Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 252

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Accept God’s Will

Happily,

Rejoice in God’s Will

Proudly,

And move on with God’s Will

Speedily. ```

25102

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What is spirituality?

It is the unparalleled wisdom

That tells us to leave everything

In God’s safe Hands. ```

25103

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God Himself carries

A gratitude-heart

To the summit of His Bliss.

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25104

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When I love God,

I live in faith-Heaven.

When I love myself,

I live in doubt-hell. ```

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We see humanity’s good qualities

Less and less

When we misunderstand them

More and more. ```

25106

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Humanity’s ingratitude

Is a subject

That God rarely speaks of.

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25107

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Desire-fulfilment

Is a thing that is sought

By both kings and commoners.

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25108

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Truth is a gentleman.

It does not forcefully

Elbow its way through

The crowds of ignorance-night. ```

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Just as the outer sun rises

At the right time,

Even so, the inner sun is bound to rise

To illumine

The doubt-insecurity-jealousy-covered world.

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The inner peace

Must always be

Earned and achieved.

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God loves a humility-mind.

But He loves infinitely more

A gratitude-heart.

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25112

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Alas, I am trying to make my mind

Better and better.

Instead, it is becoming

Bitter and more bitter. ```

25113

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Have patience!

Today’s great difficulties

Will tomorrow bring in

Rich blessings. ```

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A singular and significant fact is that

Without faith

We can make no spiritual progress.

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25115

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My unconditional surrender

Is enthroned

By the Breath of God’s own Will.

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25116

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Neither the latitude

Nor the longitude

Of God’s Compassion

Shall we ever know. ```

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God always loves my heart’s

Love-devotion-songs.

He is never tired of them.

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25118

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God’s illumining Ways

Are always

Fulfilling plenitude.

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25119

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If you want to make

Faster than the fastest progress

In your spiritual life,

Stop counting, calculating

And measuring.

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25120

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Try again to love God

In God’s own Way.

This time it will be easier.

Next time it will be still easier. ```

25121

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The golden and sunlit path

Runs always through

The seeker’s

Inspiration-aspiration-dedication-life. ```

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God wants to keep

Many things secret from us

Precisely because

They are extremely sacred. ```

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God’s Compassion-Stores

Are found to be

Always full.

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God’s Satisfaction-Stores

Are always

Totally empty.

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25125

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During my deep meditation,

I lose all my mind’s differences

The way a river loses

All its differences in the sea. ```

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I wish to grow and glow and flow

Only inside the Heart

Of God’s Peace-Home.

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God always gives us

The right lesson

At the right time.

Impatience can never

And will never believe it.

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God asks us to wait.

He also asks us to wait

Without anxieties and worries.

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25129

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God tells us to wait

For His choice Hour.

But alas, we are not apt

To believe in Him. ```

25130

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When God enters into our heart,

He does not come to amass facts

For a first-hand investigation,

But for us to accept

His Compassion-Eye.

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A God-seeker,

When he does not pray and meditate,

Knows that his heart will be tormented

And his life will be troubled. ```

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A sleepless willingness-heart

Is the bridge-builder

Between man and God.

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25133

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God wants to be manifested

Through our self-giving,

But we manifest God variously

With our various intentions. ```

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Doubt proclaims itself

As something extremely difficult

For man to understand.

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25135

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In the spiritual world

We want unity

And not uniformity.

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25136

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The gratitude-moment

Should be a silence-flooded

Dream-reality.

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There are many things in the world

That are indefinable

But not unknowable.

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It is not God’s Justice-Light

But God’s Compassion-Height

That presides over

Our aspiration-dedication-committee meeting. ```

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Each soulful meditation

Carries us to the supreme height

Of ecstasy.

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What mankind always forgets

Is that each man

Is a unique God-manifestation on earth.

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Enough of my recreational life!

Now I want

A re-creation-heart.

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My mind has definitely touched

The desire-extremity.

Now I am compelling my mind

To touch the aspiration-extremity. ```

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For God-manifestation,

Believe it or not,

It will take millions and millions of years

Of sleepless, breathless and selfless effort. ```

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To transform our mind-jungle

Into our heart-garden,

We have to put an end

To our self-doubt-life. ```

25145

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In vain God invites

Our body, vital, mind and heart

To attend the soul’s freedom-party.

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25146

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Dig not doubt-graves.

You will find nothing

Worth seeing.

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25147

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Why do we not make satisfactory progress

In our spiritual life?

Because our one eye is in Truth-Heaven

And our other eye is in falsehood-hell! ```

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God helps us in so many ways

To take shelter inside

The heart of our wisdom-light.

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Each individual soul

Has his obvious place

In God-utility.

