1.¹

God's Eye watches me.
God's Heart waits for me.
God's Life feeds my all.

2.

My mind,
Stop making constant excuses.
    My heart,
Stop making daily excuses.
    Can you not see
That your older brother, soul,
    Makes no mistake?

3.

From today on, like my soul,
My heart, my mind, my vital,
    My body —
Everything that I have and am —
    Shall love God only.
A lifelong dream
Has finally come true.

4.

My heart-wisdom needs
God-blessed humility.
Humility needs
The feet of universality
For its complete illumination
    And total satisfaction.

5.

Ignorance-walls can imprison
    My God-doubting mind,
But never my God-loving heart.

6.

With redoubled enthusiasm,
I am feeding my eyes
With the Beauty
    Of my Lord's Eye.

7.

With redoubled enthusiasm,
I am kissing each speck of dust
    Of my Supreme Lord's Feet.

8.

There must be no going back
On my full God-manifestation
And God-satisfaction-promises.

9.

When we give God
Our world-complaint list,
God swims in the sea
    Of His Heart-Tears.

10.

Man begs God to increase
His Infinity's capacity
    To forgive him.
God begs man to increase
His divinity's capacity
    To receive God.

11.²

We must never dream
    Of enlightenment
Unless and until we have
Prayerfully and soulfully offered
    Our absolute loyalty
To our God-satisfaction-commitment.

12.

The mind and the vital every day
Must go to the iron discipline-school
To be ready for the acceptance
    Of God-Commands.

13.

Do you want to know why
God has singled me out?
    He has singled me out
Not because I love Him more
Than anybody else loves Him,
But because He has given me
    More God-hunger
Than He has given to anybody else.

14.

Self-mastery pioneers
    To the outer world
Of surprising success-life.
God-discovery pioneers
    To the inner world
Of astonishing progress-heart.

15.

One powerful doubt of the mind
    Can easily derail
The running, blissful train
    Of the heart.

16.

My desire-achievement-fame
    Is
My aspiration-enlightenment-shame.

17.

To love God
    Unconditionally
Is to appoint God
    Permanently.

18.

When I fear God,
God tells me that
I disappoint Him
    Infinitely more
Than I can ever imagine.

19.

Enthusiasm at once
Uproots my mind-jungle
    And
Illumines my heart-temple.

20.

God's Love and Fondness
    For me
Become measureless
When my heart-tears
Blind His Eye completely.

21.³

My soul,
Although my heart, my mind
    And my vital
Fail you again and again,
Please do not stop showing them
    The way
To the Golden Shore.

22.

My heart,
Can you not start loving
Our Lord Beloved Supreme
Every day a little more?

23.

Each new prayer that I offer
To my Lord Beloved Supreme
Adds a new candle
To my heart-shrine.

24.

When my mind steers,
My heart-tears
Become uncontrollable.

25.

My knowledge-light
Is my mind-development.
    My wisdom-sun
Is my life-enlightenment.

26.

My mind,
When are you going to stop
Your marathon criticism
Of our Lord Beloved Supreme?

27.

What I need
Is a gramophone-heart
And not a microphone-mind.

28.

My vital,
My Lord Beloved Supreme
Wants you to show Him
    Your dynamism.
Alas, you are showing Him
Your aggression instead.

29.

My body,
My Lord Beloved Supreme
    Wants you to be
His own sacred temple.
Alas, you have turned yourself into
A lifeless, worthless and useless
    Piece of stone.

30.

The life that offers everything
    Owns
Eternity-Infinity-Immortality's
    Absolute Supreme.

31.

A gratitude-heart
Is to discover on earth
A Heaven-delivered rose.

32.

My surrender-strength
And my Lord's
Satisfaction-length
Simultaneously increase.

33.⁴

When my Absolute Beloved
    Lord Supreme
    Is a thought,
    I slowly walk.

34.

When my Absolute Beloved
    Lord Supreme
    Is a will,
    I bravely march.

35.

When my Absolute Beloved
    Lord Supreme
    Is a smile,
    I speedily run.

36.

When my Absolute Beloved
    Lord Supreme
    Is an embrace,
I unmistakably reach
    My Destination.

37.

When I reach my Destination,
My Absolute Beloved
Lord Supreme tells me:
"My child, I am tired.
I want you to take care of My creation
Until I have regained fully
My Paradise-Dream-manifestation
    On earth."

