Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 75

7401. If I Deepen My Faith

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My Lord,

What will happen

If I deepen my faith

In You?

“My son,

My rich Heart

Will grow richer and richest

In you.” ```

7402. Mine Is The Mind

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Mine is the mind

That longs for

A simplicity-smile.

Mine is the heart

That longs for

A sincerity-cry.

Mine is the life

That longs for

A perfection-run.

Mine is the God

That cares for

My transcendence-flight.

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7403. My Life's Journey

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I concentrate

For success in my life’s journey.

I meditate

For progress in my life’s journey.

I contemplate

For God-process in my life’s journey. ```

7404. Ability and Necessity

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What is success?

My expansion-ability.

What is progress?

My perfection-necessity. ```

7405. I Have Scheduled My Time

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I have scheduled my time

Carefully and perfectly.

Nothing can dare to interfere

With my appointment

With my Eternity’s Beloved Supreme.

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7406. The Time Of Rejoicing

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Now is the time of rejoicing!

My inner world tells me

That my Lord is all Compassion.

My outer world tells me

That I am all aspiration.

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7407. A Very Close Connection

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If you want to maintain

A very close connection with your Master,

Here on earth and there in Heaven,

Your meditation will always be

Your direct line to him.

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7408. Your Inner Reserves Are Unlimited

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Because you have a purity-mind

And a sacrifice-heart,

Your inner reserves are unlimited.

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7409. What Your Mind Has

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What your mind has

Is inexplicable inspiration.

What your heart has

Is unfathomable aspiration.

What God is going to give you

Is insurmountable realisation. ```

7410. A New Gospel

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Do you see something

Deep inside yourself?

It is the epitome of a new gospel:

Your heart’s selfless love. ```

7411. At The God-Appointed Hour

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At the God-appointed Hour

His earthly sorrows appeared

One final time,

Only to disappear forever. ```

7412. Each Incident In Life

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Each incident in life

Must not be orchestrated

But liberated

From life’s ignorance-dream. ```

7413. To Weather The Crisis

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To weather the crisis

Of self-indulgence,

I shall not hide

But openly lead a life

Of loving sacrifice-light.

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7414. Success

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Success has made his outer life

Completely godless

And his inner life

Unthinkably useless. ```

7415. To Become Generous

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To become generous

Is not a difficult task.

To begin with,

Be more generous

With your own self-appreciation-smile.

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7416. Inner Eagerness

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If you want to make progress,

You need only one thing:

Inner eagerness.

Real inner eagerness

Comes only from the heart.

This eagerness the heart receives

From the soul

And the soul receives

Directly from God.

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7417. Give Your Heart A Chance

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Your own heart

Can be absolutely perfect.

Just give it a chance,

A mere chance,

If possible, unconditionally.

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7418. A True Truth-Seeker

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If you are a true truth-seeker,

How can you forget

Early in the morning

To invite God, your Friend,

Your real Friend, your only Friend,

To walk along with you

During the entire day?

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7419. I Have Blindfolded Myself

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I have blindfolded myself

By allowing my success

To remain totally ignorant

Of the purity and divinity of progress. ```

7420. Outer Authority

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What you have

Is outer authority.

But this outer authority

Can never overrule

The oneness-purity

Of the constant God-lover in me. ```

7421. You Want To Measure God

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You want to measure God

By your own discouraging

And disheartening standard.

How, then, can you ever hope

To see the Face of God

In this entire life? ```

7422. The Salvation-Boat

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You have missed the salvation-boat.

How, then, can you expect

To reach the Golden Shore?

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7423. The Very Nature Of Purity

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The very nature of purity

Is to give the mind

A new vision-eye

And

A new manifestation-arm.

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7424. Your Heart Excuses

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Your heart excuses

The weaknesses of your entire life.

Your mind excuses

Only its own weaknesses.

It cannot and does not want to excuse

Anything or anybody else on earth. ```

7425. Already Granted

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If you sincerely want God

To give you the capacity

To pray and meditate

And to become good and divine,

Then rest assured,

The capacity has already been granted. ```

7426. Truth Misused

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Truth misused, misplaced

And misdirected

Always causes severe pain

In the Heart of God

And in the mind of man.

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7427. My Pride-Ocean

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Yesterday I saw the depth

Of my pride-ocean.

Today I am seeing the length and breadth

Of my pride-ocean.

But now what my Lord is telling me

Is simply unbelievable:

Tomorrow I shall see the depth,

Length and breadth

Of my oneness-compassion-ocean

All at once! ```

7428. My Earthly Knowledge-Pride

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Out of His infinite Bounty

God has given me many good qualities

Which I am trying to preserve and expand.

