When God came and told me
That He would make meA perfect instrument of His,
I shared this good newsWith my heart
Immediately. ```If you are really afraid
Of your dry mind,Then why do you not offer it
To God’s Compassion-Eye?He will transform your dry mind
Into His Vastness-SmileAnd Calmness-Dance.
```My Lord Supreme,
Is it too late for meTo please You?
My Lord Supreme,
Is it too late for meTo claim You?
My Lord Supreme,
Is it too late for YouTo make me Your choicest instrument?
```Do you not know
What is wrong with you?I am telling you
What is wrong with you.You do not allow God,
Your Inner Pilot,To whisper in your ear
That you are a choice instrumentOf His.
```My earth-bound life
May not be certain,But my self-giving heart
Is certain.And what else is certain?
My arrival at my God-ordainedDestination
At God’s choice Hour. ```My Lord Supreme,
My heart-vessel is filledWith Your Love.
What can I have,What will I have
To fill Your Heart-Vessel? ```God-success is attainable
On the strength of the seeker’sHeart-progress.
```God has given you the capacity
To be His Dream-WaveAnd kept for Himself the capacity
To be your Satisfaction-Shore. ```My seeker-friend,
This time do not find faultWith God.
Just give Him a chance,Only once,
To redesign your life. ```You do not have to wait
For earthly fulfilmentTo realise God.
To realise GodYou do not have to wait
For anything.Also, do not ask God
To wait for you.Just keep your heart’s door wide open
And let Him enter.His Compassion-Presence
Is your earthly and Heavenly fulfilmentAll at once.
```For me there is no other way
To reach my goalThan to claim God secretly
And openlyAs my own, very own.
```There is only one rule
For God-realisation:When God the Referee
Starts the game,Just play and play and play
And never ask Him when to stop.If you can play continuously,
Sleeplessly and endlesslyWhile being observed
By your Beloved Supreme,Then God-realisation is bound to dawn.
```His mind lived
With success-illusion.His heart lives
Only with progress-illumination. ```How can you receive
Your Beloved SupremeWhen you have not allowed
Your own heart to receive you? ```If you are lost
In your mind-confusion,Just mention soulfully only once
The Name of your sweetest Lord.Not only will you come out
Of your mind-confusion,But also your mind-confusion itself
Will be illumined. ```What is temptation?
Temptation is somethingThat unconsciously helps
The divine within usTo conquer the human in us.
```You will not be able to count
The number of timesYou have delayed your meeting
With your Beloved Supreme. ```Do not lock your problem-door.
Break asunder your problem-doorBy listening to your soul’s
Thunder-silence-voice. ```When God came to you,
You forgot to ask HimWhere He kept
His Forgiveness-Delight.Therefore
Today your entire being is miserable. ```The idle cannot find God.
Therefore, God has to exertExtra effort
To make the idle dynamicSo that God and they can enjoy
Mutual oneness-pride. ```God has sown His Promise-Seeds
Inside you.Now He expects you to grow into
Nothing other thanHis Satisfaction-Fruits.
```Selfless service
Keeps your faith in GodSweeter than the sweetest
And makes your oneness-loveWith God
Stronger than the strongest. ```For years and years
You have begged God unconsciouslyTo fulfil your venom-desires.
Now for a fleeting dayCan you not consciously thank God
That He has not fulfilledYour venom-desires
Out of His infinite Bounty? ```God plays the role
Of the Satisfaction-EmperorOnly when He is able to address
An aspiring audience. ```He wants to learn from you
How to become another God,How to love God
And how to serve HimSoulfully and unconditionally.
```Unless you have
The willingness to transcend,How can God grant you
His Satisfaction-Eye? ```Alas,
Your mind’s ignorance-islandIs surrounded by
Your helpless surrender-sea. ```O my heart’s silence-singer, sing!
How I wish I could learnSome God-pleasing songs
From you. ```When I played the role
Of a giver,I did not know what to give
Or how to give.Now that I am playing the role
Of a taker,I not only know how to take
But also what to take. ```An able man
Has confidence enoughTo feel that his burdens
Cannot surpass his capacity. ```My first mistake was
I did not love GodUnconditionally.
My last mistake wasI did not rectify
My first mistake. ```Your mind wants
To deceive God.Your heart longs
To receive God.And you want God
To immortalise youEither as a sinner or as a saint.
```If you have a seeker’s heart,
Then it is bound to vouchFor your soul’s victory.
```The mind’s hesitation
And the soul’s illuminationCan never be found together
In the same boat. ```I must improve the accuracy
Of my heart’sSoulful aspiration-arrows.
```Your mind’s rising doubt-river
Must surrender to your heart’sExpanding faith-sea.
```A humility-host
Has the unparalleled capacityTo soulfully bow
To any guest. ```God has kept
His Compassion-PillowAll ready.
Now where is your head?Where is it?
```His life’s helplessness-cry
Melts evenThe coldest heart.
```Enough!
Do not stage any moreYour self-accusation-play.
The world is quite sick of it. ```Even God,
Not to speak of human beings,Does not want to walk
On your mind’s slippery path. ```Not your naked sword
But your surrender-criesWill be able to awaken
His heart. ```In the spiritual life
A surrender-lifeIs the only source
Of a satisfaction-heart. ```If you want to live
Under God’s Protection-Canopy,Then destroy the breath
Of your ego-prince. ```How is it
That there is such a yawning gulfBetween you
And your heart’s unswerving faith? ```You want to know
Where your gratitude-heart is.Alas, it has gone to dig
Its own grave. ```It is not enough
To browse in God’s Bookstore.You must buy at least one book
To illumine your heart. ```Who is the real culprit,
If not the strangling vital?Who else,
If not the suspecting vital? ```Prosperity
Has made my heart beautiful.Adversity
Is making my life powerful. ```You are a real saint
If you do not have the capacityTo delight in others’ despair.
