Self-Transcendence Race Prayer Songs

With the Beauty of My Outer Running

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With the beauty of my outer running

And with the fragrance of my inner running

I shall make my God-manifestation a must. ```

The Outer Run Inspires Me

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The outer run inspires me

To go and see God.

The inner run inspires me

To come and sit at God’s Feet.

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To Love Running

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To love running in the morning

Is the beginning of my God-pleasing life.

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My Lord, I Have Won

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My Lord, I have won, Your Victory-Face

By running every day Your morning race.

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My Inner Hunger Cries

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My inner hunger cries,

My life of beauty flies.

My dream-boat-heart sails.

It never, never, fails.

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The Pride of the Earthly Race

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The pride of the earthly race

And the joy of the Heavenly race

Have the same goal: self-transcendence. ```

Love the World (2)

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Love the world.

Frustration and renunciation

Shall be your two more names.

Love God.

God's Grace and God's Praise

Shall be your two more names.

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Surrender, Surrender, Surrender!

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Surrender, surrender, surrender!

I must surrender my life,

My heart and my very breath

To the Will of my Lord Beloved Supreme

At every moment.

If I succeed, only then will He claim me

As His own, very own. ```

I Pray and Pray and Pray

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I pray and pray and pray

When my life needs God.

I meditate, I meditate, I meditate

When my heart loves God.

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I Love My Lord, I Love My Lord!

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I love my Lord, I love my Lord.

Therefore, I cry and cry.

I need my Lord, I need my Lord.

Therefore, I try and try.

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Devotion

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Devotion, devotion, sleepless, breathless

God-devotion.

No devotion, no highest, no higher, no high

God-realisation.

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I Do Not Want My God-Hunger

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I do not want my God-hunger

Only to be a childish hobby.

I want my God-hunger

To win God’s Satisfaction-Trophy.

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My Lord, I Have Seen

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My Lord, I have seen

The Beauty of Your Eye.

But I have not felt

The Power of Your Heart

And I have not become

The dust of Your Feet.

Alas, alas, alas! ```

Expectation Is Frustration-Poison-Drinking

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Expectation is frustration-poison-drinking.

A constant self-giving is nectar-delight-drinking.

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My Morning Running Prayer

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My morning running prayer

Is my heart’s silence-bliss.

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My Heart Is My Master’s Home

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My heart is my Master’s Home,

Only Home.

I must not roam.

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Smiling, the Breath of the New Year

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Smiling, the breath of the New Year

Has just entered into my heart

And has given me three spiritual names:

Excitement, enlightenment and fulfilment.

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Be Brave, Be Brave, Be Brave!

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Be brave, be brave, be brave

—Live not in fear-torture-cave.

Be brave, be brave, be brave

—The way to God’s Home to pave.

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Today My Lord’s Compassion-Victory

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Today my Lord’s Compassion-Victory

And my life’s surrender-victory

We will celebrate. ```

Those Who Love God Happily

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Those who love God

Happily, cheerfully, self-givingly,

Unconditionally, sleeplessly and breathlessly

Will never, never, never

Believe in God’s defeat-failures.

To them, every moment

Is God’s Victory, God’s Supreme Victory,

Even though, at times,

Our wee human mind cannot understand

The significance of God’s constant Victory —

Victory Transcendental and Victory Universal. ```

My Outer Running

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My outer running

Is my body’s journey.

The destination is known.

My inner running

Is my soul’s journey.

The Goal is unknowable.

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My Body Unconsciously Loves

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My body unconsciously loves

Harmful silence-lethargy.

My heart consciously loves

Soulful silence-ecstasy.

I consciously, plus self-givingly, love

Godful silence-intimacy.

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For God-Realisation

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For God-realisation, needed no outer skill.

Needed, needed, needed only a God-crying thrill.

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My Lord, My Lord, My Lord!

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My Lord, my Lord, my Lord,

I am no more a ‘give me’ beggar.

From now on I shall be a ‘take me’ child,

Your child.

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Learn More Truth

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Learn more truth,

Earn more joy,

Be more perfect.

Be more perfect,

Earn more joy,

Learn more truth.

