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A sage is a page of God’s immortal book: Compassion.

Prayer and meditation

1.

Prayer is man’s soulful cry for God.
Meditation is man’s fruitful smile in God.

2.

Prayer is personal. Also universal.
Meditation is impersonal. Also transcendental.

3.

Prayer is petition. Also adoration.
Meditation is absorption. Also perfection.

4.

Prayer needs God’s Compassion-shower.
Meditation needs God’s Illumination-tower.

5.

I pray for Immortality in mortality.
I meditate on Infinity in Eternity.

6.

Prayer is night crying for light.
Meditation is light searching for delight.

7.

Prayer reminds us of our hidden sins.
Meditation reminds us of our forgotten sun.

8.

Through prayer God says,
“My child, I am waiting for you. Come and see Me.”
Through meditation God says,
“My son, wait for Me. I am coming to see you.”

9.

Prayer is the purity that counts.
Meditation is the luminosity that mounts.

10.

My prayer teacher showed me the beauty of soulfulness.
My meditation teacher blessed me with the duty of oneness.

11.

Prayer soulfully reveals man’s faith in God.
Meditation smilingly reveals God’s faith in man.

12.

God? Who, you?
No.

God? Who, he?
No.

God? Who, I?
No.

Who, then, is God?
God is my prayer-purity’s quest.

Who, then, is God?
God is my meditation-divinity’s nest.

13.

My God is mad because nowadays I do not pray either in the morning or in the evening.
My God is sad because nowadays I do not meditate sleeplessly and unconditionally.

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Before I pray

Dag Hammarskjold Auditorium, United Nations, 4 March 1980

1.

My Supreme Lord,
Before I pray to You
For the possession-night,
May I pray to You for the renunciation-flame.
May I?

My Supreme Lord,
Before I pray to You
For the renunciation-flame,
May I pray to You for the acceptance-lamp,
May I?

My Supreme Lord,
Before I pray to You
For the acceptance-lamp,
May I pray to You for the oneness-column of light,
May I?

My Supreme Lord,
Before I pray to You
For the oneness-column of light,
May I pray to You for the surrender-sun,
May I?

2.

My Supreme Lord,
Right after my aspiration-height-prayer,
May I pray to You for the dedication-length,
May I?

My Supreme Lord,
Right after my dedication-length-prayer,
May I pray to You for the union-depth,
May I?

My Supreme Lord,
Right after my union-depth-prayer,
May I pray to You for the perfection-cry,
May I?

My Supreme Lord,
Right after my perfection-cry-prayer,
May I pray to You for the satisfaction-smile,
May I?

My Supreme Lord,
Right after my satisfaction-smile-prayer,
May I pray to You for the gratitude-heart,
May I?

3.

My Supreme Lord,
For You I have two beautiful gifts:
My prayer-sound and my meditation-silence.
Today I am offering to You
My prayer-sound-gift.
Tomorrow I shall give to You
My meditation-silence-gift.

Before I meditate

5 March 1980

1.

My Supreme Lord,
Before I meditate on You
To destroy my uncomely, unaspiring
And undivine thought-world,
May I meditate on You
To grant me a pure, progressive
And promising thought-world,
May I?

My Supreme Lord,
Before I meditate on You
To grant me a pure, progressive
And promising thought-world,
May I meditate on You
To completely silence my thought-worlds,
May I?

My Supreme Lord,
Before I meditate on You
To completely silence my thought-worlds,
May I meditate on You
To grant me, out of Your boundless Bounty,
An adamantine will-world.
May I?

My Supreme Lord,
Before I meditate on You
To grant me an adamantine will-world,
May I meditate on You
To richly bless me with an unalloyed, unreserved
And unconditional surrender-world,
May I?

2.³

My Supreme Lord,
Right after my meditation
On the blossoming Peace,
May I meditate
On the illumining Light,
May I?

My Supreme Lord,
Right after my meditation on the illumining light
May I meditate on the immortalising delight,
May I?

