God’s Will
Sings and dancesOnly in an obedience-heart.
```My heart-dreams
Are floodedWith celestial smiles.
```I shall pave my gratitude-heart-road
With my prayerfulAnd soulful tears.
```God-disobedience
Empties spiritualityOf its richness.
```Time and again
God has proved to usThat Forgiveness He has made
As His own iron Law. ```Everything has to be attempted
At God’s choice Hour,And everything has to be accomplished
At God’s choice HourIn the world of spirituality.
```My soul every day
Patrols my heart-highway.Therefore, I see no collisions.
```O my mind,
Why do you visitSo frequently
Suspicion-town? ```When we have
A free access to inner realities,We see that for every negative
There is, indeed, a positive. ```Because a special Grace has descended
From Above,At long last I am able to compel
My absurdly overactive mindTo leave me.
```Unfortunately
Each human beingLives somewhere between
His highest heightAnd his lowest depth.
```Every morning I prayerfully
And soulfully meditateSo that I do not descend
From my highest summitTo the abysmal abyss.
```There is not a single ego
That will not eventuallyBecome a victim to ridicule.
```When our heart
Has abundant receptivity,We see how proudly
God extols our lifeTo the skies.
```What is a soulful smile?
A soulful smileIs the inexhaustible Power
Of God Himself. ```Because I have developed
Implicit faith in God’s Grace,At last I have dethroned
My life’s deception-king:Doubt.
```When we dive deep within,
God blesses usWith a free access
To the sunlit eye of our soul. ```Nothing can be as divine,
As supreme, as perfectAs the heart-fragrance
Of Mother Earth. ```When we are in the desire-world,
We enjoy earth-bound pleasures.When we are in the aspiration-world,
We enjoy Heaven-free Nectar-Delight. ```A genuine truth-seeker
Is automaticallyA certified and qualified God-lover.
```My unending surrender
Is my escalatorTo my Lord’s Delight-Floor.
```Do not play in your jungle-mind.
Play in your heart-gardenIf you want to swim
In the river of ecstasy. ```The impurity of the vital,
The jealousy of the mindAnd the insecurity of the heart
Are three eternal fools in us. ```Outer trust
Is, indeed, a clumsy substituteFor inner faith.
```How I wish
My life to be a leafDriven by my Lord’s own Breath.
```Unlike us,
God thinks His creation is perfect.But He wants to make His creation
Even more perfect. ```What God dislikes
More than anything elseIs my constant
Unwillingness-mind. ```We can easily climb up
To ecstasy’s heightIf God-obedience
Is always at our disposal. ```My cheerful obedience
Unmistakably inspiresMy Lord Supreme.
```Every day
My aspiration-heartRemains nestled
In the foothillsOf my Lord’s universal Will.
```Earth-evolution is far from finished.
ThereforeThere is no need for us
To be doomed to disappointment. ```My aspiration-life
Pleases God.My desire-life
Amuses God. ```God tries to lead man
Compassionately.Man tries to mislead God
Cleverly. ```A reasoning mind
Can never be the last wordIn our aspiration-world.
```Every day
God gives us not only the capacityBut also the opportunity
To live in the magnetic field of faith. ```My surrender-heart-choice
Is by far the best choiceThat I have ever made.
```We are bound to succeed
In the battlefield of lifeIf we have zero tolerance
For self-doubt. ```God is truly proud of me
When I show HimEven an iota of satisfaction
In my mind. ```God blesses our hearts
With satisfaction-certificatesWhen we become the possessor
Of adamantine determination. ```My mind is no longer
Knee-deep in doubt.Why?
Because my life has becomeA manifestation of God’s
Celestial Dream. ```My heart-home
Is full of sweet dreams.My mind-house
Is full of painful realities. ```O hope-pillar of my heart,
I need youTo hold up my world of suffering.
```Alas, I do not know
How I can stopThe chattering of my mind-machine!
```If we do not cast ourselves
Entirely upon the GraceOf our Lord Beloved Supreme,
How can we ever hope to succeedIn the battlefield of life?
```Even the tiniest of hopes
Can show me the wayTo arrive at my goal.
```Is there anything more beautiful
And more fruitful than faith?No, absolutely no!
```Every obedience-moment
Is a forward stepTowards my ultimate Goal.
```There are many defeats
In our outer lifeThat are definitely more fruitful
Than victories,Especially in the inner world.
```Happiness is the heart
Of everything that we aspire for.A divine child of God
Is everything that we aspire to become. ```To win life’s ultimate race,
What we needIs only endurance and patience.
```Jealousy is totally destructive.
It even destroys itselfBefore we can illumine it.
```Today at long last
I have opened my God-awareness,God-readiness and God-eagerness
Floodgates. ```This world is bound to succeed
If all human beingsShare their God-manifestation-enthusiasm.
