Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 161

16001

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My heart-dreams

Have rainbow-wings.

I see them flying

In the firmament

Of Infinity’s and Eternity’s

Joy-Delight. ```

16002

```

I know, I know,

That my heart’s dedication-sun

Will never set.

It will only shine

And forever shine.

```

16003

```

If you do not discourage

Your desire-life,

How will you encourage

Your aspiration-life?

You have chosen aspiration-life

To give you satisfaction.

Therefore, desire-life

Discourage and discontinue

Right from this very moment.

```

16004

```

A mind of indifference

Is a deplorable possession.

Get rid of this indifference-mind!

Just have a heart

Of concern, sympathy and oneness.

```

16005

```

Alas!

When I look at you,

When I speak to you

And when I think of you,

I see that you have

A very severe sincerity-shortage.

```

16006

```

You do not have to stay always

At a low point

In your aspiration-life.

Cry like a child,

Smile like a child!

Your aspiration-life

Will again rise

High, higher, highest. ```

16007

```

If you are not doing well

In your spiritual life,

Just think you took a false start.

Then, with a new and fresh

Inspiration,

Take another start.

You are bound to take

The right start. ```

16008

```

Your self-styled

Aspiration and dedication

Will very soon prove

To be a mental hallucination

And nothing else.

```

16009

```

If you take your spiritual life

As something amusing

And not inspiring,

Then wherever you go

You are only a spiritual tourist,

And the life of a tourist

Cannot have lasting inner poise.

```

16010

```

I am so glad

That our human life

Is not the final stage

Of evolution.

It is only another

Stepping-stone. ```

16011

```

When you live

In your mind and vital-apartments,

You are bound to see

That your landlords

Are infinitely worse

Than tyrannical. ```

16012

```

If you deviate

From the beautiful, powerful

And fruitful dictates of your soul,

Your life not only will prove

A failure

But also will embody

An extremely sad experience.

```

16013

```

When you are in the heart-home,

There is only an entrance

And no exit.

Not even an emergency exit

Is necessary.

```

16014

```

God’s Compassion

Every morning reads man’s heart

And either pitifully cries

Or powerfully smiles. ```

16015

```

Never go to a mind-shop.

There is nothing there

To please you.

```

16016

```

I am preparing myself

Every day,

Every hour,

Every minute,

To be a member of tomorrow’s

Oneness-perfection-world. ```

16017

```

My seeker-friend,

God’s Ears are in perfect condition.

Just pray soulfully and devotedly.

God definitely does not need

A hearing aid!

```

16018

```

Once you fail

In the divinity-school,

Do not claim that your life is over.

No!

You can again enrol in the divinity-school

And receive a perfection-diploma

From the Lord Himself.

```

16019

```

Since you want your mind

To remain always

In the curiosity-world,

It will not be possible

For you to go beyond curiosity.

You will suffer

From incurable curiosity.

But real spirituality is far beyond

The domain of curiosity.

It is in the heart’s

Fully sincere awakening

That spirituality breathes. ```

16020

```

There are only

Three special lessons

That you have to study

For your God-realisation:

Love God soulfully,

Devote yourself to God sleeplessly

And surrender to God’s Will

Willingly, cheerfully and breathlessly. ```

16021

```

Each failure-experience

Makes us infinitely stronger

Than we can ever imagine.

And each failure-experience

Is meant to give us

Brighter-than-ever realisation —

Powerful, more powerful

And most powerful. ```

16022

```

The last message of hope

I am not ready to hear.

I know it will be

A heartbreaking message,

Which will devastate and destroy my life.

```

16023

```

When my soul tells me

Its progress-story,

I feel that there is someone

On earth

Whom God can trust,

Whom God can love,

Whom God can give the capacity

To be His absolutely choice representative

On earth.

```

16024

```

Eternity’s aspiration-flight

And Infinity’s destination-delight

Each truth-seeker

And each God-lover

Must long for.

```

16025

```

Each human being

Needs to have

Soulful, devoted love

To fulfil God

In God’s own Way.

```

16026

```

Each time I sit

With my surrender-heart

At the Feet of my Lord Supreme,

An overwhelming surge of ecstasy

Enters into my subtle being.

```

16027

```

O my mind,

You too can receive

Satisfaction-Smile

From my Lord Supreme.

