Christmas-New Year Prayer-Poems, Brazil
Each Christmas-New Year period Sri Chinmoy travels to various countries with his students. A selection of the 129 morning prayers that were offered during his visit to Brazil and Paraquay in December 1999 and January 2000, are listed below. During this trip ten different groups recited the prayers turn by turn three times, then twice, then once. To date the Christmas Vacation-Prayer series number over 39 Parts with over 3,100 prayers.
Limited copies of Christmas New-Year Vacation-Prayers are available from - Heart-Light Distributors.
God begs us every day to study
The life-transformation-course
Given by Him.
Devotion is not
An emotional exuberance.
Devotion is
Our God-love-perfection
And our God-service-satisfaction.
When my mind fails, my heart cries.
When my heart fails, my soul cries.
When my soul fails, my God cries.
When my God fails,
He tries again and again and again
Until He ultimately
And unmistakably succeeds.
As God's Forgiveness
Is not far away,
Even so, my life's absolutely new start
Must not take a long time.
God loves
My sleepless selflessness
Infinitely more than
My uniqueness.
A self-offering prayer
To God's Will
Is a most sacred sunrise
Upon my heart's horizon.
A sea of self-giving tears
Is needed
To open the floodgates
Of my inspiration-mind,
Aspiration-heart and dedication-life.
My God-surrendered life
Is heading towards Heaven
To receive from God
His Infinity's Bliss.
I call it
My devotion-heart.
God calls it
His own living Body.
Man's home in God's Heart
Is transient.
God's Home in man's heart
Is permanent.
My Lord Beloved Supreme
Tells me
That everything I need
Is within the limitless orbit
Of my love divine.
May all God-seekers,
God-dreamers and God-lovers
Be peace and bliss-melodies
To the aspiring world.
My hopes are no match
For God's continuously
Torrential Blessings
Upon my devoted head
And surrendered life.
God tells me that
My God-service-happiness
Can easily equal
God's Heaven-Happiness.
My aspiring heart
Accepts everything divine
Infinitely faster than
My unaspiring mind can reject.
My Lord tells me that
My heart's soulful smile
Is my love divine in action.
May my heart be
An ever-blossoming
Purity-temple-flower.
My divinity's heart
Lives far beyond
The sea of time.
When life knocked
At my door,
Joy accompanied my life.
When death shall knock
At my door,
Peace shall accompany my death.
A universe of book knowledge
Cannot quench even an iota
Of the heart's thirst for God.
My only desire
Is to desire You,
My Beloved Lord Supreme,
And nothing else and nobody else
In this incarnation.
God runs infinitely faster
Than the speed of light
To reach me
When He sees that my heart
Has a burning need for Him.
~ Sri Chinmoy
