Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 48

4701. Go and see God personally

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Be not afraid!

Take the first step.

Go and see God personally.

His Omnipotence will prove to you

That it is also His universal Love.

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4702. Your life-story

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The world is eager to hear

Your life-story.

If you want to tell your story

In an interesting and arresting way,

Then become a prayerful heart

And a soulful life. ```

4703. An aspiring man

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An unaspiring man can at most show

The possibilities of man.

An aspiring man reveals

The inevitabilities of God. ```

4704. I can afford to lose everything

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In my outer life

I can afford to lose everything

Save my inspiration-light.

In my inner life

I can afford to lose everything

Save my aspiration-height.

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4705. God's Compassion-Story

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God is ready to tell you

His Compassion-Story.

But are you ready to listen to it

With your prayerful breath? ```

4706. A new faith in God

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Unless your heart develops

A new faith in God,

Why should God dance before you

His Infinity’s immortal Dance? ```

4707. Stand firmly against your mind

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Stand firmly against your mind,

For it is delaying you indefinitely

From fully qualifying yourself

As a choice instrument

Of your Lord Supreme.

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4708. The Supreme in me

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The animal in me

Is all ignorance-night.

The human in me

Is all knowledge-light.

The divine in me

Is all wisdom-delight.

The Supreme in me

Is all Self-Transcendence-Height. ```

4709. If your mind purifies

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If your mind purifies

Its own intention-night,

Then God’s Heart will give you

Its own Perfection-Light. ```

4710. A secret communication

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If you despair no more

And desire a new life,

Then you will be able to enjoy

A secret communication

With the sacred God.

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4711. Each soulful dream

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Each soulful dream

Awakens a powerful reality.

Each powerful reality

Sings and plays

With God’s Satisfaction-Delight.

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4712. Discouragement never glorifies

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Discouragement never satisfies my vital.

Discouragement never rectifies my mind.

Discouragement never purifies my heart.

Discouragement never glorifies my life. ```

4713. A God-intoxicated man

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Only a God-intoxicated man

Knows that God’s Compassion-Ocean

Can never be emptied.

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4714. No hidden snare

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No hidden snare inside you

To catch you.

No, none!

Dive deep within

Only to be caught

By God’s fondest Embrace. ```

4715. How can you catch a glimpse?

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Until you are prepared to demolish

Your temptation-instigating ignorance-house,

How can you catch a glimpse

Of God’s magic Glance

Which will radically transform your life?

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4716. If your heart pines to discover

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If your heart pines to discover

Life’s mystic fount,

Then discontinue

Your long-standing association

With the frowns of ignorance-night.

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4717. Accomplices of death

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Four powerful accomplices of death:

An uncertainty-body,

An impurity-vital,

An insincerity-mind,

An insecurity-heart.

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4718. The inner wisdom of self-perfection

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Neither the knowledge of self-glorification

Nor the knowledge of self-immolation

Can carry us

To the pinnacle-heights.

For that, what we need

Is the inner wisdom

Of self-perfection.

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4719. The goal of humanity

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The goal of humanity will remain unseen

Until humanity is eager to play

Its self-dedication-role.

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4720. How can you expect?

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Since your challenge

Was not too big,

How can you expect

A big reward? ```

4721. The soul knows what purity is

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The soul knows what purity is.

Therefore, the soul is always ready

To vouch for the authenticity

Of the heart’s purity. ```

4722. Do not join the giant intellects

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If you want to go beyond

The limits of teeming doubts,

Then do not join the giant intellects

In their encircled confusion-march. ```

4723. The rare opportunity

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God has given you

The rare opportunity

To serve Him in humanity.

Do not be afraid

Of the world’s mounting criticism.

You obey God.

At God’s choice Hour

God will show them Light as well. ```

4724. The good heart of earth

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Become the good heart of earth.

Lo, God is rewarding you

With the Vision-Eye of Heaven.

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4725. A self-giving life

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A poor mind complains.

A rich heart maintains

Its oneness all the time

With God the creation.

A self-giving life contains

And entertains together

God the Creator and God the creation.

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4726. God's Tower of infinite Delight

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Ask your vital to yield without delay

To God’s Compassion-Power,

So that your life can see

And your heart can feel

God’s Tower of infinite Delight.

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4727. Your heart's climbing prayers

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O hungry, homeless humanity,

You can and you must

Change your fate.

How?

Just have complete faith

In the fulfilment

Of your heart’s climbing prayers.

