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EARTH VERSUS HEAVEN

Harvard University; Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Andover Hall, Harvard Divinity School
16 April 1975

Dear seekers, dear brothers and sisters, I have come here to be of service to you.
To serve you is to please my Inner Pilot and your Inner Pilot. At this place I shall
be giving seven spiritual talks. I wish to offer all these talks to the hallowed
memory of the late President Kennedy, who studied at Harvard. I wish to offer
our experiences to the great soul, Kennedy, who envisioned a better America, and
not only a better America but a better world. Let us take it as our bounden duty
to offer our experiences and dedicated service to this most illustrious soul.
Here we are all seekers; therefore, we all must needs be lovers of God. A true
lover of God is he who believes in God’s Existence as both personal and impersonal.
In His personal aspect God is all Heart. In His impersonal aspect He is
boundless Light, boundless Energy. In His personal aspect God’s Head is Heaven
and God’s Heart is earth. Heaven is great because it owns God’s Head. Earth is
good because it owns and treasures God’s Heart.
In Heaven we see God’s Eye. On earth we see God’s Feet. With God’s Eye we
enter into His world of silence. With His Feet we follow Him into the world of
sound, cosmic sound. In the world of silence we see God as many in the One. In
the world of sound we see God as One in the many.
Earth is God’s progress-tree. Heaven is God’s success-fruit. Here on earth God
aspires in and through us. He transcends His Height every day to offer to
humanity success-fruit from Heaven-Consciousness, which He showers on our
devoted heads and surrendered hearts. Here on earth we, the seekers of the
Ultimate Truth, listen to God and obey His commands, which we feel deep in the
inmost recesses of our hearts. He wants us to aspire like Him and climb up the
mountain of realisation. In Heaven we do what God Himself does. We swim with
Him in the sea of Light and Delight. On earth there is only one question: who is
God? In Heaven there is the answer: everybody is God. Here on earth each human
being unconsciously represents God, the Ultimate Truth. But when he starts
aspiring, he comes to realise that God-realisation, God-revelation and Godmanifestation
are his birthrights.
Two supreme God-lovers: Sri Krishna and the Christ. Sri Krishna taught us
that God is our eternal Friend. If we dive deep within, we will realise this Friend.
We can easily play with Him in the garden of our heart.
The Christ taught us that God is our eternal Father. We are His children. We
pray to our Beloved Father to grant us Peace, Light and Bliss in infinite measure
so that we can be perfect instruments of His, Him to serve, Him to love, Him to
fulfil in His own Way. When we dive deep within, we hear God’s message. He
tells us that it is His bounden duty to feed us in Heaven and it is our bounden
duty to feed Him on earth. He feeds us with His infinite ocean of Compassion,
and we feed Him with a drop, an iota of gratitude. We love Heaven because
Heaven tells us secretly that we are of God, our source is God. We love earth
because earth openly tells us that we are only for God and God alone.
The seeker of the Ultimate Truth eventually discovers two things in the
inmost recesses of his heart: what he has is God’s transcendental Beauty in
Heaven, and what he is is God’s sempiternal Duty on earth.
Mother Earth, to you I bow. Father Heaven, to you I bow.

"The Oneness of the Eastern Heart and the Western Mind-Part II" by Sri Chinmoy
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