4201. God shares His Greatness-Height

God shares His Greatness-Height
With my daily prayers.
God shares His Goodness-Light
With my daily meditations.
God shares His Oneness-Delight
With my daily surrender.

4202. Proud of depending on each other

My Lord and I are proud
Of depending on each other.
I depend on my Lord’s
Heart of Bounty.
My Lord depends on my
Life of fidelity.

4203. My mind trusts you

My mind trusts you
Not because you love my heart.
My mind trusts you
Precisely because your mind
Has implicit faith
In God’s Judgement-Light.

4204. Unless you depend

Unless you depend solely
On God’s Compassion-Sea,
How can God depend confidently
On your promise-flood?

4205. My mind is free

My mind is free,
But not free to feed
Ignorance-night.
My heart is free,
But not free to live
In ingratitude-cave.

4206. My Lord's daily Forgiveness-Heart

I want to be free
Only for one reason,
And that reason is:
So I will never doubt
My Lord’s daily Forgiveness-Heart.

4207. A true millionaire

In the spiritual life
A true millionaire is he
Who is a free and cheerful giver
Of his most precious time.

4208. Like a perfect disciple

I may not be totally perfect,
But my heart does occasionally believe
Like a perfect disciple,
And my mind does occasionally behave
Like a perfect disciple.

4209. Both God and I are satisfied

I am giving God
My outer afflictions purified.
God is giving me
My inner promotions certified.
Needless to say,
Both God and I are completely satisfied.

4210. Why do you have to keep it?

God has not given you fear.
Why do you have to keep it?
God has not given you doubt.
Why do you have to cherish it?
God has given you courage.
Why do you not preserve it?
God has given you faith.
Why do you not treasure it?

4211. I am truly fortunate

I am truly fortunate
That my heart is completely satisfied
With God’s inner Guidance-Sun
And that my mind is totally satisfied
With God’s outer Providence-Sky.

4212. The hostile forces tremble

The hostile forces tremble
Not when I vehemently fight against them,
But when they see me soulfully seated
At the Feet of my Beloved Supreme.

4213. My morning meditation

My morning meditation
Opens my heart-door
So that my Lord can come in.

My evening meditation
Bolts my heart-door
So that Satan cannot enter
And darken my heart-room.

4214. Stop at this point

Be careful!
Today you are hesitating
About whether to tolerate your ignorance-sea.
Stop at this point at least!
Who knows, tomorrow you may be inspired
To endorse your ignorance-night
For your utter destruction.

4215. A sea of peace rules my heart

A sea of peace rules my heart
Only after God’s Forgiveness
Has ruled my mind.

4216. Because of your absolute Greatness

Because of Your absolute Greatness,
My Lord, I have.
Because of Your supreme Goodness,
My Lord, I am.

4217. The role of a self-excuser

As long as you play the role
Of a self-excuser,
The world is bound to play the role
Of your accuser.

4218. Your life's insincerity-career

Your life’s insincerity-career
Might have lasted for only
A few fleeting years,
But its forced wages can and will last
For the remainder of your deplorable life.

4219. You know one important thing

You know one important thing:
That the pleasure-life is fleeting.
But you do not know
That the prayer-life is not only lasting
But everlasting.

4220. When doubt knocks

When doubt knocks at your heart-door,
Do not answer the door.
Just make a fervent request to your soul
To answer the door.
Your soul will not only do it,
But do it cheerfully.

4221. Only one sensible action

On my part
There is only one sensible action,
And that is to respond always
To God’s Compassion-Heart.

4222. When my love of God comes in

When my love of God comes in
And starts working for Him
In the inner world,
My faith in God goes out
And starts working for Him
In the outer world.

4223. Your Heavenly responsibilities

For years and years
You have fulfilled
Your earthly responsibilities.
Now for your few remaining years
You can fulfil
Your Heavenly responsibilities.

4224. Stupidity incarnate is he

Stupidity incarnate is he.
Look, he wants to make the most
Of his life
Long after most of his life
Is gone, fruitlessly gone.

4225. My unsung songs

My unsung songs
My heart will appreciate infinitely more
Than my countless songs that are already sung.

