Show God your receptivity-hunger.
Immediately He will give youA Satisfaction-Feast.
```The seekers who make constant progress
Never go to eatAt suspicion-restaurant
In their mental world. ```My concentration-life shows me
God’s Protection-Fence.My meditation-life actually sees
God’s Protection-Fence around meProtecting me.
```If you do not feed
Your heart’s gratitude-flamesEvery day
With your soulful love,Your life-racquet
Will have all broken strings. ```At times
Seclusion you definitely needFor your soul to strengthen
Its Himalayan promiseTo your Beloved Supreme.
```My soul every day patronises
God’s Vision-Store.Therefore
My soul is well-likedBy God the Owner.
```Now that once more
You have startedYour life’s cheerfulness-career,
Your inner progress and outer progressWill surprise you unimaginably.
```Every day God expects
A new heart-flower from you,For this is the only way
The ever-transcending GodCan carry you with Him.
```Your soul has instructed your heart
How to goTo God’s Satisfaction-Land.
Your heart is about to embarkOn this unprecedented journey.
You just follow your heart! ```God does not like to give anything
To an empty eyeOr an empty hand.
He gives everythingTo an empty heart.
An empty eyeIs visionless.
An empty handIs giftless.
But an empty heartIs guileless.
Therefore, in an empty heartHe can abide
And also give to itWhat He wants to give.
```When your aspiration-fire
Goes out,God the Guest
Also goes out. ```His soul’s aspiration-life-story
Has been edited by God Himself.Therefore
It is absolutely flawless. ```A sky-blazing message:
Humanity’s helpless cryAnd divinity’s powerful smile
Shall eternally live together. ```In his inner life
A seeker wins the raceBy virtue of his faith.
In his outer life
A seeker wins the raceBy virtue of his surrender.
```His untouchable thoughts
Have caused his premature deathIn the spiritual life.
```What can equal God’s Ecstasy?
Man’s bold promise to HimTo become another God.
```Only an unconditional God-lover
God gladly allowsTo wear the Silence-Smile
Of His transcendental Self. ```God is ready to give you
Instant realisation.Will you be able to receive it
With your constant aspiration? ```God does not know
A better way for meSince I have deliberately stooped
To suspicion-night. ```Since you are a part-time seeker,
God does not want you and HimTo be mutual admirers.
```If you are a true truth-seeker
And a true God-lover,Then you can never allow your life
To become a faded promise-flower. ```My ability has neither
Sincerity nor purity.My ability is only
A dance of my doubting mind. ```God’s Control-Tower
Is only for thoseWhose lives have become
Endless surrender-hours. ```What you desperately need
Is a heart-retreatFrom your mind’s busy
And meaningless life. ```I belong
To God’s Vision-Beauty.God belongs
To my dedication-duty. ```Invention is worse than useless
If there is no good intentionBehind the invention.
```Perfection is attained
Only whenThere is nothing more
To gainAnd nothing more
To lose. ```Simplicity is at once
God’s natural BlessingAnd man’s sleepless promise.
```His mind’s aspiration-flame
Is like a flickerIn a very distant universe.
```Try ancient aspiration
If you want to saveThe modern world
From its ultra-modern desires. ```Unknown
Is his dedication-life.Unknowable
Is his aspiration-heart. ```Since the animal in you
Does not relax,Why do you allow the human in you
To relaxAnd the divine in you
To sleep? ```Alas,
His life-breath stoppedWith a sad and brief
Spiritual story. ```Each happy life-car
NeedsAn encouragement-engine.
```The Heaven-Hotel
Of the Absolute SupremeEnjoys vacancies
Almost every day of the year. ```Man’s unhappiness
Is apt to snapGod’s golden Compassion-Thread.
```Your life
Is the question of the past.My life
Is the answer to the future. ```It is absolutely time for you
To find a new directionIn your life’s Godward journey.
```A seeker’s shopping list
Has only two items:God’s Compassion-Eye
AndGod’s Forgiveness-Heart.
```I thought I had the answer,
But now I seeThat my life is not only
A colossal questionBut also
An unending question. ```God’s Compassion-Flood
Has enabled him to declareThat his mind’s unwillingness-capacity
Is a mere word. ```If your heart
Deliberately amplifies your sorrow,I tell you,
You will never findAny illumining and fulfilling
Inner resource. ```There is only one perfect gift
That I can offerTo my Lord Supreme:
My life’s sleepless dedication-flower. ```Why are you shopping
Inside the mind-cave?The heart-department store
Is right in front of you! ```My Lord Supreme quickly taught me
How to be goodBecause He saw
That I was all readyTo turn His creation bad.
```If you are insecure,
Then every dayYou will be forced to learn
Illusion-lessonsFrom the world-atmosphere.
```Your heart’s homeland
Is where your consciousnessSings and dances
Only for God. ```God’s constant Forgiveness
Is a supreme necessityAnd not an unwanted superfluity.
```Do not live inside
Your dark mind-cave.It is quite unsafe.
At any momentSuspicion-snake may hiss at you.
```If God asks you
To send Him a picture of you,It means that God’s Blessings
And your lifeAre about to become
Inseparable. ```If you do not step
On your divinity-ladder,Futility-ladder
Will bring you downAnd throw you
Into the abysmal abyss. ```How do you dare to think
That on the strengthOf your obsolete aspiration
You can win the realisationOf tomorrow’s brightest dawn?
