Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 99

9801

```

Each time

A gratitude-heart sings,

God’s Satisfaction-Song

Increases the power

Of its smile.

```

9802

```

What you powerfully hold

In your thought-world

Will make you either

A street beggar

Or a great king.

```

9803

```

Not only is insecurity

Always late

But also it never reaches

The destined goal. ```

9804

```

Man’s eagerness

And God’s Fulness

Definitely want to live together

Forever. ```

9805

```

Sincerity

Is another name for strength.

With sincerity

A seeker’s hunger-heart

Can easily have God-Food:

Love. ```

9806

```

You are enjoying today

Your mind’s stiffness-unwillingness.

But tomorrow

God’s Compassion-Eye will show you

The beauty and joy of willingness.

```

9807

```

If you want to have a friend,

Delight,

Then make friends

With your heart’s aspiration-cry. ```

9808

```

Live not inside your success-cave.

God is all the time inviting you

To live inside your progress-palace.

```

9809

```

Information

Is what man wants

To offer man’s mind.

Illumination

Is what God wants

To grant man’s mind.

```

9810

```

Ignorance-tiger may deny God,

But it can never dare to defy

God’s Compassion-Power.

```

9811

```

Do not wait

To become supremely good.

It is already too late!

Wake up,

Run forward

And fly upward! ```

9812

```

You can succeed

Against all obstacles

If you believe in

Your own aspiration-heart

And surrender to

Your own illumination-soul. ```

9813

```

If you do not surrender

Your mind’s opinion

To God’s Compassion-Dominion,

You can never succeed

In the divine battlefield of life.

```

9814

```

A self-giving seeker

And a God-bestowing teacher

Are definitely meant for each other.

```

9815

```

Keep your heart open

To the power of love

If you want to be

In close contact with God. ```

9816

```

Now that you have set your feet

On the right path,

The path of love, devotion and surrender,

Your days and nights will be crowned

With God’s transcendental Glories.

```

9817

```

The perfection that is inside your heart

Is meant to be manifested

In your life,

Either in this lifetime

Or in future lives.

```

9818

```

The choice lies with you.

Either you take full responsibility

For your life

Or let God manifest Himself

In and through you

In His own Way. ```

9819

```

A human being

Is nothing but

A formless shape

Of uncertainty. ```

9820

```

He knows, he knows

That a rectified mistake

Is a new satisfaction-heart.

```

9821

```

Keep your determination-fire

Always burning

Inside your mind.

Then your mind will never

Be drenched with disappointment.

```

9822

```

God not only has

A listening Heart

But also He uses

His listening Heart

To welcome all our countless problems.

```

9823

```

Self-criticism is not the way

That leads to self-perfection;

Neither is self-flattery.

Through conscious self-awareness alone,

The seeker reaches his goal.

```

9824

```

Not difficult

To follow the truth-seeking life.

But difficult,

Extremely difficult,

To follow the heart-surrendering life.

```

9825

```

The mind cannot conceive of

God’s Goodness.

The heart not only conceives of

But also believes in

And finally achieves

God’s Goodness. ```

9826

```

A happy heart loves God

Because

God does not ask a happy heart

To study at the failure-school. ```

9827

```

You can face the world each day

If you pray and discuss with God

Your own life-problems

Early in the morning. ```

9828

```

Because of my stubborn nature

God had to go His Way,

And I had to go my own way.

```

9829

```

To uplift the earth-atmosphere,

Start from today

With the heart that gives

And the life that surrenders. ```

9830

```

You will be released

From the reasoning mind

Only after you have started wearing

The badge of silver faith. ```

9831

```

I have seen soulful tears

In your eyes.

That means God has definitely

Done something special for you

Inside your heart.

```

9832

```

I have nothing to do with

The mind-pendulum

That swings between

An imagination-smile

And a frustration-cry.

What I need is

An overnight transformation-mind.

```

9833

```

What is the mind,

If not a conscious fantasy

Of ridiculous and superfluous demands?

