Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 52

5101. Choose something different today

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Choose something entirely different

And soulfully new today.

Look, your glorious victory-hour

Is fast approaching. ```

5102. Do not expect anything

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Do not expect anything

From this unsatisfied

And dissatisfied world.

Do not expect anything

From the satisfied

And fulfilled Heaven either.

Then you will always remain

Far from the reach of sorrow. ```

5103. Yesterday your mind was nebulous

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Yesterday

Your mind was nebulous.

Today

Your mind is puzzled.

Tomorrow

Your mind will be confused.

Why, why, why?

Because yesterday

You did not love your heart,

Today

You are not crying with your heart

And tomorrow

You will be unwilling

To smile with your heart. ```

5104. My morning's inner teacher

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My morning’s inner teacher

Is my surrender-life.

My evening’s inner teacher

Is my gratitude-heart. ```

5105. Two sermons of ignorance-night

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Two sermons of ignorance-night:

I do not care

Whether God thinks of me;

I am quite sure

I could have created a better world.

```

5106. Your burning temper

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Your burning temper

Has consumed all at once

Your heart’s purity-cry

And

Your eyes’ beauty-smile.

```

5107. I shall always faithfully follow

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My heart,

I shall always faithfully follow you.

No matter where you go,

No matter when you go,

No matter how you go,

I shall follow you.

You are eternally mine.

Do tell me

That I am also eternally yours.

```

5108. The fate of mere mortals

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The fate of mere mortals

Need not and must not remain

A ceaselessly helpless cry.

It will eventually and inevitably

Be transformed into

A sleeplessly self-giving smile. ```

5109. A soulful oneness always wins

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Hate never wins.

A powerful love

At times wins,

At times does not.

But a soulful oneness

Always and always wins. ```

5110. If you cannot treasure

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If you cannot treasure

Beauty’s faith and purity’s gratitude

Inside your mind,

Then yours will be

The mind-sky with no stars.

No, not even one! ```

5111. Each humility-life

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Each humility-life

Unmistakably owns

Teeming noble, life-inspiring,

Supremely divine qualities. ```

5112. His illumination-mind

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His illumination-mind

Soothes the four corners

Of the world

With the beauty

Of Eternity’s moon.

His perfection-heart

Illumines the four corners

Of the world

With the power

Of Immortality’s sun.

```

5113. My fame is not lasting

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My fame is not lasting.

Even the experience of fame

Is not lasting.

But the Compassion

Of my Beloved Supreme

In and through my fame

Is everlasting.

```

5114. My heart's gratitude-world

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My Lord,

My heart’s gratitude-world

Is Yours

And it will forever remain Yours

Whether or not You grant me

An iota of Your own Compassion-World. ```

5115. I shall follow your footsteps

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I shall follow Your Footsteps,

My Lord, I shall,

With my heart’s morning cry

And my life’s evening smile. ```

5116. Do not let any chance pass by

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Do not let any chance pass by,

Especially when God knocks

At your heart’s door

To open your heart’s

Gratitude-fragrance-flower.

```

5117. My only God-realisation-hope

```

O my heart,

I am always buffeted

By the surging ocean

Of my mind’s doubts.

Yet I know that

My conscious and constant oneness

With your aspiration-world

Is my only God-realisation-hope

And

My only God-manifestation-promise. ```

5118. What God will accept from you

```

You want to know

What God will accept from you

And what God

Will not accept from you?

I tell you,

God will accept everything from you

Except one thing:

Your malicious disobedience-indulgence. ```

5119. God will transform my mind

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God will transform my mind

Only after I have informed Him

That I shall live always inside

My heart’s soulful beauty

And

My life’s powerful purity. ```

5120. Most powerful possessions

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In the morning

My heart’s surrender-drops

Are my Lord’s

Most powerful possessions.

In the evening

My life’s gratitude-flames

Are my Lord’s

Most powerful possessions. ```

5121. The river of aspiration-light

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O current of desires,

You think that you are

Extremely powerful,

But you are not!

My Lord’s Compassion-Grace

Will make you flow

Into the river of aspiration-light.

```

5122. Miracles are unnecessary

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Miracles were perhaps necessary

At the very start

Of your aspiration-life.

But once you have successfully

Started your inner journey,

Not only are miracles unnecessary,

But they may hinder your speedy progress

Far beyond your imagination. ```

5123. God has openly fed you

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God has openly fed you

With His Compassion-Sea.

Will you not even secretly

Feed Him

With your heart’s gratitude-drops?

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5124. Ignorance and stupidity

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Ignorance and stupidity fooled you.

They donned the cloak of innocence.

Alas, you could not see

Through their tricks! ```

5125. Unless you desert your stupid self

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Unless you desert mercilessly

Your stupid self,

The steps of your soulful heart

Will never be able to lead you

To your destined goal.

