Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 212

21101

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If you can love the power

Of the Eternal Now-Time,

Then God will lead you

To His Infinity’s Satisfaction-Clime. ```

21102

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God loves you proudly

Because you are your mind’s

Clarity-day.

God will love you proudly

If you can become your heart’s

Hospitality-sun. ```

21103

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The divine in us surrenders

To God the Faith.

The undivine in us surrenders

To man the disbelief. ```

21104

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God will proudly feed your life

Only when your mind wants

What your heart needs.

```

21105

```

My heart,

You were not born with insecurity.

Where did you get it from, where?

My mind,

You were not born with uncertainty.

Where did you get it from, where?

My vital,

You were not born with restlessness.

Where did you get it from, where?

My body,

You were not born with idleness.

Where did you get it from, where?

My life,

You were not born with imperfection.

Where did you get it from, where?

```

21106

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If you want your heart

To compose a song on delight,

Then you and your mind

Must not mix with the ignorance-night

Of the unaspiring world.

```

21107

```

If you think that you are

Your heart’s compassion-sea,

Then offer at least a few compassion-waves

To the unaspiring man-made world. ```

21108

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Doubt invades your mind

Because you do not ask your heart

To sweeten your mind,

And you do not ask your soul

To enlighten your mind.

```

21109

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If it is truth,

Then it has to be thoroughly enjoyable.

If it is falsehood,

Then it is sleeplessly abominable. ```

21110

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My aspiration-life,

On you move!

Cling not to your old glories’

Summit-crown. ```

21111

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If your mind is a blunt indifference

To your desire-success,

Then your heart’s aspiration-progress-flower

Is going to blossom. ```

21112

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What is a desire-life

If not a birthless and deathless life

Of waiting?

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21113

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If your outer life is proud

Of your long-term determination,

Then make your inner life a God-cry

Of sleepless aspiration. ```

21114

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How long can your mind remain

In endlessly frustration-supported stupidity?

When will you look at your God-awakened,

Satisfaction-manifested beauty? ```

21115

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Each unrevealed truth

Is a rainbow

Of unmanifested achievement-divinity.

```

21116

```

What I need is either

A cheerful Smile or a hurtful Frown

From my Lord Beloved Supreme

To take away immediately

The long-cherished groans

Of my doubt-cherishing mind. ```

21117

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O human mind, do tell me

In which way are you better

Than a tempest-trembling

Uncertainty-tree? ```

21118

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If your heart is not surcharged

With an indomitable will,

You may not be able to conquer

The inevitable,

But you can certainly postpone

The fully-prepared arrival

Of the inevitable.

```

21119

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My sleepless aspiration-heart,

God the birthless Compassion

And God the deathless Compassion

Are yours for the asking. ```

21120

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Keep your heart’s

Obedience-door open.

Lo, God’s Golden Shore

Is beckoning you. ```

21121

```

God transcends His highest Height

So that the darkest night

Of the human mind

Can be better examined

And illumined.

```

21122

```

Opportunity

Is a most precious gift.

The seeker’s surrender-life

Cheerfully accepts this gift. ```

21123

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Attention, attention —

This is what the human in us wants.

Participation, participation —

This is what the divine in us wants. ```

21124

```

A heart of gratitude

Is a delightful responsibility

And a fruitful divinity.

```

21125

```

At long last

My Absolute Lord Supreme

Has come into my life

To abscond with my ignorance-night. ```

21126

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Yesterday I became

My mind’s desire-storms.

Today I have become

My heart’s aspiration-blossoms.

Tomorrow I shall become

My soul’s realisation-sun. ```

21127

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Time is always too short.

Aspiration is always too weak.

Realisation is always too self-giving,

Furthermore, all-giving. ```

21128

```

The Master’s final request:

Either dive deep within

To please me,

Or go away, far away from me,

To please yourself.

```

21129

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My Lord’s Compassion-Smile

Is at once

My mind’s inspiration-garden

And my heart’s aspiration-flower. ```

21130

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When I enter into

My heart’s silence-temple,

Even before I call,

God replies. ```

21131

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Dedication creates order

From chaos.

Aspiration creates perfection

In order. ```

21132

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Your doubt-mind has blinded

Your vision-eye.

Therefore, you do not see

When God paints a rainbow

Across your devotion-flooded heart-sky.