```

9834

```

He who wants to be

A God-lover and God-server

Can never be satisfied

With a limited supply of patience. ```

9835

```

Each day

Each human being

Either consciously or unconsciously

Renews his subscription

To the comfort-pleasure-life.

```

9836

```

Each undivine thought

Is a mischief-monarch

That mistreats the friends of the soul:

Love and joy. ```

9837

```

His heart is endowed

With hope-strength.

His life is filled

With frustration-blows. ```

9838

```

God’s Justice-Light

Finds it extremely difficult

To live inside your life.

But His Compassion-Height

Satisfactorily and mightily

Lives inside your heart. ```

9839

```

If you need inspiration,

Look at nature

And its beauty.

If you need aspiration,

Dive deep within

To cultivate more purity.

```

9840

```

Since you have made your life

A testament of truth,

God will write an introduction

To your life-story. ```

9841

```

With your dwarf-mind

You want to understand the world.

With your giant-heart

You are ignoring the world. ```

9842

```

Can you not see

That what I am telling you

Is true?

You have built a self-importance-image.

Therefore

God’s blessingful Life

Is not and cannot be

For you. ```

9843

```

Who can solve the ancient quarrel

Between your mind and your heart,

If not the soul-bird

Inside your aspiration-life? ```

9844

```

Your aspiration-life

Does not need permission

To enter into God’s Heart-Nest.

It always has a free access. ```

9845

```

Now that your heart

Is rich with receptivity,

God will give you back

Not only your profundity

But also His own Divinity.

```

9846

```

Alas,

The chief wish

Of the hopeful world

Is to see its own fulfilment

And not God’s Manifestation-Smile.

```

9847

```

Do not be caught

In expectation-net

If frustration is what

You never want. ```

9848

```

Once more you have stumbled

Into your mind’s stupidity-cave.

Therefore

How can you see the plenitude

Of God’s Compassion-Eye?

```

9849

```

Your mind

Is not going to decorate

Your life-room.

It is your heart

That will not only decorate

But also illumine

Your life-room. ```

9850

```

Since past lives

Can create present problems,

Be careful what you are doing now

Or no one will be able to save you

From your future problems.

```

9851

```

America’s sacred destiny

Is to show the world

That power can be used

For the constant distribution

Of earth-perfection.

```

9852

```

Every day

God does one thing for you:

He takes your enthusiasm-pulse

Carefully and smilingly. ```

9853

```

What you need every day

Early in the morning

Is a few quiet and self-giving moments

With God. ```

9854

```

The rainbow of delight

Is visible nowhere else

Except

In your heart-sky. ```

9855

```

O doubt!

Unreasonable is your existence-reality.

What is worse,

You have stayed with my mind

Far beyond my imagination.

```

9856

```

If you look around for sympathy,

You may not find it

Anywhere in the world.

But if you look around

For God’s universal Compassion-Eye,

You will find it everywhere. ```

9857

```

Your strong reliance

Upon your own capacities

Will be the downfall

Of your spiritual life. ```

9858

```

You can dream of the horizon.

You can build a new world.

But do not forget,

The heart of Mother Earth

Gave you the inspiration-light

And aspiration-delight. ```

9859

```

To practise spirituality

In its pure sense

Is to revive one’s own

Divine dignity. ```

9860

```

You cannot transcend yourself

By book studies.

But you can definitely transcend yourself

By paying attention

To the inner dictates of your soul.

```

9861

```

Do not question and doubt

The sorrows of the world.

Question the sincerity

Of your self-investigation. ```

9862

```

As long as your heart

Feels the dew of hope,

God will appear before you

With His saving Gaze. ```

9863

```

Do not fear!

You will definitely be able

To return home.

Practise cheerfulness.

Yours will be the ultimate victory.

```

9864

```

Each aspiration-life

And dedication-life

Is auditioning

For God’s successful Play

On earth.

```

9865

```

The ability to smile powerfully

And cry soulfully

Is an ancient gift to mankind.

```

9866

```

Go beyond, farther beyond!

Do not limit yourself

By comparing yourself with others,

Or even with your own self. ```

9867

```

Each time you stumble,

Get up!