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4728. The silence that moves my heart

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The silence that moves my heart

Is divinely beautiful.

The silence that removes my ignorance-burden

Is supremely powerful. ```

4729. Hope helps my unbelief

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Hope helps my unbelief.

Hope treasures my belief.

Hope carries my heart’s preparation-light.

Hope soars beyond within. ```

4730. A divinely new belief

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Because tomorrow

Your mind will adopt

A divinely new belief,

Today your heart

Is heaving a sigh

Of amazingly abiding relief. ```

4731. Do chasten my mind

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My Lord,

Do chasten my mind

So that my heart can hasten

Towards Your Heavenly Light,

Piercing the clouds of ignorance-night.

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4732. Your solitude-life

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If God does not approve,

Then give up your longing for solitude.

Your solitude-life will secretly steal away

Even the little mental equilibrium

You now have.

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4733. A seeker's first necessity

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A seeker’s first necessity

Is to see the Beauty

Of God’s Face.

His last necessity

Is to realise the Truth

Of God’s Heart. ```

4734. God-tuned souls

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You can broadcast

Only to God-tuned souls

That God has been starving on earth

For perfection in man

From time immemorial.

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4735. Between your soul and God's Heart

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If God fulfils all your desires,

Then between your soul and God’s Heart

Only one thing you will unmistakably see:

An imponderable sigh. ```

4736. What you are is important

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What you feel

May not be important or significant,

But what you are

Is not only important to your evolving life,

But also significant to your manifesting soul.

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4737. Twice I become a victim to sadness

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Twice I become a victim to sadness:

Once when the illumination-dreams

Of my aspiring heart remain unfulfilled;

Once when the temptation-dreams

Of my doubting mind are fulfilled.

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4738. Take anything you want

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If you are not sincere,

God will ask others

To investigate your authenticity.

If you are sincere,

God will allow you

Not only to investigate Him,

But also to take anything you want or need

From Him.

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4739. Aspiration and dedication

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Aspiration has a beautiful heart

And aspiration is a climbing tree.

Dedication has a fruitful life

And dedication is a flowing river.

The goal of the climbing tree

Is to reach the highest height

And become one with Eternity’s Beauty.

The goal of the running river

Is to enter into the vast sea

And become one with Infinity’s Reality.

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4740. When my mind dictates

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When my mind does not think,

It plays the role of useless continuation.

When my mind thinks,

It plays the role of fruitless contradiction.

When my mind dictates,

It plays the role of endless confusion. ```

4741. The distance

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The distance

Between our preparation and our destination

Is the same as the distance

Between our necessity’s flawless choice

And

Our intensity’s soundless voice. ```

4742. My heart's resources

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My heart’s resources

Are infinitely more

In quality and quantity

Than my life’s requirements. ```

4743. When I smile and meditate

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When I cry and pray,

I see God’s Hand protecting me carefully.

When I smile and meditate,

I feel God’s Heart loving me powerfully. ```

4744. The only place to hide

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The only place to hide

My life’s teeming imperfections

Is inside the Compassion-Eye

Of my Lord Supreme,

Secret and sacred.

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4745. A well-devoted life

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A well-devoted life

Is absolutely the perfect indication

Of a well-nourished heart.

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4746. How can you show your love?

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You fool!

How can you show

Your unreserved love for the Supreme

Before you have lived unconditionally

For Him alone?

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4747. Your heart's fruitful peace

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A doubting mind

And

A strangling vital

Have been plotting against

Your heart’s fruitful peace.

Be careful! ```

4748. What your soul likes most

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Do you know what your soul likes most?

Your soul likes most to unlearn

Every evening

All the things that your mind has taught you

During the day.

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4749. Quarreling with happiness

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You are quarreling

With your own happiness

When you allow your mind

To feed its doubts

And when you allow your heart

To feed its insecurities. ```

4750. Death's breath is powerful

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Death’s breath is powerful

But not immortal.

Life’s breath is sorrowful

But eventually becomes

Cheerfully immortal.

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4751. Your life is mercilessly caught

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If you think that your life

Is empty of hope,

That means you have allowed your life

To be mercilessly caught

By a strong and endless rope.

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4752. A complete picture

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Self-help and God-service

Must be cultivated side by side

To draw a complete picture

Of the divine man

Inside the heart of humanity.

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4753. Each opportunity

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An unaspiring man uses each opportunity

For self-seeking and self-aggrandisement.

An aspiring seeker uses each opportunity

For God-seeking and God-contentment. ```

4754. Each trial can unveil

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Do not dislike trials.

