God’s Magnet-Eye

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1.

Aspiration
  The fragrance of God’s Heart.<html></div></html>

2.

Attachment
  The forest-thorn-mind.<html></div></html>

3.

Beauty
  God’s magnet-Eye.<html></div></html>

4.

Bliss
  Beyond within.<html></div></html>

5.

Concentration
  The sad failure
  Of the present mind-power-plant.<html></div></html>

6.

Consciousness
  God’s fondest doll.<html></div></html>

7.

Contemplation
  A reality not easily attained,
  But not ultimately unattainable.<html></div></html>

8.

Death
  A frequent challenger of life.<html></div></html>

9.

Dedication
  God started to play a Game.
  He wants His children to join Him.<html></div></html>

10.

Destination
  Man’s transformation-smile;
  God’s Satisfaction-Dance.<html></div></html>

11.

Detachment
  The garden-flower-soul.<html></div></html>

12.

Devotion
  A book of no interest
  To humanity.<html></div></html>

13.

Dream
  Something that keeps God
  Sleeplessly and breathlessly occupied.<html></div></html>

14.

Freedom
  Man’s God-dependence-hunger.<html></div></html>

15.

Friendship
  A dream that eludes reality.<html></div></html>

16.

Goal
  God’s Heart-Eye-Lustre-Flood.<html></div></html>

17.

God
  Man’s mind-hallucination-exit;
  Man’s life-illumination-entrance.<html></div></html>

18.

Gratitude
  The slow, slower and slowest
  Century-production.<html></div></html>

19.

Harmony
  The complete transformation
  Of heart-agony.<html></div></html>

20.

Heart
  God’s Arrival-preparation-room.<html></div></html>

21.

Ignorance
  Man’s self-hypnotism-practice.<html></div></html>

22.

Imagination
  Tomorrow’s life-tree
  In today’s mind-seed.<html></div></html>

23.

Immortality
  The proper use of a moment.<html></div></html>

24.

Impurity
  An incurable mind-disease.<html></div></html>

25.

Ingratitude
  Something that we unconsciously enjoy
  And consciously deny.<html></div></html>

26.

Insecurity
  The undying breath
  Of all world citizens.<html></div></html>

27.

Intuition
  The fastest will-power-plane
  To the Destination.<html></div></html>

28.

Knowledge
  A half-hearted competitor
  With ignorance.<html></div></html>

29.

Life
  The ultimate winner
  Over death.<html></div></html>

30.

Love
  God’s Heart-Dance-Ecstasy.<html></div></html>

31.

Man
  Today’s imperfection-story;
  Tomorrow’s perfection-song.<html></div></html>

32.

Manifestation
  The bridge that invariably unites
  God’s exasperation
  And man’s frustration.<html></div></html>

33.

Mind
  The ignorance-cancer-patient.<html></div></html>

34.

Obedience
  Man’s only divine and supreme
      Gift to God
  That satisfies God in His own Way.<html></div></html>

35.

Oneness
  A dream that is a reality-beggar.<html></div></html>

36.

Patience
  The real failure-conqueror.<html></div></html>

37.

Peace
  God’s next Act.<html></div></html>

38.

Perfection
  A cry from man’s
  Heart-cottage-home;
  A Smile from God’s
  Heart-Palace-Kingdom.<html></div></html>

39.

Purity
  The gasping breath of the heart.<html></div></html>

40.

Realisation
  God’s vacation-pleasure
  In a seeker’s heart-country.<html></div></html>

41.

Satisfaction
  The only real hide-and-seek game
      On earth.<html></div></html>

42.

Simplicity
  God’s Originality-Mind.<html></div></html>

43.

Sincerity
  The most difficult foreign language
  That mankind studies.<html></div></html>

44.

Soul
  God’s Dream-Blossom-Promise.<html></div></html>

45.

Spirituality
  Self-embarrassment,
      So says my mind;
  Self-enlightenment,
      So feels my heart.<html></div></html>

46.

Summit
  The depth-reversal.<html></div></html>

47.

Surrender
  Past, present, future
  Invincibility.<html></div></html>

48.

Temptation
  The link between
  Today’s flood-rapture
          And
  Tomorrow’s volcano-torture.<html></div></html>

49.

Vision
  God’s Self-Transcendence-Song.<html></div></html>

50.

Wisdom
  The adviser and transformer
  Of ignorance-night.<html></div></html>

Editor's note

On 19 October 1995, Sri Chinmoy offered these definitions or ‘mappings’ of fifty qualities, attributes and states of consciousness. Some are positive, while others are negative. These definitions express Sri Chinmoy’s philosophy in a highly condensed and intrinsically poetic form.

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