Christmas-New Year Prayer-Poems, Cambodia
Each Christmas-New Year period Sri Chinmoy travels to various countries with his students. This is a time for Sri Chinmoy to meet with prominent dignitaries and community leaders to discuss spirituality, while honouring their personal achievements and aspirations.
This is also a cherished and relaxing time for Sri Chinmoy's students to spend extended periods with their spiritual teacher, while appreciating and experiencing the natural beauty, peoples, cultures, customs and spiritual and religious sites in each visited country.
During this time away from New York Sri Chinmoy continues to energetically offer amongst many other activities, his illumined realisations through poetry, musical performances, art and meditative prayers. This collection of prayers from the My Christmas-New Year-Vacation-Aspiration-Prayers series was during Sri Chinmoy's trip to various S.E. Asian countries in 2001-2002, Part 11 was completed in Cambodia. To date the series number over 40 Parts with over 3,100 prayers.
Limited copies of Christmas New-Year Vacation-Prayers are available from - Heart-Light Distributors.
My Lord,
Why am I so ungrateful to you?
I clearly see that
Your Heart is drawn out towards me
To shelter me
And be my strongest support.
I must be the winner
In the race of life -
I must!
I have come to learn
That my own sincerity-heart
Is a source of tremendous energy
And vitality
In my spiritual life.
O my inner faith
You are the only one
To enable me to withstand
All the attacks
Of my stark adversaries.
Weakness-multitudes
Soulfully confessed
Are immediately forgiven.
God's special Blessings
Are not beyond our reach.
It is His genuine desire
That we all receive
His special Blessings
Directly from His own Hand.
Time is short, very short.
Our uppermost concern
Has to be God-Fulfilment
Here on earth.
I give God
An iota of my love.
God gives me
His entire Life
And His very Breath.
When God's Voice
Is my only choice,
He in no time bridges
The longest gap
Between my life and His Heart.
I have completely forgotten God,
But God tells me that His Heart
Is still sleeplessly occupied
With me and my life.
Ignorance-night I have.
Wisdom-light I need
To enrich my life
Divinely and ceaselessly,
And God is all ready
To fulfil me.
God says to me,
"My child,
If you light your heart-candle,
I shall take care of your darkness."
The smiles of my soul
Are my heart's
Heaven-climbing hopes.
The heart never questions,
Never doubts God's Presence
In each and every life
And each and every death.
Self-importance-
Dangerous, dangerous!
I must shun it
Once and for all.
The beauty
Of the earth-planet
Is extremely inspiring.
To lose
A childlike heart
Is to miss
A God-Heart-Smile.
To maintain our inner poise,
We must give equal value
To success and failure.
~ Sri Chinmoy
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From Sri Chinmoy Library - When the New Year Dawns, Significance of the New Year
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