Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 264

26301

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O seeker, be alert,

Be ready at every moment

To abide by God’s Command.

```

26302

```

For God’s Victory,

O my body, vital, mind and heart,

Let us create

An ever-inspiring symphony. ```

26303

```

May the compass of God-love

At every moment

Guide each step of mine.

```

26304

```

Earthly age encourages

Complacency.

Heavenly age inspires

Ceaseless God-manifestation. ```

26305

```

A stress-free spiritual life

Is not only possible

But inevitable.

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26306

```

The most dangerous place

For a truth-seeker

And God-lover

Is his mind-built prison. ```

26307

```

O my mind, never ride

With your

Self-indulgence-reins.

```

26308

```

The whispers of temptation

I received.

Now the whispers of illumination

Are here. ```

26309

```

How can I make any progress at all

If I allow my mind

To be a hurricane of self-doubts?

```

26310

```

Take down, take down

The sails of your confusion-mind

If you want your Inner Pilot

To steer your life-boat

Faster than the fastest.

```

26311

```

By blaming your unwillingness-mind,

What will you accomplish?

Start taming your unwillingness-mind.

You will accomplish everything. ```

26312

```

God is tired of hearing

Every day, every hour

Firecracker-complaints

From all the human minds. ```

26313

```

O my mind,

Stop wearing

Your God-unwillingness-armour.

```

26314

```

Anger, do not try to break me.

I shall break you!

I shall swim in the sea

Of peace. ```

26315

```

When happiness and willingness

Go together,

Man’s inner progress and outer success

Also go together. ```

26316

```

I prayed

To the goddess of success.

I was at times successful and at times not.

Now I am praying

To the goddess of progress.

My very prayer gives me utmost satisfaction. ```

26317

```

My Lord, allow me to tell You

That although I am failing again and again

To please You,

I shall continue.

```

26318

```

God is always ready to give you

His Heart of Joy, Heart of Love

And Heart of Pride.

It is you who are not ready

To embrace Him.

```

26319

```

The human mind

Simply refuses to listen

To the aspiring heart’s messages.

```

26320

```

My earthly tears

Shall precede

My God-longing prayers.

```

26321

```

My Lord does not force me

To believe in Him.

It is I who have to force myself

To believe in Him

For my perfection.

```

26322

```

God’s biggest frustration

Has always been

My unwillingness-mind.

```

26323

```

Each day, each hour, each minute

Is a golden opportunity

For our God-manifestation-service.

```

26324

```

How can I serve You, my Lord?

“My child, you can serve Me

Lovingly, soulfully, self-givingly

And finally,

Unconditionally.”

```

26325

```

Every morning

I purify my mind

With self-giving thoughts.

```

26326

```

My heart’s ecstasy-smiles

Expedite

My Lord’s Arrival.

```

26327

```

God allows the heart’s happiness

To visit regularly

His Perfection-Satisfaction-Palace.

```

26328

```

If you do not put your life

In God’s Compassion-Hands,

Then your life will never become

His Satisfaction. ```

26329

```

If you trust God implicitly,

Then there is nothing that God

Will not proudly do for you.

```

26330

```

When I start my day

With a surrender-smile,

Everything sings and dances

Before me. ```

26331

```

Do not run with your thoughts.

Let them run astray.

Stay in your heart.

```

26332

```

Rest assured,

God does not have any patience

For your incessant complaints

Against humanity. ```

26333

```

Your mind and heart

God will widen,

If you are happy with each and every

New responsibility. ```

26334

```

If I disobey God deliberately,

How can I have

God-Beauty’s ever-brightening

And ever-illumining Smile? ```

26335

```

What I need

And what I must give:

A rainbow-smile of delight.

```

26336

```

My Lord,

Every day I pray to You

To bless me

With a forgiveness-fountain

And a gratitude-fountain.

```

26337

```

O seeker,

Do not allow your life

To be blown away

By your desire-mind. ```

26338

```

I do not want to catch God’s Attention.

I want only God’s Compassion

At every moment

In my inner life and in my outer life

As well.

```

26339

```

Abandon the thoughts that tell you

You are not meant for the spiritual life,

You are not meant for God-satisfaction,

You are not meant for life-perfection. ```

26340

```

The bright side of man

Is man’s need for God.

The dark side of man

Is man’s self-sufficient attitude. ```

26341

```

The immediacy

Of God-realisation-tears

Must brook no delay.

```

26342

```

Each seeker must have the courage

Not only to accept God

And fulfil God,

But also to defend God. ```

26343

```

I eagerly wait for the death

Of my mind’s

Decision and indecision.

```

26344

```

Definitely, sooner or later,

The heart’s tears

Will be transformed into

The life’s smiles. ```

26345

```

Believe in the beauty

Of your imagination.

It is true, all true!

It is not your mental hallucination. ```

26346

```

My Lord, do make my heart

The living breath

Of unconditional surrender.

```

26347

```

There is an unseen Hand.

I may not see it,

But it definitely is there

To guide my life. ```

26348

```

To play on the world-stage,

We need inner courage

And outer smiles.

```

26349

```

It seems that the golden days

Do not last forever.

They are always very brief.

```

26350

```

How can you illumine

Your mind’s darkness?

Get your soul’s light

To be a permanent guest

Inside your mind.

```

26351

```

O my mind,

Is it your sincere receptivity

Or your sincere curiosity

That you truly enjoy? ```

26352

```

O brooding doubts,

True, I cannot outrun you

When you chase me,

But in Heaven you will be nowhere

To chase me.

```

26353

```

An unconditional surrender

Is the culmination

Of all sincere self-giving efforts.

```

26354

```

My Lord,

I beg for Your Compassion.

I beg for Your Forgiveness.

Then only satisfaction will dawn on me. ```

26355

```

Although God works sleeplessly,

He never takes a break.

