Just outside your heart’s door
God in His supreme BeautyIs standing.
Just inside your heart’s door
God in His supreme DutyIs working.
```Man’s conscious oneness
With God’s Will,And man’s conscious offering of gratitude
To God’s CompassionWill make man’s future slavery to ignorance
Impossible. ```My first decision:
I shall not criticise the worldAny more.
My last decision:I shall love the world
Exactly the same wayMy Lord Supreme loves the world.
```Weakness must quickly aspire
For strength.Strength must unmistakably aspire
For oneness,The only satisfaction.
```To make your life real
You must be more affectionateTo your heart
And more indifferentTo your mind;
You must be more strictWith your vital
And more patientWith your body.
```Live in naturalness
If you want to growInto the fulness
Of God’s Vision-Reality. ```What you really need
Is Eternity’s emptinessWithin
And Infinity’s fulnessWithout.
```The power of inspiration
Tells me to realise God.The power of aspiration tells me
How close my heart is to God,How far my mind is from God
And why my little ego-“I”Can never realise God.
```A tempted mind thinks
That everything is beautiful.A liberated life knows
That everything is meaningful. ```A non-existent sincerity
His mind has.A non-existent purity
His heart is.But an all-existent divinity
His life will before long become. ```Your mind cherishes
A cluster of memorised ideas.How do you then expect
The nectar-delight of Himalayan ideals? ```O noisy ambitions,
Your tortures are infinitely worseThan the tortures of the doubtful
And suspicious mind. ```Not only do my soul and my heart enjoy,
But also my stupid mind enjoys,The Fragrance of God’s Breathing
While I silently and unconditionally meditate. ```He who does not suffer
From ingratitude’s cruel blowsIs divinely great,
Supremely goodAnd
Transcendentally perfect. ```Intuition travels alone
In supreme secrecyTo prove to the world
That God the CreatorKeeps all His Promises
To God the creation. ```Two perfectly useless concepts:
I can do whatever I want.My life can do without
Any higher guidance. ```My mind needs the Bible
Because it is so soulful.My heart needs the Christ
Because He is so fruitful. ```When the mind does not pray,
The heart sighsAnd the soul sheds sleepless tears.
```The inner beauty does not die;
It grows and glows.It grows to feed the outer world.
It glows to dance with the inner world. ```The entire world can see
The most powerful competitionBetween the mind’s deliberate unwillingness
To realise GodAnd the heart’s sleepless willingness
Not only to realiseBut also to manifest God.
```He no longer accuses
His doubting mind.He no longer accuses
His insecure heart.He accuses only
His weak soul. ```The troubled mind
Can and will find restOnly when it learns
The magic art of complete surrenderTo God’s Will.
```Yes, I can and shall
Realise God.Yes, my life can and will
Manifest God. ```He is beautiful, supremely beautiful,
Not because he has inside his bodyAn inconceivable array of stars,
But because every day he seesThe Face of his Beloved Supreme
And every day he plays withThe Heart of his Beloved Supreme.
```O my heart,
Do not die unsung.O my mind,
Do not die unsettled.O my vital,
Do not die unchallenged.O my body,
Do not die untransformed. ```If you want to climb
The sky’s long stairs,You have to love the Unknown
And bow to the Unknowable. ```If you live inside your heart,
With your soulAnd for your Beloved Supreme,
Then you can never be homeless. ```An impure vital
Is the first danger signIn a seeker’s aspiration-life.
```What you need
Is an imperial thunderboltTo frighten your unaspiring heart
And your ungrateful life. ```Humility, humility:
The crown of success-lightWhich alone can destroy
The wild arrogance of decadesIn man’s unaspiring nature.
```The first surprise:
God has gladly become man.The last surprise:
Man shall infallibly become God. ```His strength has failed.
His surrender has succeeded.His gratitude has received the prize.
```True freedom is not
To build and break in one’s own way,But to grow and glow
Only in God’s Way. ```Unless you live sleeplessly
For God the Vision-Eye,How can you eventually grow
Into God the Reality-Delight? ```Love is something to give.
Devotion is something to give.Surrender is something to give.
