Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 23

2201

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My Lord,

Do break my doubting mind

With Your Thunder-Feet.

My Lord,

Do remake my aspiring heart

With Your Splendour-Eye. ```

2202

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Every day

Mine is the life that gasps

For the breathless Breath

Of God’s Forgiveness-Smile. ```

2203

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Yesterday my Lord granted me

A receptivity-heart

So that today He can speak

A private word to it. ```

2204

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If you want to be relieved

Of your heartache,

Then you must fracture

Your ego-mind

Ruthlessly.

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2205

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Your Heaven-passport is ready.

Are you ready

With your silence-life-fee?

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2206

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Your mind is confined

In confusion-cage

Because it does not believe

In the heart’s illumination-palace. ```

2207

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Every morning

I sing my mind to sleep

And then immediately

I inspire my heart to fly. ```

2208

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My mind, may I offer you

A simple suggestion?

Since you want to be really good,

You must be a stranger

To your own greatness.

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2209

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Surrender unconditional

Will be the next scene

In his life’s

God-pleasing drama. ```

2210

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As your insecure eyes

Are quite familiar

With a mob of fears,

Even so, your unsurrendered heart

Is quite familiar

With the sob of tears. ```

2211

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If you play with doubt-clouds,

Your heart’s faith-parachute

Will never open.

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2212

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I shall not underestimate

God’s Compassion-Ocean.

I shall not underestimate

Man’s surrender-life. ```

2213

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There is only one thing

Easy to earn,

And that thing is

God’s Compassion-Salary. ```

2214

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Today I am commemorating

The death-anniversary

Of my doubting mind.

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2215

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Every day his heart’s newspaper

Covers stories

About God’s Perfection-Vision

And God’s Satisfaction-Manifestation. ```

2216

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You can hide

Anything you want to.

But never hide

Your faith-key. ```

2217

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Someday your aspiration-journey

Will definitely bring you

To the shore of Realisation-Sea.

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2218

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You only know

The poverty of my faith.

But you do not know

The infinity of my Lord’s

Compassion for me.

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2219

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Who needs to enjoy the guidance

Of his insecurity-boss?

Yet who revolts against it?

Not you, not he;

No, not even me!

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2220

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When doubt-drought destroyed

His heart’s faith-plant,

His spirituality’s life-clouds

Immediately gathered. ```

2221

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God will grant you

His unconditional Satisfaction-Certificate.

You just have to go to Him

And receive it from Him. ```

2222

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God the Inventor proposes

His Infinity’s Peace.

Man the discoverer chooses

His eternity’s war. ```

2223

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Just try to have

At least one powerful meditation

Every day.

Your temptation-tire

Will automatically blow out.

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2224

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Your self-transcendence-marathon

Has shattered the summitless pride

Of your ruthless life-devouring dragon.

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2225

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You will miss

The Heaven-bound flight

If you do not dismiss

Your mind’s uncomely thoughts. ```

2226

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Mine is the gratitude-heart

That originates the powerful waves

Of my surrender-life.

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2227

```

You do not have to cook,

You do not have to serve,

You just have to eat daily

Your meditation-meal. ```

2228

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Your heart’s surrender-flower

Is bound to outlast

All your previous blunders.

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2229

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There is not a single map

That can show you

The road to God.

Therefore, you need not read

Even one map

Before you embark

On your God-voyage.

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2230

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He left his heart of hope

As a great legacy

To aspiring mankind.

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2231

```

The latest news from Heaven:

God will not mind

If I do not cry for Him,

But He will definitely mind

If I do not smile at Him

And with Him. ```

2232

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Do not misunderstand God,

Your Eternity’s Boss,

If He asks you every day

To come to Him

And collect His Blessing-Bonus.

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2233

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Because you love to live

In your mind’s cluttered room,

Your life has become

A totally shattered home. ```

2234

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What can you buy

Either in Heaven or on earth

With reluctance —

Your counterfeit mind-coin? ```

2235

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My Lord Supreme does not mind

When my account with Him

Is overdrawn.

