At long last I have come to realise
That a resolute step is neededTo please my Lord Beloved Supreme
AlwaysIn His own Way.
```The most appropriate use
Of my human willIs to give it to God
Immediately. ```O truth-seeker and God-lover,
Never be afraidTo open your earth-bound mind —
Never!Nothing precious will ever fall out,
But Divinity’s LightWill enter into your life.
```My life’s humility
Is the only thingThat inspires God
To have faith in mankind. ```O my stupid heart,
I assure you once and for allThat you will easily be able to survive
The loss of your present dear friend,Insecurity,
And his replacement byAn ever-inspiring and illumining security.
```O my Lord Supreme,
Do take away my doubtful mind,For at every moment
It is disappointing my hopeful soul. ```Without meditation
We see the body of things around us.With meditation
We enter into the heart of everythingThat is within us and around us.
```There is only one ultimate threat
To your spiritual life,And that is your complete loss
Of faith in yourself. ```God does not want me to have
A heart sullied by sadness,But a heart beautified by gladness.
```To accept the mind
As the captain of your life,Is to plunge headlong
Into darkest darkness-abyss. ```My Lord, I do not want to live
In a world of ingratitude.I want to live in a world
Of gratitude-forgiveness-delight. ```If you are indeed a God-warrior,
Then you must have an unshakable faith,And that faith will be cherished
By God Himself. ```My Lord Supreme,
I wish to beThe volcano-determination
Of my champion-heart-life. ```Today I have become
A newborn aspiration-heart-roseTo please the divine in me
And fulfil my Lord Beloved Supreme in me. ```What I need is only
God’s Perfection-GlanceTo increase the beauty
Of my aspirationAnd the fragrance
Of my dedication. ```A faithful slave of God
Needs only one thing:Sleepless and breathless
God-remembrance. ```I must not allow any setback
To threatenMy God-manifestation-dreams
On earth. ```My God-gratitude-teardrop
Has awakenedNot only my hope-heart
But also my promise-life. ```I do not need a caravan of dreams
But just one single visionOf my Lord Supreme
To manifest Him here on earthLovingly and self-givingly.
```O God the infinite Beauty,
Do come and feedMy lotus-heart.
```O my aspiration-heart,
How is it that you are not celebratingYour faster than the fastest
Aspiration-ascent? ```I clearly see
That my God-willingness-heartIs flooded
With earth-illumining energy. ```My Lord Supreme,
I know You have many waysTo protect my life and save my heart,
But I would likeYour Compassion-Eye-Smile
To protect my life, save my heartAnd fulfil my dream
Of Your total manifestation here on earth. ```My Lord Supreme,
I know I am not right nowOn Your Satisfaction-List,
But do keep me at leastOn Your Compassion-List
Unconditionally. ```O my mind,
O my vital,O my body,
I assure you that there isPlenty of room for you all
In my heart-home. ```I shall always remain undaunted
By my aspiration-failure,For God Himself has told me
That I shall and I must succeed eventuallyIn pleasing Him in His own Way.
```The world asks me what I do
Day and night.I tell the world smilingly, lovingly
And proudly:“I fly and fly and fly
On the wings of my Master-Bird.” ```O my soul,
Do bless me with your inspiration-rainSo that I can be victorious
In extinguishing my mind’s ignorance-fire. ```I have not come into the world
To tax God’s Patience.I have come into the world
To pray to God to bless meWith His Infinity’s Patience-Light
So that I can serve Him constantlyIn His own creation
In His own Way. ```My Lord Beloved Supreme,
I am not complaining to YouAbout my mind,
But I am praying to You to bless meWith a new mind
That will always remain a perfect strangerTo self-doubt and insecurity.
```O my jasmine-crowned purity-heart,
I am not asking you how you are,But I am asking you where you are,
Where you are. ```I have decided to destroy
My life’s God-unwillingness-stories.Now I am composing only
God-willingness-heart-songs. ```No matter how inadequate
My aspiration and my dedicationAre right now,
I do know that there shall come a timeWhen my life and my heart will be inundated
With aspiration and dedication,And that golden day is fast approaching.
```My God-obedience-heart
Is always thrilledWhen I please God
And make Him happy. ```God never wants to be familiar
With my mind’s impurity,My heart’s insecurity
And my life’s unwillingness. ```God finds it a big joke when I say
That it is simply impossible for meTo please God in God’s own Way.
