The Golden Boat, part 12
by Sri Chinmoy
written in one day
O body, my body,
Don’t sleep any more.
Look, Vision-God is waiting for you!O vital, my vital,
Don’t remain spiritless any more.
Look, Energy-God is waiting for you!O mind, my mind,
Don’t doubt any more.
Look, Perfection-God is waiting for you!O heart, my heart,
Don’t cry any more.
Look, Satisfaction-God is waiting for you!
Self-abnegation teaches me
I do not need earth-life.Self-purification teaches me
I need God’s living Breath in Heaven.Self-realisation teaches me
Earth-life I need to please God;
Heaven-life I need to please myself.
I hate my yesterday
Because
She told me a dark lie.
She told me that God-life
Is not meant for me.I hate my today
Because
She has told me a serious lie.
She has told me that God-realisation
Is not meant for me.I hate my tomorrow
Because
She is telling me a stupid lie.
She is telling me that there is
And there can be
No God
For an idle fellow like me.
4. You alone know what love is
Lord, Your Speech is simple.
Therefore
I like You.Lord, Your Philosophy is sublime.
Therefore
I love You.Lord, Your Sacrifice is constant.
Therefore
I adore You.Lord, You alone know what love is.
Therefore
I need You, only You.
Precious,
Light is precious.Spacious,
Life is spacious.Gracious,
Truth is gracious.Voracious,
Falsehood is voracious.Sagacious,
Heart is sagacious.Glorious,
Faith is glorious.Dangerous,
Hate is dangerous.Conscious,
Love is conscious.
Her presence
Is always treasured.Her smile
Is always adored.Her silence
Is always garlanded.Her compassion
Is always crowned.
My ego feeds
Earth-reality.
My ego binds
Heaven-dream.
My love pilots
Earth-aspiration.
My love manifests
Heaven-realisation.
Are you a fighter?
Then God’s Banner is for you.Are you a dreamer?
Then God’s Arbour is for you.Are you a sacrificer?
Then God’s Nectar is for you.Are you a lover?
Then God is all for you,
Only for you.
If you are great,
Then show me your face.
I want to examine your face.If you are good,
Then show me your eyes.
I want to examine your eyes.If you are divine,
Then show me your heart.
I want to examine your heart.But
If you are supreme,
Then examine me.
I shall definitely
Equal you.
Just give me a chance,
That’s all.
If you are the Earth-Mother,
Then do me a favour.
Give me, please, Your patience-tree.If you are the Heaven-Father,
Then do me a favour.
Give me, please, Your Knowledge-fruit.If you are the Saviour-God,
Then do me a favour.
Give me, please, Your Oneness-banner.
Life is beautiful.
This lesson you have learnt
From your temptation-teacher.Light is beautiful.
This lesson you have learnt
From your aspiration-teacher.Delight is beautiful.
This lesson you have learnt
From your perfection-teacher.
Yesterday’s beggars:
Man and his greed.Today’s beggars:
God and His Needs.Tomorrow’s beggars:
God the Perfection-lover,
And
Man the ignorance-devourer.
Yesterday
I gave You, Lord,
My life’s bitter defeat.Today
I give You, Lord,
My soul’s glorious victory.Tomorrow
I shall give You, Lord,
My heart’s oneness-goal.
14. The height and depth of earth-life
I touch the feet
Of Silence-light
To scale the height
Of earth-life.I touch the head
Of sound-pride
To plumb the abyss
Of earth-life.
Doubt, do you know
Who you are?
You are my fleeting friend.Faith, do you know
Who you are?
You are my bleeding friend.Life, do you know
Who you are?
You are my searching friend.Love, do you know
Who you are?
You are my illumining friend,
You are my eternal friend,
You are my God-Friend.
Green as young grass
Her heart is;
Therefore, she runs to the farthest Beyond.Blue as the vast sky
Her heart is;
Therefore, she flies into the farthest Beyond.Red as the morning sun
Her heart is;
Therefore, she illumines the world without.White as Himalayan snow
Her heart is;
Therefore, she feeds the world within.
