My Race-Prayers, part 3

1.

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O my blue-gold heart-bird,

I love you,

I need you,

I treasure you.

You are my joy,

You are my pride,

You are my All.

```

29 April 2006

New York

2.

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I love my Lord’s

Whisper-Blessings.

My Lord loves my

Hunger-yearnings.

```

6 May 2006 New York

3.

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Long before God comes to us,

He sends His angels to us.

Before His angels come to us,

God sends us divine thoughts

And divine feelings.

Before the divine thoughts

And divine feelings,

He gives us purity-hearts.

With purity we all must begin

Our spiritual journey.

```

13 May 2006 New York

4.

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My Lord says to me,

“My child,

Take your outer pain

As your inner gain.

Take your outer failures

As your inner triumphs.

Take your outer life

As an experience.

Take your inner life

As your path-finder.”

```

20 May 2006 New York

5.

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Heaven’s Silence-Music

Is only for the hearts

Of God’s Victory-singers.

```

27 May 2006

New York

6.

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In my aspiration-life,

My Master-obedience

Is my heart’s

God-blossoming dawn.

```

3 June 2006 New York

7.

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Only one attachment:

God’s Will.

No other attachments,

Old or new!

```

10 June 2006 New York

8.

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My Lord,

I run and run and run and run

To make You happy.

“My child,

You are the smile of My Eye,

You are the beauty of My Heart

And you are the pride of My Life.”

```

11 June 2006

New York

9.

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Krishna, my Lord,

Your morning flute

Feeds my heart.

Your twilight cows

Feed my eyes.

```

17 June 2006

New York

10.

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The outer rain

Proudly comes down

From the expansion-sky.

The inner Rain

Blessingfully descends

From God’s Compassion-Eye.

```

24 June 2006 New York

11.

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I have three indispensable Saviours:

My Lord’s lavishing Hand,

My Lord’s cherishing Heart,

My Lord’s protecting Eye.

```

22 July 2006 New York

12.

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I am the world’s longest distance

Daring and shattering runner —

My Supreme Lord’s Sun-Power-Smile

And His Moon-Bliss-Love-winner.

```

22 July 2006 New York

13.

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My tears and smiles

Sleeplessly feed

God’s birthless and deathless

Heart-Hunger.

```

5 August 2006/ New York

14.

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I am happy, only happy,

When I place

My naughty mind

And my haughty head

At God’s Feet.

```

19 August 2006

New York

15.

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To all the marathon runners

I am blessingfully offering

My heart’s boundless joy,

Boundless gratitude

And boundless pride, pride, pride.

```

25 August 2006

New York

16.

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Everything is possible.

In a twinkling

I can clasp God’s Eye.

In a twinkling

I can touch God’s Feet.

In a twinkling

I can breathe God’s Heart.

```

9 September 2006

New York

17.

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The life that has no goal

Is an utter failure-life.

The life that has a goal

Wins the Smile of God.

```

23 September 2006 New York

18.

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We love our desire-life

Infinitely more than we love God.

God loves only us,

And never, never, never, never

Our desire-life.

```

30 September 2006

New York

19.

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I speak to God’s

Golden Feet.

God speaks to my

Broken heart.

```

7 October 2006 New York

20.

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True, true, true,

True, true, true —

A pure thought

Can remain unchallenged

In my aspiration-heart.

```

14 October 2006

New York

21.

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I pray to God’s Eye

For love.

I pray to God’s Heart

For devotion.

I pray to God’s Feet

For surrender.

```

4 November 2006 New York

22.

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First you must bask

In the sunshine

Of your Master’s grace

Before you can see

God’s Face.

```

11 November 2006

New York

23.

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I pray to God

To see His golden Feet.

I meditate on God

To be His choice instrument.

```

18 November 2006 New York

24.

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While running,

I feel God’s Love,

God’s Joy and God’s Pride

Inside my heart

At every moment.

```

2 December 2006

Belek, Turkey

25.

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The outer sun

Sadly tells me

How far I am from God.

The inner sun

Secretly tells me

How close I am to God.

```

7 December 2006 Antalya, Turkey

26.

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A self-giving thought

Is a God-fulfilling

Achievement-joy.

```

10 December 2006

Antalya, Turkey

27.

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The outer running

Is the God-awareness-joy.

The inner running

Is the God-closeness-ecstasy.

```

13 December 2006 Antalya, Turkey

28.

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My Lord, my Lord!

In Heaven I adore

Your dreaming Eye.

My Lord, my Lord!

On earth I worship

Your protecting Feet.

