Those who love
God aloneWill be needed
By God alone. ```You fool,
Why do you love impatience?Do you not realise
That your life of impatienceMeans a shorter time
To achieve something great? ```I feel sorry for you
Because every day you are bittenBy a mad desire-dog.
```Unless you become a perfect stranger
To self-indulgence,Your soul’s effulgence-delight
You will never be able to claim. ```I cannot imagine how you can allow
So many teeming ego-thoughtsTo enter into your life
Every day. ```Let God take care
Of your hesitation-mindFrom now on.
```Ignorance does not
Surrender to anyoneOn its own.
You have to forcefullyConquer ignorance.
```God never keeps
His Compassion-EyeAnd His Forgiveness-Heart
Empty. ```Today he is celebrating
The deathOf his mind’s deception-night.
```Only a fool like you
Can think that self-tortureIs another name
For self-improvement. ```Next to a oneness-heart,
A purity-mindIs the best protection.
```You may not be thinking of God
For His Satisfaction-Heart,But God is thinking of you
For your perfection-life. ```He who misses obedience-opportunity
Will never be given the chanceTo sing God’s supreme Glory.
```God will never
Reserve a seat for youIn Heaven
BecauseYou have never
Reserved a seat for HimInside your heart
On earth. ```He lives between
The living imageOf his heart’s gratitude
And the living imageOf his life’s surrender.
```God will hear
The tale of your tearsOnly if you agree
To surrender your life’sFascinating falsehood.
```God sings the ultimate Vision-Song
Only inside the heartThat has grown into
An unconditional surrender-light. ```The noise of the world
Is determined to give GodTwo deaf Ears,
A doubting MindAnd a tearful Heart.
```God will not allow you
To exclude your mindFrom your heart’s
Oneness-dream-boat. ```I am not irritated,
I am not exasperated,But I am extremely humiliated
When I see that my mindDoes not aspire every day
For its perfection-life. ```Silence is the emergency exit
To escape the world’sRuthless torture.
```The strength of an elephant
Bows to my patience-heart.The speed of a deer
Bows to my surrender-life. ```The Infinity-increasing Delight
Of the Transcendental ConsciousnessWas founded upon
The Eternity-spreading LightOf the Universal Consciousness.
```Two pieces
Of sad and unexpected news:I have failed God,
And God will not give meAnother chance.
```Your mind, the impurity-outcast,
Must be illumined.This is the only way
Your mind can becomeA choice instrument of God.
```If you do not keep your heart
Under heavy protection-guard,Your heart may be ruthlessly conquered
By your aggression-vital. ```Alas,
My life’s inner vacuumCan only be felt
And never described. ```The heart’s attachment-thickness
Is always founded uponThe mind’s ego-sickness.
```It is a difficult
But not an impossible taskTo successfully lose
The heart’s sadness-weight. ```Unless you take surrender-nutrition
Every day,You cannot make fast progress
In your inner life. ```Every day I watch
God’s inner TelevisionOnly to adore
His Compassion-EyeAnd worship
His Forgiveness-Heart. ```God does feel sorry
When your heartIs not on speaking terms
With Him. ```Your life’s hungry ignorance-dragon
Forecasts the messageOf your life’s destruction-night.
```You are always trying to score
An easy success-goal.Therefore
The supreme Heights of the BeyondWill always remain unknown to you.
```Your oneness-soul feels miserable
When your mind enjoysRumours and counter-rumours.
```What can I expect
From your shallow mind?And what can I not expect
From your deep heart? ```His heart’s inspired utterance:
“God does love me dearlyIn spite of my mind.”
```First feel
That truth is lovable.Then only will you feel
That truth is invincible. ```My God-identification card
God wants me to showTo ignorance-night
In inconscience-world. ```Unless your heart is stirred
By God’s sleepless Breath,How can God’s Peace
Be your life’s property? ```The heart’s voiceless message:
God-realisation is notAn excitement-race
But it isAn enlightenment-goal.
```The turbulent weather
Of your mindIs keeping you unprepared
All the timeFor God’s Compassion-Arrival.
```Before God-realisation
Nobody is exemptAnd nobody will be exempt
From the punishmentOf ignorance-tax.
```Alas,
I never thoughtThat my mind-thief
Would run awayWith my heart’s purity-funds.
```Your vital knows how to export
Excitement-fire.Your heart knows how to import
Enlightenment-flames. ```His heart’s
Aspiration-fire brigadeIs no match
For his life’s desire-fires. ```Even if you are fast asleep
In your heart-heaven’s waiting room,Your life is definitely
Going to make some progress. ```I admire your hero-determination!
You do not want to be caughtAny more
In your mind’s confusion-quandary. ```If your life
Soulfully lies prostrateAt God’ s Protection-Feet,
Your life’s perfection-dreamWill not remain a far cry.
```If you are a real God-lover,
Then you will not carry with youYour yesterday’s frustration-life.
