The Dance of Life, part 2

51. I am learning

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I am learning the art of listening.

I wish to be an eternal student.

I am learning the art of believing.

I wish to be an eternal believer.

I am learning the art of serving.

I wish to be an eternal servant.

I am learning the art of becoming.

I wish to be

The father of my silver dreams.

I wish to be

The son of my golden realities.

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52. What it has

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His concentration has given him

What it has: Power.

With Power he has changed

The lives of multitudes.

His meditation has given him

What it has: Love.

With Love he has changed

The face of humanity.

His contemplation has given him

What it has: Oneness.

With his Oneness he becomes man

the lover divine;

With his Oneness he becomes God

the Beloved Supreme. ```

53. My mind

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No more Eternity’s madness

Can hound my mind.

My heart has discovered the Key

For its junior partner.

My heart has unlocked the Door

For its junior partner.

From now on

My mind never shall sleep.

It will watch my inner Treasures:

The sun of Light, the sea of Peace

And the sky of Love.

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54. Real hopes

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The Heaven of real hopes

Arches over me.

Surrender, the master in me,

Knowledge, the servant in me,

Are together playing.

The Heaven of real realities

Starts my unfailing engine: Truth.

The Heaven of real realities

Generates my illumining electricity: Love.

My sure will moves the world within;

My pure thought moves the world without.

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55. Three immortal presents

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I have received three immortal presents

On life’s Christmas tree:

Detachment-bud

Concern-flower

Love-fruit.

With the bud I shall begin

My self-enquiry.

With the flower I shall achieve

My self-discovery.

With the fruit I shall enjoy

My self-mastery. ```

56. I challenged the invisible

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I drove the chariot of the sun

Athwart the arch of blue-gold Heaven,

Dissolving the negative intruders,

Fear and doubt,

Embracing the positive prompters,

Faith and Love.

Thousands of years ago

I challenged the invisible.

At long last, today

My challenge has been accepted.

Enlightenment fondly braves

The untiring searcher. ```

57. In quest of the satisfaction-queen

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His life was an infinitude of quest.

Satisfaction denied him her presence.

Helpless he was.

Miserable he became.

At last a blue bird

From deep within lovingly announced:

“Argue not with your brooding self.

Satisfaction-queen will be yours.

Your meditation shall shake hands

with God-manifestation.

God-manifestation shall shake hands

with your perfection.” ```

58. His Face and Feet

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O unbridled demands and commands

Of doubt, jealousy and insecurity,

Stop!

Stop your lurid game.

Thrust not upon me

All man-made discoveries.

I need only my God-made achievements:

My God’s smiling Face,

My God’s dancing Feet.

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59. Whisperings

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The whisper of temptation

Took him to hell.

There he saw his animal face.

The whisper of aspiration

Took him to Heaven.

There he saw his God-Face.

The whisper of realisation

Took him to the World of Silence.

There he became the Endless Race.

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60. He found, he finds

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At the rim of sorrow

He found his heartless mind.

On the brink of despair

He found his soulless heart.

In the sea of destruction

He found his goalless soul.

Centuries dropped dead.

Now

On the shore of Time

He finds his searching mind

He finds his crying heart

He finds his illumining soul.

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61. The gospel of faith

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O magnificent aspiration,

You have shown me the life of reality.

O magnificent realisation,

You have given me the soul of acceptance.

O magnificent God,

You have given me the gospel of faith:

My faith in Your descending Smiles

Your faith in my ascending cries. ```

62. A yawning gulf

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A yawning gulf between

My vision-tree and my reality-plant.

A yawning gulf between

The place I love to live and the place I live.

I love to live under the vault of Heaven.

Alas, my existence lives

In the valley of the shadow of death.

Peace has escaped my remembrance;

Delight, too.

But I know a swing of the pendulum

Will change my face and fate.

My surrender supreme

Shall marry my dream-boat

With my reality-shore. ```

63. The weaver

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The world weaves

A garland of curses

For me

When I forget to admire her beauty.

The world weaves

A garland of curses

For me

When I underestimate the value of her gifts.

The world weaves

A garland of curses

For me

When I adore the Light and Delight of Heaven.

