The Wings of Light, part 16

751. Transience

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Earth-life is a transient cry.

Heaven-life is a transient smile.

Death-life is a transient fear.

God-life is a transient imagination. ```

752. Faith

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Courage is the eye of faith.

Love is the heart of faith.

Truth is the head of faith.

God is the soul of faith. ```

753. Nobody knew

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Nobody knew

About his taut confines.

Nobody watched

His slow decline.

Nobody believed

His great inner triumph.

Nobody sympathised

With his utter outer failure. ```

754. The supreme secret

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Fear cannot please

His body any more.

Depression cannot please

His vital any more.

Doubt cannot please

His mind any more.

Insecurity cannot please

His heart any more.

Why?

Because he has discovered

The supreme secret:

That he is of God-Delight

And

He is for God-Light. ```

755. I thank time

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I thank each moment

For its generous heart.

I thank each day

For its gracious life.

I thank each year

For its glorious role. ```

756. They are left alone

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His desire-life

And the prince of hell

Are left alone.

His aspiration-life

And the prince of Heaven

Are left alone.

His God-life

And here and now

Are left alone.

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757. My escorts

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Pride escorted me

To the country of orphan humiliation.

Humility escorted me

To the country of high glorification.

Love escorted me

To the country of blossoming perfection. ```

758. The Answer supreme

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No more questions!

I shall drown all the questions

In the Light-sea of my heart.

No more answers!

I have seen God’s Face,

The Answer supreme,

In the freedom-sky of my soul.

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759. Why do I welcome desires?

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I can live my life

Without a single desire.

Then why do I welcome desires?

I welcome desires because

My unchallenging life

Wishes God always to live

His God-life above

My desire-life.

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760. My oneness-goal

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Fleeting

Is my beauty’s body.

Lasting

Is my duty’s life.

Glorifying

Is my sacrifice-soul.

Fulfilling

Is my oneness-goal. ```

761. My peerless discovery

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I am not God;

That all of you know.

I am the future God;

That you do not know.

But

I love you all;

Therefore

I gladly share with you

My peerless discovery.

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762. Perhaps they know

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Where is God?

I do not know.

Perhaps my heart-flame knows.

Who is God?

I do not know.

Perhaps my soul-sun knows.

Why is God?

I do not know.

Perhaps my love-life knows.

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763. You are the right person

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God, why do You love me?

“Son, I love you

Because

I need you.”

Why do You need me?

“I need you

Because

You embody My Sound-life.”

Why do You want me to embody Your Sound-life?

“I want you to embody My Sound-life

Because

My Silence-life needs its counterpart.

Needless to say,

You are absolutely the right person.” ```

764. A life of surrender

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A life of surrender divine

Is the joy of Olympus-height.

A life of surrender human

Is the torture of ignorance-sea.

A life of divine surrender supreme

Is the Perfection-embrace of God. ```

765. Always

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His heart is always new

As the morning sky.

His soul is always old

As the evening hope.

His smile is always powerful

As the blazing sun. ```

766. Who am I?

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“Why do I need God?”

You need God

Because you need your real Self.

“Why do I need my real Self?”

You need your real Self

Because of your oneness with God.

“Who am I?”

You are the sound-fruit.

“Who is God?”

God is the Silence-seed. ```

767. They do not hope

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Life does not hope

To see his smile.

Death does not hope

To see his face.

Hell does not hope

To see his pangs.

Heaven does not hope

To see his heart. ```

768. Freedom-soul

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Lord, the difference

Between

Your love and my love is this:

My love has bound Your Freedom-soul

And

Your love has freed my bondage-body role. ```

769. God is clever, God is wise

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God is clever.

He does not accept

My sad but unconditional surrender.

Why?

Because He knows that if opportunity dawns

I shall challenge His authority and supremacy.

God is wise.

He accepts

My glad and unconditional surrender.

Why?

Because He knows that when the Hour strikes

He will turn me into another God. ```

770. Your life of lustre

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Smile, unreservedly smile!

Your life will be

The lustre of a rose.

Dance, unerringly dance!

Your life will be

The lustre of the moon.

Cry, soulfully cry!

Your life will be

The lustre of the Supreme.

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771. Why?

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Death, why do you sleep so much?

Life, why do you cry so much?

Earth, why do you fear so much?

Heaven, why do you ignore so much?

Man, why do you doubt so much?

God, why do you forgive so much? ```

772. I take care of God

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Do you know who takes care of me?

God.

Do you know who takes care of God?

God takes care of me

With His Compassion-height.

I take care of God

With my surrender-light. ```

773. God gave me

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When my life was a slumbering will

God thought of me compassionately.

When my life was a conquering will

I thought of myself proudly.

When my life was a surrendering will

God gave me His Heart to smile,

God gave me His Eyes to devour,

God gave me His Face to reveal. ```

774. I play

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When I meditate

Inside a mountain cave,

I play with God’s secret Soul.

When I meditate

At the foot of a banyan tree,

I play with God’s vast Sky.

When I meditate

Inside my heart,

I play with God’s sacred Breath.

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775. When will you return?

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Father Supreme,

When will You return?

“I shall return

Before you think of Me.”

“Son, My son,

When will you return?”

