Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 218

21701

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God’s Nectar-Voice I hear

Only when I make His Feet

My only choice.

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21702

```

If you want happiness,

Then immediately hand over

Your doubtful mind

To the Lord Supreme. ```

21703

```

Your life is out of focus

Precisely because you have kept God

Infinitely, infinitely farther away

Than you can ever imagine. ```

21704

```

Unless you become

A God-lover-heart,

How can you be

A God-fighter-life? ```

21705

```

Your meditation is sublime

When you feel

That meditation is nothing short of

Your best vacation. ```

21706

```

God cannot hide from you

If your life

Is your purity-heart.

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21707

```

When I touch my Lord’s Feet

With my tearful heart,

He reduces my one hundred

Heart-breaking misfortunes

To one misfortune.

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21708

```

If you are living

In your doubting mind,

Then do not allow yourself

To assert your authenticity. ```

21709

```

Try to plant

Your gratitude-heart-seeds

Here, there, everywhere.

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21710

```

It is not a sign of wisdom-light

When you open your heart

Indiscriminately to all.

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21711

```

Alas, God’s Compassion-Light

Does not surprise us

As much as His Justice-Might.

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21712

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My Lord,

I do not want greatness from You

For my mind.

I want only goodness from You

For my heart.

```

21713

```

Commanding and intimidating

Are not God’s usual ways

Of dealing with aspirants.

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21714

```

God has no time

To listen to my mind-stories,

But He has eternal time

To listen to my heart-songs. ```

21715

```

Whenever

God hears or reads something

About a self-giving seeker,

He gets a tremendous sense of satisfaction. ```

21716

```

One of mankind’s

Great misfortunes

Is that man consciously carries

His unaspiring past. ```

21717

```

Not the freedom of the mind

But the peace of the heart

Will have the last word

In establishing the Kingdom of God

On earth.

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21718

```

When our gratitude-heart-plant

Slowly and steadily grows,

We feel that

We are unmistakably reaching

Our God-destination.

```

21719

```

A soulful and powerful meditation

Is the only way

To clear the mind’s

World-misunderstanding-clouds. ```

21720

```

We make the fastest progress

In our spiritual life

Only when our mind is endowed

With imperishable purity. ```

21721

```

A suspicious mind

Is its own

Most dangerous catastrophe.

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21722

```

Even an iota of self-doubt

Can extinguish our heart’s

Heaven-climbing aspiration-flames.

```

21723

```

My Lord Supreme,

I am praying to You

Not only for

A long obedience-life

But also for

An everlasting obedience-heart-breath. ```

21724

```

Those who try to justify

Their likes and dislikes

Will neither please others

Nor be pleased by others. ```

21725

```

God’s unconditional Compassion

Helps us merit

God’s all-illumining Attention.

```

21726

```

Every day

We must strengthen our heart of faith.

If not, our mind will suffer

From untold doubt-calamities. ```

21727

```

Confidently I tell God

That He is wrong.

God not only compassionately

But also forgivingly tells me

That I am wrong.

```

21728

```

Is there any day

When my life’s misdeeds

Do not compel God’s Heart

To bleed? ```

21729

```

When we climb up

The truth-mountain,

We see that this world

Is made of

God’s infinite Compassion-Light.

```

21730

```

My spirituality will sink

If my mind does not

Start thinking of God

And my heart does not

Start loving God.

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21731

```

Only a self-giving heart

Can have uninterrupted zeal

For pleasing the Absolute Lord Supreme.

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21732

```

My mind-knowledge

Is always

Wisdom-poverty-stricken.

```

21733

```

For me

The most difficult question to answer

Is this:

Will I ever be able to love God

In God’s own Way?

```

21734

```

A God-disobedience-mind

And a heart-agony-experience

Are inseparable.

```

21735

```

I do not want to succeed

In anything

Without my Lord’s blessingful Consent

And powerful Co-operation. ```

21736

```

A fruitful meditation

Is nothing other than

Diving into the sea of silence.

```

21737

```

The best way

To lose doubt-weight

Is to sing, play and dance

Inside your own

Fragrance-heart-garden.

