I shall not allow my aspiration-life
To become my forgotten past.I shall keep it always
As my chosen present. ```I am enjoying at one and the same time
The feast of inner triumphsAnd the fast of outer defeats.
```The glory of learning
The desiring mind knows.The glory of unlearning
The searching mind must learnBefore it can dive deep
Into God’s Ecstasy-Sea. ```His doubt-enemy
Can easily be brought under his controlIf he does the needful
Cheerfully and powerfullyWith his faith-friend.
```What is extremely difficult for man
But extremely easy for God?A constant Satisfaction-Smile.
What is extremely easy for man
But extremely difficult for God?An endless dissatisfaction-cry.
```You feel sad that your defeat-life
Has arrived so quickly.But I assure you that your future success-life
Will arrive not only quicklyBut also certainly.
```His heart is enjoying
His today’s Heaven-bound flight.His mind is enjoying
His yesterday’s ignorance-failure. ```Your mind’s doubt-cloud
Has totally eclipsedYour heart’s hope-moon
And your soul’s promise-sun. ```He and his heart
Are permanent residents of Heaven,And do not care for earth at all.
Therefore, he and earthCannot be of any real help
To each other. ```If God wants me to succeed
In my life’s outer journey,Then He will give me
His Vision-Eye.If God wants me to proceed
In my life’s inner journey,Then He will give me
His Satisfaction-Heart. ```In the inner world
His heart’s purity-smileIs his supreme assistant.
In the outer world
His mind’s sincerity-cryIs his supreme assistant.
```Who says the dead are forgiven?
No, they are not!Only those who again and again
Try to transcend themselvesWill be cheerfully forgiven
In God’s Compassion-HeartBy God Himself.
```If a simple mind
Can imagine God,Then a pure heart
Can easily reveal God. ```You may not know
When I think of God,But I know
When you think of God.You think of God when God tells me
That He has twoSupremely chosen instruments.
```My humble prayer is eager to see
What God has for me.My proud mind is ready to show
What it has for God. ```If you can be consistent
Like the ancient truth-seekersAnd God-lovers,
You will soon be schooledIn enlightenment.
```Not because you are clothed
In a frail body,But because of your obdurate
Unwillingness to change,Your life is a misery-haunted house.
```Love your soul more and more.
Your soul will teach youHow to break ignorance-chains
And untie bondage-knots. ```Each soul-boat is anchored on earth
For a brief sojourn.Then it goes back to its Heaven-harbour
To renew its God-manifestation-promise. ```Do not give up!
He who gives upNever reaches the Satisfaction-Shore.
Who knows?Each attempt of yours may bring you
Many exceptionally heart-enlighteningHeaven-prosperities.
```O my present life,
Can you not forget my pastThe way my future life
Will forget your own ignorance-torture? ```If your heart-life is thirsty,
Then quench it immediatelyWith your soul’s all-loving promise
To GodAnd with His Eternity’s Immortality’s
Will-power. ```Since the Divinity of my soul
Has not changed,How can the Eternity of my life
Change?It is simply impossible
Plus unnecessary. ```You have already seen
Your mind’s limitation-room.Now what you are going to see
Is your soul’s vastness-kingdom.Just soulfully and unconditionally wait.
```Delighted, I say to God:
“Father, let Thy Will be done.”Disgusted, God says to me:
“Son, let your temptation-greed fulfil itself.” ```Unless a seeker’s life
Is a sleeplessly cheerful commitmentTo God-realisation,
His goal will always remainA far cry.
```Cry deep within
UnreservedlyIf you want to collect
The harvest of God’s Smile. ```O my mind,
If you can never regainYour lost simplicity,
How can you ever receiveGod’s Satisfaction-Delight?
```Just because you want to become
A true truth-seekerAnd a perfect God-lover,
Yours cannot be the lifeOf criticism and complaint-luxury.
```Because his inner life has learnt
To love the unparalleled hardship,God is sharing with him
His Immortality-ownership. ```I see incessant disputes
Between the impurity of my mindAnd the aggression of my vital.
