Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 26

2501

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Since I started seeing

With my heart,

I see there is nothing

Beyond my life’s soulful reach. ```

2502

```

You can have access to God

By longing for your heart’s

Perfection-song.

```

2503

```

To establish oneness

With the world within

And the world without

Is the best way for those

Who want to realise God

And satisfy God in His own Way. ```

2504

```

Before temptation knocks

At your door,

Fence your life around

With purity’s divine smile. ```

2505

```

God will not show you

His Heart’s Treasury

If you fail to show Him

Your own heart’s oneness-coin. ```

2506

```

A Tear from God’s Eye

Is humanity’s beautiful aspiration.

A Smile from God’s Eye

Is humanity’s powerful realisation. ```

2507

```

If self-offering

Does not apply to you,

How can God-becoming

Ever apply to you? ```

2508

```

The secrets of the inner heights

Dwell far beyond

The territories of the mind.

```

2509

```

If you are really wise,

Then you will solve

Not only today’s fleeting problems

But also tomorrow’s teeming problems. ```

2510

```

Your mind’s flattery-gift

God will never accept.

He will accept only

Your heart’s ecstasy-gift. ```

2511

```

In exchange for

Your heart’s purity-gift

God will grant you

His Soul’s Divinity-Crown. ```

2512

```

My soul’s adamantine will

Can easily shake

The impossibility-tree

At any time. ```

2513

```

The modern world thinks,

“God has to be demonstrated.”

The ancient world thought,

“God has to be realised.” ```

2514

```

God tells me

That there is nothing

I cannot repay Him for

With my heart’s unconditional surrender. ```

2515

```

If you are waiting

For the mental clouds to part,

Then even Eternity’s patience

Will laugh at your stupidity. ```

2516

```

You have desecrated

Many soulful and valuable things

In your life,

But do not desecrate

The purity-breath

Of your heart-shrine. ```

2517

```

If your Master’s words

Go unheeded,

Then your heart’s happiness-flower

Will never blossom. ```

2518

```

Even God does not believe

That the human mind

Will acquire receptivity from God

To receive His Compassion-Light

And Satisfaction-Delight.

```

2519

```

You invite

Attention.

Frustration comes

Uninvited. ```

2520

```

You lived your life

Intensely.

That does not mean

That God loved your heart

Immensely.

```

2521

```

The best defence

Against doubt-danger:

Your heart’s silence-meditation.

```

2522

```

As your mind cries

For the outer world,

Even so, your heart can easily cry

For the inner world,

Which is constantly favoured

By those who make a comparison

Between the two worlds.

```

2523

```

For the human mind to think

That it is as powerful as God

Is not an uncommon experience.

```

2524

```

God definitely wants

The human fraternity

To last for Eternity.

```

2525

```

A life of patience

Is for a stoic soul.

A life of forgiveness

Is for a liberated soul. ```

2526

```

A sleep-talking mind

And a life-fulfilling heart

Cannot live in the same boat.

```

2527

```

You will hear the God-songs

Of the hoary past

If you pray to God

To appear in your dreams

Every night.

```

2528

```

Now that you have given up

Your self-imposed illusion-life,

Your heart will be able to enjoy

The sunburst of God’s Day. ```

2529

```

Live in the heart.

The sea-secrets and the mountain-secrets

Of God’s Life

Will reveal themselves to you. ```

2530

```

There is no such thing

As a thankless task.

It is all beautiful Blessings

From our Beloved Supreme. ```

2531

```

I want everything in my life

To be changeable

Except my love of God.

I want my love of God

To remain totally unchangeable.

```

2532

```

On earth

Humanity’s incurable cry

Is my home.

In Heaven

Divinity’s imponderable joy

Is my home.

```

2533

```

At the beginning

God never expects

Unconditional attention,

But He does expect

Undivided attention.

```

2534

```

Alas, why have I chosen

A blind mind and a wild vital?

