Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 187

18601

```

The devotion-magnet

Pulls the Lord Beloved Supreme

Closer than the closest

Sooner than the soonest. ```

18602

```

Only the upward-climbing

Experience-joy

Satisfies

God’s Compassion-descending Heart. ```

18603

```

Willingness itself is the capacity

Hidden in us

For God’s outer manifestation.

```

18604

```

You have played for a long time

With your harmful ignorance-friend.

Now is the time to part with him

Wisely and proudly. ```

18605

```

The cry for God-satisfaction

In God’s own Way

Has to be a living reality in us

Long before God allows us

To place ourselves at His Feet.

```

18606

```

Only the ever-increasing

Silence of the soul

Can calm down

The mind-turbulence. ```

18607

```

O my mind,

You have given me

An unhealthy experience.

Life’s simplicity-light

You have turned into

Complexity-night. ```

18608

```

If you do not leave

Your mind’s thought-jungle

Behind you,

You will not be able to arrive

At your heart’s rose-garden-gate.

```

18609

```

Forgiveness quite often saves

The God-lover

From his self-destruction-anger-fire.

```

18610

```

The stupidity of the mind

Does not know,

And perhaps does not want to know,

That ignorance-night

Is a dangerous intruder.

```

18611

```

If you have a rainbow-heart,

You do not have to go to God.

God Himself will come to you,

To feed you

Far beyond your own expectation.

```

18612

```

O my heart’s purity-stars,

Without you,

Whatever I eat, whenever I eat,

Alas,

Becomes ignorance-feast.

```

18613

```

My oneness-heart

Is nothing other than

My Lord’s

Compassion-Expansion-Smile. ```

18614

```

When the heart-doctor

Carries the faith-medicine

To the mind-patient,

Even if the doubt-mind

Takes the medicine unwillingly,

It is bound to be cured. ```

18615

```

The simplicity of life

We were.

The sincerity of the mind

We were.

The purity of the heart

We were.

The divinity of our prayers

We were.

Alas, we do not know

Whether we have deserted them

Or they have deserted us.

```

18616

```

Without my heart’s hope

I cannot proceed.

But without my mind’s expectation

I can easily proceed,

And I must,

For expectation and frustration

Are immediate neighbours.

```

18617

```

My morning prayer

Cries for God’s Compassion.

My evening prayer

Longs for God’s Satisfaction. ```

18618

```

When I bow my head

In humble prayer,

My Lord Supreme makes me

Taller than the tallest

And helps me shine

Inside His own Heart-Garden. ```

18619

```

Dynamism-plants

Will never befriend us

If we do not cheerfully

And bravely

Uproot our lethargy-trees.

```

18620

```

Alas, is there any desire-man

Who can ever avoid

Being a puppet

In the hands of inexorable fate? ```

18621

```

In our aspiration-heart’s

Dedication-nest,

No stranger

There can ever be. ```

18622

```

The life of a saint

Is indeed

The Heart-Fragrance

Of God Himself. ```

18623

```

I do not care for

My mind’s determination-success.

All I need is

My heart’s aspiration-progress. ```

18624

```

Alas, alas, when I pray

The outer world remains aloof.

When I meditate

The inner world remains blind. ```

18625

```

Only the unaspiring mind

Can enjoy the recital

Of worthless and useless thoughts.

```

18626

```

I fully agree with those

Who say that the curious mind

Is not the proper place

For prayer. ```

18627

```

When my mind surrenders

To my heart’s fragrance-delight,

I enjoy Divinity’s Delight.

```

18628

```

My Lord Supreme,

Do give me the capacity

To keep my heart-room

Always available

For You, only for You.

```

18629

```

The mind

And its hesitation

Together are destroying

The heart

And its aspiration.

```

18630

```

I do not want to know

How real my Lord is.

I just want to know

How real my love of my Lord is. ```

18631

```

Two songs every day I sing

To my Lord Supreme:

My mind’s obedience-song

And

My heart’s surrender-song.

```

18632

```

It seems that

The mind’s expectations

And

The life’s futilities

Are inseparable.