```

21738

```

If you want to be happy,

Then breathe in

Compassion and endurance,

And breathe out

Frustration and anger.

```

21739

```

Do not ask the same old question

Again and again:

What can God do for you?

Ask a totally new question:

What can you do for God?

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21740

```

O my seeker-friend,

If you want to ascend

The stairway of ecstasy,

Then discard immediately

Your mind’s long-cherished

Frustration-chains. ```

21741

```

My loving surrender

To God’s Will

Is, indeed, my life’s

Future dawn-harbinger. ```

21742

```

Alas,

Slow, slower and slowest

Will always be

Humanity’s upward climb. ```

21743

```

Alas,

Man’s mind is surrounded

By useless thoughts,

And man’s heart is surrounded

By godless feelings.

```

21744

```

My Lord,

I have come to realise

That my lifestyle will change

Only if You mete out

Your Thunder-Justice.

```

21745

```

He who sincerely aspires

Will never be imprisoned

By earthly possession-fantasies.

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21746

```

We are so fortunate

That God the Compassion

Never loses patience

With our slowest progress-pace. ```

21747

```

What I need

Is a dynamic vital

That will always strive

For God-manifestation.

What I need

Is a sympathetic heart

That will always endure sufferings

For the cause of God-manifestation. ```

21748

```

Today I am peaceful

Because I know that tomorrow

My dividing and doubting mind

Will definitely die. ```

21749

```

Today I am peaceful

Because I know that tomorrow

My aspiring heart

Will fly and fly. ```

21750

```

Today I am peaceful

Because yesterday I made others

Unconditionally happy.

```

21751

```

Peace has come to me

Not because I have vehemently

Rejected the world

But because I have soulfully

Accepted the world.

```

21752

```

All human beings are roses

Inside my heart-garden.

Their sweetness-fragrance

Is my oneness-satisfaction-peace. ```

21753

```

I gave the world

My forgiveness-light.

The world gave me

Its peace-delight in return. ```

21754

```

It is stupid to think

That my enemies are always thinking of me.

They have more important things to do

Than to think of me all the time.

Such being the case,

Why should I lose my own peace

By thinking of them?

```

21755

```

O world,

You have given me

What you have:

Frustration.

But I shall give you

What I am:

Oneness-peace-hunger.

```

21756

```

Real peace does not come

From the piercing mind,

The wrestling vital

Or the sleeping body,

But from the crying heart

And the smiling soul. ```

21757

```

Peace loves me

And has become

Part and parcel of my life

Because I do not have the word

“Comparison”

In my heart-dictionary. ```

21758

```

I devotedly offer

My life’s progress-song to God.

God blessingfully gives me

His Heart’s Peace-Sky. ```

21759

```

God has made me happy

By telling me

What I should do.

I have made God happy

By showing Him

That whatever I do,

I do peacefully

And in no other way. ```

21760

```

God is proud of me

Because even in my dreams

I serve Him not only powerfully

But also peacefully. ```

21761

```

My happy heart tells me

That what I have

Is the entire universe.

My peaceful mind tells me

Who I am:

Another God. ```

21762

```

Keep your God-appointments.

Peace-accomplishments

Will be yours.

```

21763

```

Life is too short.

Therefore, I have decided

To be better and not to remain bitter.

And I have also decided

To see inside my heart

A wisdom-sun and a sea of peace. ```

21764

```

We need a truth-volcano

To destroy

Our impurity-mind-land.

```

21765

```

Because you do not believe

That the soul has come into the world

To speak on God’s behalf,

You will never succeed

In your spiritual life.

```

21766

```

What are the credentials

Of a genuine seeker?

The credentials of a sincere seeker

Are a purity-heart

And a sacrifice-life.