Alas, I am completely helpless! ```There is no such thing
As an uneasy peace.Peace is always
Divinity’s ease. ```To obey at every moment
God’s transcendental DecisionsIs to continually manifest God-Satisfaction
In God’s aspiring creation. ```The revelation of what you have
May not please the world,But the revelation of what you are
Is definitely going to teach the world. ```When uncomely thoughts
Walk into your mind,You have to know
That your old friend, ignorance,Is telling you he still wants to keep you
Under his firm jurisdiction. ```If you want to solve
All the confusion-problemsOf your mind,
Then resolve to liveInside the illumination
Of your heart-sky. ```If you do not allow yourself
To be perfected by God’s Compassion-Light,Then you will without fail
Belong to the Heaven-rejected category. ```Each forward step of his
Is an upward and inward dedicationTo the all-pervading God.
```Do not expect.
Do not demand.There are higher things on earth
Than expectation and demand.Try a heart of gratitude
And a life of surrender. ```Look what your expectation-train
Has done to you:It has brought you speedily
To the helpless moansOf your despair-station.
```The morning of God’s Hour
Is beauty’s smile.The evening of God’s Hour
Is purity’s song.The night of God’s Hour
Is divinity’s silence-flooded dance. ```If you allow your mind to doubt
And at the same timeAsk your heart not to be
A victim of despair,Do you not think
That you are trying to succeedAt an impossible task?
```If education is a sophisticated
Mental exercise,Then I do not need it
And I definitely do not want it.But if education is self-cultivation
And longing for God-Satisfaction,Then I badly need it
And I definitely want it. ```To see the gate of Heaven wide open
Is undoubtedly your rewardFor having silver faith in yourself
And golden faith in your Lord Supreme. ```When I love God,
God agrees with me more.When God agrees with me more,
He tells me something secretly:“My child, your heart has now become
My perfect Home.” ```Why do you have to take a detour
On your spiritual journey?Why?
Is it becauseYour heart’s sincerity is not enough?
Is it becauseYour mind’s determination is not enough?
Is it becauseYour life’s integrity is not enough?
```If I am not afraid to start again,
Then there is no reasonWhy my Lord Supreme
Will not be compassionate enoughTo help me with my new start.
```If my mind can give God
More timeAnd if my heart can give God
More trust,Then my Lord will give me
Not only a betterBut a better than the best
Life of satisfaction-peace. ```The world-mind has given you
Countless troubles.The world-heart will give you
Ever-transcending triumphs. ```I shall help you
Defeat your mind.I shall help you
Discover more good qualitiesIn yourself.
I shall help youSee God singing and smiling
Inside your peace-flooded heart. ```If I love God’s Love
For myself,Then I am really great.
If I love God’s Love
For humanity,Then I am really good.
If I love God’s Love
For God’s RevelationIn God’s own Way,
Then I am really perfect. ```Each aspiring heart
Must be the hyphen betweenHeaven’s forgiveness
AndEarth’s happiness.
```What kind of faith is it
That does not producePower in your mind,
Love in your heartAnd peace in your life?
```If every day you do not clean
Your mind-room,Then rest assured that every day
You will have to faceYour life’s unavoidable doom.
```If you want the capacity
To grant wings to your dreams,Then you must develop the capacity
To see a beautiful soul-birdIn your life-reality.
```You trust God.
Therefore, God will always rescue you.You need God.
Therefore, God has given youHis own heart-satisfying Meditation.
```The human mind says
To the human being:“God is so great.
Why and how should He speak to me?”The divine heart says
To the divine being:“Just because God is so great,
He is always ready to speak to me.” ```Just because I know
I am God’s child,I can be happy.
Just because I know
God loves me,I should be kind to myself.
Just because I know
God is playingHis Satisfaction-Game
In and through me,I must make myself
Cheerfully perfect. ```Do you think God will ever allow you
To destroy His transcendental DreamOf the ultimate perfection
Of your earthly journeysWhich He has been nourishing for millennia?
```A true truth-seeker and God-lover
Is he whose outer and inner lifeAre powerfully anchored
Inside his heart’s starlit faith. ```True, suffering has reality in it.
Who denies it?But the transcendence of suffering
Also has reality in it.Who can disbelieve it?
```To suffer and not to speak
Is the sign ofEither a stupid fellow
Or a genuine seeker. ```A great idea can change failure
Into success.A good idea can transform human aspiration
Into God’s own transcendental Satisfaction. ```When I fail,
I must not thinkThat God is not for me.
When I fail,I must think
That God, out of His infinite Bounty,Is giving me a much-needed experience
For my earth-bound lifeAnd heavenward journey.
```The closer a seeker is
To God’s Compassion-Light,The clearer it becomes to him
That it was he who lovedIgnorance-night,
Not ignorance-nightThat loved him.
