Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 105

10401

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What have I to call my own

If not the Compassion-Eye

Of my Eternity’s Beloved Supreme?

```

10402

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Remain inside your heart.

Gratitude-life

Will soon be your speciality.

```

10403

```

Because your mind-boat has no sail

You are unhappy.

Because your heart-sea has no peace

You are miserable. ```

10404

```

Indeed,

The heart’s way is the better way.

But the soul’s way

Is not only better

But also easier.

```

10405

```

God gives trophies

To the believers.

The devil gives crowns

To the quitters. ```

10406

```

Be not afraid

Of your mind’s darkness-life.

A single aspiration-flame

Of your heart

Can illumine your darkness-mind.

```

10407

```

My Lord Supreme,

Yours alone

Is the future life

Of my earthly existence-cry. ```

10408

```

The heart of faith

Predicts.

The mind of doubt

Contradicts.

The Light of God

Illumines the mind

And fulfils the heart.

```

10409

```

Alas,

Man the stupid thinker

Ignores

God the wise Lover. ```

10410

```

Meditate on perfection.

The mind of peace

Will awaken

In your heart’s perfection-dream. ```

10411

```

If you do not climb

Your own aspiration-Everest,

How can you shine

Even for a fleeting second

In God’s supreme Satisfaction-Firmament?

```

10412

```

If you are asleep

In your mind’s weakness-room,

Nobody will come —

No, not even God —

To wake you.

```

10413

```

Your service-life will tell you

What God is doing for you.

Your prayer-life will tell you

Where God is waiting for you. ```

10414

```

Since your mind is getting older,

Can you not ask your heart

To become bolder

And stop your mind’s ruthless

Aspiration-exploitation?

```

10415

```

The impurity-noise of the mind

And the purity-silence of the heart

Will perhaps remain

Two giant rivals

To the end.

```

10416

```

Try again and again!

Who knows?

In a few thousand years

You may get

A perfect taste of liberation.

```

10417

```

He who aspires soulfully

And does not befriend ignorance-night

Any more

Is undoubtedly

A saint of the future.

```

10418

```

The love that spans the universe

Is not new.

It is old,

Ancient

And eternal.

```

10419

```

Your unfulfilled promises

Must not weaken your mind.

Success is bound to dawn

If your mind starts studying

At your heart’s school.

```

10420

```

For God’s Birthday Celebration,

What He wants from me

Is my heart’s birthless cry

And my life’s deathless smile. ```

10421

```

If you raise your voice,

Man will laugh at you.

If you raise your consciousness,

God will smile at you. ```

10422

```

Both the impatience of the mind

And the frustration of the vital

Are in transit

To nowhere. ```

10423

```

How many years will dawn for me

Before I will be able to become

A genuine friend

Of tomorrow’s heart? ```

10424

```

It is an old story

When I tell the world

That I am going to perfect it.

It is a new story

When I tell not only the world

But also my mind

That I shall improve my own life.

```

10425

```

What can be better proof

That I am a true God-seeker

And God-lover

Than the fact that I have known God

For many years?

```

10426

```

Even God was shocked

When he decided to withdraw

From his dedication-life

And embrace the life

Of retirement-lethargy.

```

10427

```

God’s Compassion-Eye

Is ahead of your aspiration-heart.

I am telling you,

In case you are not aware of it. ```

10428

```

To illumine your illusion-mind,

You must discontinue

Your old friendship

With your ego-friend. ```

10429

```

You do not remember

Why you have come into the world!

If this is true,

Then it is equally true

That you do not want to remember it.

```

10430

```

If your aspiration-heart

Is not functioning well,

Then invite its best friend,

Dedication-life,

To come and help it.

```

10431

```

If you are in your heart,

You will be in your aspiration-boat.

If you are in your soul,

You will be at your Golden Shore. ```

10432

```

A purity-heart is at once

A seeker’s life-protection

And his mind-illumination.

```

10433

```

Anxiety stabs

The human mind.

Purity gladdens

The divine heart. ```

10434

```

To invite a few thoughts

Is not enough.

To invite new thoughts

Is not enough.

To become the owner of divine thoughts

Is more than enough. ```

10435

```

He is happy in the morning

When he offers

His heart’s aspiring cry

To the rising sun.

