Light-Delight-Journeys

Humility

```

My heart sleeps in humility-grass;

Therefore I am allowed to study

In my Lord's salvation-perfection class.

```

Softness

```

Softness is my life-tree.

Soulfulness is my life-flower.

My heart's only choice:

My Beloved's Perfection-Hour.

Only when I worship

My Lord Supreme

I am free,

divinely free,

supremely free.

```

Willingness

```

What I have for God is brittle willingness.

What God has for me is Immortality's oneness. ```

Grace

```

I am God's Shelter-Grace

Blossoming into His all-illumining Face. ```

Peace

```

At last I now have peace of mind:

My fault-finding eyes nowhere I find. ```

Oneness

```

My oneness with God's Delight

Is my perfection-light. ```

Consciousness

```

My consciousness-bird started flying

Long before the birth of time:

Therefore in me

God is creating

Triumphantly and proudly

His Perfection-clime. ```

Gratitude-oneness

```

With my Lord my gratitude-oneness is growing

Steadily and unerringly;

Therefore my heart-bird

Is dancing merrily. ```

Height

```

Every day I transcend my height.

O my poor earth, do you know why?

O my proud Heaven, do you know why?

I do it because

God Himself

Has made me His choice kite of light. ```

Chinmoy

```

Chinmoy, Chinmoy, Chinmoy, Chinmoy.

Am I God-Eternity's self-amorous boy? ```

Joy

```

Sleepless is my occult Eye;

Therefore God-Joy have I. ```

Mercy

```

Lord Supreme, my ignorance and I

Are at Your mercy.

"Son, you are partially wrong.

Your ignorance is at My mercy,

But not you.

You are My Eternity's lap

To give your ignorance-foe

A smart slap." ```

Self-limits

```

I have transcended my self-limits:

Fear, doubt and jealousy;

Therefore I drink deep

God's ceaseless Ecstasy. ```

Forgiveness

```

I cry to my sweet Beloved Supreme for

His constant Forgiveness.

God cries for my Eternity's brave

Oneness-might. ```

Capacity

```

I love God for God's sake.

This is my greatest capacity.

God loves me unconditionally.

This is His Eternity's Beauty. ```

Lustre

```

When

I am earth-face

I am farther than the farthest from the Supreme.

When

I am Heaven-lustre

I am nearer than the nearest to the Supreme.

Something more:

I am His Eternity's blue Satisfaction

And

His Infinity's gold Perfection.

```

Surrender

```

To God I have surrendered my stupidity.

To man I have surrendered my self-created

responsibility.

```

Speed

```

Speed I need, I always need

To feed my Lord Supreme, to feed. ```

Purity

```

Because I am all purity,

My heart is God's necessity. ```

Sincerity

```

Because my life is blue-gold sincerity,

God has made me His world-transforming

perfection-dance.

Because my life belongs to God

and God alone,

Ignorance-night my soul has conquered

With my Lord's all-conquering lance.

```

Divine warrior

```

I have become a real God-lover;

Therefore He is shaping me into His

divine warrior.

```

Dedication

```

My dedication

Is God-satisfaction.

God-satisfaction

Is my immediate salvation. ```

Love-victory

```

Eternity's love-victory

In my heart of gratitude-seed.

My Beloved Supreme is my divinity's

Supreme need, my only need. ```

Divine manifestation

```

What I call divine manifestation,

My Lord Supreme calls

my indispensable perfection.

```

Thankfulness

```

My peerless treasure: cheerfulness.

God's matchless treasure: Thankfulness. ```

Selfless

```

My selfless service-love

Has made me a blue God-dove. ```

Intuition

```

Out of His infinite Bounty,

My Lord Supreme has made me

His own cosmic intuition-soul.

In me is His transcendental Height

With me is His universal Life.

```

Subtle grandeur

```

I forgive my outer world.

My forgiveness is my subtle grandeur.

I love my inner world.

My love is my all-conquering treasure. ```

Calm

```

When I am calm,

God opens His Eternity's Door,

God gives me His Infinity's Love

And shows me His Immortality's Shore. ```

Determination

```

I know, I know my life's perfection

Is the flower-fragrance

Of my supreme Lord's

Compassion-Vision. ```

Eagerness

```

Eagerness I had to see the Face of God.

Eagerness I have to feel the Heart of God.

Eagerness I shall have to be the

Dream-Reality of God. ```

Bondage

```

No more shall I live in a bondage-cave.

