On Feb 21, 2008 Sri Chinmoy lifts baby elephants. The heaviest was an elephant weighing 980lb (1,074 lbs. including platform) — using a standing calf-raise machine with a shoulder-height overhead platform, at the Maetaeng Elephant Park, in Chiang Mai Province, Thailand.
Photo: Projjwal
Photo: Kedar
THIRD EYE CENTRE1
350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, Scotland
June 16, 1976
Transcription from the original live recording.
Duration of talk: 28 min.
0:57 Sri Chinmoy meditates.
8:58 Sri Chinmoy sings his composition Hiya Pakhi (“O Bird of My Heart”).
11:37 Sri Chinmoy sings his composition Nami Juga Avatar (“I bow to Thee, O Avatar of the Era”).
18:04 Sri Chinmoy chants AUM three times.
18:43 Dear seekers, I am extremely happy to be here with you. I am extremely happy to be at this centre. This centre is called the Third Eye Centre. I wish to give a short talk on the third eye.
19:28 I wish to invoke the third eyes of all the seekers here; therefore, I wish to make a fervent request to all of you, if it is possible, and if you want to, to invoke the third eye. There is a special way to invoke the third eye, and that is to chant AUM. We have six major centres. Each centre has a secret and sacred seed name. The third eye has a secret and sacred seed name. [The] seed name is AUM. Before I give a short talk, I wish the seekers to join me to chant AUM three times.
20.53 AUM . . . AUM . . . AUM . . .
21.50 AUM is a Sanskrit word. It is actually a syllable. It is the combination of three letters: A, U, M. A represents God the Creator. U represents God the Preserver. M represents God the Transformer. There was a time when the seekers felt that God the Creator needed God the Preserver, and God the Preserver, as necessity demanded, would need God the Destroyer. But, in the spiritual process of evolution, the seekers of the highest magnitude have discovered that God does not destroy; He only transforms. Anything that is unlit, obscure, impure in us, [He] transforms it into purity, beauty and divinity. So, when we chant AUM, we at once invoke God the Creator, God the Preserver and God the Transformer.
23:47 The third eye is located between the eyebrows, a little above. [Sri Chinmoy places his fingers on his forehead.] This is the place. This eye is also called ‘the commanding eye’. It commands. It commands our past, immediate future and distant future. Or you can say, past, present and future is at its command. It is the commanding eye. The third eye, when it envisions the past, it feels, it sees the beginning of humanity’s evolution. When it enters into the present, into the immediacy of today, it sees the capacity and receptivity of humanity. And when it enters into the near or distant future, it sees not only the possibility but [the] practicability, the inevitability of humanity’s progress, perfection and satisfaction.
26:00 There are quite a few ways one can open up the third eye — by following quite a few ways — but two significant ways are the prayer and the concentration. If one soulfully prays to the Absolute Lord in order to open up the third eye, the Lord Supreme opens up the third eye. Or if one concentrates on the third eye soulfully, devotedly and consciously, then one can open up the third eye. But, I must say, that here the seeker has to depend ninety-nine per cent on divine Grace, otherwise the sincere effort one cannot make. Although one wants to become sincere, sincerity does not come to the fore all at once. It takes a very, very long time. Therefore, in spite of being insincere, the seeker can open up the third eye. Here sincerity means absolute oneness with God’s Will.
28:10 There are some seekers who have opened up, or opened before, the third eye by virtue of a dynamic will, but, unfortunately, they have not purified the vital. When the third eye is open without having a purified vital, the third eye creates tremendous problems for us. The impurity of the vital enters into our vision and then it blinds our divine, heavenly vision. And it compels the human being, at times, to act like a mad elephant.
29:20 The third eye for the sincere seekers, advanced seekers and the seekers who have totally surrendered to God’s Will is a veritable blessing. If a seeker of that type has opened up his third eye, then this third eye is a great boon. But if the seeker has still earthly desires to fulfil, then it is nothing but a curse.
30:10 There are many seekers who have made considerable progress before their third eye was open. And then, when the third eye was open on the strength of their eagerness, not on the strength of their surrender to God’s Will, their progress stops almost immediately.
30:51 Somebody wants to know the past. He has seen his past. He sees that in his past life he was an atheist. Despondency assails him; he feels that if he was not even a believer of God, how could he realise God in this incarnation?