4226. God-love encompasses

The God-seeker in me longs
To arrive at the goal.
The God-lover in me feels
That he does not have to arrive
At a particular goal,
For God-love itself encompasses
Both the journey’s start
And
The journey’s goal.

4227. Can you not be very good?

Everybody knows that you are good.
Today, can you not be very good
By loving man in God
A little more
And serving God in man
A little more?

4228. God will speak highly of you

You do your duty
And let God do His Duty.
You do not speak ill of anybody
And God will, without fail,
Speak very highly of you.

4229. Surrender-tree you need

Ability you have.
Responsibility you need.
Faith-flower you have.
Surrender-tree you need.

4230. Be a genuine ambassador

Be a genuine ambassador of good will
To all nations.
You will immediately win
The universal Love
And the transcendental Blessings
From Above.

4231. Sincerity is not better

Sincerity is not better than insincerity
Unless you practise it
Every moment, every day.

4232. If your mind is a stranger

If your mind is a stranger
To your inner awakening,
Then God will remain a stranger
To your ignorance-mind.

4233. God the Boatman will appear

God the Boatman with His Golden Boat
Will appear only when
Your ego and your ingratitude-heart
Disappear.

4234. The most unfortunate person

The most unfortunate person
Is he who has nothing else
But a head heavily loaded with pride.

4235. Success comes from

Success comes from
The beauty of inspiration.
Progress comes from
The purity of aspiration.
Satisfaction comes from
The divinity of perfection.

4236. Never surrender to failure

Never surrender to failure.
Fight vehemently against it,
Fight!
The Light of the Beyond
Will eventually crown you.

4237. Why waste your precious time?

Since your life’s
Soulful and sleepless surrender on the path
Is the only way,
Why, then, waste your precious time
Travelling some other way?

4238. God's Compassion-Eye

God’s Compassion-Eye
Leads my steps.
God’s Love-Heart
Watches my steps.

4239. Fruitful echoes

Speak soulful words.
Immediately you are bound to hear
Fruitful echoes.

4240. How can God mould your life?

How can God mould your life
To His Satisfaction
Until you have melted your heart
With your devotion-cry?

4241. Hitchhiking is forbidden

In the inner world
On your way to God-realisation
Hitchhiking is strictly forbidden.
Either you have to be inside
Your Master’s car,
Or you have to have your own car.
You can make your own wisdom-choice.

4242. You will be happy

You will be happy
By illumining your mind
Instead of cursing your emotional vital.
You will be happy
By constantly listening to
Your soul’s dictates
Instead of trying to liberate
Your unaspiring heart.

4243. Say nothing, but be something

To escape wild criticism
Say nothing, but be something.
I mean, be something
That you have never been before.

4244. To own God's Affection-Delight

If you wish to own
God’s Affection-Delight permanently,
Then disown your fond liking
For ignorance-cave immediately.

4245. You can easily be free

O my mind,
You can easily be free
From anxiety-net
If you do not interfere openly
With my heart.

O my heart,
You can easily be free
From helplessness-cave
If you do not interfere secretly
With my Lord’s Will.

4246. The perfect readiness

An empty mind
Is in perfect readiness
For God-invitation
And for God-reception.

4247. Sincerity without determination

Sincerity without the fiery determination
For self-improvement
Is only a beautiful flower
With no fragrance at all.

4248. My doubtful life

Today my doubtful life
Is most dangerous.
Tomorrow this same doubtful life of mine
Will be most ridiculous.

4249. God's Example

God’s Example
Has changed my life radically.
God’s Example
Will do the same for your life.
What you need, my young friends,
Is patience-light.
Patience is the only thing
That you need now.

4250. The national anthem of Heaven

Everybody has shamelessly failed:
This is the national anthem of hell.
Everybody will eventually succeed:
This is the national anthem of Heaven.

4251. To have a oneness-realisation

If you want to have
A lasting oneness-realisation,
Then give up sooner than at once
Your blundering division-experience.

4252. A suffering heart gets better

A suffering vital
Quite often gets bitter.
But a suffering heart
Always gets better.

4253. An important rung

Each thought is an important rung
Of the life-ladder:
It either helps us to go up
Or forces us to go down.

