O my mind

1.

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O my mind,

Do not tell others

That they are suffering

Because they have done something wrong.

For God's sake,

Do not add insult to injury! ```

2.

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O my mind,

Stop advising others.

It is high time for you

To be a better creation of God's

Than what you think you are.

```

3.

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O my mind,

You will soon be dominated

By ruthless guilt.

For you are using guilt

To manipulate your dear ones.

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4.

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O my mind,

You need not be doomed

To disappointment!

God does know

That you need purity

More than anything else.

Lo, God is giving you another chance

To sincerely and soulfully pray. ```

5.

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O my mind,

As a self-giving player,

My heart is infinitely better than you.

Play with the better competition.

Your capacity for self-giving

Will quickly and considerably improve. ```

6.

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O my mind,

Do you know

Why you are good for nothing?

You are good for nothing

Because you daydream too much

About the uncertain future. ```

7.

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O my mind,

Your doubt-connection

With your powerful vital

Will end in an unhappy disaster.

Try to develop

A beautiful friendship

With your prayerful and fruitful heart.

```

8.

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O my mind,

When did God tell you

That you are always destined

To do something stupid? ```

9.

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O my mind,

Ask your heart

Immediately for help.

You badly need help

From your heart

To see supremely good qualities

In all human beings.

```

10.

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O my mind,

Before God takes away

Your pleasure-life,

Can you not beg Him to grant you

His Compassion-Forgiveness-Treasure?

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11.

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O my mind,

Your unhappy experiences

From human beings

Can never be an adequate excuse

For you to remain shockingly imperfect.

```

12.

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O my mind,

God is supremely proud of you

Only when He sees in you

A most sincere willingness to see good

In your fellow citizens of this world.

```

13.

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O my mind,

Since all your life

You have been giving undue importance

To what you know,

Can you not now

At least give due importance

To what you do not know at all?

```

14.

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O my mind,

Intolerance is an easy thing.

This is not something unknown to you.

Can you not try

To achieve something really difficult?

Love the world more,

Ever more.

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15.

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O my mind,

My great task

Is to make you likable,

Nay, lovable by others — by all.

Of course, God is included!

```

16.

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O my mind,

What you need is cooperation

With the other members of your family.

Once you have that,

Then anger and frustration

Will run away from you

Faster than the fastest.

```

17.

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O my mind,

Invoke God the Forgiveness first,

And then invoke God the Compassion.

Then God the Justice

Will send you this message:

"My child,

I am glad to inform you

That you can surely escape my visit." ```

18.

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O my mind,

Negativity does not become you.

Be positive in everything

And in every way.

In you, with you and through you

God's Vision of the Beyond

Will be manifested.

```

19.

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O my mind,

Anything that is humanly right

May not always be divinely good.

But anything that is divinely good

Is undoubtedly always humanly right.

```

20.

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O my mind,

Do not feel sad

That you are rejected by mankind.

Just be humble and pure.

You will before long be protected

By the Absolute Lord Himself. ```

21.

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O my mind,

Do unfurl

Your hard-earned purity-banner

And champion the cause

Of self-offering.

```

22.

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O my mind,

If you do not care to acknowledge

Your own weaknesses,

How will you ever control

And perfect them?

```

23.

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O my mind,

In your newly discovered

Aspiration-life,

Do not permit procrastination.

What you call your procrastination,

God calls His starvation —

Starvation for reciprocal love,

Oneness and satisfaction-delight. ```

24.

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O my mind,

You have been my teacher

For a very, very long time.

From today on

I shall be your teacher.

O my mind,

You forced me to be your student,

But I shall swiftly awaken you

And unconditionally illumine you. ```

25.

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O my mind,

Stop thinking that you are

The absolute authority on everything.

```

26.

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O my mind,

Because you are utterly stupid,

You think that you can overthrow

My heart's joy-government. ```

27.

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O my mind,

You must know

That nobody thinks highly of you

When you indulge in self-pity. ```

28.

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O my mind,

Before expecting world-perfection,

You must prove to the world

That you are perfectly faultless

And that you are a genuine student of peace.

