Concentration
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture
at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.
Concentration is the hero-soldier confidence of the third eye, the vision eye. Concentration is the fastest lightning speed. Concentration is the supreme secret of immediate and inevitable success.
Although determination and concentration have a close connection, concentration is infinitely, infinitely higher than determination. Determination comes from the silent mind proper. Concentration comes from the all knowing vision eye.
Concentration silences the destruction-loving animal in me. Concentration inspires the inactivity-cherishing human in me. Concentration manifests the all loving divine in me. Concentration expedites God's all fulfilling arrival at my heart's door.
Concentration secretly intensifies my heart's God-hunger. Concentration speedily clears my mind's thought-forest and gives me discipline-joy at every moment. Concentration indomitably tames my wild restlessness-vital. Concentration vigorously energises my sleeping lethargy-body.
Concentration smilingly and blessingfully asks me: "O seeker, do you want to accomplish ten most significant things in the short span of ten minutes, or do you want to accomplish only one thing?" I tell concentration that I would like to accomplish ten most significant things in the short span of ten minutes.
Concentration blessingfully and proudly tells me: "Then come and be in my boat. I am your only boatman."
Concentration has a most significant message for me. It tells me: "Be brave within, be brave without!" When I am brave in my inner life, I breathlessly love only God the Creator in His own Way. When I am brave in my outer life, I smilingly serve only God the creation in His own Way.
Concentration tells me that I have only one Master. That Master is transcendental delight and not ignorance-night.
Each human being on earth is a God-representative, but concentration, meditation and contemplation are the most powerful representatives of God here on earth. These three representatives of God are piloting humanity's aspiration-boat to the Golden Shore of the Beyond.
Concentration is the mind-divinity's swiftness. Meditation is the heart-divinity's vastness. Contemplation is the life-divinity's fulness here on earth.
Published in My Heart's Peace-Offering
Ten Prayers
offered by Sri Chinmoy
and recited turn by turn by various girls’ and boys’ groups at Public School 117 in Queens, New York
We must never dream
Of enlightenment
Unless and until we have
Prayerfully and soulfully offered
Our absolute loyalty
To our God-satisfaction-commitment.
The mind and the vital every day
Must go to the iron discipline-school
To be ready for the acceptance
Of God-Commands.
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.
Self-mastery pioneers
To the outer world
Of surprising success-life.
God-discovery pioneers
To the inner world
Of astonishing progress-heart.
One powerful doubt of the mind
Can easily derail
The running, blissful train
Of the heart.
My desire-achievement-fame
Is
My aspiration-enlightenment-shame
To love God
Unconditionally
Is to appoint God
Permanently.
When I fear God,
God tells me that
I disappoint Him
Infinitely more
Than I can ever imagine.
Enthusiasm at once
Uproots my mind-jungle
And
Illumines my heart-temple.
God's Love and Fondness
For me
Become measureless
When my heart-tears
Blind His Eye completely.
Published in My Sunrise-Heart, part 1