Two God-Amusement-Rivals: my Heart-Song-Beauty and my Life-Dance-Fragrance, part 8

701.

```

My all-illumining soul

Wants my all-loving heart

To be a supreme authority

On Heaven's history. ```

702.

```

A God-Beauty-hunger-soul

Cannot accept a failure-life.

No, never!

```

703.

```

The mind's negativity

Is an open door

To the life's self-destruction.

```

704.

```

There is something

God has not seen or heard before.

And what is it?

It is the world's loving

And unconditional surrender

To His Will. ```

705.

```

My earth-existence is divided

Between

My mind's God-rejecting fears

And my heart's God-welcoming smiles. ```

706.

```

God passes easily through

My heart's wide-open

Smile-door.

```

707.

```

To carry a doubting mind

And an unaspiring heart

On the path of God-realisation

Is absolutely impossible. ```

708.

```

Finally my heart has not only seen

But has also become

The affluence of God's Influence.

```

709.

```

O my mind,

You have all along been a slave

To restlessness.

Can you not become a true child

Of God-loving selflessness?

```

710.

```

No doubt,

One day all my doubts will die.

But alas, when and how?

I am all eagerness to know! ```

711.

```

The outer beauty leads us

Nowhere.

The inner beauty leads us

Directly to God. ```

712.

```

Once you are caught by desire-snare,

It is almost impossible to free yourself.

But God's unconditional Grace

Can easily do the impossible. ```

713.

```

My soul's profundity-light

Is at once

Wordless and endless.

```

714.

```

O my heart,

Hearken to my soul's melody

To illumine and fulfil yourself.

```

715.

```

God's Compassion

Is always anxious and eager

To remove my mind's mountain-fears.

Alas, where is my mind's receptivity,

Where?

```

716.

```

O my mind,

Faithfully and devotedly

Obey your heart,

Or your life will be damaged

Beyond repair.

```

717.

```

My Lord asks my heart

To tell Him all its troubles —

Every one of them —

And He promises to remove them

One by one.

```

718.

```

The fragrance of a God-dreamer's

God-manifestation-promise

Is treasured by God Himself.

```

719.

```

My Lord,

May my entire life become

An ever-climbing aspiration-flame.

```

720.

```

The same God who blessed my life

With Olympian dreams

Will definitely help them blossom

Into Olympian realities. ```

721.

```

God has no time to answer

Even one question out of millions

From unaspiring minds.

```

722.

```

The mind deliberately loves to roam

In ever-brooding, ever-increasingly

Dark cloud-land.

```

723.

```

The heart's plenitude

Can easily challenge

The life's poverty.

```

724.

```

I have permanently transplanted

My aspiration-heart

Into God's Heart-Beauty-Garden.

```

725.

```

A sincere seeker always takes

His Lord's inner warnings to heart

To make the fastest progress

In his aspiration-life. ```

726.

```

My heart and I are one.

Together

We are bravely going against

The mind's doubt-current. ```

727.

```

If you do not have burning zeal

Inside your heart,

You will never be able

To please God. ```

728.

```

O tearful eyes of soulful gratitude,

Where are you?

I am eagerly waiting for you

To appear in my life. ```

729.

```

Complete surrender

Is indeed

A once in a lifetime,

All-fulfilling experience. ```

730.

```

My heart and I are so proud

That we are able to welcome

The peace-heralds.

```

731.

```

My devotion-heart

Stems from

My life's love of God.

```

732.

```

O my mind, do not worry

If you take a false start

In your spiritual life.

God will give you chances

Again and again

To take a good start

In your spiritual life.

```

733.

```

O seeker, be careful!

Never allow your heart-shrine

To fall into utter neglect.

```

734.

```

When I live in my mind,

I am addicted to power.

When I live in my heart,

I am devoted to love,

God-love.

```

735.

```

You have not only to diminish

Your pleasure-seeking activities,

But to eliminate them completely

To serve God and please God

In God's own Way.

```

736.

```

If you constantly cherish doubt,

Then you will be ruthlessly exiled

From God's Compassion-Favour.

```

737.

```

My heart's cries

And my Lord's Smiles

Daily exchange telegrams.

```

738.

```

If you truly and sincerely love God,

Then you do not have to

Resign yourself to your fate.

```

739.

```

Every day during my meditation

God comes and blessingfully gives me

A private lecture

On how to please Him all the time

In His own Way.

```

740.

```

God consoles the broken-hearted

Only when He sees

That they are going to become sincere,

Self-giving and God-aspiring. ```

741.

```

There was a time

When I joined my mind

In its self-congratulation.

But now I join my heart

In its God-invocation.

```

742.

```

A self-disciplined life

And a God-caring heart

Are treasured by God Himself.

```

743.

```

A self-giving life

Is indeed

Man's peace-freedom-fighter

On earth. ```

744.

```

It is only with the heart-eye

That we can see the truth

Correctly and perfectly.

```

745.

```

O seeker,

Enter into the chamber of your heart.

Lo and behold!

Your Inner Pilot will powerfully bless you. ```

746.

```

A God-surrender-heart

Can definitely stop

The Himalayan blunders

Of the mind. ```

747.

```

The heart-aircraft

Flies and flies

In love-skies.

```

748.

```

O my mind,

Do not misunderstand me, please.

I am all for your transformation.

I am all for your perfection.

I am all for your divine satisfaction.

```

749.

```

My aspiration-heart has the capacity

And is the capacity

To challenge and defeat

My God-unfaithful mind. ```

750.

```

When I aspire sincerely and self-givingly,

My heart and I are given the opportunity

To swim in the sea of oneness

And arrive at God's Fulness-Shore. ```

751.