I shall return

Only when You give me Your Throne.

“Son, then take it, take it.”

Father, I need it, I need it. ```

776. The end of school

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Vision:

The end of Heaven-school.

Mission:

The end of earth-school.

Frustration:

The end of man-school.

Perfection:

The end of God-school. ```

777. Magical, radical and practical

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My vision-life is magical;

Therefore the world admires me.

My reality-life is radical;

Therefore God loves me.

My God-life is practical;

Therefore I honour and treasure myself. ```

778. My flawless lives

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My silence-life

Is birthless and flawless.

My sound-life

Is deathless and flawless.

My perfection-life

Is endless and flawless. ```

779. A home far away

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Fear is a home

Far away from God.

Love is a home

Far away from man.

Realisation is a home

Far away from Heaven.

Perfection is a home

Far away from earth. ```

780. Sick of it

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Mind, be still!

I am sick of your wild restlessness.

Heart, be pure!

I am sick of your vast impurity.

Soul, be certain!

I am sick of your constant uncertainty. ```

781. God's tortoise and God's deer

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I am God’s tortoise.

I do not have to worry;

Slow and steady wins the race.

I am God’s deer;

I have no time to waste.

Lo, God’s silver Grace is beckoning me.

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782. O messenger, where are you?

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O messenger of Dream,

Earth needs you.

Where are you?

O messenger of Reality,

Heaven needs you.

Where are you?

O messenger of Silence,

Life needs you.

Where are you?

O messenger of God,

Death needs you.

Where are you?

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783. Watching

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My earth is thirsty;

Alas, no nectar-sea within my reach.

My Heaven is hungry;

Alas, no nourishing-sky within my reach.

My human birth is crying;

Alas, no saving hand within my reach.

Yet God is watching,

Carefully watching. ```

784. The freedom-sky of oneness

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Human life is motion and evolution.

Divine life is the silence-sea.

God-life is the Freedom-sky of Oneness

Between

The body of the finite

And

The soul of the Infinite.

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785. Their ways

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Possession

Is the unknown way of the body.

Renunciation

Is the unappreciated way of the soul.

Perfection

Is the misunderstood way of God. ```

786. My life

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Lord, my life is a flute

Out of tune.

Lord, my life is a meditation

Out of practice.

Lord, my life is an accident

Out of danger. ```

787. I was determined

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I was determined

In my seeking.

Therefore I am really successful.

I was determined

In my God-becoming.

Therefore I am divinely successful.

I was determined

In my surrendering.

Therefore I am supremely successful.

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788. To love God is to become God

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To love God is to need God,

To need God is to see God,

To see God is to breathe God,

To breathe God is to become God. ```

789. What you have and what you are

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To live with man

Is to live with what you have.

To live with God

Is to live with what you are.

What you have: God-aspiration.

What you are: God-realisation. ```

790. Intuition, transformation and perfection

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Intuition: what is it?

It is the record speed of the inner Light.

Transformation: what is it?

It is the manifested glory of the inner Light.

Perfection: what is it?

It is the constant self-transcendence of the inner Light. ```

791. Tomorrow's necessity

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Yesterday’s stupidity

Failed to love her.

Today’s insecurity

Fails to reach her.

Tomorrow’s necessity

Will love her and reach her,

Treasure her and manifest her.

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792. She is

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Indeed, She is the veiled deity.

Indeed, She is the concealed Queen.

Indeed, She is the unrevealed Mother.

Indeed, She is the unmanifested Godhead. ```

793. Her name

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Patience-sky:

That is her secret name.

Compassion-sea:

That is her sacred name.

Perfection-moon:

That is her birthless and deathless name. ```

794. O Sister of earth

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O Mother of Heaven,

Thy love I implore.

O Daughter of God,

Thy smile I adore.

O Sister of earth,

Thy absence

Neither humanity

Nor Divinity

Can endure.

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795. Her heights, her depths

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Her nights are God’s silver trances.

Her days are God’s golden dances.

Her heights are God’s diamond discoveries.

Her depths are God’s eternal mysteries. ```

796. How to make God smile

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When I pray,

The Power of God smiles.

When I meditate,

The Light of God smiles.

When I love and serve,

God Himself smiles. ```

797. Not a repetition

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She tells the world:

Life is not a fruitless repetition.

She tells the world:

Death is not a helpless repetition.

She tells the world:

Love is not an eyeless repetition.

She tells the world:

God is not a useless repetition. ```

798. Through her

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Through her eyes,

Earth’s thousand tears burn.

Through her heart,

Heaven’s thousand smiles shine.

Through her life,

God’s thousand lives blossom. ```

799. Her occupations

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She energises the spheres

Of divine activities.

She immortalises the realms

Of silence-trances.

To man she offers her vision-flames

Of the emerald Beyond.

To God she offers her promise-noon

Of Infinity’s life

And

Eternity’s love. ```

800. Look up, my life!

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O my life of failure-sighs,

Look up!

Challenge once more

The victory of ignorance-night.

Arouse the lightning speed

Of your spirit-sky.

Lo, in you abides the Emperor

Of transcendental Triumphs. ```

From:Sri Chinmoy,The Wings of Light, part 16, Agni Press, 1974
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