My Christmas-New Year-Vacation Aspiration-Prayers, part 4
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Life is short.Hope is long.
Promise is vast.
Promise-fulfilment is perfect perfection.
APR 356. These prayers were given in Ayutthaya, Thailand — 1 December 2000.↩
2
Life is a journey.Death is the continuation of the journey.
Heaven is a temporary rest
For the commencement and fulfilment
Of a new life, a new hope
And a new promise.
32
My Lord,Do bless my breath, my heart,
My mind and my life
With implicit faith
In my Master’s will.
APR 358. These prayers were given in Yangon, Myanmar — 5 December 2000.↩
4.
Today I seeMy ignorance-world
In total destruction-fire.
5.
My MasterProudly cradles
My life’s
Progress-heart-plants.
6.
My aspiration-heartAnd my dedication-life
Today have taken a decisive turn
Towards my God-manifestation-eagerness.
7.
My Lord,I beg of You to grant me
Conscious and continuous progress
In my spiritual life
And to make despair
A thing totally foreign.
8.
May my God-manifestation-readiness,Willingness and eagerness
Know no wink
Of ignorance-sleep.
9.
My aspiration-climbing heart,No more fear-clouds,
No more!
No more doubt-storms,
No more!
10.
I was bornTo realise God, reveal God
And manifest God,
And for nothing less
And nothing else.
11.
My unconditional surrenderTo God’s Will
Has brought me
A most precious gold medal
In every field of my aspiration-life.
12.
Out of His infinite Bounty,My Lord Supreme has dropped
Many, many hints
As to how I can realise Him
In the near future.
13.
The human in me says,“Better to die than to descend!”
The divine in me says,
“Ascend and ascend,
Sleeplessly and breathlessly—
Ascend and ascend!”
14.
My Master-Lord,May my mind thrive
And my heart feast
On your divine scoldings
Every day
So that I can have the fastest speed
To realise
My Lord Absolute Beloved Supreme.
15.
Every day God wantsOnly my gratitude-heart
To read
His secret Life-Stories.
16.
Sweeter than the sweetestWhen my Lord Beloved Supreme and I
Meet in my heart-garden.
17.
When self-indulgence-boatSails,
Ignorance-night
Assails.
18.
There shall come a timeWhen humanity’s heart
Shall win
Divinity’s God-President-election.
19.
O seeker,Be careful, be careful!
Your all-desiring mind
Can at any moment be attacked
By the most ruthless nightmare.
20.
Expectation-rejectionsAre immediately invited
And proudly blessed
By the Light of the Absolute Beyond.
21.
O seeker,You must spend all your time
On your aspiration-heart-friend
And spend no time
On your desire-mind-foe.
22.
My Lord Supreme,May I ply my life-boat
Between Your Compassion-Eye-Shore
And Your Forgiveness-Heart-Shore
Every day.
23.
God is telling meThat soon, very soon,
He will broadcast
The celestial fragrance
Of my aspiration-heart.
24.
God is extremely eagerTo liberate me
From the pain of my uncomely thinking.
But, alas, I prevent Him
Each and every time
From fulfilling
His Compassion-flooded Love.
25.
If it is my genuine aspiration-heart,Then it is bound to love
Every little thing about God.
26.
My heart is extremely dear to GodPrecisely because
It never dares to imagine
God’s displeasure.
27.
At long lastI am enjoying
My Lord’s unconditional
Forgiveness-Ecstasy-Breath.
28.
Not one,But two paradises I have:
My God-devotion-heart
And
My God-surrender-life.
29.
My Lord Beloved Supreme tells meThat I am absolutely perfect
Only when I turn all my attention
To His Needs.
30.
My God-gratitude-tearsAnd God’s Nectar-Delight-Smiles
Are inseparable.
31.
God tells meThat He is completely fulfilled
Only when I feed Him
With my heart’s aspiration-seeds.
32.
Soulfully and self-givinglyEvery day, every hour, every minute
And every second
I must serve God the creation.
33.
Each time I dare to dream,I get a most beautiful glimpse
Of God’s infinite Beauty.
34.
Wake up, my body!Get up, my vital!
Shut up, my mind!
Fly high, my heart,
Far beyond the skies!
35.
May each nerve of mineServe my Lord Supreme
Soulfully and self-givingly
Every day, every hour, every minute
And every second.
36.
Meditation and nothing elseHas the rare capacity
To discover, reveal and manifest
The diamond-beauty
Of our God-longing heart.
37.
God has no timeTo read my mind-stories,
But He has His Eternity
To hear my heart-songs.
38.
Only my heart’s devotion-starsHave the capacity to twinkle
In my mind’s teeming darkness.
39.
My life’s progress-promiseShines only in
My sleepless and breathless tears.
