Silence speaks, part 2

1.

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To build a perfection-pyramid

If you ever hope,

Then break asunder within, without

Your attachment-rope. ```

2.

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The mind pretends to know God.

The mind only pretends.

The heart depends on the Lord,

Only on the Lord depends. ```

3.

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Only after

The division-impurity's death

Can you become

Eternity's oneness-breath. ```

4.

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God grants us His special Love

Not because we are always the winners,

But because we offer our special love

To the poor ill-fated, heart-broken losers. ```

5.

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My Lord Supreme is distant

Like a fading star.

I feel His Forgiveness-Heart

Is far, very far. ```

6.

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Unlock

Your negative mind.

Behold,

God is just behind! ```

7.

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Defend your heart's

Gratitude-fort.

Lo, you are at

Perfection-port. ```

8.

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In your impure mind-sea

Swim not!

By delight you will never

Be sought. ```

9.

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One mountain-high

Experience-light:

My tomorrow's life

Shall know no night. ```

10.

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Daily I soulfully pray

To the firmament

To make me a full-time

Seeker permanent. ```

11.

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Your heart is the beauty

Of a fairy,

For you are gratitude-love-diary.

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12.

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Be sure, be sure, be sure,

O seeker-friend, be sure!

God will never allow you

To remain a poor failure. ```

13.

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Doubt can never climb

The soul's mountain.

Fear can never see

The heart's fountain. ```

14.

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My Lord,

Your Life is pulling me

To claim Your Vision-Light.

My Lord,

Your Voice is pushing me

To destroy ignorance-night.

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15.

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Ignore the buzz

Of human opinion.

It is empty of

God's Delight-Union. ```

16.

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Now that all your fear

Is in the past tense,

You will be freed from

Your mind-jungle dense. ```

17.

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Never exit, never,

From the sunlit heart-road

If you want not, seeker-friend,

To carry ignorance-load. ```

18.

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Silence is not loved

By the desire-man.

Alas, this was never

God's supreme Plan. ```

19.

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My Lord is happy with me

Because I dearly love Him.

My Lord is proud of me

Because I am His Sun-Dream. ```

20.

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God will grant you

His Heart's Royalty.

You must give Him

Your life's loyalty. ```

21.

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An impossible task

To find your soul's heart-smile

In your God-forgotten,

Truth-discarded life's mind-pile. ```

22.

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If yours is the eyeless mind

That resists,

Then yours has to be the heart

That insists. ```

23.

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Now that you have summoned

Your heart's surrender-strength,

God will grant you cheerfully

His Life's Immortality-Length. ```

24.

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God is not baffled

By man's ignorance-night,

But He is baffled

By man's unwillingness-height. ```

25.

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If you want to slay

Your giant desire-dragon,

Then forever stay

In God's Compassion-Wagon. ```

26.

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If you have a loving heart

And an illumining soul,

How can you refuse to play

Your high God-ordained role? ```

27.

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You have become

A truly hopeless case.

You have now failed

In your Heavenward race. ```

28.

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The duty of a Master

Is to take you faster

Where you are supposed to go,

O God-seeker,

Casting aside your age-old ignorance-fever.

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29.

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Sleeplessly God is seeking

Man's soulful love

With His Infinity's Smile

From high above. ```

30.

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O stop not

Playing God-Ecstasy-Game

If you want

Your vital-tiger to tame! ```

31.

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Your faith

Is your heart-explorer.

Your doubt

Is your life-devourer. ```

32.

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God is ready

To give you His All.

Are you ready

To be His Football? ```

33.

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Speed, speed, speed, speed

I need, I need,

My heart to feed,

My body to lead. ```

34.

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If your heart offers God

The lion's share,

Then the mad elephant-world

Your life can dare. ```

35.

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O what is wrong with me?

I make my whole life mad.

What is wrong with the world?

The world is sleeplessly sad. ```

36.

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What does God do?

My gratitude-heart knows.

What does high Heaven do?

