Mother Teresa: Humanity’s Flower-Heart, Divinity’s Fragrance-Soul, part 1

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My sisters and brothers of the world,

Are we so blind that we cannot see

God's own Autograph

On Mother Teresa's forehead? ```

2.

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Mother,

To be in your blessingful presence

Is to breathe in

A breath of living compassion. ```

3.

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Mother,

A single whisper from you

Has transformed thousands of non-believers

And disbelievers. ```

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If any dying sufferer on earth

Needs someone to cry for him,

With him and in him,

Then he can unmistakably see

Mother Teresa's all-embracing arms

Faster than the fastest

Approaching him.

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To be in the presence of Mother Teresa

Is to establish friendship

With invaluable moments.

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Mother Teresa tells us

That the right choice,

And the only choice,

Is the Christ's Compassion-Heart. ```

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Mother Teresa's heart

Shall forever remain untouched

By the shadows of fears and doubts.

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8.

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With a single glance,

Mother Teresa enlightens

Our crying eyes, searching minds

And aspiring hearts. ```

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Mother Teresa does many, many things

For the betterment of the world,

But when she washes away

The untold sufferings

Of the unloved ones

With her heart's streaming tears —

That is by far the best.

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Mother Teresa is

The dreamer of happiness

In the heart of

Suffering, imprisoned humanity. ```

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When Mother Teresa approaches

Ill-fated sufferers,

What does she say?

'Do not worry, my child, God is coming.

Indeed, I see in you the living presence

Of Jesus Christ Himself.' ```

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Mother Teresa's life-boat plies

Between the destination-shores

Of her own grandmother-soul

And her own grandchild-heart. ```

13.

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Mother Teresa tells the whole world

That a heart of love

Is Infinitely stronger

Than we can ever imagine. ```

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When I look at my compassion-eyes,

I clearly see that my eyes

Can never be filled.

And when I look at Mother Teresa's eyes,

I clearly see that her compassion-eyes

Can never be emptied. ```

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Mother Teresa time and again tells us

That a smile from the heart

Knows no replacement.

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In her blessingful presence,

It is not she, but we

Who gladly and instantly chop down

Our proud, giant mind-trees. ```

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Mother Teresa always reminds us

That each difficulty

Is nothing short of God's Confidence

In us. ```

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With her Infinity's compassion-heart,

Mother Teresa is every day

Embracing countless, sorrowful hearts

Of forthcoming centuries. ```

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Mother Teresa tells

Not only her suffering patients,

But also each and every human being,

'The answer to life is not self-doubt-imprisonment,

But self-discovery-enlightenment.

We are all God's children.' ```

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The moment I think of Mother Teresa,

I immediately step forward in faith,

God-faith.

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Mother Teresa tells her dying patients

That God's Heart-Room

Knows no closed doors.

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Mother Teresa tells us

That if we want to succeed

In the battlefield of life,

Then we must never separate

Life from compassion.

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The faith-bird in Mother Teresa

Sings and dances

Long before it sees the clearing dawn.

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What does she tell her patients?

She tells them,

'Look, look, God is all ready to blossom

In you!

He is His sleepless Thirst for you.'

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25.

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Mother Teresa tells her patients

That God's Dream-Fulfilment

Is definitely attainable in and through them.

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Mother Teresa lovingly and tenderly

Advises us

Not to hesitate in accelerating

The manifestation of our heart-smiles. ```

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Is there anybody on earth

Who will not see eye to eye with us

When we say that Mother Teresa

Is indeed God's special Way

To comfort the suffering and bleeding humanity?

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Mother,

We claim to love

Your compassion-heart,

But you love to claim

Our affliction-lives.

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O Absolute Lord Supreme,

You have made our Mother

The embodiment of compassion.

Do make us

The embodiment of gratitude.

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30.

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The moment I come

And stand in Mother Teresa's blessingful presence,

I see nothing but waves of smiles

Flowing from her compassion-flooded eyes. ```

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Some pieces of advice

From Mother Teresa:

Think of others first,

Always;

Let faith in the power of love

Excel in your life;

Remove all your self-destructive,

Negative thoughts;

Every minute do something

To make all the children of God

Happy and smiling.

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Mother Teresa has numberless friends,

But her very best friend

Is her heart's silence-prayer.

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In her we see the revelation

Of her Eternity's soul,

And the full manifestation

Of her Divinity's heart. ```

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Mother Teresa tells us

To do two things simultaneously:

To touch God’s Feet

With our humility-mind;

To feel God’s Heart

With our purity-life. ```

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Mother Teresa tells us:

'Do not hesitate!

