Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 5

401

```

My Lord,

Your morning Smile

Is my breath

During the entire day. ```

402

```

I call it a sacred thought.

My Beloved Supreme calls it

A Satisfaction-Smile

From His own Manifestation-Life. ```

403

```

As beauty’s dawn does not last

Longer than a few moments

In man’s ugly mind,

Even so, purity’s evening

Does not last

More than a few fleeting seconds

In man’s impure heart.

```

404

```

In the inner world

You are a spiritual failure

Not because God has

No special love for you

But because you do not want

To meet with God’s Justice-Light. ```

405

```

When I hear

The song of your eyes,

I enter into

The world of beauty.

When I hear

The song of your heart,

I enter into

The world of purity.

When I hear

The song of your soul,

I enter into

The world of sweetness unknowable. ```

406

```

There was a time

When you used to feel

God’s loving Heart,

But now you are only seeing

God’s ruling Hand.

I tell you,

Do not be confused or frightened.

God’s ruling Hand is only showing you

How to return home

Safely, soulfully and richly. ```

407

```

I am here, my Lord,

Waiting for Your Compassion-Heart.

I am here, my Lord,

Waiting for the embrace

Of Your infinite Freedom.

I am here, my Lord,

Waiting for You to come

And take my broken heart

To Your celestial Abode.

```

408

```

Give yourself only once

An unconditional chance

And then remain completely silent.

Your Lord Supreme will sing

His Immortality-Song

Through your beauty’s silence-perfection. ```

409

```

If you allow yourself

To be fettered by the world’s opinions,

God will never grant you

His Vision-Life-Pinions

To carry you into His Eternity’s

Delight-flooded Sky. ```

410

```

Beauty and purity

Are Heavenly possessions.

If you want to own them,

Your mounting aspiration-heart

Must increase its height

And your growing dedication-life

Must increase its length.

```

411

```

My heart and I

May not be ready to say

We owe everything to God’s Love,

But my life and I

Are more than ready to say

We owe everything

To God’s Forgiveness.

```

412

```

A messenger from the morning-world

Has given me

A very special message:

God will before long

Capture my heart

With His Soul’s Smile

And capture my life

With His Heart’s Cry. ```

413

```

In this lifetime of yours,

Can you not become

A dancing hope,

A singing promise

And a transcending perfection?

```

414

```

You will remain

With your unborn dreams

Because you always forget to smile

At Heaven’s wealth

And always forget to cry

With earth’s poverty. ```

415

```

Do you not realise

That you are your heart’s

Short-lived devotion?

Do you not realise

That you are your mind’s

Completely forgotten inspiration?

Do you not realise

That you are your life’s

Unconditionally accepted failure?

```

416

```

The latest news from God:

His Compassion-Height

Is not going to fight any more

Against His Justice-Light

Because it is tired of fighting

For the ever-ungrateful

And ever-unreceptive humanity.

```

417

```

Do not stop smiling

If you want to become as beautiful

As a child’s heart.

Do not stop crying

If you want to become as pure

As a saint’s life.

```

418

```

My impurity-mind

Does not surprise God.

My insecurity-heart

Does not puzzle God.

But my unwillingness-life

Definitely amazes God. ```

419

```

Since you are living inside

Your doubting mind’s hopes,

How can you see

Your faithful heart’s promises

Or feel the Oneness-Love

Of God’s bountiful Heart? ```

420

```

My Lord Supreme,

My eyes live

For Your Compassion-Eye,

My heart lives

For Your Satisfaction-Eye,

My life lives

For Your Self-Transcendence-Eye.

```

421

```

Everybody tells you

That you will fail,

But do they help you

To succeed?

Do they pray

For your victory?

Therefore, why do you need

Their stupid and proud comments

On your success-failure-life?

```

422

```

God is man,

Man is God.

Man is God’s hope.

God is man’s promise. ```

423

```

Your Master is at once

God’s Silence-Whisper

And

God’s Sound-Murmur. ```

424

```

Every potential God-server

Lives inside the breath

Of your sleepless selflessness.

```

425

```

You can conquer fear

Just by turning your life

Into a happy song

Of happy oneness. ```

426

```

Man is the challenger

Of yesterday’s frustration

And tomorrow’s hesitation.