31:40 I must say that the opening of the third eye does not determine God-realisation at all. Some people may think that if the third eye is open, that means he is realised. No. The third eye can see the Face of God, but it does not indicate that complete oneness with God is established.
32:17 If the past was not satisfactory, the third eye can create problem for the seeker. And if the present, the immediate present, the distant future is not promising, the seeker will be doomed to disappointment. And if the distant future is threatening and frightening, then the third eye may create tremendous problem. When the third eye is opened in accordance with God’s Will, no matter what the seeker did in the past, no matter what is going to happen today or tomorrow, no matter what will take place in the distant future, the seeker will not be affected, for God’s Will will illumine him, perfect him, liberate him and immortalise him.
33:53 The easiest and the safest way to become aware of God’s Will is to become aware of the heart centre. If one opens up the heart centre first, then he becomes inseparably one with God’s Will. At that time, if his third eye is opened up, he cannot make any mistake. His past, his present or future cannot create any problem for him. The happenings of the hoary past or the immediate present or the ultimate future can no longer create any problem for him, for he becomes inseparably one with God’s universal Vision and transcendental Reality. Inside God’s universal Vision and God’s transcendental Reality, all the things that he sees, feels and grows into can be perfectly housed without any problem whatsoever.
35:36 Some of you may be curious to know what actually happens before the third eye opens? Before the third eye actually opens up, the seeker feels a kind of sensation on the third eye. In the beginning, the seeker may feel a tiny ant, sensation of a tiny ant, moving around. A few days or a few months later, the seeker inwardly will envision a disk. It rotates from the left to the right. And when it starts rotating very fast, from the left to the right, it changes its motion from the right to the left. Then it’s done – it rotates from left to right, right to left, it goes.
36:50 And once, after a few months or a few years, you may notice that a fully illumined sun – like a bright sun, midday, noon – you see the sun on the forehead. This sun indicates the total opening of the third eye. Once the third eye is opened up, the infinite Vast, the eternal Height, the immeasurable Depth you can see inside the third eye. You can see yourself as the seed of the entire creation, you can see yourself as the tree of the entire creation, you can see yourself as the fruit of the entire creation. The seed is the past and the tree is the present and the fruit is the future.
38:31 There are some spiritual Masters who tell their students that it is not advisable to open up the third eye. What is of paramount importance is, right from the beginning, to surrender to God’s Will.
36:08 If so is the Will of God, God will grant the Vision which He Himself is. If God wants to give Vision to a certain seeker, He will grant. Why? Just because He wants to make a perfect instrument of that person. The hour has struck. But if a seeker untimely pulls the Reality, the Vision-Reality, of the third eye, it will create tremendous disaster for the seeker. On the one hand, the third eye is the eye of illumination for sincere seekers. On the other hand, for the curiosity-mongers, the third eye is nothing but temptation. By the third eye, I mean the opening up of the third eye.
40:31 The third eye is like a toy that a child plays with. Then, after a few years he gives up; he does not play with toys any more. He studies for knowledge; he prays and meditates for inner wisdom. Here, the seeker, after he has played for a few years with the third eye — the toy — he wants to acquire infinite wisdom-light. This wisdom-light he gets on the strength of his constant surrender to God’s Will and by virtue of his inmost cry.
41:47 The third eye can see the past, present and future. It can command, also, the past, the present, to do something. But it cannot change humanity’s cry into Divinity’s Smile.
42:15 We see something, but we don’t have the capacity to change it. If we can’t change it, then it remains imperfect. But if we see something and have the capacity to perfect it, then it is worth seeing. But if one has discovered himself, has realised the highest Truth, then if he sees something and if it needs perfection, then he can perfect it. So, it is the self-discovery that can be of real help to the third eye. When the third eye observes something and it needs perfection, the third eye gets the necessary help from the self-discovery.
44:18 Two earthly eyes, human eyes, are side by side together, but they do not, cannot see each other. Here there are two eyes — one cannot see the other. Why? Because of the limitations, because of the bondage that each eye embodies. The nearest thing it cannot observe. But if we stand in front of a mirror, then we at once see both the eyes at our sweet will. And we see how one helps the other.
