President Gorbachev: the home of Oneness-Peace-Dream-World

Dedication

I soulfully dedicate “President Gorbachev: The Home of Oneness-Peace-Dream-World” to my most highly esteemed Sister Raisa Maximovna, whose inseparable oneness-earth-life at once embodies her beloved husband's infinite heart-tears and his infinite soul-smiles. Sri Chinmoy

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President Gorbachev:

A man in a million,

A heart in a billion

And

A soul in a trillion.

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Today, on his 70th birthday,

What is Raisa Maximovna doing

In Heaven?

She and her soul are

Singing his universal victory-song,

Blowing his universal victory-conch

And

Sounding his universal victory-trumpet. ```

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The Soviet Union

Uncovered

His earthly eyes.

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The world

Discovered

His Heavenly heart.

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His life-boat plies

Between

His transcendental dream

And

His universal reality.

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This world

Has given him

The galaxies of satisfaction-delight.

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This world

Has given him

The absurdities of frustration-night.

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Sleeplessly he endeavours

To mend

Humanity's fractured faith.

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En route to humanity's heart-home,

He surmounted

Insurmountable obstacles.

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He now

Is humanity's

Heart-home-altar.

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The test of this earth-planet

Is to realise

Who truly President Gorbachev is.

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He is, indeed,

A ceaseless world-server,

Sleepless world-lover

And

Breathless world-adviser.

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His is

An ever-dreaming

And

Ever-blooming heart. ```

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His is

An ever-blossoming

And

Ever-illumining life. ```

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Disappointment

Occasionally attacks him. ```

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Detachment

Immediately liberates him. ```

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God's Hands

Blessingfully and powerfully

Touched his life.

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God's Hands

Smilingly and proudly

Are shaping the world

Through the hands

Of His beloved son,

Mikhail Gorbachev. ```

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World-misunderstanding-rocks

He shattered. ```

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Bondage-countries

His soul liberated. ```

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Separation-countries

His heart united. ```

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He is at once

An unparalleled student

Of the heart-world

And

Most adored teacher

Of the mind-world. ```

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He tells the world:

Intimidation fails. ```

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He tells the world:

Illumination succeeds. ```

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His is

A commitment-life. ```

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His is

An enlightenment-service. ```

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No man of integrity

Will dare to devalue him —

His world-improvement-contributions.

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No man of world-progress-immensity

Will dare to challenge his capacity —

His unfathomable immensity-capacity.

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He says:

Justice-light does not starve

Indefinitely.

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He says:

Justice-delight shall eventually feed

Each and every human being

Throughout the length and breadth

Of the world.

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His life is founded upon

Triune efficiencies —

Heart-efficiency,

Mind-efficiency

And

Hand-efficiency. ```

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He tells the world:

Hope is born

Of faith.

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He tells the world:

Sacrifice-depth is born

Of promise-height.

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He tells the world:

Do not wait for tomorrow

To obliterate today's mistakes.

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He tells the world:

Obliterate here and now

Today's mistakes.

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He is ever-ready

To bathe the world

In the sea of his heart-tears.

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He is ever-ready

To bathe the world

In the ocean of his soul-smiles.

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He searches for

The world-harmony-fountain

High and low

And in every direction. ```

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Alas, hostility reigns supreme

In various parts of the world,

Specially in his own country.

When President Gorbachev wisely resigned

From his Presidency post,

It was mistakenly taken as his downfall.

His arch-enemies,

Stupidity-incarnate souls,

Who ruthlessly applauded his downfall,

Will before long be compelled

From deep within

To heartily and mightily applaud

His world-illumining sunrise.

Their mind will show the white flag

To his blue heart.

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Wisdom-flooded self-expansion

Is divinely enjoyed only by

The hero supreme.

President Gorbachev is, indeed,

A radiant example.

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He tells the world:

The mind's supremacy

Must not rule the world.

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He tells the world:

The heart-intimacy

Must rule the world.

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O world,

Wake up!

Look at President Gorbachev's

Beckoning hand. ```

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O world,

He wants to show you how to drive

Life's outer success-chariot

And

Life's inner progress-chariot

At lightning speed. ```

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There shall come a time

When President Gorbachev's life

Will be found outside time

And far beyond space. ```

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To join President Gorbachev

Is to join a wisdom-inundated circle

And encircle

The world-transformation-miracle. ```

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Each country-cry

His heart tries to heed. ```

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Each country-need

His life tries to feed. ```

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President Gorbachev's heart-enlightenment

And his life-commitment

Are two life-long compeers

That are desperately striving

For the blossoming of a new world.

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Alas, world-ignorance is fathomless.

The heart of countless Russians

Expressed their genuine love

For Raisa Maximovna

Only after her earth-departure.

