Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 50

4901. I do have the capacity

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True, I do not have the capacity

To touch God’s Compassion-Feet,

But I do have the capacity

To feel God’s Forgiveness-Heart. ```

4902. The weight of ingratitude

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A truth-seeker knows

That nothing on earth

Is as heavy as

The weight of ingratitude. ```

4903. A parting benediction

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When my soul left Heaven,

My Lord Supreme granted it

A bountiful cry for my heart

And a powerful smile for my life

As a parting Benediction.

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4904. Two important lessons

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The human life

Learns two important lessons

From this world:

The progress-train is too slow,

The setback-planes are too swift.

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4905. God's morning Breath

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When my heart’s climbing cry

Ascended far beyond the realms of clouds,

God smilingly granted me

His own morning Breath to breathe. ```

4906. Do not give up

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Even if your aspiration-heart

Needs constant repair,

Do not give up.

You will, without fail,

Someday realise God.

Even if your dedication-life

Needs constant repair,

Do not give up.

You will, without fail,

Someday manifest God.

```

4907. Perhaps I need not know

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What have I changed?

My doubting mind.

How?

I do not know.

What shall I change?

My insecure heart.

How?

I do not know.

What will God change for me?

My birthless and deathless

Ingratitude-breath.

How?

I do not know,

I shall not know,

I cannot know,

Perhaps

I need not know.

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4908. My golden reality-heart

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I owe the divinity

Of my golden reality-heart

To the purity-flooded beauty

Of my silver dreams. ```

4909. His is the vision-eye

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His is the vision-eye

That spreads moonbeams on everything.

His is the perfection-heart

That spreads sunshine on everybody. ```

4910. Oneness-music

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Dryness-music

Your mind loves.

Soulfulness-music

Your heart loves.

Fruitfulness-music

Your soul loves.

Oneness-music

Your God loves. ```

4911. God will guide your steps

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God will guide your steps

To reach Heaven

Cheerfully,

If you guard your heart’s sacred cry

Powerfully.

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4912. My heart serves

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My heart serves

Through climbing prayer.

My soul serves

Through illumining meditation.

My Lord serves

Through fulfilling Compassion. ```

4913. Each new determination

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Each day is a new opportunity

To have a new determination

To realise God.

Each new determination

Is a newborn ecstasy.

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4914. Its own eternal witness

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Existence is its own

Eternal witness.

Consciousness is its own

Infinite sweetness.

Bliss is its own

Immortal Fulness. ```

4915. Suffering chastens my vital

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Suffering chastens my vital.

Suffering sweetens my mind.

Suffering enlightens my heart.

Suffering brightens my heavenward journey. ```

4916. Each mind creates

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Each mind creates

Its own little world.

Each heart reveals

Its own vast world.

Each soul manifests on earth

God’s Vision of the Beyond. ```

4917. Contamination

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Your eyes are blinded,

Your mind is confused

Because you have contaminated

Your angel-affection for God

With your elephant-doubts.

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4918. An Amusement-Enlightenment Park

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The mind thinks that life

Is an experiment of the mind.

The heart feels that life

Is an experience of the heart.

The soul knows that life

Is a divinely beautiful

And supremely powerful

Amusement-Enlightenment Park of God. ```

4919. The fellowship of angels

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In my outer life I enjoy

The fellowship of dust.

Only in my inner life can I enjoy

The fellowship of angels. ```

4920. A loser does not really fail

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A loser does not really fail.

He just gets a useful experience.

A quitter shamelessly, miserably

Plus unpardonably fails.

For him no experience-light.

For him nothing

But all destruction-night.

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4921. The harvest of silence-delight

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When the holy sages sing,

My heart’s mounting cry

Collects the harvest of silence-delight.

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4922. A powerful realisation

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A beautiful experience:

For me, God is everything.

A powerful realisation:

In me, God is everything. ```

4923. To succeed in any great enterprise

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To succeed

In any great enterprise of life

Only two things one needs:

A beautiful inner thrill

And

A powerful outer zeal. ```

4924. A pure heart

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An impure mind can stain

Everything.

A pure heart can lovingly enchain

Everybody. ```

4925. My heart's only wish today

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My heart’s only wish today

Is to feel that everybody

Has a sincere mind and a pure heart.

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4926. Richly rewarding experiences

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In the morning

I pray to the Lord Supreme

Far above my head.

In the evening

I meditate on the Lord Supreme

Deep within my heart.

Indeed, these two are

Richly rewarding experiences. ```

4927. I sat at the Feet of my Lord

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Powerfully I shook

The dust of ignorance-night

From my feet.

Then soulfully I went

And prayerfully I sat

At the Feet of my Lord Supreme

In His Abode of Delight.

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4928. One thing eternally fruitful

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There is no such thing

As a fruitful self-enjoyment.

There is no such thing

As a fruitful self-denial.

There is only one thing

Eternally fruitful:

God-acceptance in all.

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4929. Enjoy first the harvest

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Enjoy first the harvest

