Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 69

6801

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Surrender, surrender, surrender!

Let your life

Be a garland of surrender.

Your soul will grant you

Its satisfaction-tower.

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6802

```

Ignorance-obstacles

Are bowing to you

Because

You have become a student

At the school of wisdom-light.

```

6803

```

Alas, I do not know

How long I shall have to continue

Loving my worthless mind

In my sleepless life. ```

6804

```

You have so many enemies

Because you do not live

In your soul’s universal

Oneness-delight. ```

6805

```

Do not turn

The pages of the past

If you want an inspiration-mind

And an aspiration-heart

To be your intimate friends.

```

6806

```

A God-lover and truth-seeker

Has the capacity

To save even those

Who have lost all hope. ```

6807

```

A fallen life

Need not be

And cannot be

A fallen life forever. ```

6808

```

Do not spread rumours

About your God-realisation.

Neither God nor man

Will appreciate them. ```

6809

```

Since faith is known

All the world over,

Can you not have

An all-illumining faith-heart? ```

6810

```

It is you who have dug

Your disobedience-grave.

It is you, therefore,

Who have to be buried

In that grave.

```

6811

```

Do not think

That everybody has the capacity

Or will have the capacity

In the near future

To correspond regularly with God.

Impossible! ```

6812

```

Can you not see

That you have become

A most deplorable victim

Of your own destruction-deeds? ```

6813

```

O my heart,

Do not become a blind agent

Of ignorance-night

The way my body, vital and mind

Have already become.

```

6814

```

I am a seeker-heart.

I have simply nothing to do

With my mind’s far-fetched fantasies.

```

6815

```

If you can keep

Pure thoughts in your mind

During the day,

Then at night you will be blessed

With the company of angels.

```

6816

```

Only one thing do I want:

Never to allow my mind

To be paralysed by impurity.

```

6817

```

Be alert, be alert,

If you want to be

A God-representative on earth.

Otherwise,

You will be forced to sink back

Into your life’s darkness-sleep. ```

6818

```

If your vital is brave

And your mind is pure,

Then I do not see why

You should be unwilling

To measure yourself

Against the Standard of the Supreme. ```

6819

```

Yesterday

The world invited desires.

Today

The world is preventing peace

From manifesting itself on earth.

```

6820

```

The difference

Between you and God

Is this:

God forgives

But does not forget.

You neither forget

Nor forgive.

```

6821

```

An unthinkable mind

Does not know

The beauty, purity and divinity

Of an unsinkable boat. ```

6822

```

When he gave God his heart

For safekeeping,

God saved his life from impurity,

A many-sided monster. ```

6823

```

Yesterday

Your ego asserted its existence.

Therefore, today

God has deserted

Your heart’s happiness-home.

```

6824

```

You must never step over

The disobedience-line,

For your soul of light

Has come into existence

For Infinity’s God-manifestation.

```

6825

```

Every morning

Before you pray and meditate

And after you pray and meditate,

Try to assess cheerfully

Your spiritual assets.

```

6826

```

Do you want to have

A time to be alone with God?

Then destroy your all-consuming

Desire-life

Once and for all!

```

6827

```

The mind does not see

Its own darkness.

The heart does not feel

Its own soulfulness.

The life does not know

Its own fruitfulness. ```

6828

```

As long as you live on earth,

In order to be happy and peaceful,

Just feel that the world belongs to God

And not to you. ```

6829

```

Why did you allow death

To tie its ropes around you,

Why?

Who will and who can

Save you now?

```

6830

```

There are many rules

On life’s battlefield.

If you do not abide by them,

Then you will become

A prey to destruction.

```

6831

```

God does not want you to offer

Row after row of excuses.

He just wants you to start

A new beginning. ```

6832

```

Your desire-life

Is about to destroy you

Completely.

Can you not quickly,

With your heart’s aspiration-flames,

Renew your passport

To celestial realms?

```

6833

```

Inner oneness is what I need,

Not outer familiarity.

Familiarity-capacity

Is the problem-maker.

Oneness-necessity

Is the problem-solver. ```

6834

```

Once we totally surrender

To God’s Will,

Even if we want

To withdraw our surrender,

God will not allow it.

```

6835

```

He was a champion,

But because he did not have

True oneness,

He felt miserable long before

His record was actually broken.