My Supreme Lord,
Right after my meditation on the immortalising delight,
May I meditate on the fulfilling oneness,
May I?

2.

My Supreme Lord,
Yesterday I placed at Your Feet
My prayer-sound gift.
Today I am placing at Your Feet
My meditation-silence gift.

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Ten Thousand Flower-Flames

Who else is utterly helpless?

Who else is utterly helpless,
If not I?
An urgent matter compelled me
To phone Heaven.
Heaven’s line was busy, as usual.
I phoned earth.
Earth was not at home.
I phoned my soul.
My soul told me that
My problem was too complicated,
And I should not bother it.
I phoned my Lord.
My Lord said, “Son, when will
You learn the supreme secret:
‘Self-help is the best help’.”
Now tell me, my seeker-friends,
Who else is utterly helpless,
If not I?

Two supreme secrets

My Lord told me a supreme secret:
“My child, I shall never scold you anymore.”
I told my Lord a supreme secret:
“My Father-Friend,
I shall never disappoint You anymore.”

I have already answered

My Lord Supreme,
If I ever write You a soulful letter,
Will You answer me?

Of course, My son, of course.
My child, you do not have
To take the trouble of writing Me.
I have already answered you in fruitful silence
“I love you.
I really and truly love you.”

How could this be true?

My Lord Supreme,
How could this be true?
You rang my alarm clock.

How could this be true?
You prayed for my salvation.

How could this be true?
You concentrated on my illumination.

How could this be true?
You meditated for my realisation.

How could this be true?
You contemplated on my perfection.

How could this be true?
You loved for my satisfaction.

Do you know the way?

Do you know the way?
If so, do lead me
Compassionately.

Have you seen the Goal?
If so, show me the face of the Goal
Unconditionally.

It will help

Cry, my child.
It will help your heart.

Smile, my child.
It will help your soul.

Serve, my child,
It will help your life.

Love, my child,
It will help not only your goal,
But also my role.

My thoughts

Earth-gratitude,
You are my wasted thought.

Heaven-promise.
You are my perfected thought.

God-Compassion.
You are my liberated thought.

Questions and answers on running

Questions by San Francisco disciples continued

Question: How can I expedite the growth of purity through running?

Sri Chinmoy: Running considerably helps the seeker to establish purity. Each time he breathes in, if he can remember or repeat just one time God’s Name, or ‘Supreme’, or whatever divine name or form comes to his mind, then that spiritual thought will increase his purity. Either it turns into purity within the runner, or it grants purity to the runner.

Question: What are the best qualities of running as opposed to playing tennis?

Sri Chinmoy: Running reminds us of our inner journey, which is ahead of us. The goal is ahead, and we are running toward our destination. It is a great feeling, which eventually grows into a great achievement. Playing tennis reminds us of being an instrument. The tennis ball is a self-giving instrument, always trying to please us in our own way. Whichever way we want to strike it, the tennis ball surrenders. It is always ready to listen to us, according to our capacity. So tennis reminds us of a divine goal, which is to become a perfect instrument of God and to please God in His own way. And running reminds us of our continuous journey along Eternity’s Road toward the destined Goal. Tennis and running can remind us of two paths toward one goal: they both ultimately reach the selfsame goal, but they reach it from different directions.

Question: What is the most difficult part of the marathon?

Sri Chinmoy: It depends on the individual. Most runners feel that after twenty miles it is all pain and heartache. But, in my case, the first three miles are the most difficult. During the first three miles the human in me always wants to give up. It gives such adequate reasons. “What is the use of running after realising God?” it says. “My realisation is more than enough. Why do I have to do this silly thing? Millions and billions of people would die to get God-realisation, and here I have to kill myself to run twenty-six miles.” Another thing the human in me says is, “I have not slept enough for many days. I will not do well because I have not taken enough rest. What is the use of doing something if I do not do it well?” Then, after one mile, the human in me feels, “Oh God, I have to go twenty-five more miles. One mile is killing me, and I have so many more to go.” Then, what is worse, my divine students — of course, with good intention — will tell me the wrong times and the wrong distance. On their own they will give me a timing which is totally wrong, and the distance is also wrong. After covering the first few miles, instead of getting encouragement I get only discouragement. The arithmetic world comes forward not the running world — and I think of how many more miles I have to go. It is not actually challenging; it is threatening, disheartening and frightening. So the first three miles compel me to think of quitting a good many times.

