A Soulful Cry Versus a Fruitful Smile

Dedication

At my brother Mantu's repeated request to write rhymed poetry I have written these short poems. I dedicate these heart-offerings of mine to my brother's great seeker-soul.

Chinmoy

12 August 1977

1. A SOUNDLESS VOICE

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A soundless voice

I always need.

My mind of noise,

My heart of poise,

To lovingly feed.

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2. DEFECTS OF MY DESIRES

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Defects of my desires:

They do not want to die,

But they die.

They want to fly,

But they cannot fly.

They want to bind my heart,

But they fail.

To the unhorizoned shore

My boat I sail.

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3. BEAUTIFUL EMPTINESS

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Beautiful emptiness

Soulful readiness

Realisation newness

Perfection oneness

I need, I need, I need

To feed my God and my God-need. ```

4. FRANK AND BABY SMILE

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O frank and baby smile,

You have won my heart.

You have conquered death-dart

In life’s confusion-mart. ```

5. I KNOW

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I know, I know, I know

Heaven will pardon you,

But not this earth.

Heaven knows who you truly are.

You are a fool incarnate.

You add nothing to creation’s birth. ```

6. GOD’S MOMENT AND MY MOMENT

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In God’s moment nothing dies.

In my moment nothing lives.

God loves me because I try.

I love my Lord because

In Him alone

God’s Vision-reality sky. ```

7. YOUR SILENCE AND YOUR SOUND

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Your Silence I sing.

It is my heart.

Your Sound I sing.

It is my mart. ```

8. THEY TRULY ARE

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Peace is truly beautiful.

Love is truly soulful.

Man is truly meaningful.

God is truly fruitful. ```

9. JEALOUSY ABSCONDS

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Jealousy absconds.

Insecurity conceals.

Doubt-life destroys.

Faith-world reveals. ```

10. MY SILENCE-LIFE, MY SOUND-EXISTENCE

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My silence-life prepares,

My sound-existence acts.

I need silence to touch

My Lord’s highest Height.

I need sound to control

My wild ignorance-night.

These are the supreme facts.

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11. YOU CLAIM ME STILL

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You claim me still,

O ignorance-fool!

Don’t you know that

I have a new school?

I go to wisdom-school

To be a perfection-tool. ```

12. WHAT ARE THEY?

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Power, what is it,

If not sheer pain?

Love, what is it,

If not sheer gain? ```

13. O CHALLENGER

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O challenger of stark

Oblivion-night!

To you I bow and bow,

Time and again,

With my snow-white

Surrender-might. ```

14. THAT’S ALL

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Possibility,

What is it after all?

Uncertainty —

Ant-weak, giant-stout,

Within, without.

That’s all; that’s all. ```

15. I SHALL NOT FAIL

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I shall not fail,

I shall not fail.

My soul shall sail,

My heart shall sail.

I shall succeed,

I shall succeed.

My life shall take

The glorious lead. ```

16. WHY?

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Why, why, why, why?

Why should I take

The side of ignorance-tie?

Why, why, why, why?

Why do I fail

To please God’s Compassion-sky? ```

17. I SHALL REALISE GOD

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I shall realise God

Just before tomorrow’s sunrise.

I am certain, no surprise:

God’s Promise, I execute. ```

18. A PUNY SOUND-LIFE

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A puny sound-life,

Yet

Its pride vaster than the sky.

Alas

It knows not how to die.

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19. MY LIFE

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My life, done with the material life,

Has now embraced

The life of renunciation-light.

Meaningless and fruitless

Are the material needs.

Nowhere to be found

Good satisfaction-seeds.

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20. TO BE

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To be, indeed, a cosmic god,

I shall try only to succeed.

To be, indeed, a real man,

I shall try only to proceed. ```

21. MY TIME HAS COME

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My time has come

To see the face

Of birthless birth.

My time has come

In stupendous mirth

To prove my worth. ```

22. ONE RAY

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One ray of perfection-light

Can expedite

My Godward journey’s start.

Conquering the lofty pride

Of Titan-dart.

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23. THE GRANDEURS

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The grandeurs of my fruitful past

I have totally lost.

I am ready to pay any cost

And live therein to last. ```

24. MOTHER EARTH, FATHER HEAVEN

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Mother Earth does not argue.

Father Heaven does not complain.

Mother Earth likes to endure.

Father Heaven likes to cure. ```

25. SING ME A SONG

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Sing me a song

My Lord Supreme,

I shall give You

My silver dream,

I shall give You

My beauty’s sky,

I shall give you

My oneness-tie. ```

26. NO TIME TO WASTE

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I have no time to waste.

Any day, any hour, my supreme Guest

Will surely come with His

All-loving Compassion-Nest. ```

27. GOD IS HOSPITABLE

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God is hospitable,

Therefore

No anxiety, no worry

Have I.

I shall give Him

What I have preserved:

Gratitude-sky.

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28. AN ANCIENT SCAR

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An ancient scar

I see on my flickering eyes.

Yet I shall try and succeed

To breathe divinity-skies. ```

29. A SEA OF PLENTY

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A sea of plenty

I conceive,

Believe it or not.

But

Alas

Nothing I receive,

Nothing I achieve.

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30. FAREWELL

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Farewell, farewell,

O ungrateful world.

So much I have done for you,

So high I have thought of you.

To please you, your all,

I totally forgot

To respond to God’s God-call.

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31. SOUND MUSIC AND SILENCE MUSIC

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The sound music of humanity

For the poor and feeble souls.

The silence music of divinity

For the lovers of myriad goals. ```

32. MY ANCIENT HOPES

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My ancient hopes

To sail and fly towards my Lord

Are shattered today.

Again I must cry,

And die in ignorance-play.

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33. ONE FALLEN FLOWER

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One fallen flower

I see and cry;

One fallen soul

I love and die. ```

34. ONCE MORE

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My longing heart

Is fast asleep

Alas, alas!

Once more my life

Is forced to enjoy

Ignorance deep. ```

35. THE MIRACLE OF MIRACLES

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The miracle of miracles –

A tiny, feeble man

Embodies God-Life.

In him is ceased

The wild music

Of ignorance-life. ```

36. THE BURDEN OF BIGNESS

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The burden of bigness

I simply hate,

The burden of littleness

Too.

What I need is God-Heart’s

Open oneness-game,

To see my life’s

Transformation-flame. ```

37. REMEMBRANCE-JOY

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My best remembrance-joy

To you I offer, my soul.

I see you carrying me

And struggling hard

To help me reach my goal.

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38. DO WHAT YOU MUST

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Do what you must,

Dive deep within,

And conquer the pride

Of clamour-din. ```

39. GOD IS THERE TO SEE

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God is there to see.

Why do you worry?

God has asked you to start.

Why do you tarry?

God has asked you to comply.

Why do you not use your own

Heart’s oneness high?

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40. REMAIN AND BECOME

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Remain faithful

So that you can

Become

Surprisingly soulful.

Remain soulful

So that you can

Become

Supremely fruitful. ```

41. A GREAT BEGINNING

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Indeed, a great beginning,

I shall think of

My divinity-age;

I shall see the perfection-book

On a special perfection-page.

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42. I FIGHT

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Desire was the helper-lover great;

Now it is my adversary strong.

Against its face

I fight;

Against its race

I fight;

Desire-worlds I permit not

To throng. ```

43. THE POWER OF LIFE

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The power of life

I badly need.

The life of power

Who wants?

Not me, not me.

Although

Power wants to bind me,

I shall remain

At easy ease,

Eternally free. ```

44. IN SILENCE

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In silence we converse,

My Lord Supreme and I.

In silence we build

Each other a hopeful sky. ```

45. I NEED, I FEED

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The domain of deeds

I need,

And not the domains

Of speech.

The clime of Truth

I feed,

To see God’s Heights

And reach. ```

46. UTTERLY FREE

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Utterly free

To choose our path of aspiration-cry

And dedication-smile.

Ah! If you choose our path,

Yours will be the pride

Of God-satisfaction-sky. ```

47. FORCED BY FAILURE

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Forced by failure,

I cry and die.

Success-failure

Oneness-Experience

Shall grant me God-wings

To merrily fly. ```

48. I PLAY WITH TRUTH

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I play with truth.

I dance with its ruth.

I play with peace

And enjoy supreme release. ```

49. AN EXAM NOBODY IS SPARED

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An exam nobody is spared:

Do we love God?

If so, we needs must dive

Within and await His arrival

Fully prepared.

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50. ABSURD

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What I ask for is absurd.

How can I ask

My ignorance to bask

In God’s God-height? ```

51. HOW RIDICULOUS!

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How ridiculous!

I still stay with my eyeless

Desire-life.

How ridiculous!

I have yet to conquer

Ignorance-knife. ```

52. SOMETHING SO SIMPLE

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Goodness is something so simple,

Yet I fail

To have it in profuse measure.

Slowly and steadily,

Devotedly and unerringly,

I must sail

My life-boat with simplicity-treasure.

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53. WHEN MY LORD ACTS

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When my Lord acts,

He is not slow.

We just fail and fail

To grow and glow

In His Cosmic Flow.

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54. MY ENEMY-FRIENDS

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Hopeless imperfection,

Helpless situation,

Lifeless perfection,

Godless satisfaction.

These enemy-friends

Of mine;

Compelled always

With them to dine. ```

55. GIVE ME A LITTLE TIME

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I shall know more;

Give me a little time.

My heart shall reach

Without fail

God’s God-satisfaction-door.

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56. BETWEEN MAN AND GOD

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Between man and God,

My heart shall always choose

Man.

For in man alone

God has planted

His own realisation-ken.

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57. MAN DOES NOT DIE

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Man does not die;

Man’s possessions die.

Why, why?

Unlike man,

His possessions

Have no ambition-sky. ```

58. MY ANCIENT SADNESS

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My ancient sadness still

Haunts me, my soul.

I have not heard from God

My cosmic role. ```

59. WE TREASURE

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Your icy poverty

You know not why

You treasure.

My unlit insecurity

I treasure.

I know not why I treasure.

I treasure.

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60. YOU CAN DO YOUR TASK

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Buddha under the Tree

Drank deep the fount of Light.

You can do your task.

You can fell the Titan tree

Of eyeless ignorance-night.

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61. WHAT A HUNGRY WORLD!

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What a hungry world!

What a hungry man!

What a carefree God!

No change of plan. ```

62. TRUE

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True Friendship never ages.

True beauty never changes.

True man never fails.

Eternally, his boat he sails. ```

63. A TOO FAMILIAR SONG

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A too familiar song:

"I do not know."

A too unfamiliar song:

"My life shall grow;

My heart shall glow."

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64. A CLEVERLY SUCCESSFUL LIE

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A cleverly successful lie:

God in me is fast asleep.

A hopelessly useless truth:

Ignorance-venom

Death and I drink deep.

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65. MAN OF THE HOUR

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Man of the hour,

To you I offer

My gratitude-flower;

To you I offer

My ecstasy-heart’s

Oneness-shower. ```

66. EVERLASTING SECRET

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Everlasting secret:

God loves me infinitely more than

Any human soul on earth,

Whether

You believe it or not,

Whether you accept it or not.

Today I disclose the truth supreme

In stupendous mirth. ```

67. WHAT IN ME HATES ME

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Ah, what in me hates me

I know, I know;

My wild and shameless life

Of ignorance-flow. ```

68. YOUR STUPID MIND

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Your own mind

Is jealous of your innocence-light,

Your stupid mind,

Yet,

It openly loves to dine

With ignorance-night. ```

69. A SILVER CRY

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A silver cry

Has lifted my psychic sky

High, very high.

A silver cry

Tells me how, when and why

I shall in Heaven’s vaults fly.

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70. DREAM OF ANOTHER WORLD

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Dream of another world,

An existence new.

Dream of my old world

Promises my life-charged hue. ```

71. TO INCREASE

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To increase your serving-strength

Start drinking

God’s Compassion-light.

If not, your service-boat

Will be sinking.

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72. TWO TUTORS

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Two are the tutors I need:

Faith-beauty’s cry,

Love-duty’s sky,

To feed my perfection-need. ```

73. AN ANCIENT VICTORY

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An ancient victory

Grants me present glory.

An ancient glory

Is a God-blossomed tree. ```

74. I SHALL NOT OBEY

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The boomed command

From the vital world:

I must dance with night.

I shall not obey.

I shall fight and fight

To prove my oneness

With colossal wisdom-light.

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75. MY HEART SWIMMING

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My heart swimming

In silver light,

My soul swimming

In ecstasy’s height. ```

76. PRAYERS AND MEDITATION

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The buzz of prayers

I can never stand.

The silence of meditation

My only friend. ```

77. OUTER AND INNER SUN

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The outer sun takes all

My impurity-worlds,

Big and small.

My inner sun grants me

A new world-soul,

A new world-role. ```

78. FLOW FORTH MY TEARS

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Flow forth my tears!

My promise I fail to keep.

I shall go back

Secretly to ignorance-sleep. ```

79. YOUR LIVELY LUSTRE

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Your lively lustre

Challenges death in life.

Your lovely life

Destroys the breath of strife. ```

80. SILENCE-SPEED, SILENCE-SEED

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O Silence-speed,

I love your beauty’s flow.

O Silence-seed,

I love your duty’s glow. ```

81. TODAY

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Today,

My heart beyond desire.

Today,

My life aspiration-fire,

Sure realisation dire,

Empty of earth-mire. ```

82. VISION OF DEEP BEAUTY

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Vision of deep beauty

Has changed your age.

You and your life no more

In animal cage. ```

83. FORGOTTEN

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Forgotten how to fly,

Forgotten how to dive,

Forgotten how to run,

How can I ever thrive? ```

84. I KNOW THE ART

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I know the art

I shall in secret sow,

My own trumpet

Before I blow. ```

85. SOUL-WISDOM

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Soul-Wisdom hurries not.

Soul-Wisdom tarries not.

God-Beauty fails not.

Man-duty fails not. ```

86. THE BREATH OF GOD

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The Breath of God

I breathlessly enjoy.

The Grace of God

I lavishly employ. ```

87. A CHOICE DREAM

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A choice dream

Your lovely soul embodies.

A choice goal

Your lively role achieves. ```

88. IN VAIN

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In vain, in vain

Earth-beauty longs to bind my soul.

In vain, in vain

Heaven-beauty longs to quicken my goal. ```

89. TO YOU WE ALWAYS SURRENDER

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To you we always surrender,

Not because you are great,

Not because you are good,

But because

Your oneness with our oneness

Amazingly has begun to flower. ```

90. HOW FAR?

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My seeking eyes,

How far, how far

Will you carry me?

