Take your God-search seriously

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The human in us quite often

Beats frustration-drums.

The divine in us always

Plays illumination-flute. ```

2.

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O seeker, do you not realise

What you are doing?

Every day, just because

You pray and meditate,

You feel that you have the right

To make extravagant demands

Upon God.

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3.

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Only if you live in the heart

Can you expect to feel

The presence of your soul.

Otherwise, you will be nothing but

Your mind's insane

Hurry and worry. ```

4.

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Is there any mind

That does not think

It can easily be

A God-specialist? ```

5.

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When the mind lives

In its own negativity-cave,

The divine in us

Painfully hides. ```

6.

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Quite often expectation embodies

Bad news and sad news.

Therefore, we must be careful

Of our sundry expectations. ```

7.

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My Lord Supreme,

Help me, help me

To hurry home,

Where Your Love's

Ocean-Delight is.

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8.

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Delight and self-giving

Were born at the same time

And will always live

Together. ```

9.

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No matter how negligible

And insignificant

Your ignorance-thoughts are,

They are bound to obstruct and delay

Your Heavenward march.

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10.

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If we do not pray and meditate,

Then we are foolishly waiting

For help that will never arrive.

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11.

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O seeker,

You have made tremendous progress

Now that you do not have

Even an iota of faith

In your mind-vital-train.

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12.

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God does not mind

If you do not understand Him

When He speaks to you.

You can be sure

He is not going to make

His point clearer

Just because you want Him

To make you understand

What He is saying.

His Vision-Light is not

Something to understand

But something to love and love

And eventually grow into.

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13.

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When my expectation rises

With the morning sun,

My frustration begins

With the setting sun. ```

14.

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If you allow your mind

To leave its door wide open

To doubt,

Then God-blossoming faith

You will never be able to claim

As your own. ```

15.

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O obedience,

How sweet is your smile!

O obedience,

How pure is your song!

O obedience,

How perfect is your breath! ```

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If your life revolves around God,

Then only are you entitled

To prayerfully claim God's Vision-Eye

And His universal Heart

As your own.

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17.

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The heart is always eager

To tell the world

That its excellence-life

Entirely belongs to

God's Compassion-Light.

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18.

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Be not afraid

To think high thoughts.

Today's high thoughts

Will tomorrow blossom

Into an omnipotent Will.

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19.

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Are you sure

That you are worshipping

Your Lord Supreme

At His Shrine?

See if perhaps by mistake

You have been all along

Worshipping yourself

At your mind-shrine. ```

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The divine dignity

Of a seeker's sleepless obedience

Can give the seeker

Tremendous inspiration,

Tremendous enthusiasm

And tremendous delight. ```

21.

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Each good thought

Inside your silence-mind

Is indeed a peace-seed,

And before long these seeds

Will be able to enjoy

Their golden harvest. ```

22.

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An ordinary man is possessed

By his possessions.

A spiritual man fulfils himself

By being possessed by God alone. ```

23.

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The moment we accept desire-life

To please ourselves,

Our aspiration-death

Starts nearing us. ```

24.

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A true lover of peace

Eventually becomes

A perfect giver of peace.

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25.

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You can be free

From worldly entanglement

If you can convince yourself

That Heavenly enlightenment

Is your sleepless and breathless choice.

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26.

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There is not a single day

That God does not invite our heart

To meditate.

But at times our heart is dominated

By the unwillingness

Of the vital and the mind. ```

27.

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If surrender is not

The strongest point in your life,

How can you make

The fastest progress in spirituality? ```

28.

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When I look

Into each and every corner

Of my heart-room,

I see only one thing:

God's Compassion-Eye.

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29.

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Ignorance does not know the way

To go forward, to dive deep within

Or to fly upward.

It only knows the way

To go backward.

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30.

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My poor Lord, every day

When I enter into Your Heart,

I see nothing but countless wounds.

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31.

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I struggle

For my world-supremacy.

God struggles

For my heart-intimacy. ```

32.

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My self-love

Always stands against

My Lord's Promise-Blossoms.

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33.

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If I can become

An unconditionally surrendered

Instrument of God,

Temptation is bound to avoid me. ```

34.

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Doubt, suspicion and arrogance —

These are the three

Almost incurable diseases

Of the mind. ```

35.

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A genuine aspiration-heart

Can definitely free itself

From ever-mounting desires.

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36.

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Are you looking for God?

God is coming.

I hope you will be ready

To receive God in God's own Way.

If not, frustration will eclipse

Your hope-sun. ```

37.

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No yesterday and no tomorrow

For those who love

God-manifestation!

God-manifestation has to take place

Here and now.

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38.

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Who is ruling your life?

If you are aspiring,

Then God Himself is ruling your life.

But if you are in the desire-world,

Then your mind

Is definitely ruling your life. ```

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Free yourself

From your self-chosen bondage!

God wants you to enjoy

The beauty and fragrance

Of universal freedom.

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The reason you fail to see God

Is simple:

You have lost your hunger

For God's Heart-manifestation

On earth.

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41.

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If you listen to temptation-songs,

How can you expect God

To dance His Illumination-Dance

For you? ```

42.

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Every day I love and treasure

God's Forgiveness-Footsteps

Inside my aspiration-heart.

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God does not mind

If you imitate Him,

But He does mind

If you doubt Him. ```

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Just one unguarded moment

Can create lifelong suffering

For us.

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45.

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My doubting mind,

I am determined to irritate you.

My loving heart,

I am determined to please you

Above everything.

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46.

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God did give you

The first chance,

But your desire-bound mind

Ruined everything! ```

47.

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A heart of devotion

And a life of gratitude

Know no parallel.

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48.

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The beauty of surrender

Blesses us

With a perfection-bliss-life.

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49.

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Humility is not

A world-conquering reality

But a world-elevating

And world-transforming reality. ```

50.

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Take your God-search seriously

If you want to make your soul,

Your heart and your life

Happy eternally. ```

From:Sri Chinmoy,Take your God-search seriously, Agni Press, 1994
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