Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 40

3901

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My soul’s promise to my Lord Supreme

Is the longest and strongest bridge

Over my life’s abyss.

```

3902

```

My Beloved Supreme tells me

That my smiling dreams

Have to be transformed

Into my dancing realities.

Then only will I be able

To please Him

In His own Way.

```

3903

```

O my heart of aspiration,

Stay with me.

My soul of delight is coming

To take you and me

To Heaven’s Ecstasy-Palace.

```

3904

```

I shall not use any more

My common sense,

For my common sense

Is a common thing

Which everybody has.

From now on I shall use

Only one sense:

My surrender-sense,

Which lives only in God

And only for God. ```

3905

```

A useless seeker

Knows how to give

Constant advice.

A first-class seeker

Knows only how to abide by

God’s self-giving Advice.

```

3906

```

All my friends

Have come and gone.

Only one friend is left:

My hope-friend.

This hope-friend of mine

Will stay with me forever,

Since its Creator,

God the Dream,

Will always remain inside me

To grow into

God the Reality.

```

3907

```

Nothing remains

Save and except one thing:

My conscious need for God.

```

3908

```

Humanity’s dream is not a question

That has to be answered.

It is a reality

That wants to be manifested

In God’s Heart-Garden.

```

3909

```

You can meet with

Ordinary people

And enjoy their company.

But never forget

That you have to give

Something special to them. ```

3910

```

O doubter-mind,

Can you not stop doubting

Only once?

Can you not stop thinking

Only once?

Can you not start loving

And becoming a oneness-heart

Even for a fleeting hour? ```

3911

```

You are oblivious

To your soul’s compassion-light.

But your soul’s self-giving

Is always quite obvious

To God’s Vision-Light.

```

3912

```

Equanimity-balance within me

Is gone

Because I have asked my mind

To steer my life-boat. ```

3913

```

I ask God,

Is there any special reason

Why He tortures me?

God asks me,

Is there any special reason

Why I do not please Him

Cheerfully and unconditionally

All the time?

Is there any special reason?

```

3914

```

Frustration-clouds veil your face

Because your heart’s aspiration-flames

Do not desire to reach

Your soul’s illumination-sun. ```

3915

```

His hunger for possession

Never ends.

His thirst for renunciation

Never begins.

Therefore, God does not know

When to come and visit him. ```

3916

```

At long last

God is extremely proud of you

Because the disobedience

Of your vital-bull

Has completely surrendered

To the obedience

Of your heart-lamb.

```

3917

```

Do not cry, do not cry!

God lives also

In the heart of tomorrow.

I assure you,

Tomorrow’s heart

Of satisfaction-delight

Will be all yours.

```

3918

```

Before doubt strikes your mind,

Can you not grow faith-plant

Cheerfully and carefully

Inside your heart-garden? ```

3919

```

Do not ignore any warning!

Each warning is as fatal

As the final warning.

```

3920

```

When he joined the spiritual path,

He had a brief period

Of inner torture.

Now it is all over.

His heart is all confidence-light.

```

3921

```

There is only one thing on earth

That can justify life,

And that thing is

Man’s satisfaction-love,

Which grows inside man’s heart

And glows inside God’s heart. ```

3922

```

I tell you

With absolute certainty

That there is no special reward

For your self-styled struggles. ```

3923

```

The crying voice

Of every heart

Fulfils man’s

Heavenward choice. ```

3924

```

You need not long for anything else

As long as your heart has the capacity

To attract God’s Compassion-Attention.

```

3925

```

O my mind,

You think your deplorable misdeeds

Are quite adorable.

Is it not the height

Of your stupidity?

```

3926

```

Before Heaven accepts you,

Heaven sends one of its messengers

To go through your references.

```

3927

```

A strange twist of fate

Has compelled him to descend

From his aspiration-peak

Into his frustration-abyss. ```

3928

```

You want to board

The realisation-plane.

Show me first

Your aspiration-ticket! ```

3929

```

If you throw jealousy-stones

At this world,

The world of ecstasy

Will never welcome you. ```

3930

```

If you are ready to dream,

Then only will God the Supreme

Stand before you

As God the Satisfaction-Reality. ```

3931

```

God gave me one more chance

To transform my information-mind

Into an inspiration and aspiration-heart.

```

3932

```

When a seeker fails

In his aspiration-life,

It must be taken as a great lesson

For all the other seekers. ```

3933

```

My life’s ecstasy-melody

I hear

When I do not cherish

My weakness-wheelchair. ```

3934

```

Please wait for me one more moment,

O my Lord Supreme.