But He does mind

When I stop withdrawing

Out of sheer embarrassment. ```

2236

```

Each dark corner of my life

Not only pains

My Lord Supreme

But also takes away

My God-hunger

Indefinitely. ```

2237

```

Transformation without frustration

Is quite possible

If I forbid my aspiration-dedication-life

To play with doubt. ```

2238

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You have only one right place

To keep your victory-trophy,

And that place is

Your heart’s gratitude-room. ```

2239

```

If your heart-checks to God

Are bouncing every day,

Then God will disconnect

His Telephone Line to you. ```

2240

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Is it not beneath your dignity

To become a second-class disciple?

Is it not beneath the dignity

Of your divine soul?

Do you not think

You will torture your soul

Most ruthlessly

If you settle for being

A second-class disciple?

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2241

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My mind always runs away

When it sees my soul

Coming to inject joy into it,

Through its frustration-veil. ```

2242

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The seeker in him finally realised

That the world-university

Had given him

Its most powerful ignorance-diploma. ```

2243

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Alas,

I thought the circus of ignorance

Was all inside my little universe.

Now I see that the circus of ignorance

Is everywhere.

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2244

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Since everything must be transformed

Eventually,

Why not let us start

With our life’s ego-horse,

Which has to be transformed

Into God’s fondest lamb. ```

2245

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Before it gets too late

You must return,

You must go back

To your heart’s gratitude-garden! ```

2246

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No earth-possessing life

Can ever be enlightened.

No Heaven-longing life

Can remain unillumined. ```

2247

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If love speaks

Through your heart,

That means

Perfection has already started speaking

Through your life.

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2248

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I completely forgot

That God is old.

I could have learnt

So much from Him.

I totally forgot

That God is young.

I should have invited Him

To come into my heart-garden

And play with me.

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2249

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Do you not recognise

Your soul’s old friend: God?

Do you not recognise

Your heart’s new friend: man? ```

2250

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Unless you powerfully announce

The end of self-doubt,

You will never hear

The love-beat

Of God’s Divinity-Heart.

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2251

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God’s Eternal NOW Radio Station

Every day broadcasts

The same most significant news:

God-lovers have chartered a plane

To God’s Satisfaction-Kingdom.

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2252

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There are many prisons in life,

But the destructive confusion-prison

Of man’s mind

Shatters man’s entire being. ```

2253

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If you are acquainted with

Inner commitments,

Then your life can never

Be a stranger

To sublime achievements.

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2254

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One solitary voice

Continues to call me.

It says

My heart shall succeed

And my life shall proceed

Forever and forever. ```

2255

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The beauty

Of his sacrifice-life

And the purity

Of his surrender-heart

Every day play

With God’s Vision-Eye

And God’s Satisfaction-Heart.

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2256

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Beyond the walls of self-imprisonment

God stands

And grants the true God-lover

And truth-seeker

His Immortality’s Enlightenment.

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2257

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The kindness-heart

Of oneness

Liberates two slaves:

Doubtfulness and fearfulness. ```

2258

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Fly out of your insecurity-nest!

Angels, with Heaven’s delight,

Are eagerly waiting for you.

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2259

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Destiny sits at his feet

Because his God-surrendered head

Is too small

For destiny to sit upon. ```

2260

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His heart’s oneness-purity-smile

Far outweighs

His mind’s division-impurity-frown.

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2261

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Only a boundless purity-heart

Can pass through

The fogbound ignorance-future.

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2262

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Don the garment of optimism!

You will immediately be able

To free yourself

From your mind’s faded hopes. ```

2263

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Within he feasts

On the fragrance of silence-light.

Without he feasts

On the strokes of sound-drums. ```

2264

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Your mind’s stubborn stupidity

Will never be able

To see God-Beauty’s

Earth-transforming morn. ```

2265

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You have at least one

Good quality:

You do not consider

Your restful slumber

As your peaceful trance.

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2266

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The more I try

To hide my weaknesses

From God,

The sooner God’s

Compassion-Forgiveness-Radar

Finds me. ```

2267

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Purity’s gratitude-heart

Is the main receptionist

In God’s humanity-transforming

Head Office. ```

2268

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You are not

Your life’s faded hopes.

You are

Your soul’s promise-sun. ```

2269

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A life of volcano-ego

Is nothing but

A self-addressed life.

