MY YOUNGER SELF AND MY OLDER SELF
My younger self, ego,
Tells me that I can be happy
By being separated from the oneness-soul.
My larger self, oneness universal
Tells me that there is no such thing
As ego-separativity.
It is all oneness-song,
Oneness-perfection,
Oneness-reality.
I and my older self together shall stay,
Together shall sing,
Together shall dance.
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Excerpt from Transcendence-Perfection by Sri Chinmoy.
A Self-Invented Self-Portrait
A self-invented self-portrait
Can please neither Heaven nor earth.
It can only please
The stupidity-unreality.
Excerpt from Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, Part 76 by Sri Chinmoy.
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SELF-FORGETFULNESS
My sweetest Lord Supreme,
Is self-forgetfulness
A divine blessing
Or
An animal curse?
“Self-forgetfulness can never be
A curse.
It can only be
A sad experience
In a seeker’s ever running and
Transcending journey
To the Beyond.
The self-forgetfulness of puny ‘i’
Is a blessing supreme indeed,
As the self-remembrance of the giant ‘I’
Is an unparalleled blessing
On the seeker’s march along the path
Of reality’s space.
Forget the sad and the saddening past;
Remember the illumining
and the illumined present.
Accelerate the birth and the life-flow
Of the fast-approaching future-noon.
Before the dawn of realisation-height,
Self-forgetfulness at times saves
The seeker’s inner sky
And outer moon.
After the birth of realisation-height,
Self-forgetfulness in the heart
Of a Master divine
Is the zenith of impossibility remote.”
GOD’S FIRST SECRET
Do you know
What God told me the other day?
I am telling you
In top secrecy.
If you breathe a word to God
I shall never tell you anything again.
Remember, be careful!
Needless to say,
God has shared with me
Millions of His sacred secrets.
Now I shall share with you
His first secret:
At the end of your journey’s close
Your epitaph will read
‘An unfulfilled tear of God’;
My epitaph will read
‘A fulfilled smile of God.’
Remember, be careful!
If you breathe a word to God
I shall not share anything else with you;
No, not even the precise hour
of your God-realisation
Which God told me
Only this morning
In top secrecy.
Excerpt from The Golden Boat, Part 6 by Sri Chinmoy.
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