Supreme, Supreme, Supreme, Supreme!

Supreme, Supreme, Supreme, Supreme!

I bow to Thee, I bow.

" I live for the Supreme and for the Supreme alone. This is my Absolute Secret. "

Sri Chinmoy

THE GOLDEN FLUTE

A sea of peace and joy and light

Beyond my reach I know. In me the storm-tossed weeping night

Finds room to rage and flow.

I cry aloud, but all in vain -

I helpless, the earth unkind! What soul of might can share my pain?

Death-dart alone I find.

A raft am I on the sea of Time,

My oars are washed away. How can I hope to reach the Clime

Of God's eternal Day?

But hark! I hear Thy golden Flute, Its notes bring the Summit down.

Now safe am I, O Absolute! Gone death! gone night's stark frown!

(from: My Flute)

MAN IMMORTALIZED

To perfect our human life, by far the greatest necessity is our soul's delight. When we live in the physical, the teeming clouds of desire are natural, necessary and inevitable. When we live in the soul, the ever-mounting flames of aspiration are natural, necessary and inevitable.

When we live in the soul, we spontaneously cultivate God. His Peace, Bliss and Power become ours, absolutely ours. We grow into our spiritual perfection. This perfection is at once our divine heritage in a human body and our unearthly birthright on earthly soil.

The human in us must live under the sheltering wings of the soul. The divine in us must fly and fly into the Beyond with the flying wings of the soul. The human in us must eventually need transformation. The divine in us must eventually need manifestation.

We expect everything from God. It is supremely good and perfectly reasonable, for who else can fulfils us, both in Heaven and on earth? God is our Face within; God is our Smile without.

God determines everything in us, through us and for us. He is utterly unconditional and infinitely self-giving. Him we serve. Our self-dedicated service unveils Him.

Man's achievement is a supremely unparalleled miracle. God's achievement is the Marriage of His Infinite with His finite.

Lo, God unveiled, man immortalized!

(from: Songs of the Soul, Flowers of the Heart)

HOPE

Thou art my Lord! My golden dream,

Thou art my life in death. O! bless me with thy Hope Supreme,

Lord of the Eternal Breath!

Agelong the vision of Thy Sun For darkness have I sought.

I know the evils I should shun and quickly bring to nought.

The earth is deaf and blind, my Lord,

Its true goal it denies. It hears no voice, no heavenly word

From those who seek the skies.

0 yet I feel Thy kingly Grace
With my feeble mortality -

I shall win at last the Noonward Race
Plunge in the Nectar-Sea.

(from: My Flute)

MY BODY

O Soul, I am your body. I am thirty-six years old today. I wish to learn from you.

" Do good. "

O my body, you are a gift of the Supreme. Potentiality inexhaustible you have, deep within you. To misunderstand you means to misunderstand the chosen instrument of God.

You want not, you must not, you cannot conquer the length and the breadth of the world with your physical strength. Offer your growing heart to the hearts far and near. Offer your glowing soul to the souls around, below, above. Then alone you become the conqueror and possessor of God's entire universe.

O my body, invoke your soul always for you to lead. Invoke! Never shall the monotony of the uneventful life plague you. With lightning speed yours shall be the ceaseless march - upward to the Highest, inward to the Inmost, forward to the Farthest.

Sing, sing the song of Bliss in Immortality! Breathe, breathe in the breath of Consciousness in Immortality! Live, live the life of Existence in Immortality!

Death? Die you must not. For your death will be a great loss to humanity and by far a greater loss to Divinity. Fight, O my body, fight with ignorance to the bitterest end. Never allow ignorance to envelop you, your outer cloak. You tearing efforts shall be crowned with success.

O body of mine, fare you well for eternity. May each earthly year of yours have a trillion fulfilling years.

God the Eternal Dreamer is dreaming through you, with you. God the Eternal Reality is living for you, with you and in you.

(from: Songs of the Soul, Flowers of the Heart)

MY VITAL

O Soul, I am your vital. I am nineteen years old. I want to learn from you.