```

427

```

If you forget something divine,

Then your conscious oneness

With God’s Will

Is not sufficiently developed.

If you forget something undivine,

Then it is a great blessing,

For there are many things

That should be forgotten! ```

428

```

When God asks you

To do something for Him,

Before thoughts enter your mind,

Cry and try,

Try and cry

To consciously establish

Willingness inside your heart.

```

429

```

How to dissolve yesterday’s anger?

Just inundate it

With today’s peace of mind!

```

430

```

Pray to God to grant you

More purity in your mind.

Pray to God to grant you

More sweetness in your heart.

Pray to God to grant you

More humility in your life. ```

431

```

You can overcome resistance

By exercising the power

Of insistence.

Insist on doing the right thing.

Lo, the power of resistance

Will disappear. ```

432

```

You can love more

Only when you feel the necessity

Of becoming more useful

To your Beloved Supreme

In your inner life of aspiration

And in your outer life of dedication. ```

433

```

Look around at those who worry

And see if they are able

To save themselves

From unwarranted suffering.

When you see their foolishness,

You will be wise

And not enter into

The sea of worry. ```

434

```

Your past is a devouring tiger.

You should not only

Forget your past

But also annihilate it. ```

435

```

You will stop hesitating

When your inner heart

Becomes stronger

Than your outer mind. ```

436

```

To become nicer

Than you are now,

Offer the beautiful rose

Inside your heart-garden

To your Beloved Lord Supreme.

```

437

```

Great people live and die

Only to make you their slave.

Good people live and die

Only to help you become

Another God.

```

438

```

I know You, my Lord:

This is my illumination.

I love You, my Lord:

This is my perfection.

I follow You, my Lord:

This is my satisfaction. ```

439

```

Just call Me

Secretly.

Just say My Name

Soulfully.

I shall grant you

The richest harvest

Of My Vision-Eye.

```

440

```

You are a useless fool

If you imitate others.

Do you not realise

That their stupidity, like yours,

Beggars description?

Imitate God!

First try to imitate His Signature.

Then try to imitate His Voice.

Finally try to imitate His Silence-Smile.

God-imitation is not imitation;

It is the revelation

Of your inner illumination. ```

441

```

A single “Yes” from God

Is all he needs

To destroy the exorbitant pride

Of his ignorance-night. ```

442

```

On the way to his earth-home

From Heaven,

God advised him to specialise

In only one thing:

Self-giving.

```

443

```

When the heart is unemployed,

The mind’s doubt-treachery

Runs riot.

```

444

```

My Lord,

Your Compassion-Sea

Is my capacity.

Your Love-Sky

Is my divinity.

Your Satisfaction-Sun

Is my Immortality.

```

445

```

A songless day

Is ruthlessly compelled

To voyage to the despair-shore.

```

446

```

As they want the Buddha

To be for the East

And the Christ

To be for the West,

Even so, they want your one shoulder

To liberate them

And your other shoulder

To save them. ```

447

```

The motto of the human race:

The life of division

Must not last.

The motto of the divine race:

God’s and man’s oneness-song

Will last eternally.

```

448

```

You pray early in the morning

And meditate early in the evening.

Indeed, this is your conventional approach

To the spiritual life.

But if you feel that this approach

Is not offering you

Satisfactory results,

Then try an unconventional approach:

Pray and meditate

Any time of the day or night

Until God-hunger tortures

Your entire being. ```

449

```

Alas,

My heart-temple is always empty

Of worshippers.

My body, vital and mind

Are always absent.

Now I have decided

To have a new temple,

My soul-temple,

And I shall urge my heart

To come and worship there.

I am sure my heart

Will always abide

By my soulful request.

```

450

```

Power,

Do not claim me!

Love,

Let me claim you!

Delight,

Let us claim each other! ```

451

```

O my mind,

You are completely mistaken

When you tell me

That my heart is eclipsed

By your unlit presence.

