Your heart’s soaring aspiration-bird
Will before longFly to God, without fail.
```He who has
Life-transforming determinationIs already on his way
To victory supreme. ```O my soulful heart,
True, you are sufferingBut I am sure before long
You will be washing the Compassion-FeetOf our Lord Beloved Supreme.
```Now that my mind’s unwillingness-reluctance
Has reached its ultimate limit,My heart and I together
Will cry for my Lord’s Victory-Smile. ```If you are sleeplessly loving
Either God or yourself,How can you have time
To see the imperfectionsOf the world?
```The desire-demon cannot devour
Your aspiration-hungerAnd cannot slow down
Your deer-speed progress. ```O my heart,
Be not a fool!Not only you, but no heart
Can be forsakenBy the Compassion-Lord Supreme.
```Every morning without fail
My body, vital and mindSing our heart’s aspiration-song.
```God does not care for
Your mind’s mystery.He cares only for
Your life’s mastery. ```If you can live
In God’s Patience-Heart,Then there is no distance
That you cannot travel in the inner world. ```Be vigilant, O seeker!
Before you realise what is happening,Your mind may enter into
The abysmal abyss of ignorance-night. ```Alas, alas,
Can you not seeThat your mind has powerfully
Slammed the doorOn perpetual truth?
```O my mind,
I do not expect youTo be perfect,
But I do expect youTo be totally receptive
To new and inspiring ideas. ```Every day God blesses me
With love-blossomsIn my aspiration-heart.
```Your mind’s insincerity-smile
Is taking you awayFarther than the farthest
From God’s Compassion-Heart. ```Look, look at God’s
Compassion-flooded Sun-Eye!It has illumined your mind’s
Teeming unworthiness-clouds. ```“A self-giving life
Under any circumstances”Is my life’s sole motto.
```If you are not fearless
In your self-examination,You will never arrive at
God’s Satisfaction-Heart-Door. ```I take each failure
As an insignificant eventIn my life.
I take each experienceAs a supreme blessing
In my life. ```I invite imagination every day
To fly in my mind’s sky.I invite aspiration every day
To fly in my heart’s sky.I invite perfection every day
To fly in my life’s sky. ```Each man’s life
Is a miracle-happening-experienceThat he offers to God.
```We can repay God
Only through our sleeplessAnd unconditional happiness.
```Every day I must devotedly bow
To the rising sunOf universal responsibility.
```Your own insecurity-life
Is capsizingYour God-manifestation-boat.
```Not your power-mind
But your humility-heartWill always be the world-winner.
```From now on I shall pay special attention
To developing my heart’sUnused oneness-muscle.
```Alas, why do I allow
My poor mind to be dominatedBy insincerity and impurity-giants?
```I know, I know
That the insecurity of my vitalHas massacred
My heart’s enthusiasm-life. ```My life’s transformation-road
Is unmistakablyUnder divine construction.
```O my mind, do not lose heart!
God did not create youTo be captured and tortured
By confusion-turmoil. ```Whether it is a long-distance
Or short-distance callFrom your destruction-mind,
Just hang up! ```Fear and doubt-knives
Every day make powerful effortsTo stab our aspiration-hearts.
```O my mind,
One day you will be caughtBy my soul
While you are turning offMy heart’s aspiration-alarm clock.
```Where is the difference
Between an impurity-mindAnd spiritual paralysis
In a human life? ```Is there any human being
Who has not receivedCountless opportunities
Directly from HeavenTo surpass himself?
```Curiosity cannot make you feel
The heart of spirituality.It can at best show you
The huge body of spirituality. ```Whatever you do,
You must do with unflinching faithSo that you can keep
The doubt-runner far behind you. ```A life without God-manifestation-dreams
Can never give a God-seekerSatisfaction-delight.
```There are only two places
Where man and God can meet:Man’s gratitude-heart
And God’s Compassion-Feet. ```Because I do not live
With yesterday any more,I am ready to love
And be loved by tomorrow. ```Our heart’s immortal
Aspiration-cryNeeds no sleep
And wants no rest. ```What I call opportunity
Is nothing other thanGod’s Compassion-Rain
On my devotion-life. ```A gratitude-heart
And an unconditional lifeAre unmistakably the last two steps
Before you arrive at the Golden Shore. ```O seeker, be not afraid
Of the swarm of attacksYou face.
Before long,To your wide surprise,
They will disappear. ```Insecurity and impurity
Come into our minds and heartsDisguised as lifelong friends.
```If we can see
Through the eye of surrenderAnd feel
Through the heart of gratitude,Then we can be perfect
Ignorance-fighters. ```The eye of the heart
Can see the GodOf sleepless earth-perfection-dreams.
```All problems can be surmounted
If we can cherishThe beauty and fragrance
Of a world-oneness-heart. ```God asks us to believe in
At least one thing:That every night He comes to see us
If we are sleeping and dreaming divinely. ```Enjoy the infancy
Of your heart first.Then only will you be able
To enjoy the intimacyOf God’s Oneness-Heart-Home.