" Be good. "

O my vital, my first choice falls on you. Without your dynamic and stupendous inner urge, nothing can be embodied, nothing can be revealed here on earth.

O my vital, when you fall fast asleep, my mind's undying frustration grips my outer existence. My body's helpless surrender to the Prince of Gloom poisons my inner existence.

Man's most powerful imagination fails to fathom you, your depth. Man's far-flung, brightest wisdom fails to determine you, your breadth.

Yours is the indomitable courage that springs from the fountain of boundless emotion. Kill not your emotion, never. Emotion killed within, fulfillment starved without. Emotion divinely fed within, God the Eternal Delight revealed without.

O my vital, you know no Tomorrow. You want to be born, you want to grow and fulfill yourself in the immediacy of today. With the infinite Blessings of the Supreme, on your march across the path of Infinity's bloom, Eternity's glow and Immortality's luster.

Your life is green, the ever-aspiring and ever-growing green. Your breath is blue, the ever-encompassing and ever-transforming blue.

O vital of mine, in you is humanity's glowing Hope. With you is Divinity's reverberating Clarion.

(from: Songs of the Soul, Flowers of the Heart)

MY MIND

O Soul, I am your mind. I am sixty years old. I need to learn from you. " See good. "

O my mind, no earthly chain can fetter you. You are always on the wing. No human thought can control you. You are forever on the move.

O my mind, hard is it for you to believe in my soul's constant fulfillment. And hard is it for me to believe that you are doomed to be the eternal victim of venomous doubts. Alas! You have forgotten. You have forgotten the golden secret: " To remain in the Silence-Room is to open the Fulfillment-Door. "

O my mind, vast are your responsibilities. You have to please your superiors: heart and soul. Only with your warmest admiration will you be able to conquer the heart. Only with your deepest faith will you be able to conquer the soul. You have also to satisfy your subordinates: the body and the vital. Only with your pure concern will you be able to make the body smile. Only with your genuine encouragement will you be able to help the vital run unmistakably towards good and not pleasure.

O my mind, I need you desperately, either to abide in you or to go beyond you. You see and thus protect the physical in me. You serve and thus reveal the spiritual beyond me.

O my mind, cast aside your long-treasured arid reason. Welcome the ever-virgin faith. Possess the naked sword of conscience. Far above the storms of fear you are destined o climb. Stay no more in self-created somber shadows of death. Don the golden robes of simplicity, sincerity and purity. Permit not the gales of disbelief to extinguish your inner mounting flame. Yours is the arrow of concentration, yours is the soil of lightning intuition. Yours is the unhorizoned peace.

Behold the Supreme! He crowns you, o mind of mine, with the laurel of His infinite Bounty.

(from: Songs of the Soul. Flowers of the Heart)

MY HEART

O Soul, I am your heart. I am four years old. Please tell me the secret.

" Remain good. "

O my heart, I am divinely proud of you. You do not have the shameful and shameless disease - worry! Never do you drink the deadly venom - doubt! Nothing can be simpler than your pure longings. Nothing can be more spontaneous than your glowing feelings. Nothing can be more fulfilling than your selfless love. Nothing has a more immediate access to the Supreme than your inmost cry.

O my heart, your heavenly day within an earthly day is for God-realization. Your immortalizing minute within a fleeting minute is for God-embodiment. Your revealing second within a vanishing second is for God-manifestation.

O my heart, the other members of the family are afraid of God. You are never! Their lightless persistent fear is a lifeless persistent paralysis. In life's journey others make their own choice. God makes the choice for you. They want to save humanity with their ego's darkest night. You wish to serve humanity with your dedications’ brightest day. Their victory is the victory over humanity. Your victory is the victory over yourself.

O my heart, O heart of mine, you are my life-boat. You
sail the uncharted seas of ignorance and reach the golden
shore of the Beyond.

I am not alone, O my heart. I am with your soaring
aspiration. You are not alone. In you and for you is my
life's unreserved breath.

