See the beauty of God’s creation
With your sleepless eyes.See the purity in God’s creation
With your breathless joy.Then your life will be ready
For perfection-splendour. ```A new me I became
The day I learnt the twin artsOf beautiful surrender
And soulful gratitude. ```God’s Compassion cures
My heart.God’s Smile immortalises
My life. ```God keeps all
His transcendental Promises.My sterling faith
Is the absolutely sincere witness. ```Your heart is aching
Because you do not feed your soulEven once a week
With a prayerful cryAnd a soulful smile.
```Some people proudly judge your heart
Only after they have carefully seenYour life.
```There are two places to hide
Our imperfections:One place is inside
Our Lord’s Compassion-Eye,And the other place is under
Our Lord’s Forgiveness-Feet. ```To try to go to Heaven
Without your heart’s soulfulnessIs like trying to open a locked door
Without the key. ```Death cannot say
“Yes”When my heart says
“No”. ```His heart’s purity
Enjoys incessant increase.Therefore, the human in him
Is proud of himAnd the divine in him
Is fond of him. ```Trust-flames beckon us,
To illumine our aspiration-heart.Distrust-fires beckon us,
To baffle us and finally destroy us. ```The outer difference
Between man and God is this:Man does not know,
Whereas God knows.The inner difference
Between man and God is this:Man is not ready to please God,
Whereas God is not readyTo renounce man.
```O Boat of Delight,
I am your new passengerWith a new heart
And a new aspirationFor a God absolutely new.
```Each uncomely thought
Eventually throws the mindInto a chasm of bleeding despair.
```One man’s insufficiency
Can sadly proveHow weak this world is.
One man’s sufficiencyCan unmistakably prove
That man is the golden bridgeBetween God the Love Divine
And God the Beloved Supreme. ```Between two thieves,
Doubt and insecurity,I shall make no choice,
For they are equally dangerousAnd destructive.
```When I travel Home with God,
I travel very close to HimSo nothing can travel in between us,
Especially not disappointment. ```May my self-giving will
Be infinitely swifterThan my man-conquering thought.
```All doubts are dissolved
When a seeker sincerely surrendersTo the Will of his own highest Self:
God the Compassion-Heart. ```When your heart’s tranquillity
Climbs up,You are bound to notice
The complete exhaustionOf your life’s sorrow.
```His mind is desperately trying to grow
Into a belief-plant,Whereas his heart has already become
A huge faith-tree. ```Before you enter the jaws of death,
Make two requests of Mother Earth:O Mother Earth,
Do forgive meMy life’s countless mistakes.
O Mother Earth,Do forever keep
My heart’s gratitude-garlandWhich I am placing
At your feet. ```There are three ways
To be special.One way
Is through possession.Another way
Is through renunciation.The third way
Is through acceptance:Acceptance of God’s Will
In God’s own Way. ```I shall accept my Master
UnconditionallyEven if he rejects me
TotallyIn front of everybody.
This is my onenessWith his heart and soul.
```Accept, accept your Master!
Accept him with the hopeAnd with the determination
To become his choicest instrument.The moment your surrender
Is complete and permanent,You will be his best disciple.
```Better days are coming!
Better worlds are emerging!Better skies are descending!
Better perfection is evolving! ```You have accepted the spiritual life.
Do you feel a special loveFor what you are doing?
Do you feel a special devotionTo what you are doing?
```My Lord’s Satisfaction-Sky
Lies inside my conscious acceptanceOf His Vision-in-Reality
And His Reality-in-Vision.His Vision-in-Reality:
In Heaven I was His Promise.His Reality-in-Vision:
On earth I am His Manifestation. ```You will find the smile of silence
Inside your heart’s sleepless cry.Cry is the night.
Inside the night is the day.As the night holds the day,
So the cry holds the smile. ```My Lord,
What do You usually doDuring the day
AndDuring the night?
“My child,During the day
I watch and wait.During the night I use either
My Compassion-HeightOr
My Justice-Light.” ```Believing is an act
Of earthly will.Loving is an act
Of Heavenly will.Surrendering is an act
Of supreme will. ```My music-life invokes
God’s PresenceInside my heart.
My song-life is all prepared
For God’s ArrivalInside my heart.
