Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 63

6201

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If you can open your heart

As a flower to the sun,

God will enfold you,

Your entire being,

In His universal Peace.

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6202

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There are many things

A human being does

That surprise God,

But one thing amazes Him most:

When man ignores God,

His only Friend. ```

6203

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I see in you

A sorry-faced seeker

Because every day

You forget to fly

Your aspiration-kite.

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6204

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If you deceive yourself

Every day,

Then God-discovery is indeed

A useless search. ```

6205

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God does not expect from you

At the very beginning

Mastery in anything,

But He does expect from you

In everything

Your soulful willingness. ```

6206

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Do you want to shine?

You can easily shine

Like the sun

In your self-offering

To God in man.

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6207

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Hope and fear torture me

Most powerfully

While I am waiting

For God’s Compassion-Call. ```

6208

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Your desire-dynamite

Will not only explode your life

But also destroy

Earth’s strongest hope for you. ```

6209

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If you miss your flight

To Heaven,

You can never acquire

The supreme taste

For God’s transcendental Truth.

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6210

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Every day

Early in the morning

His soul’s golden dream-secrets

Touch his slumbering eyes

And awaken them.

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6211

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God’s Protection-Boat

Always wants to stay near you.

Why do you swim away

To satisfy your stupid temptation-vital? ```

6212

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I never thought that God

Would have such a high opinion of me

While this world

Has such a low opinion of me. ```

6213

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Nobody compels you and your mind

To be caught in the teeming snares

Of tormenting doubts.

Nobody! ```

6214

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Unless you keep

Your consciousness-light-guard

On the alert,

Yours will be a life of failure,

Undoubtedly.

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6215

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When will you ever realise

That shameless fear

Is hiding your beauty’s face?

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6216

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My heart’s sweet surrender-smile

God always treasures

Far beyond my imagination’s flight.

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6217

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My Lord Supreme,

Your Peace leads me

And Your Satisfaction

Guides me. ```

6218

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If I place my fate

At Your Blessing-Feet,

I know I shall win

Your guiding Eye. ```

6219

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You do not have to write

Your heart’s aspiration-epic.

God will do it.

You just become

Your life’s surrender-plant.

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6220

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You are sleeping.

Perhaps you will forever sleep.

Therefore

For you there is no need

To free yourself

From your mind’s slavery. ```

6221

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If you exit

From your soul’s land,

Then your heart will always remain

Away from the equanimity

Of God’s Heart.

```

6222

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Now that all your ignorance-life

Is in the past tense,

God is granting you

His Infinity’s Rainbow-Beauty. ```

6223

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Every day

Your God-love is accelerating.

That means

Every day God is making

An infinitely more significant Promise

In and through you

To mankind.

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6224

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God’s Compassion-Height

Saves me.

God’s Justice-Light

Illumines me. ```

6225

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Time’s tallest figure is he

Whose heart cries

For humanity’s progress

And whose soul smiles

At Divinity’s success.

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6226

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One ancient question:

How can man free himself

From his expectation-snare?

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6227

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Discard your list of grievances

Against yourself.

God wants you to live

In tomorrow’s satisfaction-delight. ```

6228

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Even a beginner-seeker knows

That surrender

Is the ultimate approach

To God-Satisfaction. ```

6229

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You can try to have confidence

In your untried friends —

Especially your loving heart

And your illumining soul. ```

6230

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Every day breathe

A soulful prayer to God.

Then you can become

Sleeplessly faithful

To God’s Vision-Light.

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6231

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His mind is an expert

In evil thoughts.

Alas,

How can I tell this terrible secret

Even to his own heart?

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6232

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The possessions of the soul

Are extremely powerful.

These possessions are:

Promise, confidence, perfection

And satisfaction.

```

6233

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You are always playing

With temptation-fire,

Yet you do not want to know

What danger truly is. ```

6234

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My Lord Supreme,

I have come to You

With my life’s shattered hope-pieces.

