Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 129

12801

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Not tomorrow, but now,

At this very moment,

Pick a pure heart-rose

From God’s Vision-Manifestation-Garden. ```

12802

```

Your utterly insincere mind

Is fully responsible

For your false start

In your self-transcending

Aspiration-race.

```

12803

```

What I desperately need

Is not an old mind

But a gold heart.

```

12804

```

Not my self-styled competence

But my helplessness-heart

Will be a candidate

For God’s Compassion-Light. ```

12805

```

With your mind you can at best

Journey into fantasy,

But with your heart you can definitely

Journey into ecstasy. ```

12806

```

If you are a seeker

And yet do not care

For a simplicity-mind

And a purity-heart,

Then you will be forced to live

Inside frustration-nightmare. ```

12807

```

An endless desire-mind

Is nothing short of

A sad chapter in life.

```

12808

```

The mind-leadership makes me feel

That I am exceptionally great.

The heart-leadership makes me feel

That God is supremely proud of me. ```

12809

```

My Lord, my Lord,

Save me from ignorance-assaults.

Be not Your parched Indifference-Eye!

```

12810

```

My heart of hope

May be fragile,

But my eye of promise

Is invincible. ```

12811

```

Have a powerful meditation first,

And then try to see

Your aura’s God-blossoming beauty.

```

12812

```

To me, each uncomely thought

Is nothing other than

A time-stealing experience.

```

12813

```

Never too late!

Start illumining and perfecting

Your pleasure-prone vital.

```

12814

```

God wants to see us

Wearing the garland

Of our self-giving

Experience-light. ```

12815

```

With a tireless self-giving,

We can see the arrival

Of our Beloved Supreme

At our heart’s aspiration-door. ```

12816

```

Truth confidently marches

Along Eternity’s Road.

Falsehood timidly runs

Along darkness-thickening lane. ```

12817

```

Your own unhorizoned greatness

Will help you appreciate

The freedom of the birds.

Your own infinite goodness

Will help you enjoy

The flight of the birds. ```

12818

```

The more you observe

What the mind has done for you,

The more you will appreciate

What the heart has not done for you. ```

12819

```

I may not know

Where my mind of simplicity is,

But I do know

Where my heart of sincerity eternally is.

It is inside the Compassion-Eye

Of my Lord Supreme. ```

12820

```

The mind thinks

That the heart is stupid.

The heart feels

That the mind can be made better. ```

12821

```

A mind without doubt

Is indeed

A colossal surprise.

```

12822

```

A soulful heart

Sleeplessly radiates

Its beauty-smiles.

```

12823

```

Lethargy loves

To live permanently

In the body-room.

```

12824

```

Selflessness

Is a seeker’s greatest capacity

For keeping the peace-torch illumined.

```

12825

```

My heart’s peace-temple

Is always open

To all.

```

12826

```

Swim, swim, swim

Across the mind’s

Wide ignorance-channel!

```

12827

```

Gratitude

Is by far the best virtue

For nourishing aspiration-plants.

```

12828

```

Temptation is never invited

To purity’s

Illumination-convention.

```

12829

```

My heart sleeplessly cries

To be in the company

Of self-giving God-seekers.

```

12830

```

One God in the heart

Is infinitely more important

Than an infinite number of gods

In the mind. ```

12831

```

I have done it,

I have finally done it!

I have silenced the nightmare

Of the ruthless past. ```

12832

```

Because you are

A true God-lover,

You can easily leap

Over the future’s fence. ```

12833

```

You can escape from me,

But you cannot escape

My heart’s fragrance-smile.

```

12834

```

When will you be ready?

God has been waiting and waiting for you

With His unconditional Blessing-Light!

```

12835

```

You will not be able

To do anything great

Either for yourself

Or for mankind

If you keep depression and frustration

As your bodyguards. ```

12836

```

I want to remain

For the rest of my life

In the world of self-offering.

Therefore, I have applied

For a permanent visa

From the world Above. ```

12837

```

If you fail to weed

Your mind’s impurity-garden daily,

How can you ever be truly happy?

```

12838

```

Be brave!

Do not allow your mind

To collapse

Under heavy depression-thought-weight. ```

12839

```

Sooner or later

Every human being

Has to graduate

From God’s Heart-Academy. ```

12840

```

Temptation:

A quick, cruel and inescapable

Destruction-dance.

```

12841

```

To outsmart your ignorance-opponent,

You need a permanent friendship

With God’s Compassion-Eye.

```

12842

```

What I constantly need

Is a doubt-free faith-mind.

What I sleeplessly need

Is a fear-free happiness-heart. ```

12843

```

Every day without fail

You must press charges

Against the temptation-culprit.

```

12844

```

Think whatever you want to think.

Do whatever you want to do.

Say whatever you want to say.

But do not divulge poor God’s

Sacred Whisper-Secrets.

```

12845

```

Each ennobling thought

Marks humanity’s

Evolution-progress.

```

12846

```

The heart

Always tolerates the mind,

Even its ruthless denials of truth.

```

12847

```

An aspiration-heart always lives

In God’s Rose-Fragrance-Garden

Of Compassion-Light.

```

12848

```

Heart, my heart,

Be not assailed by insecurity.

Mind, my mind,

Be not assailed by doubt.

Vital, my vital,

Be not assailed by depression.

Body, my body,

Be not assailed by sloth. ```

12849

```

Reality is ruthless:

So says my mind.

Reality is spotless:

So says my heart. ```

12850

```

Every morning

My Lord Supreme enters

Into my heart-nest

Smiling and dancing,

With a lotus in His Hand.

```

12851

```

On my way to God,

Do you want to know what happened?

My mind was crippled

By destruction-fears

And my heart was embraced

By ecstasy-tears. ```

12852

```

No time?

