God is kidnapped
Preface
This book reveals a soulful conversation between a seeker and his heart.— Sri Chinmoy
1.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because you do not complain.
2.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because you do not blame others
For your failures.
3.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because you have enthroned
My Eternity's soul-child.
4.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because in you God preserves
And treasures
His Immortality's Dream.
5.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because of your soulful prayers
My Lord Supreme has shattered
My mind's doubt-vessels.
6.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because of you,
Only because of you,
I know that God loves me.
7.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because you pray
To my Lord Supreme
Not only for those who love you
But also for those who do not.
8.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because of you I have
A God-protected life.
9.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because of you I have become
A favourite child of God,
And because of you I shall remain
Forever so.
10.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because of you, at any moment
I can have a glimpse of God's
Infinite Peace, infinite Light.
11.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because of you
My songless mind,
My soulless mind
And even my godless mind
Will someday
Be totally transformed.
12.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because of you,
Only because of you,
I am not so unimportant
And not so insignificant
Here on earth.
13.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because of you,
Only, only, only because of you,
My Lord Supreme is transforming
My earth-bound desire
Into His Heaven-free Will —
Only, only, only because of you.
14.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because you have
So compassionately
And so self-givingly taught me
How to love and fulfil
God's every Wish.
15.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because at every moment
You are blessing me
With the whispered message:
"Self-reliance — no, no, no!
God-reliance — yes, yes, yes!"
16.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because of your
Very strict vigilance
I do not dare to avoid or evade
Any of my earth-responsibilities.
17.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because in you I see
Not my yesterday's failures,
But only my tomorrow's victories.
18.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because you are the only one
Who is not interested
In seeing or feeling
My love for you,
But is only interested
In seeing and feeling
My sleepless and breathless
Love for God.
19.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because no matter
How many times
I have fooled you
Since my adolescence,
You still love me.
20.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because your purity-eye
Has silenced,
Once and for all,
My mind's clamouring thoughts.
21.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because people
From all walks of life
And from all over the world
Tell me
That you are never, never, never
Inhospitable;
Because hospitality
Is the fragrance
Of your life-breath.
22.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because day and night you tell me
To ask myself only one question:
"What is God's Will?"
23.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because of your streaming tears,
I am sure that no mistake
In my life
Is unforgivable by God.
24.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because no matter
How many times
I deliberately turn my back
On you,
I cannot escape
Your unconditional concern
For me.
25.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because you inspire me
And illumine me
So powerfully
By telling me
That what I really need
Is not world-information
But my earth-life-transformation.
26.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because of your constant concern
And compassion for me,
I can no longer remain
In the mire of complexity.
27.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because it is you
Who have disarmed
My doubt-giant
With your ever-blossoming faith.
28.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because you are the only one
Who does not turn away from God
When your desires
Are not fulfilled.
29.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because you are graciously
Telling me
That there are no
Serious stumbling blocks
In my path of self-perfection.
30.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because long ago,
Most successfully,
You crossed the barriers
Of doubt, mistrust and suspicion.
31.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because every day you take me
To either God's Compassion-Sky
Or God's Forgiveness-Ocean.
32.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because of you
My God-realisation-destination
Is coming incredibly closer.
33.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because you never forget
To tell me
Whose actually I am.
34.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because you never give up
Your self-giving project.
35.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because in you I see
My God-surrender-home-nest.
36.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because your sincerity-tears
Purify my entire being.
37.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because you are apt
To forgive and forget
Humanity's hypocrisies.
38.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because you have free access
To God's most beautiful
And most powerful
Dream-Kingdom.
39.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because you do not have to be
On the waiting list
To see the Smiles
Of God the Transcendental
And God the Universal.
40.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because you always help me
In steering my life-boat
Towards God's Golden Shore.
41.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because your very presence
Is a cure for doubt-disease.
42.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because your untiring love
Helps me bring to the fore
New dreams out of old failures.
43.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because you are always
A perfect stranger
To superficial sincerity.
44.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because you inspire me
Most powerfully
By telling me it is never too late
To change.
