God's Greatness and God's Goodness

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God, Your GREATNESS

Has confused me.

God, Your Goodness

Has illumined me. ```

2.

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God, Your GREATNESS

Has entangled me.

God, Your Goodness

Has freed me. ```

3.

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God, I admire

Your GREATNESS.

God, I love

Your Goodness. ```

4.

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God, Your GREATNESS

Is one of the things

That I want.

God, Your Goodness

Is the only thing

That I need. ```

5.

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God, Your GREATNESS

Is my inspiration-greed.

God, Your Goodness

Is my aspiration-hunger. ```

6.

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God, I am praying to You

To hide from me

Your GREATNESS.

God, I am praying to You

To reveal to me

Your Goodness. ```

7.

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God, I salute

Your GREATNESS.

God, I embrace

Your Goodness. ```

8.

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God, do use Your GREATNESS

To control my mind-factory.

God, do use Your Goodness

To pilot my heart-boat. ```

9.

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God, Your GREATNESS

Frightens me.

God, Your Goodness

Enlightens me. ```

10.

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God, I pray to Your GREATNESS

Out of helpless fear.

God, I meditate on Your Goodness

Out of sheer love. ```

11.

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God, I tremble

At Your GREATNESS.

God, I marvel

At Your Goodness. ```

12.

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God, Your GREATNESS-House

Is unimaginably powerful.

God, Your Goodness-Home

Is unimaginably peaceful. ```

13.

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God, Your GREATNESS

Silences my pride.

God, Your Goodness

Feeds my humility. ```

14.

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God, Your GREATNESS

Shakes my entire being.

God, Your Goodness

Cradles my life. ```

15.

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God, I obey

Your GREATNESS.

God, I follow

Your Goodness. ```

16.

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God, Your GREATNESS

Feeds my curiosity-eyes.

God, Your Goodness

Feeds my sincerity-heart. ```

17.

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God, when I think of

Your GREATNESS,

I become the sun-driver.

God, when I think of

Your Goodness,

I become the moon-dancer. ```

18.

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God, Your GREATNESS

Is Your transcendental

Vision-Eye.

God, Your Goodness

Is Your universal

Compassion-Heart. ```

19.

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God, Your GREATNESS

Changes my mind

With great difficulty.

God, Your Goodness

Changes my mind

Easily. ```

20.

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God, Your GREATNESS

Thunders.

God, Your Goodness

Whispers. ```

21.

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God, to me Your GREATNESS

Is nothing but a life-destroying Machine-gun.

God, to me Your Goodness

Is nothing but a life-immortalising Flute. ```

22.

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God, Your GREATNESS

Strengthens my mind-fort.

God, Your Goodness

Blesses my heart-shrine. ```

23.

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God, to Your GREATNESS

I submit my desire-list.

God, to Your Goodness

I offer my aspiration-list. ```

24.

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God, Your GREATNESS

Is Your stupendous Detachment.

God, Your Goodness

Is Your gracious Tolerance. ```

25.

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God, Your GREATNESS

Is our darkness-destroyer.

God, Your Goodness

Is our darkness-transformer. ```

26.

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God, Your GREATNESS

Is Your Mind-Orator.

God, Your Goodness

Is Your Heart-Listener. ```

27.

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God, my determination-mind

Looks at Your GREATNESS-Eye

With folded hands

And prays to You

For Your Blessings.

God, my devotion-heart

Sits at Your Goodness-Feet

And prays to You

For Your Forgiveness.

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God, Your GREATNESS

Shuts my open eyes.

God, Your Goodness

Opens my closed heart. ```

29.

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God, Your GREATNESS

Waits for my receptivity.

God, Your Goodness

Creates receptivity in me. ```

30.

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God, Your GREATNESS

Is conditional:

"Give and take, My son."

God, Your Goodness

Is unconditional:

"Take, My child, take." ```

31.

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God's GREATNESS,

You are my mind-astonishment.

God's Goodness,

You are my heart-fulfilment. ```

32.

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God's GREATNESS,

My soul is extremely and extremely

Proud of You.

God's Goodness,

You are extremely and extremely

Proud of my heart. ```

33.

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God's GREATNESS,

I have an irresistible urge

To become like You.

God's Goodness,

I have a sleepless thirst

And a breathless hunger

To please You.

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34.

