God is kidnapped

Preface

This book reveals a soulful conversation between a seeker and his heart. — Sri Chinmoy

1.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because you do not complain.

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2.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because you do not blame others

For your failures. ```

3.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because you have enthroned

My Eternity's soul-child. ```

4.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because in you God preserves

And treasures

His Immortality's Dream.

```

5.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because of your soulful prayers

My Lord Supreme has shattered

My mind's doubt-vessels.

```

6.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because of you,

Only because of you,

I know that God loves me.

```

7.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because you pray

To my Lord Supreme

Not only for those who love you

But also for those who do not. ```

8.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because of you I have

A God-protected life. ```

9.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because of you I have become

A favourite child of God,

And because of you I shall remain

Forever so. ```

10.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because of you, at any moment

I can have a glimpse of God's

Infinite Peace, infinite Light.

```

11.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because of you

My songless mind,

My soulless mind

And even my godless mind

Will someday

Be totally transformed. ```

12.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because of you,

Only because of you,

I am not so unimportant

And not so insignificant

Here on earth.

```

13.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because of you,

Only, only, only because of you,

My Lord Supreme is transforming

My earth-bound desire

Into His Heaven-free Will —

Only, only, only because of you. ```

14.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because you have

So compassionately

And so self-givingly taught me

How to love and fulfil

God's every Wish.

```

15.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because at every moment

You are blessing me

With the whispered message:

"Self-reliance — no, no, no!

God-reliance — yes, yes, yes!"

```

16.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because of your

Very strict vigilance

I do not dare to avoid or evade

Any of my earth-responsibilities. ```

17.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because in you I see

Not my yesterday's failures,

But only my tomorrow's victories.

```

18.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because you are the only one

Who is not interested

In seeing or feeling

My love for you,

But is only interested

In seeing and feeling

My sleepless and breathless

Love for God. ```

19.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because no matter

How many times

I have fooled you

Since my adolescence,

You still love me.

```

20.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because your purity-eye

Has silenced,

Once and for all,

My mind's clamouring thoughts. ```

21.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because people

From all walks of life

And from all over the world

Tell me

That you are never, never, never

Inhospitable;

Because hospitality

Is the fragrance

Of your life-breath.

```

22.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because day and night you tell me

To ask myself only one question:

"What is God's Will?"

```

23.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because of your streaming tears,

I am sure that no mistake

In my life

Is unforgivable by God. ```

24.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because no matter

How many times

I deliberately turn my back

On you,

I cannot escape

Your unconditional concern

For me.

```

25.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because you inspire me

And illumine me

So powerfully

By telling me

That what I really need

Is not world-information

But my earth-life-transformation.

```

26.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because of your constant concern

And compassion for me,

I can no longer remain

In the mire of complexity. ```

27.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because it is you

Who have disarmed

My doubt-giant

With your ever-blossoming faith. ```

28.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because you are the only one

Who does not turn away from God

When your desires

Are not fulfilled. ```

29.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because you are graciously

Telling me

That there are no

Serious stumbling blocks

In my path of self-perfection.

```

30.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because long ago,

Most successfully,

You crossed the barriers

Of doubt, mistrust and suspicion. ```

31.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because every day you take me

To either God's Compassion-Sky

Or God's Forgiveness-Ocean.

```

32.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because of you

My God-realisation-destination

Is coming incredibly closer.

```

33.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because you never forget

To tell me

Whose actually I am.

```

34.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because you never give up

Your self-giving project. ```

35.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because in you I see

My God-surrender-home-nest. ```

36.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because your sincerity-tears

Purify my entire being. ```

37.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because you are apt

To forgive and forget

Humanity's hypocrisies.

```

38.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because you have free access

To God's most beautiful

And most powerful

Dream-Kingdom. ```

39.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because you do not have to be

On the waiting list

To see the Smiles

Of God the Transcendental

And God the Universal.

```

40.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because you always help me

In steering my life-boat

Towards God's Golden Shore.

```

41.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because your very presence

Is a cure for doubt-disease. ```

42.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because your untiring love

Helps me bring to the fore

New dreams out of old failures.

```

43.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because you are always

A perfect stranger

To superficial sincerity.

```

44.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because you inspire me

Most powerfully

By telling me it is never too late

To change. ```

45.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because you feel

Most sincerely sad

When any human being

Walks away

From God's outstretched Arms.

```

46.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because you are the only one

Who tells me

That if I do what I can,

Then God will do what I cannot. ```

47.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because you are

My universal oneness within

And my universal fulness without.

