My Christmas-New Year-Vacation Aspiration-Prayers, part 39

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11

God takes very seriously
A disobedience-mind.


APR 3141. These prayers were given in Huangshan, China — 29 January 2005.

2

There is no way to call God
By the wrong name.

3

If we can smile
Soulfully and self-givingly,
God’s Compassion-Eye
And
God’s Satisfaction-Heart
Will always accompany us.

4

Every day I pray to God
For His Satisfaction,
And not for my promotion.

5

The outer world
Does not care for my help,
Yet I am eager to help.

6

The inner world
Needs my service desperately.
Alas, I am nowhere to be found!

7

The more hunger we have
For the fulfilment of our desire-life,
The sooner we become impoverished
In our inner life.

8

Aspiration-quality
And dedication-quantity
I long for.

9

May I live all the time
In the beauty of patience
And
In the fragrance of silence.

10

Devotion
Is the heart’s
Most precious wealth.

11

I hide
When I am in
My desire-life.

12

I get an ecstasy-ride
When I am in
My aspiration-heart.

13

Never take a false start
In your aspiration-race.

14

There can be nothing
More natural
Than our meditation-dive.

15

I am happy
Because my life
Is an inspiration-fountain.

16

I am happy
Because my heart
Is an aspiration-mountain.

172

The soul-singers
Are God’s choicest singers.


APR 3157. These prayers were given in Nanjing, China — 3 February 2005.

18

The heart-singers
Are God’s choice singers.

19

The mind-singers
Are God’s failure-singers.

20

The vital-singers
Are God’s Heart-collapse-singers.

21

The body-singers
Are God’s stranger-singers.

22

I am, at once,
God’s satisfaction-singer
And
God’s frustration-singer.

23

I am God’s satisfaction-singer
When I sing
Only for God.

24

I am God’s frustration-singer
When I sing
Only for
The thunder-applause of humanity.

25

When I look beyond
All I have ever known,
God gives me
His sweetest Smile.

26

When I give to the world
Far beyond my intended willingness,
God immediately embraces me
And tells me:
“My child, you are, indeed,
My tomorrow’s
Golden Dream-Boat-passenger.”

273

Intensity
Shows me the Way.


APR 3167. These prayers were given in Nanjing, China — 4 February 2005.

28

Immensity
Leads me to the Goal.

29

God’s Compassion-Eye
Lifts us high, very high,
With a single Glance,
But, alas, we prefer to come down.

30

My complete surrender
To God’s Will
Is God’s proudest
And happiest news.

31

Individuality-lovers
Are
Universality-strangers.

32

The affection
Of the heart
Is the sunshine
Of life.

33

In the morning,
My heart is
A God-worship-flower-beauty.

34

In the evening,
My life is
A God-surrender-flower-fragrance.

35

I enjoy
My heart’s God-beauty-tears
And
My life’s God-duty-smiles
Equally and unreservedly.

36

With my sobbing eyes
I touch
My Lord’s Feet.

37

With my throbbing heart
I feel
My Lord’s Heart.

38

Clasp,
Clasp God’s Feet
If you want to grasp
God’s Beauty.

394

The source of real greatness
Is humility’s beauty.


APR 3179. These prayers were given in Nanjing, China — 5 February 2005.

40

The source of real goodness
Is the fragrance
Of selflessness.

41

Like Eternity,
Our longing for Eternity
Also shall know no bounds.

42

Quite often
Our expectations are found
In wasteland-debris.

43

Compassion from Above,
Aspiration from below
Together
Are miracle-performers.

44

I must hear
At least once in my life
My soul’s sweetest
God-satisfaction-song.

45

Not our renunciation-mind,
Not our possession-life,
But our God-Creation-acceptance-heart
The Lord Supreme treasures.

46

Wandering through ignorance-night
Is the very beginning
Of God-Light-invocation.

47

Divinity’s journey begins
Only after the transcendence
Of all man-created jungle-confusion.

