Earth-life is a transient cry.
Heaven-life is a transient smile.Death-life is a transient fear.
God-life is a transient imagination. ```Courage is the eye of faith.
Love is the heart of faith.Truth is the head of faith.
God is the soul of faith. ```Nobody knew
About his taut confines.Nobody watched
His slow decline.Nobody believed
His great inner triumph.Nobody sympathised
With his utter outer failure. ```Fear cannot please
His body any more.Depression cannot please
His vital any more.Doubt cannot please
His mind any more.Insecurity cannot please
His heart any more.Why?
Because he has discoveredThe supreme secret:
That he is of God-DelightAnd
He is for God-Light. ```I thank each moment
For its generous heart.I thank each day
For its gracious life.I thank each year
For its glorious role. ```His desire-life
And the prince of hellAre left alone.
His aspiration-life
And the prince of HeavenAre left alone.
His God-life
And here and nowAre left alone.
```Pride escorted me
To the country of orphan humiliation.Humility escorted me
To the country of high glorification.Love escorted me
To the country of blossoming perfection. ```No more questions!
No more questions!I shall drown all the questions
In the Light-sea of my heart.No more answers!
No more answers!I have seen God’s Face,
The Answer supreme,In the freedom-sky of my soul.
```I can live my life
Without a single desire.Then why do I welcome desires?
I welcome desires because
My unchallenging lifeWishes God always to live
His God-life aboveMy desire-life.
```Fleeting
Is my beauty’s body.Lasting
Is my duty’s life.Glorifying
Is my sacrifice-soul.Fulfilling
Is my oneness-goal. ```I am not God;
That all of you know.I am the future God;
That you do not know.But
I love you all;Therefore
I gladly share with youMy peerless discovery.
```Where is God?
I do not know.Perhaps my heart-flame knows.
Who is God?
I do not know.Perhaps my soul-sun knows.
Why is God?
I do not know.Perhaps my love-life knows.
```God, why do You love me?
“Son, I love youBecause
I need you.”Why do You need me?
“I need youBecause
You embody My Sound-life.”Why do You want me to embody Your Sound-life?
“I want you to embody My Sound-lifeBecause
My Silence-life needs its counterpart.Needless to say,
You are absolutely the right person.” ```A life of surrender divine
Is the joy of Olympus-height.A life of surrender human
Is the torture of ignorance-sea.A life of divine surrender supreme
Is the Perfection-embrace of God. ```His heart is always new
As the morning sky.His soul is always old
As the evening hope.His smile is always powerful
As the blazing sun. ```“Why do I need God?”
You need GodBecause you need your real Self.
“Why do I need my real Self?”You need your real Self
Because of your oneness with God.“Who am I?”
You are the sound-fruit.“Who is God?”
God is the Silence-seed. ```Life does not hope
To see his smile.Death does not hope
To see his face.Hell does not hope
To see his pangs.Heaven does not hope
To see his heart. ```Lord, the difference
BetweenYour love and my love is this:
My love has bound Your Freedom-soulAnd
Your love has freed my bondage-body role. ```God is clever.
He does not acceptMy sad but unconditional surrender.
Why?Because He knows that if opportunity dawns
I shall challenge His authority and supremacy.God is wise.
He acceptsMy glad and unconditional surrender.
Why?Because He knows that when the Hour strikes
He will turn me into another God. ```Smile, unreservedly smile!
Your life will beThe lustre of a rose.
Dance, unerringly dance!
Your life will beThe lustre of the moon.
Cry, soulfully cry!
Your life will beThe lustre of the Supreme.
```Death, why do you sleep so much?
Life, why do you cry so much?Earth, why do you fear so much?
Heaven, why do you ignore so much?Man, why do you doubt so much?
God, why do you forgive so much? ```Do you know who takes care of me?
God.Do you know who takes care of God?
I.God takes care of me
With His Compassion-height.I take care of God
With my surrender-light. ```When my life was a slumbering will
God thought of me compassionately.When my life was a conquering will
I thought of myself proudly.When my life was a surrendering will
God gave me His Heart to smile,God gave me His Eyes to devour,
God gave me His Face to reveal. ```When I meditate
Inside a mountain cave,I play with God’s secret Soul.
When I meditate
At the foot of a banyan tree,I play with God’s vast Sky.
When I meditate
Inside my heart,I play with God’s sacred Breath.
