My life
Is not a passing pleasure.It is a lasting treasure
Of God. ```Do not stand against
God’s Compassion-Rule.God’s Justice-Light
Will not tolerate itIndefinitely.
```Again and again
God’s Compassion-Rain descends.But alas, we do not value
Its all-loving, all-caringDescent.
```You are your mind’s disobedience.
You are your heart’s disobedience.You are your life’s disobedience.
Therefore,You and your sad defeat
Must live and breathe togetherIn failure-jungle.
```A powerful Smile
From my Lord SupremeIs my heart’s happiness-heritage.
```So many times
God has saved youWith His Compassion-Life-Preserver.
But you have never offeredYour gratitude-heart
To your Lord Supreme. ```God will allow me
To enter intoHis Promised Peace-Land
Only after I have become a memberOf His Oneness-Heart-Garden.
```I surprised God
With my heart’s genuine God-hunger.God surprised me
With His Compassion’sUnconditional Nectar-Rain.
```If it is true
That God loves my reality-life,Then He loves
My heart’s dream-boat-journeyInfinitely more.
```Do you want to touch
God’s Heart?Then become either
The beauty and fragranceOf a flower
Or the cry and smileOf a child.
```My Lord is telling me
That the more I widenMy heart’s happiness-smile,
The sooner He will be ableTo manifest
His transcendental DivinityIn and through me.
```What can poor God do?
He will never be satisfiedWith your mind’s insincerity-cry.
```Do not travel temptation-road
Either with your mindOr with your vital.
Pray to your soulTo transform your temptation-road
Into aspiration-roadFor your safety
And for your perfection.Your soul will do it for you.
```Every day
God the CreatorSends His Smiles
To God the creation,And God the creation
Sends its criesTo God the Creator.
```Everything that a human being does
Is too slow.He has his own time,
His own rhythm.Poor God has completely abandoned
His expectation-hourWhen He deals with human beings.
```Everything
Has a beginning and an end.In the case of doubt,
Its last stop is total destruction. ```With my heart-tears
Every day I wash the FeetOf my Lord Supreme.
After I finish washing the FeetOf my Lord Supreme,
He invites me to comeAnd dine with Him
In His own Heart-Garden. ```Anxiety and insincerity-attacks
Are so powerful.Unfortunately, they do not overlook
Any mortal. ```An aspiration-seeker,
A dedication-serverAnd a perfection-lover:
God wants these threeTo be inseparable
And immortal friends. ```When I visit
My Lord’s Heart-Palace,He blesses me
With His own Heart’sSunrise-Smile and Rainbow-Dawn.
```Danger hovers over you
Due to your own carelessness,Which is nothing short of
An unwanted hostile attack. ```When you stop being indulgent
To your mind and vital,You are bound to see yourself
Swimming in the seaOf sleepless delight.
```Everybody starts
With a life-dream.Alas,
Very few life-dreamsAre fulfilled in any century.
```If you continue doubting,
Then one dayYou will be forced to fear,
And your fearWill surrender one day
To hopeless suffering. ```Each time I have
A sweet, encouragingAnd inspiring hope
In my heart,I feel that I am seated
At the foot of my life’s peace-tree. ```God never allows
His selfless seekersTo cut short
Their heart-aspirationAnd life-dedication
On earth. ```Every morning
My soul encourages meAnd inspires me
To cross beyond the happiness-horizonsAnd bring light and delight
From thereTo transform the face and fate
Of humanity. ```We suffer
When there is an outer catastrophe.But do we really care
About our inner catastrophes:Fear, doubt and anxiety?
Our inner catastrophesAt every moment
Are not only haunting usBut destroying our inner life-breath.
```The mind’s hesitation,
The heart’s frustrationAnd the life’s destruction
Are forced to runTowards an unknown destination.
```For so many years
I was enslavedBy my mind’s insecurities,
Jealousies and impurities.But now my Lord Supreme
Has unconditionally saved meFrom my titan-captors.
```Every time a human being
Does something divinely greatAnd supremely good,
God immediately broadcasts itOn His Heart-Radio.
```My soul observes
My soul’s birthday promiseEvery day.
And what is that promise?“God for God’s sake,
God’s Satisfaction for God’s sake.Everything on earth,
Everything in Heaven,Only for God’s sake.”
