My Lord Supreme,
Your Beauty’s EyesSleeplessly love me.
In return, may I not loveYour Divinity’s Heart
Breathlessly? ```Will this poor and feeble world
Ever be liberated?Will this helpless and hopeless world
Ever awakenTo a single golden dawn?
```You think that by practising
The life of outer relinquishmentYou are fast approaching
The life of inner enlightenment.It is impossible!
```Since your mind
Is overburdened with problemsCreated by none other than yourself,
How can your life ever dreamOf rich salvation?
```There is no such thing
As the near future.Anything but here and now
Is a mental hallucination.Therefore, do what you can now,
And be what you are supposed to beAt this very moment.
```The life that unreservedly serves humanity
Is unsophisticated.The heart that unconditionally loves God
Is uncluttered. ```I needed a listener.
Alas, nobody wanted to be a listener.Now my Lord is telling me
That I will never have a listenerUnless and until
I have become a lover.I must love earth
With my service-delight.I must love Heaven
With my aspiration-height. ```He tries to free himself
From curiosity,For he feels God-realisation
Is not a matter of curiosityBut a matter of wisdom-light.
```Your mind may enjoy
The comfort of fantasy,But for your poor heart,
Satisfaction remains a far cry. ```If you suspect the world
And its motives,Your outer life may not suffer much,
But your inner life will starve to death. ```You are fond of staying
Inside your desire-bound mind.No wonder you are indefinitely detained
Inside your own doubt-fort. ```The smile of justice-light
Can alone grant youThe blessing of peace-delight.
```When my heart permanently has
The excellence of a surrender-flowerAnd a gratitude-fruit,
God-Perfection shall notRemain a far cry.
```Two unthinkable things you think:
That ignorance-nightCan completely envelop others,
But not you,And that God loves you only.
```My Heavenly capacities cannot cry.
My earthly capacities cannot smile.But someday there will come a time
When I shall transcend the necessitiesOf cry and smile.
```To the soul’s festival in Heaven,
Earth was not able to come.But it sent its representative:
A deathless sigh. ```Yesterday you wept silence-tears.
Therefore, today you have becomeThe blossom of an illumining life.
```Place your own flower-heart
At the blue Feet of the Lord Supreme,In exactly the same way
As morning places its flowersAt the red feet of the planet sun.
```Even his own wild curiosity
Is not interested in carryingHis suspicion-mind towards God.
```You fool!
How can you expect anythingBeautiful and fruitful
From your self-imposed blindness-life? ```Your mind is getting ready
For its deathbed devotion.Your heart is already ready
For its Immortality’s perfection. ```You have the capacity
To see your follies.Indeed this is the beginning
Of your Godward journey.Soon you will have the capacity
To observe the mistakes of the world.What will you do then?
You will just correct themOne by one.
```Who can appreciate the fierce songs
Of his mental life?Who can admire the maniacal dance
Of his vital life?Who, tell me, who?
```Every day try to hasten the completion
Of your God-ordained task:The transformation of earth-bound sorrow
Into Heaven-free joy. ```Do you want to know
Where I am going?I am going to Heaven.
Do you want to know why?Just so I can come back again
With more compassion-lightAnd more forgiveness-delight.
```What is human life, after all,
If not overwhelming anxiety?What is divine life, after all,
If not ever-increasing securityIn the Heart of the Supreme?
```The immensity of his self-offering
Has buried the frustration-lifeOf earth-hunger.
```Do not run away from trouble.
Your aspiring heart will before longPerform a miracle:
It will cause trouble itselfTo run away from you,
Utterly frustrated. ```I have received an invitation
From God.I shall go and sing for Him
My heart’s crying songsAnd dance for Him
My soul’s ecstasy-manifesting dances. ```As long as you are busy
With your own ridiculouslyInsignificant affairs,
Your life’s inner tumultWill never subside.