Why, why,

In this short span of life? ```

2535

```

The scientists

Are secretly admiring

The seekers

But openly ridiculing

The seekers.

```

2536

```

Yesterday

I was God’s faithful dog.

Today

I am His beautiful lamb.

Tomorrow

I shall be His powerful lion. ```

2537

```

I do not have the courage

To tell earth

That its life is all impurity.

I do not have the courage

To tell Heaven

That its soul is all indifference.

```

2538

```

As your mind’s intellectual life

Has narrowed your vision,

Even so, your soul’s intuitive light

Has widened your heart. ```

2539

```

No great soul

Is allowed to go off duty

Once it enters into the world-arena

For God-manifestation. ```

2540

```

To a desire-bound life

A few tiny flames

Of aspiration-free breath

Are more than enough. ```

2541

```

Your Heaven-world-preparation

Is destroying

Your yesterday’s frustration

And creating

Your tomorrow’s illumination.

```

2542

```

Heart-mountain-happiness

Is the chosen instrument of God

For His constant manifestation

On earth. ```

2543

```

Never allow despair

To hover over

Your heart and soul.

```

2544

```

God is ready to wait for you

Indefinitely.

But the question is

If you will ever go

To see Him

In His Palace. ```

2545

```

If you are before God,

Pray to Him to grant you

His Eternity’s quenchless

Aspiration-thirst. ```

2546

```

If you change your life,

God will allow you

To arrange a meeting

Between Him and humanity. ```

2547

```

Now that I am no longer

In my aspiration-heart,

My life has become

A rudderless boat. ```

2548

```

The Beauty-Eye of Heaven

Holds Eternity’s

Perfection-Truth.

```

2549

```

Each human being can become perfect

Provided he thinks

That his heart’s kingdom

Is not just imagination. ```

2550

```

You are your own incurable illusion.

Therefore

Who is going to save you

From the abyss of self-oblivion? ```

2551

```

You and your heart must attend

Your ego’s funeral

So that God will allow you

To return to your soul’s

Original homeland.

```

2552

```

If you want to resemble God,

Then do not remain

Inside your ignorance-fettered

Mind-cave. ```

2553

```

A seeker does not know

What luxury is.

He only knows one thing:

His necessity for God. ```

2554

```

If man accepts

What God proposes,

Then God will give him

His Heart’s celestial Treatment. ```

2555

```

If your sincerity-song

Has no end,

Then God’s Satisfaction-Smile also

Will never come to an end. ```

2556

```

My Lord, unless You force me

To be good,

You will see no satisfaction

Either in my life

Or around my life.

```

2557

```

Pray to God the Time

To grant you a friendship

That will give you

An inspiration-sky,

An aspiration-moon

And a realisation-sun. ```

2558

```

A God-server needs

No other qualification.

His God-service pleases

Not only God the Compassion

But also God the Justice

Equally. ```

2559

```

The soul is a treasure

That we have not yet seen.

The heart is a treasure

That we have seen but lost. ```

2560

```

The unknowable future

You must shut out

If you want to give God a chance

To perfect you

And satisfy you.

```

2561

```

An impurity-force

Has pulled you down.

A purity-force

Can easily pull you up.

A divinity-force

Every day can teach you

A new self-transcendence-song.

```

2562

```

The mind’s impurity-cave

Is the only place

Where divinity-light

Does not want to shine. ```

2563

```

A serenity-mind

And a purity-heart

Are God’s private detectives

In the seeker’s inner world. ```

2564

```

Who possesses the Possessor?

He who thinks that the Possessor

Is the Liberator

And he who knows that the Possessor

Is the Self-giver.

```

2565

```

Mine is an empty heart-cage

That every day longs for

Its soul-bird

To fly into it. ```

2566

```

Silence consoles

The suffering human in us.

Silence extols

The smiling divine in us. ```

2567

```

Do not keep

Your fear-door open.

Destruction-missiles

Are right in front of the door. ```

2568

```

A seeker of peace

And a lover of God

Are every day blessed and garlanded

By the Supreme Himself

In His supreme Palace.