But after I have covered about ten miles I get tremendous joy, as if the goal were right in front of me. Physically I may be tired, but inwardly I feel a great sense of accomplishment. After twenty miles I am physically tired, but mentally and psychically I am getting tremendous joy. I feel that the goal that I have been longing for, I have almost reached. After twenty miles I never feel disheartened, even if I am dead. It is great joy that I experience. But during the first three miles I have absolutely the worst experience. The first two or three miles are really disheartening for me.

Usually, they say, morning shows the day. This is so true. If you get a good start, especially in a short-distance run, you have a tremendous advantage. If you get a good start in the 100-metre or 200-metre dash, you are 75 percent on the way to victory. But when it is twenty-six miles that you have to run, a good start does not help. But if you have a fresh mind and a concentrated will, these things will help.

In my case the sad and deplorable experiences that I am telling about come on the gross physical, the vital and the mental planes. On the psychic plane there is tremendous, tremendous determination. After all, I am running for my progress, and competing sincerely with my own previous capacities. So my determination easily conquers all the negative forces that assail me. These negative experiences are all conquered by the inner adamantine will.

Question: What was the worst and also the best experience you ever had while running?

Sri Chinmoy: My latest experience, when I ran ten miles, was absolutely the worst. You can call it a divine curse. During my entire athletic career, which lasted eighteen or nineteen years in India, I never, never had such a deplorable experience, from the beginning to the end. I never had such unbearable knee trouble! And life-energy, if there is such a thing in God’s creation, deserted my legs totally! So that was the worst experience in my entire athletic career.

The best experience I had while I was in India. It was when I ran a relay race. There were four teams, and my team was last. All the other teams were ahead. One of those teams was second best in the ashram at that time, and the ashram’s second best runner was on that team. He and I were the last runners, since the best runners are supposed to be last in a relay. The second best runner got the baton and started running. He was at least ten metres ahead of me, and I still hadn’t received the baton. My friends were literally crying, and my enemies were dancing. But when I got the baton, out of the blue a special burst of energy came. I caught up with my friend in forty metres, and then I went several metres ahead of him. Normally, when we are racing, he will be only two or three or at most, four metres behind me. But on that day, after getting a ten metre head start, he lost to me by seven or eight metres. So that was the best, or you can say, the most joyful experience. The other three members of my team lifted me up on their shoulders and ran into the crowd with me. That is a good experience I won’t forget.

From the spiritual point of view, some of my best experiences I had while I was doing the pole vault. I used to clear a good height; otherwise, I could not have won the decathlon. But my style was horrible. After leaving the ground, when I was at the top of my jump, for a fleeting second I used to talk to spiritual Masters. We used to chat. It was just a momentary experience. And then, when I fell — oh God! Because of my bad style my arms were on this side, my legs on that side and my head somewhere else. My sisters and my aunt used to keep their eyes closed as soon as I began my jump. They didn’t want to see how helpless a member of their family was at that time. But naturally it was a great, great, great, very great experience to talk to these spiritual Masters.

Absolutely the best experience that I have had from the spiritual point of view, I have told many times. It was when I collapsed totally after running four hundred metres and my soul left the body. It went up quite high, like a balloon. But Mother Kali grabbed the soul and put it back into my body. After that, for three days and three nights continuously I talked to her. I could not move an inch, but she appeared at one particular corner of my room and I spoke to her. It is because of her that you people can now see me here in the physical. So, from the spiritual point of view, that was my best experience.

Question: How can our outer smile help our running?