```I surrender
To the In-Dweller in him,For my Beloved Supreme
Has manifested much morePurity and divinity through him
Than through me. ```True freedom is not
In the satisfaction-beautyOf your face,
But in the perfection-onenessOf your heart.
```All seekers of the Absolute Supreme
Have the sacred responsibilityOf universal fraternity.
```Daily think a few times
Of your future victories in HeavenInstead of thinking all the time
Of your present defeats on earth. ```Today’s pure thoughts
Are resourcesFor tomorrow’s inner emergencies.
```If your life does not give joy
To others,Then how can you expect
Your heart to give any joyTo you?
```The mind depends on
The strength of doubt.The heart depends on
The strength of oneness.The soul depends on
The strength of delight. ```You are a stupid fellow
If you are looking forA perfect man.
You are a wise manIf you are trying to become
A perfect man. ```Failure is a matter of the mind.
If I do not mind,Then failure is of no consequence.
```My aspiration-heart
Knows no wantSince my illumination-soul
Is its supplier. ```God is everything:
This is a great discovery.God is in everything:
This is a great revelation. ```My Lord, as a poet
You have made me creative.Will You not make me creative
Not only when I do somethingBut also whenever I think anything?
```Because my soul
Is a soul of promise,My life
Is a life of hopeAnd my heart
Is a heart of peace. ```God the Heart
Loves only one thing:My heart’s breathless inner cry.
God the Eye
Loves only one thing:My life’s measureless outer smile.
```Who cares for the continuous increase
Of your mind’s reputationIf the soulful capacity of your heart
Declines? ```If you use your heart’s inner poise
In a constructive way,Then Blessing-Showers from Above
Will be all yours to treasure. ```There is only one cure
For the suspicion-mind,And that cure is
To deliberately excommunicate the mindFrom the assembly of the heart and soul.
```If you fear God’s Power,
Then how will you wake upAnd be ready to receive God
When God’s God-Hour strikes? ```You may not be great,
But your gratitude-heartIs exceptionally great
And perfectly good. ```When it comes to prayer,
Wake up, pray,And do not give up.
```If you are jealous,
If you are insecure,Think of your Master.
Your jealousy and your insecurityWill not be able to increase
When you think of your Master. ```My only confidential request
To the children of this world:“I am totally tired,
But do not breathe a word of it to Heaven,For Heaven does not appreciate
My helpless tiredness.” ```Life is a series of adventures,
And he who is ready to enjoyThese adventures
Has a special placeInside the blessingful Heart of God.
```There are countless approaches to God,
But the easiest and most effective approachIs to sow the seed of gratitude
And watch it growing every dayInside the depths
Of your silence-flooded heart. ```You call it imperfection,
But God calls it your preparation.You call it emptiness,
But God calls it your future fulness.You call it impossibility,
But God calls it the maskOf unveiled reality.
```I pray soulfully
So that my mindCan know the truth
Unmistakably.I meditate silently
So that my heartCan grow high enough
To touch God’s Heaven-Feet. ```The mind is unhappy
Because it cannot escapeThe frequent attacks of merciless pride.
The heart is happyBecause it is incapable
Of any kind of pride. ```When your mind is no longer entangled
In pitch-dark confusion-night,You will be able to see
The beauty of your inner faceAnd
The purity of your inner heart. ```Your soulful surrender-heart
Is the holiest of all shrines.No other shrine can equal it
In this wide universe. ```My Lord Supreme,
Do spare me from name and fame.My heart consciously, soulfully
And devotedlyLongs to play only with You
In Your Cosmic Game. ```Fear, doubt and anxiety
Together liveIn their earthly existence-family.
Hope, promise and dedication
Together liveIn their Heavenly existence-family.
```If your entire life
Is an insecurity-ant,How will you ever dare
To drink deep the Nectar-HeartOf your Beloved Supreme?
```At every moment
If you are not consciousOf the Height transcendental,
The powerful magnets of the lower worldsWill pull you down
Into the abyss of oblivion. ```The guardian angel
Of my daily lifeIs my one
Soulful morning song. ```God became his perfect slave
When he became his heart’sCompletely surrendered life.