Will I ever enjoy

Vision-shower

And

Climb the Reality-tower?

```

91. EVEN WHEN I SMILE

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Even when I smile

I feel a death-blow,

Destroying my life

And its smooth flow. ```

92. THE BEAUTY OF YOUR FACE

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The beauty of your Face,

Even God-Compassion will fail

To describe.

The beauty of your soul,

Even the eyeless man

Can declare and thrive. ```

93. LORD, GIVE ME

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Lord, give me your speed,

I need, I badly need.

Lord, give me your poise,

My heart’s only choice. ```

94. GIVE ME SUN-HOPE

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My Lord Supreme!

Do give me sun-hope.

In ignorance-dream

No more my life shall grope. ```

95. I WEEP ALOUD

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I weep aloud

Before a crowd,

But

Nobody comes to my rescue.

What I say is faultlessly true.

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96. COME OUT AND SING

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Come out and sing –

I shall help you.

Come out and look –

My life’s silver dew. ```

97. COME OUT AND BLOOM

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Come out and bloom:

No doom, no doom.

Come out and glow:

No blow, no blow. ```

98. I SHALL NOT FAIL

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I may constantly wail,

But I shall not fail.

My body is surprisingly frail,

But I shall not fail.

Although I step not on wisdom-scale,

No, never shall I fail. ```

99. I HAVE WON!

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Lo, I have won!

I know now how to grow

Love-light.

I know now how to glow

With delight.

I enjoy my oneness with light and delight.

Lo, I have won!

```

100. WAITING FOR YOU

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"Waiting for You,

My Lord Supreme."

"Waiting for you,

My treasure-dream." ```

101. I SHALL NOT STOP

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I shall not stop.

I must gallop.

I am God-duty’s

Truth-serving,

Life-awakening,

Lustre-horse.

In tune with God’s cosmic muse,

Rhythmic dance,

My heart shall hop.

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102. ALTHOUGH

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Although

My heart is small,

It is for all.

Although

My heart is weak,

It is for the meek.

Although

I have but one choice:

God-manifestation-light,

In my silence-poise,

I give a listening ear to the baseless voices

Of base-animal human demands. ```

103. MY WAY AND GOD’S WAY

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My way to love God:

I give Him what I have:

My birthless doubt-veil.

God’s way to love me:

He gives me what He is:

His Eternity’s Compassion-Faith-sail.

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104. GOD THE LOVER, GOD THE BELOVED

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God the Lover I love.

God the Beloved I love.

My Lover is my Consolation-light.

My Beloved is my aspiration-flight. ```

105. WHEN I KNOW NOT

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When I know not,

Your trickery loves me,

And

When I know,

I die to save thee.

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106. MY LOST POSSESSION

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Slowly and steadily

I shall always smile.

Readily and quickly

I shall always cry.

No, not for you,

No, not for him.

But only for me;

Only for my lost possession:

My Beloved Supreme.

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107. I NEED

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Physical strength

I need

Vital energy

I need

Mental poise

I need

Psychic choice

I need

In my God-ward

Thought and deed. ```

108. I MUST CONFESS

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I must confess my heart’s conscience-guilt.

For aeons and aeons I have succeeded

In concealing it,

But today I have failed.

I am in love with,

To be absolutely sincere,

I have always been in love with,

My old Friend, birthless

And deathless, God.

Him I truly love.

Therefore

To Him secretly I go,

And as you know,

His fathomless life-sea

Has a golden shore.

I sail my love-boat

With my heart’s gratitude-cry,

Forever and forever more. ```

109. A SAD WASTE OF TIME

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A sad waste of time

When I talk to my mind.

No freedom-light,

I bind my all, I bind. ```

110. I SING AND DANCE

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Your saving grace

Has saved my heart.

I sing and dance;

No dragon-dart. ```

111. FORGIVE ME

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Forgive me, I am too weak.

Forget me, I am too strong.

Leave me alone, I pray.

I want not the world to throng. ```

112. DO NOT ASK ME

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Do not ask me;

Nothing I know.

I pray and cry,

Only to grow

Inside my Lord’s Eye,

His Highest Vision-sky. ```

113. BECAUSE I LOVE

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Because I love your soul

You will win again.

Because I love your life

Yours will be one life

Of constant gain.

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114. COME, COME TO ME

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Come, come to me.

I shall give you

My ecstasy-sea.

Come, come to me. ```

115. EACH SOUL

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Each soul is God’s:

A new story.

Each soul is man’s:

A new glory. ```

116. SOMETHING I NEVER CAN GRASP

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Something I never can grasp.

Why is it so hard for me to clasp,

To touch, God’s Feet of Light

And man’s face and head of night? ```

117. AN INTERESTING CONCLUSION

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An interesting conclusion:

My life eventually

Not only grows

Into perfection,

But God’s God-Perfection.

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118. I AM NOT INTERESTED

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I hope, Lord, you understand

Why I do not go to you

As often as I should.

I am not interested at all

In my self-transcendence-hue.

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119. I AM AT A TOTAL LOSS

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Kindly, Lord, excuse me.

I am at a total loss.

I know not what I want.

Lord Supreme,

Grant me, your Compassion-flood, grant.

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120. THE FILTH OF MY FATE

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I can no more tolerate

The filth of my fate.

O Lord, do open

Thy Compassion-gate,

And

Let me declare

My illumination

And its august date. ```

121. BEAUTY IS WISDOM

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Beauty is wisdom.

Purity is freedom.

Oneness is realisation.

Perfection is satisfaction. ```

122. SILENCE-DAWN, SILENCE-EVE

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In silence-dawn

I see your height.

In silence-eve

I become your delight. ```

123. YOU CAN NO LONGER TOUCH ME

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You can no longer touch me,

I am far above the sky.

From now on not only shall I try,

But succeed, in drinking deep

God’s Compassion-Light,

And

His Ecstasy-sea.

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124. I WAS NOT PREPARED FOR DEATH

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I was not prepared for death,

But death did come,

And struck the drum,

And away snatched my flickering breath. ```

125. TODAY I SEE AND FEEL

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Faith in prosperity,

Victory’s divinity,

Today I see and feel

Beauty-nectar-thrill. ```

126. ARE YOU CONVINCED

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Are you convinced of your follies?

Then come and sit at wisdom’s feet.

It is all pure, clean and neat.

It will grant you wisdom-sun concrete. ```

127. YOU AND I WILL WIN

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You are your dying face,

I am my crying fate.

Someday, somehow,

You and I will win

Our longing’s divinity gate

And become the winners of the cosmic race. ```

128. BURY YOUR SORROW

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Bury your sorrow.

Tomorrow?

Too late.

Bury it all at once.

Behold, no more

The suffering-harrow. ```

129. HE WILL SURVIVE

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His joy is beginning to die,

Yet he will survive.

His peace is beginning to die,

Yet he will survive,

Plus

His giant will shall thrive. ```

130. HOW CAN I FAIL?

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God is my promise-light;

How can I fail?

Mine is the service-light;

I shall just sail. ```

131. MY FACE TELLS ME

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My face tells me

How far I am, how far.

Your Grace shows me

How close, how kind you are. ```

132. I LOVE YOUR ANSWERS

```

I love your silence-answer;

It fulfills my soulful prayer.

I love your sound-answer;

It helps me become a cosmic player. ```

133. JUST A LITTLE DIFFERENCE-NIGHT

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Just a little difference-night:

I see the blossoming soul,

You see the illumining goal.

Just a little difference-night:

I love man, his present state,

You love God — His golden gate. ```

134. HEAVEN DESCENDS

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Heaven descends

To quicken my strength.

I ascend

To measure its length. ```

135. YOUNGER THAN YESTERDAY

```

I envision him

As one younger than yesterday.

I love and need him

To change my life of clay. ```

136. NO JOKE

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No joke,

I shall love God unconditionally.

No joke,

I shall serve God breathlessly.

No joke,

Some day, somehow,

Not now, of course not,

I shall without fail

Become another God.

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137. YOU ARE TOO SMART

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Hopeless is your life.

Helpless is your heart.

Nevertheless,

Deathless is your hope.

Indeed, you are too smart.

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138. LITTLE DO THEY KNOW

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Little do they know

How great you are.

Little do they know

Your compassion-shower. ```

139. WHAT IS MIND-CONTROL?

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Ah, what is mind-control?

Do you know, do you know?

It is the blossoming

Of man’s God-oneness-role. ```

140. BELIEVE ME

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Believe me,

I am open to suggestion pure.

Believe me,

I shall gladly accept

Your tall life’s conviction sure.

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141. DO NOT EXPECT

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Do not expect anything real

From me.

I am a forced smile-cry.

Expect everything real

From me.

For I always sincerely try. ```

142. GOD AND I

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God and I would have been

A divinely perfect match

Had we seen each other

Before the dawn of life.

Alas now, although we try

We fail to get a catch. ```

143. MAKE ME FORGET

```

O make me forget

What little I hardly know.

O make me cry

To be your compassion-glow. ```

144. NOT BEAUTY, NOT DUTY

```

What I love is not beauty,

But beauty’s soulful breath.

What I admire is not duty,

But duty’s selfless strength. ```

145. PRAYERS

```

Prayers follow my steps;

I follow their sight.

I try and cry,

I sigh and die,

To see the real end

Of frustration’s real death. ```

146. THE DEPTH

```

The depth of meditation-eye

Is realisation-sky.

The depth of prayer-cry

Is the end of a strangling sigh. ```

147. WITH MAGIC IN HIS EYES

```

With magic in His Eyes

God came to me.

With wonder-surprise in my eyes

I drank His Ecstasy. ```

148. HE

```

He who sees is great.

He who knows is good.

He who believes is divine.

He who aspires is mine. ```

149. O STRANGE NEW GODS

```

O strange new gods,

How false you are!

You say I am far,

Far, very far

From God’s Love-Light

And His Grace-shower. ```

150. FALSE DREAMS, NO MORE

```

False dreams, no more

Shall I measure.

False hopes, no more

Shall I treasure. ```

151. I PLAY

```

In beauty’s sunshine-flames

I play my myriad games. ```

152. O HALF-BELIEVER

```

O half-believer,

Sooner than the soonest

Your life shall die.

O full-believers,

God is come

With two soul-stirring wings

For you to fly. ```

153. YET

```

So ugly is man’s face,

Yet God loves him.

So poor is man’s race,

Yet God needs him. ```

154. A VISION

```

A vision of the soul

Makes the divine in me cry.

A dream of the heart

Compels the human in me to die. ```

155. CONQUER

```

Conquer your soul,

Conquer your goal,

If you want to change

The face of earth.

If not, yours will be

The sad failure in

Frustration’s stupendous mirth.

```

156. EACH SEEKER

```

Each seeker divine,

A cry of aspiration-flame.

A cry of desire-night

Extinguishes the divine in me.

A cry of aspiration-light

Immortalises the human in me

In the bliss of ecstasy-sea.

```

157. NOT MAN IN THE CROWD

```

Not man in the crowd

Can save me, my life.

But man in the cave

Not only can save me

But also illumine me,

Fulfil me

And immortalise me.

```

158. NATURE IS NEVER SPENT

```

Nature is never spent.

Nature’s beauty,

Nature’s capacity,

Nature’s reality,

Never run short of

God’s infinite sea

And infinite sky.

```

159. LIFE’S SECRET THIRST

```

Life’s secret thirst

Enjoy, secretly enjoy.

Life’s sacred thirst

Give, soulfully give.

Life’s human thirst

Receive, only receive.

Life’s divine thirst

Achieve, divinely achieve,

Forgive, supremely forgive.

```

160. A GOD-LIKE MIND

```

A God-like mind soars.

A giant-like heart roars. ```

161, PILGRIMS OF ETERNITY’S ROAD

```

O pilgrims of Eternity’s road,

You I admire,

You I love,

You I treasure.

For in you I see promise

Of Infinity’s measureless measure. ```

162. I DISCOVERED MYSELF

```

I discovered myself

In the throes of human life.

I discovered myself

In the buffets of human strife.

I now want to discover my life

In golden rainbows.

I now want to discover my life

In my heart’s galaxy of star-glows. ```

163. YOUR MIND-GLORY, YOUR HEART-GLORY

```

Your mind-glory is bound to decline.

Your heart-glory is bound to forever shine

In the hearts of humanity’s truth

And in the souls of Divinity’s ruth. ```

164. HUMAN THOUGHTS, DIVINE THOUGHTS

```

Human thoughts drenched his eyes.

Divine thoughts purified his eyes.

Human thoughts drenched his eyes of sleep

Divine thoughts illumined his eyes of dream.

Human thoughts made him feel

His life is a series of frustration-death.

The divine thought made him feel

That his life is an express train

Of measureless length.

```

165. MY CHAIN, MY PAIN

```

My chain

I recognise,

But

I shall break it without fail.

My pain

I realise,

But

I shall cure it miraculously. ```

166. THE BREATH OF LIFE

```

The breath of life

Tells us what we can easily do.

The death of life

Tells us what we eventually can do. ```

167. I SHALL WONDER NO MORE

```

I shall wonder no more.

I shall discover my Lord Supreme

Inside my heart’s gratitude-door.

```

168. FEAR AND DOUBT

```

Fear is a great boss;

Again, fear is a greater loss.

Doubt is a greater boss;

Again, the greatest loss. ```

169. SORROW

```

Sorrow, with our family of sighs,

Came to me for Consolation-Light.

I granted its prayer,

And offered something more:

Satisfaction-Delight.

```

170. THE HEART MAY BREAK

```

The heart may break

But not the heart-cry.

It is destined to grow

High, higher, highest,

To reach the heights

Of God-glory’s Vision-sky. ```

171. A HARD THING TO ACHIEVE

```

Patience is a hard thing to achieve;

But once you have achieved patience,

You have achieved

The soul of earthly goal,

And the goal of heavenly role.

```

172. BE NOT TROUBLED

```

O troubled heart, O troubled heart,

Be not troubled.

God will definitely cure you,

Cure your aches,

Cure your pangs,

For you are His chosen instrument divine.

To please Him in His dream,

To fulfil Him in His unhorizoned scheme,

You saw the light of day.

God is always ready to be with you

In His infinite sun-delight,

Moon-lustre and unhorizoned ray. ```

173. THE HEAVY WEIGHT OF GOD

```

The heavy weight of God

Puzzles me,

Frightens me,

My length.

The tall height of God

Elevates me,

Enlightens me,

My death. ```

174. THE TWO ARE ONE

```

The two are one:

Earth and Heaven,

Earth’s cry and Heaven’s smile.

Earth tells me to perform my earthly role

Soulfully and unreservedly.

Heaven inspires me to reach the goal

Cheerfully and unconditionally.

```

175. ETERNITY, WHAT IS IT?

```

Eternity, what is it?

It is something composed of constant nows,

It is something composed of man’s unfulfilled

And fulfilled vows. ```

176. THE ARMIES OF RAINBOWS

```

I love the armies of rainbows.

They awaken the beauty of my dormant sleep.

In me I see no more

The reign of ignorance deep. ```

177. YOU ARE EXCEEDINGLY GREAT

```

You are exceedingly great.

You are exceedingly good.

You triumph over time and space.

In you I see God the perfection-fulfilment-Grace. ```

178. I LIVED IN A CAGE

```

For a long time

I lived in a cage.

I read Eternity’s life-illumining page.