Alas, I have given myself one quality

Which I have been trying for so long

To get rid of,

And that quality is

My excess of earthly knowledge-pride. ```

7429. The Life Of Living Death

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My desire-life is not ending.

My aspiration-life is not beginning.

Still I am living the life

Of living death. ```

7430. You Can Possess Peace-Light

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You can possess peace-light

Only after you have planted

The faith-plant

Carefully and devotedly. ```

7431. When Your Belief Is Strong

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God will be ready to convince you

Only when your own belief in Him

Is strong

And not when you are plying

Your life-boat

Between trust and mistrust. ```

7432. The Gates Of Self-Destruction

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Do you know how to praise yourself?

That means you know

How to abruptly open

At your sweet will

The gates of self-destruction.

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7433. Not Ready To Love

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You are always ready to love others,

But you are not ready to love

The Divine and Real in yourself.

Therefore, how do you expect

To tear yourself away

From ignorance-night? ```

7434. Everybody Laughs At Him

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Everybody laughed at him

When he was on earth

Because he knew nothing about Heaven.

Everybody laughs at him

Now that he is in Heaven

Because he is totally ignorant of earth.

```

7435. What Pains My Heart Most

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I know that I am imperfect,

And my imperfections disturb me

More than they disturb others.

But what pains my divine heart most

Is my conscious and clever unwillingness

To accept my Lord’s Will

As my very own.

```

7436. Countless New Friends

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I am such a fool!

Every day I am dying

To have a new friend.

Yet easily I can have not one

But countless friends

Just by welcoming divine, inspiring

And illumining thoughts.

```

7437. Each Thought Embodies

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Each thought embodies

Either the destruction-frown

Of darkest night

Or the Treasure-Smile

Of my Lord Supreme.

```

7438. Hope Is My Precious Treasure

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Hope is my precious treasure

That I keep inside the heart-safe

Of my God-dreaming life

And God-distributing soul. ```

7439. Each Golden Opportunity

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Mere acceptance of the spiritual life

Is not enough.

You must avail yourself

Of each golden opportunity,

And throw your heart and soul

Into your progress-life. ```

7440. Two Things Could Not Wait

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Two things could not wait:

God’s Justice-Light could not wait

For my ignorance-night,

And my hope-flames could not wait

For God’s choice Hour.

```

7441. Two Most Important Secrets

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My aspiration-heart is bursting

With two most important secrets:

At long last I am able to love God

And God alone;

God is pleased with me

Far beyond my imagination’s flight. ```

7442. Two Strange Misconceptions

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Two strange misconceptions

Are torturing my mind:

My mind does not believe

That it can offer its very existence

To my heart,

And my mind does not believe

That God sleeplessly cares for it.

```

7443. My Life Is Truly Valuable

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If I feel the Presence

Of my Beloved Supreme

Inside my crying heart,

Then my life is truly valuable.

If not,

It is as useless and insignificant

As a tiny ant.

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7444. The Wrestler Of Wrestlers

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Do not wrestle

With uncomely and undivine thoughts.

You are bound to lose.

Just invoke the Wrestler of wrestlers —

Your heart’s Inner Pilot —

To fight the battle for you.

Lo and behold,

Your victory is already won. ```

7445. Inner Encouragement

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When a seeker of the highest Truth

Is blessed with inner encouragement

From his Inner Pilot,

He can summon all his giant strength

To establish the supreme Victory

Of his Lord Supreme

Here on earth.

```

7446. The Pressure Of Dragon-Time

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Unless your life becomes

A life of surrender,

Unless your heart becomes

A heart of gratitude,

You will be doomed to live

Under the ruthless pressure of dragon-time,

And your mind will be filled constantly

With deathless apprehension. ```

7447. Curious About Only Two Things

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Since you always enjoy curiosity,

Try to be curious

About only two things:

When you will be able to see

The Face of God

For the first time,

And how you will become

Absolutely the choicest instrument

Of your Beloved Supreme.

```

7448. Challenge Ignorance

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Challenge the pride

Of ignorance-power

Since you soulfully and sleeplessly love

God and His God-Hour. ```

7449. He Listens To Two Voices

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He listens to two voices:

The voice that inspires his heart

And the voice that feeds

And satisfies his mind. ```

7450. Ascent Is Aspiring

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Ascent is aspiring.

Descent is strangling.

Surrender is at once

Perfect and illumining. ```

7451. You Feel You Have Nothingness

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You feel you have nothingness

In the depths of your heart,

But that is a misconception.

