The Supreme and His four children: five spiritual dictionaries

Part I — A devotee's dictionary

Absence

```

God's temporary absence

from man's heart

is called

human temptation. ```

Body

```

Man's body needs

total transformation.

God's Body needs

complete manifestation. ```

Camel

```

Human life

is an untiring camel.

Divine life

is not only a winning deer,

but a satisfied lion.

```

Duty

```

Duty soulfully performed,

Divinity triumphantly revealed.

And the only duty

is to surrender oneself

unconditionally and constantly

to the express Will of the Supreme. ```

Earth

```

Earth below me grows.

Earth within me glows.

Earth above me sows.

```

Fear

```

Man fears

God's glowing Infinity.

God fears

man's brooding stupidity. ```

God

```

God

invents Love.

Man

discovers life. ```

Humility

```

In man,

humility is

the most important necessity.

In God,

humility is

the most fulfilling reality. ```

Ignorance

```

Ignorance

has only two real enemies:

Man's ascending cry

and

God's descending Smile.

```

Joy

```

Real joy

is the realisation

of eternal aspiration.

```

King

```

An outer king is he

who has a vast kingdom.

An inner king is he

whose kingdom of light and

delight is flooded

with God's transcendental Smile

and absolute Pride.

```

Love

```

I love God

because of

my necessity's command.

God loves me

because of

His Divinity's demand. ```

Man

```

In the outer life,

man's forgotten expectation

is God.

In the inner life,

God's conscious

and constant expectation

is man.

```

Name

```

God's real name

is Compassion.

His false name

is Indifference. ```

Orphan

```

A child is an orphan

when he loses

his father and mother.

A man is an orphan

when he loses

his inner joy:

his Divine Mother,

and his inner peace:

his Divine Father.

```

Purity

```

Purity is at once

the necessity and surety

of an aspiring life.

```

Question

```

There is and there can be

only one question

here on earth

and

there in Heaven:

"Who is not God?" ```

Realisation

```

Before realisation,

man is a minor

with a major Problem.

After realisation,

man is a major

with millions of minor problems

created by his followers.

```

Surrender

```

God is not fortunate enough

to see the earth-consciousness

surrendering unconditionally

to Him. ```

Teacher

```

A spiritual teacher is he

who

starves with man

and

dines with God.

```

Universe

```

The universe is at once

God's grain of sand

and man's land

of infinite vast. ```

Victory

```

Yesterday

your victory's crown

was possession.

Today

your victory's crown

is renunciation.

Tomorrow

your victory's crown

shall be liberation.

```

Wisdom

```

Man's wisdom

is God's pure pride.

God's Wisdom

is man's sure salvation. ```

X-Ray

```

An x-ray machine examines

my large body.

My aspiration examines

my concern for humanity,

my larger body.

My realisation examines

my love for Divinity,

my largest Body. ```

Year

```

Each new year

offers the same flaming question:

Who is going to win

in the tug-of-war

between

God, the Compassion,

and

man, the imperfection? ```

Zeal

```

In his outer life,

man does not know

what lasting zeal is.

In his inner life,

man does not know

if there is anything else

other than constant zeal.

```

Part II — A God-lover's dictionary

Aspiration

```

Divine aspiration

endures.

Human fruition

wanes. ```

Beauty

```

Tempting beauty

is the weed.

Illumining beauty

is the crop. ```

Courage

```

The soul-courage

traced,

the body-fear

erased. ```

Destiny

```

An unconditionally

surrendered seeker

Is the divine architect

of his supreme destiny. ```

Eternity

```

Man needs

Eternity's life-breath.

Eternity needs

God's Soul-Glow. ```

Force

```

Man's mind-force

is a fleeting inspiration.

Man's soul-force

is his lasting realisation. ```

God-realisation

```

God-realisation

is a perfect stranger

to man-deception.

```

Humanity

```

To choose the Real

is to fulfil the Ideal

of humanity.

```

Individuality

```

Human individuality

is a self-torturing personality.

Divine individuality

is a self-discovering personality. ```

Jungle

```

Thicker than the thickest

is the jungle of the mind.

