My Lord, if so is Your Will,
I shall lovingly, devotedlyAnd unconditionally
Carry Your Message of peaceTo the very ends of the earth.
```My Lord Supreme,
I am simply tiredOf telling You my desire-stories.
How I wishI could sing for You
At least one aspiration-song. ```My Lord Supreme
Wants to share with meEverything of His
ExceptHis ever-increasing world-burden.
```At last the impurity of the mind
Is being purified and illuminedBy the self-giving seeker’s
Compassion-heart. ```Imperfection
Is not only an unaspiring thingBut also a dangerous thing
In life. ```The life of a doubting mind
Is nothing butAn unwanted self-torture.
```Obedience, gratitude and perfection:
Alas, will these threeDivine realities
Ever be on the rise? ```Religion-wrangling
Must come to an endIf our real inner life
Is to come to the fore. ```God does not want us
To understand anything of His.He just wants us
To feel everything of His,Especially His Heart.
```Each aspiring soul
Has to be conversant inGod’s Silence-flooded Language.
```The heavier
Our heart-cry-weight,The sooner we receive
God’s Satisfaction-Pride in us. ```God does not want us to live
On the threshold of willingness.He wants us to live
In the heart-home of self-givingness. ```A childlike surrender
Is nothing short ofOur God-confidence-life.
```O seeker,
There is no joyIn standing around.
Dive deep within!You will discover
Your hiddenLife-illumining realities.
```Each time I offer something
To mankindLovingly and devotedly,
I hear the whisperOf a God-Satisfaction-sunrise.
```O my doubting mind,
Can you not seeThat the road you are walking on
Leads youFrom nothingness to nowhere?
```Without the inner assurance
From God,It is extremely difficult
For a seekerTo make swift inner progress.
```God and God’s Lotus-Feet
Will give you shelter.Why do you like to roam
Inside the nowhere-mind-territory? ```The sanctuary of the heart
Must always be keptNot only secret
But also sacred. ```O my mind,
You have neglected my body.Because of your negligence
My vital is poiselessAnd my body is helpless.
```The unconditional surrender-life
Of a human beingCan lighten the heavy burdens
Of the Lord Supreme. ```The human mind
Grudgingly waitsFor God’s Compassion-arrival.
The divine heart
Eagerly waitsFor God’s Compassion
And Self-giving-arrival. ```O my mind,
There was a timeWhen I valued your usefulness.
Now I see your uselessness.Therefore,
I want to be on my own. ```With my heart’s surrender-dawn
I went to God,And God proudly gave me
His Heart’s Rainbow-Blessings. ```O my mind,
I blame you, and nobody else,For neglecting the wisdom-sun
And allowing it to be eclipsed. ```God does not want you to learn
All about human nature.God wants you to study
Only your heart-harmony-lessons. ```O my dearer-than-the-dearest
And sweeter-than-the-sweetest Lord,May I immediately respond
To Your faintest Whisper-Call. ```Although it took me a long time,
I am now really happy,Now that I am firmly intent
On pleasing my Lord SupremeIn every way.
```I am determined to sing
My Lord’s Victory-SongWith each and every one
Of my heartbeats. ```Each unconditional act of a seeker
Has the capacityTo lovingly and powerfully cradle
The entire universe. ```My Lord Supreme,
Please advise meHow I can make up
For lost time.“My child, do not worry.
Whenever you start,I shall take it as the real time,
As My Heart-gladdening time.” ```My Lord Supreme,
When I am in the inner world,Do give me
Capacity-quality-aspiration-cries. ```I am constantly amazed
At my mind’s perplexitiesAnd my heart’s simplicities.
```There was a time when I cried
For fame and gold.But now I long for
Peace and golden light. ```I have come to realise
That only my gratitude-heartCan help me
On my uphill aspiration-climb. ```O my doubting mind,
By this time you must realiseThat your home is elsewhere,
And not inside my aspiring heart. ```The divinity of faith
Is Eternity’sDoubt-problem-solver.
```In the life of aspiration
If you use the mindAnd not the heart,
Then you are bound to takeMany false starts.
```When my mind is all surrender
And my heart is all gratitude,My life becomes a life
Of unending progress-surprises. ```Self-sacrifice-fire
Is the most effectiveLife-transformation-power.
```When we stand upon the stage
Of oneness-love,Fear and doubt cannot stand
Beside us. ```Each time I offer a good thought
To any human being,I feel that I am carrying
The message of oneness-liberation. ```This world of ours
Cannot belong toHuman demand and greed.
It belongs only toIllumining happiness
And fulfilling promises. ```A God-loving heart
Is undoubtedly one withA man-serving life.
```Unlike my mind,
My heart loves to enjoyThe universal oneness-smile.
```My vital kicks and kicks
At the reality,Only to become tired.
My vital screams and screamsAt the reality,
Only to become tired.It accomplishes nothing beautiful,
Nothing fruitful. ```Two times
I get real satisfaction:Once when my mind sighs,
And once when my heart cries. ```My heart trembles when giant doubt
Threatens my aspiration-flightTo the uncharted inner lands.
