Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 56

5501. No more tomorrows

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No more tomorrows.

No more todays.

It is now, at this very moment,

That I shall become a divinely good

And supremely chosen instrument

Of my Lord Supreme. ```

5502. Your silence-mind

```

Only your purity-flooded

Silence-mind

Can tame

Your restless and goalless vital. ```

5503. Today's mental world

```

Just because the busy thoughts

Outnumber the quiet thoughts,

Today’s mental world

Is unlit and confused. ```

5504. A sincere and dear love

```

You can never enjoy

Ignorance-sleep

If you have a sincere and dear love

For the unfathomable deeps. ```

5505. The product of powerful visions

```

An ordinary and unaspiring man

Is the product of feeble dreams.

A great seeker and God-lover

Is the product of powerful

And fruitful visions.

```

5506. The goalless fighters

```

In the battlefield of life

Only the goalless fighters

Are godless failures.

```

5507. Each time I aspire

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Each time I am inspired,

I become a song of God’s Beauty.

Each time I aspire,

I become the music of God’s Duty. ```

5508. Victory and defeat

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Victory and defeat are interwoven.

Do not try to separate them,

But try to go beyond them

If your heart longs for abiding peace. ```

5509. God Himself will be proud of you

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You do not have to hide your promise;

Just hide your pride

And transform your promise.

God Himself will be proud of you,

Far more than you could ever

Be proud of yourself. ```

5510. Today's proud ambition

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Today’s

Proud ambition

Tomorrow becomes

A helpless victim to itself. ```

5511. An unblossomed bud

```

Unless God’s Compassion-Flood descends

Into your entire being,

Your life will remain

An unblossomed, tiny little bud. ```

5512. Only your heart's aspiration-cry

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It is only your heart’s aspiration-cry

That can liberate your mind

From the intense apprehension

Of an absolutely futile nothingness. ```

5513. Fight and fight

```

Fight and fight against

The despondency of your vital,

If you want to bring to the fore

Your loving and aspiring heart’s

Oneness-supremacy.

```

5514. Try to outweep

```

O heart, my heart,

Try to outweep the false tears

Of the mind.

Try!

You will make the aspiration-world

Immensely happy. ```

5515. His heart's inner sun

```

His heart’s inner sun

Was stunned

When his life

Carelessly and stupidly descended

Fast, very fast.

```

5516. Two ancient playmates

```

He has two ancient playmates:

His heart’s selfless cry

And

His life’s shadowless smile. ```

5517. When his life refused to accept

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The beauty of Heaven

Silently sank inside his heart

When his life refused to accept

The soundless sound of his soul,

The great and good God-representative.

```

5518. Because your words cast darkness

```

My mind and my heart

Do not dare to mix with you

Not because you are too great,

Not because you are too good,

But because your uninspiring

And unaspiring words

Always cast darkness

On my blossoming and glowing soul. ```

5519. God's Justice-Light

```

Everything may bend

If necessity demands.

But God’s Justice-Light,

When decreed by God Himself,

Will never bend.

```

5520. More important things to do

```

God has infinitely more important

Things to do

Than to please

My constantly curious whims. ```

5521. If you mix with insane thoughts

```

You do not have to go to hell

To see what hell looks like.

If you allow yourself

To mix with your insane thoughts,

Then hell itself will come and visit you.

```

5522. A haven of silence

```

When God chose you

To be a truth-seeker and a God-lover,

He gave you a secret haven

Of sacred silence

Inside your heart.

```

5523. Two absurd absurdities

```

Two absurd absurdities:

The pure heart

Will deceive the confused mind;

The sure soul

Will deceive the crying heart.

```

5524. When his heart communes with him

```

When his treacherous mind

Communes with him,

His heart suffers

From frustration-blows.

When his precious heart

Communes with him,

His mind suffers

From self-imposed suspicion-tortures. ```

5525. Unconsciously willing victims

```

An insincere mind

And an impure heart

Are unconsciously willing victims

Of powerful sorrows. ```

5526. A fruitful Eternity

```

Each moment will seem to be

A fruitful Eternity

If we love the beauty

Of our heart’s cry

And the duty

Of our life’s smile. ```

5527. My heart's bounden duty

```

God’s unconditional Love

Has awakened my heart.

Now it is my heart’s bounden duty

To awaken the younger members of its family

With its God-given unconditional love.