Of your mind’s oblivion-nights.

Then only will you be able

To enjoy richly the beauty

Of your heart’s sweet memories.

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4930. Use your sacred faith

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Do not use your gross doubts

To see God.

You will fail.

Do not use your subtle hesitation

To approach God.

You will fail.

Use your sacred faith

To embrace God. ```

4931. The diamond secret

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Concern has the golden key

To unlock the heart of the world.

Compassion is the diamond secret

To transform the heart of the world. ```

4932. Prove you are God's instrument

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Nobody can change.

Nobody will change.

But you can and you shall.

Nobody can smile.

Nobody will smile.

But you can and you shall.

Prove to the world within,

Prove to the world without

That you are God’s choicest instrument

Unparalleled. ```

4933. God will be your Announcer

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You become your faultless

And dauntless self-discoverer.

God Himself will be

Your immediate and proud Announcer.

Also, like Himself, He will shape you

Into another Self-Enjoyer

Of infinite Delight.

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4934. God's sun-vast Satisfaction

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When you offer to God

Your climbing flame-loyalty,

God will grant you

His descending sun-vast Satisfaction. ```

4935. The world knows you

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The world knows you

For your surprisingly strange

Self-love.

But when will the world care to know

God’s unconditionally bountiful

Compassion-Sea for you?

When?

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4936. A good God-seeker

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If you want to be a good God-seeker,

Then God will wash away

Your mental doubts.

If you want to be a good God-lover,

Then God will wipe away

Your psychic tears.

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4937. You are completely wrong

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If you think God is displeased with you,

You are right.

But if you think you have

The rare capacity to displease God

Forever and forever,

You are wrong,

Completely wrong.

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4938. An amazingly powerful capacity

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I am all admiration for you.

You are the possessor of

An amazingly powerful capacity.

Yesterday you killed God’s Heart

With your self-interest.

Today you have most successfully

And most gloriously revived God’s Heart

With your self-conquest. ```

4939. Poise is the hyphen

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Poise is the hyphen

Between what you have heard

From God

And what you have told humanity. ```

4940. Heaven is pleased with him

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Heaven is pleased with him

Because he is ashamed of his past.

Hell is pleased with him

Because he is afraid of his future. ```

4941. One thing in favour

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One thing in favour of Heaven:

It does not waste time in thinking

Of an ungrateful man.

One thing in favour of earth:

It does not waste time in thinking

Of an indifferent soul. ```

4942. Let them live separately

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A mind with teeming doubts

And a heart with blossoming faith

Hate to live together.

Why then try to torture them?

Let them live separately.

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4943. Difficult for a contemplative man

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As it is difficult for a talkative man

To keep his mouth shut,

Even so, it is difficult

For a contemplative man

To keep his heart closed.

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4944. Looking for the easiest way

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Nothing is more exhausting

Than looking for the easiest way

To realise God.

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4945. Patience-seeds and forgiveness-seeds

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Patience-seeds and forgiveness-seeds

Either find it very difficult to germinate

Or do not germinate at all

In most human beings. ```

4946. If you think you are self-made

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If you think that you are all

Self-made,

Then why do you expect anything

From God,

Who is not your Source?

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4947. Sympathy

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Sympathy is a sacred, precious

And God-given gift.

Do not waste it

On your doubting mind

And your unaspiring heart.

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4948. Speak ill of yourself

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Speak ill of yourself unreservedly

So that you can help others

Avoid speaking ill of you

Unnecessarily. ```

4949. Surrender is the only way

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Surrender is the only way

To reach Eternity’s

Blessingful God in Heaven.

Gratitude is the only way

To reach Infinity’s

Bountiful God on earth.

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4950. Our respective tasks

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My responsibility is

The preparation of my heart.

God’s Responsibility is

The Satisfaction of His Heart in my life.

Can we not fulfil our respective tasks?

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4951. The seekers must colonise

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The seekers

Of the infinite Light and Delight

Must colonise the inner world

To spread their hearts’ hunger-cries,

And they must colonise the outer world

To scatter their souls’ well-nourished smiles. ```

4952. Each experience

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Each accident is an incident.

Each incident is an experience.

Each experience tells the seeker

The distance between himself and God. ```

4953. The splendour of silence-delight

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The splendour of silence-delight

Is not meant to be measured.

It is to be seen

Only by the Truth-seeker’s eyes.

It is to be felt

Only by the God-lover’s heart. ```

4954. Stupidity or humility?

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What makes you prevent God

From telling the world

That you are His choice instrument?

Is it your sincere stupidity

Or is it your insincere humility?

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4955. The greatest fool

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I am a fool

When I underestimate my aspiration

Before ignorance-night.

I am a greater fool

When I overestimate my perfection

Before God’s Light.

I shall be the greatest fool

If I think that God does not care

For the human in me,

But only cares

For the divine in me.

