Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 147

14601

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My Lord, a tiny bird

Claims the vast sky.

Similarly, the finite in me

Longs to claim

Your Infinite Absolute.

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14602

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O my ego-life,

I have covered a very long distance

With you, all in vain.

Now I am returning to my journey’s start

For a new goal,

Definitely without you. ```

14603

```

At last my inner confidence-light

Has come to the fore

And is burning cheerfully

My long-treasured frustration-pyre. ```

14604

```

I need safety at every moment

In my life.

Therefore, I do not mind using

My bullock-cart speed

To Infinity’s Shore.

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14605

```

The outer freedom

Has a short breath.

The inner freedom

Is at once birthless and deathless. ```

14606

```

My unwillingness-mind

Is still tormenting

My heart’s soulfulness-smile.

```

14607

```

O my mind,

I neither need nor deserve

Your destructive discouragement-arrows

While I am speeding towards

My Lord Supreme.

```

14608

```

My vital, do you really mean

What you say?

Do you really want to say “No”

To the Beloved Lord Supreme? ```

14609

```

If your self-confidence is genuine,

Then God’s supreme Pride in you,

You are bound to feel.

```

14610

```

Each soulful thought

Is a God-world

In its surrender-flooded light.

```

14611

```

How will you ever reach

Your destined goal, my friend,

When you are such an easy-going

Truth-seeker and God-lover? ```

14612

```

My soul’s divinity-torch

Has been illumining

My life’s Eternity-Road.

```

14613

```

God’s Oneness-Love

We see, feel

And one day shall become.

Therefore, we are not awestruck

By God’s transcendental Height.

```

14614

```

I feel miserable

That my inner being has been absent

For such a long time

From my earth-home. ```

14615

```

Every day I inject wisdom-light

Into my mind-night

So that it can bow devotedly

To my oneness-fulness-heart. ```

14616

```

Alas, can you not see

That your mind and vital

Have become only dying embers

Of your long-lost enthusiasm-fire? ```

14617

```

My mind gets joy

When it thinks

Of the unknown God.

My heart gets joy

When it tries to feel

The unknowable God. ```

14618

```

I breathe in purity’s nectar-breath

Only when I am at

The life-transformation-Feet

Of my Lord Supreme. ```

14619

```

Do not allow illusion

To blind your vision-eye.

Immediately invoke illumination

To feed and nourish your vision-eye. ```

14620

```

What does God do

Day in and day out?

He just defends

Your innocence-life. ```

14621

```

Today’s self-indulgence-journey

Will be followed by

Tomorrow’s imperishable guilt.

```

14622

```

God may not tell me,

But I do know

That God’s most dangerous enemy

Is my life’s shameless ingratitude. ```

14623

```

You want your life-journey

To be Heaven-bound.

But where is your Pilot?

Where is your life’s

Transformation-Guide?

```

14624

```

Only the dream-builders

Are fulfilment-distributors

On earth.

```

14625

```

The silence-smile

Of your heart’s love

Has conquered

Both God the Eternal

And God the Infinite.

```

14626

```

No hesitation,

No unwillingness!

Your progress-speed

Will immensely increase. ```

14627

```

If you are all the time

Addicted to praise,

How can you expect a raise

In your aspiration-life? ```

14628

```

My mind quarrels with my heart;

My heart remains silent.

My soul places the victory-garland

Around my heart. ```

14629

```

O my mind,

Will you ever learn

The supreme necessity

Of a moment’s peace? ```

14630

```

Every morning

I prayerfully and soulfully remember

To take my enthusiasm-medicine.

```

14631

```

God has given you

His universal Heart-Door-Key.

When will you give Him

Your personal heart-door-key? ```

14632

```

The heart is teachable.

Therefore, the soul is

Not only reachable

But also available. ```

14633

```

Do not imitate any human being.

It is indeed an act of stupidity.