```

5528. God does not sanction

```

As God’s Justice-Light

Does not sanction

Anything uninspiring,

Even so,

God’s Compassion-Height

Does not sanction

Anything unaspiring.

```

5529. My heart is happy

```

My heart is happy

When it remembers

Its past soulful tears.

My mind is happy

When it remembers

Its past powerful smiles.

```

5530. The harvest of happiness

```

If you are thinking of collecting

The harvest of happiness,

Then look forward

With the beauty of the morning dawn

And with the purity of the evening stars.

```

5531. The joy of his song

```

Through tremendous suffering

He learnt the meaning of the inner life.

Now he is teaching others

The meaning of the inner life

Through the joy of his song.

```

5532. May oblivion hide

```

May oblivion hide

My mind’s teeming doubts

And my heart’s crying fears.

```

5533. How can you expect to see?

```

How can you expect to see

The beauty of your oneness-love

For God’s creation

If you have already allowed

Your breath to be stained

With dark hatred? ```

5534. A palace of despair

```

Since the kingdom of your mind

Is flooded with ruthless scorn,

Your heart cannot be anything

Other than a palace

Of throbbing despair.

```

5535. One with the inner faith

```

Let not the hostile forces

Capture my mind any more,

For now I have become absolutely one

With the inner faith

That creates a new and illumining creation

For me and through me. ```

5536. The height of your hypocrisy

```

Outwardly, in public,

You are more than ready

To hate your doubting mind.

Inwardly, in private,

You cherish your doubting mind.

What else is it,

If not the height

Of your hypocrisy? ```

5537. His heart's celestial beauty

```

His heart’s celestial beauty

Was slowly killed

By his mind’s dragon-frowns.

```

5538. If you refuse to accept

```

If you deliberately refuse to accept

The beauty and power

Of consciousness-light,

Then your entire being

Will be compelled to face

A sudden and fierce confusion-night. ```

5539. Hope begins

```

Hope begins

Inside the searching mind.

Promise begins

Inside the loving heart.

Satisfaction begins

Inside the illumining soul. ```

5540. The voice of beauty

```

The voice of beauty asks my mind

To go forward

Farther than the farthest

In order to become happy.

The voice of purity tells my heart

To dive inward

Deeper than the deepest

In order to become perfect. ```

5541. Love ceaselessly struggles

```

Love ceaselessly struggles

To increase itself.

Peace sleeplessly struggles

To fulfil itself. ```

5542. My life's beauty has given me

```

My life’s beauty has given me

The capacity to appreciate

God the creation.

My heart’s purity has given me

The capacity to love

God the Creator.

```

5543. Eternity's progress-road

```

For a selfless seeker

Eternity’s progress-road

Is paved with God’s own Light

And Delight. ```

5544. The water of self-contempt

```

Do not think that if you drink

The water of self-contempt

For your past misdeeds,

God will be pleased with you.

No, He will not!

However,

Out of His infinite Bounty,

He may grant you another chance. ```

5545. There are two prophetic songs

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There are two prophetic songs:

Today God will walk with me;

Tomorrow I shall work for God.

```

5546. A soulful person

```

A powerful person

May not get even one faithful friend,

But a soulful person

Will have the entire world

As his loving and intimate friend.

```

5547. The power of hope

```

Your mind may at times know

The beauty of hope,

But your heart always knows

The power of hope. ```

5548. O power of oblivion

```

O power of oblivion,

Will you kindly hide

My depression-torture

Today?

O power of oblivion,

Will you kindly hide

The pride of destruction-night

Tomorrow?

This is the only way

My mind can move forward

And my heart can dive inward.

```

5549. Kill the doubt-snake

```

Slowly and steadily

Kill the doubt-snake

That has encircled your searching mind

And enveloped your crying heart. ```

5550. Do not resist your soul

```

You do not have to guard your soul.

Only do not resist your soul

When it tries to guard you,

Guide you and illumine you

In God’s own Way.

```

5551. If you obey God's Will

```

If you obey God’s Will

Consciously, soulfully and unreservedly,

Then you will never inherit disgrace

From any corner of the world. ```

5552. The uncontrollable vital

```

It is not God’s Justice-Light

But God’s Compassion-Height

That silences and illumines

Not only the uncontrolled

But also the uncontrollable vital in us.

```

5553. Master your resentments

```

Master your resentments

Towards the world and towards yourself.