```When I enter into his heart,
I immediately enjoy watchingThe delight-flow
Of his heart’s fulness-fountain. ```I admire your lion-hunger,
But how can I admireYour mouse-capacity?
```Ecstasy-intoxication,
Unlike other intoxications,Is always appreciated and admired
In all times and climes. ```Who says that it is
An impossible taskFor you to extricate your life
From your hopeless futility-fate? ```Your mind has to do
Only whatever you allow itTo do,
And nothing more! ```My worst enemy on earth
Is my fearOf God’s universal
And transcendentalInfinity.
```As you have a heart
Claimed by purity,Even so, try to have a mind
Claimed by clarity. ```Sometimes you forget
To please God.Therefore
You must not be surprisedIf God forgets to think of you.
```Transformation is not destruction.
It is the fire-pure changeOf a human life
Into a divine breath. ```You are a champion
In progress-promise,But not in progress-jump!
```You wanted to climb up
The desire-stairs,But unfortunately the desire-stairs
Have brought you downInto the abysmal abyss.
```His mind of desire
And his heart of aspirationEvery day play tug-of-war,
But the final results are not yet out. ```You must not be disheartened
By your imperfection-night.You should only be brave
By having a sleepless perfection-cry. ```When you develop
A celestial and naturalNeed for God,
God-realisation will not remainA far cry.
```Frustration is man’s
Absolutely worst creationIn God’s beautiful world.
```Once you allow
Your desire-train to runSpeedily,
You will never be ableTo stop it.
```You must realise
That even God’s IndifferenceCan be His real Blessing
In disguise. ```From now on
My heart is going to treasureOnly one thing:
Celestial pleasure. ```God has not rejected you.
It is you who have rejected yourselfBy rejecting your life.
```If you are in doubt,
Why do you not ask GodImmediately?
```Faith
Is the only instrumentThat can easily discover
Truth. ```Your hunger for perfection
And God’s Satisfaction-SmileWill definitely meet together
When God’s God-Hour arrives. ```His Silence-Eye
Cuts my ignorance-ropeFaster than my eyes
Can see. ```Why do you allow your stupid mind
To create insecurityBetween you and God’s Compassion?
```God devours
What your life has:Sincerity.
God devours
What your heart is:Purity.
```Human life is either
To conquer or surrender.In between
There is nothing. ```The velocity of Love divine
My earth-life has to acquire.The velocity of Compassion supreme
My Heaven-life has to acquire. ```He could not believe his eyes
When he saw this morningOn his body’s lethargy-head
A venomous maskLeft by his uninspired mind.
```My faith in God
Has taken up the challenge.It will definitely transform
My confused mind’s confusion-roomInto God’s Illumination-Palace.
```Since you have thoroughly studied
The ignorance-history of man’s life,Will you not start reading
The Compassion-History of God’s Love? ```Every day I am watching
A most soulful and powerful game.It is a game that is played
By my heart’s consciousness-flamesAnd my Lord’s Consciousness-Sun.
```A poor seeker’s life
Goes up and down,Topsy and turvy,
On the consciousness-trampoline. ```His days pass by
With futility’sHelpless dreams
In the midst of God’sCompassion-Rain.
```You are a real fool!
That is why you have purchasedA round-trip aspiration-ticket
Which will take you to HeavenAnd return you to earth.
```When God rings your doorbell,
Go to answer the doorImmediately,
Carrying with youYour mind’s hell.
```The impurity-mind
Of the outer worldAnd the insecurity-heart
Of the inner worldAre immediate neighbours.
```A life-division-hunger
Is nothing but a weakeningAnd crippling disease.
```What is an intellectual mind?
An intellectual mindIs a mind that expedites
The arrival of futility. ```Look in your heart’s
Lost-and-found.The unhorizoned Smile
Of God’s Vision-EyeIs blossoming there.
```Who can demand
Your heart’s freedom-lifeIf you relinquish
Your aspiration-hunger? ```He has no particular eagerness
To live.He has no particular eagerness
To die.He has only one eagerness:
To see alwaysGod’s Satisfaction.
```His life
And his life’s service-joyAlways remain inseparable.
```Every morning my Beloved Supreme
Teaches me a heart-melodyFrom His Compassion-Song.
```Why is your mind so critical?
Is it because your mindIs empty of inner beauty
Or because your mindIs full of outer ugliness?
```My Lord,
I have enough troubleOf my own.
I really do not knowHow I can solve others’ problems
While my own problemsRemain completely unsolved.
```This soulful world of ours
Desires constantlyOur prayerful efforts
To reveal our Inner Pilot. ```God has asked you
Not to worry.He has not told you
To remain complacent. ```I always hear
A mountain-silence-songInside my soul’s heart-garden.
```Forgiveness and oneness
Are the twoReally satisfactory roads
That lead to peace-palace. ```I can be as beautiful
And as perfect as God.This is a sweet God-secret
That God has revealed to me. ```From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 35, Agni Press, 1984
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