Just empty yourself,

And keep no thought-thorns

Inside you.

```

16028

```

Man’s speciality:

Doubt-jungle-mind.

God’s Speciality:

Compassion-Garden-Heart. ```

16029

```

God always asks for help

With earth-transformation.

Alas, there are very few people

Who are willing and ready to join God

In His Transformation-Game.

But there shall come a time

When God will say:

“My children,

If you do not want to help Me,

I will do it all by Myself.

I can do it,

And I shall do it!” ```

16030

```

My heart,

You and I must come out

Of unlit ignorance-cave.

If our mind wants to stay,

Let it stay.

But you and I must come out! ```

16031

```

When it is a matter

Of soulful tears,

There is no difference

Between the heart of earth

And the heart of Heaven.

There is no difference! ```

16032

```

For a sincere seeker

There should be no stopover

Between earth’s aspiration-cry

And Heaven’s satisfaction-smile. ```

16033

```

If a man

Does not have any hope,

Then he is not alive.

And how can a dead man

Do anything

Either for himself

Or for the world?

```

16034

```

When you forget your past,

The past that has not

Fulfilled you,

It is indeed

The greatest blessing

That you can have

From Heaven.

```

16035

```

You say

That you have decreased

Your lethargy-life.

I would like you to prove it!

How?

If you show me that you have increased

Your aspiration-life,

Only then will I feel

That you have actually diminished

Your lethargy-life. ```

16036

```

My vital,

You have studied for a long time

At insecurity-school.

Now stop studying!

My mind,

You have studied for a long time

At insincerity-college.

Now stop studying!

My heart,

It is high time for you

To study at purity-university.

Start studying! ```

16037

```

Capture all your doubts

In the mind, in the vital

And in the physical existence

And bury them

Ruthlessly and happily.

```

16038

```

Insecurity and jealousy

Are the two fatal maladies

Of the mind.

They sail in the same boat.

Lo, the boat has already capsized!

```

16039

```

If our mind

Does not fight with impurity,

If our heart

Does not fight with insecurity,

There can be no permanent victory

In our life of aspiration. ```

16040

```

Are you a fool?

Why do you feed the desire-beggar

In your life

From morn to eve?

Just feed yourself

With your heart’s

Mounting aspiration-flames.

```

16041

```

You will be blessed

With a delight-flooded future

Only if your earthly existence

Becomes your heart’s

Streaming, God-loving tears.

```

16042

```

God does not appreciate you.

God cannot have any good opinion

Of you.

Do you know why?

Because

You are consciously living in

A fear-drenched present.

```

16043

```

He who lives

In the wastelands of lethargy

Is already declared a failure

In the heart of mankind

And in the life of Heaven.

```

16044

```

When your heart asks you

To do something,

You must know

That there is no tomorrow. ```

16045

```

Be careful

Of your little faith-plant.

Take proper care of it.

It needs your constant attention.

If you do not help

Your tiny faith-plant to grow,

Then your mind’s doubt-enemies

Will very soon uproot it.

Then begins

Your spiritual failure-life. ```

16046

```

You are caught,

Mercilessly caught,

In your insecurity-compulsion-cage.

But God’s unconditional Compassion

Can and will save you

And take you out of the cage,

For no individual will remain on earth

Unillumined.

This is God’s Decree.

```

16047

```

My Lord Supreme,

My surrender-heart and I

Have done nothing wrong

To this world.

Yet we have become

Conscious and constant victims

Of the world.

```

16048

```

O my mind, be patient.

You need not hurry!

Eternity is waiting for you

To change your life. ```

16049

```

Be not in a hurry!

Your fastest speed

May cause disaster

In your attempt to reach the goal

Speedily.

```

16050

```

My Lord comes to me

And tells me

That I must barter my beggar-life

For His Infinity’s

Concern-Love-Blessings.

