Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 188

18701

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Be brave!

You will see that your heart’s

Soaring aspiration-flames

Cannot be bound by anything. ```

18702

```

Alas,

The mind is limited,

But its doubts are unlimited!

```

18703

```

The misconceptions

Of the unaspiring mind

Are not only dangerous

But also destructive. ```

18704

```

The outer action

Without the inner vision

Cannot be of any use

For God-manifestation. ```

18705

```

O suspicion-fed mind,

How can you ever

Make yourself truly happy?

For you, the real happiness

Will always remain a far cry.

```

18706

```

Today’s outer reality

Can easily be transcended

Tomorrow

By the inner potentiality. ```

18707

```

What you need

Is a blessingful and peaceful soul

To shatter the limits

And limitations

Of your unwilling mind.

```

18708

```

Each and every outer difficulty

In the spiritual life

Is bound to be surmounted,

For so is the Will

Of our Lord Beloved Supreme.

```

18709

```

An aspiring heart

Is indeed the beginning of

Our God-realisation,

God-revelation

And God-victory.

```

18710

```

The word “impossible”

Is found

Only in the dictionary

Of the unwilling

And the foolish.

```

18711

```

Concentration

Is the penetration

Of the soul

Into the heart

Of the hidden reality.

```

18712

```

My Lord,

May I remain always

A sincere, self-giving soul

To challenge the pride

Of uncertainty

And even of impossibility. ```

18713

```

If your life

Is based on earth-desires,

Then you will never be blessed

With Heaven-dreams. ```

18714

```

A seeker’s promise-life

Will definitely one day be found

Inside the smiling heart

Of paradise. ```

18715

```

A heart of God-surrender

Does not know

What frustration-life is.

```

18716

```

You can change the world

Only with the beauty

Of your prayers

And the fragrance

Of your meditation.

```

18717

```

An obedience-heart

Has a free access

To God’s Heart-Home.

```

18718

```

Inspiration I need

To see the world properly.

Aspiration I need

To love the world perfectly. ```

18719

```

Alas,

Every day we squander

The Nectar-Smiles

Of God’s Compassion-Eye. ```

18720

```

In the morning I pray to God

To illumine my mind.

In the evening I pray to God

To illumine my life. ```

18721

```

I must run forward

To the future-sun

With my back

To the past-clouds. ```

18722

```

Eventually

All our aspiration-flames

Will enter into

Our soul’s luminosity-sun. ```

18723

```

What I need

Is a spark of hope.

Then promise

Will come by itself. ```

18724

```

Today the mind is enjoying

Its refusal to listen to God.

Tomorrow the same mind will be bound

To obey and fulfil God. ```

18725

```

What God wants you to have

Is a life of introspection

And not a life of deprivation.

```

18726

```

The mind craves

Life-supremacy.

The heart longs for

God-intimacy. ```

18727

```

If your heart is the possessor

Of faith-blossoms,

Then your mind’s doubt-weeds

Will, without fail,

Have to surrender.

```

18728

```

There is no finish line

In the perfection-race.

Perfection is an eternal run.

```

18729

```

Alas, I need a mind

That is eager to unlearn,

And I need a heart

That is eager to love. ```

18730

```

The mind

That is eager to criticise

I had.

The heart

That is eager to sympathise

I now have. ```

18731

```

If you smile at temptation,

You will be the deplorable victim.

If you laugh at temptation,

You will be the formidable victor. ```

18732

```

My heart’s pressing necessity

Is God-realisation.

My soul’s pressing necessity

Is God-manifestation. ```

18733

```

If you do not have

A self-giving heart,

Your life will never be able

To radiate your divinity’s

Perfection-splendour.

```

18734

```

The difference between

The mind’s sermons

And the heart’s life

Is the difference between

The promise and its execution.

```

18735

```

Every day

A seeker must try

To cleanse his doubt-mind

With his heart’s devotion-tears. ```

18736

```

I want my heart’s

Willingness-bells

To ring sleeplessly.

```

18737

```

Where

Does each human being live?

Inside

His self-made expectation-prison. ```

18738

```

Compassion-height

You desperately need

If you want to escape

Justice-light. ```

18739

```

What does surrender look like?

It looks like the purity-smile

Of a child.

```

18740

```

Doubt

Knows no cure.

Faith

Knows no ailment. ```

18741

```

If you hesitate

When God beckons,

You are bound to remain

Forever enslaved

By your doubting mind.

```

18742

```

One aspiration,

One goal,

But many winners.

```

18743

```

A battle is going on

Sleeplessly

Between the heart’s compassion

And the mind’s deception. ```

18744

```

It is not human nature

To enjoy what we get

With no effort.

```

18745

```

If you do not take

Each and every thought

Seriously,

Your life will have no chance

To see the face of perfection.

```

18746

```

Alas, will there ever come a time

When I will seriously

And powerfully tell myself

That I am fed up

With my mind’s doubt

And my heart’s fear? ```

18747

```

I am so happy that I have

An obedience-blessed heart.

I am so unhappy that I do not have

A peace-blessed mind. ```

18748

```

Mine is not a mental hallucination.

I shall before long destroy

In my own life

Ignorance and ignorance-frown. ```

18749

```

When I am with my imagination,

I think of my heart’s success.

When I am with my heart’s aspiration,

I think of my life’s progress. ```

18750

```

I am sure someday

My God-loving soul

Will liberate me

From my self-indulgence-curse. ```

18751

```

If your mind is centred

Around earthly things,

How will you have time

To be in your heart

And meditate

On divinely essential things? ```

18752

```

Even a tiny divine hope

Can strengthen our mind

And brighten our heart.

```

18753

```

My heart’s silence-power

Can liberate my mind

From peace-starvation.

```

18754

```

Willingness-seekers

Are happiness-towers

In the inner world.

```

18755

```

I want my heart to be

An aspiration-discoverer.

