Take just one positive step.
Every day say:“My heart is of God
And my life is for God.” ```Centuries come and go.
My mind does not knowWhat it has been doing all along,
But my heart knowsWhat it has been doing.
It has been cryingFor the presence of the Infinite
Inside the tiny body-caveOf the finite.
```Somehow I have lost my way.
Alas, I now see the road aheadConstantly lengthening,
Bewildering and frightening me. ```God has invited you to His Party.
Do not forget to carry with youYour heart’s gift:
Absolutely pure gratitude. ```If you are willing
To run the race of oneness-light,Then only can you enjoy the prize:
The freedom of true independence. ```If you are bathed
In God’s Forgiveness-Light,Then no dust of earth
Will be able to cling to you. ```The beckoning Hands
Of God’s hopeful SmileWill, without fail, one day greet
The fruitful criesOf man’s prayerful heart.
```My steady mind sits and dreams
At the foot of my Lord’s Perfection-Tree.My ready heart climbs up and devours
My Lord’s Satisfaction-Fruits. ```Your mind’s confusion-boat will sink
Only when you are ready to sailYour heart’s illumination-boat.
```Your friendship with humanity
Is founded upon your curiosity.Therefore, do not blame God
If you find yourself completely lostInside a dark nothingness-night.
```Because yesterday your mind
Enjoyed its indifference-night,Today your orphan-life
Is drowning in the sea of helplessness-night. ```How do you dare pressure God
To invite you to His Delight-Feast,When you are all the time treasuring
Your heart’s insecurity-hunger? ```The silence-touch of Eternity
Has unconditionally granted meA lasting and transcending
Oneness-connection with God. ```His mind lives for knowledge-light.
His heart lives for affection-delight.His life lives for perfection-might.
His soul lives for transcendence-height. ```His mind’s new discovery:
God is Forgiveness-Delight.His heart’s new discovery:
God is Justice-Light. ```How can you be always happy
When your life does not go beyondThe domain of your mind’s
Superficial investigation? ```A transformed man
Is the perfect manifestationOf a blossomed God.
```Earth’s beauty
Is in its soulfully smiling hope.Heaven’s beauty
Is in its peacefully loving promise. ```Your world’s future guide
Is not your promise,Not your hope,
Not even your surrender,But your heart’s gratitude-plant.
```A mind of simplicity,
A heart of purityAnd
A life of dutyLive together
In their perfect oneness-home. ```Trials in the outer world
Awaken you.Trials in the inner world
Illumine you. ```God’s Compassion-Supply
Is more abundantThan even our extravagant requirements.
```His heart’s purity
Penetrates the impenetrable.His life’s surrender
Wins the Transcendental. ```Man is nothing but a quenchless pride-flame.
Therefore he has no choice.Helplessly he is humiliated
By a stark ignorance-frown. ```The love of a pure oneness-heart
Has every right to correctIf necessity demands.
```You fool,
You have been danglingFor such a long time!
When will you seize the opportunityOr feel the necessity
To untangle the taut knotOf your bondage-life?
```What has God’s
Unconditional Grace done?It has made me see
That I the finiteNot only embody
God the InfiniteBut will some day reveal
God the Infinite. ```No matter how much you eat
Of your desire-food,You are bound to be frustrated.
No matter how little you eat
Of your aspiration-food,You are bound to be eventually emancipated.
```Hope illumines my mind.
Promise liberates my heart.Perfection immortalises my life.
```A singular stroke of light
Has liberated himFrom his long-cherished
Fanciful illusions. ```Follow God’s Example!
He does not want to plumbThe depth of my life’s ignorance-sea.
He only wants to measureThe height of my heart’s surrender-plant.
```Jealousy sees too much.
Insecurity imagines too much.Pride knows too much.
Doubt destroys more than the most. ```Heavenly words should be weighed
And not counted.Earthly words should be forgotten
And not treasured. ```An earth-bound life
Is impurity’s nothingness.A Heaven-free life
Is purity’s Immortality. ```Each time I think of Him,
I become His Beauty’sPerfection-Bird
And His Duty’sSatisfaction-Wings.