```

Surrender does not mean

Helplessness.

Surrender means

A God-fulfilment-life. ```

752.

```

When I cry ceaseless surrender-tears,

God's ever-brightening Smiles

Embrace me in my totality.

```

753.

```

The desire of night for light

Is not only possible,

But also inevitable.

```

754.

```

You will be freed

From the fetters of birth and death

Only when God is able to use you

As a choice instrument of His. ```

755.

```

If you are unable to obey God

At every moment,

How do you expect God to love you

At every moment? ```

756.

```

The only God I worship

Is the God

Of Compassion-flooded Love.

```

757.

```

When ignorance is bliss,

Life is nothing short of

Unconscious, ruthless torture.

```

758.

```

When I love God

In God's own Way,

He immediately blesses me

With His Satisfaction-flooded Smile. ```

759.

```

My gratitude-heart

Is the beauty

Of God's transcendental Victory.

```

760.

```

My soul proudly smiles

At my heart's

Deeper than the deepest

Meditations. ```

761.

```

My soul's dynamism

Has finally found a way

To throw out my body's lethargy.

```

762.

```

The sweetness of a devotion-heart

Can easily counteract

The bitterness of a cynical mind.

```

763.

```

God is always anxious and eager

To answer man's

Surrender-gratitude-inspired questions.

```

764.

```

Like the outer sun,

The inner sun is always radiating

Its divinity's beauty in all directions,

Although at times we may not see it. ```

765.

```

The Sweetness-Flute of God's Voice

Enchants not only the aspiring heart,

But even the doubting mind.

```

766.

```

At long last

My aspiration-heart

And my dedication-life

Are all ready

For our Lord's Compassion-Arrival.

```

767.

```

What is the mind's negativity?

The mind's negativity

Is a poisonous mushroom

That is found in the mind-jungle. ```

768.

```

The edifice of goodness

Is built upon

A firm oneness-foundation.

```

769.

```

The easiest way to God-realisation

Is the way

Of sleepless and breathless surrender

To God's Will. ```

770.

```

An ordinary life:

What is it?

It is a dry desert of desire.

A spiritual life:

What is it?

It is the blossoming of a heart-garden.

```

771.

```

Only my heart's silence-sea

Can stop my mind

From racing around.

```

772.

```

Just because the mind

Is an impossible fool,

It wants to trample the truth.

```

773.

```

The human mind wants to know

All the myths about God.

The divine heart wants to realise

An iota of God's Love. ```

774.

```

To have a heart of aspiration

And a life of dedication

Unquestionably means

Doing God's Will. ```

775.

```

When I aspire self-givingly,

I become the sunrise-smile

Of my inner life.

```

776.

```

There is a way to look beyond

The fear-curtain,

And that way is

Sleepless love of God. ```

777.

```

If you cannot see God

In someone,

That is definitely your own

Incalculable loss. ```

778.

```

Since the beginning of creation,

Each century has been blessed

With only a handful of realised souls.

```

779.

```

O my mind,

God is not going to accept

Your reluctant gratitude.

```

780.

```

God really loves

My life's perpetual

Self-enlightenment-effort.

```

781.

```

To love the unaspiring mind

Is to be satisfied

With a totally imperfect paradise.

```

782.

```

My Lord,

I constantly feel Your Love,

Yet self-indulgence

Is my sorrowful name. ```

783.

```

God will never condescend

To visit my mind-doubt-department.

God is ever ready

To enter my heart-faith-home. ```

784.

```

Truth can never be trapped

By the mind.

Truth can only be embraced

By the heart. ```

785.

```

My God-surrender-life

Has finally found the key

To my heart-home.

```

786.

```

Aspiration can speak

Constantly.

Realisation can whisper

Sleeplessly and breathlessly. ```

787.

```

From God I desire

A God-realised life.

From me God needs

A heart-perfection-life. ```

788.

```

Our minds must kneel

In order to rise.

Our hearts must dream

In order to fly. ```

789.

```

I am truly free

Only when I am

God's Heart-Home-prisoner.

```

790.

```

When my aspiration is at its best,

I see God's Beauty

Not only inside my heart-garden,

But also inside my mind-jungle. ```

791.

```

I cry

For my life to be moulded

By God's constant Concern-Touch.

```

792.

```

Everything in life is a choice.

Either I choose God's Heart

Or I choose man's mind.

Let me be wise

And make the right choice.

```

793.

```

My heart is all eagerness

To explore God's Compassion-Majesty

Within and without.

```

794.

```

The one who dares

To sit for God's Examination

Is the one God will definitely choose

To be His divine instrument. ```

795.

```

The sleepless aspiration

Of the heart

Can cut asunder

The mind's attachment-strings. ```

796.

```

I was born to be

A God-manifestation-champion

Here on earth.

```

797.

```

I do not want to be

My mind's failure-frustration-carrier.

Never!

I want only to be

My heart's God-Victory-Banner-carrier.

```

798.

```

If you are a genuine truth-seeker

And God-lover,

Then you can never belittle

Other truth-seekers

And God-lovers.

```

799.

```

O my heart,

You have to be extremely careful.

The clever vital can fool the world

In your name. ```

800.

```

My heart's tears

And my soul's smiles

Every day enjoy

Their shuttle service

Between Heaven and earth.

```

From:Sri Chinmoy,Two God-Amusement-Rivals: my Heart-Song-Beauty and my Life-Dance-Fragrance, part 8, Agni Press, 1996
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