My Lord asks me to give Him
My life’s sacrifice-heart.In return, He will give me
The Blessings of His crowning Joy. ```Every day without fail
God sends a Compassion-LetterTo all God-lovers and man-servers.
```If your aspiration-heart is strong,
Then you can easily fly and fly.You will not be caught
In the revolving thought-doorOf your darkness-mind.
```If your heart is all willingness,
Then your life is bound to breathe inEcstasy-light.
```Do not allow
Insecurity-thought-antsTo enter into your beautiful and peaceful
Heart-nest. ```Doubts ancient or modern
Have the same capacityTo destroy the clarity of the mind.
```I do not go anywhere
Without my confidence-bodyguard,Who keeps away the world’s insecurity-thief.
```Your heart’s purity means
The full awakeningOf your God-pleasing life.
```If an aspiration-heart is genuine,
Then it can never be afraidOf the mind’s ignorance-attack.
```A desiring mind does not care for
Either a self-givingOr a surrendering life.
```If your heart is discouraged,
Then your life is moving awayFarther than the farthest
From God’s Satisfaction-Eye. ```Your aspiration-heart is always safe
In the company of its three best friends:Love, devotion and surrender.
```An unaspiring heart and an insecure mind
Quite often meet together.An aspiring heart and a flying soul
Lovingly sit at God’s Satisfaction-Feet. ```If you have a oneness-heart,
Then who can deny youYour all-fulfilling universal peace?
```The moment you show God
Your aspiration-heart and meditation-eye,He gives you His Compassion-Eye
And Satisfaction-Soul. ```My mind’s inspiration brightens
My heart’s aspiration.My heart’s aspiration enlightens
My life’s dedication. ```A soulful heart-prayer
Is the powerful beginningOf a God-manifestation-life.
```If you do not plunge into
God’s Compassion-Heart-Sea,How can you see the beauty
Of your life’s transformation-smile? ```Every day try to memorise
God’s unconditional andCompassion-flooded Messages
If you want to claim the highest SatisfactionAs your own.
```If you do not increase
Your heart’s receptivity,Your seeker-life will be forced
To remain in captivityIndefinitely.
```God does not scold you,
Not because you are perfect,Not because you are aiming at perfection,
But because the God-Hour has not struckIn your sleeping life.
```With my heart’s flying faith-bird
I am longing to reachGod’s transcendental Compassion-Feet.
```When your dedication-life
Drives only along purity’s road,Your destination will beckon you
Sooner than the soonest. ```If you want salvation
From your selfishness-insecurities,Then every day learn
A beautiful, self-giving heart-song. ```My inner world contains
Nothing but fulfilment-smilesNo matter what happens
In my outer world-possibilities. ```Every day you find a new excuse
Why you cannot pray to GodEarly in the morning.
God is asking me to tell youThat soon His Compassion-Net
Will lovingly catch youAnd transform you and your deception-mind.
```The role of forgiveness in a seeker’s life
Is as essential asThe silence of the sky
And the power of the sun. ```Self-seekers go down and down.
And what do they see?They see the God-lovers going up and up.
```What I really like about God
Is not how much He loves meAnd how much He needs me,
But that He still continues to have faithIn the ignorance-loving world.
```Your constant disobedience
Has not only left a permanent scarOn your aspiration-heart,
But also a permanent sadnessIn God’s Compassion-Eye.
```The seeker’s self-doubt
Is the strongest barrierBetween him and his real self.
```When God comes to edit my mind-book,
God is astonishedAt my mind’s false accounts.
When God comes to edit my heart-book,God simply loves
Its faithful and faultless accounts. ```Once you accept the spiritual life sincerely,
You are bound to feelThat expectation is an extravagant
And useless expense. ```What can God the Compassion do for you,
Since you are quite contentWith your utter helplessness?
```A seeker is a climbing aspiration.
A seeker is a diving meditation.A seeker is a spreading dedication.
A seeker is a gladdening perfection. ```Your life will emerge
Like the smile of the golden dawnIf you bid farewell
To your heart’s deep-rooted insecurity. ```Each pure and self-giving thought
Is an immediate open doorTo formidable inner strength.
```The soulful cry of a single prayer
Can garner sweet dream-fulfilmentHeart-flowers.
```Because of your purity-flooded heart
And sincerity-flooded mind,God does not mind working overtime
To perfect you. ```What your mind needs
Is an imagination-car.What your heart needs
Is an aspiration-plane.What your life needs
Is the only Satisfaction-God. ```I do not underestimate myself.
At least I do not haveThis particular fault,
Like many of my seeker-friends. ```What is courage
If not constant awareness of God?What is awareness
If not the cheerful acceptanceOf God’s Will as your own, very own?
```My Lord, I am not crying
For Your smiling FaceBut I am waiting
For Your Command supreme. ```The bloom of your spiritual life
Will soon be witheredBecause you are spending
A great deal of timeWith your faithless mind.
```The oneness-heart-land
Is the place whereThe unparalleled soul-beauty
Never, never fades. ```Before my heart grew into
An aspiration-tree,I never realised that God’s Forgiveness
Was always free. ```When are you going to give up
Resisting God’s Will?When are you going to believe
That your blind unbeliefIs bound to fail?
```God always prefers
My heart’s beaming joyTo my eyes’ streaming tears.
```Your heart’s sweetness-oneness-love
Can never disappointEither God or man.
```When God speaks
My mind may neglect,But my heart always takes note
Cheerfully, soulfully, plus perfectly. ```A self-giving life
Is always at the heartOf each and every
Fruitful progress. ```Do not doubt your heart.
Do not doubt your soul.If you doubt them,
You will soon suffer fromThe collapse of all your hopes.
