Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 42

4101. Today is my day

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Today is my day,

Absolutely my day.

I shall use it carefully,

Untiringly and soulfully

To become the choicest instrument

Of my Beloved Supreme. ```

4102. Every day is the right day

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Every day is the right day

For the right person,

And that person

Is the unconditional God-lover. ```

4103. Do not dislike your responsibilities

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Difficulties have the capacity

To strengthen your mind.

Therefore, do not dislike your difficulties.

Responsibilities have the capacity

To enlighten your heart.

Therefore, do not dislike your responsibilities.

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4104. A whisper of fear

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If you really want to please God

In God’s own Way,

Then you must never have

A whisper of fear

Inside the breath of your faith.

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4105. What is despair?

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What is despair?

It is something that impairs

Your life-tree.

It is something that can never repair

Your life-boat.

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4106. God's secret Means

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If you do not know

How to employ the sacred means

To illumine your desire-life,

Then invoke God to employ His secret Means

To destroy your desire-life.

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4107. My God is not as distant

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My life is not as easy

As I think.

My God is not as distant

As I feel. ```

4108. My life

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To realise God, my life

Is not a mere chance.

To realise God, my life

Is my Lord’s ignorance-piercing Lance. ```

4109. Just peacefully wait

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Do not worry about

The limited and limiting mind.

Your love of the Beyond

Will definitely illumine your mind.

Just peacefully wait

And soulfully watch. ```

4110. God came down

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I went up

To see God’s beautiful Feet.

God came down

To give me His bountiful Heart. ```

4111. The surest way to love God

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For me,

The speediest way to love God

Is to wait for God’s choice Hour,

And the surest way to love God

Is to turn my life

Into a gratitude-flower. ```

4112. Without a prayerful heart

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He who lives without

A prayerful heart and a soulful life

Unmistakably belongs

To the animal kingdom. ```

4113. The invisible forces

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The visible world listens to us

Only when we reckon upon

The invisible forces.

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4114. Your heart's perfect preparation

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Your mind’s emptiness

Is your heart’s perfect preparation

To receive God unreservedly.

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4115. Do you love me, my Lord?

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Do You love me, my Lord,

No matter what I say

And no matter what I do against You?

“Tell Me first, My son,

Do you need Me

No matter how strict I am with you?”

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4116. I have complete hope

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I have confidence in this world.

This world will never desert me.

I have complete hope

In the transformation of my life

Through my Lord’s Compassion-Eye.

My life will not disappoint me. ```

4117. An abiding friendship

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There can be no lasting friendship

Between my useless fears

And my shameless doubts,

Because both are bad.

There can easily be, nay,

There actually is an abiding friendship

Between my soulful faith

And my prayerful purity,

Because both are good.

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4118. My inheritance

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Heaven-delight is my inheritance

Because I love God for God’s sake.

Earth-ignorance is my inheritance

Because I love man,

For my sake and man’s sake.

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4119. Supreme discoveries

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My heart’s supreme discovery:

God is God’s sleepless

Compassion-Eye.

My life’s supreme discovery:

God is God’s breathless

Forgiveness-Smile.

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4120. An energising vital

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Do you need

A domineering person?

No!

Then why do you need

A domineering vital?

What you need is

An energising vital.

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4121. You win both

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When you show no interest whatsoever

In ego-competition,

You at once win

Both God’s Crown and God’s Throne. ```

4122. You are useful to God

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You are great

Not because you are powerful.

You are great

Because you are useful to God

In a spiritual way.

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4123. An excellent beginning

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Self-examination

Is an excellent beginning

For God-realisation.

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4124. Right decisions

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Fast decisions in the spiritual life,

Who cannot make?

Right decisions in the spiritual life,

How many can make? ```

4125. Your soul can erase

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Only when your dynamic vital

Challenges your emotional life

And is ready to accept the soul’s help,

Can your soul erase

Your most harmful past mistakes.

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4126. My inner life needs liberation

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My outer life needs protection

From myself.

My inner life needs liberation

From the nightmare of insincerity-insecurity. ```

4127. A doubting mind

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A doubting mind

Is forced to live

In the prison of loneliness.

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4128. The world will be in your hands

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You do not have to try

To conquer the world.

The world will be immediately

In your hands

If you just stop finding fault with it.

