Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 172

17101

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When I use my mind,

I become the prisoner

Of my choice.

When I use my heart,

I become the fulfiller

Of my inner voice. ```

17102

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Every day God asks you

To debate your mind’s

Nothingness-confusion-conclusion.

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17103

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You must realise

That true devotion to God

Is absolutely honey-sweet.

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17104

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You fool!

How do you dare

To underestimate

The extent of God’s

Compassion-Victory?

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17105

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Each impure thought in the mind

Is undoubtedly detrimental

To our fastest God-speed.

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17106

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Let us all pray to God

Most soulfully and most devotedly

To grant us

A nectar-flooded new year. ```

17107

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The heart’s inner cry

Is not only beautiful

But also extremely, extremely powerful.

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17108

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My heart’s obedience is not only

My mind’s solution in my outer life

But also my heart’s perfection

In my inner life. ```

17109

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I know so many things.

But, alas, I do not know why

I do not know

One simple thing:

How can my mind

Have so much pride? ```

17110

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My Lord Supreme tells me

That only His Forgiveness-Smiles

Can purify and illumine

My entire being. ```

17111

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My life’s flower-devotion

Can blossom

Only when I feel that I need

Only one thing

Sleeplessly and breathlessly,

And that thing is my aspiration. ```

17112

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Do not exert yourself,

But sleeplessly give yourself

To win God’s smiling Eye.

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17113

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If you want to be happy,

Then every day

You must consciously ignore

Your mind’s suspicion-hounds. ```

17114

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My life’s

Aspiration-devotion-perfection

And my Lord’s

Oneness-Fondness-Embrace

Are inseparable.

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17115

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My Lord, do give me the capacity

To sincerely pray to You

For the removal

Of each and every drop

Of my ego-pride.

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17116

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How can you be

A perfect instrument of God

If you do not care

To attain the impossible:

The perfection of your nature?

```

17117

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My Lord has already kept open

My heart’s door.

I do not know why

My heart is so foolishly hesitating

To come in.

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17118

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When your God-hunger becomes

Ceaseless and insatiable,

God will stand compassionately

Right in front of you —

And not before.

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17119

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Your mind may not know

What will make you happy,

But your heart does know

How to make you happy.

Listen to your heart.

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17120

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What my heart needs

Is aspiration-speed,

What my life needs

Is dedication-speed,

And what I need

Is surrender-speed. ```

17121

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Only a constantly surrendered seeker

Can drink peace-nectar —

And nobody else.

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17122

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God tells me that

He always presides over

Our heart’s opening ceremonies.

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17123

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If you want to beat the drum

Of your success-life,

You can.

But your Lord Supreme will recognise

Only your progress-life.

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17124

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I am praying to God most soulfully

To ask His Forgiveness-Heart,

Or at least His Compassion-Eye,

To take the wheel of my life-boat. ```

17125

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If you are afraid of

God’s Thunder-Feet,

How can your soul-bird

Smile in and through you? ```

17126

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You have shown God many times

Your fearful eyes.

Can you not show God at least once

Your cheerful heart? ```

17127

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What is aspiration?

It is our heart’s quest

For the perfect manifestation

Of God’s Fulness on earth. ```

17128

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May my heart

Every day be blessed

With a sea-deep cry

To see Your blue

Compassion-Eye.

```

17129

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Compromise with ignorance

Is not sweetness

But real bitterness

In utter disguise. ```

17130

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Each time I think of God

Or pray to God,

I feel I am dancing

On God’s Freedom-Ground. ```

17131

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Reality is not the head

But the heart

Of my God-fulfilling dreams.

```

17132

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Do not parade

Your mind’s sincerity.

Do not parade

Your heart’s purity.

Do not parade

Your life’s divinity.

These are God’s Jobs.

Why do you have to take

His Jobs away?

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17133

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If you enjoy the mind’s

Futility-exercises,

How can you expect your heart

To be a happiness-fountain? ```

17134

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Each time we think of God,

We must feel that we are becoming

A new prophet-vision

Of hope-light. ```

17135

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Give what you have:

Sincerity.

Give what you are:

Purity.

Then God will supply you

With His infinite Smiles. ```

17136

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Each time we think

Of desire-life,

We spoil God’s Perfection-Plan

In us. ```

17137

