Because I am devoted
To the inner life only,Whatever my Inner Pilot
Asks me to do,I do it soulfully
Plus cheerfully. ```I do not compete
With the rest of the world.I compete only with myself,
For my progress is my true victory. ```If and when
Human beings get peace of mindAnd inner security,
Only then will there beReal peace in the world.
```I do not create the message;
God is supplying meWith His Message.
My job is only to deliver itTo the aspiring and crying humanity.
```The Music of our Lord Supreme
Is for thoseWho are aspiring to become better,
Who love God’s creationAnd want to serve it,
Who are sleeplessly dreaming of a worldOf peace and oneness.
```God is fully responsible
For my life.I am responsible only
For my soulful willingnessTo surrender my body, vital,
Mind, heart and soulTo God, my Inner Pilot.
```From this day on
I shall not underestimateMy heart-capacities
And not overestimateMy mind-capacities.
```I must be aware of the fact
That any God-ideaCan completely change my life.
```The perfection-dream
Of my life todayWas founded on
My yesterday’s self-giving. ```A comfort-seeking life
Will beA victory-denied being.
```Command yourself first!
Only then will GodDemand everything from the world
For you. ```The remembrance
Of the past failure-lifeLeads us to slow death.
The remembranceOf the past surrender-heart
Leads us to God’s Embrace. ```God-dreamers are good.
God-lovers are better.God-servers are the best.
```God the Compassion
Wants me to standSide by side with Him.
```You can make the fastest progress
If you can say,“I came into the world
To love God, only God.I came into the world
To serve God, only God.I came into the world
To manifest God,Only God.”
```The day I offer my life’s surrender
And my heart’s gratitudeTo my Lord Supreme unconditionally
Is my real birthday,The beginning of my new, divine life.
```God observes the seeker’s birthday
Only when He sees the seekerCrying most sincerely
For his own perfect perfection in life. ```Success is visible
In the outer life.Progress is visible
In the inner life.But unlike success,
Progress brings with itAbiding satisfaction.
```If you intensify your eagerness,
You receive more from God.The increase of your inner wealth
Is the evolutionOf your inner, even outer, life.
```Every day
My aspiration-heart is singing songsOf love, devotion, surrender
And gratitudeTo my Lord Beloved Supreme,
Him to pleaseIn His own Way.
```Music is the universal language.
May we all live,Through soulful music,
In the world-heart’s oneness-home. ```It is God-songs alone
That melt my heartAnd touch the very depths
Of my inner being. ```Spontaneous God-love
Does not needAny explanation.
```Each time I devotedly dive within,
I feel I am going deep,Deeper, deepest,
Where I find Infinity’s Bliss. ```Some seekers shed crocodile tears
In the twinkling of an eye.Alas, they never feel the beauty
Of their real heart-tears. ```What we need is soulful oneness,
Not outer mastery.We must offer our oneness-height
To the God-lovers and truth-seekersWho are looking for peace
In their lives. ```There is not a single moment
When our heartbeatIs not singing a song.
But we must make sureIt is a God-fulfilling song.
```Fulfilment you want?
Before the interferenceOf the mind begins,
Fulfil yourself by identifyingWith the spirit’s voice within.
```For God-lovers, music-lovers
And divinity-lovers,Each soulful song
Is a most delicious inner banquet. ```Each soulful song
Gives the quintessenceOf one hundred pages
Full of inspiration, aspirationAnd delight.
Each soulful song
Is a short-cutTo our destination:
The Golden Shore. ```With our soulful prayers
Let us enter into the consciousnessOf the truth-seekers and God-lovers,
Together to create a new life and a new worldFor a new generation.
```O seeker,
The Supreme is more than willingTo give you something,
But you also have to be willingTo receive it.
```The endless fountain of creativity
Comes from only one Source,And that Source
Is the unconditional CompassionOf my Lord Beloved Supreme.
```Our Lord Supreme bestows upon us
His unconditional Compassion-Light,And according to our receptivity
He creates in and through us. ```The outer world
Has to be consciously awakened.Only then will it be willing
To devotedly acceptThe beauty and divinity
Of the inner world. ```My heart-cries are invited
By God’s blue-gold soaring birdsTo accompany them to the skies
Of the ever-transcending Beyond. ```My Lord Supreme,
Every day I fail You,Yet repeatedly
You give me another chance. ```Fearful are my mind’s tears.
Deceitful are my vital’s tears.Beautiful are my heart’s tears.
Powerful are my soul’s tears.Fruitful are my life’s tears.
```Once you enter
Into the spiritual life,You have to realise
That your human pride has no place,But your divine pride has.
```May my prayer-mind-flower
Be multiplied every morning.May my meditation-heart-fragrance
Be multiplied every evening. ```Each aspiring heart
Eventually becomes fluentIn God’s Oneness-Heart-Language.
```Although God’s Plans
Are inconceivableAnd God’s Dreams
Are unimaginable,God Himself
Is always lovable. ```Devotion empty of gratitude
Does not and cannot pleaseThe Inner Pilot Supreme.
```When the mind lives under
A cloud of suspicion,The life is forced to accept
The arrival of destruction. ```Each time I become a desire-victim,
I go farther and farther awayFrom my Lord’s Compassion-Eye
And Perfection-Feet. ```Each time you disappoint your soul,
You get a sound scoldingFrom your soul,
Although you may not be aware of it.When the scoldings do not produce any effect,
There comes a time when the soul dancesIts destruction-dance
In your life. ```Everybody can claim to be
A God-seeker.Everybody cannot claim to be
A God-server. ```God loves those
Who have constant faith-energyAnd faith-dynamism
In God and for God. ```The obedience-passengers
In the Golden BoatAre the true pride
Of the Golden Boatman. ```God sings a Satisfaction-Song
At the endOf each self-giving deed of ours.