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2569

```

I call it

My heart’s obedience-plant.

God calls it

His Life’s Satisfaction-Tree. ```

2570

```

If you soulfully try

To imitate God,

Then God will bountifully make you

A most intimate instrument of His. ```

2571

```

O world of sound,

Do not try to fool me.

I definitely know the Sound

Of my Lord’s Footsteps. ```

2572

```

This morning my Lord told me

That if I can tame my wild life,

He will give me a free ride

To Heaven. ```

2573

```

Always cloudy:

Man’s possession-sky.

Always sunny:

Man’s renunciation-sky. ```

2574

```

My Lord does not mind

If I grow slowly

In my spiritual life.

But He will definitely mind

If I do not become

Spiritually strong

And completely perfect.

```

2575

```

Unless you get from God

Your heart’s permanent possession,

Love,

How will you measure

Your own life’s divinity?

```

2576

```

If you have sleepless aspiration,

Then eventually you will be able

To meet the gods

That are standing

Behind Heaven’s closed doors.

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2577

```

Never fear!

Never surrender!

Your heart’s faith

Will persevere and succeed. ```

2578

```

Each morning prayer

Should be a sweet, whispering breath

From God’s Fulness-Vision.

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2579

```

He is now rising

From his mind’s oblivion-sleep.

Therefore, he is quite close

To God’s Compassion-Signal. ```

2580

```

How can your dedication-life

Surrender to your temptation-vital?

I can’t believe it,

And I don’t want to believe it. ```

2581

```

There is no such thing

As an innocent desire.

Therefore

You cannot safely indulge

Any desire.

```

2582

```

His life-maker

Is his love of God.

His heart-breaker

Is his doubt of man. ```

2583

```

God faithfully watches

His gratitude-son

And His surrender-daughter

Playing the game

Of His Satisfaction-Dream.

```

2584

```

I am waiting

For God’s Satisfaction-Sun

And God is waiting

For my heart’s dawn. ```

2585

```

As long as I have a closed mind

And a closed heart,

God thinks it is useless

To keep close watch

Over my life.

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2586

```

The remembrance of happy days

Can easily help you escape

From today’s frustration-night.

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2587

```

A desire-bound impurity-breath

Is nothing other

Than slow suicide.

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2588

```

Your lazy mind will tell you

That it is not worth seeing God.

Your lazy life will tell you

That God will definitely

Wait for you.

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2589

```

To be one of the lucky few

Is to cure yourself

From the contagious doubt-disease.

```

2590

```

What I have done to God

Is something I would like

To forget every day.

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2591

```

If you have a heart,

That means

You have faith-bullets, too.

Fire immediately

Your faith-bullets

At your ignorance-night! ```

2592

```

Ignorance-weight-loss

Can be guaranteed

Only when the soul’s wisdom-light

Illumines the mind-night. ```

2593

```

A tiny temptation-flame

Has burnt

His life’s aspiration-shrine.

```

2594

```

A new faith-flower

Is blossoming

Beautifully and charmingly

From his heart-flames. ```

2595

```

It is always dangerous

To drive on the desire-highway.

But it is never, never dangerous

To drive on the aspiration-highway,

For God is a sacred Inspirer

And secret Driver there. ```

2596

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It is up to you

To become an aspiration-plant

Or not.

But never invoke the hostile forces

To destroy

The tender aspiration-plants

That are growing so beautifully

Around you. ```

2597

```

His soulful heart

Has marvellously qualified

As an excellent student

In self-giving school. ```

2598

```

A deep breath of determination

Is the precursor

Of a new realisation

And a new perfection

In life.

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2599

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Transfer your life

From your desire-impermanence-train

To your aspiration-transcendence-train.

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2600

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The beauty of my silence-soul

Has now become

The divinity of my gratitude-heart.

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From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 26, Agni Press, 1984
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