Gratitude is something to become. ```Gratitude is not only
The absence of imperfectionBut also the conscious presence
Of the bountiful God. ```An evil thought
May or may not break bones.But an evil thought
Can and does break hearts. ```The Infinite has cheerfully embraced
The finiteSo that mortals can successfully grow into
The Immortal. ```Always it is God’s Compassion-Sea
That saves and illumines the seeker,And not the seeker’s merit-drops.
```We really live
When we give to God what we have:Ignorance.
We really live
When we do not give to the worldOur shallow wisdom.
```A prayerless heart
Is a powerless life.A prayerful heart
Is a fruitful life. ```O my eyes,
I feel sorry for youBecause you cannot love the world
Without hoping to be loved in return.O my heart,
I am so proud of youBecause you do not expect the world
To love you,Although your life
Is a sleepless love for the world. ```An anxiety-mind
And an insecurity-heartAre the seeds
Of a most tragic end. ```Like an arrow that wings
Through darkness,His aspiration wings
Into the beauty of Light. ```The illusion of possibility
Can never solve any problemEither in the desire-life
Or in the aspiration-life. ```History either obeys the will
Of some chosen menOr accepts the despair-hearts
Of ordinary mortals. ```Muster your determination
If you want to succeedIn the battlefield of life.
Surrender yourselfConstantly and cheerfully to God’s Will
If you want to proceedWith the spiritual leaders of humanity.
```The agony of wild impatience
Tortures humanity’s mindAnd ruins the poise
Of humanity’s heart. ```A confusion-mind
And a contradiction-vitalLive together
In the same absolutely dark room. ```The last flicker of life
Awakened him to seeOnce and for all
The countless Himalayan blundersIn his life.
```If you choose yourself,
You have nothing to gainAnd nothing to lose.
If you choose God,You not only gain everything,
But also reign over everybody. ```Every day you will meet
With a fresh disappointmentIf you want to conquer your loving heart
With your doubting mind. ```An uncritical friendship:
Did it ever exist?Does it exist now?
Will it ever exist in the future?The answers are all unmistakable:
No, no, no! ```Whenever there is a collision
Between my heart’s dreamAnd my mind’s reality,
I always take the side of my heart,For each dream of my heart
Is newness and sweetness incarnate. ```How can you be happy,
How can you be satisfied,When to discover beauty’s truth
You search all the ugly facesAnd not all the beautiful hearts?
```My mind’s suspicion-night
Is a binding chain around nothing.My heart’s wisdom-light
Is a loving chain around everythingThat I unmistakably have and eternally am.
```I need no nest
Until I see that othersAre properly rested.
I need no rest
Until I see that othersAre completely satisfied.
```Is it your impurity-mind
That is killing you?Is it your insecurity-heart
That is killing you?Is it your fear of impossibility
That is killing you?Dive deep within
And get the correct answer. ```As you are looking for
Constant recognitionIn the outer world,
Even so, sleepless perditionIs looking for you
In the inner world. ```A loser’s heart of sorrow
Is apt to sadden my heartBut also to illumine my life.
```Selflessness means
That the breath of happinessIs here
And the life of happinessIs now.
```To fulfil an unhappy promise
I look at my own eyes.To fulfil a happy promise
I look at God’s Heart. ```A sweet whisper
From an unknown goalHas perfected my heart
And liberated my life. ```If your mind still has
Chains of expectation,You will definitely be doomed
To dire disappointments. ```Unless you can muster all your life-activities
Into a soulful sacrifice,Do not expect to become
A choice instrumentOf your Lord Supreme.
```I am very busy,
And I intend to remain so.No matter how desperately
Death wants to meet with me,I simply cannot afford to grant
An interview to death today. ```God the creation
Yields only to a soulful server.God the Creator
Yields only to a dream-flooded lover. ```You can make a bold attempt
To be your true selfOnly when you treasure
An atmosphere of silence-delight withinAnd an atmosphere of silence-light without.
```God commands the strength I have
To richly increase.Death commands the strength I have
To quickly decrease. ```The loneliness
Of your yesterday’s mindMust not puncture
The newness-beautyOf your today’s heart.