```

16 December 2006 Antalya, Turkey

29.

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Down I bring my Lord

To earth

To cry with me

And weep with my heart.

Up my Lord carries me

To Heaven

To dream with Him

For a new creation.

```

20 December 2006 Antalya, Turkey

30.

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My life is a humble

Earth-builder.

My heart is an eager

Heaven-promoter.

```

23 December 2006 Antalya, Turkey

31.

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In secrecy supreme

My Beloved Lord tells me

That I have done extremely well

In all my love-devotion-surrender

Examinations.

```

26 December 2006

Antalya, Turkey

32.

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My eyes can fool me,

My ears can fool me,

But not my heart

That loves God only.

```

30 December 2006 Varna, Bulgaria

33.

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Every morning and every evening

My soul, my heart and I

Salute and salute and salute

Our Lord’s Victory-Banner.

```

3 January 2007 Varna, Bulgaria

34.

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Not God’s Kindness,

Not God’s Strictness,

But God’s Heart-Tears

Have changed my life completely.

```

6 January 2007 Varna, Bulgaria

35.

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My Lord,

Do tell me the secret of secrets:

How I can please You all the time

In Your own Way.

“My child,

Sing, sing and sing

Only surrender-songs.”

```

10 January 2007

Varna, Bulgaria

36.

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Running early in the morning

With God-devotion-heart-joy

Is absolutely the best way

To start the day.

```

13 January 2007 Varna, Bulgaria

37.

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My Lord Supreme,

May I bask every morning

In the Sunshine

Of Your Heaven-born Smiles.

```

17 January 2007 Varna, Bulgaria

38.

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My Lord, my Lord, my Lord,

You live inside my painful body.

You also live inside my blissful heart.

Which place do You prefer?

“My child,

I have no preference.

I love your body and your heart equally.

I suffer and suffer

With your painful body.

I enjoy and enjoy

Your blissful heart.”

```

27 January 2007

Cha-Am, Thailand

39.

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My Lord,

When I pray, it is all wrong.

When I meditate, it is all wrong.

When I serve, it is all wrong.

My Lord, what can I do?

“My child,

Before you pray,

Ask Me to pray in and through you.

Before you meditate,

Ask Me to meditate in and through you.

Before you serve,

Ask Me to serve in and through you.

Give Me the full responsibility.

You just be the witness.

Watch Me, what I do and how I do it.”

```

31 January 2007

Cha-Am, Thailand

40.

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God’s Face I love.

God’s Eye I love more.

God’s Heart I love much more.

God’s Feet I love infinitely more.

```

3 February 2007 Cha-Am, Thailand

41.

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True, my eyes are empty

Of God’s Face,

But my heart is all

God’s blossomed Face.

```

9 February 2007 Chiang Mai, Thailand

42.

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Each running step

Beautifully blossoms

As a divine opportunity

To please God in His own Way

Along His Eternity’s Road.

```

13 February 2007

Chiang Mai, Thailand

43.

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My constant upward flight

Solely depends on

My heart’s receptivity-depth.

```

16 February 2007

Chiang Mai, Thailand

44.

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In my inner life,

I am a Heaven-climbing cry.

In my outer life,

I am a man-serving tree.

```

20 February 2007 Chiang Mai, Thailand

45.

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My failure-life

Is painful.

My success-life

Is delightful.

My progress-life

Is powerful.

```

23 February 2007 Chiang Mai, Thailand

46.

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I chose God-obedience

To become

God’s Heart-Rose.

```

3 March 2007

New York

47.

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Fast, faster, fastest

Go alone.

Every day God will speak to you

Over the phone.

```

10 March 2007 New York

48.

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Each God-given responsibility-task

Is a golden opportunity

To please God in His own Way.

```

24 March 2007

New York

49.

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My sleepless surrender

To God’s Will

Entirely depends on

My unconditional love of God.

```

31 March 2007 New York

50.

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May my heart

Be the beauty

Of a morning rose-garden.

```

7 April 2007

New York

51.

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In the morning

I swim in the river

Of God-aspiration.

In the evening

I swim in the sea

Of God-surrender.

```

10 April 2007 New York

52.

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Every morning and every evening

I feed my Lord Supreme

With my soul’s beauty,

My heart’s sincerity

And my life’s simplicity.

```

14 April 2007

New York

53.

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I love the blossoming Beauty

Of the morning God.

I love the deepening Peace

Of the evening God.

