Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 189

18801

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To me

God’s loving Arms

Are more powerful

Than His omnipotent Eyes. ```

18802

```

Who brought death

Into the world?

Nobody else but humanity’s

Ignorance-fondness-hunger. ```

18803

```

If you disappoint

God’s Will,

God’s Will

Will disappoint you

At quite an unexpected hour.

```

18804

```

My Lord,

If You do not want to please me

By fulfilling my desires,

Do not.

But please do not show me

Your cruel Indifference-Eye. ```

18805

```

Although my desiring mind and I

Are not interested

In God’s activities,

God is always

Eagerly looking forward

To having news from us. ```

18806

```

The mind wants

To be pleased by God.

The heart wants

To please God.

Therefore, they follow

Different ways. ```

18807

```

Far beyond the controversies

Of the aggressive vital

And suspicious mind

Are the all-loving Eyes

Of our Lord Supreme.

```

18808

```

O higher worlds,

Do not undermine

My capacities!

O lower worlds,

Do not assail

My world-transformation-attempts! ```

18809

```

Remain not hard-headed.

Remain soft-hearted.

Lo, God will bless you

With satisfactions

Unexpected and overwhelming.

```

18810

```

Do not be sad

At your failures.

Each time you fail,

God is preparing you

For a higher goal.

```

18811

```

Our absolutely dangerous

Destruction-enemies

Are within,

Inside our thought-jungles

And thought-clouds,

And nowhere else. ```

18812

```

Earth’s illumination

By the soul

Will always remain

A never ending

God-ordained task.

```

18813

```

When there is a race

Between

My determination-mind

And my aspiration-heart,

My aspiration-heart always wins

Most easily and most gloriously. ```

18814

```

A God-seeker starts

With world-peace-possibility

And will only end

With world-oneness-reality. ```

18815

```

The beauty of my heart’s aspiration

And the fragrance of God-Satisfaction

Are inseparable.

```

18816

```

God has no time to read

My mind-pamphlets,

But he has all the time to read

My soul-bound heart-volumes. ```

18817

```

I do not know

What my greatness depends on.

But I do know

That my goodness depends entirely on

God’s Compassion-Fragrance-Smile.

```

18818

```

The future will inherit from us

Either the frustration and doom

Of our mind

Or the aspiration and bloom

Of our heart.

```

18819

```

O my mind,

Do not betray my heart.

If you betray my heart,

My heart may forgive you,

But God will not,

For He loves my heart infinitely more

Than you can ever imagine.

```

18820

```

Do not be afraid of

Your mind’s teeming

And thickening clouds.

The very purpose of your soul

Is to illumine them

With the help of

Your sleepless willingness.

```

18821

```

No matter how compassionately

And self-givingly

My heart speaks to my mind,

My proud mind

Never pays any attention,

Never! ```

18822

```

When the mind gains cleverness,

The heart is forced

To lose its soulfulness.

```

18823

```

My mind fears God

Because He is too powerful.

My heart fears man

Because he is too hurtful.

I fear myself

Because I am too unmindful. ```

18824

```

Alas, I am lost

In between

My mind-forest

And

My heart-desert!

```

18825

```

If you want to know

What practical God-life is,

Then learn the art

Of constant self-offering. ```

18826

```

May my life-boat

Be flooded

With silver moonlight.

May my heart-boat

Be flooded

With sun-bright day. ```

18827

```

You will never find God

Anywhere

If you are afraid of burying

Your insecurity-life. ```

18828

```

How can your heart be happy

When your life is reluctant

To serve God the creation?

```

18829

```

Often,

The body, the vital, the mind

And on rare occasions the heart

Go on strike against God.

But the soul,

Never, never! ```

18830

```

Each self-giving thought

Is indeed

A Heaven-blessed messenger

On earth. ```

18831

```

True, there was a time

When I was fond of

Only the temptation-thrill.

But now, no more!

I am now fond of

Only the illumination-fountain. ```

18832

```

Not the mind’s

Flickering aspiration

But the heart’s

Abiding aspiration

Is needed to achieve and maintain

God’s lasting Peace. ```

18833

```

Again and again

My heart reminds my mind

Of the truth:

No human being should be suspected;

All human beings must be liberated.