45:24 Similarly, when we stand in front of our highest Reality — God — and see God with our third eye, then only, the life, human life, reaches its acme [of] perfection. Otherwise, the third eye will see, but it will not offer any satisfactory result, abiding satisfaction, to the seekers of the ultimate Truth. But if it sees God, if it sees infinite Truth, Light, and if it can embody all the time God’s divine Presence, and if it can feel God’s universal Reality inside its Vision, then only the perfection of the opening of the third eye takes place.
46:42 Sri Chinmoy meditates.
49:06 Now I wish to answer a few spiritual questions. I wish to be of dedicated service to all of you. But I wish to make a sincere request to you that I shall accept only spiritual questions. In your life of aspiration, if you have any question, please ask me. I shall be of devoted service to your life of aspiration. Spiritual question, please. Would you kindly raise your hand?
Questions and Answers
50:13 Could you explain karma, please, and reincarnation?
50:25 Reincarnation. There are some people who believe in reincarnation, while others don’t believe. In my case, I do believe in reincarnation. I believe in reincarnation for various reasons, but the most important reason is this: that in one incarnation one cannot achieve everything, or the highest thing.
51:03 Suppose you had a desire at the age of four. That desire may take forty or fifty years for its fulfilment. An ordinary, earthly, human desire can take forty, fifty years before it is fulfilled. Now, this is the world of desire. Here we are dealing with the world of aspiration. Aspiration deals with Infinity, Eternity and Immortality. So, if one wants to realise the infinite consciousness within him, or the eternal reality within him or the immortal vision within him, naturally it will take many, many years. Therefore, the seeker will need quite a few incarnations.
52:20 Now, each incarnation is a forward march. It is like a rung of a ladder, spiritual ladder. Each incarnation for a seeker is a great opportunity to realise the highest, to reveal the highest and to manifest the highest. Each incarnation is an opportunity, and it is through the process of reincarnation that we ultimately reach our ultimate Destination.
Next please . . .
53:34 Do you go through the emotion to the spirit?
53:48 Emotion? Yes, now, there are two types of emotion. One is earth-bound emotion, where attachment looms large, where we hear the song of possession, emotion that wants to possess and that wants to be possessed. There is another type of emotion. It is a liberated emotion, Heaven-free emotion. That is: I belong to God. He is Infinite, He is Eternal, He is Immortal. It does not become me, it is beneath my dignity to wallow in the pleasures of ignorance, to mix with ignorance, falsehood. No. So that emotion is divine emotion. Here we identify ourselves with the Eternal, with the Infinite, with the Immortal. If we are one with Infinity, Eternity and Immortality, then there are millions of things we can’t do, we won’t do, because it is simply impossible for us to do. We have taken the side of Light and we cannot change and go and take the side of ignorance.
55:19 So, emotion that is Heaven-free, that is to say, the emotion that makes us free, liberated and vast is good. But the emotion that is attached to the outer life, to the human feelings, and that attachment is constantly playing its role deliberately, that emotion is not the emotion that should be encouraged. But the other emotion, which is founded on oneness with something vast, something illumining and fulfilling, that emotion one has to welcome, for that is the right way. I am God’s child, how can I do this? I am God’s child, I must do this. He is waiting for me. As I need Him, He also needs me. I need Him because I need illumination. He needs me for His manifestation. Therefore, we need each other.
56:47 Here, oneness is saying — oneness of will — with my will, oneness-will, I will realise my highest, which He Himself is. And then, with His Will He will try to manifest Himself in and through me. That is, my instrument. God will say that I as a seeker [am] His instrument. And I will say I as a seeker [am] His instrument. So, the emotion that is divine, the emotion that liberates us or brings us the message of vastness, oneness with each and every individual, is the divine emotion and that emotion is necessary to reach one’s destination.
58:19 You frequently talk in your work about listening to the inner voice and following the dictates of the inner voice. How can you be sure that it is the inner voice of truth that you are listening to and not the inner voice of the illusions of the ego? How do you distinguish?
