The Wings of Light, part 11

501. Your idol

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Your idol was doubt-king.

Lo, he has not only gone,

But he is shattered.

Your idol was jealousy.

Lo, she has not only left,

But she is shattered.

Your idol was hatred-prince.

Lo, he has not only departed,

But he is shattered.

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502. When I obey you not

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O Faith, when I obey you not

My earth becomes

The land of the departed sunset.

O Joy, when I obey you not

My life becomes

The cage of the departed soul.

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503. You will be happy

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Minimise your wants,

You will be happy.

Fulfil your needs,

You will be happy.

Divinise your thoughts,

You will be happy.

Immortalise your faith,

You will be happy.

Rectify your mistakes,

You will be happy.

Intensify your cry,

You will be happy. ```

504. The embrace

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The embrace of bondage

Demands and commands.

The embrace of freedom

Offers and showers.

The embrace of passion

Entangles and strangles.

The embrace of faith

Beholds and unfolds. ```

505. His life closed three times

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His life closed three times

Before its final close:

Once when he entered

Into the private chamber

Of the fear-queen,

Once when he entered

Into the cave

Of the doubt-monster,

Once when he threw himself

Into the flow

Of the insecurity-river.

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506. Come, come

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Come my heart, come.

I shall gladly unburden

The great burden of your tears.

Come my mind, come.

I shall cheerfully empty

The heavy load of your information.

Come my soul, come.

I shall immediately expedite

Your unprecedented dream

Of God-manifestation on earth. ```

507. God comes

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Faith comes,

Doubt goes.

Courage comes,

Fear goes.

Truth comes,

Falsehood goes.

Love comes,

Hate goes.

God comes,

Oneness lasts. ```

508. Adamantine Will

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When God-freedom

In me was crucified,

I fought life.

I received from God

His adamantine Will

Which now pulsates

From life to life.

It goes from start to start,

It runs from Vision to Reality.

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509. Do it again

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Do it again.

This time you will be able

To build the Palace of Truth.

Say it again.

This time you will be able

To tell the secrets of God.

Play it again.

This time you will be able

To say you are not God’s sleeping partner

In the fight against darkness and ignorance. ```

510. You can also help

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You can help if you want.

Here are shining examples:

God wanted my unalloyed faith

And I gave it.

God wanted my dauntless love

And I gave it.

God wanted my constant surrender

And I gave it.

Likewise, if you want to help

He will give you the opportunity.

Just knock and ask;

God becomes yours. ```

511. Alas, how can I?

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I want to be happy.

But alas, how can I,

When others are surpassing me?

I want to be happy.

But alas, how can I,

When others are governing me?

I want to be happy.

But alas, how can I,

Since I have not pleased my Inner Pilot,

Not even once?

I want to be happy.

But alas, how can I,

Since I know I can never be

What I want to be? ```

512. Life is what we make it

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Life is what we make it.

Since I have realised this truth,

How can I fail

In the battlefield of life?

Life is what we make it.

Since I have realised this truth,

How can I forget

To keep my life a chance to embody the Real,

And manifest the transcendental Truth?

After all, it is I who shall share

Its matchless triumph.

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513. This time I shall not fail you

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Lord, can You love me again?

This time I shall not fail You.

This time I shall become

The breath of Your Heart.

Lord, can You love me again?

This time I shall not fail You.

This time I shall become

The message of Your Tongue.

Lord, can You love me again?

This time I shall not fail You.

This time I shall become

The light of Your Eye. ```

514. Who am I?

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Who am I?

I asked God.

He said

I am His Dream-boat.

Who am I?

I asked Satan.

He said

I am his destruction-night.

Who am I?

I asked Heaven.

Heaven said

I am Heaven’s Reality-shore.

Who am I?

I asked earth.

Earth said

I am earth’s constant cry. ```

515. When they stole away my time

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When impatience stole away my time,

I cried and cried.

When anxiety stole away my time,

I cried and cried.

When insecurity stole away my time,

I cried and cried.

When fear stole away my time,

I cried and cried.

When Satan stole away my time,

I fought and failed.

When death stole away my time,

I unreservedly and unreservedly cried. ```

516. I know two things

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I really don’t know

What to tell God when I see Him.

I really don’t know

What to give God when I see Him.

But I undoubtedly know two things:

God will forgive my stark ignorance;

God will immortalise my feeble inner flame.

