Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 117

11601

```

My Lord, I am telling You

In all sincerity

That I have implicit faith in You.

“My child, I am telling you

With all My Compassion-Delight

That I shall be responsible

For everything that you do.”

```

11602

```

At every moment

Keep impurity-breath out

Of your God-loving aspiration-heart.

```

11603

```

If desire accompanies you,

Then the golden Door

Of God’s Compassion-Heart

Will be denied you. ```

11604

```

The mind knows only one thing.

It knows only how to magnify

Our difficulties and failures.

```

11605

```

How far can you go

With your mind’s unwillingness?

Farther than the farthest

Not only from man, but also

From God’s Compassion-Heart.

```

11606

```

Cherish hope!

This is the only way

That humanity can have the opportunity

To walk on Divinity’s

Progress-road.

```

11607

```

The heart takes vacation

In the countryside of God’s Heart.

The mind takes vacation

In the carnival of the vital. ```

11608

```

Although there is nobody

In the audience,

God the Lecturer

Every day delivers a lecture

On peace.

```

11609

```

If you skip

Your heart’s aspiration-course,

Then you will fail

In your life’s perfection-examination. ```

11610

```

The human mind

Not only likes, but also

Enormously enjoys,

Living inside darkness-doubt-caves. ```

11611

```

The mind that magnifies

Each and every difficulty

Can also minimise and weaken

The smile of opportunity. ```

11612

```

Look inside your heart!

You are bound to see faith-sun.

And to your utter astonishment

Your mind’s imperfection-sky

Will surrender to your heart’s faith-sun.

```

11613

```

If you want to enter

Into God’s Heart-Country,

Then every day you have to renew

Your life’s surrender-visa. ```

11614

```

If you are a student of perfection,

God the Teacher wants to be known

By you

As God the Satisfaction. ```

11615

```

My heart-temple welcomes

Only the seekers

Of earth’s newness

And the lovers

Of Heaven’s fulness.

```

11616

```

My Lord’s Compassion-Eye

And Forgiveness-Feet:

These are the only things I keep

Inside my heart’s gratitude-temple. ```

11617

```

There is nothing

And there can be nothing

Slower than the speed

Of an unwillingness-mind. ```

11618

```

To achieve victory

Over the vital,

Invoke your purity-heart’s

Oneness-delight. ```

11619

```

My mind is made of

A thousand promises.

My heart is made of

One single deed:

Sleepless love of God.

```

11620

```

The mind’s selfishness

And the heart’s ingratitude

Are sleeplessly inseparable.

```

11621

```

Before perfection dawns,

You have to disobey

All the commands

Of lethargy and anxiety. ```

11622

```

Now that you have withdrawn

Your expectation-application,

God is knocking at your perfection-door

With His Vision’s Satisfaction-Smile. ```

11623

```

If your mind is wise,

Then you will be able

To walk with God for a mile.

If your heart is wiser,

Then you will be allowed

To fly with God for ten miles.

If your soul is wisest,

Then you will be able to run and fly with God

At every moment.

```

11624

```

You and your undisciplined life

Have forced God to delay His Arrival

At your heart’s aspiration-gate.

```

11625

```

Since you have chosen self-adoration

As your only occupation,

Poor God is compelled to withdraw from you

Helplessly. ```

11626

```

Cheerfulness, unlike frustration,

Does not want to rule your life.

It only wants to awaken your dormant life,

Illumine your mind

And satisfy your heart.

```

11627

```

If your mind’s enthusiasm goes stale,

Then earthly pride

Will automatically find you

And Heavenly Compassion

Will not acknowledge you.

```

11628

```

Believe it or not,

God has given you another chance,

So give up your shameless infatuation

With ignorance-night! ```

11629

```

You are always safe,

My seeker-friend,

Inside your heart’s

Spontaneous surrender-smile. ```

11630

```

I showed God my heart’s temple.

God immediately blessed me

With His Compassion-Eye

And Satisfaction-Heart,

And asked me to install them

In my heart-temple. ```

11631

```

Can you not see

That you are boarding your mind’s

Unwillingness-flight?

You do not know it,

But before long yours will be

A fear-infested heart. ```

11632

```

When God entertains us,

The first thing He does

Is remove

Our mind’s thought-thorns. ```

11633

```

How can you be happy

If you have been living

On high ignorance-wages?

```

11634

```

When the mind’s temptation

Is destroyed,

God Himself opens

The illumination-door

For the seeker.

