Service-Trees No. 40 continued...

All poetry by Sri Chinmoy

The higher a seeker goes,
The more earth-responsibilities
He has to embrace.


When I am happy,
God acts in and through me,
Faster than the fastest.


When I am happy,
I am in all
And I am for all.


To offer encouragement
To others
Is to expedite our own
Aspiration-journey.


Only I see,
And my heart sees,
That God's Creation
Is all beauty.


Any moment
Is the right moment
When we want to do
Something good.


Without discipline,
Life is a purposeless and useless
Merry-go-round.


God is peaceful
Only when we are beautiful,
Within and without.


Our sincere smile
Is God's
Highest reward.


Real desire
And real happiness
Are not compatible.


God expects from us
Only the things
That will make Him happy.


Protect your heart's
Sweet feelings
About God.


I meditate every day
With the golden silence
Of the blossoming dawn.


The most difficult thing
For the mind
Is to identify itself with the victories
Of another individual.


If we can take everything
In a divine way,
Then there is no real misfortune.


Be not afraid of vastness.
It is vastness that our mind needs
To arrive at
The ultimate Truth.


Every day
The beauty and fragrance
Of newness
Must enter into my heart.


God constantly tells me
To smile at Him,
Even for a while.


Outer action
Has to be the result of
Inner meditation.


My Heaven is inside
The sacredness and bliss
Of my heart,
And nowhere else.


When I have good thoughts
During the day,
My Lord tells me
That His Happiness knows no bounds.


Until we have placed God's Needs
Above everything,
We shall not succeed
In the spiritual life.


Solitude makes us
Spiritually strong
And dynamic.


The spiritual path
Is very steep.
We must all realise it.


The secrets of life
And the secretes of death
Are interchangeable.


A oneness-heart
Is all God needs
From each and every
Individual being.


God's Creation
Is an ever-changing
Existence-reality.


The soul-awareness
In our heart
So often saves us
From uncomely happenings.


The world knows me
Only in my outer aspect.
My real aspect
Nobody knows
Save and except me.


When you are ready,
You will see that God
Has been waiting for you
All along.


Prayerful and soulful
God-gratitude
Has to be
The order of the day.


My heart knows that
Everything God says
Is not only true
But perfect.


My indifference to the world
Is a shocking sight
To God.


Faith
Is the best promoter
Of spirituality.


God smiles at me
Only to mould my life
And shape my heart.


Every day
Newness is eager
To enter into
Our heart and life.


To love God intensely
Is to come out of the mind-prison
Immediately.


If I do not forgive
My own failings?
Who can and who will?


Discover your soul's
Ever-illumining light
And ever-deepening delight.


~ Sri Chinmoy

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