In Infinity's sky

With God I shall fly,

Eternally selfless, brave. ```

Discipline

```

At long last I have disciplined

my ignorance-life;

Therefore my Lord Supreme

Is making me

His earth-transforming fife.

At long last I have seen

my reality's soul;

Therefore my Lord Supreme

is triumphantly playing in me

His cosmic self-transcendence Role. ```

Rebirth

```

My heart longs to unravel

The mystery of rebirth;

Therefore my Lord Supreme

Tells me to do two things:

He tells me to cry with earth's

excruciating pangs

And smile with Heaven's

Life-immortalising Ecstasy. ```

Editor's note

On the bus from Ottawa to Montreal the disciples chose folded pieces of paper with either the word 'Supreme' or the word 'ignorance' on them. Then Sri Chinmoy wrote a poem for each person, using the word he chose.

Supreme

```

Supreme, only one supreme boon

I need from You.

Do give me the capacity

To please You

In Your own inimitable way.

```

Supreme

```

Supreme, I have been studying

Your Self-form

From time immemorial.

The human in me

Wants to complete the course.

The divine in me

Wants to remain a perpetual student

Shining bright through Eternity. ```

Supreme

```

Supreme, I need everyone.

Some people need me,

While others don't.

Supreme, in this life-time

I have only one question:

Do You ever need me? ```

Supreme

```

Supreme Lord, I need You

To hear me speak ill of ignorance-night.

I really do!

You need me to take part

In Your cosmic Game.

Don't You? ```

Supreme

```

My Eternity's Lord Supreme,

When I see You clearly

I don't feel You at all.

When I feel You intimately

I don't see You anywhere.

Why, why this supreme dichotomy,

My Supreme Lord,

My Eternity's Dream-Treasure supreme? ```

Supreme

```

Beloved Supreme,

The divine dreamer in me

Thinks that You need me;

The divine lover in me

Feels that I need You.

Who is right?

Are we both right? ```

Supreme

```

Supreme, I want to challenge You.

I bet I can easily defeat You

In ignorance-game.

Do You want to accept my challenge?

I bet you won't.

```

Supreme

```

Sweet Supreme Lord,

Do You care for my heart-food?

If not, my i-ness shall die

In You to see what food

You regularly eat

So that I can please You,

Your earth-tongue

And

Heaven-taste.

```

Supreme

```

Supreme Lord,

Since I shall not be able

To cover Your Infinity's length

With my physical strength,

I need Your Silence-Height-Power

To please You in me. ```

Supreme

```

My soul sees the Face

Of my Supreme Pilot

Daily,

Unmistakably,

Unconditionally.

Alas, my own stupid mind

Fails to believe it,

Let alone the suspicion-world.

Alas, alas!

But my only consolation is

That my Lord Supreme will one day

prove

That I am not an inch far

From real Reality's life. ```

Supreme

```

Supreme Liberator,

We perform our respective tasks.

You think of Your Smile's Infinity;

I think of my cry's Eternity.

Because we do fulfil

Our duties unconditionally,

We own Immortality's Reality-Light.

```

Supreme

```

Supreme Father,

In Your Immortality's

Shelter-Grace,

I shall one day see

Your supreme Reality-Face.

And then I shall unconditionally be

What You have been

Sempiternally dreaming through me. ```

Supreme

```

Supreme God of my soul,

Your Height

I dare not scale;

Your Depth

I dare not fathom.

But I do know

On the strength of

My inner cry

I claim You as my very own.

```

Supreme

```

Supreme, Supreme, Supreme

Do You think I can be near Your Feet?

Do You think I can be inside Your Heart?

Do You think I can ever

Please You the way I love You?

I know these are very difficult questions.

But You can take Your own time.

After all, I am not in a hurry. ```

Ignorance

```

Ignorance, you may need me.

Believe me,

I don't need you.

Ignorance, you may love me.

Believe me,

I don't love you.

