Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 4

301

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My Lord,

Do allow me to do

Only one thing:

I wish to spread

My soul’s dream-stars and planets

At Your infinite Compassion-Feet. ```

302

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Now that your hopes

Are shooting only upward,

Each day will come to you

With perpetual morning-delight. ```

303

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Slowly, steadily and immeasurably

A true God-seeker’s and God-lover’s

Excellence-gratitude-flames

Mount and spread

And spread and mount.

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304

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I shall definitely not mind,

O my Lord Supreme,

Even if my worst foe pleases You,

As long as You are highly pleased. ```

305

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As you stretch out your beggar-arms

To receive from the world

Its glittering but fleeting riches,

Even so, you can lift your heart upward

To receive from Above

Light and Delight in infinite measure. ```

306

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The world applauds

Only your manifestation-drops.

But in silence God applauds

Your aspiration-dedication-sea. ```

307

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He was not afraid of making

Bold decisions.

Therefore, today he is blessed

With a new future:

Life-perfection in God-Satisfaction.

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308

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O my heart,

I am all gratitude to you,

For your flower-fragrance-purity

Is a most blessingful and powerful assault

On my ego.

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309

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In the morning I shield myself

From the jealousies of my mind.

In the afternoon I shield myself

From the frustrations of my vital.

In the evening I shield myself

From the imperfections of my body.

At night I shield myself

From the failures of my life. ```

310

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My Lord, You please me

Either by fulfilling my desires

Or by not fulfilling my desires.

What will happen, my Lord,

When I do not have any desires?

“My child,

When you do not have any desires,

Then I shall be able to plant

My own Eternity’s Aspiration-Plants

In your supremely fertile heart-soil.” ```

311

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My Lord,

You have temporarily saved me

By Your strong refusal

To satisfy my mind’s desires.

Will You not permanently save me

By taking away once and for all

My desiring mind?

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312

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Ignorance-night and I

Weep together.

Knowledge-day also weeps.

It weeps for my illumination.

I will now change my partner

And stay with knowledge-day.

My Lord Supreme is smiling

At my decision

And at my new partner’s compassion.

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313

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When I am inside my heart,

I love my green plants of hope.

When I am inside my soul,

I love my blue trees of promise. ```

314

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My past, present and future

Are persecuting me —

My yesterday’s failure-life,

My today’s indecision-life

And my tomorrow’s fear-life.

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315

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If you know everything,

Then answer two questions

That have been torturing me

For a long time:

Is God really superior to me?

When am I going to be

Another God?

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316

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Be a little more careful

With your heart’s spirituality

If you really want your life

To become richly fruitful

And remain so forever.

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317

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A single breathless act of surrender

Has granted him

A beautiful dream-tree,

A soulful truth-tree

And a fruitful love-tree.

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318

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My mind never took insincerity;

Insincerity took my mind.

My heart never took insecurity;

Insecurity took my heart.

My body never took impurity;

Impurity took my body.

I never took divinity-cry;

Divinity-cry took me. ```

319

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Heaven is speaking to you.

Listen carefully!

God is inviting you

To His special Heart-Room.

Delay not!

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320

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His heart of aspiration

Is on intimate terms

With Eternity.

His life of dedication

Is on intimate terms

With Infinity.

His soul of vision

Is on intimate terms

With Immortality.

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321

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My mind has discovered

The torture of failure.

My heart has discovered

The rapture of success.

I have discovered

The satisfaction of God’s own Progress

In and through me.

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322

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I tell you,

The more your mind is informed,

The less you will understand.

The more your heart feels,

The less will be the distance

Between you and God. ```

323

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His aspiration-heart

And his dedication-life

Are crying for him,

And he is crying to see

The world’s worry-free God-embrace.

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324

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You tell me

That you have failed

In your spiritual life.

I tell you,

It is not hard to start again.

But this time start

With your unconditional surrender-heart.

You will definitely succeed! ```

325

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Your songs need only

Two divine qualities

To please your Beloved Supreme:

Soulfulness and dynamism.

Offer these two supremely

Divine qualities

In abundant measure

To your Inner Pilot. ```

326

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When I want to know something,

I go and live inside

My Lord’s Mind-House.

When I want to become something,

I go and live inside

My Lord’s Heart-Home.

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327

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I shall soon start dancing

On the waves of time,

Now that my Eternity’s dream-boat

Is repaired

And I am all ready to sail it

Across Infinity’s ocean-sky. ```

328

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Ambition is bondage

When I want to sit

On humanity’s head.

Ambition is freedom

When I wish to sit

At the Feet

Of my Beloved Supreme.

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329

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Just because I am old,

Do you think I shall not

Be able to fulfil

Humanity’s necessity?

Just because he is young,

Do you think he will not

Be able to carry

Divinity’s message? ```

330

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Everything is changeable.

Therefore, protest

The seemingly unchangeable

And make it not only changeable

But also extremely lovable.

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331

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His soul’s light

Powerfully shines.

His heart’s love

Unreservedly gives.