58:41 Yes. If it is the real inner voice, then you will feel a kind of satisfaction within you. Now, this satisfaction you will get from the result of an incident or an action. But if you feel the result, if the result is satisfactory, that is why you are getting satisfaction and if the result is not satisfactory, you will not be satisfied, then that is not the inner voice. An inner voice will give you message and then inside that message there will be action and reaction, or action, or the result thereof. Now the result will be either in the form of success or failure. But if you can take both success and failure, whatever will come, with the same type of cheerfulness then it is the inner voice that you are getting. Otherwise, sometimes it will be mental hallucination, vital delusion. You are getting the inner voice if it is satisfactory to your desire, then you will say that it is the inner voice, and if it does not fulfil your vital demands, you will immediately discard it. No.
1:00:15 If it is a message of the inner voice, the inner voice will give you the necessary strength to be cheerful, [with] both the results. Results will come in one form, either in the failure or success. And you will be able to identify yourself with the failure to such an extent that failure itself is not a failure, it will be an experience. And it if is a success, you will identify with success. Not as something to boast or to glorify yourself. But it is an experience that God wants to give you.
1:01:01 So, if you are able to assimilate the results in a divine way and from the results you are able to proceed onward towards your destination, ultimate goal, then it is the inner voice, the dictate of the inner voice. Otherwise, it is like the action of an opportunist, you are waiting only for the opportunity. If it is satisfactory, you accept it. If it is dissatisfactory, unsatisfactory, then you discard it, reject it. That will be wrong.
1:01:49 The inner voice only fulfils God’s Will. The inner voice is the messenger. It only brings messages directly from Above. And, whatever the message is brought down by the inner voice, the seeker must accept it cheerfully and soulfully. Then the seeker is bound to know that it is from the highest Authority that the message has come down. So, if one really loves the highest Authority, no matter what the Authority gives, one has to be satisfied with it. For that is the only way to become inseparable with the highest Authority, the Author of all good.
1:02:55 Is there a true and a false illumination?
1:03:00 Yes, there is false illumination, true illumination. If it true illumination, if it is real illumination, then one is bound to have universal oneness with God’s entire universe — if it is proper illumination. But if it is false illumination, then one will see oneself as the only reality and the rest of the world will be, to him, a false reality. He is the only one, he is the only one, who has got illumination, or who has realised the truth, and nobody else has seen it and nobody else has been illumined — then that is false illumination.
1:03:56 True illumination is with all, for all, inside all. But false illumination is only the satisfaction of one’s own vital. I am the only possessor, the rest are all beggars. I have everything, the rest are all beggars. That is false illumination. Here one is aggrandising one’s ego. Whereas, when one sees oneself inside everyone and sees that everybody is inside him and he is inside everyone, that is universal oneness, that is true illumination without fail.
1:04:47 Sri Chinmoy chants AUM and concludes with a meditation.
— End —
Endnotes:
1 The Third Eye Centre was founded in 1974 by the Scottish Arts Council with the renowned playwright, poet and musician Nityananda Tom McGrath as its first director. It soon became the hub for Glasgow’s alternative arts scene, regularly hosting visiting performers such as Allen Ginsberg and Whoopi Goldberg. In 1992 it became the Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA).
"Peace" - Original Audio Talk - mp3 Wayside Chapel Kings Cross Sydney, Australia 6 March 1976
There Shall Come a Time
The Reverend Ted Noffs: My friends, it’s my great privilege tonight to welcome to the Wayside Chapel a person with whom you are all familiar, Sri Chinmoy. And I would like to welcome you to this little chapel in the heart of King’s Cross in Sydney, Australia. I could just say this, by way of welcome that I believe over the years, twelve years we’ve been in this location, we’ve had swamis, gurus, teachers from all across the world. I should imagine that if I were to think back, there must be at least twenty or thirty, which we remember not only by their last name, but very often by their particular designation, their cities, their countries, the particular locations that they are involved in.
And I daresay that we will remember you, if I may think so, by ‘the Swami who comes to us from the United Nations’. And we will think of you in that connection because we know something of your work there. And I don’t think any one of us tonight, particularly those of you who have gathered here, who know the teachings of Sri Chinmoy, I am sure you would be aware that of all the places in the world at this moment that are in need of equilibrium, harmony, peace, whatever word we may use for that greatest of all gifts, well then I imagine the United Nations would be that place.
May I also say, by way of welcome, that it is my opinion, as Alfred North Whitehead said on one occasion, that the greatest of all values, the greatest of all gifts, is indeed the gift of peace — above love, above justice, above truth. It took me a long while to understand what he meant, but I think this was Jesus’ own concept when he sent his disciples into the world long ago, not with any animosity, not even to convert people, not to turn people into Christians. He said, when you go into any house, let your first word be ‘peace’.