```At long last my life has found
Its life-illumining “yes”In its surrender-heart
To God’s blessingful Vision-Eye. ```Have more faith in your own heart.
Your heart is your own divinity-magnetWhich will pull you up
To God’s Transcendental Heights. ```Take each problem in your life
As your self-examination,And each self-examination
As your Lord’s SatisfactionIn your heart’s perfection-cry.
```How can I have a sorrowful life
When my Lord Supreme does not have one?How can I have a fearful heart
When my Lord Supreme does not have one?How can I have a doubtful mind
When my Lord Supreme does not have one? ```God the Infinite needs
Man the finite.What else is a miracle?
Man the finite can easily love
God the Infinite.What else is a miracle?
```The door
That God’s Compassion-Height opens,No one can shut.
The door
That God’s Justice-Light shuts,No one can open.
```God is not
In your uselessness,But God is always
In your selflessness. ```When God did not call him
On the phone,He did not feel sad.
The very factThat God had wanted to call him
In the first placeWas enough to flood his whole being
With joy. ```Your mind has already failed
In God’s Vision-Eye,But your life will never fail
In God’s Compassion-Heart. ```If I think that I am personally responsible
For the purification of my mind,Then I am not mistaken.
If I think that I am personally responsible
For the transformation of my life,Then I am not mistaken.
If I think that I am personally responsible
For the satisfaction of my Lord,Then I am not mistaken.
But if I think that I am personally responsible
For the transformation of God’s creation,Then I am totally, totally mistaken.
```You want to know
If I consulted GodBefore advising my mind to be pure
And my heart to be sincere.I must say
That I did not consult God,But God Himself commanded me
To speak to my mindAbout its purity
And to my heartAbout its sincerity.
```As soon as you see a gratitude-flower
In your heartAnd a surrender-fruit
In your life,Offer them to your Lord Supreme,
Not only cheerfully,But also unconditionally.
```Nothing has to be taken as possession
Either in the inner lifeOr in the outer life.
But everything should be takenAs soulful and powerful progression
In both the inner lifeAnd the outer life.
```What my mind solely needs
Is God’s Justice-Length.What my heart solely needs
Is God’s Compassion-Strength. ```The outer man wants success.
The inner man wants progress.The supreme man wants self-transcendence.
And God wants SatisfactionIn His entire creation.
```God loves us even after
We have failed Him.We need God even after
We have realised Him. ```The loud music of the sound-universe
Tells me what God doesFor its perfection.
The sweet music of the silence-universe
Tells me what God isFor His own Satisfaction.
```If you continuously prolong your life
Inside your mind-desert,When and how can you expect to live
Inside your heart-garden? ```Since you are concerned only
With satiating your wild vital,The thirst of your pure heart
Will always remain unquenched. ```Frustration-sound
Is the pilot of human fate.Illumination-silence
Is the pilot of divine fate. ```It is imperative to see
Where your mind is running,Where your vital is sleeping,
Where your heart is dying. ```The hesitation of the mind
Forces man to takeUnforgettable lessons
From the sorrow-teacher. ```Each man
Can at least try to nourishHis own heart’s feeble gratitude
To God. ```Ask your present life
To forget your past life.Ask your future life
To illumine your past lifeAnd liberate your present life.
```Although his life is pierced
By the poison-shaft of envy,He is trying with all his heart
To carry envy to the Light of Infinity. ```The future ignores
The mighty pastAnd deplores
The failing present. ```Our lampless outer universe
Will have to weepUntil earth’s sorrow
Becomes Heaven’s ecstasy. ```His heart of self-offering
Is a stupendous smileAmidst earth’s dark frowns.
```Each undivine thought
Leaves the seekerWith a sad memory.
```Control your animal vital,
Or this vital of yoursWill be the annihilation
Of your heart’s aspiration-life. ```Unless a seeker soulfully prays
And selflessly meditates,His ignorance-bound life
Will return like the revolving years. ```Each aspiration-heart
And each dedication-lifeIs a hallowed thirst
For the Lord Supreme. ```If you can have a new hope,
God will give you a new heart.If you can have a new heart,
God will give you a new oneness.If you can have a new oneness,
God will give you a new satisfaction. ```God wants to teach me
Three simple lessons:A soulful cry,
A beautiful smileAnd a fruitful life.
```When divine beauty
Penetrates the world,Truth reveals
Its all-perfecting wings. ```From:Sri Chinmoy,Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 87, Agni Press, 1983
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