The Wings of Light, part 5

201. I wrote to you for help

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O my soul,

I wrote to you

For help

In my God-manifestation.

Alas,

Your answer could have been

More generous.

O my heart,

I wrote to you

For help

In my God-manifestation.

Alas,

Your poor response

Fails to inspire me.

O my mind,

I wrote to you

For help

In my God-manifestation.

Alas,

Your obscure answer

Puzzles me.

O my vital,

I wrote to you

For help

In my God-manifestation.

Alas,

Your senseless answer

Frustrates me.

O my body,

I didn’t write to you

Because

I didn’t know

Whom to choose

Between you

And ignorance.

```

202. Many happy returns

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On my birthday

Earth-consciousness says:

“Many happy returns.”

Heaven-Delight says:

“Your every happy return to earth-life

Is also a happy step towards My Palace.”

Alas,

Life on earth

Is temptation-frustration.

Life in Heaven

Is examination-clarification.

```

203. His love taught him

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His love of God

Taught him

How to descend

Into the world-night.

His love of man

Taught him

How to forget

His Immortality’s height. ```

204. Life-passage and love-message

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Where is the world-soul?

The world-soul

Is inside my blossoming vision.

What shall I do with it?

I shall give it out.

To whom?

To those who know that

Life-passage and love-message

Are one,

Inseparably one.

```

205. Alternatives

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Choose!

God-life or man-perfection.

Choose!

God-edifice or man-sacrifice.

Choose!

God-power or man-love.

Choose!

```

206. My prayers

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My doubtful prayers

Are my prayers of clay.

My soulful prayers

Are my prayers of day.

My thought-covered prayers

Are my prayers of frustration.

My silence-filled prayers

Are my prayers of destination. ```

207. Where they live

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His heart lives

In the sea of loneliness.

His mind lives

In the pool of loneliness.

His vital lives

In the pyre of depression.

His body lives

In the cave of perdition. ```

208. My love-telescope

```

When I use

My time-telescope,

I suffer from dark uncertain night.

When I use

My love-telescope,

I build the palace of life

In the kingdom of God-Light. ```

209. O light, O trance

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O light of trance,

Where are you?

O trance of night,

Where are you not?

O night of trance,

Where can I kill you?

O Light, O trance,

I am of you.

O night, O trance,

God is there for you. ```

210. Knowledge-sun, lustre-moon

```

I eat,

And yet I eat not

Ignorance-night.

I drink,

And yet I drink not

Ignorance-sea.

I eat not,

And yet I eat

Knowledge-sun.

I drink not,

And yet I drink

Lustre-moon.

```

211. When he represents

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He is one

When he represents

Truth and Light.

He is one

When he represents

Love and Life.

He is two

When he represents

His Inner Faith

And

His Outer Doubt.

He is many

When he represents

Earth-Bondage-Night

And

Heaven-Freedom-Bliss.

```

212. Four messages

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The message of his vital:

Life is a self-imposed struggle.

The message of his mind:

Life is a self-exposed-bondage.

The message of his heart:

Life is a God-inviting hope.

The message of his body:

Life is a death-manifesting ignorance. ```

213. My journey

```

Earth is not

My journey’s start.

Heaven is not

My journey’s close.

My journey is

The birthless Lover on earth.

My journey is

The deathless Beloved in Heaven. ```

214. Say not anything against me

```

O life,

I love you.

I love your sound-wave.

Therefore,

Say not anything against me.

O death,

I love you.

I love your silence-peace.

Therefore,

Say not anything against me.

```

215. Behold the magic

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No goal, no goal:

Behold the magic of the mind.

No soul, no soul:

Behold the magic of the vital.

No heart, no heart:

Behold the magic of the body.

No night, no night:

Behold the magic of the heart.

No ignorance, no ignorance:

Behold the magic of the soul. ```

216. A transaction

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The life human

Is at its best

A transaction

Between

Black depression

And

Brown frustration.

The life divine

Is at its worst

A transaction

Between

A hungry sky

And

A thirsty sun.