And it seems to me that you have come to us tonight as a disciple of peace, as a person who leads others into an understanding of the true meaning, the true meaning of peace. And for that reason we welcome you and I know all of us are going to listen tonight with great attention to all that you have, not only to say to us, but to share with us in terms of your illumination. Welcome to the Wayside Chapel.
Sri Chinmoy: Most revered Reverend, I am extremely grateful to you for your blessingful words and blessingful welcome. This is not an ordinary place. This is not a university hall, but this is a shrine. This is a place where we can feel the living presence of God. And it is you who embody the living presence of God and you are sharing with us the living presence of God.
In silence, to the Almighty Father in you, I offer my most soulful gratitude. And in silence, to all the seekers here, I offer my oneness-heart and dedicated life. To be here, is to be in the presence of brothers and sisters who belong to the same family. To be here, is to be in one boat that carries all of us to the Golden Shores of the Beyond. To be here, is to bring to the fore what is one’s peerless treasure, and that peerless treasure is our aspiration, inner cry. This inner cry manifests itself in the form of prayer and meditation. When we learn the art of praying and meditating, we feel deep inside our hearts, in the inner recesses of our hearts, the living presence of God.
Here I have not come to offer you my sermon. My esteemed brother is most qualified to do so in that line. Here I have come as a seeker-brother, a member of your family. I tell you that I am of you and I am for you. It is aspiration, which is the climbing flame within us and, at the same time, the connecting link between you and me, between your soul and mine, that has brought me to this part of the world, thousands and thousands and thousands of miles from America.
I happen to be a seeker at the United Nations. My sole aim is to serve the United Nations, body and soul, in silence with prayers and meditations. I do not know anything about politics, but I do know about the oneness of the heart. In the United Nations, we have a meditation group and there the seekers come and participate according to their capacity. They are genuine seekers. So when we seek, when we cry, we feel that there is not only hope but certainty that this world of ours can certainly be a world of divinity.
Now fear, doubt, anxiety, tension, disharmony are reigning supreme. But there shall come a time when this world of ours will be flooded with light and delight. Who is going to bring about that radical change? It is you, it is you, sisters and brothers. ‘You’ means an extension of my reality-existence. When I say ‘you’, it is the oneness-heart that is spread throughout the length and the breadth of the world.
I serve the United Nations, a small group of about a hundred genuine seekers who serve the United Nations with soulful prayer and meditation. We feel that this inner prayer and inner meditation can and will help in boundless measure in bringing light, peace and bliss to the United Nations and all the world over. It takes time, but we see that the achievements of the United Nations are far from satisfaction. But when we think of the aim and goal of the United Nations, we feel that still there is hope. The world will not be doomed to disappointment.
The United Nations is a symbol of inner cry, inner oneness. Outwardly, the members of the United Nations do commit mistakes, various human errors. And again, if we make mistakes, that does not mean that we shall never arrive at the truth. No, error itself is the pathfinder. We may make mistakes, but if we have an inner urge to do the right thing, to grow into the right thing, to fulfil the divine within us, then there comes a time when we can become perfect instruments of God.
So, do not judge the United Nations on its present appearance. We cannot judge the United Nations on what it has already offered us. Only we can judge the United Nations on its soulful promise, the promise that this world of ours will one day be flooded with harmony, peace, light and delight.
As my most revered brother pointed out, peace is the most important thing God has. God has countless children, countless qualities, divine qualities. His fondest child is peace. Everything this world of ours has save and except one thing, and that is peace.
And how do you get this peace? What is the conception of peace? Peace is satisfaction. Each individual has a way to discover peace or to determine peace. A child breaks an instrument or makes a clamorous noise and that gives him satisfaction and that makes him feel peace. He breaks the thing into pieces but he is satisfied and he is peaceful for a few seconds.
And again, when the destructive vital of a nation or an individual comes to the fore, by destroying another nation the victorious nation gets joy; it feels satisfaction and peace.
Similarly, each individual has a way of determining peace, appreciating peace and achieving peace. But most of the time this kind of peace is false peace; it is peace that is followed by frustration. It can never be peace, real peace.