Sri Chinmoy: Your outer smile can help your running considerably. When you smile, you disarm your opponent. Take running, for the time being, as your opponent. While you are fighting or struggling with your enemy, which is running, if you give a smile, naturally your enemy will lose some of its strength. So play a trick on the enemy by smiling. This may sound absurd, but I assure you it is true. Just think of the running world as an enemy, and weaken the power or conquer the strength of the enemy by giving a smile.

Question: How can we sustain enthusiasm and freshness in our training?

Sri Chinmoy: We can sustain freshness and enthusiasm by having a sense of a clear, meaningful and fruitful goal. If we keep in mind this meaningful and fruitful goal, then enthusiasm and freshness will automatically dawn. If we value the goal, then the goal itself will give us enthusiasm and freshness. We are not aware of our goal’s conscious eagerness to help us reach it. We think that the goal that is ahead of us is indifferent to us: if we can come to it, well and good; if we cannot come to it, the goal is not going to come to us. We feel that the goal is something stationary. But it is not like that. In our case, the goal is always progressive, and this progressive goal is more than eager to help us.

The mother will stand at a particular place and wait for the child to come crawling or running toward her. But the mother is not only waiting to see; the mother has tremendous eagerness for the child to come and reach her. Finally, if the mother sees that the child is trying but not succeeding, at that time she will come running toward the child. Similarly, in the inner world the goal actually comes toward the runner. If we value the goal and feel that the goal is something worthwhile, if we feel that it has tremendous, boundless things to offer us, then naturally the goal itself will inwardly help us. The goal does not want us always to feel that it is a far cry; it wants us to reach it.

Question: Is it better to concentrate or meditate when running a marathon?

Sri Chinmoy: It is always advisable to concentrate while running a marathon. If you meditate, then you will feel that you are either on the top of a snow-capped mountain or at the bottom of the sea.

That is the very highest type of meditation, but that will not help your running. But if you concentrate on the running, then at every moment you will be able to regulate your steps and your forward movement. Also, discouraging, destructive and uncomely thoughts will not be able to lower your consciousness. If your consciousness is not lowered, then naturally you will run faster. Before you run, meditation is good to make the mind calm and quiet so that wrong forces do not enter. Before running a marathon, meditation is of paramount importance. But while running, concentration is of paramount importance.

Question: What should our attitude be before we approach a race?

Sri Chinmoy: Our attitude should be one of self-giving. The race here represents, our supreme journey. The sooner we can give ourselves totally to the supreme cause, the sooner we shall become a perfect instrument. So our attitude should be the attitude of a seeker, which is one of constant self-giving.

Question: Does running increase the spiritual purity and speed of unaspiring persons?

Sri Chinmoy: Definitely it increases the speed of unaspiring persons, and also it helps their spiritual purity. There are various reasons for this. The main reason is that running reminds us of a goal. When we are reminded of our goal, whether we consciously run toward the goal or not, our very feeling that there is a goal helps us considerably. There are many who are not aware of any goal, and they make practically no progress. Again, there are those who are aware of the goal but, at the same time, do not do what is necessary in order to reach the goal. It is like different types of seekers in a boat. Some of them are observing the sea and helping the pilot; they are excellent seekers. Then there are some who are not helping the pilot in any way, but just because they are in the boat, they are progressing. And there are some who are not in the boat at all. They are like the people who do not run at all, either inwardly or outwardly. So, if one can run, then unconsciously if not consciously, one will be aware of one’s progress, and this awareness is nothing short of an increase in purity and speed.

Question: Is there a meditation or mantra to improve speed and endurance?

Sri Chinmoy: ‘Supreme’ is the best meditation; ‘Supreme’ is the best mantra. While running, if you can repeat the name of the Supreme most soulfully and devotedly, then naturally it will help you improve your speed and endurance. If you want a mantra, then ‘Supreme’ is the best mantra. If you want a special type of meditation, then ‘Supreme’ is the best type of meditation. Just try to repeat the name of the Supreme most soulfully. It will help you improve your speed and increase your power of endurance.