I felt the stark penury

Of human existence-night.

Therefore I unified

Earth’s excruciating pangs

And Heaven’s all-illumining delight,

Founded upon all-giving selfless light.

```

179. SPEAK GRAVELY

```

Since you are speaking,

Speak gravely, please,

For you are talking of grave things.

Life is not a dream.

Death is not an extinction sure.

Life is reality-freedom searching

And freedom-achieving-shore.

```

180. DESERT SILENCE, FOREST SILENCE

```

I love desert silence.

It strengthens my limited strength.

I love forest silence.

It intensifies my Divinity’s length. ```

181. HOW TO GET BACK

```

How to get back

Life’s lost charm?

You can get back

Life’s lost charm

If you do not harm

Your childlike inner cry

And childlike outer smile.

Life’s lost charm

Easily you can regain

If you refrain

From thought-temptation-chain. ```

182. DESPAIR IS DROWNING ME

```

Despair is drowning me,

My life boat

And my joy divine.

I must destroy the despair-night

To shine in Eternity’s sunshine.

```

183. I MUST BE BRIEF

```

I must be brief, I must be brief.

Each moment of mine

Either expedites my God-journey

Or delays my God-journey.

I must be brief, I must be brief.

In each second I have the capacity

To reach my loftiest height.

Again, in a brief second

I may fall in the very jaws

Of abysmal night. ```

184. O WORLD-SORROW

```

O world-sorrow,

You are too heavy for me to bear.

O world-delight,

You are too light for me to endure.

O God-sorrow,

I know not how deep

Or how right you are,

But

Your sorrow can contain

The world in its beginningless sorrow

And its endless joy

For sure. ```

185. EACH DAY

```

Each day I die with sleep, each day.

Each day I forget my God-vision ray. ```

186. YOUR MIND IS MOUNTAIN-HIGH

```

Your mind is mountain-high.

Your heart is ocean-deep.

Your vital is sky-vast.

Your body embodies Divinity’s cast. ```

187. YOU ARE THE KING

```

You are the king of modern thought,

You fly without the help of wings.

In you I see the triumphant galaxy of kings.

```

188. YOUR TEARS, YOUR FEARS, YOUR DOUBTS

```

Your tears have touched

The very depth of my heart.

Your fears have touched

The very depth of my eye.

Your doubts have touched

The very depth of my compassion-light.

In me I shall give you the chance

To smile and fly. ```

189. DREAM-REALITY RHYMES

```

You give the universe your cosmic laws.

You give the universe your cosmic crimes.

In you I see the perfect perfection

Of dream-reality rhymes. ```

190. NO MORE I CRY

```

No more I cry, no more I cry.

I must claim my right divine.

I must shine on my devotion

And aspiration-shrine. ```

191. THEY GIVE

```

Love gives its own precious energy.

Joy gives its own precious world.

Peace gives its own precious rest.

Aspiration gives its own precious quest. ```

192. DEATH IS IN YOUR EYES

```

Death is in your eyes today.

Be careful, I say,

Destruction may destroy

God-perfection-day. ```

193. EASY, NOT EASY

```

Easy dreaming,

Easy climbing,

Easy smiling,

But not easy loving,

Not easy surrendering,

Not easy fulfilling.

God, the dream,

God, the dreamer

And God, the dreamland.

```

194. IN AN EMERGENCY

```

In an emergency

You can bring

God to you.

But

Do not make it a daily process

The moment your urgency

Demands your presence

Before the Compassion-flood of God. ```

195. WHO IS THERE?

```

Who is there?

Man?

Stay where you are.

Who is there?

God?

Do come where I am.

Who is there?

My desire-friend?

Go back. Go back,

To your dingy cage.

Who is there?

My aspiration-flame?

Come back. Come back,

We want you to learn

From Immortality’s Infinity-page.

```

196. “MIGHT-HAVE-BEEN”

```

My name is “Might-have-been.”

Success failed to crown me.

Progress failed to touch me.

I am alone, all alone

To see, feel and enjoy

The strength of success

And the length of progress.

```

197. I HAVE TRIED

```

I have tried time and again

To remove the curse of life.

But alas, I have failed.

I have tried time and again

To garland the duty of life.

I have at times succeeded.

I have at times successfully sailed

My life’s dream-boat

In the sea of beauty’s reality-shore.

```

198. I SHALL NOT HIDE FROM YOU

```

I shall not hide from you.

Why should I,

And how can 17

I shall make you

My oneness-cry,

My oneness-sigh,

So that a day shall come

When I shall become

Your oneness-sky,

And your oneness-light,

And your oneness-kite.

```

199. I FEEL SORRY

```

O thought, I feel sorry

That you are suffering from fatigue.

I feel sorry, for around you is all fire.

I feel sorry, O thought,

That you are always caught

By ignorance’s chain,

By an endless strain.

I feel sorry because you are

God’s true failure

And I am doomed

Your presence black to endure.

```

200. I PLACE AT YOUR LOTUS-FEET

```

The blunder

Of my mind,

The thunder

Of my vital,

The tower

Of my heart,

And the hour

Of my body

I place at Your Lotus-Feet,

To free myself from ignorance-night

Impure, unlit.

```

201. I WISH

```

I wish to be a citizen of a smiling land,

I wish to be there a loving heart and giving hand,

I wish to have snow white pure eyes,

To inspire and lift all the citizens to the blue-vast skies. ```

202. YOU KNOW

```

You know your duty,

You know your duty’s joy.

You know your beauty,

You know your beauty’s toy.

You know your heart’s perfection-cry,

You know your transformation-dye. ```

203. YOUR ETERNAL NOTE OF SADNESS

```

Your eternal note of sadness

Has created pangs beyond measure.

Your eternal note of sadness

Will be transformed into

God-Divinity’s smiling treasure.

```

204. YOUR INCREDIBLE CONCERN

```

Your incredible concern

Makes me feel I am divinely great.

Your incredible concern makes me feel

I must always be your

Loving, serving and devouring food.

What do we ask for?

We ask for the perfection of

The God-man in us.

We ask for the man-satisfaction in God.

```

205. YOU CHERISH

```

You cherish an immortal hate

Towards doubt.

Perhaps you may be right,

But

If you want to free yourself

From doubt-invasion,

Then send the song of God-Compassion

Inside your gratitude-heart,

Inside your gratitude-life,

Inside your all-becoming vision-reality

And God-immensity, God-fecundity.

```

206. LOVE AND SERVE

```

There is always

A time to love,

A time to serve.

When the morning dawns

Love, love,

Become the breath of love.

When evening starts

Serve, serve,

And be the breath, fulfilling and fulfilled,

Of God above. ```

207. DIVE DEEP WITHIN

```

Outward lustre has ruined

Your aspiration-cry.

Therefore you fail to fly.

Display not

Your outer life,

Outer lustre,

Outer aspiration and dedication-flow.

Dive deep within,

See the face of light,

And then try in Me always to grow. ```

208. ARROWS OF DESIRE

```

Arrows of desire I hurl,

The nights of frustration endure

The death of reality sweet and pure.

Is that to obscure

Divinity’s oneness-height,

Perfection-delight? ```

209. AT LAST

```

At last the torch of truth is found,

At last the love of life has bound

Man’s surrendered oneness

With God’s perfection-newness. ```

210. THE VOICE OF PRAYER

```

The voice of prayer will always ascend,

No matter where it is found.

The poise of meditation will always spread,

No matter if it is Heaven-free or earth-bound. ```

211. GREATNESS AND GOODNESS

```

Greatness is not big,

Greatness is small.

Greatness is short,

Greatness is never tall.

It is goodness

That is big and tall.

It is goodness

That is God’s treasured doll. ```

212. WHO SAYS?

```

Who says that your eyes are sad?

Who says that your eyes are mad?

I see your eyes flooded with crystal tears:

Spirituality-flood.

In you I see Divinity’s truth-awakening

And life-blossoming bud. ```

213. BEAUTY’S GLOOM, DUTY’S DOOM

```

Unending is your beauty’s gloom,

Uninspiring is my duty’s doom.

Your beauty will feed your heart and all,

My duty will make me a puny bondage-doll. ```

214. DO NOT BE A FOOL

```

When your heart shapes a wrong thought,

Do not be a fool, stay with me.

Stay around me, thought.

If you are with me,

If you are around me,

You can never be caught

By the tentacles of living death.

No, stay with my ever-energising breath. ```

215. SMILE, MY HEART, SMILE

```

Smile, my heart, smile.

Your smile means so much to me,

Your smile feeds my reality within,

Your smile liberates me from world-clamour and

world-din.

Smile, my heart, smile.

Smile at least for a while.

```

216. LAUGH, MY HEART, LAUGH!

```

Laugh, my heart, laugh!

Challenge the pride of ignorance-dart.

Laugh, my heart, laugh!

```

217. DARKNESS AND LIGHT

```

Darkness is visible.

What shall I do?

What can I do?

Light is invisible.

What shall I do?

What can I do?

Darkness;

I need it to appreciate the beauty of life.

Light;

I need it to show off the sea of delight. ```

218. A TOWER OF STRENGTH

```

When I see you,

I not only see a tower of strength,

But also feel a tower of strength

Within my blossoming heart.

You bring me the message of Eternity’s smile,

Infinity’s pride,

And the all-conquering, all-challenging God

With His God-dart. ```

219. NEWS, BAD NEWS

```

Sad news,

Bad news.

Sad news is that

I have far to go.

Bad news is that

I am already tired.

Good news,

And happy news.

Good news is that

I shall reach my destination.

On the way I shall never be fired.

I shall row my eternity’s boat,

I shall row.

```

220. THE LAND OF TOMORROW

```

I do not want to live

In the land of tomorrow.

I want to live

In the land of eternal now.

Those who live in the land of tomorrow

Just borrow and borrow

From the land of nowhere

And never can return.

I want to live in eternal now.

In each now abides

My God-fulfilling

And God-fulfilled

Vow.

```

221. I LOVE HOPE-HOUR

```

I love hope-hour.

It makes me see God’s Compassion-shower.

I love hope-hour.

In it I see Eternity’s

Life-saving,

Life-illumining,

Life-fulfilling power.

```

222. WHAT SHALL I DO?

```

What shall I do with your excess of love?

What shall I do with your excess of peace?

Who knows?

Someday all these will suffer

In deep despair.

Keep not anything,

Use the thing that you need:

Excess of joy.

Excess of joy is what you want,

What you need.

The process of love divine

Is what you eternally need.

What for?

To feed,

Your existence-light to feed.

```

223. A BROKEN TOY

```

Your life is nothing but a broken toy.

Break it,

Smash it thoroughly.

Consume your life with joy.

Lo, you become

The Supreme’s cherished,

Peerless toy.

```

224. DARKNESS DIES

```

Immortality’s light,

Darkness dies.

Infinite are the divine smiles,

Eternal are the human cries. ```

225. YOU BIND

```

You bind,

I leave,

You wind,

I thrive.

Why? And how?

Because you live

To feed your own greed,

And live to sow the seed

Of selfless love,

And to establish my soulful oneness

Below, above.

```

226. THE DIFFERENCE

```

The difference between you and me

Is very simple indeed.

You shall live by fame,

Ever increasing and ever increasing fame;

And I shall live plain,

Unconditionally with God,

God’s own Game.

```

227. BORN TO SEE, BORN TO ADORN

```

I was not born

To blow my own horn.

I was born

To see God-beauty’s morn,

Titan destruction torn

From earth-life,

I was born to adorn

God’s supreme Immortality-throne. ```

228. BEAUTY’S MOON

```

Beauty’s moon

And beauty’s noon

I shall see soon.

But with frustration-man

And Compassion-God

I shall soon commune,

At a time opportune. ```

229. WITHIN THE MIND

```

Within the mind there is mud.

Within the heart there is mud.

But God’s Compassion-flood

Away removes the mud

And grants a life-nourishing,

Life-energising blood. ```

230. FROM COAST TO COAST

```

From coast to coast

I boast and boast

And what I see at the end

Of my journey’s death,

I see my own reality’s phantom-hour

And ignorance-tower,

And my own reality’s frightening

Destruction-ghost. ```

231. ARE YOU MY BOSS?

```

Are you my boss?

Then have me cross the sea,

Cross the length of ignorance-sea.

Make me one, inseparably one

With Reality’s unhorizoned ecstasy.

```

232. I RUN AND RUN

```

With happy speed

I run and run,

To cheerfully feed

My human race,

To transform

My human face,

To begin

A new journey’s course,

To free

The sunlit source. ```

233. THE CARELESS LIFE

```

Do not arouse the careless life.

The careless life is as bad

As the useless life.

Do not touch the useless life,

For in it is the message

Of perfect destruction-knife. ```

234. WHERE IS YOUR HOME?

```

Where is your home,

Where?

Nowhere?

Therefore you roam,

In death-world’s long home.

```

235. YES

```

Yes, I will live the Truth.

Yes, I will love the world.

Yes, I will break ignorance-gate

And for a God-interview

Set up the date.

```

236. I YEARN

```

I yearn to climb,

I yearn to run,

I yearn to dive,

And enjoy all fun. ```

237. FRUITFUL VISION, WISHFUL DREAM

```

Is it a fruitful vision?

Is it a wishful dream?

A fruitful vision brings to me

The life-breath of Immortality.

A wishful dream carries me

Into the world of groundless, useless fantasy. ```

238. WHY IS THE WORLD SO SAD?

```

Why is the world so sad?

Have I done something bad?

Why is the world so insecure?

Have I done something impure?

Why does the world have no energy left?

Have I committed an inner theft? ```

239. SEEK

```

Seek for new joy,

Seek for new life.

Seek for new satisfaction-height,

Seek for new perfection-delight. ```

240. YOU WERE BORN TO SWEET DELIGHT

```

You were born to sweet delight.

Alas, I was born to frightening night.

You were born to give joy allwhere.

I was born to a sea of sorrow,

I was born to bear sorrow,

Within, without,

Far and near.

```

241. STUPIDITY

```

Stupidity:

Stupidity is not simplicity.

Simplicity is not sincerity.

Sincerity is not purity.

Purity is not Divinity.

Divinity is not Immortality.

Immortality is not God-unity.

God-unity is not God’s sole reality.

God’s sole reality is the oneness

Of His creation’s vision-reality. ```

242. YOU LIE AND DREAM

```

You lie and dream

All day long.

This is what you do.

How do you expect

To hew your life

Of ignorance-clay

Into sun-bright day?

```

243. MY LORD IS LATE

```

My Lord is late. My Lord is late.

Is it true? Is it true?

Has he forgotten the date?

No, no, My Lord can never be late,

For in Him is my room.

In Him is the bloom.

In Him is my fate.

In Him is my gate.

```

244. THE DROPS OF SORROW

```

The drops of sorrow

Divide me, my heart,

My all.

Because of sorrow

I am now sick and weak,

Callous and abrupt. ```

245. I ALWAYS COMPARE YOU

```

I always compare you

With God’s loftiest Grace.

