Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 25

2401

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Your heart’s cheerful willingness

Is always

Your life’s absolutely perfect choice.

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2402

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Desire does not know

What true satisfaction is,

And God does not want

Desire to know.

Aspiration knows

What true satisfaction is

Because God wants

Aspiration to know. ```

2403

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Heaven offers hospitality

Only to those

Who feel that Heaven

Is their only necessity

Before they can sleeplessly play

With God. ```

2404

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God’s Compassion-Height

Changes your realisation-timetable,

Which was previously set

By God’s Justice-Light. ```

2405

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The soul that challenges

The oblivion of its God-manifestation

Upon earth

Is indeed a most powerful soul. ```

2406

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A life of unconditional surrender

Is undoubtedly the best extinguisher

Of desire-fire.

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2407

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Every day I play

On my gratitude-flute

And I beg only one Person

To listen to my playing,

And that Person is

My Inner Pilot. ```

2408

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As long as God knows

Everything about me

And will do

Everything for me,

I do not have to worry

About anything.

This is the shortest road

To constant satisfaction. ```

2409

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If you are an aspiration-sprinter,

God the Justice will show you

His Heart’s Diamond-Track

And God the Compassion will ask you

To run on the Track.

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2410

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My body wants so many things

From my soul,

But my soul wants only one thing

From my body: obedience. ```

2411

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God’s Compassion-Giftshop

Has many, many beautiful gifts.

Seekers buy many, many things

From the Shop,

But they seldom buy one particular gift:

Gratitude. ```

2412

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Each aspiration-breath

Has the capacity

And is the capacity

To destroy the blind power

Of death.

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2413

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Every day God writes

Forgiveness-Letters

To those who have failed

And given up,

And Compassion-Letters

To those who are willing

To sit for the examination once again.

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2414

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Until you deliberately throw away the key

To your doubting mind’s door,

You will not be given the key

To your aspiring heart’s door. ```

2415

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God’s Justice-Scoldings

Have at once

Awakened his sleeping body

And illumined his doubting mind. ```

2416

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You have to cut the cord

That has bound you to the world

Mercilessly

Before you can expect God to grant you

His Cord to bind Him

Eternally. ```

2417

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Outwardly what you have

Is a chattering monkey-mind.

Inwardly what you are

Is a roaring lion-soul. ```

2418

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How can you be happy

If you keep God’s Name

Only on your clever lips

And not inside your wise heart? ```

2419

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If you want to own

Eternity’s Ecstasy,

Then you have to disown

The fantasies

Of your undisciplined

And desiring mind. ```

2420

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Self-giving

Is the paradise of perfection

In a seeker’s aspiration-heart.

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2421

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You fool!

You are looking for

Death-currency

To exchange for

Your life-coin.

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2422

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Let my mind live

Where it wants to live.

My heart and I

Would like to live

Only in God’s Oneness-Vision.

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2423

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An aspiration-seeker carries God

Inside his heart

And carries the world

In his hands.

This is what God wants him

To do. ```

2424

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Do not open your mind-door!

Doubt will grab you

And compel you to live with it.

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2425

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The human mind

Knows only one road,

And that road

Is its own eternally unlit

Confusion-road.

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2426

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Do not remain

In the grip of ingratitude

If you want to see

Your heart grow

Into a life of beatitude.

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2427

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You cannot enjoy the Fragrance

Of God’s Smile

If you are enjoying the foul smell

Of your desire-life. ```

2428

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Even God cries

When you tell the world

That you will have absolutely nothing

To do with it. ```

2429

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Your mind-tree

Will always disappoint you.

Your heart-flower

Will not only please you

But also claim you

As its very own. ```

2430

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Every day make friends

Only with certainty,

And do not gamble

With possibility. ```

2431

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Each soul is a smile.

Each smile

Is an ecstasy-experience

In God’s Perfection-Garden. ```

2432

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The beauty of life’s purity

Always increases

The oneness of God’s creation.

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2433

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One life of self-control

Can and will save

Millions of other lives.

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2434

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His mind experiences

God’s Indifference-Frown.

His heart experiences

God’s Compassion-Beauty. ```

2435

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Your heart is already

Under the surveillance

Of God’s Will,

And it is so happy.

Can you not ask your mind

To be also under the surveillance

Of God’s Will?

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2436

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He is his life’s

Stupidity-smile.

God in his heart

Is a futility-cry. ```

2437

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If you sit near God,

You will be able to escape

The ruthless torture

Of earthly rumours. ```

2438

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Obedience is self-giving.

Self-giving is the fulfilment

Of God’s Vision-Reality

In man. ```

2439

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Since you will not be able

To escape God’s Radar,

Why not start climbing up

Your aspiration-ladder? ```

2440

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Ego-elephant wants to live

Happily and proudly.

But what actually happens?

It lives lonely

And dies miserably.

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2441

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God is waiting

In His timeless Temple

To welcome you

And your heart-flames. ```

2442

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A guiding soul

And a loving heart

Are God’s favourite ambassadors

Here on earth. ```

2443

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His life of sleepless self-giving

Alternates between

God’s Vision-Eye

And God’s Satisfaction-Heart. ```

2444

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My wise soul and my pure heart

Patronise only one

Divine enterprise,

And that enterprise

Is God’s Satisfaction-Enterprise.

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2445

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Tell me,

My fellow seeker,

How could you allow

Your aspiration-heart

To give up?

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2446

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God chose you to be

A very special person.

Your mind chose you to be

A friend of its frustration-life. ```

2447

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If you take aspiration-vitamins,

Your heart will reach sooner

God’s Satisfaction-Home.