```

217. Two debts

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God, let us settle

Our accounts.

God, do I owe You anything?

“Certainly you do, My son.

You owe Me

Your failure-sea

And

Your failure-sky.”

God, here they are.

“Son, do I owe you anything?”

Yes, Lord, You owe me

My Eternal Now.

“Son, here it is.” ```

218. Three things you can do with God

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Three are the things

That you can do with God:

First kill Him and then love Him

First love Him and then kill Him

Love His Peace devotedly,

Love His Light unreservedly,

Love His Love unconditionally.

```

219. They do not bother God

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God is lazy.

Therefore

My body does not bother God.

God is weak.

Therefore

My vital does not bother God.

God is ignorant.

Therefore

My mind does not bother God.

God is shy.

Therefore

My heart does not bother God.

```

220. If you are the son of God

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If you are the son of God,

Then give Him what you have:

Your cry, your constant cry,

Your endless cry.

And

If God is your son,

Then give Him what you are:

Your smile, your birthless smile,

Your deathless smile.

```

221. Two are better, one is better

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Two are better than one.

Therefore

I always stay

With the Compassion of the Supreme.

One is better than two.

Therefore

I never stay

With my personal efforts. ```

222. What is important?

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What is important in life?

A soulful smile.

What is important in death?

A fruitful silence.

What is important in Immortality?

A dutiful necessity. ```

223. We can easily work it out together

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You and I

Can easily work it out together.

You pray to God

To grant us nectar

On our behalf.

And when God grants us nectar,

Let me taste it first

On our behalf.

If it tastes good,

Without fail

I shall share it with you.

Let us try.

You and I

Can easily work it out together. ```

224. The blessing

```

The blessing of your madness:

Nobody will come near you.

The blessing of your calmness:

God will come near you.

The blessing of your impurity:

You will have to walk alone

To your goal.

The blessing of your purity:

You will not have to go to your goal,

Your goal itself shall come to you.

```

225. He has the most perfect answer

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How to be a genuine fake?

Go and ask a fanatic disciple.

He has the most perfect

Answer for you.

How to be a genuine rogue?

Go and ask a self-styled busy disciple.

He has the most perfect

Answer for you. ```

226. I see not

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The world is too much with me.

Therefore

I see not the face of God.

The world is too much within me.

Therefore

I fail to see the face of Love.

```

227. The human eye, the divine Eye

```

The human eye sleeps

In the room of dreams.

The divine Eye strikes

The Hour of Reality.

The human heart declares:

Love before you perish.

The divine Heart reveals:

Love and become,

Become and love.

```

228. This is the discovery

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Tension and destruction:

This is the discovery of the animal life.

Tension without attention:

This is the discovery of the human life.

Attention without tension:

This is the discovery of the divine life.

Attention with discovery:

This is the discovery of the supreme life. ```

229. My love, my freewill, my God

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My love is

My freewill.

My freewill is

My God.

My God is

My yesterday’s Silence,

My today’s Sound,

My tomorrow’s Kingdom. ```

230. Sick soul, strong soul and God-soul

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He is a sick soul.

Therefore

He is an earth-bound cat.

He is a strong soul.

Therefore

He is a Heaven-free lion.

He is a God-soul.

Therefore

He cries with the heart of earth

And

Smiles with the Eye of Heaven.

```

231. The cave-life

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I lived a cave-life

For meditation.

I shunned all my human friends

To gain my only eternal

And immortal Friend.

He came in and said:

“Son, your cave will suffocate me.

I want to live in your palace-life.

It will give me what I admire —

Oneness with the multitudes.”

```

232. The only thing I know

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God, I teach

Because

This is the only thing I know.

“Son, I learn

Because

This is the only thing I know.”

God, I judge You

Because

This is the only thing I know.

“Son, I forgive you

Because

This is the only thing I know.”

```

233. I like, I love

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Society and sanity:

I like society,

I love sanity.

Beauty and purity:

I like beauty,

I love purity.

Generosity and humility:

I like generosity,

I love humility.

Responsibility and duty:

I like responsibility,

I love duty.