I want my mind to be

A faith-inventor. ```

18756

```

O my mind,

How can you ever be satisfied

To live inside

A self-doubt-factory? ```

18757

```

Today’s aspiration-plant

Will grow into tomorrow’s

God-satisfaction-plant.

```

18758

```

Each heart needs

A prayerful access

To God’s Compassion.

```

18759

```

I do not need many things.

I need only one thing:

To be a lifelong expert

In God-manifestation-light. ```

18760

```

What I essentially need

Is beauty’s home

And duty’s promise.

```

18761

```

Contrary to current popular belief,

Each human soul is destined

To play a unique role

In God’s manifestation. ```

18762

```

O my soul’s nectar-delight,

Alas, I do not know when and how

I shall be able to drink you

To my heart’s content. ```

18763

```

My life does not need

A salvation-preacher.

My life needs

A perfection-tutor. ```

18764

```

Alas,

My expectation-mind

Does not allow my capacity-heart

To come to the fore

And win the victory.

```

18765

```

Alas,

I do not know why

The human mind cherishes

Teeming and thickening

Suspicion-clouds.

```

18766

```

Although I love many things,

I love my aspiration-heart’s

Rainbow-dawn

The best. ```

18767

```

O fear, O doubt,

How strange it is

That you have become

Our masters,

Rather than our slaves.

```

18768

```

Infinity likes to be clasped

By my aspiring heart

And never wants to be grasped

By my devouring mind. ```

18769

```

My heart and I will never live

With dead hopes.

We shall live only

With our soul’s

Living and illumining promises.

```

18770

```

My Lord’s smiling Eyes,

I shall forever remember you

And treasure you.

My heart’s streaming tears,

I shall forever remember you

And treasure you.

```

18771

```

The soul’s paradise-promise

Is only for those

Who want to conquer

Self-doubt and self-pity. ```

18772

```

I gave God a few

Of my heart’s faith-drops.

God gave me His entire

Satisfaction-Ocean

In return.

```

18773

```

Never allow

Your heart-gratitude-flower

To wither

If you want to see

The unimaginable Beauty

Of your Lord’s Eye. ```

18774

```

The madness of this world

Cannot be conquered

By the sadness or the power

Of the world,

But only by the oneness

Of the world-hearts. ```

18775

```

Aspiration is a deer

And not a lion.

What you need is the deer-speed

And not the lion-roar

To reach the Golden Shore.

```

18776

```

My self-giving heart-fragrance

God treasures

More than anything else.

```

18777

```

When my mind and I talk

About sincerity,

And when my heart and I talk

About purity,

We never want to end

Our illumining and fulfilling

Conversations.

```

18778

```

Light, more light, abundant light,

Infinite light

We need every day

To illumine our ignorance-sufferings. ```

18779

```

I see no difference

When the mind lives

Inside the suspicion-jungle

And when it lives

Inside the abysmal abyss.

```

18780

```

A silence-flooded mind I need

To receive the Compassion-Rain

Of my Lord Supreme.

```

18781

```

When it comes to deception,

My own mind deceives me

Infinitely more

Than anybody else does. ```

18782

```

The mind does not do anything

Without asking for a salary.

When the heart does something,

The heart simply expects a salary.

Even when the soul does everything,

The soul never, never thinks of a salary. ```

18783

```

Self-doubt

Is bound to increase

When we treasure

Our animal-anger. ```

18784

```

O mind-confused body,

Delay not in pleasing God,

For your earth-life is fleeting.

```

18785

```

I pray to God daily,

So that my life’s surrender

And my heart’s gratitude

Never go on strike. ```

18786

```

Alas,

It seems that the theoretical God

Is found everywhere,

But the practical God

Is so rarely to be found.

```

18787

```

Day in and day out

You must threaten insecurity.

Then it will be impossible

For insecurity

To blight your heart.

```

18788

```

When I pray,

I invoke God-Light.

When I meditate,

I distribute God-Delight. ```

18789

```

In the morning I see God

Inside His Beauty’s Dawn-Eye.

In the evening I see God

Inside His Compassion’s

Satisfaction-Heart.

```

18790

```

Each pure thought

Is indeed

Blessing-light

From Heaven. ```

18791

```

God’s Greatness

Puzzles the curiosity-mind.

God’s Goodness

Feeds the purity-heart. ```

18792

```

At the root

Of all our suffering

Is the lack

Of our inner God-obedience. ```

18793

```

To me there is nothing

In God’s entire creation

As valuable, as meaningful

And as fruitful

As my God-obedience.

```

18794

```

My God-obedience

In the inner world

And my God-obedience

In the outer world

Are equally important.

```

18795

```

Just because we know

That we are not perfect,

We follow a spiritual path

To try to become perfect.

Otherwise, there is no necessity

Of our following the spiritual life. ```

18796

```

A spiritual Master is indeed

A wise spiritual farmer.

He does not expect

Satisfaction-blossoms

From all his spiritual children.

```

18797

```

Some seekers start

With sincerity-purity,

While others gain it later on.

Without embodying sincerity-purity,

No seeker can reach

The ultimate Goal. ```

18798

```

There is a special kind of joy

In accomplishing something

Beautiful and good for God

That transcends the body’s tiredness

And the mind’s exhaustion.

```

18799

```

Do not confuse

The body’s genuine need for rest

With the body’s

Lethargy-pleasure. ```

18800

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As long as you stay

In a room

Or even in a corner

Of God’s Compassion-Home,

There is no such thing

As failure. ```

From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 188, Agni Press, 1993
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