Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 178

17701

```

No soulful hope

To please God

In God’s own Way

Can ever be wasted. ```

17702

```

A man without aspiration-flames

Cannot be cherished

By God’s Satisfaction-Smiles.

```

17703

```

Never forget that your faith-friend

Has no parallel

In your aspiration-heart

And dedication-life. ```

17704

```

May each prayer and meditation

Of mine

Ring God’s Victory-Bell

From summit to summit. ```

17705

```

Each desire-fulfilment

Desperately requires

Sleepless prayers.

```

17706

```

When faith

Turns to doubt,

Ignorance-supremacy

Begins to shout. ```

17707

```

A self-giving life

Is itself

An unparalleled achievement

For a seeker. ```

17708

```

How beautiful it looks

When the mind swims

In the heart’s

Purity-flooded surrender-lake. ```

17709

```

Alas, I am totally lost

Between

The cry of ancient seekers

And

The frown of modern criticisers.

```

17710

```

God blesses

Each aspiration-heart

With Eternity’s purity-road.

```

17711

```

My breathless meditation

Is my heart’s

Ecstasy-trance.

```

17712

```

What each human being needs

Is a moment

Without desire-invasion.

```

17713

```

God-lovers look

Extremely beautiful and pure

When they talk about

Their beloved Forgiveness-God. ```

17714

```

To me,

Most beautiful

Is the smiling Eye of God

And most powerful

Are the streaming Tears of God.

```

17715

```

Yesterday’s ignorance made me

A temptation-maker.

Today’s illumination has made me

A temptation-breaker. ```

17716

```

Mine is the heart

That sleeplessly needs

A silence-feeding soul.

```

17717

```

A God-seeker’s child-heart

Is soulfully and charmingly

Beautiful.

```

17718

```

Peace wants to blossom

Inside your heart

And nowhere else.

```

17719

```

My Lord,

I do not need

A perfection-life.

I need only

Your Compassion-Eyes.

```

17720

```

How can I ever describe

The haunting qualities

Of my heart’s silence-songs?

```

17721

```

Eventually

Each and every seeker

Will run along the road

Of unconditional surrender. ```

17722

```

For Your Compassion-Sea,

My Lord,

I shall cry and cry,

But I need not sigh. ```

17723

```

From the mind we can at best

Learn how to proceed forward

With halting steps.

```

17724

```

There is only one way

To feed my Lord Supreme,

And that is with my heart’s

Mounting silence-flames. ```

17725

```

What is the use

Of having a heart

If it does not pulsate

With nectar-delight? ```

17726

```

O truth-seeker,

Be careful and tactful always.

Otherwise,

You can be very hurtful. ```

17727

```

I know that God is aware

Of my mind’s teeming agonies.

But I would like to be aware

Of His compassionate Concern

As well.

```

17728

```

If I am great,

Then it is due to

My heart’s gratitude-tears.

If I am good,

Then it is due to

My life’s surrender-smiles. ```

17729

```

My Lord Supreme,

I am crying for You.

Can You not see?

“My child,

I am beckoning you.

Can you not see?” ```

17730

```

Self-deception

Is bottomless and shameless.

Self-perfection

Is sleepless and endless. ```

17731

```

God wants you to be liberated

From your desire-life

And to cremate your desire-life.

```

17732

```

Each seeker will sooner or later

Come to realise

That God’s Compassion-Height

Is infinitely stronger

Than His Justice-Light.

```

17733

```

Prayer reduces

My mind-doubts.

Meditation reduces

My heart-insecurities. ```

17734

```

Mother Earth is always ready

To sympathise with our suffering

Because of our utter helplessness.

```

17735

```

My wisdom-heart

Never invites

The clever depression-guest.

```

17736

```

No matter how undivine we are,

We cannot go beyond the reach

Of God’s Compassion-Eye.

```

17737

```

On a daily basis

I hunt the doubt-animal

In my mind

To make myself supremely happy. ```

17738

```

My Lord Supreme

Is so happy

To be able to bless me

With my heart’s progress-crown. ```

17739

```

No matter what I do,

I fail to disperse

My mind’s heavy ignorance-clouds.

```

17740

```

God is telling me

That there is a oneness-bridge

Between

My soul’s rainbow-dreams

And

My heart’s fountain-realities. ```

17741

```

Every day

My Lord Beloved Supreme

Blesses my surrender-blossomed heart

With His Transcendental Pride.

Alas, alas, alas, every day

My Lord Supreme helplessly cries

When He looks at

My deliberately unsurrendered mind. ```

17742

```

A sleeplessly self-giving life

Is indeed

A breathlessly

Ecstasy-surcharged heart. ```

17743

```

God does not love me:

This is an old story.

God does not care for me:

This is an old story.

God does not need me:

This is an old story. ```

17744

```

I love God:

This is a new song.

I care for God:

This is a new song.

I need God:

This is a new song. ```

17745

```

God loves us unconditionally:

This is a new song.

God cares for us sleeplessly:

This is a new song.

God needs us desperately:

This is a new song. ```

17746

```

A simplicity-life,

A sincerity-heart

And a purity-breath

Can always please God

In His own Way.

```

17747

```

If you do not aspire,

Then you will be forced to live

In a lonely unreality-world.

```

17748

```

May my heart-cup

Be filled to the brim

With surrender-gratitude

To God. ```

17749

```

To me,

The heart that does not

Love other hearts

Is a criminal heart.

The heart that does not

Cheerfully expand

Is a failure-heart.

```

17750

```

A big zero-mind

Can easily have

A super hero-heart.