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517. God never learns from me

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God never learns from me

My ignorance-lessons.

I never drink from God

His Wisdom-light.

God never learns from me

My heart-labour achievement.

I never care for God’s

All-fulfilling Perfection. ```

518. The last thing on my mind

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To deceive mankind

Is the last thing on my mind;

Yet God does not trust me.

To replace God

Is the last thing on my mind;

Yet humanity does not trust me.

To bridge the distance between man and God

Is the last thing on my mind;

But neither Heaven nor earth trusts me.

To kill earth’s night and sow Heaven’s Delight

Is the first thing on my mind;

But my heart’s sincerity does not trust me.

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519. Everyone I meet

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In the world of aspiration-sun,

Everyone I meet is from God.

In the world of desire-height,

Everyone I meet is from Satan.

In the world of self-giving-sky,

Everyone I meet is from Perfection-height.

In the world of self-possessing-sea,

Everyone I meet is from destruction-night. ```

520. Love me for what I am

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O Lord, love me for what I am.

I am an insignificant creature.

O Lord, love me for what I am.

I am a helpless child.

O Lord, love me for what I am.

I am a hopeless seeker.

O Lord, love me for what I am.

I am a useless lover. ```

521. Empty

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His future, empty of reality;

His present, empty of humility;

His past, empty of fecundity;

His life, empty of breath;

His soul, empty of goal;

His God, empty of love.

Yet he sleeps,

Yet he breathes. ```

522. The sea that always roars

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His faith is the train

That never starts.

His doubt is the train

That never stops.

His courage is the soldier

That never fights.

His fear is the wrestler

That ever struggles.

His life is the sky

That ever lives.

His death is the sea

That ever roars. ```

523. Any time

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Any time of the year

I can see God.

Any time of the month

I can love God.

Any time of the week

I can please God.

Any time of the day

I can own God.

Any minute of the hour

I can become God.

Any second of the minute

I can unburden myself

Of my self-imposed responsibility.

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524. Why do we waste our time?

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O Beauty, you and I

Belong to Heaven.

Why do we waste our time

Here on this ugly earth?

O Joy, you and I

Belong to Heaven.

Why do we waste our time

Here in this world of sorrows and pangs?

O Freedom, you and I

Belong to Heaven.

Why do we waste our time

Here in this night of bondage?

O Perfection, you and I

Belong to Heaven.

Why do we waste our time

Here on this dark-spotted planet?

Let us go, let us run

Towards our Heaven-free life! ```

525. God asked me, man asked me

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The other day God asked me

What I was aspiring for.

I said, “I would like

To offer infinite praises to man.”

He immediately granted my prayer.

The other night man asked me

What I was aspiring for.

I said, “I would like

To become the dead dust of God’s Feet.”

Man’s answer: “How dare you think

God would condescend to grant you

Such a mighty prayer?”

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526. Only when I was liberated

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I thought of God

Only when I was liberated

From stealthy fear.

I prayed to God

Only when I was liberated

From strangling jealousy.

I meditated on God

Only when I was liberated

From dragon doubt.

I realised God

Only when I was liberated

From self-imposed inadequacy.

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527. I died for light

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I died for beauty,

But beauty came not.

I died for joy,

But joy came not.

I died for peace,

But peace came not.

I died for Light,

Light came,

Love followed,

Oneness blossomed.

Divinity’s Reality

And Reality’s Divinity

Are in everlasting embrace.

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528. Listen

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Listen to inner Light;

It will guide you.

Listen to inner Peace;

It will feed you.

Listen to inner Power;

It will energise you.

Listen to inner Truth;

It will glorify you.

Listen to inner Love;

It will transform you,

It will divinise you,

It will immortalise you. ```

529. What remains

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The sweet rainbow comes and goes,

But its beauty remains.

The dear sun comes and goes,

But its duty remains.

The faithful day comes and goes,

But its sound remains.

The restful night comes and goes,

But its silence remains. ```

530. A soul above all

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She is a soul above doubt;

Therefore she sows.

She is a soul above fear;

Therefore she triumphs.

She is a soul above jealousy;

Therefore she governs.

She is a soul above all;

Therefore she sows and grows

And grows and sows.

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531. Revelation

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I have come into the world to offer

You revelation.

My first revelation:

Earth’s pangs and penuries

Shall transcend Heaven’s Light and Delight.

