1.

I pray to God
Every day.

2.

My mother
Is beautiful.

3.

My father
Is powerful.

4.

My mother’s beauty
Thrills my heart.

5.

My father’s power
Drills my life.

6.

I love
Everybody.

7.

I hate
Nobody.

8.

I think everybody
Is good.

9.

The morning
Gives my eyes joy.

10.

The evening
Gives my heart peace.

11.

The sun invites me.
I am afraid to go to the sun,
Because it is too far.

12.

The moon invites me.
I am afraid once I am there
My parents will miss me,
And I, too, will miss them.

13.

The stars and the planets invite me.
I am afraid once I go to them,
They will keep me with them
To play with them,
And not allow me to come back
To my poor parents!

14.

Every morning
I see a most beautiful rose
Inside my heart.

15.

Every evening
I see a most peaceful tree
Inside my heart.

16.

I shall never want to know
What doubt and jealousy are.

17.

I shall never in my whole life
Want to feel
Insecurity in my heart
And impurity in my mind.

18.

Every night
God comes to see me
In my dream.
He tells me:
“My child,
You are a very good child.
Remain so all your life.”

19.

One most important thing
God has taught me:
If I really love God,
Then I shall not be afraid of Him.

20.

One more important thing
God has taught me:
If I really need Him,
Then He will do everything
To please me.

21.

I never speak ill of others.
Speaking ill of others
Is very bad!

22.

My parents are so kind to me!
They have told me
To think of God first
Before I say anything
And before I do anything.

23.

My parents have told me
Never to tell lies.
I obey them.

24.

My parents have told me
Never to quarrel,
Never to fight.
I obey them.

25.

I just love
My mother’s affection,
Love and concern for me.

26.

I just love
My father’s confidence
And determination.
He assures me that I shall have
Both confidence
And determination like him —
Even more.

27.

My mother has told me
What prayer is:
Prayer is a cry
To see God’s Eye.

28.

My father has told me
What meditation is:
Meditation is
To feel God’s Heart
Inside my heart.

29.

My parents have told me
To forgive others —
This will make me very, very happy.
They are so right!
I am the proof.

30.

I do not like at all
My noisy mind.

31.

I love so much
My rosy heart.

32.

God and I 
Completely trust each other.
God does not forget my heart
Even for a moment.
I also do the same —
I never forget God’s Heart.
Never!

33.

I do not make complaints
Against anybody.
This has made me so happy.

34.

God tells me that
My tears and His Smiles
Are equally important.

35.

God wants me
To live in the heart
All the time.
He is so proud of me,
For I can easily do it.

36.

When I jokingly tell God
That my life is a secret book,
God smilingly and proudly adds,
“A sacred book too.”

37.

I know that God’s Grace
Has made me good.
God smilingly and proudly adds:
“Not just good,
But very, very good!”

38.

God tells me
Not to make
A very serious mistake.
I must love
My mother and my father
Equally.
I tell God:
“I do, I do, I do!”

39.

My father tells me
That my beauty
Is inside my eyes.

40.

My mother tells me
That my fragrance
Is inside my heart.

41.

God, when You look at me,
I get tremendous joy,
But when You look
Into my heart,
I get terribly frightened!

“Why, my child, why?
You have not done
Anything wrong!
Be happy, and remain happy,
Whenever I look
Into your heart.”

42.

Quite recently,
I have seen a beautiful garden
Inside my heart.
I have started praying
And meditating
Inside that garden,
And I am all excited
And delighted.

43.

My mother has advised me
To pray to God
For a big heart —
A very big heart.
I am doing it,
And I feel so good, so good!

44.

My father has advised me
To pray to God
For a small head —
A very small head.
I am doing it,
And I feel so good, so good!

45.

Today I am quite inspired
To give away
My prayer-secrets
And meditation-secrets.

46.

When I pray to God,
I fold my hands and bring them
Right up to my chest
And try to hear my heartbeat.
I look upward to find a spot
Ten feet, at least,
Higher than my head level.
When I have completed all this,
I start praying.
To tell the truth, I get fantastic results!

47.

When I meditate on God,
I do the same thing with my hands,
Only instead of looking upward,
I look inward.
I look into my heart and then I look
For a secret and sacred, silent spot
Inside my heart.
When all this is done,
I start meditating.
I tell you, the results are unimaginable.

48.

God, You have made me
A perfect child of Yours.
What can I give You in return?
I am a little child;
I have nothing to give You.

49.

“My child,
I need only one thing from you:
A sweet and cute smile.”

50.

“I also need another favour
From you:
You will tell your parents
How happy and grateful
You are to them
For bringing you into this world.
Still one more favour I need,
And this is the last favour
You will have to do for Me,
My child.
You will have to claim Me
All the time,
Not missing a second,
As your own, very own.”

God, I have already started.

Editor's preface to the first edition

Sri Chinmoy began writing this collection of meditative aphorisms on 23 January 2005 in China, during a bus ride from Xi'an to Huangshan, and he finished it the same day upon his arrival in Huangshan.