Preface

For the past twelve months, I have been offering prayers in the morning, before I do my weightlifting. Now I have embarked on a new journey. Each time before I do ten minutes cycling, I will offer a prayer. By living here in the West, I have become a man of prayers.

— Sri Chinmoy

October 12th, 1999

1.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
May the tears of my heart
Feed You
Exactly the way
The Smiles of Your Eye
Feed my heart —
Sumptuously
And
Unconditionally.

12 October 1999

11:40 p.m.

New York

2.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
You love each and every
Human being
Unconditionally.
So must I.

13 October 1999

4:27 a.m.

New York

3.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
God-realisation-thirst
I have.
God-manifestation-hunger
I need.

13 October 1999

5:36 a.m.

New York

4.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
Sweet, sweeter, sweetest
Are the tears of my heart
And
The sorrows of my life.

13 October 1999

6:12 p.m.

New York

5.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
A mounting aspiration-cry
Is the only requirement
For God-realisation.
A spreading dedication-smile
Is the only requirement
For God-manifestation.

14 October 1999

5:21 p.m.

New York

6.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
May my vital, my body
And all that I have
And all that I am
Be always on Your side.

14 October 1999

8:31 p.m.

New York

7.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
May my obedience-heart
Sleeplessly sing for You.
May my surrender-life
Breathlessly dance for You.

15 October 1999

12:56 a.m.

New York

8.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
Patience I must practise,
For patience is the pioneer
Of victory.

15 October 1999

8:34 a.m.

New York

9.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
You want me to learn
Only devotion-heart-songs
And
Gratitude-life-songs
And sing for You,
For Your Satisfaction.

15 October 1999

5:50 p.m.

New York

10.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
I am exceedingly happy
That I am able to cancel
All my desire-trips
Today and forever.

16 October 1999

2:01 a.m.

New York

11.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
I shall sleeplessly
Keep my heart's door open
To all God-seekers.

16 October 1999

8:25 a.m.

New York

12.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
Today I received a personal call
From my Lord.
He wanted to know
How my gratitude-heart-tears
Are doing.

16 October 1999

7:41 p.m.

New York

13.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
The mind may pray
To the unknown God,
But the heart always prays
To the known and familiar God.

17 October 1999

12:45 a.m.

New York

14.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
Please, please, please,
Give me back all my old
Blue-gold dreams —
My God-aspiration,
My God-realisation,
My God-manifestation,
My life-transcendence
And
My God-satisfaction-dreams.

17 October 1999

8:50 a.m.

New York

15.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
May my constant surrender
To Your Will
Be my one single
Burning desire.

18 October 1999

7:22 a.m.

New York

16.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
Today I must remove Altogether
My world-possession-
Desire-hunger.

18 October 1999

9:03 p.m.

New York

17.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
My mind departs quickly
Only when I start living
Happily and proudly
Inside my heart.

19 October 1999

5:32 a.m.

New York

18.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
I must keep my heart-eye
Open
All the time
To Your Will.

20 October 1999

1:14 a.m.

New York

19.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
From now on I shall be
The adamantine determination
Of a God-seeker-hero.

22 October 1999

7:52 a.m.

New York

20.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
Today You are asking me
To be a passenger
Of Your Eternity's
Blue-gold Dream-Boat.
My gratitude-heart
I place at Your Feet.

23 October 1999

8:09 a.m.

New York

21.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
The mind is pride-pleasure
With no God.
The heart is humility-treasure
Only with God.

24 October 1999

9:27 a.m.

New York

22.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
I have been for a long time
A member
Of the God-lovers' society.
Today I have become
A member
Of the God-servers' society
As well.

25 October 1999

8:36 a.m.

New York

23.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
My dedication-life,
My aspiration-heart
And
My surrender-breath
Are extremely fond of
One another.

26 October 1999

8:30 a.m.

New York

24.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
My peace is
My love-expansion.
My love is
My aspiration-expansion.
My aspiration is
My Lord's Compassion-expansion.

