Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 94

9301

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God’s Compassion

Is taking care of

My heart’s aspiration-plant.

God’s Satisfaction

Will take care of

My life’s reality-tree.

```

9302

```

Do not relax in your spiritual life.

Do not act like a fool!

Be wise at every moment

To get the utmost benefit

From your heart’s aspiration-cry

And from your life’s dedication-smile. ```

9303

```

Spiritual Masters —

Whether of the past, present or future —

All have the same opinion:

No sincere effort fails;

No sincere prayer remains unheard.

```

9304

```

My Lord Supreme,

How can I avoid

Disobeying You unconsciously?

“My child,

If you have constant eagerness

To please Me in My own Way,

Then automatically

Unconscious disobedience

Will disappear.”

```

9305

```

Do not forget

To ask your mind and heart

Every day, without fail,

How you can please God

In His own Way.

```

9306

```

My Lord,

You have given me a zero

On my progress report.

Have I not pleased You at all?

And do You think

I shall never make any progress?

Alas, alas!

```

9307

```

This morning my Lord Supreme

Told me an open secret:

When I do not please Him

In His own Way

He may still give me

His outer Smile,

But inwardly He sees a big black stain

On my aspiration-heart. ```

9308

```

With aspiration-flames

And determination-fire

You can increase your heart’s purity

And your life’s divinity

To please God.

```

9309

```

“My dear child,

Unfortunately you feel

That since you have pleased Me

In nine ways out of ten,

I will forgive you

If you do not please Me

In the tenth way.

But I know that you can please Me

In each and every way.”

```

9310

```

God appreciates that you have

Many good qualities.

But be careful!

Even one bad quality

Can take away all His Joy.

```

9311

```

If you can repeat from morn to eve,

“My Lord Supreme,

I want to please You

In Your own Way,”

Then you cannot

Unconsciously disobey God. ```

9312

```

Look deep within.

Are you expecting God

To please you in your own way?

If that is what you want,

You and your life

Will be total failures. ```

9313

```

In the inner life

And in the outer life

There is nothing as useless

And as destructive

As disobedience to God’s Will.

```

9314

```

God knows what is best for you:

Make this a psychic realisation

And not just a mental conviction.

```

9315

```

O my Lord Supreme,

Are You aware of my disobedience?

If so, what do You do

With my disobedience-life?

“My child,

It is easier for Me

To fulfil My Promise to your soul

To transform your nature

If I pretend

That I have not seen and felt

Your disobedience.”

```

9316

```

Alas, in his life

All good qualities

Are forced to surrender

To one bad quality —

Disobedience to God-Light.

```

9317

```

My sweet Lord,

I need many, many things from You.

“My child,

You do not need many things

From Me.

You only need one thing,

And that is My Satisfaction

In you, with you and for you.” ```

9318

```

A God-lover’s best attitude:

God cared for me,

God cares for me

And God will always care for me. ```

9319

```

God is cultivating

A garden of good qualities

In His seeker-children:

Security-trees, purity-flowers

And surrender-fruits.

And He will not allow

Any disobedience-seed

To take root. ```

9320

```

Yesterday

God cared for me

By giving me a powerful Smile.

Today

God cares for me

By not giving me an unwise Smile.

```

9321

```

If you really love God

And need only God,

Then give God the opportunity

To care for you

Always in His own Way.

```

9322

```

My Lord Supreme,

True, I have lost all hope,

But Your Eye of indifference

Ruthlessly tortures me. ```

9323

```

Do not feel

That yours is a failure-life.

Do you not know

That God has infinitely more hope

For your life

Than you do? ```

9324

```

If you do not have new hope,

New aspiration and new dedication

Every day,

Then where is your true awakening? ```

9325

```

My Lord Supreme,

Which of my difficulties

Looms the largest?

Is it impurity, doubt

Or insecurity?

“My child,

There is only one obstacle

In your life,

And that is disobedience.”

```

9326

```

When you accepted the spiritual life

Did God say to you,

“My child,

Now I shall please you

In your own way”?

Or did your heart and soul

Say to God,

“My Beloved Supreme,

I am accepting the spiritual life

Only to please You

In Your own Way”?

```

9327

```

Do you not realise

That God is too compassionate

To please you in your own way?

```

9328

```

I am sure that your purity-heart

Wants to give you confidence-light

To replace your mind’s arrogance-night.

```

9329

```

God does not want to prove

That He is right

And you are wrong.

He just wants you to be illumined

By His Perfection-Smile.

```

9330

```

Do not forget,

You have two hurdles to cross:

God-realisation first,

And then God-manifestation. ```

9331

```

You know inwardly perfectly well

That you are a beginner-seeker.

Is it not useless

To try to convince others

That you are very advanced?

```

9332

```

He aspired deeply and intensely.

Therefore, God’s infinite Bounty

Made him win the inner aspiration-race.

Do not envy him.

Try to surpass him

If you want to.

Or at least you can follow him.