```

16051

```

I have been on the pinnacle-peak

Of success.

Alas!

Happiness was not

To be found there.

Now I am on the solid ground

Of progress,

And I am all delight,

All fulfilment.

```

16052

```

If you delay in safeguarding

Your sacred purity-heart,

Before long your ruthless mind

Will not only capture

But also destroy

Your purity-heart. ```

16053

```

Every day

The human life likes to enjoy

Procrastination-dance.

Alas!

Satisfaction in the inner world

And satisfaction in the outer world

Have to remain a far cry.

```

16054

```

Is your life

A living tribute to God?

If it is,

Then you can claim God

As your own, very own,

And God will proclaim Himself

Your loving and serving Slave.

```

16055

```

If the unworthiness-giant in you

Is not destroyed

By your soul’s adamantine faith,

Yours will be a life

Of most painful experience.

```

16056

```

The indifference of my mind

Has covered my heart.

How hard I am trying

To liberate my heart

From the indifference

Of my mind!

O my Lord, help me!

I am all tears, my Lord,

Save me!

```

16057

```

Thought-insects are biting you.

Do you know why?

Because you have surrendered yourself

To your restless mind.

Surrender yourself only

To your heart of peace.

Then there will be

No thought-insects to bite you. ```

16058

```

There should not be any pause

In your aspiration-life.

It is the continuous flow

Of your aspiration

That God wants from you.

```

16059

```

Your gratitude-heart’s tears

Will increase a thousandfold

If your inner life

And your outer life

Become a song of unconditional surrender

To God. ```

16060

```

Each good thought,

Each divine thought,

Each illumining thought

Is indeed a hero-warrior

Of the Lord Supreme.

```

16061

```

My prayer-heart

And my sacrifice-life

Consciously and sleeplessly

Support each other. ```

16062

```

Complacency is nothing other than

Deviation from truth

And separation from one’s own

Real divinity. ```

16063

```

Your heart’s silence-tears

Will definitely unite you

With God

Perfectly and satisfactorily. ```

16064

```

I have the same old weaknesses:

Fear, doubt, anxiety, worry,

Insecurity and impurity.

But I do not think

They will forever reign supreme.

No!

God has a different note

To play inside my heart.

God has a different story

To tell inside my life. ```

16065

```

16066

```

I am counting the minutes

Until God comes

And blesses my purity-heart’s

Gratitude-garden. ```

16067

```

Is there anybody

For whom God does not use

His all-loving Concern-Umbrella?

God comes to protect us always

With His Concern-Umbrella.

But sometimes we are reluctant to use it.

We want to save ourselves.

We are so deep

In our own stark stupidity.

```

16068

```

All your desires

One by one

Will eventually disintegrate.

Just wait and see! ```

16069

```

When there is a fight

Between my heart’s delight

And my vital’s despair,

My soul always takes

My heart’s side,

For my heart is always right. ```

16070

```

If you are attacked by doubt,

If you are attacked by depression,

If you are attacked by frustration,

Do not think that that is the end.

There is still God’s Concern,

There is still God’s Oneness-Heart.

Invoke them!

They will come

To your immediate rescue.

```

16071

```

When the doubt-missiles

Attacked his mind ruthlessly,

His mind immediately surrendered.

But now,

God’s unconditional Compassion-Eye

Is operating in and through him

To give his mind a new life.

```

16072

```

If we all sail

The same selflessness-heart-boat,

Then this world of ours

Will have a new name:

Perfection-Delight.

```

16073

```

The clutter of thoughts

Has diminished

Man’s God-awareness

And God-fulfilment. ```

16074

```

Every day

Our desire-list has to become

Short, shorter, shortest.

Only then our aspiration-list

Will become

Long, longer, longest.

With this longest aspiration-list,

We shall arrive at God’s Heart-Door. ```

16075

```

When I do not pray,

When I do not meditate,

When I do not serve,

I feel without fail

An abysmal helplessness

Inside me. ```

16076

```

You call it self-doubt today,

But tomorrow,

When you are awakened,

That very thing

You will know was self-hatred,

Which ruined your spiritual

Fulfilment-possibilities.