No, my heart is illumined

And shall always remain so,

For my soul has befriended my heart

And this friendship

Forever shall last. ```

452

```

My Lord,

Do not bind me to You

With my victory’s height.

Do bind me to You

With Your invisible

Embrace-Delight. ```

453

```

Yesterday I prayed to God,

“My Lord, give me, give me.”

Today I am praying to God,

“My Lord, take me, take me.”

Tomorrow I shall pray to God,

“My Lord, may Your Vision-Eye smile

Inside Your creation-heart.”

```

454

```

Unless and until my mind

Measures my Lord’s Newness,

I shall never be happy.

Unless and until my heart

Measures my Lord’s Sweetness,

I shall never be happy.

Unless and until my life

Measures my Lord’s Oneness,

I shall never be happy.

```

455

```

If you are a saint,

You will discover purity

Inside nothingness.

If you are a yogi,

You will discover fulness

Inside nothingness.

If you are another God,

You will discover that nothingness-dream

And oneness-reality

Are extremely fond of each other. ```

456

```

The newness-love of silence

Illumines the human in me.

The fulness-silence of love

Fulfils the divine in me. ```

457

```

The day I lost

My complaining mind,

Something extremely significant

Took place.

My Eternity’s Beloved Supreme

Showed His explaining Heart

To the world at large

To reveal my perfect perfection-life. ```

458

```

Right now I may not know

Where God is

Or who God is,

But one thing I do know:

I know that I am going to be

The satisfaction-fruit

Of my Lord’s Compassion-Seed.

```

459

```

My mind thinks

That it has already become something.

My heart feels

That it will never become anything.

My soul knows

That God has already become everything

To make my life worthy

Of His Compassion-Company. ```

460

```

O my mind,

Are you trying to tell me something

That I do not know as yet?

“Yes!

I am trying to tell you

That my very existence

At long last is caught

By God’s Compassion-Smile.” ```

461

```

He who is worth possessing

Can never be possessed,

But He who is worth loving

Can always be loved. ```

462

```

By way of joke

I tell my Lord Supreme

That I do not need Him.

But my Beloved Supreme

Has not yet mastered

The art of joking.

In all sincerity He tells me

That He needs me sleeplessly

And that someday,

Somehow, somewhere

He will place me

On His transcendental

Trance-bound Throne.

```

463

```

You have not studied enough

In the mind-school.

Therefore, you may not be

A chosen instrument of man.

But you have definitely studied

For many, many years

In the heart-school.

Therefore, you are well-qualified

To become a chosen instrument

Of your Inner Pilot. ```

464

```

If you pierce the world

Of frustration-night

With the arrow of your heart’s joy,

Then God Himself will proclaim

Your Himalayan victory

An unprecedented achievement

For the world.

```

465

```

O earth-consciousness,

I die for you to receive

More Light and Delight from Above.

O Heaven-consciousness,

I live for you to manifest

More Light, more Delight

Plus more Satisfaction

Here on earth. ```

466

```

There was a time

When my life was divinity’s perfection

And my heart unconditionally lived

Inside my Lord’s Compassion-Net.

Alas, that time is no more!

```

467

```

A God-realised soul

May have a free access

To God’s Heart-Home,

But he quite often

Finds it difficult

To secure a free access

To man’s mind-room.

```

468

```

He who is raised

On God’s constant and infinite Grace

Will eventually become

Humanity’s totally transformed face. ```

469

```

Never, never give up

Your faith-life.

There shall come a time

When you will definitely be able

To reap the bounty

Of God’s Pride in you. ```

470

```

Now that he has passed through

Ignorance-tunnel,

He can easily change

His life’s erring course. ```

471

```

My sweet little soul-bird,

I feel extremely sorry for you.

I do not know how long

You can go on living

Inside my fettered hopes.

```

472

```

I am fully acquainted

With my death-door,

But I am still trying to become acquainted

With my life-door.

Why?

Because my Beloved Supreme

Every day knocks

At my life-door

And, alas, returns home every day

Unanswered. ```

473

```

If you are unaccustomed

To fear and doubt,

Then rest assured,

Endless happy hours

Are being born inside you

To live with you and for you. ```

474

```

In my outer life,

Service-perfection

Is my whole dictionary.

In my inner life,

Oneness-love

Is my whole dictionary.

