My Lord Supreme,
Do give me the capacityTo live lovingly and self-givingly
In the family of oneness-hearts. ```Look into your heart.
You will see that your true Friend,Your only Friend,
Is waiting. ```Your real progress can be measured
By your heart-criesAnd your soul-smiles.
```The moment you find your path,
You must not hesitateEven for a fleeting second.
```Do not have meditation-gardens
Here, there and everywhere.Your meditation-garden has to be always
Inside the very depths of your heart. ```One solitary Smile-flash
From God’s EyeCan transform the entire life
Of a God-lover. ```When the mind interferes
In the heart’s aspiration-activities,It only leads to disaster.
```My heart’s new discovery
Is surrender unconditional.My mind’s new discovery
Is gratitude. ```When we live in the aspiration-heart,
We get hundreds of opportunitiesFor the improvement and refinement
Of our life. ```In every nook and corner of your heart,
You must see aspiration-flamesAnd dedication-plants.
```In the small hours of the morning
Many inner alarms go offFor the seekers to welcome God.
```On principle, the suspicious mind
Is always expelledFrom God’s Inner Circle.
```Your heart may not have ten ways
To please God,But ask your heart at least to have one way
To please God in His own Way. ```Your mind may not have many reasons
To satisfy God,But ask your mind at least to have
One reasonTo satisfy God in His own Way.
```Everybody knows that when we enter
Into our mind-jungle,We see no aspiration-cries
And no dedication-smiles. ```God feels extremely sorry
When I tell HimThat I do not want to fly with Him
In His Infinity’s Sky.He says to me most compassionately,
“My child, do not worry.I shall come back soon.”
```To correct my life’s inner flaws,
I must not mix withMy worry-anxiety-breath.
```Our problem-flooded life
Is definitely not in God’sAll-Illumination-Life.
```My mind needs
God-protection.My heart needs
God-reassurance. ```Our life of aspiration-cries
Just feels that we are becoming better,More illumining and more self-giving.
```When I do not meditate,
I see nothing in myself.The world too sees nothing in me.
When I meditate,Not only I myself but the whole world
Sees Heaven in my God-climbing eyes. ```I ask myself quite often one question:
“Is there any reason why HeavenHas to wait?
Can we not fly and be in the heart of HeavenHere and now?”
```An enthusiasm-mind
And an aspiration-heartCan do the impossible
Whenever they want to. ```An eagerness-heart tells us
To be with God immediatelyAnd live for God eternally.
```My Lord, may my aspiration-heart
And dedication-lifeFly and fly far above
The teeming doubt-clouds. ```God accepts my heart-tears
Happily.God accepts my soul-smiles
Proudly. ```If you feel a sudden surge of joy
During your meditation,That means you have reached
A higher plane of consciousness. ```Where does divine love
Come from?It comes from
Our self-giving life. ```To keep your eyes clear
Is not enough,But to keep your heart completely pure
Is more than enoughTo receive God’s Blessings
In abundant measure. ```If you use your mind,
You will see how far you can goFrom God’s Compassion-Eye.
If you use your heart,You will see how close you can come
To God’s Compassion-Eye. ```My joy knows no bounds
When my heart sits at the footOf God-devotion-tree.
```It is always the right time
And the right placeTo pray to God
And meditate on God. ```The moment you feel
That you are indispensable,You have dug your grave.
Your spiritual life has come to an end! ```In one glance
How much your Master can give youWill always remain
Far beyond your imagination. ```Be careful of your dark vital!
Your dark vital can easily blackmailYour searching mind
And even your aspiring heart. ```Every day I pray to God
To make me a permanent residentOf His Heart-Country.
```Every morning I prayerfully embrace
God’s FeetTo illumine my mind
And to perfect my life. ```It is so simple
To get up early in the morningAnd pray and meditate.
Yet it is so difficult,Unbelievably difficult!
```Unconditional surrender
Is only a few steps awayFrom self-discovery.
```Be careful of your mind!
If your mind once gets holdOf your sweet dreams,
It will tarnish all their beautyAnd fragrance.
```If you are too full of yourself,
You will never receiveA Love-Compassion-Blessing-Letter
From God. ```You have decided not to complain
Against anybody.God has decided to entertain
Only you. ```I am praying to God
To bring me a passTo come watch
His Infinity’s new creation-dance. ```Since mankind is nothing other than
A yawning vigilance,The hostile forces have a free access
To mankind’s heart-temple. ```Your God-hunger must not be confined
Only to early in the morningAnd the evening.
It has to be sleepless and breathless.Then only God will claim you
As His own, very own,And you will also be entitled
To claim God as your own, very own. ```No matter how sincerely I try,
Alas,Every day I am stunned
By sudden self-doubt. ```Alas, the God-Hour has passed by
For me to offer my gratitude-heartTo God.