When I love desire-night,
I fail God.
When desire-night loves me,
Truth-love forgets me.When I love aspiration-light,
God-Beauty envelops me.
When aspiration-light loves me,
God-height claims me.
Two things, only two things,
He does:
He breathes in the perfume
Of God-promise
To Mother Earth;
He breathes out the odour
Of frustration-reality
To Father Heaven.
19. Perfection-banner you offer
Truth-banner you own;
Therefore
You are great.Light-banner you hold;
Therefore
You are great.Perfection-banner you offer;
Therefore
You are great,
You are good,
You are divine,
You are supreme.
If you are wakeful
Then look around with me,
Help me.
My Lord God is missing.If you are soulful
Then look within my heart,
Help me.
My Lord God is missing.If you are blissful
Then look up with me,
Help me.
My Lord God is missing.
My morning song was:
How far to go?
Far have I to go!My afternoon song was:
Can I reach my Goal?
I can and I shall
Reach my Goal!My evening song is:
Have I reached my Goal?
I have not only reached my Goal
But
Far transcended my Goal!
I desired to touch His Feet
But
My Lord has made me feel His Heart.
Soul, my soul, how is it that
Your power is so mysterious?Heart, my heart, how is it that
Your power is so soulful?Mind, my mind, how is it that
Your power is so immense?Vital, my vital, how is it that
Your power is so intense?Body, my body, how is it that
Your power is so dubious?
Some call it evolution,
While others call it man-transformation.
I call it God-perfection.Some call it aspiration,
While others call it man-cry.
I call it God-smile.Some call it realisation,
While others call it reality-life.
I call it God-satisfaction.
Oblivion, stay where you are.
Don’t come near me!O my remembrance-friend, where are you?
I need you immediately.O my aspiration-friend, where are you?
I need you constantly.O my realisation-friend, where are you?
I need you eternally.
O Morning of Eternity,
I love your silence-face.O Morning of Infinity,
I love your sound-arms.O Morning of Immortality,
I love your perfection-heart.
Yesterday
My vital enjoyed
The tempter’s call.Today
My mind enjoys
The doubter’s call.Tomorrow
My heart shall enjoy
The lover’s call.The day after tomorrow
My body shall enjoy
My Father’s Call.
Aspiration-flame
Is the sword
That separates Knowledge-Light
And
Ignorance-night.Realisation-sun
Is the sword
That unites the cry of the finite
And
The Smile of the Infinite.
Your devotion-seed
Loves a holy face.His devotion-tree
Salutes a holy life.My devotion-fruit
Becomes a holy heart.
God loves your earth-body;
Therefore
Pay more attention to it.God loves your Heaven-soul;
Therefore
Pay more attention to it.God loves your Immortality-goal;
Therefore
Pay more attention to it.
Are you calm?
Then you are confident, too.Are you confident?
Then you are progressive, too.Are you progressive?
Then you are instrumental, too.Are you instrumental?
Then you are perfect, too.
Silence, silence,
My Lord is coming.Sound, sound,
My Lord is going.Silence, silence,
My Lord is returning.Sound, sound,
My Lord is perfecting.Silence, silence,
My Lord is enjoying.Sound, sound,
My Lord is becoming.
O march of fire,
My heart longs for
Your determination-blood.
Do share with me
Your aspiration-height.O march of water,
My vital longs for
Your expansion-flood.
Do share with me
Your consciousness-light.
I salute earth
Because
She tries and cries.I salute Heaven
Because
He dreams and smiles.I salute man
Because
He sows and grows.I salute God
Because
He divinely has,
He supremely is.
My body longs for
Loving silence.My vital longs for
Daring silence.My mind longs for
Thoughtless silence.My heart longs for
Soundless silence.My soul longs for
Worldless silence.My God longs for
Breathless Silence.
The dance of the sea
Inspires me to be dauntless.The dance of the sky
Inspires me to be sorrowless.The dance of the moon
Inspires me to be guileless.The dance of the sun
Inspires me to be selfless.The dance of the earth
Inspires me to be sleepless.The dance of Heaven
Inspires me to be thoughtless.The dance of man
Inspires me to be soulless.The dance of God
Inspires me to be deathless,
Also soundless.