```At this late hour
There is no time to waste.Either the mind has to surrender
To the heart,Or the mind has to remain away,
Far away,From the beauty and purity
Of the heart. ```When I speak
Only from the heart,I get an extra supply
Of confidenceTo please my Lord Supreme.
```My Lord Supreme,
I have talked to You for a long timeAll about myself.
Can You not tell meIn just a few words
What You are here on earth for? ```How can God-discovery
Be our birthrightWhen our mind is
Terribly insecureAnd our heart is
Unthinkably impure? ```May every moment
Of my aspiration-heartAnd my dedication-life
Be a satisfaction-manifestationOf God on earth.
```When I am in the mind,
I tell God:Forget me not.
When I am in the heart,
I tell God:We shall remember each other.
```The human in me tells me
I cannot go any further.The divine in me tells me:
“Keep going!God Himself is nearing you.”
```The heart’s surrender
Is our God-oneness-will.The mind’s surrender
Is a counterfeit faith. ```Keep singing only heart-songs
Even when you think and feelThat you cannot.
```Say only what you must:
You love and need God,Only God.
```When your mind uses
Its own will,It opens unconsciously
The frustration-door. ```If there is unity
In the heart,Then it is easy for the mind
To cultivate integrity. ```Even an occasional moment
Of the mind’s inspirationAnd the heart’s aspiration
Can help us bring down from AboveGod-Satisfaction-Rain.
```If you have
A daring dream,Then only can you have
A man-caring life. ```Success may depend on
Newness,But progress always depends on
Oneness. ```From my heart I learn
Tolerance-songs,And from my mind I learn
Indulgence-stories. ```Allow God to love you
And fulfil youIn His own Way
If you want to enjoy sleeplesslyGod’s Fragrance-Breath.
```I shall not learn any more
The lifeless mind-stories.I shall now study only
My sleepless heart-songs. ```Nothing can be more true
Than that my love of GodComes from
God’s need for me. ```Now that I have uprooted
My mind’s suspicion-tree,I am able to fathom the depth
Of my heart-hope-sea. ```If we befriend lethargy,
We will never be able to removeYesterday’s ruthless shackles.
```O my mind,
It seems that you are madeTo doubt and fear,
And my heart is madeTo be pure and sure.
```Meditation is the song of God
That we singTo become a member
Of a oneness-home-world. ```Nobody can disappear in God.
We only appear before GodEither to love Him
Or be loved by HimOr both.
```Who can keep up with God?
No, not even the God-loverAnd the God-server.
```When your heart-room is ready
For God,God will definitely
Bless you withAn inner inspiring shrine.
```If you abandon yourself
To God’s Care,You will be able to adorn your life
With your soul’s matchless smiles. ```God asks me
To bury my criticism-mindAnd to revive
My oneness-fulness-heart. ```Leave behind your old way
Of seeing the truth.Use the new way:
Aspiration-heart-cry. ```God has bountifully lavished on you
His Compassion-Affection-Smiles.Can you not accept them
With your happiness-heart? ```Dive deep within.
You will see that at every momentYour soul is preparing your heart
For self-offering-delight. ```God does not want me
Just to feel sadFor earth-planet.
He wants me to do somethingTo serve her
And make her smile and smile. ```God-Nectar-Delight
You can drink and drinkOnly when you do not question
The motivesOf God’s Love for you.
```God’s Compassion-Eye
Does not choose at random.It only creates
Confidence-joyIn each and every seeker.
```God’s Compassion-Eye
I truly love.God’s Forgiveness-Heart
I eagerly invoke. ```God is proud of you
Not becauseYou have done quite a few
Extraordinary things,But because in you He sees
The loving acceptanceOf your heavy life-burden.
```My very love of God
Quenches my God-thirst.My very need of God
Satisfies my God-hunger. ```Nothing meaningful
And fruitfulCan be replaced.
Therefore, how canMy immortality-heart
Be replacedBy my perplexity-mind?
```Religion-God-fighters
Are many.Spirituality-God-seekers
Are few.Oneness-God-lovers
Are extremely, extremely rare. ```On the one hand,
I do not worship my MasterBecause, like me,
He has a human form.On the other hand,
I expect everything from him,Thinking that for me
He is the God-representativeOn earth.
```There is not a single soul
That does not embodyGod’s universal Vision-Delight
To some degree. ```Self-deprecation
And self-aggrandisementAre equally unhealthy experiences
In human life. ```There is always an inner being
Who can and does remind usOf the universal Presence
Of God. ```My mind’s ego-torture
Has no accessTo my heart’s oneness-land.
```Each heart is undoubtedly
Divinity’s uniqueFlower-fragrance.
```An ordinary seeker
MeansAn aspiration-ascent
And descent-flight. ```Alas, in vain I have been trying
To free myselfFrom thought-trap.
```God wants
Each and every human beingTo live in the galaxy
Of new hopesAnd new promises.
```The mind of turbulence
I was.The heart of tranquillity
I now am. ```My seeker-friend,
Do not give upYour spiritual life.
If you give up,Your life will be as useless
As a felled tree. ```My Lord Supreme,
Do save my pilgrim-lifeFrom the tangled road
Of stark despair. ```Attention all hearts!
In no time God will proclaimYour decisive and permanent victory
Over the mind. ```From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 183, Agni Press, 1993
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