Editor's note

Sri Chinmoy offered the following prayers each time before he started to exercise on his stationary bicycle.

1.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
I am my doubtful mind.
God is God's tearful Heart.

1 January 2000

8:00 p.m.

Curitiba, Brazil

2.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
I wish to be the golden dust
Of Your Feet,
But You want me to be
The Himalayan pride
Of Your Heart.

2 January 2000

5:44 a.m.

Curitiba, Brazil

3.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
The deeper our heart-roots,
The stronger our love of God.

3 January 2000

7:05 a.m.

Curitiba, Brazil

4.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
Each happy moment
In my inner life
Builds a new castle-glory
In my outer life.

5 January 2000

10:21 a.m.

Curitiba, Brazil

5.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
Every day at sunrise
I shall aim at
A new horizon.

7 January 2000

7:59 a.m.

Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil

6.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
The desire-days of my mind
Are invariably followed by
The worry-nights of my heart.

8 January 2000

8:13 a.m.

Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil

7.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
The strength of the mind
Fails to disarm
The hope-power of the heart.

9 January 2000

8:07 a.m.

Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil

8.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
This morning You came down
To awaken me
To Your Infinity's Silence.

10 January 2000

6:26 a.m.

Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil

9.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
I have tamed my outer life
To remain still.
I have trained my inner heart
To enjoy the thrill.

13 January 2000

6:35 a.m.

Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil

10.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
My forgiveness-smile
Is the golden vastness
Of my heart-sky.

13 January 2000

6:35 a.m.

Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil

11.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
The tears of my heart
And
The smiles of my soul
Every day play hide-and-seek
To entertain You.

14 January 2000

7:43 a.m.

Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil

12.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
Whenever angels see
An unconditionally
God-surrendered seeker,
They immediately start trumpeting
God's supreme Victory.

15 January 2000

9:56 a.m.

Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil

13.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
Man-made friendship
Is a foolish hardship.
God-made friendship
Is a rainbow boat trip.

17 January 2000

Asunción, Paraguay

14.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
My heart is begging God
To use His iron rod
So that my mind can fly
In His boundless Sky.

18 January 2000

6:21 a.m.

Asunción, Paraguay

15.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
I must develop
Intense homesickness
For my Beloved Supreme.

19 January 2000

8:15 a.m.

Asunción, Paraguay

16.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
I have only one desire.
I have only one aspiration.
I have only one aim.
I have only one goal.
I wish to become
My Master's choicest slave.

20 January 2000

5:24 a.m.

Asunción, Paraguay

17.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
Impossible dreams are afraid of
My sleepless and breathless
Faith in God.

21 January 2000

6:18 a.m.

Asunción, Paraguay

18.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
May my heart dance and dance
With new hope-promise-blossoms
Every morning.

23 January 2000

6:46 a.m.

Asunción, Paraguay

19.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
When I secretly and deliberately
Hide inside my mind-jungle,
Only my God the Father
And God the Mother
Searches for me
Full of worries
And full of anxieties.

26 January 2000

Brasilia, Brazil

20.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
God says to my doubting mind
And my strangling vital,
"No more freedom!
No more freedom!"

27 January 2000

8:38 a.m.

Brasilia, Brazil

21.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
May my early morning prayer
Be fragrant with
My God-gratitude-heart-tears.

28 January 2000

Brasilia, Brazil

22.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
A golden hyphen must connect
The beauty of my heart
And
The fragrance of my soul.

2 February 2000

10:23 a.m.

New York

23.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
What are You doing?
What are You doing?
"My child, I am just wiping
The tears from your face.
I am just removing
The thorns from your eyes."

3 February 2000

9:59 a.m.

New York

24.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
Every day
God anxiously and eagerly waits
For the arrival
Of my aspiration-heart.

5 February 2000

8:51 a.m.

New York

25.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
My God-realisation every day
Lovingly and self-givingly
Ploughs
My life's world-dedication-soil.

7 February 2000

8:43 a.m.

New York

26.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
This morning
You secretly entered
Into my desire-mind,
Quickly robbed
All my desires
And ran away.

8 February 2000

8:08 a.m.

New York

27.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
My meditation-heart
And God's Ecstasy-Eye
Every day talk and talk and talk
To their fullest satisfaction.