My second revelation:

I shall bind God in a moment’s hush-gap;

I shall go beyond the future Goal,

The Goal unhorizoned by God’s Vision-light.

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532. Transformation

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Birthless and deathless I was,

And then I was raised above

The throes of birth and the buffets of death.

This was my first transformation.

Across the river

Of life and death

I sang only one song: uncertainty.

This was my second transformation.

My third transformation will take place

When the animal in me

Surrenders to the divine in me

And Immortality embraces the divine in me. ```

533. Integrality

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My life-tree has four branches:

Sincerity, purity, humility, divinity.

These four branches bring me

The message of integrality

From far Heaven.

When sincerity offers me

The message of life divine,

Purity, humility and divinity together dance.

When purity offers me

The message of self-dedication,

Humility, divinity and sincerity together dance.

When humility offers me

The message of world-illumination,

Divinity, sincerity and purity together dance.

When divinity offers me

The best message of God-perfection

Here on earth, there in Heaven,

Sincerity, purity and humility together dance.

The dance of sincerity, purity, humility and divinity

Is the highest flight of God,

The integral Universal Self.

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534. Courage

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The animal in me

Showed the animal courage

By fighting and strangling.

The human in me

Showed the human courage

By snubbing and belittling.

The divine in me

Shows the divine courage

In accepting and loving.

The Supreme in me

Shows the supreme courage

In transforming, widening, deepening

And finally transcending. ```

535. Music

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When I play music

I know for sure someone is there

To listen to my music.

No matter what music I play,

Whether Heavenly or earthly,

Sublime or deadly,

There is someone to listen to my music.

There is God.

When God plays His Cosmic Music

Day in and day out from time immemorial,

I enjoy and fulfil

The strongest adamantine demands

Of my inconscience-deep.

I sleep and snore and snore and sleep,

Nadir of universal futility.

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536. Exaltation

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The other night I was exalted

When I dined with God the Supreme.

The other day I was exalted

When I breathed the excruciating pangs

Of earth-penuries.

From this life of mine

Only two more exalted experiences I need,

I most desperately need.

I need the experience unprecedented

Of seeing two human shoulders

Carrying the burdens of hell-fire,

Earth-water and Heaven-wine.

I need the experience

Of seeing Heaven-Beauty’s glorious Transcendence

Fulfilling earth-beauty’s splendour-light.

My journey’s start was the exaltation

Of God-man in me,

And my journey’s close will be the exaltation

Of man-God in the Absolute Supreme. ```

537. Devotion

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I offered my purest devotion to God.

He accepted my devotion only to increase

Its height and depth in boundless measure.

I offered my surest devotion to man.

He accepted my devotion

Only to criticise and belittle

My sincerity’s heart.

I offered my blue-gold devotion to Heaven.

Heaven accepted my devotion

With a smile, a half-knowing smile.

I offered my devotion to the green-brown earth.

Earth suspected, rejected,

Strangled and buried my devotion-life.

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538. Awakening

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In my body’s awakening,

I saw God as a sweet dreamer.

In my vital’s awakening,

I saw God as a dauntless warrior.

In my mind’s awakening,

I saw God as a peerless seer.

In my heart’s awakening,

I saw God as an unconditional lover.

In my soul’s awakening,

I saw God as the sovereign

And absolute Liberator.

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539. Life

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In this rare incarnation of mine

I decided and planned to see the lives of God,

Heaven, earth and man.

I have already seen man-life.

It is nothing but a song

Of deathless destruction-night.

I have already seen the life

Of earth, too.

It is nothing but teeming clouds.

I am now seeing the life of Heaven,

Which is building my life-altar

To reach the transcendental Heights.

I shall soon be seeing the life of God,

Which will discover the Zenith-perfection-light

Founded on my acceptance-might.

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540. Gratitude

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When I offered my feeble gratitude to God,

He immediately said,

“Ah, what is it?

I have never seen

Such a beautiful thing in all My life

Either in Heaven or on earth.

Can I use it for a purpose divine?”

I smilingly said,

“Certainly You can.

It is for Your daily and constant use.”

When I offered my powerful gratitude to man,

He immediately blurted out,

“You know your deception

Has touched the topmost bough of the earth-tree.

I have given you my silver advice, my golden promise

And my diamond assurance.

Although they were the products

Of the world of fury,

I certainly deserve infinitely more

Living and fulfilling gratitude

Than what you have given me today.

