Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 109

10801

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Every day collect love-flowers

From your heart-garden

And place them on your soul’s

Peace-shrine

As a prayer to your Beloved Supreme.

```

10802

```

How can you expect to get

God’s Compassion-Sun

With your feeble heart’s

Tight budget of gratitude? ```

10803

```

He who has a great appetite

For flattery

Will never be able to learn

The art of self-mastery. ```

10804

```

Two insoluble problems:

How can the doubting mind

Ever be illumined?

How can the insecure heart

Ever become indomitable?

```

10805

```

If you are not acquainted

With God’s Forgiveness-Light,

You will always be found

Inside your mind’s prison cell. ```

10806

```

Poor human mind!

What else does it know

Except

Thought-mud-pleasure? ```

10807

```

Each soul is God’s

Direct representative on earth.

Therefore

It is authorised to exercise

Its God-ordained dignity.

```

10808

```

Little drops of gratitude-rain

Can liberate the human mind

From all its bondage-chains.

```

10809

```

The human mind is afraid of

The tormenting conscience.

The divine heart is fond of

The illumining conscience. ```

10810

```

Each man is fallible,

Yet

Each man will eventually become

God’s perfect representative

On earth.

```

10811

```

When God sees you at His Heart’s Door,

Be sure you are not accompanied by

Your hesitation-eye

And your confusion-mind. ```

10812

```

If your meditation

Is truly high and deep,

Then you are bound to have

A silent dialogue with peace. ```

10813

```

Nobody wants you to keep track of

Your inactive file of lethargy.

Both Heaven and earth want you

To be a dynamic action-hero. ```

10814

```

If you are a true God-lover,

Then it is quite possible

For you to foresee

That in the battle between

Aspiration-heart and suspicion-mind,

Aspiration-heart will eventually win. ```

10815

```

My inspiration tells me

That it is in need of

Daily correction.

My aspiration tells me

That it is in need of

Daily perfection.

My soul tells me

That it is in need of

Daily revelation.

```

10816

```

The sadness of your heart

Will dissolve in your soul’s joy

If you never run out of

Self-giving and God-loving. ```

10817

```

If death wants to show you

Its face,

Can you not show death

Your God-given life-transforming

Grace?

```

10818

```

My heart’s hope-eye

Will always pierce through the storms

Of my failures

For God’s eventual Victory. ```

10819

```

How can your heart

Be flooded with aspiration-satisfaction,

When you consciously allow your mind

To be shrouded in dismal suspicions? ```

10820

```

Each negative thought

In the mind

Is another destroyer

Of a security-heart. ```

10821

```

O my human heart,

When will you stop enjoying

Tornado-perplexities?

O my divine heart,

When will you start enjoying

The beauty of a childlike sincerity?

```

10822

```

Each soulful thought

Is not only the life-cleaner

But also the God-distributor.

```

10823

```

If intuition-light is my guide,

Then the illumination of Heaven

And the perfection of earth

I shall see at the same time. ```

10824

```

Three wonders we carry within:

A God-dream,

A perfection-life

And a transformation-earth. ```

10825

```

God loves you

When He sees your heart

Flooded with silence.

God loves you

When He sees your mind

Empty of its usual contents:

Confusion-forest. ```

10826

```

Experience is a tiny plant

That grows and grows.

Realisation is a huge tree

That gives and gives. ```

10827

```

Each perfect thought

Is sweetness in the mind,

Fulness in the heart

And completeness in the life. ```

10828

```

My heart’s confidence-smiles

Shall win

God’s Silence-Beauty’s Eye.

```

10829

```

Every day God visits

My heart’s aspiration-eye

And feeds it with

His Oneness-Satisfaction-Smile. ```

10830

```

What can you expect

From a mind-tree,

If not destruction-doubt-branches

To frighten the aspiration-seeker? ```

10831

```

My soul is teaching my heart

How to slay

Its insecurity-ants.

```

10832

```

Because of your desire-life,

God comes and goes in your heart.

He will take up permanent residence

Inside your heart

Only when you become

Your life’s climbing aspiration-cry. ```

10833

```

God will open

Your heart’s purity-door

If you can show Him

Your eyes’ sincerity-smile. ```

10834

```

You know that your mind

Is always faithless.

Why then do you not send your mind

To your heart’s faith-reform school? ```

10835

```

If you do not buy

Your mind’s division-products,

God will grant you His Heart’s

Illumination-Satisfaction-Feast. ```

10836

```

Each day you pray and meditate

Soulfully,

You are bound to spread your heart’s

Oneness-fragrance

Powerfully.

```

10837

```

A purity-heart always enjoys

Singing with God

His Heart’s Perfection-Satisfaction-Songs.

```

10838

```

The human mind finds it difficult

To trust even God

When He delivers unconditionally

His Love-Compassion-Speeches. ```

10839

```

Don’t be a fool!

Although you are in your doubting mind,

Do not reject your heart’s

Earth-transformation-oneness-appeal. ```

10840

```

Become your heart’s

Devotion-drops.

