Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 208

20701

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When I live in the purity-heart

I get confidence-light,

For my soul frequently visits me.

```

20702

```

Leave far behind

Your own way

Of living, thinking

And even imagining. ```

20703

```

The acceptance

Of responsibility

Is not the acceptance

Of a burden

But the multiplication

Of opportunity. ```

20704

```

Every day God lavishes upon you

His Compassion-Smiles.

Can you not decorate His Feet

With your aspiration-heart-flowers? ```

20705

```

My soul

At every moment advises me

To be prayerfully on the watch

So that I do not displease God

At any moment.

```

20706

```

The time that is allotted to us

May not be infinite,

But the opportunities that are given to us

To become perfect instruments of God

Are infinitely more than we need.

```

20707

```

Sincerity,

I appreciate your beauty.

Purity,

I admire your power.

Divinity,

I love your oneness. ```

20708

```

Your soul wants to know from you

To whom you prayed,

When you prayed,

Where you prayed

And how you prayed.

Answer the questions adequately! ```

20709

```

When God’s Eye sees

That your aspiration is absolutely reliable,

God smilingly and self-givingly

Makes Himself available. ```

20710

```

A life without goals

Is a helpless passenger

In a sinking boat

Without a boatman. ```

20711

```

The obedience of the mind

Is found between

Hesitation and frustration.

The obedience of the heart

Is found between

Eagerness and happiness. ```

20712

```

If you want to count,

Then do count your heart’s

Aspiration-moments

And not your mind’s

Desire-days.

```

20713

```

I shall one day surely see

What God has already seen

In me and for Him.

```

20714

```

Your aspiration-heart

Definitely has the capacity

To release you

From your doubt-prison. ```

20715

```

Do not be afraid

Of your yesterday’s nightmare.

Nightmares

Have very short lives! ```

20716

```

God does not enjoy

My devotion-exhibition.

He only enjoys

My devotion-purification. ```

20717

```

Pray and meditate

Soulfully and regularly.

You will be able to watch and enjoy

Your own step-by-step progress-march. ```

20718

```

Your action

Founded upon your aspiration

Is bound to give

Your mind illumination,

Your heart salvation

And your life liberation. ```

20719

```

Those who study

At self-doubt-school

Are shockingly miserable.

```

20720

```

Can you not see that

God’s Heart-Letter to you

You have left unopened

For such a long time! ```

20721

```

An impure mind

Is the source

Of all your thought-storms.

```

20722

```

God the Singer

Is exceptionally happy

When the seekers’ aspiration-hearts

Join Him in singing. ```

20723

```

The glorification

Of desire-fulfilment

Is nothing other than

The helpless starvation

Of aspiration.

```

20724

```

My Lord,

If Your Compassion-Eye

Does not teach me,

How can I ever succeed

In the outer life?

My Lord,

If Your Satisfaction-Heart

Does not teach me,

How can I ever proceed

In the inner life? ```

20725

```

God comes every day

On Compassion-tiptoe.

But alas,

My aspiration-heart-eye

Always remains fast asleep.

```

20726

```

Man’s imagination reaches

The highest height of hallucination

When he thinks

That God is indifferent to him. ```

20727

```

God has provided us

With millions of ways

To catch and throw away

Our impure thoughts. ```

20728

```

O my life, wake up!

When are you going to be tired

Of your ruthless mind-slavery?

```

20729

```

Faith is the heart’s

Sacred discovery

And not the mind’s

Secret invention. ```

20730

```

Another name for the mind-cancer

Is suspicion.

Another name for the heart-cancer

Is ingratitude. ```

20731

```

My mind thinks that my God-service

Is an obligation.

My heart feels that my God-service

Is an illumination. ```

20732

```

According to me,

I am God’s frustration.

According to God,

I am still in preparation. ```

20733

```

What my inert mind needs

Is enthusiasm-lightning-speed

To make the fastest progress

In the spiritual life. ```

20734

```

O my stupid mind,

Can you not see

That all your satisfactions

Are superficial and artificial? ```

20735

```

No matter how hard we try

To conquer

Our voracious tiger-thoughts,

We simply fail. ```

20736

```

When will my mind become

A God-obedience-qualifier

And my heart

A God-gratitude-qualifier? ```

20737

```

O seeker,

God is not asking you

To prove His existence on earth.

He is asking you only to be

His constantly self-giving instrument.

```

20738

```

O my mind, O my heart,

I am so proud of you two,

For today God Himself

Will be proudly present

At your obedience-gratitude-graduation.

```

20739

```

If you magnify your self-importance,

Then you are bound to lose

Your Lord’s Satisfaction-Smiles.

```

20740

```

Nobody can expect anything

Great or good

From his moody mind

And bloody vital. ```

20741

```

Nobody can deny that at times

His aspiration-life and dedication-life

Are strewn with upheavals.

```

20742

```

Idleness

Is always nourished

By hundreds of excuses.

```

20743

```

A God-attention-monopoliser

Can never be

A true God-lover.

```

20744

```

A world-saviour

Who is not first and foremost

A God-worshipper

Is indeed an off-key note. ```

20745

```

The silence-eye-advice

Is infinitely more fruitful

Than the sound-drum-advice.

```

20746

```

If you are a disbeliever,

You will not be exiled by God,

But you will not

Be needed by God, either. ```

20747

```

My Lord says to me,

“My child,

Just give Me your small mind.

I shall immediately give you

My big Heart.”

```

20748

```

O seeker,

Never allow frustration

To clip your aspiration-heart-wings.

