My Lord Supreme,
I do not need Your Love.I do not need Your Compassion.
I do not need Your Forgiveness.What I need is Your Presence.
No matter how severe You are,Just stay with me
And allow me to claim YouAs my own, very own.
```A thinker shows the world
What he has — his mind.A seeker shows the world
Whom he knows — his God. ```If I feel love
Inside your heart,How can I see ugliness
On your face? ```The human in me
Thinks before it chooses.The divine in me
Chooses but does not think.The Supreme in me
Neither thinks nor chooses,Neither chooses nor thinks.
He eternally enjoysHis transcendental Freedom.
```I admit that I cannot
Speak to God.But do you know that
His best Child, Compassion,Every day speaks to my heart?
```As soon as I succeed,
I shall be in a positionTo smile at you.
As soon as I proceed,
God will be in a positionTo smile at me.
```O God, You have proved Yourself
To be the greatest Power of Light.Now I shall prove myself
To be the strongest gratitude of delight. ```My Lord, until we meet again,
Do try to feel every dayMy grateful heart.
My Lord, until we meet again,
I shall try to imagine every dayYour blessingful Eyes.
```I shall accomplish many things
Regardless of your belief or disbelief.But because I believe in you,
You are able to accomplish many thingsIn a fleeting day.
```I pray to God
Because I need His Power.I meditate on God
Because I love His Heart. ```I may not know what to say,
But I do know what to feel —Love, God’s constant Love.
```Before I pray to God,
I shall see what I needFrom God.
Before I meditate on God,
I shall see what God needsFrom me.
```O my mind,
I shall forgive youIf it is God’s Will.
O my heart,
Because it is your willI shall sleeplessly love God.
```My mind may not think of God,
But my heart loves God.My heart may not know God,
But my soul pleases God. ```My Lord,
I am a little mind.One question is torturing me:
Do You ever care for me?My Lord,
I am a tiny heart.One question is torturing me:
Do I have the capacity to love You?My Lord,
I am an ordinary soul.One question is torturing me:
Will I ever be able to manifest You?“My sweet child,
I am also suffering from one question:Is it not My Responsibility
To satisfy you?” ```There is only one kind of suffering
Which is worse than the worstAnd that is self-distrust.
```If you have stopped
At the boundary of knowledge,How will you be able to enter into
The kingdom of wisdom? ```Be not satisfied
With the vision of possibilities.You can be satisfied
Only with the perfect manifestationOf divine Realities.
```What you have
Is an incompetent mind.What you have
Is an unscrupulous vital.How, then, do you expect to have
A soulful and God-loving heart? ```Not because you have an intellectual mind,
But because you have a God-searching mind,You have a simmering dislike
For ignorant and uselessHuman praise.
```You have a very rare strength of mind.
Therefore, every day God supplies youWith a great deal of fresh knowledge-light.
```A sincere heart
Is a practical Heaven.A perfect soul
Is Eternity’s fruitful Bliss. ```My deliberate errors
Are vigorously pursuedBy God’s Illumination-Light
And Compassion-Height. ```Who can determine
The distance betweenMy known years of failure
And my unknown years of success,If not the truth-seeker in me
And the God-lover in me? ```Try to live only one season,
And that season is the seasonOf hope.
If you live in that season,You will be able to liberate yourself
From the clutches of silence-sobs. ```I am bowing down
To a sad necessity:Because you do not have
Aspiration-flames,I shall observe the memorial
Of my forgotten faith in you. ```There is only one thing
That can adorn my life,And that is my compassionate Lord’s
Delightful ConfidenceIn my life-boat.
```The difference between
My earth-bound mindAnd my Heaven-free heart is this:
My earth-bound mind is abundantIn uncertain promises,
My Heaven-free heart is abundantIn certain fulfilments.
```I am so happy to tell the world
That at long lastMy compassionate Father Supreme
Has liberated meFrom an unaspiring life
Which was nothing butA uselessly painful affair.
```O modern and sophisticated world,
I shall be able to conquerEverything that you have
Except one thing,And that is
Your unconquerable indifference-noon. ```To embody a soft tone of humility
Is undoubtedlyAn exceptional privilege,
For therein liesGod’s triumphant Confidence
In His seeker-child. ```We pray to God the Power,
But God the LoverAnswers our prayers.
```My Lord,
Today You are showing meYour own unlimited Forgiveness.
My Lord,Do give me the capacity
To show You tomorrowMy own unlimited soulfulness.
```My mind’s sincerity-river
Shall never run dry.My heart’s purity-river
Shall never run dry.My life’s humility-river
Shall never run dry.My soul’s illumination-river
Shall never run dry. ```Who wants to know
That his life is a total failure?He who wants to know
Why he has failedAnd he who wants to derive
An illumining and fulfilling experienceFrom his past failure-life.
