Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 196

19501

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I am begging God to give me

His Satisfaction-Smile.

God is begging me to give Him

My aspiration-cry. ```

19502

```

Alas, why do I fail God

When He expects great things

From my life

And good things

From my heart?

```

19503

```

Your spiritual health

Will decline very abruptly

If you do not pay attention

To your heart’s aspiration-discipline

And your life’s dedication-discipline.

```

19504

```

First your heart has to become

A God-listener,

And only then can your life become

A God-lover. ```

19505

```

The heart’s willingness-capacity

Must go side by side

With the mind’s readiness-capacity

So that the seeker can safely arrive

At the perfection-shore.

```

19506

```

The eagerness and willingness

Of the heart

Can easily break all the speed limits

Of the doubting and unaspiring mind. ```

19507

```

Why waste another minute?

Pray to God to bless you once more

With a hope-heart.

```

19508

```

Do not allow your self-doubt-mind

To destroy your heart’s

God-breath-blossoms.

```

19509

```

“God for God’s sake only!”

This has to be your final thought

Before you place yourself

At God’s Feet. ```

19510

```

If you do not leave

Your mind’s thought-jungle behind you,

Then your heart’s aspiration-garden

Will not be visited

By the denizens of the higher worlds.

```

19511

```

The stupidity of the mind

Invites only one visitor:

The giant ignorance-intruder!

```

19512

```

Do not keep your heart-door closed

When God Himself invites you

To fly with your soul’s luminosity-stars.

```

19513

```

The silence of the heart

Has and is the capacity

To control the mind’s

Turbulent thought-winds. ```

19514

```

Your heart’s faith-medicine

Will definitely relieve you

From your mind’s chronic doubt-headache.

```

19515

```

The world knows that the human mind

Is the inventor of sin.

But when will the world know

That the divine heart is the discoverer

Of all hidden virtues?

```

19516

```

May each morning-prayer of my heart

Please God the Creator’s Heart

And God the creation’s eye.

```

19517

```

I love myself dearly

Only when I can bow my head

In humble prayer to my Lord Supreme.

```

19518

```

With each prayerful thought

A God-satisfying chance blossoms

In the depth of our hearts.

```

19519

```

I do not want to know

When my golden God-day will dawn.

I just want to know,

Will it ever dawn? ```

19520

```

No, not even God

Can afford to wait indefinitely

For the transformation

Of my doubt-cherishing mind. ```

19521

```

The world will not,

Because it does not want to,

Forget

Its failure-sadness-stories. ```

19522

```

May an aspiration-mountain

Be my heart’s constant companion.

May an inspiration-river

Be my mind’s constant companion.

May a dedication-star

Be my life’s constant companion. ```

19523

```

No human mind-produced thought

Can for long eclipse

The divine beauty

Of the immortal soul. ```

19524

```

Compassion must flourish first

In every heart.

Then only will peace reign supreme

Here on earth. ```

19525

```

Every aspiration-breath of mine

Raises my life

Towards Heaven’s infinite

Light and Delight. ```

19526

```

My heart warned me

When I was devotedly listening

To my doubting mind.

```

19527

```

Alas,

My heart has not yet learnt

How to sing the gratitude-song

Without making mistakes. ```

19528

```

Our oneness-earth’s

Peace-dream

Cannot forever remain

Unfulfilled. ```

19529

```

I have decided

Once and for all

To issue death-sentences

To my doubts. ```

19530

```

I have used up all my doubts.

I have not saved

Even one single doubt

To use either for this life

Or for my next life.

```

19531

```

Do not misuse

Your Master’s compassion

If you want joy to be

Your heart’s constant companion. ```

19532

```

My oneness-heart

Feels responsible

When the world

Does anything wrong.

My division-mind

Does not think it necessary

To be responsible

Even for its own unpardonable blunders. ```

19533

```

My Lord,

I love You

More than You can possibly imagine.

“True, My child, true.

“My child,

I need you

More than you can possibly imagine.”

Not true, my Lord, not true. ```

19534

```

In order to sprint

On the aspiration-track,

What you need most

Is an eagerness-heart-cry. ```

19535

```

My meditation is perfect

Only when my restless mind

Surrenders

To my ageless and soundless heart. ```

19536

```

My Lord, I cannot love You.

What shall I do?

“My child, then love My devotees.”

My Lord, I cannot love Your devotees.

“My child, then love your purity.”

My Lord, I cannot love my purity.