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4129. Destination: nowhere

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Time-wasting idlers

And cunning self-deceivers

Are sailing in the same boat.

Their destination: nowhere. ```

4130. The perfect beginning

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Self-giving

Is the perfect beginning.

God-becoming

Is the perfect end. ```

4131. Let me do my duty

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Let me do my duty

And let God do His Duty.

Let me discover

My fruitless nothingness,

And let God invent

My fruitful fulness. ```

4132. God will announce

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If I renounce what I have —

My desire-life —

Then God will announce

What He has for me —

His Immortality-Life.

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4133. No real happiness

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There is no real happiness

Either in possession-life

Or in renunciation-life.

There is joy only in surrender-life. ```

4134. When your hope is God

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O my body,

How can you be useless

When your hope is God?

O my vital,

How can you be hopeless

When your hope is God?

O my mind,

How can you be fruitless

When your hope is God?

O my heart,

How can you be helpless

When your hope is God?

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4135. God will announce his Victory

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What has happened to me?

I have become an utter failure.

What will happen through me?

God will announce His supreme Victory

Through me.

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4136. Make your choice!

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Make your choice!

Either cast aside

Your ignorance-night

Or shamelessly hide in it. ```

4137. When pride surpasses beauty

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When the pride of a human being

Far surpasses

The beauty of his self-giving,

His life no longer remains a playground.

It becomes a battleground.

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4138. Give to God's Eye

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Give to God’s Eye

What God’s Eye wants from you:

Faithfulness.

God will give to your heart

What your heart wants from God:

Fruitfulness.

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4139. Don't act like a fool

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Be careful!

Don’t act like a fool.

God actually may grant you the useless thing

That you are asking Him for.

One never knows

What God will give

To a stark fool like you.

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4140. Discipline, my discipline

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Discipline, my discipline,

You must stay with me and for me

All my life.

Obedience, my most precious friend,

Never leave me, never!

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4141. If you start with a purity-heart

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If you start with a purity-heart,

You are bound to arrive

At the divinity-end.

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4142. God's Whisper

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God’s one inspiring and encouraging Whisper

Is enough for the awakened soul

To walk along Eternity’s Road

Soulfully, gratefully and unconditionally. ```

4143. Go to God as you are

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O my mind,

Go to God as you are.

The more time you take

To prepare yourself,

The heavier the ignorance-load

You will have to carry.

Therefore, brook no delay.

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4144. Self-transformation begins

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Self-transformation begins

Only after God-invitation

Sincere and pure,

And never before. ```

4145. To feel secure

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To feel secure

You have to reject

The destruction of your dividing mind

And accept

The creation of your unifying heart.

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4146. The only solution

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The only solution to your nervousness

Is found in your heart’s oneness-song,

And this oneness-song

Is immediately followed

By your life’s fulness-dance.

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4147. When stark falsehood disappears

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Do you want to know

When stark falsehood disappears?

It disappears only when

You make friends with Truth,

Converse with Truth

And correspond with Truth

At its own level.

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4148. Your soul's pleasure-garden

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You want to free yourself

From your daily pressures.

I am telling you the secret:

Every day try to spend some time

Inside your soul’s

Divinely redolent pleasure-garden.

Do not hesitate!

Your soul has already granted you

A free access

To its Immortality’s pleasure-garden. ```

4149. A cure for imperfection

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The enlargement of your heart

Is a cure for fear.

The enlightenment of your mind

Is a cure for doubt.

The improvement of your life

Is a cure for imperfection. ```

4150. Please yourself divinely

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Please yourself undivinely

And you will see a devouring tiger

Inside your vital-forest.

Please yourself divinely

And you will see a fast-running deer

Inside your heart-garden.

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4151. Your soulful insight whispers

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Your doubtful eyesight declares

There is no such thing as God

And there is no such person as God.

Your soulful insight whispers

There is only one thing on earth,

And that is God the ascending Cry,

And there is only one Person in Heaven,

And that is God the descending Smile. ```

4152. The art of self-giving

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Unless and until

You have perfectly learnt

The art of self-giving,

You are bound to remain

An impractical and unfulfilled dreamer.

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4153. I am always saved and fulfilled

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I am always saved and fulfilled.

When I am an impurity-mind,

I eagerly want to capture the world.

My Lord’s descending “No” saves me.

