My Christmas-New Year-Vacation Aspiration-Prayers, part 42
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The outer appearanceIs not
The real life.
APR 3382. These prayers were given in Pangkor Island, Malaysia — 7 December 2005.↩
2
The deeper existenceIs
The pure and real life.
3
Peace of mind never comesBy not accepting
The world.
4
Peace of mind comesBy loving the world
And by becoming the world.
5
An unconditional God-loverAnd God-server
Is the real cynosure
Of all human eyes.
6
God’s PrideIs not
In the mind-book-volumes.
7
God’s PrideIs
In the heart-booklet.
8
Each heart has the capacityTo be the joy and pride
Of the Universal Life.
9
I always love to beIn the audience
And not an actor.
10
God-actorsAre born actors
And not man-made.
112
Nobody can go to GodWith weak faith.
APR 3392. These prayers were given in Pangkor Island, Malaysia — 8 December 2005.↩
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This momentMy Lord is my heart’s Pilot.
Next moment
My Lord is my life’s Charioteer.
13
I keep my curiousAnd devoted ears
Always very close to God.
14
My soul, my heart and IEvery day
Plant hundreds of peace-trees
In my heart-garden.
15
When I peacefully sleep,God lovingly watches
My sleep.
16
When it is a matter of strictness,God does not know
How to calculate His strictness.
17
Anything that is divineHas to be lived and relived
Indefinitely.
18
I love my Lord’sCompassion-Assurance
More than anything else.
19
We are allHeaven-sent first,
And then become
Earth-born realities.
20
A life-boatWithout aspiration-sails
Is a very sad
Failure-experience.
21
Ask not,Want not —
Just become
Divinity’s child.
22
When I look downTo see man’s head,
I descend.
When I look up
To see my Lord’s Feet,
My life at once ascends
And transcends.
23
My Lord’s Compassion-EyeIs an antidote
To my faith-starvation-life.
243
To choose obedienceIs to choose the seeker’s
God-pleasing life.
APR 3405. These prayers were given in Pangkor Island, Malaysia — 9 December 2005.↩
25
To choose disobedienceIs the self-destruction
Of the spiritual life.
26
I just offerMy God-pleasing willingness.
God does the rest
Most kindly, most affectionately
And most happily.
27
Ego is eitherThe world-satisfaction-beggar
Or the world-attention-commander.
28
If you cherishWrong and undivine thoughts
In God’s Presence,
Then God can do nothing,
Absolutely nothing, for you.
29
Eagerness can easilyCross over the fence
Of the opposition parties.
30
After joining the spiritual path,If I cannot please my Master,
Then my Lord Supreme gets
The bitterest
Disappointment-experience.
31
Alas,The outer sun
Has passed away.
To my greatest joy,
My inner sun will not leave me —
Never!
32
This morningI smiled and smiled
At my Lord Supreme.
He said to me,
“My child,
Today you have given Me
The most marvellous day
Of My Life!”
334
God the Heaven-FounderSays to me,
“My child,
Sleep with Me
And dream with Me.”
APR 3414. These prayers were given in Pangkor Island, Malaysia — 10 December 2005.↩
34
God the earth-FounderSays to me,
“My child,
Work with Me
And work for Me.”
35
My ego-prideIs totally obsolete.
36
To my greatest joy,My expectation-construction
Is collapsing.
37
The fastest wayTo arrive at God’s Palace
Is to start with surrender.
38
Although the mindIs often dry,
It enjoys the gossip-world
Most surprisingly.
39
God’s most powerful UtteranceGod will speak first.
Then my soul and my heart will speak.
Finally my mind will speak
Slowly, quietly and respectfully.
40
God always wantsThe heart of purity
To start His Cosmic Play.
41
O my stupid mind,There is no roundabout way
To fool God.
42
Love GodSleeplessly.
Sing God-songs for God
Untiringly.
An unimaginable God-receptivity
You will be granted from Above.
435
TodayGod’s every Breath
Is blessing my God-longing
Heart-cries.
APR 3424. These prayers were given in Pangkor Island, Malaysia — 13 December 2005.↩
44
Forever and foreverI have been
God-Infinity’s dream.
45
Today my lifeIs forever changed!
How?
My Lord has placed
His Thunder-Feet
On my restless mind,
Wild vital and sleeping body.
46
Like God-disobedience,God-deception also
Cannot be concealed.
47
God’s Forgiveness-SunShines equally
For His good and bad children.
48
There is notA single human being
Who does not need
God’s Compassion-Shelter.
49
Who is hungryFor God’s Justice-Light?
Not the body,
Not the vital,
Not the mind,
But only the heart
Is ready and hungry
For God’s Justice-Light.
50
I have heardThe Call
Of Infinity’s Silence.
51
A blossoming heartIs
Exceedingly beautiful.
52
I want the mind to liveIn a desolate,
Thickest and darkest
Forest-night,
Which it rightly deserves.
536
Any time is the best timeTo see God,
To be at God’s Feet
And to talk to God
In the world of silence.
But to realise God,
God chooses a special Hour.
At His choice Hour
We realise Him.
APR 3434. These prayers were given in Kuantan, Malaysia — 14 December 2005.↩
54
My life’s most sacred placeIs my heart-temple.
It is there,
Where I meet with God,
That I get infinite joy.
55
O leisure-class seekers,Each time you seek,
God sheds bitter tears.
56
I sing early in the morning.My Lord says,
“Not enough, not enough!
Fly high
In the rainbow-morning-sky.”
57
KeepYour aspiration-breath
Alive.
58
KeepYour dedication-muscles
Active.
59
KeepYour heart-prayers
Soulful.
60
My joy knows no boundsThat today I have re-established
My heart-connection
With my Lord Supreme.
61
TodayMy Lord’s Love-Call
Is flooded
With Affection-Smiles.
62
When God hearsOur gratitude-songs,
He immediately starts
Smiling and dancing.
637
I try to please GodIn Heaven.
I try to please God
On earth.
To please God on earth
Is infinitely more difficult
Than to please God in Heaven.
APR 3444. These prayers were given in Kuantan, Malaysia — 15 December 2005.↩
64
Every morningI send an invitation card
To my Lord Supreme.
He reads the card immediately
And says that He is not ready
Nor am I ready
To meet together.
65
One God-Smile is enoughTo change our life
If we really want it to.
66
Poor God!He has nobody
To whom He can
Unburden His Heart.
67
Heart-temples teach usHow to be pure,
How to be loving
And how to be self-giving.
68
To be perfect in lifeOne does not need
A very, very long time.
One does not have to be on earth
Hundreds of years.
69
God wants a humility-heartTo stand first,
Before anybody else.
70
I spoke to the mountains.They told me
That they would immediately
Send me
Their mountain-deep peace.
71
The world-peace-loversMust accumulate
Their peace-dreams
And place them
At the Feet of God.
72
The smiling soulsAnd the crying hearts
Start their journey together
And end their journey together.
Editor's note
Sri Chinmoy offered the following prayers during his visit to Pangkor Island and Kuantan, Malaysia in December 2005.
