My Christmas-New Year-Vacation Aspiration-Prayers, part 44
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My mindDoes not like duty
At all.
APR 3524. These prayers were given in Kuantan, Malaysia — 23 December 2005.↩
2
My heartNot only loves duty
But also is eager
To have every day
A newly added duty.
3
The purity of my heartAnd God’s smiling Eyes
Are always found together.
4
My soul-bird sings and singsOnly one song:
Love God and please God.
5
When the heart speaks,The mind, the vital and the body
Must give full attention
To the heart.
6
Every day my heart’s criesMust go up very speedily
And not lag behind
The speed of the previous day.
7
SelflessnessAwakens and feeds
All the time
The tears of the heart.
8
Only silence and peaceCan transform
Restless and useless mind-clamour.
9
My Lord’s Happiness-EyeAt every moment
I try to devour.
10
My God-hunger was bornIn my Lord’s soothing
Cradle-Smiles.
112
Ignorance-mouthDevours everything,
Including blazing fire.
APR 3534. These prayers were given in Kuantan, Malaysia — 24 December 2005.↩
12
SatisfactionWill never take birth
In the mind’s
Desire-forest.
13
SatisfactionWill gladly take birth
In the heart’s
God-smiling garden.
14
Most dearlyMother Earth’s tears
God’s Heart cherishes.
15
Meditation and peaceDeeply enjoy
Their divine conversation.
16
We are not compelledTo lead a spiritual life,
But if happiness we want,
We must shun ignorance-night.
17
My Lord,You must keep Your Promise:
You will never leave my heart.
18
My life-riverAnd my heart-boat —
They live for each other.
19
My heartIs my soul’s
Joy-gathering nest.
20
Mother EarthIs
A pain-receiving heart.
21
Father HeavenIs
A joy-supplying Heart.
223
My God-obedience-boatHas safely brought me
To God-Infinity’s God-Shore.
APR 3545. These prayers were given in Kuantan, Malaysia — 25 December 2005.↩
23
I faithfullyFollow God’s Feet.
24
God’s brightest SmileFollows my heart.
25
When a seeker offers even an iotaOf self-giving effort,
He is bound to succeed.
26
My Lord,Do give me a Smile of Yours
So that I can pass through
My mind’s thickest
And darkest clouds.
27
No mindCan ever break through
The power of silence.
28
Every dayMay a deathless beauty and light
Dawn upon my aspiring heart.
29
My gratitude-heartIs first
On God’s priority list.
30
To double my happiness,I must become
A sleepless self-giver.
31
If you do not obey God,You as a traveller
Will never be able to enter
Into God’s Kingdom.
324
God is notMy occasional thought
But my sleepless thought.
APR 3555. These prayers were given in Kuantan, Malaysia — 26 December 2005.↩
33
ObedienceIs an unmistakable way
To reach God’s Golden Shore.
34
Who saysThat God’s Heart
Is not accessible?
God’s Heart
Is a wide-open door.
35
My question is:Who is God?
God’s Answer is:
“My child,
Some of you are budding gods,
While others
Are blossoming gods.”
36
O seeker,God wants you to accompany
His Eye and His Heart
From dawn to eve
Wherever He goes.
37
Nobody can ever dare to separateGod’s Compassion-Eye
From His Forgiveness-Heart.
38
The soul’s complete manifestationOf God’s Light
Takes place only
Here on earth.
39
God never, never wants youTo be arrested
By ignorance-night!
40
God wants youOnly to be interested
In Him
All the time.
41
Again and againGod wants to hear from me
My gratitude-heart-songs.
425
The ChristIs not only for Christmas.
He is for three hundred and sixty-five days
A year.
APR 3565. These prayers were given in Kuantan, Malaysia — 27 December 2005.↩
43
Do not try to hideFrom God’s Eye.
You will sadly fail.
44
My Lord,You are taking care of
My soul and my heart.
Please take care of
Every moment of my life.
45
I cameFrom a higher world
To serve the world below.
46
Our God-closenessMakes our world
Extremely sweet.
47
The privilegeOf being God’s servant
Cannot be fathomed.
48
The opinionsOf the mind
Cannot be taken seriously.
49
My heart cannot forgetThe sweeter than the sweetest
Memories of Heaven
While I am on earth.
50
God’s BreathWelcomes only
The devotion-heart.
51
Both the outer and inner encouragementsAre needed
To make the fastest progress
In spirituality.
526
When I give upIn the battlefield of life,
God becomes His Madness-Eye
And Sadness-Heart.
APR 3575. These prayers were given in Kuantan, Malaysia — 28 December 2005.↩
53
My gratitude-heart-tearsEvery day wash
God’s omnipotent Feet.
54
When aspiration becomesOur true friend,
Life becomes
Spiritually meaningful.
55
KindnessChanges our fate.
56
OnenessTransforms our lives.
57
I love to liveBetween my heart’s unshed tears
And my life’s shed tears.
58
Tell the mindVehemently
That it has no room
In your life any more.
59
When I truly love God,My heart becomes
Peaceful.
60
When I truly need God,My life becomes
Fruitful.
61
When we give up hope,Our promise
Starts to starve.
627
There are so manySecret and sacred ways
To go to God’s Palace.
APR 3585. These prayers were given in Kuantan, Malaysia — 29 December 2005.↩
63
Everything I doTakes root
In God’s Heart first.
64
There are many, many, many seekersHere on earth
Who have given everything
To God.
I must try to mix with them.
65
I want to be awakeAround the clock
So that whenever God wants me,
I shall be all ready.
66
The inner criesHave to be answered
Only by the inner world.
67
The God-denying mindBuilds and builds warships
To fight against
The divine forces.
68
The God-believing heartWants only a worship-boat
To invite God
To pilot the boat.
69
Earth hasIts stumbling feet.
70
Heaven hasIts whispering Protection.
Editor's note
Sri Chinmoy offered these prayers during his visit to Kuantan, Malaysia in December 2005.