```Cheerfulness
Is something encouraging.Calmness
Is something enlightening.Oneness
Is something fulfilling. ```God has lovingly given my mind
His lightning Speed to enjoy.God has blessingfully given my heart
His immortalising Feast to enjoy. ```His is the heart
That thirsts for God’s Nectar-Sea.His is the life
That dines with God’s Summit-Satisfaction. ```Your soul was the witness
When God asked your mindTo play with His own Sincerity-Smile
And when God asked your heartTo play with His own Purity-Cry.
```How can he succeed in his outer life
When earth is so jealous of him?How can he proceed in his inner life
When Heaven is so callous to him? ```God is always able to enjoy
His Victory-DrumBecause He never strikes it hard.
Therefore, He does not produce loud soundsThat deafen His Ears.
```Vastness-smile:
This is what the mindWill ultimately become.
Oneness-dance:
This is what the heartWill eventually become.
```I shall shorten
My heavenward journeyJust by strangling
My doubting mind. ```Cry within breathlessly,
Smile without sleeplessly.No nagging dissatisfaction
Will mar your life’sSwift heavenward journey.
```Beauty is tempting and fleeting
In the human mind.Beauty is self-giving, abiding,
Illumining and God-manifestingIn the divine heart.
```Earth unconsciously welcomes
The messenger of disaster.Heaven consciously welcomes
The messenger of helplessness. ```Without any preliminary preparation
You may see the Face of God,But without full preparation
You can never become the Heart of God. ```Seeing his own helplessness,
He does not want to seeAny blossoming newness on earth
Or any illumining fulness in Heaven. ```A human hope
Is a very subtle slavery.A divine promise
Is a very tangible harbingerOf self-mastery.
```If you watch closely,
You will see that nobody cares to knowWhether you have already realised God
Or are going to realise GodIn the near or distant future.
Everybody minds his own business.And he ought to!
```If you live in your self-governed world,
God will not dislike you,Never!
But the God-governed worldWill not be at all inspired
To remember youEither.
```Do not worry
About speaking to the worldAbout yourself.
Your heart’s confidence-lightIs always ready to do that for you.
```Courage is the watchfulness
Of my vision-eye.Gratitude is the fulness
Of my reality-life. ```Be not afraid
Of the pre-dawn darkness.The golden morning
With its rainbow-danceIs blossoming faster
Than you can imagine. ```His self-determination
Powerfully governs his mind.Therefore, he is now chosen by God.
His self-purification
Soulfully feeds his heart.Therefore, God is inviting him
To be a very important memberOf His inner Family.
```My poor, tiny mind,
I fully sympathise with you.How can you brave
The ruthless and sleepless onslaughtsOf a multitude of uncomely thoughts?
```Do not tell God
That you do not know.God does not like to hear it.
Do not tell man
That you know.Man does not like to hear it.
```The human life is a difficult
Cross-country run.The divine life is an easy,
Charming and Heaven-enjoyingFun-run.
```God the Eye
Threatens the proud.God the Heart
Transforms the proud. ```Why are you ashamed
Of your imperfections?God Himself is not ashamed
Of His imperfect creation. ```I do not hate the world,
Not because I do not knowHow to hate,
But because God does not want meTo hate.
I love the world,
Not because I know how to love,But because God,
Out of His boundless Bounty,Loves the world
In me, through me and for me. ```Two most sacred secrets to keep:
God wants my soulTo be His representative
Here on earth.God has given me the capacity
To transform the face and fateOf mankind.
```Only two miracles are worth seeing:
The miracle of lovingAnd
The miracle of forgiving. ```Who are the builders
Of the heavenward roadIf not God’s Compassion-Eye
And my own aspiration-heart? ```India’s secret weapons:
The transcendental Vision-LightOf the Vedic seers,
The universal Consciousness-DelightFrom the Vedic code.
```A doubtful mind
Hurts a faithful heart.A faithless heart
Puzzles a beautiful soul. ```If your heart is all aspiration,
And if your life is all gratitude,Then you become God’s cheerful
And constant responsibility. ```Not because I need a special favour
From my Lord SupremeDo I obey Him,
But because when I obey Him,To my utter astonishment,
My own heart swimsIn the sea of Light and Delight.
```From:Sri Chinmoy,Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 66, Agni Press, 1983
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