Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 110

10901

```

O God-lover,

Every day you must enter

Into your heart-garden

To sow purity-seeds

And grow divinity-plants.

```

10902

```

At the end of his life’s journey

Each human being sees

That his life remains

An unfinished battle. ```

10903

```

A life of happiness

Does not cost anything.

Just give and give

And do not expect.

Lo, the universal happiness

Is all yours. ```

10904

```

I never think that a life of hope

Is an easy task.

To me, a hope-life

Is an arduous task. ```

10905

```

I am not asking you

To underestimate your mind’s capacities.

I am asking you

To take your mind into your heart

So that your mind can be flooded

With unlimited capacities. ```

10906

```

Each darkness-thought in your mind

Is either

A conscious or an unconscious disrespect

To God’s Compassion-Eye

And Forgiveness-Heart.

```

10907

```

Multiply daily

Your heart’s perfection-deeds

And never copy, even by mistake,

Your foolish mind-mistakes. ```

10908

```

If you think that God

Gets angry with you

When you do not listen to Him,

Then why do you make the same mistake

Again and again

By disobeying God? ```

10909

```

God will prove your importance

To the world

The day you can sincerely feel

That you are not indispensable

Either in this world or in any world.

```

10910

```

My mind calls him humanly brave,

But my Beloved Supreme tells me

To call him divinely beautiful.

```

10911

```

My success-life has taught me

How to remain brave.

My progress-life will teach me

How to become pure. ```

10912

```

What is great for you

May not be great for God,

But what is good for you

Is definitely good for God as well. ```

10913

```

You think that you know

All the answers.

Then tell me,

How can I become another God

Like you?

```

10914

```

God does not expect

My immediate perfection,

But He does expect

My heart’s immediate, plus lasting,

Satisfaction.

```

10915

```

If you are tired in your inner life,

Then knock at your mind’s

Inspiration-door

And appreciate the beauty of your heart’s

Aspiration-house.

```

10916

```

If you are human,

Then tolerate human mistakes.

If you are divine,

Then liberate human mistakes. ```

10917

```

There is only one way

To the ultimate Victory:

Every day, clear and sanctify

Your mind’s dense jungle. ```

10918

```

If you have a heart,

Then you have a heart-garden too.

If you have a heart-garden,

Then you have a heart-rose as well.

If you have a heart-rose,

Then God the Lover of beauty

Will definitely claim you as His very own.

```

10919

```

A life of discipline

Can bring in God’s Protection

To save your life

From outer and inner disaster. ```

10920

```

If you want to be

Far from the age of darkness,

Then crown your heart

With your soul’s silence-light. ```

10921

```

Who says

That your mind can never be

A beautiful flower?

Just start

Caring for soulfulness

In your sleepless life-breath. ```

10922

```

If you have the capacity

To have willingness

In your searching mind

And your loving heart,

Then you are bound to receive

God’s Sweetness and Fulness-Smile. ```

10923

```

The step from

Your heart’s excellence

To your soul’s super-excellence

Must begin slowly, steadily,

Convincingly and unerringly.

```

10924

```

Every day God inspires us

To start our journey

From our abysmal falsehood

To His perennial Truth. ```

10925

```

Forget and do not forget.

Forget your oneness-dance

With ignorance-night.

Do not forget your promise to God

To see Him smile

His Satisfaction-Smile. ```

10926

```

If you allow your mind

To remain

In your consciousness-basement,

Then how can you ever expect

God’s Ecstasy-Applause?

```

10927

```

Your face of perfection

You can see

Only after you have seen

God’s Eye of Compassion. ```

10928

```

Greatness competes with

Goodness.

Goodness competes with

Soulfulness.

Soulfulness competes with

Self-transcendence.

Self-transcendence does not compete

With anything or anyone.

It just tries to complete

God’s transcendental Dream

In His universal Existence-Life.

```

10929

```

To be one of God’s very best,

Always follow the heart-road

And always keep your soul

As your only guide. ```

10930

```

The fragrance of a pure heart

Always intensifies

Your life’s satisfaction-Delight.

```

10931

```

Do not try to win

The argument with ignorance.

It is not worthwhile!

Daily make friends with the wings

Of oneness-enlightenment-soul-bird.

```

10932

```

If you live in the darkness-depth

Of your mind-cave,

Then for you there is no clear choice

Between right and wrong. ```

10933

```

Who is the author

Of your heart’s joy

If not your life’s sleepless

And deathless

Surrender-seeker-soul?

```

10934

```

When my dream-life dances

In supreme ecstasy,

I go far beyond my mind’s

Hurtful doubt-domain. ```

10935

```

Do not give in!

Do not give up!

Temptation-snares are everywhere;

Do not give in!

Illumination-peak is just above

Your confusion-mind;

Do not give up!