Being His choice children,

Can we not do the same? ```

26356

```

My Lord Supreme,

Please bless me

With a purity-flooded heart-life

To touch and be at Your Feet. ```

26357

```

Every day my Lord Supreme

Is extremely eager

To take me to a new destination.

Alas, how often I am not willing —

Not even ready.

```

26358

```

When I look back,

I see and become

My old destructive vital.

When I look forward,

I see and become

My deer-speed. ```

26359

```

My inner urge has brought me

To the Compassion-Feet

Of my Lord Supreme.

Nothing else could

And nothing else will.

```

26360

```

When I love my Lord Supreme

As a drowning man or as a starving man,

I please myself.

But when I love my Lord Supreme

As a self-giving man,

I please my Lord Supreme. ```

26361

```

My Lord, for years I have asked You

To please me in my own way.

Now may I be blessed,

Even for a few minutes,

To please You in Your own Way?

```

26362

```

When my confidence is founded

Upon my faith in my Lord Supreme,

Then only

My confidence is safe and perfect. ```

26363

```

Does God ever make mistakes?

He pretends to make mistakes

So that I do not feel miserable

When I make mistakes. ```

26364

```

No obstacle can thwart

My fastest progress,

Unless and until

In one way or another

I consent.

```

26365

```

When I am a self-giver,

I become a perfect God-lover,

And not before.

```

26366

```

My only goal is to sit

At the Compassion-Forgiveness-Feet

Of my Lord Supreme

And not to admire the Beauty

Of His Eye.

```

26367

```

If we do not take love of God

As our only duty, sleepless and breathless,

How can we ever dream

Of making the fastest progress? ```

26368

```

May my mind finally bloom

And my heart fully blossom

At Your Lotus-Feet,

My Lord Supreme. ```

26369

```

My Lord tells me:

“Do not worry, My child.

Use what you have now.

Use your divine instinct,

And before long I shall give you

The divine intuition.” ```

26370

```

By feeling that you are a hopeless case,

You are not helping God in any way.

Remember, you are giving more problems

To Him. ```

26371

```

There is only one power

That can mend my broken heart,

And that power

Is God’s Compassion-Eye. ```

26372

```

My Lord says to me:

“My child, I care for you

Not because your case is hopeless.

I care for you

Because My Hope-Bridge in you

I must keep strong, stronger, strongest.” ```

26373

```

My Lord,

Although I recognise Your Height,

How is it that I am not inspired

To allow You to pilot my life-boat? ```

26374

```

My Lord,

Have You come to me

Or have I come to You?

“My child, both.

You have come to Me

With your heart-cries,

And I have come to you

With My Heart-Smiles.”

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26375

```

When I look at my Lord’s Eye,

I start trembling.

My Lord tells me:

“My child, do not tremble.

Just marvel at My Eye.”

```

26376

```

My Lord,

What do I need most

From You?

Please let me know.

“My child,

Only one thing

You need from Me:

Advice, constant advice.

And you must obey My Advice!”

```

26377

```

My Lord,

When everything fails,

What shall I do?

“My child,

When all else fails,

Just come and sit at My Feet

And never go away.” ```

26378

```

My Lord tells me:

“My child, strike your aspiration-bell

Hard, harder, hardest!”

```

26379

```

God is more than eager

To break the ignorance-chain

Of your mind.

Alas, when will you be ready? ```

26380

```

As soon as I receive Blessings

From my Lord Supreme,

I deposit them in my heart-safe.

```

26381

```

Alas, how I wish I could be

In the perfect assembly

Of God’s peace-lovers.

```

26382

```

Only our heart’s prayerful tears

Will ever be able to cut

The knot of entanglements.

```

26383

```

I have taken it

As my bounden duty

To clear the path

For peace-pilgrims. ```

26384

```

God gives us the capacity,

More than we need,

To dismantle the house

Of undivine thoughts. ```

26385

```

Only when I look at my heart

Do I see a stream of good deeds flowing

With no obstructions.

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26386

```

We shall be fulfilled

Only when we see

The invisible inside the visible.

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26387

```

My Lord Supreme

Heaved a sigh of relief

At long last

When I told Him

That my inner existence

And my outer existence

Would be only for Him.

```

26388

```

My Lord, I do not know

When things will get easier

And better in my life,

But I pray to You to give me

The power of patience

And the light of tolerance. ```

26389

```

When I pray to the Supreme

To make me a perfect slave of His,

He tells me that He wants me to be

His perfect playmate. ```

26390

```

As long as we have a mind

That loves to fuss and kick,

We will never have satisfaction

In our life. ```

26391

```

The beauty and fragrance

Of gratitude

Illumine us in every aspect

Of our lives. ```

26392

```

My Lord,

I have pleased myself

For centuries.

Will You not give me the capacity

To please You even for a day?

```

26393

```

What is human pride?

Human pride is something

That cannot see itself

In wrong action. ```

26394

```

Decrease the number

Of your complaints.

Increase the power

Of your gratitude. ```

26395

```

God will teach you

His most favourite tune.

Just lend Him your ear.

```

26396

```

The sweet sound

Of a devotional song

Is bound to expedite the journey

Of a spiritual seeker. ```

26397

```

God is already up

And is knocking at your heart-door.

Have you any idea

When you are going to be ready? ```

26398

```

God always loves those souls most

Who are genuine lovers of light

And who are genuine self-givers.

```

26399

```

If we pray and meditate regularly,

Then, without fail, our hearts shall radiate

God-Bliss, God-Light

And everything that God has and God is. ```

26400

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O Absolute Lord of my heartbeat,

May I always be in cadence

With Your Heart-Dance.

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From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 264, Agni Press, 1998
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