Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 174

17301

```

How I wish I could come

To my Lord Supreme

With my gratitude-heart

At lightning speed. ```

17302

```

O my mind,

You cannot say that I did not try

To transform you.

I tried, again and again,

Only to fail!

```

17303

```

O my mind,

All you need to be

Is simplicity-smile

And sincerity-cry. ```

17304

```

O my long-neglected heart-shrine,

Forgive me once more!

I am going to use you

Throughout Eternity. ```

17305

```

My seeker-friend,

How can you have even an iota of peace

If you allow your mind

To have butterfly-thoughts? ```

17306

```

Yesterday

Fear crippled me.

Today

Doubt is devouring me.

Alas, alas!

```

17307

```

My Lord,

May my life begin every day

With an aspiration-song

And a dedication-dance. ```

17308

```

If you do not sow

Patience-seed,

Can you ever collect

Satisfaction-harvest? ```

17309

```

The mind’s giant-doubt

Is no match for

The heart’s atom-faith.

```

17310

```

My Lord,

I agree with You

That I should not allow

My heart-flower to wilt

Any time

In this aspiration-life of mine. ```

17311

```

Each tiny doubt

Is a heavier-than-the-heaviest

Misfortune-carrier!

```

17312

```

O silence-sun, O silence-sun,

In your glow my heart feels

Infinity’s Peace.

```

17313

```

Be supremely brave!

Stand face-to-face

With ignorance-night!

It is bound to surrender

And disappear.

```

17314

```

Man denies God

Whenever he wants to.

Yet God loves man

Even though He does not have to. ```

17315

```

A purity-heart

Lives in God’s own

Oneness-Peace-Heart-Garden.

```

17316

```

My desire-transcendence

Is my

God-satisfaction-permanence.

```

17317

```

A doubting mind

Will eventually become

A totally defeated

Expectation-life. ```

17318

```

Even God’s Compassion-Eye

Is not a remedy

For man’s unwillingness-disease.

```

17319

```

Only the fulfilment

Of God-directed decisions

Can make my life

Beautiful, peaceful and fruitful. ```

17320

```

My Lord Supreme,

May my life be devoted

Only to Your

Heart-Satisfaction. ```

17321

```

Every day

My inner life and my outer life

Live on God’s

Forgiveness-Sweetness-Fragrance. ```

17322

```

May beauty’s hope

And duty’s promise

Flow towards

My aspiration’s future life. ```

17323

```

Inspiration-leaves

My mind needs.

Aspiration-tree

My heart needs.

Dedication-flower

My soul needs.

Realisation-fruits

My life needs. ```

17324

```

A sincere God-lover

Is an unhorizoned God-messenger

Of oneness-fulness-peace.

```

17325

```

The happiness of the soul

Dances only with

A surrender-blossomed heart.

```

17326

```

God wants me to have

Happiness-receptivity

So that at a moment’s pause

He can bless me

With His Infinity’s Love

And His Infinity’s Peace. ```

17327

```

Every day

My Compassion-Lord

Saves me from drowning

In my roaring pride-ocean. ```

17328

```

O my doubting mind,

Away you go!

I am so happy

To see you go. ```

17329

```

This morning

My Lord Supreme told my mind

That His Forgiveness-Licence

Had expired. ```

17330

```

My heart’s devotion-dawn

Is clearing

My mind’s cloudy sky.

```

17331

```

Each soulful thought

In the mind

Is a new prosperity-dawn

For the aspiring life. ```

17332

```

A self-giving God-lover

Always wins

The inner election.

```

17333

```

How I wish

I could always live

Inside

My peace-fragrance-heart-garden. ```

17334

```

May my heart’s intensity

Pilot my life’s

Enthusiasm-boat.

```

17335

```

When God forgave me,

My gratitude-heart

Immediately sparkled in my eyes.

```

17336

```

A mind-occupied life

Knows no divine joy.

A heart-empty life

Knows no divine joy. ```

17337

```

An unwilling mind

Is doomed to be

A crying failure.

```

17338

```

When I look within

I become my illumination-heart.

When I look without

I become my frustration-mind. ```

17339

```

To be absolutely perfect,

Exclude

Your mind-information

And include

Your heart-education.

```

17340

```

To my extreme sorrow,

Yesterday my mind’s disobedience-clouds

Befriended me.

To my extreme joy,

Today my heart’s sunbeams

Have befriended me. ```

17341

```

When I offer my Lord Supreme

My gratitude-heart,

He chooses me to be a passenger

In His Compassion-Heart-Boat. ```

17342

```

My mind,

I shall not allow you

To fool my heart

Ever again. ```

17343

```

In vain

My heart tells my mind

That each moment

Is a God-fulfilment-opportunity. ```

17344

```

Two things I desperately need:

A simplicity-loving mind

And a purity-blossoming heart.

```

17345

```

I perfectly know that

Doubt is synonymous with

A foul-weather night.

```

17346

```

My Lord Supreme,

First things first:

Do bless me to become

An obedience-heart-smile. ```

17347

```

If it is true

That my Lord Beloved Supreme

Is coming,

Then it is equally true

That I am finally

Becoming. ```

17348

```

Consciously and confidently

We must say good-bye

To the storms

Of our mind’s ignorance-night. ```

17349

```

I do not want to be

The master of earthly things.