```Success without self-admiration
Is divinely great.Success after God-adoration
Is supremely and eternally good. ```The robust conviction of your mind
And the tall superiority of your vitalMust pale into the insignificance
Of nothingnessBefore you can have an iota
Of God’s Satisfaction-Bliss. ```Self-praise is ready
To strangle you.God’s Forgiveness-Heart is more than ready
To forgive youIn season and out of season.
```Before you hurt others,
Hurt yourself first.It will make you wise.
Before you love yourself,
Try to love others first.It will make you perfect.
```If you purchase knowledge,
You will be able to go as far asThe door of your mind.
If you acquire wisdom,You will be able to fly to the highest Beyond,
Sit at God’s Protection-FeetAnd look at God’s Satisfaction-Eye.
```What your mind needs
Is a lightning-swift insight.What your heart needs
Is a soft and sweet touchFrom your Eternity’s Beloved Supreme.
```My mind thinks
It is an impossible taskFor me to pray to God.
My heart feels
It is an extremely easy taskFor me to claim God.
```I had thoroughly read
God’s HeartLong before I studied
God’s Face. ```What is it that I need
And God does not need?Determination-fire.
What is it that GodConstantly cares for
And I never care for?My own self-transcendence.
```Success you want?
Then become a self-styledMan of duty.
Progress you want?
Then become a God-createdFlower of purity.
```First I must appreciate
The sweetness of my silence-heart.Then only shall I appreciate
The fruitfulness of my fulness-soul. ```My soul has invited me
To share its supernal beauty.I am now inviting my soul
To share my infernal insecurity. ```I shall fear God
So that I can learn from HimHow to create fear
Inside my own suspicious mind. ```Each faithful heart
Embodies the sacred beautyOf Heaven’s silver dreams.
```His reverent regard
For the Compassion-Eye of HeavenHas given him an unprecedented
And permanent joy. ```My heart pines
For the music of my soulInside my confusion-cleared mind.
```Earth, O earth,
Do tell me something new today.Tell me, have you not yet seen
God’s Vision-Eye?Heaven, O Heaven,
Do tell me something new today.Tell me, have you not yet felt
The quenchless thirst of helpless humanity? ```Earth loves him
Because inside his heartEarth has found a moon of hope.
Heaven loves him
Because inside his eyesHeaven has found a sun of promise.
```I just tell my heart what to do —
That is all —And my heart does it.
It loves God.I tell my mind what to do,
How to do it and why to do it.Even then, my mind is totally reluctant
To do it.It does not love God.
```Even God does not want me to do
Two things in one single day.Why then do I have to blame myself?
Today I have emptied my stupidity-sea.Tomorrow I shall completely fill
My divinity-ocean. ```God does not love me:
This is not what I wantTo tell the world.
I need God, only God:This is what I want
To tell the world. ```I may not know who God is,
But I do know where God lives.He lives beyond the grasp
Of my desire-life,Within my aspiration-breath.
```I am grateful to God
For having faith in my wishful dreams.I am grateful to God
For having faithEven in my fearful realities.
```What God actually needs
Is not my life’s soulfulness.What God desperately needs
Is my mind’s immediate willingness. ```His outwardly restless life
Puzzles me.His inwardly ascetic life
Puzzles me.His unconditionally surrendered soul
Puzzles me.To me, he is three insoluble puzzles.
```Do not laugh at him.
Today he is absolutely loyalTo himself.
Tomorrow he may be loyal to you.And who knows,
The day after tomorrowHe may be loyal to God, and to God alone.
Therefore, his absolute perfectionNeed not remain a far cry.
```God had to build a special prison
To imprison your impurity-mind.Now God is building a new prison
To imprison your insecurity-heart. ```He regards himself as an exception,
The only exception,When Heaven is indifferent
To all human beings.He regards himself as an exception,
The only exception,When earth does not cry to reach
The highest heights of Heaven. ```In a twinkling
He saw into my heartAnd knew that my soulful happiness
Would remain young forever and forever. ```O my soul,
Let us renew our old dream.Let us sing the song
Of God’s full manifestation on earth. ```From:Sri Chinmoy,Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 53, Agni Press, 1983
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