Peace-Blossom-Fragrance, part 4

301.

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Peace

Blossoms fast,

Very fast,

From my heart's

Cheerful God-willingness.

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302.

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The doubt of the mind

And the suspicion of the mind

Together strangle

The peace of the mind. ```

303.

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To have a peace-sea-heart

Is to have

God's immediate Smile

And His complete Satisfaction. ```

304.

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The goal of my peace

Is infinitely higher

Than my mind's greatness.

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305.

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The goal of my peace

Is infinitely deeper

Than my heart's goodness.

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306.

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The goal of my peace

Is my sleepless and breathless

God-oneness.

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307.

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Every morning God visits

My heart-garden

To blessingfully take care of

My peace-plants. ```

308.

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O my mind, be careful!

If you do not care for peace,

And if you ignore peace

All the time,

Who knows, one day

You may act like a beast. ```

309.

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God is extremely unhappy to learn

That I have stopped studying

In my heart's God-fulfilling

Peace-school. ```

310.

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God is commanding me

Once more to go back

To my heart's peace-school.

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311.

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Yesterday my heart and I

Visited our soul.

Our soul's peace-infinity fed us

And fulfilled us

Far beyond our imagination-flight.

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312.

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There is no dying hope;

There is only fulfilling promise

Inside my peace-flooded heart.

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313.

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There is no peace

Inside my mind's

Disobedience-volcano.

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314.

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There is only

Fast-blossoming peace

Inside

My aspiration-heart-garden. ```

315.

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As soon as we are born,

Father-Heaven blesses us

With His Peace-Whispers,

And Mother-Earth blesses us

With Her Compassion-Tears.

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316.

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I live in two places:

Inside

My hope-joy-mind

And inside

My peace-dream-heart.

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317.

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A heart of peace is expert

At loving God

Unreservedly and unconditionally

At first sight. ```

318.

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Whenever

The Heaven above me sees me,

It blesses me

With its Infinity's peace-smile. ```

319.

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My sweet Lord,

I pray to You,

Do not allow my heart to die

With its completely shattered

Peace-dreams.

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320.

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God does not want me

To remain a stark fool.

Therefore

He has told me

That no true and abiding peace

Can ever be founded

Upon compromise-opportunities.

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321.

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My mind's fear, doubt,

Jealousy and insecurity

Helplessly bow their heads

To my heart's God-Peace-certainty. ```

322.

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Where heart's peace is,

Life's insufficiency is not. ```

323.

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Alas, from time immemorial,

The absence of peace

Has ruthlessly afflicted

The human race. ```

324.

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The heart of peace

Speedily runs away

From the impurity-mind's

Ugly presence. ```

325.

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My soul devotedly

Followed God's Peace-Heart

While entering into

The earth-arena. ```

326.

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Alas, I do not know

How I can have peace

If I do not dare

To expunge ruthlessly

My mind's ego-absurdities.

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327.

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My friend,

You want to know

Why I have so much peace.

I have peace in abundance

Because my heart's streaming tears

And my Lord's beaming Smiles

Are immediate neighbours.

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328.

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The anxiety-arrows may,

At times,

Succeed in piercing

The poise of my mind,

But never

The peace of my heart. ```

329.

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I am more deplorable

Than a street-beggar

When I do not have peace

At every single moment

Of my life.

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330.

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Earth-enjoyment

Is not peace.

Peace-enjoyment

Is earth-transcendence. ```

331.

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Peace lives in me

Because

My life-breath lives

Only in God. ```

332.

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Peace lives

In a God-realised soul

Because all the spiritual Masters

Breathe their breath in him. ```

333.

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Peace

Is not and cannot be

In my mind's rejection.

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334.

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Peace

Is only in the smile

Of my mind-illumination.

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335.

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My heart's peace

Is so beautiful and powerful

When I look at my heart's peace

With the eye of my soul. ```

336.

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My doubt-mind is dying disappointed,

But my peace-heart is appointed

By God Himself

For His permanent service. ```

337.

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Peace

Is not in the thirst

To know.

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338.

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Peace

Is not in the hunger

To understand.

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339.

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Peace is

In the God-manifestation-meal. ```

340.

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Peace-game we play

When I weep and God laughs,

And when I laugh and God weeps.

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341.

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The flower of the life-tree

Is wisdom.

The fruit of the life-tree

Is peace. ```

342.

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To have a heart of peace

Is to enjoy the art

Of being Heaven-natural

And not earth-unique. ```

343.

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God comes to my heart

With peace

Only after my heart has done

Its God-manifestation-homework. ```

344.

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Alas, helpless are

The peace-dreamers.

Equally, useless are

The ignorance-lovers. ```

345.

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Do you know how I have

Peace of mind every day?

I have peace of mind

Because I walk every day

Along my heart's God-surrender-road.

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346.

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Peace

I never had

From my world-criticism.

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347.

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Peace

I now have

From my world-encouragement.

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348.

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Absurdity reaches its zenith

When war-mongers

In the inner world

Become peace-inspirers

In the outer world.

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349.

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My God-obedience-peace-mind

Has finally flung off

All its cherished

World-possession-fetters. ```

350.

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Only my folded, prayerful hands

And my unfolded, cheerful heart

Have the capacity to enjoy climbing

God's universal and transcendental

Peace-Tree.

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351.

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When my mind is bent upon

Outdoing others,

I become the desert-dryness-Sahara.