```The greatest difficulty
In human lifeIs the bitter frown
Of misunderstanding-night. ```My obedience to my inner voice
Is my unparalleled confidenceIn my tomorrow’s life.
```Yesterday gave me
What it had for me:Two curiosity-eyes.
Today is giving me
What it has for me:One sincerity-cry.
Tomorrow will give me
What it will have for me:The inseparable oneness
Of my perfection-lifeAnd God’s Satisfaction-Heart.
```If we keep our inner appointments
Cheerfully and punctually,No disappointment-night
Can darken our heart’s aspiration-door. ```There are only two inner teachings
That each seeker has to learn:Man is unveiling God
Slowly and steadily,God has become man
Cheerfully and unconditionally. ```The torture of ignorance-night disappears
Only when the seeker sleeplessly valuesThe lustre of his heart’s inner moon.
```To the known God I say,
“I have come with gratitude.”To the unknown God I say,
“I have come with surrender.”To the unknowable God I say,
“I have come to my Source.” ```Unless you offer your imprisoned life
UnconditionallyTo your Inner Pilot,
How can you ever dreamOf constant aspiration,
Constant dedicationAnd constant satisfaction?
```When unwillingness to abide by God’s Will
Becomes a habit,Man becomes a perfect victim
To perfect destruction. ```Do you want to work for God?
Then love Him more.Do you want to love God?
Then serve Him more.Do you want to serve God?
Then become one with Him more. ```You think that you alone
Know how to postponeYour life of perfection-light.
But do you not think that God, too,Knows how to indefinitely delay
His choice Hour? ```You do not have to broadcast
Your conviction.Your commitment to your inner life
Will not only do that for you,But will do it far better
Than you can ever do it. ```God may not be always available,
But God’s Compassion-SeaAnd Forgiveness-Sky
Are always available. ```God has always been inside you
With His Vision-Light.Can you not be inside Him,
Even for a second,With your heart’s perfection-delight?
```Ignorance and God
Are playing their respective rolesConstantly in my life.
Ignorance tries to blind meTo prove its power-night.
God tries to liberate meTo prove His Power-Light.
```You are looking at
Your failure-life.When are you going to look for
God’s Blessing-Delight? ```Yesterday I sowed faith-seed.
Today I am discoveringA beautiful and fruitful peace-tree.
```To love man unreservedly
Is to discover God in one’s own heartImmediately plus unconditionally.
```God has the time to convince
Only the genuine seekersWho have already started believing
That He loves them,Feeds them and needs them.
```Beauty knows how to shine.
Purity knows how to give.Divinity knows how to become.
Immortality knows how to transcend. ```One haunting doubt
Can unbelievably weakenA long-abiding belief.
```I have two final questions:
Is God the Dream as beautifulAs God the Reality?
Are God the Creator and God the creationSatisfied with each other?
```His outer life powerfully enjoys
Wild laughter.His inner life soulfully enjoys
Sweet tears. ```Gently command,
If you have to command,Your heart.
I assure you,It will obey you immediately.
Mercilessly command,
When necessity demands,Your vital.
Then only will it obey you. ```To entertain the angels
What I need isA heart of beauty’s dawn
And a soul of purity’s sky. ```You do not have to wait and hope
Indefinitely,For you know how to love God the One
Swiftly, soulfully, selflesslyAnd unconditionally.
```Earth does not need me.
Heaven has disowned me.I can nowhere cause commotion.
```The satisfaction-smile
Of his Master’s visionIs his Heaven-sent haven.
```Curiosity awakens
The sleeping man in usBut saddens and disheartens
The aspiring man in us. ```Many may know who God is
And where God is,But very few can know
Or will ever knowHow God always is.
```His mind’s addiction to falsehood
Makes him feel that he is great.His heart’s devotion to truth
Makes even the world feel that he is good. ```Your mind’s secret duty
Is to be pure.Your heart’s sacred duty
Is to be perfect. ```A man of good will
Has the master keyTo open all the doors
In God’s Compassion-Palace. ```To me, everything depends on
My life’s integrityAnd not on my mind’s ability.