Yours is the unfaltering Will and unfailing faith in the Supreme. Each petal of the radiant lotus deep within you is perpetually bathed in nectar-rays of the Transcendental Delight.

O sweet, sweeter, sweetest heart of mine, you are not only God's. God also is yours.

(from: Songs of the Soul, Flowers of the Heart)

MY SOUL

O Soul, your body again. What do you do with your boundless Love?

" I distribute my boundless Love to ever-expanding horizons. "

O Soul, your vital again. What do you do with your Infinite Peace?

" I feed the teeming vasts of the Past, Present and Future with my Infinite Peace. "

O Soul, your mind again. What do you do with your Vision of the ever-transcending Beyond?

" I feather the Golden Nest of my Reality's Infinitude with my Vision of the ever-transcending Beyond. "

O Soul, once more your heart. Tell me your absolute secret, please.

" I live for the Supreme and for the Supreme alone. This is my Absolute Secret. "

(from: Songs of the Soul, Flowers of the Heart)

THE MESSAGE OF SURRENDER

Today You have given me the message of surrender. I have offered to You my very flower-heart. In the dark night with tears, in the unknown prison-cell of illusion, in the house of the finite, no longer shall I abide. I know You are mine. I have known this, Mother, O Queen of the Eternal.

(from: My Flute)

O LORD, WHERE IS THE TRUTH?

O Lord, where is the Truth?

" Where your Beloved is. "

Who is my Beloved, who?

" In Whom your life is peace. "

MY ACCEPTANCE OF GOD

AND GOD'S ACCEPTANCE OF ME

Away with my halting and doubting mind! My implicit acceptance of God will invariably be able to meet the teeming needs of my aspiring soul.

Him I have accepted, my God, the Lord Supreme. No more can my world fall. My age-old fear's torture is now being transformed into my heart's rapture. How? Just by virtue of my purest acceptance of God.

Happy I was because He implanted in me His Message of Hope. Happier I am because He is shaping me into His own Image. Happiest shall I be because He will awaken in me His Eternity and reveal through me His Infinity and fulfill me with His Immortality.

Perfect I am not, far from it. I make Himalayan blunders day in, day out. But my sweet Lord is neither severe nor unforgiving. Stern justice He is not. All Compassion He always is.

God has accepted me. Something more. He has assumed my human nature so that He can be fully conscious of my wants and needs. He is freeing me from the world marred with ignorance. He is freeing me from the life eclipsed by the shadow of ruthless death.

My earth is linked with His Heaven through my loving surrender and His unconditional concern. Through my personal effort I can never better myself; it is like trying to straighten the tail of a dog for good. I have come to God just as I am. I know that what I do not consciously overcome will mercilessly overcome me. But my Lord out of His infinite Bounty says that He will overcome it, the wildest ignorance, in me and for me.

In my acceptance of God I have to give up all that would separate me from Him. In His acceptance of me, He has given me a new world and His breath entire.

(from: Songs of the Soul, Flowers of the Heart)

THERE WAS A TIME

There was a time when I prayed to God for all the things I wanted. God heard me and gave me a soulful cry.

There was a time when I prayed to God for all the things I needed. My God heard me and gave me a soulful smile.

There was a time when I prayed to God only for the Truth. He heard me and gave me a soulful embrace.

There was a time when I prayed to God neither for Realization nor for Liberation, neither for Infinity nor for Eternity, but for the Fulfillment of His own Will. My God heard me and gave me His Breath.

There was a time when God wanted me to be His Desire.

I touched His Feet and I became.

There was a time when God wanted me to be His Aspiration.

I touched His Heart and I became.

There was a time when God wanted me to be His Realization.

I touched His Soul and I became.

There was a time when God wanted me to be nothing but Reality.

I touched His Dream-Boat and I became.

(from: Songs of the Soul, Flowers of the Heart)

THERE WAS A TIME

There was a Time when I stumbled and stumbled,

But now I only climb and climb beyond and far beyond my Goal's endless Beyond,

And yet my Captain commands: " Go on, go on! "

REVEALING SOUL AND FULFILLING GOAL

If You but knew,

Father, what I have done for You.

