Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 31

3001. Unless you lose yourself

```

Unless you lose yourself completely

In the Compassion-Heart of God,

How can you and how will you

Find yourself smiling

At the Protection-Feet of God?

```

3002. The main problem with my mind

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The main problem with my mind is this:

It thinks that it can advise God

About creating a better world.

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3003. Your God-attempt

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Just for a fleeting second

You are enslaved by a hostile thought.

This does not mean that

You can never be free any more.

I assure you,

Your God-attempt will,

Without fail, liberate you

And will grant you

Tomorrow’s perfection-joy.

```

3004. If you want to be perfect

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Soulfully smile,

Sleeplessly cry

And

Unconditionally serve,

If you want to be always perfect

In the world of becoming and transcending. ```

3005. The fond child of God

```

Falsehood never thinks it is falsehood.

It thinks that it is

Nothing other than truth.

Truth knows that it is truth.

It also knows something more:

It knows that it is

The fond child of God. ```

3006. The art of commanding yourself

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If you want to free yourself

From the constant demands of others,

Then immediately learn the art

Of commanding yourself. ```

3007. I am suffering

```

When I feel that

I am suffering for myself,

It actually means that

I am suffering from myself.

When I feel that

I am suffering for God,

It means that

God, out of His infinite Bounty,

Has made me a chosen instrument of His.

```

3008. Why are you being tortured?

```

Who is torturing you?

Not God, definitely!

Why are you being tortured?

You are being tortured

Because of your overfed mind,

Underfed heart

And uninvited soul.

```

3009. Your soul will please you

```

You have asked your mind

To supervise your heart.

Now both of them are unhappy.

Your mind misunderstands your heart,

And your heart does not know

What your mind actually wants.

Such being the case,

Can you not ask your soul

To supervise both these younger members

Of its family?

I tell you, your soul will please

Your mind and your heart. ```

3010. My Lord's Quality and Quantity

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My Lord is at once

His Quality and His Quantity.

In my heart He abides

In His Compassion-Quality.

In my mind He abides

In His Forgiveness-Quantity. ```

3011. To solve your problems

```

You want to solve

All your inner problems.

Alas, you are unable to do it.

I will tell you the secret of secrets:

To solve all your inner and outer problems

Just try to solve one problem —

Realise God in His own Way.

Lo and behold, your inner and outer problems

Are nowhere to be found.

```

3012. Truth helps us in our quest

```

Why do we want to hide

Anything from truth?

Does it punish us?

No!

Does it condemn us?

No!

What does truth do, then?

It only helps us in our quest

For our self-illumination

And our God-realisation. ```

3013. Time for a new boss

```

Your mind is a deaf and blind boss.

It is high time for you

To have a new boss.

Look!

Your new boss, your heart,

Is eagerly waiting to give you a job

Which will inspire you and encourage you

To grow into Satisfaction-Delight. ```

3014. If you have a wrong thought

```

If you have a wrong thought,

Then replace it with a right thought.

If you have a wrong mind,

Then place it under the care of

Your compassion-heart

And

Your illumination-soul.

```

3015. Always try to remain untouched

```

Always try to remain untouched

By the wild vital world

And by the unlit mental world.

Then only, the psychic world

Will appreciate your beauty

And admire your purity. ```

3016. They are not ready

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Purity is eagerly waiting

To welcome my vital.

Sincerity is eagerly waiting

To welcome my mind.

Beauty is eagerly waiting

To welcome my heart.

Prosperity is eagerly waiting

To welcome my life.

Alas, the members of my body-family

Are not ready,

And I have no idea

When they will be ready. ```

3017. Each wants to dominate

```

My vital wants to dominate my mind.

Therefore, my mind is extremely angry.

My mind wants to dominate my heart.

Therefore, my heart is extremely sad.

My body wants to dominate my life.

Therefore, I am totally lost. ```

3018. You can be happy

```

You can be happy

Only when your mind accepts the fact

That somebody else has more knowledge-light

And your heart accepts the fact

That somebody else has more wisdom-delight.

Who is that somebody?

None other than your own

Eternity’s blue bird — your soul. ```

3019. You think, I think

```

You think you are great

Because God thinks of you.

You think you are good

Because you love God.

I think God thinks of you

To transform your earth-bound mind.

I think you love God

Because there is no one else

You can truly love.