```A desire-life
Will, without fail,Need radical purification
Before it is allowedTo enter into the heart-beauty’s
Aspiration-garden. ```If you are
Entirely dependent on GodIn your inner life
And your outer life,Then God is sleeplessly responsible
For the perfection of your outer lifeAnd the satisfaction of your inner life.
```It is our psychic promises
That are eventually fulfilled.Our mental promises,
Emotional promisesAnd all other promises
Quite often are not fulfilled.Why?
Because they do not haveThe necessary perseverance,
Their way of seeing the truthIs not clear
And their goal itselfIs unclear.
```My Lord Supreme,
I have prayed to YouFor many things in this life.
Now I would like YouTo fulfil only one desire of mine.
My Lord,Only save me from myself!
```When my mind-ego
Plays the role of a genuine seeker,I see the aspiration-theatre
Is completely empty. ```I shall not allow
My soul-childTo be completely lost
In my mind’s confusion-jungle. ```My desire to know,
My desire to loveAnd my desire to become divine and perfect
Are my only desires in life. ```Forgiveness
Is by far the bestFreedom-delight
In God’s entire creation. ```In God’s Eye
Your heart’s aspiration-cryIs as valuable as
Your soul’s illumination-smile. ```O my human mind,
It is high time for you to realiseThat your ancient desire-disease
Will lead you to utter destruction. ```My heart is always
An eager volunteerIn God’s world-illumining
Activities. ```You do not have to face
A fruitless future.It is you who can make
A fruitful, powerfulGod-satisfaction-future
With your own self-giving life. ```There is not
A single book worth readingIn the ignorance-mind’s
Stupidity-library. ```What each seeker needs
Is a spotless, faultless faithSo that he can run like a deer
Along the roadOf awakening spirituality-fulfilment.
```What does a desire-life do?
It only disappoints us,Either at the very beginning
Of our journey,Or in the middle, or at the end.
The desire-life-journeyIs always a disappointment
Either today or tomorrowOr some other time.
```Each life is caught
By temptation-tentacles.Again, each life can be liberated
By God’s infinite CompassionAnd man’s sleepless aspiration.
```When his mind’s teeming doubts
Said good-bye to him,God immediately gave him
His adamantine WillTo manifest God in God’s own Way
Here on earth. ```What is doubt
If not trouble,Here, there and everywhere’?
```If you think that your mind
Is always a trouble-maker,Then why don’t you feel that your heart
Is always a problem-shooter? ```If you do not aspire,
Then you are bound to becomeSooner or later
An attachment, frustrationAnd destruction-hostage.
```There shall come a time
When it is youWho will be doubting your doubts
And taking shelterIn your faith-flooded heart.
```Armed with the faith-sword,
Each truth-seeker and God-loverMust run faster than the fastest
Along the road of God-manifestation. ```Instead of surrendering
To tomorrow’s devouring hunger,We must pray and meditate
To swim speedilyIn the river of self-giving-delight.
```Alas, alas!
I clearly see that my mindHas been totally and mercilessly attacked
By insincerity-insects. ```Who can measure
The ruthless offenceOf an ingratitude-mind
And a God-surrenderless life? ```Alas!
My self-indulgenceConsciously compels
My soul to starve. ```I want to become
A doer of God’s WillAnd not just remain
A hearer of God’s Will. ```When we want to make
Enormous progressIn our spiritual life,
We must live in a thought-free zone. ```There is no such thing
As an aspiration-overflow.There is no such thing
As a dedication-overflow.There is no such thing
As a manifestation-overflow.There can be only one overflow:
A desire-overflow. ```It is necessary
For each individualTo become wise, humble
And self-givingIf he wants to be
God’s choice and perfect instrument. ```A good thought
Is always the starting pointOf our Heavenward journey.
```If you are reluctantly ready
To change your life,Then God does not want it.
He cannot appreciateYour reluctance-transformation.
What He needs and wants from youIs a cheerful and willing
Transformation-beauty,Transformation-perfection and
Transformation-satisfaction. ```In my case,
There is only one wayTo make progress,
And that is through my life’sUnconditional surrender.
```God definitely deposits
His Blessing, Affection and LoveIn your heart-bank.
But your mindSecretly and stealthily withdraws them,
So that everything is depleted. ```God-lovers
Are always hiredBy God Himself.
They never suffer from unemployment. ```My Lord,
My gratitude-heartI should have offered to You
Long, long ago.Now it is shamelessly overdue!
```I made some progress
In my inner life.Then I became overconfident
And proud of myself.Since then, it has all been downhill
In my spiritual life! ```When my heart’s aspiration-flames
Were not burning properly,I begged God to come.
