To see
A face of loveIs to feel
A heart of peace. ```You know how to converse
With your heart.Therefore
You and your aspiration-lifeAre definitely pleasing
Your Beloved Supreme. ```My Lord Supreme,
Your Heart beatsIn my throbbing heart.
Therefore, all my questions,Born and unborn,
Are answered. ```O seeker,
The joy of your desire-lifeIs nothing but your sorrow
Masked. ```O my mind,
I pray to my Lord SupremeTo help you know
The sacred secretsOf my soul.
```My outer awakening
Is my deep dream-existenceIn my Lord Supreme.
```The inner heart
Can be made sweet, pure and perfectOnly with one thing:
The inner hunger. ```The more desires you have,
The more helpless a puppetYou become
In the hands of ignorance-prince. ```God does not want you
To remain alone.He wants you to swim
With your heart’s swift hope-river. ```God will wait for you,
He will,Although you are a worshipper
Of ignorance-night. ```The inner disaster will strike
Without failIf you are not already disgusted
With your life’s insecurity-ant. ```If you have a seeker’s heart,
Then at the very mentionOf your Lord Supreme,
Your eyes of indifferenceTo the outer world of manifestation
Will be transformed intoA heart of sleepless concern.
```One willing breath.
Lo,The question of centuries
Is answered. ```Centuries have rolled by,
Yet one question haunts him:Does God know everything
Here on earth and there in Heaven? ```God paints you
With your aspiration-life.You paint yourself
With your desire-mind. ```If you resign
From your God-appointed task,Tomorrow’s sorrow
Will knock at your heart’s doorPowerfully today.
```Your God-search
Is accelerating.Therefore, God Himself
Is celebratingYour graduation in Heaven.
```God loves His unfinished
Vision-EyeMore than anything else.
```Every day you must shed tears
For this poor earthIf you really care for
God the man. ```God wants to write
Your aspiration-epic.You just make friends
With your silence-mind. ```Do not allow your heart,
Like your mind,To be cramped
In life’s insecurity-cage. ```You want to save
The world at large.Do you not see
That you have already becomeYour mind’s perfect and eternal slave?
```I love and I need
Only one wordIn God’s Dictionary:
Forgiveness,Sleepless forgiveness.
```If you give your mind
All the timeUndue respect,
How do you expect your heartTo give you
Its soulful love? ```Silence is not loved
By an ordinary man.Sound is not loved
By an aspiring man.But the soundless sound-life
And the soundless silence-lifeAre loved
By a God-becoming man. ```Human thoughts
Are mortal dreams,But human self-giving
Is an immortal Reality. ```Never wait passively
For progress-light,For that is absolutely
The wrong approach. ```A doubtful mind
And a fearful heartAre the makers
Of endless miseries. ```Satisfaction within
And satisfaction withoutCome from the purity
Of inner aspirationAnd from the beauty
Of outer dedication. ```Hesitation
Is an unpardonable intruderIn the seeker’s aspiration-world.
```Today I am celebrating
The complete failureOf my desire-mind.
```Because you are a fool,
You have all along carriedUnnecessarily
An excessive ignorance-burden. ```Too many souls
Love to procrastinate.Again, too many souls
Want a quick liberation. ```Why return to your old home,
Why?A new home is waiting for you —
A home of perfection-light. ```A slumbering life
Will definitely meetWith an inglorious defeat
At the end of its earthly sojourn. ```He got
What he wanted,Only to lose
His heart’s Inner Pilot. ```You have been knocking
At your mind’s door.Are you not tired of it?
Can you not ask your soulTo teach you how to knock
At your heart’s door? ```I know you have
An indisputably great mind.But can you not prove to me
That you also haveAn indisputably good heart?
```A sincere seeker knows
That his aspiration-lifeIs nothing short of
A lifetime opportunityTo realise God
And to become inseparably oneWith God’s Manifestation-Light
On earth. ```Do not be baffled
By man’s ignorance.Just tell humanity
That God is not finishedWith His creation-experience.
```I have started dreaming
Of going back to my spiritual life,For my present desire-life
Is like a pathless wood. ```An impossible task:
To satisfy GodWith your self-styled surrender.
```You are hungry
For the rewards from Heaven,But you are not willing to be one
With the earth’s hunger-cry. ```Because I am a slave
To my self-glory,I am suffering from
A very high ignorance-fever. ```Now that you have pleased God
In His own Way,God has made a special reservation
For you to stayIn His celestial Heaven-Abode.
```I have seen
Time and again,My God, the Compassion-Lifeguard,
Saving me from drowningIn ignorance-sea.
```My heart-bird and soul-bird
In oneness flyTowards the perfection-summit
Of Divinity. ```He who claims God as his own,
Very own,Is going to win
The soulful seeker awardOf Eternity.
```Selfless service
Is man’s visible love for GodIn God-manifestation on earth.
```Do not think
That you cannot do it.Just think that God
Is definitely going to do itIn you, for you.
```If you travel all the time
On the wings of hope,And not
On the wings of determination,You are not going to succeed
In the battlefield of life. ```What good
Are all the multiple gloriesOf the world
When you have lostYour soul’s smile?
