Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 130

12901

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May my each living breath

Be a gratitude-whisper

To my Lord Beloved Supreme.

```

12902

```

The foolish mind

Quite often performs

In the illusion-theatre.

```

12903

```

Finally

My prayerful cries

Have freed me

From thought-domination. ```

12904

```

Right before I meditate

My soul comes to decorate

My heart-room.

```

12905

```

Devotion-tears

And gratitude-smiles

Are most intimate friends.

```

12906

```

A soulfully crying heart

Is always protected

By God’s

Soundless Compassion-Footprints. ```

12907

```

The human mind

Regularly produces

Danger-desires.

```

12908

```

The aspiration-heart

Has no time to listen

To the mind’s doubt-broadcasts.

```

12909

```

How can my heart’s

Illumining faith

Ever abandon my searching mind?

Impossible! ```

12910

```

My morning prayer-songs

Affectionately greet

My morning meditation-heart-flowers.

```

12911

```

The soul places

The mind’s thought-bombs

At God’s omnipotent

Thunder-Feet. ```

12912

```

Only the names of

Self-giving aspiring souls

Are listed

In God’s Satisfaction-Directory. ```

12913

```

Unlike us,

God has only two Dreams:

Humanity’s satisfaction-heart

And humanity’s perfection-life. ```

12914

```

O detachment-axe,

I have been longing for you

Sleeplessly and breathlessly

In vain. ```

12915

```

Be careful,

My young seeker-friends!

Do not allow ambition

To masquerade as aspiration. ```

12916

```

I have so many things to do.

Let me start by shaking off

My lethargy-loaded desire-life!

```

12917

```

Because of the unaspiring mind

The soul and the body

Find it almost impossible

To maintain their oneness-friendship. ```

12918

```

A doubting mind

Is an inevitable and ultimate

Failure.

```

12919

```

Pay no attention

To the lessons that despair

Unreservedly preaches.

```

12920

```

Truth has the capacity

To sing to the heart

Of the heart’s soul-bird.

```

12921

```

O my mind,

Why do you allow yourself

Every morning to be crushed

By your imaginary mountain-worries? ```

12922

```

Rainbow-dreams blossom

Most beautifully

Inside the seeker’s

Purity-heart-sky. ```

12923

```

O my mind,

Why do you cherish

Blind indifference every day

To the world at large? ```

12924

```

May my heart at every moment

Cherish my soul-divinity’s

Imperishable Heaven-dream.

```

12925

```

Each drop of divine love

Is indeed a universal gift

From the Absolute Lord Supreme.

```

12926

```

O my mind-philosopher,

You must do something better

Than scoff at my heart-lover!

```

12927

```

My aspiration-life-tree

And its dedication-branches

Every day I offer

To my Lord Supreme. ```

12928

```

Every morning

During my meditation

My soul goes at express-train speed

To my Lord’s Compassion-Height. ```

12929

```

The human mind

Not devotedly,

Not even cheerfully,

But reluctantly listens

To the dictates of the heart.

```

12930

```

My soul’s adamantine will

Will never allow

My mind’s doubt-multitude

To approach my aspiration-heart. ```

12931

```

It is necessary

To honour the past,

But it is compulsory

To welcome the future. ```

12932

```

O seeker,

Every day

Try to begin a new,

Soulful and self-giving life-story. ```

12933

```

What can separate

The purity of the present

From the divinity of the future?

Nothing! ```

12934

```

God’s Compassion-Eye

And His Forgiveness-Heart

Blessingfully give me

Tomorrow’s satisfaction-delight. ```

12935

```

My service to humanity

Is my real opportunity

To prove my genuine love

For God and God alone. ```

12936

```

Be not lost, O seeker,

Between your complaining mind

And your expecting heart!

```

12937

```

O mind,

Is there any human being

Who has never suffered

From the attacks

Of ceaseless and ruthless doubts?

```

12938

```

May my vital do something

Infinitely better

Than pray for tireless attention

And ceaseless admiration. ```

12939

```

Peace-bridge is built

On mutually self-enlarging

And self-giving foundations.

