My Lord Supreme,
Do give my heart the capacityTo walk along
The path of silence-obedienceAlways.
```My dedication-life
Always wants my aspiration-heartTo have sovereign rights over it.
```How can your life-tree
Be happyWhen your mind’s desire-wind
Is blowing very hard? ```When the desire-wind blows,
Be extremely careful,For your aspiration-plant
May helplessly die. ```What really counts
In God’s EyeIs your cheerful and soulful
WillingnessAnd not your previous
Amazement-achievements. ```He who gives his heart of love
And his life of satisfactionTo mankind
Can easily have free accessTo God the Infinite.
```Each obscure and impure thought
Has the capacity to make us feelThat our Compassion-Lord
Wants to remain a perfect stranger. ```My soul tells my heart
That it will cheerfully and proudlyCarry all its messages
To the Lord Supreme. ```O my stupid mind,
From now onI shall never allow you
To be my decision-maker! ```Say “Yes”
To God’s Compassion-HeartSo that you can become one
With God’s Perfection-Soul. ```Why do you cherish
Your desire-life-slaveWhen you can cherish
Aspiration-mountain-king? ```If you can possess yourself
And nobody else,Then God’s Vision-Satisfaction-Skies
Shall blossom inside you. ```A good seeker never lives
On a borrowed inspiration-mind,A borrowed aspiration-heart
Or a borrowed dedication-life. ```My Lord Supreme,
In the morningDo give me the capacity
To renounce everything.In the evening
Do give me the capacityTo announce Your Victory
In and through my life. ```What is easy?
To have soulful God-cries.What is most difficult?
To feel that God loves youNo matter what you say and do.
```The human mind
Teaches confusion.The divine heart
Teaches illumination.The Supreme Lord
Teaches Oneness-Satisfaction. ```O gratitude,
Do not remain my God-hunger’sRarest food.
```If you allow the vital-thief
To steal your heart’s God-treasures,Then nobody will be there
To befriend you and your stupidity. ```You must not delay!
You must achieveAs soon as possible,
Before your life fades away. ```One thing I have learnt:
If I want to love GodNot only soulfully
But also unconditionally,I surprisingly can.
```If you can develop the capacity
To inspect your insecurity,Security will come and befriend you.
```Each child of hope
Is the glorious embodimentOf God’s Vision-Light.
```To trust humanity
Is to feelDivinity’s closest oneness.
```The body has to be always aware
That the soulIs its most adorable guest.
```My closing remarks
To this world:I expected,
ThereforeI am disappointed.
```This applies to you, too!
You must every dayMeditate on God
Soulfully plus unconditionally. ```God does not want to be enthroned
Above my heart.He desires to be enshrined
Inside my heart-temple. ```Imagination
Has inspired him.Aspiration
Has liberated him.Realisation
Has immortalised him. ```Because you have put your mind
On a strict diet,Peace is fast approaching.
```His giant ego
Can easily hideHis progress-dwarf.
```It is beneath the dignity
Of a loving heartTo wear any disguise.
```Because your heart suffers
From aspiration-deficiency,Doubt will paralyse your mind.
```Come and smile with me,
And then let us goAnd attend the funeral
Of all our sorrowsInside our heart-church.
```His adamantine adherence
To truthHas not only saved him
Time and againBut has also saved those
Who have implicit faithIn him.
```Although mine
Is a most spacious life-palace,I have no room
For ignorance-prince. ```A silence-torch lights my way
The moment I longTo go beyond the domain
Of the mind. ```Since you have descended
So successfullyThe stairs of hell,
Can you not try to ascendCheerfully and bravely
The stairs of Heaven? ```You may not know it,
But it is absolutely trueThat God is extremely proud
Of your secret and sacredHeart-tears.
```He may not be a great soldier,
But he does always aspireTo be in the headquarters
Of the aspiration-army. ```I am so proud
That God Himself has blessed youWith a self-control trophy.
```Do at least one thing good
In this lifetimeInstead of only becoming
An encyclopaedia of good intentions. ```When I mount
On the wings of my prayers,God descends
On His love-winged Bird. ```Now that I do not pray and meditate
Regularly,I am forced to see a short circuit
In my heart’s oneness-lineWith God.
```I am not going to surprise
The worldWith my life’s superlative glories,
But with my Lord’sSuperlative Compassion-Stories.
```God feels sad
That there is alwaysA great shortage
Of salvation-soldiersIn His Compassion-Army.
```If you enjoy
Your limitation-poverty,How is it that you mind
When the world scoffs at you? ```Just because
God is His Compassion-Heart,He does not mind
If His Compassion is misusedEvery day by the masses
For millennia. ```Who knocks at my door?
Neither my sleeping heartNor my suspecting mind
Wants to respond. ```I shall never allow
My dedication-lifeTo be encased in inactivity.
```Smite your self-doubt
SoundlyIf you want God to plant
Faith-plantsInside your heart
Cheerfully. ```God’s Compassion-Smile
Can easily transformYour insecurity-heart
Into His own Security-FortIn the wink of an eye.
