This morning
During my meditationMy soul blessingfully spoke to me.
My human eyes and human earsWere the soulful
And prayerful witnesses."My child,
You need loveMore, infinitely more,
To succeed."You need devotion
More, infinitely more,To proceed.
"You need surrender
More, infinitely more,To make yourself happy
AndTo make Me happy.
There is no other way,And there can be no other way."
```My problem is this:
I cannot thinkOf God
Even for seven minutes a day.God's problem is this:
He cannot stop thinkingOf me
Even for seven seconds a day.My problem is this:
I do not want to knowHow great God is,
As long as He is kind to me.God's problem is this:
He does not want to knowHow undivine I am,
As long as I call Him my Father. ```My Lord,
Is it possible to have happinessIn this world?
"Definitely, My child.
I would not have created this worldIf I could not create happiness
In this world."My child,
There are two kinds of happiness:Happiness real
And happiness unreal."When the real in you
Pleases Me in My own Way,That happiness is real.
"When the unreal in you
Pleases you in your own way,That happiness is unreal.
"Do you want to know how
You can know the real happinessFrom the unreal happiness?
"When you are really happy,
You are satisfied within,Divinely and supremely.
"When you are unreally happy,
You get no sense of satisfactionEither in your inner life
Or in your outer life." ```My Supreme Lord,
When You make me happyIn my own way,
I feel that I have achievedSomething great.
My Supreme Lord,
When I make You happyIn Your own Way
What happens to You?"My child,
I feel that I have madeTremendous progress,
And I also feel that the HourHas struck for Me
To dream of a better, higherAnd deeper creation
In and through you." ```My Lord Supreme,
Do give me the sweet hopeTo feel that I can
Fulfil You and please YouIn Your own Way.
My Lord Supreme,
Do give me the brave courageTo feel that I will
Fulfil You and please YouIn Your own Way.
My Lord Supreme,
Do give me the surrendered lifeTo feel that I am
Fulfilling You and pleasing YouIn Your own Way.
```I do not pray
To an unknown God.I do not meditate
On an unknowable God.I pray to the God
Whose Transcendental EyeIs extremely familiar.
I meditate on the God
Whose universal HeartIs extremely popular.
His Transcendental Eye
Tells me to make Him happyOnly in His own Way.
His Universal Heart
Tells me to become perfectOnly in His own Way.
```My Lord,
Please forgive me.I have not brought anything
For You this time."My child,
Next time you come to visit MeHere in Heaven,
Will you bring MeWhat I desperately need?"
Definitely, my Lord.
Please tell me what it isThat You desperately need.
"My child,
Then bring MeAll the nuclear weapons
That the countries of the world,Especially the superpowers,
Have produced." ```My Lord,
What is the differenceBetween suicide and war?
"My child,
Suicide you commitWhen you are an impossible fool.
"War you declare
When you are absolutelyThe worst sinner."
```My Lord,
Everybody knows what war isAnd what peace is.
May I learn from YouThe difference?
"My child,
War is the mind'sWorld-devouring problem.
Peace is the heart'sWorld-illumining solution."
```My Lord,
How can humanityStop declaring war?
"My child, easily.
Just by not thinking of war,Exactly the way humanity
Does not think of Me." ```My Lord,
After You created the world,Did You ever think of war?
"My child,
I have infinitely better thingsTo think of:
Love, oneness and peace." ```My Lord,
When the war-mongers die,Where do they go?
"My child,
I send them to a placeWhere I have never been
And I shall never go,Never!"
```My Lord,
Will there beA Third World War?
"No, My child,
BecauseEvery night I make it a point
To threaten and frightenThe war-mongers in their sleep."
My Lord,
Are they conscious of it?"My child,
I do not careIf they are conscious of it,
As long as I do not allow themTo do what they want to do."
```My Lord, Rama and Krishna fought
Against their enemies.I am sure that they did
The right thing."My child,
Rama, Krishna and IAre inseparably one.
Therefore, how could theyDo anything wrong?
"At that time,
The divine forces foughtAgainst the undivine forces.
"But now,
To manifest the Light of the Divine,The inner insecurity-forces
Fight againstThe outer security-forces
To fool the outer world." ```My Lord,
Will there be a dayWhen there will be no war
And this world of oursWill be flooded with peace?
"My child,
Do not think of war.Do not think of peace.
Just become peace.Lo and behold, war is nowhere."
```My Lord,
As You know, thousands of peopleHave been killed
By nuclear weapons."My child,
I am sure that you know thatBillions and trillions of people
Have been savedBy My Compassion-Eye."
```My Lord,
The superpowers are decreasingTheir nuclear weapons.
I am sure that You are pleasedWith them.
"My child,
I am indeed pleased with them,But not proud of them."
What do You mean,
My Lord?"My child,
I shall be proud of them only whenThey place at My Forgiveness-Feet
All their nuclear weapons." ```My Lord,
If I dislike someone vehemently,What is the best way to deal with
That person?"My child,
There is not just one,But there are many ways
To deal with that person:"First,
Do not expressYour volcanic anger.
"Second,
Think and feelThat you have the capacity
To mould and shape that personInto a perfectly lovely human being.
"Third,
Discard all your preconceived ideasAnd judgements about the person,
For if you cherish hostile attitudesTowards any person,
Then your own hostilityWill devour you.
"Next,
Just imagine that right nowYour so-called enemy is having
Nice thoughts about you.Not only that,
To your wide surprise, your enemyIs speaking highly of you
To others."Finally,
Ask your mind to be a peace-maker.Ask your heart to be a peace-lover.
Ask yourself to be a peace-observerHere and everywhere
In the Eternal Now." ```From:Sri Chinmoy,Morning Prayers. Poems on War, Agni Press, New York, 1992
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