Speak without words.
You will be happy.Dedicate without proclaiming.
You will be happy.Love without being loved.
You will be happy.Surrender without being subjugated.
You will be happy.Become without being known,
without being caught,
without being sought.
You will be happy.
37. I stand on the balcony of Light
I stand
On the balcony of Light
To brave Satan’s death-dart.I stand
On the balcony of Peace
To devour the hungry, war-mad world.
The morning-silence
Listens to me;
Therefore
I am so pure.The noon-sound
Listens to me;
Therefore
I am so sure.The evening-light
Listens to me;
Therefore
I am never obscure,
I am never neglected,
I am never rejected,
And
My heart-love has become
What my soul-life eternally is.
Lord, I am proud to be
Your servant.
You allow me to touch Your Feet.Lord, I am proud to be
Your child.
You allow me to dine with You.Lord, I am proud to be
Your comrade.
You allow me to sport with You.Lord, I am proud to be
Your lower self.
You allow me to worship You.
My earth-bonds are snapped;
Therefore
I can go to Heaven
And rest and dream.My Heaven-bonds are severed.
This realisation has dawned on me
In my own way;
Therefore
I can go to earth
To please my Lord Supreme —
To please Him
In His own Way,
Unlike the Heaven-hungry souls.
O Compassion supreme,
I cry
When I see You.O Tyrant supreme,
I cry
When I cannot avoid You.O Nectar supreme,
I cry
When I love You.O Indifference supreme,
I cry
When I cannot love You.O Awareness supreme,
I cry
When You love me.O Forgetfulness supreme,
I cry
When You do not love me.
O my patience-heart,
Because of you
Today I own Liberation-sky.O my patience-life,
Because of you
Today I own Perfection-world.O my patience-God,
Because of You
Today I own Satisfaction-goal.
Freedom burdened:
Indeed,
This is what
My poor mind enjoys.Freedom unburdened:
Indeed,
This is what
My serving heart enjoys.Freedom birthless and deathless:
Indeed,
This is what
My wise soul enjoys.
44. Promise blue, promise green
O earth-kingdom,
Don’t suffer.
To you I offer
My promise blue:
My heart shall help you ascend
And touch God’s
Transcendental Height.O Heaven-kingdom,
Don’t suffer.
To you I offer
My promise green:
My soul shall help you descend
And feel God’s
Bottomless Depth.
45. Earth-door and Heaven-gate
Earth-door
Naked we knock.Heaven-gate
Nameless we knock.Earth-door
Offers us its peerless treasure:
A ceaseless cry.Heaven-gate
Offers us its ceaseless treasure:
The dream of the Beyond.
My deer is eager
To win for me.My horse is eager
To dive for me.My bull is eager
To fight for me.My dog is eager
To wait for me.My cow is eager
To illumine for me.My lion is eager
To roar for me.My God is eager
To smile for me.
My rabbit is eager
To jump for me.My tiger is eager
To devour for me.My giraffe is eager
To reach for me.My turtle is eager
To die for me.My monkey is eager
To climb for me.My swan is eager
To realise for me.My cat is eager
To cry for me.My camel is eager
To carry for me.My elephant is eager
To brave for me.
O restless mind,
When will you stop
Beating your wings?
Stop for my sake at least,
Please.O heedless heart,
When will you start
Unsealing your ears?
Start for my sake at least,
Please.
When she thinks,
Teeming stars dance
With Light.When she wills,
The Supreme sports
With His highest Height.When she smiles,
The Creator and the creation
Are at once fulfilled.
O my heart,
I have a sky of my own.
I want you to fly
From end to end.O my mind,
I have an ocean of my own.
I want you to swim
From end to end.O my sweet Lord,
I have a cave of my own.
I want You to walk
From end to end.