Brighter than the brightest

is the sky of the heart. ```

Key

```

Alas, man wants to open

God the Door

without having

Aspiration the key. ```

Life

```

Earth's life evolves.

Heaven's life resolves.

God's Life solves.

```

Man

```

The brute in man

is his violence.

The human in man

is his fear.

The divine in man

is his heart's cry. ```

Nothing

```

Without God-realisation

a seeker is nothing.

With God-realisation

he is God's Everything. ```

Oath

```

The preparatory oath

is to avoid the face

of ignorance.

The culminating oath

is to see only the Face

of God,

Within, without, below, above.

```

Perfection

```

God the Perfection lives

in His Concern for humanity.

God the perfect Perfection lives

in His Love for Divinity.

God the eternal Perfection lives

in His Meditation on Reality. ```

Quantity, quality

```

Quantity

God's Compassion

always has.

Quality

God's Perfection

always is. ```

Reality

```

God in man

is man's life-building Reality.

Man in God

is man's soul-elevating Reality. ```

Surrender

```

Mutual surrender

is the flowering

of God's Soul

and the towering

of man's God.

```

Temptation

```

The tempting

and tempted seeker

is a dead weight

on God's Protection-Light. ```

Union

```

Man's union with God

makes God

Unconditionally gracious,

makes man

Supremely precious.

```

Vote

```

At every second

I vote only for

The Transcendental Candidate,

my Supreme. ```

Wall

```

Man, the desiring

body-consciousness

is the only wall

that stands between

man's inmost cry

and

God's Mightiest Compassion.

```

Xantippe

```

Socrates' wife, Xantippe,

found her philosopher husband

unbearable.

A seeker's soul

finds the seeker's ignorance

not only unbearable,

but also inescapable.

```

Yes

```

When God compassionately says,

"Yes!"

man thinks that God is

singularly unwise.

When God compassionately says,

"No!"

man feels that God is

incredibly cruel. ```

Zoo

```

When I want to see my Past,

I go to the zoo.

When I want to see my Present,

I go deep within.

When I want to see my Future,

I throw myself at the Feet of the Supreme. ```

Part III — A Yogi's dictionary

Aspirant

```

A Yogi

is the supremely realised

aspirant.

```

Body

```

A Yogi is not in the body.

He is not of the body.

But he is for the body —

for the transformation of the body

and for the perfection of the body.

```

Confinement

```

Solitary confinement

is not meant

for a modern Yogi,

for God wants him

to be a militant Yogi.

```

Devotion

```

Your increasing devotion

to your Yogi-Guru

can easily tame

the wild vehemence of your mind. ```

Evolution

```

A Yogi

is the fastest evolution

of God.

```

False

```

A false Yogi

is God's true embarrassment. ```

Glory

```

A Yogi's purest purity

is the height

of God's Glory.

```

Humanity

```

A self-surrendered Yogi

is the only hope and promise

of a self-fulfilling humanity.

```

Inspire

```

A map inspires you

to study a country.

A Yogi inspires you

to study God's universe

and God the Universe.

```

Joy

```

A Yogi knows

that in order to retain

his supreme joy

he has always to remain

the Supreme's supreme toy.

```

King

```

The King of the Yogis

represents God the Protection.

The Queen of the Yoginis

represents God the Compassion. ```

Link

```

Delight

is the connecting link

between a Yogi's highest realisation

and God's perfect Perfection. ```

Man

```

The man in the Yogi

attempts.

The God in the Yogi

attains. ```

Name

```

God has secretly changed

the Yogi's name

into even-mindedness.

God has openly changed

the Yogi's name

into non-attachment. ```

Oscillation

```

The disciples learn from their Yogi-Guru

that the oscillation of the mind

is the projection of their ignorance,

and that the dejection of the mind

is the deliberate rejection

of their inner elation. ```

Perfect

```

A perfect Yogi

is God's endless contribution

to Mother-Earth.

```

Qualified

```

A qualified Yogi

warns his disciples

not to mistake

the outer complacency

for the inner

self-sufficiency. ```

Reincarnation

```

In any incarnation

a Yogi can have

his final reincarnation.