He is happy at night

When he offers

His life’s dedication-smile

To the beaming moon. ```

10436

```

God is getting ready

To enter into your doubting mind,

And you are getting ready

To enter into God’s smiling Heart. ```

10437

```

Unwillingness is draining

Your life-energy.

Therefore, how can God sing

His Satisfaction-Song

Inside your heart?

```

10438

```

He begs God

To grant him the capacity

To work

And grow into a sea of light

Under God’s Justice-Supervision.

```

10439

```

If you come out

Of your insecurity-cave,

God will not only show you

His supreme Palace

But also allow you

To live there permanently. ```

10440

```

With your faltering aspiration-steps,

How far can you go?

With your weak dedication-hands,

How much can you offer? ```

10441

```

The fragrance

Of a purity-flower-heart

Is cherished

By God’s earth-energising Breath. ```

10442

```

The desire-world

Is made of falsehood.

But alas,

It has the tremendous capacity

To fascinate the entire human life.

```

10443

```

Explore, every day explore

Your unexplored gratitude-life

To expand your divinity’s

Light-existence. ```

10444

```

God’s Compassion-Eye

And my heart’s aspiration-flame

Immensely liked each other

Right from the very beginning. ```

10445

```

Not the mind’s attraction

Nor the heart’s repulsion

But the soul’s illumination only

Can liberate a human life. ```

10446

```

Do not forget

Your life’s surrender-days

And your heart’s gratitude-moments

If you want to be

A supremely chosen instrument

Of your Lord Supreme. ```

10447

```

The human mind fights

For its universal supremacy.

The divine heart longs

For God’s supernal Intimacy. ```

10448

```

When I saw God,

I expected His Satisfaction-Smile.

I was disappointed.

When God saw me,

He expected my heart’s perfection-cry.

He was disappointed.

```

10449

```

The main difference

Between my soul and my life

Is this:

Time uses my life;

My soul uses time’s eye.

```

10450

```

My heart digs and

My soul buries

My failure-past.

Alas, my mind

Powerfully resurrects

My failure-past. ```

10451

```

Challenge your frustration-vital!

God will put your name

On His Heart’s Satisfaction-List.

```

10452

```

To speak ill of oneself

Is not a sign of virtue.

Therefore

How can you expect a trophy

From God the Judge?

```

10453

```

God always wants to accompany you

Early in the morning

When you go out for your prayer-walk,

But you decline His Offer

And invite your hesitation-mind

To accompany you. ```

10454

```

Do you want to know

Your soul’s opinion

Of your life?

Your soul still maintains

The deathless hope

That someday you will be

A true God-seeker.

```

10455

```

My mind,

Are you not tired

Of your ambition-game?

My heart,

Are you not aware

Of your aspiration-game?

```

10456

```

Two severe punishments:

A life without love

And love without God.

```

10457

```

If your heart helps the helpless

Devotedly and cheerfully,

Then God’s Satisfaction-Eye

Will beckon you

To your long-cherished destination.

```

10458

```

Either have a clever mind

Or have a pure heart

To declare at every moment:

“My Lord Supreme,

This very moment I have kept

Only for You.” ```

10459

```

When I keep myself

Under the control of my mind,

I clearly see

That I am a tiny ant.

But when I keep my life

Under God’s Control,

I unmistakably see

That I am a budding God. ```

10460

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If you want to keep peace with yourself,

Then care for your heart first.

At the beginning of your spiritual journey,

Care for your heart first!

At the middle of your spiritual journey,

Care for your heart first!

At the end of your spiritual journey,

Care for your heart first! ```

10461

```

The fearful mind

Needs salvation.

The soulful heart

Needs liberation. ```

10462

```

If you are

An inner challenge-lover,

Then God’s Satisfaction-Tower

Is yours. ```

10463

```

Man thinks

Perfection is unattainable.

God knows

Perfection is not only reachable

But also available

In God’s Vision-Creation. ```

10464

```

You can claim

Your realisation-birthright

Only when your mind

Is ready to enjoy

The divinity of silence-ecstasy.

