I am ready

Dedication

April 14th, 1982

My dear Father,

On the occasion of your most auspicious centenary, I am offering you my five hundredth rose, "I am Ready," from my crying and smiling heart-garden.

May you remain in Heavenly Peace, Light and Delight until I come and join you.

Yours in the Eternal Father Supreme,

Madal

1

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My Lord, break me,

My vital is ready.

My Lord, melt me,

My heart is ready.

My Lord, mould me,

My mind is ready.

My Lord, make me,

I am fully ready. ```

2

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God's Compassion-Heart melts me,

My aspiration-heart.

God's Concern-Eye moulds me,

My dedication-life.

God's Love Arms make me,

My surrender-breath. ```

3

```

Even the most adequate answer

To the question "Who am I?"

Does not satisfy my heart.

Only the accurate answer

To the question "Whose am I?"

Satisfies me completely.

```

4

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Self-examination quickly precedes

Self-realisation.

Self-realisation devotedly precedes

God-manifestation. ```

5

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Purity is self-evident;

My aspiration-heart knows it.

Satisfaction is God-Fulfilment;

My dedication-life knows it. ```

6

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A pure mind blossoms in peace.

A pure heart blossoms in bliss.

A pure life blossoms in oneness,

God-Oneness. ```

7

```

What I wanted

Was a flicker of hope.

But my Lord came

And stood before me

To give me

His Infinity's All. ```

8

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A spiritual Master is

An eternal student.

He soulfully learns

Wisdom from God;

He ungrudgingly and compassionately

Learns ignorance from his disciples. ```

9

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My Lord, kick me, kick me.

That is the only way

I can move forward.

My Lord, bless me, bless me.

That is the only way

I can rise upward.

My Lord, love me, love me.

That is the only way

I can dive inward.

```

10

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I shall love the world

More soulfully today.

Do you know why?

Because

God has given me

One of His richest Treasures:

He has sown His

Confidence-Seed

In me.

```

11

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Because

Of your restless mind,

You have lost.

Because

Of your faithless heart,

You have lost.

Because

Of your cheerless life,

You have lost.

```

12

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Three things I daily do:

I dream

With my cheerful eyes,

I cry

With my tearful heart,

I fly

With my powerful soul.

```

13

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My mind

Was born to grow divinely.

My heart

Was born to glow supremely.

My life

Was born to flow perpetually. ```

14

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Soulfulness has given me

What it embodies: God's Heart.

Selflessness has given me

What it embodies: God's Life.

Finally,

God has given me

What He has and what He is:

Satisfaction-Smile. ```

15

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My desire-life, are you blind?

Can you not see

That I am running fast,

Very fast,

Away from you?

My aspiration-life, look!

At long last

I have the soul-urge

To run towards you. ```

16

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An enquiring mind must oscillate

Between

Victory-satisfaction

And

Defeat-frustration.

A self-giving heart will never oscillate.

It lives in God

And

Lives for God. ```

17

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The heart feels that it can never be

Too early to realise God.

The soul knows that it can never be

Too late to manifest God. ```

18

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I love, I love, I love.

I love the silver process of seeing.

I love the golden progress of the seen.

I love the diamond fulness of the Seer. ```

19

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I shall not add anything

To my heart's hunger for God.

I shall not remove anything

From my soul's feast with God. ```

20

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Be not alone,

Man's ignorance-tiger

Will come and devour you.

Be not alone,

Go and learn the secret of sacrifice-delight

From God's Sacrifice-Horse. ```

21

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Steadily

Each and every thought

Sculptures its own life.

Ultimately

Each and every life

Sculptures its own God. ```

22

```

Be not enamoured

Of what you see outwardly.

Be not indifferent

To what you feel inwardly. ```

23

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Your mind's selfishness

Is your all-exclusive individuality.

Your heart's selflessness

Is your all-inclusive universality. ```

24

```

My sweet Lord Supreme,

Even if I happen to be

The most unaspiring

Seeker-child of Yours,

Do you not agree with me

That I have no protection-shelter

Other than You?

```

25

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As a human being can

Easily and effectively discard

His discouraging and disheartening dreams,

Even so he can renounce

Cheerfully and permanently

His unaspiring animal life. ```

26

```

My Lord, if I have

Your Forgiveness-Sun,

Then who can hurt me?

And if I do not have

Your Forgiveness-Sun,

Then who can console me? ```

27

```

The seeker-watcher sees

The God-Day.

The lover-smiler knows

Not only the God-Hour

But also the God-Moment.

```

28

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O my truth-searching mind,

God is more than greatness.

O my God-loving heart,

God is more than goodness.

God is His Eternity's own Perfection-cry.

God is His Immortality's own Satisfaction-Smile. ```

29

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O my Pilot Supreme,

Your outer Name is Concern-Sky,

Your inner Name is Forgiveness-Sun.

You cry every day at my heart's door

To gain a new entry

So that cheerfully and proudly

You can steer my life-boat.

```

30

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God through man

Reveals His Eternity's

Beauty-cry.

God for man

Reveals His Immortality's

Prosperity-Smile. ```

31

```

One great consoling message

From your Master

Can totally stop the withering

Of your God-realising realities

And God-manifesting inevitabilities.

```

32

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Happy are my eyes to see You,

My Lord!

Happy is my heart to feel You,

My Lord!

Happy is my life to claim You,

My Lord,

As my own, very own!

```

33

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If you want to enjoy the death-cry

Of your poverty-stricken ego,

Then you must at once

Check the escalating growth

Of your desire-night.

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34

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I see the growth

Of my happy consciousness

Only inside my full obedience

To my soul's wisdom-height. ```

35

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Yesterday

I lived inside

My mind's disastrous uncertainty-sea.

Today

I am living inside

My heart's rapturous divinity-ocean.

This is what my Lord's

Unconditional Grace

Has done for me.

```

36

```

Celestial intimacies

Are bound to suffocate

In the narrow grasp

Of petty alternatives:

Possession-greed

And

Rejection-seed.

```

37

```

Every flower-heart

Has a soul.

Every flower-soul

Has a special

God-ordained role.

```

38

```

Since my Lord's infinite Smile

Has not changed,

I must not change my heart's

Eternal cry. ```

39

```

If my outer smile is mighty,

Then my inner cry is almighty.

If my self-giving is strong,

Then my God's Satisfaction

Is stronger

Than the strongest. ```

40

```

Do not

Expect anything from this world.

You will be sadly disappointed

And

Badly frustrated.

Do not

Surrender to this world.

Yours will be the unmistakable

And

Ultimate victory.

```

From:Sri Chinmoy,I am ready, Agni Press, 1982
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