In me, for me it glows. ```

37.

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If your future-splendour

Does not ignore your darkness-past,

How can the global faith

In you, O seeker, ever last? ```

38.

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There is no difference

Between his life's story

And his heart's Supreme Lord's

Summit-Fragrance-Glory. ```

39.

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Yesterday you were a misguided mind.

Today you are a misguided life.

But tomorrow you will be a hero-seeker

And conqueror of ignorance-knife. ```

40.

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O my great seeker-friend,

You claim God on what grounds?

Have you chased away

Your life's ignorance-hounds? ```

41.

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How do you expect faith to love you

While you dearly love your doubt-life?

How will your inner world trust you

While you carry your ignorance-knife? ```

42.

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Complete renunciation

Of your expectation-gain

Is the quickest relief

For your heart's inner pain. ```

43.

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My heart was raised

On Grace.

My life, my Lord's

Embrace. ```

44.

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Attachment-cry I never want,

I never want detachment-frown.

My Lord, only one thing I want:

My soul's oneness and fulness-crown. ```

45.

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Your life is a galaxy

Of aspiration-stars.

Therefore, your life has no

Bondage, no prison bars. ```

46.

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A desire-life with no

Frustration-night

Is a completely futile

Illusion-light. ```

47.

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I keep my God-cry-heart

Always on call.

My Lord has made my life

His fondness-doll. ```

48.

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Today I am cheerfully placing you,

O my familiar failure-face,

At the lotus Feet of my Supreme Lord's

Immortal Concern-flooded Grace. ```

49.

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My love of God

Illumines every thought.

In ignorance-clay

I can never be caught. ```

50.

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If you are your own life's

Heart-specialist,

You are undoubtedly God's

Bliss-medallist. ```

51.

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Friend, no soulful prayer

Can ever end in vain.

It is bound to free you

From the world's bondage-chain. ```

52.

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Ignorance-dog

Will definitely bark

If you enjoy

The pleasure-park. ```

53.

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You cannot hide

Your mind's suspicion-gun

For a long time

From your heart's wisdom-sun. ```

54.

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Be not satisfied

With a second-hand spirituality.

It is as useless

As life's colossal futility. ```

55.

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Attachment means

You are your greedy thirst.

Detachment means

God-Light comes always first. ```

56.

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Even the droplets

Of my perfection

Have given my Lord

High satisfaction. ```

57.

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If you desire

To be God's flying kite,

Then, O seeker,

Ignore death's appetite. ```

58.

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What is my heart?

A fleeting hope.

What is my mind?

A strangling rope. ```

59.

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Challenge suffering

With cheerfulness-light.

God will grant you

His Fulness-Delight. ```

60.

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God will open

His Heart's Grace-Door

If He finds you

At your surrender-shore. ```

61.

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If you accuse Heaven

Of callousness,

Heaven will accuse you

Of soullessness. ```

62.

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God will not and cannot

Grant you any reception,

If you are not willing

To prevent self-deception. ```

63.

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You tell the world that you are

Exceptionally brave.

Do you not see that you are

Your mind's perfection-slave? ```

64.

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With Heaven your good

Friendship ended

The day doubt-mind

You befriended. ```

65.

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O if you are divinely wise,

Then every single day

The dust of your despair-vital

You must sweep away. ```

66.

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If you forget to take

Your meditation-medication,

How will you be invited

By Infinity's illumination? ```

67.

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I know, I know, I know

My earth-freed liberation

Has but one destination:

God's Satisfaction-Station. ```

68.

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Now that you have declared war

On your ignorance-adversary,

Every year God will celebrate

Your victory-anniversary. ```

69.

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My silence speaks, my silence:

"Body, no indolence." ```

70.

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My silence speaks, my silence:

"Vital, no arrogance." ```

71.

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My silence speaks, my silence:

"O mind, no indifference." ```

72.

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My silence speaks, my silence:

"O heart, no preference." ```

73.

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My silence speaks, my silence:

"My soul, all redolence." ```

74.