48

Counterfeit sincerity
An unaspiring life is.

49

My mind, get up,
My vital, get up,
My body, get up
Immediately,
And start going God’s Way —
The only Way.

505

The seeker needs
Many, many, many God-dreams
Long before he meets with God
In reality.


APR 3190. These prayers were given in Nanjing, China — 6 February 2005.

51

Each time we meditate,
The very first thing
We have to invoke
Is peace.

52

My heart lives in between
My God-surrender
And my God-bliss.

53

Every morning
Is a God-sent
Unprecedented opportunity.

54

Our sincere aspiration
Is the source
Of genuine God-hunger.

55

The red light
Fights against ignorance-night
To establish
God’s Victory on earth.

56

The white light
Illumines
Ignorance-night.

57

The blue light
Devours
Ignorance-night.

58

God’s Compassion-Eye
Watches me.

59

God’s Justice-Mind
Catches me.

60

God’s Forgiveness-Heart
Liberates me.

616

Alas, God-awareness
Is still individual
And not universal.


APR 3201. These prayers were given in Nanjing, China — 7 February 2005.

62

The sadness
Of Mother Earth
Has an undying breath.

63

There is no dearth of
False smiles —
False smiles are all-where.

64

My Lord,
I am too weak
To be crushed
By Your Indifference-Feet.

65

My heart-sun
Knows no eclipse.

66

Alas, I have no idea
When I became fond
Of my expectation-mind.

67

Our God-surrender
Has the longest
Progress-strides.

68

We suffer so much daily
From our uncertainty-mind,
Yet we allow it to linger.

69

I live in between
My laughable mind
And
My lovable heart.

70

Alas, we have nothing better to do
Than to blame God
For our failure-sadness-life.

71

The mind always lives
In the lip-deep prayers.

72

God tells me that my task
Is to encourage the seeker,
And that His Task
Is to perfect the seeker.

73

I touch God’s Feet
Only to be embraced
By God’s Heart.

747

God’s Strictness-Mind
Is for
The chosen few.


APR 3214. These prayers were given in Nanjing, China — 8 February 2005.

75

God’s Compassion-Eye
Is for
All and sundry.

76

In God’s Heart,
Each seeker
Is unique.

77

Each and every pilgrim
Needs must visit
God’s Heart-Temple.

78

The unaspiring
And undivine thoughts
Never wait for an invitation.

79

Our God-surrender-train
Runs the fastest
Towards the Destination.

80

The doubt-door
Has to be kept closed tight
All the time.

81

Spirituality does not house
A narrowness-mind
And a shallowness-life.

82

Doubt-storms
Cannot sink
Faith-ocean liners.

83

God’s Heart
Gives a wide berth
To stark complainers.

84

Each God-realised soul
Is
A mighty mankind-fort.

85

Renunciation
Is a philosophy
Alien to my heart.

86

God wants
Only the most devoted seekers
To strike
His Victory-Drum.

878

In the spiritual life,
An intellectual and powerful mind
Can be a great obstacle.


APR 3227. These prayers were given in Nanjing, China — 9 February 2005.

88

There is not a single moment
That is not ready to help us
To please God.

89

I swim in the tears
Of my earth-bound life
And in the smiles
Of my Heaven-free dreams.

90

Meditation
Is by far
The best soul-exercise.

91

Aspiration
Is by far
The best heart-exercise.

92

Dedication
Is by far
The best life-exercise.

93

My surrender to God’s Will
Is by far
My best exercise.

949

Our Absolute Lord Beloved Supreme
Is all Attention
To the exquisite beauty
Of the seeker’s inner life.


APR 3234. These prayers were given in Nanjing, China — 11 February 2005.

95

Our Absolute Lord Beloved Supreme
Is all Pride
In the unprecedented fragrance
Of the seeker’s inner breath.

Editor's note

Sri Chinmoy offered the following prayers during his visit to Huangshan and Nanjing, China in January and February 2005.