Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 103

10201

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Obedience is the sacred beauty

Of God’s Oneness-Manifestation

In His seeker-lovers.

```

10202

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Before you master the art

Of heart-offering,

You must learn the art

Of purity-becoming. ```

10203

```

Your life has suffered

Not because the evil forces

Have captured your heart,

But because you have asked your mind

To be your Lord Supreme.

```

10204

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Meditate on your soul

To steel your senses,

And not on your mind

To kill your senses. ```

10205

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If your heart does not listen

With love,

Your mind will never become

The fragrance-delight of perfection. ```

10206

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The beauty of self-giving

And the duty of earth-loving

Can never be insignificant

In the seeker’s God-realising

And God-manifesting life.

```

10207

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Do not think that God the Justice

Loves you less

Than God the Compassion.

God the Justice wants to see you

Victorious in the battlefield of life.

His Compassion-Heart and his Justice-Eye

Expect only one thing from you:

Perfection. ```

10208

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Remember the thing

You have deplorably forgotten:

Your life is your soul’s

Unhorizoned strength. ```

10209

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If you do not closely examine

Your mind’s secret motives,

You can never demolish

Your life’s ignorance-tree. ```

10210

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If you are planning

To satisfy God,

Your life will always remain

In the planning stage.

But if you have the confidence

That you can please God,

Then you are already on the fair road

To pleasing God. ```

10211

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O seeker, I am telling you

Once and for all:

Your soul will not value

Your undeserved success

In your outer life

And your undeserved progress

In your inner life.

And something more:

It does not appreciate an easy victory!

```

10212

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If you are a great soul,

That means you have a great mind.

If you are a good soul,

That means you have a good heart.

If you are a perfect soul,

That means you are

A sleeplessly surrendered life.

```

10213

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If delight is your heart’s choice,

Then sleeplessly keep ignorance

Out of your life’s boundary.

```

10214

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The short, slow steps of unwillingness

Are the beginning

Of fast destruction-night.

```

10215

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He has proved his greatness and goodness

By his successful experiment

In non-expectation.

```

10216

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The mind’s perpetual doubt-journey

Can never reach

The golden shore of the heart’s delight.

```

10217

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You must not choose!

Let your heart choose for you.

Your self-giving and God-loving heart

Can never make a wrong choice. ```

10218

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If your breath is chained

To expectation,

Then your life is doomed

To frustration. ```

10219

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His heart is ashamed

Of his mind’s deliberate unwillingness

To be at God’s Compassion-Door.

```

10220

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You are shattered by sorrow.

Do you know why?

Because you cheerfully invited

The temptation-tyrant. ```

10221

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If you see with your heart,

God will not be able to play

Hide-and-seek with you.

```

10222

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What is human life

If not a birthless and deathless procession

Of unillumining thoughts?

```

10223

```

If you taste from desire-dish every day,

How can God serve you

With His Vision’s aspiration-dish?

```

10224

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You must know

That you have a peace-corner

Inside your heart.

Every day try to park your mind’s

Uncomely thoughts

In that corner. ```

10225

```

God is always for you,

But are you for God always?

If so, you cannot be a victim

To your outer life’s false joys! ```

10226

```

He is the sweetness

Of his heart’s selflessness.

He is the newness

Of his Lord’s Fruitfulness. ```

10227

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God secretly and compassionately

Watches you every day

While you pass through

Your heart’s surrender-gates. ```

10228

```

The mind’s profession is doubting.

The heart’s profession is loving.

The soul’s profession is illumining.

God’s Profession is witnessing. ```

10229

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Nobody can compel you to get lost

In your mind’s desire-storm.

Again, nobody can liberate you

From your mind’s desire-storm.

You are your heart’s inspirer.

You are your life’s liberator.

You are your God’s Vision-fulfiller.

```

10230

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A man of promise

Definitely knows

That God does not make

Dangerous demands. ```

10231

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You can conquer

The breath of death

If you can daily sing

Your soul’s silence-song. ```

10232

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To bring your dream to life,

You and your life

Must start your faith-train

Immediately. ```

10233

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You have forgotten to surrender.

That does not mean

God will forget to remember

Your oneness-heart

Of the hoary past.