```Unless you have totally forgotten
Your failure-past,God is not going to invite you
To dine with Him. ```Since your heart knows how
To hear God’s Voice,Can you not ask your mind, too,
To hear the Voice of God? ```How can you expect
Anything divine and perfectFrom a non-seeker’s sterile life?
```The divinity
Of a purity-heartHas always to be sought
And invited. ```His is the beautiful life-garden
That allows no weedsTo grow.
```When he dived deep within,
He realisedThat God’s Silence-Heart
Is nothing other thanGod’s Thunder-Voice.
```If you want to fly back
To your heart-nest,Then be a conscious partner
Of your soul-bird. ```You want me to tell you
What kind of sword you needTo slay your ignorance.
I wish to tell youThat you need only one sword,
And that is your heart’sMountain-aspiration-cry,
Conscious and constant. ```As it was you
Who allowed your lifeTo be infested with delusions,
Even so, it is youWho can inspire your life
To be flooded with illumination. ```To fly the Banner of the Supreme,
During the day I shall cryWith the cries of the Unknown
And at night I shall smileWith the smiles of the Unknowable.
```His vision-eye
Leaves nothing unseen.His compassion-heart
Leaves nothing untouched.His forgiveness-oneness
Leaves nothing unillumined. ```The other day my Beloved Supreme
Told me in secretThat when He put me on earth,
It was for His Amusement,And when He puts me in Heaven,
It will be for His Enchantment. ```The strength of dissatisfaction
Cannot be measured.It defies everything inspiring,
Aspiring and illumining. ```The joy of the heart
And the willingness of lifeShall eternally remain inseparable.
```The outer failure
Quite often embodiesThe beauty of inner fulfilment-necessities.
```O seeker-friend of mine,
Pray daily, meditate daily.Otherwise, you are bound to develop
A confidence-shattering fearDeep inside you
That God-realisationIs not meant for you.
```You have come to tell God
That you are going to love Him.God says to you,
“My son, if you have the capacityTo love Me,
Then I have the capacityTo follow you.”
```I can easily dare to imagine
Everything in God’s entire creation,But I am always afraid of imagining
Only one thing:That God is really pleased with me.
```If you have a mind,
Then make it fertile.If you have a fertile mind,
Then make it fertileWith something totally new:
God’s God-Will. ```Time and again
I have seen my heart’s sorrowServing my Beloved Supreme
Far beyond my imagination’s flight. ```He who has God’s Satisfaction-Heart
Already has God’s Compassion-EyeAs well.
```No star
Ever wants to blossomIn your mind’s
Tenebrous ego-sky. ```Do not worry!
God HimselfWill keep a flawless record
Of your self-transcendence-cries. ```I am learning something
Most important about delight.Delight is the unparalleled
Transcendental BeautyOf God’s Satisfaction-Heart.
```What God teaches you,
You have to prove to GodThat you have learnt.
```God needs you.
Therefore, He has forgottenEverything else.
You want God.
Therefore, you have to forgetEverything else.
```Do you see
What you are becoming?You are undoubtedly becoming
Happier todayThan you were
The day before yesterday. ```The Love-Sea of our Beloved Supreme
Invites all soulful seekers.What for?
To swim sleeplessly,Not to sink immediately.
```Do you not think
It is high time for youTo worship another God
Than your ego-god? ```You want to please God
In His own Way,But you do not know how.
But do you not thinkThat God will give you
The capacity,Since He has already given you
The aspirationTo please Him in His own Way?
```You are such a fool!
You are devoting your life to the GodThat you do not want to become
Instead of to the GodThat you actually want to become.
```Each God-beginning
Marks not a man-endBut God’s Self-Transcendence.
```If you are desperate
To realise God,No, not even the most powerful titan
Can keep you separateFrom God’s Oneness-Smile
And Satisfaction-Dance. ```A silence-seeker
Needs only the fragranceOf his own self-giving heart
To enter the Heart-GardenOf his Beloved Supreme.
```If you are a soulful seeker
And if you enjoy wishful thinking,Then God loves you powerfully
Along with your wishful God-thinking. ```You commit Himalayan blunders
Almost every day.But when God’s swift Justice-Blow
Is upon you,You do not want to accept it
As His Compassion-Touch.Today’s Justice-Blow of God
Is tomorrow’s Illumination-TouchFor you.
```You want to represent God,
But are you sure that God wantsTo present you to the world
As His choice gift? ```In my life-house
I have quite a few roomsTo live in,
But God wants to live with meOnly in my heart-room.
```To misuse God’s
Compassion-SmilesIs to lose them
Forever. ```A life of success
You have been.Can you not prepare yourself
To be a heart of progress? ```You want to know
What you should desire from God.I am telling you to ask God
To free you from your desire-slavery. ```You are miserable
Because you haveDeliberately abandoned
Your heart-child. ```Before, he begged
For satisfaction-alms.Now he is ready to be satisfied
Simply with aspiration-alms. ```To see a doubt-free mind
He is prepared to goTo the farthest part
Of the world. ```Not where I meet God
But when I meet GodIs of supreme importance
To me. ```How can you fail God
When He Himself wants you to beA passenger
In His Heart-Boat? ```Disobedience,
The deadliest weapon,Has destroyed the human in him
And ignored the divine in him. ```If you disown your doubt-sky,
Then God will help you ownYour faith-sun.
```Every day
My soul sings God-songsFor me and my heart,
And we are measurelessly enlightenedBy them.
```My Lord Supreme,
I have not realised You,I may not realise You
In this lifetime.But will You not do me
A big favour?Will You not give me the capacity
To love You,Only love You, only love You?
```From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 44, Agni Press, 1984
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