Sri Chinmoy offers his definitions of fifty qualities, attributes and states of consciousness.
1 Aspiration
The fragrance of God’s Heart.
2 Attachment
The forest-thorn-mind.
3 Beauty
God’s magnet-Eye.
4 Bliss
Beyond within.
5 Concentration
The sad failure
Of the present mind-power-plant.
6 Consciousness
God’s fondest doll.
7 Contemplation
A reality not easily attained,
But not ultimately unattainable.
8 Death
A frequent challenger of life.
9 Dedication
God started to play a Game.
He wants His children to join Him.
10 Destination
Man’s transformation-smile;
God’s Satisfaction-Dance.
11 Detachment
The garden-flower-soul.
12 Devotion
A book of no interest
To humanity.
13 Dream
Something that keeps God
Sleeplessly and breathlessly occupied.
14 Freedom
Man’s God-dependence-hunger.
15 Friendship
A dream that eludes reality.
16 Goal
God’s Heart-Eye-Lustre-Flood.
17 God
Man’s mind-hallucination-exit;
Man’s life-illumination-entrance.
18 Gratitude
The slow, slower and slowest
Century-production.
19 Harmony
The complete transformation
Of heart-agony.
20 Heart
God’s Arrival-preparation-room.
21 Ignorance
Man’s self-hypnotism-practice.
22 Imagination
Tomorrow’s life-tree
In today’s mind-seed.
23 Immortality
The proper use of a moment.
24 Impurity
An incurable mind-disease.
25 Ingratitude
Something that we unconsciously enjoy
And consciously deny.
26 Insecurity
The undying breath
Of all world citizens.
27 Intuition
The fastest will-power-plane
To the Destination.
28 Knowledge
A half-hearted competitor
With ignorance.
29 Life
The ultimate winner
Over death.
30 Love
God’s Heart-Dance-Ecstasy.
31 Man
Today’s imperfection-story;
Tomorrow’s perfection-song.
32 Manifestation
The bridge that invariably unites
God’s exasperation
And man’s frustration.
33 Mind
The ignorance-cancer-patient.
34 Obedience
Man’s only divine and supreme
Gift to God
That satisfies God in His own Way.
35 Oneness
A dream that is a reality-beggar.
36 Patience
The real failure-conqueror.
37 Peace
God’s next Act.
38 Perfection
A cry from man’s
Heart-cottage-home;
A Smile from God’s
Heart-Palace-Kingdom.
39 Purity
The gasping breath of the heart.
40 Realisation
God’s vacation-pleasure
In a seeker’s heart-country.
41 Satisfaction
The only real hide-and-seek game
On earth.
42 Simplicity
God’s Originality-Mind.
43 Sincerity
The most difficult foreign language
That mankind studies.
44 Soul
God’s Dream-Blossom-Promise.
45 Spirituality
Self-embarrassment,
So says my mind;
Self-enlightenment,
So feels my heart.
46 Summit
The depth-reversal.
47 Surrender
Past, present, future
Invincibility.
48 Temptation
The link between
Today’s flood-rapture
And
Tomorrow’s volcano-torture.
49 Vision
God’s Self-Transcendence-Song.
50 Wisdom
The adviser and transformer
Of ignorance-night.
Published in God’s Magnet-Eye