```

17751

```

My Lord,

May I see You smiling at me

For a change?

“My child,

May I see you surrendering

Your mind’s bondage-life

For a change?”

```

17752

```

My Lord,

My blundering life every day needs

Your thundering Footsteps

And nothing else

To perfect my ignorance-flooded life.

```

17753

```

The presence of sincerity

In the aspiring heart

Is needed

For a healthy and lasting

Happiness.

```

17754

```

My aspiring heart

Every day struggles hard

To escape my mind’s

Darkness-ignorance-forest. ```

17755

```

O my doubting mind,

Are you not ashamed

Of inventing every day

New problems

For my aspiring heart to solve?

```

17756

```

Oh how I wish

I could make friends

With the silence

Of the evening stars! ```

17757

```

Oh how I wish

I could know

My tomorrow’s life

With my today’s heart! ```

17758

```

I must eventually realise

That the mind-thirst

Of my desire-life

Can never be quenched. ```

17759

```

The blossoming smiles

Of my heart

Are my divinity’s God-dreams.

```

17760

```

We are such fools

That we are seeking

Permanence-joy

In a fleeting world. ```

17761

```

How can I make spiritual progress

Without

The aspiration from within

And the inspiration from without? ```

17762

```

Alas, the desire-mind

Will never have the capacity

To transform its own nature.

```

17763

```

My Lord, do give me the capacity

To pray to You every day

For my aspiration-heart’s

Lightning-oneness-speed. ```

17764

```

My Lord, do not fulfil

My mind’s freedom-desires,

But do fulfil

My heart’s surrender-desires. ```

17765

```

A special Grace is needed

From Above

For the mind to escape from

Anxiety-worry-prison. ```

17766

```

Aspiration

Is sweetness.

Dedication

Is fulness.

Surrender

Is sweetness-fulness-fragrance. ```

17767

```

What I need is not

A God-questioning mind

But a God-crying heart.

```

17768

```

Each time we pray and meditate

God helps us expand

Our heart’s oneness-realm.

```

17769

```

How can we ever expect to find

Protection-security

Inside our division-barrier-mind?

```

17770

```

What is a human mind

If not a conscious and constant

Comfort-search-attempt?

```

17771

```

When I soulfully pray,

I fly with the flames

Of my wisdom-radiance-sun.

```

17772

```

Every morning

I cry for God’s Smile

To clear away

My yesterday’s problem-clouds. ```

17773

```

I am afraid of many things,

But I am mostly afraid

Of my mind’s

Binding and blinding thoughts. ```

17774

```

Each good thought of mine

I see

As a star of my heart

In my soul’s Infinity-sky. ```

17775

```

There is no end

To our heart’s

Newness, eagerness and willingness-

Capacities. ```

17776

```

If you are wise,

Then do not wait

For the Christ to return.

You can go and see him

In Heaven

With your aspiration-heart

And surrender-life.

```

17777

```

As the mind invented sin,

Even so,

The heart has discovered forgiveness.

```

17778

```

The mind

And its calamity-confusion

Are an old story.

The heart

And its poise-illumination

Are a new story. ```

17779

```

An unaspiring mind

Is always afraid

Of newness-adventure.

An aspiring heart

Not only loves

But also grows into

The life of newness-adventure.

```

17780

```

Because of our earth-bound

Ignorance-mind

We always try to separate

The sound of life

From the silence of death.

```

17781

```

Each time I offer something

To Mother Earth

To make her happy,

She immediately blesses me

With her endless cosmic energy.

```

17782

```

As you cannot separate

Fragrance from flower,

Even so, you cannot separate

Life from death. ```

17783

```

Each effort towards self-discovery

Is indeed the divine pride

Of the world of progress-manifestation.

```

17784

```

The desire-fulfilment-dance

Is so fleeting

That it is hard to know

When it starts

And when it ends.

```

17785

```

Alas, most human beings

Live in the world

Of unfulfilled personality.

```

17786

```

My God-surrender

Helps me enjoy

The delight of my soul’s

Dream-expanding horizons. ```

17787

```

What does my life need?

My life needs only

A few flames

From my Lord’s Compassion-flooded Sun. ```

17788

```

Even to accept the fact

That God is in all human beings,

Not to speak of loving God

In all human beings,

Is a difficult task for us.

```

17789

```

The difference between

Dream and Reality

Is this:

Dream awakens us

And Reality fulfils us.

```

17790

```

Alas, ours is the mind’s

Comfort-search

And not the heart’s

Enlightenment-discovery. ```

17791

```

My mind lives either

In the world of nothingness

Or in the world of unevenness.

```

17792

```

My prayer-life tells me

How far I can go.

My meditation-life tells me

Where I eternally am. ```

17793

```

My meditation does not

Have to go anywhere

To see anyone

Or to bring anyone to me.

My meditation is my magnet-heart.

```

17794

```

Each good thought

Is indeed a powerful protest

Against our life’s

Ignorance-king. ```

17795

```

May my eagerness-heart

Tirelessly swim

In the heart of selflessness-sea.

```

17796

```

Mine is the morning prayer-song

That cries for the descent

Of God’s Existence-Consciousness-Bliss.

```

17797

```

Only into the heart of faith

Does God enter

With His Forgiveness-Miracles.

```

17798

```

Yesterday I called them

My aspiration-heart-seeds.

Today I call them

My dedication-life-blossoms. ```

17799

```

My life is composed of

My inner world’s prosperity

And my outer world’s poverty.

```

17800

```

What we need is courage,

Not hope,

To live in God’s

Compassion-Protection-Hands. ```

From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 178, Agni Press, 1993
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