Surrender and surrender
All you have and all you are.You are bound to step onto
The sunlit pathAnd reach Infinity’s Goal.
```What your soul wants from you
Is something very simple.It wants you to see always
The way ahead,Never the way behind.
```How can you reach the land of peace
When you cling to your oldLethargy-armchair
And do not even wantTo stand up and move?
```If you are tired of waiting,
How can the world of the unknownEver hire you
To do something momentous for GodOn earth?
```You are using the wrong key:
Your mind-key.Naturally it will not open
Your soul’s illumination-door. ```Walk along the road
Of surrender-lightFrom this very moment.
You will be able to play the musicOf Eternity’s infinite Freedom-Delight.
```Always maintain your closest connection
With your aspiration-heart.You will be able to learn
The great secret of your soul,The perfect representative
Of your Lord SupremeOn earth.
```Have more faith
In God’s omnipotent Compassion.You will feel the fruitful touch
Of Immortality’s Silence Supreme. ```Now that you are no longer shaken
By emotional earthquakes,Infinity’s Delight is fast approaching you.
```Doubt wanted to hire your mind
To be its partnerIn its daily dance.
Alas, your mind accepted the offer. ```Because you have kept your distance
From disobedience,God has removed from your mind
Once and for allThe volcano of confusion.
```If you do not remember
To feed your heart’s aspiration-flames,You are bound to fall down
The God-oneness-staircase. ```He is a great truth-seeker
And a good God-loverWho enjoys his morning heart-hunger
And his evening life-thirst. ```If your heart has the courage
To go one more step,Then you will hear thunderous applause
From your Beloved Supreme. ```Be not complacent.
If you are complacent,Your aspiration-life
Will come to an endBefore very long.
```You want to know when
Your mind will be able to smile.I tell you,
Your searching mind will be able to smileOnly after your aspiring heart
Has soulfully cried. ```You want to know how
You can be truly happy.You can be truly happy
If you can reawakenYour heart’s sleeping God-dreams.
```Your heart’s morning God-hunger
And its evening God-thirstAre the perfect Satisfaction-Smiles
Of your Beloved Supreme. ```In your life of aspiration
Every day and at every momentBe supremely cautious.
Otherwise, your mind’s desire-stormWill uproot your heart’s aspiration-tree.
```If you need God
For God’s Sake alone,Then only will
His infinite Beauty’s SmilesDance in each and every thought of yours.
```Allow not the destruction-tiger
To roam around you.Keep only the hope-deer
To play with youAll the time.
```Do not waste time
Explaining to othersWhy you are weak.
Just explain to themWhy you badly need God.
```Your cold reception to doubt
Is not enough.Your permanent rejection of doubt
Is your only salvation. ```God is ready to supervise
My mind-factory.But do I ever request Him to do so?
Will I ever allow Him to do so? ```There is no aspiration-heart
That cannot smashThe strength of the desire-breath.
```The life of surrender
Is a skilful swimmerIn God’s Vision-manifesting
Consciousness-Ocean. ```When you assert yourself,
God feelsThat is precisely the time
For Him to take leave of you. ```If your heart
Cannot melt God’s Heart,How can God’s Heart
Mould your life? ```Gratitude-heart-plants
Are very rarely foundEither in the desire-life
Or in the aspiration-life. ```God has come
To clear your mind’s confusion-clouds.What He wants from you now
Is a life of purity. ```Is there anything
Other than God’s Compassion-LightTo save humanity
From its age-old misery-melody:Ignorance-night?
```The mind wants to assess God.
It fails.The heart wants to possess God.
It fails.The soul wants to dream of God
Sleeplessly,And it succeeds immediately.
```If you want to know
What God’s Goodness is,Then God will grant you
Not only His GoodnessBut also His Greatness
In infinite measure. ```Without becoming
Your heart’s aspiration-dawn,How can you see
Your life’s realisation-sun? ```The seeker’s intensity-heart
And God’s Immensity-EyeLong to reveal each other.
```The world has denied you happiness.
God will grant you not only happiness,But also His own Fulness.
```When the soul builds
A purity-nest for you,You should at least try to live in it
If a flood of joy is what you want. ```There is no such thing
As desire-nectar.It is all desire-poison.
Alas, this is what you want. ```If you do not recharge
Your heart’s aspiration-batteryEvery day,
Your total illumination-lifeWill remain a far cry.
```Vacuum your mind-room.
How long do you want to keepConfusion-dirt inside you?
```Every day
Write a new surrender-pageIn your life’s
Aspiration-book. ```If you really want to succeed
In your aspiration-life,Then your life’s surrender-river
Must flow speedily. ```Do not carry attachment-load,
For it will slow downYour Heavenward journey.
```Self-offering
Is the secret and sacred doorTo God’s
Transcendental Satisfaction-Home. ```Be brave enough to come out of
Your desire-cave,And
Be brave enough to live insideYour aspiration-palace.
```A life of discipline
Is always blessed byDivinity’s Ecstasy-Shower.
```A doubting mind
And a strangling vitalCan never enjoy
The delight of a loving heart. ```You must pray
In the small hoursOf the morning
For your heart’s love-seedsTo sprout.
```Even an iota
Of suspicious thoughtCan successfully rob
The flames of your aspiration-heart. ```Every day you broadcast
From your mind-station.Therefore
Nobody cares for you,Not to speak of your confusion-mind.