It is already too late.

Put the Lord

In every corner of your life

Prayerfully and self-givingly.' ```

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Sleeplessly and breathlessly,

With giant eagerness-strides,

Mother Teresa is paving the way

For a sickness and bitterness-free world. ```

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Twenty-four hours a day

Mother Teresa lives inside

Her golden heart and silver tongue.

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Mother Teresa shows us

How we can hold our sorrowful outer life

Up to our own inner light

By virtue of our sincere prayers. ```

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Mother Teresa tells us

That in order to be truly happy

We must unreservedly feel our oneness-heart

With the breath of the poor. ```

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Each and every poor life

And sick body

Receives from Mother Teresa's heart

A consolation-prize

And from her soul

An illumination-surprise. ```

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Mother Teresa reminds us

Of something extremely significant:

Power itself has no true power.

Power has power only when

Love-compassion-blossoms are found

Inside it. ```

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How profusely and immensely

Mother Teresa inspires us to see

The God-aspiring, God-inspiring

And God-serving life-tree

Inside our own heart-garden!

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To our greatest delight,

Although Mother has seen 87 summers,

Fatigue does not dare to sit On her sleepless enthusiasm.

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Mother Teresa is not blind to

The world's shortcomings,

But her forgiveness-heart

Is larger than the largest.

Therefore, she is able to house

All the world's shortcomings. ```

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She has a special message for mankind:

Pray and pray and pray

For the fulfilment

Of all your dreams.

She also tells us:

Life is not for complaining.

Life is for self-perfection.

Life is for God-satisfaction. ```

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It is true

That Heaven heals earth's sorrows.

It is equally true

That a Heaven-born child

By the name of Teresa

Self-givingly heals earth's sorrows

In boundless measure.

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When you are in front of Mother Teresa,

Earthbound desires leave you

And Heaven-born desires enter into you.

These Heaven-born desires are:

To feed the poor,

To serve the needy.

Lo, you will see that

The redeemer and the sufferer

Are none other

Than Christ Himself. ```

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Not only unique but unsurpassable

She will forever remain

In lighting the hope-candles of countless lives

With her heart's sun-faith-flames. ```

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When we soulfully offer Mother

What we have:

A gratitude-heart,

She blesses us

With what she is:

Her Infinity's energy-life. ```

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Every day Mother Teresa invites

True God-servers for the poor

And the needy

To enjoy an ego-fat-free life,

Which is the most delicious God-Bliss-diet.

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When Mother Teresa bathes

The patients fast-approaching death

With her compassion-heart,

Compassion-eyes and

Compassion-hands,

Her soul and her Lord Jesus

Bathe in the sea of Infinity's Ecstasy.

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Service, service, service!

Mother Teresa wants us to serve

God the creation

Sleeplessly and breathlessly,

And when we ask her

What will happen if we serve

God the way

She wants us to serve Him,

Mother tells us:

'Come and see me!

For you, I am the fastest escalator

To God's floor of Delight!' ```

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She tells us to fight off

The waves of constant fear

While nursing the death-bound patients.

Lo, we become the beauty

Of the Mother Earth;

We become the Fragrance

Of Father Heaven.

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The moment I imagine

The Mother's Eternity's service-eyes,

I become the world-inspiration-starter.

The moment I feel

Her Infinity's service-heart,

I become the world-champion-winner. ```

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Mother Teresa's blessingful message

To us is this:

The end is freedom from living and dying.

The end is eternal life.

Until then, patience.

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Something more she tells us:

Forgive and forgive quickly.

Even slow forgiveness

Is infinitely better

Than no forgiveness.

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Finally, the most important message

From Mother Teresa Echoes and re-echoes

in our aspiration-heart:

God is constantly watching

Our love-devotion-surrender-watch.

Our heart responds to His Whispering,

Our life to His Beckoning.

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Sri Chinmoy's eulogy for Mother Teresa

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Mother Teresa:

Calcutta's Soaring Bird

India’s Sailing Moon

The World's Weeping Sky

Earth's Tearing Loss

Heaven's Dancing Gain

The Christ's Blossoming Promise

The Mother Mary's Harvesting Pride. ```

Editor's note

Poetry reprinted in honour of Mother Teresa’s Birth Centenary. The author, Sri Chinmoy, was nominated many times for the Nobel Prize in Literature. The bird drawing artwork is by Sri Chinmoy.

From:Sri Chinmoy,Mother Teresa: Humanity’s Flower-Heart, Divinity’s Fragrance-Soul, part 1, Agni Press, 1997
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