Your Compassion-Telegram

I was afraid to open

For fear that I would not be ready

To follow You speedily

In Your own Way.

```

3935

```

I have consulted my expert heart.

It tells me that my mind-tiger

Will eventually turn into

My heart-lion,

The lion that roars for divine victory.

```

3936

```

You call it

Your inner silence-delight.

I call it

Your heart’s life-deafening sound. ```

3937

```

The heart is so compassionate

That it does not want the mind

To lag behind

In any walk of life. ```

3938

```

An unexpected visitor

Entered into his heart

To tell him that the Heavenly God

Does not mind if he fails

So long as he wants to try

Again and again. ```

3939

```

Doubt is undoubtedly a god,

But it is a false god.

Why do you have to obey

A false god?

Obey the real God:

Faith. ```

3940

```

You have tried.

You have not succeeded.

That does not mean

That you will not try any more.

Try once more!

You will not only succeed

In the life that becomes

But also proceed

In the life that eternally is.

```

3941

```

Do not be a fool!

You are supposed to pray and meditate

Right on the battlefield of life.

The Himalayan caves

Are totally out of date.

```

3942

```

The soul’s mother tongue

Is God-Beauty’s

Satisfaction-nourishing Heart.

```

3943

```

Do not allow yourself

To be devoured by past mistakes,

For God is expecting from your life

A profound inner transformation. ```

3944

```

Two visible hands

Have imprisoned you.

One invisible Hand

Is liberating you. ```

3945

```

The luxuries of your outer life

Are impoverishing

The beauty and purity

Of your inner life. ```

3946

```

You live in your mind’s

Stupidity-cave.

Therefore, you deny your soul’s

Divinity-palace. ```

3947

```

What counted

Was God’s Compassion.

What counts

Is God’s Forgiveness.

What will count

Is my gratitude. ```

3948

```

Do not settle for anything less

Than the complete transformation

Of your earth-bound ignorance-cry.

```

3949

```

Like his soul,

His heart also wants to become

A professional

In God’s Cosmic Game. ```

3950

```

He has been campaigning

For God the Justice,

But God the Compassion always wins

In his life. ```

3951

```

Do not be surprised

To discover a ray of delight

Inside your heart.

There shall come a time

When your heart will be inundated

With God’s Self-transcending Delight. ```

3952

```

If you deliberately ignore

Your heart of faith,

Then you are unmistakably

Opening your life

To accept the invitation

Of a terrible disaster. ```

3953

```

If you keep

Your sweet and illumining dream

Alive,

Then fulfilling realities

Cannot remain a far cry.

```

3954

```

There is no borderline

Between

The stupidity of the mind

And the impurity of the vital. ```

3955

```

If your mind has complaints,

Then those complaints

Your mind must discard.

Do not bring

Your mind’s complaints to God,

For He has

Infinitely more important things

To deal with. ```

3956

```

Each life has a few false starts.

But eventually each life

Will not only finish the race

But also win the race. ```

3957

```

If you do not offer

Your love-blossoms,

Then you will soon see

Hatred-thorns before you. ```

3958

```

To have a heart

Of selfless dedication

That is not supported

By a heart of aspiration

Is a stupidly unconventional way

To walk along God’s Road. ```

3959

```

You think

Truth is too painful.

But I assure you,

Truth will one day prove to you

That it is only bountiful.

```

3960

```

A mind of hesitation

And a vital of frustration

Are the two short circuits

In your aspiration-current. ```

3961

```

Those who do not know

How to share

Have to know

That God also does not know

How to care for them.

```

3962

```

It is simply not yet your turn

To realise God

And to play God’s Role

On earth. ```

3963

```

Do not chase anything.

But if you have to chase,

Then only chase away

Your temptation-tiger. ```

3964

```

You have made God so happy

By leaping over

Your high ego-hurdles.

```

3965

```

The mind has to become accustomed

To running side by side

With the heart and the soul.

```

3966

```

God wants man to discover

His Heavenly bloom.

Instead of doing that,

Man invents his own earthly doom. ```

3967

```

If you walk

Only on hope-clouds,

You will miss

Reality’s satisfaction-feast. ```

3968

```

He is totally lost

Between his mind’s

Brooding doubts

And his heart’s

Increasing faith.