```Father Supreme,
When will You return?“I shall return
Before you think of Me.”“Son, My son,
When will you return?”I shall return
Only when You give me Your Throne.“Son, then take it, take it.”
Father, I need it, I need it. ```Vision:
The end of Heaven-school.Mission:
The end of earth-school.Frustration:
The end of man-school.Perfection:
The end of God-school. ```My vision-life is magical;
Therefore the world admires me.My reality-life is radical;
Therefore God loves me.My God-life is practical;
Therefore I honour and treasure myself. ```My silence-life
Is birthless and flawless.My sound-life
Is deathless and flawless.My perfection-life
Is endless and flawless. ```Fear is a home
Far away from God.Love is a home
Far away from man.Realisation is a home
Far away from Heaven.Perfection is a home
Far away from earth. ```Mind, be still!
I am sick of your wild restlessness.Heart, be pure!
I am sick of your vast impurity.Soul, be certain!
I am sick of your constant uncertainty. ```I am God’s tortoise.
I do not have to worry;Slow and steady wins the race.
I am God’s deer;
I have no time to waste.Lo, God’s silver Grace is beckoning me.
```O messenger of Dream,
Earth needs you.Where are you?
O messenger of Reality,
Heaven needs you.Where are you?
O messenger of Silence,
Life needs you.Where are you?
O messenger of God,
Death needs you.Where are you?
```My earth is thirsty;
Alas, no nectar-sea within my reach.My Heaven is hungry;
Alas, no nourishing-sky within my reach.My human birth is crying;
Alas, no saving hand within my reach.Yet God is watching,
Carefully watching. ```Human life is motion and evolution.
Divine life is the silence-sea.God-life is the Freedom-sky of Oneness
BetweenThe body of the finite
AndThe soul of the Infinite.
```Possession
Is the unknown way of the body.Renunciation
Is the unappreciated way of the soul.Perfection
Is the misunderstood way of God. ```Lord, my life is a flute
Out of tune.Lord, my life is a meditation
Out of practice.Lord, my life is an accident
Out of danger. ```I was determined
In my seeking.Therefore I am really successful.
I was determined
In my God-becoming.Therefore I am divinely successful.
I was determined
In my surrendering.Therefore I am supremely successful.
```To love God is to need God,
To need God is to see God,To see God is to breathe God,
To breathe God is to become God. ```To live with man
Is to live with what you have.To live with God
Is to live with what you are.What you have: God-aspiration.
What you are: God-realisation. ```Intuition: what is it?
It is the record speed of the inner Light.Transformation: what is it?
It is the manifested glory of the inner Light.Perfection: what is it?
It is the constant self-transcendence of the inner Light. ```Yesterday’s stupidity
Failed to love her.Today’s insecurity
Fails to reach her.Tomorrow’s necessity
Will love her and reach her,Treasure her and manifest her.
```Indeed, She is the veiled deity.
Indeed, She is the concealed Queen.Indeed, She is the unrevealed Mother.
Indeed, She is the unmanifested Godhead. ```Patience-sky:
That is her secret name.Compassion-sea:
That is her sacred name.Perfection-moon:
That is her birthless and deathless name. ```O Mother of Heaven,
Thy love I implore.O Daughter of God,
Thy smile I adore.O Sister of earth,
Thy absenceNeither humanity
Nor DivinityCan endure.
```Her nights are God’s silver trances.
Her days are God’s golden dances.Her heights are God’s diamond discoveries.
Her depths are God’s eternal mysteries. ```When I pray,
The Power of God smiles.When I meditate,
The Light of God smiles.When I love and serve,
God Himself smiles. ```She tells the world:
Life is not a fruitless repetition.She tells the world:
Death is not a helpless repetition.She tells the world:
Love is not an eyeless repetition.She tells the world:
God is not a useless repetition. ```Through her eyes,
Earth’s thousand tears burn.Through her heart,
Heaven’s thousand smiles shine.Through her life,
God’s thousand lives blossom. ```She energises the spheres
Of divine activities.She immortalises the realms
Of silence-trances.To man she offers her vision-flames
Of the emerald Beyond.To God she offers her promise-noon
Of Infinity’s lifeAnd
Eternity’s love. ```O my life of failure-sighs,
Look up!Challenge once more
The victory of ignorance-night.Arouse the lightning speed
Of your spirit-sky.Lo, in you abides the Emperor
Of transcendental Triumphs. ```From:Sri Chinmoy,The Wings of Light, part 16, Agni Press, 1974
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