A child breaks something and then a few minutes later, he is not satisfied, he wants to break something more and something more. He wants to break ten things. One thing is not enough. Constantly his hunger is increasing to break things. A nation destroys another nation, but it is not satisfied. The nation wants to destroy a few more nations. In this way there is no end to its hunger. Here, frustration is being followed by achievement, which we call peace.
Julius Caesar said, “Veni, vidi, vici”: “I came, I saw, I conquered.” He came, he saw and he conquered, but there was no peace. Inside him was nothing but a barren desert. By coming, by seeing and by conquering one cannot have happiness. If he had said, “I came, I saw, I became,” then he would have had peace. Here I will get peace if I say, “I have come here, I am serving you, I am becoming part and parcel of your existence-reality.” Then I am in perfect peace.
India’s greatest poet, Tagore, wrote a most soulful poem on peace: “In front of us is the sea of peace.” I wish to sing it for you.
Samukhe shanti parabar
Bhasao tarani he kornodhar
Tumi habe chirosathi
Lao lao he crorpati
Samukhe shanti parabar
Bhasao tarani he kornodhar
Mukti data tomar kaoma tomar daya
Habe chirapatheya chirajatrar
Samukhe shanti parabar
Bhasao tarani he kornodhar
(Sri Chinmoy concludes by chanting “Peace shanti peace shanti peace shanti” and then meditates in silence for several minutes)
Wayside Chapel
Kings Cross
Sydney, Australia
March 6th, 1976
25 June 1986. Sri Chinmoy, Body, heart and soul one-arm lift anniversary, 25-26 June 1986, Agni Press, 1986.
Programme highlights at Sri Chinmoy Library
Photos by Bhashwar.
Addwitiya Roberta Flack, Rev. Jesse Jackson and Sri Chinmoy. Annam Brahma restuarant, Jamaica, New York.
After a private meeting with Sri Chinmoy, the Rev. Jesse Jackson was lifted in the garden at the back of Annam Brahma as part of the "Lifting Up The World With a Oneness-Heart" programme.
On 18 October 1994, a celebration of the life of New York City Marathon founder Fred Lebow, a dear friend of Sri Chinmoy and the Marathon Team, was held at the United Nations. It was co-sponsored by The Peace Meditation at the United Nations and the United Nations Staff Recreation Council Athletics Club.
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by Animesh
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Dedicated to my Beloved Guru
— the Peerless Seer-Poet —
Sri Chinmoy
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Our hearts are carried
By the whisper of God’s Dream —
In our morning prayers.
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by Animesh
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Dedicated to my Beloved Guru
— the Peerless Seer-Poet —
Sri Chinmoy
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Our hearts are carried
By the whisper of God’s Dream —
In our morning prayers.
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With Grace, to serve each
Fullness day — and with Joy, to
Play each role our best.
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How many times has
Your Compassion-Heart saved us
From our own self-will!
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When we return to
Our timeless serenity —
God is pleased with us.
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God takes birth each day
In the hopes and the dreams of
All sentient beings.
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At the frontier of
Thought formation — we have the
Choice of what to think.
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A rock, enjoying
Millennial slumber, does
Not squeal when stepped on.
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An elephant carved
In stone-grain strength, bejewlled with
Transcendent glory.
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The last catch before
The storm — we run for shelter —
Indra, please spare us!
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The resplendent tea
Gardens of Darjeeling — the
Mist and mountain green.
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The heart-expanding
Realm of God’s Delight reminds
Us where we belong.
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We empty our minds
Into our fullness-hearts so
Our thoughts can feel Joy!
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A journey that starts
With one doubt,
has so many
Uncertain endings.
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We pray before each
Action, but before we can
Pray, Who prays for
Us!
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God’s surety smiles,
When we have the courage to
Trust our inner light.
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In the nestling of
Twilight resting — in the hour
Of moonlight blessing.
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In the leaves of light
Glistening — in the shadow’s
Quiet listening.
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You are with me in
Our heart depths caring — in tears
Of oneness sharing.
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Your all-perceiving
Eyes cast their view upon each
Aspiration heart.
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We inspire each
Other to reach higher than
We could by ourselves.
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In the presence of
Angels, we dissolve in the
Heart of Heaven Light.
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Let us not submit
To the cruel assessments
Of critical minds.
