Ignorance is defeating
World-aspiration,But eventually world-aspiration
Will win the race. ```God has countless Heart-Doors.
A seeker always takesHis Compassion-Heart-Door.
```God has given us life
To enjoy divinelyAnd not to destroy ruthlessly.
```The mind’s illusion-thief
Will not be ableTo escape and hide forever.
```O seeker, your blind pride
Has made you a perfect strangerTo God’s Compassion.
```A purity-heart has the capacity
To fly at the speedOf a sweet dream.
```Do you know why
You are suffering so much?You are suffering so much
Because you have failedTo guard the door of your mind.
```You are beautiful, more beautiful,
Most beautifulOnly when you join your soul
In dancingIn God’s Heart-Garden.
```If your life is dominated
By doubt,Then faith is helpless
To change the courseOf your life.
```When disobedience shakes hands
With your lifeAnd embraces your heart,
We see the express arrivalOf total doom.
```Cheerful sincerity
Has to dawnIn your inner life
If you really wantTo succeed and proceed
In your aspiration-cryAnd dedication-smile.
```Every morning pray to God
To help you discoverThe God-dreamer-child
In your heart-flower. ```The self-indulgence
Of ingratitudeHas covered the length and breadth
Of the world. ```Be aware of disobedience-torture.
Then only you will be ableTo obey God and fulfil God
In His own Way. ```The remedy for all earth-ailments
Is a conscious, constantHeart-cry.
```There cannot be anything
As uninspiring and unaspiringAs conscious self-deception.
```My life is so sweetly,
Blessingfully and compassionatelyTouched by the Compassion-Eye
Of my Lord Beloved Supreme. ```The dreamer in you
Will remain awakeOnly when it hears
The melodious songsOf God-lovers on earth.
```God most compassionately waits
For each and everyTriumphant ascent
Of the genuine seeker. ```Your life-plant
And your heart-roseAre chosen by God Himself.
```Do not cast your suspicion-net.
You will be ruthlessly ridiculedBy the entire world.
```Alas,
God is strugglingAnd suffering so much
To keep my stupid mind happy! ```Heaven sings in my heart.
God Himself sings in my heart.But alas, where is my ear?
Where is my vision? ```My soul will never accept
Permanent defeat.It will surcharge
My searching mindAnd my aspiring heart
With its infinite light and delight. ```O my life-tree,
I want the whole world to enjoyYour strongest branches
And not your tiniest twigs. ```The soul’s only tragedy
Is the seeker’sFailure-life.
```Until you are willing
To accept GodIn God’s own Way,
You can never be truly happy. ```I know my prayers will never
Change God’s Mind,But God’s Mind can and will
Change my prayers. ```Is there any human being
Who does not keep God waitingIndefinitely?
```The difference between
The Creator and the creation is this:The creation is a universal cry;
The Creator is a transcendental Smile. ```Prompted by our utter stupidity,
We always think of giving GodA surprise.
But do we not knowThat God Himself
Is the only Surprise? ```Disobedience is lustreless.
Disobedience is soulless.Disobedience eventually becomes
Hopelessly helpless. ```Disobedience has to be
Kept under controlIf we hope to live
A self-disciplined life. ```Unseen and unappreciated,
God’s Silence-Fulfilment-TreeSpreads everywhere.
```God does not believe
In staying alone.He always enjoys the company
Of self-giving souls. ```May the beauty of our prayer
And fragrance of our meditationIncrease with our daily
Blossoming faith-strength. ```Patience in the presence
Of teeming obstaclesIs the only way
To surprisingly succeed in life. ```When truth and falsehood
Quarrel and fight,Falsehood always loses.
```If you are supremely strong
In your inner life,It is advisable to know the worst,
So that you can prepare yourselfFor the best.
```Twice I am totally puzzled:
Once when I see the weaknessOf humanity
And once when I see the greatnessOf humanity.
```God secretly tells me
That nothing can ever be uselessIn His creation-vision-world.
“Uselessness” is not to be foundIn God’s Heart-Dictionary.
```I cannot understand
How you can beHelplessly and willingly blind
While walking alongGod-realisation-road.
```I always long to study
In the schoolOf truth-sublimity
And God-necessity. ```As long as we believe others
To be equally sincere, goodAnd promising,
We shall not suffer fromThe weakness of division-night.
```Supreme,
You have shown me Your golden Boat.You have shown me Your golden Face.
Please tell me whenYou will show me Your golden Feet.
```Your slow attempt
At self-improvementIs compelling your soul
To shed bitter tears. ```From God’s point of view,
You are not consciously, self-givingly,Sleeplessly and breathlessly
Trying to be another God. ```God tells me that
The only indispensable thingIn life I need
Is an unconditionally surrenderedHeart-smile.
```Each spiritual Master
Has his inner reasonsWhy he deals with each individual
In a totally different way. ```O seeker,
Do you know what you have become?You have become a slave
To your demands,And God has become a slave
To His own Forgiveness. ```Whenever I dream of God’s Love,
I becomeA rising God-hunger-wave.