The world weaves

A garland of curses

For me

When I love the Silence-King inside my heart. ```

64. A sin, a crime

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A sin against man

I commit

When I love myself alone.

A crime against God

I commit

When I love only mankind.

A sin and a crime

Against myself I commit

When

I forget what I was, Truth,

And what I am, Love.

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65. My new task

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When I saw my life

In the silent room of death

I was thrilled.

I smiled because

I was given a new job

By my Lord Supreme:

To discover an oasis

In the spanless desert of death.

Jobless, aimless, helpless and hopeless

No more am I.

No more my heartbeats

A standing jest, derision.

I shall perform my God-ordained task

And become infinity’s Dream and

Eternity’s Reality.

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66. I become

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No daring is fatal.

No loving is mortal.

No serving is fruitless.

In my daring I become

The Truth Transcendental.

In my loving I become

The soul supreme.

In my serving I become

The Oneness absolute. ```

67. The story of his destination

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Before he reached

His destination, Heaven,

On his way

He hurled his mind hellward

With all its finite nonsense.

On reaching

His destination

He offered God

His surrendered heart

And

His fulfilled soul.

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68. He has

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He has the mind

That never sleeps.

It always fights

Against its own existence.

He has the heart

That ever plays

On the Elysian lap of his soul.

He has the body,

He knows not what it does.

He has the vital,

He knows not what to do with it. ```

69. It steals into my heart

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There was a time when I loved

The fantastic fabrics of the mind.

There was a time

When I lived my life

Based on culled fictions.

There was a time

When I was satisfied

With a fragment of reality,

Splintered, broken and smashed.

But now a lucid illumination

Steals into my heart.

The eternal Presence

Of Infinity’s Light

Feeds my Vision’s Dawn. ```

70. Love and become

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I looked for the mainland

Of Reality,

And I found it.

It whispered:

“Love or suffer,

Love or die,

Love and grow,

Love and become.

The world of hesitation has frightened your heart.

The world of calculation has puzzled your mind.

The world of temptation has captured your vital.

The world of depression has devoured your body.” ```

71. The dance of Transcendence-Bliss

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O mind, argue not with yourself,

And suffer no remorse.

O heart, O my senior partner,

How long will you remain

An unuttered part of my life?

O soul, O our general manager,

Do use me, my many selves.

Allow me not to stumble any more

In the world of tragedy and tears.

Today you give me the power

To conquer my puny “I”

And be the song of Transformation-Light.

Tomorrow you will give me the power

To conquer my giant “I”

And be the dance of Transcendence-Bliss.

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72. Ego-publicity and frustration-futility

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Each of his spiritual children

Was convinced that he saw

No one but him,

No one but her;

Loved no one but him,

No one but her;

Blessed no one but her,

No one but him;

Admired no one but her,

No one but him.

He lost his existence

Between their blind ego-publicity,

And his giant frustration-futility.

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73. To see her

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Each of her spiritual children

Thought of her differently,

Spoke of her differently,

Saw her differently,

Loved her differently,

Judged her differently.

To each she represented

Something else.

But one sweet fact they all affirmed:

“To see her is to own her.” ```

74. I am prepared

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You have come to me

To share your teeming worries.

I am prepared.

You have come to me

To throw your serpent-doubt at me.

I am prepared.

You have come to me

To challenge my compassion-net.

I am prepared.

My child, I am the sole intermediary

Between

The animal in you and the Supreme for you.

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75. You want to be free

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You want to be free

From the drag of the flesh.

You want to be free

From the pull of desire.

You want to be free

From the push of frustration.

You want to be free

From the confines of your finite self.

You want to be free

From the prison-house of your own creation.

Then submit your fear to God’s tears.

This is the only way

To regain and safeguard your proudest pride.

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76. God has given me

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God has given me

Nothing but love and concern.

I have given God

Nothing but ignorance and self-defence.

God has given me

Nothing but Grace and praise.

I have given God

Nothing but frustration and accusation.

God has given me

Unconditionally

What He eternally has: Forgiveness.