```

6836

```

You want to be more spiritual

In your inner life.

Then why are you not daily

Praying to your Lord Supreme?

You want to be more spiritual

In your outer life.

Then why are you not daily

Serving humanity? ```

6837

```

Again and again

You are making the same mistake

And asking others to forgive you.

But what right do you have

To expect and demand their forgiveness

As long as you continue

Making the same mistake?

```

6838

```

Practise meditation secretly and soulfully

Wherever you are.

Soon you will gain the confidence

To meditate on God

Consciously and constantly.

```

6839

```

You are really good,

Yet you entertain

The lowest opinion of yourself.

He is really bad,

Yet he remains convinced

That he is extremely good.

What can poor God do?

```

6840

```

The world will value heart-power

Only when there are

Many more sincere seekers

Who will do everything

In the sacred spirit of self-giving,

And who will give up everything

For their Lord Supreme.

```

6841

```

The Lord Supreme wishes to play

Only one game

With His sweet children,

And that game

Is His Eternity’s Satisfaction-Game.

```

6842

```

His spiritual life has become

Nothing but a stagnant pool.

He will undoubtedly be washed away

When new seekers come

With a new hope

And a new promise

To manifest the Lord Supreme.

```

6843

```

The old year is dying.

The new year is bringing

A new life, a new beginning.

Now is the time

For the seeker-children

Of the Lord Supreme

To treasure a new hope

And a new promise. ```

6844

```

Do you think that God lives

All by Himself?

No, He lives with millions

Of secret and sacred plans

For you.

```

6845

```

Behold,

God’s Fulness-Heart

Wants to accompany

Your goodness-life! ```

6846

```

My Lord,

Out of Your infinite Bounty,

You have made me

Inseparably one with You.

Now, if even for a fleeting second,

I wish to enjoy my previous will —

Which is none other than

My undivine will —

Please do not allow it.

Never again do I wish to have

Any sense of separativity.

```

6847

```

You fool!

Not by studying books,

But by discovering

The spontaneous reality in yourself,

Will you experience the Highest.

```

6848

```

I do not like

The wild dance of your vital.

I only like

The sweet song of your heart. ```

6849

```

If you do not dare

To call your Inner Pilot

Your own, very own,

How can your Inner Pilot

Sing His Eternity’s Silence-Song

For you? ```

6850

```

Discipline

Is joy misunderstood.

Aspiration

Is satisfaction misunderstood. ```

6851

```

If you have the eagerness

To dominate your desire-life,

Then God will be true to you

At every moment. ```

6852

```

Divine love

Never has to cry.

Divine surrender

Never has to sigh. ```

6853

```

If you do not have sleepless faith,

Your life will be

An agonising marathon

Of unending miles. ```

6854

```

If you are cherishing

Your doubting mind,

You will never be able to run

In the progress-race

6855

```

Something is missing.

What is it?

Peace, amid a storm of doubts.

```

6856

```

You have given so much joy

To your doubting mind.

Can you not give

Your remaining years

To God’s Satisfaction-Delight?

```

6857

```

If you are always thinking

Of being attacked

By this and that,

How will you ever dare

To develop a special relationship

With God? ```

6858

```

His life is lost

Between hope’s blue sky

And despair’s dark cave.

```

6859

```

You are so stupid!

How can you be jealous

Of your heart’s progress-life?

```

6860

```

Unless you uproot

Your deepest fears,

Your inner fate will remain

In the world of dark misfortune. ```

6861

```

My life’s self-giving

Is the sweetness

Born of my soul’s oneness.

```

6862

```

Just do the right thing!

Play the role of a divine seeker

Satisfactorily.

God will definitely help you

Hoist your victory-flag.

```

6863

```

Your desire-life knows

The sleep that lasts

For futile centuries.

```

6864

```

My Lord Supreme,

You forgive me

And give me another chance,

Not because

I deserve forgiveness,

But because

You want Your entire creation

To be absolutely perfect. ```

6865

```

Every day

I may not feel like

Serving others.

Still, I do serve,

Just for the purification

Of my body

And for the satisfaction

Of my soul. ```

6866

```

He accepted his life

As a challenge to himself.

He had no outer boss to please,

Only his own inner aspiration. ```

6867

```

Truth does not have to be

Always soft.

