Light-Delight-Journeys
These spiritual words are given to Sri Chinmoy by the disciples travelling with him on the bus from Montreal to Ottawa. He then composes a short poem or aphorism on the words.
1 Humility
My heart sleeps in humility-grass;
Therefore I am allowed to study
In my Lord’s salvation-perfection class.
2 Softness
Softness is my life-tree.
Soulfulness is my life-flower.
My heart’s only choice:
My Beloved’s Perfection-Hour.
Only when I worship
My Lord Supreme
I am free,
divinely free,
supremely free.
3 Willingness
What I have for God is brittle willingness.
What God has for me is Immortality’s oneness.
4 Grace
I am God’s Shelter-Grace
Blossoming into His all-illumining Face.
5 Peace
At last I now have peace of mind:
My fault-finding eyes nowhere I find.
6 Oneness
My oneness with God’s Delight
Is my perfection-light.
7 Consciousness
My consciousness-bird started flying
Long before the birth of time:
Therefore in me
God is creating
Triumphantly and proudly
His Perfection-clime.
8 Gratitude-oneness
With my Lord my gratitude-oneness is growing
Steadily and unerringly;
Therefore my heart-bird
Is dancing merrily.
9 Height
Every day I transcend my height.
O my poor earth, do you know why?
O my proud Heaven, do you know why?
I do it because
God Himself
Has made me His choice kite of light.
10 Chinmoy
Chinmoy, Chinmoy, Chinmoy, Chinmoy.
Am I God-Eternity’s self-amorous boy?
11 Joy
Sleepless is my occult Eye;
Therefore God-Joy have I.
12 Mercy
Lord Supreme, my ignorance and I
Are at Your mercy.
“Son, you are partially wrong.
Your ignorance is at My mercy,
But not you.
You are My Eternity’s lap
To give your ignorance-foe
A smart slap.”
13 Self-limits
I have transcended my self-limits:
Fear, doubt and jealousy;
Therefore I drink deep
God’s ceaseless Ecstasy.
14 Forgiveness
I cry to my sweet Beloved Supreme for
His constant Forgiveness.
God cries for my Eternity’s brave
Oneness-might.
15 Capacity
I love God for God’s sake.
This is my greatest capacity.
God loves me unconditionally.
This is His Eternity’s Beauty.
16 Lustre
When
I am earth-face
I am farther than the farthest from the Supreme.When
I am Heaven-lustre
I am nearer than the nearest to the Supreme.
Something more:
I am His Eternity’s blue Satisfaction
And
His Infinity’s gold Perfection.
17 Surrender
To God I have surrendered my stupidity.
To man I have surrendered my self-created
responsibility.
18 Speed
Speed I need, I always need
To feed my Lord Supreme, to feed.
19 Purity
Because I am all purity,
My heart is God’s necessity.
20 Sincerity
Because my life is blue-gold sincerity,
God has made me His world-transforming
perfection-dance.
Because my life belongs to God
and God alone,
Ignorance-night my soul has conquered
With my Lord’s all-conquering lance.
21 Divine warrior
I have become a real God-lover;
Therefore He is shaping me into His
divine warrior.
22 Dedication
My dedication
Is God-satisfaction.
God-satisfaction
Is my immediate salvation.
23 Love-victory
Eternity’s love-victory
In my heart of gratitude-seed.
My Beloved Supreme is my divinity’s
Supreme need, my only need.
24 Divine manifestation
What I call divine manifestation,
My Lord Supreme calls
my indispensable perfection.
25 Thankfulness
My peerless treasure: cheerfulness.
God’s matchless treasure: Thankfulness.
26 Selfless
My selfless service-love
Has made me a blue God-dove.
27 Intuition
Out of His infinite Bounty,
My Lord Supreme has made me
His own cosmic intuition-soul.
In me is His transcendental Height
With me is His universal Life.
28 Subtle grandeur
I forgive my outer world.
My forgiveness is my subtle grandeur.
I love my inner world.
My love is my all-conquering treasure.
29 Calm
When I am calm,
God opens His Eternity’s Door,
God gives me His Infinity’s Love
And shows me His Immortality’s Shore.
30 Determination
I know, I know my life’s perfection
Is the flower-fragrance
Of my supreme Lord’s
Compassion-Vision.
31 Eagerness
Eagerness I had to see the Face of God.
Eagerness I have to feel the Heart of God.
Eagerness I shall have to be the
Dream-Reality of God.
32 Bondage
No more shall I live in a bondage-cave.
In Infinity’s sky
With God I shall fly,
Eternally selfless, brave.
33 Discipline
At long last I have disciplined
my ignorance-life;
Therefore my Lord Supreme
Is making me
His earth-transforming fife.
At long last I have seen
my reality’s soul;
Therefore my Lord Supreme
is triumphantly playing in me
His cosmic self-transcendence Role.
34 Rebirth
My heart longs to unravel
The mystery of rebirth;
Therefore my Lord Supreme
Tells me to do two things:
He tells me to cry with earth’s
excruciating pangs
And smile with Heaven’s
Life-immortalising Ecstasy.
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