My Christmas-New Year-Vacation Aspiration-Prayers, part 6
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My aspiration-heart has coveredThe faraway land
Of Immortality’s Nectar-Dreams.
APR 517. These prayers were given in Bagan, Myanmar — 30 December 2000.↩
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God’s Heart hungersEvery day
For my heart’s morning prayers.
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My heart sleeplessly cries,Not for my mind’s immediate demise,
But for my mind’s full illumination.
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O my mind, I am telling youThat you will not be able to deny
My soul’s life-transforming delight
Indefinitely.
5
The outer adviceIs utterly useless.
The inner prayer
Is absolutely fruitful.
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I call itMy heart-expansion.
God calls it
His Satisfaction-Delight.
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My Beloved Supreme,Your single Touch
Has brought me back
My inspiration-mind,
My aspiration-heart
And
My dedication-life.
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Desire comes to torture my heart.Desire comes to kill my life.
Desire comes to take me away
From my Absolute Lord Beloved Supreme.
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If you really love God,Then you must never, never
Be pleased with yourself
In your own way.
God’s Way is the only Way
For you to be pleased with yourself.
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What now I haveIs an earthly mind,
But I must become
A Heavenly heart.
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My Beloved SupremeThrows and throws and throws
Aspiration-seeds
Inside my heart-garden.
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A desire-lifeStrikes the mind
Hard, very hard.
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The fragrance of a devotion-heartIs unparalleled
In our spiritual life.
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In my outer life,My Supreme wants me to be
His Body.
In my inner life,
My Supreme wants me to be
His Breath.
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If I do not show my SupremeMy gratitude-face,
He will not help me win
My inner race.
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My meditation-silenceReverberates
In the Heart-Sky
Of my Lord Supreme.
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O my foolish mind,You do not have to understand anything.
Just do one thing:
Love and love
Our Lord Beloved Supreme.
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Implicit faith expeditesOur God-realisation-journey
Unimaginably.
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An acute shortageOf gratitude:
This is what a human heart is.
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The power of patienceKnows
No equal.
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The mind is deliberateTruth-limitation.
The heart is constant
Truth-expansion.
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As doubt isThe most powerful deceiver,
Even so, faith is
The ultimate saviour.
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We must be extremely,Extremely careful:
Ignorance-forces are always working,
Sleeplessly and vigilantly,
To lord it over us all the time.
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He who gives joy to othersUnconditionally
Is God’s choicest instrument.
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God, out of His infinite Bounty,Asks me to collect
His Compassion-Smiles
Infinitely more
Than I have ever expected.
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Let us bind and blindAll our desires
To please God
In His own Way.
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If you want to singGod’s Victory-Songs,
Then never yield any space
To self-doubt.
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God blesses meWith His infinite Pride
When I offer Him gratitude
From the very depths
Of my surrender-life.
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Two equally formidable discoverers:Mind the war-discoverer,
Heart the peace-discoverer.
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When we desperatelyNeed God’s help,
God immediately comes
As a human friend.
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When I am in my mind,I become the night of sorrows.
When I am in my heart,
I become the beauty
Of a rainbow-dawn.
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God’s Compassion-Tree blossomsOnly when
The tears of my heart
Are absolutely sincere and pure.
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Meditation isDesire-reduction
And aspiration-multiplication.
APR 549. These prayers were given in Bagan, Myanmar — 31 December 2000.↩
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When I pray,I breathe in God’s Light.
When I meditate,
I breathe out God’s Power.
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True, the mind does not respond,But the heart does respond
To God’s morning Call.
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If we want to make the fastest progressIn our spiritual life,
Then we needs must have
A doubt-proof enthusiasm-mind
And
A doubt-proof eagerness-heart.
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When I pray,I become a crying heart.
When I meditate,
I become a soaring soul.
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God has a very special fondnessFor my whisper-prayers
And whisper-meditations.
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God wants me to thinkOf only peace and bliss
When I look at others.
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Not our outer governmentBut our inner enlightenment
Can give us peace.
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My unconditional surrenderTo God’s Will
Is God’s Heart-Throb.
