Say a final farewell to your mind's bondage-life

1.

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Stop your friendship

With your mind-fantasies

If you want to enjoy

Your heart-aspiration-ecstasies. ```

2.

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It is high time to revolt

Against the reign

Of your tyrannical and ferocious

Tiger-mind! ```

3.

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Every time I soulfully pray,

I see the blossoming Light

Of God's sacred Smile.

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4.

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I am so grateful to my soul,

For it is helping me

So compassionately

To journey towards

Infinity's Peace.

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5.

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O seeker,

What else is sheer stupidity

If not the greater love you have

For your mind

Than for your heart?

```

6.

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Each time I nourish a good thought,

I give a surprising victory

To my aspiration-heart.

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7.

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Hesitation and indecision

Ruthlessly plague

Even sincere minds

And pure hearts. ```

8.

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Once we enter into the spiritual life,

Our possibility-fulfilment-life

Becomes infinitely easier.

```

9.

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My God-aspiration-hope

Can once more be rekindled

Only by God's Compassion-Eye-Smile.

```

10.

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I shall not allow my life

Anymore to remain

An undisciplined blunder.

```

11.

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I find no truth

In the curiosity

Of my mind's God-search.

```

12.

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O my mind, suspect nothing

If happiness is what you want.

O my heart, fear nothing

If happiness is what you want. ```

13.

```

Idleness wants to be

A world-possessor

Without being

A self-mover. ```

14.

```

Finally I have

The indomitable courage

To jump off my mind's

Jealousy-train. ```

15.

```

If we ignore God the Pilot,

How will we be able to enjoy

His Boat Ride?

```

16.

```

My heart flies

Higher than the highest

When I lose considerably

My mind's desire-pounds. ```

17.

```

A disciplined life

Is the best freedom-enjoyer

In the inner world.

```

18.

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O my mind,

Why do you allow yourself

To suffer from

Desire-bound thought-disease? ```

19.

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How can we ever

Make God happy

If we do not feed

Our own God-hunger? ```

20.

```

If you belittle

Others' gratitude-tears,

God-Satisfaction-Smiles

Will avoid you. ```

21.

```

Be not satisfied

Only with your outer self.

Explore your teeming inner selves.

Only then can you ever

Be truly fulfilled.

```

22.

```

My Lord,

I need Your very special Blessings

To cancel once and for all

All my world-complaints. ```

23.

```

God wants

My life-surrender-sea

And not my surrender-drop

To satisfy Himself. ```

24.

```

When you most powerfully

Say a final farewell

To your mind's bondage-life,

Your soul will treasure you

And utilise you

In God's own Way. ```

25.

```

Every day I wash

My Lord's Compassion-Feet

With my heart's devotion-tears.

```

26.

```

Is there anybody who does not think

That his problems are the worst

And that he is hopelessly drowning

In the sea of helplessness? ```

27.

```

You cannot irritate God,

Even with your shameless impatience

And empty receptivity.

You just delay God's Arrival! ```

28.

```

At every moment

God's Love grows and glows

Inside silence-hearts.

```

29.

```

If you do not forgive and forget

The world's dreadful injustice,

You will not be able

To make the progress

That you want.

```

30.

```

No more do I carry

My power-hungry past.

I live only in

My oneness-hungry present. ```

31.

```

On the strength of

My unconditional surrender,

I feel that to please God

Every step of the way

Is not a difficult task.

```

32.

```

Ignorance is obscure.

Ignorance is impure.

Ignorance is death-preparation.

```

33.

```

If you live in the soul,

With the soul

And for the soul,

You have impeccable God-credentials. ```

34.

```

A determination-mind

And an aspiration-heart

Are treasured by God's divine Pride.

```

35.

```

Today you are

A disobedience-king.

Tomorrow you will be forced to be

The possessor of a flood of tears. ```

36.

```

When I see God,

I always make the same request:

That He visit me

As often as possible. ```

37.

```

From the outer world

You may at times escape.

But from the inner world

You can never escape,

Never!

```

38.

```

My Lord Supreme comes

When He is prayerfully needed

And not when He is

Whimsically called. ```

39.

```

Ignorance can neither

Know nor understand

Why it eventually becomes

A total failure. ```

40.

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May my love become a strong point,

My devotion a stronger point

And my surrender the strongest point

In my aspiration-life. ```

41.

```

God looks into every corner

Of my heart-room

To see if there are

Aspiration-flames available. ```

42.

```

Be proud of your patience.

Your patience will ultimately arrive

At the Goal

And make God exceedingly happy. ```

43.

```

My heart knows

Only one way:

The way of unconditional surrender.

```

44.

```

A desire-mind

Is

An obscurity-insincerity-slave.

```

45.

```

O my mind, "No!"

A thousand times, "No!"

To your desire-hunger-fulfilment.

```

46.

```

Self-worshippers eventually

Cry and cry.

God-worshippers unmistakably

Fly and fly. ```

47.

```

Strength and tolerance

Must be eternal partners

To be victorious in life.

```

48.

```

When we do something good

And when we love

The world of self-giving,

God is infinitely more pleased

Than we can ever imagine.

```

49.

```

If you can dare to laugh at

Your hopeless helplessness,

God will bless you

With His most powerful

And most proud Smile.

```

50.

```

With every child

God creates a new hope

And a new promise

For Himself. ```

From:Sri Chinmoy,Say a final farewell to your mind's bondage-life, Agni Press, 1994
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