```

5126. My tears

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Before I accepted

The life of aspiration,

My tears were the tears

Of real sorrow.

Now that I have accepted

The life of aspiration,

My tears are not tears of sorrow

But tears of real joy. ```

5127. Two souls I have

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Two souls I have:

In my outer life

I wear smartly

God’s Protection-soul.

In my inner life

I wear soulfully

God’s Compassion-soul.

```

5128. Two essential truths

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There are two essential truths:

The mind does not know the Truth

And at the same time

Does not want to know the Truth.

The heart knows the Truth

And yet wants to know

More of the Truth.

```

5129. Wait for God's choice Hour

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Wait for God’s choice Hour.

Your mind’s indomitable strength

And your heart’s immeasurable splendour

Will, without fail,

Reach their final goal:

God-Satisfaction in God’s own Way. ```

5130. In his dying hours

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In his dying hours

He prayed to God most soulfully

To grant him a fragrant and grateful

Surrender-life. ```

5131. My life's white-green mission

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The manifestation of my soul’s

Blue-gold vision

Is my life’s white-green mission

Unparalleled. ```

5132. The first and last message

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“Become supremely good.”

This was the first message

That I received from Heaven.

“Become enormously great.”

This was the first and last message

That I received from earth.

```

5133. We belong to the Unknowable

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First we have to prove to ourselves

That we belong to the Unknown.

Then a day will come

When we will have to realise

That we belong to the Unknowable.

```

5134. Until we can love the Unknowable

```

Unless and until

We create a conscious

Love for the Unknown,

We will never be able to create

Any love for the Unknowable.

Unless and until

We can love the Unknowable,

We will not be ready

For the infinite Light and Delight

Of our Beloved Supreme.

```

5135. Wait for another hour

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By taking your life

You don’t accomplish anything.

If you have failed,

Then wait for another hour,

God’s choice Hour,

To do something great for God. ```

5136. The higher way

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Some people

Have the inborn tendency

To stick to their promise.

But to surrender to God’s Will

Is the infinitely higher way.

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5137. Far from the Will of God

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We shall try to do

Something extraordinary

Only if it is the Will of God.

Otherwise, while accomplishing

Something great,

We may go away,

Far, farther, farthest,

From the Will of God. ```

5138. You can easily remember

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You can easily remember your Master

In everything that you do

If you can make yourself

Sincerely feel

That the very thing you are doing

Is for nobody else but him. ```

5139. Think of your highest Reality

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Each time you feel insecure,

Think of yourself

As tinier than the tiniest

And think of your Master

As the vast ocean,

Which is your own highest Reality.

Don’t think of anybody else

Around you, behind you

Or in front of you.

Only throw yourself into the ocean,

Your Master,

And then become the ocean. ```

5140. Only think of happiness

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If you want to make progress,

Only think of your heart’s happiness

And how you can keep

Your entire being happy.

Wherever you go,

Carry happiness with you. ```

5141. Be consciously aware

```

If you want to make the fastest progress,

At least seven times a day,

Perhaps for only five seconds,

But with a very strong inner intensity,

Be consciously aware of your spirituality.

You are on a very, very special path.

You are not an ordinary, unaspiring person.

You are a chosen instrument of the Supreme. ```

5142. If you want to feel newness

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If you want to feel newness

In the new year,

You have to get that very newness

From the new year itself.

The new year has all newness:

New promise,

New success,

New progress. ```

5143. We got everything from the Source

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Secretly,

Thousands of years ago,

We got everything from the Source.

Only now

Are we giving back to the Source

What we long ago received. ```

5144. Make your vessel larger

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Today your vessel is tiny.

Every day

Make your vessel larger,

And every day

God will fill it.

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5145. You are more than ready

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Tell yourself

That although you may not be

Doing the right thing,

You are more than ready to do it,

And you will do it,

Unconditionally. ```

5146. A subtraction-sadness

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A desire-life is nothing but

A subtraction-sadness.

An aspiration-life is another name

For an addition-gladness. ```

5147. If you wage war

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If you wage war

Against your unbelief,

God will immediately grant you

His own Confidence-Light. ```

5148. Your hands are full

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Words about God

Are on your lips,

But your hands are full

Of Satan’s deeds. ```

5149. Your life's prayer

```

Your life’s prayer

Must unveil the truth.