He came only to tell meThat mine was not a serious case,
And that I would be cured.And, in fact, He cured me
In the twinkling of an eye!Now my aspiration-flames
Are burning bright, brighter, brightest. ```When I look at my soul
And my Lord SupremeWith my heart’s oneness-eye,
I see that my soul is like a childIn the Lap of my Lord Supreme,
And that the child and the FatherLook most surprisingly alike!
```Our love for God
Should not be duty-bound.Our willingness, soulfulness
And fruitfulness-love onlyIs what God needs,
For that is the only wayWe can eventually make ourselves happy.
```Our hope becomes
False and uselessOnly when we make
Insincere and weak efforts. ```What will happen
If I forget God?Then I will miss happiness,
I will miss perfection,I will miss satisfaction.
```There will be a new world
Which will be createdBy genuine truth-seekers and God-lovers.
In this new world,Only God and His choice children
Will play, sing and dance. ```The mind oscillates
Between truth and falsehood.Alas,
How can I free myselfFrom this mind-oscillation?
What I need is a mindThat permanently lives
In the heart of truth. ```To me, indecision is not something
Insignificant.It is something significant,
Something destructive,For it does not allow me
To go forwardTo see the beauty of truth
And the light of joy. ```Alas,
When shall I be ableTo liberate myself
From my mind’s ever-thickeningJungle-night?
```God has a very special Concern
For the newly-arrived souls.He does not want them to mix freely
With the old souls,Who have surrendered to
ignorance-night.He wants these newly-arrived souls
To fight right from the beginningAgainst ignorance-night
And establish His supreme VictoryHere on earth.
```Each human being by nature
Wants to know the truth.But very few
Want to grow into the truthAnd become truth-representative-messengers
On earth. ```God wants to see
This universe of HisFlooded not with equality-rivalry
But with equanimity-satisfaction. ```Man has turtle-speed.
Man has insect-ability.Yet man is fond of being
Extolled to the skiesBy the whole world.
```From our heart’s aspiration-airport
We shall have to comeTo our life’s dedication-airport.
From our life’s dedication-airportWe shall have to go to God’s
Manifestation-Satisfaction-Airport. ```When I see the eagerness
Of a starving spiritual seeker,I feel that the full manifestation
Of God on earthWill soon take place.
```Do not allow your fear, doubt,
Anxiety and worryTo march before you
Proudly and shamelessly.Capture them and transform them
Into choice instruments of God. ```Each human being
Should long for the timeWhen he will be flooded
With peace-prosperity. ```What has gone wrong
With your aspiration-cry?I see there is no sincerity,
No purity, no intensity in it.Alas,
Your aspiration-cry has lostAll its beauty, purity and divinity.
```My heart of unconditional surrender
Is God’s supreme spokesmanOn earth.
```Someday
No one will be born,No one will live,
No one will dieIn ignorance-prison-captivity.
```In the inner world
There is no substituteFor the deathless cry.
In the higher worldThere is no substitute
For the infinite Satisfaction. ```When consciousness-calamity
Takes place,Each man becomes
An expression of the animal world. ```My Lord,
Please do not bless meWith the outer-world riches.
I need only inner-world riches,Which are aspiration-cries
And dedication-smiles. ```If you are a truth-seeker,
Eventually you will becomeA God-lover.
Then you will seeThat unless you become a God-server,
You will not be fully satisfied. ```Alas,
What rules my days and nights?My days and nights are being ruled
By my mind’s ego-extension,Ego-dominion and ego-satisfaction.
```God is ready to offer you
His Compassion-Guidance.But is your wild vital ready?
Will it ever be ready? ```If you feel that God’s Compassion-Eye
Is a stranger to you,Then your aspiration-heart
Will not see the beautyAnd the fragrance
Of God’s universal Sunrise. ```Where there is divine love,
There is a heart of oneness.Where there is a heart of oneness,
There is a life of satisfaction. ```I pray to God
To take care ofMy tiny aspiration-plants.
He tells meThat this is the only thing
He is well-qualified to do. ```No matter
What your critics say,Pay no attention to them.
Just increaseYour own heart’s cry
And your own soul’s smile. ```I see the footsteps of unseen guests
Inside my heart.I know, although they are unseen today,
Tomorrow they will be fully visibleTo inspire me, help me and guide me
To the Reality supreme. ```From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 158, Agni Press, 1991
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