Take it back,

Take it back,

You rogue, you beggar-woman!

From now on my life of compassion

Shall barter nothing

With the bones of a beggar-woman.”

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541. Adoration

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I adored my Lord Supreme

With my fear-fever.

Furious he became.

He bolted His Golden Gate from inside

With all the power at His command.

I adored my Beloved Supreme

With my heart-flames.

Self-enamoured He became.

In a twinkling, sooner than at once,

He opened His Golden Gate wide;

He offered me His trance-bound emerald throne.

I adored my Eternal Friend

With my surrender-light.

Perfection-Infinity He immediately donned.

O Lord Supreme,

Your Forgiveness I implore.

O Beloved Supreme,

Your Love-sea I shall eternally treasure.

O Eternal Friend,

Your Heart’s ever-widening Magnanimity

Has made my life

The Voice of transcendental Silence. ```

542. Progress

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Lord Supreme,

I want You to be

Totally frank with me.

Have I made any progress

In my three years

Of spiritual life?

“Certainly, My son, you have.

Let Me tell you about

Your great progress:

You now love Me

Infinitely more than

You love yourself.

And here is your greater progress:

Nothing will satisfy you

Unless and until

You have become the unconditionally

And supremely surrendered instrument

Of Vision-nourished Reality-Will.

Lo, your greatest progress:

You claim Me as your own,

Your very own.”

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543. Transcendence

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Self-transcendence

And

God-transcendence

Are the Self-form

Of the same transcendental Reality.

When I endeavour to fathom

My self-transcendence

With my human comatose eyes,

I see the radical transformation

Of the devouring tiger in me

Into the fast-running, sure-winning deer.

And when I plead with the Supreme

To elucidate the signification

Of transcendence, He just smiles

And declares:

“Yours is the transcendence-task

To touch the feet of My creation

For its fire-pure transformation.

Yours is the transcendence-goal

Where the comity of souls have discovered

Their only haven.” ```

544. Universality

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Sound is the universality

Of the created universe.

Silence is the universality

Of the unborn universe.

Love is the universality

Of the progressive universe.

Delight is the universality

Of the deathless universe. ```

545. Heart-essence

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Father, my Father,

I have now caught You tightly.

Just tell me in brief

The actual meaning of heart-essence,

And then I shall let You go.

“Child, My child,

The heart-essence

Of the aspiring earth

Is the surrender-tree

Of the Supreme’s Nectar-delight.

The heart-essence

Of the sailing Heaven

Is the silence-tree

Of the Supreme’s Nectar-delight.

The heart-essence

Of the liberating Supreme

Is the surrender-silence-perfection Tree

Of the Absolute Supreme’s Nectar-delight.” ```

546. Lustre-drop, lustre-sea

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O sweet Lord of my unconditionally

Surrendered heart,

O sweet Pilot of my life-boat,

O sweet Speed of my soul-river,

O sweet Smile of my Goal-shore,

Just tell me the difference

Between

My lustre-drop and Your lustre-sea.

“O sweet child of My Vision’s Immortality,

The difference is very simple and clear.

With your lustre-drop I body forth

And feed the birthless and deathless hunger

Of the entire universe;

And within My lustre-sea I claim you,

I own you as My only

Fulfilling and manifesting

All.”

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547. Still it is not too late

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O heart, my heart,

Do not cry.

Still it is not

Too late to heal.

O mind, my mind,

Do not cry.

Still it is not

Too late to expand.

O vital, my vital,

Do not cry.

Still it is not

Too late to surrender.

O body, my body,

Do not cry.

Still it is not

Too late to start. ```

548. I stand still

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The whole world moves on,

But I stand still.

The whole sky descends,

But I stand still.

The whole earth aspires,

But I stand still.

With my outer stillness,

I see the Feet of God.

With my inner stillness,

I become the Heart of God. ```

549. Love, devotion and surrender bird

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Love is a circling bird,

Devotion is a climbing bird,

Surrender is a transcending bird.

The circling bird protects me,

The climbing bird inspires me,

The transcending bird immortalises me.

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550. What he needs and wants

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In the inner world

What he needs and wants

Is Immensity’s rest.

In the outer world

What he needs and wants

Is the sea of pleasure.

In the world of the Supreme

What he needs and wants

Is the Perfection-throne.

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From:Sri Chinmoy,The Wings of Light, part 11, Aum Press, Puerto Rico, 1974
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