My eagerness-heart

1.

```

My eagerness-heart

And my self-giving life

Always win

The inner race. ```

2.

```

Alas,

When can I put an end

To my confrontation

With self-doubt? ```

3.

```

Although my prayers

And meditations

Do not reach

Their usual height,

I am basking in the Lord's

Constant Forgiveness-Light. ```

4.

```

Alas,

What can I do with the mind

That is always hostile

To change? ```

5.

```

Something

Supremely important:

My oneness-willingness-heart

With the Will

Of my Lord Supreme.

```

6.

```

If there is no positive effort

To change our life,

How can we ever fulfil

Our God-manifestation-dreams? ```

7.

```

Small-minded people

Are always finding fault

With everything

And everyone. ```

8.

```

You cannot always

Avoid suffering,

But you can always try

To transform suffering

Into happiness.

```

9.

```

In my silence-dream

I become a citizen

Of the perfection-land.

```

10.

```

What do I pray for?

I pray for an elevator ride

To God's

Compassion-flooded Floor. ```

11.

```

The outer world demands.

The inner world commands.

I am totally lost in between.

```

12.

```

In vain

My heart every day

Tries to establish

A close friendship

With my mind.

```

13.

```

I want to love God.

That is all.

I do not want to know

Why and how. ```

14.

```

If you have a self-giving heart

For the world,

Then the happiness

Of your Beloved Supreme

Will be yours.

```

15.

```

An inner pilgrimage

Without love, devotion

And surrender

Will be utterly disastrous. ```

16.

```

You think

That God's Wisdom

Cannot speak

Through all human beings.

But you are mistaken.

His Wisdom-Light can speak

Even through

The worst possible fool. ```

17.

```

When my life

Is in my division-mind,

No matter what I choose,

Eventually

I am totally frustrated.

```

18.

```

When my life

Is in my oneness-heart,

Not only do I have everything,

But also

I become everything.

```

19.

```

My Lord Supreme,

Since the entire universe

Belongs to You,

You can give me shelter

Anywhere You want to.

But I would like to remain

Only in

Your Compassion-Heart

Or at

Your Forgiveness-Feet. ```

20.

```

God tells us

That there is only one way

For us to be cured

Of our ignorance-disease,

And that is by

Consciously and sleeplessly

Loving Him more.

```

21.

```

A surrender-heart

Is the most perfect place

To embark

On our highest soul-journey. ```

22.

```

The frequent visits

Of self-doubt

Have made us

Not only helpless

But also useless.

```

23.

```

When you become

Your willingness-mind

And eagerness-heart,

Perfection

Fast approaches you.

```

24.

```

Our greatness

Is in climbing up

To the top of the tree.

Our goodness

Is in becoming

The tree itself. ```

25.

```

O God-satisfaction-dreams,

Fly far beyond

Humanity's happiness-horizon!

```

26.

```

The very nature of love

Is to forgive,

And forgiveness is

God's ever-transcending

Universal experience.

```

27.

```

What I need

Is the purity

Of goodness,

And not the prosperity

Of greatness.

```

28.

```

Only a surrender-heart

Will have the confidence

To march bravely

Into the land unknown. ```

29.

```

When the newness-mind

Serves the fulness-heart,

Life grows into

Harmony, peace

And perfection.

```

30.

```

You are displeasing God

By cherishing

Your doubting mind.

You are disappointing God

By not using

Your confidence-light. ```

31.

```

My bossy ego

And my busy ego

Move together to arrive at

A hallucination-created

Destination.

```

32.

```

Ignorance-lethargy-sleep,

I shall prove to you

From now on

That I can and I shall be

Your absolutely worst foe.

```

33.

```

To a divinely peaceful

Oneness-heart,

No door can remain closed.

```

34.

```

My God-hunger-hour

Is the right time,

And

My God-nourishment-heart

Is the right place.

```

35.

```

Two things I truly love:

My life's

Prayer-mountain

And my heart's

Meditation-fountain.

```

36.

```

O audacity-mind,

I am not afraid of you.

O tenacity-vital,

I am not afraid of you.

O God the Power,

I am not afraid of You.

O God the Compassion-Tears,

I am indeed afraid of You. ```

37.

```

The heart-university teaches

Both the unity and diversity

Of life

To the humanity-students. ```

38.

```

A life without fear of death

Comes only from

The beauty and fragrance

Of a God-surrendered breath. ```

39.

```

God's Compassion-Eye

Teaches me.

God's Satisfaction-Heart

Rewards me. ```

40.

```

O heart of optimism,

I love you immensely.

O mind of pessimism,

I detest you vehemently. ```

41.

```

If you do not spend

Your heart's time

In prayer and meditation,

Then there will be

No Heaven-home for you.

```

42.

```

In the depth

Of each human life

There is a fulfilling breath

Of the Lord Supreme. ```

From:Sri Chinmoy,My eagerness-heart, Agni Press, 1993
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