If your heart
Is one hundred per cent pure,Then yours will be the life
Of sleeplessly unalloyed ecstasy. ```God’s Compassion-Heart
Has given himA first-class
Sacred sainthood-life. ```O my mind,
When I think of you,I feel nothing but the torture
Of unhappiness. ```You have done
Absolutely the right thingBy digging
Your self-discovery-tunnel. ```The height
Of your heart-flightHas liberated you
From your murky mind-muddle. ```Do not play for a long time
With ignoranceOr you will one day be beheaded
By ignorance-guillotine. ```What your mind needs
Is the beauty of liberationAnd not the unconsciousness
Of hesitation. ```Although his mind does not know
What is real and what is unreal,His life’s continuous zeal
Is for the real. ```Be careful, be careful!
At any momentIgnorance-dam can completely block
Your heart’s life-river. ```Eternity’s aspiration-art
Is a workOf divinity’s heart.
```The animal in him was caught
While trespassingIn his heart’s love-empire.
```It does not take much time
For God the ListenerTo become God the Giver.
```Your past failure-life
Is undoubtedly the prologueTo your future happy life.
```A fantasy-filled life
Cannot go very far.It can never arrive
At reality’s door. ```There was a time
When I enjoyed expectation-joy.Alas, now I am forced
To take the bitter pillsOf frustration.
```Take the oneness-step
And yours will be the lifeOf supreme success.
```Your life’s conflicting loyalties
Are hypnotisingYour weak mind.
```If you have
A good heart of love,Then make it better
By transforming itInto perfection-delight.
```Because of his surrender-life,
Because of his purity-heartHe has won
The perfection-grand prix. ```Each awakened soul
Has only one mission:World-family reunion.
```God has no private property.
His PropertyIs for the hearts that love Him
And want to grow for Him. ```What you need
At every momentIs a prayer-cure
For your unaspiring heart. ```Is there any day
When God is not anxiousTo hear a “Hello” from you?
```Do you know
What you have become?You have become
Your life’s vanity-tree. ```If you can wholeheartedly fight
For God,God will appreciate you
Far beyond your imagination.Then you will not need
Self-flattering imaginations. ```Questions asked by the mind
Can easily be answered by the heart.Questions asked by the heart
Can rarely be answered by the mind. ```Even he who aspires
Is not exempt from ignorance-taxAll the time.
```He is expecting news
From a new world,His heart-world.
God is definitelyGoing to supply him
With new News. ```His only aim in life
Is to join the armyOf Eternity’s freedom-thoughts.
```It is you who have to make the choice
Whether you are going to liveIn your sacred meditation-temple
Or inside your mind’s confusion-prison. ```Yesterday
I heard GodWalking in my heart-garden.
Today
I am seeing GodWalking in my heart-garden.
Tomorrow
God and I togetherWill walk in my heart-garden.
```You simply cannot imagine
How deeply I admireYour silver faith
In your sun-bright future. ```When will the world offer itself
To God?The world will offer itself to God
Only when it realisesThat it has nothing and is nothing
To be proud of. ```Do you know why God is dancing?
God is dancing becauseYour life’s stupendous pretence-bubble
Has completely burst! ```God’s Perfection-Dream
Is definitelyYour heart’s Heavenly heritage.
```If you do not withdraw
The venom-shaftOf your vital-impurity-arrow,
You will sufferThe most painful experience in life.
```My concentration is always crushed
When my vital and my mindStart enjoying
Useless marathon conversations. ```Disappointment is tearing
At your heartBecause your life wants to embark
On a disobedience-career. ```Aspiration
Is the absolute beginningOf permanent
Emancipation. ```A child’s truth-filled eyes
I saw in himRight from the day I became
His ardent admirer. ```My aspiration-heart tells me
Only one thing:God’s Tears are more real
Than God Himself. ```O error-torn humanity,
I have the heartTo sympathise with you.
Alas, what I need is the soulTo liberate you from making errors.
```The final lesson
Of ignorance-life is:You can live without God.
```If you allow your mind
To be caughtIn the currents of desire,
How can your soulFulfil its newness-hope
And its fulness-promise? ```During the intellectual period
Of his life,Not only his mind
But also his heartWas empty of peace.
```A heart of purity
Always has the capacityTo shine like the snow-white
And blue-gold peaksOf aspiration-mountain.
```A doubtful mind
Kills the beautyOf the unknown.
A prayerful heart
Kindles the flamesOf the Unknowable.
```My soul
Simply does not want to hearThat I have become so familiar
With earthly defeats. ```Now I see why
You have so many confusion-arrowsOf self-doubt.
You have all along been livingInside your tangled jungle-mind.
```If you have a God-thirsty heart,
That meansGod is all the time dreaming of you
In a very special way. ```Because your life has become
A sleepless selflessness,God will be teaching you
His Infinity’s Fulness-Dance. ```Your soulfulness-heart
And God’s Illumination-EyeBefore long
Will greet each other. ```Why do you not cut down
The forest of your wild desires,If you really want to free yourself
From the stark frownsOf this dark earth?
