Union and Oneness

1. Union and oneness

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A happy union reigns supreme

When beauty's light

And duty's delight

Meet together.

A happy oneness reigns supreme

When earth's cry

And Heaven's smile

To each other lose. ```

2. Union

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Union with God

Is not and cannot be total satisfaction.

But oneness with God

Is total and constant satisfaction.

Union is not oneness.

Union can be withdrawn.

Union is not and cannot be always safe;

It cannot be eternal.

But oneness can never be withdrawn.

Once oneness is established,

No matter on which plane,

Everything is established.

Then abiding satisfaction takes place

In the aspiring heart. ```

3. Oneness

```

Oneness with our role

Makes us feel

That we can eventually become great.

Oneness with our soul

Makes us feel

That we can eventually become good.

Oneness with our goal

Makes us feel

That the goal,

The soul

And

The role

Are of us,

In us

And

For us.

Why?

Because the Source is for us

And

The flow is also for us. ```

4. Sincerity

```

Real sincerity

Is the sincerity

That sees reality

The way reality wants to be seen,

And that becomes the reality itself.

Real sincerity

Does not see reality

With its own eye.

Real sincerity

Sees reality

With the eye of reality itself.

```

5. Simplicity

```

Simplicity

Is the most

Striking

And

Challenging

Speed

When we run along the road

Of Eternity's

Fulfilling

Achievement-light. ```

6. Surrender

```

Let us surrender to God

Not only what we have

But also what we are.

What we have

Is a real inner cry for God.

What we are

Is our conscious or unconscious oneness

With ignorance.

Let us offer both

To the Pilot within. ```

7. Compassion

```

Write down how many things you want.

Meditate on how many things you need.

When you write them down

You will see

That you want millions of things.

When you meditate

You will notice

That you need only one thing

And that is God the Compassion,

God the eternal Compassion. ```

8. Light

```

The human in us

Does not want light.

The animal in us

Knows not the existence of light.

The divine in us

Knows that it is nothing but light itself. ```

9. The future of the world

```

Your life of perfection

Is the future of the world.

Your life of satisfaction

Is the future for the world.

Your life of unconditional surrender

Is the future in the world. ```

10. Smile

```

When my inner cry is pure

God's outer Smile is sure.

My ascending cry

And

God's descending Smile

Inseparable

Ever shall remain.

```

11. Truth

```

When I make a promise

I make friends

With truth.

But when I keep a promise

My existence becomes

Another name for truth. ```

12. Selflessness

```

Selflessness is:

I am of God,

I am for God,

Him to please,

Him to serve

In His own Way

At every moment

Is my heart's selflessness.

Selflessness is

Heart-giving,

Life-giving.

What we call selflessness today

Becomes God-awareness tomorrow,

And

The day after, that very thing

Becomes God-oneness,

Eternity's God-oneness.

```

13. Devotion

```

Devotion in the heart

Is the expansion

Of our Divinity's real life.

Devotion in our entire life

Is the fastest speed

To reach our destined Goal.

Devotion is the strongest magnet

That pulls us to our Eternity's source:

Delight.

```

14. Gratitude

```

Gratitude

Is life's ever-climbing tree

That enjoys God's

Ever-transcending Height,

His Infinity's Delight,

His Immortality's Life

And

His Perfection's Smile. ```

15. Aspiration15

```

Imagination was aspiration.

Inspiration was aspiration.

Now aspiration is inspiration.

When imagination was aspiration

I felt that I was of my Inner Pilot

And

I was for my Inner Pilot.

When inspiration was aspiration

I felt that I could fly

To my Eternity's Beloved Supreme.

When aspiration is inspiration,

When the real becomes conscious

Of its existence in us,

God the unmanifested Reality

Becomes not only the manifested Reality

But the only Reality

In the world of glowing hope,

In the world of flowing reality.

```

15. In the original first edition, the third line read 'Now aspiration is aspiration.'↩

16. Consciousness

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The human in us

Cries and climbs

And climbs and cries.

The divine in us

Smiles and descends

And descends and smiles.

Consciousness

Is the connecting link,

The golden thread that unites

Our heart's climbing cry

With

Heaven's descending smile. ```

17. To be free

```

Why do I want to be free?

If I want to be free

Because the rest of the world is bad,

Then God will ask me

To create another world of my own

Since His creation has failed me.

But if I want to be free

So that I can be of greater service

To my sisters and brothers,

To God's entire creation,

Then God in me selects the hour,

And at that choice hour

The aspiring human in me achieves

Freedom from life's ignorance-night.

If I want to be free

To love the world,

To be part and parcel of the world,

Then God is all eagerness

To grant me freedom.

But if I want to be free

Because the world is full of ignorance,

The world is nothing but a devouring tiger,

Then God feels that I am not the right person

For Him to grant freedom to.

He will grant me freedom

Only when He sees that this freedom

Is for dedicated service,

For the transformation of the human race. ```

18. Gratitude

```

Earth's gratitude

And

Heaven's plenitude

Are one and inseparable.