I always compare you

With God’s Freedom-Face. ```

246. THEY DECEIVE ME

```

My vision deceives me,

My mission, too.

To be with them

I feel no obligation true. ```

247. ESSENCE OF PRAYER

```

Essence of prayer:

A journey to the height.

Substance of prayer:

Conqueror of the mental night. ```

248. A GOD-SEEKER DRINKS DEEP

```

A God-seeker drinks deep silence-night.

A God-seeker drinks

Ecstasy’s Perfection-Light.

```

249. GOD’S GOLDEN EYE

```

I shall not fear,

I shall not fear.

I shall tear, constantly tear,

The veil of ignorance,

Ignorance-sky,

And own God’s golden Eye,

And own God’s golden Eye. ```

250. WE SHALL LIVE AGAIN

```

We shall live again,

O stupendous Faith-reign.

We shall live again.

Doubt shall be removed

From bondage-chain.

```

251. ESSENCE AND SUBSTANCE

```

Essence pure,

Substance sure.

Essence tells me

What I was

And what I can

Eventually be.

Substance tells me

To live in the

Present satisfaction-tree.

```

252. DO NOT LAMENT YOUR FATE

```

Do not lament your fate,

Try to open your heart’s gate.

Everything will be all right.

God with His Compassion-height,

God with His Perfection-Light,

God with His Satisfaction-Delight

Will come to you,

Embrace you,

Please you,

Fulfil you,

Of course in His own way

Which is the only way

For you to see

The face of real ecstasy-sea

In supreme Reality.

```

253. I LOST

```

Doubt I lost, faith I gained.

Fear I lost, courage I retained.

Man I lost, God I claimed.

Truth I lost, nobody I blamed. ```

254. BE PURE, BE SURE

```

O doubt, you are impure.

O jealousy, you are obscure.

O insecurity, you are above.

O insincerity, you are immature.

Be pure, be sure,

And you I assure,

You will be given

Satisfaction-world to procure. ```

255. CALAMITY, CALAMITY

```

Calamity, calamity,

You are the true friend

Of uncertainty.

Calamity, calamity,

You take the essence

From sure reality.

Calamity, calamity,

In you I see

A failure-man’s untold insincerity.

```

256. THE COSMIC GODS

```

I find it so difficult

To reconcile with the cosmic gods.

Indifferent they always have been.

Now they have become something more:

They find fault with humanity’s

Doleful and soulful cry.

O cosmic gods, remain where you are

In some fairylands high.

Let the world go its way.

Let the world evolve in God’s perennial Way. ```

257. YOUR BODY IS SMALL

```

Your body is small

But your heart is tall,

Very tall.

No ignorance-pall

I see within you.

Without you, you have donned the robe

Of transformation-hue.

```

258. ARE YOU A SAGE?

```

Are you a sage?

If so, your heart must be

Freed from venom-rage.

```

259. I KNOW NOT YOUR AGE

```

I know not your age,

But I can clearly see,

I can clearly feel,

Who you are.

My inner vision says your age

Is written on eternity’s page,

And God’s all-enlightening

And illumining stage. ```

260. WITH A HUNGRY HEART

```

With a hungry heart I came to see my Lord Supreme.

He saw an iota of anger in my mind-cave.

Furious, He said to me either to brave

The buffets of ignorance-sea

Or to leave Him alone with His

Transcendental, immortalising ecstasy. ```

261. FAITH

```

O faith, you are always

A bringer of new things.

Always you bring to me

Beauty’s glow,

Duty’s flow.

O faith, O bringer

Of blossoming perfection,

In you I see

Divinity

And feel satisfying and satisfied perfection.

```

262. MY LIFE-BOAT WAS SUNK

```

My life-boat sunk,

I was heavily drunk.

My life-boat had sunk,

Down I fell, and ignorance-water

Was by me drunk.

```

263. IF YOU DO NOT LOVE ME

```

If you do not love me

Then I will spend all my time

In my heart’s room

With the stranger-friend doom.

Then I shall mount and mount

From the silence-vision fount. ```

264. I SHALL NOT BEND

```

I shall not bend,

Even if necessity demands.

I shall end

My cosmic game.

I shall not bend.

```

265. A GENTLEMAN LIKE ME

```

A gentleman like me can never brood,

Although ignorance-dream is

My only food.

```

266. MY COMPEER LIGHT

```

O Light, O Light, O my compeer Light,

In you is my might,

With you is my height,

For you is my delight. ```

267. MY SISTER NIGHT

```

O night, O night, O my sister night,

I love your silence-height. ```

268. I SHALL NOT DIE

```

O Lord Supreme, I am your course,

You are my source.

I am your gloom

In your heart-room.

Alas, I enjoy death-doom.

Therefore illumination-room

Is still a far cry,

But I shall not die. ```

269. O LION IN ME

```

O lion in me, roar,

Just roar.

O man in me, snore not,

Never snore.

O vital in me, stop, stop.

No place there is to hop.

O body in me, sleep, sleep.

If you want to weep, weep. ```

270. SACRIFICE

```

Sacrifice

Your life-giving blood.

God will grant you

His Compassion-flood.

Sacrifice the beauty

Of your divinity-core.

Lo, your boat has already touched

The golden shore. ```

271. ASK YOUR MIND, ASK YOUR HEART

```

Your mind knows how to mask

The reality-dream.

Ask your mind, ask.

Your heart has heard the task.

Ask your heart to do the needful, ask.

```

272. BUILD!

```

Build, build!

Confidence

And excellence

Will grow

On your

Compassion-tree. ```

273. GIVE ME THE CAPACITY

```

O Lord Supreme,

Give me the capacity to conceal,

Give me the capacity to reveal.

I want to conceal my previous life-flow.

I want to reveal my present life-glow. ```

274. I SHALL DISCOVER WITHIN

```

I shall not fail, I shall not flunk

In life’s examination dire.

I shall discover within

Wisdom-sun and wisdom-fire. ```

275. WHY ARE YOU SO TENSE?

```

Why are you so tense?

Why?

It makes no sense.

Commence your experience-life.

Condense your story-light.

```

276. MY INNER FLAME

```

My inner flame does not blame anybody,

My inner flame.

But if we see not the inner flame,

We may one day become totally lame. ```

277. GOD’S GAME

```

You want to play God’s game?

There is no set fee.

Give me what you have, give.

I shall show you the seed immortal

Of infinite reality.

```

278. I SHALL FIND MY GOD

```

I shall find my God, the Beauty.

I shall bind my God, the Duty.

I shall show my mind

What I have from God:

Consolation and imperfection blind.

```

279. THERE IS NO SEEING

```

There is no seeing.

Either you lose or win

Inside the earth’s clamour-din. ```

280. WHO WILL TIE ME?

```

Who will tie me?

Who will?

Who will buy me?

Who will?

Mine is a helpless cry,

Mine is a soulless dye. ```

281. WHO?

```

Who will buy my tie?

Who will?

Who will cry with me?

Who will?

Who will preach with me?

Who?

Who will reach the destination

Like me?

Who?

```

282. I HATE MY FATE

```

I hate my fate, I hate.

It keeps on knocking at my heart’s gate.

My heart yearns for,

My heart yearns for

God-gate.

I know it is not too late,

Not too late.

```

283. A LIFE WITH NO FLAW

```

God Himself wants to draw

You, only you.

For yours is the life

That has no flaw.

A life with no flaw,

A life with rainbow-dream,

Is a life of humanity swimming

In Immortality’s stream. ```

284. MY BOAT I STEER

```

I shall soon reach my destined goal.

I shall soon teach my aspiration-role.

Those who are with me are my dear ones.

With them, my boat I steer.

And who else accompanies us?

Gratitude-tear. ```

285. I CRY FOR LOVE

```

I cry for love,

I try for truth.

I dry my compassion-ruth.

```

286. HALT, HALT!

```

Halt, halt!

Can you not see the sky-vault?

Halt, halt!

Do not assault

The members of your sweet little family.

Wait and see.

You will have the capacity to exalt

Others in your own little self.

```

287. CITY OF THE SLEEPERS

```

O city of the sleepers,

I wish to be a citizen of your city.

I shall pay my fee,

Become a true member

For Eternity.

```

288. I SHALL FEED MY LORD

```

I shall feed my Lord

With my selfless service-light.

I shall feed my Lord

With my breathless purity-deed. ```

289. NOW I UNDERSTAND

```

Now I understand

Why God has stopped

Talking to me.

He does not talk to me

Because jealousy and insecurity

Have enveloped me totally –

Totally, mercilessly, unreservedly.

```

290. SOMEWHERE BEFORE

```

Somewhere before,

I saw God’s Face.

But today I see

Haven-Feet. ```

291. THE LADDER OF TRUTH

```

O come and ascend the ladder of truth.

Behold, there is God-perfection root

In measureless measure.

God’s choice hour has struck.

Therefore today possibility has been transmuted

Into inevitability. ```

292. HE WAS

```

Receptive on earth,

Creative in Heaven

He was.

Satisfaction-perfection on earth,

Satisfaction in Heaven

He was.

```

293. IMAGINATION AND CREATION

```

Imagination is in Heaven.

Creation is on earth.

Imagination takes creation to God, the Source.

Creation takes imagination to a member of the course. ```

294. I AM WRONG, I AM WRONG

```

I am wrong, I am wrong,

I want to learn

God-illumining song.

I am wrong, I am wrong,

My position now,

I made it strong.

I am wrong, I am wrong,

Alone to God

I shall belong.

```

295. LET US ONCE MORE TRY

```

O ignorance-dream,

Before we die

Let us once more try,

Once more,

To be at our inner door

And garland the Feet

Of our Beloved Supreme,

And thus end our

Age-long illusion and delusion-dream.

```

296. I DON’T BELIEVE IT

```

I don’t believe it.

How can God speak ill of me?

How can He?

Am I not His extended Self?

Am I not His imperfect Self?

Am I not entirely His,

Only His?

No, my Lord cannot speak ill of me,

For I am He,

Swimming in the preparation-sea. ```

297. NOW I KNOW

```

Ah, ah, now I know

Why at the beginning of time

God became the Vision-sun,

And God became the silent Vision,

And then Reality-Light.

Vision is the seed.

Reality is the growing plant

That grows into the huge banyan tree,

To serve the parent-sun Vision.

```

298. ALL YOU NEED

```

All you need is love.

All you need is peace.

All I need is joy.

All God needs is my ignorance-release. ```

299. CAN YOU SPARE A MINUTE?

```

Can you spare a minute?

I shall tell you something secret and sweet.

God has told me this morning that you will

Replace Him before long,

And He will gladly His position quit.

```

300. WHEN I LOOK AT YOU

```

When I look at you, I see your mind

Carrying a cargo of clear thought:

Perfection-light your mind has caught.

In you I save my journey’s birth,

In you I save my Divinity-mirth. ```

301. THE BLOSSOM OF AN HOUR

```

The blossom of an hour

Can please my soul.

The doom of an hour

Can destroy utterly my role

And send me into the city

Flooded with dole. ```

302. THE END OF CRAVING

```

The end of craving

Arouses the bird of longing.

Longing has no end.

Longing has only one friend:

Progress-light

Along Eternity’s road

Of satisfaction white.

```

303. HIM I GAVE MY ALL

```

With eager speed I ran

Towards Heaven to see the Face

Of my Lord Supreme.

With eager cry

Him I saw,

Him I loved,

Him I gave my all:

Material world,

Spiritual world,

My realisation small

And aspiration tall. ```

304. ALAS, ALAS

```

Alas, alas, even my own heart

Will not wait for me.

Alas, alas, even my own soul

Does not care for me.

Alas, alas, even my own God

Has forsaken me.

Alas, alas, even my dream-world

Has deserted me. ```

305. GIVE ME ANOTHER CHANCE I

```

O give me another chance!

This time I shall use

My destruction lance

To pierce the veil of

Ignorance-death

And establish the reign of

Divinity-breath.

```

306. AN INSTANT WITH GOD

```

An instant with God

Can make you freedom-son.

An instant with God

Can make you perfection-sun.

An instant with God

Can make you another God.

An instant with God

Can make you the life-breath of present God. ```

307. ONE HONEST TEAR

```

One honest tear

Can spear

The veil of

Earthbound night

And herald

The birth of

God’s Transcendence-Height.

```

308. BIND ME NO MORE

```

O my doubt-mind,

Bind me no more, bind.

O my greedy vital,

Blind me no more, blind.

O my insecure heart,

Find me, find God,

Inside your existence-reality,

Find. ```

309. BECAUSE I FEAR

```

O Supreme Lord, because I fear,

You allow me not to steer

The boat of my reality-dream.

```

310. THE SUPREME FEAST

```

O my Lord Supreme,

I have made arrangements

For the supreme feast

Where my hungry vital, my hungry mind,

My sleeping body and my insecure heart,

All will dine together with You

And enjoy the feast

Supreme,

Once in this lifetime at least.

```

311. ONLY ONE DEED

```

Only one deed can feed my supreme need.

I shall sow the seed of love-oneness-light

And see inside the seed the tree,

The blossoming tree of Perfection-Delight. ```

312. HOW FAR?

```

How far is it?

How far your illusion-delusion-dream?

How far from here?

How far?

Is it so near? Is it so near?

How is it, then,

We do not conquer it,

Devour it,

My dear?

```

313. SOONER THAN AT ONCE

```

Sooner than at once,

I shall see the face of Truth.

Sooner than at once,

I shall grow into God-ruth.

Sooner than at once,

I shall bring good news to earth.

Sooner than at once

Will dawn a new Divinity’s birth. ```

314. THE GOD-MESSENGER

```

I see the God-messenger come.

I see him bringing me the message

Of God-Compassion.

I see him smiling the smile

Of consolation.

O God-messenger,

O bridge between my weeping tears

And God’s Compassion-smiles,

Your service-light I admire and adore

Forever and ever more.

```

315. ONE THING TO GIVE ONE THING TO TAKE

```

I have but one thing to give,

I have but one thing to take.

I shall give my surrendered life

To my beloved Supreme

And from Him I shall take

His Compassion-flood,

My long-cherished dream.

```

316. NOTHING BUT A TRICK

```

God-manifestation in a day:

Nothing but a trick.

God-realisation in a day:

Nothing but a trick.

God-aspiration in a day:

Nothing but a trick.

God-compassion in a day

Can never be a trick

But a Reality flooded with Divinity

And a Divinity flooded with Reality. ```

317. EXAMINE

```

Examine your sleep.

Make it really deep!

Examine your wakeful hours.

Make them powerful showers and towers.

Examine your own self.

Let me know if I can be of any help. ```

318. A SMALL CHANCE

```

Still there is a small chance,

I may perhaps succeed,

I shall unfurl the lance

Of my gratitude-life,

And conquer my own

Life-threatening lance. ```

319. I NEVER CARED TO KNOW

```

A thing I never cared to know:

Who is for God?

The thing I never cared to learn:

To cry for me.