10 February 2000

11:51 a.m.

New York

28.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
I came into the world
Only to spread
God-Consciousness-Delight
Here, there and all-where.

12 February 2000

9:09 a.m.

New York

29.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
O impersonal God,
You are Your own
Eternity's Love.
O personal God,
You are Your own
Immediacy's Hero.

14 February 2000

9:25 a.m.

New York

30.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
When I look at the world,
I am all sadness.
When I look at myself,
I am all madness.
My Supreme,
Save me from my sadness,
Save me from my madness!

"My child, My child,
Throw your sadness into My Heart,
Throw your madness into My Feet.
My Heart and My Feet
Will take care of your sadness
And madness.
My child, do not forget
That I depend on you,
I depend on you."

My Supreme, my Lord, my Beloved,
My Absolute Supreme,
Do accept the sea
Of my gratitude-heart-tears.

16 February 2000

8:54 a.m.

New York

31.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
My mind is a member
Of the God-seeker committee.
My heart is a member
Of the God-lover committee.
My life is a member
Of the God-server committee.

25 February 2000

New York

32.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
My monkey-mind gives no peace
To my God-loving
And God-roaring heart.

26 February 2000

7:15 a.m.

New York

33.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
My meditation does not blame
Anybody or anyone.
My meditation only tames
The undivine in me.

28 February 2000

9:26 a.m.

New York

34.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
God says to my heart
That there can be
No frustration-tears
In my heart.

1 March 2000

8:45 a.m.

New York

35.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
May my God-longing, God-crying
And God-surrendering breath
Remain ceaseless and deathless.

3 March 2000

9:29 a.m.

New York

36.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
To hear God's Nectar-Voice
My heart needs
An unshakeable poise.

5 March 2000

6:56 a.m.

New York

37.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
My heart blooms only
Where my Lord Supreme
Plants my heart.

6 March 2000

12:10 a.m.

New York

38.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
Alas, my mind enjoys
Microscope-inspection.
To my greatest joy,
My heart enjoys
Telescope-panorama.

7 March 2000

8:33 a.m.

New York

39.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
No more a fault-finding mind.
More a God-loving heart
In every human life, everywhere —
More, ever more.

9 March 2000

7:21 a.m.

New York

40.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
God's Eye teaches me
How to love.
God's Life teaches me
How to serve.
God's Heart teaches me
How to surrender.

11 March 2000

4:09 a.m.

New York

41.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
When I open my eyes,
I see nothing of the inner world.
When I open my heart,
I see not only the things
Of the inner world
But God Himself.

12 March 2000

7:50 a.m.

New York

42.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
Each day I offer
A new surrender-life to You,
I give You a new victory.

16 March 2000

9:14 a.m.

New York

43.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
It is a very rare privilege
To feel and say
That my Master is always right,
Not only for me
But also for the entire humanity.

18 March 2000

New York

44.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
My prayer-tears
Brighten my eyes.
My meditation-smiles
Sweeten my heart.

21 March 2000

8:23 a.m.

New York

45.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
May my unconditional surrender
To God's Will
Be the only joy
In my aspiration-heart
And my dedication-life.

25 March 2000

7:01 a.m.

New York

46.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
The mind greedily wants to study
World-destruction-terrorism.
The heart prayerfully likes to study
World-oneness-heroism.

29 March 2000

8:50 a.m.

New York

47.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
God's Compassion and Love-Nets
Catch only the true seeker-hearts.

31 March 2000

7:34 a.m.

New York

48.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
To please You,
My Lord Beloved Supreme,
I need only the repetition
Of one thought:
Gratitude.

4 April 2000

8:00 a.m.

New York

49.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
Desire-indulgence
I was.
Aspiration-effulgence
I now am.

6 April 2000

New York

50.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
Finally my soul has succeeded
In taking my life away
From my mind-desert!

10 April 2000

9:23 a.m.

New York

51.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
Alas, the human mind
Is always slow to appreciate
And always quick to deprecate.

14 April 2000

New York

52.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
If I have true aspiration
For You,
Then only You can give me
True satisfaction.

New York

15 May 2000

7:47 a.m.

53.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
Your Compassion treasures
All our self-giving efforts.

18 May 2000

7:52 a.m.

New York