I am flying and flying and flying
On my new God-obedience-wingsIn Infinity's Sky.
```Aspiration is singular.
Manifestation is plural. ```Doubt rightly deserves
To beA homeless beggar.
```Love is
Mistake-proof. ```Bury your impatience
Here, there andAll-where.
```God asks for volunteers
And not for soldiers. ```Man-teacher preaches.
God-Teacher teaches. ```I am looking for
A permanent doubt-remedy. ```God accompanies
My opportunities. ```The outer smile is beautiful.
The inner smile is perfect. ```Cancel your
Hesitation-performance. ```Aspiration-decline
Does not become you. ```Negativity's bloom
IsNegativity's doom.
```God does not command,
But expectsAn eager audience.
```Effort needed.
Grace indispensable. ```I am bettering myself
To increase humanity'sDivine pride.
```Soulfulness-barrenness
IsTerribly shocking.
```Nobody can outlive
His usefulness on earth. ```There is a sempiternal bond
BetweenMy nothingness
AndGod’s fulness.
```What is God doing?
God is lookingFor a self-giving,
God-hungry seeker. ```I must trust
The peace-dreamer,I must.
```I must trust
The peace-bringer,I must.
```I must trust
The peace-receiver,I must.
```I am giving you
The happiest news:Your long alienation
From your soulIs just over!
```The perfection-soul is by far
The best mediatorBetween
The two secret rivals:The mind and the vital.
```Imitation is an unforeseen
Failure-frustration. ```I keep only four books
In my heart library:Simplicity,
Sincerity,Humility
AndPurity.
```May each life become
A flower-blossom-beauty. ```May each heart become
A fountain-God-obedience. ```Man's outer life
IsA fading experience.
```Man's inner life
IsAn ever-heightening
AndEver-deepening Realisation.
```One flight can NEVER reach
The God-realisation-height.Countless stopovers
Are absolutely needed. ```Miracle-Masters are fated
To deplorable disciple-conditionsAnd
Blessed with a miracle-audience. ```Devotion-superfluity
Is an absurdityPlus impossibility.
```The perfection-song
HidesIn the imperfection-gong.
```The King of Light
Lovingly expectsMy heart.
```The king of darkness
Ruthlessly demandsMy blood.
```A delight-heart
Is the tailwindOf a surrender-life.
```Our God-aspiration-heart
Does not sleep. ```Our God-dedication-life
Does not sleep. ```When I claim God
To be my own, very own,I do not need sleep.
```My doubting mind
Wants to beA self-illumination-questioner.
```My aspiring heart
Wants to beSelf-illumination-billionaire.
```My utter disaster
Is only a hair’s breadth awayFrom my God-disobedience.
```Do not wait
For God to approach you.He may deliberately
Forget you. ```There is no
Quick and sudden journeyTo perfection.
```I want my heart-compass
To turn towardsGod's Polestar-Eye.
```Our suffering does not pay
The admission fee to Heaven,But our God-surrender
Happily does. ```A surrender life
Is a perfectGod-answer.
```A great many times
My life has been savedBy a wee iota
Of God-obedience. ```You fool!
Grace descendsFor your immediate acceptance
And not for your total rejection. ```O my God-searching mind,
Fly and flyFar beyond the domain
Of world-complaint-criticism-torture. ```My Lord,
Please give me anything else —But not freedom.
Freedom I misuse;Destruction I invite.
```Every day God loves to have
A letter from me.Even my volcano-anger-letter
Gives Him true joy. ```God and I disagree
Only on one point:He emphatically tells me
That I am another God. ```My Lord Supreme,
I just loveYour high Commands.
They are at onceExtremely challenging
And extremely inspiring. ```My Lord Supreme,
I quite dislikeYour mild Requests.
They are so weakAnd completely empty
Of inspiration. ```My mind,
I have already chosenMy heart
And not youTo be my destiny-maker.
You can remain silent. ```The longer I sit
On my knees,The sooner God comes down
To kiss my eyes. ```The ignorance-thief
Does not knowHow
To stop stealing. ```My pride is
My self-applauseThunder.
```Immortality loves
To liveIn the heart
Of fleeting moments. ```God’s Face quenches
My eye-thirst.God’s Feet feed
My heart-hunger. ```Not out of dire compulsion
But out of sterling affectionI always say YES
To my soul. ```Change of work
Is rest.This is my God-lesson.
```The aspiration-elevator
Is availableOnly in the heart-palace
And not inThe mind-cottage.
```From:Sri Chinmoy,I am flying and flying and flying, Agni Press, 1998
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