But I hear an inner voice

Telling me

That all human beings

Consciously or unconsciously,

Directly or indirectly,

Care for God,

And all human beings in their perfect sleep

Cry for me,

Poor me.

```

320. WHO KNOWS?

```

Who knows? Who knows?

Who knows why and how

I made friends with doubt?

Now no matter how I cry,

No matter how I shout,

My shameless enemy doubt

Does not leave me alone.

I cry, I moan, I groan.

My doubt-friend continues

Its shameless and ruthless game. ```

321. BEYOND THE SHADOW OF A DOUBT

```

Beyond the shadow of a doubt,

I shall win God’s smiling face.

Beyond the shadow of a doubt,

I shall run with God

In His earth-transforming days.

```

322. NEWNESS SHALL OVERTAKE US

```

Newness shall overtake us

As a flood.

Oneness shall overtake us

As a fragrant preparation,

Beauty-bud.

```

323. I KNOW WHAT I AM FOR

```

I know what I am for.

I am for God and God alone.

I am for God-manifestation-light.

I am for God-perfection-height.

I am for God-satisfaction-light.

I am for God-oneness-delight.

I am for God,

I am for God alone. ```

324. I NEED A PLACE

```

Lord, Lord, You run too fast,

I cannot keep pace.

Lord, Lord, give me

A small room,

A solitary space,

In Your Compassion-heart.

I need a place

For my days. ```

325. I AM A SPECIAL CASE

```

Lord, I am a special case.

Please, please, do not chase

Me away.

Lord, Lord, I am a special case.

I shall show You, Lord, my face.

How can I?

Where should I?

If You do not grant me Your boundless Grace?

Lord, Lord. ```

326. BE PURE, BE SURE

```

Your thoughts are base,

Therefore nobody endeavours to embrace

You and your thought-reality.

Be pure, be sure.

In you is awaiting

God-freedom,

God-perfection and

God-satisfaction-unity’s multiplicity.

```

327. A TRULY PRICELESS FRIEND

```

A truly priceless friend have I:

My gratitude-heart.

This friend of mine cancels the arrival

Of death-dart.

This friend of mine accelerates my

Godward journey.

This friend of mine grants me,

Unconditionally,

Ecstasy-sea.

```

328. ALWAYS AND EVERYWHERE

```

Always and everywhere I hear only one cry:

I shall ascend to God’s sky.

Always and everywhere I hear only one song:

God alone is His perfection-gong. ```

329. A BLUE EYE FROM ABOVE

```

A blue eye from above has blessed my heart.

A green eye from below has touched my heart.

A white eye from God has blessed and touched,

Loved, embraced and fulfilled me,

My puny body,

My flickering vital,

My feeble mind and

My insecure heart. ```

330. INSIDE MY HEART

```

Inside my heart I feel

Nameless sadness.

Inside my heart I feel

A strong barrenness.

Inside my heart I feel

A sense of soullessness.

Inside my heart I feel

The beginning, absolute beginning

Of an untarnished newness.

```

331. I BRAG AND I LAG

```

I brag and brag

Day in and day out.

Therefore I lag

Behind in everything

I do and say.

I fail in everything, I fail.

Long ago I had forgotten how to sail

In the sea of life-energising

Existence-reality-dream

Of my Lord Supreme. ```

332. DO NOT HIDE

```

I am on your side,

Do not hide, do not hide.

You I shall guide,

Do not hide, do not hide. ```

333. ARE YOU SURE?

```

Are you sure,

When you say

That I am earthbound?

Are you sure

That in ignorance

You have my presence found?

Are you sure

That my sound-life

Is no longer strong?

Are you sure

That my aspiration-life

Is not long?

```

334. AN EXTRAORDINARY EVENT

```

An extraordinary event:

My earth-descent.

An extraordinary event:

My Heaven-ascent.

An extraordinary event:

My absent. ```

335. I SHALL NOT CARE

```

I shall not care for the amount,

No matter how much you charge me,

I shall mount and mount,

I shall see my realisation-fount. ```

336. HE IS NOT THE SAME

```

He is not the same.

He has now a new name.

He is not the same.

He has now abundant fame.

He is not the same.

He is now apt to tame

His vital world

And mental world.

He is not the same.

```

337. WHY DO YOU CRITICISE?

```

Why do you criticise?

Why do you fail to harmonise?

You criticise and destroy

Your own oneness-life,

In which looms large

Humanity’s untold strife. ```

338. SOMETHING FOR NOTHING

```

Something for nothing

Only clever Man can expect.

Nothing for something

Only poor God can accept. ```

339. MY PROMISE

```

I shall give God my promise,

My promise dire,

To smash the pride of ignorance-dream.

God has promised to me

That He will give me another chance,

For the illumination of the desire-world,

And transformation, illumination

And manifestation of the aspiration-world. ```

340. THINK OF ME

```

Think of me, O earth.

I shall always be ready for your liberation-light.

Think of me,

Then I shall always be ready for your

Manifestation-delight.

```

341. A REAL NUISANCE

```

Criticism-game is a real nuisance.

I must stop it

Once and for all

And laugh inside my heart,

Feel the living breath

Of the members of my little family,

Big and small.

```

342. HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN?

```

Have you forgotten something, mind,

My mind?

What is it?

Have you forgotten

Or have you lost your poise?

Then come to me.

I shall show you where you can find it.

You can find it

In your soulful oneness

With your elder brother, heart,

Reality-heart, Divinity-heart.

O mind, you will find it is there

Inside the depths of your elder brother, heart.

```

343. GRANT ME HOPE

```

My Lord Supreme, grant me hope,

Unconquerable hope

So that I do not

In the quagmire grope.

Lord Supreme, grant me faith,

Unconquerable aspiration-flame,

So that I can play with God

In His self-transcendence game. ```

344. TWO COMPLAINTS

```

I came to Mother Earth

To register a complaint

Against Father Heaven.

The complaint is simple:

Father Heaven is not as alert

As he was once upon a time.

I went to Father Heaven

To register a complaint

Against Mother Earth.

Mother Earth is not as energetic

As she was before.

```

345. TRY AND DIE

```

O my aspiration-flame,

Although you are weak,

Although you are slow,

I shall not blame you,

I shall never blame,

O my aspiration-flame,

For I know nothing is easy

In this world.

Nothing is easy to perform

In this world of ours,

Even when God’s hour strikes,

Even when destination-goal nears

Our aspiration-cry.

Nothing is easy. We just try

And die

And die and try. ```

346. ARE YOU A SAINT?

```

Are you a saint?

Then paint my life with your purity-paint.

Are you a fake?

Then touch me not,

Wake me not, wake.

```

347. THOUGHT FOR TODAY

```

Thought for today:

I shall play with my Inner Pilot,

I shall play.

I shall tell him my life’s story,

And offer him my life’s gratitude-glory.

```

348. JUST A SIMPLE REQUEST

```

The poet in silence speaks.

The singer in silence sings.

I, the poet and I, the singer

Know not how to speak and sing.

What I know is just a simple request:

For my children,

A oneness-rest.

```

349. AN UNFORGOTTEN INCIDENT

```

An unforgotten incident:

God smiled at me

Before my soul left for this earth.

An unforgettable accident:

My doubt-world and God’s faith-world

My insecurity-world and God’s sympathy-world

All of a sudden collided on life’s highway.

My possessions were totally smashed.

God’s possessions surprisingly remained

Unbroken, nay, not even touched.

```

350. NO SMALL COMPROMISE

```

No small compromise.

We are acting, undoubtedly

Like the wise.

```

351. MANY A TIME

```

Many a time I have tried to cut

The root of ignorance-night.

Each time I tried I sadly failed,

Therefore I gave up.

Now my surrendered life to God’s

Compassion-height

And Compassion-delight

Can cut the root of ignorance-night. ```

352. MY LIFE’S GREAT STORY

```

The body is apt to decay.

The vital is apt to play.

The mind is apt to think.

The heart is apt to sink.

Indeed, this is my life’s great story.

```

353. MY UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER

```

My unconditional surrender

Is younger than yesterday

Therefore I have to be

Extremely careful, soulful,

For this tiny sapling

Can be totally uprooted

But the gouge, poison,

Jealousy-dragon,

Meanness-snake,

Impurity-lake. ```

354. ONE NEED

```

One need, one need, one supreme need;

A heart of dedication-seed.

One choice, one choice, one supreme choice;

Surrender life to the surrendered life

Of the inner voice.

```

355. I HAVE PLAYED

```

For you once I have played my ignorance-game

In my inner journey, my Lord.

To play wisdom-flame, ignorance was

Within me.

Dance and glance,

No chance have I to enter into my

Self-amorous trance.

```

356. LIFE

```

Life is a flowing stream.

Life is a glowing dream.

Life is a perfection slope.

Life is dedication glow. ```

357. LET US NOW START

```

O heart, my heart,

Let us now start.

Let us face ignorance-life,

And eat it with our dragon-knife. ```

358. LET ME SAVE YOU

```

Let me save you,

Let me now save,

From your savage cave,

I am truly brave. ```

359. THAT’S ALL

```

Pain, pain all over,

Ignorance rain-shower.

Fall, fall, a tropic fall,

Nothing more, that’s all. ```

360. I HIDE NO MORE

```

I hide no more, I hide.

Now come and ride.

Ignorance-dream I shall cease.

Within, without, a flood of peace. ```

361. I LEAD

```

I lead my past eve,

I guide my present morn,

I sow the seed of reality-seed,

I lovingly feed the world hunger, I feed. ```

362. I FEED

```

I feed my Godward need,

Conquered my earthbound greed. ```

363. TODAY AND TOMORROW

```

O world, today you offer me

Your invaluable crown.

Tomorrow you garland me

With your venom-frown. ```

364. NO GOAL

```

No goal, no goal,

All dark dole,

Life a bottomless hole,

And I have no role. ```

365. NOTE, O UNIVERSE

```

Note, O universe, note,

My heart and I shall vote

Only for my Beloved Supreme,

My Eternity’s Reality-dream. ```

366. HOW CAN I STEER

```

Fear, my dear, fear,

How can I steer

My life-boat,

Tell me,

With you,

In you,

For you.

```

367. WHO SINGS, WHO CRIES?

```

Who sings the songs of doom

Inside my reality-room?

Who cries for perfection-noon

Inside the heart of beauty’s moon? ```

368. DRILL, KILL, LOCK, SHOCK

```

Drill, my vital, drill.

Kill, my mind, kill.

Lock, my body, lock.

Shock, my life, shock. ```

369. NO FEAR

```

No fear, no fear,

I shall help you steer

Your duty’s life-boat

And reach your destination-pier. ```

370. I GROW

```

I grow not only to blow

My own horn;

I grow also to glow

With beauty’s morn. ```

371. I LOVE

```

I love my ascendance-dance.

I love my transcendence-trance. ```

372. MY REALISATION-TIME

```

I love my realisation-time

Which embodies unmistakable

Cosmic rhythm and rhyme.

```

373. PRAY AND PLAY

```

Two things I do:

I pray and play.

I play to achieve.

I pray to conceive. ```

374. ONE SUPREME TASK

```

One supreme task

Keeps me alive,

Helps me thrive;

Ignorance, I must unmask. ```

375. WHO IS MY SUPREME?

```

Who is my Supreme?

My life’s only

Flawless Dream.

Indeed, He is my Supreme. ```

376. I SHALL GROW

```

I shall grow inside

Each crying heart.

I shall wisely use

My ignorance-destroying dart. ```

377. GLOOM AND DOOM

```

Gloom and doom;

Together they room,

Together they boom

Destruction-bloom. ```

378. THE BOAT OF HOPE

```

Today I shall sail the boat of hope.

I shall no longer grope

In the mind’s quagmire.

A will indomitable and dire

Shall guide me, my onward steps,

And thus put an end to unforeseen,

Unaspiring ends.

```

379. GOD-GAME

```

I play God-game

With God-flame,

I dance God-dance

With God-lance. ```

380. ONLY ONE CRIME

```

Only one crime

In Eternity’s time;

When I do not pray

For the gnostic ray. ```

381. PROPERLY USE YOUR TIME

```

O properly use your time,

If you do not want to be

Involved in shameless crime. ```

382. MY LONGING EYE

```

O my longing eye,

You tie me with vastness-sky.

Beauty’s grace,

I run with your duty’s race. ```

383. CURIOSITY

```

Curiosity, curiosity,

Remember, you are

Always

An unwanted necessity. ```

384. FOLLOWERS

```

You are a follower of this earth,

I am a follower of Heaven.

I need your patience-sea,

You need my life’s ecstasy. ```

385. DOES IT BELONG?

```

Aspiration, does it belong

To me?

No, it does not.

It belongs to God-Compassion. ```

386. A LOVER’S NEWNESS

```

A lover’s newness,

A server’s oneness,

A seeker’s calmness,

And God’s readiness,

Make you divinely great,

Supremely good,

In all your devotedness.

```

387. NOT TOO LATE

```

Not too late to choose

Again,

Come with your aspiration

Fountain,

Your life will succeed.

Your heart shall proceed. ```

388. YOU ARE TOO GREAT

```

You are too great

to wail,

You are too good

to fail.

I know, I know.

Let three of us

Together grow and flow.

```

389. I MUST BEGIN

```

My silence-sadness

Has killed my heart.

I must begin,

A quick new start. ```

390. YOUR FACE

```

Your Face

Is a universal place.

Your Heart

Is a transcendental Bliss.

And You are

Eternity’s Freedom-release. ```

391. A LIFE OF SIN

```

A life of sin

Can never win.

The sins, while drinking,

Eat the dreams, while sinking. ```

392. ONE TEST

```

One test, one supreme test

The seeker must go through.

He has to discover the supreme nest.

```

393. FRIENDS

```

Two brave friends — gloom and doom.

Two sweet friends — glow and flow.

Two soulful friends — door and floor.

Two illumining friends — dream and stream. ```

394. BOTH HAVE LOST

```

Heaven fell

On the old poor earth.

Therefore

Both have lost their

Natural mirth.

```

395. TODAY I OWN

```

Today I own

New hopes, new scopes,

New cries, new skies,

New newness, new oneness

Today I own.

```

396. FROM TODAY

```

I love you, Friend.

I shall serve you.

I love your heart-hope.

From today

It can never in ignorance grope.

```

397. I CALL IT "GOD"

```

I call it "God".

They call it Grace.

I call it man.

They call it His Face. ```

398. ALL GOODNESS

```

All goodness and no badness,

That is what you are.

You are my joy and pride; from you

I never suffer. ```

399. THE SONG OF FULFILLING CONSTANT NEWNESS

```

Hope is less dear than faith,

Faith is less dear than love,

Love is less dear than oneness,

Oneness is the song of fulfilling constant newness. ```

400. EASY AND DIFFICULT

```

Easy, too easy,

To pray to God.

Difficult,

Most difficult,

To accept God’s God-rod.

```

401. DESIRE LIVES, DESIRE DIES

```

Desire lives, desire dies.

It lives in my vital world,

It dies in my inner world.

```

402. ARE YOU DEAD?