```

21133

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Confidence comes from commitment.

Commitment comes from aspiration.

Aspiration comes from compassion.

Compassion comes from vision. ```

21134

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When God asks you to try,

You must realise

That not only does He know

What He is talking about,

But He also knows

That you do have the capacity. ```

21135

```

When the physical body

Does not aspire,

It is definitely among

The living dead. ```

21136

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Fortify your fragile faith.

God will grant you

His Infinity’s Oneness-Heart.

```

21137

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Without experience-flames,

How can I increase my faith in God?

Without realisation-delight,

How can I carry man’s life-burden

Into God’s Heart-Garden?

```

21138

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You do not have to surrender

To world-cynicism.

You do not have to fight

Against world-criticism.

God will do the needful for you.

He only asks you not to belong

To ignorance-era.

```

21139

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God believes in

Your eventual God-realisation,

Although you do not have

Even an iota of belief in Him. ```

21140

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Blunders are inevitable:

So says the human mind.

Perfection is inevitable:

So knows the divine heart. ```

21141

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Your mind’s desire-attack

Is a very old story.

Your heart’s desire-conquest

Is today’s plus tomorrow’s

New story.

```

21142

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There is no substitute

For the mind’s

Constant and willing faith-experience

In God’s life-transforming Light. ```

21143

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God is asking you

To be true to your own heart first.

Listen to Him

If you want Him to tell you

What you are supposed to do next.

```

21144

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God calls.

Man’s heart devotedly answers.

Man’s mind proudly does not answer.

```

21145

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A purity-gratitude-heart

Is a supreme gift of God

And not man’s creation.

```

21146

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Only one thing I need:

The assurance

Of God’s constant Forgiveness.

```

21147

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A big mind

Cannot receive satisfactorily.

A small heart

Cannot give unconditionally. ```

21148

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Two Eternity’s rivals:

Heaven’s soul-bird

And

Earth’s life-cage. ```

21149

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My mind’s thousands of years

And my heart’s just tomorrow

Are the same.

```

21150

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A doubting mind

Is always in transit

To nowhere.

```

21151

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Alas, I do not know

How many centuries

Will dawn for me

Before my life becomes

A gratitude-heart.

```

21152

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By feeding your imaginary sufferings,

You are separating your life

From God’s Compassion-Eye.

```

21153

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God observes

His happy Birthday

Inside my gratitude-heart-bud.

```

21154

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I have known about my surrender-life

For many incarnations.

But where is it?

Does anybody know

When or where it will come

And befriend me? ```

21155

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Like my soul,

I wish to be

An eternal optimist,

Not just

A long-term optimist.

```

21156

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O life’s misfortune

And tragedy-stories,

I really do not want

To be fed by you

Any more.

```

21157

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With my prayer-mind

And meditation-heart

I am going to transform my life

Into a temple of God-songs. ```

21158

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Everything that God does

For our aspiration-heart

And dedication-life

Is unconditional.

It is simply impossible for God

To be otherwise. ```

21159

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Not the loftiest experience,

But God-realisation itself,

Is the ultimate reach

Of meditation’s longest arms. ```

21160

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Each good thought

And each good action

Is indeed a descendant

Of God’s Heart-Fragrance. ```

21161

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Neither God nor even death

Wants to hear from me.

I am worthless and useless

In every way! ```

21162

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O disobedience-fool,

Will you ever know

That you do not even care

To understand yourself? ```

21163

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If you really want to realise God,

Then do not postpone your obedience

Until the endless tomorrow.

```

21164

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I am so happy,

O my mind,

That your disobedience-life

Is so swiftly sinking and dying. ```

21165

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I become a burden to myself

When I want to see everything

In my own way,

And when I want everything to be done

In my own way.

```

21166

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God smiles at me

Most compassionately

And most proudly

When I stretch my heart-dreams

To the sky.

```

21167

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O my mind,

I am not an inch from the truth

When I tell you that

You are nothing other than

A non-practising perfectionist.