```

3020. Can your life not be satisfied?

```

Your mind is satisfied

With God’s Compassion-Sky.

Your heart is satisfied

With God’s Forgiveness-Moon.

Can your life not be satisfied

With God’s Justice-Sun? ```

3021. Tomorrow's silence-beauty

```

The moment he turned his back

On the past,

The golden dawn

Of tomorrow’s silence-beauty

Invited him to ride

In the chariot of the transcendental Sun-God. ```

3022. Run against all odds

```

Run, don’t stop!

Run against all odds.

You have no legitimate grounds

For complaint,

For it is you who have made the choice.

Needless to say,

The right choice is to sleeplessly run

And reach the destined Goal,

And at the end of your journey’s close

Forever to sit

At the Feet of your Beloved Supreme.

```

3023. On the eve of his venture

```

On the eve of his hazardous venture

Three extremely intimate friends of his

Quite quietly deserted him:

His volcano-will,

His sky-peace,

His sun-joy.

Alas, alas, alas!

```

3024. Two powerful rivals

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Two powerful rivals:

The suspicion-power of the mind,

The aggression-power of the vital.

These two rival powers

Constantly fight,

But neither of the two

Wins or loses.

```

3025. A special prayer

```

My Lord Supreme,

My heart has a special prayer:

I long to be

Consciously and constantly useful

In Your Service-Light

And for Your Eye’s

Sole Satisfaction-Delight.

```

3026. If your mind can imagine

```

If your mind can imagine

And if your heart can feel

That at the end of your Heavenward journey

God will grant you

His stupendous Satisfaction-Smile,

Then no fear, no doubt can torture you

Or prevent you from completing

The seemingly long and arduous climb. ```

3027. I did not listen

```

I heard God speak,

But I did not listen to Him.

I heard my Master speak,

But I did not listen to him.

I heard my inner voice speak,

But I did not listen to it.

Therefore, my life within

Is dancing with appalling disasters

And my life without

Is suffering an agonising retreat. ```

3028. Push and pull

```

Push and pull.

If you know how to push aside

The deception-coal,

You will automatically learn how to pull in

The perfection-diamond.

```

3029. A nagging sense of emptiness

```

You are suffering

From a nagging sense of emptiness.

Do you know why?

Because you have renounced

The silence-moon and the sound-sun

Of your soul-bird. ```

3030. Only two significant messages

```

There are only two significant messages.

The first message is:

My heart’s gratitude-machine

Is operating extremely well.

The second message is:

My Lord’s Forgiveness-Machine

Is never out of order.

```

3031. The life of mendicant-hope

```

His is the life of mendicant-hope,

Because his mind never sees and feels

The soulful gladness

Of his fruitful heart. ```

3032. A fruitful peace-life

```

The success of his great work

Granted him a delightful emotion-life.

The progress of his good work

Granted him a fruitful peace-life. ```

3033. My grateful eyes and heart

```

The difference between

My grateful eyes and my grateful heart

Is this:

My grateful eyes

Proclaim God’s Compassion-Moon;

My grateful heart

Proclaims God’s Forgiveness-Sun.

```

3034. The symphony of a hopeful day

```

His vision-heart

Enjoys the symphony of a hopeful day.

His reality-life

Suffers the symphony of a hurtful night. ```

3035. Two inexplicable things

```

One thing

Is painfully inexplicable:

My utter failure-life.

Another thing

Is amazingly inexplicable:

God’s Compassion-Confidence in me. ```

3036. An ardent submissiveness

```

To arrive at the core of everything

What you need is an ardent submissiveness

To Eternity’s infinite Source.

```

3037. Under the brightest morning

```

He lives under the brightest morning

Simply because

Morning is the time when he can see truth

Most beautifully and most powerfully

In God’s inimitable Way.

```

3038. Why do you pretend?

```

Why do you pretend to see?

Why do you pretend to know?

Why do you pretend to feel?

Why do you pretend to be?

Do you know why?

Because unconsciously

You appreciate, admire, adore and love

The greatness and goodness

In God’s universal Reality-Existence.

```

3039. Oneness is generous

```

Insincerity is treacherous.

Jealousy is dangerous.

Humility is harmonious.

Oneness is generous,

Unimaginably generous.

```

3040. We are given chance after chance

```

Again and again

We are given chance after chance

To dive deep within

So that we can clearly see and feel

That our previous attempts

Lacked either sincerity-light

Or determination-power,

Or both. ```

3041. If you know about truth

```

If you are innocent

And do not know anything about truth,

Then truth does not hold

Anything against you.