```God has lent you
His ready Heart.Can you not lend Him
Your ready ear? ```He has failed
In his search for God,For he has allowed his mind
To be crushedBy the jaws of jealousy.
```First place yourself
Before God’s Compassion-Eye,And then place yourself
At God’s Transformation-Feet. ```Follow your inner sun
While walking throughYour mind’s ignorance-night.
```If you can give up
Your earth-bound desire-life,Then God will grant you
His Heart’s Ecstasy-Empire. ```Why do you not ask God
To drive your life-car?He will not only drive you
Safely,But also take you
To your satisfaction-destinationSwiftly.
```Which master do you want?
The doubting mind.Which master do you need?
The loving heart. ```You have lost the inner race,
Not because you are slow,But because you have been looking behind
All the time. ```You hide
From God’s Compassion-Light.Therefore
You are the greatest foolIn God’s entire creation!
```Do you not see
That your ignorance-shadowIs following you everywhere,
No matter where you go? ```O my heart,
You have lost your inner key.Therefore
You will not be able to openYour life’s realisation-door.
```To reach
The pinnacle of perfection,Every day try to compose
A God-pleasing, soulful song. ```There shall come a time
When your life will definitely escapeFrom the torture of ignorance-night.
Soulfully wait for God’s choice Hour. ```Doubt, the aspiration-strangler,
Has finally been captured.Therefore
I shall celebrate my God-victoryInside my heart-garden.
```You are all mind
And no heart.Therefore, you are missing
Your soul. ```In my heart’s hour of need
I dived deepAnd discovered
The eternal, self-illumining Sun. ```You do not have to decide
Whether you should hide or abide.Just cry with your heart,
Just smile with your soul.In your soulful cry and powerful smile
All decisions will be made for youBy God Himself.
```Do not allow insecurity
To kidnap your heart.Sooner or later
You will definitely be blessedWith God-Vision.
```His is a thankless heart
And his is a thoughtless mind.What he enjoys
Is the prideOf his little ego-possessions.
```You are unloved and unremembered
BecauseYou do not want to participate
In God’s Cosmic Play. ```Your ignorance-era
Will come to an endBecause
Your sun-vast aspiration-lifeHas just begun.
```An impurity-thief
Has stolen all your joy.God’s Compassion invoke
To grant you His ownUniversal Vision-Light.
```Who says
God does not hear your prayers?He does hear your prayers,
Provided they areYour silence-prayers.
```If you keep your heart-room clean
Every day,God will force your mind
To sleep for good. ```I do not know
Why I am cryingAnd for whom I am crying,
But I do knowWhy I am smiling
And for whom I am smiling.I am smiling to see
God’s Compassion-Face.I am smiling for God’s
Satisfaction-Manifestation on earth. ```You have fallen prey to impurity.
Your moment of colossal satisfactionHas indisputably passed.
```Because of his life’s
Extraordinary transformation,He is impervious
To all ignorance-attacks. ```A life of meditation
Can be pleasedOnly with one thing:
The ecstasy of the soul. ```My aspiration-heart knows
How to cry for God.My dedication-life knows
How to smile at man. ```You must never think
That your life and heartAre unprepared to meet with God.
```Do you want to conquer
Your time-bound mind?Then grow into
Your soul’s patience-tree. ```Do you want
To deserve God’s Love?Then serve God the man
In God’s unfinished creation. ```A bitter truth-pill
Has curedHis illness of millennia.
```Alas,
Once to cry for GodIs not enough.
Alas,
One perfect soul on earthIs not enough.
```Your life
Is God’s responsibilityIf you care for
The divinity within you only. ```If you are
An ordinary human being,Then you will try to hide
From the world.If you are
A special being,Then you will try to abide
In God’s HeartFor man’s transformation-life.
```Alas,
Purity has been hidingFor a long time
From the world’s fearful eyes. ```Time will not wait for you.
Do not waste your precious lifeIn searching for the best road.
Start walking along any road,For eventually
All roads will lead youTo your goal.
```First become the worshipper,
Then become the loverAnd finally become the explorer
Of God’s Vision-World. ```You have begun
Your Eternity’s journeyIn Heaven.
Now you must continue itHere on earth.
```Because of his centuries
Of sleep,He has forgotten to value
God-realisation. ```Have new inner friends,
Especially your heart’s purityAnd your soul’s divinity.
```My heart tells my mind,
“O my searching mind,Do not be satisfied
With your present achievement.You want to love the Inner Pilot most,
But that is not enough.You have to love
The Inner Pilot only.” ```He who is neutral
Cannot beA promising and fulfilling soul
To God. ```My mind thinks
God is beautifulBecause
My heart loves God.My heart knows
God is beautifulBecause
My soul loves God. ```There shall come a time
When your mind will be freedFrom ignorance-fetters.
And then you will realiseThat God is
A colossal Compassion-Heart. ```If you are
A peace-supplier,Then God will come to you
As a Supreme Lover. ```If you are a seeker
Of silence-light,Then God will grant you
An eternal dawnIn His universal Heart.
```From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 64, Agni Press, 1984
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