```

Sea and sky

```

A Yogi's mind

is the waveless sea

and his heart

is the cloudless sky. ```

Torture

```

A real Yogi is he

who has at once

transcended the pure torture

and sure rapture

of the body-consciousness.

```

Union

```

To love, adore and worship

a real Yogi

is to enjoy perfect union

with God the Beloved. ```

Victory

```

A Yogi's constant love for Heaven

is God's victory in the inner world.

A Yogi's supreme sacrifice for earth

is God's victory in the outer world. ```

Water

```

Water distilled is pure

because it contains nothing else.

A Yogi realised is pure

because he embodies divinity

and divinity alone.

```

X-Ray

```

The medical science has no other choice

than to cherish

a limited and imperfect x-ray machine.

Three cheers for the Yogic science,

for it has discovered God,

the unlimited and perfect x-ray machine. ```

Yogi

```

A Yogi's life is the manifestation

of the father's love and wisdom,

the friend's care and concern,

the Master's guidance and protection,

and God's Illumination and Perfection.

```

Zone

```

A Yogi can and does live

millions of miles away

from the zone

of cosmic ignorance. ```

Part IV — An Avatar's dictionary

Ascent

```

An Avatar

is God's compassionate descent

and man's conscious ascent.

```

Biography

```

God's biography,

abridged and condensed,

is the earthly life

of an Avatar. ```

Camel

```

An Avatar

is God's faithful camel.

A Yogi

is God's faithful dog. ```

Dream

```

A budding Avatar

is God's fulfilling Dream.

A blossomed Avatar

is God's fulfilled Reality. ```

Essence

```

An Avatar's pure essence

is God, the Absolute.

God's sure substance

is an Avatar

of the highest magnitude.

```

Fail

```

When an Avatar fails,

God sails the Boat of Compassion.

Humanity sails the boat of

utter disappointment.

His disciples and followers

sail their boat in his

strongest justification.

```

Goal

```

An Avatar's inner Goal

is God's eternal and

transcendental Smile.

An Avatar's outer goal

is man's ignorance-freed,

life-illumined and soul-fulfilled smile. ```

Humanity's Divinity

```

An Avatar is not the monopoly

of any individual.

An Avatar's soul

is for Divinity's Humanity

and his heart is for Humanity's Divinity.

```

Initiation

```

The Avatar

received initiation

from God.

God receives

completion

from the Avatar. ```

Joy

```

By serving God constantly

an Avatar gets satisfying joy.

By helping suffering mankind

an Avatar gets satisfied joy. ```

Kingdom

```

God's inner Kingdom

is an Avatar's eyes.

God's outer Kingdom

is an Avatar's voice. ```

Life

```

An Avatar

is the Life of man's

secret God.

```

Manifestation

```

God's revelation

is an Avatar.

An Avatar's manifestation

is God. ```

Nothing

```

An Avatar's constant realisation is

that there is nothing

too great to achieve,

and that nothing

is too small to receive.

```

Open

```

To please an Avatar

unconditionally and constantly

is to enter

into the open Heart

and Arms of God.

```

Practice

```

An Avatar

is God's daily practice

of Infinite Compassion.

```

Question

```

God's question an Avatar brings.

Man's answer an Avatar takes.

God 's question: Where is Life?

Man's answer: Life is where Love is.

Life is God embodied.

Love is God revealed. ```

Road

```

To have an Avatar-Guru

is to run on the shortest road

to God.

```

Salvation

```

An Avatar

is God's constant attention,

Heaven's brightest illumination

and earth's sure salvation. ```

Touch

```

Touch an Avatar devotedly,

feel God unmistakably. ```

Union

```

The real Friend in an Avatar

not only shows us God's Face,

our true union with God,

and His Abode in us,

but also makes us feel

that we can rightfully claim God

as our very own.

```

Voice

```

An Avatar

is the divinely illumined Choice

and supremely manifested Voice

of God. ```

Will

```

God wills.

An Avatar executes.

Man either accepts or rejects.

When he accepts,

he becomes the light of life.

When he rejects,

he becomes the night of death.

```

X-ray

```

The Supreme gives to the Avatars

his own X-ray

to use at their sweet will

to see the malady of the millennia.