Question: Is running better spiritually than other forms of strenuous exercise?

Sri Chinmoy: Running is undoubtedly better spiritually than other forms of strenuous exercise. First of all, in the inner world running reminds us of our eternal journey. When we run, especially when we run long-distance, we are more aware of our inner goal than we are during other forms of strenuous exercise. Running reminds us of our goal, and it also makes us feel that we are eternal runners. On the outer plane running gives us exercise from the soles of our feet to the crown of our head. From top to bottom we get exercise while we are running.

Strenuous exercise sometimes totally destroys our enthusiasm, and once we lose our enthusiasm, we lose everything. But when we run slowly and steadily, or when we jog, we feel that we are constantly progressing toward our goal. It is like using a measuring rod; every inch, every metre we progress is taking us closer to our goal. When we run, we can always be conscious that the goal is ahead of us and for us.

From the spiritual point of view, from the human point of view and from every point of view, running is infinitely more spiritual than the most difficult forms of strenuous exercise. Other kinds of exercise are also good, but if they are too strenuous, then they tell upon our health. And if they tell upon our health, then what good do they do? Only we will get a deplorable experience. But if we run, we will make both inner and outer progress.

Question: How is your running affecting the consciousness of the earth?

Sri Chinmoy: From the divine point of view, it shows my spiritual children that I am not a so-called Indian philosopher who lives in the moon world and has nothing to do with reality. It reminds them that I not only preach and teach but also act. My running has increased and will continue to increase the eagerness of my good disciples. When I run regularly and soulfully each day, I make progress as an individual. And when I make progress, automatically Mother Earth and my spiritual children make progress, because we are part and parcel of the same reality. Again, if Mother Earth makes progress in any field, we also derive considerable benefit from her progress. So, in that way my progress is the progress of the consciousness of Mother Earth.

Question: Why is a short run sometimes less comfortable than a long run?

Sri Chinmoy: When you do a long run, you can go slowly and steadily like an Indian bullock cart. But when you run a short distance, in ten seconds it is over. So naturally you will feel uncomfortable. In a short distance, as soon as the gun is fired, you have to reach the goal. The starting point and the goal are at practically the same place; but in a long-distance run, the goal remains for some time a far cry. During the time that it takes you to reach the goal, you can discover your own way to be physically more comfortable during the run. You can measure your distance mentally and calculate your capacities in your own way; you have the time. But for a short distance, in a few fleeting seconds you have to reach the goal; therefore, you have to give your body, vital, mind, heart and soul most forcefully, if not willingly, to the goal. Therefore, it becomes most uncomfortable.

Question: Why do we get injuries for no apparent reason?

Sri Chinmoy: There is always a reason, either in the inner world or in the outer world. In the inner world, if something is dislocated — if your consciousness has descended or if some hostile forces have attacked — you get an injury. Sometimes you are totally innocent, but the wrong forces, the malicious forces which are hovering around, can cause injury. Again, sometimes in the inner world or in the thought world you have done something wrong, and this can also cause an injury. Thought can be more destructive than a hydrogen bomb. Wrong thoughts, which are so destructive, may come and attack you, especially your physical, which is in ignorance most of the time. The wrong forces find it very easy to attack the plane which is fast asleep, because they will encounter no opposition there. So in the inner world either your consciousness has descended because of wrong thoughts, or some hostile force has attacked you, and then you get an injury which you cannot see any reason for.

Question: Did God really intend everyone to run?

Sri Chinmoy: In God’s case, even while sleeping He runs the fastest. There is no difference between His sleeping and His running. And when He is sleeping, He knows that He is running. In the case of an ordinary human being, it is different. When you run, then only do you know that you are running. But when you are sleeping, you do not feel that you are running unless you have wild dreams that you are running faster than the fastest. But God, even when He is sleeping, knows that He is running.

