Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 241

24001

```

The best way

To stay on any spiritual path

Is to claim the path as one’s own, very own

Unreservedly. ```

24002

```

The human in me thinks

That if I cry,

Then only will God smile.

But the divine in me knows

That if I offer God my heart-smiles,

Then only will God smile most proudly. ```

24003

```

My aspiring heart

Is the bridge between

Humanity’s tears

And Divinity’s Smiles. ```

24004

```

O God-seeker,

Be not afraid to take

A giant step forward.

God Himself is dreaming

His loftiest Dreams

In and through you. ```

24005

```

God’s Compassion-Eye

My aspiration-heart follows.

God’s Forgiveness-Feet

My clever mind follows. ```

24006

```

My mind is always the loser

Every time,

No matter how cleverly

It betrays the soul. ```

24007

```

A sincerity-mind and a purity-heart

Will never get lost

On their way to the God-destination.

```

24008

```

In my aspiration-heart

I always strongly feel

That the peace-seekers

Are the best God-lovers. ```

24009

```

The inner chaos

Will be infinitely worse

If we mix with

The outer darkness. ```

24010

```

A doubt-dominated mind

Will never be able to hear

The sound of God’s Doorbell.

```

24011

```

Each human being

Either consciously or unconsciously

Is a student of hope.

```

24012

```

If you constantly and deliberately

Disobey God,

God may forgive you,

But you will never be able

To forgive yourself

Until you allow God-awareness,

God-obedience and God-gratitude

To fully blossom in you. ```

24013

```

If there is no obedience-seed,

There can be no love-plant.

If there is no love-plant,

There can be no devotion-tree.

If there is no devotion-tree,

There can be no surrender-fruit. ```

24014

```

The beauty of my morning prayer

I treasure.

The fragrance of my evening meditation

I treasure. ```

24015

```

Our life is not

An opportunity-scarcity.

Our life is

A determination-failure. ```

24016

```

To establish our oneness

With God’s Will,

What we need

More than anything else

Is a thought-free mind.

```

24017

```

My Lord, I pray to You

To give me the capacity

To be always away from

Self-sufficient people.

My Lord, I pray to You

To give me the capacity

To be always near

Those who entirely and ceaselessly

Depend on You.

```

24018

```

My Lord Supreme,

I do not know how I dare to say

That I love You deeply

When I consciously and deliberately

Do not want to be one

With Your all-knowing and all-fulfilling Will. ```

24019

```

I enter into my mind-jungle

To paint it with rose-purity-colours.

I enter into my heart-garden

To paint it with lotus-divinity-colours. ```

24020

```

If you want to succeed in life

In any field,

Then you must cultivate

A razor-sharp concentration. ```

24021

```

Each time I have

A God-soaring thought,

I swim in the sea of happiness.

```

24022

```

Every morning I sing

At least seven heart-fragrance-songs

To please my Lord Supreme.

```

24023

```

Only when I surrender to God’s Will

Can I make friends

With the rising satisfaction-sun

Of my heart. ```

24024

```

I can escape

From my madness-mind,

But it is simply an impossible task

To escape from my sadness-heart. ```

24025

```

I do not get any joy

From my proud peace-possession.

I get joy only

From my soulful peace-invocation. ```

24026

```

May my heart have two achievements:

An aura of sacredness

And the fragrance of gratitude.

```

24027

```

Whenever anybody asks me

How I succeed in so many things,

I tell them that my heart has deep roots

In surrender-soil. ```

24028

```

Every day

My heart’s aspiration-intensities

Fight against

My mind’s complacency-absurdities. ```

24029

```

Each time I offer

My sweetness-gratitude

To my Lord,

My heart becomes

Infinitely more luminous

Than I can ever imagine. ```

24030

```

A tranquillity-mind

Is, indeed, a very rare boon

From God.

```

24031

```

There are many ways

To expand our aspiration-heart,

But the easiest way is to imagine

A flower-purity-presence

Inside our heart.

```

24032

```

What I need

At every moment

Is a gratitude-expansion-breath.

```

24033

```

Soulfully throbbing inspiration

From the heart

Can definitely show us

The way to our destination. ```

24034

```

What God is really looking for

Is not our capacity

But our willingness.