```

10234

```

The road from darkness

To certainty

Not only illumines

The human in us

But also manifests

The divine in us. ```

10235

```

God is never too busy!

Just make an iota of inner progress.

Lo, He is always ready to be

Your immediate Help. ```

10236

```

Nobody can steal away

Your time —

Nobody —

If your full-time job

Is God-satisfaction.

```

10237

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God will give each one

A different answer

Because

Each one gets tremendous

Satisfaction-pleasure

From his particular answer. ```

10238

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Once God becomes real to you,

Yours should be every day

A God-preoccupied heart.

```

10239

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Yesterday’s cheerful heart

Is tomorrow’s confidence-life.

This is the message

From the Delight-Height of God. ```

10240

```

Your soul is dying

For God’s Manifestation-Delight

Inside the purity-heart

Of your aspiration-world. ```

10241

```

God can feed

Your hungry heart

If you can become a stranger

To your worry-anxiety-life. ```

10242

```

To breathe in purity’s breath

Is a very good start

In your long-forgotten

Aspiration-life. ```

10243

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If you cannot direct

Your devotion to God,

You can at least think of God.

If you cannot

Even think of God,

You can at least believe

That God’s Compassion-Light

Will never desert you.

```

10244

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My soul feels sorry

When it sees

The modern distribution

Of ultra-modern truth. ```

10245

```

A willing heart’s capacity

Can easily make friends with

God’s Infinity-Heart.

```

10246

```

Who has time?

Not he who wastes time!

Who loves God?

Not he who dares to imagine

That God is for somebody else!

```

10247

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If you are your heart’s commitment

To God’s Will,

Then you can never remain short

In your inner height. ```

10248

```

You may not be inspired

To speak to God.

That does not mean

God is also supposed to play

The same game.

He easily plays a totally different game

With you, in you and for you.

```

10249

```

Your aspiration-life is in ruins

Because

Your unaspiring mind is torturing

Your helpless, unawakened life-bird. ```

10250

```

If you know you have

An unready mind,

That means you also have

An unreliable heart. ```

10251

```

If you do not have

A doubting mind,

That means at least one nightmare

Is gone forever! ```

10252

```

Every day your soul

Brings a message from God to you.

Can you not one day

Take your soul’s message to mankind? ```

10253

```

My desire-life was bitter

And it was not complete.

My aspiration-life is sweet,

And how I wish to complete it! ```

10254

```

What have you done for God

That you want and deserve

A great reception in Heaven?

```

10255

```

Aspiration is not

A small, temporary relief

From human suffering.

It is the only way

To enter into the sea

Of Eternity’s Bliss. ```

10256

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When doubt assails your mind,

Immediately appeal to the higher power:

Your inner faith.

```

10257

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If you are your mind’s pretence,

God is not going to persuade you

To enjoy your heart’s

Oneness-relationship with Him. ```

10258

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There is always something more

To the story of man’s transformation

And God’s Manifestation.

This is a story that is at once

Beginningless and endless.

```

10259

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Aspiration

Is the dream-seed.

Realisation

Is the reality-tree.

Manifestation

Is the perfection-fruit. ```

10260

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Each time God the Compassion

Lights my heart-candle,

I see a supreme glow

Inside my heart’s purity-nest. ```

10261

```

Each God-seeking life

Is definitely a freedom-experience

Of God’s universal Vision,

Light and Delight. ```

10262

```

If you do not remember

Your aspiration-treasure,

Who can and who will show you

The beauty of realisation

And the joy of perfection?

```

10263

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If and when

A mind is freed from doubt,

Then that mind becomes

An island of light in the darkness-sea. ```

10264

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If the mind wants to dominate you,

That is the business of the mind.

But you have the capacity

To eliminate the mind

From your life’s heart-chamber.

```

10265

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God’s Compassion-Soap

Every day washes

Man’s ingratitude-heart

And disobedience-life. ```

10266

```

Even a faint complaint

Against God

Can easily change your life

For Eternity. ```

10267

```

A constant oneness-heart

With the Inner Pilot

Is the seeker’s life-changing challenge.

```

10268

```

Every day you attend

Your ego-exhibits.

Can you not today,

Even for a short time,

Attend your soul’s

God-revelation-exhibits? ```

10269

```

Love is not always enough.

