My Christmas-New Year-Vacation Aspiration-Prayers, part 30
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My Master’s acceptanceOf my life
Is God-realisation guaranteed
At God’s choicest Hour.
APR 2472. These prayers were given in Legian, Bali, Indonesia — 13 January 2004.↩
2
God knows everythingExcept one thing:
His Heart has yet to learn
How to exclude
Any human being.
3
Humanity is either enjoyingOr suffering from
God-faith-eclipse.
4
The Transcendental God-HeightIs only for the one-pointed
God-seekers, God-lovers
And God-servers.
5
My Lord Supreme,Just for a brief moment
Do show me
Your Divinity’s
Absolute Splendour.
6
Until just yesterdayAttachment and I were
Dearest friends,
But now we two have become
Perfect strangers.
7
My pride-mind says to God,“God, I need nothing
From You.”
8
My humility says to God,“My Lord, I need everything
From You, only from You.”
92
Knee-bendingIs needed
To cultivate our God-devotion.
APR 2480. These prayers were given in Legian, Bali, Indonesia — 14 January 2004.↩
10
Head-bendingIs needed
To nurture our God-surrender.
11
God does not want meTo remain asleep
Before His All-Compassion-Eye.
12
My prayerfulness-heartAnd my soulfulness-life
Reveal the closeness
Of my Lord’s Heart.
13
This morningWhen I woke up,
I was so excited to see
That I woke up in the Heart
Of my Lord Supreme.
143
My Lord Supreme,May my heart follow You,
Your Eye and Your Heart
Wherever You go.
APR 2485. These prayers were given in Legian, Bali, Indonesia — 15 January 2004.↩
15
My Lord Supreme,I have only one prayer:
Do make my heart
As beautiful and pure
As the morning sunrise.
16
My outer lifeFaces the world.
My inner life
Embraces the world.
17
Genuine and authentic spiritualityKnows no
Outer world-cleverness-compromise.
18
Occult powerIs quite often
Drastic and volcanic.
19
Spiritual powerIs always pure
And absolutely sure.
204
Action, action —Preferably heart-action —
All the time!
APR 2491. These prayers were given in Legian, Bali, Indonesia — 17 January 2004.↩
21
The Temple of God abidesInside our life-breath
And nowhere else.
22
My Lord,If You have a moment to spare,
I have so many things
To tell You —
Specially all about You.
23
Every day I feelMy Lord is coming
Closer to me,
For I am constantly singing
His Victory-Song.
245
To have more inner BlessingsFrom our Lord Supreme,
We must reduce
Our outer desires.
APR 2495. These prayers were given in Legian, Bali, Indonesia — 18 January 2004.↩
25
At every momentThere is a flight
From earth to Heaven.
The plane does not wait
Even for a fleeting second.
26
O come and bless me,Infinity’s Beauty
And Eternity’s Duty!
27
I must pleaseMy Mother Earth
And my Father Heaven
With my heart’s aspiration-mountain
And my life’s dedication-fountain.
286
My desire-mindWants to devour
My aspiration-heart.
APR 2499. These prayers were given in Sanur, Bali, Indonesia — 19 January 2004.↩
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My aspiration-heartLongs to illumine
My desire-mind.
30
Today my Lord SupremeIs paying His Compassion-flooded
And much-desired Visit
To my heart-home.
31
My God-devotionSecretly strengthens
My outer life.
32
My God-devotionSacredly deepens
My inner breath.
33
To have spiritual experiencesOf the summit-heights
Is quite an easy task
For those who have made
Their unconditional surrender
Lovingly and cheerfully
To God’s Will.
347
My Lord,I do not need a new face,
But I need a new heart
To love You and please You
In Your own Way.
APR 2505. These prayers were given in Sanur, Bali, Indonesia — 22 January 2004.↩
35
My Lord,You have left me alone
In my mind-jungle-cave.
How cruel You are!
36
My Lord,It seems that
You think only of Yourself
All the time.
How cruel You are!
37
Days have run into weeks,Weeks into months,
Months into years,
Yet You still ignore me,
My Lord.
38
Those who deliberatelyTake the side of darkness
Verily live
In the animal kingdom.
39
Great men come into the worldTo do great things,
Mostly for themselves.
40
Good men come into the worldOnly to do good things
For the world,
And nothing for themselves.
41
God has repeatedly told meThat He does not want
His Leadership-Command.
He wants only
My friendship-smile.
428
When my Lord arrives,My heart-tears
And my soul-smiles
Thrive unimaginably.
APR 2513. These prayers were given in Sanur, Bali, Indonesia — 23 January 2004.↩
43
O seeker,Be not discouraged
By your repeated sad failures.
God will give you
Innumerable chances.
You are bound to succeed.
44
Every morningAnd every evening
God comes to me
To examine my purity-mind
And my hospitality-heart.