```

Are you dead to pleasure?

Then you are fit to measure

God, your Eternity’s treasure.

```

403. YOU WILL SEE THE DIFFERENCE

```

Let your faith rule.

Let reason stop.

You will see the difference,

No mind-horse to hop. ```

404. DESIRE AND ASPIRATION.

```

Desire is my sad decay,

Aspiration is my beauty’s soul-ray. ```

405. FIRST AND LAST

```

Desire is first to fight

And last to quit.

Love is first to see

And first to be. ```

406. DON’T LEAVE ME BEHIND

```

Don’t leave me behind,

O aspiration-flame.

In your absence I shall lose

All interest in God-Game. ```

407. YOURS AND MINE

```

Yours is the heart of tenderness.

Mine is the heart of frankness.

Yours is the heart of newness.

Mine is the heart of oneness. ```

408. TRANSFORMATION-HUE

```

No such luck: God will do

Everything for you.

No never, God will help you

But you have to do

Your own share: Transformation-hue.

```

409. HUMAN FOLLY

```

Human folly:

Man’s love for isolation-life.

Divine wisdom:

Put an end to division-strife. ```

410. A ROW OF STARS

```

I see a row of stars

In my heart-sky.

I fly and fly,

Touch their life-breath,

And offer them

My service-delight flowers. ```

411. BLOW, LORD, BLOW

```

Blow, Lord, blow

If you see, Lord, the flame

Of aspiration-cry.

O Lord, I’ve tried and tried

But my desire-friend

Allows me not to claim You

As my own, very own.

My desire-friends make me feel

You are my Lord and not my Friend.

O my Lord Supreme, grant that I may feel You

As my old Friend,

My own reality’s only Friend.

```

412. FEAR, DEAR

```

Fear, dear, cannot you stay,

Only for today,

At a distance so that I can see

Your unforgettable dance

In a more appreciative way?

Here, nearness is blindness,

And when I am blind,

My appreciation may not touch the

Accuracy-sky.

Fear, dear, today remain at a distance.

Let me glance at your capacity-game

Do not worry, I shall not blame.

It is just illumination-fun,

Nothing more, nothing less.

Fear, dear, be fearless

Today, only today.

```

413. THERE IS A WAY

```

There is a way, there is a way

To pay the world.

There is a way, there is a way to pay,

To pay, unmistakeably, to pay

The charge of self-aggrandizement ray.

There is a way, there is a way.

Give what you have and then stop.

Take what you need and then halt. ```

414. TWIN BROTHERS

```

Twin brothers — life and death.

Life demands of me what can be done

Sooner than at once.

Life inspires me to do everything

Sooner than at once.

Death reminds me of the necessity of a rest,

In silence-nest.

```

415. MY FATE

```

My fate is to bring down God’s supernal ray.

My heart is my choice,

My soul is my voice,

My life is my promise white,

Promise, promise-light.

My bed is my rest’s stupendous height. ```

416. I SHALL TEST

```

I shall test you, I shall test.

I shall test your silence-nest.

I shall play with you, I shall play with you,

We shall play together. ```

417. BUDS OF HOPE

```

I love all buds of hope,

They bring me breathless joy.

I enjoy their beauty’s scope,

I am their soulful, fruitful toy. ```

418. A LIVING FLAME

```

I want my life

To be a living flame.

I want my breath

To be a part of God-game. ```

419. YOUR MIND’S SUPPLIES

```

What will you do

With your mind’s supplies,

Fear, doubt and jealousy?

Give them to me

And take from me in return

All my ecstasy. ```

420. FOR GOD ONLY

```

I know, I know,

You are for God only.

I know, I know,

Yours is the love

For God only.

```

421. THEY SHINE

```

Love sweetly shines.

Faith quietly shines.

Confidence confidently shines.

God selflessly shines. ```

422. YOU, YOU

```

You, You,

O my heart’s golden hue!

I love you, and you I need.

Just come and stay with me

And in silence feed.

```

423. A CLIMBING MOUNT

```

A climbing mount,

A nectar fount,

In you, in your beauty’s sea,

I always see. ```

424. COME AND HELP ME

```

O loving heart,

O searching soul,

O crying life,

O flying goal,

Come and help me

To complete my

God-manifesting role.

```

425. DEEP IN BEAUTY’S DREAM

```

Deep in beauty’s dream,

I saw my Beloved Supreme.

Him I told, "My Lord Supreme,

Because my life is dying,

In me do shine,

Only once do shine." ```

426. YOU ARE SURE TO WIN

```

You are sure to win,

Just cry within.

Blessing descends,

Gratitude ascends,

To silence your life’s

Clamour-din. ```

427. GRATITUDE-FLOWER

```

Gratitude-flower

All can buy.

Gratitude-help

Only a few can try.

Gratitude-life

I try only to sigh. ```

428. IT SIMPLY CANNOT BE

```

It simply cannot be.

You cannot have an interview with God.

Impossible!

Purify your body’s breath,

Lengthen your mind’s length.

Then it will be

More than possible,

Inevitable.

God will without fail grant you

An interview. ```

429. I FEEL SORRY

```

I feel sorry

For your unmerited sorrow.

I feel sorry, for your self-styled leadership.

I feel sorry

For your imperfection life-ship.

```

430. EACH DELAY IS TOO LONG

```

Right now is too short,

Each delay is too long.

Right now, the awakener

Is Perfection-Light,

Each delay, a failure-cry

In the heart of night. ```

431. TREACHEROUS SMILER

```

O treacherous smiler,

Thee I salute at a distance.

O tremendous smiler,

Thee I love from the shortest possible distance. ```

432. YOU ARE IMPOSSIBLE

```

You are impossible to please,

I gave up trying long ago.

You are impossible to love,

I gave up loving you long, long ago. ```

433. YOU MAKE OTHERS HAPPY

```

You make others happy.

How?

I make others suffer.

Why?

I know not, I know not.

Who can give one faultless answer,

Who?

```

434. TELL ME WHERE I LIVE

```

Tell me where I live.

Inside your flickering mind?

No, never.

Tell me where I live.

Inside my darkening vital?

No, never.

Inside my crying heart?

Sorry, no.

Inside my perfection-vision?

Yes, yes, a thousand times yes! ```

435. I WILL ARISE

```

I will arise, I will.

Do not worry, do not suffer.

I shall embrace a new beginning,

And divinely and unreservedly prosper. ```

436. STOP TALKING

```

Stop talking.

You too can be happy.

Stop frowning.

You can easily be happy.

Start giving.

Lo, you are already happy. ```

437. NOTHING

```

Nothing is as disgraceful

As jealousy’s ugly face.

Nothing is as disgusting

As impurity’s backward race. ```

438. O SILENCE-TIME

```

O silence-time,

I love your Eye.

I love your Sky.

I love your Heart-flame.

I love your God-game.

```

439. BUSY DREAMS

```

O busy dreams,

Stop, for God’s sake, stop!

In me I have seen a deathless star.

It is so near,

with no scar.

```

440. THE CRY OF FEAR

```

The cry of fear

Made him insane.

The fear of cry

Made his life full of bane. ```

441. IN THE ABYSS OF TIME

```

In the abyss of time,

I saw my own

Life-flickering ray

That brought me a happy day. ```

442. GAME AND FLAME

```

I love your pride-devour game.

I love your ecstasy-tower-flame. ```

443. PRIDE

```

Pride! Pride!

Dear friend, what you badly need

Is a life-saving guide.

```

444. DAILY

```

Daily I scan

My little life.

Daily I plan

My tiny hope. ```

445. WE KNOW HOW

```

You know how to explain.

He knows how to remain.

I know how to retain.

God knows how to refrain. ```

446. BY EAR UNHEARD

```

By ear unheard,

By eye unseen,

By hand untouched,

My folly-screen. ```

447. LOVE IS A LASTING FIRE

```

Love is a lasting fire.

Faith is a blossoming flower.

Doubt is a killing life.

Joy is a climbing tower. ```

448. YOU KNOW

```

You know that I am trying.

You know that I am crying.

You know that I am dying.

What more can you expect by shouting? ```

449. THE LEAST PUSH OF JOY

```

The least push of joy

Made him not only great

And good but also perfect.

The least push of joy. ```

450. HOPE IS THE ONLY THING

```

Hope is the only thing

That keeps me alive.

Joy is the only thing

To make me thrive. ```

451. SLEEPLESS HOURS

```

O sleepless hours,

I adore your glory’s flowers.

I love your satisfaction-cry.

With you, through you, my heart shall fly. ```

452. A WILD THOUGHT-BREATH

```

A wild thought-breath

In you is grown.

Therefore your strength

Is gone, groan. ```

453. A HEAVY HEART

```

A heavy heart

Have I.

A failure-soul

Am I.

Mine is an

Eyeless ‘I’.

I shall soon die,

Sleepless I. ```

454. ALL PLACE

```

True, you feel all place,

But do you know where your place is?

My heart is your place—only place.

```

455. DAWN IS THE CREATOR

```

Dawn is the creator of Light.

Light is the creator of Delight.

Delight is the creator of Perfection

And Oneness-height. ```

456. LET US SEE

```

My inner life informed my outer life

That it would not mix with it anymore.

My outer life said to the inner life,

"Let us see who first reaches the shore." ```

457. THE SILENCE OF TRUTH

```

The silence of truth

Loves and becomes,

Becomes and loves.

The sound of truth

Threatens and frightens,

Frightens and threatens,

Develops and envelops,

Envelops and develops.

```

458. TRUTH-TELLERS

```

There are only two truth-tellers,

My seeker friend and my

Lover God.

These two are undoubtedly

The only truth-tellers

And only life fulfillers. ```

459. A DANGEROUS FELLOW

```

You are a dangerous fellow.

You enjoy dancing with venom-doubt.

No matter how long we scream,

How loudly we shout. ```

460. O EARTH! O HEAVEN!

```

O earth,

For your sake,

Not to make you badly jealous,

I have not gone to Heaven

Walking.

O heaven,

For your sake,

Not to make you sadly jealous,

I have not come down to earth

Dancing. ```

461. IT IS ALL MY FAULT

```

It is all my fault.

I told you that

God does not care for you

Anymore.

To you He has closed His Heart-door.

He cares only for me.

Your belief has troubled you.

My dark lie has killed me. ```

462. I WISH

```

I wish I could stop

Weaving my poem garland,

And go and sleep

In a snow-white dreamland. ```

463. AN UNBELIEVABLE STORY

```

Desire is bold but desire is not old.

Faith is bold yet faith is bold and old.

Desire-world and faith in God

Together fight, together dine,

Together rub each other together,

Love together, and hate together.

An unbelievable story in human awakening.

```

464. MY FAITH, MY PATIENCE

```

My faith has become bold

But not my aspiration-cry.

My patience has become old

But not my forgiveness-sky. ```

465. TO FORGET

```

To embrace death

Is to become a God-failure,

Here and there,

On earth and in heaven sure. ```

466. EVOLUTION OF DESIRE

```

Desire ultimately becomes

A frustration-sea,

A destruction-sky,

And an unforgettable sigh. ```

467. I OFFERED

```

My tears and sighs,

Long ago I offered to my fate-maker.

My love and joy, just the other day,

I’ve offered to my life-transformer.

My gratitude-flame, yesterday I have

Offered to my saviour-friend and

Liberator-Father.

```

468. NEVER MIND

```

Never mind what others do,

What others think.

Never mind.

Just do what you feel like doing.

Just say what you feel like saying.

Never mind what others do or say.

In no way will you be responsible

For their action and deed. ```

469. AT LONG LAST

```

My long desired Lord, my long desired Lord,

At long last I have come and sat at your Feet.

To forget you was my death,

And now to be with You

Is to enjoy Eternity’s infinite breath.

```

470. WHAT IS IT?

```

Aspiration: what is it?

A letter of high inspiration.

Realisation: what is it?

A letter of high aspiration.

Revelation: what is it?

A letter of high realisation.

Manifestation: what is it?

A letter of high revelation. ```

471. CARING IS

```

Caring is loving;

Loving is becoming;

Becoming is all-giving;

All-giving is God-bestowing,

God-growing, God-illumining,

God-divining, God-fulfilling. ```

472. NO SECOND CHANCE

```

No second chance, just come and try.

Life itself is a serious business.

Here keep your promise, all your promise.

Keep your promise and step on the ladder

Of abundant glory,

Or break your promise and swim in the sea

Of ceaseless frown

And in mockery drown. ```

473. IF NOT

```

Choose more wisely.

If not you may repent.

Give more bountifully.

If not you will repent. ```

474. I HAVE BEEN LONGING

```

From time’s beginning,

I have been longing

Only for one thing -

A glimpse of God-Beauty’s

Universal ring.

```

475. JUST REMEMBER ME

```

Remember me.

I need no reward from You.

Just remember me.

Love me.

I need no consolation from you.

Just remember me.

```

476. A SILLY FELLOW

```

You are a silly fellow.

You cannot free yourself

From doubting.

I tell you, life is for those

Who are all-loving

In life-breath

And all-giving

In death-length. ```

477. A LIFE

```

A life of faith is worth trying.

A life of love is worth living.

A life of God is worth becoming.

```

478. A BABY

```

A baby of bliss you enjoy.

A baby life you employ.

A baby God will be your only toy.

```

479. MY ETERNAL PLEA

```

My eternal plea to God:

I wish to become

A real man

With spanless ken. ```

480. A HERO

```

You are a loud-mouthed hero,

Nothing more, nothing less.

He is a big-hearted hero,

Something more: spotless. ```

481. I STILL REMEMBER

```

I still remember clearly

My desire’s darkest night.

I still remember devotedly

My longing’s brightest day. ```

482. A SINCERE CRY

```

This must I have,

A sincere cry,

To try and fly

Into the vaulted sky. ```

483. ALAS! WHO IS NOT A FOOL?

```

Realisation counterfeit?

Is my love counterfeit?

Perhaps it is.

In that case, I have fooled the world.

Alas I Who is not a fool?

I have snatched God’s Delight.

Duty I snatch, delight I snatch,

Oneness I snatch,

From only one thing — God’s unconditional

Compassion-flood.

```

484. EVERY TIME YOU SMILE

```

Every time you smile, I forget the

Life of death-existence.

Every time you smile, my Heaven

Hunger increases,

My heart-hunger decreases.

Every time you smile, you grant me

A virgin mind and a virgin heart,

A hallowed life and a beautiful seeker.

```

485. O SWEET MEDITATION!

```

O sweet meditation-flames,

You have brought me the message

Of eternal silence.

You have given me courage indomitable.

You have given me patience interminable.

You have taught me how to be rich

In mercy.

You have taught me how to drink

Deep ecstasy.

```

486. YOU ARE MY ALL

```

O lover of all!

O protection of all!

In you I see and feel

My satisfaction-delight.

You are my God-height.

You are my all. ```

487. YOUR WORST FOE

```

Do you know, friend, do you know

Your only friend, your worst foe —

Doubt?

