Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 128

12701

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My Lord, my Lord, my Lord,

May my gratitude-heart sing and dance

Inside the cathedral of my soul

Every day and every hour! ```

12702

```

Perfection is something

That I want to achieve,

But something within me is telling me

That perfection is something

That I must receive

From Above. ```

12703

```

One,

Just one

Earth-desire-drop

Has poisoned

My whole Heaven-aspiration-pool.

```

12704

```

You have failed,

You are failing

And you will always fail

Because you are not listening

To your heart’s silence-voice.

```

12705

```

God Himself wants to be

The Advocate of your aspiration-heart.

Let God, and nobody else,

Perform that task for you. ```

12706

```

Your heart’s day-by-day aspiration

Is God’s first choice.

And something else of yours He takes

As His first choice:

Your life’s day-by-day dedication.

```

12707

```

A day of aspiration

Is a peace-blossoming day.

A day of expectation

Is a peace-breaking night. ```

12708

```

It is not enough

That your name is mentioned

On the God-adorers list.

Your name must be mentioned

On the God-lovers

And God-servers list

As well.

```

12709

```

God possesses you

Immediately

When you give up the desire

To possess Him

And His creation.

```

12710

```

My Lord,

Now that I am accepting

My defeat and my failure

As part of Your cosmic Vision-Plan,

I am exceedingly happy.

```

12711

```

Every day

I pray to my Lord Supreme

To give me the capacity

To build up my heart-temple

And tear down my mind-castle.

```

12712

```

Every day

I pray to my Lord Supreme

To teach me that His Will

Is my only perfection-freedom. ```

12713

```

The gratitude

Of my meditation-heart

And the Smile

Of my Lord’s Satisfaction-Heart

Will forever and forever

Live together. ```

12714

```

When I cheerfully do

What I can,

My Lord Supreme

Unconditionally does for me

What I cannot.

```

12715

```

Every morning before I meditate,

My Beloved Supreme blessingfully gives me

His seven-minute

Compassion-Chariot Ride.

Every morning after I meditate,

My Beloved Supreme proudly gives me

His seven-minute

Satisfaction-Chariot Ride. ```

12716

```

My Lord Supreme,

Are You not tired of

My self-deception-meditations?

“My child,

Are you not tired of

My unconditional Forgiveness-Heart?”

No, my Lord!

“Then, no, My child!” ```

12717

```

This morning

My Lord Supreme told me

That my soulful prayers

And my powerful meditations

Can and will give me

Ignorance-free meals. ```

12718

```

Only the inner hunger-climber

Will reach God’s

Satisfaction-Transcendence-Summit.

```

12719

```

Of all the roads

That lead to God’s Palace,

The gratitude-road is shortest.

```

12720

```

Only heart-travellers

Are invited

To take the peace-pilgrimage.

```

12721

```

Those who love

The life of discipline

Will definitely be beckoned

By the Wisdom-Light of the Beyond. ```

12722

```

Our heart’s silence-love

Speaks the most

To those whom we love the best.

```

12723

```

It finally dawned on me

That I could also try to become

A choice instrument

Of my Lord Supreme. ```

12724

```

God asks you to drink

His Oneness-Delight,

But you are drinking

Gossip-poison instead. ```

12725

```

Regularity takes me

To God’s Palace.

Punctuality brings God

To my little home. ```

12726

```

O my mind,

How long will you remain caught

In the mire of disobedience-night?

```

12727

```

We tell the world

That ignorance has invaded us.

Alas, we do not tell the world

That it is we

Who have invited ignorance.

```

12728

```

You want peace.

Then why do you live inside

Your mind’s attachment-cave?

```

12729

```

If you do not use your meditation-hour

Soulfully and sleeplessly,

Then you will be bankrupt

In the world of meditation-light. ```

12730

```

Your disappointing enthusiasm

Will definitely take you

Into the world of failure and defeat.

```

12731

```

My willingness becomes my cheerfulness.

My cheerfulness becomes my victory

And the Victory of my Lord Supreme.

```

12732

```

My desire-life, you are too old!

I do not like you

Any more.

I do not want to live with you

Any more.

```

12733

```

I am totally lost

Between my mind’s sadness-night

And my heart’s cheerfulness-sun.

```

12734

```

May my heart become

A precious receptivity.