Lo, God will give you His Heart’s

Satisfaction-Sun-Smiles. ```

10841

```

Every day you must climb up

Your heart’s enthusiasm-peak

So that you can bathe in

Your Lord’s Nectar-Satisfaction-River. ```

10842

```

Do not go through

The temptation-gates.

The destruction-tiger

Will unmistakably greet you! ```

10843

```

Do not ask mankind

For its opinion

Once you have heard

God’s Life-Transformation-Command. ```

10844

```

If you want your consciousness-lift

To be certified by God,

Then serve God’s Earth-Oneness-Will

Sleeplessly and unconditionally. ```

10845

```

Train your mind

To claim your Lord Supreme

As its very own

Before your mind gets the chance

To throw you into its confusion-market.

```

10846

```

Each unaspiring thought

Is a taste of poison

That destroys humanity’s

God-realisation-hope and promise. ```

10847

```

To intensify the purity

Of your heart

Burn your soul-incense

Every day. ```

10848

```

If you frequent

The expectation-market,

You will buy nothing

But frustration-fruits. ```

10849

```

If you can bravely pray

Inside your mind-forest,

Then God will be proud of you.

If you can soulfully meditate

Inside your heart-garden,

Then God will be fond of you.

```

10850

```

My body’s engine

Takes only one fuel:

God’s Compassion-flooded

Assurance-Light. ```

10851

```

If you are caught

In your mind’s doubt-whirlpool,

Then pray to God

To grant you the smile

Of His Heart-Fragrance-Faith.

```

10852

```

Ask your mind and heart

To live together

On your life’s

Perfection-promise-peak. ```

10853

```

Alas, in the morning

My mind shows me what it has:

An ignorance-boat,

And in the evening

My mind shows me what it is:

A doubt-leak. ```

10854

```

You think that by postponing

Your body’s lethargy-vacation,

Someday, somehow

You will be able to expedite

Your heart’s ecstasy-perfection.

```

10855

```

What you need

Is an unfailing faith.

What you need

Is a profound inspiration.

What you need

Is a sleepless inner urge

To conquer the storms of fear

And the volcanoes of doubt. ```

10856

```

The human mind tries to gather

Even sorry-sounding excuses

So that it can avoid

The severe punishment

Of conscience-light.

```

10857

```

You will make the fastest progress

With the help of two things:

God’s Compassion-Eye

And your enthusiasm-mind. ```

10858

```

God’s Compassion acts

In and through each human being

From enthusiasm-start

To enthusiasm-finish. ```

10859

```

Nobody has done anything great

And nobody will do anything great

In this world

Unless he has developed

The enthusiasm-strength

To receive God’s Compassion-Light. ```

10860

```

When you have enthusiasm,

You feel that God’s entire world

Belongs to you.

When you lose enthusiasm,

You feel that it is not worthwhile

To budge an inch. ```

10861

```

When you have enthusiasm,

God comes first in your life.

When you lose enthusiasm,

Either you push God aside entirely,

Or you create so many obligations

That He comes last in your life. ```

10862

```

When you have enthusiasm,

You are ready to cover

The length and breadth of the world

In the name of God,

The Transcendental Victor,

Inside God the universal creation. ```

10863

```

Why are you losing faith

In the spiritual life?

You may not know it,

But the unconscious hostilities and desires

Of those whom you once held dear

Are attacking you indirectly,

Ruthlessly and sleeplessly!

```

10864

```

Old desires are looming large

In your life

Because you are mixing

With unaspiring friends

From your distant past.

```

10865

```

The dormant wolf in humanity

Can attack you indirectly

Through the binding desires,

Blinding frustrations

And grasping ambitions

Of those around you. ```

10866

```

Your goal is not here;

It is far beyond.

Do not relax

Or lose your enthusiasm.

God wants you to run

An ultramarathon every day

To reveal the amazing capacity

Of a God-seeker-runner. ```

10867

```

By waiting for all the runners

Who are behind you

In the inner race,

You are in no way doing them a favour.

You are only delaying

Your own God-speed. ```

10868

```

Have sincere oneness

With the runners ahead of you

On the spiritual path.

Otherwise, immediately

A wild competition begins.

```

10869

```

The speed that you have

Is very fast,

But it is not yet fast enough.

The destination that you have reached

Is very far,

But it is not yet far enough.