```

11635

```

If you want to enjoy

A soul-deep silence-sweetness,

Then pray to God to grant you

His own Perfection-Dreams. ```

11636

```

The day the seeker does not meditate

Early in the morning,

He has to face a mind

That is nothing short of

A problem-manufacturer.

```

11637

```

Do not return

God’s Compassion-Light-Gifts

Unused!

```

11638

```

Since yours is a face

Full of false devotion,

You cannot expect God to have you

As His supremely chosen instrument. ```

11639

```

I suffer unending uncertainty-assaults

When I do not enjoy my divine friendship

With my heart’s aspiration-flames.

```

11640

```

Where

Does the unaspiring mind work?

It works

In its usual complaint department. ```

11641

```

If you are the possessor

Of permanent devotion,

Then your eagerness-speed

Will remain undiminished by time. ```

11642

```

I know that there are

Millions of ways to aspire,

But I have chosen

The sleepless surrender-gratitude way. ```

11643

```

His willing jump to the light

Saved him from seeing

The familiar face of failure.

```

11644

```

How can your heart

Be truly happy

Since your life itself has become

A pretence of detachment? ```

11645

```

If you are accustomed

To attachment,

Who can help you live

In the house of infinite Light? ```

11646

```

A promise-plant

And a hope-tree:

These are precisely what

Each seeker needs. ```

11647

```

Alas, his mind has been suffocated

By selfishness-darkness.

He can no longer enjoy

The silent voyage to perfection. ```

11648

```

My heart, my heart,

Since the day I started obeying you,

In myself I see

A paradise of progress-delight. ```

11649

```

If your heart is dependent

On God’s Compassion-Light,

Then God will help you become

His peace-singer. ```

11650

```

My aspiring life

Has at last become

The dispeller

Of my desire-nightmares. ```

11651

```

Do not trust the vital.

It always enjoys telling

World-temptation-stories.

```

11652

```

If you are accustomed to attachment,

How can God grant you

A free passage

To His transcendental Skies? ```

11653

```

What a seeker always needs

Is an innocent beginning

And not a complacent beginning

To reach safely

His clear destination.

```

11654

```

When I look at your expectation-face,

You look ugly to me.

When I look at your expectation-heart,

I see in you a failure-beggar. ```

11655

```

When God Himself

Compassionately makes a peace appeal,

Can you not abide by His Request

Just for a day? ```

11656

```

Although you fail every day,

Every hour, even every minute,

Your soul’s compassion-flooded

Encouragement

Never leaves you.

```

11657

```

As the call of desire

Is undeniable,

Even so, the fulfilment of aspiration

Is inevitable. ```

11658

```

God is always ready

With His Vision’s radiant Smile

To greet you

And bless your purity-heart. ```

11659

```

When I write a heart-letter

To my Lord Supreme,

He tells me now is the time

To be a supremely perfect instrument

Of His.

```

11660

```

If you can make friends

With an aspiration-expert,

Then your life will not be tormented

By ignorance-dart. ```

11661

```

If you pray and meditate

In your heart’s silence-core,

God’s Compassion-Eye will monopolise

The willingness of your dedication-life. ```

11662

```

The only role of a God-singing soul

Is to tell the world

That today’s man-perfection-possibility

Will be transformed into

Tomorrow’s God-satisfaction-reality.

```

11663

```

You may not know

Or you may not even want to know,

But God’s Compassion-Light

Can easily see through

Your self-aggrandisement-crown.

```

11664

```

What is a greater irony of fate?

You came into the world

To be a God-lover,

But now you have become

A self-lover instead.

```

11665

```

When your life suffers

From happiness-shortage,

Just do two things:

Assist God’s Justice-Light

And do not resist

God’s Compassion-Height. ```

11666

```

Do you know

What God is asking you to do?

God is asking you to take

Your heart’s impurity-breath

To your imagination’s farthest end.

What for?

Just to bury it.

```

11667

```

Alas, my surrender-life

And my gratitude-heart

For a long time have forgotten

To sit at God’s

Compassion-Fulfilment-Feet.

```

11668

```

God’s Seeds always bear fruits

If you become

Your mind’s humility-surrender

And your heart’s gratitude-smile. ```

11669

```

Your countless problems of the past

Will fade away fast

If you can dare to have

A few glimpses of the infinite Light

That is unconditionally beckoning you.

```

11670

```

God has announced your arrival

At His Heart-Door.