```

48.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because I see

Behind your sweetness-smile

A power-plant.

```

49.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because you do not allow me

To make friends with my mind's

Splintered and scattered faith.

```

50.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because you sleeplessly embody

God's Satisfaction-Fragrance. ```

51.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because when my mind is

The question of questions,

In you I find

The answer of answers. ```

52.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because you are

The pioneer-owner

Of surrender-garden

And gratitude-fragrance. ```

53.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because every morning

You set off my aspiration-alarm

For me.

```

54.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because your eagerness creates

Every day

So many golden opportunities

For me. ```

55.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because in your kingdom

You have outlawed selfishness. ```

56.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because everything good

That I do for mankind

Is due to your fast start

And strong finish. ```

57.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because your sole goal

Is to leave the world

Far better than you found it.

```

58.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because on willingness-road

You run the fastest. ```

59.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because God proudly applauds

Your long surrender-steps. ```

60.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because, unlike us,

You live to love. ```

61.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because of you

I am genuinely loving

And surprisingly lovable.

```

62.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because you tell me

That it is infinitely better

To be possessed by God

Than to try to possess God. ```

63.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because, unlike us,

You never allow yourself

To be estranged from God.

```

64.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because your

God-Satisfaction-dreams

Never fade,

But only grow and glow. ```

65.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because you teach me so lovingly

How to become

A soaring progress-kite.

```

66.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because your aspiration-flames

Have the capacity

To control and silence

My mind's thought-riots. ```

67.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because your tremendous

And stupendous

Faith-productions

Amaze me. ```

68.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because God is happily

And proudly

Publishing your silence-speeches.

```

69.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because your sincerity-cry

Has an immediate access

To God's Compassion-Heart-Eye.

```

70.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because in you

Humanity's hope is safe

And through you

Divinity's Promise is safe. ```

71.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because you have taught me

The supreme truth:

Self-giving is the beginning

Of God-becoming. ```

72.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because you are most graciously

Turning me into a psychic giant. ```

73.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because in you is my Lord's

Brightest Confidence-Light. ```

74.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because your inner cries

Have helped me achieve

Outer competence.

```

75.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because you alone

Have the capacity

To unveil God's Face for me.

```

76.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because humanity's

Frustration-stories

Cannot take away

Your love of God. ```

77.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because every morning

You lovingly introduce me to God. ```

78.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because of you

I have countless

Faith-friendship-flames.

```

79.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because you surprise me

With your ever-increasing love

For God.

```

80.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because you have inspired me

To feel

That God and God's Heaven

Can be won

With my life's patience-light.

```

81.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because you so lovingly help me

Cling to my prayer-God. ```

82.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because you have given me

The great capacity to arrest

The God-doubt-intruder.

```

83.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because of you

The breath of goodness

Has entered my life.

```

84.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because of you the whole world

Puts its long arms around me. ```

85.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because you are

More than willing

To take care of my mind,

The completely spoiled child

In God's Family.

```

86.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because you warn me

Not to walk

Along the resentment-path.

```

87.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because you have given me

A large space

To bury my pride-giant

In your humility-garden. ```

88.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because every day you inspire me

To soar on selflessness-wings. ```

89.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because of your sleepless prayers

God has chosen me

To be on His Team

In the tug-of-war

Against ignorance-night.

```

90.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because you never weaken,

But only strengthen,

All my divine resolves.

```

91.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because God is proud of me

Only when I am in you,

With you and for you.

```

92.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because you are my daily

God-Peace and God-Bliss

Supplier.

```

93.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because your constant

Gratitude-fragrance-offering

Is my only hope of realising God.

```

94.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because, unlike us,

You do not talk

About yourself;

You talk only about God. ```

95.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because your philosophy is

The self-giving acceptance of life. ```

96.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because your religion is

The universal oneness-song. ```

97.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because your spirituality is

Perfection in self-transcendence. ```

98.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because your yoga is

God for God's sake,

God's Satisfaction

In God's own Way. ```

99.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because you want me, like you,

To embrace and lighten

The sufferings of humanity.

```

100.

```

My heart, I love you.

Why?

Because you alone

Have the capacity

To kidnap God.

```

From:Sri Chinmoy,God is kidnapped, Agni Press, 1990
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