```

234. Just surrender!

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Don’t conclude,

Just watch!

Lo, God is blessing you.

Don’t watch,

Just feel!

Lo, God is loving you.

Don’t feel,

Just surrender!

Lo, God is embracing you.

```

235. An all-embracing glance

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Fear

Is a backward glance.

Cheer

Is a forward glance.

Love

Is an inward glance.

Devotion

Is an upward glance.

Surrender

Is an all-embracing glance. ```

236. Surrender

```

Surrender

Is the vision of my world-clock.

Surrender

Is the reality of my life after death.

Surrender

Is the bridge

Between

My pure ascent

And

God’s sure descent. ```

237. This is just a suggestion

```

Father,

This is just a suggestion:

Since You are extremely tired,

Let me take care

Of Your creation

For a while.

“Son,

This is just a suggestion:

Since you are not tired at all,

You should not make friends

With death-sleep

Any more.” ```

238. His friends

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He has two unreliable friends:

His black fear and his brown doubts.

He has two reliable friends:

His white faith and his purple love.

He has one indispensable friend:

His blue-gold inner cry. ```

239. Three books

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He has studied only three books:

The book of nonsense,

The book of ignorance,

The book of innocence.

The animal in him

Was satisfied

With his nonsense-book.

The human in him

Was satisfied

With his ignorance-book.

The divine in him

Was satisfied

With his innocence-book.

```

240. Why am I here?

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Why am I here

In the land of the Gurus?

Why am I here

In the land of the disciples?

I am in the land of the Gurus

Because

God wants to share with me

His Realisation-Light.

I am in the land of the disciples

Because

God wants to share with me

His ignorance-night. ```

241. They do not contradict me

```

A great man

Does not contradict me

Because

He knows

I am a senseless soul.

A good man

Does not contradict me

Because

He knows

I am a loveless soul.

A God-man

Does not contradict me

Because

He knows

I am a helpless soul.

```

242. Just start

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Why start?

Just start and see.

How to start?

Just start and feel.

When to start?

Just start and reach. ```

243. He paid three visits to God

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He paid three visits to God:

First time he went

With a beggar’s humiliation.

Second time he went

With a seeker’s humility.

Third time he went

With a lover’s oneness.

God questioned the beggar,

God smiled at the seeker,

God caught the lover.

```

244. The cross, the crown

```

If you

Love the cross,

The crown will adorn you.

If you

Love the crown,

The cross may not utilise you.

What is the cross?

The cross is self-examination.

What is the crown?

The crown is self-manifestation. ```

245. Their minds

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The mind of a fool

Knows everything.

The mind of a wise man

Asks everything.

The mind of a great man

Envelops everything.

The mind of a good man

Treasures everything. ```

246. The pond, the river, the sea

```

The pond cries

For the Power of the sea.

The river runs

For the Light of the sea.

The sea sighs

For the Light within. ```

247. The difference between my mind and my heart

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The difference

Between

My heart and my mind

Is this:

My heart grows up

But

Does not grow old,

Never;

My mind grows old

But

Does not grow up,

Never. ```

248. Saying and doing, giving and receiving

```

The difference

Between

Saying and doing

Is this:

Saying is man-power,

Doing is God-shower.

The difference

Between

Giving and receiving

Is this:

Giving is the stamp of the individual man,

Receiving is the stamp of the universal God. ```

249. What they need

```

What my body needs

Is an endurance-contest.

What my vital needs

Is an appearance-contest.

What my body needs

Is an inconscience-conquest.

What my heart needs

Is an assurance-rest. ```

250. Nobody came, all came

```

Light for sale.

Nobody came

Because

Light is too powerful.

Truth for sale.

Nobody came

Because

Truth is too hurtful.

Ignorance for sale.

All came

Because

Ignorance teaches them how to sing.

Bondage for sale.

All came

Because

Bondage teaches them how to dance. ```

From:Sri Chinmoy,The Wings of Light, part 5, Aum Press, Puerto Rico, 1974
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