Therefore his life’s breath

Has consciously become one

With God’s Breath.

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332

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God wants to hear

Your prayers now.

He will have no time to listen

To your deathbed prayers. ```

333

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Man the lover

Will never become a beggar

In the inner world.

Man the seeker

Will never become a loser

In the outer world.

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334

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If ignorance has the capacity

To close your eyes,

Do you not think

That God has the capacity

To open your eyes?

Just give God a chance! ```

335

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Why is it so easy for me

To have faith in God

But not in myself?

Either because I disproportionately

Extol myself to the skies

Or because I foolishly

Belittle myself.

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336

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If God the Vision

Has started working in you,

Then rest assured,

God the Compassion

Will complete the task.

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337

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There was a time

When I used my mind-telescope

To see God’s Compassion-Eye.

Now I am using my heart-microscope

To see God’s Satisfaction-Heart.

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338

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Do not try to possess

The binding body of the world.

Only prepare yourself to be claimed

By the illumining soul of the world. ```

339

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Even when the mind surrenders,

Its unwillingness-breath

Does not surrender.

But when the heart surrenders,

Its willingness-oneness-life

Also surrenders. ```

340

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If your eyes are made of hopes

And if your heart is made of promises,

Then there shall come a day

When your life will be made

Of God’s Vision-Delight.

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341

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I am smiling

Because today I have discovered

My old friend doubt

Caught in the act

Of hypocrisy.

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342

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I tell my mind’s oblivion,

“I have no time to wait for you.

My heart and I are now on our way

To Heaven’s Delight supreme.” ```

343

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How can your life succeed,

How can your heart proceed,

If you always beg God

To grant you the experiences

That He has kept aside for others?

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344

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In the beginning it seems

That even God the Compassion

Is not approachable.

But after you make

Considerable inner progress,

Not only is God the Compassion

Approachable,

But so is God the Justice. ```

345

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Certainly the mind is a road.

But if this road does not lead me

To my choice destination,

Then for me this road

Is worse than useless.

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346

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O my confusion-mind,

Slow down, slow down!

Let my aspiration-heart

Come to the fore

And catch up with you.

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347

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Because of the severe pressure

Of his inner weaknesses,

He no longer sees

His mountain peak of hope. ```

348

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If you want to become

God’s ambassador,

Then the most important thing to do

Is to watch the quality

Of your thought-life.

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349

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When God invites you,

Go to Him

Not with the dead leaves of desire

But with the fresh plant

Of aspiration.

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350

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If you want to master

The length of ignorance-night,

Then you must live

In the depth

Of Wakefulness-God.

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351

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The delight of the morning sky

Is welcoming you.

No more can the tears of sorrow

Shatter your heart. ```

352

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I am glad

That you have

Broken completely

The chains of intellect.

I am glad

That your mind-energy

Is no longer enslaved.

I am glad

That you are

No longer possessed

By a stone-hearted life. ```

353

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If you are always

In love with tears,

How can you ever enjoy

The vision of God’s

Constant Self-Transcendence?

```

354

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What my mind needs

Is a promising hope

And not a tempting desire.

What my heart needs

Is a loving God

And not a binding world.

What my soul needs

Is man’s satisfaction-delight

And not man’s perfection-promise.

```

355

```

Your conscious mistakes

Have the power

To show you the giant footsteps

Of your spiritual death. ```

356

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Your soul still loves you

Although you are a slave

Of envy-passion.

Your God still needs you

Although you deliberately

Try to avoid Him.

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357

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Today if your mind enjoys

An iota of darkness,

Then tomorrow your life

Will be mercilessly forced to enjoy

A sea of misery.

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358

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Alas, how can my Lord Supreme

Enjoy His birthless and deathless

Satisfaction-Delight,

Unless I totally give up enjoying

My age-old oblivion-night?

```

359

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Do not fill your life

With self-accusations.

Just look at your endless

Inner self-transcendence-light. ```

360

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Each human life abides

Between the cheerful question of life,

“Who am I?”

And the powerful answer of death,

“I am all.”

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361

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Each good thought

Is a small heaven.

Ask your heart if I am correct.

Each bad thought

Is a big hell.

Ask your mind if I am correct.

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362

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Since your mind is only dreaming

And your heart is not loving,

How can you expect to change your face?

How can you? ```

363

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Your life’s uncertainties

Vanished away

The moment your mind

Stopped seeking dominion

And started seeking liberation.

