Silence-seed and sound-fruit

1. Inner strength

```

Either I shall have to

Cry like a child

Or I shall have to

Smile like a child.

These are the only ways

To constantly gain inner strength.

There are no other ways.

When I cry like a child

Or smile like a child,

Lo, inner strength becomes mine. ```

2. Joy

```

A human life of joy

Is a life of and for

God's Satisfaction-Toy

In humanity,

In His Universal Reality.

```

3. Oneness

```

Oneness with the past

Is our oneness with frustration-night.

Oneness with the present

Is our oneness with hesitation-night.

Oneness with the fast-approaching tomorrow

Is our oneness with God-preparation

For a new dawn.

```

4. Spontaneity

```

Spontaneity

Is God-transcending

Reality,

Divinity

And Immortality

In our life of ever-mounting oneness

With the Absolute.

```

5. Avatar

```

An Avatar is he who is

Heaven's unrecognised infinite capacity

For

Humanity's immortal perfection. ```

6. Mother

```

The human mother tells the child,

"Look up!

There is the truth."

The divine Mother tells the child,

"Look within!

There alone

Is the beauty of truth." ```

7. Gratitude

```

Gratitude

Is self-expansion

And

God-manifestation

In the life of the sincere seeker's

Ever-mounting aspiration. ```

8. Punctuality

```

The seeker's regularity

Makes God

Smile.

The seeker's punctuality

Makes God

Dance.

```

9. The Guru's love

```

If ever a disciple realises,

Even for a fleeting second,

What the Guru's love is,

Then God-realisation for him

Can no longer remain a far cry.

God-realisation then becomes

As easy as drinking water.

```

10. Supreme

```

As long as the animal in us

Plays the role of our Supreme,

We cannot become a genuine seeker.

As long as the human in us

Plays the role of our Supreme,

We cannot become a real seeker.

But

The day the Divine in us

Plays the role of our Supreme,

That day not only will we

Have the Supreme as our guide,

But we will ourselves become the Supreme —

Our only Goal.

```

11. Light

```

Give light;

You will receive more.

Become light;

You will receive much more.

Ask God

Whether to give light or become light;

You will become boundless light.

```

12. Devotion

```

Devotion

To the inner reality

Is liberation

From the shackles

Of temptation and frustration.

```

13. Cry

```

Cry for name and fame;

God will not allow you

To participate in His cosmic Game.

Cry for surrender-participation

In His cosmic Game;

God not only will allow you

To play with Him,

But also will share with you

His infinite Delight. ```

14. Child

```

A human child

Cries for possession.

A divine child

Cries for perfection-progress on earth

And

Perfection-progress in Heaven. ```

15. Salvation

```

If you think of sin,

Then you need salvation.

If you think of ignorance,

Then you need liberation.

If you think of oneness,

Then you need God-realisation,

Self-realisation.

```

16. Self-giving

```

The self-giving life-tree

Becomes slowly,

Steadily

And unerringly

The God-nourishing,

God-immortalising

Fruit.

```

17. Creation

```

Creation is

God-preparation

In silence,

God-transcendence

In silence.

```

18. Marriage

```

A God-ordained marriage

Leads to

Heaven's door.

A man-made marriage

Is the door to

Hell itself.

```

19. Acceptance

```

A surrendered life

Is God-satisfaction acceptance-light

In the heart

Of a genuine seeker. ```

20. Peace

```

Peace is not in seeing,

Peace is not in receiving,

Peace is not in feeling,

Peace is not in giving;

Peace is in praying to God

For peace-role

In the seeker's aspiring life.

```

21. Education

```

The best education

In the human life

Is self-giving.

The best education

In the divine life

Is unconditional surrender

To God's Will. ```

22. Vision

```

With our outer vision

We see the world

The way we want to see the world.

With our inner vision

We see the world

The way God wants us to see the world.

How does God want us to see the world?

He wants us to see the world

As God-preparing perfection. ```

23. Capacity

```

God never asks us

To do something beyond our capacity.

He always grants us

Infinitely more than the necessary capacity

When He asks us to do something for Him.

```

24. Beyond

```

The Beyond

Is in my heart's cry

For my nature's transformation

And

For the constant Satisfaction

Of my Beloved Supreme. ```

25. Sacred

```

A sacred life is needed

To receive God.

A sacred life is needed

To reveal the divine in us.

A sacred life is needed

For the real in us

To become universally real.

But a supreme life is needed

To carry the message of God. ```

26. Immortality

```

Immortality

Is not a vague word;

It is a reality.

And this reality dawns

Only when the seeker becomes

A conscious and constant cry

For God-satisfaction in himself.

```

27. Spirituality

```

Spirituality

Is the only reality

That grows in our inner life,

That glows in our outer life

And

That flows in God's ever-transcending

Silence-Life.

```

28. Hope

```

Real hope is not mere wishful thinking.

