God’s Magnet-Eye

1.

Aspiration The fragrance of God’s Heart.

2.

Attachment The forest-thorn-mind.

3.

Beauty God’s magnet-Eye.

4.

Bliss Beyond within.

5.

Concentration

The sad failure

Of the present mind-power-plant.

6.

Consciousness God’s fondest doll.

7.

Contemplation

A reality not easily attained,

But not ultimately unattainable.

8.

Death A frequent challenger of life.

9.

Dedication

God started to play a Game.

He wants His children to join Him.

10.

Destination

Man’s transformation-smile;

God’s Satisfaction-Dance.

11.

Detachment The garden-flower-soul.

12.

Devotion

A book of no interest

To humanity.

13.

Dream

Something that keeps God

Sleeplessly and breathlessly occupied.

14.

Freedom Man’s God-dependence-hunger.

15.

Friendship A dream that eludes reality.

16.

Goal God’s Heart-Eye-Lustre-Flood.

17.

God

Man’s mind-hallucination-exit;

Man’s life-illumination-entrance.

18.

Gratitude

The slow, slower and slowest

Century-production.

19.

Harmony

The complete transformation

Of heart-agony.

20.

Heart God’s Arrival-preparation-room.

21.

Ignorance Man’s self-hypnotism-practice.

22.

Imagination

Tomorrow’s life-tree

In today’s mind-seed.

23.

Immortality The proper use of a moment.

24.

Impurity An incurable mind-disease.

25.

Ingratitude

Something that we unconsciously enjoy

And consciously deny.

26.

Insecurity

The undying breath

Of all world citizens.

27.

Intuition

The fastest will-power-plane

To the Destination.

28.

Knowledge

A half-hearted competitor

With ignorance.

29.

Life

The ultimate winner

Over death.

30.

Love God’s Heart-Dance-Ecstasy.

31.

Man

Today’s imperfection-story;

Tomorrow’s perfection-song.

32.

Manifestation

The bridge that invariably unites

God’s exasperation And man’s frustration.

33.

Mind The ignorance-cancer-patient.

34.

Obedience

Man’s only divine and supreme

Gift to God That satisfies God in His own Way.

35.

Oneness A dream that is a reality-beggar.

36.

Patience The real failure-conqueror.

37.

Peace God’s next Act.

38.

Perfection

A cry from man’s

Heart-cottage-home;

A Smile from God’s

Heart-Palace-Kingdom.

39.

Purity The gasping breath of the heart.

40.

Realisation

God’s vacation-pleasure

In a seeker’s heart-country.

41.

Satisfaction

The only real hide-and-seek game

On earth.

42.

Simplicity God’s Originality-Mind.

43.

Sincerity

The most difficult foreign language

That mankind studies.

44.

Soul God’s Dream-Blossom-Promise.

45.

Spirituality

Self-embarrassment,

So says my mind;

Self-enlightenment,

So feels my heart.

46.

Summit The depth-reversal.

47.

Surrender

Past, present, future

Invincibility.

48.

Temptation

The link between

Today’s flood-rapture

And

Tomorrow’s volcano-torture.

49.

Vision God’s Self-Transcendence-Song.

50.

Wisdom

The adviser and transformer

Of ignorance-night.

Editor's note

On 19 October 1995, Sri Chinmoy offered these definitions or ‘mappings’ of fifty qualities, attributes and states of consciousness. Some are positive, while others are negative. These definitions express Sri Chinmoy’s philosophy in a highly condensed and intrinsically poetic form.

From:Sri Chinmoy,God’s Magnet-Eye, Agni Press, 2005
Sourced from https://srichinmoylibrary.com/gme