Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 193

19201

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God does not want you to remember

Your past desire-life.

He wants you to remember

Your present aspiration-life

And your future realisation-life.

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19202

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If you use your ego-captain

To steer your life-boat,

It will capsize long before it reaches

Its destination. ```

19203

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Unless and until God asks you,

You must not tell the world

That God is sleeplessly knocking

On your heart-door. ```

19204

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God wants you to know

That whether you choose Him or not

To be your life-boat-Pilot,

He has already chosen you

As a passenger

In His own Life-Boat. ```

19205

```

There is only one

Incurable disease:

The feeling that

God does not care for you. ```

19206

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Guard your sincerity-joy

Inside your mind.

Guard your purity-joy

Inside your heart.

Guard your simplicity-joy

Inside your life. ```

19207

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We are all destined to arrive

At the Illumination-Shore.

Therefore, why do we feel

That we are doomed to remain

At the disappointment-start?

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19208

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My Lord Supreme,

I do not ask Your Indulgence.

My Lord Supreme,

I do not ask Your Compassion.

My Lord Supreme,

I do ask Your Support. ```

19209

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How can it be possible

To love God perfectly

Yet to fail to love humanity?

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19210

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When you can give equal value

To God’s Punishment

And God’s Embrace,

You will be chosen

To manifest Him.

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19211

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God lives

Whether I worship Him or not.

It is I who do not live

When I do not worship God. ```

19212

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God’s Compassion loves us

Exactly in the way we need,

And no,

Never in the way we want. ```

19213

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We accomplish much more

For Mother Earth

When we pursue God

In His earthly forms

And not in His Heavenly Form.

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19214

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It is the strength of love

That illumines

The heights of ego —

Not the other way around. ```

19215

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Who is a child?

A child is he

Who is his heart’s

Prayer-beauty. ```

19216

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God wants you to be wise.

From now on He wants you

To consciously march past

All your shortcomings. ```

19217

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Sweet, sweeter, sweetest

And

Pure, purer, purest

Are

Gratitude-heart-tears.

```

19218

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Only a genuine God-lover

Can feel that

His life is flooded with

God-pleasing opportunities. ```

19219

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Everybody cherishes

Something of God.

I cherish

God’s Forgiveness-Fragrance. ```

19220

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If you do not pray to God

Consciously

And meditate on God

Soulfully,

How can you ever be freed

From your self-imposed

Ignorance-life-sentence?

```

19221

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God the Compassion

Is coming to you from afar.

Greet Him with

Your life’s gratitude-smiles

And your heart’s gratitude-tears.

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19222

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God just loves

My life’s enthusiasm-candle

And

My heart’s aspiration-flames. ```

19223

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If you absorb yourself in trifles,

How can God grant you

His Eternity’s Crown

And His Infinity’s Throne? ```

19224

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Silence

Is as old as God Himself.

Silence

Is as young as God Himself. ```

19225

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May my life’s surrender-market

And my heart’s gratitude-market

Never close.

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19226

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O my seeker-mind,

Just drown all your thoughts

In your heart of joy.

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19227

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For God’s Compassion

I grew.

For God’s Love

I am growing.

For God’s Satisfaction

Sleeplessly and breathlessly

I shall grow.

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19228

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It is beyond my imagination,

And yet it is true

That God will come down

From His silence-bound Throne

To be with me.

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19229

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My prayer may at times

Be on my side,

But my meditation is always

On God’s side. ```

19230

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When we embark

On a God-manifestation-project,

Our soulfulness

Is of paramount importance. ```

19231

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My Lord,

You devour me

With Your Compassion-Eyes,

And I shall devour You

With my aspiration-heart.

```

19232

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I am eventually bound

To watch the sunset

Of my success-life,

But I need never see the sunset

Of my progress-life.

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19233

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If you do not or cannot

Release yourself

From the shackles of self-doubt,

Who can and who will? ```

19234

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O my mind,

Are you deaf?

God is asking you to be quiet —

At least for a short while. ```

19235

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God does not want anybody

To count my life’s mistakes.

Therefore, why should I?

God just wants me and others

To count how many opportunities

He has given me

To please Him in His own Way. ```

19236

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God enjoys everything

That I give Him,

But He enjoys most

My self-giving-feast. ```

19237

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Nobody can overestimate

The beauty,

The power

And the delight

Of self-conquest.

```

19238

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Service without expectation

Is possible

Only when I live

Only for God. ```

19239

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O hope-flames,

Can you not all come

And keep my tiny heart-flames burning?

```

19240

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Unless you surrender

Your own will to God’s Will,

You will never be able

To feel at home here on earth. ```

19241

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I came not into the world

To see my mind-jungle.

I came into the world

To see my heart-garden. ```

19242

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My immortality is composed of

My life’s self-giving

Here and now.

```

19243

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There is no limit

To the increase of my heart’s

Soaring aspiration-flames.

God is asking me to believe that. ```

19244

```

I want to be God’s

Mind-power-partner.