```When God forgives you,
He promises to youThat He will also forgive
Your associates in the inner life. ```Purity’s oneness-heart
Will never sufferFrom the bite of insecurity.
```It is an amazing fact
That a fleeting second of peaceCan inundate a seeker’s life
With the soul’s satisfaction-delight. ```Aspiration is the beginning
Of perfection.Perfection is the beginning
Of satisfaction.Satisfaction is the beginning
Of nothingness nullifiedAnd fulness multiplied.
```In this crowded world
What I need is a SmileFrom God’s Protection-Eye.
```God does not mind giving you
His Compassion-Credit Card,But will your proud mind
Allow you to use it? ```You must never allow
Your mind-lawyerTo cross-examine
Your life’s oneness-heart. ```You are such a fool!
Your whole life has now becomeThe repetition
Of a broken record. ```It is your sordid vital
That has imprisonedYour aspiration-life,
Which was meant onlyFor God’s use.
```Doubt-frost can kill everything
In a seeker’s life.Therefore, keep your heart of faith
Always soulful and powerful. ```Death’s shadow
You can see on your face,But never upon your soul’s
Divinity-eye. ```You have every reason
To be happyBecause your determination
Remains unchallengedAnd your aspiration
Remains unexamined. ```An impossible friendship:
Between my mind’sBlighting unwillingness
And my heart’sCheerful willingness.
```Temptation-food
Is always full of calories.Aspiration-food
Has no calories.Therefore, O God-seeker,
Eat aspiration-foodAs much as you want to!
```Start to believe once more
In your future promise.God will grant you
The springboard of His Vision-Eye. ```Even the unlit human in him
Wants nothingBut God’s Satisfaction
In God’s own Way. ```I laugh at your outer success,
I laugh.I admire your inner progress
More than you can ever imagine. ```Panic-stricken prayers
Are not for God’s SatisfactionOr His Manifestation on earth.
```Your soul will not allow you
To enter into your heart-templeWith your muddy mind-thoughts.
```Only a ready-made disciple
Can deriveBlessingful and fruitful spiritual wealth
From each and every wise piece of adviceFrom the Master.
```The modern mind has made
The longest distance-recordNot only in criticising
God the CompassionBut also in running away from
God the Forgiveness. ```The Ambassador of Heaven
Gives only one message to earth:“O God-lover,
Your life must grow intoAn eternal Now.”
```In the inner world
My Inner Pilot cares for me.In the outer world
He dares for me.Therefore, I always see
A happy and blessingful onenessBetween my inner world
And my outer world. ```There is such a short span
Between birth and death.Therefore
It is not possible to seeA fully grown happiness-flower
On earth. ```You have already done
Many bad things.Do not do the last bad thing!
Do not desecrate your heart-shrine!For if you do that,
That will be the endOf your aspiration-life.
```Unless you renew
Your aspiration-permit on time,Your close connection
With your Inner PilotWill cease.
```I wrote a confidential letter
To my Lord Supreme this morning.Therefore
He has made a Compassion-Call to meOn the inner plane.
```God has made me a member
Of His intimate Family,Not because I have done something,
Not because I have become something,But because God wants to prove
To the world at largeThat even the worst creation of His
Can become a memberOf His intimate Family
If He so desires. ```Unless God can make me worthy
Of His transcendental Height,His Vision will not succeed.
ThereforeHe will definitely take me
To His own highest HeightOf self-transcendence.
```Your mind is looking
For a messiah.Alas, it fails to see
That it already has a messiah:Confusion-prince.
```My heart longs for God.
My soul communes with God.My life works for God.
```Be brave!
The future of your choiceWill definitely expedite
Your God-journey. ```Aspiration-garden
Will become dryIf there is no
Enthusiasm-gardener. ```Since your enemies
Will not relax willingly,You must not allow
Your heart’s adamantine willTo relax.
```You are a fool!
You are expecting everythingFrom a pointless
And fruitless life. ```Pessimistic predictions
Must be ignoredLike feeble and useless ants.
```If your mind-lawyer
Cross-examines you,Do not be afraid,
For your soul will come to your aidWith its effulgence-light.
```Since he does not mind
If he losesIn the battlefield of life,
He feels thatHe does not have to choose
Between fleeting time and Eternity. ```Man’s longest marathon
Is from a frustration-lifeTo an illumination-soul.
```His life is lost
Between his mind’s ugliness-wallAnd his heart’s willingness-door.
```God wants me to write
A very simple and soulful bookSo that every day
He can read and appreciate itAnd inspire and teach me to write
A better and simpler book. ```Help your life
To proceed every morningWith ant-perseverance.
```If you have the willingness
To offer your gratitude-life,Then God definitely has the Heart
To give you absolutely the bestExchange rate.
```There is no free parking
On earth,Even if you are
A direct God-messenger. ```I am happy
Because I still need God.God is happy
Because I still love Him. ```Borrow anything from God,
As long as you are gratefulTo yourself
For having the wisdomTo borrow from God
And not from anybody else. ```To be illumined
By God’s Compassion-Eye,My outer name
Should be surrenderAnd my inner name
Should be gratitude. ```At long last
God is making my surrender-lifeWorthy of His Compassion-Eye.
```From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 27, Agni Press, 1984
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