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God's GREATNESS,

I shall proudly give You

As much as possible.

God's Goodness,

I shall give You my very existence

As soon as possible. ```

35.

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God's GREATNESS,

You are the Power,

Not mixed with limitations.

God's Goodness,

You are the Bliss,

Not mixed with frustrations. ```

36.

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God's GREATNESS,

When I am with You,

I become a readiness-mind

And a willingness-life.

God's Goodness,

When I am with You,

I am an eagerness-heart

And a selflessness-breath. ```

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God's GREATNESS,

I fly into You

To enjoy myself.

God's Goodness,

I dive into You

To enjoy You. ```

38.

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God's GREATNESS,

You are Your Power-Sun.

God's Goodness,

I am Your Peace-Sky. ```

39.

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God's GREATNESS,

Your infinite Power tempts me.

God's Goodness,

Your infinite Love tames me. ```

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God's GREATNESS,

The moment I touch You,

My life is blessed

With the greatest privilege.

God's Goodness,

The moment I touch You,

My heart is blessed

With the fastest opportunity. ```

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God's GREATNESS,

You chide my slowness.

God's Goodness,

You encourage my readiness. ```

42.

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God's GREATNESS,

With my head I fly

Into Your high, higher, highest

Realities.

God's Goodness,

With my heart I dive

Into Your deep, deeper, deepest

Dreams. ```

43.

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God's GREATNESS,

You tell me:

"My son, just try and see

How great I am."

God's Goodness,

You tell me:

"My child, just cry and become

All that I am." ```

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God's GREATNESS,

You are Your Victories.

God's Goodness,

You are Your Mysteries. ```

45.

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God's GREATNESS,

You are Your

Miracle-Summits.

God's Goodness,

You are Your

Blessing-Dreams

All-where.

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46.

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God's GREATNESS,

You are my hope-excellence.

God's Goodness,

You are my promise-radiance. ```

47.

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God's GREATNESS,

You are my mind's

Mountain-summit

On my life-journey.

God's Goodness,

You are my heart's

Fountain-delight

Inside my heart-garden. ```

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God's GREATNESS,

In Your Presence

I enjoy the proudest moment

Of my life.

God's Goodness,

In Your Presence

I enjoy the happiest moment

Of my heart. ```

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God's GREATNESS,

The child in me wants to become

As great as You are.

God's Goodness,

The child in me wants to become

Inseparably one with You. ```

50.

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God's GREATNESS,

When I look at You,

I become a pride-ocean.

God's Goodness,

When I look at You,

I become a peace-sea. ```

51.

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God's GREATNESS,

I am coming to You

With a return ticket.

God's Goodness,

I am coming to You

With a one-way ticket. ```

52.

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God's GREATNESS,

You command my obedience.

God's Goodness,

You inspire my obedience. ```

53.

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God's GREATNESS,

I am coming to You

With my heart's

Aspiration-flames.

God's Goodness,

I am coming to You

With my life's

Dedication-blossoms. ```

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God's GREATNESS,

You tell me to conquer

The ignorance-world

Immediately.

God's Goodness,

You tell me to love

The weakness-world

Unreservedly. ```

55.

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God's GREATNESS,

I see the entire universe

Inside Your ever-widening

Eye.

God's Goodness,

I feel the entire universe

Inside Your ever-blossoming

Heart. ```

56.

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God's GREATNESS,

Your direct descendants,

Sri Krishna, the Buddha, the Christ

And others,

Have come from You.

God's Goodness,

These supremely chosen children

Of Yours

Live in You.

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57.

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God's GREATNESS,

The Avatars come down

To extol Your Reality.

God's Goodness,

The Avatars come down

To manifest Your Divinity. ```

58.

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God's GREATNESS,

At times the divine Avatars

Play their roles in a human way

To lift up humanity and thus

Please You only, in Your own Way.

God's Goodness,

The Avatars cry for You,

Cry with You and cry in You;

Smile for You, smile with You

And smile in You,

Only to please You in Your own Way.

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59.

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God's GREATNESS says:

"I have.

Eternity I have.

Infinity I have.

Immortality I have."

God's Goodness says:

"I am.

Eternity's Tears I am.

Infinity's Smiles I am.

Immortality's Song I am." ```

From:Sri Chinmoy,God's Greatness and God's Goodness, Agni Press, 1998
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