The Supreme has also given the Avatars

the power to cure the incurable malady

of the crying past,

screaming present

and weeping future.

```

Younger Brother

```

An Avatar's acceptance of a disciple

is the clear indication

of his eternal residence

in the heart

of his younger brother.

```

Zoo

```

When an Avatar visits a zoo,

he amusingly enjoys

his own evolving past.

When he visits his Consciousness-Height,

he unceasingly admires

his own beginningless Past:

the Supreme of Light

and Delight Supreme. ```

Part V — The dictionary of the Supreme

Ask

```

A surrendered seeker

gets everything from the Supreme

for the asking.

An unconditionally surrendered seeker

knows that the Supreme

has made him and calls him

His very own.

```

Buy

```

If you want to buy the perfect Perfection

of the Supreme from the Supreme,

then you have to sell

your imperfection-mountain and

ignorance-sea

free of charge to the Supreme. ```

Curious

```

Man is curious to know

what the Supreme looks like.

The Supreme is eager to see

the cheerful arrival of man

at His Heart's Palace.

```

Difficulty

```

Man's difficulty is

that he does not know

when to start meditating.

The Supreme's difficulty is

that He does not know

when to stop bestowing

His unconditional Compassion on man.

```

Eternity

```

Eternity: this is

what man precisely needs.

Now: this is

what the Supreme always wants. ```

Fool

```

Before God-realisation

man was a fool

and he behaved like a fool.

After his God-realisation

man has become a pool

and he serves as a pool. ```

Gate

```

He who stands

at the Gate of the Supreme

knows that at long last

the reign of his fate has ended.

His life now has become

the rare choice of the Supreme. ```

History

```

Man's eternal Aspiration

is the perfect History

of the Supreme.

```

Impossibility

```

My constant choice

of the Supreme

commands

impossibility's surrendered life. ```

Joke

```

Do you want

to cut jokes with the Supreme?

Then devour Him

with your purified love,

illumined devotion

and fulfilled surrender. ```

King

```

"O Supreme,

You are

my aspiring life's only King."

"True, My child,

I am also your surrendered heart's

best and most unconditional slave." ```

Light

```

The Light of the Supreme

is His Life's Soul,

His Soul's Goal,

and His Goal's Role. ```

Mind

```

The human mind

and the Will of the Supreme

are perfect strangers

to each other. ```

No

```

To value

the Compassion of the Supreme

is to say unmistakably

and categorically

"No"

to the proud life of ignorance. ```

Obedience

```

A seeker's outer obedience

is his love for the Supreme.

A seeker's inner obedience

is the Supreme's Love for him. ```

Pray

```

We pray to the Supreme

for illumining faith in Him.

The Supreme prays to us

for soaring confidence

in ourselves.

```

Queen

```

As the transcendental King,

the Supreme blesses

His infinite children.

As the transcendental Queen,

the Supreme embraces

Her infinite children. ```

Real

```

To see the Supreme

face to face

is to own the breath and life

of the Real within us. ```

Service

```

Man's fleeting service

the Supreme unreservedly admires.

The Supreme's unending Service

man constantly ignores. ```

Temptation

```

The desiring man

and God the Temptation

live together.

The aspiring man

and God the Illumination

fly together. ```

Use

```

We use constantly

the highest Compassion of the Supreme

for our human satisfaction.

Poor Supreme will be able to use

our heart's purest purity,

if ever we have an iota of it,

for His divine Satisfaction.

```

Voyage

```

Man's love for the Supreme

must needs be a baseless voyage

to the shores

of Immortality's Infinity. ```

When

```

When I love the Supreme

as a human being,

He instructs and illumines me

as a Divine Being. ```

X-Ray

```

The name

of the Supreme's X-Ray

is Compassion-Light.

```

Yesterday

```

Yesterday

my Supreme touched my feet

and begged me to come out of

ignorance-night.

Today

my Supreme blesses

my fully awakened life.

Tomorrow

my Supreme will embrace

my totally surrendered life. ```

Zoo

```

Except for the Supreme and His Light,

we are all chattering monkeys,

braying donkeys

and roaring lions

in the cosmic zoo.

```

From:Sri Chinmoy,The Supreme and His four children: five spiritual dictionaries, Fleet Press Corporation, New York, 1973
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