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My silence speaks, my silence:

"My Lord, all importance." ```

75.

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My silence speaks, my silence:

"My life, all ascendance." ```

76.

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A life of desire-cry

Is a vital urge.

A life of self-giving

Is a soulful surge. ```

77.

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If you allow your ego-life

To grow taller,

O then your earthly human life

Will be smaller. ```

78.

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Unveil your mind's

Unflinching determination,

If you want bliss

In your life's deep aspiration. ```

79.

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Because you are

Your unconquerable optimism-light,

You have become

God's most lovable satisfaction-delight. ```

80.

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O give to God

What you have cheerfully.

God will give you

What He is speedily. ```

81.

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Your heart's surrender-speed

Is tremendous.

Therefore, in God's Heart-Garden,

You are precious. ```

82.

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If your mind is empty of

Lofty resolve,

How can your human life

Ever evolve? ```

83.

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Because your earthly body

Has passed through death,

Your life is shaking hands

With your soul's breath. ```

84.

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As God does not ration

His Compassion-Delight,

Even so, I ration not

My aspiration-light. ```

85.

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Because of God's

Infinite Affection,

My life cleaves to

The hope of perfection. ```

86.

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Since you are enjoying vacation

From your determination,

Yours will be the unmistakable

Heart-shattering frustration. ```

87.

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O you have come to God

Because your mind is restless night.

And God has come to you

Because His Heart is selfless Light. ```

88.

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You always love

The chains of attachment,

Yet you expect

Your life's enlightenment. ```

89.

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You can increase your mind's

Fantasy-flame.

But never blame others,

No, never blame! ```

90.

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Enlightenment you need,

My friend, enlightenment.

Then no doubt-interference

In your mind-firmament. ```

91.

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Your purity-heart

Of constant kindness

Will grow into

Your God's God-Oneness. ```

92.

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My Lord's Compassion-Eye

One step ahead of my life.

Therefore, my eyes nowhere

See the destruction-knife. ```

93.

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Alas, what can

My Beloved Supreme say

If I stop not

Playing in ego-clay? ```

94.

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My stupid mind,

Surrender not to poison-doubt.

My stupid heart,

Surrender not to blindness-shout. ```

95.

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Your heart has freed your mind

From doubt-captivity.

Your soul has given your heart

Delight's Infinity. ```

96.

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How can your inner life

Ever thrive

If your heart does not keep

Its God-love alive? ```

97.

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Because his inner life

Is a faith-mountain,

His outer life sees not

Bondage-night-chain. ```

98.

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O God-seeker, become and remain

God's faithful dog.

You will not be threatened by the

Mind's confusion-fog. ```

99.

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What you have is a loveless

And useless lethargy-life.

What you are is a dangerous

And peace-destructive knife. ```

100.

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Every day he takes

Inventory of his imperfections.

Every time he sees

Nothing but godless, stark illusions. ```

101.

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Success

Depends on my own ambition.

Progress

Depends on my Lord's Compassion. ```

102.

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In God's Illumination-Club

Before you can claim membership,

You have to perfectly build

With God a special friendship. ```

103.

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Who asks you to be

An undernourished faith-heart?

Can you not see

All-where your perdition-dart? ```

104.

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Today, definitely today,

I shall catch up on my God-correspondence

And thus silence my long-standing,

Heart-breaking and God-saddening despondence. ```

105.

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Just keep in touch

With your Beloved Supreme.

No dream of yours

Shall live unfed, no dream. ```

106.

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One boon, my Lord Supreme,

Only one mountain-boon

My heart desires to have

From You soon, very soon. ```

107.

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Oneness-delight enclosed.

Open with care.

For you, O seeker, for you

This gift so rare. ```

108.

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Today my heart

Is a vastness-oneness-sky.

Today my Lord

Is His supreme Reply. ```

109.

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Wear your soul's smile,

O God-seeker, today.

For you no more

Your life-bound bondage-clay. ```

110.