Human heart's gratitude

And

Divine soul's plenitude

Are one and inseparable. ```

19. Transformation

```

Transformation of the mind

Is all we need.

Once the oldest member of our family

Is transformed,

The younger members of the family,

Will automatically and spontaneously

Be transformed;

Therefore

The transformation of the mind

Is of paramount importance. ```

20. Aspiration

```

Yesterday

What we called aspiration

Today

We call that very thing realisation.

And tomorrow

We shall call that very thing

God-satisfaction

In

God-manifestation.

```

21. Expansion

```

The expansion

Of human consciousness

Is the beginning

Of divine revelation

In and through

The seeker. ```

22. Certitude

```

Remain in the heart always,

Soulfully and unconditionally.

Then the soul's certitude

Will become

Your constant and eternal Friend.

```

23. Eternal

```

To be an eternal cry

Of the heart,

In the heart,

For the heart,

Is to grow into

The eternal satisfaction-life

Of the ever-transcending Beyond.

```

24. Enthusiasm

```

Enthusiasm is a divine gift,

And this divine gift

We get from higher worlds.

Enthusiasm lost,

Life-satisfaction is lost;

God-perfection in man

Remains a far cry.

```

25. Oneness

```

Oneness with the silence-light

And oneness with the sound-might

Can make the real seeker

An eternally perfect instrument

In the Heart of the Supreme.

```

26. Courage

```

To speak ill of the world

Needs courage,

But fortunately or unfortunately

Everybody has that courage.

To love the world

As one's own,

Very own,

Needs courage.

Unfortunately, most of us are wanting

In that courage.

The courage of the heart,

The courage of the soul

We badly need,

And not the courage

Of the unruly,

Aggressive,

Impure,

Demanding vital. ```

27. Discipline

```

If you discipline your life,

God not only will play with you,

But also will teach you how to play

Most soulfully and most satisfactorily

The way He Himself plays

In His cosmic Game. ```

28. Compassion

```

God's Compassion

Is the magnet

That pulls us up

High,

Higher,

Highest,

To His Silence-Height

And

His Perfection-Light.

```

29. Purity

```

Purity

Is man's conscious and constant

Surety

In his life of aspiration-cry

And

In his life of satisfaction-smile. ```

30. Service

```

Service is the illumining light

That fulfils the divine,

Perfects the human

And

Transforms the animal

In the seeker. ```

31. Capacity

```

When capacity is of real necessity,

Capacity knocks at our door

To enter into our life.

When capacity is not of real necessity,

Capacity likes to remain

A perfect stranger. ```

32. Patience

```

Patience is the divine friendship

That we enjoy with divine Time,

The ever-lasting Time,

That has far transcended the snares of death

And the frustration of bitter failure.

```

33. Light

```

The real light

Is within

And not without.

The real light

Is self-giving

And God-becoming. ```

34. Victory

```

The animal victory

Lies in utter destruction.

The human victory

Lies in tremendous hesitation

Or

In total suspicion.

The divine victory

Lies in constant and conscious

Self-expansion and God-manifestation

In the seeker's ever-aspiring heart. ```

35. Determination

```

Determination is in our dynamic vital,

In our challenging vital,

In our transforming vital.

Will power is in our immortalising soul,

In our God-fulfilling dream,

In our God-satisfying divinity.

```

36. Sincerity

```

Sincerity is the first step toward purity.

Purity is the first step toward self-discovery.

Self-discovery is the first step toward

God-revelation.

God-revelation is the first step toward

God-satisfaction and man-satisfaction

All at once.

```

37. Salvation

```

Salvation is the foot

Of God the Satisfaction-Tree.

Liberation is the middle

Of God the Satisfaction-Tree.

Realisation is the top

Of God the Satisfaction-Tree. ```

38. Soulful

```

Live in the heart.

All the soulful qualities,

Capacities,

Realities

Of the ever-lasting, ever-illumining Real

Will beckon you,

Will claim you

As their own,

Very own.

```

39. Freedom

```

What is real freedom?

Real freedom is not to strike someone

At one's sweet will.

Real freedom is one's mastery

Over the attachment-world,

Over the temptation-world,

Over the uncompromising,

Unaspiring human world.

Real freedom lies in acceptance of reality

And in perfection of reality.

Accept, transform, perfect:

That is the real freedom. ```

40. Purity

```

Cry for purity

The way a child cries for its mother.

