Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 7

601

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My heart does not know

How it can ever live

Without the daily

Compassion-Consolation-Embrace

Of my Beloved Supreme.

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602

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Because your mind sincerely needs

Illumination,

Because your heart soulfully needs

Liberation,

Because your life desperately needs

Perfection,

God is going to give you, before long,

His own Credit Card. ```

603

```

Who else is a real fool

If not he who does not ask God

For anything

For fear of His Answer? ```

604

```

He is not suffering

From his disbelief.

He is suffering

From the extravagance

Of his self-styled faith.

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605

```

My heart needs only one thing.

It needs to be guided

Along the age-old path

Of life-blossoming self-awareness. ```

606

```

Allow me, O Lord,

Immediately to stand

For the God-realisation examination.

I wish to be spared

The torment of waiting.

```

607

```

Self-indulgence means

The extinguished flame

Of hope for God-realisation.

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608

```

Expectation

Is the beginning of temptation

In the outer life.

Dedication

Is the beginning of satisfaction

In the inner life. ```

609

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I have opened up an account

With God’s Heart-Bank.

Therefore, I see nowhere

The battering waves of poverty-thoughts. ```

610

```

When are you going to realise

That you are living in the dark

When you live in the great maze

Of tormenting thought? ```

611

```

A single breath of purity

Can fell the hurtful

Division-tree.

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612

```

Since you have survived

The countless attacks of ignorance,

For you there can be

No illusion-prison of false dreams. ```

613

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Bitter failures have taught you!

Therefore, you do not have to remain

Any longer a stranger

To your pure self-insight. ```

614

```

Since temptation-life has failed

To bind your mind,

Fear-cramps cannot grip

Your heart. ```

615

```

A seeker’s humility-heart

Knows how to become

The Smile of God.

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616

```

If you start now,

You will have plenty of time

To convince God to grant you

His immortal Smile

Before death forces you

To enter through its door. ```

617

```

If you constantly indulge

Your incapacities,

You will be forced to climb

The stairway of despair. ```

618

```

Do not bury the world

With your indifference-eye

If you want to see

The beauty-hours of Heaven-days

On earth.

```

619

```

If you find fault

With God the Compassion,

How can you expect to see

The death of your desire-life? ```

620

```

If you can have patience

As your inner breath,

Then you will have fortitude

As your outer body. ```

621

```

To feed my mind

My Lord has become great.

To feed my heart

My Lord has become good.

To feed my soul

My Lord has become perfect.

To feed my life

My Lord has become

His humanity’s cry

And His Divinity’s Smile. ```

622

```

Because your mind

Lives on stupidity-street,

Your heart’s divinity-flames

Are all extinguished. ```

623

```

I foresee a hopeless battle

Inside you

Between your mind and your heart.

Your mind wants to poison your heart

So it cannot pray to God.

Your heart wants to unburden your mind

So it will not put unnecessary

And unwanted pressure on the heart.

Indeed, this will be a hopeless battle.

God alone knows whether either party

Is going to win.

```

624

```

I do not want to remember

My unaspiring heart,

Complacent mind

And strangling vital.

The very act of remembering

My past weaknesses

Can destroy me.

```

625

```

Imagination

Is the beauty of power.

Aspiration

Is the power of purity.

Realisation

Is the oneness of divinity. ```

626

```

His ego has been bluntly

And mercilessly assaulted.

Therefore, the human in him

Is heaving a sigh of remorse,

The divine in him

Is heaving a sigh of relief

And the Supreme in him

Is celebrating his new birth. ```

627

```

Your desire-lives

Are your own history’s dust-heaps.

Your aspiration-lives

Are your God’s Heaven-climbing

And earth-illumining Towers.

```

628

```

Allow failure to teach you

A supreme lesson:

Each sunset is the beginning

Of a very, very bright

And powerful sunrise.

```

629

```

If you want to succeed

Divinely and supremely,

Then every day you must water

The green plants of your heart-garden. ```

630

```

The winter of your body’s lethargy

Can immediately be over

Only if you are ready to welcome

The spring of your soul’s dynamism. ```

631

```

Do not be afraid

Of your teeming weaknesses.

Brook no compromise with them!

Wrestle with the task

Of divinising them

With your soul’s wisdom-light. ```

632

```

Tame everything in your life

Save and except

Your heart’s soulful tears.

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633

```

Be not discouraged!

Be only determined!

The Golden Shore is eagerly waiting

For the arrival of your silver dream-boat. ```

634

```

No wonder your hope-rainbow

Has completely vanished!

