Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 206

20501

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A million soulful dreams

Thrill my heart

When I do not allow my mind

To be encaged

By ruthless unhappiness-dragon.

```

20502

```

Each aspiration-opportunity

Must work side by side

With a dedication-smile.

```

20503

```

The stupidity of man compels him

To dash against

His own mind’s desire-rocks.

```

20504

```

When the heart-compass

Points only to God,

We can free ourselves

From the nightmares of the past. ```

20505

```

If you hold conversations

With frustration-despair-darkness,

Then your life will never grow into

A perfection-flower. ```

20506

```

Each time you allow doubt

To enter your mind,

Your heart’s aspiration-flame

Is bound to waver. ```

20507

```

When I do not pray

And do not meditate,

I unmistakably see my life

As an endless and fruitless

Desert-journey.

```

20508

```

You already have wasted

Many incarnations.

Why not this time

Lovingly, soulfully and fruitfully

Walk along the broad avenue

Of God’s smiling spirituality? ```

20509

```

There can be no security

In power.

There is all security

Only in

The heart’s oneness-love.

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20510

```

If you become

A childlike heart,

Then nothing can cloud

Your heart’s enthusiasm-sky. ```

20511

```

God has definitely

Singled out certain souls

To take most significant parts

In His Cosmic Drama. ```

20512

```

The aggression of the mind

And the depression of the vital

Must agree to a cease-fire

Before they can make any progress

In the spiritual life.

```

20513

```

To cherish doubts

Is to clip

One’s own aspiration-heart-wings.

```

20514

```

The mind’s disobedience

Will, without fail, create

A purposeless and fruitless life.

```

20515

```

Neither time nor space

Can ever reduce or dull

The lustre of God-realisation.

```

20516

```

Your task

Is just to begin.

God, in His infinite Compassion,

Wants forever to continue. ```

20517

```

Two things are sadly absent

From this world:

A compassion-eye

And

A forgiveness-heart.

```

20518

```

God tells me that

My aspiration

Is my task

And my perfection

Is His Task.

```

20519

```

O my Lord Supreme,

I have come to realise that

Unless You become dictatorial

From now on in my life,

I shall make no abiding progress.

```

20520

```

You will drown

In the sea of tears

If you daily,

Consciously and deliberately

Disobey the illumination-whispers

Of your soul. ```

20521

```

O empire-conqueror,

Who needs you?

Who wants you?

Not me!

Not in the least.

O heart-conqueror,

Where are you?

Do come and live with me

In my sweet little heart-nest. ```

20522

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The unwillingness-body,

The unwillingness-vital

And the unwillingness-mind

Will always be armed

With innumerable excuses.

```

20523

```

Wherever you go,

Just remember to do one thing:

Carry your heart’s

Morning joy with you. ```

20524

```

Alas, even God,

Who has infinite Compassion,

Finds it difficult to endure

The ceaseless chatter

Of my monkey-mind.

```

20525

```

Your life shall reach

Sublime heights of progress

If you do not remain

Inside your mind,

Or if your mind does not live

Inside the vital and the body. ```

20526

```

Who can be more stupid

Than you are?

How can you refuse to listen

To your soul’s

Illumination-injunctions?

```

20527

```

The worldwide shortage

Of God-surrender

Is the root cause

Of the world-failure. ```

20528

```

When God-disobedience

Is simply impossible for you,

God will be more than happy

To have you

Under His direct tutelage.

```

20529

```

Do not visit God

With empty hands.

Do not visit God

With an empty heart.

But do visit God

With an empty mind. ```

20530

```

Whoever lives

A genuinely spiritual life

Is bound to know

God’s Heart-Home address

And God’s Soul-phone number.

```

20531

```

Happiness and sorrow

Are flowing

Sleeplessly and breathlessly

To God’s Compassion-flooded destination. ```

20532

```

Today I am celebrating the birthday

Of my soul’s rainbow-dream.

Look who is here:

God Himself,

Compassionately and self-givingly,

To participate with His Compassion-Eye

And His Satisfaction-Heart.

```

20533

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An unspiritual person

Thinks that God lives

Only in Heaven.

A spiritual person

Knows that God lives permanently

In his heart-home-garden.

