The final journey,
No, no!A million times!
```An ever-blossoming voyage,
Yes, yes!A billion times!
```When things go wrong,
God gives us the opportunityTo run towards Him more speedily
And more self-givinglyTo have joy in His smiling Heart-Garden.
```If I find God
Inside a tiny drop,Then, immediately,
God the OceanBecomes mine.
```Adversity
Purifies the mindAnd strengthens the heart.
```Who is educated?
Not he who has readCountless books,
But he who is fedBy God’s Compassion-flooded Heart.
```When we pray on our knees,
God the Tree,With flower-beauty
And fruit-nourishment,Bends.
```We give so much importance
To the blackness of our mind. ```We have no time to pay attention
To the whiteness of our heart. ```Love Light more.
Night is boundTo disappear.
```The mind knows
How to dictate me. ```The heart knows
How to elevate me. ```When we look at life,
It frightens us.When we look into life,
It surrenders. ```The depression-mountain
Blightens the mind. ```The humour-fountain
Lightens the mind. ```The most important thing in life
Is not possessionBut transformation.
```Slow down, slow down,
If you really needGod’s golden Crown.
```My eyes love
To see beauty. ```My heart loves
To become Beauty,God-Beauty.
```Battlefield-victory
Does not last. ```Heart-field-victory
Forever lasts. ```We are such fools.
We want to know what life hasAnd not what life is.
```The human in us
Works to live. ```The divine in us
Lives to work,God’s Work.
```God will share with us
His almighty Will-PowerIf we dare to control
The inhuman in us. ```Work-retirement
Must not beLife-retirement.
```The doctor knows
How to create fear. ```The Master knows
How to blossom cheer. ```Life begins
Not when we think of time,But when we become
The Lord of time. ```Faith is the medicine
For the mind-malady. ```Love is the vitamin
For the life-comedy. ```Leadership sinks.
Friendship sails. ```The blunders of the past
Must be kept behind usAnd not ahead of us.
```Do not continue to fret.
Try to forget.Happiness guaranteed!
```There are countless exercises.
The most difficult exerciseIs self-giving.
```Why not say it?
God is all yours. ```Why not do it?
Touch and remainAt God’s Feet.
```The Compassion-Eye
Descends unconditionally. ```The aspiration-heart
Ascends swiftly. ```The heartiest smile
IsThe strongest power.
```We strengthen
The difficult peopleBy thinking of them.
```We disarm
The difficult peopleBy placing them
At the Feet of God. ```Until God’s unconditional Grace
Descends,I must be responsible
For my own fate. ```A strange request:
God, give meWhat You have.
```A spontaneous request:
God, take meAnd my all.
```The outer loneliness
Needs friendsAnd acquaintances.
```The inner loneliness
Needs only GodAnd nobody else.
```God wants me to live
Not on borrowed time. ```God wants me to live
InsideHis hallowed Eternity.
```Aspiration says:
“I shall do it.” ```Dedication says:
“I am doing it.” ```Surrender says:
“I have already done it.” ```Happiness is not
An outer fruit. ```Happiness is
An inner seed. ```The human artist
PaintsThe outer world.
```Dreams
Of the inner world.God sleeplessly tells me
That He wants to beThe prisoner of my love.
```The God who tells me
To prayIs the same God who asks me
To take time to play. ```Life
Is not a seriesOf disappointments.
```Life
Is a dailyGod-appointment.
```Future
Is not darkness. ```Future
Is God-oneness. ```I do not want
My lifeTo go my way.
```I am choosing,
Once and for all,One way:
God’s Way. ```There is only one race:
The masked God-Face. ```For me,
Nothing can be sweeterAnd purer
Than my God-starvation-heart. ```Success is
Dollar-power. ```Progress is
God-Shower. ```God frequently comes
To my heart-emptiness. ```God never comes
To my mind-loneliness. ```The mind’s constant question:
Why? ```The heart’s immediate answer:
Why not? ```Yesterday
God cried for me.He cried for my perfection.
```Today
I am crying for God.I am crying for God’s Satisfaction.
```From tomorrow,
Smilingly,God and I will live
Only for each other. ```When I keep my eyes closed
And pray,I feel that God is for me.
```When I keep my eyes half-open
And meditate,I am absolutely certain
That I am all for God. ```Prayer
Is the life-seed. ```Meditation
Is the life-plant. ```Contemplation is the life-tree
That producesFlower-beauty-enjoyment
AndFruit-nourishment-satisfaction.
```Final earth-departure
Has no extension. ```God wants me
To count His Smiles first.Only then
Will He count my tears. ```Gratitude-virtue
Is yetAn unborn reality.
```Disobedience
Is not the humiliationOf the Master.
```Disobedience
Is the self-annihilationOf the disciple.
```God’s immediate Choice
Is the heart that bleedsFor humanity’s smiles.
```The mind
Is the usualCloud-lover.
```The heart
Is the spontaneousStar-enjoyer.
```Perfection
Is the sleeplessSelf-examination.
```Satisfaction
Is the breathlessGod-invocation.
```God pleads with me:
“My child,Be true to yourself!”
```We must pay attention
To our imperfections —If not, sooner than at once
They will multiply. ```A thought-minus mind
IsA soul-plus will.
```When I love God,
I let things happenIn God’s Way.
```When I love myself,
I make things happenIn my way.
```The mind-thorn
IsExtremely dangerous.
```The heart-rose
IsSupremely precious.
```God tells me
That my half world-dedicationEquals
My full God-aspiration. ```God tells me repeatedly
Not to take His Work away.His Work is to change the world,
And my workIs to love the world.
```Each smile
Is the beautyOf a new heart.
```Each tear
Is the fragranceOf a new life.
```God wants me
To completeMy illumination-task.
```God does not want me
To competeWith the rest of the world
In the battlefield of life. ```With each hope
I walkTowards God’s Palace.
```With each promise
God runsTowards my heart-temple.
```Patience, patience, patience!
PatienceIs the ultimate victory.
```Everybody hates darkness,
But how many are willingTo invoke Light?
```If you are great,
That meansYou know how to talk.
```If you are good,
That meansYou know how to listen.
```If you are perfect,
That means your silence-soundIs the answer.
```The life that has no tears
Cannot near God. ```You say that the world
Is full of wrong forces.Unfortunately,
Your own mighty contributionCannot remain unnoticed.
```The eyes can see the world,
But the heart aloneCan become the world.
```Do not stop
Being an all-lover.Do not stoop
To being a supremacy-hunger. ```Man’s mind
Builds houses.God’s Heart
Makes homes. ```Today’s street beggar
Shall become tomorrowThe keeper
Of God’s Heart-Door. ```From:Sri Chinmoy,The street beggar, Agni Press, 2003
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