I have given God

Unreservedly

What I eternally am: Ingratitude. ```

77. When I was born

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When I was born

In the heart of my sun

I was my Duty’s role.

When I was born

In the heart of my moon

I was my Beauty’s Soul.

When I was born

In the heart of my surrender-will

I was my Perfection-Goal.

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78. He knew

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He knew

The impotence of human doubt.

He knows

The importance of Faith divine.

He knew

The impotence of human love.

He knows

The importance of Love divine.

He knew

The impotence of human sovereignty.

He knows

The importance of Surrender divine.

He knew

The impotence of human success.

He knows

The importance of Failure divine.

He knew

The impotence of human goal.

He knows

The importance of Role divine. ```

79. I desire

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I desire

To live remote from the stupid babble of

Multitudes.

I desire

To snap the bonds and twists of every snare of

Multitudes.

I desire

To see my hidden soul in the hidden Goal of

Multitudes.

I desire,

I desire,

I desire

To walk the humble ways of life of

Multitudes. ```

80. He found his place

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Sloth and vagary

Found no place in him.

Fear and doubt

Found no place in him.

Worry and despair

Found no place in him.

God’s Love and Pride

Found place in him.

He found his place,

His Eternal Place

On the Lap of Singing God,

In the Heart of Dancing God. ```

81. Within the span of a single human life

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Within the span of a single human life

I shall see the Eye of God’s Vision-Boat.

Within the span of a single human life

I shall feel the Hand of God’s Reality-Sun.

Within the span of a single human life

I shall become the Heart of God’s Perfection-Goal.

Within the span of a single human life

I shall hide Eternity’s ignorance.

Within the span of a single human life

I shall embody Immortality’s Shore.

Within the span of a single human life

I shall reveal Infinity’s Bliss. ```

82. You must teach

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Only one body,

You must teach it.

Only one vital,

You must guide it.

Only one mind,

You must perfect it.

Only one heart,

You must use it.

Only one soul,

You must treasure it.

Only one Goal,

You must become it. ```

83. Is he your Master?

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Is he your Master?

He then must be

An instructor of hard toils.

Is he your Master?

He then must be

A trainer of undying Patience.

Is he your Master?

He then must be

A transmitter of perfecting Light.

Is he your Master?

He then must be

Your only unconditional Lover.

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84. I heard

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In the abyss of doubt and despair

I heard my Master’s call.

In the depth of love and joy

I heard my Master’s footfall.

In the smile of silence

I heard my Master’s Salvation-Message.

In the life of surrender

I heard my Master’s immortality-Joy. ```

85. Transformation, transcendence and Beyond

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His body,

A picture of austerity.

His vital,

A picture of humility.

His mind,

A picture of serenity.

His heart,

A picture of purity.

His soul,

A picture of nobility.

His Goal,

A picture of Reality.

And he himself is the picture

Of yesterday’s transformation,

Today’s transcendence

And tomorrow’s Perfection-Beyond. ```

86. Inconscience and Forgiveness

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His are the lips that do the best preaching.

His is the life that does the worst deceiving.

His is the body that does the longest sleeping.

His is the vital that does the wildest ridiculing.

His is the mind that does the meanest snobbing.

His is the heart that does the filthiest defiling.

His is the realisation that sempiternally shines

Between

Man’s hopeless inconscience

And

God’s endless Forgiveness.

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87. The voyager of self-discovery, the emperor of life-mastery

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I yearn and ache for Thee.

Every day I become

Love-seed,

Devotion-plant,

Surrender-tree.

O Lord, forget me not

In my outer goalless wandering

Far and wide.

O Lord, make my pilgrim-heart

The voyager of self-discovery,

The emperor of life-mastery.

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88. Behold, your Beloved is come

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O shining heart of expectation,

O searching mind of expectation,

O struggling vital of expectation,

O dying body of expectation,

Behold, your Beloved is come

With His Silence-Light,

Promise-Height,

Victory-Kite. ```

89. I am a

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I am a searcher of expanding space.

I am a lover of running race.

I am an adorer of glowing beauty.

I am a performer of fulfilling duty.

I am a sower of God’s crying necessity.