```What am I waiting for?
I am waiting for God’s Sound-LifeInside my needy heart
And I am waiting for God’s Silence-LifeInside my busy mind.
```O world,
Take what I have —God’s beautiful Smile.
I shall keep for myselfOnly what I am —
God’s fruitful Cry. ```The Scriptures teach me
How to love the Saviour.The Saviour teaches me
How to love the Real in meThe future God.
```My parents told me
That God the CreatorWill take care of me.
They were absolutely right.Now God the Creator is asking me
To take care of God the creation.I do hope that this discovery is true
And not my wild imagination. ```If you can show God
An iota of patience,Then God will show you
His limitless PowerPlus
His immortal Love,For you,
Unmistakably and unreservedly for you. ```When I tell God
That I shall love Him only,He immediately shows me
The shortest way to reachHis Palace.
When I tell God
That I shall serve Him only,He immediately asks me
To sit nearestHis Throne.
```You always enjoy peculiarity.
Therefore, you do not surrenderEven for a day
Your mind’s strong individualityTo your heart’s wise unity.
```When we soulfully and cheerfully
Perform today’s task,God immediately promises us
That tomorrow our burdenWill definitely be lighter,
And the day after tomorrowWe will have no burden
Whatsoever. ```He who is afraid of life
Thinks that life is not worth living.He who loves life
Knows that God and lifeAre mutually crying for each other.
```Unless you believe
In God’s unconditional Help,How will you,
Nay, how can you,Wisely feel God’s Love?
```An idle man
Knows how to speakIll of the world
Not only unnecessarilyBut also ceaselessly.
An idle man
Does not want to learnHow to speak to God
Even in his dreams. ```The problem with fault-finding
Is that he who finds fault with othersIs in no way a happy person
Even after he has successfullyAccomplished his task.
```Unless I believe in the unknown,
How can I eventually becomeInseparably one with the unknowable?
```No matter how bad your mind is,
I shall have sincere concern for youAs long as your heart
Remains true to God. ```If you have a pure heart,
Then immediately give it to GodFor His Satisfaction.
If you have an impure mind,
Then immediately give it to me.I shall easily be able to cope with it
Since my own impure mindIs infinitely stronger than yours.
```I really feel sorry
When my Lord Supreme tells meThat He understands everything
Except one thing,And that is my lack of eagerness
To claim Him as my own, very own. ```A doubtful mind and a fearful heart
Either consciously or unconsciouslyLive near each other.
```Yesterday
I was satisfiedWith God’s beautiful Eyes.
Today
I am satisfiedWith God’s powerful Feet.
From tomorrow
I shall always be satisfiedWith God’s fruitful Heart.
```I love
Both God the youngAnd God the old.
From God the young I learn
How to run, jump, fly and dive.From God the old I learn
How to cry and smileAnd how to smile and cry.
```When a child lives inside his eyes,
He likes to play with God the Beauty.When a child lives inside his heart,
He likes to play with God the Purity. ```My Lord,
What can I doWhen I do not love You?
“My child,
To love Me is absolutelyThe best thing to do.
If you cannot do that,Then do the next best thing:
Try to think and feelThat I am not displeased with you.”
```My Lord,
What can I doWhen I only think of myself
And not of You?“My child,
Just try to rememberThat the clouds in the sky
Do not last forever.The sun does appear eventually.”
```My Lord,
Is there anything specificYou want me to know?
“Yes, My son,
Do not underestimateThe destruction-flow of your mind
And do not underestimateThe creation-glow of your heart.”
```If it is true
That I have not done anything specialFor this world,
Then it is equally trueThat I have never lodged
A single complaint to HeavenAgainst this world.
```I am pleased with my mind
Although it is lagging far behindMy speedy heart.
The very fact that it is trying,Nay, desperately trying,
To reach the Abode of TruthIs pleasing me.
```A seeker without a life of discipline
Is a perfect dwellerIn the animal kingdom.
```Aspiration minus dedication
Is equal toA half-blind man.
Humility minus sincerity
Is equal toIll-fated futility.
```I love God
Not because He is so great and so good,But because He tells me every day
That I shall eventually becomeAs great and as good
As He is. ```My Lord Supreme,
I can’t believe that my ignorance-nightIs hiding from me today.
“My son,
I can’t believe that todayYou have renounced all your friends
And want to spend the whole dayWith Me alone.”
```When I am unhappy,
I think that God does not care for meAnd that God has no time to think of me.
When I am happy,
I powerfully feelThat God has given up everything else
Only to satisfy me. ```I shall tell you where God is
Only when you dare to believe wholeheartedlyThat God is eagerly waiting for you.