```

4956. No credentials but yourself

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In the outer world

If you live only for your perfect perfection,

And in the inner world

If you live only for your complete surrender

To God’s Will,

Then you need no credentials but yourself. ```

4957. His is the love

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His is the smile

That moves Heaven and earth

Immediately.

His is the love

That increases Heaven’s Joy

And earth’s beauty

Astonishingly. ```

4958. Only one Lord

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There is only one Lord

That I am truly afraid of:

My indolence-night.

There is only one Lord

That I am constantly fond of:

My sincerity-light.

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4959. Your own puny God

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Yesterday you referred to yourself

In all things

And thought of yourself only

All the time.

No wonder your own tiny self

Has become your own puny God. ```

4960. You wear the crown of miseries

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You wear the crown of miseries,

Not because you have sadly failed

In your life,

But because you have not surrendered soulfully

To the Beauty of God’s Omniscience-Light.

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4961. We do not need anything else

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Deeply I love God’s Beauty.

Smilingly God loves my sincerity.

Therefore, we do not need

Anything else for ourselves. ```

4962. What can stand?

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Before impurity, what can stand?

No, not even my powerful mind!

Before insincerity, what can stand?

No, not even my forgiving heart!

Before ingratitude, what can stand?

No, not even my oneness-soul! ```

4963. The only reality-passport

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Your purity has the capacity

To unlock everybody’s heart-door.

Something more:

Your purity is the only reality-passport

Which enables you to enter into

Each and every human heart. ```

4964. No God-realised soul

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No God-realised soul of the Himalayan height

Can be vanquished

Either by earth’s powerful arms

Or by Heaven’s bountiful charms. ```

4965. An unfortunate God-seeker

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An unfortunate God-seeker

Is he who unconsciously forgets

His own courage in the inner world.

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4966. Two divine realities

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Two divine realities

Have never-ending beginnings:

God’s Eternity-Hunger in me

And

God’s Infinity-Delight for me.

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4967. Perhaps you made a promise

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God is keeping His Promise.

He is holding you up

Carefully and firmly

And keeping you from swaying.

Perhaps you, too,

Made a solemn promise to God.

Perhaps!

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4968. If you have the determination-fire

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If you have the determination-fire,

You can succeed in your outer life

Easily.

If you have the faith-glow,

You can proceed in your inner life

Amazingly.

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4969. God will like you more

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If you think of God silently,

God will like you more.

If you pray to God breathlessly,

God will love you more.

If you meditate on God unconditionally,

God will need you more.

If you contemplate on God transcendentally,

God will claim you more. ```

4970. May my life have the capacity

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May my doubting mind

Have the capacity to unlearn.

May my longing heart

Have the capacity to learn.

May my serving life

Have the capacity to return darkness-night

To its possessor:

Ignorance. ```

4971. Certain and precious thoughts

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Uncertain and anxious thoughts

Belong to the future.

Therefore, I have nothing to do

With the future.

Certain and precious thoughts

Belong to the present, the eternal Now.

Therefore, I shall always remain

In the eternal Now. ```

4972. My perfection is the heir

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My perfection is the heir

Of my salvation.

My satisfaction is the heir

Of my illumination.

My gratitude is the heir

Of my realisation. ```

4973. My life is not a transient dream

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My life is not a transient dream,

But my death is.

My God-realisation-light

Is not a transient reality,

But my struggle through ignorance-night was.

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4974. Your amazing victory-song

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Keep your sky-vast silence

Within.

Your amazing victory-song

Will be sung by the world

Without.

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4975. You are wise, you are perfect

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You are wise

If you can gain knowledge-light

From the illumining minds of the world.

You are perfect

Only if you can gain wisdom-delight

From the all-fulfilling Heart of the Supreme.

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4976. Disown your mind

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If your mind does not want

To be inspired by your pure heart,

Then disown your mind.

If your heart does not want

To receive instructions from your wise soul,

Then disown your heart.