```

20534

```

Insecurity

Shortens your life,

Strengthens your miseries

And

Frightens your hope and promise

At once. ```

20535

```

Long lost

Was my heart’s aspiration-flame.

But now that I have discovered it,

Sleeplessly I am enjoying

God’s secret and sacred Sunshine-Smile.

```

20536

```

O my God-searching mind,

My heart of love

Will definitely help you

In conquering

All your doubt-enemies.

```

20537

```

My Lord, do ignore me

If that is what pleases You.

But do give me the capacity

To love You more, infinitely more,

When You ignore me.

```

20538

```

Even if you meet God,

You will not recognise Him

If you do not have

A purity-heart

And

A surrender-life. ```

20539

```

O my Lord,

Do give my doubtful mind

An early death.

O my Lord,

Do give my prayerful heart

A longer than the longest life.

```

20540

```

If you do not want

To discipline your desire-life,

How do you dare to imagine

That you will be able to walk

Along the sunlit path?

```

20541

```

I do not know

About other excuses,

But God-disobedience-excuses

Will always remain inexcusable. ```

20542

```

God does not want

To shed any Light

On man’s

Insecurity-subject

And

Doubt-object. ```

20543

```

A frustration-fate will befall you

If you are nourishing the hope

Of expectation-fulfilment from God

Without pleasing Him. ```

20544

```

There is always

Plenty of room

To make continuous progress

In the seeker’s aspiration-heart

And dedication-life.

```

20545

```

God shakes my sleeping mind

To wake my mind up.

God touches my singing heart

To manifest His Victory-Light

On earth.

```

20546

```

God will definitely bless you

With His most powerful Smile

When you sing

Your heart-surrender-songs. ```

20547

```

An aspiring seeker’s love of God

And surrender to God

Must endure the world’s

Wild and hurtful mockery. ```

20548

```

God’s Grace is equally needed

To enable me to stop

My negative thoughts

And start

My positive thoughts.

```

20549

```

Your half-hearted attempts

Are not only delaying you

But also robbing you

Of your own inner strength. ```

20550

```

God has no time to read

Your mind’s world-criticising letters,

But He has all the time to listen to

Your heart’s world-elevating songs. ```

20551

```

Hope does not surrender to

Old age.

Hope is always ready

To inspire and energise human beings

Irrespective of age.

```

20552

```

O seeker,

God will be displeased with you

If you lose faith in your own soul,

Even if you maintain your faith

In God’s Compassion-Sea.

```

20553

```

My mind’s sincerity

Helps me bloom.

My heart’s purity

Helps me blossom. ```

20554

```

Death has to find

God-surrender-seekers

Smiling and dancing

When it locks their life-doors. ```

20555

```

Whenever you surrender

To ignorance-compromise,

You are bound to be disappointed

Ruthlessly

In the long run.

```

20556

```

O my mind,

Be brave!

Stand dauntlessly

And challenge

The elephant-doubts

Inside you. ```

20557

```

When God blessingfully grants you

An interview,

Prayerfully ask Him

How you can be

A perfect swimmer

In realisation-sea. ```

20558

```

The mind foolishly thinks

Of separating itself

From the heart of love.

The heart prayerfully links

Everything with

God’s Compassion-Eye

And God’s Forgiveness-Heart. ```

20559

```

Now that you have squandered

Your golden opportunities,

How can you expect to march

Behind the Banner

Of our Lord Supreme?

```

20560

```

Power can never

Grant us security.

It is our heart’s oneness-dream

And life’s oneness-reality

That can and will

Give us security. ```

20561

```

God is ready to forgive

Our self-deception

But not

Our self-deprecation. ```

20562

```

The seeker’s heart-devotion

Is bound to expedite

God’s Breath-manifestation

On earth. ```

20563

```

The mind wants

To be the king.

The heart wants

To be the subject,

Not of the mind

But of the soul. ```

20564

```

Since my eyes

Contain no tears,

How can I

Claim God’s Smiles? ```

20565

```

I do not allow

And will never allow

Intolerance

To invade my heart-shore. ```

20566

```

Soulfully

If we can live,

Then compassionately

We will be able to see. ```

20567

```

Secret is my mind’s

Success-futility.