```

475

```

My Lord,

Yesterday my only desire

Was to love You.

Today my only desire

Is to live inside You.

Tomorrow my only desire

Will be to be exactly like You.

```

476

```

O onlookers of greatness,

You are the students

Of power.

O lovers of goodness,

You are the students

Of God’s secret and sacred

Temple-School. ```

477

```

The smoke of ideas must disappear.

The birth of new ideal-flames

Must become our reality’s perfection.

```

478

```

My Lord,

Each time I forget

My self-imposed earth-bondage,

You make me a channel

For Your perfect Love.

```

479

```

To bridge the gulf of ignorance,

Every day I must accelerate

My aspiration-speed.

```

480

```

My Lord Supreme,

How can I please You every day?

“My child,

You can please Me every day

By feeding your aspiration-strength

And increasing your dedication-length.” ```

481

```

Each individual

Is a favourite child of God.

To each of His children

He has given the capacity

To conquer Him with oneness-truth.

```

482

```

He has cultivated sincerity-flower

Inside his heart.

Therefore God calls him

His own Beauty’s

Illumination-Joy.

```

483

```

My Lord,

Give me speed!

Give me purity!

With speed I shall win

My long-lost inner race.

With purity I will be able to see

Once more

Your Infinity’s immortal Face. ```

484

```

To live inside my Lord’s Heart

Consciously, soulfully and perfectly,

I need a sprinter’s

Concentration-power

And a runner’s

Dedication-power. ```

485

```

In my heart’s secret depth,

There is always a poignant cry

To destroy the disharmony

That fetters and bruises

My outer life.

```

486

```

He has the skill

Not to forget God’s Name.

He has the thrill

Of loving God’s Heart

Sincerely,

Soulfully,

Sleeplessly

And

Ceaselessly.

```

487

```

My inner voice

Is my dear friend.

I hear it

In every heart

Singing the song

Of God’s Oneness-Victory. ```

488

```

My prayer is to think

Only of Him

With my purity-mind.

My meditation is to love

Only Him

With my aspiration-heart.

```

489

```

Every second counts.

Therefore, I must listen to my soul-tutor

And learn my life-transforming lessons

And my Lord’s Heaven-manifesting-lessons

As soon as possible.

```

490

```

My soul lavishes the boundless bounty

Of its love on me.

Its smile of grace

Every day shines on my face

In bright multiplied bliss.

```

491

```

His smile wins

A thousand hearts a day.

His cry wins

Only one heart a day

And that heart is his own

Infinity’s God-Heart. ```

492

```

There shall come a time

When peace-diamond,

Joy-diamond

And perfection-diamond

Will all be in your satisfaction-safe.

```

493

```

My mind is waiting

For my heart’s absurdity-dream to end.

My heart is waiting

For my mind’s hallucination-dream to end.

My life is waiting

For my impossibility-dream to end.

My soul is waiting

For my ignorance-dream to end. ```

494

```

Immortality is not of the body.

Immortality is in

The consciousness-seed,

Immortality is of

The consciousness-flower

And Immortality is for

The consciousness-fruit.

```

495

```

His purity-heart is trying to smile

Inside his uninspiring eyes.

His divinity-soul is trying to dance

Inside his unaspiring mind. ```

496

```

It may be very easy

To surrender what we have:

Ignorance.

But it is very difficult

To surrender what we are:

Unwillingness. ```

497

```

What does my gratitude-heart do?

It takes me directly

To God’s Heart-Home.

```

498

```

O remembrance-night,

Do not persecute me.

I wish to be

A purity-flame

Of my heart’s mounting cry.

```

499

```

He knows how to love

The Eternal in himself.

He also knows how to serve

The Absolute in himself.

But something more he has to learn:

How to treasure sleeplessly

The Beloved Supreme in himself.

```

500

```

My Lord,

Your first Smile is still singing

Inside the very depth

Of my gratitude-heart.

My Lord,

Your last Smile

Will safely return my soul

To its celestial abode. ```

From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 5, Agni Press, 1983
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