```

24035

```

Willingness knows

That there is no time to delay.

Everything has to be done at once,

Happily and self-givingly. ```

24036

```

Unwillingness thinks

It has plenty of time.

Therefore, it does not

Have to surrender itself to speed. ```

24037

```

The mind wants to exhibit

Its towering greatness.

The heart wants to hide

Its flowering goodness. ```

24038

```

My surrender-heart

And my life-happiness

Always go together.

```

24039

```

Morning dawns.

My life’s hope and my heart’s promise

Meet together

For a new fulfilment. ```

24040

```

Every day

I pray to my Lord Supreme

To help my faith blossom

To its fullest proportions. ```

24041

```

Alas, is there any day

That I do not torture

God’s Compassion-Eye

And His Forgiveness-Heart? ```

24042

```

My life’s delight

Never fails to amply reward

My willingness-heart.

```

24043

```

May my peace-hope

And my peace-promise

Extend from horizon to horizon.

```

24044

```

God will soon make it public

That the disobedience-seekers

Will never, never arrive

At the Goal. ```

24045

```

Do you really love God?

Then come and show the torrents

Of your God-longing tears.

```

24046

```

I am confident in my spiritual life

Because every day

I hear God singing

His Forgiveness-Song,

No matter what I do.

```

24047

```

Only the purity-breath

Of angels

Can purify the mind

Of human beings. ```

24048

```

When it is a matter

Of the Godward race,

It is always obedience

That wins. ```

24049

```

Alas,

Why do I allow my doubting mind

To spoil the beauty of my heart

And the fragrance of my soul

Every day?

```

24050

```

In the spiritual life,

Emptiness is preparatory to fulness.

Alas, the mind is frightened to death

When it experiences emptiness. ```

24051

```

Only the aspiring and self-giving soul

Can hear

God’s Footsteps.

```

24052

```

The wings of desire

Break down

Even before the flight begins.

The wings of aspiration

Fly and fly

Through Infinity’s Sky. ```

24053

```

Love is not life’s finished song.

Devotion is not life’s finished song.

Surrender is not life’s finished song.

Only a sleepless and breathless

God-oneness-heart

Is life’s finished and ever-fulfilling song. ```

24054

```

Return to your childhood’s

Forgotten dreams.

You will be able to expedite

The fulfilment of your life’s realities. ```

24055

```

The mind’s storms

At times we can weather,

At times we cannot.

But to weather the heart’s storms

Is almost an impossible task

Unless Grace divine

Descends from Above.

```

24056

```

My Lord, do not give me a mind

That in turn veils and unveils

Your divine Reality in me.

```

24057

```

If you have a simplicity-mind,

A sincerity-life and a purity-heart,

Then you are really ready

To walk along Eternity’s Road. ```

24058

```

My Lord,

I do not need Affection from You.

My Lord,

I do not need Compassion from You.

My Lord,

I do not need Concern from You.

My Lord,

I need only one thing from You:

Do allow me

Every morning and every evening

To kiss the dust of Your Feet.

```

24059

```

When others walk out,

My Lord’s Compassion-Eye

Secretly comes in

And my Lord’s Forgiveness-Heart

Openly comes in.

```

24060

```

God has no time

To build a road

Inside my mind

To reach Him.

But God is busy

Every day

Building a new road

Inside my heart

So that I can arrive

At my Destination

And forever live there.

```

24061

```

The best thing to have

Is an aspiration-heart.

The best thing to become

Is a forgiveness-soul. ```

24062

```

Every morning

God welcomes me

To drink as much as I want

From His own Inspiration-Fountain. ```

24063

```

Immortal happiness blossoms

From the divine hunger

To give and give and give.

```

24064

```

Giving

Is divinely sacred.

Serving

Is supremely sacred.

Self-giving

Is eternally sacred. ```

24065

```

He who has a heart of fragrance

Will give to others freely

The lustre-message

Of self-transcendence. ```

24066

```

God asks me not to remember

When I give

And not to forget

When I take. ```

24067

```

The Compassion-Heart

Of my Lord Supreme

May not be imminent

But it is always immanent. ```

24068

```

If you weep

At your yesterday’s grave,

How will you ever

Be able to stand

On your life’s victory-stand?