45
My heart’s devotion-progressIs my Lord’s sleepless
Desire-hunger.
469
My God-aspirationEventually becomes
My God-realisation.
APR 2517. These prayers were given in Sanur, Bali, Indonesia — 25 January 2004.↩
47
My God-devotionUltimately becomes
My God-affection.
48
My God-surrenderInvariably becomes
My complete God-satisfaction.
49
I started my spiritual journeyAs a God-beggar.
Then I continued
As a God-lover, as a God-server.
Now I am continuing still
As a God-partner.
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When I see the sunrise,The celestial beauty of my soul
Immediately dances before me.
APR 2521. These prayers were given in Sanur, Bali, Indonesia — 26 January 2004.↩
51
If you admit your failings,God will without fail invite you
When next time He goes out sailing.
52
A seeker’s greatest gift to GodIs his ever-blossoming
Gratitude-heart.
53
For all the world-problems,The sleepless self-offering
Of each individual
Is the only answer.
54
My God-obedienceIs my God-Protection
In my life.
55
My God-obedienceIs my perfection-delight
In God’s Heart.
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How I long for the red-letter dayWhen my Lord Supreme
Will proudly claim me
As His own, very own.
APR 2527. These prayers were given in Sanur, Bali, Indonesia — 27 January 2004.↩
57
For me to agree with GodImplicitly all the time
Is to keep my mind completely shut
And my heart unreservedly open.
58
An outer life-adventurerI was.
An inner life-explorer
I now am.
59
Self-transcendence-joyUnmistakably knows
No equal.
60
My heart and I get much more joyWhen we walk far behind
Our Lord Beloved Supreme
Than when we walk with Him
Side by side.
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Each happy thoughtDisperses our mind’s
Thick and dark clouds.
APR 2532. These prayers were given in Sanur, Bali, Indonesia — 28 January 2004.↩
62
Alas, my expectationQuite often enters into
A frustration-abyss.
63
“Be happy and remain happy.Forget about your mistakes,
Even the very last one” —
So says my Lord Supreme.
64
God’s morning mirrorIs my aspiration-heart.
God’s evening mirror
Is my surrender-life.
65
God’s most favourite HomeIs my ever-blossoming
Gratitude-heart.
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I do not needA world-surprising, giant mind.
I need only
A simple, God-loving heart.
APR 2537. These prayers were given in Sanur, Bali, Indonesia — 31 January 2004.↩
67
Self-importance-pride:No, no, no — never!
Self-transcendence-joy:
Yes, yes, yes — ever!
68
My mind-unlearning desireAnd my heart-climbing aspiration
Must go together.
69
At nightGod’s Compassion-Eye teaches me.
In the morning
God’s Oneness-Heart examines me.
70
The earthly racesAre for the God-seekers.
The Heavenly races
Are for the God-discoverers.
7114
Today Heaven is beckoningMy climbing heart-flames.
APR 2542. These prayers were given in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia — 2 February 2004.↩
72
Today I have becomeMy God-Breath
To sing and play
In the Heart of His Universe.
73
Yesterday I buriedAll my sorrows, cries, tears and sighs
In oblivion-cave.
74
Within,Heavenly beauty my heart is.
Without,
Earthly duty my life is.
75
Time inspires me,Time aspires in and through me,
Time is affectionate to me
And time is proud of me
Precisely because I most sincerely value
The unreserved blessings of time.
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Silence speaks.Silence creates.
Silence fulfils.
Silence becomes
God’s choicest Voice.
APR 2547. These prayers were given in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia — 3 February 2004.↩
77
Be not indifferent.Be not different.
Be interdependent
If you really want joy
In measureless measure
From your life.
78
My outer qualificationIs my Lord’s Compassion-Eye
In action.
My inner qualification
Is my Lord’s Forgiveness-Heart
In action.
79
We must never, never indulgeIn our negativity-mind,
Even for a fleeting moment.
80
My humility isMy God-fulfilment-capacity
Far beyond my imagination.
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I must not delay.Time does not wait for me.
But my Lord Supreme waits for me
Indefinitely, lovingly, self-givingly
And unconditionally.
Therefore I love my Lord Supreme only
And I need Him only.
APR 2552. These prayers were given in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia — 5 February 2004.↩
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My life depends entirelyOn God’s Compassion-Eye.
God’s Heart entirely depends
On my cheerful and delightful
Surrender-breath.
83
Depression and enthusiasmAre immediate neighbours.
I must make the right choice.
I must go immediately
And live with enthusiasm
Permanently.
84
The outer world-recognition-beggarsAre failure-emperors
In the inner aspiration-world.
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God’s Compassion-exploitationI was.
God’s Compassion-distribution
I now am.
Editor's note
Sri Chinmoy offered the following prayers during his visit to Bali, Indonesia in January and February 2004.
