“THE PEOPLE OF GOD” a poem about the power of dedicating ourselves to serving others through Love and compassion
TRANSFORMATIONAL POETRY For The SPIRITUAL SOUL by Chinmayn
THE DAWNING LIGHT, Volume 8, # 804 Friday, March Ist, 2024
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Lovingly written by Chinmayan…as an expression of the most powerful path to Realization, which is dedicating all the efforts of your body, speech and mind to attaining enlightenment so that you-then have the wisdom, skills and ability to bring all living beings to that same state.
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THE PEOPLE OF GOD
“The quickest, surest and most profound path to enlightenment comes
Through dedicating yourself to attaining Realization so that you then have the
Power, trainings and ability to serve in bringing all living beings who are suffering in
The world to that same state through the power of your Love and compassion.”
—Yeshe Gyamtso
The people of God
Surround me
Wherever I go
With haunted eyes
That do not know
Who they are.
Some are beggars,
Some are rich,
Some are young,
Some are old—
Yet all are lost
In this world
That confuses even
The mighty and
The wise.
Those who depend
Solely on the world
Cannot hope to see
Anything that is true—
My heart breaks
To see suffering
Of such magnitude…
And so I carry
All of them,
All of us
Within myself up
Before the Lord.
They are all a part
Of the force that
Carries me along
Towards my own
Realization…for I long
To follow this Diamond
Path all the way
To enlightenment so
That I will have
The awareness and
The power to serve
And save them all.
I am no further
Than the most deluded,
No stronger than
The weakest ones,
No greater than
The least of them—
For we are all
Linked subtly through
The One who created
And sustains us.
Therefore
I cannot close
My heart to anyone,
For the God I serve
And yearn for
Lives inside each
Person—
And only
This greater Love
For everyone
Can reveal the
Lord to me.
June 8, 1989
On the USA Tour with my guru Ammachi in Berkeley, California
“Now is the time to awaken through the power of Love” —Yeshe Gyamtso
A profound quote from Tilopa, one of the great meditation masters of the Vajrayana “Diamond Path” of Tibetan Buddhism
A BEAUTIFUL HEART OPENING AND MIND EXPANDING KIRTAN for you from one of my curated playlists…
This is a rousing Rock N Roll version of one of Yogananda’s kirtans in English that he often sang for hours on end as he did his own prayer to achieve union with God (and the highest levels of absorption in the Divine known as “samadhi”) in the form of Divine Mother…
Play this kirtan loud or on headphones! Easy to learn and sing lyrics…
“Blue Lotus Feet” written by Paramahansa Yogananda, Performed by Ever In Bloom
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“Your greatest service to humanity is to attain your own Self Realization!” Ramana Maharshi
“When you change the way you think about things, and the things you think about change”
—Wayne Dyer
“I see my life as an unfolding set of opportunities to awaken.” —Ram Das
“When God is the center and focus of my life, everything else falls into it’s rightful place.”
—Chinmayan
“The greatest joy, peace and personal fulfillment available in this world of both beauty and suffering is through dedicating yourself to becoming a force of pure Love and compassion for all beings. Only those who consciously are living by Love, to Love and being Love can be said to be fully alive and free!”
==Yeshe Gyamtso
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