```

18834

```

God never invites

Self-pity-loving people

To come and see

His Heart-Garden. ```

18835

```

My mind’s silence-fragrance

And God’s Satisfaction-Smile

Are extremely fond

Of each other. ```

18836

```

O my mind!

I do not know

How I can ever cure you

Of your self-pity-enjoyment-life. ```

18837

```

O God’s beautiful Eye,

You I love!

O God’s powerful Hands,

You I love!

O God’s merciful Heart,

You not only do I love

But also I need!

```

18838

```

Unlike the outer wars,

The inner wars must be resolved

If one wants to make

Abiding progress

In the inner life.

```

18839

```

God does not mind

If your arrival is late.

But He does mind

If your arrival

Is riddled with curiosity.

```

18840

```

God, do teach me every day

Only one game:

The record-breaking obedience-game,

Which is played with

Two prayerful eyes

And a soulful heart. ```

18841

```

Each good thought

Is an open door

To the luminosity-world.

```

18842

```

Alas,

Each and every human being

Likes to live on hopes,

No matter how transient they are. ```

18843

```

I please God

Not with my mind’s greatness,

Not even with my heart’s goodness,

But with my life’s unconditional oneness. ```

18844

```

The insanity of the world

Is an old story,

Yet

We love to read it

Again and again.

```

18845

```

The heart’s excruciating pangs

For the world’s transformation

Have one friend:

Self-giving love. ```

18846

```

God-manifestation

Is my only dream.

I shall never allow

My dream to be shattered. ```

18847

```

When you have

The experience of your soul,

You will no longer care for

The world’s trivial

And insignificant achievements.

```

18848

```

The day you lose

Your sense of gratitude,

You actually become

A complete failure-seeker

In the world of aspiration.

```

18849

```

A humility-heart

Is God’s Self-expansion

In His immortal Perfection.

```

18850

```

Mistakes committed

Can easily be rectified

If you prayerfully and soulfully cry

For your inner illumination

To come to the fore.

```

18851

```

The help of the Inner Pilot

May not be seen

In the outer world,

But the inner world knows

That the Inner Pilot

Is nothing other than

His unconditional self-giving.

```

18852

```

Impossibility surrenders

To our mind’s

Self-controlled determination

And our heart’s

God-governed aspiration.

```

18853

```

My heart wants to be

A permanent candidate

For God’s

Compassion-Light-manifestation

On earth.

```

18854

```

How long can God wait?

Not long,

Without fulfilling

Your life-perfection-dream. ```

18855

```

Man knows what to say:

“I am miserable.”

God wants man to know:

“I am in all your miseries.” ```

18856

```

Each man is as yet

An unrecognised potentiality

And an unfulfilled dream

Of God. ```

18857

```

This world of ours

Will collapse one day

If it continues to remain

The possessor of power

Without the oneness-purity

Of the heart. ```

18858

```

Purity is the beauty

Of the life’s fountain.

Divinity is the majesty

Of the heart’s mountain. ```

18859

```

If the eagerness of the heart

Is not put into action,

Then eagerness may be lost

In the mind’s wilderness. ```

18860

```

O my heart,

How long do you want to remain

As a completely lost

Vision of truth? ```

18861

```

The science of the mind

May be hurtful.

The prayer of the heart

Is always fruitful. ```

18862

```

The sole purpose of life

Is not merely

To see God’s Eye

And sit at God’s Feet,

But to become God’s Heart.

```

18863

```

The promise

Of the inner life

Is the giver.

The hope

Of the outer life

Is the taker. ```

18864

```

The mind

Worships science

Because it is powerful.

The heart

Worships nature

Because it is God-full. ```

18865

```

If you want to win

The divine race,

You can blame only

Your own stupidity-indulgence-life

For standing far behind

The inner starting line. ```

18866

```

Let the whole world

Go ahead of me.

I will not give up,

For I am competing

Only with myself,

And transcending

My own progress-life.

```

18867

```

To do someone

An unconditional favour

Is to make one’s soul

Triumphantly and absolutely happy. ```

18868

```

Regularity and punctuality

Are of paramount importance

If fast progress in your inner life

Is what you really want. ```

18869

```

Your soul knows

What the Supreme in your Master

Is doing for you.