“My child, then love your sincerity.”

My Lord, I cannot love my sincerity.

“My child,

Then love your sincerity-necessity.

You will eventually become

A perfect instrument of Mine

To please Me always in My own Way.”

```

19537

```

God’s Forgiveness-Boat

Sails and sails.

It never fails.

But it reaches

Its fulfilling and fulfilled destination

Only when God’s choice Hour strikes. ```

19538

```

If your God-love is unconditional,

Then only can you bypass

The lesser gods

And even the lesser God,

To be with the true God.

```

19539

```

My mind’s sound-door

I keep open

For all and sundry.

My heart’s silence-door

I keep open

Only for my Lord Beloved Supreme.

```

19540

```

A complexity-mind

Cannot permanently escape

A sorrowful descent.

```

19541

```

Each day is a golden opportunity

For God-awareness,

God-receptivity

And God-manifestation. ```

19542

```

O my stubborn unwillingness-mind,

You will soon be replaced

By my willingness-eagerness-heart.

```

19543

```

My soul-peace-bird

Soars above

My sunrise-heart-beauty

Only when

I happily and unconditionally surrender

My aspiration-breath

And dedication-life

To my Lord Supreme. ```

19544

```

When I arrived at

My aspiration-heart-home,

I discovered to my astonishment

That I had never really left. ```

19545

```

My Lord Supreme,

Do give me a pilgrim-heart

To offer my aspiration-flames

Far and wide,

Lovingly and self-givingly.

```

19546

```

The world’s insanity

Adds confusion to my mind.

The world’s beauty

Adds illumination to my heart. ```

19547

```

When I am inside the sound of my mind,

Nothing is attainable.

When I am inside the silence of my heart,

Everything, everybody and even God

Is easily attainable.

```

19548

```

Only ceaselessly self-giving lives

Can save, perfect and illumine

This world.

```

19549

```

When each and every thought of mine

I place at the Feet

Of my Lord Beloved Supreme,

I see myself sailing

With the prayerful, soulful

And fruitful peace-wind

At my back.

```

19550

```

When my heart is empty of peace,

I am at war

With everything that I accept

And everything that I reject. ```

19551

```

This is the day

When I must cut off

All my connections

With my ugliness-mind. ```

19552

```

O my heart’s sunrise-flowers,

I need you to worship my Lord Supreme.

Where are you all?

I cannot brook any further delay. ```

19553

```

If you cannot swim in the sea of tears,

How can you unburden yourself?

If you cannot unburden yourself,

How will you be able to arrive

Safely and gloriously

At your destined goal? ```

19554

```

When my heart-sky is clear and pure,

God Himself

Proudly and triumphantly

Roams there. ```

19555

```

Nobody can prevent you

From arriving at the highest height

Of your self-awareness,

Self-offering and self-perfection. ```

19556

```

May everything in my life

Be as it was before:

Once more I shall love God’s Heart

In God’s own Way,

I shall worship God’s Feet

In God’s own Way,

I shall carry God’s Life-Breath

In God’s own Way. ```

19557

```

My greatness-mind

Is not sufficient unto itself,

But my goodness-heart is.

```

19558

```

My mind is a satisfaction-stranger.

My heart is a satisfaction-dreamer,

Satisfaction-lover,

Satisfaction-sower,

Satisfaction-grower,

Satisfaction-enjoyer. ```

19559

```

Yesterday

Doubt-supremacy I enjoyed.

Today

I am enjoying doubt-intimacy.

Tomorrow

I shall enjoy oneness-ecstasy. ```

19560

```

O my mind,

What you need

Is perfection-preference

And not

World-adulation-indulgence.

```

19561

```

The sound-bondage

Frightens me.

The silence-freedom

Enlightens me. ```

19562

```

O my mind,

For God’s sake do tell me,

Who gave you the authority

To sit on the world-judgement-seat? ```

19563

```

The human mind is a product

Of only one thing:

An undisciplined thought-mart-mob.

```

19564

```

The heart is always ready

To settle its sad disputes

With the mind.

But the mind is never ready,

And will never be ready.

```

19565

```

Ambition-fire,

How hurtful you are.

Aspiration-flames,

How Godful you are. ```

19566

```

Suspicion my mind was.

Frustration my mind is.

Perdition my life will be.

```

19567

```

On second thought,

God still thinks of me,

He still loves me,

He still cares for me. ```

19568

```

Every thought

Eventually becomes a thorn

When I keep it for myself.