You will before long

Make the fastest ascent. ```

5554. Peace may not follow him

```

Peace may not follow him

Whose life is the proof of goodness,

But God’s blessingful Satisfaction-Light

Without fail follows him. ```

5555. The inner hunger rules

```

The outer hunger rules

The human in me mercilessly.

The inner hunger rules

The divine in me gloriously. ```

5556. If you have a detached mind

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If you have a detached mind

And if you have a devoted heart,

Then your life of total transformation

Cannot and will not remain a far cry. ```

5557. Use your purity-breath

```

In the morning

Use your purity-breath

To illumine the world within you.

In the evening

Use the selfsame breath

To liberate the world around you.

```

5558. Who can measure?

```

Who can measure

The beauty of the heart?

A breathless God-dreamer

And

A selfless God-lover.

```

5559. Wanting in self-control

```

Since you are wanting

In self-control,

How can you expect God

To perform His Satisfaction-Role

In and through you?

```

5560. Be careful in choosing!

```

Be careful in choosing!

If you make a mistake,

You will never be able to hear

God’s life-transforming Voice. ```

5561. The wings of fleeting time

```

Only my cheerfully and unconditionally

Self-giving heart

Has the velocity and capacity

To capture the wings

Of fleeting time.

```

5562. Breathlessly I love You

```

Breathlessly I love You, my Lord,

In my heart’s dreams.

Sleeplessly I need You, my Lord,

In my life’s realities. ```

5563. Reduce the earth-bound mind

```

Reduce the earth-bound mind

To nothingness

If you want to be happy.

Multiply the beauty of

The Heaven-free heart

Until it reaches Infinity

If you want to be perfect. ```

5564. A rash of the world's deficiencies

```

A rash of the world’s deficiencies

You are bound to incur

If you do not offer

Your self-giving and earth-fulfilling life

Efficiently.

```

5565. His silence-tree

```

His silence-tree

And its own life-tears

Are sheltering not only those

Who are longing for light

But also those

Who are longing for service-delight. ```

5566. The soul's sorrowful eyes

```

The streaming tears

Of the soul’s sorrowful eyes

Can easily be felt

By the seeker’s heart.

They alone can purify, illumine

And immortalise the seeker. ```

5567. Two paramount questions

```

Two paramount questions:

Do I have to love God unconditionally

In His own Way?

Does God have to love me

In all my weaknesses

In my own way? ```

5568. My universe of tears

```

In the morning if I forget

To offer my gratitude-heart

To my Lord Supreme,

Then in the evening I offer Him

My universe of tears.

```

5569. A victim to earthly fame

```

If you become a victim

To earthly fame,

How can you expect to discover

The satisfaction-waves of Heavenly gains? ```

5570. His mind is as secret

```

His mind is as secret

As a dream-bud.

His heart is as sacred

As a reality-flower. ```

5571. An ineffectual hope

```

A dry intellectual mind

Is undoubtedly an ineffectual

Life-transforming hope.

Therefore, live not in the arid desert

Of intellectual pride.

```

5572. The whispers of the prophets

```

The whispers of the prophets:

You will see God face to face.

You will consciously become

A participant in God’s Eternity’s Race.

You are another God.

What you need is your Atlantic manifestation

Through your Himalayan revelation.

```

5573. Two precious dreams

```

Two precious dreams:

I shall realise God without fail

In this life;

God shall be proud of me

Permanently.

```

5574. Inside the circle of anger

```

Inside the circle of anger

Fear and doubt unconsciously abide.

Outside the circle of anger

Beauty’s God-rapture openly abides. ```

5575. Yours is the opportunity

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Yours is the opportunity

To enjoy the power of choice.

God’s is the Divinity

To grant you the choice of power. ```

5576. No end to joy

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No end to sadness for him

Who mechanically thinks and thinks.

No end to joy for him

Who prayerfully meditates and meditates. ```

5577. Self-discovery is not an accident

```

Self-discovery is not an accident.

Neither is life-mastery.

God-realisation is not a mystery.

Neither is earth-transformation. ```

5578. His sadness sadly crawled

```

His sadness sadly crawled

And finally collapsed.

Then he surrendered himself

To Heaven

And became the cheerful hero-pride

Of earth. ```

5579. The life of aspiration

```

Unless you take

The life of aspiration seriously

Right from the beginning,

Your mind’s curiosity

Will fade away

And your uncertain heart

Will miserably fail.

```

5580. A citadel against the mind

```

If your heart does not create

A solid citadel

Against your mind’s wild tempests,

Then your life will meet with

Nothing else but downright failure.

```

5581. The world within you

```

If you live in the desire-world,

The separation-wall between you and God

Will swell and expand.