```A spiritual Master is the collector
Of countless experiencesFrom countless lives.
```My Lord Supreme tells me
In strict confidenceThat my life’s perfection will dawn
Only when I see cheerfullyHis blessingful and purposeful Presence
In all human beings with no exception.Needless to say,
This includes my enemies. ```Aspiration-opportunity,
Dedication-opportunity,Manifestation-opportunity:
These three are indeedGod’s unconditional Blessing-Boons.
```The very purpose of time
Is to lead mankind forward,Not backward,
To its supreme destination. ```Love, devotion, surrender:
These three divine boonsNot only can save humanity,
But also can raise humanityTo the sky of Infinity’s Delight.
```Immortal progress
Belongs toEternity’s self-offering.
```Today is the day
For me to claim GodAs my own, very own.
Today is the dayFor me to prove to God
And the whole worldThat I live on earth
Only for God-manifestationAnd God-Satisfaction.
```When wisdom dawns,
We invite our newAspiration-brothers and sisters
To replace our old desire-friends. ```God is not the one who recognises
My earthly calendar-age.God is the one who tells me
I live inside the heartOf Eternity’s here and now.
```Never give up hope
If you want to becomeThe beauty of your heart
And the fragrance of your soul. ```A complicated mind
Is afraid of joy.Therefore,
It does not allow joyTo come in.
```My aspiration-heart-blossoms
Are indeed the certificates of meritFrom my Lord Supreme.
```The heart receives
Blessing-Light from God.The life achieves
Perfection only in God. ```I do not want to become
The kingOf the desiring minds.
I want to becomeThe brother
Of the aspiring hearts. ```What are you doing, my mind?
When are you going to invite GodTo bless you, love you
And illumine you? ```What makes you think,
O my mind,That I need you desperately?
Have I not told you time and againThat you have always been wrong
And you have always misledAnd misguided me?
```This is the human life-story:
Confusion within,Confusion without.
Confusion reigns supremeAll-where in human life.
```The great dream
Is love.The greater dream
Is surrender.The greatest dream
Is peace. ```Study your own life
Until the end of your life.See how often and how much
You have loved GodIn His own Way.
```The more we walk towards happiness
For our personal gain,The farther away we go
From true happiness-shore. ```Believe in your heart’s
Purity-strength.You will be able to conquer
The farthest lengthOf your impurity-mind.
```If you keep your gratitude-heart
Locked within,How can you ever see
God’s Rainbow-Smiles? ```Who deceives me most?
My deception-mind.Who occupies my thoughts?
My impure mind. ```Age need not bind you.
Age need not blind you.Age should only help you
To see the real in youAs soon as possible.
```Divine success will be found
Not in the persistence-vital,Not in the insistence-mind,
But in the self-giving aspiration-heart. ```When you do not expect anything
From this world,The whole world will be ready
To be at your express command. ```I am not proud of what I have.
I am not proud of what I am.I am only proud of being
A regular studentIn the inner aspiration-school.
```Purity, sincerity, humility:
These divine gifts I am receivingFrom my aspiration-heart
On a day-to-day basis. ```Every day
For God’s powerful PresenceInside my mind,
I pray.Every day
For God’s peaceful PresenceInside my heart,
I meditate. ```Our earthly attachment
And our Heavenly disobedienceAre together found.
```I do not want to be
A world-competition-fighter.I want to be
A self-transcendence-seeker. ```Technology-supremacy
Cannot and must notDominate
The heart’s oneness-ecstasy. ```When faith is absent
From the mind,Hope disappears
From the heart. ```I am trying to live
On only two things:My aspiration-breath
And my dedication-heart. ```Success comes to me
When I say, “I can.”Progress comes to me
When I say, “God alone can,God alone does,
In and through me.” ```Everything in this world
Is similar and familiar.But nothing can I dare
To claim as my own. ```Alas, an earth-bound life
Is empty of aspiration,Even of imagination.
```Divine love cannot be exported
Or imported,But it can blossom everywhere.
```My unwillingness-mind,
I am not looking forYour extinction.
I am only waiting forYour transformation.
```May my hope grow.
May my promise glow.May my compassion flow.
```O my aspiration-heart,
Show no compassion to my mindWhen it deliberately wants
To be surroundedBy the thickest ignorance-fog.
```When I am in my ignorance-mind,
I ask the world to change for me.When I am in my wisdom-heart,
I ask the world to change only for God. ```I am entranced
Not by God’s Justice-Light,But by His Forgiveness-Delight.
```The human mind is made of
Godless and aimless centuries.The human heart is made of
God-aspiration andGod-dedication-millennia.
```God-obedience expedites
Our life-boat-journeyFar, far beyond our imagination.
```Your mind-prayer cannot grant you
Silence-perfectionAnd silence-satisfaction.
Your heart-meditationCan and does.
```The expectation-mind
Is sooner or later responsibleFor a frustration-life.
```Self-doubt
Tortures hope-plantsAnd uproots confidence-trees.
```O ignorance-night,
I am cancelling once and for allAll our forthcoming appointments.
```At every moment,
Each time we breathe inOr breathe out,
May our life-breath singThe supreme Victory-Song
Of our Lord Beloved Supreme. ```From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 194, Agni Press, 1993
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