Then smile and walk

Slowly, steadily and unerringly

Along the aspiration-road.

```

9868

```

I am telling you,

My seeker-friend,

That even a frustration long dead

Can torture you

Far beyond your imagination.

```

9869

```

God wants you to be fed

By His Illumination

And not to feed

Your mind’s illusion. ```

9870

```

Each soulful meditation

Is a dire challenge

To the crashing waves

Of man’s insecurity-ocean. ```

9871

```

Your name has been cancelled

From God’s blessingful Guest List.

Do you know why?

Because God saw you

Moving around with doubt.

```

9872

```

If you do not aspire,

Eventually yours will be

The desire-multiplied life

Of total failure. ```

9873

```

God’s Compassion-Sea

Has satisfied

Not only God the Giver

But also man the receiver. ```

9874

```

Unless you are always

Spiritually cautious,

You are bound to be washed away

By a flash flood of desire. ```

9875

```

The time has not yet come

For you to feel

God’s Compassion-Sea.

But now is the time

For you to be fully prepared,

Before the God-Hour dawns. ```

9876

```

Your life-achievements

Amount to nothing

Because God’s Satisfaction-Eye

Is not smiling at you. ```

9877

```

Earth is my soul’s

Adventure-land.

Heaven is my heart’s

Rapture-land. ```

9878

```

His existence-reality

Is always available

In his mind’s

Secluded silence-woods. ```

9879

```

Pray and meditate daily.

Otherwise

Your mind’s misfortune-clouds

Will astonishingly eclipse

Your heart’s illumining sun.

```

9880

```

Day and night

He does only one thing:

He plays the melody of world-separation

On his self-interest-guitar. ```

9881

```

My prayer-life sponsors

My clarity-mind.

My meditation-life sponsors

My purity-heart. ```

9882

```

To increase

My inner progress-delight,

I have renewed my attention

To the self-discipline-life. ```

9883

```

Do you know what he makes

In his mind-factory?

He makes indifference-frowns.

```

9884

```

My Lord,

Do give me

The capacity to aspire

Only for Your Satisfaction,

And thus let me not remain

An immature aspiration-seeker. ```

9885

```

If your mind is prepared

And your heart is ready,

Your Master will help you claim him

As your own, very own. ```

9886

```

For the benefit of all,

Never give up playing

God’s earth-transformation-game!

```

9887

```

Unless you master your shortcomings,

Your life-history will be full

Of meaningless incidents.

```

9888

```

Before your mind

Changes your thought,

You can send your thought

To change the world. ```

9889

```

You have been wasting your time

In self-pity.

Can you not now spend your time

In adoring God’s all-loving

Universality?

```

9890

```

Have faith

In what your heart has

For you.

Have faith

In what you have

For your life.

```

9891

```

Why do you allow doubt

To spoil the perfection

Of your mind?

Why do you allow fear

To spoil the perfection

Of your heart?

Why do you allow anxiety

To spoil the perfection

Of your life?

```

9892

```

What has caused your failures?

Not your doubt,

Not your insecurity,

But your unwillingness. ```

9893

```

As God does not have to prove

That He is God,

Even so, you do not have to prove

That you are a good seeker.

Just become one,

And God will declare you

To the world at large.

```

9894

```

When you ask the world for something,

Ask in God’s Name.

That way God can also participate

In your self-fulfilment-game. ```

9895

```

When are you going to accept

God’s Gifts —

Sincerity’s beauty

And purity’s divinity? ```

9896

```

I do not deny

That you have receptivity-power,

But I do know that your heart

Does not have enough gratitude-power. ```

9897

```

Unless you put God first

In everything you do and say,

Your aspiring life

Will wither away to nothingness. ```

9898

```

Unlike a desire-man,

A God-seeker knows

That all God has

Is also for him. ```

9899

```

The absence of aspiration

Has taken all the joy

Away from his life.

```

9900

```

O my heart’s gratitude-tears,

Inside you I want to have

My permanent home.

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From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 99, Agni Press, 1984
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