I love, I love, I love.

```

21 April 2007

New York

54.

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This morning my Lord Supreme

Has blessingfully shared with me

His most secret

And most sacred Dream —

The time when this world of ours

Shall be inundated with my Lord’s

Peace-Beauty and Peace-Fragrance.

```

28 April 2007

New York

55.

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My Lord,

Please, please, please

Bless me with a supreme Secret.

“My child,

I do not want you to be great.

I do not want you to be good.

I want you to be Mine, only Mine.

This is My supreme Secret.”

```

5 May 2007 New York

56.

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I sail

My golden dream-reality-boat

Between

My God-obedience-life-shore

And

My God-gratitude-heart-shore.

```

12 May 2007 New York

57.

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Every morning is the birth

Of a new hope.

Every day is the birth

Of a new promise.

Every evening is the birth

Of a new peace.

Every night is the birth

Of a new dream.

```

26 May 2007 New York

58.

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Morning is the sacred time

To offer the world

My God-happiness-soul.

Morning is the secret time

To feed

My God-longing heart.

```

2 June 2007 New York

59.

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My sincere humility-life

Is God’s

Precious utility-joy.

```

9 June 2007

New York

60.

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I sing for God soulfully.

God sings for me blessingfully.

We’ll go on, go on

Through Eternity.

```

23 June 2007 New York

61.

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When the tears of my heart

Go to my Lord crawling,

My Lord immediately embraces them

With infinite Affection, Love,

Sweetness and Fondness,

And then teaches them

How to sprint

Faster than the fastest,

How to fly

Higher than the highest

And how to dive

Deeper than the deepest.

```

7 July 2007 New York

62.

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Do not surrender to your fate.

Do not accept your fate.

Love God more and more,

Unconditionally.

God has two big Ears.

He will transform

Your earth-bound fate

Into the Heaven-free Bliss.

```

14 July 2007 New York

63.

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God’s Eye is my body’s

Protection-Temple.

God’s Heart is my life’s

Illumination-Shrine.

```

21 July 2007 New York

64.

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No lasting defeat,

No lasting failure!

At God’s Hour —

Victory, victory!

Now just endure.

```

28 July 2007

New York

65.

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My Lord does not believe

In my very clever mind-flattery.

He believes only

In my life’s world-service-tree.

```

4 August 2007 New York

66.

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Every morning

And every evening

My soul most devotedly records

The Nectar-flooded Discourses

Of my Lord Beloved Supreme.

```

11 August 2007

New York

67.

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I must make my heart

A pure God-surrender-song

So that I can strike

God’s largest Victory-Gong.

```

19 August 2007 New York

68.

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Marathon is

An unimaginable joy-experience

Of the heart.

Marathon is

An unbearable suffering-experience

Of the body, the vital and the mind.

```

24 August 2007

Rockland Lake State Park, New York

Short talk offered before the marathon:

I have invoked special Blessings of my Absolute Lord Beloved Supreme for all the marathon runners. Each marathon is an unimaginable joy for the runner’s heart. Again, each marathon is an unspeakable torture for the body, the vital and the mind. Our philosophy is to transcend — transcend the physical pain and transcend our previous achievements. My blessings, my love and my gratitude I am offering to each and every runner.

And my special request to you all is this: when you find you are tired, extremely, extremely tired, exhausted, then do not continue, do not continue.

All my love. Start!

69.

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May I be a morning

Ascending wave of bliss.

May I be an evening

Descending wave of peace.

```

26 August 2007 New York

70.

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Every day I ply my life-boat

Between

My dreaming soul-shore

And

My crying heart-shore.

```

1 September 2007

New York

71.

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My Lord Supreme,

No more will You suffer

For my sake.

My life has stopped swimming

In ignorance-lake.

```

8 September 2007

New York

72.

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Life is a constant battle

Between the human in us

And the divine in us —

And the divine in us

Will ultimately wear

Victory’s garland.

```

15 September 2007 New York

73.

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The fever of the body

Comes and goes.

May my God-love-heart-fever

Remain forever and forever.

The fever of the body

Is torture unbearable.

My God-love-heart-fever

Is rapture unimaginable.

```

29 September 2007 New York

Notes

Editor's note

These prayers were mostly offered by Sri Chinmoy at the conclusion of the weekly Saturday morning “Runners are smilers two-mile races” held in New York. In 2002 Sri Chinmoy renamed them “Self-Transcendence Races.” During Christmas trips to other countries, additional races are held on other days of the week over shorter or longer distances. Sri Chinmoy frequently participated in these races.

From:Sri Chinmoy,My Race-Prayers, part 3, Agni Press, 2008
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