Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 43

4201

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God’s golden Dreams

One by one

Have entered into my heart’s

Aspiration-cry. ```

4202

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Even the cosmic gods

Are justly accused

Of envying the great awakening

Of superlative seekers. ```

4203

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When are you going

To see and feel

That your vital-tiger

Has completely devoured

Your heart-lamb?

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4204

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My only capacity:

My Lord’s constant

Compassion-Receptivity.

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4205

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When are you going to stop

Existing like a useless human being?

When are you going to start

Living like a saint? ```

4206

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God the Compassion

Always comes before

God the Love.

This is my unmistakable realisation. ```

4207

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I want to live

Inside the rapture-palace

Of your heart

And not

Inside the torture-chamber

Of your mind. ```

4208

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I seem to remember

That I was once

A most favourite instrument

Of God.

Alas, those golden days

Are no more in my possession! ```

4209

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Far beyond my “Yes” and “No”

Is God’s

Infinite Forgiveness-Light

For me. ```

4210

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What is faith?

Faith is obedience.

And what is obedience?

Obedience is

Conscious oneness-recognition

Of one’s highest height. ```

4211

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My heart

Is a Heaven-blessed dream

And an earth-born reality.

```

4212

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If you pray for others,

God will definitely ask you

To claim His Infinity’s Love

As your very own. ```

4213

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Nothing can you call your own,

For you have not become one,

Lovingly one,

Inseparably one,

With the Owner of everything.

```

4214

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Do you know

What my soul does?

My soul laughs and laughs

When I think ignorance-night

Is going to devour me.

```

4215

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O eye of my soul,

Do help me

To be as wide awake

As you are

All the time.

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4216

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We can never love

God the Compassion

And God the Forgiveness

To excess. ```

4217

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Where will I ever find

A true friend

Who will help me

In awakening my aspiration-sun

Inside my heart’s sky?

```

4218

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There is no turning back

Once you accept God

For God-Satisfaction’s sake

And earth for God-Compassion’s sake. ```

4219

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My Beloved Supreme

Offered me His All.

Alas, I foolishly declined it.

Now I have become a perfect stranger

Even to myself.

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4220

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Something that money

Can never buy:

God’s Satisfaction-Smile.

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4221

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The human mind

Knows doubt as a destination.

But this destination

Is nothing but confusion

Mixed with illusion!

```

4222

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A wise seeker

Has a special kind of fear —

He is afraid of losing God.

Therefore

He does not do anything

Undivine. ```

4223

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His identity he will reveal

Not through the power

Of his mouth

But through the light

Of his heart.

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4224

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You have recognised many things

In life,

But one thing

You have yet to recognise:

That you have betrayed yourself.

```

4225

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You do not pray,

You do not meditate

Regularly.

How can you then expect

Your heart’s telephone line

To God’s Heart

To work?

```

4226

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Unless you have a purity-life

And a sincerity-heart,

God will not keep you

On His Attendance List. ```

4227

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If you gaze and gaze

Down the road of nostalgia-pleasure,

You will arrive at nothing.

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4228

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A doubting mind

And a strangling vital

Are two cunning agents

Of the dark forces in your life. ```

4229

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God is always anxious

To measure

Your self-transcendence-steps.

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4230

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One noble thought

Can certainly conquer

The powerful strength

Of insecurity. ```

4231

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Always

It takes time,

Energy

And practice

To become a very special truth-seeker

And God-lover. ```

4232

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Your implicit faith in God

Is God’s Satisfaction-Smile

In His Perfection-Vision-Reality.

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4233

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If you do not compel

Your doubting mind

To starve to death,

How can you ever be happy? ```

4234

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I shall keep my Beloved Supreme

Unconditionally happy

Inside my heart’s aspiration-flames.

```

4235

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My aspiration-heart

Longs to be one with God’s creation

As a new friend,

An illumining brother

And a fulfilling soul.

```

4236

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As tomorrow and never

Are two neighbours,

Even so,

Now and forever

Are two neighbours.

```

4237

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If you do not force

Your doubts to retreat,

You will be forced

Not only to minimise

But also to diminish

Your heart’s receptivity. ```

4238

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He has gone

Beyond, beyond, beyond

Virtue and vice.

Therefore

He has mastered the capacity

To leap over his ego’s hurdles. ```

4239

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From the heart

Of his sweet sorrows

He is receiving

Nectar-peace. ```

4240

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The wise man’s

Faithful and fulfilling friend

Is his own self-giving life.

```

4241

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His heart of devotion

And his life of surrender

Every day are accustomed

To running together

Towards their supreme destination.

```

4242

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Alas,

In spite of my heart’s pitiful cry,

I find my life

In a dizzy whirlpool of despair. ```

4243

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Your attachment to pleasure-life

Is the cause of your losing

All your inner power of delight.

```

4244

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A true God-lover’s mind

Must always learn

The language of his soul’s

Silence-joy. ```

4245

```

You have become blind

By your mental reasoning.

You have become lame

By not fulfilling

Your psychic awakening.

```

4246

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Even when your mind

Is only a little hungry,

You die to feed your mind.

But when your heart

Is literally starving,

You have no time

And no willingness

To feed your heart. ```

4247

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His heart’s aspiration-cries

Are private matters

Between him and his Lord Supreme.

```

4248

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I am going to touch your feet,

Not because

You have done something very great,

But because

I see you clearly

Touching my Lord’s Feet

Every day.

```

4249

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You do not have to walk

Down your mind’s anxiety-alley.

You can easily walk along

Your heart’s sunlit road. ```

4250

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Try to fool your jealousy-feelings

By pretending every day

To be a oneness-heart.

I tell you,

A day will come

When you will be freed

From your jealousy’s division-world.