But if you are clever

And know everything about truth,

Yet do not practise truth

In any sphere of your life,

Then the justice-light of truth

Can and will eventually torment

Your earthly existence.

```

3042. If you are truly spiritual

```

If you are truly spiritual,

Then you do not have to prove your goodness

To the world at large.

What you have to do

Is soulfully enjoy

The purity of your heart’s dawn

And the beauty of your life’s day.

```

3043. You do not have to be a loser

```

The only human being responsible

For losing in the battlefield of life

Is the loser himself.

But I am telling you,

Cry within and smile without sleeplessly!

You do not have to be

One of those deplorable losers.

```

3044. Someone advised you

```

Someone advised you and helped you

In your search for Truth.

Once you discovered the Truth,

To your wide surprise

You saw that your previous Helper and Adviser

Was none other than God Himself. ```

3045. You have the capacity

```

My Lord,

You have the capacity

To love the world with Your Eye.

You have the capacity

To satisfy the world with Your Heart.

My Lord,

Will You not give me the capacity

To admire Your Eye?

Will You not give me the capacity

To adore Your Heart? ```

3046. If you are faithful

```

If you are faithful,

Then the world-doubt

Will not be able to torture you.

If you are pure,

Then the world-impurity

Will not be able to torture you.

For your Beloved Supreme

Will always keep you

Far beyond the snares of doubt and impurity.

```

3047. You are with God

```

You think that God is great.

You think that God is good.

When you think that God is great,

You are with God

In His Dream-Boat.

When you think that God is good,

You are with God

At His Reality-Shore. ```

3048. Why don't you smile and dance?

```

You are crying

Because the quantity of your mind’s doubts

Is as vast as the ocean.

Why don’t you smile and dance,

Since you know that the quality

Of your heart’s faith

Is as pure as a morning rose?

```

3049. If you depend on the positive

```

If your vital depends

On positive determination,

If your mind depends

On positive decisions

And if your heart depends

On positive aspiration,

Then, in your case,

God-realisation cannot remain a far cry. ```

3050. My actions lined with religion

```

My actions lined with religion

Teach me how to fear God.

My actions lined with Yoga

Teach me how to love God.

My actions lined with God Himself

Teach me how to become

A supremely chosen instrument of God.

```

3051. A fount of admonition

```

If you are a sincere God-seeker

And you are not in a high consciousness,

God will not waste a moment

Before blessing you with a gift:

A fount of admonition.

Why does He do this?

He wants to prove that He is making you

Into His representative-light. ```

3052. Three unthinkable suggestions

```

My mind has given me

Three unthinkable suggestions:

It wants me not to care

For the world around me any more.

It wants me not to be so strict

With my pleasure-life.

It wants me to disregard the inner pressure

Of my heart’s aspiration-cry. ```

3053. A mistrusting mind

```

As long as you have a mistrusting mind,

Your life, inner and outer,

Will be assailed by frustrating mankind.

```

3054. Another name for absurdity

```

Atheism is another name for absurdity,

For there is no human being

Who is empty of faith

In something or in someone.

God, being the universal Existence-Life,

Embodies that very thing

Or that very person.

```

3055. A fine sense of contrast

```

I always enjoy a fine sense of contrast

Between a truth-seeker and a God-lover.

To me, a truth-seeker is running

Towards his destined Goal.

To me, a God-lover’s Goal

Is right in front of his vision-eye. ```

3056. His sincerity-life is totally lost

```

Impurity has blinded his mind.

Insecurity has blighted his heart.

Therefore, his sincerity-life

Is completely ashamed and totally lost

When every day it stands

Before his inner self. ```

3057. A desire-life is ultimately caught

```

A desire-life always looks

For new haunts of pleasure,

But is ultimately caught

By merciless frustration-pressure. ```

3058. Three immovable convictions

```

My Lord Supreme,

I need only three immovable convictions:

My heart can and will love You

Even if You do not love me.

I shall unlearn the teachings of my mind

So I can learn everything from my soul

At my heart’s school.

I shall not leave You

Even if You leave me,

Thinking that my life

Is an utterly hopeless case.

```

3059. Stupidity has a free access

```

Stupidity has a free access

To the excesses of your poetry.

Therefore, the earth-beggar

Does not care for your light,

And the Heaven-Emperor

Does not even know who you are. ```

3060. Three glorious qualifications

```

He is the possessor

Of three glorious qualifications:

He can see the Face of God

At any time.