```

12940

```

How I wish that my heart

Would insist

Exactly the same way

That my vital resists! ```

12941

```

If you lose cheerfulness,

You have lost something great.

If you lose faith,

You have lost something indispensable. ```

12942

```

I never thought that my mind

Would have a transformation-gate

That would be kept open

To God’s Illumination-Eye. ```

12943

```

Every morning, to my extreme sorrow,

I see a begging God

Inside my heart

Asking for a flower-sweet smile

From me.

```

12944

```

My Lord,

May my heart be always

A cheerful willingness-bird

To fly at Your loving Command. ```

12945

```

I shall never revisit

My long-abandoned

Inferiority-insecurity-insincerity-cave.

```

12946

```

I listen only to one thing,

And that is my heart’s

Beautiful, soulful and powerful silence.

```

12947

```

Hello, hello, hello,

My life’s self-acceptance!

Good-bye, good-bye, good-bye,

My long-torturing self-aggrandisement! ```

12948

```

Alas, how long

Am I going to remain stuck

Between my body’s lethargy

And my mind’s complacency? ```

12949

```

With infinite compassion

My silence-breath separates me

From the thought-world.

```

12950

```

If your heart’s faith in God

Is genuine,

Then you are bound to survive

Each and every doubt-attack

Of the mind.

```

12951

```

My God-obedience,

You will always remain

My most intimate

And most cherished friend. ```

12952

```

The day I consciously

Fail to pray to God

For the protection of my mind,

I see that my mind is surrounded

By suspicion-scepticism-night.

```

12953

```

O my mind,

You will discover sooner or later

Your worthlessness.

O my heart,

You will discover sooner or later

Your fruitfulness. ```

12954

```

You see yourself

With your frustration-mind.

God sees you

With His Preparation-Eye. ```

12955

```

I am so fortunate

That every day

My meditation-moments are fed

By God’s Satisfaction-Heart. ```

12956

```

I soulfully admire

My aspiration-austerity-past.

I happily welcome

My dedication-prosperity-future. ```

12957

```

You call it your dedication-duty.

I call it God’s Satisfaction-Reality

In and through you.

```

12958

```

My mind may swim

In desire-pond every day,

But my heart swims

In aspiration-sea at every moment. ```

12959

```

Complacency: what is it?

It is the very beginning

Of slow but inevitable spiritual death.

```

12960

```

My gratitude-heart-bird

Flies and flies

In my soul’s illumination-firmament.

```

12961

```

Something is always praying.

I know that very thing

Is my heart’s cry.

Something is always meditating.

I know that very thing

Is my soul’s smile. ```

12962

```

If necessary,

Start with a conditional surrender-step

Until you have the capacity

To take the unconditional

Surrender-stride.

```

12963

```

God’s Compassion

Will definitely prepare you

For any challenge you encounter

On the way,

If your faith in God

Is sleepless and breathless. ```

12964

```

Each man must know

That what he has

Is only an earthly body

But what he eternally is

Is a Heavenly soul.

```

12965

```

Your heart does not interfere

In your mind’s affairs.

How does your mind dare to meddle

In your heart’s aspiration-activities? ```

12966

```

O my mind,

For years and years I have been hearing

Your sermons.

Now I need a break!

I want to hear

My heart’s whisper-messages. ```

12967

```

If you sleeplessly aspire,

You will not remain a prisoner

Of the failure-past.

```

12968

```

If you keep your heart-home

Perfectly beautiful, soulful

And immaculate,

God’s Vision-Eye and Satisfaction-Heart

Will play hide-and-seek

Inside your life. ```

12969

```

There is nothing

And there can be nothing

As useless as my mind’s

Suspicion-night

And my heart’s

Despair-grave. ```

12970

```

May my heart’s aspiration-bird

Fly and fly

Higher than the highest

Even when my mind

Is consciously enjoying

Ignorance-sleep. ```

12971

```

There is only one thing

That God treasures from your life,

And that is your heart’s soulful

And unconditional surrender-smile. ```

12972

```

God’s Compassion-Eye and

His Forgiveness-Heart

Are always ready to go

To any extreme

To liberate me from my self-chosen

Ignorance-night. ```

12973

```

Don’t be a fool!