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25150

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O my doubting mind,

You have simply no right

To kick aside my heart’s

Heaven-climbing ladder. ```

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The thorns of the desire-world

Will one day

Definitely be turned into

The roses of the aspiration-world. ```

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If you are willing,

Then definitely God will give you

The capacity to receive Him.

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25153

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The desiring mind

Enjoys conspiracies.

The aspiring heart

Enjoys ecstasies. ```

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The wisdom-light of the heart

Is not for understanding.

It is for feeling.

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25155

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As you breathe in

Your faith-breath,

Even so, breathe out

Your doubt-breath. ```

25156

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Manifest your love of God,

And do not accumulate

Your love of God

In your inner life. ```

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My Lord, my sincerity speaks.

Do renew

My aspiration-heart’s enthusiasm.

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25158

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If you do not have

God-aspiration-moments,

How can you have

A God-satisfaction-life? ```

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May my life long for

A new beginning,

A new hope

And a new promise! ```

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Spirituality

Is a divine art

And not a human science.

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Where the battle is,

The goal also

Has to be there.

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My fear of God

Again and again saves my life

From the all-devouring doubt-tiger.

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It seems that

The mind’s disobedience-chain

Never ends.

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My heartbreaking helplessness

Quicker than the quickest

Has carried me to my Lord’s

Compassion-Feet. ```

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Not only do I know,

But also I feel every day

That I belong to

My Lord Supreme alone. ```

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We mourn for everything else,

But not for the loss

Of our spiritual qualities.

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Can you not see

That your Master is creating

Tremendous receptivity inside you

For his outer scolding? ```

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Self-offering

Is the lightning-progress

Of a God-lover.

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If you are a genuine God-lover,

Then God will give you the capacity

Today to walk faster than the fastest,

Tomorrow to run faster than the fastest

And the following day to fly

Faster than the fastest. ```

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Alas,

Why is my gratitude-ecstasy

Fast asleep?

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Follow,

Follow sleeplessly,

Follow your Master’s

Beckoning hand! ```

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If we do not pray to God

For the purification of our thoughts,

Then our thoughts will remain

Dismal and depressing. ```

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If we can silence our mind completely,

Then God will give us the capacity

Completely

To run at lightning speed. ```

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Do not waste your time

In your mind-forest.

Spend all your time

In your heart-garden. ```

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Do not make a truce with your soul.

Ask your soul to take the lead

If happiness is what you want.

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First receive

And then assimilate

All your God-experiences

For your perfect perfection-life. ```

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Alas, the indulgence of my vital

Has covered the beauty and fragrance

Of my heart.

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Stop, stop the swiftness

Of your criticism-arrow

If you want to extinguish

All your earthly desire-fires! ```

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Finally God has commanded

My doubting mind

To surrender to my aspiring heart.

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Sooner or later,

Our desire-mind

Will give way

To our aspiration-heart. ```

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There should be at least

Some soulful seekers on earth

Who will daily wipe away

God’s Heart-Tears. ```

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Do not allow yourself to be haunted

By constant regret

That you are not doing well

In your spiritual life.

Be determined!

Go forward!

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O seeker, do not take any request

Of your Master lightly

If you want to make

The fastest progress. ```

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If we do not destroy

Our insecurity-ant,

Then it will eventually grow

Into a ferocious tiger. ```

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I pray

Through the beauty of tears.

I meditate

Through the fragrance of happiness. ```

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A self-giving soul

Is, indeed,

The radiance of Eternity

And Infinity. ```

25187

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Alas, most of our inheritances

Are nothing but sad memories

Of the past.

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If we have the armour

Of a clear conscience,

Then fast, very fast we can run

In our spiritual life. ```

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Only a doubting mind

Enjoys the wild gossip

Of the street corner.

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A journey accompanied

By the mind’s doubt

Is full of danger.

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We are extremely unconscious.

Therefore, we do not see

That the God-realisation-stars

Are most compassionately

Beckoning us.

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Doubt, jealousy and pride:

These are, indeed,

The mind-sharks.

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My heart and I are praying to God

To bless us with the surges

Of will-power.

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Our heart-receivers most of the time

Are not in tune.

Therefore, we do not receive

The daily messages

From our Lord Supreme.

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The mind has no flowers.

It is all weeds.

But the heart has flowers,

And they regularly bloom

And blossom.

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I do not feed the ferocious tiger

In my mind,

But I feed the noble lion

In me. ```

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O cruel and selfish mind,

How do you expect an audience

To listen to you about God?

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A true seeker is he

Who keeps his heart’s sacrifice

Continuously burning.

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Just remember a prayerful moment,

A soulful moment

And a self-giving moment.

You will be able to walk again

Along the road to delight.

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My joy knows no bounds

When I trace my Lord’s Face

Inside my heart-garden.

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From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 252, Agni Press, 1998
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