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Never take a God-oneness-break,

O seeker, never take.

Sleeplessly swim and smile

In His Ecstasy-Lake. ```

111.

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O brave

Ignorance-cave!

No grave

For you, no grave. ```

112.

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God knows

How to admire.

Show Him

Your inner fire. ```

113.

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O what has God's Grace done

For my poor heart, God's Grace?

It has made my heart-cry

Win the Heavenward race. ```

114.

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You are your heart's aspiration,

You are your life's dedication.

Therefore, you can easily resist

The strong buffets of frustration. ```

115.

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At the final end

Of the human quest,

God will come to you

As your Supreme Guest. ```

116.

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My mind, I hope

You have received the great message:

God's Concern-Heart

Shall soon shatter your bondage-cage. ```

117.

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Do you love God?

His Cosmic Dance?

Then, seeker, disdain

Ever death-glance. ```

118.

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I do the opposite,

Whatever my heart says.

Therefore, my Lord Supreme

With my heartbeat never plays. ```

119.

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God-manifestation is

My purity's unhorizoned length.

God-satisfaction is

My divinity's unparalleled strength. ```

120.

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My Lord Supreme,

Do make me brave,

To love and treasure

Your Compassion-Wave. ```

121.

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My aspiration-heart

Is bursting with joy

Because my unwilling mind

Is now God's willing toy. ```

122.

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I feed my heart's

Faith-hunger, feed.

I love my life's

Ascending speed. ```

123.

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God's Compassion-Smile

Caught me powerfully.

Alas, my clever mind

Helped me escape easily. ```

124.

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An aspiration-heart

Needs no rest.

A realisation-soul

Needs no test. ```

125.

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When the Supreme reigns in you,

When the Beloved Supreme,

Yours will be the perfection-life

Of God's God-blossoming Dream. ```

126.

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More thought-lovers

Than God-lovers I know.

Therefore, this world

A life of frustration-flow. ```

127.

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Exit, my eyeless mind.

You are not kind.

Enter, my compassion-soul.

Bind me, O bind! ```

128.

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My ancient longing

Is fulfilled at last:

Ignorance-bondage-chain

My God-life shall outlast. ```

129.

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God's stupendous Magic:

A new mind shall appear

To make me always feel

God is so near, so dear. ```

130.

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Your realisation can never be

In critical condition,

For realisation means Eternity's

Delight-celebration. ```

131.

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Help me, my Lord; I need Your Hand.

Save me, my Lord; I need Your Eye.

Love me, my Lord; I need Your Heart.

Keep me, my Lord, in Your Oneness-Sky. ```

132.

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Permit not thoughts

To come from near and far.

Let your mind remain

Tranquillity's blue star. ```

133.

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My Lord, do give my heart

A little extra time

To write a soulful poem

With a perfect rhyme. ```

134.

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You have invoked God,

The Compassion-Power.

The Lord has cancelled

His Justice-Light-Hour. ```

135.

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If you are a God-lover

By profession,

How can you have insecurity

In profusion? ```

136.

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God's Love created the perfect man.

Man's vital created imperfection.

God's Heart created illumination.

Man's mind created hallucination. ```

137.

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To stand

On the winner's stand,

Become

A God-serving hand. ```

138.

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Your turn will also come;

Just wait and see.

You will be invited to swim

In God's Love-Sea. ```

139.

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Is your surrender

Unconditional?

Then you are God's

Love-Joy eternal. ```

140.

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Your purity-heart needs a home

In every heart.

Your divinity-soul feeds God

In every mart. ```

141.

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He does not practice,

Yet he always succeeds.

But how?

Because him

God's Compassion feeds.

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142.

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Since you are a God-lover

By profession,

Then your heart's sacred name

His Compassion. ```

143.

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Impurity-passengers

Are always dangerous.

Never do they value

God's Compassion precious. ```

144.

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If you listen

To your Lord's Behest,

He will grant you

His own Heart-Nest. ```

145.