```

21168

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Each time I do selfless service,

God blessingfully tells me

To enjoy a feast

Of His Compassion-Smiles. ```

21169

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The seeker who wants nothing

From this world

Is equally as wise

As the one who loves

And wants to depend

Only on God’s Compassion. ```

21170

```

An unaspiring person

Is he who is sustained

By lifeless dreams

And fruitless hopes. ```

21171

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My Lord Supreme

Every day commands me

To nurse

My soul’s sleepless thirst. ```

21172

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Try to please God

In God’s own Way.

Otherwise, your life is bound

To remain saddled

With unfulfilled expectations.

```

21173

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You are bound to dance

With your mind’s tragedies

If you do not bring into your mind

Your soul’s wisdom-flooded light. ```

21174

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You want to know how

I remain spiritually so rich.

I remain spiritually rich

By keeping careful watch

Over my mind-thief.

```

21175

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O my mind,

Be reasonable, be wise,

Be truth-searching

And do not try to live on

Tomorrow’s extravagant hopes.

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21176

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Although a true seeker

Does not invite disobedience,

Disobedience often visits him

Uninvited. ```

21177

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O seeker,

Ignorance never falls asleep.

Therefore, do not think of

Working for God

When ignorance is asleep.

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21178

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He who lives all the time

In the heart and for the heart

Is definitely suited to serve God

In a very special way. ```

21179

```

The absurdities of imperfection

Do not leave us on their own.

At every moment

Consciously and heroically

We have to cast them

Far away from us. ```

21180

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I am sure

There shall come a time

When my mind’s disobedience

Will be sick of itself. ```

21181

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God swims in the sea of tears

When I desperately desire

To outshine others.

```

21182

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Obedience

Has a few select companions:

The sincerity of the mind,

The purity of the heart

And the spontaneity of life.

```

21183

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You will have

Life-transforming experiences

Only when God-thoughts

Inundate you with joy,

Just as gold delights

A deplorable miser. ```

21184

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O idleness,

You steal my hours,

You steal my days.

But I know that very soon

My soul’s dynamic energy

Will catch you red-handed

And energise you

To become a choice instrument

Of God.

```

21185

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Alas, we keep

Our aspiration-heart-eye closed

And blame God unnecessarily

For not blessing us

With His Compassion-Eye-Smiles.

```

21186

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Every day

I remind my unaspiring mind

Of its worthless thoughts

And useless actions. ```

21187

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The vital and the mind

Every day ask the heart

For advice.

But alas, they never take it. ```

21188

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The depression of the mind

Finds it very easy

To make friends with

The aggression of the vital. ```

21189

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God allows me to share

Private moments with Him

Only when I become

A Heaven-climbing heart. ```

21190

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What I like best about God

Is His Compassion-Eye,

For His Compassion-Eye

And His Forgiveness-Heart

He has kept inseparable.

```

21191

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My first name

Is hope.

My middle name

Is determination.

My surname

Is self-offering. ```

21192

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We cannot even properly imagine

The gap that lies between

Our planning mind

And our serving heart. ```

21193

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From now on

I would like to be soulfully involved

Only in the activities

In which my aspiring heart excels. ```

21194

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To make this world really happy,

I must keep my heart-garden safe

Every day

From my mind’s impurity. ```

21195

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Who knows if the “golden days”

Were really golden?

But we do know that the present days

Are not only challenging

But also devastating.

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21196

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Your latest fall took place

When you deliberately belittled

The goodness

Of your God-loving soul. ```

21197

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O disobedience, if you think

That you are enjoying yourself,

Then you may as well feel

That God is also enjoying

His indifference.

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21198

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The sweetness of God-devotion

Eventually conquers

The bitterness of disobedience-pride.

```

21199

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When I say that I love God,

I immediately see

His Feet.

When I say that I need God,

I immediately marvel at

The Rainbow-Beauty

Of His Heart.

```

21200

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My Lord, can You keep a secret?

“Certainly, My child, I can.”

My Lord, from this moment on

I shall definitely fulfil You

And please You in Your own Way

In everything that I say and do. ```

From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 212, Agni Press, 1994
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