Your heart’s meditation

Must prevail over falsehood. ```

5150. Faith

```

Faith cares

Neither for your past misdeeds

Nor for your future misdeeds,

But only for your present good deeds. ```

5151. When nobody dares to challenge

```

When nobody dares to challenge

Your faith in God,

That is the time

For God’s Hour to approach you

Lovingly, speedily and satisfactorily.

```

5152. Hope is a future reality

```

Hope is a future reality,

A hidden reality,

Waiting for its revelation

In the heart of the Eternal Now. ```

5153. Two kinds of faith

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There are two kinds of faith:

Faith in one’s own

Insecure capacity

And faith in God’s

All-illumining Compassion-Light.

```

5154. Hope says

```

Hope says:

“I shall one day please God.”

Faith says:

“My Lord is already pleased

With me.”

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5155. The outer man

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The outer man

Is decaying.

The inner man

Is preparing.

The God-man

Is revealing. ```

5156. I do not have to remind God

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I do not have to remind God

Of all His Promises,

For God sleeplessly

And unconditionally

Wants to reveal Himself

In and through

My tiny little heart.

```

5157. God's sacred Possession

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God’s sacred Possession

And man’s sacred possession

Are one and the same:

Humanity’s self-transcending cry. ```

5158. God stands up for you

```

You do not have to

Stand up for yourself.

God’s Compassion-Eye

Has already compelled God

To stand up for you,

For you alone. ```

5159. God has tried

```

I may not know

Whether it is God’s fault

Or my fault

That I am useless,

But I do know

That God has tried

Infinitely more than I have tried

To perfect my nature,

Illumine my heart

And

Liberate my life.

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5160. Lingering effects

```

No defeat can make

My whole life miserable.

But the lingering effects

Of defeats

Have turned me practically insane.

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5161. Your life's integrity-flower

```

Do not lose,

Do not sacrifice

Your life’s integrity-flower.

If you lose or sacrifice it,

Your poor life will be compelled to dance

With a totally useless futility. ```

5162. Your tempting tiredness

```

Be indifferent to your subtle,

Clever and tempting tiredness.

God will take it away immediately

So you can be a close member of

His inner Family

And walk sleeplessly along

His Eternity’s Victory-Road.

```

5163. A matter of self-giving

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Failure is only

A matter of feeling.

Success is only

A matter of striving.

Progress is only

A matter of self-giving. ```

5164. Unless the seeker asks

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Unless the seeker asks,

Do not tell him where God is.

Unless the seeker needs,

Do not supply him

With God’s Compassion-Flood.

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5165. A real problem to yourself

```

You are a real problem to yourself

If and when you are unwilling

To change your frustration-mind,

Insecurity-heart and failure-life. ```

5166. God will teach you tomorrow

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God will teach you Himself tomorrow,

If you unlearn what your

Suspicious mind and inauspicious life

Have taught you today. ```

5167. Simplicity and universality

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Simplicity and universality

Are two complementary

Vision-realities

And two inseparable

Perfection-satisfactions.

```

5168. Neither resist nor resent

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Neither resist

God-Beauty’s descent from Above

Nor resent

Man-duty’s ascent from below. ```

5169. The quagmire of contradictions

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If your life lives

In the doubting mind,

Not too long, rest assured,

Will you be able to avoid

The serpentine quagmire

Of life-devastating contradictions. ```

5170. The glowing desire to be cheerful

```

If you have

The burning desire to serve,

Then first become

The glowing desire to be cheerful

Before serving,

While serving

And after serving.

```

5171. Freedom from self-mortification

```

Freedom from self-mortification

Will glorify your Heaven-bound heart.

Freedom from self-glorification

Will beautify your earth-bound mind. ```

5172. A maze of misinformation

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Do not ask a barren intellectual giant

Anything about God.

He will cleverly and quickly,

If not shamelessly,

Supply you with a maze of uninspiring

Plus discouraging misinformation. ```

5173. Buffeted by unreality-strokes

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Buffeted by cruel unreality-strokes,

His vision is denied

Tomorrow’s heart-illumining

And life-fulfilling dawn. ```

5174. My heart is capable of servitude

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My poor mind is incapable of gratitude.

My rich heart is not only capable of gratitude

But also capable of constant,

Cheerful and self-giving servitude. ```

5175. A faithless friend

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An impossible hope:

To have a faultless friend.

Not only possible but also available

Here, there and everywhere:

A faithless friend.