38.

My aspiration-heart
Echoes and re-echoes
    One message:
"No gloom, no gloom!
All bloom, all bloom!"

39.

My God-faith doubles
    And redoubles
Each time I breathe it.

40.

Father Heaven greets me
Smilingly and proudly
    Only when I am
Sleeplessly and breathlessly
On Mother Earth's side.

41.

God loves me more,
Abundantly more
And infinitely more,
When I entertain Him.

42.

I love God more,
Abundantly more
And infinitely more,
When He enlightens me.

43.

If I constantly keep my eye
On my God-representative-soul
    On earth,
Then I will never fail.
My life-boat will only sail and sail.

44.

As long as I safeguard
My God-surrender-promise-fulfilment,
I do not have to think of anything else
    On earth.

45.⁵

I pray to God's Heart
For His Forgiveness-Sun.
God prays to my heart
For my receptivity-sky.

46.

My mind loves
    Constant secrecy.
My heart loves
    Soulful intimacy.
My soul loves
    God-ecstasy.

47.

God teaches me how
To invoke Him and welcome Him
    Every morning
With my sleepless heart
And my breathless breath.

48.

Only my heart-tears
Have the stupendous capacity
    To increase
My God-love, God-devotion
And God-surrender-intensity.

49.

We just want to watch
God's Cosmic Play,
But God eagerly wants us
To participate in His Cosmic Play.

50.

Alas, when will I be ready
To be a self-giving member
    Of God's
Peace-Bliss-Manifestation-Society
    On earth?

51.

I may not be familiar
    With God's Will,
But that must not prevent me
From surrendering my earth-existence
    To God's Will.

52.

If I love God's Will
A little more,
His Love of me
Will immediately be more,
Ever more and infinitely more.

53.

Alas, my mind always tells me
That my mind is the only God
And there has been no other God
Since the beginning of creation.

54.

My heart tells me in all sincerity
That my heart is not God,
But it is more than willing
    And eager
To help me and take me to God.

55.

May each and every prayer
And meditation of mine
Become sweet perfume
In my Lord's Heart-Garden.

56.

God the Mother tells me,
"My child, do not be in a hurry.
Still there is plenty of time."
God the Father tells me,
"My son, it is so late!
What is wrong with you?"

57.⁶

My Lord Beloved Supreme,
    From today on
I shall not give You any more
My ingratitude-life-experience.

58.

My Supreme,
To You my solemn promise:
No more desire-indulgence,
But aspiration-effulgence.

59.

May my aspiration-heart
Have a sleepless
And breathless breath.

60.

Meditation is silence.
Silence is God
In His Infinity's Smile.

61.

Not for a fleeting second
Do I belong to myself.
I belong only to my Lord Supreme
    Eternally.

62.

Not only tomorrow,
But even the next moment
    Is too late
To please my Lord Supreme.

63.

My Lord,
You do not come often,
And even when You come,
You do not stay long.
How I wish You could change
    Your Cosmic Plan!

64.

The highly developed souls
Live in the silence-breath
    Of God's Infinity.

65.

When I pray soulfully
And meditate deeply,
I see only two things:
God's Protection-Cradle
    And
God's Satisfaction-Smile.

66.

My aspiration-heart
And my service-life
Must be utilised unreservedly,
Unconditionally, sleeplessly
And breathlessly.

67.

I was born to offer
Each and every heartbeat
    Of mine
Only to my Lord Supreme.

68.

When I banished
My fault-finding mind,
God immediately gave me
His own all-embracing Heart.

69.⁷

My heart loves and enjoys
    The Beauty
Of my Absolute Lord Supreme's Smiles.

70.

My Absolute Lord Supreme's Heart
Loves and enjoys the fragrance
    Of my heart's tears.

71.

My God-invocation-heart
And God's Satisfaction-Joy-Pride
Echo and re-echo simultaneously.

72.

Unlike the impersonal God,
The personal God cannot be
Beyond the realm of suffering.
This is what I know
From my God-oneness-heart.

73.

There is a yawning gulf
Between God taking human birth
And man taking divine birth.

74.

My mind loves
Ego-assertion.
My heart loves
Oneness-perfection.

75.

My Lord tells me that
I may lose sight of Him
Even if I fix my eyes
    On His outer Feet,
But I shall never lose sight of Him
If I fix my eyes
    On His inner Heart.