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364

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Unbelievable but true:

My confusion-mind is longing

For liberation

To see God enjoying

His Infinity’s Delight.

```

365

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I am not going to listen

To your wild arguments,

O my stupid mind.

From now on I shall listen

To the ocean-deep wisdom

Of my soul

For my fast-approaching enlightenment.

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366

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You tell me

That you are enjoying

The absence of desire-forest

Inside your mind.

But you have forgotten

To tell me something else.

I am sure you are also enjoying

The presence of aspiration-mountain

Inside your heart.

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367

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Now that you have learnt

The invaluable art of whispering

To God,

Your life will soon become

A panorama of divine perfection.

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368

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Heaven’s unanswerable “Why”

Will now surrender to you

Because the Absolute Supreme

Is smiling through your heart-tears. ```

369

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Do you remember

That once upon a time

You were a flaming torch of love?

Do you remember

That once upon a time

You constantly flew upward

To your Beloved Supreme?

Do you remember

That once upon a time

You pleased God unconditionally?

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370

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You tell me

That God is not always needed,

But can your mind dare to say

That God the Compassion

Is not always needed?

Can your heart dare to say

That God the Forgiveness

Is not always needed? ```

371

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God has given you

The power to choose,

But what have you chosen?

You have chosen

To grovel in darkness,

You have chosen

To live in appalling ignorance.

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372

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You have chosen to live

In ignorance.

Ignorance has chosen to live

In temptation.

Temptation has chosen to live

In deathless frustration. ```

373

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Do you really want

The highest illumination

In your life?

Then keep yourself always free

From the false bubble of reputation.

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374

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There is an absolute

God-perfection-room

Inside my heart,

But my mind never dares

To enter there.

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375

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You have already become

An observing eye

And a remembering heart.

Can you not also become

A self-giving life?

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376

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Ask your mind not to sink

Into the sleep of despair.

Ask your heart not to rest

Until it has discovered

The ultimate meaning

Of human life on earth. ```

377

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My Lord Supreme,

By praising You,

Not only do I get deep joy

But also invaluable self-confidence

In measureless measure.

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378

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I use the ears of my heart

To hear my Perfection-Lord Supreme.

I use the eyes of my heart

To see my Satisfaction-Lord Supreme. ```

379

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He conceals humanity’s imperfection

Inside his heart.

He reveals divinity’s satisfaction-promise

With his illumination-soul. ```

380

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As I believe in the emptiness

Of desire-possession,

Even so, I believe in the fulness

Of ignorance-renunciation. ```

381

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Since you have developed

The inner courage to correct yourself,

God is now all ready to dance

His Satisfaction-Dance

Inside your heart

And before your mind. ```

382

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You have now started

To experience envy,

God has now started

To experience sorrow

And I have now started

To experience complete bewilderment. ```

383

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God is waiting

For the revelation

Of my powerful potentialities.

I am waiting

For the completion

Of God’s bountiful Vision. ```

384

```

God has three very special friends:

My soulfulness-life,

My willingness-mind

And my oneness-heart. ```

385

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Mine is the mind

That likes fantastic minds.

Mine is the heart

That loves ecstatic hearts.

Mine is the soul

That becomes inseparably one

With God-intoxicated souls.

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386

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The eye of my soul

Threatens ignorance.

The mouth of my soul

Frightens ignorance.

The life of my soul

Transforms ignorance.

The Pilot of my soul

Illumines ignorance. ```

387

```

His heart was extremely grateful

To those who came forward

To sing his aspiration-realisation-

Manifestation-songs. ```

388

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What can the absence

Of desire do?

It can make you see

That you are a meditation-river

Running into the realisation-sea.

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389

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My sound-life means nothing

To you,

But your silence-life means everything

Not only to my aspiration-life

But also to my desire-life.

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390

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Although my vital does not know it,

There is a secret joy

In serving.

Although my mind does not know it,

There is a great power

In unlearning.

Although my life does not know it,

There is a supreme satisfaction

In surrendering.

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391

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There is no such thing

As might is right or right is might.

Wisdom-light is both right and might,

And this wisdom-light

Is nothing other than

Our heart’s love-oneness-perfection. ```

392

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My dependency

On my Lord’s Compassion-Eye

And Forgiveness-Heart

Is not my helplessness

But my perfect wisdom-light.

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393

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If you keep your mind-door closed,

You can easily go in and out

Through your heart-door,

For that door is always kept wide open

By God’s own Satisfaction-Heart.

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394

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I have two friends.

One is my mind’s

Unconscious teacher:

Ignorance.

The other is my heart’s

Conscious tutor:

God.

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395

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Nobody can force you

To be the author

Of your own despair.

Nobody can prevent you

From being the fulfiller

Of your golden dreams.

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396

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No, human life is not

An endless limitation.

Human life is the breathless

And deathless Vision-Light

Of our Pilot Supreme.

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397

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As God’s Compassion

Is a definite necessity

In my outer life,

Even so, God’s Satisfaction

Is a supreme necessity

In my inner life. ```

398

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If you demand,

You are a fool.

Why?

When you demand,

You try to force others

To give you joy.

With force you cannot conquer the heart,

And if you cannot conquer the heart,

Then there is no true joy.

```

399

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For him to reach the highest height

Of his realisation-tree

Was an extremely easy task.

For him to bring down its fruits

Was a harder task.

For him to distribute these fruits

To the world in abundant measure

Was an extremely difficult task. ```

400

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Do not recognise any defeat!

Recognise only one thing:

Your own soul’s omnipotence

In your life. ```

From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 4, Agni Press, 1983
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