It has become really insane.

It speaks ill of you,

Inside and out. ```

488. GOD’S PARTNERS

```

God’s visible partner:

His birthless Compassion-Light.

God’s invisible partner:

His deathless Justice-Height.

Together they give God

Endless duty’s

Endless delight.

```

489. WHO SEES GOD’S FACE

```

Who sees God’s Face

Also

Knows God’s constant Grace,

Wherein abides a world-transforming,

A world-enlightening new race.

```

490. THE HARBINGER

```

A great help, grief

Is the harbinger

Of my Lord’s wonder,

Compassion-relief. ```

491. ONE VOICE, ONE DIVINE CHOICE

```

One voice, one voice, one divine voice,

One choice, one choice, one supreme choice,

Have made my life

Divinely soulful,

Supremely fruitful.

One voice, one divine voice,

One choice, one supreme choice.

```

492. NOW IS THE TIME

```

Now is the time, now,

For me, my heart, to plough

The fields of concern-light,

To collect the bumper crops of delight. ```

493. THE VOICE ABOVE

```

The voice above

I greatly treasure.

It is my soul-beauty’s dove,

My realisation-love,

The voice above.

```

494. COME, MY FRIEND

```

Come, my friend enthusiasm, come.

Love all, risk all,

Glow.

Yours is the victory’s golden call. ```

495. I HAVE COME INTO THE WORLD

```

I have come into the world

To spread Divinity’s truth,

Eternity’s ruth,

Also,

To show the world

God-concern, sweet,

Yet majestic, profound and smooth.

I have come into the world.

```

496. A STRANGER

```

You are a stranger to fear.

I am a stranger to doubt.

In God’s Heart we have a special place,

To sing, to dance, to enjoy and shout. ```

497. MY EXISTENCE-ART

```

When I feed my flame within my heart,

Earth’s patience-flood,

Heaven’s perfection-blood,

I see together sporting within me,

My existence-art.

```

498. O HOLY HOPE!

```

O holy hope!

Because

Of you, of your love

For me,

Eternally

There is a Heaven above. ```

499. TWO GOOD FRIENDS

```

My frequent tears,

My persistent fears

Have become two good friends.

Alas, I am not quite safe

In their trembling, quivering

Hands. ```

500. RISK ALL

```

Risk all, love all, become all.

Then your fault-finding nature

Will be transformed into

Wisdom-offering love. ```

501. I LOVE THE WORLD

```

I love the world more,

Its stark stupidity.

The world loves me more,

My self-styled responsibility. ```

502. THE WORLD LOVES ME

```

Because I create,

The world loves me, my soul.

Because they receive,

Them I give cheerfully

My gratitude-heart

Pure and sweet,

Also

Soulfully

My oneness-all.

```

503. WHOM WILT THOU CHOOSE?

```

Whom wilt Thou choose?

Me?

From now on

I shall always

Befriend Thee,

Love Thee,

Illumine Thee

And fulfil Thee,

According to my strength-capacity

And length-reality. ```

504. SOMEDAY

```

My Lord, my eternity’s Lord,

Someday will you call me inside,

Someday?

I shall not do anything wrong, undivine.

Just allow me to get inside

And be deeply involved in

Surrender-meditation life.

```

505. LET ME

```

Let me smash the attachment-chain.

Let me stop the illusion-reign.

Let me stop desire-game.

Let·me feed my aspiration-flame. ```

506. WAKE UP!

```

Wake up, wake up!

This is the time to meditate.

Everyone, wake up!

Be pure, be sweet, be sure.

Cancel all dry thoughts.

I have only one will,

Ignorance to kill,

And sing destination-dance. ```

507. WHEN DOES SURRENDER COME?

```

When does surrender come?

What does surrender do?

Surrender comes when you are

Unreservedly happy.

And what does surrender do?

Surrender makes you an

Unconditionally surrendered soul

To God the acme of perfection

In human confusion.

```

508. MORE AND MORE

```

I miss you more and more,

I love you more and more.

My tears are mature messengers.

```

509. DESTINATION-DANCE

```

Destination-dance I have seen

Many a time.

In it abides creation’s

Rhythm and rhyme. ```

510. ONE FOOT ON EARTH

```

One foot on earth, one foot in Heaven.

This is how he declares his supremacy

On earth.

This is how he welcomes the Creator’s

New birth.

```

511. YESTERDAY

```

Yesterday is too old.

Therefore being young,

I find it extremely difficult

To mix with the old generation.

Therefore I care not

For yesterday’s growth.

I care only for today’s course.

```

512. ASPIRATION, REALISATION, PERFECTION

```

Aspiration alters the world.

Realisation illumines the world.

Perfection fulfils the world.

```

513. GOD CONCEALS

```

God conceals

My hope

And reveals

My promise.

He is my Eternity’s

Father, Brother,

And Eternity’s

All, all. ```

514. SINCERITY IS

```

Sincerity is freedom.

Freedom is joy.

Joy is peace.

Peace is

God the Vision-maker

And God the Reality-distributor. ```

515. LORD, KEEP ME HUMBLE

```

Lord, keep me humble,

This is what I pray,

To Thy gracious will.

Make my holy wisdom-light

So that I can always

Against ignorance fight. ```

516. SILENCE AND SOUND

```

Silence immaculate I need.

Sound fire-pure I need,

In my life of aspiration-flame

And in my life of dedication-game. ```

517. I KNEEL BEFORE THEE

```

I kneel before Thee in prayer

With devotion pure.

I lift my soul

For you to console.

I try to live chaste in thought

To enjoy my Godward eternal destiny. ```

518. MY LIFE, MY HEART

```

Mine is the life

I have committed to Thy God-serving.

Mine is the heart

I have committed to Thy God-keeping. ```

519. MY BIRTHRIGHT

```

My Father has taught me

How to claim once more

My birthright.

Therefore I am divinely happy

Once more

And supremely proud

Once more.

```

520. THE CREATOR SUPREME

```

Do not forget this,

O my heart of dream!

Daily you have to love and worship

The Creator Supreme.

He is our Eternity’s doll

And Divinity’s absolute all. ```

521. O FAULT-FINDING UNBELIEVERS

```

O fault-finding unbelievers!

You have come to the wrong place.

This is for those

Who have sterling faith

In God and themselves.

You have come to the wrong place,

O fault-finding unbelievers!

```

522. I AM TAKING EVERYTHING BACK

```

I am taking everything back.

I shall no longer criticise you.

I shall no longer frown at you.

I shall just give you

What you need and deserve,

A Compassion-smile. ```

523. ALTHOUGH

```

Although I have failed,

I know I have tried.

Although I have cried,

I have failed.

Joy exists not

In our uncertain life. ```

524. NO HASTE

```

No haste,

No waste,

Taste nectar-delight.

Then on you proceed

To fight against teeming odds

Of ignorance-night. ```

525. INSPIRATION

```

Inspiration takes me to God

The Length.

Aspiration takes me to God

The Height.

Realisation takes me to God

The Omnipotent.

Manifestation takes me to God

Where He dances

With earth’s penury

And with Heaven’s Eldorado. ```

526. THOSE WHO HELPED ME

```

Those who helped me

Were but few.

Those who loved me

Were but fewer.

Those who taught me

Were the fewest.

Here to each I offer

The flood of my soulful

Gratitude-heart.

```

527. MY DEEP HEART IS FULL

```

My deep heart is full.

I shall smile today,

Heaven’s blue smile.

I shall study once more

In my inner school

And scatter God-Light all around,

For a while.

```

528. YOUR SIMPLE SOUL

```

The utterance of your simple soul

Is simple too:

Love for love’s sake,

God for God’s sake,

Truth for truth’s sake.

We too, not for our sake,

But for God’s compassion

And perfection-sake. ```

529. SPONTANEOUS AND MOMENTOUS

```

Spontaneous

Is our sweet Mother Earth.

Momentous

Is our dear Father Heaven.

To both I offer

My heart’s gratitude-depth

And my life’s loftiest pride.

```

530. HOW I CRIED

```

How I cried

When I heard I shall not see

Beauty’s soul,

Purity-goal

And Divinity-role.

How I cried. ```

531. I SPOKE

```

I spoke to God with a soulful smile.

I spoke to man with a doleful cry.

I spoke to the world with a truthful eye.

I spoke to myself with a fruitful heart-song. ```

532. MY SECRET

```

My secret I reveal,

God is my pole-star promise.

Therefore,

I always dare and fulfil. ```

533. STOP NOT

```

O sweet inspiration,

Stop not,

Stop not.

Carry me farther down.

O my soulful aspiration,

Stop not,

Stop not

Until you have helped me

Reach my source,

My soul’s destination-crown. ```

534. TWO FRIENDS

```

Two friends have I:

My hope-sky,

And my faith-sea.

They always let me fly

And swim unreservedly

And unconditionally,

Since the very day

Our friendship-banner we unfurled,

Under the sun-vast golden ray.

```

535. YOU PRAY WELL

```

You pray well.

Do you know why?

Because you cry well,

Because you love well,

Because you surrender well,

In the heart of silence-night,

In the soul of silence-light.

```

536. THOUGHTLESS

```

Thoughtless alone I climbed up

Life’s perfection-tree.

Wordless I climbed down

With satisfaction-fruits.

Lavishly I distribute,

Generously I contribute,

The flow of my world’s possessions.

```

537. YOU ARE CALLING ME

```

You are calling me.

I smile and smile.

I make no reply.

Why, you know;

Because I see in me

Your own heart-beat flow. ```

538. SOUL OF ENDLESS BEAUTY

```

O soul of endless beauty!

Do teach me the song:

Unity versus multiplicity.

You are the only one

Who knows the song.

Therefore all souls

To you must throng.

```

539. MY SILENCE-SUN

```

Splendid, my silence-sun.

Save you, my life

Shall always remain

Pitifully undone. ```

540. DIVINE

```

How can I bark?

How can I shout?

Divine I am

Within, without. ```

541. I SHALL AWAKEN YOU

```

My soulful heart,

My only all,

I shall awaken you

With God-manifestation call. ```

542. ASCEND AND DESCEND

```

My tears ascend.

My smiles descend.

While ascending I become

The joy of Truth.

While descending I become

The love of ruth. ```

543. YOU HAVE GIVEN ME

```

You have given me a full Eternity.

I have given you my heart’s gratitude-tree.

You have given me Infinity’s Light.

I am offering you my heart’s service-might. ```

544. I HAVE SUNG

```

Peace-song I have sung.

Bliss-song I have sung.

Love-song I have sung.

Surrender-song, I have yet to sing.

Therefore

The master-singer in me

Remains still

Incomplete, unfulfilled. ```

545. IT’S TOO LATE

```

It’s too late.

I ask my soul to come.

I ask my heart to come

Personally.

Since time goes on

And waits for nobody,

I use the precious time

Here, right in front of me. ```

546. I SHALL FEED

```

I shall feed my sacred flame,

Inside the living breath of my heart,

Soulfully and devotedly.

Today I shall begin my journey’s start. ```

547. STOP

```

O busy mind, stop.

O busy vital, stop.

O busy body, stop.

O drowsy heart, stop.

O silver soul, move on,

Fly up,

Dive deep.

```

548. DEAR FRIENDS

```

Joy has a dear friend: simplicity.

Peace has a dear friend: sincerity.

Love has a dear friend: unity.

God has a dear friend: unconditional necessity. ```

549. KINDLE THE FIRE

```

O kindle the fire of happiness!

Therein I shall seek

The door of friendliness,

The room of greatness

And the palace of goodness.

I shall see,

I shall see.

```

550. MY SOUL-ROOT

```

My soul-root is deep,

My heart-stem is sturdy,

My life-plant is far-fetched,

My adventure is risky and speedy.

But I know I am one

With the success-heart of light,

And one with the progress-soul of delight.

```

551. TO GET TO THE ROOT

```

To get to the root of human problems,

Let us enter into the real root, the soul,

Wherein lies the solution of all problems

And perfection’s satisfaction-goal. ```

552. ON HIS OWN

```

Each one is on his own.

Each one must adorn

His life,

Sacrifice-fire

Conquering the price of

Ignorance dire.

Yes,

Each one can be on his own. ```

553. SEEING IS BELIEVING

```

Seeing is believing,

When I live inside my mind’s puny cave.

Believing is seeing,

When I brave

Ignorance-king and shine

With my fate adamantine. ```

554. WHAT A MISERABLE LIFE

```

Half-believing, half-doubting,

What a miserable life you lead.

Half-refusal and half-consent,

What a miserable heart you have.

Contain everything

In perfect shape,

Form,

And norm.

Yours will be victory’s unprecedented dawn.

```

555. WHEN MY FAITH AND DOUBT FIGHT

```

When my faith and doubt fight,

I am thrown into a death-struggle.

With utmost difficulty I smuggle

And bring out faith,

Victory,

And doubt. ```

556. NOTHING WORSE, NOTHING BETTER

```

There is nothing worse than doubt.

There is nothing better than faith.

I stay with doubt

For its fire-pure change.

I love my faith’s

Indefinitely extended range. ```

557. FORGET

```

Forget all your old grievances,

Venture a new life,

Gather new experiences.

On you’ll proceed,

Holding your victory’s sunlit moon.

```

558. MY TEACHER AND MY TUTOR

```

Experience is my teacher.

I love him and I love him.

Realisation is my tutor.

I love plus I need him. ```

559. SAVE THEE

```

I have abandoned everything and everyone,

Save Thee.

In Thee I have discovered

My heaven-illumining

And earth-fulfilling

Fruitful tree. ```

560. OUR DEAR POSSESSIONS

```

What you have

Is a heart-sweetening light.

What I have

Is a mind-clearing might.

Let us together share

Our dear possessions

And complete our unity’s

Illumination-run. ```

561. FILL MY HEART

```

O fill my heart

With a silence-glow.

My heart is battered

By falsehood’s giant blow. ```

562. LOVE OF JOURNEY

```

The love of journey,

Easy to have.

But the journey of love

Is a tremendous task.

Ask anybody

If you want to ask. ```

563. QUOTE ME NOT

```

O quote me not,

Quote me not, quote.

From you I need no vote.

What I need is your inner cry

To feed my own heart’s

Vast blue sky. ```

564. PERMIT ME

```

Permit me to receive You.

Permit me to achieve You.

Permit me to see

The divine mind in you,

Permit me.

God-necessity does not need you now. ```

565. TO SERVE

```

To serve my Lord Supreme best

I have become soulfully

A silence-nest.

```

566. THE BEST THING

```

Since Heaven and earth are one,

The best thing will be for me

To ask Heaven to give me

Satisfaction-feast

And to ask earth to give me

Determination-bliss. ```

567. FOLLOWER AND SEEKER

```

O follower of earth!

Go, go and sin no more.

O seeker of Heaven!