I do not know when or why or how

My aspiration-cry

Has fallen fast asleep. ```

6235

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God will remain

A concealed Creator

If you do not look for Him

In His revealed creation. ```

6236

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Each human being

Is an unfortunate traveller

Chained by a desire-link

To the past. ```

6237

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You will be sorry

If you do not wake up

At God’s choice Hour

To play

With God’s Compassion-Eye.

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6238

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The universal life of the soul

Begins in Heaven.

The transcendental life of the heart

Begins on earth. ```

6239

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If you refuse

To become a soulful seeker,

That means

You are ruining a lifetime

Of golden opportunities

To become another God. ```

6240

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If I had waited another day,

I am sure I would have seen

The transformation of man’s face

Into the Perfection of God’s Heart. ```

6241

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When God’s Eye

Reaches into your heart,

Welcome it soulfully

And immediately. ```

6242

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Alas,

Nobody wants to recognise in me

My desperate need

For universal oneness. ```

6243

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If you take with thankfulness

What God gives you,

Then one day God will entrust you

With His Infinity’s Fulness. ```

6244

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You are knocking

At the door of your heart.

That means

You have already achieved

A wonderful triumph

In your aspiration-life. ```

6245

```

Dark shadows

That pass through our lives

Quite often unconsciously help us

To aspire for a luminous tomorrow. ```

6246

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I definitely did not even imagine

That my life would ever be special,

Either in God’s Heart

Or in man’s mind. ```

6247

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You need no special talents

To love God.

What you need is

A soulful heart-cry. ```

6248

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If you do not stay

Within God’s calling distance,

How will God lead you

To His Mountain-Summit? ```

6249

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If you are willing

To slow down your greed-speed,

Then God will feed

Your entire being,

Within and without.

```

6250

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He was waiting

In all sincerity

For the arrival of inspiration.

Alas,

Inspiration has now

Turned into utter frustration! ```

6251

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Aspiration gradually ascends,

But if you value your aspiration,

Then needless to say

It swiftly ascends. ```

6252

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You can shorten the road

To Eternity,

If you can take everything

As divine

And every man

As a truth-seeker

And a God-lover.

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6253

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Sleeplessly you should be careful

Of two thieves:

A fearful heart

And a doubting mind. ```

6254

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In the name of necessity,

Man enjoys a great friendship

With his desire-life.

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6255

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How to shorten

The long road to Eternity?

Make friends with hope

And fly the banner of promise. ```

6256

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It is not your capacity

That has won the race

But the Grace of your Inner Pilot

That has won the race

All for you.

