My Early Morning Prayer-Journeys, part 1
1.
My Lord,Early in the morning
I love and worship
Your beautiful Eye
And beautiful Feet.
2.
My Lord,During the day
I love and worship
Your powerful Eye
And powerful Feet.
3.
My Lord,In the evening
I love and worship
Your peaceful Eye
And peaceful Feet.
4.1
My Lord,At night
I love and worship
Your merciful, Godful
And good-bye Eye
And Feet.
EMP 1-4. Sanya, China, 5 December 2004↩
5.
My Lord lovesTo whisper
All His Answers.
6.
ForgiversAre immediate and everlasting
Happiness-enjoyers.
7.
The heart-giversAre the life-transformers
Of the world.
8.2
God does not want meTo count His Miracles.
He wants me to count
Only my God-love-heart-tears.
EMP 5-8. Sanya, China, 6 December 2004↩
9.
When I sing,My Lord smiles at me
Lovingly.
10.
When I sing soulfully,My Lord blesses me
Powerfully.
11.
When I sing soulfully,Devotedly and self-givingly,
My Lord embraces me
Immediately.
12.
The lower I bend my headTo my Lord Supreme,
The deeper joy I receive
From Him.
13.3
The quicker I touchThe Lotus-Feet
Of my Lord Supreme,
The stronger I feel Him,
Physically and spiritually.
EMP 9-13. Sanya, China, 7 December 2004↩
14.
I haveAn eternal companion:
My heart’s inner poise.
15.
Every morningI need
A newborn God-hunger.
16.
My earthly musicIs
My Heavenward journey.
17.4
My Heavenly musicIs the beauty
Of my universal life.
EMP 14-17. Xiamen, China, 8 December 2004↩
18.
I sleeplessly adoreMy highest height.
19.
I breathlessly loveMy deepest depth.
20.
God,With His Power,
Comes down.
21.
God,With His Compassion,
Lives on earth.
23.
I must liveIn my heart-home
At every moment.
24.
My prayers must reachThe four corners
Of the globe.
25.
My meditations must intensifyThe God-hunger
Of every seeker.
26.6
I must offer my heart-tears,Soul-smiles and life-gratitude
To my Lord Beloved Supreme
Unreservedly and unconditionally,
Every morning and every evening.
EMP 23-26. Xiamen, China, 10 December 2004↩
27.
I do not pray to GodTo make me a great man —
No, no, no!
28.
I do not pray to GodTo make me a good man —
No, no, no!
29.
I pray to GodTo be His, only His,
All His.
30.7
I tell my Lord Beloved SupremeThat in every aspect of my life,
It is for Him to make
The decision,
And I will take His Decision
As final, absolutely final.
EMP 27-30. Xiamen, China, 11 December 2004↩
31.
This morningI am a prayerful, soulful
And grateful
God-obedience-heart.
32.
The mind desiresConstant God-Attention.
33.
The heart desiresSleepless God-Affection.
34.8
My Lord Beloved SupremeAnd I
Thrive on our mutual fondness.
EMP 31-34. Xiamen, China, 12 December 2004↩
35.
Every dayI am learning more and more
The divine art
Of unconditional surrender
To God’s Will.
36.
Even for a fleeting moment,The pangs of
My God-separation-heart
Are unbearable.
37.
With an inner thrillI wait to receive
My Lord Supreme.
38.9
My heart-lotusBlossoms only
At the Lotus-Feet
Of my Lord Supreme.
EMP 35-38. Xiamen, China, 13 December 2004↩
39.
This morningMy Lord said to me,
“My child,
Doers accomplish;
Talkers perish.
I want you
To be a doer.”
40.
I happily welcomeMy sweet days.
I bravely welcome
My bitter days.
41.10
God says to all the seekersOf the world,
“Discipline your lives,
My children,
Discipline your lives!
If you do not, I shall force you, I shall force you.”
EMP 39-41. Xiamen, China, 15 December 2004↩
42.
My heartIs made of
My Lord’s sweet Dreams.
43.
Every dayI dive deeper and deeper
Into my Lord’s
Compassion-Ocean-Eye.
44.
On Eternity’s Road,One by one all may leave me,
But not my Lord’s
Compassion-Eye.
45.11
My Lord,Not Power, not Light —
What I need from You
Is Peace,
Your Infinity’s Peace.
EMP 42-45. Xiamen, China, 16 December 2004↩
46.
I prayIn the temple of devotion
To receive Joy
From my Lord.
47.
I meditateIn the temple of surrender
To receive Peace
From my Lord.
48.
I loveMy soaring heart-bird
And not
My roaring mind-lion.
49.12
My mind seesThe tearful God.
My heart sees
The blissful God.
EMP 46-49. Xiamen, China, 17 December 2004↩
50.
My love, my devotionAnd my surrender
Have God-Blood-relations.
51.
My Lord has been searchingFor only one happy heart
In His vast Creation.
52.
A kind lifeIs
A God-chosen life.
54.
May my heartBe a fountain
Of God-gratitude-tears.
55.
May my lifeBe a sky
Of God-plenitude-smiles.
56.
My Lord is alreadyInside my heart
With His Compassion-Eye
To grant me God-realisation.
57.14
The Master sees his disciplesFirst inside his heart
And then in front of his eyes.
EMP 54-57. Xiamen, China, 19 December 2004↩
58.
I pray to GodWith my aspiration-eyes.
59.
I meditate on GodWith my aspiration-heart.
60.
I walk and runTowards God
With my aspiration-legs.
61.15
God has appointedMy aspiration
To take me to Him
As soon as possible.
EMP 58-61. Xiamen, China, 20 December 2004↩
62.
God wants meTo be the promoter
Of all the inspiring things
That are taking place
Here on earth.
63.
Quite oftenThe courage of the mind
Plays the role of an absentee.
64.
My Lord getsA shocking experience from me
When I do not adequately care for His Creation.
65.16
God always keeps meInside His Heart-Home
No matter how badly I fare
In my aspiration-life.
EMP 62-65. Qingdao, China, 25 December 2004↩
66.
BeautifulIs
My heart-awakening.
67.
BlissfulIs
My God-remembrance.
68.
PainfulIs
My God-forgetfulness.
69.17
Our divine qualitiesBrighten and gladden
The Eye
Of our Lord Supreme.
EMP 66-69. Qingdao, China, 26 December 2004↩
70.
My love, my devotionAnd my surrender
Will remain my unfailing friends
Right to the very end.
71.
What I badly needIs a peace-flooded
Silence-heart.
72.
World-harmonyAnd world-union
Remain the unrealised dreams
Of our age.
73.18
I prayerfully welcomeEvery morning
The silence-arrival
Of my Lord Beloved Supreme
At my heart-door.
EMP 70-73. Qingdao, China, 28 December 2004↩
74.
My heart’s capacityTo feel God’s Compassion-Rain
Is far beyond the imagination
Of my mind.
75.
My Lord,How is it that every time
I want to give You
Everything that I have
And everything that I am,
I sadly fail?
“My child,
Develop more intensity
In your devotion to Me.”
76.
O where can I get a passportTo enter into my Lord’s
Heart-Home-Land?
77.19
God tells meThat if I can silence my mind,
Then He will give me
A free entry
Into all the countries
In His Creation.
EMP 74-77. Qingdao, China, 29 December 2004↩
Editor's preface to the first edition
During his trip to China from November 2004 to February 2005, Sri Chinmoy was inspired to offer a number of prayers very early in the morning, when he came down from his hotel room to go out walking. These 160 prayers are published in two volumes.