4254. Who says you have to go down?

Who says you have to go down first
If you want to go up?
Who says you have to
Conceal your God first
Before you reveal your God?

4255. God has taken my inspiration

Why am I no longer inspired
To criticise others?
Because God has taken away
All my inspiration
By criticising me ruthlessly.

4256. How can you be hopeless?

If you are praying every day,
How can you be hopeless?
If you are meditating every day,
How can you be useless?
No, no!
You can never be hopeless and useless.
To your wide surprise,
You are bound to reach your destined shore.

4257. You talk and talk

You talk and talk.
Therefore, you cannot think.
He thinks and thinks.
Therefore, he sinks.
Nothing have I to offer to the world.
Therefore I sigh, therefore I cry.

4258. Gratitude is a puzzling bird

Gratitude is a most puzzling bird.
The moment you think you have caught it,
Lo and behold, it flies away
Farther than the farthest.

4259. What divine happiness is

The animal in us does not know
What divine happiness is.
The human in us knows
But does not care for it.
The divine in us knows
That happiness is its sole property,
Yet it is all the time willing
To share it not only with the human
But also with the animal in us.

4260. More than my usual time

I pray to God
More than my usual time
When my mind is not pure.

I meditate on God
More than my usual time
When my mind is not empty.

4261. Next door to each other

A fearful vital
And
A doubtful mind
Live next door to each other.

A soulful heart
And
A powerful soul
Live next door to each other.

4262. To walk with God the Justice

Just because God the Compassion
Allows me, out of His infinite Bounty,
To walk with Him
In the morning,
I am able to muster
Soulful and fruitful courage
To walk with God the Justice
In the evening.

4263. If you are a bad seeker

If you are a bad seeker,
Don’t forget that God will be judged
By your life-activities.

If you are a good seeker,
Don’t forget that you will be judged
By God’s tremendous Satisfaction in you.

4264. Each mechanical thought

Each mechanical and artificial thought
Of mine
Keeps away
The spontaneous and gracious Smile
Of my Lord Supreme.

4265. A doubtless mind

A doubtless mind
Is undoubtedly the most intimate friend
Of a self-giving and God-loving heart.

4266. Your fearful life

Your fearful life
Is nothing but
Your stark disbelief in God
In disguise.

4267. Use your open mind

Use your open mind
When you go to visit
Your spiritual friends.
They will admire your mind.

Use your open heart
When your spiritual friends
Come to visit you.
They will simply adore your heart.

4268. To make you a humble instrument

To make you a soulfully and fruitfully
Humble instrument of His,
God had to experience many a tumble
In and through you.

4269. God's Promise to me today

God’s Promise to me today:
He will make of me
A choice instrument of His.
My promise to God today:
Not only shall I love Him only
But also I shall love Him unconditionally.

4270. A mind that equals Mine

My Lord says:
“My son, I have given you
A divine heart as good as Mine.
Now can you not try
To give me a divine mind
That equals Mine?”

4271. Many seekers secretly think

Many seekers openly tell the world
That God is the Compassion-Ocean.
Many seekers secretly think
That God is the Indifference-Sky.

4272. Meditations without a word

O my mind, your meditations
Have too many words in them
But too little heart.
Can you not, like my heart,
Have meditations with only
A hallowed heart
And not a single word?

4273. I simply cannot agree

I simply cannot agree
With those fools who tell you
That if your spiritual life
Does not cost you anything,
It is worth absolutely nothing.

4274. Save your life from your mind

Your tortured life
Is the part-time partner of your doubtful mind.
You fool, save your life from your mind
Immediately!

4275. A very rare soul

Unlike us,
You are always eager
To quietly hear God speak
As long as He wants to.
Therefore, you are
A very, very rare soul.

4276. A cheerfully self-giving heart

A cheerfully self-giving heart
Is its own Himalayan reward.
God Himself has declared
This amazing truth to humanity.

4277. Try the surrender-key

If all the other keys have failed,
Then try soulful surrender-key.
It will easily open God’s Door.

4278. A powerful Master

A powerful Master
In a soulful seeker
Is a fruitful manifestation.