I shall tell you who God is
Only when you dare to imagineThat you have never loved
Anyone else but God,Your other Self,
Your highest Self,Your true Self.
```Twice I shed tears of gratitude:
Once when my Lord told meThat He does not mind my ignorance-night;
Once when my Lord told meThat I can freely use His Wisdom-Light
To my heart’s content. ```There are two ways
To conquer ignorance:One is to have more faith
In the perfection of knowledge,And one is to have more faith
In the destruction of ignorance. ```Tolerance in the inner world
And perseverance in the outer worldAre two extremely beautiful twins.
```In the beginning
An unconditional lifeIs a battleground.
But eventuallyAn unconditional life
Becomes a playground. ```Once God sees you
Plying your life-boatBetween the soulfulness-shore
And the faithfulness-shore,He will immediately grant you
His own Life-BoatTo ply between His Fruitfulness-Shore
And His Happiness-Shore. ```God does not want to know
What we daily do.He just wants to see
What we are. ```My eyes do not know
Where God is.My mind does not know
Who God is.My heart does not know
Whether God cares for it.And I do not want to know
If I will ever be able to please God. ```Life is sadness
When I want to see yesterday’s head.Life is gladness
When I want to feel tomorrow’s heart. ```To reject even unconsciously
God’s Compassion-SmileIs to invite quickly
Man’s destruction-frown. ```Who is worthy?
He who wants meIs worthy of having me
As his friend.He who needs me
Is more than worthy of having meAs his closest friend.
```Think cheerfully.
This is a good way.Give soulfully.
This is a better way.Surrender to God’s Will.
This is the best way. ```You feel sad that you have failed.
Dive deep within.You will feel that God’s sadness
At your failureFar surpasses your sadness.
Does it not console you?It should and it must.
```You feel happy that you have succeeded.
Dive deep within.You are bound to see
That there is Someone who did everythingFor your tremendous success.
Just feel that you are not aloneIn thinking of yourself.
There is Somebody elseWho thinks of you infinitely more
Than you can ever think of yourself. ```Do you want to succeed?
If so, tell the worldThat you can.
Do you want to proceed?If so, tell the world
That you are. ```My Lord of Compassion denied me
A desire-thornOnly to give me
My future aspiration-rose. ```Keep counting the flowers
Of Blessing-LightIf you want to avoid
The dark forestOf ignorance-night.
```There is a great difference
Between knowing the teacherAnd knowing his teachings.
His teachings show the world what he has,But what he is, is another name
For Eternity’s Vision. ```God created you for only two purposes:
One is to be true to HimAnd the other is to be true to yourself.
```When you pray,
You come to realiseThat you have a room high above.
When you meditate,
You come to realiseThat you have a home deep inside.
```Don’t pray for useless things!
To your sorrow,If not to your strong surprise,
You may be blessed with the useless thingsThat you prayed for.
```In your case,
A life of sincerityWill be a second birth,
And this birth will not suffer death. ```Since your life entirely depends
On the divinity of hope,How can you have a hopeless heart?
How can you? ```My conscience tells me
That I am not pure enoughTo sit at the Feet
Of the Lord Supreme.My consciousness tells me
That My Lord SupremeWill do everything for me;
For my part, all I have to doIs remain seated at His Feet.
```The more I look at the temptation-tree,
The more I feel my attachment to it.The farther I go away
From the temptation-tree,The more I feel the uselessness of its existence.
```Soulfully you give
So that you can becomePowerfully rich.
Unconditionally you give
So that you can becomeAnother God,
A new God. ```If you have faith in yourself,
Then God will smile at you.If God has faith in you,
Then you will becomeTomorrow’s God,
A new God. ```In the morning
Have a positive idea.In the evening
Have a constructive ideal.At night
Try to have the most effective realisation. ```Do you really love
All your brother and sister disciples?Do you really love yourself?
If so, you are undoubtedlyMy perfect disciple.
```Love yourself
Cheerfully and spontaneously.You will become happy
In the outer life.Love God
Unconditionally.You will become perfect
In the inner life. ```Give to man
What you really do not want to give —Your gratitude-heart.
Do not give to man
What you really want to give —Your suspicion-eye.
```If you want to love
The Beauty of God’s Eye,First you have to admire
The Power of God’s Feet. ```Since God has not rejected you,
That means you still have the capacityTo conquer ignorance-night.
```Satan says to me,
“Hurry up, hurry up!”I say to Satan,
“Shut up, shut up!”My Lord says to me,
“Get up, My child, get up!”I say to my Lord,
“I am already up, Father,I am already up!”
```My Lord’s Strictness
Changed my life for a day.My Lord’s Kindness
Changed my life for a month.My Lord’s Oneness
Has changed my life forever. ```From:Sri Chinmoy,Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 38, Agni Press, 1982
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