```A pure thought
At a God-chosen HourCan and shall
Save this poor and weak world. ```Unlike illusory dreams,
All realities have a special purpose,A special goal in the Creation-Game
Of the Lord Supreme. ```I need a place to keep my heart
Where nobody will tell me “No!”I need a place to smile
Where nobody will ask me “Why?” ```God’s Compassion-Sea
Has seized his inspiration-mind.God’s Satisfaction-Shore
Has seized his aspiration-heart. ```Indulgent earth did not realise
That it was keeping his life imperfect.Indifferent Heaven did not want to feel
That it was keeping his aspiration-heart starved. ```Because of his powerful feet,
We see his lofty headFar above the hurtful clouds
In an ignorance-nourished sky. ```Your mind unconsciously treasures
Illusory phantasmagoria.Therefore, you are consciously forced
To remain in a worldWhere imperfection reigns supreme.
```A man of thought thinks he knows
Because he has knowledge-light.A seeker-heart unmistakably knows
Because it is all satisfaction-delight. ```As my thought-flags are obedient
To my illumined mind-breeze,Even so, my surrender is
Unconditionally obedientTo my liberated soul’s vision-eye.
```Do not allow earth
To resist your heart’sPerfection-hoping cries.
Do not allow Heaven
To ignore your soul’sLife-illumining smiles.
```Where is the difference
Between a giant mindAnd the futility of confusion-discovery?
```Each impure thought is a sleeping cancer
Which will soon play its roleMost successfully
In weakening your heartAnd taking away your life-breath.
```An ignorance-heart
Is a huge reservoirOf great disaster
In life’s unknown abyss. ```The pinnacle-height of love
Can never be challenged.The immeasurable depth of silence
Can never be revealed. ```If you are ready to wrestle
With your darkness-mind,Then God is also ready,
More than ready,To nurture your soulful heart’s
Aspiration-cry. ```My mind says to my heart:
“Will you please praise God for me?”My heart says to my mind:
“Will you please pray to GodTo bless me?”
```Success depends on
Only one thing:Inspiration.
Progress depends on
Only one thing:Aspiration.
```The animal anger
Eventually surrendersTo the heart-breaking tears and sobs
Of the loving heart. ```It is bad enough
To have todayAs a goalless day,
But to have EternityAs a goalless reality
Would be an unthinkableAnd unfathomable tragedy.
```If your life is afraid
Of reality,How can God transform
Your human mortality? ```Earth’s imperfections
To go unnoticed?Impossible!
Heaven’s compassion
To disown the world?Impossible!
```If you are caught
By the expectation-chain,How can you escape
The powerful blowsOf despair-night?
```How can God walk beside you
When you have allowedDisappointed hopes
To invade you? ```As your mind has the power
To command your life-movements,Even so, your heart
Must develop the powerTo control, command and transform
Your mind. ```Inwardly he was fearful,
Outwardly he was bashfulAnd secretly he was sorrowful
Before he met God. ```What stabs my life most mercilessly?
The helpless and sorrowful tearsOf my innocence-heart.
```By magnifying the heaviness
Of my life’s burdens,My mind gets tremendous pleasure.
By totally ignoring my life’s burdens,My heart receives soulful joy
And powerful satisfaction. ```My Lord Supreme can and will
Clasp my handsOnly when I prayerfully and soulfully
Love His HeartBeating inside my own little heart.
```Only a genuine God-dreaming seeker
Can eventually becomeA peace-manifesting God-lover.
```True, each thought
Is not a striking thing,But it is a living thing.
True, each man
Is not manifesting the truth,But he is definitely embodying the truth.
```First be the lover
Of consecration.Then become the ladder
Of perfection. ```Not I, but God in me
Is absolutely responsibleFor my nature’s total transformation.
Not God, but I myself
Have caused intolerable sufferingFor both God the Creator
And God the creation. ```My poor mind needs
Only one particular salvation:Immediate relief from its self-declared war.