```

10936

```

Everything

Will eventually be pleased

Except one thing,

And that is man’s desire-life. ```

10937

```

I accept my own faults

To purify my mind.

I accept others’ faults

To perfect my heart. ```

10938

```

O hope-tears,

Where are you?

O hope-smiles,

Where are you?

O hope-realisation-truth,

Where are you?

O hope-perfection-God,

Where are you? ```

10939

```

For a long time

My Lord Supreme has been asking me

To apply for my

Aspiration-dedication-permit

And to stop my

Aspiration-dedication-demonstration. ```

10940

```

Your question is:

How far can faith take you?

My answer is:

As far as you want,

To see God-Eternity’s

Infinity-Smile. ```

10941

```

Do not linger

In lethargy-land.

Otherwise, God will stop considering you

As His friend. ```

10942

```

The key to God’s Heart-Kingdom

Can be found

Inside your heart’s

Rose-purity-garden. ```

10943

```

If you do not banish

Your mind and its brooding doubts,

God and His Compassion

Will before long vanish

From your life-breath.

```

10944

```

God does not want you to be a victim

Of teeming expectations.

He wants you to be a lover

Of your own rising aspiration. ```

10945

```

Each soul suffers

When its other family members —

Heart, mind, vital and body —

Live with broken promises

To God.

```

10946

```

Can you not ask your heart

Once more

Not to wander,

But to return

To its God-Beauty-furnished home?

```

10947

```

If I do not put peace

Into my daily actions,

Then my mind will throw me into

The thickness of its

Life-frightening jungle.

```

10948

```

If your mind is restless,

If your heart is helpless,

God will not blame you.

God will blame you only if

You do not want to see

God’s Vision-Eye

And His Perfection-Heart

Right in front of you. ```

10949

```

Are you a giver or a taker?

If you are a giver,

Then give to your beggar-mind

Satisfaction.

If you are a taker,

Then take from God

What He has for you:

Perfection. ```

10950

```

Every day God invites me

To His Compassion-Dinner.

But my doubting mind

And my trembling heart

Forbid me to accept

His Compassion-flooded invitation. ```

10951

```

Man wants only one thing

In life and from life:

A comfortable complacency-life.

God wants from man only one thing:

He wants man to learn every day

A new song of self-transcendence

From Him.

```

10952

```

I shall build my life

On my mind’s determination-rock.

I shall build my life

On my heart’s aspiration-mountain.

I shall build my life

In the heart of God’s Compassion-Sea. ```

10953

```

God loves you.

How can you ever expect

To receive from Him

Your self-destructive ego-rewards? ```

10954

```

Again and again I ask myself

Why I do not cry for

Perfection in my life

And why I do not ask for

God’s Satisfaction in my heart.

This is a daily problem in my life,

With no solution!

```

10955

```

God’s Blessing-Compassion

I need

To cure my mind’s long-lingering

Doubt-damage. ```

10956

```

If I can start my life

All over again,

I shall not forget

To see the beauty

Of my searching mind

And to feel the purity

Of my aspiring heart.

```

10957

```

Each man starts his journey

With a well-meaning intention.

Alas, he does not end it

With a well-doing action. ```

10958

```

Every day you must survey

Your mind’s doubt-territory

And try to transform it

With your heart’s faith-plants. ```

10959

```

Soulfulness never grows old.

Soulfulness can never decay.

Soulfulness shines

In each and every clime. ```

10960

```

Each disobedience-drop

Eventually becomes

As powerful as the ocean itself

To destroy its possessor himself. ```

10961

```

My heart arrives at the destination

Without quarrelling.

My soul arrives at the destination

Without travelling.

And I shall arrive at the destination

Smiling. ```

10962

```

Because your mind, too,

Is a creation of God,

Rest assured that there shall come a time

When even your mind

Will be amazingly illumined

By your Lord’s God-Touch. ```

10963

```

Already you have surrendered

To many things.

Do not surrender

At least to this thing:

Your mind’s carelessness-stupidity.

```

10964

```

Alas, where can I find

A self-controlled mind?

Alas, where can I find

A self-dedicated heart?

Alas, where can I find

A self-awakened life? ```

10965

```

When I do not aspire,

I clearly see that my body houses

Only nerves, bones and muscles.

