Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 63

6201. If you plant a seed of purity

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If you plant a seed of purity

Inside your heart,

Then God Himself will water it every day

And take care that it grows

Into a tree of divinity.

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6202. Everything is possible

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Everything is possible.

Fear-tremor can be transformed

Into destruction-terror,

And destruction-terror

Into perfection-love.

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6203. Between perfection and satisfaction

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The desire-life vacillates

Between hope and fear.

The aspiration-life oscillates

Between perfection and satisfaction. ```

6204. Unbelievable, but true

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His vital is all

Vainglorious demonstration.

His heart is all

Auspicious aspiration.

Unbelievable, but true.

```

6205. A free access

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Self-mastery

Has a free access

To an ultramundane life.

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6206. An impossible task

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Flattery now titillates your mind.

Therefore, for you to realise God

Is an impossible task.

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6207. Doubts in the mind

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The presence of teeming doubts

In the mind

Is tantamount to the beginning

Of a destruction-life. ```

6208. A heart of soulful silence

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Only a heart

Of soulful silence

Can have a life

Of sacrosanct blessing. ```

6209. The pride of personality

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The pride of personality

Will one day hide

Under the warm blanket

Of satisfaction-unity. ```

6210. Cancel your impotence-heart

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Cancel your impotence-heart.

God is all ready to grant you

His indomitable Strength-Delight.

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6211. Aspire, aspire!

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Aspire, aspire!

Your heart’s aspiration-flames

Will unmistakably show you

The way to come out

Of your thick desire-forest.

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6212. Your heart's soft voice

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Value the perfection

Of your heart’s soft voice

If you want your outer confusion-life

To be illumined and perfected. ```

6213. I have not seen the Face of God

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I have not seen the Face of God.

I have not felt the heart of man.

Therefore, I am wrapped

Only in my powerfully painful thoughts. ```

6214. The strength of hope

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You will see yourself forsaken

If you deny

The indomitable strength of hope.

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6215. Each time you compromise

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Each time you compromise

With ignorance-night,

You tarnish the beauty

Of your soul’s perfection-promise

To the world.

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6216. Accept your heart's way

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Cheerfully accept your heart’s way

And vehemently reject your mind’s way

If you really want to free yourself

From the fetters of ignorance. ```

6217. You will never suffer

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If your outer name is obedience

And your inner name is surrender,

Then you will never suffer

From periods of spiritual dryness. ```

6218. My aspiration means

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My aspiration means

My heart’s non-stop

Fast-rising flames.

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6219. Extinguish the fire

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If you just extinguish

The fire of desire,

Then you do not have to relinquish

Anything else. ```

6220. He will extol his foe

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When even his worst adversary

Does something great and good,

He will extol his foe to the skies.

Indeed, such nobility

Is not foreign to his nature.

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6221. A seeker's life-story

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A genuine seeker’s life-story

Is nothing other than

God’s own Satisfaction-Glory.

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6222. The wisdom-sky of vision-light

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Those who tolerate ignorance-night

Cannot expect to reach

The wisdom-sky of vision-light.

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6223. Your do-nothing attitude

```

Your do-nothing attitude

Is responsible

Not only for the complete failure

Of your own life

But also for the sad failure

Of your big world-family. ```

6224. If you are perfect

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If you are great,

Then nobody will be able

To understand you.

If you are perfect,

Then nobody will be able

To replace you. ```

6225. Denied God's Satisfaction-Smile

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A mind without inspiration,

A heart without aspiration

And a life without imagination

Will be denied

God’s Satisfaction-Smile.

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6226. God's Compassion helps me walk

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God’s Compassion helps me walk

On the road to perfection.

God’s Forgiveness helps me walk

On the road to satisfaction. ```

6227. God's Dreams

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If you do not aspire

Soulfully and sleeplessly,

Then God’s Dreams for you

Will turn to useless dust. ```

6228. God's God-Height

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Unless I destroy

My life’s ignorance-night,

How can I ever reach

God’s God-Height? ```

6229. The king of stupendous failure

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Because my life

Is a visionless ignorance-sky,

I am doomed to become

The king of stupendous failure. ```

6230. What is impossibility?

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What is impossibility

If not its own lifeless obscurity

And its own useless futility?