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I soulfully pray

To my Absolute Lord Supreme

That each and every Russian,

Plus each and every world-citizen,

Sleeplessly adore and breathlessly love

President Gorbachev —

Which he so unmistakably deserves —

Long before he sails his life-boat

To the Golden Shore of the Beyond.

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A German adage runs:

"In America, an hour is 40 minutes."

A Russian adage runs:

"The slower you go,

The farther you will be...."

When I identify President Gorbachev

With the German proverb,

I clearly see that his hour is 33 minutes.

The inimitable way he gave freedom

To Poland, Hungary, East Germany,

Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria and Romania,

He himself is the perfect synthesis

Of his saying and doing:

"History cannot wait; people cannot afford to waste time.

It may also be too late tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow may never come."

When I identify him

With the Russian proverb,

Slowness is founded upon patience —

Patience, patience, patience.

He has not given up.

He continues with his life-pilgrimage

Slowly, steadily and unerringly

To the farthest destination —

Mankind's nature-transformation. ```

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Immortality's blind bard, Homer,

Voiced forth:

"I am part of all that I have met."

President Gorbachev's life has also sung

Almost the same song:

"We — all mankind — are in the same boat,

And we can sink or swim only together."

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Julius Caesar, the Roman Emperor,

Declared:

"Veni, vidi, vici" —

"I came, I saw, I conquered."

President Gorbachev,

The Soviet Union Emperor, declared:

I came, I loved, I became.

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Cicero, the Roman philosopher,

Proclaimed:

"I carry all my possessions with me."

President Gorbachev also carries

All his possessions with him —

Self-confidence and faith in mankind. ```

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The purpose of life

Is worthiness and nothing else.

President Gorbachev has proved

This true truth in his own life

In infinite measure.

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The German poet Goethe's immortal pen

Revealed to the world a new way

To the world-awakening consciousness:

"How can you come to know yourself?

Never by thinking; always by doing."

What are

The immortal action-achievements

Of President Gorbachev?

A self-awareness-flower-life,

A self-respect-beauty-mind,

A self-sacrifice-fragrance-heart.

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To say that President Gorbachev

Is a Russian

Is to shockingly limit his vision-light.

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To say that President Gorbachev

Is a child of the Soviet Union

Is to unquestionably limit

His mission-delight. ```

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To say that President Gorbachev

Is a most beautiful flower

And a most delicious fruit

Of Mother-Earth-Tree for mankind

Is to embrace him

As a cosmopolitan soul. ```

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President Gorbachev warns

The human chaos on the rise:

Behold!

The sunrise-rainbow-beauty,

Harmony, peace and bliss

Are slowly but convincingly arriving. ```

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To me, not because of his

Himalayan greatness

But because of his Olympian goodness,

He has become the world cynosure. ```

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His soulful admirers and faithful adorers

Treasure him in the depths

Of their gratitude-pride-heart,

For his life's continuous

Dynamism-speed-lead

In the present-day world. ```

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President Gorbachev sees the earth-heart

Is bleeding

From her children's wisdom-bankruptcy.

Therefore, his heart is swimming

In the sea of tears.

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President Gorbachev sees the Heaven-soul

Is flying

In Infinity's Ecstasy-Sky.

Therefore, his soul, heart, mind, vital

And body

Are fulfilled, supremely fulfilled. ```

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President Gorbachev's own nobility-mind,

Magnanimity-heart and luminosity-soul

Speak:

"Suppose we make mistakes.

So what?

It is better to rectify them

Than sit and wait."

His compatriots, other politicians,

Have made no mistakes!

Never, never!!

Not even in their

Imagination-worlds!!! ```

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The seer in President Gorbachev

Graciously illumines us:

"We are all passengers aboard one ship,

The Earth,

And we must not allow it to be wrecked."

Sail we must together in a oneness-heart

And in a fulness-life

Towards the Golden Shore. ```

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The Holy Father, who represents the Saviour Christ's spirituality on earth, appreciates and admires President Gorbachev thus:

> I follow with great interest the process of renewal which you have set in motion in the Soviet Union.

> I wish you success and declare myself ready to support every initiative that will better protect and integrate the rights and duties of individuals and peoples, so that peace may be insured in Europe and the world.

Indeed, spirituality has its distinct role in President Gorbachev's life.

Him to quote:

> Today our main joy is to lift the individual spiritually, respecting his inner world and giving him moral strength.

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May today,

On his 70th birthday —

March 2nd, 2001 —

The heart of the entire world

Sing most gratefully, most sweetly

And most hauntingly

President Gorbachev-gratitude-songs

Beneath his giant life-tree. ```

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President Gorbachev:

The Home of Oneness-Peace-Dream-World. ```

From:Sri Chinmoy,President Gorbachev: the home of Oneness-Peace-Dream-World, Agni Press, 2001
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