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2448

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Now that you have resumed

Your aspiration-career,

God’s Satisfaction-Trophy

Will not remain a far cry. ```

2449

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If God is

Your number-one candidate,

Then nobody will ever dare

To intimidate you. ```

2450

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Cherish not the miseries

Of your past disobedience-life.

Cherish only the fragrance

Of your present obedience-life. ```

2451

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What your mind knows

And treasures

Is a torrential downpour

Of doubt. ```

2452

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God has cheerfully and proudly

Placed your heart-tapestry

On His Victory-Platform.

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2453

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A watchful mind

And a wakeful heart

Expedite the Godward journey.

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2454

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Your heart has scaled

The Himalayan heights.

Yet it is not happy,

For it every day wants to sing

The song of self-transcendence.

Your mind has scaled

Only pygmy-heights.

Yet its happiness knows no bounds. ```

2455

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There was a time

When I used to only think of God.

Now God is asking me

Also to fight for Him. ```

2456

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God has made him the owner

Of God-pleasing cries

And man-pleasing smiles.

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2457

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Each heart

Is God’s Hope-Plant.

Each life

Is God’s Promise-Tree. ```

2458

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If your mind is mourning

The death of your old life,

Ask your mind

Why is it not buying a coffin

For its own death.

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2459

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If God can love

Even your useless life,

Can you not love

God’s useful Heart? ```

2460

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In the spiritual life

To hunger for a high rank wilfully

Is indeed a useless effort.

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2461

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Life is nothing but an illusion

When you have a downhill experience

In your aspiration-journey.

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2462

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A life of perfection

Never stops.

It only moves forward,

Upward and inward. ```

2463

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There are very few seekers

Who are cheerfully willing

To take exercise

In God’s Gymnasium. ```

2464

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Someday the world

Will appreciate my heart —

Perhaps once my mind

Starts appreciating my heart. ```

2465

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In the spiritual life

The worst misfortune

Is the seeker’s

Hesitation-journey. ```

2466

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God will be happy to answer

Every day

If you write Him

A tearful aspiration-letter. ```

2467

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A life

Of surrender-perfection

Is a daily

Full-time job. ```

2468

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His aspiration-breath

And God’s Satisfaction-Heart

Are always to be found together.

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2469

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God knows how to speak

Only His Silence-Language.

Therefore, if you want

To understand Him,

Then you must learn

His Silence-Language. ```

2470

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If you can preserve purity,

You will be able to deserve

Everything —

Even God’s highest Height. ```

2471

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Your life’s full moon

Will rise

If you can sing

Every evening

Soulfully

A surrender-song. ```

2472

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A crown of doubt

And the throne of faith

Are always reluctant

To be seen together. ```

2473

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If your life has become

A life of surrender,

Then God will gradually replace

Your fleeting time

With His eternal Time.

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2474

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Unless you make

A point-blank assault

On your self-doubt,

God will not grant you

His own God-Confidence

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2475

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If you come into the world

Armed with your realisation-light,

Earth will definitely surrender

Its ignorance-night to you. ```

2476

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There is only one thing to do,

And that thing is

To conquer the noise

Of your outer life

With the silence

Of your inner life. ```

2477

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My simplification-life expedites

My God-journey.

My aspiration-life eventually becomes

My God-destination. ```

2478

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Since God gave you your life,

Can you not be good enough

To allow Him

To live in your life? ```

2479

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I do not need world-recognition.

Therefore

I keep my humility-mind

And my purity-heart

To protect me

From desiring world-recognition. ```

2480

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Since you do not need

This life of yours,

Why not offer it to God

As soon as possible

And see if He can use it

In a new way? ```

2481

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God does not allow anybody

To sponsor His aspiration-athletes.

He always wants to remain the Sponsor

Of His aspiration-athletes,

For these aspiration-athletes

Are His Eternity’s Pride. ```

2482

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Realisation dawns

When the illusion

Of self-importance

Is totally gone. ```

2483

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If you are a genuine seeker,

Then you cannot allow self-doubt

To slow down

God’s Vision-Plan. ```

2484

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Every soul carries

The Banner of God’s Faith

In mankind.

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2485

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If your life is encircled

By the fence of fear,

Then your heart will be encircled

By the Fence of God’s Tears. ```

2486

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I call it

My secret soulfulness.

God calls it

His sacred Fulness. ```

2487

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His daily rebirth

In the spiritual life

Is not his mental delusion

But his psychic realisation. ```

2488

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A true God-lover

Does not know

What self-service is.

He knows

Only selfless service.

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2489

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The mind’s intelligence-lamp

Eventually has to surrender

To the heart’s wisdom-sun.

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2490

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How do you expect

Your God-given faith-heart

To sail your mind-boat

With its heavy doubt-load? ```

2491

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Because you do not care

For His Compassion-Heart,

God’s Justice-Voice

Will soon thunder. ```

2492

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An obedience-seed

Is the most powerful source

Of the confidence-tree.

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2493

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A doubting mind

Will ultimately lose its wager

With a flaming heart.

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2494

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The game of world-comparison

Ends on the road

Of self-perfection.

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2495

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Today’s

Aspiration-life of yours

And tomorrow’s

Realisation-life of yours

Are unmistakably

Very close relatives. ```

2496

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The world knows

Your open acceptance of God.

But God knows

Your secret denial of Him. ```

2497

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God tells him

That he can talk to God

Only if

He walks with man. ```

2498

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Your aspiration will be known

Both as your hunger-cry

And as God’s Feast-Smile.

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2499

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You may disguise

The ugliness of your mind,

But you can never disguise

The poison in your doubt. ```

2500

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Infinite inspiration-flowers

God carries from Heaven to earth

Every day.

Infinite aspiration-plants

God carries from earth to Heaven

Every day. ```

From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 25, Agni Press, 1984
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