only Lord Beloved Supreme,

I know that my living death will be

When You withdraw from me completely.

But will You ever withdraw from me?

"My child, do not think of My withdrawal,

But pray to Me to be with Me in My Boat

To reach your supreme Destination —

My complete Satisfaction in you, with you

And for you.

I have so far not withdrawn from you.

But,

My child, wake up!

It is already very late.

How long do you expect Me to hold

My Golden Boat

On this side of ignorance-ocean?

You have to realise that either I am your All

Or you are all for yourself

And all by yourself."

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February 1988

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My Lord Supreme, my Beloved Supreme,

Do tell me if I am correct in my feeling

That when I soulfully cry,

I add something beautiful to Your Compassion,

And when I unreservedly smile,

I add something powerful to man's life.

"My child, you are correct,

Absolutely correct." ```

March 1988

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My Supreme, my dear Supreme,

My Lord Supreme and my Beloved Supreme,

Over the years, out of Your infinite Bounty,

You have shown me innumerable ways

To please You in Your own Way.

But today do tell me

Which is at once the easiest and fastest way

To please You in Your own Way.

"My child, My sweet child,

My Divinity's child

And My Immortality's child,

For you, the easiest and fastest way

To please Me

Is to sincerely feel

In the inmost recesses of your heart

That I love you sleeplessly,

Compassionately, blessingfully

And unconditionally.

"My child,

Your soulful question has deeply pleased Me.

Therefore, I am telling you

A most secret and sacred Dream of Mine.

Every night, without fail,

I have one single Dream.

In My Dream I clearly and unmistakably see

That you have become

An absolutely perfect instrument of Mine."

```

April 1988

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When I tell You, my Lord Supreme,

That I am going to leave You,

You immediately tell me

That Your Soul's Smile

Will secretly guide me

And Your Heart's Cry

Will openly follow me.

My sweet Lord,

That means I will never be able

To run away from You.

"My sweet child, that means

Your heart's unconscious affection for Me

And My Heart's conscious Affection,

Love, Concern and Compassion

Will eternally remain together,

Inseparable and immortal." ```

May 1988

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O my heart's rainbow-gratitude-tears,

Where are you?

I need you desperately

To please my Lord Beloved Supreme sleeplessly.

O my heart's rainbow-gratitude-tears,

You are my life's lightning progress-speed.

You are my life's fulfilling peace-beauty.

You are the only perfect bridge

Between my life's dreamland

And my Lord's Nectar-flooded Country-Home. ```

June 1988

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My Supreme, my dear Supreme,

My sweet Supreme, my Lord Supreme,

My Absolute Supreme, my Beloved Supreme,

You have the most powerful Dream,

And I have the most soulful reality.

Your Dream is to make

My aspiration-heart and my dedication-life

Absolutely perfect,

And my reality is to make You happy,

See You happy and keep You happy

Sleeplessly and unconditionally.

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Father's Day Message, June 1988

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Without the leaves, flowers and fruits,

The tree is nothing, absolutely nothing.

I am that nothing.

But with you, my children,

I am the fulness-tree.

The Supreme Father in me is telling you

That your kindness and your oneness

I appreciate far beyond your imagination.

Because of your kindness,

I am successful here on earth.

Because of your oneness,

I shall be fulfilled here on earth

And there in Heaven.

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July 1988

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God the Compassion-Height requests me

To be regular in my dedication-life.

God the Justice-Light commands me

To be punctual in my aspiration-life. ```

3 July 1988

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America's Independence Day

Is God the dreaming Child's

Very special

Rainbow-Birthday-Smile. ```

August 1988

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In His inner Heart,

I am my Lord's only Choice.

In His outer Life,

I am my Lord's only Voice. ```

27 August 1988

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Supreme, Supreme, I bow to Thee.

Supreme, my Supreme, my dear Supreme,

My sweet Supreme, my Lord Supreme,

My Beloved Supreme,

May Thy Victory be proclaimed

At every moment in and through

My aspiration-heart and my dedication-life.

Supreme, my Supreme, my dear Supreme,

My sweet Supreme, my Lord Supreme,

My Beloved Supreme,

Those who are not consciously with You

And those who are not soulfully for You

Can never, never be my oneness-friends

Or ever, ever be in Your Infinity's

Vision-flooded Golden Boat.

Supreme, my Supreme, my dear Supreme,

My sweet Supreme, my Lord Supreme,

My Beloved Supreme,

Do make my heart a sleepless hunger-cry

For You, only for You.

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Editor's note to the first edition

This volume contains monthly messages as well as some other special messages that Sri Chinmoy offered during meetings and meditation sessions from January 1985 through August 1988.

From:Sri Chinmoy,Gratitude-Flower-Hearts, Agni Press, 1993
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