Cry and cry,

For there is no other way to invoke purity,

No other way to inundate our earthly existence

With purity.

Cry and cry.

Inside the soulful cry

Purity-seed germinates.

This seed will one day grow into a tiny plant,

And then into a banyan tree.

Cry and try, try and cry.

There is no other way

To sow the purity-seed

And to see it grow into

The purity-banyan tree. ```

41. Self-offering

```

The self-offering of the lower self

Is the self-offering

Of what we have temporarily accepted

As our own.

The self-offering of the higher self

Is the self-offering

Of something which we eternally are

But unfortunately

Are not aware of.

Our false life we are claiming as our own.

Our true life, natural life,

We are not claiming as our own.

The higher life is our true life.

```

42. Obedience

```

Obedience

Is not blind self-giving

To another individual.

Obedience

Is not the play of compulsion.

Obedience

Has to be full of inner recognition

Of our high, higher, highest part

Playing its role

In different human beings.

Obedience

Is the acceptance of our higher life,

Of which we are not yet conscious.

```

43. Realisation

```

First we have to know

What our ignorance-realisation

Has given us.

When we are frustrated

With our ignorance-realisation,

We shall cry for nectar-realisation.

And that nectar-realisation lies in our

Conscious, constant self-giving

To our own Source,

Which is the ever-transcending Delight

Of the Beyond.

```

44. Nectar

```

If we give what we have,

If we give what we are

To our Source,

Then it is not only possible and practicable,

But inevitable

For us to drink nectar.

What do we have to give?

We have to give what we see,

We have to give what we feel,

We have to give what we claim,

We have to give what we are

In the outer world

To the Source.

This moment we are ignorance-prince;

Next moment we are aspiration-prince.

This moment we represent darkness and ignorance;

Next moment we represent light and delight.

Whatever we represent at any moment

Should be offered to the Lord Supreme.

If this moment we represent ignorance,

Then we must offer it.

If the next moment we represent wisdom-light,

Then we must offer it.

Then at every moment

We can drink from the fount

Of divine nectar-delight. ```

45. Humility

```

Humility

Is the expansion of one's real reality

In a sweet, illumining and fulfilling way.

Humility

Is not the helpless surrender

To something or someone else.

Humility

Is not a frightened child.

Humility

Is real receptivity in us.

If we receive with devoted humility,

Then immediately our receptivity-vessel increases.

Humility

Is the secret of secrets

For self-expansion,

For world-inspiration

And

For world-transformation. ```

46. Transformation

```

The transformation of the body

Comes last.

The transformation of the heart

Comes first.

How does the transformation of the heart

Take place?

The transformation of the heart takes place

When a seeker can consciously feel

That he is not the body

And

He is not of the body,

But

He is for the body.

To be for the body does not mean

To be satisfied with the animal propensities,

To wallow in the pleasures of ignorance.

But if the seeker cries

For the transformation of the body

And the body-consciousness,

Then the seeker becomes perfect.

Once we transform the body,

This body can then be utilised

For God-manifestation on earth.

```

47. Purify

```

How can I purify my mind?

I can purify my mind

Only by looking at a flower

And praying to God

To make me as pure as the flower.

How can I purify my mind?

I can purify my mind

Only by looking at the moon

And praying to God

To make my mind as peaceful as the moon.

How can I purify my mind?

I can purify my mind

Only by looking at a candle flame

And praying to God

To make my mind as one-pointed

As the flame.

By looking at a flower,

By looking at the moon

And

By looking at the candle flame

I can purify my mind.

Once purification takes place in the mind,

Slowly and steadily

The body and vital become pure.

Mental purity comes first

For the illumination

Of the entire body-consciousness.

```

48. Responsibility

```

Our first responsibility

Is to please the omnipresent God,

The Source, the Inner Pilot.

First we have to please God

Who is our Heaven-Friend

Earth-Friend,

Hell-Friend,

Everywhere-Friend.

Our second responsibility

Is to please our nearest and dearest ones

On earth,

Those whom God wants us to claim as our own.

Our third responsibility

Is to please ourselves. ```

49. Purity

```

Purity

Is the real divinity

In the heart of a human soul.

This divinity

Ultimately makes us feel

That the Absolute

Is not only the Absolute

But also

The Supreme Beloved

In us,

For us.

```

50. Light

```

In our life of aspiration

With the outer light

We see,

With the inner light

We become

And

With the Light of the Supreme

We know what we eternally are:

God's Dream-Boat

And

God's Reality-Shore.

```

Editor's preface to first edition

The poems in this book were composed spontaneously by Sri Chinmoy from words given by his disciples at various Centres.

From:Sri Chinmoy,Union and Oneness, Agni Press, 1976
Sourced from https://srichinmoylibrary.com/uo