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6231. Not because I insult God

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Not because I insult God,

Not because I find fault with God,

Not because I cannot see

Eye-to-eye with God,

But because I love only myself,

I am compelled to dwell

In my own abysmal ignorance-cave.

```

6232. Will you do something for me?

```

You say that you have nothing to do.

Then will you do something for me?

Will you dispatch your frustrated failure

Once and for all,

Just to please me?

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6233. Do not forget to ask God

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If you invite God

To enter into your heart-room,

Do not forget to ask Him

To push you forward

To see His Eternity’s Light

And to pull you upward

To feel His Infinity’s Delight.

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6234. Hope-tree protects my life

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Hope-tree protects my life.

Therefore

I see satisfaction,

Feel satisfaction

And become satisfaction,

No matter where I am,

No matter what I am doing.

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6235. May my mind become the precursor

```

As night is the precursor

Of a beautiful and fruitful dawn,

May my mind become the precursor

Of a prayerful and soulful heart. ```

6236. I pray to feel only one thing

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In my hermit-heart

I pray to feel only one thing:

God’s ocean-deep Victory-Delight.

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6237. God's Compassion-Canopy

```

At any time I can pierce

Everything that I see

Within and without

Save one thing:

The Compassion-Canopy

Of my Beloved Supreme. ```

6238. You have come to me

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My Lord,

You have come to me

To revive my climbing heart.

My Lord,

Will You not allow me

To clasp Your descending Feet? ```

6239. What my life needs

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What my life needs

More than anything else

Is the fire of certainty.

Therefore, I am now sending

My uncertainty-thoughts

Into destruction-exile. ```

6240. My soulful morning prayer

```

Because of my soulful morning prayer

I am immensely enjoying

Two most special things:

The burial of my deceased mind

And

The fragrance-beauty of my Himalayan smile. ```

6241. When we live in the soul

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When we live in the body,

The animal in us bites the world.

When we live in the heart,

The human in us inspires the world.

When we live in the soul,

The divine in us illumines the world. ```

6242. Today's self-giving seed

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Today’s self-giving seed

Germinates into tomorrow’s

God-becoming plant.

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6243. Divinity's clarion-call

```

You can become

Divinity’s reverberating clarion-call

If you do not allow

Your mind to be affected

By the world’s venom-doubts.

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6244. The sword of conscience-light

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Powerful is his success,

Fruitful is his progress

Because he has become

The naked sword

Of his own conscience-light.

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6245. The arrow of concentration

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His mind is

The arrow of concentration.

His heart is

The bow of meditation.

His soul is

The target of contemplation. ```

6246. In the morning

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In the morning

My Lord secretly uncovers Heaven.

In the evening

My Lord blessingfully shows me

How to discover Heaven.

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6247. Let God make the choice for you

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In your life’s journey

Let God make the choice for you.

Rest assured,

God will let you enjoy the victory

All by yourself.

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6248. You can cross the ignorance-sea

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If you can think and feel

That God is yours,

You can easily cross to the other shore

Of the uncharted ignorance-sea. ```

6249. Insecurity is a disease

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Insecurity is a disease

That is unconsciously cheerless within

And consciously shameless without.

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6250. Perfection-poise

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Perfection-poise

Is the satisfaction-heart

Of God’s God-Beauty

In man. ```

6251. Two immortal boons

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A confidence-heart

And an assurance-mind

Are undoubtedly

Two immortal boons from Above

To humanity.