But imitate God

As much as possible,

As often as possible,

For He loves your imitation-capacity

Like anything!

```

14634

```

The beauty of a purity-heart

Will always remain unchallenged

Here on earth.

```

14635

```

God loves all our prayers

No matter how stupid,

No matter how awkward,

No matter how insignificant. ```

14636

```

Every day my Lord Supreme

Comes to my mind-door

And compassionately unloads

My desire-truck. ```

14637

```

My faith-drops are learning

How to sing, play and dance

In God’s infinite Compassion-Rain.

```

14638

```

Alas, every day

My thought-train

Runs to the wrong destination,

And stops there! ```

14639

```

You must severely fine

Your mind

Every time it enjoys

An unhealthy thought. ```

14640

```

Dream, dream, dream!

Then you will have no time

To suffer from despair.

```

14641

```

Every morning my soulful hope

Shakes hands with

My life’s promise-fulfilment.

```

14642

```

Every day at least once

My soul shops inside my heart-market.

But it never goes out to shop

In my mind’s supermarket. ```

14643

```

My God-invoking prayers

Are breathlessly treasured

By my Lord Supreme.

```

14644

```

The silence-thunder

Of my Lord’s Eye

Shall shake your complacent life-tree.

```

14645

```

God does not mind

When He sees in us

Teeming imperfections.

But He does mind

When He sees in us

An iota of unwillingness. ```

14646

```

Because you love God unconditionally,

God wants to give you

A very long vacation

Inside His Heart’s

Gratitude-Pride-Satisfaction-Garden.

```

14647

```

I never thought

That my Lord Supreme

Would be a silent Boatman

Inside my prayerful and soulful life-boat. ```

14648

```

Humanity weeps

Not because it is neglected

And rejected.

Humanity weeps and has to weep

Because God’s Satisfaction with humanity

Is still a very far cry. ```

14649

```

My Lord Supreme,

I see Your Infinity’s blue sky,

But I see not the divinity

Of my soul-bird.

Alas, where is it?

Where is it? ```

14650

```

The meeting place

Of my searching mind

And my loving heart,

God the Compassion-Eye

And God the Satisfaction-Heart

Always choose. ```

14651

```

God will immediately increase

Your heart’s private beauty

If you offer more of your life-breath

To public duty. ```

14652

```

Two lives can shine bright:

The life that has aspiration-purity

And

The life that has dedication-beauty. ```

14653

```

Yesterday’s comfortable falsehood

Has become

Today’s most painful reality.

```

14654

```

May my life be transformed

Into my heart’s purity-blossoms

To be placed on my soul-altar.

```

14655

```

If you are a sleepless God-lover,

Then only will you be able

To remain faithful to God

To your final breath. ```

14656

```

Although I am evading my soul

These days,

My soul maintains the same concern,

The same affection

And the same responsibility for me.

```

14657

```

A sincere, prayerful cry

Will help you swim

In your life’s receptivity-river.

```

14658

```

Alas, it is my fate

That everywhere I go

Frustration

Has to ruthlessly follow me! ```

14659

```

If your present is not fruitful,

Your future will taunt you

And your useless past

Will haunt you. ```

14660

```

In the spiritual life

To learn sincerity

Is like taking

Kindergarten lessons. ```

14661

```

Satisfaction has abandoned you

And it will always abandon you

Because your life has become

Nothing but lethargy-yawn. ```

14662

```

Play your role!

Make soulful efforts

To build your oneness-bridge

With God.

God will definitely and proudly

Use it. ```

14663

```

O my mind, if you allow doubt

To play with you,

Then your spiritual life will be

Like a helpless pilgrim with no path. ```

14664

```

You think by ignoring God

You can make yourself happy.

Just try!

When the time arrives

For you to adore God,

Your task will be

Infinitely more difficult.

```

14665

```

My heart is always

An extremist unparalleled

When it comes to hope-smile.

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14666

```

Truth is not impermanent,

But the human mind

Quite often does not care for

The permanent truth. ```

14667

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Alas, I do not know why

I so often shamelessly ignore

My Lord’s warning Whispers.

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14668

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My heart does not want to fight

Against impossibility.

My mind does not want to fight

Against impossibility.

But my soul tells both my mind and heart,

“If you want Infinity’s peace,

Then you must conquer

Impossibility’s life, body and breath.” ```

14669

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Man’s final question:

“My Lord, do You really know

How to cry?”