Published in The Golden Boat, part 12
Two Instruments: Mind and Heart
A lecture by Sri Chinmoy
at Friends House in York, England
Two instruments: mind and heart. The mind is division: world-division and self-division. World-division is nothing short of world-poverty. Self-division is the beginning of self-destruction. The heart is acceptance: acceptance of the inner life and acceptance of the outer life. The inner life is aspiration. The outer life is dedication.
Again, aspiration is a kind of dedication and dedication is a kind of aspiration. When we aspire we climb up high, higher, highest. While we are climbing up, like a bird we are spreading our wings. And while we are dedicating ourselves to the cause of humanity, while we are spreading our wings, at that time we also climb up.
Aspiration and dedication form a life-tree within us. The branches of this tree symbolise dedication, while the trunk of the tree looks up in order to reach the skies of aspiration. So our life-tree at once embodies aspiration to reach God's transcendental Heights and dedication to reach God's universal Reality.
Usually we have two types of mind, the human mind and the divine mind. The human mind is apt to choose; while choosing it loses. What does it choose? It chooses doubt, it chooses to be with countless doubts. What does it lose? It loses its innate, illumining Light. The divine mind unfolds itself at every moment; while unfolding it becomes. What does it unfold? It unfolds its illumining beauty. What does it become? It becomes, on earth and in Heaven, an ever-increasing, ever-fulfilling Reality.
As a human being, very often we use the human mind, the earth-bound mind. On rare occasions we use the divine mind, the Heaven-free mind. The earth-bound mind embodies doubt, suspicion, fear, jealousy, insecurity and many other unaspiring qualities. The earth-bound mind tells us to be always cautious because the world around us is treacherous.
The Heaven-free mind, which we feel deep within us on very rare occasions, tells us to be sincere, dedicated, devoted and loving. It asks us not to be suspicious. It tells us to love the world, because to love mankind means to serve our absolute, eternal Father. The Heaven-free mind brings to us the message of peace in self-giving, the message of light in self-giving, the message of perfection in self-giving.
As we have the human mind and the divine mind, even so we have the human heart and the divine heart. The human heart has a fearful beginning. The divine heart has a birthless song. The human heart has a tearful end. The divine heart has a deathless dance. The human heart has a fearful beginning and a tearful end. The divine heart has a birthless song and a deathless dance.
The human heart quite often mixes with the vital, the vital that is always hungry like a wolf. Just because it mixes with the vital, it takes upon itself quite a few of the problems and imperfections of the vital. At that time, the human heart teaches us to possess the world.
Alas, when we listen to the human heart, we only discover that possession is not satisfaction. There is not an iota of satisfaction in world-possession. Therefore, we change teachers and go to the divine heart. The divine heart always teaches us the message of give, give and give; and while we are giving, we see that we have also become. What do we give and what do we become? We give a soulful cry and we become a fruitful smile. Our soulful cry is blessed by God's transcendental Vision. Our fruitful smile is blessed by God's universal Reality.
The earth-binding heart and the Heaven-liberating heart. When we wallow in the pleasures of ignorance, when we lead the life of desire, the earth-binding heart cannot enjoy a free access to the Real in us. But when we walk along the road of aspiration, the Heaven-liberating, Heaven-enjoying heart enters into us and offers us its divinity, its supreme satisfaction, its supreme perfection.
Desire gives us the earth-binding heart: the earth-binding heart gives us desire. The Heaven-enjoying heart gives us aspiration; aspiration gives us the Heaven-enjoying heart.
Here we are all seekers. There was a time when we felt the fulfilment of desires was necessary in order to become happy. So we have fulfilled quite a few desires of ours. And what have we realised in the fulfilment of our desires? We have realised that we have acted like beggars. A beggar can never claim the plenitude, the infinitude of God's entire creation, for he knows that there is a yawning gulf between his reality and the vast reality which is owned by somebody else.
Now we are aspiring and, in our aspiration, we have come to realise that we do not want to possess. We want only to give what we have and what we are. What we have and what we are is an inner cry to become perfect instruments of the Absolute Supreme; and what we shall establish is our conscious, constant, inseparable, unconditional oneness with the Absolute Supreme.