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6252. To intensify my commitment-life

```

To intensify my commitment-life,

What I need first

Is an enlightenment-heart.

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6253. For my own sake

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When I pray to God for my own sake,

I see His Compassion-cultivation.

When I pray to God for His sake alone,

I enjoy His Satisfaction-harvest. ```

6254. The aspiration-life is better

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The desire-life is good.

It liberates us from unpardonable idleness.

The aspiration-life is better than the best.

It helps us reach God’s Palace

And freely and confidently

Dine with God. ```

6255. To think of the past

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To think of the past

Is indeed a painful task.

To carry the past

Is indeed a fruitless burden. ```

6256. His Heart's Flower-Fragrance

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Every day try to meditate

On God’s Silence-Beauty.

Then you are bound to become

His Heart’s Flower-Fragrance. ```

6257. The unmistakable sources

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A doubting mind and a dividing life

Are the unmistakable sources

Of man’s teeming maladies.

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6258. Discard your worthless worries

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Discard your worthless worries

As dirty, worn-out garments,

If you never want to abandon yourself

To wild despair-disaster. ```

6259. A life of devoted service

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If yours is a life of devoted service,

Then yours is also

A mind of inspiration,

A heart of aspiration

And

A soul of God-manifestation. ```

6260. A beckoning light

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Your mind may be enjoying

An encircling gloom.

Your heart may be enjoying

An increasing confusion.

But your soul will always remain

A beckoning light. ```

6261. A sincere seeker

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An insincere seeker

Can unimaginably weaken

The life of a sincere seeker.

A sincere seeker

Can unimaginably inspire

The life of an insincere seeker.

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6262. A golden satisfaction in God

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To look at him

Is to be thrilled

With a silver faith in man

And a golden satisfaction in God. ```

6263. An impossible task

```

An impossible task:

For a borrowing mind

Ever to console

A sorrowing heart. ```

6264. A foolish mind

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A foolish mind thinks

That it needs a mountain-cave

For its illumination.

A stupid heart feels

That it needs a forest-grove

For its satisfaction.

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6265. You are wise twice

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You are wise twice:

Once when you are ready

To live in the world,

And once when you are ready

To look far beyond the world

While remaining in the world. ```

6266. When the vital weaves

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When the vital weaves

The rope of desire

It does not know

That it violently strangles

The climbing child in man.

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6267. You can remain unchangeable

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You can remain

Not only unchanged

But also unchangeable

In this world of cataclysmic changes

If you can make your life

Into a soulful flower-offering. ```

6268. If you need God

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If you think of God,

God will love you more.

If you love God,

God will need you more.

If you need God,

God will be at once

More proud of you

And more proud of Himself. ```

6269. Sinner and saint

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You are a sinner:

You have allowed your mind

To convince you of this.

You are a saint:

When are you going to allow God

To convince your heart of this?

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6270. His life is totally lost

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His life is totally lost

Between his mind’s emptiness

And his heart’s fulness.

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6271. The uncertain future

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You do not want to stop living

In the uncertain future,

Yet you do not realise

What you are doing:

You are driving your life-car

From danger to disaster. ```

6272. God wants you to see

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You want to remember

What you were in substance:

A sinner.

God wants you to see

What you are in essence:

A perfect saint.

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6273. The exploitation of your mind

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The imperfections of your life

God has already forgiven,

But the exploitation of your mind

God is not sure

Whether He will forgive or not.

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6274. To be late to pray

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To be late to pray

Is common,

But to patiently wait to receive

Is always uncommon. ```

6275. On Eternity's Quest

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You have a humility-life.

What does it mean?

It means that you have

A magnanimity-life.

What else does it mean?

It means that you have embarked

On Eternity’s Quest.

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6276. Two indispensable realities

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Only two indispensable realities

Can conquer the world:

A humility-mind

And

A purity-heart.

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6277. The cross of Christ

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The cross of Christ

At Calvary

Was astonishingly prayerful.

The meditation of Buddha

At the foot of the Bodhi tree

Was astonishingly beautiful.

The flute of Krishna

At Brindabhan

Was astonishingly soulful.

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6278. The desire to be known

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If you can give up

The desire to be known,

Your aspiration-heart

Will not be able

To remain unknown.

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6279. What your heart knows and sees

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What your mind has

Is a storm-tossed boat.

What your heart knows and sees

Is a silence-flooded shore. ```

6280. To make constant progress

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There are two ways

To make constant progress:

The way of the heart

And the way of the life.

The way of the heart

Is to look up

High, higher, highest.

