O my soul,
I wrote to youFor help
In my God-manifestation.Alas,
Your answer could have beenMore generous.
O my heart,
I wrote to youFor help
In my God-manifestation.Alas,
Your poor responseFails to inspire me.
O my mind,
I wrote to youFor help
In my God-manifestation.Alas,
Your obscure answerPuzzles me.
O my vital,
I wrote to youFor help
In my God-manifestation.Alas,
Your senseless answerFrustrates me.
O my body,
I didn’t write to youBecause
I didn’t knowWhom to choose
Between youAnd ignorance.
```On my birthday
Earth-consciousness says:“Many happy returns.”
Heaven-Delight says:“Your every happy return to earth-life
Is also a happy step towards My Palace.”Alas,
Life on earthIs temptation-frustration.
Life in HeavenIs examination-clarification.
```His love of God
Taught himHow to descend
Into the world-night.His love of man
Taught himHow to forget
His Immortality’s height. ```Where is the world-soul?
The world-soulIs inside my blossoming vision.
What shall I do with it?
I shall give it out.To whom?
To those who know thatLife-passage and love-message
Are one,Inseparably one.
```Choose!
God-life or man-perfection.Choose!
Choose!
God-edifice or man-sacrifice.Choose!
Choose!
God-power or man-love.Choose!
```My doubtful prayers
Are my prayers of clay.My soulful prayers
Are my prayers of day.My thought-covered prayers
Are my prayers of frustration.My silence-filled prayers
Are my prayers of destination. ```His heart lives
In the sea of loneliness.His mind lives
In the pool of loneliness.His vital lives
In the pyre of depression.His body lives
In the cave of perdition. ```When I use
My time-telescope,I suffer from dark uncertain night.
When I use
My love-telescope,I build the palace of life
In the kingdom of God-Light. ```O light of trance,
Where are you?O trance of night,
Where are you not?O night of trance,
Where can I kill you?O Light, O trance,
I am of you.O night, O trance,
God is there for you. ```I eat,
And yet I eat notIgnorance-night.
I drink,
And yet I drink notIgnorance-sea.
I eat not,
And yet I eatKnowledge-sun.
I drink not,
And yet I drinkLustre-moon.
```He is one
When he representsTruth and Light.
He is one
When he representsLove and Life.
He is two
When he representsHis Inner Faith
AndHis Outer Doubt.
He is many
When he representsEarth-Bondage-Night
AndHeaven-Freedom-Bliss.
```The message of his vital:
Life is a self-imposed struggle.The message of his mind:
Life is a self-exposed-bondage.The message of his heart:
Life is a God-inviting hope.The message of his body:
Life is a death-manifesting ignorance. ```Earth is not
My journey’s start.Heaven is not
My journey’s close.My journey is
The birthless Lover on earth.My journey is
The deathless Beloved in Heaven. ```O life,
I love you.I love your sound-wave.
Therefore,Say not anything against me.
O death,
I love you.I love your silence-peace.
Therefore,Say not anything against me.
```No goal, no goal:
Behold the magic of the mind.No soul, no soul:
Behold the magic of the vital.No heart, no heart:
Behold the magic of the body.No night, no night:
Behold the magic of the heart.No ignorance, no ignorance:
Behold the magic of the soul. ```The life human
Is at its bestA transaction
BetweenBlack depression
AndBrown frustration.
The life divine
Is at its worstA transaction
BetweenA hungry sky
AndA thirsty sun.
```God, let us settle
Our accounts.God, do I owe You anything?
“Certainly you do, My son.
You owe MeYour failure-sea
AndYour failure-sky.”
God, here they are.“Son, do I owe you anything?”
Yes, Lord, You owe meMy Eternal Now.
“Son, here it is.” ```Three are the things
That you can do with God:First kill Him and then love Him
OrFirst love Him and then kill Him
OrLove His Peace devotedly,
Love His Light unreservedly,Love His Love unconditionally.
```God is lazy.
ThereforeMy body does not bother God.
God is weak.
ThereforeMy vital does not bother God.
God is ignorant.
ThereforeMy mind does not bother God.
God is shy.
ThereforeMy heart does not bother God.
```If you are the son of God,
Then give Him what you have:Your cry, your constant cry,
Your endless cry.And
If God is your son,Then give Him what you are:
Your smile, your birthless smile,Your deathless smile.
```Two are better than one.
ThereforeI always stay
With the Compassion of the Supreme.One is better than two.
ThereforeI never stay
With my personal efforts. ```What is important in life?
A soulful smile.What is important in death?
A fruitful silence.What is important in Immortality?
A dutiful necessity. ```You and I
Can easily work it out together.You pray to God
To grant us nectarOn our behalf.
And when God grants us nectar,Let me taste it first
On our behalf.If it tastes good,
Without failI shall share it with you.
Let us try.You and I
Can easily work it out together. ```The blessing of your madness:
Nobody will come near you.The blessing of your calmness:
God will come near you.The blessing of your impurity:
You will have to walk aloneTo your goal.
The blessing of your purity:
You will not have to go to your goal,Your goal itself shall come to you.
```How to be a genuine fake?