```

18633

```

Meditation is fruitful

Only when

The mind becomes a reservoir

Of stillness-patience-bliss. ```

18634

```

To say that spirituality

Is mental poverty

Is absurdity.

Spirituality is mental receptivity.

Spirituality is the joy of awareness

And the love of self-giving. ```

18635

```

Do not postpone

Your self-improvement-task.

Your soul wants you

To make good time

And go beyond

The limits of time. ```

18636

```

A true self-giver

Knows not what

A God-fulfilment-

Opportunity-shortage is. ```

18637

```

God does not want me to have

Any aspiration-substitute

Since He does not want to have

Any Satisfaction-substitute. ```

18638

```

I have employed

My aspiration-heart-guard

To catch

My doubt-mind-thief. ```

18639

```

I can afford to experience

The rise and fall of my mind-kingdom,

But I can never, never afford to experience

The rise and fall of my heart-kingdom. ```

18640

```

How can the human mind

Solve the doubt-problems

Since the mind itself

Cherishes doubts? ```

18641

```

Attention-craving people

Cannot dive deep within

To see the reality

Of their own infinite capacities. ```

18642

```

The divine security

Is not meant for

The unaspiring

And uncommitted heart. ```

18643

```

A heart of gratitude

Finds divine Blessings

And divine Love

All along its way. ```

18644

```

The very breath of faith

Is not only

Divinely powerful

But also

Supremely fruitful.

```

18645

```

What comes to me

Unmistakably

Is what I carefully

Or carelessly

Invite.

```

18646

```

My heart’s obedience-joy

Is the shortest way

To my God-realisation.

```

18647

```

It is not the curious eyes

But the aspiring heart

That remains before God.

```

18648

```

My imagination-beauty

Inspires my outer life.

My aspiration-fragrance

Guides my inner life. ```

18649

```

I love God,

But I love infinitely more

To cling to God’s Feet.

```

18650

```

O my mind, I beg of you,

Move forward and fly upward!

Do not just roam

In the graveyards of the past. ```

18651

```

There was a time when I felt

My soul-delight-shortage,

And now I am feeling

My heart-love-shortage,

Alas, alas!

```

18652

```

A purity-heart

Has the rare capacity

To remove

The mind’s darkness-clouds. ```

18653

```

We reach the zenith of stupidity

When we think and feel

That God’s Compassion-Light

Is only for somebody else. ```

18654

```

It is never too late

To love God,

To please God

And to fulfil God

In His own Way.

```

18655

```

The purity of the heart

And the humility of the life

Must go together

For God to be supremely proud of

His seeker-child.

```

18656

```

Be not proud of

Your mind-thought-jungle.

Be proud of

Your heart-fountain-garden. ```

18657

```

There shall come a time

When each and every human being

Will be flooded with the soul-courage

To silence the pride of ignorance-night. ```

18658

```

May my morning prayer-life

And my evening meditation-heart

Grow into waves

Of sweetness-peace. ```

18659

```

An unaspiring mind

Does enjoy

Walking along the path

Of pessimism-night. ```

18660

```

When we meditate

Inside the very depths

Of our heart,

We see a cosmos of satisfaction

And not a world of despair.

```

18661

```

At long last

My mind’s doubt-life is over!

The selfishness of my mind

Has been replaced

By the selflessness of my heart.

```

18662

```

I can move my life

In God’s direction

Only when I am not trying

To please God out of fear. ```

18663

```

Each desire-satisfaction

Becomes my heart’s

Aspiration-starvation.

```

18664

```

God’s good news is:

He has not given up on me.

My good news is:

I am determined

To please God in His own Way.

```

18665

```

Do you know

What God’s secret Name is?

His Justice-Light-Surrender

To His Compassion-Height. ```

18666

```

The unaspiring mind says to God:

Give me freedom!

The aspiring heart says to God:

God, I wish to be imprisoned

In Your Love-Embrace!

```

18667

```

There can be various service-roads

To approach God

But there is only one aspiration-road

To realise God. ```

18668

```

The increase

Of my heart’s faith

Is my life’s capacity

Expanded. ```

18669

```

I no longer want to remain the owner

Of my unrealised possibilities.