```

Insecurity,

Selfishness

And jealousy

Form an advancing army

Of futility-stupidity.

```

17138

```

Alas,

My Lord Supreme hides

Every day

In my heart’s hope-shelter. ```

17139

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Self-giving capacity

Is endless.

God-fulfilling necessity

Is birthless and deathless. ```

17140

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My perfection,

And not my salvation,

Is the complete story

In the Eye of my Beloved Supreme. ```

17141

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Our mind’s relationship

With anything or anybody

Is always extremely fragile.

```

17142

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You need not be doomed

To disappointment.

Dive deep within.

Then you will be able to see

Endless hopes

Rising and glowing

On your life’s horizon.

```

17143

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I have opened my heart-door

Only to let in

God’s smiling Eyes.

```

17144

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When we go away from

The faith of our heart,

We are unmistakably tormented

By fear-terrorists. ```

17145

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My life’s progress is slain

Because I am playing

With my mind’s lethargy-chain.

```

17146

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O seeker,

Open your heart-door!

God’s Compassion-Eye

Is extremely eager

To visit you.

```

17147

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The heart never forgets

The golden dreams

That are going to transform

The seeker’s entire life. ```

17148

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Now that my old friend frustration

Has gone,

I can have a totally new friend:

Hope,

Hope illumining and hope fulfilling.

```

17149

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O my mind, be wise!

Never loosen your connection

With your heart-wisdom-light-teacher.

```

17150

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The wall between

The body and the soul

Is not thick.

It is thin, plus transparent. ```

17151

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I have the capacity

To make God sing and sigh.

When I say God is for me,

He sings.

When I say God is not for me,

He sighs. ```

17152

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I am not afraid

Of God’s Omnipotence-Hands.

But I am afraid

Of God’s Omnipresence-Tears. ```

17153

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The denial of life is so easy.

The full acceptance of life

For the manifestation of God

Is a task infinitely more difficult

Than you can ever imagine.

```

17154

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May my gratitude-heart

Be based on my purity-life

To please my Lord Supreme

Always in His own Way. ```

17155

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Forgive the tormenting past.

You will be happy.

Forget the tormenting past.

You will have every chance

To be a perfect instrument of God.

```

17156

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Be not bound

By your mind’s

Feeble beliefs.

Be bound

By your heart’s

Strong convictions. ```

17157

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God always loves

Our prayers,

Even our mind’s

Feeble prayers. ```

17158

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How can a man ascend

To his perfect perfection-height

If he does not have the courage

To stand all by himself

When the occasion demands?

```

17159

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The mind is proud of itself

When it is filled with facts.

God is proud of the mind

When it is empty of thoughts. ```

17160

```

Alas,

I am lost between

The endless questions

Of my mind

And the streaming tears

Of my heart. ```

17161

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Two songs are most melodious:

Life’s surrender-song

And heart’s gratitude-song.

```

17162

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Just a tiny aspiration-flame

Has the capacity to illumine

The mind’s dark abyss.

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17163

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My Lord,

I wish to go far beyond the domains

Of my life’s tragedy

And my heart’s rhapsody. ```

17164

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If you do not cling to your mind’s

Hallucination-cave,

God will invite you to come and visit

His Heart’s Illumination-Palace. ```

17165

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My surrender-sweetness

Perfectly paves the way

To God’s infinite Delight.

```

17166

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When adversity challenges you,

Be brave.

Inspire and energise yourself

To go beyond the reach

Of adversity.

```

17167

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God never encouraged me

To learn the world-denial-song.

On the contrary,

He inspired, encouraged

And blessed me

To sing the world-acceptance-song

And dance the world-transformation-dance.