God created two things for the human mind: running and sleeping. You can say that you have already done your share of sleeping. But God says, “Since you have pleased Me by sleeping, now please Me also by running.” So God did intend everybody to run. Running means speed, both on the inner plane and the outer plane. God’s Poise is speed, God’s Peace is speed. How will He go beyond His Goal if there is no speed? If there is no running, how can there be transcendence?

Question: Running is so closely connected with your path today, but it was not a few years ago. Why is that?

Sri Chinmoy: Good boy, you don’t take up everything at one time. First we try to do one thing and do it well. First we tried to accept spirituality as a whole. Then, after seven or eight years, when we felt that spirituality was accepted, we tried to open up a new course. You may call it a higher course or a lower course, but I will only call it a new course. If we had started running at the very beginning, people would not have accepted it. They would have thought the Centre was a running club. But gradually, gradually, people have accepted it. The same thing applies to our circus; now people have accepted it.

Also, we have to deal with the consciousness of America. Only for the last eight or ten years has America accepted long-distance running. Previously America was frightened of it. Previously, for America, speed was all-important. Like a bullet America wanted to run — faster than the fastest. Endurance wasn’t important. American speed and American endurance didn’t rhyme in those days. But the American consciousness has gone higher. Now America feels that speed is necessary and endurance is also necessary. Since the Goal is ever-transcending, endurance will always be necessary. So now America also believes in endurance.

Whenever America takes up one thing, it is only a matter of fleeting seconds before it does that thing well. How many excellent, excellent, super-excellent long-distance runners America has already produced, although long-distance running has been part of the American consciousness only for the last few years. Frank Shorter, Bill Rodgers and so many others have immortalised long-distance running in the consciousness of America in a few short years. When the consciousness of a country accepts a particular thing, that is the golden time. Ten, twelve years ago, it was all short-distance running. But now is the golden time, the opportune time for long-distance running. When the right moment comes we try to do the right thing. Again, even when we try to do the right thing, the hostile forces very often will stand in our way. We are doing the right thing at the right moment, but in spite of that we don’t succeed because of the wrong forces. But in this case, the wrong forces have not succeeded.

Question: By running marathons, are you running for our spiritual benefit?

Sri Chinmoy: I am doing everything to encourage you people and inspire you people. Otherwise, someone of my spiritual stature doesn’t have to do anything, anything. Sri Krishna was absolutely right when he said that he doesn’t have to do anything. But if he does not do anything, then the world will sink. When the spiritual Masters come, if they don’t talk, if they don’t do things, then the whole world will always remain in ignorance-sleep. People have been sleeping all along, but when the Masters come, if they are not active, then people will enjoy ignorance-sleep infinitely more.

So I am running to encourage you people. Outwardly you run much faster than I do; I am dying behind you, trying to keep up. But inwardly I am encouraging you all to come out of lethargy. With my conscious good will, my inner will, my oneness-will with your soul, I am trying to bring you beyond the boundaries of ignorance. I am doing this for my children; I am doing it for America; I am doing it for the entire world.

Those who have faith in me will believe me; others will say that it is because I have a big ego. “He wants to defeat his spiritual children. If he loses, shamelessly he challenges them and runs again. It is like a camel eating thorns. He eats thorns, he bleeds and then again he eats thorns.” Like this I am challenging some of my disciples. Every time I run, I lose; then again I challenge them. That is taking place on the outer plane. But on the inner place, I am inspiring the entire humanity to increase its inner speed.

There should be a race only for the spiritual Masters. And they have to be over forty.

Disciple: You would win, Guru.

Sri Chinmoy: Oh no, I won’t win, because there will be some Hatha Yoga teachers. They are terrific.

Disciple: But Hatha Yoga teachers won’t practice running.

Sri Chinmoy: It will be a “Masters’ masters,” for those over forty. Even if they are Hatha Yoga teachers, I am ready to compete.

Disciple: But Hatha Yoga teachers aren’t necessarily spiritual Masters.