If necessity demands,

Truth can be harsh as well. ```

6868

```

If you fail to attain

Peace,

How will you regain

Your Inner Pilot? ```

6869

```

He has studied

In God’s Illumination-School.

Therefore

He has vehemently discarded

The mind’s division-caste system.

```

6870

```

You are your heart’s gratitude-breath.

Therefore, every day

God grants you the opportunity

To swim in His Satisfaction-River. ```

6871

```

Great

Is the art of beginning.

Good

Is the art of ending.

But for you, best

Is the art of continuing

And transcending.

```

6872

```

You are not a fool.

Why then, in your inner life,

Do you not mind

When you run backwards? ```

6873

```

The human mind

Is always aiming at some conclusion,

And that conclusion

Is giant confusion! ```

6874

```

Because of his inner blindness

And unwillingness to see God’s Light,

He is totally denied

The illumining flower-garden

Of his life.

```

6875

```

Do not allow,

Either consciously or unconsciously,

The layers of impurity-dust

To cover the brilliance of your soul. ```

6876

```

If you are not careful,

Even the smallest temptation-drop

Can destroy

Your aspiration-heart. ```

6877

```

Your heart’s oneness-delight

Loves the special messenger

From God:

The prince of delight. ```

6878

```

What is wrong with you?

Be not ashamed,

Be not embarrassed

To look at your own failure-creations. ```

6879

```

For the lost seekers,

There is no encouragement

From Heaven

And there is no determination

From earth.

```

6880

```

Unswervingly march inward!

Your Beloved Supreme

Is eagerly awaiting your arrival.

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6881

```

The spirituality

That does not believe

In God-manifestation

Will always look like

A half-empty house.

```

6882

```

I see you are totally lost

Between

Your mind’s human despair

And your soul’s divine dreams. ```

6883

```

Your heart’s full moon

Is rising.

Your soul’s morning sun

Is rising.

Therefore, yours will be a life

Of tremendous progress

In the inner world.

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6884

```

You cannot capture

The realisation-prize.

You have to earn it.

```

6885

```

With eyes clear of confusion

If you look within,

God will converse with you

Lovingly and proudly. ```

6886

```

It is not what you have already done,

But what you are going to transcend

In your immediate future

That is of paramount importance. ```

6887

```

In my tiny heart

God the infinite Beauty

And man the constant necessity

Eternally abide. ```

6888

```

Your eyes are full of expectation.

But tell me if your heart

Is all aspiration.

If not, all your expectations

Will end in vain.

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6889

```

I admire your heart-house,

But I shall love your heart-house

Only if you build it

A little higher. ```

6890

```

What can your prayers do?

They can help you enter

The world’s closed heart,

And they can help you bring down

God’s Smile from Above.

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6891

```

Behold!

The body, the vital and the mind

Are campaigning

To conquer earth’s insecurity. ```

6892

```

How can you be happy

When your heart has become

A helplessly fast-dying hope?

```

6893

```

Only one thing

I would like to see

In my lifetime:

God’s Voice echoing

In every heart.

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6894

```

Do not think

Of a success-future,

For your lack of faith

In yourself

Has made you friendless,

Helpless and homeless. ```

6895

```

What does your faith

Do for others?

Your faith

Brings their best to the fore

All the time.

```

6896

```

You have the capacity

To control your vital rebellion.

Just use your aspiration-heart’s

Sleepless oneness-power. ```

6897

```

For God-realisation

You need not acquire anything special.

You have only to become aware

Of what is already

Deep inside you.

```

6898

```

How to know

When you have realised God?

The day you can look in the mirror

And use your inner will-power

To see not only your face

But countless other faces

In and around your face,

And know that these faces

Are all yours —

On that day you will know

That you have realised God.

```

6899

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On the strength of our present

Concentration on the physical,

In the process of evolution,

Humanity will achieve

More confidence-light,

More success-might

And more progress-delight

In the body-consciousness. ```

6900

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My Lord Supreme,

When I realise You,

Will I be different?

“Yes, My child!

Previously you thought

You were meant to live

An ordinary human life.

But when you realise Me,

You will feel that you have

Something very special

To do for Me on earth.”

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From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 69, Agni Press, 1984
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