But God wants me to be His

Heart-peace-partner. ```

19245

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There is only one way

To self-perfection,

And that way is

Cheerful and unconditional

Self-dedication.

```

19246

```

Can you not make time

To catch God’s Peace-Dove

Which is so beautifully and self-givingly

Winging its way towards you? ```

19247

```

The heart-host

Knows no stranger.

The mind-host

Seldom has real friends. ```

19248

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Your mind’s anxiety-clouds

You can remove

When your life becomes

A perfect stranger to idleness. ```

19249

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“Nobody

Is too insignificant.

Nobody

Is too insufficient.”

So says my Lord Supreme.

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19250

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Alas, the human mind

Shamelessly enjoys itself

At the cost of another’s misery.

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19251

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Although I begged and begged God

To enter into my restless mind,

God simply refused.

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19252

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If you do not pray to God

And meditate on God,

Why should God not withdraw

His Shelter-Concern? ```

19253

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Alas, I am unwilling to lose

Even a moment

In making friends

With frustration and despair! ```

19254

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God the Confidence

And God the Pride

Enter into my heart

When gratitude is available. ```

19255

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I have been looking all my life

For one thing:

God’s complete reliance on man.

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19256

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A true man of renunciation

Is a perfect stranger

Both to earthly ambitions

And to Heavenly praises. ```

19257

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The most valuable lesson

To learn in life

Is that no human being

Is indispensable. ```

19258

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Let us accept,

Transform and illumine

Human life

To make it worthy of

Divinity’s satisfaction-breath.

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19259

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What my mind actually wants

From God

Is not only unknowable

But also inconceivable. ```

19260

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Out of enthusiasm?

Then success, progress

And satisfaction

Will always remain a far cry. ```

19261

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Each time a new faith-blossom

I see inside my heart,

I feel that I have destroyed

An old doubt-barrier. ```

19262

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Alas, the desire-life

Has abundant capacity

To eclipse the moon-beauty

Of the inner sky. ```

19263

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If your mind lives

In constant God-forgetfulness,

How can you ever accomplish anything

That will inspire the world? ```

19264

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It seems that many seekers

Listen to God

Only when He is silent

And not when He speaks! ```

19265

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Open your heart’s eye.

You will see that God

Is all the time

Crying for your heart

And smiling for your soul.

```

19266

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The first time I dreamt of God,

I felt that God was all Power.

Nowadays when I dream of God,

I always see and feel

That God is all Compassion.

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19267

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O my ego-mind,

I tell you once and for all,

No, not even one soul

Will attend

Your earth-departure-finale!

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19268

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Not everybody can swallow

Humiliation,

But he who can swallow

Humiliation

Will be able to cover

A very long distance

In the realm of spirituality.

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19269

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This morning I was so fortunate

To hear the soul-stirring whisper

Of my God-devoted faith.

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19270

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O my mind,

May sincerity be

Your greatest speciality.

O my heart,

May purity be

Your best speciality.

O my life,

May surrender be

Your unparalleled speciality.

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19271

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There is only one way

To arrive at wisdom-home,

And that is through

Experience-gate. ```

19272

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O my mind,

I caution you!

Desire-danger,

Desire-crisis,

Desire-destruction

Are all near, very near you. ```

19273

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If you are unable or unwilling

To appreciate God’s

All-loving Grace,

Then you will never be able

To come out of

Your mind-imprisonment. ```

19274

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To all the sincere seekers

In the world,

I wish to say that

God will eventually please you

Infinitely more than

You can ever imagine. ```

19275

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On behalf of all the sincere seekers

Everywhere,

I wish to say that

God-friendship is the only friendship

That we all need.

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19276

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Each time we entertain self-doubts,

We destroy more and more

God’s Pride in us.

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19277

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What does the mind teach us?

The mind teaches us

How to acquire

Power and authority.

What does the heart teach us?

The heart teaches us

How to acquire

Compassion and forgiveness. ```

19278

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I can assure you

That no human being

Can have abiding happiness

Without having sleepless obedience

To God.

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19279

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The love-lit path to Heaven

Is paved with the heart’s purity

And the mind’s sincerity.

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19280

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The difference between

The mind and the heart

Is this:

The heart is a self-giver;

The mind is a self-seeker.

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19281

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My cheerfulness-heart produces

Smile after Smile

In God’s Satisfaction-Eyes.

```

19282

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My first, my last

And my only obligation

Is to love God the Creator’s Heart

And serve God the creation’s eye. ```

19283

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My mind cannot imagine

How deeply God loves

The beauty of my heart’s willingness.

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19284

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Only a heart of gratitude to God

Can be blessed with the fragrance

Of peace-life.

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19285

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It is indeed a difficult task

For a truth-seeker and God-lover

To forgive himself

When he makes Himalayan blunders. ```

19286

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O my mind,

Will you ever have the determination

To cheerfully surrender

Your very existence

To God’s all-illumining Will?

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19287

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Each time I have

A pure thought in my mind,

I see my inner victory’s

Sunrise-smile. ```

19288

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The tragedy of God-denial

Cannot be ignored

In the life of a God-lover

And God-server. ```

19289

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O my mind,

When will you start praying again?

O my heart,

When will you start meditating again?

O my life,

When will you start serving again?

When, when, when?

```

19290

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My Lord, for so many things

I am grateful to You,

But I am most grateful to You

Every day

For saving me by not fulfilling

My earthbound desires. ```

19291

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Hopelessness and helplessness

Inexplicable

Will haunt us

If we deliberately ignore

God’s blessingful Commands.

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19292

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To silence the unwillingness-mind,

What we need is

The immediate willingness-joy

Of the heart. ```

19293

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I chose God

To make me stupendously great.

God chose me

To be sleeplessly good. ```

19294

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God is proud of us

Only when we do not give up

The hope of becoming

Good citizens of the world. ```

19295

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God has given the key to everyone

To open Heaven’s Door.

Some are interested in trying,

While others are not.

Fortunately,

I belong to the first category. ```

19296

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Each day is the day

To become

A new self-giver,

To become

A new God-fulfiller.

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19297

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The Pilot Supreme does not want you

To deceive yourself.

He wants you to receive from Above

And achieve from within. ```

19298

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The heart’s happiness-bird

Just flies away

From the mind’s doubt-prison.

```

19299

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My Lord, do give me the capacity

To weave every day

A gratitude-fragrance-garland

For You. ```

19300

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God does not need

To be worshipped.

He wants you only to love Him,

Love Him

And love Him,

At any cost. ```

From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 193, Agni Press, 1993
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