```

16077

```

When we pray,

We see that there are other worlds.

When we meditate,

We bring down the sunlit worlds

Into our ordinary life.

```

16078

```

God’s Manifestation-Motto

Is so simple:

Peace within, peace without,

Peace between two thoughts,

Peace between two individuals,

Peace between Heaven and earth. ```

16079

```

It is absolutely unnecessary

To convince your mind

That you and your heart

Are doing the right thing. ```

16080

```

O, where can I find

An unconditionally surrendered life

To inspire me, lead me and guide me

To my destination? ```

16081

```

In the morning

When I offer my obedience

To my Lord Supreme,

I feel I am a real member

Of His Heart-Family.

In the evening

When I offer my soulful gratitude

To my Lord Supreme,

I feel I am a true member

Of His Inner Circle.

```

16082

```

Happiness comes and happiness goes.

Why it comes and why it goes

I do not know.

But my Lord Supreme,

This time when You give me happiness,

Do make me the very breath of happiness,

So that happiness cannot leave me!

```

16083

```

God’s Compassion is there

For the entire world.

Every day He blesses us

With His Compassion.

But again, every day

We cast aside His Compassion

And try to live our lives

In our own ignorant way. ```

16084

```

Do not stop

Your inner education!

The day you stop

Your inner education,

Ignorance-wolf

Will chase you, catch you

And devour you.

```

16085

```

Enthusiasm

Is of supreme importance.

Before we embark

On our spiritual journey,

While we are on the journey

And at the end of our journey’s close,

Enthusiasm

Is our constant, sleepless need. ```

16086

```

You want to swim

Against temptation-tide

Without God’s Grace?

Impossible!

No physical power, no vital power,

No mental power

Has the capacity

To swim against temptation-tide.

God’s Compassion-Power only

Can make you succeed. ```

16087

```

To have an impurity-mind

Is already

A severe punishment

From the higher worlds. ```

16088

```

Swiftly, safely and cheerfully

At every moment

I must sail

My hope-dream-promise-boat

Towards the Golden Shore.

```

16089

```

If you proclaim yourself

To be perfect,

Then I have nothing

To learn from you,

For to me perfection is not in declaration;

Perfection is in embodiment

Of the highest divinity.

```

16090

```

The opportunity-bird

Brings me the message

Of tomorrow’s all-illumining

And all-fulfilling dawn. ```

16091

```

Do not break

Your promise to God,

For God, too, has a Heart

Like you,

And it badly, severely hurts

His Heart. ```

16092

```

O my mind-kingdom,

Why are you so foolish?

Why have you allowed yourself

For such a long time

To be ruled by doubt-monarch?

Can you not see

That doubt-monarch

Is torturing you, destroying you? ```

16093

```

A purity-surcharged heart

Is the beginning

Of a safe and fulfilling

Heavenward journey. ```

16094

```

The mind’s mantra is:

“I can speak on God-subject

Twenty-four hours a day.”

The heart’s mantra is:

“My Lord,

Speak and speak!

Do speak to me

Twenty-four hours a day.

I will just listen,

Seated at Your Feet.”

```

16095

```

If you allow your impurity-mind

To trespass on your purity-heart,

You are making

A most deplorable mistake

In your life’s aspiration-journey.

```

16096

```

The unwritten messages of my heart

Are so sweet, so beautiful,

So soulful and so illumining.

The unwritten messages of my heart:

Never abandon aspiration-cries.

Never abandon aspiration-hopes.

Never abandon aspiration-promises.

```

16097

```

Unlike human beings,

God does not believe in examining

My heart’s sincerity.

```

16098

```

To throw oneself soulfully

Into others’ earth-elevating activities

Is a very difficult task.

Again,

If we do not do it,

This world of ours

Will remain imperfect forever.

```

16099

```

The greedy mind thinks

That life without success is useless.

The hungry heart feels

That life without progress is deplorable. ```

16100

```

Every day

A fresh garland of devotion-flowers

He places at the Feet

Of his Lord Beloved Supreme. ```

From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 161, Agni Press, 1991
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