Silence speaks, part 7

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Truth loves the mind

Of wisdom-clarity.

Peace loves the heart

Of goodness-charity. ```

2.

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From God's Heart-Eye

Why do you hide?

Just be your soul's

Gratitude-tide. ```

3.

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You are your mind's

Disobedience-day.

Therefore, your life

Dark ignorance-clay. ```

4.

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How can your heart see

Without the hope-ray?

How can your life live

Without the peace-day? ```

5.

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In God's Satisfaction-Test

Your life stands first

Because you are your soul's

Heaven-born thirst. ```

6.

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You are your seeker-heart's

Expectation-caused failure.

Just become unconditional.

Lo, your joy endless, pure. ```

7.

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You have a strong fibre

Of pure integrity.

Therefore, your heart is flooded

With God-Divinity. ```

8.

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Because you enjoy

Your mind's desire-madness,

Your heart's blue bird

Is smitten with sadness. ```

9.

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You are your heart

Of dark ingratitude,

Yet you shamelessly desire

God's Infinitude. ```

10.

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You are doomed to a lifetime

Of stark misery,

For your Godless mind breathes

Deathless treachery. ```

11.

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God-gratitude-examination

You always fail.

Therefore, your prayer-life

Is of no avail. ```

12.

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Every day you and your mind

Enjoy doubt-rain.

Therefore, how can you ride

The God-Bliss-Train? ```

13.

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Your excellence is measured

By your life's commitment.

Your perfection is measured

By your heart's enlightenment. ```

14.

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How do you dare

To long for God's Energy

When you enjoy

All levels of lethargy? ```

15.

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If your mind wastes

Powerful silence-time,

Your heart will fail

To enter ecstasy-clime. ```

16.

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Be not your mind's

Barren morning-tree.

Be not your heart's

Suffering evening-sea. ```

17.

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Have a little courage!

You can go one step more.

Behold your Lord smiling

And dancing at the Shore. ```

18.

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O seeker, your desire-life

Is indeed a self-mockery.

Only your aspiration-life

Is an endless joy-discovery. ```

19.

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Today your mind enjoys

The vital-circus-sense-life.

Tomorrow your poor heart

Will be stabbed by your frustration-knife. ```

20.

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Keep your gratitude-heart-book

Always wide open.

In God's Satisfaction-Home

You will never be forgotten. ```

21.

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If you desire to live on earth,

Just smile endlessly.

If you desire to be perfect,

Just give sleeplessly. ```

22.

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His Compassion-Songs

Before me my Lord sings.

Therefore, I am my heart's

Heaven-climbing wings. ```

23.

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Outer beauty smiles

When my heart-bird wings.

Inner beauty with me

My God-Song sings. ```

24.

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Be not afraid of

Your own inner height,

For it was born of

Your soul's God-Delight. ```

25.

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Only one thing shines

Between Heaven and earth:

My Lord's sleepless

Compassion-Forgiveness-Birth. ```

26.

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Inside your weeping heart

No more God's Love is dawning

Because yours has become

A hopeless, feeble longing. ```

27.

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A heart of gold-surrender

Is divinely beautiful.

A life of diamond-gratitude

Is supremely fruitful. ```

28.

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Although your heart

Is Divinity's perfection-host,

Your mind is ever

A frightening impurity-ghost. ```

29.

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Do show me the way

To surrender-city.

I wish to reclaim

My own divinity. ```

30.

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Silence is mind-strength.

Peace is heart-power.

Truth is soul-song.

Delight is God-Shower. ```

31.

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Since your mind's outer weather

Is disappointing,

Your heart's inner garden

Is not blossoming. ```

32.

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My love of God is the answer

To my life-question.

My surrender is the highest

Height of my perfection. ```

33.

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Can you not see,

Your God-dreams are soundly sleeping?

Do you not know,

Your God-promise you are not keeping? ```

34.

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You fool!

If you follow

Your mind's unclean thought-road,

You will be forced to carry

Futility's frustration-load.

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35.

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My Lord's Compassion-Eye

Patrols my life's heart-door.

Therefore, I never answer

The world's ignorance-roar. ```

36.

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God is ready to grant your life

His fruitful Compassion-Nest.

What you need is to quickly pass

Your heart's receptivity-test. ```

37.

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Long vanished are my foolish mind's

Tempest-frowns.