```In my heart-life
There is a beautiful gardenThat exists only
To make the world and GodReally and truly happy.
```O my surrender-life,
For you to reach the fulnessOf your life’s God-ripeness,
You must shed sleepless tears. ```It is high time for me
To close my mind-door,And at the same time
To unreservedly and unconditionally openMy heart-door
For God the Light to enterAnd start singing, running and playing.
```I may not know whether
God’s Compassion-EyePermeates my entire life,
But I do know thatGod’s Forgiveness-Heart
Permeates my entire lifeTo help me rise high, higher, highest
For His own Satisfaction-Delight. ```God does not want me
To waste even a fleeting secondTrying to know the future
Of the whole human race.He wants me to spend my time,
Day and night,Only inspiring the human race
With my own aspiration-heart. ```Today my heart’s hope in God
And my life’s promise to GodAre being nurtured
By God Himself. ```O my doubting mind,
I shall never, never allow youTo invade
My heart’s peace-shore. ```God came and saw
That I was unwilling to offer HimMy unwillingness-mind.
Yet He has accepted the challengeTo transform
My mind’s unwillingness-thornInto my heart’s willingness-rose.
```Centuries and ages will come and go,
But I shall never swerve from the pathOf my God-treasuring and God-cherishing life.
```My body, my vital and my mind
Are thrilled by God’s Presence,But my heart is thrilled
By God’s very Name. ```My mind was created by me,
But my heart was created by God HimselfTo love Him and please Him
At every moment in His own Way. ```I am so happy to learn
That peace is all readyTo escort me wherever I go.
```I have given my soul
My full approvalTo destroy ruthlessly
My desire-bound mind. ```My Lord Supreme,
I have only one prayer to You:Please do not allow
My forgotten insecurities and fearsTo return.
```My Lord Supreme tells me
That if I know how to cryOnly for Him,
Then He will bless meWith a rainbow of ecstasy.
```I have prayed and prayed to God
To give me the capacityTo rediscover my child-heart,
And now God says to me: “Amen.” ```O my unwillingness-mind,
You have dominated my heartFor a long time.
Now be careful!My all-illumining soul
Is coming to my heart’s rescue. ```God does not care to know
Whether my mind is satisfied or not,But He always watches my heart
To see if it is satisfied. ```I have seen many pathways,
And I have heard of many pathways.I now want only the pathway
That is solely God’s. ```I have not come into the world
To dress my mindFor the world-beauty-contest.
I have come into the worldTo feed my heart
With God’s Silence, Peace, Light and Delight. ```I need only a heart that can walk
Side by side with my soulTo arrive at my God-Destination.
```I do not want my prayers to grow
In my mind-jungle.I do not want my prayers to grow
Even in my heart-garden.I want my prayers to grow and glow,
Flow and soar and diveOnly in my Lord’s Heart-Garden.
```An ancient darkness has shattered
The world’s peace.A birthless and deathless Light
Is giving birth to an all-illumining,World-fulfilling peace.
```O my unaspiring mind,
When are you going to beCompletely exhausted
By endless despair-journeys?Can you not see that God
The infinite CompassionIs whispering and beckoning to you
To follow and obey, obey and followThe Blessing-Light
Of our Lord Beloved Supreme? ```To peace
And only to God’s dearest child,Peace,
I want my aspiration-heartAnd my dedication-life
Together to turn. ```Day and night I am praying
To my Lord SupremeOnly for one thing:
To nurture my heart’s peace-garden. ```O Lord Buddha,
In the Heart of our Beloved SupremeYou have come to me today
With a golden shower of GraceTo please my Lord Supreme
Constantly in His own Way. ```Today I have come to realise
That the seed of every virtueThat I have
Is founded upon my sleeplessGod-satisfaction-quest.
```God is stretching His loving Hands
Over my present aspiration-life.God will be stretching His smiling Eyes
Over my future dedication-life. ```I have to make a choice here and now
Either to revert back to my ignorance-sleep,Or to evolve upward
High, higher, highest.Since I am not a fool,
Sleeplessly my heart and I shall evolveAnd climb
To reach the Satisfaction-FeetOf my Lord Beloved Supreme.
```Finally I see
That my God-surrender-heartHas created a feast of joy for God.