```

9333

```

According to your heart’s receptivity-smile

God is trying and trying

To manifest Himself in and through you

In a very special way. ```

9334

```

God is not looking to see

Who stands first or last.

God is only looking to see

If your consciousness-light

Is bright.

```

9335

```

Read spiritual books

With your heart’s aspiration;

You will understand everything.

Read them with your mind’s suspicion;

You will understand nothing.

```

9336

```

God is not expecting you

To reach His inner Height.

But if you can reach

Your own height,

He will be more than happy.

```

9337

```

If you cannot reach your highest

When you stand before

Your Lord Supreme,

Then when are you going to

Reach your highest?

```

9338

```

Meditation is

The expansion of consciousness.

When you are meditating,

If you feel and know

That along with you

Someone else will benefit

From your meditation,

Then this is absolutely perfect meditation. ```

9339

```

The day you lose enthusiasm and joy

In your spiritual life

Is the beginning

Of your journey’s end. ```

9340

```

O sadness-night,

I shall never allow you

To enter into my aspiration-heart,

For You are ruthlessly destroying

My inner and outer capacity-smiles.

```

9341

```

O my vital,

You are worse than a mad elephant,

For a mad elephant has peace

At least some of the time,

Whereas you enjoy

Constant rebellion and destruction. ```

9342

```

Knock at your own heart-door

To see God and feel God.

Knock at God’s Heart-Door

To enter into His Heart-Room

And to sit there

With utmost joy, love and gratitude. ```

9343

```

My Lord Supreme,

Would You kindly make

All important decisions in my life?

I shall always ask You

Inwardly and outwardly what I should do.

My Lord,

Do make all decisions

In my life. ```

9344

```

Force yourself to believe

That someday you are destined

To become a choice instrument of God.

Once more your willingness-heart

Will come to the fore.

```

9345

```

God sees in you

Tremendous enthusiasm,

Eagerness and oneness.

That is why

He is lovingly and affectionately

Calling you His divine soldier

Who threatens the ignorance-tiger

All the time. ```

9346

```

God has given you

The capacity to please Him.

But if you do not exercise the capacity,

Then you are a failure,

And You make poor God feel

That He is also a total failure. ```

9347

```

The law of karma is one thing

And the divine Grace is another.

Remember,

Grace can nullify,

Grace can illumine,

Grace can expedite,

Grace can multiply —

Of course,

If you believe in Grace!

```

9348

```

The way of the heart

Is to conquer all oppositions

Inner and outer.

```

9349

```

When outer difficulties

Stand in front of you,

Just tell yourself,

“If I can meditate

In spite of this opposition,

I will become

A better and stronger God-seeker

And God-lover.” ```

9350

```

The mind may surrender

To opposition-wall,

But the heart can and will

Bring to the fore

The joy of overcoming all opposition.

```

9351

```

My Beloved Lord

Offered me a simple cure-all:

“Remain always happy and soulful.

Then easily you will be able to aspire

And dedicate your life to Me,

And your imperfection-life

Will come to an end.”

```

9352

```

On your birthday

Muster the courage to ask yourself

Two bold questions:

“Why did I come to earth?”

“Am I making satisfactory progress

In my spiritual life?” ```

9353

```

Everybody has to know

In the heart of his heart

How much God cares for him

If he wants to swim in the sea

Of progress-satisfaction-delight.

```

9354

```

You fool!

By blaming God

For what He has not done

Or what He has done,

You will never be able

To become another God. ```

9355

```

It is absurd to build

A manifestation-temple

Without an aspiration-shrine.

```

9356

```

My Lord,

Teach me how to speak to the world

About You

With real conviction.

“My child,

You will have conviction

Only if your aspiration

Has a volcano-intensity.” ```

9357

```

What he has

Is inner sweetness and charm.

What he needs

Is a heart of greater intensity

To please the Supreme

In His own Way. ```

9358

```

If you value opportunity,

Lo, opportunity will come

Again and again

In new forms.

All God-seekers

Have come to this conclusion! ```

9359

```

You are not your mind.

Why do you have to care

Whether your mind is tired

Of loving God or not?

Indeed, you are your soul.

Your soul can never be tired

Of loving God.

```

9360

```

True, you have been working

Very intensely.

But where is the sincerity

In your intensity,

Not to speak of purity?

```

9361

```

To raise the consciousness of the world

What is needed?

Intensity in your aspiration,

Immensity in the world’s receptivity. ```

9362

```

If your heart

Feels the necessity,

Then God’s Eye

Will give you the capacity

To love the divine in man

And transform the animal in man. ```

9363

```

God the Creator

Feeds my heart.

God the creation

Needs my life. ```

9364

```

It is God the Lover inside you

Who offers the world joy and love.

It is God the Beloved who receives it

In the world-heart. ```

9365

```

Today’s seeker

Does not want to become

A cave-dweller.

And God is completely satisfied

With the seeker’s decision.