Speed forth and stand

On the Golden Shore.

```

568. UNKNOWN MORROW

```

O unknown morrow,

From you I shall borrow

The fount of love-light

To scale my topless height. ```

569. AN ILLUMINING AND FULFILLING FAMILY

```

Hearts are in unity.

Minds are in multiplicity.

I am in newness.

God is in His Oneness.

Indeed we have formed

An illumining and fulfilling family. ```

570. I LOVE THEM ALL

```

I love my heart’s morning star

Spotless, without a scar.

I love my beauty’s moon.

I love my beauty’s noon.

I love them all.

Me they enthrall. ```

571. JUST BECAUSE YOU ARE A SAGE

```

Just because you are a sage,

I am sure you can bring me

Out of my mental cage.

Just because you are a sage,

You can easily empty my mind

Of wild rage. ```

572. ROAR

```

Roar, roar,

My lion heart.

The cosmic door

Is wide open.

Roar, roar,

My lion heart.

My eagle bird shall soar and soar

Evermore.

Life is but a prosperity store.

```

573. BECAUSE I ROWED

```

Because I rowed my boat

Day in, day out,

I learned the wisdom of my inner core

Plus God-divinity’s God-lore. ```

574. I LOVE THE HEART OF ALL

```

I love the heart of all,

Therefore

I shall never brook a fall.

```

575. TAKE CARE

```

Take care.

All around you there

Is a tricky snare.

Take care,

Take care.

The world-frown

Is apt to stare.

Take care,

Take care. ```

576. WE ARE ALL EXPERTS

```

My heart knows how to tie.

My soul knows how to fly.

My life knows how to try.

And I know how to cry.

We are all experts in our specific field

In a special way.

Daily we bring the Lord Supreme’s

Satisfaction-ray. ```

577. O EARTH

```

O earth,

Allow me just once

To say my say:

There was a time

When I lived with God

And His eternal day

And played with God

In His eternal play. ```

578. TAKE MY HEART

```

O take my heart, take

To God’s sacred door.

O make my life a sincere cry

And then take me

To God’s golden shore.

```

579. WHO WILL HEAR

```

Who will hear my doleful tale?

Who will believe my titan gale?

Who will hail my life, hail?

Who will sail with me,

Who will sail?

Alas,

No, not even a single soul

For perfection-goal. ```

580. ALTHOUGH I SPEAK

```

Although I speak

I am quite weak.

Although I play

In God’s eternal day

I am not quite strong.

Although I fly and fly

My wings have almost given way.

No fear,

No tear.

I shall bravely dare

My life-experiences to share

With all and sundry in stupendous glee. ```

581. O MY HEART

```

O my heart,

You are the reservoir

Of my unending bliss.

In you I behold

My everlasting peace.

In you I see

The perfect blossom of soul-qualities:

Faith unending,

Love unending,

Truth unending,

Light unending.

```

582. SOW AND ROW

```

Slowly I sow

The seed of beauty’s flame.

Soulfully I row

The boat of God’s Compassion-game. ```

583. THERE IS BUT ONE VOICE

```

There is but one voice.

There is but one choice.

This voice leads me

Into the heart of sun-bright day.

This choice helps me join

God’s all-illumining play. ```

584. I SHALL NOT SWERVE

```

I shall not swerve

From the path of Truth.

I shall just serve and serve

All those who remain

On the path of perennial ruth.

No, never shall I swerve

From the path of Truth.

```

585. AWAY YOU MUST REMAIN

```

If you have no God-zeal,

Then away you must remain

From God’s cosmic meal.

```

586. REST, MY HEART, REST

```

Rest, my heart, rest.

In you I have found my life’s quest

And my soul’s nest.

Rest, my heart, rest. ```

587. I URGE

```

I urge

You not to arouse

Your emotion-surge.

For you will be totally lost

In destruction

With futility-flight. ```

588. I WAS BORN

```

I was born

On a spotless morn

And soon became a close friend

Of perpetual day,

Upon the heart

Of earth’s bondage-clay. ```

589. THE SMALL HOURS

```

The small hours embody

The perfect time for anything,

For everything:

For God-arrival,

For man-arrival,

For animal-exit. ```

590. FLOWERS FADE AWAY

```

Flowers fade away.

Life fades away.

Something never fades:

My heart gratitude-flames

Which always take shelter

Under life’s protection-shade. ```

591. TO THE ZENITH-HEIGHT

```

To the zenith-height,

I shall offer my gratitude-flight.

To the deepest depth,

I shall offer my gratitude-length. ```

592. I AM READY

```

I am ready, O ambition-bird.

Take me to the world beyond,

Serene and pure,

Where Infinity’s Smile

Will reign supreme, sure.

```

593. WHEN YOUR FACE SHINES

```

When your face shines and smiles,

I lose in no time

All my dingy wiles.

```

594. JUST STAND AND WAIT

```

Just stand and wait.

I shall open for you

My heart’s golden gate.

Just stand and wait. ```

595. THE MARCH OF LIFE

```

The march of life

I appreciate with my soulful heart.

The flow of love

I appreciate with my soulful life.

I move along Eternity’s shore

To open in confidence

Immortality’s door.

```

596. I LOVE THE WORDS OF LIGHT

```

I love the words of light.

I love the messages of delight.

I love the flight

Of winging thought.

In them I long always

To be caught. ```

597. I SHALL STOOP FROM HEAVEN

```

I shall stoop from Heaven

To see you,

To watch your deeds and misdeeds.

I shall converse with God

About your slumber-needs.

I shall end your living pleasure-night

And spread God-beauty’s God-perfection-height. ```

598. SUCH PRECIOUS DELIGHT

```

Such precious delight

How could you lose?

Such precious summit-height

Where could you lose?

Lost height, lost delight,

You are swimming bare

In the sea of ignorance, all where.

```

599. WITH HIS EAGLE-EYES

```

With his eagle-eyes

He sees beauty’s sunrise.

With his eagle-eyes

He sees duty’s sea-roar. ```

600. IN THE BOTTOMLESS DEEPS

```

In the bottomless deeps

I have seen my beauty’s soul

Flooded with Infinity’s world-transforming,

World-liberating

Translucent goal.

```

601. A SHATTERED BOAT

```

A shattered boat, my life is.

Long lost am I,

My helpless oars.

Trembling within and without

I face all alone Eternity’s Infinity-shore.

```

602. MY CREATOR’S PRAISE

```

My Creator’s praise

On my dedication-life

I treasure.

My Creator’s infinite Light

I distribute soulfully

And devotedly

And thus humanity’s consciousness

I raise.

```

603. INTO THE WORLD

```

Into the world of surrender-light,

Into the world of selfless height,

I saw the beauty of the soul unknown.

In me before long I shall grow and own

The birth of perfection-light,

More, ever more. ```

604. AWAKE, O MY SOUL

```

Awake, O my soul, awake.

Look at me, my angel-infancy

In which I embody my ecstasy-sea.

```

605. O LORD OF LOVE

```

O Lord of Love,

O Lord of Life,

Descend and guide my sight.

I shall grow flowers of peace

For Thy tired Body’s supreme release.

```

606. O MY ONLY LIGHT

```

O my only Light,

O my only Delight,

O my only Perfection-height,

At the end of my journey’s close,

With my heart’s gratitude-rose,

To You I bow,

To You I bow.

```

607. MAN’S INGRATITUDE

```

Man’s ingratitude is man’s worst

Failure-night.

Man’s gratitude-light

Is man’s life-fulfilling

And life-nourishing highest height.

```

608. COURAGE MY SOUL ALREADY HAS

```

Courage my soul already has.

Faith my heart already has.

Love my life already has.

God my soul already has.

What else do I need,

What else do I need?

I need only one thing, I need,

I want, to give my Lord Supreme

A most nourishing meal

In ecstasy-filled thrill. ```

609. O LORD OF GOLDEN DAY

```

O Lord of golden day,

To You I pray,

To show me the face of summit-height

And Divinity’s translucent light.

```

610. STRIVE HARD

```

Strive hard,

Seek quick,

To find

The body of truth.

Yield not to lethargy blind.

Cleave not to weakness-night. ```

611. LET ME SAIL

```

Once more let me sail

My life-boat,

Let me sail.

This time I can never fail

And I shall never fail.

Success will definitely be mine.

Through progress-light

I shall shine. ```

612. TRUE

```

True, art is long,

Life is short.

But God-grace can reverse the game

With a streak of heavenly flame. ```

613. LET US TASTE

```

Let us taste

The purity of dawn.

The beauty of eve,

Let us taste.

No hurry, no haste.

We shall reach our destination-sun

And thus end our lives’

Eyeless cosmic fun. ```

614. ALL THINGS REJOICE

```

All things rejoice

Inside my soulful voice,

Which has become God’s

Most illumining and fulfilling choice. ```

615. TIME IS FLEETING

```

Time is fleeting.

My promise-flame is flickering.

Yet I hope my life shall succeed

And my heart shall proceed. ```

616. YOUR LOVE HAS CROWNED

```

Your love has crowned my day.

I shall fulfil your gnostic play. ```

617. CAN YOU TELL ME

```

Can you tell me, friend,

Who has escaped from desire-night?

Nobody, nobody.

Can you tell me, friend,

Who wants to live in aspiration-height?

Somebody, somebody.

Can you tell me, friends,

Who wants to live in realisation-light?

Everybody, everybody.

```

618. THOSE WHO BEGIN TODAY

```

Those who begin today

Will end tomorrow.

What will they begin with?

They’ll begin either

With their curiosity-day

Or with their aspiration-sun. ```

619. ALL EXCEPT ONE

```

All companions are but fleeting,

Temporal realities except one:

Man and his unconquerable hope.

Alas, this is how we grope. ```

620. I ASPIRE

```

I aspire to illumine my desire-night.

I aspire to remember my liberation-height.

I aspire to claim my long lost

Perfection-delight. ```

621. WE STRIVE

```

They strive for right.

I strive for light.

They strive for God-force.

I strive for God-grace.

They strive for God-ecstasy.

I strive for Godward journey. ```

622. THE HARDEST MIRACLE

```

This is the hardest miracle

That I have ever seen:

Man talks of God

Without knowing Him,

Man meditates on God

Without seeing Him,

Man prays to God

Without loving Him. ```

623. PROMISES TO KEEP

```

I have a good many promises to keep.

I shall definitely keep them one by one

And when all my victories are won,

At my Lord’s august feet

I shall resign with my heart’s

Satisfaction-sun. ```

624. I TOUCH NOT

```

I touch not Thy holy Feet,

They are too pure.

I see not Thy holy Eyes,

They are too sure.

I feel not Thy holy Heart

Which embodies purity-power,

That threatens and frightens

Death-dart. ```

625. I WAS FIRED

```

I was fired

In Heaven

For not giving

A proper message.

I was hired

On earth

Only to be scolded

And cancelled

My return passage.

```

626. I SOULFULLY FEED

```

I soulfully feed a flame within.

I fruitfully smile without.

I devotedly distribute God-light

And God-sight

All around.

In me the flood-tide of God-compassion

Is finally found.

```

627. YOUR FUTURE HOPE

```

Father, You want me to equal You.

I want only

To be at Your Compassion-feet

To love You

To please You fully

And become Your future hope. ```

628. ONLY YOU

```

Father, You love not only me

But my ignorance too.

Who can and who will go so far?

Father,

It is You,

Only You,

Who can not only go so far

But infinitely farther. ```

629. LOCK ME, O LORD

```

Lock me, O Lord, and then throw away the key,

To please Thy Heart’s Will.

Yet

I shall love Thee,

Only Thee,

For mine is the life

Only to please Thee.

```

630. WRAP ME

```

Beloved Supreme, wrap me

In your sweet and strong Compassion-embrace,

And transform once and for all

My earth-bound face. ```

Editor’s introduction

The first thing that would strike the reading picking up this book, would probably be its bulk. A quick glance at the contents would show 630 titles listed. Sri Chinmoy is clearly the most prolific of poets. But someone unfamiliar with his writings might be forgiven for thinking these represented a lifetime’s work, the labour of many years. As such they would stand as a considerable achievement.

But how astonishing is the truth, that these poems are not the work of years, or months, or even days, but were in fact written in a twenty-four hour period, from midnight to midnight on a single day!

And for Sri Chinmoy this was the latest in a long line of marathon creative sessions: 16,000 paintings in a day; 843 poems in a day. The figures roll easily off the tongue, but to see the reality is something else. It takes the breath away.

The poems in this volume are part of an even longer project which Sri Chinmoy set himself — to write 1,000 poems, each with a rhyming structure. (This is in honour of his brother Mantu who has a preference fo such forms over more freely constructed poems.) Sri Chinmoy set a date, some months ahead, for the achievement of his target. But within a few days, in spike of keeping up with his intensely busy schedule of activities, he had made the time to write some 500 rhyming poems. Then at midnight on Friday 12th August 1977, he started work on the sequence published here. He began writing them out by hand, and covered hundreds of sheets from notebooks. Then as the flow of inspiration increased, he recited the poems directly onto a tape, to be transcribed.

Disciples worked with him, round the clock, typing, editing, proofreading, so that the book could be printed and published the following day! We were able to help with the work, to share in this process of becoming, this amazing flow of creative energy that infused even the most menial job with a meaning and significance. We share in the flow, were part of the whole.

And at midnight on August 13th, 24 hours after starting, the poet pronounced his verdict on his achievement.

“Not bad,” he said.

Not bad!

With a book of poems as large as this, especially where the individual poems are short, the tendency is to skim through, read them greedily and quickly, or simply dip into the book at random, reading here and there. It is part of the beauty of there bing so many that there is something for every taste, and, more important, something for every need. Time and again I have had the same experience, of opening the book of Guru’s poems at random and finding exactly the right words to speak to me at the precise moment. Or in skimming, I am suddenly arrested by a line or a phrase that seems to reasons, to glow, to throw light on all that I have been reading. For in a very real sense, the part contains the whole, and each of these short poems contains in essence, distilled, all of Sri Chinmoy’s wisdom, his philosophy. They are gems of many facets.

And there are many moods here, many modes ot expression, from the playful and humorous to the profound and majestic. they are now wry, now instructive, now with the scriptural quality, the simple dignity and clarity that tells us, “This is the highest Truth.”

Always they are a delight, and the self-imposed stricture of making the poems rhyme simply adds at once to the entertainment and illumining fun; delight on delight for the ear and the eye.

This delight, and the ease of the flow, may even tend to hide the tremendous technical achievement. Over one thousand poems. Six hundred and thirty of them in a day. And all of them rhymed. There is a verbal agility and sureness of touch of a very high order, a limitless inventiveness. Sri Chinmoy uses words with the same dexterity with which he wields a paintbrush or draws a bow across the esraj.

In these poems, the flow is structured, the energy is manifest in a tighter form, takin gon the limitation of rhyme. But the limitation has itself become inspiration, part of the game. The form becomes a vehicle for his endless play.

Those of us who are caught up in that play, in the dance of the worlds he is openting up to us, bow to Sri Chinmoy, in gratitude.

Janaka

From:Sri Chinmoy,A Soulful Cry Versus a Fruitful Smile, Agni Press, 1977
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