Therefore, accept the world

That is within you:

The union-world,

Where you and God are eternally united

In God’s infinite Vision-Delight. ```

5582. What does my aspiration-cry do?

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What does my aspiration-cry do?

It carefully and triumphantly renovates

My old world.

What does my dedication-smile do?

It invites God the Supreme Guest

To come once again

And live in my newly revealed world. ```

5583. His will be the role

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Until his ignorance-night

Completely vanishes,

His will be the role to cry,

And his Lord’s will be the role to sigh. ```

5584. He expects the fruits

```

He does not pray,

He does not meditate.

Yet he expects the fruits

Of prayer and meditation.

Since this is not possible,

He is forced to enlarge

The confines of his despair.

```

5585. A Dream of God

```

A Dream of God

Easily made infinite human beings.

The reality of a single man

Can amazingly satisfy the Absolute Supreme. ```

5586. If Heaven gets tired

```

If earth gets tired

Of loving Heaven,

Heaven does not mind.

Perhaps God also does not mind.

But if ever Heaven gets tired

Of loving earth,

Earth will helplessly weep,

And God will use nothing

But His Volcano-Ire.

```

5587. A mountain peak of fulfilment

```

The human life is

A molehill-height of hopes.

The divine life is

A mountain peak of fulfilment. ```

5588. An imperishable message

```

On the summit of ages

This imperishable message was written:

Each promise of God and each hope of man

Together shall strive,

Together shall succeed,

Together shall transcend. ```

5589. The arrows of your silence-life

```

Only the arrows

Of your silence-life

Can pierce the veil

Of your mind’s ruthless

Suspicion-nights.

```

5590. Can you not please me?

```

O my ego,

I have all along either pleased you

Or tried to please you.

Can you not please me only once

In this lifetime?

“O God-seeker,

What do you want from me?”

I want your death, immediate death.

“O seeker, granted.

From today on you will be able

To walk along the sunlit road of aspiration,

Dedication and God-manifestation.” ```

5591. One highway to Heaven

```

There is only one highway to Heaven,

And that highway

Is our constant and unconditional

Self-giving way. ```

5592. The footsteps of envy

```

The footsteps of envy

Must not trespass

On the hallowed ground

Of my heart’s oneness-life. ```

5593. Society's cheap joy

```

Society’s cheap joy

You openly enjoy.

How can you then

Hope to secretly enjoy

Divinity’s invaluable

Heart-embracing

And life-illumining joy?

```

5594. Since you resigned

```

Since you resigned

From your life’s inner career

Long before your mind-power faded,

Your heart-power will fade

Long before its career is meant to end.

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5595. God's supremely chosen instruments

```

God’s supremely chosen instruments

Are extremely embarrassed

To go back to Heaven

Without having radically changed

The uncomely face of this world.

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5596. Death's journey begins and ends

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Death’s journey begins and ends

When your heart remains

Untouched and unperturbed by earth’s noise

And offers its grateful existence-life

To the Lord Supreme.

```

5597. Life's journey begins and ends

```

Life’s journey begins and ends

Inside God’s Eternity’s Eye,

Infinity’s Heart

And Immortality’s Body. ```

5598. You cannot escape

```

You want to escape.

Do you not know

That you cannot escape?

You can escape

From your friends and dear ones.

You can escape

From your society.

You can escape

From your country.

You can escape

From each and every one.

But you cannot escape

From your mind.

No matter where you go,

Your mind will follow you

And torture you. ```

5599. The blue bird inside your heart

```

If you really want to escape

From your mind,

Then you have to go

Beyond the mind.

How do you do that?

You have to make friends

With the blue bird

That is deep inside your heart.

This blue bird will help you fly

In the firmament of Light and Delight. ```

5600. Make friends with your soul

```

When you pray,

Think of a lost child within you

Crying helplessly.

When you meditate,

Think of a morning flower

Smiling and smiling,

Radiating its beauty

And offering its fragrance.

This is how you can make friends

With your soul

And fly with it infinitely higher

Than the confines of the mind. ```

Editor's introduction to the first edition

This is the fifty-sixth 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 and Ambassador Ole Algard of Norway participate in a programme in tribute to former Secretary-General U Thant on 23 November 1976 at the United Nations.

From:Sri Chinmoy,Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 56, Agni Press, 1983
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