My prayer
Is my perfection-promiseTo God.
My meditationIs my God-satisfaction
In God's own Way. ```The stupidity-expert
Will eventually be exposed.The wisdom-expert
Will eternally be adored. ```My mind does not want
To rememberGod's powerful Eye.
My heart triesTo remember
God's blissful Heart. ```My desire-tour-cancellation
Has made GodImmensely happy.
My aspiration-journey-inceptionHas made God
Universally happy. ```God has revoked
My desire-car-license.God has given me
A free aspiration-plane-ticketTo fly all over the world.
```My mind pointedly reminds me
Of all the thingsThat God has not done for me.
My heart lovingly reminds meOf all the things
That God has unconditionallyDone for me.
```I see a new world
Of peace and blissEmerging from my age-old
Mind-hallucinations.This is what
My compassion-heartHas done for me.
```Put your aspiring heart
Inside your boasting mouth.Lo, you are on your way
To arriving atYour God-Destination.
```When I soulfully cry,
I see my Lord'sSmiling Eyes.
When I powerfully smile,I see my Lord's
Fulfilled Dreams. ```When I live inside
My Lord's Heart-Garden,I feel that each time
I breathe in and breathe outA new
God-realisation-hopeAnd a new
God-manifestation-promiseHave become
My two real friends. ```My old friend
Was a thought-life.My new friend
Is a will-fulfilled breath. ```My Lord Supreme shows me
His Compassion-PowerTo make me happy.
My Lord Supreme gives meHis Hope-Power
To make me perfect. ```I see today
My self-giving gratitude-heartStanding at the top of God's
Compassion-Distribution-List. ```I need only one friend,
And my Lord SupremeHas already given me
That particular friend:His Compassion-Eye.
```Alas,
Why do I not cheerfully,Gratefully and sleeplessly
Allow God's Compassion-LightTo enter into my heart-room
Faster than the fastestTo turn me into
His peace-blossoming tree? ```When I sleeplessly
Offer myself to God,He tells me
I have now becomeA true member of
His intimate and inner Circle. ```Mine is the sound-life
That God uses to produceHis Victory here on earth.
Mine is the silence-heartThat God uses to transcend
His own Infinity'sSelf-Transcendence-Dreams.
```My searching mind
Is sincerely lookingFor the heart-garden
Of the God-seekers.My aspiring heart
Is selflessly lookingFor the full manifestation
Of the sleepless God-dreamers. ```My earth-responsibilities
Are my Heaven-sentOpportunities
To bring to the foreMy divinity's prosperity
And offer itTo the heart of humanity
For the manifestationOf God's Peace,
God's BlissAnd God's Satisfaction
On earth. ```Not easy to find,
A purity-heart-temple.But impurity-mind-debris
Is easily everywhere found. ```God asks my clever mind
To shut up immediately.God asks my torpor-heart
To wake up smilingly. ```God and I every day
Play various games.I play to win.
I play to proveThat I am a better player.
God plays to improveHis Game.
God plays to transcendHis Capacities.
```Of all the Limbs of God,
I chooseGod's Protection-Feet.
```For him, either to love
The farthest soulOr to love
The nearest manIs an extremely difficult task.
```From now on
I shall discount the thingsThat my soul does not need.
I want to make my soul happyIn my soul's way.
```I came into the world
To enjoy the infinite LoveOf my Lord Supreme
And not to be employedBy the pleasures
Of ignorance-night. ```Alas,
The narrowness of the mind,The loneliness of the vital
And the idleness of the bodyHave made me what I am now.
```My heart's actions
And not my life's positionsCan and do please
My Lord Supreme. ```My seeker-friend,
You can countHow many times
You have fallen.I shall count only
How many timesYou have bravely
And cheerfully arisen. ```My seeker-friend, I love you,
Not becauseYou think well of me,
Not becauseYou always do good things,
But becauseYou are pleasing
Our Lord SupremeIn His own Way.
```Most convincing,
Most satisfactory progressWe make in the spiritual life
Only after we have stoppedThe mind's
Whirlwind-thought-speed. ```The heart's faith
Chases the mind-carAnd also silences
The mind's doubt-storms. ```How can God
Have any confidenceIn your spiritual life
If you do not wantTo come out of
Your mind's desire-forest? ```There cannot be a single mind
That has not suffered fromIgnorance-bound thoughts.
```The mind loves
To stay indefinitelyIn the ignorance-ego-hotel.
```After a long time,
Today I am so happyTo watch inspiration-flames
Lighting my mind. ```Every morning
I am awakened by my Lord'sDelight-Compassion-Whisper.
```My soul has already told
My aspiration-heartThat there is no U-turn
On its realisation-road. ```God loves me,
God loves my crying heart,God loves my smiling soul.
```A life of surrender
Strikingly lengthensThe heart's aspiration-strides.
```My devotion
Purifies my heart.My surrender
Satisfies my Lord. ```My heart's sincerity-flames
God transformsInto His Divinity-Sun.
```A mind of peace
Expands and expandsAnd becomes a citizen
Of oneness-aspiration-land. ```Show, show
Your surrender-life.God will stop
Your desire-train. ```An impurity-mind
Is a heart-sinkingExperience.
```From:Sri Chinmoy,My perfection-promise to God, Agni Press, 1993
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