Go and ask a fanatic disciple.He has the most perfect
Answer for you.How to be a genuine rogue?
Go and ask a self-styled busy disciple.He has the most perfect
Answer for you. ```The world is too much with me.
ThereforeI see not the face of God.
The world is too much within me.
ThereforeI fail to see the face of Love.
```The human eye sleeps
In the room of dreams.The divine Eye strikes
The Hour of Reality.The human heart declares:
Love before you perish.The divine Heart reveals:
Love and become,Become and love.
```Tension and destruction:
This is the discovery of the animal life.Tension without attention:
This is the discovery of the human life.Attention without tension:
This is the discovery of the divine life.Attention with discovery:
This is the discovery of the supreme life. ```My love is
My freewill.My freewill is
My God.My God is
My yesterday’s Silence,My today’s Sound,
My tomorrow’s Kingdom. ```He is a sick soul.
ThereforeHe is an earth-bound cat.
He is a strong soul.
ThereforeHe is a Heaven-free lion.
He is a God-soul.
ThereforeHe cries with the heart of earth
AndSmiles with the Eye of Heaven.
```I lived a cave-life
For meditation.I shunned all my human friends
To gain my only eternalAnd immortal Friend.
He came in and said:
“Son, your cave will suffocate me.I want to live in your palace-life.
It will give me what I admire —Oneness with the multitudes.”
```God, I teach
BecauseThis is the only thing I know.
“Son, I learn
BecauseThis is the only thing I know.”
God, I judge You
BecauseThis is the only thing I know.
“Son, I forgive you
BecauseThis is the only thing I know.”
```Society and sanity:
I like society,I love sanity.
Beauty and purity:
I like beauty,I love purity.
Generosity and humility:
I like generosity,I love humility.
Responsibility and duty:
I like responsibility,I love duty.
```Don’t conclude,
Just watch!Lo, God is blessing you.
Don’t watch,
Just feel!Lo, God is loving you.
Don’t feel,
Just surrender!Lo, God is embracing you.
```Fear
Is a backward glance.Cheer
Is a forward glance.Love
Is an inward glance.Devotion
Is an upward glance.Surrender
Is an all-embracing glance. ```Surrender
Is the vision of my world-clock.Surrender
Is the reality of my life after death.Surrender
Is the bridgeBetween
My pure ascentAnd
God’s sure descent. ```Father,
This is just a suggestion:Since You are extremely tired,
Let me take careOf Your creation
For a while.“Son,
This is just a suggestion:Since you are not tired at all,
You should not make friendsWith death-sleep
Any more.” ```He has two unreliable friends:
His black fear and his brown doubts.He has two reliable friends:
His white faith and his purple love.He has one indispensable friend:
His blue-gold inner cry. ```He has studied only three books:
The book of nonsense,The book of ignorance,
The book of innocence.The animal in him
Was satisfiedWith his nonsense-book.
The human in him
Was satisfiedWith his ignorance-book.
The divine in him
Was satisfiedWith his innocence-book.
```Why am I here
In the land of the Gurus?Why am I here
In the land of the disciples?I am in the land of the Gurus
BecauseGod wants to share with me
His Realisation-Light.I am in the land of the disciples
BecauseGod wants to share with me
His ignorance-night. ```A great man
Does not contradict meBecause
He knowsI am a senseless soul.
A good man
Does not contradict meBecause
He knowsI am a loveless soul.
A God-man
Does not contradict meBecause
He knowsI am a helpless soul.
```Why start?
Just start and see.How to start?
Just start and feel.When to start?
Just start and reach. ```He paid three visits to God:
First time he went
With a beggar’s humiliation.Second time he went
With a seeker’s humility.Third time he went
With a lover’s oneness.God questioned the beggar,
God smiled at the seeker,God caught the lover.
```If you
Love the cross,The crown will adorn you.
If you
Love the crown,The cross may not utilise you.
What is the cross?
The cross is self-examination.What is the crown?
The crown is self-manifestation. ```The mind of a fool
Knows everything.The mind of a wise man
Asks everything.The mind of a great man
Envelops everything.The mind of a good man
Treasures everything. ```The pond cries
For the Power of the sea.The river runs
For the Light of the sea.The sea sighs
For the Light within. ```The difference
BetweenMy heart and my mind
Is this:My heart grows up
ButDoes not grow old,
Never;My mind grows old
ButDoes not grow up,
Never. ```The difference
BetweenSaying and doing
Is this:Saying is man-power,
Doing is God-shower.The difference
BetweenGiving and receiving
Is this:Giving is the stamp of the individual man,
Receiving is the stamp of the universal God. ```What my body needs
Is an endurance-contest.What my vital needs
Is an appearance-contest.What my body needs
Is an inconscience-conquest.What my heart needs
Is an assurance-rest. ```Light for sale.
Nobody cameBecause
Light is too powerful.Truth for sale.
Nobody cameBecause
Truth is too hurtful.Ignorance for sale.
All cameBecause
Ignorance teaches them how to sing.Bondage for sale.
All cameBecause
Bondage teaches them how to dance. ```From:Sri Chinmoy,The Wings of Light, part 5, Aum Press, Puerto Rico, 1974
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