You have allowed your mind-sky

To be eclipsed by the darkness

Of countless doubt-clouds.

```

635

```

Unless you release

Your heart’s hidden tears,

You will not be able to see

The beauty and divinity

Of your life’s improvement-sky.

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636

```

O mountains of misunderstanding,

I am praying to God

While, at the same time, waiting

For your life-stories to end. ```

637

```

My mind tells me

That God’s Timetable

Does not change at all.

My heart tells me

That God’s Timetable

Changes very slowly.

My soul tells me

That God’s Timetable

Changes not only speedily

But also perfectly. ```

638

```

You call it

A tiny disobedience.

I call it

The unmistakable beginning

Of your life-destroying

Spiritual downfall. ```

639

```

Two things must live together

Inside a seeker:

His heart’s absolute truth

And his life’s grateful obedience.

Then alone can he be

A supremely chosen instrument

Of God.

```

640

```

Each soul

Is an accomplished interpreter

For the unknown worlds

Of unmanifested divinity-flames. ```

641

```

If you really want

To succeed in life,

Then do not allow

Your aspiration-heart to waver

Between wisdom-hope

And ignorance-despair. ```

642

```

My mind calls it complacency,

My heart calls it carelessness,

My soul calls it blindness,

My God calls it uselessness

And I call it

My God-forgetfulness-life. ```

643

```

If your mind was born

To inspiration,

If your heart was born

To aspiration,

If your life was born

To dedication,

If your soul was born

To illumination,

Then you were definitely born

To realisation. ```

644

```

One little act of selflessness

Is the magnet

That draws both God’s Perfection-Eye

And God’s Satisfaction-Heart. ```

645

```

The loser’s inner speed

Is lethargy.

The loser’s outer speed

Is unwillingness.

The winner’s inner speed

Is self-offering.

The winner’s outer speed

Is self-perfection-smile. ```

646

```

Do not accept any substitute

For God.

God has asked me to inform you

That He never liked the idea

Of having a substitute for Himself.

```

647

```

To whom does the world belong?

Certainly it does not belong

To my self-sufficient mind.

```

648

```

You have now become

A supremely chosen instrument of God

Because you were ready to risk

The world’s dire disapproval. ```

649

```

Look what the dark impurity

Of your mind

Has done to you!

It has given birth

To a giant rascal-ego.

```

650

```

How can you expect to find any proper cure

For your chronic depression-night,

When you were not even alarmed

By the early death

Of your faith-plant-life?

```

651

```

When your winning-life

Ceases to matter,

God’s loving Heart will grow

Quickly, proudly and unconditionally. ```

652

```

Since your mind is invaded

By uncertainty,

Your heart is bound to be caught

In a web of sorrow. ```

653

```

At the end

Of its unimaginably long journey,

Intellect said to intuition:

“I am very sincerely yours.” ```

654

```

Always say a willing “Yes”

To God

If you want Him to liberate you

From the prison of self-indulgence. ```

655

```

You have uprooted your faith-tree.

Therefore, your God,

Unlike mine,

Has now become very small. ```

656

```

The shadow of a deep sorrow

Is crossing your heart-path

Because you do not care

To shake ignorance-dust

From your two little eyes.

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657

```

Yesterday I was happy

Because God’s Eye was watching me.

Today I am happy

Because my eyes are turning towards God.

Tomorrow I shall be happy

Because my eyes and God’s Eye

Will together dine.

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658

```

As God the Heart-Searcher

Is very careful,

Even so, God the Life-Saviour

Is very powerful. ```

659

```

How can Heaven be near your heart

When you so deeply enjoy your stay

In the house of indulgence-luxury?

```

660

```

What can the body-bound nature

Of man’s mind do?

It can only remain imprisoned

In its own low and abysmal life. ```

661

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His heart is a born God-seeker.

His life is a born God-lover.

His soul is a born God-distributor.

```

662

```

This world lives

In a totally false peace.

Therefore, my heart longs

To be left alone for Eternity. ```

663

```

His life is too pure to play

With the world’s temptation-flames.

His heart is too sure to play

With the world’s frustration-fires. ```

664

```

Where does he live?

He lives on the altar

Of his heart’s sacred song-flames.

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665

```

Truth does not know

How to transcend,

But God knows!

Truth is old,

But God is at once

Eternally new

And eternally old.