I am a grower of man’s mounting divinity. ```

90. You will transform and transcend

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O humility’s soul,

Your life-garden is eternally

In bloom.

You were born in the Silence-Palace

Of the moon.

You sport with the Heart of

The Eternity-Sun.

Your surrender-existence is your sole friend.

In your eternal pilgrimage

To the Supreme,

Soon, very soon

You will transform today’s face

And transcend tomorrow’s smile.

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91. He is great

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He is great,

Not because of his cosmopolitan education.

He is great,

Not because of his international name and fame.

He is great,

Because he touched the Feet

Of his Beloved in the temple.

He is great,

Because he kissed the Feet

Of his Beloved in the mosque.

He is great,

Because he breathed the Life

Of his Beloved’s Feet in the synagogue.

He is great,

Because he has become

His Beloved’s Feet in the church. ```

92. The soul-bird

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O world-ignorance,

Although

You have shackled my feet,

I am free.

Although

You have chained my hands,

I am free.

Although

You have enslaved my body,

I am free.

I am free because I am not of the body.

I am free because I am not the body,

I am free because I am the soul-bird

That flies in Infinity-Sky.

I am the soul-child that dreams

On the Lap of the immortal King Supreme. ```

93. Therefore I love you

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Lord, You are a stranger to tiredness;

Therefore I love You.

Lord, You are a stranger to sleep;

Therefore I love You.

Lord, You are a stranger to dream;

Therefore I love You.

Lord, my darkness hates Your Light;

Therefore I am puzzled.

Lord, my bondage hates Your Freedom;

Therefore I am bewildered.

Lord, my ignorance hates Your Compassion;

Therefore, I am lost, totally lost. ```

94. Two killers

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Lord, when You kill me

With Your Love supreme

I kill you with my undying ingratitude.

Lord, when You kill me

With Your Power supreme

I kill you with my hopeless helplessness.

Lord, when You kill me

With Your Indifference supreme

I kill you with my bleeding insecurity.

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95. He acts

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He acts.

His actions are stung

By the serpent of ambition.

He acts.

His actions unmistakably

Organise ego-publicity.

He acts.

His actions ruthlessly

Disturb the role of his soul.

He acts.

His actions are always

For the luxury of self-indulgence.

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96. The lock and the key

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Doubt is the lock,

Faith is the key.

Hate is the lock,

Love is the key.

Body is the lock,

Soul is the key.

Ignorance is the lock,

Light is the key.

God’s Heart has no lock,

Man’s mind has no key. ```

97. He has heard his Master's footfalls

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His life is full of din,

His life is full of rush,

His life is full of hurry.

He is a picture of insincerity,

He is a picture of ingratitude,

He is a picture of failure.

He fails to silence the storm of his flesh,

He fails to come out of the abyss of his doubt,

He fails to bury the coffin of his fear.

Yet

He shall be saved,

He shall be liberated,

He shall be fulfilled.

For

He has heard his Master’s footfalls.

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98. March on! March on!

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March on, don’t beat retreat!

Sunder not your life from Reality.

March on, respond to the call

Of the Universal Life.

Liberation-flood is yours.

Perfection-sky is yours.

March on, don’t beat retreat!

Don’t argue with yourself.

You are destined to reap the full harvest.

March on, don’t beat retreat! ```

99. Surrender then surrender now

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When I surrendered

To the yoke of public opinion,

My life-forest

Teemed with fear, doubt and despair.

An endless series

Of misfortunes and serpentine windings

Imprisoned my soul.

I have now surrendered

To the Love-Will of my Inner Pilot.

Under the Vault of Heaven

My earthly existence now breathes.

I live to proclaim

My Beauty’s descent and Duty’s ascent.

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100. Now I am happy

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I was not happy,

Although my fame reached

Unprecedented heights.

I was not happy,

Although the world kissed

The dust of my feet.

I was not happy,

Although God offered me

His Transcendental Pride.

But now I am happy,

Because

The Blossoms of my service-tree

Have all been devoured

By man’s ignorance-night and

God’s Blessing-Light. ```

From:Sri Chinmoy,The Dance of Life, part 2, Aum Press, Puerto Rico, 1973
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