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6257

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Unless God prunes

My life’s aspiration-tree,

I do not see how

I will ever acquire

Realisation-fruit.

```

6258

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Fear and doubt,

Anxiety and frustration

Have always been strangers

In his heart-room. ```

6259

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Why are you crying?

Have you failed?

Why are you crying?

Is God displeased with you?

Why are you crying?

Does the world not need you? ```

6260

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Why are you smiling?

Have you passed

Your life-examination?

Why are you smiling?

Are you on the verge

Of God-realisation?

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6261

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Although jealousy has crippled your mind,

Still there is time

For you to be cured.

Just try to respond

To your heart’s Heaven-climbing cry.

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6262

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My heart was extremely delighted

To see the last, dying desire-flame

Of my mind.

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6263

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God tells me

That He will definitely

Be successful with me.

Therefore

He has been extending and extending

My life’s transformation-deadline. ```

6264

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At the last moment

I had courage and wisdom enough

To cancel my reservation

On ignorance-plane. ```

6265

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Each concealed hope-bird

Must be transformed into

A revealed heart-flower.

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6266

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When I cherish

My desire-life,

Hell celebrates

My utter stupidity. ```

6267

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Your self-importance

Is as fleeting

As a hopeless thought.

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6268

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To hope for this world

Is nothing short of

A vanishing breath,

A hopeless pursuit. ```

6269

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Every day

I go to visit my body

In my mind’s prison.

Every day

I go to visit my heart

In my soul’s palace.

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6270

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God is not answering

His inner Phone

Because you are cherishing

The conversations you have had

With your doubtful mind.

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6271

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Your notorious mind tells you

That you do not need God.

Your uproarious vital tells you

That you are already another God. ```

6272

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Just because

Your heart-bird has flown

High above your mind’s clouds,

God is granting you

The Silence, Beauty and Divinity

Of Eternity. ```

6273

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My Lord Supreme,

I am complete

Not even in Your Compassion-Eye,

But only in Your Forgiveness-Heart. ```

6274

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Do not abandon

Your golden hope-heart

If you really want to see

God’s stupendous Pride in you. ```

6275

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A confusion-mind

And an imperfection-heart

Can never be separated.

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6276

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If Heaven loves you,

Then Heaven will definitely

Grant you the capacity

To be its perfect slave. ```

6277

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If you are a true God-lover,

Then never will you dare to imagine

That you can ever outgrow your need

For God’s Compassion-Light

And Forgiveness-Delight.

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6278

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To conquer doubt

Is to conquer

The final, insurmountable

Mountain-obstacle. ```

6279

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If you do not

Put your meditation into action,

Then you will be running

With only one leg. ```

6280

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He who procrastinates

Cannot be a true member

Of God’s God-Satisfaction-Family.

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6281

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Why return

To your old earth-bound desire-home?

Can you not see

That your Heaven-free aspiration-home

Is awaiting your arrival?

```

6282

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If you do not veto

Your wild mind’s constant resistance,

You will never be able to conquer

Time and death. ```

6283

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You do not need eyes

To see God’s Compassion-Eye.

What you need is a loving heart

To sing the glory

Of God’s Compassion-Eye.

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6284

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You have got what you wanted:

The fulfilment of your desire-life.

But you have not got what you need:

The convincing and fulfilling delight

Of satisfaction.

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6285

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Do not think

That God will ever give up on you.

He will wait for you

Throughout Eternity

Until He changes your doubting mind.

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6286

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Forgive me, my Lord Supreme.

I have forgotten to thank You

For the interview.

“My child,

I am sorry that I have forgotten

To express My Satisfaction

In your acceptance of My Light.”

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6287

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If you are already

A good God-lover,

Then I do not have to tell you

To shut ignorance out of your life. ```

6288

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Your mind’s climbing prayer

And your heart’s glowing meditation

Can easily save you.

Your life need not remain

Forever paralysed

By helpless hopelessness. ```

6289

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If security is something

That you can easily unfold,

Insecurity is something

That you can bravely put away. ```

6290

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When I see the darkness

Of the human mind,

My silence-heart and I

Helplessly cry and cry. ```

6291

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Alas,

It seems that

A never-to-disappear depression

Has attacked your vital. ```

6292

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If a negative thought

Claims you as its victim,

Can you not immediately take shelter

In the embrace

Of a positive thought?

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6293

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A stunning message from God:

“Man, take care of yourself

From now on!”

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6294

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You fool!

Nobody has compelled you

To build your heart-nest

In the swamp of despair-night. ```

6295

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It is you who have allowed your mind

To be over-populated with worries.

Therefore, your faith in yourself

Every day is dwindling. ```

6296

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Alas,

I know where I am staying,

But I can’t help staying

In the lifeless home of ignorance. ```

6297

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God is asking me

To do the right thing:

Instead of barking at His creation,

To love His creation. ```

6298

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No more ignorance-thoughts

Within and without!

God-thoughts have covered

The purity of my inner world

And the beauty of my outer world.

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6299

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A longing heart

Unmistakably deserves satisfaction.

A self-giving life

Unquestionably deserves fulfilment. ```

6300

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God’s Forgiveness-Feet,

No matter how high They are,

Always remain within easy reach

Of man’s heart-prayers. ```

From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 63, Agni Press, 1984
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