26 October 1999

12:22 p.m.

New York

25.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
I am the lover
Of Your Compassion-Eye.
You are the Lover
Of my aspiration-heart.

26 October 1999

9:23 p.m.

New York

26.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
Your Forgiveness-Heart
Has made my miserable life
Liveable once more.

28 October 1999

New York

27.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
Do give me the strength
To be always ready
For the correction
And perfection
Of my life.

1 November 1999

7:46 a.m.

New York

28.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
I must break the age-old,
Tenebrous night of my mind
Into a million pieces.

2 November 1999

7:39 a.m.

New York

29.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
God wants my ever-blossoming
Gratitude-heart
To captain the pro-God team.

3 November 1999

7:49 a.m.

New York

30.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
In vain I have been trying
For years and years
To tame my monkey-mind —
In vain!

4 November 1999

8:04 a.m.

New York

31.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
May I have the heart
That loves and loves
And loves
Each and every human heart.

7 November 1999

6:26 a.m.

New York

32.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
The source of
My beatitude-life
Is
My God-gratitude-heart.

5 December 1999

8:06 a.m.

São Paulo, Brazil

33.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
In the spiritual life,
A heart of devotion-ecstasy
Is a supreme necessity
To realise God.

6 December 1999

7:52 a.m.

São Paulo, Brazil

34.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
My faith-life is not
My mind-frustration.
It is
My heart-illumination.

8 December 1999

6:53 a.m.

Nova Friburgo, Brazil

35.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
My Lord's Compassion-Eye
Every morning rings
My mind's inspiration-bells,
My heart's aspiration-bells
And
My life's dedication-bells.
I ring every morning
My Lord's
Victory-Manifestation-Bells.

9 December 1999

5:25 a.m.

Nova Friburgo, Brazil

36.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
Do come and liberate me
From my self-doubt —
The heaviest of all burdens.

13 December 1999

6:56 a.m.

Nova Friburgo, Brazil

37.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
The unaspiring mind
Is a powerful magnet
For nonsense.
The aspiring heart
Is the most powerful magnet
For universal oneness.

14 December 1999

5:21 a.m.

Nova Friburgo, Brazil

38.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
You are commanding my mind
Not to represent the past.

15 December 1999

6:14 a.m.

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

39.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
Your Compassion-Eye
Has employed
My newness-mind,
My eagerness-heart
And
My selflessness-life
To do public relations for You.

16 December 1999

5:01 a.m.

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

40.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
May my morning start
With my God-gratitude-heart-
Tears and smiles.

17 December 1999

4:37 a.m.

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

41.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
My prayer is my short-cut
To Your Compassion-Feet.
My meditation is my short-cut
To Your Satisfaction-Heart.

19 December 1999

6:38 a.m.

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

42.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
Every morning
You push my body
Vehemently
And You pull my heart
Gently.

20 December 1999

4:56 a.m.

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

43.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
My heart is throbbing
With the God-Arrival-expectation.

21 December 1999

6:25 a.m.

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

44.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
God smiles and smiles
And smiles
When I ask Him
For instant God-realisation.

22 December 1999

5:00 a.m.

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

45.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
My mind says to me:
"Accept a disciple —
Take a tremendous risk."
My heart says to me:
"Accept a disciple —
Offer a most fragrant flower
To God."

23 December 1999

4:38 a.m.

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

46.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
Your Compassion-Eye
Never closes
Your Heart's
Forgiveness-Door.

25 December 1999

5:19 a.m.

Curitiba, Brazil

47.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
Every day
I must run and run and run
On only one track:
My God-obedience-track.

27 December 1999

5:56 a.m.

Curitiba, Brazil

48.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
My heart most devotedly
Memorises
Your Compassion-flooded
Morning Messages.

28 December 1999

6:38 a.m.

Curitiba, Brazil

49.

My Absolute Lord Supreme!
I want to become a heart
Of glowing hopes
And not a mind
Of towering promises.

29 December 1999

4:57 a.m.

Curitiba, Brazil