When I am a purity-heart,

I breathlessly wish to treasure the world.

My Lord’s ascending “Yes” fulfils me.

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4154. Predecessors

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Wisdom-light precedes

Love-delight.

Love-delight precedes

Oneness-height.

Oneness-height precedes

Satisfaction-might. ```

4155. Your soul knows how to play

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Your soul knows how to play

With God’s Smiles.

Your heart knows how to play

With man’s cries.

Now you should try

To know how to play

With your life’s perfection.

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4156. I am not alone

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I am not alone.

Humanity’s heart-breaking tears

Are within me.

I am not alone.

Divinity’s life-illumining smiles

Are for me.

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4157. Companions

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The ugliness of a doubting mind

And the fruitlessness of a losing life

Always go together.

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4158. God's ever-prosperous Smile

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If your mind thinks

That the unknown reality is dangerous,

And if your heart feels

That the unknowable reality is dangerous,

Then God’s ever-prosperous Smile

Will not bless you. ```

4159. Allow your heart to swim

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Since you allow your mind

To roam in the fantasy-sky,

You must needs allow your heart

To swim in the ecstasy-sea. ```

4160. God's revealed Silence-Power

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Hope should be synonymous

With patience.

Patience should be synonymous

With God’s choice Hour.

And God’s choice Hour

Is God’s revealed Silence-Power. ```

4161. Contradiction disappears

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Contradiction appears

When my ignorance-mind

Thinks it knows more

Than it actually does.

Contradiction disappears

When my knowledge-heart

Feels that God is at once

The Speaker and the Listener. ```

4162. Misery knocks at your heart's door

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Misery knocks at your heart’s door

Precisely because your mind-boat

Still enjoys staying at the trickery-shore.

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4163. I tell the earth-bound life-train

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I tell the earth-bound life-train

That earth is nothing

But destruction-battlefield.

I tell the Heaven-bound life-train

That Heaven is nothing

But perfection-satisfaction-garden.

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4164. A silence-diploma

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God will grant your mind a silence-diploma

Not when it stops thinking

Completely,

But when it starts thinking

The right thought

Correctly. ```

4165. Now that your mind is ready

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Now that your mind is ready

To sleep in peacefulness,

God will grant you His Immortality’s

Powerful Oneness. ```

4166. Your outer name

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Smash your mind-box,

Which contains ego-illusion.

Lo, perfection becomes your outer name

And satisfaction becomes your inner name. ```

4167. I feel sorry for you

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O my mind,

I feel sorry for you

Not because your power is fading

But because for you

The God-Hour is still not nearing.

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4168. A major miracle

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It will be not a minor miracle

But a major miracle

If and when your mind stops sitting

On reason’s throne. ```

4169. Nothing is difficult

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Nothing is difficult.

This is what you should think

Before you do anything.

Nothing is easy.

This is what you should feel

Before you say anything.

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4170. A top secret

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My mind has told me a top secret

From its personal experience:

Friction and frustration

Are immediate neighbours.

My heart has told me a top secret

From its personal experience:

Aspiration and satisfaction

Are immediate neighbours. ```

4171. What you do not want to give

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Give what you do not want to give:

Your heart’s gratitude-flower.

Keep what you do not want to keep:

Your life’s humility-grass. ```

4172. A mountain-high aspiration

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If your heart has

A mountain-high aspiration,

Then your life can easily be

A fountain-free dedication. ```

4173. A child's heart of innocence

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To pierce the veil

Of ignorance-night,

You need either

A child’s heart of innocence

Or

A saint’s life of reverence. ```

4174. Fearless and indomitable you are

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Fearless and indomitable you are

Not because you are physically strong,

Not because you are vitally strong,

Not because you are mentally strong,

But because you have firmly established

Your psychic oneness with the entire world. ```

4175. The life-stirring dance

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When your mind becomes a musical note

And your heart becomes a soulful song,

You need only one thing more:

The life stirring dance

Of a new creation.

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4176. The right place

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How will you find yourself

If you are not looking

In the right place?

The right place is inside

The Heart of your Beloved Supreme.

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4177. Your life's amazing victory

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Your life’s amazing victory

You can announce

Only when you renounce

All the fruits of your desire-life. ```

4178. God's Consciousness-Coin

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God’s perfect Vision-Light

And God’s amazing Aspiration-Height

Must go together.

