Silence speaks, part 9

1.

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Except for God

Nothing else matters.

Learn this truth

To be freed from earth-fetters. ```

2.

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Keep your faith burning.

By your own inner light

You will soon reach your soul's

Ever-mounting height. ```

3.

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If you do not try to make

Your self-indulgence-storm subside,

How can you expect to have

With God a satisfaction-ride? ```

4.

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Allow not suspicion-arrows

To pierce your heart-shield.

God wants you to play with Him

In His Heart-Beauty's Field. ```

5.

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Fly within,

And without fly.

Claim God's

Newness-Oneness-Sky. ```

6.

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A cheerful heart

Knows no delay.

A fearful mind

Sees no bright day. ```

7.

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"Heaven is totally blind!"

So says the mind of night.

"Heaven will someday be mine."

So says the heart of light. ```

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Daily meditate to eat

Your heart's peace-power-fill,

So the Lord Himself can share

With you His Oneness-Thrill. ```

9.

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One day each heart will sit at the foot

Of the God-Oneness-Tree.

One day each life will drink its fill

Of God's Peace-Ecstasy. ```

10.

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Every night I dream

Of God's Compassion-Light

And of His powerful Smile,

My heart's nectar-delight. ```

11.

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My heart's Beloved Supreme,

Do You think I will ever find

What I long for from morn to eve —

A true temptation-free mind? ```

12.

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Between my Lord Supreme

And my aspiration-heart

Never do I want to feel

The sting of ignorance-dart. ```

13.

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The wisdom-light of the soul

Cannot be measured.

Both on earth and in Heaven

It must be treasured. ```

14.

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You are now your life's

Slave-dependence-ignorance.

Your Lord wants you to claim

His own Freedom-Fragrance. ```

15.

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My Lord Supreme, Your Flute

Is my heart's only solace-sun.

Because of its melody pure

The Heavenward race I shall run. ```

16.

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All your climbing dreams are owned

By God's Compassion-Eye.

He grants your aspiration-heart

Ecstasy-moon, ecstasy-sky. ```

17.

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O break your body-chains today.

Then it will not be long

'Til God begins to teach you

His Heavenly Ecstasy-Song. ```

18.

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To reveal God-Divinity's Reality

I saw the light of day

And also to be His chosen Voice

In His Sun-Vision-Play. ```

19.

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So divinely sweet and pure

Is your aspiration-cry

That it is dancing freely

In Heaven's Ecstasy-Sky. ```

20.

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As long as you surrender to

Your vital's giant eye,

Your life on earth is doomed to be

Your soul's stupendous sigh. ```

21.

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He who does not listen to

His gentle conscience-sound

In the world's dark quagmire

Is invariably found. ```

22.

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Your dedication-life

Will disappear

If your mind does not stay

Pure and clear. ```

23.

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My seeker-friend, please stop at once

Your homeward-flying soul.

It has not yet fulfilled on earth

Its high God-commanded role. ```

24.

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If you can embrace your faith-life,

Your teeming doubts will die.

If you can conquer your lower self,

Your higher self will fly. ```

25.

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If you live in your past,

You will cry in dark shadows.

If you live in your present,

You will dance in God-meadows. ```

26.

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O lifeless man,

What can you give?

In nothingness-chasm

Or cave you live! ```

27.

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Action and enthusiasm

Together live

In God's vast world

Of take and give. ```

28.

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Remember, when impurity

Invades your life,

In no time it uses

Destruction-knife. ```

29.

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If your aspiration leads you

To the gate of sleepless love,

It means the sure descent

Of God's Blessings from Above. ```

30.

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God is eager to teach you

His Vision-Reality-Dance.

You just show Him openly

Your weakness-destruction-lance. ```

31.

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Kindle every day and feed

Your aspiration-fire,

Or your useless life will be

Devoured by desire. ```

32.

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Idleness never lives alone;

With it abides dark failure-night.

Action alone can save you with

Its bright all-conquering light. ```

33.

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The outer moon shines

With nature's light.

The inner moon shines

With God's Delight. ```

34.

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In God-Dawn awakens

My heart's aspiration-cry.

With God-Sun I enter

My life's liberation-sky. ```

35.

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Each uncomely thought springs up

From the wasteland-mind

And is cherished there by man

The feeble failure blind. ```

36.

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The mind-desert cannot escape

The flood of the heart-river.