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A desire-companion I was,But now I am
An aspiration-champion.
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If our hearts are empty of tears,Then we shall not be able
To claim God as our own,
Very own.
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To feel God’s PresenceInside our hearts all the time,
Our faith has no equal.
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Nothingness-fulnessIs another name
For Nirvana.
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The mind triesAnd fails.
The heart cries
And sails.
APR 562. These prayers were given in Bali, Indonesia — 5 January 2001.↩
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Like your soul,Fear not, fear not!
Go forward, go forward,
O heart, mind, vital and body—
Go forward, go forward!
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Aspiration and temptationShould be taken
As the North Pole
And the South Pole.
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Sweeter than the sweetest,When the tears from man’s eyes
And the Tears from God’s Heart
Meet together.
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There is a secret and sacred God-societyThat thinks and feels
That e-mail is synonymous
With evil mail.
Fortunately or unfortunately,
I am a solid member
Of that society.
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My heart-aspirationWants me to be
Expectation-rejection.
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The mind-dictionary houses the word‘Additional’.
The heart-dictionary houses the word
‘Unconditional’.
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The human in us diedAnd
The divine in us was fortified
When the Saviour was crucified.
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The human mind can win the electionIn the world-mind.
The divine heart always wins the election
In God’s own Heart.
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O my desire-life,Be fully prepared
For the fast-approaching
Nightmare-attacks.
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Two are the greatest achievementsOf my Beloved Supreme
Here on earth:
My gratitude-heart
And
My satisfaction-mind.
APR 572. These prayers were given in Bali, Indonesia — 7 January 2001.↩
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Two are my invaluable treasuresHere on earth:
My Lord’s Compassion-Eye
And
My Lord’s Forgiveness-Heart.
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My Lord Supreme,Do give me the eagerness-capacity
To co-operate
With Your sweet Will
In every way.
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I must surrender my allTo my Lord Supreme
If I want to bask
In God’s Nectar-flooded,
Sunlit Attention.
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God wants me to approachHis Throne
Not only with my tearful heart,
But also with my blissful breath.
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I value infinitely moreThe Compassion-Feet of God
Than the Beauty of God’s Eye.
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Alas,When will my heart be eager
To agree with everything
That God says?
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From my gratitude-heart-balconyI have an excellent view
Of God’s Sweetness-Eye.
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My promise to GodIs my God-fulfilment.
God’s Promise to me
Is my life-transformation.
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I must cheerfully followMy gratitude-heart-road
To the very end.
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God says to meThat He will never be satisfied
With what I am
Until I become unconditionally
What He wants me to be:
A God-realised soul.
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Now is the time for meTo claim
My divinity’s immortal blue bird
Inside my aspiration-heart.
APR 583. These prayers were given in Bali, Indonesia — 8 January 2001.↩
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There is only one wayTo have peace on this planet,
And that way
Is through constant remembrance
Of God’s Love
For each and every human being.
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It is so heartbreakingThat my mind is always unwilling
To visit
God’s Compassion-Eye.
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In this new century,I shall have no room
For frustration and failure.
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I shall keep alwaysGod’s Compassion-Feet
In all challenges of life.
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Without peace in my mind,I shall not be able
To see peace-blossoms
In my heart-garden.
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If I have an iotaOf self-doubt,
Then I shall lose
My God-receptivity-heart.
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God wants us to haveOnly a purity-heart,
And not an austerity-life.
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Just an inchWhen my aspiration ascends,
Immediately
God’s Satisfaction-Smile descends.
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The moment God readsMy mind’s
God-existence-doubt-letters,
He swims in the sea of tears.
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God wants me to driveMy God-service-chariot
At top speed
All the time.
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The desiring mind never gives.The aspiring heart gives,
Cheerfully and unreservedly,
Everything that it owns.
APR 594. These prayers were given in Bali, Indonesia — 9 January 2001.↩
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The depression of the vitalIs the sad failure
Of life.
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Readiness I have.Willingness I have.
Eagerness I have.
What I need
Is intensity.
Editor's preface
Sri Chinmoy offered these morning prayers during his visit to Myanmar in December 2000 and Indonesia in January 2001