Your mind does not know,

And does not even want to know.

```

18870

```

No seeker can arrive

At the final destination

Without fulfilling the supreme task:

God-satisfaction in God’s own Way. ```

18871

```

Obedience is everything,

Both in the inner world

And in the outer world.

Our God-obedience

Is our life-perfection

And God’s true Heart-Satisfaction. ```

18872

```

While invoking peace

In your meditation,

Do not enter into

Absurdity-pleasure-sleep. ```

18873

```

The purer we are

In our mind,

The higher we will be able to fly

In our heart-sky. ```

18874

```

An impure mind

And an insecure heart

Are quite often found together

Since they so perfectly

Complement each other.

```

18875

```

Spirituality is not

An outer tug-of-war.

It is an inner dive

To enter into the all-pervading Source. ```

18876

```

Eagerness is always good.

But when we are over-eager,

Over-zealous,

We unconsciously invite

The undivine forces.

And what do they do?

They show and even use,

If they can,

Their tremendous, tremendous

Destruction-power. ```

18877

```

Gratitude is indeed always necessary.

But something else is more necessary.

What is it?

Unconditional and cheerful surrender,

Which embodies the life, heart and breath

Of gratitude. ```

18878

```

There is a special joy in waiting

For God’s Arrival.

There is no end to its blessings.

Therefore, my Lord,

I shall not grudge

If my waiting for You

Has no end.

```

18879

```

When nothing else works,

Try your soul’s silence-power.

It will definitely help you

And save you from your inner crisis. ```

18880

```

Each man is a problem

Unto himself.

He may solve other problems

But he as a problem

Remains always unsolved

Until a higher Light descends. ```

18881

```

God’s Compassion wanted me to be

A member of

The family of achievers.

Now God’s Satisfaction wants me to be

A member of

The family of givers. ```

18882

```

I am happy

When I pray to the secret God.

I am happier

When I pray to the sacred God.

I am happiest

When I pray to the compassionate God. ```

18883

```

As the corruption of the mind

Thrives,

Even so, the aspiration of the heart

Can easily thrive. ```

18884

```

Only if you have

A God-surrender-flooded life

Can you easily coast

To your victory. ```

18885

```

Give what you once gave:

Love.

Become what you once were:

God’s satisfaction-child. ```

18886

```

The mind’s anxiety-clouds

Can be removed

Only by the heart’s

Life-illumining sun. ```

18887

```

Nothing else

Commands the world

As powerfully

As man’s frustration. ```

18888

```

Eagerness and enthusiasm

Can and do arrive at and claim

The farthest Golden Shore.

```

18889

```

The clouds of the mind

See everything and everyone

As a stranger.

The sun of the heart

Knows no stranger,

For the heart-sun is the source

Of the universal oneness-family.

```

18890

```

Our heart’s genuine sincerity

Helps us escape from

Our mind’s uncomeliness.

```

18891

```

The unaspiring mind

At any moment

Is fully capable of

Destruction-malice. ```

18892

```

It is not the world-possessing question

But the self-giving answer

That can and will fulfil us.

```

18893

```

What I need is a fresh wave

Of life-acceptance

To make me happy and fulfilled.

```

18894

```

Our mind misleads

Our hope

While it is on its way

To the heart. ```

18895

```

This world of ours is suffering

Not only

From aspiration-shortage

But also from dedication-paralysis. ```

18896

```

To make even a little headway

Against ignorance

Is indeed a supreme reward

From God. ```

18897

```

A truth-seeker

Appreciates, admires, adores and loves

His heart’s

Aspiration-illumination-rainbow. ```

18898

```

My mind does not care

For gratitude-foundation.

My life does not care

For surrender-foundation.

Alas, alas!

```

18899

```

The mind’s constant superiority

Will eventually collapse

Without fail.

```

18900

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If we adopt the new attitude

“God for God’s sake”,

Then this world of ours

Will be a garden of paradise. ```

From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 189, Agni Press, 1993
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