Two God-Amusement-Rivals: my Heart-Song-Beauty and my Life-Dance-Fragrance, part 12

1101.

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God's Compassion

Every day descends

To water the blossoms

Of my heart-garden. ```

1102.

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No matter what we think,

No matter what we say,

God enjoys watching

Our sincere attempts

To eradicate our ego.

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1103.

```

O my mind,

You must know by this time

That God never appreciates

Your self-styled isolation

From world-society.

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1104.

```

Life is not a heavy burden

Of unfulfilled desires,

But an ignorance-challenging promise

Of God-fulfilment. ```

1105.

```

When God and God's Smile

Open your aspiration-heart,

You can rest assured

Your complete God-satisfaction-day

Is fast approaching.

```

1106.

```

I enjoy my Mother-Earth's

Endless beauty

Infinitely more than I enjoy

My Father-Heaven's

Ceaseless power.

```

1107.

```

O my Lord Supreme,

Do make my heart an expert

At aspiration-multiplication.

```

1108.

```

An implicit obedience

To the dictates of the Inner Pilot

Is the first duty of a God-lover.

```

1109.

```

O my stupid mind,

It is high time for you to become

A world-peace-maker

Instead of remaining

A world-grudge-holder.

```

1110.

```

When I take my heart to God

For repairs,

He gives it His immediate Attention.

```

1111.

```

If you say that your surrender

Is a skill you have developed,

You are totally mistaken.

Your surrender is a Delight-Gift

From God Himself.

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1112.

```

When God dictates,

My soul takes notes,

My heart watches,

My mind sleeps and snores. ```

1113.

```

No matter how hard I try

To obliterate my deplorable past,

My past remains

My present ghost-torture. ```

1114.

```

Shameless temptation

Beckoned my heart,

But my heart wisely

And immediately declined. ```

1115.

```

God always keeps

A watchful Eye

On my heart's mounting cries.

```

1116.

```

Where else is the abode of silence,

If not inside

My God-cherished and God-cherishing

Aspiration-heart? ```

1117.

```

The heart must eventually conquer

The constant distractions

Of the mind-market.

```

1118.

```

He who chooses

The imperfection-world

Eventually becomes

A Heaven-loser. ```

1119.

```

God's Compassion-Eye

Will always help my helpless body

To catch up with my guileless soul.

```

1120.

```

God is

His Sadness-Heart

When I am

My badness-mind. ```

1121.

```

God's unconditional Compassion

Is expanding my heart

With astounding rapidity.

```

1122.

```

A perfection-life

And a satisfaction-heart

Will always remain unparalleled

In this world of ignorance-night. ```

1123.

```

God's Compassion

Has equipped me well

For my Heavenward journey.

```

1124.

```

The shameless mind has circulated

A number of blatant lies

About poor God.

```

1125.

```

Does God like to play?

God not only likes to play

But also wants to remain

Eternally a Heart-Player. ```

1126.

```

For its fastest progress

In the spiritual life,

My heart loves only those

Who sleeplessly need only God

And who breathlessly love only God.

```

1127.

```

Between my Compassion-Lord

And my frustration-mind

I have already made the perfect choice

With my God-invocation-heart. ```

1128.

```

When I resist God's Compassion-Eye,

My life becomes a never-ending

Worthless and useless story.

```

1129.

```

Since my mind compelled me

To waste many years,

Let me now value the breath

Of every second. ```

1130.

```

My only business is to discover

Not what I need from God,

But what God wants from me.

```

1131.

```

My heart is desperately trying

To fill in

My mind-deficiency-gaps.

```

1132.

```

Those who study

God's Compassion-Course

Will be invited,

At His choice Hour,

To God's Satisfaction-Heart-Home.

```

1133.

```

Only a self-giving heart

Can be a faultless authority

On God's Life-Stories.

```

1134.

```

O my stupidity-mind,

Why do you indulge in trying

To explain the inexplicable:

God's Love for mankind? ```

1135.

```

Unless my heart, like my soul,

Is infatuated with God's every Breath,

How can I swim in the sea

Of God-Ecstasy? ```

1136.

```

I dearly love

My learning heart.

And I love

My unlearning mind

Equally.

```

1137.

```

The mind's impurity

And the heart's insecurity

Always sail in the same sinking boat.

```

1138.

```

The stupidity-mind fears

God's Compassion-Eye

Instead of treasuring

God's Compassion-Eye. ```

1139.

```

If you choose

The temptation-world,

Then you lose

The illumination-Heaven. ```

1140.

```

An unaspiring mind

Is doomed to be

A long-time resident

Of ignorance-island. ```

1141.

```

My Lord Supreme

Simply devours the pages

Of my heart-songbook.

```

1142.

```

God tells my surrender-life:

"My child, I shall always support you,

I shall always feed you,

I shall always illumine you,

For you are My own, very own."

```

1143.

```

When I silence my fantasy-mind,

God immediately teaches me

His Heart's Ecstasy-Song.

```

1144.

```

Even my God-doubting mind

Is deeply impressed

With my God-loving heart.

```

1145.

```

Nobody

Can ever deprive Truth

Of its ever-fragrant beauty.

```

1146.

```

My mind chooses greatness,

My heart chooses goodness,

And I choose oneness.

```

1147.

```

The human life

Is nothing other than a feeble attempt.

The divine life

Is indeed an enduring success. ```

1148.

```

My Lord Supreme shed bitter Tears

When He saw

The most deplorable condition

Of my spiritual health. ```

1149.

```

Childhood

Is a beautiful dream.

Youth

Is a powerful reality.

Age

Is a soulful surrender. ```

1150.

```

Action instigated by power

God never loves.