What you have is the beginning

Of an illumining newness

And a satisfying God-fulness. ```

7452. If I Fail

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If I fail in my spiritual life,

That does not mean

I shall stop praying and meditating.

If I succeed in my spiritual life,

That does not mean

I do not need a deeper hunger

And a more abiding love

For my Lord Supreme.

```

7453. By Legitimate Means

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Not by hook or by crook,

But by legitimate means,

God wants us to transcend ourselves.

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7454. Integrally Perfect

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Yesterday

I desired to become a great man.

My Lord said,

“That is not enough.”

Today

I desire to become a good man.

My Lord says,

“That is not enough.”

I ask my Lord,

“Is there anything

Beyond greatness and goodness?”

My Lord says,

“Yes, I want you to be

Integrally perfect.”

```

7455. My Lord Does Not Give Up

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God has been waiting and waiting

To give me His Nectar-Delight.

It is I who am delaying and delaying.

Yet my Lord does not give up hope.

My Lord does not give up

His Promise to my soul. ```

7456. God-Oneness-Satisfaction

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I see what I have.

God sees what I am.

What I have

Is an endless sigh.

What I am, according to God,

Is a birthless and deathless

God-Oneness-Satisfaction.

```

7457. God's Satisfaction-Delight

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This world does not believe

In perfection.

It thinks perfection

Will always remain a far cry.

Such being the case,

God’s Satisfaction-Delight

Does not want to arrive here.

```

7458. I Want To Be Alone

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Indeed, there is nothing wrong with me.

I just do not want to mix too much

With the misunderstanding

And misunderstood world.

I want to be alone

So that my inspiration-bird

And aspiration-flames

Can claim me as their own,

And my confidence-tree can grow

In silence-light and surrender-delight. ```

7459. Not In It

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Although he prays regularly,

His searching mind is not in it.

Although he meditates regularly,

His aspiring heart is not in it.

Although he serves regularly,

His sacrificing life is not in it. ```

7460. A Deluge Of Doubts

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You want to know

Why everything goes wrong for you.

Everything goes wrong because

Your mind consciously treasures

A deluge of doubts.

```

7461. A New Life

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God killed him

With His Indifference-Eye.

Now God is giving him a new life

With His Compassion-Heart. ```

7462. A Selfless Lover

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A selfless lover is he

Who has learnt to wait

For his perfection-tower to be blessed

By God’s Satisfaction-Hour. ```

7463. An Incurable Failure

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Your life has become

An incurable failure

Precisely because you have allowed

False freedom to govern your mind. ```

7464. The Hyphen

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Your life is the hyphen

Between a gratitude-cry

And a surrender-smile.

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7465. A Heart Treasured By God

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Your beauty’s soulfulness

And your purity’s sweetness

Have granted you a heart

That is proudly treasured

By God Himself.

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7466. Each Time You Delay

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Each time you delay

In praying and meditating,

You go further down the road

That will cleverly and swiftly lead you

Back to your original start:

Desire-market. ```

7467. A Sincere Seeker

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A sincere seeker

Will take every opportunity

To meditate and serve.

An insincere seeker

Will find every possible excuse

To stay at home and sleep. ```

7468. Joy Can Never Rule

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Joy can never rule the day

Of the human being

Who plays with doubt

And dances with suspicion. ```

7469. A Daily Feast

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Because of his immense faith

In his higher self,

He enjoys a daily feast

In the inner world. ```

7470. Do Not Try To Climb Too Quickly

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Do not try to climb too quickly.

If you do, there is every possibility

That you will fall on your way,

Although only temporarily. ```

7471. True Friends

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On earth you can have true friends

Only if you continuously bury

Their stark faults.

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7472. Obedience-Life Has No Parallel

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There are many things

That can make your human heart happy,

But to make your divine heart happy,

Obedience-life has no parallel. ```

7473. A Stranger To The Higher Worlds

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He thinks that humility

Is a strange thing.

He feels that divinity

Is a strange thing.

Such being the case,

He will remain a stranger

To the higher worlds.

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7474. Dynamism Begins With Discipline

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Dynamism begins with discipline.

If you are regular and devoted

In your meditation,

Your dynamism will, without fail,

Come to the fore.

```

7475. A Singing Heart

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A singing heart

Is an immediate openness

To God’s Oneness.

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7476. Two Lords

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God is thinking of you

At this very moment,

But you are not thinking of Him.