```

4251

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Every day try to practise

Your heart’s gratitude-lesson

To lessen God’s Burden.

```

4252

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Your mind should feel sorry

For its over-population

And your heart should feel sorry

For its under-population. ```

4253

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I may not know many things,

But of one thing

I am absolutely certain:

God will someday give me the capacity

To end my desire-game.

```

4254

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I feel sorry

That you have been bitten

So mercilessly

By the temptation-snake.

But I tell you,

Your heart’s illumination-sun

Will someday cure you.

```

4255

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He who is conquered

By desire

Is immediately invited

By the temptation-life

Of hell.

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4256

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Unless you have

Fierce determination-fire

Inside you,

Your mind’s confusion

Will not be able to arrive

At any solution. ```

4257

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Unless you have the authority

To command your mind,

How are you going

To expand your heart? ```

4258

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I admire

Your untiring progress-march.

I love

God’s Satisfaction-Delight

In the heart of your perfection-journey.

```

4259

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You must always keep

A discriminating eye

On your mind’s thought-door.

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4260

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I want to celebrate

God’s Victory-Day.

My Lord wants to celebrate

My life’s surrender-day. ```

4261

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Your mental life

Is blundering.

Your vital life

Is thundering.

Your psychic life

Is crying. ```

4262

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Where will it take you,

Your sincerity-life?

You want to know.

It will not only take you

To God’s Palace,

But also place you

Inside His Satisfaction-Heart.

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4263

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A doubtful mind

And a fearful heart

Are two danger signs.

Do not disregard

These two danger signs

In life. ```

4264

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Have no compassion

For ugly thought-flies.

As soon as you see them

Nearing you,

Brush them away!

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4265

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Your mind’s criticism-crimes

Have removed

Beauty’s rainbow-dawn

From your heart. ```

4266

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Why suffer?

Can you not ask God

To grant you His Oneness-Delight?

I tell you,

He is all ready!

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4267

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My faith in God

Has enormously helped me

To terminate my close relationship

With insecurity. ```

4268

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The dawn of my new life

Is helping me

To climb over

My unknown fear-mountain. ```

4269

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The day I surrendered

My life’s division-ego-mind

To God’s Compassion-Eye,

I became a passenger

In God’s fast-sailing

Satisfaction-Boat. ```

4270

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Do

What makes you happy.

Become

What makes God happy. ```

4271

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Not only things human

But also things divine

Lose their fruitfulness

If they are not used. ```

4272

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To surrender to God

Is to hear God

Practising His Vision-Melody

In your aspiration-heart. ```

4273

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Bring your contradiction-mind

Only to God,

For He alone has the capacity

To grant you an illumination-mind

The way He has already given you

An illumination-soul. ```

4274

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My faith and I have decided

To inspire my doubt

To commit suicide

To lessen the world’s confusion. ```

4275

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I have two new desires:

One is to serve

Divinity in humanity,

And the other is to love

Humanity in divinity.

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4276

```

In the garden of my heart’s gratitude,

God is performing His supreme Role

Of watching me, loving me

And liberating me from ignorance-dream. ```

4277

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I am learning something important

About humility:

Humility is man’s conscious

Divinity-oneness

With God’s entire creation.

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4278

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You must break the chains

Of your old thoughts

If you want your heart to reach out

And touch the Satisfaction-Tree

Of God’s Life.

```

4279

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Gladness tells me

That time is faster

Than the fastest consciousness-plane.

Sadness tells me

That time is slower

Than the slowest inconscience-snake. ```

4280

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The seeker’s aspiration-flames

Are bound to arise, shine

And touch the Saviour’s

Salvation-Feet. ```

4281

```

God gave you the mind

To transcend itself

And not to engage in

A completely complicated analysis. ```

4282

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He has kept a truth-protecting guard

On his mind’s

Deplorably stupid carelessness.

```

4283

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What I need

Is an inspiration-voice

To call me back

To my aspiration-life. ```

4284

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What is integrity

If not the flowering

Of the soul’s beauty

In the entire being? ```

4285

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You must not waste your time

In weakling hopes of happiness

Any more.

Always look for powerful hopes

And happiness will be all yours.

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4286

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God does not mind

When you spy on Him,

But He does mind

When you spy on any creation-life

Of His.

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4287

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He has thrown open

His hope-door

And compelled

His failure-life

To fall into

A deep oblivion-chasm. ```

4288

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The lovers of Infinity and Eternity

Are always instructed

By their inner teacher:

Faith. ```

4289

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This unaspiring body

Is weighing down my poor soul

Far beyond my imagination.

```

4290

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Your delinquent desires

Have unfortunately created

False confidence in you.

```

4291

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To distrust others at every moment

Is no inconsequential inner crime.

Indeed, it is a very serious crime!

```

4292

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Don’t hide your doubts.

Illumine them for the benefit of the world.

The world will not only

Admire your mind

But also love your heart.

```

4293

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The agony of uncertainty

Is apt to frustrate

All human beings,

Either in the spiritual life

Or in the ordinary life.

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4294

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For a human mind

To live inside a chaos-cave

Is not an unusual experience.

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4295

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The clever mind

Observes.

The pure heart

Serves. ```

4296

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Unless you realise

That your earth-bound mind

Is not competent to realise God,

You will not become

A most intimate friend

Of your heart. ```

4297

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Mental developments

Quite often prove to have

Very shallow and shabby foundations.

```

4298

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If you are starving

For God,

How can the world’s gossip-food

Ever satisfy you? ```

4299

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Your thirsty expectations

Are all ruined

Because your vital

Is a wall of stubbornness. ```

4300

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My Lord,

When You forgive me,

What happens, You know:

I not only feel Your Heartbeat

Inside my heart,

But I also feel

That Your Compassion-Universe

Is my salvation-universe. ```

From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 43, Agni Press, 1984
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