```Spirituality is, indeed, a long journey.
We must enjoy the journeyIf we want to succeed.
```Everything changes,
And yet nothing changes:This is what we notice
In our day-to-day outer life. ```There is no destructive disease
Like self-doubt.Again, there is no effective medicine
Like God-acceptance. ```What is negativity?
It is somethingThat consciously and deliberately
Drains our mind’s energy. ```There is no little enemy!
Any enemy can destroy usIf we are not well-protected
By the Grace of our Lord Supreme. ```To dissolve hostility,
At every momentWe must remain
At the Feet of Divinity. ```God’s Compassion
Every day gathers usAnd lifts us up
To see our own highest heights. ```Gratitude perfumes
Our inner life.Confidence perfumes
Our outer life. ```Every day I pray to God
To come and tame my monkey-mindWith His own Hand.
```The most ancient, sanctified
And hallowed of shrinesIs our constant dream
Of surrender to God’s Will. ```If we have God-obedience,
Then we can easily ascendGod’s highest Satisfaction-Ladder.
```If we have God-obedience,
Then we can easily protect ourselvesAgainst the mind’s absurdities.
```When we have
Sleepless and breathless God-obedience,God moves us
From our mind-room to our heart-palace. ```God is constantly seeking
A trustworthy friend.Are you ready?
If not, when are you going to be ready? ```Every morning I pray to God
Only for one thing:Just to protect the tears
Of my heart-shrine. ```He who surrenders
To ignorance-invasionWill never be able to become
A self-discoverer. ```I shall never allow
Hesitation and uncertaintyTo linger inside
My heart’s breath. ```Self-pity has an extraordinary capacity.
It can easily drownOur aspiration-heart’s rising sun.
```Alas, when the dawn appears,
Where are my sweet dreamsOf the night?
Where do they disappear, where? ```Others may find the spiritual life
To be nothing short ofMental torture.
But for me, the spiritual lifeIs nothing short of
Inner and psychic rapture. ```My oneness-meditation-extension
Has pleased my Lord Beloved SupremeInfinitely more
Than I could have ever imagined. ```Not a competition-prayer-race
But an illumination-prayer-raceWith myself
Is what I need. ```My illumining soul
Is the call,And my aspiring heart
Is the answer. ```God’s Universal Consciousness
Is the birthplaceOf God’s ever-manifesting Will.
```As God’s Compassion-Eye
Is approachable,Even so, God’s Forgiveness-Feet
Are adorable. ```Everything may retire
Or will retire,But not the Tolerance
Of our Lord Supreme. ```There will always remain
An astronomical distanceBetween our mind’s doubtful way
And God’s blessingful Way. ```The eagerness of the aspiring heart
And the enthusiasm of the searching mindShall forever remain pioneers
In our Godward journey. ```I am eagerly waiting
For the hour of negativity’s deathIn my mind.
```God’s own highest accomplishments
Will comeWhen humanity as a whole can say
Sincerely, soulfully and unconditionally:“God for God’s sake!”
```I have three immortal friends:
The simplicity of my life,The beauty of my heart
And the divinity of my soul. ```If you want to succeed
In your outer lifeAnd proceed in your inner life
Every day,Then stay always in touch
With your soul-divinity. ```The doubting mind believes
Only in endless complaints.The aspiring heart believes
Only in world-inspiring compliments. ```The first-class student
In God’s illumination-schoolIs he who cries in the inner world
For ever-increasing gratitudeAnd in the outer world
For ever-increasing surrender. ```What is transforming me
And my mindIf not God’s constant Compassion-Tears!
```If you live in the mind,
Problems will always remain,For the mind is where problems begin.
```My ingratitude-jungle-mind
Has become almost unrecognisableTo God.
```Alas, we do not realise
What we are doing.We are crying for more desires
Instead of cryingFor more aspiration.
```If we accept
The life of unreserved surrender,Then God will make us
Universal ambassadors of divine love. ```Every evening
My Lord Supreme countsThe tears of my heart,
And I countThe Smiles of His Eye.
```He who cries sincerely
For a flower-heartReceives a flower-garden
From God’s own Heart. ```Although God is all-where,
He feels lonelyWhen our hearts
Are not with Him,With their aspiration-tear-cries.
```Disappointment-detachment-life
Expedites our spiritual journeyFar beyond our imagination.
```Each time God fulfils
Our earth-bound desires,We are compelled to enter into
Dissatisfaction-prison. ```Today I have opened wide
My mind-cageTo allow the doubt-vulture
To fly away.Therefore, I am swimming
In the sea of ecstasy. ```If happiness exists on earth,
Then it will be foundOnly in one divine virtue:
Forgiveness. ```May my mind
Be sleeplessly devotedTo only one thing:
God’s constant Satisfaction-Smile. ```From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 243, Agni Press, 1998
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