```

10870

```

Complacency has entered your life

Because you feel you have reached

The top of the Himalayas.

But have you forgotten

That your aim was continuous progress-light

Inside God’s Heart-Delight-Sea? ```

10871

```

If your mind constantly

Plays tricks on you,

Can you not

Play a trick on your mind

By feeling that God Himself

Desperately needs you? ```

10872

```

There is no such thing

As sweetness-expectation,

For inside expectation

There are always desire-thorns. ```

10873

```

A beautiful rose

Was my gift to God.

Fortunately, I did not expect

Anything from God in return,

Not even a smile.

That is why I am divinely happy

And God is supremely proud of me.

```

10874

```

Happiness in cheerful self-giving

Is beyond compare.

It is the highest delight

That God has created for humanity. ```

10875

```

In the outer world

Your height is fixed,

But in the inner world

Your God-hunger can take you

Forever higher and higher.

```

10876

```

Even those who have reached

The ultimate heights

Have not declared, “Enough!”

For they have learnt

God’s supreme Secret:

The eternal self-transcendence-song. ```

10877

```

If your progress in one field

Is obstructed,

Go another way.

There are so many ways open to you

If you look within.

Only do not give up

The idea of progress.

```

10878

```

Something is missing!

You have given consciously,

But not unconditionally.

Therefore, you are unfulfilled;

Therefore, you are incomplete.

```

10879

```

You are holding all your problems inside.

Inwardly you do not ask for God’s Help

And outwardly you are afraid of Him.

Blindness is your outer life;

Foolishness is your inner life.

```

10880

```

God always depends on

The seeker’s sincerity-eye

And purity-heart.

```

10881

```

Year after year

Your sincerity compels you

To tell God about your weaknesses.

God tries His best to help you,

But, alas, your determination is not there

To conquer those devouring tiger-forces. ```

10882

```

The spiritual ladder has many rungs.

Now you are standing

On the sincerity-rung.

But if you do not step up

To the determination-rung

How will you ever ascend? ```

10883

```

By telling God about your problems,

What benefit do you get,

Since you do not care to harness

Your determination-volcano-power? ```

10884

```

Does God ever give up?

At the start of each year

God is filled with inspiration

To re-energise His children —

Even the hopeless cases.

```

10885

```

Like the soul,

Each human mind

Will one day believe

In the future manifestation

Of God’s Perfection-Beauty on earth.

```

10886

```

Be not interested

In receiving credit from God.

Be only interested

In serving God. ```

10887

```

Just because you thought of God

In your worst possible moment,

Do you think you will receive

Extra protection from the Supreme?

God is not such a fool!

```

10888

```

You do not have

The capacity or willingness

To fulfil God’s Request.

At the same time,

It is beneath your dignity

To ask others to help.

Alas, you are

Your stark stupidity-life! ```

10889

```

The vital knows only one song,

And it sings that song every day.

What is that song?

It is the song of self-indulgence. ```

10890

```

If you want to walk

On Eternity’s Road,

Then your heart-door

Can never be kept closed. ```

10891

```

Withdrawal from life-activities

Will not make you happy.

To make yourself happy

You need to breathe in

The fragrance of your soul-tranquility.

```

10892

```

When ignorance wants to interfere,

Just boldly declare,

“Not here!

Not now!”

And finally say,

“Nowhere!

Never!”

```

10893

```

Pray to God to grant you

The same Love that He uses

To love Himself,

So that you can enjoy freedom infinite

From your earth-bound ego-fetters.

```

10894

```

If you are enjoying

A drowsy enthusiasm,

And if you have surrendered

To the mercy of irresponsibility,

You will definitely suffer

The bitter failures of reality-life. ```

10895

```

Do not give any other job

To your enthusiasm!

To crusade against

Your depression-enemy daily

Is more than enough.

```

10896

```

A heart of eagerness-light

Will definitely be able

To drink in breathlessly

God’s Nectar-Delight. ```

10897

```

In God’s Telephone Directory

Nothing is unlisted.

No, not even His Eternity’s

Infinity-Vision-Number. ```

10898

```

Whoever loves to sing faithfully

The song of oneness-heart,

God will bless with

His Beauty’s Satisfaction-Eye. ```

10899

```

God has already told your mind

What it is supposed to do.

It is you who have to either

Force your mind

To obey God’s Will

Or surrender to your mind’s

Thickness-forest.

```

10900

```

What my mind needs daily

Is a Cheerfulness-Smile from God.

What my heart needs daily

Is a Fruitfulness-Blessing from God. ```

From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 109, Agni Press, 1987
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