```

29.

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O my mind,

Your stupidity

Makes you completely unaware

Of my heart's teeming admirable qualities. ```

30.

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O my mind,

You are nothing

But your own insecurity-success

And your own frustration-progress. ```

31.

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O my mind,

When are you going to become

Once more familiar

With your own long-forgotten

Tranquility-territory?

```

32.

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O my mind,

If you want to weaken

Your strongest pride,

Then start counting

Your missed opportunities.

```

33.

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O my mind,

Do you really want others

To be happy,

Or while others are suffering most deplorably

In utter helplessness,

Are you secretly enjoying

Selfish gratification?

```

34.

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O my mind,

If you allow yourself

Always to be a victim

To worries and anxieties,

Then it is you who have made yourself

A completely drunk driver

On the highway of your own aspiration-life.

```

35.

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O my mind,

When did God tell you

That you are every day destined

To do something great, very great?

Never!

But God did tell you

That every day

You have to be humility incarnate

And purity incarnate.

```

36.

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O my mind,

I shall no longer allow

Your callous rigidity

To overshadow

My heart's beautiful spontaneity.

```

37.

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O my mind,

I shall definitely enjoy

The separation between your dark doubts

And my heart's bright faith.

Needless to say,

I am all for my heart's faith. ```

38.

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O my mind,

You are terrified of the unknown.

Look!

My heart not only admires the unknown

But is also fond of the Unknowable.

```

39.

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O my mind,

From this moment on,

My heart and I shall demand

Your deep respect.

No more will you be allowed

To belittle us! ```

40.

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O my mind,

One day you will wonder

Why you have not seen

My heart's unparalleled beauty before. ```

41.

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O my mind,

Do not pretend!

You cannot be nearly as innocent,

Sincere and pure

As you always try to appear.

```

42.

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O my mind,

Every day you are the inventor

Of confusion-monkey

And the discoverer

Of frustration-tiger.

```

43.

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O my mind,

In case you do not know,

I am telling you

That your happiness is fragile

But my heart's delight is everlasting.

```

44.

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O my mind,

Quite often you take vacations

From the aspiration-school.

I am ashamed of you.

Indeed,

That is an understatement. ```

45.

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O my mind,

Your wild restlessness,

My heart's calmness forgives.

But I cannot and I do not.

I do not even want to.

```

46.

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O my mind,

At long last

I have summoned the courage to tell you

That you are a shameless rogue.

My aspiration-heart and I

Will have nothing more to do with you. ```

47.

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O my mind,

Will you ever care for your perfection?

Take your own time;

I am not expecting

An immediate answer.

```

48.

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O my mind,

You exaggerate your strength

Far beyond your imagination.

Look!

My heart does not even want to advertise

Its God-given strength. ```

49.

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O my mind,

You buy a round-trip ticket

When you go to visit

The cottage of truth.

You quickly come back

To your falsehood-apartment.

My heart buys only a one-way ticket

To go to Truth-Palace.

Once it reaches Truth-Palace,

It does not return. ```

50.

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O my mind,

I am embarrassed

To see your over-confidence.

Your over-confidence ignores

Not only God the creation

But also God the Creator. ```

51.

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O my mind,

You depend on doubt.

Do you know that

The real name of doubt is frustration?

My heart depends on faith.

The real name of faith

Is satisfaction-jubilee.

```

52.

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O my mind,

So often you are befriended

By cynicism.

My heart and I are befriended

By the embrace of the universal man.

```

53.

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O my mind,

Because you do not have patience,

You badly fail.

Because my heart has patience,

God and my heart

Ultimately have each other

And enjoy each other.

```

54.

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O my mind,

Sincerity is powerfully knocking

At your door.

How long will you and your false pride

Ignore your unconditional well-wisher?

```

55.