76.

My Lord, I am ready
To be scolded by You mercilessly
    At every moment,
Provided You tell me that
You will derive true satisfaction
    From Your Scolding.

77.

When my life becomes
Voracious God-hunger,
God immediately makes me
    A perfect
World-ignorance-hunter.

78.

My Lord laughs and laughs
At my self-styled austere mind,
But He is all Love for and all Pride in
My self-giving, sincere heart.

79.

My mind has to unlearn
    Almost everything.
My heart has to yearn for God
    Sleeplessly and breathlessly.
My life has to earn
God's Compassion-flooded Eye
And His Forgiveness-Ocean-Heart.

80.

From my life to my death
I am a God-Destination-arriving
    Sailboat.
From my death to my life,
I am a God-serving
    World-ocean liner.

81.⁸

My heart sings, plays and dances
    In ecstasy supreme
When it sees my Master's
    Gladness-smiles.

82.

My heart dies
The moment it sees my Master's
    Sadness-tears.

83.

Time salutes and stops
When my Master proudly expresses
His love, affection, sweetness
And fondness for me.

84.

Every morning
My Master helps my heart
    To wake up
With his heart's sunrise-beauty.

85.

My Master,
Out of his infinite bounty,
Cautioned and warned me
Of the tragic destruction-descent
    Of my disobedience-life.

86.

O my insecurity-mind,
    Do not whine.
O my insecurity-heart,
    Do not cry.
Behold, our Master
With his compassion-flooded eye
Is fast approaching us!

87.

When my Master appears,
He immediately says
To my frustration-mind,
Frustration-vital and frustration-body,
    "Stop!
Enough of your stupidity-pride!"
He then says to my heart,
"Enjoy no more ignorance-sleep.
I want you to accept some of my
World-transformation-responsibilities."

88.

My Master smilingly yet sternly
Appears and says to me:
"I am sure this time
My iron rod will work
Since, up until now,
My sweetness-flute
Has sadly failed."

89.

Master, Master,
Please tell me how you love me
More than I love you.
    "My child,
Your heart needs repair.
Leave it with me just for an hour.
I will do the needful."

90.

My Master does not come alone.
He carries with him
    His heart-home
So that his sweet children
Do not wander any more
Inside their mind-jungles.

91.

Master, Master, over the years
I have given you so many things.
It seems to me that you have shown me
No sense of appreciation.
Master, this time I have
Two very special gifts for you.
I am sure you will enjoy them.

"My child, tell me, tell me.
I am all eagerness."

Master, this time I shall give you
My gratitude-heart
    And
My surrender-life-beauty-fountains.

92.

Master, Master,
What is the difference
Between my faith in you
And your faith in me?
    "My child,
Your faith in me depends
On your sweet hope-fulfilment by me.
My faith in you entirely depends
On your heart's love-strength
And your life's surrender-length."

93. ⁹³

God does not want us
To weigh His Love for us.
He only wants us
To play with Him.

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94.

God loves us
    Not because
We are either divinely great
    Or supremely good,
But because, unlike us,
He knows only one thing:
    How to love us.

95.

God is always eager to share
His Heart's Secrets with me,
    But I am always
My indifferent mind.

96.

God's Compassion-Eye
Never, never, never forgets me
Although I am every day climbing
High, higher, highest
    Ignorance-tree.

97.

God never wants us to give up.
    He always asks us
To wake up and shape up.

98.

God tells me that
Unless I have a rainbow-heart,
He is not going to allow me
To enter into His Heart-Garden.

99.

Each new sunrise-smile
Declares the birth
Of a new God-manifestation.

100.

How can we ever hear
God's Nectar-Voice
When we enjoy our mind's
Loud dissatisfaction-noise?

101.

Every day we must fulfil
Our God-manifestation-responsibilities
    With redoubled enthusiasm.

102.

When my heart smiles at God,
God's Victory-Bell rings
And His golden Heart-Chain
    Binds me.

103.

I find everywhere
God's infinite Patience,
But God's immortal Pride
    Nowhere.

104.

Alas,
Self-pity and God-displeasure
Are equally harmful and painful.

Editor's note

These prayers were offered by Sri Chinmoy in New York during February and March 2000 and recited turn by turn by various girls' and boys' groups.