```

9366

```

If you want to see

The infinite beauty of your face,

Then keep your heart always

Under the canopy of God’s Grace. ```

9367

```

For those who are aspiring

All the time,

The life-elevator

Is only ascending and ascending

With their aspiration, dedication,

Love, devotion and surrender. ```

9368

```

God’s inner Call you will hear

Only when you are ready

To soulfully accept

His outer Commands. ```

9369

```

Against world-destruction,

Ours is the prayer for peace

And meditation for peace.

We pray to the Supreme

So that the world is not destroyed.

We meditate on the Supreme

So that the world gets illumination.

```

9370

```

Before you came to see him

You felt his inner presence.

Then when you came to see him

You immediately felt

Your own inner peace.

```

9371

```

He was such a fool!

He thought his insecurity

Was a tiny object

That he could easily crush.

But as soon as he tried to grab it,

He discovered that it was

Larger than the largest

And stronger than the strongest. ```

9372

```

When he tried to force God

To fulfil his desires,

Soon his anger, frustration,

Insecurity and impurity

Burned like wildfire

And reduced his aspiration-life to ashes. ```

9373

```

The mind’s separation-power

Never stops.

The heart’s oneness-hour

Ever remains. ```

9374

```

My sweet Lord,

When I am resting,

Please stay with me.

When I am talking to others,

Please speak through me.

When I am before my shrine,

Please pray and meditate for me.

```

9375

```

You are a fool

If you think that only your shrine

And no other place

Is visited by God. ```

9376

```

Food is God:

This is what the seers of the past

Taught me.

God is hunger:

This is what my heart

Is teaching me.

```

9377

```

It is so difficult to run,

Yet not only do I run

But I run for miles every day.

If I can run for miles,

How is it that You, my Lord,

Cannot even watch me?

“My child,

I am not only watching you

But also running with you,

In you and for you.” ```

9378

```

When I ask myself,

“Am I keeping God

Always inside my heart?”

And I can answer sincerely,

“Yes,”

Then I am perfect. ```

9379

```

When I enjoy my silence-life,

Keeping my concentration

On God,

Then I am a supremely chosen instrument

Of God.

```

9380

```

Let us have the conscious belief

That God is with us

At every moment,

Even when we are fast asleep

In ignorance-night.

```

9381

```

When I am in a good consciousness,

God’s Vision-Eye is watching.

When I am in a bad consciousness,

His Compassion-Heart is watching.

When I am meditating,

He is watching.

When I am serving,

He is watching.

God has always the Blessing-Time

To watch me. ```

9382

```

We must feel God’s Presence

In both divinity’s action

And humanity’s inaction.

As God is both

With form and formless,

Even so, He is both

Action and inaction.

```

9383

```

Although he prays to God,

He thinks there is no God.

Although she does not pray to God,

She thinks God is all for her. ```

9384

```

When his inner divinity came to the fore,

His mind of impurity was challenged

By his heart of purity.

Lo, his mind immediately surrendered! ```

9385

```

If you are wise,

Then anything that will add

To your aspiration-flames

You will immediately do. ```

9386

```

You may not know the best way

To please God,

But if you pray daily

To be able to please Him

In His own Way,

Your prayer will unmistakably

One day bear fruit.

```

9387

```

Your Lord Supreme may not ask you

To do something for Him every day

In the outer world,

But there is not a single day

When He does not ask you

To do something for Him

In the inner world.

Needless to say,

You must take His Requests

As your fast progress-delight. ```

9388

```

The seeker’s silence-thoughts

Are eternally beautiful,

Eternally powerful

And eternally God-manifesting

Smiles.

```

9389

```

Today’s failure-plants

Will tomorrow grow into

Success-trees.

Patience from below

And Compassion from Above

Can and will do the impossible

Easily.

```

9390

```

If you do not hear

Your own heart-cry,

How can you expect God

To show His Smile to you? ```

9391

```

By insulting your mind

You cannot change your mind.

By consulting your heart

For superior knowledge

You can and will be able

To transform your mind. ```

9392

```

The supremely gifted souls

Do not have to boast,

For they know that the Golden Shore

Is always within their easy reach. ```

9393

```

If you cling

To God’s Compassion-Heart,

Then God will allow you to ring

His Satisfaction-Bell. ```

9394

```

The heart does not need

The mind-knowledge

Either to increase

Its aspiration-life

Or to decrease

Its desire-life. ```

9395

```

Every morning try to greet God

With only one thing:

An ever-increasing

Gratitude-gift. ```

9396

```

As long as your heart

Will aspire,

There is no need for your life

To retire. ```

9397

```

My promises have touched the earth,

But remain unmanifested.

My hopes, and the fulfilment

Of my hopes,

Live with the farthest planets.

```

9398

```

He needed God

Only when his life

Was a sinking breath.

Therefore

God did not make Himself

Available. ```

9399

```

In his case

Hoping for light

And groping in the dark

Have become inseparably one. ```

9400

```

God the Dreamer,

I love You,

Your Beauty.

God the Lover,

I need You,

Your Duty.

```

From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 94, Agni Press, 1984
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