```

20749

```

A man of compromise

Will never realise

The beauty, purity and divinity

Of Truth. ```

20750

```

When you love God unconditionally,

God expedites

His own Arrival time.

```

20751

```

Your soul will love you infinitely more

If you give credit to God

For all your aspiration-dedication-capacities.

```

20752

```

I may not know where God is,

I may never know who God is,

But I shall always keep

A God-gratitude-heart. ```

20753

```

How can a mind be happy

If it does not look forward?

How can a heart be happy

If it does not dive inward?

How can a life be happy

If it does not fly upward? ```

20754

```

The Beauty of God’s Eyes

Is all-pervading.

The Fragrance of God’s Heart

Is all-transcending. ```

20755

```

The mind’s willingness

And the heart’s eagerness

Can definitely do the impossible.

```

20756

```

God closes His Eyes

To examine me.

God opens His Eyes

To forgive me. ```

20757

```

What is keeping me still alive

On earth?

My Master’s faith in me,

And nothing else! ```

20758

```

Even

My unwillingness-face

Can see

God’s displeasure-Eye. ```

20759

```

The home of power

Is peace.

The home of peace

Is oneness.

The home of oneness

Is God’s Vision-Reality. ```

20760

```

In the spiritual life

Obedience-wisdom-delight

Far surpasses

All other wisdom. ```

20761

```

My Lord,

I am not praying to Your Heart

To love me.

I am praying to Your Eye

Not to leave me.

```

20762

```

Since my aspiration-life

Is God’s creation-object,

I must have God’s Life

As my manifestation-project. ```

20763

```

God’s Heart carries me,

God’s Eye protects me,

God’s Breath feeds me

Along Eternity’s Road. ```

20764

```

Where am I?

Alas, I am in between

My cheerless heart

And

My godless mind.

```

20765

```

My outer silence

Definitely helps mankind.

My inner silence

Unconditionally serves

My Lord Supreme.

```

20766

```

Pray to God

With the rising sun,

Meditate on God

With the blossoming moon,

When your life is riddled

With self-doubt. ```

20767

```

A sleeplessly self-giving heart

Is unparalleled

In God’s beauty-creation.

```

20768

```

God’s Satisfaction-Pride

In the soul’s smile

Can easily challenge

The pride of death. ```

20769

```

Although God’s manifestation

Is taking place

By very small degrees

And not by leaps and bounds,

God is extremely satisfied.

```

20770

```

God is not discouraged,

God is not disheartened,

But God is confused

About why the mind

Is so constantly unwilling

To aspire. ```

20771

```

Only a silence-mind

Can remain unperturbed

By thought-threats.

```

20772

```

Make a conscious and constant effort,

O seeker,

To end your unhappiness-indulgence.

```

20773

```

The freedom of the desire-mind

Is either absolutely shallow

Or completely empty.

```

20774

```

A God-searching mind

And a God-loving heart

Are the dependable deputies

Of the soul. ```

20775

```

O my mind,

Do not retire!

Continue inspiring the world.

O my heart,

Do not retire!

Continue praying for the world. ```

20776

```

Do not keep your God

Inside your hallucination-mind,

Frustration-vital

And perdition-body. ```

20777

```

A true spiritual life

Is fully nourished

Only by God-love,

God-service

And God-loyalty.

```

20778

```

God will sing

His Compassion-Satisfaction-Songs

When He sees

Even a single ray of faith

Inside your mind.

```

20779

```

First give God

What you have and what you are.

God will definitely come to you

With His Nectar-bestowing Hands. ```

20780

```

What is the mark

Of real enlightenment?

The mark of real enlightenment

Is ceaseless and sleepless

Contentment.

```

20781

```

May I be found meditating

At the Feet

Of my Lord Supreme

Or dreaming

Inside the Heart

Of my Lord Supreme. ```

20782

```

The human ego

Does not believe in

Others’ leadership

Or even friendship. ```

20783

```

We should be equally careful

Of our jealousy-minds

And our insecurity-hearts.

```

20784

```

God is tired

Of only one thing:

My ego-exhibit.

```

20785

```

Be a sweetness-flute

When you deal with the world.

But be a thunderbolt

When you deal with yourself. ```

20786

```

Is there any difference

Between a gratitude-heart

And a happiness-life?

The gratitude-heart is the nest.

The happiness-life is the tree.

```

20787

```

God wants your mind

To serve His creation,

Not to teach His creation.

```

20788

```

When willingness and eagerness

Are present,

The road that leads to God-destination

Automatically becomes sunlit. ```

20789

```

The soul-instructor

Lovingly and proudly

Gives obedience-lessons

To the heart, mind, vital and body,

Always free of charge.

```

20790

```

God’s Heart

We can most satisfactorily feed

Only with our own heart’s

Silence-meditation-flames. ```

20791

```

The desire-train-ride

Is always unpleasant,

Uncomfortable and unfulfilling.

```

20792

```

Heaven blesses us

With stupendous oneness-cheers.

The world blesses us

With fear-torture and doubt-torture. ```

20793

```

In the spiritual life

Love-devotion-surrender-shortage

Is not an uncommon experience.

```

20794

```

We are so fortunate

That there is no cut-off time

In our Eternity’s aspiration-run.

```

20795

```

Alas, I do know

That God does not expect

Anything special

From my short-lived surrender-life. ```

20796

```

O my mind,

I really want to discourage you

In your book learning

And encourage you

In your heart-opening.

```

20797

```

Silence-determination

Expedites

Our aspiration-heart-journey.

```

20798

```

The inner sun

Sleeplessly and compassionately shines

In our aspiration-heart-garden.

```

20799

```

There can be no fulfilment

If we do not open up

Our aspiration-lives

To unexplored horizons. ```

20800

```

When you are your mind’s

Childlike readiness,

When you are your heart’s

Childlike willingness,

When you are your life’s

Childlike self-offering,

The arrival of God the Grace

Cannot be delayed. ```

From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 208, Agni Press, 1994
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