```Who says
That you cannot conquer time?Just try to satisfy
God’s Compassion-Heart.Lo, you have conquered
Eternity’s immortal Time. ```My heart’s candlelight
And my life’s hope-flamesAre going to show me the way
As I walk alongEternity’s God-Vision-Road.
```The purity of the heart
Compelled the impurity of the mindTo renounce its plot
Against God-Satisfaction on earth. ```Do you know what you are doing?
You are only enjoyingThe fantasy of your pride.
Do you know what you can be?
You can be the hope and promiseOf your heart’s Absolute.
```Who am I?
I am my life’sUnfinished God-work.
```His is an infallible animal instinct
To ruthlessly ruinOthers’ flower-hearts.
```You are always at war
With yourself.Therefore, you are always forced
To show a sorrow-bowed headTo both Heaven and earth.
```If you have a sincerity-mind
And a purity-heart,Then you can never seek gold.
You can only seek God. ```You are not the curse
Of your confusion-mind.You are the blessing
Of your illumination-soul. ```Can you mind your own business?
When did God ask youTo transform humanity’s weaknesses?
```All vital demonstrations
Are almost incurable diseasesIn the seeker’s inner life.
```Mine is the aspiration-heart
That loves only one land:The land of silence-delight.
```In spite of our weakness-life
We can easily stand before God,Because God is all Compassion.
But we cannot stand before Truth,Because Truth is all justice.
```As long as your mind indulges
In mountain-pride,Your heart will not be able
To grant your mindThe ecstasy of God’s Oneness-Delight.
```Not an easy task
To removeThe body’s heavy lethargy-load.
Not an easy task
To illumineThe mind’s dark destruction-doubts.
```God has already read
Your heart-poems.Now either beg or force your mind
To read those precious poems. ```God sleeplessly fights
Only on the heart-battlefieldOf His supremely chosen
Instrument-childrenFor their permanent victory
Over the abysmal abyssOf ignorance-night.
```A man of determination
Can easily prove to the worldThat he is not a slave
To imperfection-monarch. ```True,
I never spoke with God,But every day
My heart of love speaksWith His Eye of Compassion
And my mind of impurity speaksWith His Heart of Forgiveness.
```In oneness-love
The life of ego’s demonstration-danceComes to a complete halt.
```How will you recognise Heaven?
You will recognise HeavenWith your unconditional oneness-love
For the world. ```My Lord,
Will You give me another chanceTo please You?
“My child,
I can give you as many chancesAs you not only need
But also wantTo please Me in My own Way.”
```Who is inside me?
Ah, I see it is my Beloved Supreme.Who is running ahead of me?
Ah, I see it is my Lord Absolute. ```I want to prove to the world
That although my past was only mortalMy present and future
Will be absolutely immortal. ```At the high tide of his earthly triumph,
He went to HeavenWith his heart’s most soulful cry
To sit at God’s Compassion-Feet. ```O my mind,
Why do you blame God?He has not forced you
To be an endless storeOf useless thoughts.
```Either you have to draw
The picture of your self-perfection,Or everybody else
Will continue taking the pictureOf your mind’s deception-life.
```When God turns your heart-tears
Into your life-smiles,Your heart reaches Heaven’s
Pinnacle-height. ```Your purity-born aspiration
Will definitely be able to playWith God’s Divinity-smiling Face.
```Mine is a soulful hope-boat.
How can I have you,O doubt-passenger,
In my boat? ```Be careful
Of your absent-minded prayers.They can easily cause
Very serious problems for you. ```I have been asleep
All my life,Yet I want to know
How close I amTo Heaven’s gate.
```There can be
No better start in lifeThan to surrender your expectations
To God’s Will. ```At last!
I am so happy to seeYour sunrise-heart
And sunset-mind. ```Simplicity is felicity.
Simplicity is God’s BeautyIn its pristine form.
```Am I a fool,
To enter into the desertOf your desire-life?
```You want to be satisfied
With your life-position,But God wants you to be satisfied
With your life-disposition. ```Fear is only a thought.
Courage is not only a thoughtBut also an adventure
To transform the unknownInto a known reality.
```For a fearless life
God is hisPerfection-vision,
God is hisSatisfaction-reality.
```If your mind is in a collision
With your heart,Everybody will know
That it is your mindThat wants to enjoy destruction.
```What is failure?
It is something that, in vain,Loves to be loved
By success. ```Your prayers will transform your heart
And not alter God’s Vision-Plan.Therefore, why do you not continue
To do the right thingFor yourself?
```Yesterday
My heart becameGod’s Vision-lover.
Today
God has made my heartHis Vision-interpreter.
```Who says God has no desires?
God has desiresAnd His main Desire is
Humanity’s constant progress. ```If you want to live
Under the unclouded sun,Then you must not allow
Your aspiration-heartTo sleep any longer.
```If you do not have faith
Either in God’s CompassionOr in your own determination,
Then you will definitely becomeAn experienced loser
In the battlefield of your life. ```My Lord Supreme,
Now that You have given meThe golden waves of Your Love-Sea,
How can I ask You for anything else?I do not need anything more.
```From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 53, Agni Press, 1984
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