I want to be

The brother of Heavenly things. ```

17350

```

The mind has to grow

Divinely.

The heart has to glow

Perfectly.

The life has to flow

Supremely. ```

17351

```

My tolerance

Is my Lord’s Illumination

Acting in and through me

For my perfection. ```

17352

```

A good thought

Must never be kept encaged.

Let it fly

In humanity’s oneness-freedom-sky. ```

17353

```

God the Aspiration

Is becoming very powerful in me.

How I wish

God the Satisfaction

To be pleased with me

As well! ```

17354

```

The mind’s assertion

I was yesterday.

The heart’s aspiration

I am today.

The soul’s realisation

Tomorrow I shall be. ```

17355

```

In the morning

When my heart cries for God,

God blesses me

With a flower-fragrance-breath. ```

17356

```

If you have

A sleeplessly God-surrendering heart,

Then your disappointment-mind

Cannot come into existence. ```

17357

```

My heart’s prayer-fragrance

Soulfully grants me

My life’s progress-delight.

```

17358

```

O my heart’s gratitude-teardrops,

Where are you?

I desperately need you

To win the Smile

Of my Beloved Lord Supreme.

```

17359

```

Even in the eyes of his enemies,

His heart is good

And his mind is great.

```

17360

```

I am so happy

That I have finally started

To piece together

My shattered aspiration-life. ```

17361

```

He who is supremely great

Cannot be tormented

By man’s ingratitude-thorns.

```

17362

```

Sacrifice

Is my inner name.

Determination

Is my outer name.

Lo, I have started tearing down

The towering walls of my doubts. ```

17363

```

My heart’s

Gratitude-breath

Is my life’s

Sacred flower-fragrance-garden. ```

17364

```

My Compassion-Lord Supreme

Every day tells me

That He will give me

Another chance. ```

17365

```

Who is your Master?

Not he who asks you

To touch his feet,

But he who asks you

To be his Eternity’s friend.

```

17366

```

Only an unconditional surrender-heart

Has the capacity

To learn fast, very fast,

The God-manifestation-game. ```

17367

```

O my mocking mind,

O my suspecting mind,

There shall definitely come a time

When you will be utterly disgusted

With yourself.

```

17368

```

My life’s outer success

May please my Lord Supreme,

But my heart’s inner progress

Definitely fulfils my Lord Supreme. ```

17369

```

I am sure that

Tomorrow’s heart-illumining dawn

Will teach

My God-searching mind. ```

17370

```

The happiness of my life

Cannot fly

Without my heart’s

Aspiration-wings. ```

17371

```

God needs

My pure heart.

I want

God’s sure Power. ```

17372

```

My meditation is

My aspiration-sky.

My meditation is

My dedication-ocean. ```

17373

```

Every day my heart

Takes a tremendous risk

In trusting my mind.

```

17374

```

Since God alone

Cannot satisfy me,

He takes help from

His Compassion-Light. ```

17375

```

At times

Unlearning is a blessing unparalleled

From Above.

```

17376

```

Alas,

A miniature aspiration-hill

Is my spiritual height.

```

17377

```

I must know

That nobody has forced

My aspiration-heart

To be in exile,

Nobody.

```

17378

```

Happy is the mind

That does not doubt.

Happier is the heart

That does not fear.

Happiest is the life

That does not surrender

To ignorance-night.

```

17379

```

Alas, where am I?

I am in between

A visible ocean

And an invisible shore. ```

17380

```

Each uncomely thought

Blights humanity’s life

And pains Divinity’s Heart.

```

17381

```

Be brave!

Cancel all your surrender-thoughts

To failure.

```

17382

```

Each time I meditate

On God’s Compassion-Eye,

God helps me to shed tears

Of gratitude-delight. ```

17383

```

The indifference of Heaven

And the helplessness of earth

Are unfathomably painful

To each other. ```

17384

```

Every morning

I breathe in hope-breath

And breathe out fulfilling promises.

```

17385

```

A reality-dream

Shall fulfil

Humanity’s God-fulfilment-prayer.

```

17386

```

The suspicion-mind

Is a perfect stranger

To humanity’s aspiration

And Divinity’s Compassion. ```

17387

```

Everybody clings to

Desire-fulfilment-dream.

Alas,

Satisfaction-reality

Never blossoms.

```

17388

```

Every day

My gratitude-heart beckons

God’s Compassion-flooded Heart.

```

17389

```

Complexity-clouds

Will without fail

One day surrender

To simplicity’s transformation-sun. ```

17390

```

Each desire-story

Eventually surrenders

To aspiration-song.

```

17391

```

How can you ever

Feed and please God

In His own Way,

If you continue enjoying

Your doubting mind,

Insecure heart

And impure breath?

```

17392

```

God’s Will

Will begin to prevail in your life

If you can

Quite frequently and freely

Show your enthusiasm-smile.

```

17393

```

A heart of oneness-peace

Will always find a home

In everybody’s heart.

```

17394

```

Your soul has done

Countless good deeds for you.

Can you not do

A good deed for your soul,

Just by offering it your gratitude-heart?

```

17395

```

Only a seeker

With unconditional surrender

Will be able to build

A new world-promise. ```

17396

```

How can I make God happy?

Only by serving God

In God’s own Way.

```

17397

```

How do I serve God?

I serve God

With my gratitude-tears.

```

17398

```

If you can enjoy

God-oriented thoughts,

Then your mind’s bondage-chains

Will disappear. ```

17399

```

Inspiration and aspiration

Are not man-made

But God-blossomed.

```

17400

```

My Lord,

May my aspiration-heart

Be given the chance

To hold Your Compassion-Eye

Just for a moment.

```

From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 174, Agni Press, 1992
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