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4977. What really counts

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What really counts

Is not what I see

In God’s Compassion-Eye,

But what God sees

Inside my aspiration-heart.

And what does He see?

He sees His own Immortality’s Face.

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4978. Love-power sets the pace

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In all our inner races,

Love-power sets the remarkable pace

And gratitude-power helps us win

The unforgettable race. ```

4979. Only I can damage

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Only I can damage

My Eternity’s beauty-face

And only I can damage

My Infinity’s purity-heart. ```

4980. Is there any man?

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Is there any man of ignorance

Who can never feel

My soulful heart?

Is there any man of intuition

Who cannot read

My doubtful mind?

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4981. My satisfaction

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My salvation

Is from my sin.

My liberation

Is from my ignorance.

My realisation

Is in my aspiration.

My satisfaction

Is in my Lord’s Satisfaction. ```

4982. Your burning determination

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Your burning determination

Should always be kept

Beyond the reach

Of deathless lamentation. ```

4983. They do not want to remember

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My mind does not want to remember

How much God has done for it

Although God blesses its breath

Time and again, unconditionally.

My heart does not want to remember

How much it has done for God

Although it serves God every day

Devotedly, soulfully and unreservedly. ```

4984. To become a satisfaction-emperor

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Try to long for

The fruitful peace within

And the soulful action without.

Indeed,

This is the only way

To become a satisfaction-emperor. ```

4985. I shall feel sad

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My Lord Supreme,

I shall not feel sad if Your Compassion-Sky

Does not care for my heart’s

Iota of aspiration.

But I shall definitely and sleeplessly feel sad

If Your Forgiveness-Sun

Does not care for my life’s

Himalayan blunders. ```

4986. God's own Beauty-Plants

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God has planted His own Beauty-Plants

So lovingly and carefully

Inside our hearts.

Does it not pain His Heart

When we carelessly destroy them?

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4987. Where can I find a man?

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Where can I find a man

Who says that he loves God

Although God does not love him?

Where can I find a man

Who loves God the seen creation

And hates God the unseen Creator?

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4988. A self-worshipper

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Do not say anything

To a self-worshipper,

For God knows how and why

He is stabbing his own heart. ```

4989. There is always hope

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There is always hope

For any man

Who can pitifully cry in the morning

And heartily laugh in the evening. ```

4990. My songs' prayerful journey

```

My songs start their prayerful journey

From my soulful vision-eye

And try to stop

Inside my fruitful satisfaction-heart.

At times they gloriously succeed,

At times they sadly fail. ```

4991. To be perfectly satisfied

```

To be absolutely perfect

My mind thinks

It needs more needs.

To be perfectly satisfied

My heart feels

It needs fewer needs.

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4992. No experience is free

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No experience is free

In the outer world.

No realisation is free

In the inner world.

No perfection is free

In God’s Vision-World.

No satisfaction is free

In God’s Reality-World. ```

4993. Courage I use

```

Courage I use

To conquer my mind.

Surrender I use

To conquer God’s Heart. ```

4994. Two supremely good partners

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My heart’s soulful gratitude

And my life’s powerful smile

Are two divinely great

And supremely good partners. ```

4995. God will give Himself to you

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If your sincerity-sky

Concentrates on God,

Then God will come to you

Immediately.

If your gratitude-sun

Meditates on God,

Then God will give Himself to you

Entirely. ```

4996. The moon's silver feet

```

The moon’s silver feet

Give my heart joy beyond measure.

The sun’s golden eye

Transports my life

Into the world of Transcendence-Treasure.

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4997. Renewed friendship

```

My heart and my mind

Have renewed their friendship.

My heart of love

Shall show my mind the way.

My mind of peace

Shall guard my heart

Along the way.

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4998. Heaven does not want him

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Heaven does not want him

Because he is too impure.

Earth does not want him

Because he is too weak.

God does not want him

Because he is too hesitant

To claim God as his own

Transcendental Reality. ```

4999. Do not broadcast my imperfections

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Do you want to be another God?

If so, do not broadcast

My teeming imperfections

Throughout the length and breadth

Of the world.

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5000. When I want to surrender

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When I want to think

God grants my mind

A large room to think.

When I want to pray

God grants my heart

A larger room to pray.

When I want to surrender

God grants my life

The largest room to surrender.

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Editor's introduction to the first edition

This is the fiftieth 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

Chinmoy soulfully dedicates this special volume of “Flower-Flames” to his beloved mother, Yogamaya Ghose, whose picture is on the cover. The photograph of the poet, taken several years later, has been superimposed alongside it.

From:Sri Chinmoy,Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 50, Agni Press, 1982
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