They are the obverse and reverse

Of God’s Consciousness-Coin.

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4179. Faith and life-energy

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Faith and the increase of life-energy

Must go together

If a seeker wants to succeed triumphantly

In his outer life

And proceed untiringly

In his inner life. ```

4180. Controversy

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Controversy is nothing short of

Life’s secret supremacy

Over those who long for

Oneness-delight. ```

4181. Allow your mind

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How long do you want

To keep your mind inside a tiny cave

Of powerful fears and hurtful doubts?

How long?

Allow your mind to enjoy freedom-light,

At least for a fleeting second. ```

4182. A pure thought feels and knows

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An impure thought thinks

That there is no such thing

As a pure thought.

A pure thought feels and knows

That there is and can be no other thought

Save pure thought. ```

4183. I am offering

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My Lord,

I am offering You my thankful praise

For granting me the capacity

To run in the outer world daily.

My Lord,

I am offering You my soulful praise

For granting me the capacity

To run in the inner world speedily.

My Lord,

I am offering You my grateful praise

For granting me the capacity

To please You in the inner world

And in the outer world satisfactorily.

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4184. Your new inner self

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Your new inner self will not hesitate

To interrogate and investigate

Your doubting mind.

Your new inner self will not hesitate

To elevate and emancipate

Your aspiring heart.

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4185. My desire and God's desire

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In this lifetime

I shall fulfil only the desires

Of two persons:

I shall

Love God unconditionally,

I shall

Let God fulfil Himself through me unreservedly.

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4186. Do not blame your false teacher

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Do not blame your false teacher.

Nobody compelled you to be

One of his faithful followers.

It is you who wanted to be

One of his sleepless followers.

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4187. When God comes to visit me

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When God comes to visit me

I tell Him what I do not have.

When I go to visit God

He tells me there is nothing

Which I do not have

Or cannot have from Him

For the asking.

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4188. When I go to visit God

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When God comes to visit me,

I proudly tell Him the things

I have accomplished for Him.

When I go to visit God,

He tells me He has accomplished

Only one thing for me:

He has created a Compassion-Ocean for me.

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4189. From tomorrow on

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From tomorrow on

My morning meditation

Will be as beautiful as the dawn,

My midday meditation,

As powerful as the sun

And my evening meditation,

As peaceful as the sky.

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4190. The outer forces

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The easier for you to find

The outer forces,

The more difficult for you

To free yourself from those forces. ```

4191. Your madness-pride

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Your madness-pride

Was your first enemy.

Your darkness-ingratitude

Is your last enemy. ```

4192. To see God's Transcendental Smile

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If you want to see

God’s Transcendental Smile,

Then every day

Your heart’s aspiration-cry

Must be monumental.

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4193. How can you be happy?

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How can you be happy

When your heart longs for one thing

And your mind expects something

Totally different? ```

4194. A measureless treasure

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A spotless heart

Is a measureless treasure

Always within your easy reach.

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4195. The connecting link

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God’s Heart of Delight

Is the connecting link

Between my humility-mind

And my purity-life. ```

4196. Ready with only one thing

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God is ready with many things:

Love, Compassion, Light and Delight.

You are expected to be ready

With only one thing:

Your gratitude-heart.

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4197. Choose the right candidate

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There are many candidates

In front of you.

Just choose one —

The right One.

You know whom I mean: God.

Name Him and claim Him

As your own, very own.

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4198. If your heart has soulfulness

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If your mind has cheerfulness,

Then success is at your feet.

If your heart has soulfulness,

Then progress is inside your eyes. ```

4199. The perfection-seed will germinate

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Deep within us

Is the seed of perfect Perfection.

We must wait for God’s choice Hour.

At that time the perfection-seed

Will definitely germinate.

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4200. Surrender, my surrender

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Surrender, my surrender,

You must stay with me all my life.

Gratitude, my gratitude,

You must stay inside me all my life. ```

Editor's introduction to the first edition

This is the forty-second 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

Sri Chinmoy greets Ambassador Niaz Naik of Pakistan at a programme hosted by the Meditation Group at the United Nations, paying tribute to Dr Martin Luther King, Jr on the fifty-first anniversary of his birth on 15 December 1980.

From:Sri Chinmoy,Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 42, Agni Press, 1982
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