Devotion is not always enough.

Only oneness-surrender-satisfaction

Is always enough. ```

10270

```

If you have not taken

A self-study course,

Then take one.

You will value God’s supreme Vision

In you and for you.

```

10271

```

If you want to see,

Then see beyond your little self.

If you want to become,

Then become the fountain-heart

Of satisfaction

In God’s Self-Transcendence-Vision. ```

10272

```

You think what you have

Is a doubting mind.

But I wish you to feel

That what you are

Is a heart,

And this heart is the herald

Of a new age.

```

10273

```

God has granted you

A real heart-altar.

Do not put

Any artificial flowers on it. ```

10274

```

Do not allow

Your heart’s beauty-flowers to dry.

These flowers will grant you

Divinity’s liberation-breath. ```

10275

```

My self-giving

Is nothing other than

My Lord’s

Perfection-Oneness-Manifestation

Made visible.

```

10276

```

You will specialise

In doing the impossible

If you compel your mind to be fed

By your faith-preparation. ```

10277

```

If you refuse to serve,

Yours will be a life

Worse than useless,

Even in God’s

All-forgiving Compassion-Eye.

```

10278

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Do not give up, do not give up!

Your soul has endless patience.

Listen to your soul’s compassion-whispers.

You will eventually succeed.

Do not give up!

```

10279

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If you remain in the destruction-vital,

Even when God the Compassion

Arrives at your door,

You will take Him

As a complete stranger.

```

10280

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No, not in the man-made churches

But in the God-made heart-temples,

God will grant you

A long interview. ```

10281

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Join the God-lovers’ society.

God will one day share with you

His Eternity’s Infinity.

```

10282

```

If you take shelter

In your mind’s impurity-house,

How can God reveal to you

His Heart’s Delight-Treasures? ```

10283

```

Heart’s gratitude

Can never take birth

In the mind’s unwillingness-home.

```

10284

```

Faith is not only

The true God-lover in you

But also the brave ignorance-destroyer

For you. ```

10285

```

Even for a second

Daily try to live

In your soul’s enchanting and illumining

Heart-depths. ```

10286

```

The silence-greeting of your soul

Can easily liberate you

From your mind’s all-devouring pride.

```

10287

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In his case

The past is not dust.

The past is all golden and diamond!

In his case, alas,

The future is the problem.

He is unable to shape it

In God’s own Way.

```

10288

```

The human mind

Is a hallucination-dream

That lives in the abysmal abyss

Of the doubt-land. ```

10289

```

When God grants you

A new, inspiring, encouraging

And illumining faith-certificate,

Accept it immediately

And preserve it

With your sleepless gratitude. ```

10290

```

God’s first Achievement:

His Vision in His

Satisfaction-Smile.

Man’s last achievement:

God for God’s sake. ```

10291

```

If you cry and cry to be purified,

God will stand right before you

And listen to your heart’s

Orphan-songs. ```

10292

```

No, the years blessed by the Inner Pilot

Are not gone!

They are still within us.

They have to be brought to the fore

Every day

Consciously and sleeplessly. ```

10293

```

Alas,

The unaspiring lectures

Of the mind-professor

Are not only guiding today’s old world

But perhaps will also feed

Tomorrow’s new world. ```

10294

```

If you do not use

Your heart’s discrimination-light,

You will not be able to see

Beyond the unlit cave of your mind. ```

10295

```

Your mind’s desire-list

Is indeed a long list,

Helpless and useless.

Your heart’s aspiration-list

Is indeed a short list,

Powerful and fruitful.

```

10296

```

Purity is long dead

In your life.

Therefore

You are a perfect stranger

To your heart’s aspiration-light.

```

10297

```

Humanity minus divinity:

A God-missing experience.

Do not commit yourself to an experience

Worse than the worst. ```

10298

```

Nobody wanted you

To be caught in the net

Of your binding mind,

Your strangling vital

And your sleeping body.

```

10299

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I feel sorry

For only one thing:

I feel really sorry

When I look at my heart’s

Encaged divinity-bird.

```

10300

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May my life become

The garden of my heart.

May my heart become

The flower of my soul.

May my soul become

The fragrance of my Lord Supreme. ```

From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 103, Agni Press, 1985
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