Every thought

Eventually becomes a rose

The moment I offer it to God. ```

19569

```

Hope never loses its beauty.

Hope never loses its joy.

Hope never loses its power.

Hope never loses God’s Compassion-Eye. ```

19570

```

When I am in my mind,

I do not know which way to go.

When I am in my heart,

Not only do I know which way to go,

But also I clearly see

That God is beckoning me. ```

19571

```

My Lord’s soul-stirring flute-melodies

Will always be heard

By my heart-ears,

If not by my mind-ears. ```

19572

```

God’s Compassion is always eager

To exchange stories

With my aspiration-heart.

```

19573

```

I have only one home,

Eternity’s Home,

And that Eternity’s Home

Is the Immortality-Boat

Of my Lord Supreme.

```

19574

```

Alas, years have flown by,

But I have not yet taken

God’s side completely,

Not to speak of

Concentrating on God’s Victory.

```

19575

```

Who will apologise for me?

No, not the human in my mind,

But the Divine in my heart.

```

19576

```

When our gratitude-heart

Comes to the fore,

Our doubting mind

Can easily be replaced

By our aspiration-heart,

Even on short notice from God. ```

19577

```

A sincere seeker knows and feels

That the beauty, purity and fragrance

Of a flower

Can easily humble his life. ```

19578

```

God wants our aspiration-flames

To rise high, higher, highest

And then dance around

His beloved planet-son-sun. ```

19579

```

God’s Compassion strengthens us

So that we do not fear

Our darkness-mind.

God’s Forgiveness energises us

So that we do not fear

Our ruthless foe:

Ignorance.

```

19580

```

When God is not the centre

Of your attention,

How do you expect to have

A satisfaction-heart? ```

19581

```

When the silence of your heart

Leads you,

There is no mind-barrier

That you cannot surmount. ```

19582

```

Make your decision:

What you want to get from life

Or what you want to give to life.

Do not allow yourself to be engulfed

In your mind’s indecision-mist.

```

19583

```

Be not afraid of

Your teeming weaknesses.

Confront them valiantly.

You are bound to succeed. ```

19584

```

My Lord Supreme,

May Your Compassion

And Forgiveness-moments

Forever live

Inside my gratitude-heart.

```

19585

```

Each time I cherish a wrong thought,

I lose my inner height

And am dwarfed by my own misfortune.

```

19586

```

My Lord, do give me the capacity

To sleeplessly knock

At Your Heart’s Compassion-Door.

```

19587

```

I am not going to waste any more time

In my mind’s thinking room.

I shall spend my time only gardening

In my heart-garden. ```

19588

```

Each attempt at perfection

Opens a new door

To the beauty of a new world.

```

19589

```

Alas, I do not know

How my heart can endure

The excruciating pangs

Of a Godless future! ```

19590

```

The mind that is flooded

With Infinity’s Peace

Is entitled to have

A universal passport to freedom. ```

19591

```

Be not trapped

Within yesterday’s unaspiring memories.

Open your heart-door

To tomorrow’s new dawn. ```

19592

```

When the activity of life

Is supported by

The serenity of the mind,

Man can accomplish

Whatever he wants to.

```

19593

```

If you are a God-obedient seeker,

A world-oneness-heart

You will be able to claim

As your own. ```

19594

```

If you do not give

Your undivided attention

To God-Utterances,

You are bound to remain inside

Your mind’s temptation-deception-room.

```

19595

```

The smiling dawn

Invites my mind to pray.

The weeping evening

Invites my heart to meditate.

And I always

Soulfully accept their invitations. ```

19596

```

Consciously you are enjoying self-doubt.

That means

Unconsciously you are paralysing

All your God-loving

And God-serving limbs.

```

19597

```

Whenever I am in the company of my mind,

It gives me a very hard time.

Whenever I am in the company of my heart,

We mutually give each other

Blossoming happiness.

Alas, I do not know why and how

I still spend so much time with my mind.

```

19598

```

I am absolutely certain

That the emptiness-mind

And the fulness-heart

Need each other

To complement each other.

```

19599

```

You are sad

That your pleasure-life is fleeting.

You will be infinitely more sad

When your heart’s aspiration-boat

Starts sinking.

```

19600

```

O my heart,

You are walking along the path

Of progress.

Although you may at times suffer

From a stumbling sadness,

Here there is no permanent defeat. ```

From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 196, Agni Press, 1994
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