```Whether you want to or not,
There shall come a timeWhen you will be bound to observe
The ultimate demiseOf your doubting mind.
```Disobedience is nothing other than
A paralytic strokeIn the spiritual life.
```A God-blessed aspiration-runner
Will not be a victimTo doubt-injuries.
```On the aspiration-road
Always followDevotion-fragrance-signs.
```Division-trees will without fail
Be uprooted from the God-GardenBy God Himself.
```Your once-a-day
Prayer-meditation sessionCan never be enough
To expediteYour Heavenward journey.
```Always be on the alert!
Your heart’s aspiration-treasureCan be stolen
By your mind’s desire-thief. ```Whatever opposes God’s Will
Will eventually surrender,For God’s Will is Infinity’s
Omnipotence. ```If you want to surprise God,
Then obey Him all the timeAnd not just when
It suits your purpose. ```If you do not want
To serve God,How do you expect God
To feed you? ```Do not be so stupid!
It is you who are rejectingDeliberately
God the CompassionAnd God the Illumination.
```I am absolutely sure
That before long,Mine will be
A God-pleasing life. ```To silence the forces
Of ignorance-titan,I shall dare to love God
Devotedly and unconditionally. ```If you want to win God’s Heart,
Love God spontaneouslyAnd serve God willingly.
```You have not lost anything —
On the contrary,You have got everything —
By losing your desire-life. ```Compassion-Light has not succeeded,
But I am sure Justice-LightWill without fail succeed!
```My Lord,
Just end the era of Your Compassion!What I need is Your Justice
To turn me intoA good citizen of the world.
```Alas, I do not know how
I shall ever find my way backTo my Lord’s Favour
If I continue hurtingHis Compassion-Heart.
```My Lord,
I have not come into the worldTo hide my mind’s faults.
I have come into the worldTo expose my mind’s faults
And reveal my heart’sGod-satisfaction-willingness
And eagerness. ```You can close your eyes
To reality’s body,But you can never close your eyes
To reality’s heart. ```Wherever he,
Along with his aspiration-cries,Goes,
Heaven and Heaven’s Satisfaction-SmileFollow.
```I want to remain owned always
By my Lord’s Compassion-EyeAnd His Forgiveness-Heart.
```To serve God is not only
To please God and to fulfil God,But eventually to become God.
```Disobedience-road leads us
Nowhere.Obedience-road shows us
The satisfaction-goalEverywhere.
```O obedience,
You have made my eyes beautiful,You have made my heart pure,
You have made my breath self-giving,You have made my mind clear.
```As the world will manage nicely
Without me,Even so, I shall manage my life wisely
Without the world. ```My gratitude is worthless
If there is no abiding God-faithIn my gratitude.
My surrender is uselessIf there is no abiding God-faith
In my surrender. ```You do not have to fly
To the blue-vast sky.The blue-vast sky will enter into you
If you turn your mind into a silence-home. ```My Lord, I implore You
Not to make me happyIn my own way,
But to make me perfectIn Your own Way.
```O seeker, if you do not want
To believe in your crying heart,At least believe in
Your illumining soul. ```The living breath
Of my real existenceIs my Lord’s Compassion-Rain.
```I came into the world
To make my Lord Supreme happy.Alas, what am I doing?
I am desperately tryingTo make myself happy!
```People become infinitely more jealous
When you climb upThe ladder of success
Than when you climb upThe ladder of progress.
```My simple but urgent
Request to GodIs not to fulfil
Any desire of mineWhatsoever!
```The only indispensable thing
In my lifeIs my ceaseless attempt at
Perfection. ```Since you cannot fathom
Your Master’s heart,It is good for you to remain silent
And not to ask him the reasonHe does things in an unusual way.
```Who can prevent you from thinking
The right thing,If not your mind?
Who can prevent you from doingThe wrong thing,
If not your heart? ```You should not delay
When the gates of the aspiration-worldBeckon you!
```When self-transcendence becomes
Your conscious choice,The door of delight
Will welcome you. ```Who is a favourite instrument of God?
He who is totallyAnd sleeplessly satisfied
With God’s divine OperationIn and through him.
```Who is a favourite instrument of God?
He who claims God sleeplesslyAs his own,
No matter what he doesOr who he is.
```If you walk along
The desert-road of self-doubt,How can you ever dare
To be really happy? ```You only want the money-god
To please you.Since the Heart-God you do not want,
How can you expect anythingFrom the Heart-God?
```Who knows what God’s Plan is?
He may use failureTo awaken your heart more fully.
```When I pray to God,
His Presence I feel in my heart.When I meditate on God,
He participates with meIn all my activities.
```Just because the soul does not want
To tell you everythingFor its own special reason,
Do not think that the soulDoes not know everything!
```The joy of silence
Is the joy we getFrom our breathless self-offering.
```Nothing disturbs God,
But if I can do the thingThat will gladden God’s Heart,
Then why do I have to do the thingThat saddens God?
```Mine is a hallowed heart-temple.
Here I sing,Here I pray,
Here I meditate,And here in silence I converse
With my Lord Beloved Supreme. ```From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 211, Agni Press, 1994
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