Real hope is the seed of reality in us

Which is bound to manifest itself

In God-satisfaction

Reality-tree,

Reality-flower,

Reality-fruit.

```

29. Ignorance

```

When I consciously do not mix

With ignorance-night,

Delight spontaneously mixes with me

And promises me

That light will always mix with me.

```

30. Instrument

```

Lord Supreme,

Make me a hallowed instrument,

A flute,

So that You can play on me

With Your all-illumining,

All-liberating,

All-immortalising

Delight. ```

31. Soul

```

The soul not only tells us about

The existence of the supreme Goal,

But also shows us

Where the Goal is

And

What the Goal is. ```

32. Becoming

```

Lord Supreme,

I am becoming

A surrendered instrument of Yours

Precisely because

That is what You want

For Your constant and continuous

Satisfaction in me.

```

33. Energy

```

The divine in me grows

Only when I devotedly allow

The supreme Energy to flow.

What is the supreme Energy?

The supreme Energy is my constant

Offering of my gratitude-heart

To the Supreme.

```

34. Silence and sound

```

God's Silence-Life

Is God's perfect Love-Life

In God.

God's Sound-Life

Is God's constant Satisfaction-Life

In man.

```

35. Soulfulness

```

Man's soulfulness

Is God's all-fulfilling Oneness

With the seeker's promise

To the Absolute Supreme

For God-manifestation.

```

36. Reality

```

Earth-bound reality tells me

That I am of ignorance-night

And for ignorance-night.

Heaven-free reality tells me

That I am eternally

What God wants me to be:

His constant and conscious instrument. ```

37. Divine journey

```

The divine journey

Is the continuous, eternal journey

That is not only nearing God-Reality

But is actually bringing God-Reality

To itself.

And this journey is not only the soul's

Continuous preparation

In us,

But also the soul's full blossoming

For us. ```

38. Child

```

A human child

Eventually becomes

God-Perfection.

A divine child

Eternally remains

In God-Satisfaction.

```

39. Eternity

```

Eternity

Is the God-height in man.

Infinity

Is the God-length in man.

Immortality

Is the God-depth in man. ```

40. Clarity

```

Clarity is the greatest wealth

That a human mind can achieve.

Purity is the best wealth

That a human heart can achieve.

Surrender is the best treasure

That a human life can achieve. ```

41. Prayer

```

When I pray,

I pray to God to make me perfect.

When I meditate,

God tells me that

I have all along been perfect,

But I have only to realise it. ```

42. Will

```

Human will is nothing more

Than disheartening hesitation.

Divine Will is nothing short of

God-preparation in us,

God-Perfection for us

And

God-Satisfaction in and through us.

```

43. Faith

```

Inner obedience

Immediately increases our outer faith.

Outer obedience to the spiritual Master

Immediately increases our inner faith.

And when our inner faith is increased,

Our outer ignorance is not only decreased

But immediately and totally diminished.

At that time we become

Perfect instruments of God-manifestation.

```

44. Enlightenment

```

Salvation

Is the first enlightenment

In our inner eternal journey.

Liberation

Is the second enlightenment

In our heavenward eternal journey.

Realisation

Is the third and last

All-illumining and all-fulfilling

Enlightenment

In our eternal journey

Toward ever-transcending

Existence, Consciousness and Bliss.

```

45. Bliss

```

Bliss

Is divine intensity-height.

Bliss

Is God-intensity

For

Universal Reality. ```

46. Creativity

```

Creativity

Is a God-loving reality in us.

Creativity

Is constant God-embodiment,

God-revelation and God-manifestation

In the seeker's evolving life

Of God-Satisfaction.

```

47. Everlasting

```

There is only one everlasting reality

In the human heart

And that everlasting reality is man's

Constant, increasing and expanding

Gratitude.

```

48. Service

```

Sow the unconditional love-seed.

Lo, God grants you

The God-service-tree,

The tree that bears

Nectar-fruit

And

Nectar-satisfaction.

```

49. God-Dream

```

God-Dream

Is unrecognised

Reality in us.

God-Reality

Is unmanifested

Divinity for us,

Only for us. ```

50. Surrender

```

I surrender my outer existence to God

Not because He is very great,

Infinitely great,

But because He is the only Reality

That loves me sincerely,

Truly,

Eternally.

Even I do not love myself

The way God loves me.

To Him alone I surrender. ```

Editor's preface

During a meeting of his Connecticut Centre on August 11, 1975, Sri Chinmoy asked each of his disciples to give him a spiritual word, and he then spontaneously recited a poem based on the word. The different words, and Sri Chinmoy's poems have been collected in this volume.

From:Sri Chinmoy,Silence-seed and sound-fruit, Agni Press, 1975
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