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5176. O my God-manifesting heart

```

O my light-searching mind,

If you fail,

It is better to be embarrassed

Than ashamed.

O my God-manifesting heart,

If you fail,

It is better to be ashamed

Than embarrassed. ```

5177. A constantly blundering doubt

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A constantly blundering doubt:

This is what our human mind

Primarily is.

A sleeplessly self-giving life:

This is what our divine heart

Precisely is.

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5178. Fear no wrong

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Fear no wrong.

Your heart should know this.

Love no wrong.

Your mind should know this. ```

5179. God will help you enrol

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If you struggle to control yourself,

God will smilingly help you enrol

In His Life-Transformation-School.

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5180. The ladder of will-power

```

Do you need protection

Against your wandering thoughts?

Then climb up quickly

The magical ladder of will-power. ```

5181. You will be able to operate

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Cry within powerfully.

Smile without soulfully.

You will be able to operate

Easily and successfully

On the malignant ignorance-tumour.

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5182. Do not allow anybody

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Do not allow anybody

To subject your mind to ridicule.

Do not allow anybody

To subject your heart to deception. ```

5183. A most frightening challenger

```

A suspicious mind

Is a most frightening challenger.

Alas, my precious heart and my auspicious life

Have no capacity to smash its pride. ```

5184. Each pure thought immortalises

```

Each base thought

Defiles everything that is sacred

Immediately.

Each pure thought

Immortalises everything that is willing to change

Unmistakably and unreservedly.

```

5185. You are afraid to befriend

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You are afraid to befriend

A sound-life.

That means you do not have

An all-loving heart.

You are afraid to befriend

A silence-life.

That means you do not have

An all-knowing mind. ```

5186. His universe collapsed

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His universe collapsed

When his mind deceived his heart

And when his heart disobeyed his soul.

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5187. At the Protection-Feet of his Lord

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Breaking asunder the strong grip

Of wild emotions,

His heart sat at the Protection-Feet

Of his supreme Satisfaction-Lord. ```

5188. Every uncomely occurrence

```

Every unforeseen uncomely occurrence

Has the incalculable capacity

For a devastating recurrence.

```

5189. Alas, where am I now?

```

At the time of my soul-journey’s start

I thought I did not need

The smiling Eye of Heaven

Or the serving hand of earth.

Alas, where am I now?

I am crying at the feet

Of an unavoidable and inevitable

Failure-end. ```

5190. Your mind is shattered

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Your mind is shattered.

Do you know why?

Because God wants you to enjoy

Freely and unconditionally

His Heart’s Ecstasy-Sea.

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5191. God has freed you

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You are indifferent to the pleasure-life.

Therefore, God has freed you

Once and for all

From the imponderable pressure-world. ```

5192. Heaven-free attempts

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Earth-bound hopes

Flicker and die.

Heaven-free attempts

Succeed and proceed. ```

5193. If you want to be happy

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No frustration,

O my vital,

If you want to be happy.

No sophistication,

O my mind,

If you want to be happy.

No hesitation,

O my heart,

If you want to be happy.

```

5194. All eyes will be on you

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All eyes will be on you

When your own eyes look within

And drink deep the delight

Of your universal oneness-heart. ```

5195. An obedience-thought

```

An obedience-thought

Has enlarged the freedom

Of my mind.

A gratitude-smile

Has increased the ecstasy

Of my heart.

```

5196. Tomorrow's sky

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If you want to look at your yesterday

As totally unimportant,

Then invoke the blessingful presence

Of tomorrow’s sky, tomorrow’s sun

And tomorrow’s moon

Inside your today’s receptivity-heart. ```

5197. O silence of Eternity

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O silence of Eternity,

Do make my heart beautiful.

O sound of a fleeting second,

I shall make your contribution

Everlastingly and timelessly fruitful.

```

5198. Pale with guilty fears

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His eyes are pale with guilty fears.

Do you know why?

Because his life has not become one

With his heart’s climbing tears. ```

5199. I live inside the Compassion-Eye

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I do not live

On the praises of this world.

I do not live

On the indifference of the higher worlds.

I live inside the Compassion-Eye

Of my Lord Supreme. ```

5200. May my heart's purity radiate

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May my mind’s sincerity

Spread like a silver dawn.

May my heart’s purity

Radiate like a golden morn. ```

Editor's introduction to the first edition

This is the fifty-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

Giani Zail Singh, President of India, meets with Sri Chinmoy for a brief session of prayer, meditation and spiritual discussion on 30 October 1982.

From:Sri Chinmoy,Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 52, Agni Press, 1983
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