Each trial can unveil

One of your divine virtues

And bring to light

One of your long-forgotten hidden treasures.

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4755. The Blessings of God

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The Blessings of God

Are perverted into evils

By the lower vital world.

The trials of this world

Are converted into the Blessings of God

By the higher vital world.

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4756. If you have implicit faith in God

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If you have implicit faith in God,

Then God will give you

The beauty of patience

And

The purity of self-transcendence.

If you do not have

Even an iota of faith in God,

Then you are bound to suffer

From your own impatience, frustration

And discontent.

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4757. Appreciate your aspiration-heart

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If you are really great and good,

Then every day you must highly appreciate

Your aspiration-heart,

For it has shown you

The sunlit path of life.

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4758. Appreciate your dedication-life

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If you are really great and good,

Then every day you must highly appreciate

Your dedication-life,

For it has given you

The power of self-control.

And to your extreme joy and satisfaction,

Nobody else but you yourself

Has command over you. ```

4759. If you are so afraid of death

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If you are so afraid of death,

Just take death as a return home.

Then no fear can attack your mind

And no doubt can torture your heart. ```

4760. A sincere and soulful thought

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I have realised

One most significant thing:

A sincere and soulful thought

Is an unshakable self-confidence. ```

4761. It is not true!

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Who says that there is

No armour against fate?

It is not true!

Who says that it is too late

To realise God?

It is not true!

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4762. Ask the awakened soul

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Ask the awakened soul

Why your ignorance-sleep

Makes you feel utterly ridiculous.

He has the immediate answer. ```

4763. Ecstasy's breath

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Remembrance of your prosperity-life

Cannot give you ecstasy’s breath.

For ecstasy’s breath you need

An aspiration-heart of intensity. ```

4764. Your sense of self-importance

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Your conscious sense of self-importance

And your unconscious love of indolence

Will eventually plus totally

Destroy you. ```

4765. Two fond friends

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Man’s abiding sense of duty

And God’s descending Fragrance

Of Satisfaction

Are extremely fond of each other. ```

4766. Another chance

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Attention, O my mind!

A spiritual surprise:

God is going to give you another chance

To become His choice instrument.

This time, be sure not to fail

Poor God. ```

4767. My choice must be followed

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No doubt,

I have the free will

To choose between night and light.

But my choice is nothing

Unless it is followed

By my immediate and decisive

Heart’s cry and life’s smile.

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4768. God's Compassion-Flood

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There is nothing on earth

That God’s Compassion-Flood

Cannot transform.

It can easily change

The mind’s poison-doubt

Into the heart’s nectar-faith. ```

4769. Why do you allow?

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You fool!

Why do you allow your impure mind

To be more zealous

Than your pure heart?

Why do you allow your destructive vital

To be more zealous

Than your creative heart?

Why?

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4770. The peace-lovers

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As there can be no war

Without the war-mongers,

Even so, there can be no peace

Without the peace-lovers. ```

4771. The throne of self-transcendence

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Do not ride the mighty waves

Of dark despair

If you want to sit on the unparalleled throne

Of self-transcendence. ```

4772. Stop your blind suspicion

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Stop, O mind, your blind suspicion,

Stop!

Stop, O vital, your wild aggression,

Stop!

If you do not stop,

Before long you will meet

Your own inevitable Waterloo.

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4773. The quagmire of my insecurity

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The deeper I enter

Into the quagmire of my human insecurity,

The more miserable

My divine soul becomes. ```

4774. You are allowed to speak for God

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You are allowed to speak for God

Only after God Himself has acclaimed

Your heart’s purity-cry

And

Your life’s sincerity-smile.

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4775. A faultless man

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He has become a faultless man

Not by using his mighty arms

But by using his tiny, pure heart.

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4776. The crown of life

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Faith is the crown of life.

It is the motive-power unparalleled.

In human faith abides

God’s most precious Wealth:

Satisfaction.

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4777. Heaven's indifferent eye

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Heaven’s indifferent eye

Is killing my heart.

Alas, alas!

Earth’s non-committal voice

Is killing my life.

Alas, alas!

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4778. Two special homes

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God lives everywhere, true.

But He has two special homes:

Inside a humble heart

And

Inside a pure life.

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4779. An answer

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A soulful moment of powerful meditation

Is an answer

To a day of ruthless confusion-thoughts.

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4780. Try to have an iota of gratitude

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O shamelessly ungrateful mind of mine,

Try to have an iota of gratitude

Since you have been all the time staying

Under the protection-umbrella

Of God’s Compassion-Light.