The river inundates with songs

Of Oneness-Fulness-Giver. ```

37.

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To discover who I truly am

Throughout the world I need not fly.

To satisfy this breathless quest

I open up my vision-eye. ```

38.

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The conscious journey of the heart

Begins at God's choice Hour.

Its progress is inspired by

God's Satisfaction-Power. ```

39.

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If your body's useless idleness

Does not disappear,

Then how can your aspiring heart's

Eagerness appear? ```

40.

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The soul travels through

Eternity's time

And makes light-friends

In every clime. ```

41.

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Mind is a struggle

For supremacy-voice.

Heart is a cry

For God-oneness-choice. ```

42.

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If you are not determined

To break your doubt-chain,

Yours will be a life of

Fruitless, pointless pain. ```

43.

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If you can renounce

Your desert-mind-ownership,

God can then grant you

His Vision-World's partnership. ```

44.

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The teeming errors of the past

In you no longer linger.

Self-perfection is beckoning you

To be a God-song-singer. ```

45.

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No, not for you

Temptation's shattering blow.

You and your heart

With soul-perfection glow. ```

46.

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Desire-fever tortures

The human mind.

With brutal force it renders

The heart-eye blind. ```

47.

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I pray and meditate to find

The silence-sea within.

Alas, my mind still tortures me

With its confusion-din. ```

48.

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What the mind possesses is

A false knowledge-flame.

It can never help you win

God's Wisdom-Light-Game. ```

49.

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What cannot be blighted?

A green heart of purity.

What cannot be destroyed?

A blue soul of divinity. ```

50.

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Never use your doubting mind-brake

To slow your progress-speed.

Use your heart-accelerator

If God is what you need. ```

51.

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My Lord wants to be proud of me,

But how can He be proud

When He sees me treasuring

My mind's obscurity-cloud? ```

52.

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Suffer no more

From your brutal remorse.

God will show you

His cheerful Love-Course. ```

53.

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O keep your heart free

Of all doubt-poison.

You will be blessed

With a smile-horizon. ```

54.

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If God is your heart's

Unconditional thirst,

Then God's Satisfaction

You will always put first. ```

55.

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When I go beyond

My mind's tall fence,

I enjoy my Lord's

Heart-Confidence. ```

56.

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Your beauty's heart

I see upon your face.

Your life has won

God's Homeward Race. ```

57.

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Your oneness-life

Shall sleeplessly flower.

Your forgiveness-heart,

A nourishing shower. ```

58.

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Every morning my Lord Supreme's

Compassion-Feet I clasp,

And thus I shun my doubting mind's

Darkness-impurity-grasp. ```

59.

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Do not allow your heart-home

To be razed by ignorance-night.

Your life was truly born to be

The heir of God-Delight. ```

60.

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Alas, no new news:

Your heart-cry is still sleeping.

Alas, no new news:

Your progress is still creeping. ```

61.

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Blame not your palm;

Just blame your mind.

Kill not your mind;

New light just find. ```

62.

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O wisdom-heart,

Sing, sleeplessly sing,

And thus destroy

Doubt-failure-ring. ```

63.

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Because you have no

Concern for integrity,

Half-bright must remain

Your sun-celebrity. ```

64.

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To make your life ever

God's Satisfaction-Choice,

Your mind must be always

Deaf to doubt-voice. ```

65.

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In the morn and in the eve

Learn surrender-songs.

Your Lord Supreme will pardon

All your earthly wrongs. ```

66.

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When the seeker is transformed

Into reality's joy,

He unmistakably becomes

God's choicest, fondest toy. ```

67.

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Do not permit your felon-mind

To blindly and stupidly think.

The doubting mind's success-smile

Compels the love-heart to shrink. ```

68.

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O seeker, every day thank God

For your dynamic health,

For therein lies your progress-life's

Most useful, precious wealth. ```

69.

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The soul of light

Definitely withdraws

If the mind wants not

To transform its flaws. ```

70.

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Look!

Quite unexpectedly

What has dawned in me:

My aspiration-heart-life's

Long-sought divinity.

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71.

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Your mind wants to play

With a huge doubt-ball.

Your heart longs to play

With God's Golden All. ```

72.

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Once you climb up

The realisation-tree,

Your heart-life swims

In liberation-sea. ```

From:Sri Chinmoy,Silence speaks, part 9, Agni Press, 1994
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