From now on I want to be the owner

Of my manifested capacities. ```

18670

```

Hesitation and doubt

Are oneness-friends

Who indefinitely delay

The seeker’s progress-march. ```

18671

```

If you pay no attention

To your nature’s perfection,

Then God’s complete Satisfaction in you

Will always remain a far cry. ```

18672

```

God writes to you every day

Using your heart’s

Surrender-address

And not your mind’s

Hesitation-address.

```

18673

```

God does not want our hearts

To be sent to Him.

He wants our hearts

To be hand-delivered to Him. ```

18674

```

There is never a cease-fire

Between the arrogance of the vital

And the frustration of the mind.

```

18675

```

When a seeker-heart suffers,

It cries aloud,

“O God’s Compassion-Height,

Where are you?

O God’s Justice-Light,

Where are you not?” ```

18676

```

Finally,

My self-doubt and I

Are walking

Along two different roads. ```

18677

```

Your faith must not be

A fleeting experience.

Your faith must be

A lasting and abiding realisation. ```

18678

```

God’s Heart

Treasures our hearts

Only when we do not carry

Our insecurities to Him. ```

18679

```

Alas, each human being

Is the driver

Of a very long

Dissatisfaction-train. ```

18680

```

If your life is empty

Of enthusiasm and eagerness,

Then one day

You are bound to sink

In the sea of your self-doubt.

```

18681

```

My life’s two

Sleepless and breathless

Requirements:

God’s Compassion-Eye

And God’s Forgiveness-Heart.

```

18682

```

My inner world

Is made of

My heart’s hope.

My outer world

Is made of

My mind’s frustration. ```

18683

```

There is something missing

Inside my heart.

What is it?

My Lord’s kind Approval

Of my life’s activities.

```

18684

```

God-seekers,

Awake!

God-lovers,

Arise!

God-servers,

Begin! ```

18685

```

If we constantly surrender

To wrong forces,

Then how can we dare to say

That we are helping the world

To become perfect?

```

18686

```

My Lord Supreme,

My soul prays to You:

May my five senses

Be totally illumined

So that I can be

A constant, dedicated,

Surrendered servitor to You.

```

18687

```

The Master’s proud faith

In the disciple

And the disciple’s unconditional faith

In the Master

Will be able to inundate

The aspiring world

With peace-joy infinite.

```

18688

```

Spirituality is a matter of belief.

You believe that your Master

Has realised God,

And your Master believes

One hundred per cent

That He will be able to make you realise

The Supreme, Absolute, Transcendental,

Beloved Father Supreme. ```

18689

```

Before we accepted the spiritual life,

Our mind was the boss of our life.

Since the mind could not satisfy us,

We accepted the spiritual life

And got a new boss: the heart.

```

18690

```

May my mind be

The beauty of obedience

And my heart,

The fragrance of surrender. ```

18691

```

If you want to be happy

Divinely and supremely,

Then you must obey your soul,

The God-representative

Here on earth for you.

```

18692

```

You are a fool

If you think

That your surrender to God’s Will

Can be your last resort. ```

18693

```

Spirituality is an obligation

To the unaspiring mind

And a real satisfaction

To the aspiring heart. ```

18694

```

Every day, the mind visits

The hope-pole

And the despair-pole.

Every day the heart visits

The aspiration-pole

And the satisfaction-pole. ```

18695

```

Compromise is not

And cannot be

The answer.

Self-illumination

And truth-manifestation

Are the real answers. ```

18696

```

Do not carry

Your mind-bundle with you

When you enter into your heart-temple

To meditate and illumine yourself. ```

18697

```

True God-lovers

Are definitely made of

Indomitable heart-power.

```

18698

```

As we can remove the clouds

From our mind,

Even so,

We can keep the illumining sun

Inside our heart forever.

```

18699

```

Each time I aspire,

I feel that my mind is searching

For a new life

And my heart is longing

For God-arrival.

```

18700

```

My Lord,

I want my mind

To be a born-again believer,

My heart

To be a born-again lover

And my life

To be a born-again server.

```

From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 187, Agni Press, 1993
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