```O my gold-shining mind,
I sincerely admire you.O my diamond-distributing heart,
I sleeplessly need you. ```To reach the summit of Heaven
I shall have to getEither a sleepless cry-push from earth
Or a spotless smile-pull from Heaven. ```Your head-knowledge
Must be transformedIf you want to be truly happy.
Your heart-wisdomMust be continuously transcended
If you want to be perfectly perfect. ```To meet God without an intermediary
May not be impossible,But it is surely the loftiest
Mountain-climbing task. ```Before God-realisation
No thought can be completely perfect.After God-realisation
The reign of imperfect thought collapses. ```Your heart will be shattered by sorrow
If you force it to liveIn tomorrow’s ephemeral imagination-world
Instead of in today’s eternal Reality-Now. ```Unhappy at being unhappy:
This is a deplorable human incident.Happy at being happy:
This is a valuable divine experience. ```Do not allow your doubting mind
To lord it over your God-loving heart.Your God-loving heart
Is your unparalleled treasure. ```Discard your worthless worries
As dirty, worn-out garmentsIf you never want to abandon yourself
To wild despair-disaster. ```Time and space contradict each other
Because of my consciousAnd deliberate unwillingness
To sing with timeAnd embrace space.
```Two are the sublime contents
Of consciousness-height:A self-giving existence-light
And a God-becoming oneness-delight. ```Perfection must dawn
In your aspiration-cry.If not, you can never succeed
In your inner journey. ```Who can satisfy God
In God’s own Way?He who yearns to see
God’s universal Reality-DelightInside His transcendental Vision-Light.
```No torture
Is as excruciatingAs your long-cherished
Self-doubt. ```My consecrated heart stopped
Not only the criesOf the descending man
But also his descent.My liberated soul not only raised high,
Very high,The life of the ascending man,
But also increased enormouslyThe beauty of his smile.
```What I need
Is a soulfully receptive worldTo hear
My heart’s blue bird singing. ```Why do you have to worry
Whether others cherish your talents,As long as God cherishes them?
Why do you have to worryWhether others please your heart,
As long as you please God’s Heart? ```At last you have made me truly happy
By confessing that your bitternessIs all due to the fact
That others are enjoyingA life with no suffering.
```Because he thinks and knows
That it is imperativeFor us to change ourselves,
A supernal radianceHas filled his face.
```What is the meaning of life?
Perfection-flower.What is the meaning of work?
Satisfaction-fragrance. ```He who sincerely aspires
And soulfully serves,Does not, cannot and will not retire.
```How do you bind yourself?
Not with a ropeBut by not appreciating
Others’ divine qualities. ```Nobody except your own soul
Has the right to tell youWhat is right in front of your life,
What is right inside your lifeAnd what is right above your life.
```A seeker touches the abysmal abyss
Of foolishnessWhen he thinks and feels
That God’s earth-intense ClosenessAnd His Heaven-free Closeness
Will remain a far cry. ```My soul-bird loves my body-cage
Only when it is kept fit,Pure and absolutely immaculate.
```If you dare to breathe in ignorance-night
With no fear of being strangled,How is it that you do not
Try to breathe in wisdom-delightTo be completely liberated?
```Sweet was the sound-life
Before we accepted the lifeOf self-giving spirituality.
But now extremely bitter is the sound-life,For the silence-life has dawned
And is illumining our heart withinAnd our life without.
```You will realise
That yours is a life of total futilityWhen your heart is completely empty
Of God’s Promise-LightAnd God’s Satisfaction-Height.
```Sincerity you need
Before you need humility.Simplicity you need
Before you need sincerity.God’s Compassion-Divinity you need
Before you need simplicity. ```A theoretical surrender-life
Is better thanA doubtful and unaspiring life.
A practical surrender-life
Is nothing other thanA cheerful God-manifestation-life.
```Your earthly sojourn will be tortured
By sharp pangs,If you fail to pray and meditate
With your heart’s silence-joy. ```What is the fare
From earth to Heaven?The fragrance-beauty
Of a gratitude-heart. ```From:Sri Chinmoy,Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 67, Agni Press, 1983
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