```If you cannot dare
To follow,God will not hire you
To lead. ```There is no such thing
As a little effort.In God’s Eye, everything that we do
Is meaningful and purposeful.Therefore,
Each and every effort-incident in lifeIs supremely significant.
```Today my mind,
The trouble-maker,Has unconditionally bowed
To my heart,The trouble-shooter.
```My soul has
Only one piece of adviceFor my mind:
Become humility’s fragrance-breath. ```The world is definitely
ProgressingSince world-destruction-dreams
Are regressing. ```Your surrender-life
And gratitude-heartWill always help you
To climb up the aspiration-mountain. ```Self-praise is almost as bad
As surrenderTo ignorance-temptation-night.
```I do not need
A God-expert-mind.What I need
Is a God-surrender-heart. ```Because of your surrender-life
And your receptivity-heart,God is eagerly waiting for you
To claim Him as your very own. ```The sooner you can reach
Your Himalayan heart-home,The quicker you will become
A member of God’s inner circle. ```Countless times God has listened
To your disaster-slogans.Now He wants you to step onto
His Compassion-Road. ```What I always need
Is a self-giving universal heartTo conquer my mind’s
Ignorance-army. ```Sincerity
Tells me where God is.Purity
Tells me how to reach God.Surrender
Leads me to God. ```My cheerful mind
Can elevate and even transformOthers’ lives.
```No matter where I am,
I always seem to long forMy heart’s shelter-sky.
```Silence sleeplessly
And perpetually singsUnnoticed and undiscovered.
```My Lord,
Your Forgiveness-BlessingIllumines my aspiration-heart-tears.
```A heart of patience
Can help me discoverMy earth-dream-fulfilment-journey.
```My mind’s God-rejection-choice
And my heart’s God-invocation-voiceAre always at war with each other.
```At last the world
Is planning to surrender to God’s Will.It is getting ready
To banish doubt for good. ```When the God-Hour strikes,
Only peace-loversAnd oneness-warriors
Will be floodedWith Infinity’s peace.
```If each moment of your life
Is for God-manifestation,Then your perfection-life
Cannot remain a far cry. ```For a genuine God-lover
There is no such thingAs impossibility.
At God’s choice HourGod can radically change
Everything. ```When God’s Compassion-Eye
Blesses me,I easily leap over
My fear-hurdles. ```Alas, I am always a prisoner —
Either a prisonerOf shameless inertia
Or a prisonerOf thoughtless restlessness.
```You are bound to be haunted
By the shadows of the pastIf you do not create
Sleepless self-giving joyIn your heart of aspiration-cries
And your life of dedication-smiles. ```If you accept responsibility’s
Challenges,Then your life-transformation
Will be God’s top priority. ```If you do not break away
From your self-doubt-tradition,God-dissatisfaction
Will be your heart-dweller. ```God is ready to tolerate you
And all your imperfectionsExcept one,
And that imperfection isYour ignorance-arrogance.
```Your desire-infected mind
Has compelled your lifeTo be an unwillingness-wasteland.
```Three ruthless God-offenders:
Haughtiness, callousnessAnd unwillingness.
```Alas, the human life
Helplessly tremblesBetween inner faith
And outer fear. ```Do you want to enlarge
Your receptivity-heart?Then do not give in to
Your powerful desire-demands. ```Daily soulfully develop
Obedience-joyTo see God’s Satisfaction-Smile.
```You are earth-bound
Because of your mind-attachment.You can be Heaven-free
Because of your heart-enlightenment. ```You have closed your heart-door
Today.Therefore, God and God’s Guidance
Have left you. ```When doubt crowds your mind,
Vehemently tell doubt,“Doubt, leave me alone!
Faith is fast approaching me.” ```The simple truth:
God loves me.The simpler truth:
God needs me.The simplest truth:
God and ILove each other’s heart
And need each other’s life. ```If you want total liberation
From depression,Then go beyond
Stark desire-frustration. ```If you do not want to be assaulted
By disguised temptation,Then day and night
Sing renunciation-life-song. ```Your heart is indeed
Allowed to flyIn your soul’s unhorizoned
Vision-sky. ```When you go beyond the confines
Of the suffering earth-planet,You will receive Infinity’s
Blessings, love and joy. ```O my mind, can you not see
That your counterfeit compassionIs misleading you and taking you away
From God’s real Compassion-Light? ```Unless you close the door
On yesterday’s failures and mistakes,You are bound to remain inside
Your mind-built prison. ```At God’s Heart-Door
There is only one sign:“Willingness-seekers are welcome”.
```A selfless prayer
Is our life’s flower-fragrance,Treasured by God’s Fulness-Heart.
```The inner vision
And the outer courageMust go together
For a fruitful journeyFar beyond all ignorance-boundaries.
```When our hearts long to be
God’s torch-bearers,God blesses us with
An unhorizoned vision-sky. ```When wisdom dawns,
We clearly seeThat a desire-possessed life
Cannot escape fromIgnorance-shackles.
```Two diamond thoughts:
God and I love each other;God and I shall please each other.
```From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 142, Agni Press, 1991
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