When I do aspire,

I clearly see and feel

That my body is the embodiment

Of God’s transcendental Silence

And His universal Sound. ```

10966

```

There is a higher home,

And that home is inside

Your illumination-soul.

There is a brighter room,

And that room is inside

Your aspiration-body. ```

10967

```

God will powerfully

Shake hands with you,

If you can soulfully accept

Your heart’s inner confidence

As your best friend.

```

10968

```

Little by little

Your divinity will be revealed

By God Himself.

Little by little

Your human foibles

Will be exposed

By the forces of ignorance-night.

```

10969

```

The dark power of inconscience-night

In your life

Will be chased away

By God’s Light

If you leave the past far behind.

```

10970

```

Nobody knows

When, where and how

The desire-flower will wither and fall

From its life-tree. ```

10971

```

Since you have a heart,

Can you not make it

As bright as the moon?

Since you have a mind,

Can you not make it

As powerful as the sun? ```

10972

```

You cannot give God

What you do not have:

A heart of gratitude.

You cannot give man

What you do not have:

A thought of goodness.

```

10973

```

All roads lead to something.

That something can be either

Your life’s destruction-cry

Or your heart’s perfection-smile. ```

10974

```

Freedom is not free

In the outer world.

Peace is not free

In the inner world.

God and His Satisfaction are not free

In any world. ```

10975

```

Do not ridicule

The sad failures of others.

Who knows,

You too may be sailing

In the same boat before long!

```

10976

```

If you live in the desire-forest,

The doubt-tiger will unmistakably

Devour you and your beauty’s heart.

```

10977

```

From now on keep a diary

Of your heart-dreams.

This world, with its hurtful attacks,

Will be a stranger to you. ```

10978

```

Accept the outer world in peace.

The inner world will give you

Not only God, but also

His infinite Satisfaction-Delight. ```

10979

```

God will recruit you

If you dare to dream

Beyond your easy reach.

```

10980

```

If you place your heart

In your Lord’s Hands,

How will you ever suffer

From aspiration-shortage? ```

10981

```

More and more I shall feed

My aspiration-flames

To win my life’s

Challenging games. ```

10982

```

I see myself

As I am.

God sees me

As what I can ultimately become. ```

10983

```

If you fly the gratitude-plane,

God will meet you

At His Satisfaction-Airport.

```

10984

```

If you need any advice

In your spiritual life,

Then call on God

At His Compassion-Apartment. ```

10985

```

Who can ever rescue me

From my sinking life-boat

If not God the Dreamer

In my life

And God the Lover

In my heart? ```

10986

```

If you do not reject

Your temptation-life,

How can you see your soul,

Your life’s satisfaction-source? ```

10987

```

God the Eye may not be

Just a step ahead of you,

But God the Heart is always

A step ahead of you. ```

10988

```

The motto of the mind:

I may not be as great as God,

But I can think as big as God.

```

10989

```

If you aim at

Your mind’s nothingness,

How will your life ever achieve

Your heart’s fulness? ```

10990

```

His life is a step-by-step surrender

To God’s Will.

Therefore, in the inner world

He has become an aspiration-giant. ```

10991

```

If you turn your sad failure-life

To God,

God will lend you His Compassion-Eye

Free of charge. ```

10992

```

If you take a stand

Only for God-Satisfaction

In God’s own Way,

Then you are bound to see

That God is just

A heartbeat away. ```

10993

```

Two words can never be found

In your mind’s desire-dictionary:

Perfection and satisfaction.

```

10994

```

God will supervise your life

When you can prove to Him

That you are sincerely happy,

Soulfully happy

And unconditionally happy.

```

10995

```

When I say, “I want,”

God frowns at me.

When I say “I need,”

God smiles at me.

When I say “I have,”

God shakes hands with me.

When I say “I am,”

God embraces me. ```

10996

```

You are only deceiving the real in you

If you are unwilling to bathe

In God’s Nectar-Compassion-Ocean.

```

10997

```

The distance between

Your dream and your reality

Is the distance between

Your powerful smile and your sorrowful cry. ```

10998

```

What kind of goodness is it

If you keep it always on guard?

What kind of forgiveness is it

If you keep it always unused? ```

10999

```

Your dream of God-realisation

Came directly from the heart

Of God’s Compassion-Sun,

And is not your mind’s

Unfounded hallucination.

```

11000

```

My heart’s aspiration-cry

And my soul’s illumination-smile

Eventually will shine

Far beyond the transience of time. ```

From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 110, Agni Press, 1987
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