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