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If I Could Start My Life Once More |
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| These poems are the first 20 from a book of 70 poems by Sri Chinmoy called 'If I Could Start My Life Once More.' |
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If I could start my life
Once more,
Every day I would become
A new-aspiration-heart-blossom.
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If I could start my life
Once more,
I would shed only
God-manifesting tears. |
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If I could start my life
Once more,
I would devotedly place
All my incapacities
At the Feet of my Lord Supreme. |
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If I could start my life
Once more,
I would definitely not long
For my desire-fulfilment. |
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If I could start my life
Once more,
I would never ignore
My Lord's sorrowful Tears. |
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If I could start my life
Once more,
I would not allow my vital
To torture my life. |
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If I could start my life
Once more,
I would not allow my mind
To torture my heart. |
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If I could start my life
Once more,
I would study the divinity-course
In humanity's heart. |
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If I could start my life
Once more,
I would not accept any defeat
In the battlefield of my life. |
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If I could start my life
Once more,
I would never miss
God-Invitation-Hours. |
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If I could start my life
Once more,
I would every day become
A new morning rose
In the garden of the universe. |
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12.
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If I could start my life
Once more,
I would never surrender
To ignorance-shackles.
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If I could start my life
Once more,
I would not waste even
A fleeting moment
On the way to
God's-Heart-Home. |
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If I could start my life
Once more,
I would remember
That all the mind-tours
Are a sheer waste of time. |
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If I could start my life
Once more,
I would have only
Indomitable faith
And not fractured faith
In God. |
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If I could start my life
Once more,
I would enjoy only
The silence-breath
Of my God-aspiration-ecstasy.
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If I could start my life
Once more,
I woud not allow myself
To be blinded
By insecurity-jealousy-impurity-fog.
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If I could start my life
Once more,
I would every day take shelter
Under patience tree. |
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20.
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If I could start my life
Once more,
I would remember that
My earth-heart planet
Is as beautiful
As all the Heaven-born planets.
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