What is there to hide?

You do not have to hide anything

From your God-messenger-friend. ```

12974

```

My Lord Supreme,

How shall I find You?

Again, how can I find myself

Except at the foot

Of my heart’s aspiration-tree?

```

12975

```

When I even try to explore

The Unknown,

I feel within me

A flood of ecstasy. ```

12976

```

There is no despair-death

For him who has surrendered

Consciously and soulfully

His earth-bound desires

To God’s Heaven-free Will.

```

12977

```

In my case,

My low self-esteem

Is my heart’s only joy-destroyer.

```

12978

```

God wants you to enjoy

Your own perfection-abundance

And not the world’s

Temptation-turbulence. ```

12979

```

If you think that you

Have the capacity to blindly blunder,

Then you must also feel that God

Has the capacity to kindly forgive

Your blunders,

Past, present and even future. ```

12980

```

If you can make your mind

Completely empty of thought,

Then you are bound to accomplish

Something divinely great

And supremely good

For your Lord Supreme. ```

12981

```

With my morning prayers and meditations,

I not only cut the roots of ignorance-tree

But also drink profusely

Wisdom-light and delight. ```

12982

```

Every day, every hour,

Every minute, every second

Your soul offers its valentine to God.

Now you just count

How many times a year

Your mind sends its valentine to God.

Perhaps not even once!

```

12983

```

Consciously or unconsciously

If you allow your mind to misguide you

How can you be a member

Of God’s inner Heart-Circle? ```

12984

```

A pure thought can fly

Easily and freely

Inside the heart’s

Vastness-satisfaction-sky. ```

12985

```

Be brave,

And put your purity to the test!

If you succeed in your examination,

Then your aspiration-bird

Is bound to soar higher than the highest.

```

12986

```

My mind’s teeming complications

Tell me

That I am already a colossal failure.

My heart’s climbing aspirations

Tell me

That God has already chosen me

To be a perfect instrument of His.

```

12987

```

O my mind,

Do not blame God.

God never wanted you

To live in darkness-ignorance-room. ```

12988

```

I would like to learn everything

From your God-pleasing heart

And nothing

From your man-pleasing mind. ```

12989

```

My mind tells me

That dark days are ahead.

My heart tells me

That bright years are ahead. ```

12990

```

Everybody knows that

It is a most difficult task

To escape his own ignorance-shadow

And enjoy supreme freedom. ```

12991

```

My Lord tells me

That my today’s heart

Is my tomorrow’s face.

```

12992

```

Life is a bad dream

When I am only for myself.

Life is a good reality

When I am an all-giving heart to all. ```

12993

```

My soul is telling me

That my aspiration-heart

Needs no introduction to God.

```

12994

```

If you dig deep in your inner life,

You will be able to avert

All man-made disasters

In your outer life. ```

12995

```

No matter what fate unfolds for me,

I shall always keep

My adamantine faith-will

In my Lord Supreme. ```

12996

```

Be brave!

Be a life-challenger!

Never be helplessly

And hopelessly crippled

By brooding despair!

```

12997

```

An impure life

Is nothing short of

An indirect form of suicide

In the inner world. ```

12998

```

Be careful!

Be not a friend of your ungrateful mind,

Which cherishes hostility

To God’s constant Compassion. ```

12999

```

A pure heart’s

God-pleasing aspiration-cry

Echoes and re-echoes

In God’s silence-flooded

Satisfaction-Heart.

```

13000

```

My Lord,

May I remember at every moment

That my sleepless faith in You

Is an unfailing friend

That will lead me only towards You.

```

From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 130, Agni Press, 1990
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