This message-light

Is for all, all, all, all.

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I Give My Money-Power to God

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I give my money-power to God.

God smiles at me.

I give my name, my fame, my joy

And my pride to God.

God smiles at me twice.

I give my oneness-heart unreservedly to God.

God smiles at me a million times

And embraces me a million times.

I give my cheerful, sleepless and

Unconditional surrender-breath to God.

God smiles at me and deliberately forgets to stop;

God embraces me and deliberately forgets to stop.

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The Mind Thinks God Is Unapproachable

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The mind thinks

God is unapproachable.

The heart knows and feels that

God is not only approachable,

But also sleeplessly loveable

And breathlessly adorable.

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Who Is My Hero?

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Who is my hero?

No, not a good God-talker.

Who is my hero?

No, not a good God-dreamer.

Who is my hero?

No, not a good God-lover.

Who is my hero?

No, not a good God-server.

Who is my hero?

My hero, indeed, a God-bleeding-heart

And a God-blossoming-life. ```

I Am Proud of Myself

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I am proud of myself

Because every day I think of God.

God is proud of Himself

Because He thinks of me at every moment,

At each hush-gap.

I am proud of myself

Because I love God only.

God says to me,

“Is it so, my child?

I do not think so, my child.”

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I Fly to Please My Soul

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I fly to please my soul.

I cry to please my heart.

I judge to please my mind.

I challenge to please my vital.

I rest to please my body.

I suffer to please my life.

I love, I serve, I serve, I love

To please my Lord Beloved Supreme.

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Give Me No Freedom

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Give me no freedom,

My Lord Supreme.

If You really love me,

Then give me no freedom,

Even for a fleeting moment.

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Love God, Serve God

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Love God, serve God,

Sail your life-boat, sail!

If not, my mind,

You fool, wait and fail.

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My Soul Is Sailing

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My soul is sailing

In God's Pride-Boat.

My heart is sailing

In God's Compassion-Boat.

My life is sailing

In God's Forgiveness-Boat.

I am sailing

In God's Dream-Boat.

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I Place My Earthly Thoughts

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I place my earthly thoughts

At God's Feet.

I place my Heavenly will

Inside God's Heart.

I place myself

In front of God's Eye.

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Today I Shall Break Open

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Today I shall break open

My life's ignorance-prison-cell

And ring and ring, sleeplessly ring,

My Lord's Summit-Victory-Bell.

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When the Morning Begins

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When the morning begins,

I sing my Lord’s Victory-Song

Inside my heart.

When the evening sets in,

I strike my Lord’s Victory-Gong

Here and there and all-where

All around the world. ```

I Tried to Become Great

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I tried to become great;

God laughed at me.

I tried to become good;

God laughed at me.

I tried to become perfect;

God laughed at me.

Finally, I said to God,

“My Lord, I shall become

What You want me to become.”My Lord smiled at me and said,

“My child, now you are truly Mine,

And I am all yours.” ```

My Lord Says to Me

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My Lord says to me,

“My child, be not a beggar of what I have.

Be a chooser of Who I am.” ```

My Supreme... I Love You

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My Supreme, my Supreme, my Supreme!

I love You not because You love me infinitely more.

I love You because

Your Feet are my only treasures,

Your Eye is my only delight

And Your Heart is my only all, only all, only all.

My Supreme, my Supreme, my Supreme! ```

My Lord... I Am Happy

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My Lord, my Lord, my Lord,

I am happy, I am happier, I am happiest

Only when I feel I am Your bond slave. ```

I Think of You, God

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I think of You, God.

God says to me,

“No good, no good.”I pray to You, God.

God says to me,

“No good, no good.”I meditate on You, God.

God says to me,

“No good, no good.”I love You, God.

God says to me,

“No good, no good.”I serve You, God.

God says to me,

“No good, no good.”I surrender to You, God.

God says to me,

“No good, no good.”I am all gratitude to You, God.

God says to me,

“No good, no good.”I claim You, God, as my own, very own.

God, You claim me as Your Own, very Own.

God says to me, “Good, good, very good,

My child, My child.”

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My Lord... Never, Never Take a Leave of Absence

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My Lord, my Lord, my Lord,

Never, never take a leave of absence.