His heart and God’s Heart feed each other

Sleeplessly and breathlessly.

Until God is fully manifested here on earth

He will not wear the crown

Of his own God-realisation

Even for a fleeting second. ```

3061. The train of your self-discovery

```

If your heart is fired

With aspiration-potentiality,

If your mind is fired

With determination-possibility

And if your life is fired

With dedication-practicality,

Then the train of your self-discovery

Will not remain a far cry. ```

3062. Each temptation

```

A pure self-giving heart

And a sure God-loving life

Will never allow themselves

To be sprinkled with small temptations,

For each temptation

Attacks the self-giver and God-lover

With an unscrupulous ignorance-day

And a ferocious destruction-night. ```

3063. A profitable partnership

```

The disciple and the Master

Enjoy a profitable partnership:

The Master gives the disciple

The capacity to cry for God;

The disciple helps the Master

To receive a Smile from God. ```

3064. A fearless expectation of success

```

Since yours is the mind

That cherishes a fearless expectation of success,

What your heart needs immediately

Is a purity-cry

And what your life needs immediately

Is a certainty-smile. ```

3065. The world is not listening to you

```

The inner world

Is not listening to you.

The outer world

Is not listening to you.

What you have now

Is a sinking hopelessness-boat

And what you are now

Is a sour-bitter flavour of resignation. ```

3066. If you can become a better listener

```

If you can become a better listener,

God’s Compassion will immediately become

A better adviser.

If you can become a better God-lover,

God’s Satisfaction will immediately become

A better bestower.

```

3067. If your mind develops

```

If your mind develops

A bad opinion of your pure heart

Even by mistake,

Then it will never, never be able

To see the vision-eye

Of Heavenly Blue. ```

3068. Three inevitable companions

```

A truth-seeker and God-lover

Has three inevitable companions:

A soulful cry,

A beautiful smile

And

A fruitful God. ```

3069. Two peerless boons

```

God is so pleased with him

That He has granted him

Two peerless boons:

An experiment-eye in vision-prophecy

And

An experience-heart in reality-ecstasy. ```

3070. Question their right

```

O my truth-searching mind,

Instead of surrendering

To the hostile attacks

Of teeming doubts,

Dauntlessly question their right

To overpower you. ```

3071. Stand firm

```

O my truth-searching mind,

Instead of surrendering

To the hostile attacks

Of aggression-destruction,

Stand firm and face

Its bold buffets. ```

3072. Challenge and regain

```

O my truth-searching mind,

Instead of tolerating

The constant repetition

Of stark anxiety,

Challenge it and regain

Your long-lost poise. ```

3073. Do not be afraid

```

O my truth-searching mind,

Do not be afraid of impurity.

Ignore its powerful domination.

It can never hurt

Your real self.

It can only create a curable separation

Between you and your dear ones.

```

3074. Three alternatives

```

Remember, O my mind,

You have three alternatives:

You can go

Either from darkness to light

Or from light to darkness,

Or you can remain

In your self-created unawareness.

```

3075. Follow your soul

```

Your soul is on its way

Back home.

Follow your soul.

Cover the same distance

As it does daily.

Your triumphant journey is certain. ```

3076. Sail on your aspiration-voyage

```

Sail on your imagination-voyage.

Your discoveries will be beautiful.

Sail on your aspiration-voyage.

Your discoveries will be beautiful

Plus fruitful.

```

3077. God's Freedom-Height

```

My vision-light shall reach

God’s Freedom-Height.

God’s Freedom-Height shall grant me

God’s Satisfaction-Delight. ```

3078. Love enlightenment more

```

If you fear punishment,

Then why don’t you love

Enlightenment more?

In enlightenment

Punishment is an undeniable unreality.

```

3079. See if I am correct

```

You can be happy

If you say good-bye

To useless thoughts.

Do it, and see if I am correct.

You can be happy

If you say good-bye

To the soulless mind.

Just try it, and see if I am correct. ```

3080. They choose you

```

You fool,

They choose you not because

They want to help you.

They choose you because

They want you to help them,

Daily and unreservedly. ```

3081. If you persist

```

Do not give up.

If you persist,

Tomorrow’s peace will come

And feed your mind today,

And tomorrow’s perfection will come

And touch your life today. ```

3082. Our mutual satisfaction-delight

```

Some people are not happy

If they do not cry inwardly daily.

Are you one of those?

If so, then you and I

Are sailing in the same boat.

Our oneness will be founded

On our mutual satisfaction-delight.