May my life become

A spacious activity. ```

12735

```

When he sincerely prays

And soulfully meditates on God,

God broadcasts his spiritual life

On God’s TV station. ```

12736

```

God right now believes

In my self-giving

And not in my world-illumining.

```

12737

```

Today you become

An aspiration-runner.

Tomorrow you are bound to become

A realisation-sprinter. ```

12738

```

If God decides to stop using me,

I shall not mind in the least,

For I know that He always knows

What is best for me. ```

12739

```

Alas, nobody in Heaven

Missed my illumining soul

When my soul left Heaven for earth.

Alas, alas,

Uninvited my soul came to earth!

Alas, nobody on earth

Missed my loving heart

When my heart left earth for Heaven.

Alas, alas,

Uninvited my heart came to Heaven! ```

12740

```

My body,

I really don’t know

What my soul sees in you.

My vital,

I really don’t want to know

What my soul thinks of you.

My mind,

I really can’t tell you

What my soul tells others about you.

My heart,

I must tell you in all sincerity

That my soul loves you infinitely more

Than you can ever feel.

```

12741

```

It will be an unusual

And unprecedented

Earth-event-experience

If all the seekers

Form a soulful gratitude-committee.

```

12742

```

I always knew

That perfection is the choice

Of the divinely brave

And supremely chosen few. ```

12743

```

You cannot enjoy in your outer life

The lion-roar

If you do not have in your inner life

The lion-poise. ```

12744

```

My heart,

You are a God-made lover.

My mind,

You are a self-made prisoner. ```

12745

```

An unaspiring heart

And an uninspiring mind

Are two sad tragedies

Of the soul. ```

12746

```

Do not be a fool;

Start aspiring!

If you do not aspire,

Your soul will soon start

Living without you.

```

12747

```

No fragrance

Is more nourishing

Than life’s

Self-sacrifice-fragrance. ```

12748

```

The mind needs the forest-calm

To be a choice instrument of God.

The heart needs the mountain-height

To be the perfect voice of God. ```

12749

```

Each human life

Is God’s God-preparation on earth.

Each divine life

Is God’s God-Satisfaction

Both on earth and in Heaven.

```

12750

```

Dear humanity, can you not see

That early in the morning

Reason limits you,

Early in the evening

It blinds you

And in the middle of the night

It strangles you?

```

12751

```

God’s greatest

Blessing-Gift

Is my life’s

Crying core. ```

12752

```

My earth-host

Is my oneness-heart.

My Heaven-guest

Is my fulness-smile. ```

12753

```

Start renouncing!

Do you know

That you have to renounce

Only one thing?

That thing is your mind’s stupidity.

```

12754

```

Determination

Illumines me.

Aspiration

Fulfils me.

Perfection

Satisfies both God and me. ```

12755

```

Dear humanity,

I love to be

One of your sufferers.

Dear divinity,

I love to be

One of your self-givers. ```

12756

```

My aspiration-heart

Is indeed a gift from God.

My dedication-life

Is indeed my gift to God. ```

12757

```

A man of sacrifice

Is the thunderous applause

Of multiplying centuries.

```

12758

```

Because God is

His own Compassion-flooded Justice,

Man will eventually become

A perfect God-man. ```

12759

```

In the spiritual life,

An eagerness-mind

And a cheerfulness-heart

Are their own immediate rewards. ```

12760

```

If you present

Your unwillingness to God,

Then God will remain indifferent

To your mind’s confusion-forest. ```

12761

```

Every day

You must muster courage

To make a firm commitment

To your obedience-life. ```

12762

```

You say that

You have nothing important to do.

But I am telling you,

Try at least to break

Your life’s unworthiness-shackles.

```

12763

```

Slowly, steadily and unerringly

My inner faith has overthrown

My outer doubt-dictator.

```

12764

```

Alas,

I cannot even remember

The last time God smiled at me.

```

12765

```

Destiny’s decisive hour

Has arrived.

