My Christmas-New Year-Vacation Aspiration-Prayers, part 18
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No limitTo what my love, devotion
And surrender can do,
Not only for me,
But also for the entire world.
APR 1567. These prayers were given in Christchurch, New Zealand — 27 December 2002.↩
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Keep singing, keep singing!God will soon be arriving.
3
If I continue calling,My life will blossom
And my Lord Supreme
Will smile, sing and dance.
4
The exquisite blissOf my God-surrender-life
Nobody on earth
Can hamper.
5
My Master’s tears and smilesAre the only members
Of my heart-family.
6
The desiring mindIs apt to brood.
The aspiring heart
Is apt to bleed.
7
God’s Compassion-Eye intervenesBetween
Man’s Himalayan blunders
And his well-deserved punishment.
8
God’s Compassion-Confidence in meIs my only
Competence-victory.
9
My Lord,Your ceaseless Tears I see
Not only in my heart,
But also in every heart.
My Lord,
Your Nectar-Smiles I see
Nowhere, nowhere, nowhere.
102
I give my Lord SupremeUnimaginable joy and pride
When I am able
To steal His Compassion-Eye
And His Forgiveness-Heart.
APR 1567. These prayers were given in Christchurch, New Zealand — 28 December 2002.↩
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To protect meFrom the undivine forces,
My Beloved Supreme
Has kept His Eye and His Heart
As my sentinels at my heart-gate.
12
Every moment is a golden opportunityFor me to love and serve
The tears and the smiles of the world.
13
I must disregard and discardWhat my mind thinks of me
And says about me.
14
I do not go to the sky-moon —I go to my heart-moon
For it to inspire me
And inundate me
With Infinity’s Peace and Bliss.
15
I have many desires,But my Lord has only one:
My constant happiness.
16
Day and nightMy soul is helping me
To discount all my worries
And anxieties.
17
God lovesMy very, very short-distance prayers
And not
My ultramarathon-distance prayers.
18
God’s unseen HandMost lovingly
And most compassionately
Takes my hands
To show me the way
To the Golden Shore.
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My greatness depends onThe acceptance of the world.
My goodness depends on
The Love and Concern
Of my Beloved Supreme.
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Every morning and every eveningMy complete God-surrender-life
Is cradled
By the beauty and the fragrance
Of Heaven.
APR 1586. These prayers were given in Christchurch, New Zealand — 29 December 2002.↩
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I must keep my heart’s loveAnd my life’s gratitude
Always together.
22
Love shows the road.Devotion walks on the road.
Surrender takes love and devotion
To the Destination.
23
I write my Lord’s biographyWith my shallower than the shallowest
Book-knowledge.
24
My Lord writes my biographyWith His ever-increasing Heart-Tears
And
With His ever-increasing Soul-Smiles.
25
I must become a perfect strangerTo ignorance-sleep
So that I can grow into
A God-lover
Of the highest magnitude.
26
The human in meHas only one task to perform:
Awake!
27
The divine in meHas three tasks to perform:
Bravely march forward,
Sleeplessly climb upward,
Breathlessly dive inward.
28
Silence is God’sSecret and sacred
Man-Enlightenment-Whisper.
29
Humanity’s lifeIs nothing but
A fragile faith in God.
304
My outer sufferingIs
My inner courage-builder.
APR 1596. These prayers were given in Christchurch, New Zealand — 30 December 2002.↩
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My inner sufferingIs
My outer eye-opener.
32
PatienceIs the most sublime progress
In disguise.
33
The real Master is chosenBy the real seeker in us,
And not by the mind — never!
34
God has repeatedly told meThat He is interested
Only in what I am doing,
And not what I am saying.
35
There was a timeWhen I had a volley of questions,
But now I have only one question:
Do I have a real God-hunger?
36
When I pray,I pray with my upward eyes
To see my Lord’s Eye.
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When I meditate,I meditate with my inward heart
To sit at my Lord’s Feet.
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During my deepest meditation,I hear my Lord Beloved Supreme
Secretly whispering:
“My child, you were born to be
My Eternity’s Greatness,
My Infinity’s Goodness
And My Immortality’s Fulness.
My child, this message
Is not only for you,
But it is for each and every
Creation of Mine.”
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God’s Compassion-Eye-InspirationIs
My Godward journey’s start.