God-Oneness my aspiring heart's

Victory crowns. ```

38.

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Once I transcend the highs and lows

Of my God-hunger-life,

My heart of smiles will never see

Doubt's destruction-knife. ```

39.

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Opportunity-flowers

Are blossoming at every moment.

Gather them with eagerness.

Delay not your heart's enlightenment. ```

40.

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God's God-Hour strikes for man

Every single day,

But man continues playing

His soulless, earth-bound play. ```

41.

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Heaven daily offers

A faith-endowment.

Can you not enjoy

This supreme present? ```

42.

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Stop taking daily

Your mind's doubt-pill.

God will grant you

His Heart's Oneness-Thrill. ```

43.

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God's Compassion-Eye

Everywhere lives.

Man's gratitude-heart

Nowhere is. ```

44.

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If you become

Your heart's purity-nest,

Inside you God

Will cheerfully rest. ```

45.

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Every day burn

Your heart's purity-incense.

Earth will revoke

Your impurity-license. ```

46.

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How can you be brave,

And also, how can you be good,

If you let your mind reside

In mistrust-neighbourhood? ```

47.

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To worthless lethargy-excuses

Surrender not, O hopeless life,

Or soon my eyeless mind will take up

Self-destruction's violence-knife. ```

48.

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Your aspiration-life now lives

At God's Compassion-Feet.

Therefore, your heart and God's Heart

Together soon shall meet. ```

49.

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Each thought of yours

Is a desire-disaster;

Yet God is your

Compassion-Height-Master. ```

50.

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Do not retire,

Do not retire.

Live with your

Inspiration-fire. ```

51.

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Inside your mind's

Desire-forest

Never expect

Fulfilment-rest. ```

52.

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My heart's sincere devotion-light

Must fully cover me

Before I dare to climb up high

God-realisation-tree. ```

53.

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Your doubting mind

If you constantly threaten,

Your soulful heart

God will soon enlighten. ```

54.

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O seeker,

Sleeplessly try to find

Your life's

Illumination-mind. ```

55.

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For God alone if you weep

Your real heart-tears,

You will transform your mind

With all its fears. ```

56.

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Become God's conscious

Surrender-toy.

He will grant you His Heart's

Power and Joy. ```

57.

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Within and without

You are totally blind.

Therefore, you treasure

Your doubting mind. ```

58.

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I soulfully meditate

And daily pray

To live in my heart's

Sweet purity-day. ```

59.

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In this life, if you want

To achieve many things,

First start clipping

Your mind's doubt-wings. ```

60.

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My heart is my life's

Oneness-ambassador.

My life is my Lord's

Compassion-Splendour. ```

61.

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Yesterday I opened

My heart's enthusiasm-account.

Today I see my Lord's

Supreme Satisfaction-Fount. ```

62.

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O burn aspiration-incense

Before your heart-shrine.

Behold, the Lord Supreme

Is coming with you to dine. ```

63.

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My Lord saves me

Because He is so kind.

My Lord forgives me

Because I am so blind. ```

64.

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If you are your heart's

Silver purity-flow,

Your life becomes God's

Bright Perfection-Glow. ```

65.

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No joy, no joy,

But only pain

If you embrace

Ignorance-chain! ```

66.

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In God's Compassion-Nest

If you want to live,

Your dedication-life

You will have to give. ```

67.

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Live inside your heart,

And not elsewhere.

Your prayer-life soon

God-Fruit will bear. ```

68.

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My aspiration-heart

Is for my gratitude-measurement.

My dedication-life

Is for my oneness-improvement. ```

69.

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At times it is better

Not to know.

Then your heart-flames in pure

Innocence grow. ```

70.

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Who is worthy

Of God's Blessing-Light?

He who disowns

His mind's binding night. ```

71.

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What I call

My aspiration-dance,

My Lord calls

His Satisfaction-Glance. ```

72.

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Finally surrenders

The desire-life

With its temptation—

destruction-knife. ```

73.

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Closed tight is your heart's

Aspiration-curtain.

Wound taut is your life's

Self-imposed bondage-chain. ```

74.

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Faith-life blossoms

In confidence-heart.

Satisfaction-soul avoids

Confusion-mart. ```

75.

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Because you have dropped out

Of the inner race,

God has withdrawn from you

His infinite Grace. ```

From:Sri Chinmoy,Silence speaks, part 7, Agni Press, 1994
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