Man’s inner freedom

Has fully and fruitfully

Come to the fore.

```

12766

```

O my heart’s hope-boat,

When will you cross

My life’s promise-sea?

```

12767

```

Every morning and every evening

God wants me to pay

My perfection-toll

At His Satisfaction-Bridge. ```

12768

```

God has a very special fondness

For the rising

Aspiration-flame-songs

Of my heart. ```

12769

```

My mind’s impossibility-thoughts

Must surrender

To my heart’s confidence-will.

```

12770

```

A God-lover

Must welcome every day

A newness-flower-dawn.

```

12771

```

My prayer is the devotion-escalator

That takes me to God.

My meditation is the love-elevator

That brings God to me. ```

12772

```

Alas,

Will there ever be a day

When the human mind

Will not run in worry-circles? ```

12773

```

My Lord always, always opens

And never returns unopened

My ignorance-letters.

```

12774

```

Nothing

Can be beyond the reach

Of a oneness-peace-lover.

```

12775

```

The constant unwillingness

Of the mind

Cripples the heart’s

God-vision-plans. ```

12776

```

The mind’s simplicity

And the heart’s sincerity

Are unparalleled partners

To the end. ```

12777

```

O Lord, O Lord, O Lord,

When will You silence

My war with myself?

When? ```

12778

```

Your false aspiration-flames

Will never be able to illumine

Your mind’s teeming doubt-clouds.

```

12779

```

I am glad that my expectations

Have been forced to walk

The path of disappointment

By my compassionate Lord Himself,

And not by any human being.

```

12780

```

When we keep our eyes open,

We see that our jealous minds

Are heavier than the heaviest.

When we keep our hearts closed,

We feel that our insecure lives

Are heavier than the heaviest.

Alas, alas!

```

12781

```

Alas, how can I ever be

A choice instrument of God

When I allow my mind

To be swamped by greed,

And my heart by ingratitude?

```

12782

```

Enthusiasm means striking achievements.

Never lose enthusiasm!

Never allow your enthusiasm to depart,

Even when disappointment forces you

To your life’s rock bottom.

```

12783

```

No ecstasy

Can be deeper

Than my heart’s

Silence-ecstasy. ```

12784

```

Faith is always progressive.

It does not have to be

Either offensive or defensive.

```

12785

```

When I do something undivine,

I hope that God

Is not looking at me.

When I do something divine,

I pray to God

Not only to look at me,

But also to applaud me.

```

12786

```

Today my Lord Supreme is telling me

That His Compassion

Is absolutely free of charge

And His Justice borders on indulgence.

I am all eagerness

To have them both

In abundant measure.

```

12787

```

This morning God asked me

If I could please Him unconditionally

Only for today.

My immediate answer was

A resounding “Yes!”

```

12788

```

A global man

Devotedly serves the world.

He is afraid of neither

The world’s stark hostility

Nor the world’s abysmal indifference.

```

12789

```

A global man is he

Who keeps climbing his soul-heights,

Diving his heart-depths

And marching his mind-lengths. ```

12790

```

A global man is a pilgrim-soul

Who comes into the world

With a very special message-light

From beyond the future. ```

12791

```

There is no way to escape

A global man’s

Vastness-oneness-fulness-heart.

```

12792

```

If you are a divine global server,

Then you have no time

To pay any attention

To the world’s ingratitude-storms. ```

12793

```

The global man knows

That if he ever forgets

His world-progress-dream-promise,

Then he is bound to lose everything. ```

12794

```

Give up, give up

Your desire-prayers!

Satisfaction-paradise

Will beckon you. ```

12795

```

Since you know that you have a heart,

Can you not make it into a temple?

Since you know that you have a heart-temple,

Can you not turn it into

A sleepless prayer-life?

```

12796

```

Do you want to make tangible progress

In your mind’s longing for peace?

If so, then every day, every hour,

Offer a prayerful thought

To your heart’s all-loving rising sun.

```

12797

```

Choose, quickly choose,

The heart of endless faith.

Otherwise, your life will be drenched

By doubt-downpour. ```

12798

```

When I gave God my opinion

About ignorance-night,

He said: “My child,

How interesting

Your great observation is!”

```

12799

```

Alas,

Hurtful thoughts are flocking

To my mind-door,

And powerful death is knocking

At my heart-door!

```

12800

```

May my heart’s soulful gratitude-pilgrim

Always walk along

My life’s beautiful surrender-road.

```

From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 128, Agni Press, 1990
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