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17168

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My heart’s progress-train

Is bound to slow down

If I do not have my soul

Inside the train as the conductor. ```

17169

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Now that I have

Brought to the fore

My indomitable faith-capacity,

My old doubt-popularity cannot last. ```

17170

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When I live inside my heart,

I see that my life has become

A source of inspiration

To all human beings.

When I live inside my mind,

I see that my life has become

Nothing but confrontation-desert

And confusion-jungle. ```

17171

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Since the pride-problem

Is universal,

Can we not try to place this problem

At the Feet of

The Transcendental Lord Supreme?

```

17172

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To avoid danger

Is indeed a difficult task.

But to make friends

With safety continuously

Is indeed an impossible task.

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17173

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I lose my heart’s

Flower-fragrance

When I allow myself

To be owned by anger. ```

17174

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Since a new hope-dawn

Is blossoming inside your heart,

Say good-bye to your mind’s

Deathless confusion-night. ```

17175

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A constantly cheerful mind

Can make my life’s despair-night

Obsolete.

```

17176

```

The mind’s old conflicts

Can be conquered

Only by the heart’s

New solutions. ```

17177

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The simplicity of the mind,

The purity of the heart

And the divinity of the vital

Are abiding realities. ```

17178

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My Lord Supreme,

Do give me a little rest

From my self-made,

Torturing miseries. ```

17179

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What is the difference

Between self-aggrandising thought

And breath-suffocating thought?

None! ```

17180

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God’s Compassion-Eye

Embraces even

Our endless unkindness

And useless sentiments. ```

17181

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Expectation is not

Self-deception.

But expectation can be

Fatal life-frustration. ```

17182

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It is so difficult for our mind

To sing silence-song.

It is so difficult for our heart

To sing gratitude-song. ```

17183

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God’s Compassion-Heart-Temple

Is for all and sundry

To sing, pray and dance in.

```

17184

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The difference between

Your path and my path

Is this:

Your path thinks

That one has to do everything good

To please God;

My path thinks

That nobody can please God

Unless God wants to please Himself

In and through us. ```

17185

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Each time a human being

Doubts his own divinity,

He loses

His oneness-world-citizenship. ```

17186

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I see God

Inside the smile

Of His oneness-fulness-creation.

```

17187

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What I need

Is Infinity’s Peace

In Divinity’s Space.

```

17188

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If you want your mind

To fly freely in God’s own Sky,

Then make friends with your heart

Immediately. ```

17189

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Nobody has asked you

To believe in the Unknowable.

Just try to believe

That a higher Source

Is guiding your earthly journey.

```

17190

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If there is no devotion

Inside the heart,

Then the heart-song

Can never reach satisfaction-delight. ```

17191

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O technology,

Can you not see

That you have mutilated

The beauty, the fragrance and the smile

Of my heart?

```

17192

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God-Satisfaction-Smile

You can receive

Not from your self-limiting cry

But from your self-giving smile. ```

17193

```

Spirituality

Transcends nationality

To reveal its soul-form:

Universality. ```

17194

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Doubt

Claims my mind.

Faith

Claims my heart.

God

Claims both my life’s nothingness

And my soul’s fulness.

```

17195

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God wants my mind to be

A reliable receiver,

My heart to be

A reliable giver

And my soul to be

A reliable forgiver. ```

17196

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Each soulful thought

In our heart

Descends

From a flower-flooded garden

Of the sky.

```

17197

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Alas,

A sincere gratitude-heart

Is very rarely visible

In human beings. ```

17198

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The heart is telling the mind

That it does not have to do anything difficult

To be happy.

It just has to watch

The heart’s horizon expand.

```

17199

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If you want to be perfect,

Then you must climb up

And reach perfection

At its own height. ```

17200

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The mind’s newness

Cannot save the world.

But the heart’s oneness

Can and should save the world. ```

From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 172, Agni Press, 1992
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