When my heart is bent upon

Loving others

And standing side by side

With others,

I become the peace-fulness-Pacific. ```

352.

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My mind comforts itself

By broadcasting

Peace-philosophy.

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353.

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My heart comforts itself

By playing

Peace-flute-melodies.

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354.

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My soul comforts itself

By whispering peace

Into my all-eagerness-ears.

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355.

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My wall-builder-mind

Will never have

An atom of peace.

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356.

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My well-digger-heart

Will without fail discover

Peace in abundance.

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357.

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May my mind

Be as happy as hope.

May my heart

Be as fulfilled as peace. ```

358.

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I am my mind's teacher.

I teach my mind

That without peace

Everything suffers. ```

359.

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I am my heart's student.

My heart teaches me

That in peace

Everything prospers. ```

360.

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When God gives

His Peace-Lecture,

He signals my heart

To occupy the gratitude-seat. ```

361.

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Beautiful

Is the silence-sky

Of my mind.

Fruitful

Is the peace-sun

Of my heart. ```

362.

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Man's eternal question

To God:

"Where is peace?"

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363.

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God's eternal question

To man:

"My child, where is

Your peace-necessity?" ```

364.

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O my stupid mind,

Do you think you will be able

To prove to the world

That you are so brave and wise

That you can pass your days and nights

Without peace? ```

365.

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O my suspicion-mind,

No matter how wide

You open your mouth,

You will not be able to devour

My heart's peace-blossoms.

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366.

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Our world certainly needs

Spiritual maturity

Before it is blessed by God

With peace infinite. ```

367.

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Not from the outer world history,

But from inner God-discovery only

Can we have peace.

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368.

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The outer battlefield-hero

Is the atom bomb.

The inner battlefield-hero supreme

Is peace. ```

369.

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Anxiety cannot purchase peace,

But peace easily can and does

Purchase anxiety.

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370.

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I do not want to know

What Heaven is doing,

But I do want to know

If earth is sincerely crying

For the descent of peace.

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371.

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When I ask God

The way to Heaven,

He immediately tells me

To go and ask peace. ```

372.

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When I give God

My heart's most special gift:

Peace,

God gives me

His Life's most perfect Gift:

Perfection. ```

373.

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World-disdain

Does not give my life

Even an iota of peace.

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374.

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World-doubt and world-suspicion

Do not give my life

Even an iota of peace.

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375.

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World-acceptance, world-concern,

World-patience, world-sympathy

And world-oneness

Give my life

A peace-fountain-heart.

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376.

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My Lord, are You tired of anything?

"Yes, My child, I am.

I am tired of

World-peace-hypocrisy-talkers." ```

377.

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Joy comes from

Learning something very special.

Peace comes from

Becoming a self-giving fountain-heart. ```

378.

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My Lord Supreme tells me

That joy is my birthright

In my outer life of expanding dedication.

My Lord Supreme tells me

That peace is my birthright

In my inner life of climbing aspiration. ```

379.

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Peace is divinely real

And supremely perfect

In the lap of my God-realisation-hope.

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380.

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God blesses my heart every day

With a fresh supply of peace,

But alas,

My violent God-disobedience-mind

Every day totally destroys it.

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381.

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Yesterday I was

My peace-fascination-mind.

Today I am

My peace-invocation-heart. ```

382.

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Not by changing the appearances

Of the outer life,

But by improving the realities

Of the inner life,

We all can have peace.

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383.

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God is not worried

When peace leads us

To our supreme destination.

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384.

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My hope hopes for

One day more.

My peace longs for

God-Eternity and God-Infinity. ```

385.

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The peace-song

Is the only song

That this world of ours

Has not yet been able to sing

Perfectly.

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386.

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Peace

Is not when death

Draws near.

Peace

Is when my unconditional

God-surrender

Draws near.

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387.

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The rising sun

Blesses my mind

With joy.

The setting sun

Blesses my heart

With peace. ```

388.

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Peace I feel not

When I long to retire

From the world.

Peace I feel

When I long to aspire

For the world. ```

389.

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Peace

Does not fall from

The wings of night.

Peace

Falls from

The eye of the sun. ```

390.

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When my heart shows God

And gives God what it has:

Surrender,

God shows my mind

And gives my mind what He has:

Peace. ```

391.

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The mind that enjoys

Discourses on world-war

Will never have a peace-dreamer

As its listener. ```

392.

```

Reality-awareness

Is not peace.

Reality-embodiment

Is peace. ```

393.

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At last I have discovered

The only way to have peace

For myself

Is to feast my eyes

On my Lord's Compassion-Beauty.

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394.

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Only in

The aspiration-flower-heart

Can one really pray

For peace. ```

395.

```

Only with

The receptivity-beauty-heart

Can one have

Real peace. ```

396.

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Alas, what a fool I am.

Every day I look for peace

In the pathless woods of my mind.

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397.

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Peace-ignoring world leaders

Will fail one by one —

Every one of them.

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398.

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Universal oneness

Is a definite return

To transcendental peace.

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399.

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Each time

I have a pure thought

In my mind,

An angel of peace from Heaven

Descends into my life.

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400.

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God asks only His Peace

And nobody else

To paint the ever-transcending beauty

Of His Universe. ```

From:Sri Chinmoy,Peace-Blossom-Fragrance, part 4, Agni Press, 1994
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