```My Lord accepts me
As I am,But my mind will accept me
Only if I become another God. ```Two things you do not know:
When the passion-danceOf your vital will end
And when the illumination-tranceOf your heart will begin.
```To love the world soulfully
Is his life’s outer preoccupation.To love God unconditionally
Is his heart’s inner preoccupation. ```What kind of faith is it
If it is strangled every dayBy its mischievous enemy:
Doubt? ```The more you want to possess
The world,The farther and faster you will travel
Away from freedom-light. ```If your mind enjoys collecting
Earthly secrets,Your aspiration-heart will be devoured
By giant discouragement. ```An unerring hour
Has the power to removeA long-lasting mountain of pain.
```God created my faith
Compassionately plus invisibly.I created my doubt
Deliberately plus visibly. ```I believe in
Forgiving secondsAnd not unforgiving hours.
```He has nothing important to do.
Therefore he indulges inImagination-memories
Of the finished past. ```What my heart needs
Is a little co-operationFrom my mind.
What my mind needs
Is a little aspirationFrom my heart.
```As I have no opinion
Of Heaven’s Compassion-Light,Even so, Heaven has no opinion
Of my aspiration-height. ```My Lord Supreme,
Do give me a heartThat can quench Your Thirst
At Your choice Hour. ```He succeeds always
Because his heart’s intensityIs infinitely more powerful
Than the most brilliant noontime sun. ```Because of your mind’s conscious addiction
To serious follies,Your heart-flower cannot grow
To please the Eye of the Lord Supreme. ```Behold, the beauty and purity
Of your heart’s dawnAre helping your mind fly away
From its own ridiculous, fearful life. ```His mind is always
On good terms with God.Therefore, the Prince of Gloom
Does not dare to beHis mind’s companion.
```There was a time when I had
A sleepless fancyFor man’s outer achievements.
But now I am developingA sleepless love
For man’s inner hunger. ```My mind wants to be powerful
To converse freelyWith the outer world.
My heart longs to be beautiful
To commune soulfullyWith the inner world.
```The abiding perfection-life
Of a seekerIs far beyond the reach
Of his mind’s temporary triumphs. ```Inside my Lord’s Compassion-Smile,
And nowhere else,My aching heart’s cure lies.
```At last his long-treasured
Earth-bound mindHas decided to climb up
Time’s Heaven-free steps. ```To be a true athlete of God
You must delete leisure-pleasureFrom the schedule of your life.
```Only the discovery of perennial truth
And not an amalgam of truth and legendCan transform the face and fate
Of the world. ```O world vital, sleep!
Even your wild emotionsAre dead tired
And are quite anxious to sleep. ```The medicine for a doubting mind
Is either a powerful soulOr a tearful heart.
```God will entertain
Your aspiration-heartIf you will disdain
Your desire-mind. ```God does not want to give you
What humanity calls love.God only wants to give you
What divinity calls Delight. ```O super-cautious world,
Do not be afraid of my mind.My mind hides no thorn
To hurt you. ```I shall lovingly and unconditionally
Watch youUntil your sorrowful life
Becomes soulful ecstasy. ```O my unfortunate friend, mind,
I do not know howI can dare to love you
And your teeming follies. ```The human mind is ready to measure
The measureless depths of God’s LoveBut is always reluctant to measure
The depth of its own dire infirmities. ```My vital the climber may fall.
My mind the climber may fall.But my heart the climber never falls,
Never! ```No earthly mischief can blight
The powerful beautyOf his soulful purity-heart.
```My heart’s adamantine will
Must transformMy ignorance-enjoying earthly days.
```A life of surrender
In silence soars.A heart of gratitude
In silence triumphs. ```From:Sri Chinmoy,Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 79, Agni Press, 1983
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