```If you want your aspiration-life
To make you happy,Then immediately spurn
The hostile attacksOf your depression-arrows.
```Offer your aspiration-buds
To all.God will grant you
His Satisfaction-Blossoms. ```His heart’s adamantine will
Wants to prove to himThat his mind’s ego
Is not the centre of the universe. ```Your mind is already so stupid.
Do not add more stupidity to itBy helping it to form
The habit of unhappiness! ```Make all your rainbow-promises
Inside the sanctuaryOf your heart’s silence
And nowhere else. ```If you are sincere,
Omnipotence will guard you.If you are pure,
Omniscience will guide you. ```I know
If I become pure,Absolutely pure,
My Lord SupremeWill turn me into
His own melody-producing angel. ```My determination,
Paired with God’s Compassion,Can easily smash the pride
Of impossibility. ```Your mind’s stupid neutrality-pride
Has destroyedYour heart’s spontaneous joy.
```A man-written message:
God loves manOnly if he loves God.
A God-written message:
Man is loved by GodUnconditionally.
```My heart feels
That God’s personal NameIs Forgiveness-Sun.
My mind thinksThat God’s impersonal Name
Is Justice-Star. ```If you lose your best friend,
Aspiration-bird,Rest assured that your worst enemy,
Frustration-tiger,Will devour you.
```When dark thoughts appear,
God does not disappear.He only watches and waits
To see if you are going to askThe dark thoughts to disappear.
```Frustration-plants grow
Most rapidlyIn the desire-forest.
```Each day is a golden opportunity
For those who believeIn the satisfaction-capacity
Of God the creation. ```A desiring man
Is not a false man,But each desire
In the spiritual lifeIs nothing but
An unwanted unreality. ```The insecurity-chaos
Of each human beingIs astonishingly confusing.
```His is a sad experience:
From his old devotionHe came to learn
That God was the only OneWho could perfect his life.
From his new devotionHe thinks and feels
That he has to do everythingAll by himself.
```Truth can inspire you,
But it is God’s Compassion-LightThat can and will liberate you.
```Peace and satisfaction
On earthAre two most precious
Hope-gifts. ```Who called me?
God?Then my heart and I are ready.
Who called me?Man?
Then my doubting mindAnd my suspecting vital
Are both ready. ```Each night
God-dreams enlighten my sleepAnd fulfil my heart’s hunger-cry.
```You must never suspect
Your sincerity,For sincerity is the beginning
Of God-unfoldment in your life. ```My heart is my Lord’s
Compassion-Light-Victory.My soul is my Lord’s
Satisfaction-Delight-Victory. ```You are a lover of doubting.
ThereforeYou are found
In a speeding train of despair. ```Give up all world-claims
If you want God to enchain youWith His Heart’s golden Chain.
```Do not fight with anybody.
But if you have to fight,Then fight with God’s
Forgiveness-Light,For then you have
Nothing to lose. ```If you do not want
To be awareOf doubt’s poison-presence
Inside your mind,Who is going to take the trouble
Of making you aware? ```My Lord,
How long am I going to keepMy heart’s door
Stupidly open to ignorance-prince? ```Every day I try and try
In vainTo swim in God’s
Satisfaction-Pool. ```O my mind,
In spite of your surly behaviour,I see God-satisfaction-possibility
Inside of you. ```Yesterday’s world
Cried and cried.Today’s world
Is smiling and smiling.Tomorrow’s world
Will wonder and wonder. ```His is the heart
That owns the beautyOf sunlit silence.
```His heart cries
Not for him,But for his Lord’s
Love-Manifestation. ```God laughs and laughs
When He sees His seeker-childShoplifting
From His Compassion-Department Store. ```Man and his stupidity
Will eventually be foundIn the chasm of futility.
```Yesterday
I breathed to hope.Today
God is hoping to breatheIn me, through me.
```One thing I will never
Want to have,And that is the misery
Of a mistrust-miser. ```Do you think
I should be willingTo be inside the long train
Of your excuses? ```If you do the right thing,
Even if you become the targetOf wild criticism,
Your inner happinessWill eventually prove to you
That God has alwaysBeen pleased with you.
```If he makes
The official announcementOf his life’s surrender,
Then his actual surrenderMay remain a far cry.
```To please the Supreme,
The human lips must expressOnly what the divine heart
Soulfully desires. ```If you do not appreciate
Your heart’s satisfaction-sun,This world
Is not going to help you,And the higher world
Will never support you. ```Because I allowed my mind
To guide my life,Alas,
I am now nearingA destruction-destination.
```Do you not feed your mind
With your heart’s compassion-concernTo illumine your mind’s teeming doubts?
```Your unguarded thought-world
Has completely shatteredYour heart’s prosperity-peace.
```Your self-deception
Has ruthlessly taken away from youThe power of your self-command.
```When I swim in the silence-sea,
I see the blossomingOf my heart’s illumination-sun.
```When your obedience-flute
And God’s Satisfaction-FlutePlay together,
Earth and Heaven danceTheir ecstasy’s dance.
```From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 47, Agni Press, 1984
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