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666

```

When I open my eyes

I see God,

The Beauty of the finite.

When I close my eyes

I see God,

The Divinity of the Infinite. ```

667

```

My heart’s willingness

Has the capacity to open

My life’s locked limitation-doors.

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668

```

If you keep your faith-treasure safe,

Your doubt-mind cannot decide

The course of your life.

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669

```

O my backward-thinking mind,

How will you ever feel

The delight-touch

Of my soul-light? ```

670

```

Because you offer God

Only imitation prayers,

God is not liberating you

From your swarm of wild

And dangerous worries.

```

671

```

What is an unaspiring life

If not an unbearable agony

Of self-deception?

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672

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A disturbing thought:

This is what your mind

Can any time be.

An illumining oneness:

This is what your heart

Forever shall remain. ```

673

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Unless your heart becomes

A constantly spinning hope-top,

How can your life set an abiding trend

Of success-smile and progress-dance? ```

674

```

What was I doing?

I was hunting my mind’s

Dangerous thoughts.

What am I doing now?

I am obeying my soul’s

Precious will. ```

675

```

If you want to prove

Your unparalleled capacity,

You will end up exhibiting

Your unparalleled incapacity. ```

676

```

Twice I was awestruck.

Once I was awestruck

By the imperfection-night

Of my life,

And once I was awestruck

By the Compassion-Sun

Of God’s Heart.

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677

```

Do you want to know

What I am missing?

I am missing my heart’s

God-loving orphan-sorrow. ```

678

```

There can never be any difference

Between the haughtiness of

A self-sufficient mind

And the emptiness of

A God-deficient life.

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679

```

My life of dedication

Cheerfully owns

Only what God has unconditionally sown

Inside my aspiration-heart. ```

680

```

The mind is

Its own nonsense-cleverness.

The heart is

Its own wisdom-oneness.

The soul is

Its own perfection-fulness. ```

681

```

If you do not make

The people around you happy,

Your heart’s inner shrine

Will be without God. ```

682

```

What is life

If not a longing for

The blossoming of an opportunity

To become an integrally perfect man? ```

683

```

Today before the sun sets

I must realise that my mind

Is only a fleeting thing

And that my heart

Is an abiding treasure-gift from God.

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684

```

My prayer-life

Powerfully awakens me.

My meditation-life

Richly rewards me. ```

685

```

Nobody, not even God,

Enjoys the confrontation between

Light-beauty and darkness-ugliness.

How, then, can you enjoy it? ```

686

```

My tiny gratitude-plant

And God’s huge Compassion-Tree

Are inseparably growing together.

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687

```

A life ruled by

The laughable certainty

Of the finite mind

Is even worse

Than a life hopelessly lost

In a labyrinth of possibilities. ```

688

```

So simple a thing as love divine,

Alas, nobody wants.

So sweet a thing as oneness perfect,

Alas, nobody needs. ```

689

```

Victory over the mind

Helps you become

The partner of God the Liberator.

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690

```

Experience is the miracle

Of transformation.

Realisation is the natural awareness

Of oneness-perfection. ```

691

```

To establish your reign

In every atom,

You must scatter the seeds

Of universal oneness-love. ```

692

```

My Beloved Supreme,

I shall gladly allow You

To steal my heart

Only on one condition:

That You do not return it.

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693

```

Because of your impure mind,

Yesterday you were tempted to take.

Because of your pure heart,

Today you are prompted to give. ```

694

```

What I know

And what I do not know:

I know the abyss of hell,

And I do not know

The transcendental heights of Heaven.

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695

```

If you think

You are God’s slave,

Then beg Him slavishly

To give you an iota of Love.

If you think

You are God’s child,

Then ask Him soulfully

To give you His infinite Delight. ```

696

```

Alas, when will life’s

Treacherous vanity

Be illumined by the soul’s

Sleepless God-loving thirst? ```

697

```

His heart has become as generous

As a fountain of art.

Therefore, his life is becoming

Humanity’s precious journey’s start

To Heaven’s unmeasured

And unscaled heights. ```

698

```

Enslave your ambition-horse

If you want to become

God’s fondness-lamb.

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699

```

Do you not see

That your life’s excessive hope

And your mind’s possessive nature

Will before long destroy you

Completely?

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700

```

My Beloved Lord Supreme,

Your Justice-Flames may not know,

But Your Forgiveness-Sun does know

How to make me Your own, very own. ```

From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 7, Agni Press, 1983
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