You mean, no readiness-mind.

No time?

You mean, no willingness-heart. ```

12853

```

Expectation means

The frustration-invitation

Of the limitation-mind.

```

12854

```

Who am I?

I am my Master’s

Sorrowful sigh.

What shall I become?

I shall become my Master’s

Satisfaction-child

Before I die.

```

12855

```

From God’s point of view,

No failure-heart,

No failure-life

And no failure-human being! ```

12856

```

Because your life lives always

In the rainbow-smile of hope,

Depression does not dare to try

To have a free access to you. ```

12857

```

For God,

It is not an uncommon experience

To see His blessingfully

Wisdom-flooded Lectures

Unattended.

```

12858

```

O my eyes,

Do not oversleep

Every aspiration-day.

O my mouth,

Do not overemphasise

Every dedication-day. ```

12859

```

May my progress-heart

Be a one-way street,

With no U-turn permitted!

```

12860

```

For God,

You can definitely

Do something infinitely better

Than give Him yesterday’s

Second-hand, fading smile.

```

12861

```

Even though from God

I turn away,

He invites me again and again

With Him to play. ```

12862

```

Because my aspiration-heart

Cannot go astray,

Because my dedication-life

Cannot go away,

Every day my Lord announces

Our mutual victory-day. ```

12863

```

My Lord Supreme painfully sighed

When I told Him

That I tried very hard

To please Him. ```

12864

```

My Lord,

Do make my mind divinely brave

And my heart supremely brave,

So that I do not feel sad

When the world eagerly watches

The disintegration of my success-life. ```

12865

```

I unconsciously want God

To be my slave.

God consciously, compassionately

And self-givingly wants me

To be His friend.

```

12866

```

What your mind needs

Is intensive light-surgery.

What your heart needs

Is progressive delight-discovery. ```

12867

```

My Lord becomes

His Compassion-Heart

To cushion

My imperfection-fall. ```

12868

```

My Lord Supreme, in those days

I really loved You.

But alas, what is wrong with me now?

My Lord Supreme, in those days

I sleeplessly needed You.

But alas, what is wrong with me now? ```

12869

```

Give, give,

Soulfully give yourself away!

Your name will be

Prosperity’s sky. ```

12870

```

I love my Lord’s

Compassion-Perfection-Eye.

God loves my life’s

Aspiration-purity-heart. ```

12871

```

Be kind, be all sympathy,

For each and every human being

Is forced to fight against himself.

```

12872

```

I love the God-Giant

Inside my heart

Infinitely more than

I love the God-Dwarf

Inside my mind.

```

12873

```

Hello hope,

Hello promise,

Hello!

Good-bye doubt,

Good-bye hesitation,

Good-bye! ```

12874

```

You do not have to mourn

Your misspent life.

Be pure in heart.

God will give you another chance. ```

12875

```

Doubt-prince,

I must dethrone you.

Faith-friend,

I must never mistreat you. ```

12876

```

If you undernourish

Your faith-heart,

You will be doomed

To a pain-flooded future. ```

12877

```

An expectation-heart

Cut to pieces

Is called a human life.

```

12878

```

An aspiration-dedication-morning

Is indeed

A fear-diminished day.

```

12879

```

Smile within, smile without.

God will liberate you

From your insecurity-haunted life.

```

12880

```

When it comes to service

And sacrifice,

The human is usually

An escape-champion. ```

12881

```

Count your blessings.

God will take care of

Your surroundings.

```

12882

```

When I do not pray,

When I do not meditate,

My mind becomes

The supreme authority

On stupidity.

```

12883

```

Be not one

With your mind’s opposition.

Be sleeplessly one

With your heart’s consecration. ```

12884

```

O my worry-encumbered mind,

I shall before long transform you

Into my resident peace-dove.

```

12885

```

I keep asking myself

Only one question:

Does God really need me,

Ever? ```

12886

```

Adamantine determination

Means the rediscovery

Of lost and forgotten faith.

```

12887

```

I really do not know

And do not want to know

Why God always loves me

Unconditionally. ```

12888

```

Your wise heart

Is telling me one thing.

Your clever eyes

Are telling me something else.

Needless to say,

I am all for your heart. ```

12889

```

Learn the art of forgiving,

And apply it to yourself first.

Then it becomes easy

To forgive others. ```

12890

```

The mind can specialise

In doubting others easily.

The heart can and does specialise

In loving others easily,

Plus permanently.

```

12891

```

God’s Compassion-Heart

Always accepts

My mind’s frustration-collect calls.

```

12892

```

The mind’s impossibility

Is only for the mind.

The heart’s possibility,

Nay, inevitability,

Is definitely for the life.

```

12893

```

Heart, my heart,

What are you doing?

Wake up!

Wake up immediately,

And stand bravely against

My mind’s doubt-impurity-invasion. ```

12894

```

Alas, why do I love my life’s

Fragile impermanence-success

So much?

Why? ```

12895

```

Tell your heart

Never to give up its faith-studies.

If ever it gives them up,

Then immediately your mind

Will resume its doubt-suspicion-studies.

```

12896

```

O ignorance-world,

You can at best stop me

From manifesting God on earth.

But you can never prevent me

From loving my Lord Beloved Supreme.

```

12897

```

There shall come a time

When each and every human being

Will enjoy the bright burst

Of oneness-delight. ```

12898

```

Every morning if you cannot

Have your life fuelled with joy,

How will you work devotedly

For your Inner Pilot? ```

12899

```

If you can sincerely feel

That you are the owner of nothing,

Then to God you will be everything.

```

12900

```

What will happen, my Lord,

If I make my mind prayerful?

“I shall love you more.”

What will happen, my Lord,

If I make my heart soulful?

“I shall need you more.”

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From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 129, Agni Press, 1990
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