Published in My Rose Petals, part 5
Forgiveness
A talk by Sri Chinmoy
Langholts Church, Reykjavik, Iceland
My Lord Beloved Supreme, I do not think of You. Yet You forgive me.
My Lord Beloved Supreme, I do not pray to You. Yet You forgive me.
My Lord Beloved Supreme, I do not meditate on You. Yet You forgive me.
My Lord Beloved Supreme, I do not serve You. Yet You forgive me.
My Lord Beloved Supreme, I do not love You. Yet You forgive me.
My Lord Beloved Supreme, I do everything wrong and I say everything wrong. Yet You forgive me at every moment. Why, why, my Lord Beloved Supreme?
"My child, I am the eternal Dreamer and you are My Eternity's Dream. In My Existence-Consciousness-Reality I am dreaming in and through you at every moment. You want satisfaction. By not thinking of Me, by not praying to Me, by not meditating on Me, by not serving Me, by not loving Me, you will never have satisfaction. You can have satisfaction only by loving Me and claiming Me as your own, very own.
"In My case, too, I cannot get satisfaction, full satisfaction, unless I can make you a perfect seeker and a perfect human being. Throughout Eternity I have been longing for humanity's perfection. This perfection needs My infinite Compassion and My birthless and deathless Forgiveness. If necessary, I shall wait throughout Eternity to make each creation of Mine perfectly perfect, for this is My Eternity's Dream.
"I forgive you because I know there shall come a time when you will become a choice instrument of Mine. Not only that, you will become My representative here on earth. In you and through you I shall bless the world with a special Message: the Message of universal oneness.
"My child, do not be sad that you do not think of Me, that you do not pray to Me, that you do not meditate on Me, that you do not serve Me and that you do not even love Me. Do not be doomed to disappointment. There shall come a time when you will be awakened, fully awakened. My unconditional Compassion will awaken your entire being, your earthly life. Then you will think of Me sleeplessly, pray to Me breathlessly, meditate on Me soulfully, serve Me self-givingly and love Me unconditionally. That golden Hour is fast approaching. I am all Love and you, My child, must be fully prepared to receive Me with all your heart's love and love, gratitude and gratitude."
Published in My Heart’s Peace-Offering
European Poem-Blossoms
by Sri Chinmoy
written on a Scandinavian Airlines flight from Zurich, Switzerland to Oslo, Norway
My Lord Supreme
Blessingfully loves
The aspiration-perfection-plant
In my heart-garden.
Devotion
Self-givingly purified,
Man
Absolutely transformed.
A heart of delight
Sees not
The mind anywhere.
I am praying to God
For two things:
My body-vital-mind-collision
And my soul-heart-union.
Nobody knows,
Nobody even wants to know
How sleeplessly and badly
God suffers.
Man's attachment-fondness
Is his stupidity's
Greatest friend.
Where do I live?
I live in between
My heart's aspiration-pull
And my life's dedication-push.
A perfect attitude
Knows
No imperfect day.
What do I do every morning?
Every morning
I lovingly and carefully
Sow hope-seeds
Inside my heart-garden.Do not miscalculate
Your inner friends:
They are not as few
As you think.
If you are trying
To escape God's Justice-Light,
Then your mind will fumble,
Your heart will stumble,
Your life will tumble.
O my clever mind.
You will not be able to fool
My God-blessed
Aspiration-cry-heart.
Insecurity
And its daily outbreak
Are so devastating.
I really do not want
To enjoy any more
My tortoise-aspiration-speed.
Published in European Poem-Blossoms
Only one thing: Eagerness
A short talk by Sri Chinmoy
at Ananda Fuara Restaurant in San Francisco, California
Each and every disciple of mine, if you want to prove that you are a good disciple, a real disciple of Sri Chinmoy, develop only one thing, not two things: eagerness, eagerness, eagerness. You do not need two things to please me. Only one thing is needed: eagerness, eagerness, eagerness.
Where there is eagerness, all the obstacles on the way we can surmount. And if there is no eagerness, that is worse than death itself.
Published in The Temple and the Shrine