```

3969

```

Do come to me

To learn a little meditation.

Do come to me

To give me a little

Of your dedication.

```

3970

```

He talks

Of only one thing:

His heart’s deathless sorrows.

```

3971

```

He does not want God,

He does not need God.

He is swelling

With his own self-importance. ```

3972

```

Sadness weighs upon your heart

Because you have not

Freed your mind

From its suspicion-madness. ```

3973

```

You have to carry

Your deplorable fate

Since your heart is not willing

To accept God’s Will

As your only Saviour.

```

3974

```

God does not want

To catch your consciousness

Off guard.

He wants you

Only to keep your consciousness

Always high.

```

3975

```

Consciously

You may think you need life

And not death.

But

Unconsciously

You choose ignorance-death

Over life.

```

3976

```

You cannot get along

Even with God’s Compassion-Heart.

How can you ever hope

To get along

With man’s deception-mind?

```

3977

```

Every day

God gives you

A faith-transfusion.

But even then every day

You take doubt-poison!

```

3978

```

A true and sincere God-lover

Does not and cannot live

On a meagre aspiration-income.

```

3979

```

Simplify your life,

Purify your heart,

Multiply your God-love.

Lo, God is claiming you

As His very own.

```

3980

```

You do not have the patience

To wait for God’s Hour,

But you think that the world

Has time to wait with patience

For your transformation-hour.

```

3981

```

You do not have the patience

To wait for God’s Hour.

How do you then expect God

To grant you His Eternity’s

Satisfaction-Tower?

```

3982

```

Do not think

That it is an impossible task

For you to liberate your mind

From suspicion-swing. ```

3983

```

If you want to spend all your life

Observing others,

God is not going to prevent you.

God will just start observing those

Who have no one else to observe

But Him. ```

3984

```

A heart of fear

And a mind of doubt

Are the two great extinguishers

Of my inner life. ```

3985

```

God wants to keep

His Love-Length and His Divinity-Depth

Always unmeasured,

And I want them to be

Sleeplessly treasured

By my aspiration-heart. ```

3986

```

Even when his inner road

Becomes dangerous,

He does not surrender

To the comfort-loving

And comfort-spreading

Outer road. ```

3987

```

Whom do I love most?

I love most

God the Dreamer.

Why?

Because God the Dreamer

Never fails me. ```

3988

```

If you try a little harder,

I assure you,

You will be able to liberate yourself

From your dingy mind-slum. ```

3989

```

If you allow your ego to pretend,

Your ego will not only bend

Your life-tree

But also uproot

The whole tree.

```

3990

```

There is a continuous battle

Between my earthly greed

And my Heavenly need.

Needless to say,

My earthly greed always wins,

Only to lose miserably. ```

3991

```

The human vital knows how to resist.

The human mind knows how to insist.

Alas, there is nothing divine in me

That will teach me how to desist

From doing the wrong things.

```

3992

```

The Inner Pilot tells him

That he excels in everything

Because he is of His Ancient Source.

```

3993

```

Do not try to escape

From His all-seeing Eye.

His all-seeing Eye

Is not going to torture you.

Its very purpose is

To illumine you. ```

3994

```

If you wait for the approval

Of your friends

In everything that you do,

You are not going to succeed

At all

In this lifetime

In anything.

```

3995

```

Earthly ears are useless.

Only with your Heavenly ears

Will you be able to hear sleeplessly

God’s Silence-Cheers. ```

3996

```

I am not going to be tortured

Any more

By my long-lost forgotten hopes.

I am going to revive them and fulfil them

Once and for all.

```

3997

```

He sails his life’s

Failure-boat

Endlessly

In the frustration-sea. ```

3998

```

At last my life-boat

Is returning

To its Golden Shore,

Sailing away from

A thick and blinding mist.

```

3999

```

All he believes

Is his doubtful mind.

All he needs

Is his destruction-vital. ```

4000

```

Blame not the stars,

Blame not the sky,

Blame not the sun.

Blame only yourself

For not being willing

To accept God’s Will as your own

When He asks you to become

As beautiful as the stars,

As vast as the sky

And as powerful as the sun. ```

From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 40, Agni Press, 1984
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