Therefore, ignorance is your lord

And Compassion is God’s Lord.

```

7477. Praising God In Secret

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Praising God in secret

Is loving God

In perfect perfection.

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7478. Keep Your Eyes Wide Open

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Keep your eyes wide open.

You are bound to see

God the divine Dispenser.

Keep your heart wide open.

You are bound to see

God the supreme Lover.

```

7479. Do What Your Inner Pilot Asks

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Do what your Inner Pilot asks,

For He wants you to be

Cheerfully and unmistakably

His outer Voice. ```

7480. Good-Bye To Fear

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His heart has already said

Good-bye to fear.

Now his mind is saying

Good-bye to doubt. ```

7481. Make It Famous

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If you have an aspiring heart,

Then make it famous

By inundating it with faith.

If you have a dynamic vital,

Then make it famous

By inundating it with courage.

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7482. A Man Of Sorrow

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You are now a man of sorrow.

If you want to be a man of joy,

Then surrender your sorrow

To the God who loves your heart

And to the Lord who needs your life.

```

7483. God Will Not Overload You

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God will not overload you.

He is your heart’s Eternity’s

Father Supreme.

He is your soul’s Immortality’s

Friend Supreme.

```

7484. God Is Not Confused

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God is not confused when I tell Him

That my mind does not want Him

But needs Him.

God is not confused when I tell Him

That my heart loves Him

But does not treasure Him.

```

7485. Practise Loving The World

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Practise loving the world

Before you ever dare to knock

At God’s Heart-Door.

```

7486. In The Morning He Says Hello

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In the morning he says hello

To his heart’s ceaseless cries.

In the evening he says good-bye

To the world that loves him

But does not need him.

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7487. The Wisdom-Department

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In the wisdom-department

No clever man,

No proud man,

No ungrateful man

Will ever be allowed to work.

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7488. The Happy Man

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Who is the happy man?

Certainly not the one

Who is afraid of fear

But the one who is always

A friend of faith.

```

7489. My God-Oneness-Documents

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God’s Compassion-Eye

Tells me to relax.

God’s Forgiveness-Heart

Allows me to renew

My God-oneness-documents.

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7490. Can, Must And Will

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We can, we must and we will

Bring down God the Supreme Sovereign.

We can, we must and we will

Lift up man the lost soul. ```

7491. A Member Of God's Family

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If you have faith,

Then you are already a real member

Of God’s Perfection-Satisfaction-Family.

```

7492. Jealousy Will Devour Your Life

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Jealousy will devour your life

Because you do not believe

In your universal oneness-freedom-life.

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7493. A Happy Listener

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A happy listener to the inner voice

Is another name

For a God-Satisfaction-lover

In this confusing and confused world. ```

7494. He Who Cheerfully Studies

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Who is first in my life?

Not he who rules,

Not he who overrules,

But he who always cheerfully studies

In God’s School.

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7495. Because He Loves God Sleeplessly

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Because he loves God sleeplessly,

God cheerfully agrees to own

His life’s teeming mistakes.

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7496. God Is Eagerly Looking Forward

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During his marathon talk with God,

One special thing he learnt:

God is eagerly looking forward

To seeing teeming Gods like Himself. ```

7497. Please Only God

```

If it is God’s Will,

You can try to please others

Instead of yourself.

But when it is your time to pray and meditate,

You should try to please only one Person —

God. ```

7498. On The Same Aspiration-Team

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Seekers of the same calibre

Should always play together

On the same aspiration-team.

Otherwise, the good seeker-players will feel

That they are wasting their precious time,

While the bad seeker-players will feel

That they can never reach

The necessary standard,

And they will give up the game altogether.

```

7499. Together You Are Succeeding

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If you want inspiration and encouragement,

Remain with seekers of your own standard.

Even if you make mistakes,

You will know that others also

Are making similar mistakes,

Or are learning from your mistakes.

Together you are succeeding,

Together you are proceeding

Towards your destined goal.

```

7500. The Peace That Creates Hunger

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My Lord, I do not want the peace

That tells me I need nothing more.

No, I want the peace that creates in me

Constant hunger to receive You

In every way

And distribute You

In every widening heart.

```

Editor's introduction to the first edition

This is the seventy-fifth 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 Ravi Shankar discuss music in their native Bengali during the musician’s visit to Jamaica, New York, on 20 September 1973.

Editor's note

Some poems in this first edition were later selected by the author for a special collection of 207 Flower-Flames (FFP). The author also chose to revise some of his original poems for this anthology: FF-7404: FFP 172 (revised version).

From:Sri Chinmoy,Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 75, Agni Press, 1983
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