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O my mind,

You must realise

That there is a vast difference

Between your great intentions

And my heart's good accomplishments.

```

56.

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O my mind,

Your life is nothing other

Than volcano-suspicion.

But my heart's aspiration-cry

And my Lord's Compassion-Light

Will never allow you to explode. ```

57.

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O my mind,

God does not want you

To make something great out of your suffering.

God does not want you

To idealise or idolise your suffering.

God wants you to take suffering,

When it comes,

As a valuable lesson. ```

58.

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O my mind,

No matter how often

Or how hard you try

To make others believe

Your falsehood-propaganda,

It will never pass for Truth. ```

59.

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O my mind,

If you deliberately remain

A stranger to purity and humility,

Then in God's Compassion-Heart-Home

You will always remain

Unexpected and uninvited. ```

60.

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O my mind,

Once more if you say

That you are depressed

And you need my sympathy,

I shall not remain silent.

I shall tell you the real reason.

The real reason for your depression

Is that you secretly and openly

Enjoy the pleasures of lethargy.

```

61.

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O my mind,

You are a constant trouble-maker,

But I shall not surrender to you.

I know that before long

My Lord Supreme will come to me

As my trouble-shooter. ```

62.

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O my mind,

Why are you so stupid?

As soon as you are inspired,

Why do you not go one step ahead,

And aspire to expedite

Your stupendous success-glory? ```

63.

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O my mind,

You can never be as serious

As you seem.

You can never be as pure

As you seem.

But you can be,

And you actually are,

As much of a doubt-monster

As you seem.

```

64.

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O my mind,

When I enter into my heart-room,

I clearly hear

The sweet melody of a golden flute.

But when you enter into my heart,

You command confusion-din

To accompany you.

```

65.

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O my mind,

When I think of your stupidity,

I feel sad.

When I think of your insincerity,

I am mad.

When I think of your imminent

And permanent surrender

To my truth-serving and God-loving heart,

I become glad, supremely glad.

```

66.

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O my mind,

I do not trust you.

I am sure you know that.

I shall trust you

Only when you come to me alone,

And not with your dangerous doubt-friend

And useless uncertainty-friend.

```

67.

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O my mind,

You and I have been together

For a very long time.

But now I want to leave you

And go beyond you.

Do you want to know why,

After all these years,

I want to discontinue our association?

Only one reason:

You do not have soulful confidence.

What you have is either

Ridiculous over-confidence

Or confidence-famine.

I simply don't want either of the two. ```

68.

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O my mind,

You have made me ruthless.

You and I have become

Perfect strangers to sensitivity.

When are we going to realise

That kindness is the only key

To our real satisfaction?

```

69.

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O my mind,

My heart and I

Did not know ahead of time

That we would love each other so much.

And I never knew ahead of time

That you with your trickeries

And my vital with its aggressions

Would be so unthinkably hostile

To me and my heart.

```

70.

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O my mind,

It is simply useless to tell you

That unlike you,

Not only my heart

But also others' hearts

Are extremely beautiful and pure.

You have taken an oath

Not to listen to truth. ```

71.

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O my mind,

You secretly and shamelessly

Want to thrive

On the misfortunes of others.

Is that possible?

No, you fool, never! ```

72.

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O my mind,

Time and again

You have broken my heart

With false promises.

You are so cruel!

You are such a liar!

Even though my heart is broken,

It is healing the wounds

You have inflicted on my dedication-life.

```

73.

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O my mind,

Day by day

Your insincerity-breath

Is increasing its capacity.

Before you and your breath become immortal,

I must either illumine you or destroy you. ```

74.

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O my mind,

Are you blind?

Are you deaf?

Can you not see,

Can you not hear,

That the whole world is telling me

That my heart is the mother

Of Eternity's love

And Immortality's affection?

```

75.

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O my mind,

By defying my soul's authority

And by turning a deaf ear

To my heart's soulful requests,

You have become an object of contempt

And not of admiration. ```

76.

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O my mind,

Unlike you,

I appreciate, admire and adore

The human beings who take risks

To accomplish their dedication-services

To God the creation. ```

77.

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O my mind,

Instead of being a busy fault-finder

Can you not become

A busy, always busy,

God-lover?

```

From:Sri Chinmoy,O my mind, Agni Press, 1988
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