Therefore, I am now really doomed. ```We offer our feeble hopes
To God.God offers us His solemn Promise.
```If our heart can commune
With the Unknowable,Then our life can cross beyond
The snares of death. ```Alas, the mind of each human being
Is unnecessarily burdenedWith endless questions.
```A genuine God-lover does not live
Either in his blighted dreamsOr in his dashed hopes.
```Alas, we do not care for
The God-blessed crown within us!We crave only the man-made crown.
```When we unnecessarily criticise
God the creation,We do not realise
That we are making a blunderOf Himalayan proportions.
```Smile within and smile without
If you want to free yourselfFrom the weight of futile frustrations.
```No desire-prompted action
Will ever be able to give usEven an iota of satisfaction.
```Alas, my heart-home is empty
Of God’s Compassion-EyeAnd His Forgiveness-Feet!
```When our soul-bird sings
Inside our mind-jungle,Even our mind-jungle begins to inspire
And aspire forThe whole world.
```The ultimate Goal
Is not something to understand.It is something to grow into.
```Be careful of your desire-life.
You may be trampledBy its treasured pride.
```Surrender, surrender
Sleeplessly and breathlesslyYour life to God,
If you want God to approve of your lifeAnd all its activities.
```My blossoming faith in God
Is an instant problem-shooterIn my life.
```I am a server and not a supporter
Of God’s Peace-FoundationOn earth.
```If we do not consciously long for
God-realisation,Then we may become eventually
Kings and queens of self-deception. ```Alas,
My frustration-mindIs something that never changes!
```If we do not try to please God
With our heart’s prayerful songs,Then our soul will be forced to repent
With bitter tears. ```My Lord Beloved Supreme,
Do save my lifeFrom my self-styled, mournful
Load of despair. ```O my mind,
Do not return to bygone days!There is nothing worth seeing.
```If you really love God,
Then openly tell the worldThat you prefer God to anything else
In the world. ```Do not foist your ideas on others.
Each one has to grow in his own way,If not in God’s own Way.
```The mind is always eager
To shatter the silence-lifeOf the aspiration-heart.
```At every moment
You must, without fail,Fortify your mind
With positive thoughts. ```I turn to God
Not only in my hour of sorrow,But also in my hour of unimaginable joy.
```My inner remembrance
Of God’s TouchIs feeding my aspiration-heart
Sumptuously. ```My doubting mind
And my strangling vitalAre in an increasingly bitter battle
For supremacy. ```To restore God’s confidence in you,
Cry like a motherlessAnd fatherless child.
```God does not believe in
Your plethora of excusesAs to why you fail
Time and againTo please Him.
```What is life,
If not absolutely short-termName and fame?
```We must follow our Lord’s Footsteps
Wherever He wants to lead usFor our perfection-life.
```The oneness-song
Pure heartsNever stop singing.
```If it is real love,
Then it must ultimately surrenderHappily and cheerfully
To God’s Will. ```Nobody has the capacity
To choose God.It is God Himself
Who chooses us all. ```At every moment
A God-orbitIs of supreme necessity.
```God’s Compassion-Eye
And God’s Forgiveness-HeartAlways remain absolutely perfect,
No matter from where you look. ```Every day I pray to God
To give me the capacityTo fly in
My love, devotion and surrender-skies. ```When I sympathise with someone,
I create the beauty and smileOf a new God.
```Alas, I do not know
When I shall be able to discoverThe golden pathway
Of my aspiration-heart. ```Each good thought
Is a living shrineIn the Heart of the Supreme.
```When I look at my heart-eye,
I become the energyOf the whole cosmos.
```God wants to intensify
Our mind’s search for HimAnd amplify
Our heart’s inseparable onenessWith Him.
```Where is God’s Compassion-Eye?
It is just a prayer-breath awayFrom my heart, from my life!
```If you do not begin
Your life-project today,Then there is no assurance
That you will ever be ableTo begin your life-project.
```Every day I desperately try
To experience the exquisite beautyOf my surrender-life.
```If each morning you really want
To wake upAnd try to pray and meditate,
Then God will supply youWith more and more inner alarms
So you can be punctual. ```God waited and waited for a long time
For my mind’s acceptance of His Divinity.Alas, God has now expelled
My doubting mindFrom His Inner Circle!
```May my everyday life
Grow into a dynamoOf birthless and deathless energy.
```Switch on
The aspiration-light,And switch off
Ignorance-night. ```In the long run,
We come to realiseThat our surrender-life
Is God’s supreme Satisfaction. ```I am determined to become
What God’s DreamWants me to become.
```His very life-breath quivers with delight
At the very sight ofHis Master’s compassion-flooded eye.
```If you can make
Your unconditional surrender perfect,Then you will not need
Even one more dayTo reach your Goal Supreme.
```From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 255, Agni Press, 1998
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