The way of the life

Is to look ahead

Far, farther, farthest. ```

6281. Anxiety hounds your steps

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Anxiety hounds your steps

Not because you have not

Done the right thing

But because you are unwilling

To accept the right thing

As your own, very own. ```

6282. The song of perfection

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If your heart really loves

The mount of vision,

Then your life can easily,

Soulfully and satisfactorily

Sing the song of perfection.

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6283. Each time my aspiration ascends

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Each time my aspiration ascends

I clearly see two things:

The assurance of my inner revolution

And the confidence in my outer resolution. ```

6284. The shackles of bondage

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To destroy the shackles

Of my earthly bondage

I must become inseparably one

With my soul’s silence-world

And renounce my mind’s sound-world.

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6285. God feels sad

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God feels sad

When he sees that you are caught

In unnecessary struggles

Against the wrong forces

Of your unaspiring friends,

For He knows that you also have

Your own problems and shortcomings

Which you have to conquer

In order to become perfect.

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6286. Because I have never asked

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I weep

Not because I have not tried,

But because I have never asked

My Lord Supreme

What I am supposed to be

In His own Eternity’s Vision-Light. ```

6287. Pray first

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Don’t watch for your weaknesses.

Pray first

And then watch for your weaknesses.

After you have prayed

Your weaknesses will lose their strength

And be ready to accept

The life of illumination.

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6288. A beggar's world

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The thought-world is a beggar’s world.

Nobody can force you

To stay in this beggar’s world

Unless you yourself are willing.

You can easily remain

In an emperor’s will-power-world

If that is what you ever long for.

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6289. If you do not cooperate

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If you do not cooperate

With the desire-world,

Then the aspiration-world

Will wing towards you

To liberate your self-tortured life.

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6290. The three special requisites

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A humility-life,

A purity-heart

And a spontaneity-mind

Are the three special requisites

Needed for a free access

To God’s infinite personal Property. ```

6291. Aspiration is the beginning

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Aspiration is the beginning

Of my journey’s start.

Surrender is the perfection

Of my gratitude-flooded heart. ```

6292. A life of silence

```

A life of silence

Is the fragrance and beauty

Of God’s Self-Transcendence-Song.

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6293. Before death invites you

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Your teeming doubts

And your strangling suspicions

Will eventually bury you alive

Long before death invites you. ```

6294. The art of self-giving

```

When you learn the art of self-giving,

You definitely become

A conscious and inseparable part

Of the world-soul. ```

6295. An iota of soulfulness

```

Today I have only an iota of soulfulness

Because I am spiritually weak.

Tomorrow I shall become spiritually strong

And become a sun-vast soulfulness

Plus fulness.

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6296. Your oneness-smile with Heaven

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Your life may perish,

But your oneness-smile with Heaven

And your gratitude-heart to earth

Will always survive. ```

6297. The wise man

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The wise man

Is he who prays to God

Not to show him

The ugly face of problems

Unless it is absolutely necessary

For his self-perfection. ```

6298. For your realisation

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You can start

With either sincerity or purity

Or with both.

But you can never stop

With either of them.

You have to continue with them

Forever and forever,

For your realisation

And for God’s Manifestation.

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6299. Hope-flames

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Hope-flames are purifying my heart

So that I can appreciate,

Admire, love and grow into

Heaven’s ceaseless sun-vast smiles. ```

6300. How is it that I am not happy?

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My Lord,

You have given me what I wanted.

How is it that I am not happy?

“My child,

How can you be happy

Unless you ask Me

For what you actually need?”

What do I need, My Lord?

Please tell me.

“My constant Satisfaction in you.” ```

Editor's introduction to the first edition

This is the sixty-third 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 greets Dr Estefania Aldaba-Lim, Assistant Secretary-General and Special Representative for the International Year of the Child at the United Nations, following a ceremony in which the Government of India officially presented Dr Lim with a Sri Chinmoy painting on 27 March 1979. Following the presentation Dr Lim commented to the artist, “In thanking you again, we wish you continued success in your magnificent obsession to spread love, caring and commitment, to spread an important peace which we all desire in the United Nations.”

From:Sri Chinmoy,Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 63, Agni Press, 1983
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