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Fine your vital,

Every day fine!

Through you God's Joy

Wants to shine. ```

146.

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No difference between

My dream and my Supreme.

No difference between

My reality and His Dream. ```

147.

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Let every thought of yours

Be God-invocation.

Let every choice of yours

Be God-manifestation. ```

148.

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To love God is to end

Your self-styled, pompous responsibility

And grow into the Smile

Of God's self-transcending Infinity. ```

149.

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The sacred joy

Of inner poise

Comes from obeying

The higher voice. ```

150.

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Without God

Life is a temptation-sigh.

With God

Life is heart's expansion-sky. ```

151.

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Do you want your entire

Being to thrive?

O then try every day

A progress-dive. ```

152.

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O God-seeker,

You want to be nameless.

Therefore, in you

God-Victory is deathless. ```

153.

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Since God's Compassion-Heart

Is still considering your case,

Since God is still hopeful,

Chase ignorance-tiger, chase. ```

154.

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A desire-life

Instigates our descent.

A prayer-heart

Inspires our ascent. ```

155.

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Alas, my mind

Was born with stupidity.

Alas, my life

Was born with futility. ```

156.

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Aspiration

Brightens the road.

Realisation

Removes the load. ```

157.

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Perfection, perfection,

O my perfection,

You are my sweetness-joy

Of heart-satisfaction. ```

158.

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Now that you have

Kindled your inner flame,

You are ready

To play God's Cosmic Game. ```

159.

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The beautiful soul-bird

Flies.

The slothful body-elephant

Dies. ```

160.

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God's Footsteps

Are for us to follow,

And not for us

To greedily swallow. ```

161.

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Now that the Lord

Has totally vanished,

Even your own doubting mind

Is simply astonished. ```

162.

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You belong to God's

Royal Family.

Remember this ever,

Seeker, cheerfully. ```

163.

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Declare your dependence

On God's Compassion.

You will be led

By God-Satisfaction. ```

164.

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God is His own

Compassion-Hand.

Therefore, you are

In progress-land. ```

165.

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For satisfaction-joy

How can you hope?

You have tangled your mind

In frustration-rope. ```

166.

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Where is the shrine

Of fulfilment?

Inside the temple

Of self-effacement. ```

167.

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If you desire to see

God's Satisfaction-Face,

Run not your mind's

Aimless and useless race. ```

168.

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O world,

Do tell me the stories

That deal

With only God's Glories. ```

169.

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The mind lives

With a logic-snake.

The heart lives

In its fondness-lake. ```

170.

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No more

Exuberance-night.

Evermore

Effulgence-light. ```

171.

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Darkness meets light

To fight and fight.

Light meets darkness

To share delight. ```

172.

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Give up, give up

All hesitation,

If you need only

God-Satisfaction. ```

173.

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He who does not obey

Has and is a mind of clay. ```

174.

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To sow within

The perfection-seed,

A purity-life

I sleeplessly need. ```

175.

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An outer life of prosperity

Is no match for inner divinity. ```

176.

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Dark bondage-thoughts

I sleeplessly thought.

Therefore, I am

Now hopelessly caught. ```

177.

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Simplicity,

My life's simplicity,

You are my Lord's

Blossoming Divinity. ```

178.

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Jealousy has completely

Clouded your mind.

Therefore, within, without

You are now blind. ```

179.

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O make yourself

Divinely faithful.

God will make you

Supremely useful. ```

180.

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Ignorance is something

We can slay,

If with God we truly

Love to play. ```

181.

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Be mindful of

Today's delight.

Be forgetful of

Yesterday's night. ```

182.

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His bondage-life

Thinks liberation

Is his mind-invented

Hallucination. ```

183.

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O heart, where am I going to rest?

Where is my silence-feeding nest? ```

184.

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Be a heart pure,

Be a mind serious.

Yours will be a life

Divinely glorious. ```

From:Sri Chinmoy,Silence speaks, part 2, Agni Press, 1990
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