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In this life, there is
Every chance we will become
What we want to be.
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The architecture
Of heaven — reflected in
A flower petal.
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There is no foregone
Pathway to tomorrow — when
God’s Will intervenes.
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The greatness of an
Idea is not in its earth-
Shattering triumph!
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At times our minds weigh
Far more than our bodies — when
We lose our heart’s joy.
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The olive branch of
Peace, hangs just out of reach — as
Centuries roll by.
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Even an island
Fortress can never protect
Us from our own thoughts.
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How can we be sad
When the music of the soul
Breathes in and through us?
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Prayer does not live in
The world of things and pieces,
Of follies and chance.
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I will gather all
Those precious moments shared — to
My heart’s inner core.
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Who inspires our
Hearts to coalesce, in this
World of fractured thoughts?
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Above world sorrow —
We wing the welkin blue of
Our heavenward way.
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Our souls are resolved
To prove that world oneness is
Not a far-off dream.
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To catch a glimpse of
Beauty amid life’s turmoil,
Feeds the starving soul.
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Protected by God —
Mankind’s highest ideals are
Imperishable.
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Washed by our soul’s prayer-
Currents we are the shores of
Undiscovered peace.
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Stepping through the rush
Of day into a realm of
Unexpected Joy.
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We sprint to the field
Of dreams, to please the One who
Created our Game.
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No matter how much
We share our heart’s gifts, we will
Always have enough.
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We are God’s chosen
Children, tasked to share His Love
With all creation.
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God Himself walked with
Us on earth for a time — still,
We hear His footfalls.
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Our hearts constantly
Remind us to remember
The word — gratitude.
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Our souls continue
Day after day to offer
Our gratitude smiles.
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We are born of the
Transcendent — to express the
Unknowable truth.
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I bookmark your page
With love, so I can read it
Again and again.
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Who am I and what
Do I know — so much more and
Far less than I think.
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How the children play —
Before they are shaped by a
World set in its ways!
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With Grace, we come to
Know that for each dead end there
Is a way forward.
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Each God-devoted
Heart is at the vanguard of
World transformation.
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We cling to so-called
Certainty while in the swing
Of impermanence.
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May the vast blue sky
Of dreams always be home to
The bird of my heart.
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At each and every
Moment, we must be ready
To be uplifted!
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While religions are
Debating, the Peace of our
Souls is feeding us.
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When we are kinder
To ourselves, our kindness spreads
To one and all.
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To act in good faith,
Despite the outcome, is a
Noble victory.
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Though our hearts may be
Besieged by life‘s losses — let
Gratitude remain.
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Politics is a
Man-made compromise — God is
Not political.
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Heaven-made oneness
Is spirituality —
We are spiritual.
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Nineteen thirty one —
The year God played upon His
Special kettledrum.
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Nineteen sixty four —
The year God walked upon His
Chosen Western shore.
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All the trees have come
Together to discuss the
Future of mankind.
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In one divine brush
Stroke, the artist captures the
Essence of the soul!
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We are a danger
To ourselves, when we believe
That we have free will.
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In the hush and pause
Of silence — from a whisper —
There, a word is born.
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In our lives of haste —
Either we want the clock turned
Backward or forward.
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My Lord Supreme, do
Allow me one more moment
On earth to serve you.
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My Lord Beloved
Supreme, wherever you lead,
Let me follow You.
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O my guardian,
O protector of my life,
O silent witness!
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At the tipping point
Between heaven and earth — our
Soul’s transcendence dance.
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Let us not put our
Spiritual lives on hold for
Meaningless pursuits.
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Thank You for my heart
That loves You, and thank you for
My life that serves You.
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God’s presence within
The world is the only gift
We can all cherish.
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O my Lord, do let
Me always remain a child,
Playing at your Feet.
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I know when I pray,
I am in the comforting
Lap of God Himself.
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A simple problem —
Becomes trapped in the mind’s maze
Of complexity.
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From the possessor
Of the Sun, we are given
The Llight of reason.
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In the depths of our
Heart is God’s assurance that —
He will not fail us.
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My Lord do protect
Our subtle nerves — so we can
Feel your subtle form.
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Into life we came
With boundless joy and hope — let
Us not spill a drop!
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Impenetrable
To the casual gaze — the
Mysteries of life.
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