Sacred is my heart’s

Progress-infallibility. ```

20568

```

The mind thinks

The heart is a beggar.

The heart feels

The mind is an intruder. ```

20569

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No more my mind’s readiness

Will remain fettered.

No more my heart’s eagerness

Will remain fettered.

No more my life’s willingness

Will remain fettered. ```

20570

```

You will definitely

Go far and fast

If you walk along

The surrender-path. ```

20571

```

God loves you.

But He will love you

Infinitely more

If you fly

With your God-longing wings.

```

20572

```

If you underestimate the importance

Of God’s blessingful Arrival,

Then it is you

And not God

Who will miserably suffer

In the long run. ```

20573

```

O doubt,

You are the destroyer

Of my hopes.

You are the destroyer

Of my promises.

You are the destroyer

Even of my God-Compassion-Rain.

```

20574

```

Impurity,

Leave me alone!

Go wherever you want to!

And I definitely do not want from you

Your forwarding address.

```

20575

```

There is only one way

To cure the mind’s doubt-cancer,

And that way is the heart’s

Conscious and constant expansion. ```

20576

```

The realised souls do not parade,

Because they do not need to.

The unrealised seekers are quite often

Victims of self-exhibition-parade. ```

20577

```

O my obedience-heart-garland-fragrance,

Because of you

I am a member

Of God’s inner circle. ```

20578

```

If you multiply your opportunities,

Then God will supply you

With endless achievements.

```

20579

```

If you do not cry,

God will not blame you.

If you do not smile,

God will not blame you.

If you do not sing God-songs,

God will not blame you.

But God will blame you

If you try to end your earth-life

Untimely.

```

20580

```

If you want to be

A reformed character,

Then every day

Keep your heart-lotus

Fresh, beautiful,

Prayerful and soulful. ```

20581

```

God is not

An empire-mind-builder.

But He is

A cottage-heart-lover. ```

20582

```

What language

Does God speak?

God speaks only

Self-giving language. ```

20583

```

O my heart’s hope-shrine,

You are my life’s

Oneness-sunshine.

```

20584

```

Do not allow unhappiness

To capture your heart.

Do you not know that unhappiness

Is the heart-cancer? ```

20585

```

My idle life

And my impure mind

Talk and talk incessantly.

```

20586

```

To my widest surprise,

The farthest reach

Of the mind

Is unimaginably short! ```

20587

```

O my mind, from now on

You can be a self-ruler.

But I shall not allow you

Any longer to rule my heart. ```

20588

```

I want to master

Mind-discipline

And not

Mind-freedom. ```

20589

```

How can you expect

Your soul to sing for you

Its celestial songs,

When you have betrayed

Your God-hunger-life?

```

20590

```

God sings God-Songs

Only to a sleeplessly

God-grateful life.

```

20591

```

God’s final advice to me:

“My child, my child,

Smile at Me, smile at Me.”

```

20592

```

Happiness is

A Heaven-sent boon,

Not an earth-born gift.

```

20593

```

Your heart will be

Supremely happy

If you can accept and transcend

All your mind-barriers. ```

20594

```

O my mind’s turbulence,

You cannot frighten me

Any more.

My illumination-soul

Has come to my rescue.

```

20595

```

O seeker,

Keep your faith-sword

Always sharp.

Do not allow yourself

To be assaulted

By self-doubts. ```

20596

```

O truth-seeker and God-lover,

It is already very late,

But it is never too late

For you to depart

From ignorance-confusion-mind-market.

```

20597

```

O my Lord Supreme,

Do liberate me

From the fragments

Of my battered faith in You. ```

20598

```

Each positive thought

Is a Heaven-flower.

Each negative thought

Is an earth-thorn. ```

20599

```

God will be

Extremely proud of you

If you can outshine

Your yesterday’s knowledge-sun. ```

20600

```

O seeker,

If your mind is really sincere

And your heart is really pure,

Then you can be a true member

Of the true God’s

True inner circle. ```

From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 206, Agni Press, 1994
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