My heart and I shall die, die, die

Immediately.

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Sorrow, Sorrow

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Sorrow, sorrow, sorrow, sorrow,

Every day my heart-field

You harrow.

But before my earth-life is done,

I shall devour God's Nectar-Sun. ```

Hope, Hope, My Hope

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Hope, my hope, do not desert me.

Continue to nurture my life-tree.

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Life and Death

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Life and death, death and life.

Life conquers death to sing and play and dance

With the ever-blossoming Beyond.

Death conquers life not to torture, but to treasure

The beauty of life’s heart, and the fragrance of life’s soul. ```

My Outer Journey Cries and Smiles

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My outer journey cries and smiles,

My inner journey blooms and blossoms,

And I am the hope-promise-journey of Eternity. ```

Every Day I Feed

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Every day I feed my inner Pilot

With my complete and constant surrender

To His Will. ```

God the Flute-Heart I Love

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God the Flute-Heart I love.

God the Thunder-Eye I need.

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I Race, I Race

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I race, I race, I race, I race,

To be my Supreme’s boundless Grace.

I race, I race, I race, I race

To see my Supreme’s Golden Face.

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Do Not Give Up Hope

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Do not give up hope, do not give up hope!

Hope, hope, hope!

Hope will give you Heaven-climbing rope,

Heaven-climbing rope.

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Peace I Need

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Peace I need to see the Face

Of my Absolute Lord Supreme.

Bliss I need to sail and fly with Him

And breathe and be His Dream.

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Every Morning My Devotion-Heart

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Every morning my devotion-heart

Offers streaming gratitude-tears

To my Lord Supreme

And devours the golden dust

Of His Golden Feet. ```

Every Morn and Every Eve

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Every morn and every eve, my heart and I

Sing a new Golden Shore Song.

With the twinkling eyes and dancing heads

The Cosmic Gods and Cosmic Goddesses throng.

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Let Me Be Good

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Let me be good,

Let me be self-giving and pure.

My Supreme Lord’s express Arrival

Shall then be sure.

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No More My Life Will Walk Along

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No more my life will walk along

A God-empty road.

I am now blossoming

With a lifelong

God-Touch-Smile,

I am now blossoming

With a lifelong

God-Touch-Song,

And I am now blossoming

With a lifelong

God-Touch-Embrace. ```

My God-Gratitude-Heart

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My God-gratitude-heart

Blooms and blossoms

In my soul-beauty's

Heaven-plenitude-smiles.

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My Lord, My Lord! In Your Compassion-Flooded Eye

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My Lord, my Lord!

In Your Compassion-flooded Eye I have discovered my All.

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No More Self-Indulgence

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No more self-indulgence,

No more self-indulgence.

I shall run outwardly

To see nature’s God.

I shall run inwardly

To see Heaven’s highest height.

No more self-indulgence,

No more self-indulgence!

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Every Kneeling Prayer

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Every kneeling prayer

Receives God’s Fondness-Blessings.

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I Admire God the Dreamer

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I admire God the Dreamer.

I adore God the Smiler.

I love God the Runner. ```

Morning Is the Best Time

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Morning is the best time

To enter into my rose-garden-heart

To enjoy deeply

Its exquisite beauty and fragrance.

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The Tears of My Heart (3)

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The tears of my heart

And the Smiles of my Lord

Sing together and play together

Sleeplessly.

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O My Blue-Gold Heart-Bird

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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. ```

I Love My Lord’s Whisper-Blessings

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I love my Lord’s Whisper-Blessings.

My Lord loves my hunger-yearnings.

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Heaven’s Silence-Music

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Heaven’s Silence-Music

Is only for the hearts

Of God’s Victory-singers. ```

In My Aspiration-Life

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In my aspiration-life,

My Master-obedience

Is my heart’s God-blossoming dawn. ```

Only One Attachment

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Only one attachment:

God’s Will.

No other attachments,

Old or new.

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From:Sri Chinmoy,Self-Transcendence Race Prayer Songs, Agni Press, New York, 2013
Sourced from https://srichinmoylibrary.com/str