The beginning and the arriving

1.

```

The beginning

Gives me

Always more joy

Than the arriving. ```

2.

```

God's Compassion

Silences

Man's justice.

```

3.

```

My endless imperfections

Keep God

Sleeplessly busy.

```

4.

```

God's Greatness

Puzzles

My mind.

```

5.

```

God's Goodness

Awakens

My heart.

```

6.

```

Faith earns.

Doubt steals. ```

7.

```

Faith

Pitifully cries.

Doubt

Shamelessly laughs. ```

8.

```

Nature is at once

The mother

And the child

Of a miracle. ```

9.

```

Nature does not know

How to divide.

Nature only knows

How to unite

And multiply.

```

10.

```

The shallow mind

Questions.

The deep heart

Answers. ```

11.

```

Fear and self-torture

Regularly play

Hide and seek.

```

12.

```

The mind

Is afraid

Of silence.

```

13.

```

The heart

Is afraid

Of Infinity.

```

14.

```

Silence

Is beyond

Both the knower

And the known. ```

15.

```

Desire

Is

An insecurity-prisoner.

```

16.

```

Competition-game

God does not know

How to play.

What is strange,

He does not even want

To learn it. ```

17.

```

Yesterday

I was a sweetness-desire.

Today

I have become

Bitterness-frustration.

```

18.

```

Unwillingness-thorn

Was

My yesterday's choice.

```

19.

```

My today's choice

Is

Willingness-flower-

Fragrance. ```

20.

```

Go forward!

Go forward!

Be not afraid

Of even

A marathon-obstacle!

```

21.

```

I need

Only one thing:

A divinely inspired

Warrior-eye. ```

22.

```

My unconditional heart

Receives from God

The sunshine

Of His Peace-Sky. ```

23.

```

Humanity's

Self-giving smiles

Are Divinity's

New God-manifesting

Creations.

```

24.

```

A life without prayers

And meditations

Is nothing other than

An agonising emptiness. ```

25.

```

My life swims

Every day

In the sweet sea of hope.

```

26.

```

Yesterday

I was

My competition-eye.

```

27.

```

Today

I am

My competence-heart.

```

28.

```

My prayers

Are my heart's

Experience-flowers.

```

29.

```

My meditations

Are my life's

Realisation-fruits.

```

30.

```

My heart

Teaches me

God-obedience.

My life

Teaches me

God-obeisance. ```

31.

```

My unconditional surrender

Is the topmost branch

Of my life-beauty's tree.

```

32.

```

God's dancing ankle-bells

Are only for

The aspiration-heart

To hear. ```

33.

```

Each desire

Is a bottomless

Nothingness-abyss.

```

34.

```

To an unconditionally

Surrendered soul,

God does not come alone.

He comes with His Breath,

Blissfully embracing.

```

35.

```

Alas,

My life is nothing other than

An ingratitude-dagger.

```

36.

```

An indifference-mind

Is indeed

A destructive knife.

```

37.

```

My Lord,

Every day

Do make my heart

A new gratitude-prayer. ```

38.

```

I may allow myself

To lose all my other resolves

But never, never

My God-satisfaction-resolve. ```

39.

```

With my aspiration-heart

I began my journey.

With my dedication-life

I shall forever continue. ```

40.

```

My heart

Is always eager

To give my mind

God-lessons

Free of charge.

```

41.

```

A singing heart

Is

A flying life.

```

42.

```

Fear

Binds the body.

Doubt

Blinds the eyes.

Suspicion

Blights the heart. ```

43.

```

Good-bye, ego,

Good-bye.

Hello, surrender,

Hello. ```

44.

```

My Lord,

May I make every day

A new gratitude-prayer.

```

45.

```

Nothing

Can be more powerful

Than eagerness.

```

46.

```

Nothing

Can be more fruitful

Than surrender.

```

47.

```

Nothing

Can be more beautiful

Than forgiveness.

```

48.

```

A soulful smile

Can create a blissful

Transformation-life.

```

49.

```

Today

I am determined

To honour

All my promises

To God.

```

50.

```

Nature means

Life-enlightenment

And not

Mind-confinement. ```

From:Sri Chinmoy,The beginning and the arriving, Agni Press, 1992
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