```

3083. To believe in human promises

```

To believe in human promises

Is as absurd

As building a hope-tower

On a hopeless ground. ```

3084. Only God has power

```

Have no fear.

Nobody has any power of his own.

Only God has power,

And His Power is another name

For His Love, sleepless Love.

```

3085. Your loneliness-fire

```

Are you ready to go home?

If so, then start!

Be not afraid.

Even if you have to walk alone,

I tell you, your loneliness-fire

Will burn the hostile forces

That are around you.

```

3086. The real story

```

How do you know that

The life that interests you

Will interest God?

The real story has to be

Completely the reverse.

```

3087. You owe your success-life

```

You owe your success-life

To your outer courageous mind.

You owe your progress-life

To your inner spacious heart. ```

3088. Truth wants you

```

Truth does not want you

To be engulfed by your mind.

Truth does not want you

To be enchanted by your vital.

Truth wants you

Only to be enlightened

By your heart.

```

3089. My Lord's great Satisfaction

```

My awareness means my confidence.

My confidence means my perfection.

My perfection means my Lord’s

Great Satisfaction. ```

3090. Your last gift

```

My Lord Supreme,

You have given me countless gifts.

Do give me one more gift.

You and I may call it

Your last gift:

A gratitude-heart. ```

3091. My heart is crying

```

My heart is crying

For a pure friend,

My mind is crying

For a sure friend

And I am crying

For a self-transcending friend. ```

3092. Empty deception-praise

```

O my vital,

You are tired of everything

Save one thing:

Empty deception-praise. ```

3093. I am completely lost

```

I am completely lost between

The most difficult test-question —

Who am I?

—

And the most strict answer-examiner —

My own sincerity. ```

3094. I shall need You only

```

The day before yesterday

I needed You and also needed others.

Alas, I did not need You only.

Yesterday I loved You

And also loved others.

Alas, I did not love You only.

But from today on, my Lord,

I shall need You only

And I shall love You only.

```

3095. God has the sincerity

```

God has the sincerity

To tell me

That He loves me.

Alas, I do not have the sincerity

To tell Him

That I badly need His Love. ```

3096. Oneness-joy

```

O my mind,

You are wrong when you attribute

Oneness-joy to yourself.

Oneness-joy belongs to the heart alone.

Yours is division-sorrow.

```

3097. I shall never be lost

```

I shall never be lost.

Do you know why?

Because every day

My life is the soulful joy

Of a faithful hope.

```

3098. Ask your heart

```

Before you look for security from him,

Can you not ask your heart

To give you implicit faith

In his sincerity? ```

3099. Every day I am deceived

```

O my clever body,

Every day I am deceived

By your striking promises

And fantastic assurances. ```

3100. God has the time

```

I am so busy

That I do not have the time to think

Of my pure heart.

God is also busy, like me.

Nevertheless, He has the time

To lovingly think

Of even my impure mind.

```

Editor's introduction to the first edition

This is the thirty-first volume in a series of ten thousand “flaming flower-poems” which Sri Chinmoy is placing devotedly, unreservedly and unconditionally at the Compassion-Feet of God, our Beloved Supreme. They stand as a supreme offering from the unfolding beauty of his flower-heart and the flaming heights of his realisation-sun. Indeed, a treasure-tower which will at once be claimed by humanity’s self-ascending cry and Divinity’s God-descending Smile.

Editor's note to cover photo

At a recent meeting of the Meditation Group at the United Nations, Sri Chinmoy greets his long-time friend, United Nations Ambassador Zenon Rossides of Cyprus. On many occasions Rossides has ardently championed the cause of the Meditation Group and, over the years, has participated in many of its programmes. At one gathering of the Meditation Group, Rossides said, “I want to praise Sri Chinmoy for what he is doing. His work is far more important than all the conferences in the United Nations.” Sri Chinmoy responded, “In you we truly have found a spiritual brother and also a lighthouse — the lighthouse at the United Nations that beckons seekers and also shows them the way and guides them.”

Editor's note

Some poems in this first edition were later selected by the author for a special collection of 207 Flower-Flames (FFP). The author also chose to revise some of his original poems for this anthology: FF-3074: FFP 120 (revised version).

From:Sri Chinmoy,Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 31, Agni Press, 1982
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