Planted and raised a climbing tree

For You to dance on its top smiling free.

If You but knew,

Father, what I have done for You. I have become the world's lowest slave Your Breath to serve in man, the grave.

If You but knew, Child, what I ever think of you. You are My Life's revealing Soul, You are My Vision's fulfilling Goal.

(from: My Flute)

MY LOVE OF LIGHT

My love of light is my spiritual Will. Within it is the power infinite. I give fear no place in my life. My love of light is God's Smile of satisfaction. God's supreme Love manifests in me and through me to transform my human problems into my divine opportunities.

My animal human love is my unnatural experience and uncertain possibility. My divine human love is my natural experience and certain inevitability of my living in the Eternal Now.

My love throbbingly says: " God is all blessing. " God's Love smilingly says: " My child is all gratitude. "

Love radiates the life of harmony, brightens the joy of consciousness and sharpens the sword of intuition. Love is always ready to meet man's every soulful demand. Love conquers all that is unlike God. It is, indeed, supreme over all.

Love gives me my importance in the cosmic Vision of God. Nobody remembers me save my love. My sole treasure is love. Love's treasure is God's Heart.

Love is the undeniable truth of my identity as God's son, chosen son. Love is the unique combination of Heaven's freedom and earth's discipline. In Heaven’s freedom is earth emancipation. In earth's discipline is Heaven's manifestation.

No time-born desire can rend my love of light. My love of light flies beyond the widespread net of death. Mine is the love that has the birthless origin and the deathless end.

(from: Songs of the Soul, Flowers of the Heart)

I SHALL LISTEN

I shall listen to Your command, I shall. In Your sky I shall fly, I shall fly. Eternally You are mine, my very own. You are my heart's wealth. For You at night in tears I shall cry. For You at dawn with light I shall smile. For You, for You, Beloved, only for You.

(from: My Flute)

MY SILENCE

My silence bridges the gulf between my life's success and my life's failure. My silence does not magnify my defects. Nor does it connive at them. My silence transforms my defects into strength indomitable.

My silence is a climbing flame that warms my world of despair. My silence is my inner light. No problem of mine can defy solution. My silence is a selfless distributor of joy to ever-widening horizons.

In my silence I become a man of sterling character, a prolific writer, a voracious reader, a divine lover, a profound inspirer and a triumphant liberator.

In my deep silence I never become a victim to ignorance, the greatest calamity that can befall any human being. In my growing silence I am convinced that even as a man on this earth I shall be able to reach heights, transcendental, divine.

My glowing silence alone can accelerate my Godward march.

My spreading silence makes me see, feel and possess satisfaction, unalloyed satisfaction. No more have I to let loose a tirade of tenebrous dissatisfaction.

In activity and vitality I proudly and wrongly feel that I shall have to care of the whole world. In the heart of silence I humbly and unmistakably realize that it is the Divinity within the world that took care, takes care and shall forever take care of the entire world.

Silence is my unceasing petition. Silence is my unreserved preparation. Silence is my unlimited realization. Silence is the unfathomable fount of my life here on earth, there in Heaven.

What God's Silence is - is the Eternal Truth. What God's Silence serves is the Eternal Purpose. What Gods' Silence becomes is the Inevitable Fulfillment.

(from: Songs of the Soul, Flowers of the Heart)

THE ABSOLUTE

No mind, no form, I only exist;

Now ceased all will and thought.

The final end of Nature's dance,

I am it whom I have sought.

A realm of Bliss bare, ultimate;

Beyond both knower and known;

A rest immense I enjoy at last;

I face the One alone.

I have crossed the secret ways of life,

I have become the Goal.

The Truth immutable is revealed;

I am the way, the God-Soul.

My spirit aware of all the heights,

I am mute in the core of the Sun.

I barter nothing with time and deeds;

My cosmic play is done.

(from: My Flute)

Supreme, Supreme, Supreme, Supreme!

I bow to Thee, I bow.