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2270

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Although my mind

Is in the confusion-clouds,

I am still a hope-bird

Of my Lord Supreme. ```

2271

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Develop a voracious

Aspiration-appetite!

You will meet God

Halfway to Heaven. ```

2272

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My soul laughs and laughs

At my mind’s persistent efforts

To devalue my heart’s divinity.

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2273

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The malady of your life

Is ruining

The melody of your soul.

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2274

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Purify your mind soulfully.

Otherwise, you and your mind

Will be totally lost

In the labyrinths of obscurity. ```

2275

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Commit your sincerity-breath

To God’s Compassion.

He will teach you summit-prayers.

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2276

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Praise is something

That we may

On very rare occasions need.

But justice-light is something

That we always need.

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2277

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To distrust your heart’s

Good qualities

Is to increase your mind’s

Bad qualities

Ten times

Immediately! ```

2278

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Alas,

Every day I ask God

The same stupid question:

“My Lord,

Do You really love me

More than I love You?” ```

2279

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Two dreams are running together:

The transformation-dream

Of man’s life

And the Satisfaction-Dream

Of God’s Heart.

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2280

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Your eyes have captured

God the Inspiration.

Your heart has captured

God the Illumination.

Your life has captured

God the Perfection.

And finally

You are going to capture

God the Satisfaction.

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2281

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Unless your life becomes

The humility-dust

Of God’s Compassion-Feet,

How can you ever draw

Every detail of God’s Face?

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2282

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I am so happy

That my mind has at last

Resigned its chairmanship

Of the doubt-committee. ```

2283

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Take a close look

At your inner life!

Are you not ashamed

Of your continuous

Insecurity-illness?

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2284

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God may consider the world-mind

As His finished product,

But He considers each human heart

As His unfinished product. ```

2285

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No matter what kind of seeker

You are,

No matter how developed

You are

In your spiritual life,

You have to be careful

Of your mind’s impurity-pickpocket!

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2286

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God’s turn came.

He showed you

How to realise Him.

Your turn is coming.

You have to show Him

How you are going

To manifest Him.

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2287

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Every morning

I sing my prayer-song

At my Lord’s Feet.

Every evening

I dance my meditation-dance

Inside the Heart-Garden

Of my Lord Supreme.

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2288

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When the God-Hour strikes,

The Absolute Supreme will

Without fail

Grant you His Confidence-Power

So you can become

His transcendental Tower. ```

2289

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The arch-enemy of your soul

Is not your impure mind,

Not your insecure heart,

But your unwilling life. ```

2290

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No wonder you have lost

Your security-wallet!

You forgot to put

A picture of God’s Satisfaction-Face

Inside it.

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2291

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Alas, what shall I do

And what can I do?

Heaven is already disgusted

With my imperfections,

And hell is already overcrowded.

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2292

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A man may be

Ordinary

But his dreams can be

Extraordinary. ```

2293

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A man’s desire-life

May torture him

But his aspiration-life

Can illumine the world. ```

2294

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If you are unwilling to learn

At your own heart-university,

Yours will be a life

Of paralysing grief. ```

2295

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If you encircle your ego

With a victory-fence,

Then you remain a stranger

To perfection-achievement. ```

2296

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Because you are lost

In a crowd of unruly emotions,

Heaven does not want

To accept you

And earth does not want

To recognise you. ```

2297

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No matter how thick

Your mind’s doubt-fog is,

The Hope-Light of God’s Heart

Can easily shine through it. ```

2298

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There was a time

When I knew nothing

Except my mind’s business hours.

But now I know two things:

My heart’s aspiration-hours

And

My life’s dedication-hours.

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2299

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As God’s Eye can tell

Where the seeker’s heart is,

Even so, the seeker’s heart

Can tell where God’s Eye is. ```

2300

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If God is pleased with you,

Deliberately He may not fulfil

All your desires.

If He is extremely pleased with you,

Then He may fulfil

Some of your innocent desires.

But if He is completely pleased with you,

Then He is not going to satisfy

Even one earthbound desire of yours,

For He wants you to be a co-sharer

Of His Infinity’s free Delight.

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From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 23, Agni Press, 1984
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