```

24069

```

Both in the inner world

And in the outer world,

Negativity blunts

Divinity’s Reality-Splendour. ```

24070

```

God constantly tells us

That an obedience-life

Has no equal.

```

24071

```

When we give our all

To God’s Will,

No more do we remain

A grain of sand

Upon Infinity’s Shore.

We just become

Infinity’s Shore itself.

```

24072

```

O my mind,

Do not refuse to follow

God’s Lead

If you want to immortalise

Your earth-sojourn.

```

24073

```

The best use of each second

Is to feel

That God not only knows everything

But also is growing

In and through us

In an unprecedented way. ```

24074

```

God’s endless Arms

Will embrace immediately

Whoever self-givingly

Turns towards God. ```

24075

```

What I need

Is not an unending talk

With God’s Will,

But an unending walk and run

With God’s Will.

```

24076

```

Not my greatness-mind

But my goodness-heart

Has a free access

To God’s Nectar-flooded Heart. ```

24077

```

Every morning

I pray to God

For an extra supply of Compassion.

Every evening

I pray to God

For an extra supply of Forgiveness. ```

24078

```

My gratitude-heart,

Believe it or not,

Has the capacity

To turn all my calamities

Into divine blessings.

```

24079

```

God and God’s Forgiveness together

Every day cultivate

Our heart’s aspiration-soil.

```

24080

```

My God-belief is not enough.

My God-faith is not even enough.

But my God-surrender is not only enough

But also more than enough. ```

24081

```

My gratitude-heart

Has a free access

To God-Perfection

And God-Satisfaction-Palaces. ```

24082

```

My gratitude-heart

Is a perfect stranger

To all my mind’s negativities.

```

24083

```

If we fulfil God’s Will,

We immediately become

God’s own loveliest blossom.

```

24084

```

Alas, I am longing and longing

For a temple-heart

And a purity-mind.

```

24085

```

When I pray,

I want to be chained

To God’s Compassion-Heart.

When I meditate,

I want to be chained

To God’s Justice-Eye. ```

24086

```

My mind is sleeping

Day and night.

My heart is weeping

Day and night.

My soul is envisioning

Sleeplessly and breathlessly. ```

24087

```

I can run away

From my heart

At my sweet will.

But alas,

When I want to run away

From my mind,

I find it to be an impossible task.

```

24088

```

O army of God-manifestation-soldiers,

Your task is to serve God

Unconditionally,

And God’s Task is to be proud of you

Unreservedly.

```

24089

```

When I try to find fault with the world,

God immediately shows me

That I am nothing other than

A towering pillar of imperfections. ```

24090

```

O my mind,

Do you not think it is high time

For you to have peace,

Even an iota of peace?

Then do not act like a rushing river

Of aimless thoughts! ```

24091

```

The birds in my gratitude-heart-garden

Are not only beautiful and pure,

But also constantly self-giving

While they are flying

And spreading the Message

Of my Lord Supreme. ```

24092

```

God can do anything He wants to.

To our widest surprise,

He may even rock His own Boat

To enjoy His self-chosen failure-life. ```

24093

```

What everybody needs

Is a path-finder.

What nobody needs

Is a fault-finder. ```

24094

```

My mind is always eager

To dominate the world.

My heart is always eager

To nominate God for everything. ```

24095

```

I now enjoy roaring laughter

When I think of my life

Which was once thoroughly drenched

By desire-monsoons. ```

24096

```

The mind always tries to negate

The pure feelings of the heart.

But the heart always tries to propagate

God’s Views

In the life of the unwilling mind.

```

24097

```

Why does God not care for me?

He does not care for me because

I have completely covered my heart

With ignorance-dust. ```

24098

```

Do not blame the world;

Do not blame even God.

Just blame yourself

For having now helplessly fallen

Into frustration-chasm.

```

24099

```

The outer school teaches me

Earth-bound information-confusion.

The inner school teaches me

Heaven-free illumination-satisfaction. ```

24100

```

At every moment you have to feel

That you are a tidal wave of readiness,

Eagerness and willingness

If you want to please God

In His own Way.

```

From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 241, Agni Press, 1998
Sourced from https://srichinmoylibrary.com/ap_241