```If you are truly pinched
With God-hunger,Then humanity’s ignorance-greed-meal
Can never satisfy you. ```When God’s choice Hour approaches,
Your life’s insecurity-insectWill disappear,
And your soul’s confidence-mountainWill appear.
```Do what God has asked you to do.
He has asked you to fightFor Truth,
Rather than to fightAgainst anything.
```Your mind can cover the Truth.
It may even deny the Truth.But it can never affect
The existence-realityOf Truth.
```You are not your mind’s
Illusion-dreams;You are your heart’s
God-Satisfaction-visions. ```If you pray to the right Person —
God the Compassion —And not to God the Justice,
You will certainly not give upYour heart’s Heaven-climbing
Aspiration-cry. ```If your heart-eye can see
Into the far Beyond,God will ask you to claim
His Infinity’s Treasure-House. ```You are a useless seeker
If you are all the time crying to rememberThe beginning of your aspiration-life,
And merely curious to knowThe end of your dedication-life.
```A divine heart
Enjoying supreme reposeIs indeed the reward
Of your sublime meditation. ```God grants
Only a purity-heartHis own Peace-flooded Life.
```Yours is an unhorizoned aspiration.
Therefore, yours will beThe beckoning eye
To illumine humanity’s dark night. ```One more appeal
To unbelievers and disbelievers:At least be ready to receive
God’s unconditional Love! ```His mind at last fell off
The doubt-ladderAnd completely lost
Its destruction-authority. ```Do not spin
The wheels of desire,Or frustration-flooded nights
Will all be yours. ```If you offer a special prayer
Of surrender and gratitudeTo God,
Then God will grant youAn altogether new world
Of His Love. ```Every day the vital of jealousy
Enjoys only one thing:A gossip-feast.
```His heart was standing
At the golden gate of gratitude.Therefore, God’s Satisfaction-Life
Proudly greeted him. ```His aspiration-heart
Did not care for his desire-life.Therefore, his desire-life
Died of neglect. ```God-doubters do not know
Where God is.God-lovers do not know
Where God is not. ```Consciously and deliberately
You are craving forDesire’s smile.
Therefore, depressionAnd depression’s shadow
Do not leave you. ```Be confident
In your aspiration-life.You will be able to live
In the presence of a living God. ```Your ingratitude-heart is taking you back
To your first animal incarnation.Can you not free yourself
From your ingratitude-heart? ```God’s divine Circus
Has run short of clowns.Therefore
Today I am asking my mindTo go and accept the job.
```God’s Compassion-Cry
And His Satisfaction-SmileAre the meeting place
Of winners and losers. ```A desire-life
Is a disobedience-life.A disobedience-life
Is the beginning of death. ```Good news lies ahead!
You will be able to runFar beyond your imagination.
You will become another GodEven if you do not want to.
```One great mistake
Is enough to make you acceptThe life of total failure
And the breath of a permanent sigh. ```You are stumbling
On turmoil-soilBecause every day
You go out shoppingIn the desire-market.
```Yours is a life-structure
Built on gratitude-foundation.Therefore
God will teach youHis ecstasy-flooded
Universal Oneness-Music. ```Your mind has descended
Into the deepest abyss.As a real compensation
Can you not help your heart ascendTo the highest peak?
```There will be a few major changes
In tomorrow’s schools.They will stop teaching
War-subjects. ```If you desire the presence of a miracle
For the transformation of your life,Then throw yourself into
Your life’s dedication-days. ```Be meditation-minded
If you want GodTo change your life
Or if you want to change your lifeYourself.
```You are longing for
A oneness-friend.No one can be a better friend
Than your own heart’sSincerity-song.
```If you wander
In forgetfulness-forest,You will become a victim
To your own bondage-life. ```Doubt has to diminish
Eventually.Faith has to increase
ImmediatelyPlus sleeplessly.
```Deliberately
You are holding the handOf darkness-night.
Therefore, there is a huge blightOn your aspiration-tree.
```Abandon your old excuses.
Your failure-life will becomeA forgotten story.
```Give up giving up!
Study regularly and devotedlyThe divine course that is offered
By your heart’s soul-light. ```Your aspiration is accelerating.
This is the time for you to steerYour life’s dedication-boat.
Delay not!This is the time!
```How far can you go
With your feeble aspiration?Aspire more soulfully
And do not allow yourselfTo be exploited by expectations.
```Now that you are sincerely sick
Of eating doubt-meals,God will grant you
His Heart’s Nectar-Silence-Smile. ```His whole life
Is an acute caseOf expectation.
Weaker than the weakestAre his aspiration-heart
And dedication-life! ```Do not set limitations
On your heart.At God’s choice Hour
It will help you swimIn the sea of delight.
```It is you who have to choose
Between your mind’s desireAnd your heart’s devotion
To make yourself supremely happy. ```Reason seems to be real
Only to those who do not dareTo go beyond the confines of reason.
```If you do not pass
God’s purity-test,How can He ever grant you
His Heart’s Satisfaction-Nest? ```Each time the ego loses,
That is the Supreme’s VictoryIn utter disguise.
```Time and again if you fall into
The mind’s depression-pool,How can you be a choice student
In God’s Life-Transformation-School? ```Life is a mighty struggle
With ignorance.But if you persevere,
Your victory and God’s SatisfactionAre destined.
```From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 104, Agni Press, 1986
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