```

10465

```

If you can keep

Your heart’s sincerity-candles

Always lit,

Then there can be no ignorance-night

To keep you away

From God’s Satisfaction-Light. ```

10466

```

The aspiration-knight

Of a seeker

Will always destroy

The ingratitude-night

Of the seeker’s heart.

```

10467

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There are so many places

To visit.

Why do you have to visit

All the time

Your mind’s desire-chamber?

```

10468

```

Stay in your newborn

Hope-heart.

All your silver dreams

Will turn into

Golden realities.

```

10469

```

Because he has spread

His heart’s concern-net

All-where,

God’s Satisfaction-Sun

Embraces his life.

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10470

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Before you do anything

Either in the inner world

Or in the outer world,

Devotedly wait

For the Supreme’s

Seal of Approval. ```

10471

```

Do not allow doubt-thoughts

To stay

On your mind’s highest floor

Or even

In your mind’s basement.

```

10472

```

Pray to your soul

To whisper

Again and again

Your heart’s aspiration-songs. ```

10473

```

A critical mind

Is bound to live

In a delight-forsaken clime.

```

10474

```

If you can be true

To your aspiration-heart,

There is no desire-attack

That you cannot conquer. ```

10475

```

No substitute

For the tolerance

Of the heart!

No substitute

For the satisfaction

Of the soul!

```

10476

```

If you do not empty

Your mind’s frustration-well,

How can God grant you

His Ecstasy-Sea? ```

10477

```

How can God love you

If you do not love

His sweet creation-child:

Earth? ```

10478

```

The Sound-God

Is worshipped.

The Silence-God

Is loved. ```

10479

```

Either run forward

Or dive inward.

A safe road will definitely appear.

```

10480

```

The mind demands

Explanation-surges.

The heart needs

Illumination-sea. ```

10481

```

A gratitude-heart

Is a perfect interpreter

Of God’s Oneness-Life.

```

10482

```

God is ready to tell you

The secrets of the universe.

What He needs from you

Is your heart’s oneness-expansion. ```

10483

```

The limit

Of human love

Is unlimited frustration.

The limit

Of divine Love

Is unhorizoned illumination.

```

10484

```

“O ignorance,

You can take back

Your destruction-weapons

And use them,

Since I do not use them

Any more.”

This is the lesson

That the illumined mind teaches. ```

10485

```

A heart of sympathy

Satisfies both

A hungry mind and a thirsty heart.

```

10486

```

O seeker, you may not know it,

But it is absolutely true

That your silence-eye carries

The stupendous weight of the world. ```

10487

```

I remember way back

When God taught me

Affectionately and secretly

How to please Him

Unconditionally.

```

10488

```

Division-thunder

Is right now noticeable.

But oneness-sky

Is eventually inevitable. ```

10489

```

My oneness-heart stopped functioning

In harmony with God

In my mind’s confusion-market.

```

10490

```

Knowledge-sky

Frightens

Ignorance-fun

And prayerfully invokes

Wisdom-God.

```

10491

```

“I love God only.”

Although it is false now,

One day

Belatedly, painfully,

I will prove it to be true

In my own life. ```

10492

```

Do you know

What question

You are being asked by God?

“When are you going to be

Another God

Like Me?” ```

10493

```

Your world-mind

May fail God,

But your earth-heart

Will never fail God. ```

10494

```

Your life’s dedication-waves

Without fail

Will eventually enter into

God’s Oneness-Ocean. ```

10495

```

Your faith is so fragile!

How can God grant you

The dreams that carry you

To His own ever-transcending

Beyond?

```

10496

```

The moment God

Opens up your heart-door,

You and your mind

Must immediately enter into it

And occupy two permanent seats.

```

10497

```

Who wants you to swim the channel

Between your mind and vital

When there is a sea of God-illumination

Between your heart and soul? ```

10498

```

Every second a seeker can start over,

For his life’s mistakes

Are initial drafts

And not the final version. ```

10499

```

The only time God feels sorry

Is when He is compelled to withdraw

His Affection-Love-Light

From an ingratitude-life. ```

10500

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Because you have now become

A gratitude-heart

And a surrender-life,

God’s supreme Victory

In and through you

Is the perfect prediction. ```

From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 105, Agni Press, 1986
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