4279. Only our heart-power

We are allowed to carry
Only our heart-power
On our passage to Heaven.
All the other powers
Are strictly, I repeat, strictly
Forbidden.

4280. You must not allow your vital

It is always good to lead
A spiritual life.
But you must not allow your vital
To speak louder than
Your spiritual deeds.

4281. If you please your Master

If you really please your Master
All the time,
Then you will richly resemble him
In your self-giving life.

4282. The stamp of Immortality

It is the supreme cause
Of God-manifestation
And not your proud sacrifice
That will grant your life
The stamp of Immortality.

4283. Your mind does not care for God

Your mind does not care for God.
That does not mean
That you do not need God.

Your mind likes doubt.
That does not mean
That you need doubt.

4284. Your purity-heart is always perfect

Your purity-heart
May not be always popular,
But it is always perfect.
This is the discovery
Everybody will someday unmistakably make.

4285. Your future cry

Try, just try once more.
Your future cry can be as bright
As God’s present Smile.

4286. Your illumining heart-sun

I feel sorry for your mind-flame,
But I am extremely proud
Of your amazingly illumining heart-sun.

4287. His is the jovial heart

His is the imperial mind
That always disagrees
With other minds,
But his is the jovial heart
That is always agreeable
To other hearts.

4288. An excellent God-lover

The secret of remaining
An excellent truth-seeker
Lies in remaining
An excellent God-lover
In silence.

4289. Everything amazingly increases

Since everything amazingly increases
When we talk about it,
Today I am going to talk about
My newly discovered oneness-heart.

4290. In the inner world run secretly

In the inner world run secretly,
So that others do not stand in your way.
And also remember
That you are running only to please God.

4291. What I personally treasure

My son,
Give Me what you do not need:
Your vast ignorance-sea.
I shall share with you
What I personally treasure:
My boundless Satisfaction-Delight.

4292. When I give of myself

When I give from myself,
I give you my mind’s inspiration.
When I give of myself,
I give you my heart’s aspiration.

4293. God is working through you

You are found to be a selfless server.
Do you know why?
Because God the Doer, your Lover Divine,
Is working through you.

4294. Anything precious

In the spiritual life
Anything precious
Achieved without self-dedication
Will not last long.

4295. Nothing is everything

Even nothing is everything
If God’s Heart of Love
Is in it.

Even everything is nothing
If God’s Heart of Love
Is not in it.

4296. How can you expect?

Since my heart is not
Everything you want,
How can you expect me to please you
In your own way?

4297. A gossip-monger deserves

A gossip-monger deserves
A gossip-shooter.
A gossip-believer needs
An ignorance-strangler.

4298. My body likes to be satisfied

My body likes to be satisfied
With its impression of God.
My vital likes to be satisfied
With its demonstration of God.
My mind likes to be satisfied
With its definition of God.
My heart likes to be satisfied
With its revelation of God.
My soul likes to be satisfied
With the Satisfaction of God.

4299. A life of tremendous victory

This morning my Lord said to me
In a whisper:
“My child, it is unmistakably possible
To change your failure-life
Into a life of tremendous victory.”

4300. The golden bridge

My heart of aspiration
Is the golden bridge between
My self-examination
And
My life-transformation.

Editor's introduction to the first edition

This is the forty-third volume in a series of ten thousand “flaming flower-poems” which Sri Chinmoy is placing devotedly, unreservedly and unconditionally at the Compassion-Feet of God, our Beloved Supreme. They stand as a supreme offering from the unfolding beauty of his flower-heart and the flaming heights of his realisation-sun. Indeed, a treasure-tower which will at once be claimed by humanity’s self-ascending cry and Divinity’s God-descending Smile.

Editor's note to cover photo

Sri Chinmoy welcomes Archbishop Giovanni Cheli, Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations, to the Meditation Group’s observance of Pope Paul VI’s 80th birthday on 23 September 1977. During the ceremony, Archbishop Cheli declared, “Your intentions and your work in this beautiful meditation group under the leadership of this highly respected master of spirituality, Sri Chinmoy, are in harmony with those of the Pope.” Sri Chinmoy, who had met with Pope Paul on several occasions, had opened the programme with a special meditation.