APR 1605. These prayers were given in Christchurch, New Zealand — 31 December 2002.↩
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God’s TearsWake my heart.
God’s Smiles
Shake my life.
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My aspirationMeans the beginning
Of my God-oneness-cry and smile.
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My Lord Supreme,Will You be able to believe me
When I say that I love You
Infinitely more than I love myself?
43
To love othersBefore we love ourselves
Is, indeed,
A very rare achievement.
44
God knows and seesThat my heart is very rich
In world-concern.
Therefore He has made me
A supremely chosen instrument
Of His Heart.
45
My creativity-beautyComes from my Lord’s
Activity-Fountain.
46
The beauty and profundityOf my heart-tears
Only my Master deeply values.
47
When I try to keep a secretFrom God,
He terribly suffers
From my utter stupidity.
486
I must admit,In all sincerity,
That God has smiled at me
Infinitely more times
Than I have cried for Him.
APR 1614. These prayers were given in Christchurch, New Zealand — 1 January 2003.↩
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Every dayMy soul’s fragrance-delight
Is intensifying
My heart’s aspiration-cry.
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My desire-life,It is getting late!
Go to sleep, go to sleep!
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My aspiration-heart,It is getting late!
Wake up, wake up!
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The hesitation-mindAnd the insecurity-life
Love to live together.
53
I must shun two things —Self-doubt and world-indifference —
To make the fastest progress
In my spiritual life.
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Since we human beings have createdThe darkest night of the world,
It is our bounden duty to illumine
The darkest night of the world.
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God’s Mind-PhilosophyIs Forgiveness.
God’s Heart-Song
Is Forgiveness.
God’s Life-Story
Is Forgiveness.
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Only my heart-microscopeCan measure the distance
Between my life-tears
And my death-smiles.
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Each dayIs a Power-Sun-
Revelation-Manifestation
Of God.
Each night
Is a Compassion-Moon-
Revelation-Manifestation
Of God.
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CompassionIs the success-secret
Of the higher world.
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LoveIs the success-secret
Of the inner world.
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SmileIs the success-secret
Of the outer world.
617
Surrender is the fastest highwayThat leads us
To the Transcendental Heights.
APR 1627. These prayers were given in Christchurch, New Zealand — 2 January 2003↩
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Wherever we go,We must carry with us
Our heart’s aspiration-flames.
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Only my God-gratitude-heart-tearsEnable me to fly
In the sky of Infinity.
64
God gets tremendous JoyAnd Satisfaction
When He is able to sail His Dream-Boat
In my life’s devotion-river.
65
The mind does nothingFor God,
Yet it expects Love from God
All the time.
66
This world of ours will be perfectOnly when our God-service-life
Is constantly on the march.
67
God is extremely happy to seeThat His Immensity
And my intensity
Are sleeplessly growing together.
68
SpiritualityIs a breathless
Self-transcendence-adventure.
69
My world-improvement-service-joyIs more precious to God
Than anything else.
70
My meditation-timeIs my Lord’s
Only resting-hour.
71
My Lord and I deeply enjoyOur mutual appreciation:
My Lord tells me
That my heart-tears
Are inimitable.
I tell my Lord
His Eye-Smiles
Are inimitable.
728.
I must and I must discover,As soon as possible,
The key to my Lord’s Heart-Home.
APR 1638. These prayers were given in Cairns, Australia — 5 January 2003↩
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Nothing human in meExists any more.
I have become today
A supremely choice instrument
Of my Lord Supreme.
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God’s HeartIs in each moment.
God’s Eye
Is in each movement.
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No more my aspiration-heartShall suffer
From God-separation-pangs.
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May every morningMy aspiration-heart-garden
Produce a most beautiful
God-gratitude-rose.
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The disobedience of the mindIs a very, very old story.
The obedience of the heart
Is a most soulful song
That has neither beginning
Nor end.
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My Beloved Supreme,Out of His infinite Bounty,
Tells me that my entire life
Is a most powerful song-bridge
Between humanity’s tears
And Divinity’s Smiles.
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Today my heartIs a meditation-plant.
Tomorrow my life
Shall become a Heaven-climbing tree.
Editor's note
Sri Chinmoy offered the following prayers during his visit to Christchurch, New Zealand and Cairns, Australia in December 2002 and January 2003.