40.
God says to me,“My child, you will be able
To find Me
Only if you dare
To bind Me
In your climbing aspiration.”
41.
In the spiritual life, O seeker,Never, never worry
About running too fast.
True spirituality knows
No speed limit.
42.
If you are truly in loveWith God’s Feet,
Then God will secretly give you
What He has and what He is.
What He has
Is Infinity’s Delight.
What He is
Is Immortality’s Satisfaction.
43.
Unlike all human beings,God has only one hobby:
Unconditional Forgiveness.
44.
My Lord’s endless ConcernCovers all spheres
Of my earth-existence-life.
45.
May my God-hunger-breathNever stop,
Never!
46.
My Lord Supreme wants meTo achieve distinction
In my aspiration-world,
And not in my desire-world.
47.
Right from today,Throughout Eternity,
May God’s Will
Lead my way.
48.
My aspiration-heartAnd
My dedication-life
Exist exclusively
For God’s Fulfilment, Joy
And Satisfaction.
49.
Why was I born?I was born to serve,
Lovingly, prayerfully
And soulfully,
The golden dust
Of my Lord’s Nectar-Feet.
50.
My Lord Supreme,I shall never, never, never
Allow You to shed tears.
This is my life’s
Most solemn oath.
51.
My Lord tells meThat I can easily belong
To His inner School,
Only after I have performed
My ego-extinction-miracle.
52.
Our Lord Supreme whispers,“My sweet children,
Have faith, have faith, have faith!
Ignorance-night comes
Only to go.”
53.
My constant God-obedience-lifeIs always
On the right track.
54.
Even one tearFrom my aspiration-heart
Expedites
My Godward journey.
55.
My long-treasured mind-noiseHas finally surrendered
To my heart’s ever-blossoming poise.
56.
The difference betweenMy desire-mind
And my aspiration-heart
Is very simple:
My desire-mind
Is reward-expectation;
My aspiration-heart
Is God-satisfaction.
57.
Beautiful,Divinely beautiful,
Supremely beautiful,
Beautiful beyond compare,
The tears of my God-loving heart.
58.
May God constantlyShape my life
To His liking.
59.
During the entire dayI must remember
My God-gratitude-prayer.
60.
May my aspiration-heart-skyBe filled
With my God-fulfilment-promise-stars.
61.
Each divine thoughtIs a God-embodiment,
God-revelation
And God-manifestation-fulfilment-delight.
62.
Self-givingIs a bountiful
God-harvest-ecstasy.
63.
No moreMy earth-attachment-chain!
No more
My bondage-night-pain!
From now on I need only
God-enlightenment-game.
64.
Let us all prayFor the universal defeat
Of self-doubts and God-doubts.
65.
If you want to beA supremely divine instrument of God,
Then you must be always aware
Of your ingratitude-mind
That is still alive and kicking
And destroying all the divine things
That you have within.
66.
I must never, never, never disappointThe Compassion-flooded Will
Of my Lord Beloved Absolute Supreme.
67.
I must sleeplesslyKeep in touch
With my Beloved Lord’s Will.
68.
My life’s God-fulfilment-promiseMust always maintain
An uncompromising firmness
When it deals with the desire-world.
69.
Like my soul,My heart, my mind,
My vital and my body
Must walk along Eternity’s Road
To please God in His own Way.
70.
I must become a real memberOf God’s Vision-flooded
Peace-Mission-Manifestation
Here on earth.
713
In my spiritual lifeI need only one thing:
A burning God-hunger.
APR 426. These prayers were given in Yangon, Myanmar — 11 December 2000.↩
72.
When I am absolutely sincere,I receive the smile of the millennium
From Above.
73.
I must pray and meditate every daySoulfully and self-givingly.
If not, idle thoughts shall tumble
From all directions.
74.
My deep meditationsAre always blessed
By the ever-inspiring
Voice of the Beyond.
75.
My God tells me thatMy unconditional surrender-life
Is the most haunting melody
To His Ears.
76.
When I amMy indomitable faith in God,
God becomes
His immeasurable Love for me.
77.
God never readsMy mind’s secret letters.
He reads only
My heart’s sacred letters.
78.
God completely trusts usOnly after we have become
The faithful lovers of humanity.
79.
An unseen God-seeker,God-lover and God-server
Is an unparalleled God-treasure
In God’s own Heart.
80.
I am succeedingIn my outer life
And I am proceeding
In my inner life
Only because of my Lord’s
Outstretched Compassion-Arms.
81.
I must cultivateSleepless God-love
To liberate me
From my confusing
And confused mind.
Editor's preface
Sri Chinmoy offered these morning prayers during his visit to Ayutthaya, Thailand and Yangon, Myanmar in December 2000.