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4781. A veil over past differences

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At long last

The heart that gives

And the mind that receives

Have drawn a veil

Over their past differences.

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4782. On my silver dream's wings

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On my silver dream’s wings

Every night I fly.

I reach Heaven free of charge

And sing with the cosmic gods,

Again free of charge.

They love me

And my heart’s ceaseless cry.

I love them

And their souls’ measureless smiles.

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4783. If you are longing for perfection

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If you are longing

For perfection in your nature

And satisfaction in your heart,

Then stand firm in support of

Your aspiration-cries and dedication-smiles.

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4784. A paper tiger

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My all-powerful Lord

Tells my soulful heart

That my ferociously doubtful mind

Is nothing but a paper tiger. ```

4785. Heaven's Eye

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Heaven’s Eye

Is not more beautiful

Than earth’s heart.

Heaven’s sense of indifference

Is not more disheartening

Than earth’s ingratitude.

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4786. Your eyes' omnipresence-calmness

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If you want to feel

Your heart’s omnipotence-oneness,

Then you must see

Your eyes’ omnipresence-calmness. ```

4787. Two indispensable virtues

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Integrity and intensity

Are two indispensable virtues

That enable the seeker to become

A choice instrument of his Beloved Supreme. ```

4788. Crying breathlessly

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Crying breathlessly

Always helps us to reach

God’s Transcendence-Feet

Speedily plus smilingly. ```

4789. God's precious Heart

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Unless you have

An unreservedly generous heart,

How can God proudly call you

His precious Heart? ```

4790. Only a heart of soulful gratitude

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Only a heart of soulful gratitude

Has a free access

To Heaven’s Fulfilment-Door.

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4791. Sorrowful evening news

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Cheerful morning news:

My Lord is coming down

To give me His Infinity’s Delight.

Sorrowful evening news:

I was afraid to receive Him.

Therefore, He had to return

To His celestial Abode.

Alas, I know not

If ever He will come back again

With His celestial Gifts. ```

4792. Each cry of aspiration-hunger

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Each cry of a seeker’s aspiration-hunger

Longs not only for peace

But also for its Source:

Omnipotence-Delight. ```

4793. Your chastening Eye

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My sweet Lord,

Your forgiving Heart I soulfully,

Intensely and unreservedly love.

My Lord Supreme,

Your chastening Eye I unmistakably,

Desperately and sleeplessly need. ```

4794. To live in a soulful consciousness

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According to God,

For a God-seeker to live

In a soulful consciousness,

He must concentrate energetically,

Meditate soulfully

And

Contemplate breathlessly.

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4795. Live inside your heart

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Why do you live inside your body

To become a puppet of your foe, fear?

Why do you live inside your mind

To become a puppet of your foe, doubt?

Live inside your heart

To become an admirer of your true friend,

Your soul.

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4796. Your insecurity sees too little

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You are stupid.

Therefore, your stupidity sees so much of me

That is actually unreal.

You are insecure.

Therefore, your insecurity sees too little of me

That is actually real.

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4797. He is both useless and godless

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He is prayerless.

That means

He is faithless.

That means

He is loveless.

That means

He is both useless and godless.

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4798. He has conquered

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Through the medium of admiration

He has conquered his mind.

Through the medium of love

He has conquered his heart.

Through the medium of affection

He has conquered his soul.

Through the medium of gratitude

He has conquered his Lord Supreme. ```

4799. Your tricky mind has taught you

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Your tricky mind has taught you

How to avoid all your earthly

And Heavenly debts.

But will it ever be able to teach you

How to avoid your present discredit

And your eventual spiritual insolvency?

No, never!

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4800. My becoming shall never end

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When I see the world,

I clearly see

That my seeing

Will someday come to an end.

When I feel the world,

I unmistakably feel

That my feeling

Will someday come to an end.

But when I try to become

A choice instrument of God,

I immediately see and feel

That my becoming

Shall never come to an end.

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Editor's introduction to the first edition

This is the forty-eighth 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 welcomes Ambassador Isao Abe of Japan to a Meditation Group programme commemorating the Anniversary of Japan’s joining the United Nations. Ambassador Abe expressed his appreciation for the work of the Group by saying, “... if everybody could sit silently, without discussion, and practise meditation as you do, it would be useful for us in correcting our overuse of words at the United Nations.”

From:Sri Chinmoy,Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 48, Agni Press, 1982
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