```With my mind-stories
I try to please God.But He tells me that
He will never be satisfiedWith my mind-stories.
He will be satisfiedWith my heart-songs only.
```My Lord, I shall not allow my heart
To sink any more.I shall only help my heart
To fly and fly evermore. ```God has whispered into my ears
A great secret:I shall have a new devotion
And a new surrenderTo love Him and please Him.
```This morning
I sang the song of my life,And this song God Himself
Came down to teach me. ```Not my mind,
Not my heart,But only my soul
Is the most prominent authorityOn the subject of peace.
```There is only one
Dauntless God-pilgrim,And that God-pilgrim is peace.
Peace strides onAnd never looks around.
```We have enjoyed many train-journeys
On earth.But God’s Peace-Train,
Not only in speedBut also in happiness,
Will forever remain unparalleled. ```My mind always tries to see
If God is in a good moodSo that it can beg God
For its desire-fulfilment. ```An utterly foolish thing to say:
“I do not need God.”An utterly foolish thing to do:
To stop my oneness-danceWith the will of my soul.
```God is seriously annoyed
At my constantGod-unwillingness-mind.
```If I am sincere in my aspiration,
Then God will help me find a wayTo reach Him
Even through my mind’s densest forest. ```O my heart,
A little more patienceIs what you need
To win the beauty and divinityOf your soul.
```Dearer than joy
Is peace.Dearer than peace
Is God-Satisfaction. ```The dreams of poets
Deal with God the future Light.The visions of God-lovers
Deal with God’s birthlessAnd deathless Delight.
```Each hour whispers as it passes:
“Alas, is the world ready for God?Alas, will the world ever be ready for God?”
```Yes, I do stumble,
But I am absolutely confidentI shall not permanently fail.
I shall definitely succeedAt God’s choice Hour.
```My mind has made
Many complaints to GodAgainst the world.
God tells my mindThat no complaints will ever be able
To make the dark day of the world bright.But if the mind unconditionally surrenders
To God’s Will,That will make the world
Brighter than the brightest. ```God does not believe
Even for a fleeting secondThat I shall give up my spiritual life,
The only real life,To make friends once more
With long-forgotten ignorance-night. ```My mind asks God
An infinity of questions.God never cares to answer
Even one question of my mind. ```Each time I tell God
That I love Him only,It immediately draws an all-loving,
All-illumining and all-embracingSmile from God.
```God loves to quote
The well-known proverb:“Man proposes,
God disposes.” ```O my mind,
I shall not allow youTo disturb my heart’s integrity any more
With your narrowness, haughtinessAnd cleverness.
```Each time I meditate soulfully,
A diamond-beauty’s dawnBeckons me.
```Each time I soulfully pray,
God blesses me with the capacityTo walk in silence with peace
Mile after mile. ```As my mind’s ignorance
Is devoted to the devil,Even so, my heart’s wisdom
Is devoted only to the Supreme PilotOf my life-boat.
```I ask my Lord Supreme:
“When do You wantMy unconditional surrender?
Do You want it now?”My Lord Beloved Supreme answers:
“Yes, and yes a thousand times.” ```Consciously, deliberately and ruthlessly
If I ignore the dictates of my soul,Then, alas,
Neither punishment from GodNor punishment from my soul
Can ever be avoided. ```The mind thinks that God’s choice Hour
Can and must come and repeat itselfAd infinitum.
The heart feels that God’s choice HourCan strike only a few times
In the entire span of a life.But the soul sees and knows
That God’s Hour strikes only once,And never, never twice.
```Today I have come to learn
That my God-gratitude-heart’sMost dangerous enemy
Is my constantGod-fulfilment-unwillingness-mind.
```Today my Lord Supreme
Entered into my mindTo shake my mind’s
Giant unwillingness-banyan tree.Therefore, my heart and I are inundated
With Infinity’s Bliss. ```The mind has to wait a long, long time
For God’s return.The heart does not have to wait
For God’s return,For God has never left the heart.
```For constant God-necessity,
What I need is a purity-heart’sSimplicity-life.
```O my Lord Supreme,
If You want to conceal Your Greatness,Do conceal it.
But never, never conceal Your Goodness,For Your Goodness is my upward
Heaven-climbing journey’s sleepless breath. ```From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 233, Agni Press, 1996
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