```If you take any course
At your soul’s school,Your life will be able to enjoy
Your soul’s illumination-freedom-sky. ```Be sincere, be pure, be self-giving!
Otherwise, your accomplishmentsWill never bring true fulfilment to your life.
```Every day without fail
You must ignore your mind’sFrustration-messages
If you want to be blessedWith God’s Beauty-flooded Nectar-Vision.
```If you are an unconditional God-lover,
Then you are undoubtedlyA pioneer on the impossibility-frontier.
```If you want to be a God-pleasing seeker
All the time,Then you must accommodate
The birth of new ideas, new ideals,New adventures and new promises.
```If you are
Your mind’s cheerfulness,That means you are
Your heart’s God-fulfilling fulness. ```My love letters to God
And God’s Compassion-Letters to meNot only liberate my human life
But also fulfil my divine heart. ```There shall come a day
When my heart’s peace-lightWill devour my mind’s empty anxiety.
```Alas, your demanding vital
Every dayFoolishly removes God’s “Welcome” sign.
```If there are any ill feelings
Between your aspiring heartAnd your searching mind,
Then help them cement their friendshipImmediately.
```Each time I have an aspiration-cry,
God grants me a very specialAnd very fruitful boon.
```If you are eager to visit
Your soul’s homeland,Then you must never disregard the power
Of your life’s precious time. ```Your unaspiring mind
Is responsibleFor your unwanted thoughts.
Your undisciplined vital
Is responsibleFor your repeated failures
In the battlefield of your life. ```Do not feed your ego-monster,
For it is always readyTo devour your heart’s
Beautiful aspiration-cries. ```If you want your mind to succeed powerfully
And your heart to proceed speedily,Then your aspiration-life must start
At the ground level of self-offering. ```You must destroy your mind’s
Attachment-bondsIf you want to visit
Your heart-beauty’s satisfaction-garden. ```Your heart’s inner ties with God
Will definitely increaseGod’s Affection-Light and
Fondness-Delight for you. ```God may not accompany me
Wherever I go,But God’s Forgiveness-Light
Sleeplessly and invariably accompanies meNo matter where I go.
```Do not say “No” when God asks you,
Out of His infinite Compassion,To serve Him
So that you can eventually becomeA choice instrument of His.
```Meditation is the only thing
That can most gloriously replaceYour failure-past
With your fulfilment-future. ```God may break all His other Promises,
But He never breaks one special Promise,And that special Promise is
His Heart’s immortal Forgiveness-Promise. ```Since human life is fleeting,
Each human being must offerSomething fruitful and abiding
To the ever-compassionate Mother Earth. ```Do you want to know what I am doing?
I am developing fast, very fast,An aspiration-heart, soulfulness-eyes
And a self-giving life. ```I guard my mind
So that no uncomely thoughtsCan enter into it.
My heart guides my lifeSo that my life can
Cheerfully, soulfully and devotedlyPlay with God.
```An open mind is needed
To see the flying inspiration-birds.An open heart is needed
To see the climbing aspiration-flames. ```Without a devotion-heart,
To make the fastest progressIn the spiritual life
Is almost an impossibility. ```To be tense in your mind
Can never be the wayTo solve any problem.
But to be intense in your heartIs the surest way
To solve your life’s teeming problems. ```If your heart has the capacity to dream,
Then definitely, sooner or later,Your life will be able to soar.
```Do not cherish frustration.
To cherish frustrationIs to roam along serpentine roads
That ultimately lead nowhere. ```You call it
Your loyal obedience.God calls it
His Victory’s flying Banner. ```My Lord, when I make a mistake
Do strike me hard, very hard.But do not crush me
With Your Indifference-Eye. ```Not killing others ruthlessly
But loving others affectionatelyIs the real courage
In the battlefield of life. ```A soulful gratitude-heart
Is the fountain-springOf a genuine seeker’s aspiration-life.
```Even unconscious insincerity
Will steal awayYour God-given dignity-light.
```My Lord Supreme tells me
That a gratitude-heartIs indeed a powerful crown
From the treasure-houseOf Divinity’s Perfection-Truth.
```Give God even a smaller-than-the-smallest
Devotion-plant.God will grant you in return
The sweetest fruitsFrom His Vision’s Satisfaction-Tree.
```Consciously and bravely destroy
The confusion-nightOf your God-searching mind.
God will grant you the capacityTo welcome His blessingful Heart
And powerful Eye. ```Listen to the silence-height.
You will be transported to the peakOf God-Satisfaction-Mountain.
```If you claim to be a genuine seeker,
And yet have not chosen the aspiration-lifeSeriously, soulfully and devotedly,
Then yours will be a lifeOf complete failure.
```The longing for quality
In your aspiration-lifeIs absolutely necessary
If you ever want to satisfy GodIn God’s own Way.
```Pray that you never give up.
Pray that you never surrenderTo failure-life.
Pray that you can becomeThe Supreme Lord’s
Dream-fulfilling life-tree. ```Gratitude is an inner feeling
That we must never be afraidOf expressing and revealing.
```If you have not learnt anything
From the experience of your mind’s mistakes,How will you ever be able to grow into
Your life’s fully blossomed satisfaction-tree? ```To lose enthusiasm
Is to lose the beautyOf the mind.
To lose purityIs to lose the breath
Of the heart. ```If you are your heart’s
Never-failing faith,God is His Heart’s
Ever-multiplying Satisfaction. ```Peace is ready to descend
Endlessly.Ask yourself if you are ready
To receive it sleeplessly. ```To God you are beautiful
Only when you can show HimYour aspiration-eyes.
To God you are fruitfulOnly when you can offer Him
Your heart’s gratitude-tears. ```God will choose your life
Blessingfully and proudly,If you just choose your soul
Cheerfully and unmistakably. ```From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 120, Agni Press, 1988
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