Sri Chinmoy: True. In India they are just village boys, but here in America they automatically become Yogis. They have learned some acrobatics, and that is their Yoga. This is true in many cases. First they learn acrobatics very nicely, and then they read some Western books about Hatha Yoga. They don’t learn it from Indian books, no! From Western books they learn Hatha Yoga, and then they become authorities. I had four or five acquaintances who wanted to go and live abroad. So they read a book on Hatha Yoga, and now they have become self-styled authorities on Hatha Yoga.

The core of India's light

//[Continued from previous issues]//

Kshama

Forgiveness

Forgiveness helps me aspire to grow into perfection. Perfection is a conscious, sleepless, birthless and deathless attempt.

Kshana

Moment

An earth-bound moment tells me that I am nothing because I have nothing. A Heaven-free moment is a necessity that bridges man’s choice of God and God’s Voice in man.

Kshaya

Destruction

Aspiration is not the destruction of ordinary human life. Aspiration is the proper transformation of human life.

Kshina

Weak

As an impure thought is responsible for your weak mind, even so a pure thought is responsible for your strong heart.

Kusa

Sacred grass

May the sacred grass, which is humility's perfection, grow sleeplessly and victoriously in the heart of the seeker.

Kutira

Hermitage

You do not have to enter into a hermitage to pray to God and see the Face of God. The real hermitage is your self-giving heart, ready at every moment for God-Satisfaction in God’s own way.

Laghima

Lightness

Lightness of the body is a supreme achievement. This supreme achievement helps us grow into more awareness of and more intimate oneness with our Beloved Supreme.

Lakshya

Target

If your target is God-realisation, then do not wait for the next moment. The present moment is not only the golden opportunity, but also a most sacred divinity wherein grows man’s eternal promise-life.

Laya

Dissolution

The dissolution of the physical life is not the sunlit path to walk along to realise God. On the contrary, the dissolution of the physical life is a stupendous failure of a human being who is a God-representative on earth.

[to be continued]

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To-morrow's dawn

//[Continued from previous issue]//

232.

Do you want to be freed from all your embarrassments? Then do not suspect.

233.

The transformation of your life is guaranteed. Just change the attitudes of your life.

234.

Because of his sure mind Aristotle was accepted as the absolute authority in every field of thought. Because of your pure heart you will soon be accepted as the supreme authority in every field of oneness-delight.

235.

An idealist wants to become great. A realist wants to become good. And what I want to become is a great smile and a good cry.

236.

God’s Compassion and man’s realisation are always indistinguishable.

237.

An unexplored person must needs remain unknown.

238.

I do want you to think. But I want you to take time to think. I do want you to dream. But I want you to take time to dream. I do want you to aspire. But I do not want you to take time to aspire.

239.

People cry to have an access to the mystery-world. But, alas, they do not know that countless mysteries swirl around them on all sides. Why? Because they have kept their heart’s door shut and have left their mind’s door wide open.

240.

Science is spirituality revealed unconsciously. Spirituality is science concealed lovingly.

241.

Science and spirituality complement each other. Science discovers the many in the one. Spirituality reveals the One in the many.

242.

A man of science says, “Nature is not yet totally spent.” A man of spirituality says, “God is not and will never be spent.”

243.

God praises the man of science. God blesses the man of spirituality.

244.

The outer education is preparatory to the inner vision. The inner vision is preparatory to God-satisfaction.

245.

Do you want to know something incredible but absolutely true? The heart of the universe is your soulful smile.

Songs

Aspiration-heart gratitude-soul

Aspiration-heart, dedication-life:
These are my divine possessions.
Gratitude-soul, perfection-goal:
These are my supreme realisations.

Sundara madhumoy

/Sundara madhumoy/
/Eso sundara madhumoy/
/Sundara madhumoy/
/Eso antare eso chintai/
/Eso pratyushe eso sandhyai/
/Naha naba bhabe eso nirabadhi/
/Sundara madhumoy/

O Beautiful One, O Blissful One,
Do enter into my heart’s cry,
Do enter into my thought-life,
Do enter into my purity-dawn,
Do enter into my sublimity-eve.
With new form’s light,
Do constantly enter into my heart.