```

21767

```

May my Lord’s Compassion-Eye

Eternally be

My only heart-home.

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21768

```

He who cannot be satisfied

With the philosophy

Of “live and let live”

Will always find his life intolerable. ```

21769

```

My Lord,

I desperately need

Some assurance from You

That in this lifetime

I will be able to become

Your unconditionally surrendered child. ```

21770

```

You can lighten

God’s burden

Only by enlightening

Your own mind. ```

21771

```

Can you not see

That your aspiration-heart-sun

Is completely eclipsed

By your suspicion-mind-night? ```

21772

```

Silence

Your disobedience-mind!

God’s Happiness

Will be all yours. ```

21773

```

O suspicion-mind,

Is there anything

Or can there be anything

As ugly as you are? ```

21774

```

O oneness-heart-smile,

Is there anything

Or can there be anything

As beautiful as you are? ```

21775

```

O my mind’s disobedience,

You have stolen

My heart’s God-obedience-joy.

```

21776

```

O human mind,

You are so deplorably weak

That at any moment

Anything can tempt you

To your own peril.

```

21777

```

When a sweet, kind

And self-giving thought

Grows within you,

You are definitely making very fast progress

In your inner life.

```

21778

```

O my ignorance-mind,

Your reign will not forever last.

My wisdom-heart will find its time

And its way;

And then my wisdom-heart

Will guide, shape and mould my life. ```

21779

```

O my Lord Supreme,

I pray to You

Never to give me the capacity

To fulfil my desire-life. ```

21780

```

Alas, we are living

In two worlds.

The outer world

Is all bitterness.

The inner world

Is all blindness. ```

21781

```

A self-giving seeker

Is a perfect

God-fulfilling promise

On earth. ```

21782

```

Every day I place

My sweet dream-flower-heart

At my Lord’s Feet,

And thus I fulfil Him

In His own Way.

```

21783

```

O my disobedience-mind,

Can you not see?

Your final departure-hour

Has struck. ```

21784

```

O my obedience-heart,

Listen, listen!

The hour has finally struck

For your arrival. ```

21785

```

On earth

There is only one miracle:

A oneness-love-peace-heart.

```

21786

```

My dream-awakened life

Happily sees

That God’s Eye

Is made of

God’s Heart.

```

21787

```

A temptation-thought

Has abundant capacity

To extinguish my heart’s

Aspiration-cry-flames. ```

21788

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Love the world,

But do not let the world know

What your plans are

For world-transformation.

If the world knows

What you are going to do,

It will in countless ways

Take away your inspiration-joy.

Without fail, you will not succeed.

```

21789

```

How painful it is to see

That each time a God-representative

Comes into the world

To raise the consciousness

Of humanity,

He is not only misunderstood

But also reviled

By those whom he came to liberate

From the meshes of ignorance.

```

21790

```

The desire-life

Cannot live

Without untold

Imaginary necessities. ```

21791

```

The first battle is over:

I definitely love God.

The last battle will be over one day:

I shall manifest God

To please Him in His own Way.

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21792

```

O seeker,

Look forward, go ahead!

When do you have time

To allow yourself to be shackled

By yesterday’s sad and destructive failures?

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21793

```

Alas, we do not know how heavy

Ignorance-weight is,

And that it is killing our inspiration-joy

And God-oneness. ```

21794

```

The absence of my self-offering

Is compelling my aspiration-heart

To starve indefinitely.

```

21795

```

The mind longs for

God’s Greatness.

The heart longs for

God’s Goodness.

The soul longs for

God’s constant Satisfaction-Fulness. ```

21796

```

Train your mind to be satisfied

With humble positions.

Train your life to be satisfied

With simple possessions.

You will be happy

Far beyond your imagination. ```

21797

```

When the mind visits the soul,

It comes with nothing but commotion.

When the soul visits the mind,

It comes with a lighthouse of compassion. ```

21798

```

If you cannot stay in the vicinity

Of your soul’s divinity,

Try to stay at least inside

Your aspiration-heart-purity. ```

21799

```

My sincerity-mind

And my determination-eyes

Can mark the end

Of all my earthly miseries. ```

21800

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Do you want to know

Who loves you most?

No, not God the Compassion,

No, not God the Forgiveness

But God the sleepless and breathless Love.

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From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 218, Agni Press, 1994
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