When are you going to announce God’s Arrival

At your mind-door? ```

11671

```

O my mind,

Cherish not the flow of thought-river!

If you cherish it,

It will carry you to the ocean

Of imperfection and destruction.

```

11672

```

You are tempted

To capture God the creation

Instead of being inspired

To see God the Creator. ```

11673

```

When my aspiration-flames climb up

To my soul’s zenith-height,

I enthrone my Lord Supreme

With my heart’s sleepless ecstasy. ```

11674

```

My dear friend,

You are not sure if God exists.

I wish to tell you that

God not only exists

But also is suffering badly

From the shortage of God-lovers. ```

11675

```

You are in your mind’s

Imprisoned desire,

But God wants you to be in your heart’s

Liberated aspiration. ```

11676

```

When we pray and meditate soulfully,

God allows us to paint

Our prayer and meditation

Inside His Heart.

When we pray and meditate

Soulfully and unconditionally,

God Himself paints His Infinity’s Beauty

Inside our hearts. ```

11677

```

The place to be happy

God has chosen for me

With His infinite Compassion.

The time to be happy

I have to choose for myself.

God has chosen the place:

Here!

I must choose the time:

Now!

```

11678

```

There is and there can be

No real excuse

Why I cannot be more sincere,

More devoted

And more perfect

In my daily aspiration-life. ```

11679

```

You are sinking and sinking

In the mire of suffering-night

Because you are deliberately

Ignoring the Call

Of God’s Compassion-flooded Heart.

```

11680

```

How can the doubting mind

And the loving heart

Ever have a beautiful and peaceful

Coexistence-delight? ```

11681

```

If you can sincerely and soulfully

Praise God’s Ways,

Then God will grant you

His Bliss-flooded eternal Day. ```

11682

```

I am never alone.

Previously I enjoyed the company

Of my reluctance-mind.

Now I am enjoying the company

Of my hesitation-heart.

Alas, alas! ```

11683

```

How can God keep track

Of His infinite children?

Exactly the way we keep track

Of our surrender-life

And gratitude-breath.

```

11684

```

Because you do not value

Your faith in God,

Before long you will have

A severe suffering-punishment. ```

11685

```

If you think

That you are not ready for God,

Then that is your way of thinking.

But God is telling me

That you are more than ready,

And He is also telling me

That I must start serving Him in you

Immediately. ```

11686

```

If your mind is on constant parade,

God’s compassionate Heart-Gate

Will always remain invisible.

```

11687

```

Every day

Try to learn more and more

About the aspiration-language

And the dedication-book. ```

11688

```

Three inventions of the idle mind:

God does not care for His creation.

Man is hopeless.

Heaven and earth are not on speaking terms. ```

11689

```

Sleep your ignorance-sleep if you want to,

But do not blame God

If He comes to you

And catches you asleep. ```

11690

```

Your poor aspiration-heart

At every moment is afraid

Of your desire-destruction-furnace.

```

11691

```

Morning shows the day.

Therefore, if you want your day

To be flooded with joy,

Then set your mind-frightening

And heart-awakening alarm

Every morning. ```

11692

```

Your purity-heart’s soulful cries

Can carry you far beyond

Your mind’s darkest imperfection-summit.

```

11693

```

Every day God invites you to swim

In His Heart’s Compassion-Sea.

You do not accept His Invitation,

For you have an aptitude for self-indulgence. ```

11694

```

If you have consciously chosen

A surrender-life and a gratitude-heart,

Then God will before long grant you

Cheerfully

Immortality’s satisfaction-delight.

```

11695

```

Can you not see

That you are completely suffocated

By your untiring selfishness?

Can you not see

That jealousy-weeds

Have powerfully invaded

Your soul-beauty’s heart-garden?

```

11696

```

The confusion of your mind

Is already thickening

And is ready to strangle you.

How is it that even now

You do not care for

Your soul’s satisfaction? ```

11697

```

The sincere heart-cry of my life

And the Protection-Presence

Of my Lord’s Compassion-Feet

Love to live together. ```

11698

```

Your life of chaos and confusion

Is all due to one thing:

You have allowed yourself unconsciously,

If not consciously,

To be captured by

Temptation-ignorance-night. ```

11699

```

Your life is an orphan

Because you have allowed insecurity

To devour your heart.

```

11700

```

My Lord Supreme,

I may not carry Your Justice-Light

With me,

I may not carry Your Compassion-Heart

With me,

But I do carry with me

Your Forgiveness-Delight

Wherever I go. ```

From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 117, Agni Press, 1988
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