I hate you and hate you and hate you!

```

Ignorance

```

Ignorance, my child, don't cry.

When my Lord Supreme feeds me,

I shall not forget to feed you

With His all-transforming Light. ```

Ignorance

```

Ignorance, who will conquer whom?

Will you conquer me

Shall I conquer you?

I don't think you will ever be able

To conquer me.

I shall undoubtedly conquer you.

Do you want to know when?

Well, I shall conquer you

Only when I take you

As my little lightless brother

And not my dauntless foe. ```

Ignorance

```

Ignorance-prince, have some

Common sense at least.

Don't be a shameless creature.

I am no longer in love with you.

Now I am desperately

In love with my saviour, God. ```

Ignorance

```

Ignorance, I cared for you

Helplessly.

My Father-Lord cared for me

Divinely and supremely.

He has won the game.

He has won me for His Eternity's use.

His Eternity's care

With you I shall share.

My God-realisation soul

Shall complete

Your God-realisation role.

```

Ignorance

```

Ignorance, I needed you

To feed my earth-bound hunger.

You did please me.

Now you need me

To feed you with my present food:

Divinity's Light infinite.

I shall definitely please you. ```

Ignorance

```

Ignorance, I warn you,

Dream not to blind my earth-eyes

Any more.

I am with my Lord Supreme.

Ignorance, I warn you,

Dream not to bind my Heaven-heart

Any more.

I am for my Lord,

And my Lord alone.

Within my earth's easy reach,

my illumination-soul.

Within my infallible ken,

my perfection-goal.

```

Ignorance

```

Ignorance, do you think you are

really powerful?

I tell you, you are not.

My heart's cry is infinitely stronger.

Ignorance, stupidity's height,

futility's night,

Do I have to hear from you

How far or how close

My Beloved Supreme is?

I know where He is.

I know who He is.

I know why He is.

Where is He?

He is inside my heart-life.

Who is He?

He is my Eternity's Lord Supreme.

Why is He?

To fulfil Himself in and through me. ```

Ignorance

```

Ignorance,

You taught me.

And

Now I am teaching you.

Cleverly you taught me

How to be self-sufficient.

Compassionately I am teaching you

How to be God's transcendental

Height specialist

And His universal Light specialist. ```

Ignorance

```

Who was I?

Ignorance-sea.

My Lord Supreme says,

"Definitely not."

Who am I?

Ignorance-wave.

My Lord Supreme says

"I hold a different opinion."

Who shall I be?

Ignorance-drop.

My Lord Supreme says,

"You are all wrong."

He tells me I shall be

The sea of His Consciousness-Light. ```

Ignorance

```

Ignorance-child of mine,

Millions and billions and trillions

Of miles you have covered with me.

Are you not tired?

I think you really are.

Let me walk alone for a while.

I assure you,

If and when I reach

My salvation-liberation-

realisation-perfection-goal,

I shall definitely come back to you

To feed you,

Transform you

And immortalise you. ```

Ignorance

```

Ignorance-smile,

Yesterday

You smiled at me;

Today I am smiling at you.

Yesterday you smashed

My God-oneness pride divine.

Today I have devoured you,

My ignorance-sea,

Unconditionally,

Unreservedly

And supremely.

```

Ignorance

```

Ignorance-fool, eternity's beggar,

Don't you see

That my intuition-light

Cares not for you at all?

Ignorance-fool, divinity's slave,

How dare you disobey

The commander supreme in me?

```

Ignorance

```

Ignorance-pleasure-life,

You know how to tempt me

And

I know how to devour you.

Now I give you

My absolutely last warning:

If you once more

Even dream of tempting me,

I shall devour you completely

Sooner than at once. ```

Ignorance

```

Ignorance dear, I know who you were,

Who you are,

And who you will be.

Who were you?

You were my self-imposed lord.

Who are you?

You are my surrendered slave.

Who will you be?

You will be my God-perfected soldier divine. ```

Editor's note to the first edition

These spiritual words were given to Sri Chinmoy by the disciples who travelled with him on the bus from Montreal to Ottawa on November 16, 1974.

From:Sri Chinmoy,Light-Delight-Journeys, Bhakti Press, Ottawa, Canada, 1974
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