“My child, I shall answer

Your final question,

But first do answer My question:

‘Will you ever learn how to smile?’” ```

14670

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The blame for humanity’s mistakes,

Humanity does not want to take.

My Lord says once a mistake is made,

Somebody has to accept the blame.

Therefore, my Lord is all ready

To accept the blame

For humanity’s mistakes.

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14671

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Who says that you do not love God?

You do love God —

Unfortunately, not exactly in His Way.

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14672

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In my heart I see

That there is only one thing

Infinite,

And that infinite thing

Is the unconditional Compassion

Of my Lord Supreme. ```

14673

```

Just be positive

In everything that you say and do.

Your mind will escape the poison

Of self-created negativity. ```

14674

```

God tells human beings,

“Use your indomitable heart

When you speak to Me,

And use your tender heart

When you speak to humanity.”

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14675

```

Intensify your aspiration.

Lo and behold, God has arrived

To magnify your aspiration!

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14676

```

Real spirituality is undoubtedly

A matter of choice

And not a mere accident or incident.

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14677

```

My peaceful heart

Is my mind’s only purity.

My prayerful mind

Is my life’s only serenity. ```

14678

```

The love that can only forgive

But not forget,

According to me,

Is not a perfect love. ```

14679

```

We can arrive at the summit-excellence

Only when we value

God’s Compassion-Eye

And surrender ourselves completely

To God’s unconditional Justice-Light.

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14680

```

No matter how hard we try,

Consciously or unconsciously,

We cannot push God’s Patience

Beyond our life’s boundary. ```

14681

```

Unwillingness

Is a weary road.

Failure

Is its right destination. ```

14682

```

Who says that God does not forget?

God does forget

To use His Justice-Hammer

Even when I consciously do a wrong thing. ```

14683

```

If you do not sustain

New hope every day,

Then there can be no

New discovery. ```

14684

```

Each moment I am away from

My Lord’s Compassion-Vision-Eye,

I roam in the anxiety-worry-forest.

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14685

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My Lord, if You do not supervise my life,

Then I shall find myself

In the dark night of a dangerous cave.

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14686

```

An uncomely thought

Has the power to sink

My heart’s aspiration-boat.

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14687

```

Even before I do a wrong thing,

I feel myself vehemently engulfed

By a flood of helplessness

And hopelessness. ```

14688

```

The moment you think of your Master,

You, your aspiration-heart

And even your unwillingness-mind,

Must run towards Him. ```

14689

```

I hear God’s Whisper

Only when I take my mind

Beyond and far beyond

The loud sounds of life. ```

14690

```

O my mind, you will be punished

By God’s Justice-Light

If you all the time

Make a mockery

Of my heart’s devotion-cry.

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14691

```

My human eyes see only one thing:

My Lord’s Compassion-Eye-Armour

Is protecting me.

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14692

```

Your sweetness-heart-worship

Pleases God’s Eye and Heart

Far beyond your imagination.

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14693

```

Your singular obedience

To your wrong master-mind

Will cost your aspiration-heart

Dearly! ```

14694

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There are so many clever ways

To separate oneself

From world-suffering.

But there is only one way

To unite oneself

With world-suffering,

And that way is

To tell God the creation

That you love to be

A member of His family. ```

14695

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My Lord,

I invoke Your Protection-Eye,

I invoke Your Perfection-Smile,

I invoke Your Self-Transcendence-

Whisper-Delight.

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14696

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With my soul-smiles

I satisfy God.

With my heart-tears

I satisfy God.

With my willingness

Multiplied by eagerness

I satisfy God.

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14697

```

God, from now on,

I do want to make You feel

That I am a true friend of Yours.

Therefore, I have kept

A specially reserved place for You

In my heart-room. ```

14698

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To foster your God-commitment,

Self-indulgence relinquish,

God-reliance invoke immediately!

```

14699

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O my heart, delay not!

O my life, delay not!

O my soul, delay not!

God-manifestation-course.

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14700

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My Lord Supreme,

I have touched Your Lotus-Feet

With the river of my heart-tears

Only to be claimed by Your Infinity’s

Closeness, fondness and fulness.

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From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 147, Agni Press, 1991
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