45.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because you feel
Most sincerely sad
When any human being
Walks away
From God's outstretched Arms.
46.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because you are the only one
Who tells me
That if I do what I can,
Then God will do what I cannot.
47.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because you are
My universal oneness within
And my universal fulness without.
48.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because I see
Behind your sweetness-smile
A power-plant.
49.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because you do not allow me
To make friends with my mind's
Splintered and scattered faith.
50.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because you sleeplessly embody
God's Satisfaction-Fragrance.
51.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because when my mind is
The question of questions,
In you I find
The answer of answers.
52.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because you are
The pioneer-owner
Of surrender-garden
And gratitude-fragrance.
53.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because every morning
You set off my aspiration-alarm
For me.
54.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because your eagerness creates
Every day
So many golden opportunities
For me.
55.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because in your kingdom
You have outlawed selfishness.
56.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because everything good
That I do for mankind
Is due to your fast start
And strong finish.
57.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because your sole goal
Is to leave the world
Far better than you found it.
58.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because on willingness-road
You run the fastest.
59.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because God proudly applauds
Your long surrender-steps.
60.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because, unlike us,
You live to love.
61.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because of you
I am genuinely loving
And surprisingly lovable.
62.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because you tell me
That it is infinitely better
To be possessed by God
Than to try to possess God.
63.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because, unlike us,
You never allow yourself
To be estranged from God.
64.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because your
God-Satisfaction-dreams
Never fade,
But only grow and glow.
65.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because you teach me so lovingly
How to become
A soaring progress-kite.
66.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because your aspiration-flames
Have the capacity
To control and silence
My mind's thought-riots.
67.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because your tremendous
And stupendous
Faith-productions
Amaze me.
68.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because God is happily
And proudly
Publishing your silence-speeches.
69.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because your sincerity-cry
Has an immediate access
To God's Compassion-Heart-Eye.
70.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because in you
Humanity's hope is safe
And through you
Divinity's Promise is safe.
71.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because you have taught me
The supreme truth:
Self-giving is the beginning
Of God-becoming.
72.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because you are most graciously
Turning me into a psychic giant.
73.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because in you is my Lord's
Brightest Confidence-Light.
74.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because your inner cries
Have helped me achieve
Outer competence.
75.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because you alone
Have the capacity
To unveil God's Face for me.
76.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because humanity's
Frustration-stories
Cannot take away
Your love of God.
77.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because every morning
You lovingly introduce me to God.
78.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because of you
I have countless
Faith-friendship-flames.
79.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because you surprise me
With your ever-increasing love
For God.
80.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because you have inspired me
To feel
That God and God's Heaven
Can be won
With my life's patience-light.
81.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because you so lovingly help me
Cling to my prayer-God.
82.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because you have given me
The great capacity to arrest
The God-doubt-intruder.
83.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because of you
The breath of goodness
Has entered my life.
84.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because of you the whole world
Puts its long arms around me.
85.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because you are
More than willing
To take care of my mind,
The completely spoiled child
In God's Family.
86.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because you warn me
Not to walk
Along the resentment-path.
87.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because you have given me
A large space
To bury my pride-giant
In your humility-garden.
88.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because every day you inspire me
To soar on selflessness-wings.
89.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because of your sleepless prayers
God has chosen me
To be on His Team
In the tug-of-war
Against ignorance-night.
90.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because you never weaken,
But only strengthen,
All my divine resolves.
91.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because God is proud of me
Only when I am in you,
With you and for you.
92.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because you are my daily
God-Peace and God-Bliss
Supplier.
93.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because your constant
Gratitude-fragrance-offering
Is my only hope of realising God.
94.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because, unlike us,
You do not talk
About yourself;
You talk only about God.
95.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because your philosophy is
The self-giving acceptance of life.
96.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because your religion is
The universal oneness-song.
97.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because your spirituality is
Perfection in self-transcendence.
98.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because your yoga is
God for God's sake,
God's Satisfaction
In God's own Way.
99.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because you want me, like you,
To embrace and lighten
The sufferings of humanity.
100.
My heart, I love you.Why?
Because you alone
Have the capacity
To kidnap God.