Action inspired by love

God not only loves

But also treasures.

```

1151.

```

Alas, in vain I look for God's Presence

In my mind's frustration-market

Instead of my heart's aspiration-garden.

```

1152.

```

Alas, I do not know

How my mind can be so convincing.

Alas, I do not know

How my heart can be eternally charming. ```

1153.

```

My Lord,

Do give me the capacity

To carry the fragrance

Of my heart-beauty

Wherever I go.

```

1154.

```

God desperately needs

Your heart's sincerity,

And not your life's severity.

```

1155.

```

To please God in God's own Way,

I need a learning life

And a yearning heart.

```

1156.

```

My Lord tells me compassionately

That every day is the right day

For my mind's spiritual check-up.

```

1157.

```

Rest assured,

Whatever is manufactured

By the doubting mind

Is venomous. ```

1158.

```

God will share His Divinity with you

If you are sincerely sick

Of your mind's stupidity.

```

1159.

```

Fortunately my heart

Still loves God,

And God's Heart

Still needs me. ```

1160.

```

When my mind starts

Analysing God,

It immediately paralyses

My heart. ```

1161.

```

May my life travel forward

Every day

At my heart's God-eagerness-speed.

```

1162.

```

A God-willingness-runner

Easily breaks

His own past inner records.

```

1163.

```

I am so delighted to see

My heart's aspiration-flames

Dancing

In my soul's illumination-eye. ```

1164.

```

The hesitation-mind

Is an unsuitable instrument

For God-manifestation on earth.

```

1165.

```

God does not want me

To remember my age.

He wants me only to remember

The fragrance of my gratitude-heart. ```

1166.

```

My life's self-giving

Is undoubtedly the home

Of all my virtues.

```

1167.

```

What is earthly fame?

It is nothing but a shallow inscription

On man's grave.

```

1168.

```

I came into the world

To seek

What is always pleasing to God.

```

1169.

```

Obedience to the Highest

Has a heart of gold.

Disobedience to the Highest

Has feet of clay. ```

1170.

```

Faith embraces

The heart of Truth.

Doubt embraces

The body of falsehood. ```

1171.

```

My heart's excellence

Is neither competitive

Nor comparative,

But God-affirmative. ```

1172.

```

The experience of the mind

Can and does often err.

The realisation of the heart

Can never, never err. ```

1173.

```

To participate consciously in God's Game,

I must embrace with all my heart

The motto of my soul:

God for God's sake. ```

1174.

```

An unaspiring heart

And an unsearching mind

Are indeed two colossal life-disasters.

```

1175.

```

I shall always reject

My mind's arrogance-flooded ignorance.

I shall always accept

My heart's illumining truth-light. ```

1176.

```

My Lord,

I give You at every moment

An ocean of sorrow

From my heart.

In return, can You not give me

A sky of Delight

From Your Heart?

```

1177.

```

My mounting aspiration-heart-flame

Is my immediate liberation

From my life's crippling fear.

```

1178.

```

My mind's hidden desires

Slowly but unmistakably

Want to poison

My heart's open aspirations. ```

1179.

```

Those long dead

And those yet unborn

All equally share

My God-aspiration-cries

And my God-manifestation-smiles.

```

1180.

```

Do not wait for the mind's perfect time

If your heart really wants to participate

In God's supreme manifestation

On earth. ```

1181.

```

When two minds

Talk to each other,

God is embarrassed to hear

Their conversation. ```

1182.

```

When two hearts

Talk to each other,

God and God's Pride deeply enjoy

Their conversation. ```

1183.

```

My heart prayerfully listens

To my soul's sermon.

Therefore, my wise heart

Is increasing in wisdom. ```

1184.

```

Do not follow

Your desire-deer.

You will never be able

To catch it. ```

1185.

```

A single glance

From God's Compassion-Eye

Has illumined my entire life

Forever. ```

1186.

```

My Lord Supreme

Is His constantly whispering

Compassion-Heart.

```

1187.

```

The human mind

Is a cheerfully willing prisoner

Of unhappiness.

```

1188.

```

God is His Compassion-Eye.

Therefore

We human beings

Can dare to hope and dream. ```

1189.

```

O my mind,

Let us sit down together

And amicably solve

All our untold problems. ```

1190.

```

Alas, I am doomed to disappointment

Because

Daily I seek a happiness-mind

And not a fulness-heart. ```

1191.

```

O my mind,

You must listen to my heart

Until you have fully understood

Its soulful wisdom. ```

1192.

```

My mind's hesitation

Suddenly changed into

My heart's eagerness

When God's all-illumining Hands

Beckoned me.

```

1193.

```

What did the ancients see

In mountain-high aspiration?

What do the moderns see

In ocean-deep frustration? ```

1194.

```

Only one flag

Flies above all the rest:

The flag of universal oneness.

```

1195.

```

My Lord tells me

That my frustration-world

Will not leave me alone

Unless and until I welcome

My soul-illumination-world.

```

1196.

```

Not by denouncing the world,

Not by renouncing the world,

But by accepting the world

And working for its divinity

Can we attain salvation.

```

1197.

```

What my heart has

Is a deathless cry.

What my soul is

Is a deathless smile. ```

1198.

```

My God-loving heart

Is never afraid of staying

In the lap of God's Thunder-Justice.

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1199.

```

God was so pleased with me

When He heard that I had made

A solemn promise

To reform all my tomorrows. ```

1200.

```

To love God in God's own Way

Is to breathe the air

Of God-Immortality's Freedom.

```

From:Sri Chinmoy,Two God-Amusement-Rivals: my Heart-Song-Beauty and my Life-Dance-Fragrance, part 12, Agni Press, 1996
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