Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 202

20101

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O let my heart sow!

Let others’ lives reap! ```

20102

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When I mix with earth-wallowers,

I feel that it is too late

For me to aspire.

When I mix with Heaven-followers,

I feel that it is too soon

For me; I am not ready. ```

20103

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If we do not have

A burning yearning,

We cannot succeed

Even in our ordinary human life. ```

20104

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O humanity,

I do not want to be

Even one step above you.

I want to be

On the same footing,

Not only to make you happy

But also to make myself really happy.

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20105

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Where is God?

I wish I knew.

Who is God?

I wish I knew.

What is God to me?

I wish I knew.

In how many ways am I pleasing God?

I wish I knew.

Have I ever disappointed God?

I wish I never knew. ```

20106

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O my Lord Supreme,

Do empty my mind

Of all my unpleasant

Disobedience-stories. ```

20107

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Anger thinks that

It can rule the world.

Depression thinks that

It is ruled by the world. ```

20108

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The divine in me is rising

With the promise-sun.

The human in me is sinking

With the hope-moon. ```

20109

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My Lord,

Will You continue to forgive me?

“Yes, my child, I shall.”

My Lord,

Will I continue to show You

My gratitude?

“My child,

You should and you must!

But even if you do not give Me

Your gratitude-heart,

My unconditional Love for you

Will forever remain the same.” ```

20110

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The mind treasures

Stupid expectations.

The heart welcomes

Wise hopes. ```

20111

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If we do not chase away

The hostile force-clouds

The way we chase barking dogs,

How can our divinity fully blossom? ```

20112

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Alas,

The distance between

The mind’s suspicion

And the heart’s aspiration

Is almost unbridgeable.

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20113

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If your devotion

Is a mere display,

Then your God-receptivity-reservoir

Is bound to shrink. ```

20114

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If you are a victim of pride,

There is only one way

For you to free yourself:

Take shelter

In your humility-heart-garden.

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20115

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Lethargy

Has millions of excuses.

Dynamism

Does not believe in excuses.

It only shatters lethargy’s pride.

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20116

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Every day

Try to memorise

One God-dream-song

To make yourself divinely happy

And supremely perfect.

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20117

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Each doubtful thought

Deliberately reduces

The brightness of my life’s day.

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20118

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I am not

A weeping weakling.

I am

God’s own Confidence-Strength

In the depths of my heart.

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20119

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Each unaspiring thought

Is indeed as useless

As pure nonsense.

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20120

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What you need is

Determination-fire.

Uneasiness, unwillingness and unreadiness

Will all surrender

To the beauty and fragrance

Of determination. ```

20121

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Each desire of the mind

Has the capacity

And is the capacity

To wither the aspiration-heart-flower. ```

20122

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What do we gain

By interfering?

We gain nothing.

We just become a victim

Of our own stupidity.

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20123

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Not only your meditation-tree

But also your prayer-plant

Must never be uprooted.

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20124

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O my Lord,

Do give me another chance

So that I can plead

For Your Forgiveness.

“My child,

I shall definitely give you another chance

To remove the desire-list

Of your mind

And replace it with the aspiration-list

Of your heart.” ```

20125

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If you are a good man,

Then reject violence.

If you are a better man,

Then detest violence.

If you are the best man,

Then transform violence

Into the heart of oneness-love.

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20126

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Do not allow

Your heart-satisfaction-pocket

To become empty

If you want to fly

Higher than the highest

And faster than the fastest

In your aspiration-life.

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20127

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Doubt thinks

That it is extremely strong.

Faith knows

That it is infinitely stronger. ```

20128

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Be not afraid

Of your God-dreams.

Your God-dreams are

Your life’s future

Satisfaction-perfection-realities.

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20129

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If you can love

The beauty of the world,

Then not only the beauty

But also the fragrance of the world

Will be your permanent possessions.

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20130

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Talkers,

I see you everywhere!

Listeners,

I see you occasionally!

Doers,

I see you nowhere! ```

20131

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If you do not remain

In the desert of your mind,

Every day your heart

Will be able to weave

A beautiful, fresh and pure

Devotion-garland

For your Lord Supreme.

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20132

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Silence-fragrance within,

Activity-flower without:

This is precisely

What my life needs. ```

20133

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Both the saints

And the sinners

Agree on one point:

The transformation of human nature

Is a most difficult task.

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20134

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You are impoverished

Not because

You do not have rich material possessions

But because of

Your very strong attachment-life-chains.

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20135

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Even the wisdom in us

Sometimes surrenders

To deplorable pleasure-life.

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20136

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If your heart has

Plenty of inner light,

Then your mind can be

Empty of outer fears. ```

20137

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My Lord Supreme,

There was a time

When I was afraid

Not only of Your eternal Justice

But also of Your infinite Compassion.

But now my surrender-heart

Needs them equally

For my life’s complete transformation. ```

20138

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God’s Fondness-Joy

Dances inside our heart

Only when

Purity’s tears and beauty’s smiles

Blossom inside our heart.

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20139

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We suffer

From a distorted mind

Just because we allow the mind

To house self-centred thoughts. ```

20140

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There can be no human mind

That does not give its owner

A hard time.

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20141

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I do not want

A flood-tide of fame.

What I need is

A blessingful assurance from God

That He will make me a choice player

In His Cosmic Game. ```

20142

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An aspiring heart

Desires to live

Only in God’s ecstasy-flooded Eye.

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20143

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My Lord,

Many things I desired from You

In the past,

But now I desire only one thing:

A sleeplessly self-giving gratitude-breath.

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20144

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God Himself tells me

That the confusion-darkness of my mind

Is no match

For the illumination-candle of my heart. ```

20145

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To me

There are no absurdity-dreams,

But there are many

Absurdity-realities. ```

20146

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God’s Tears

Have flowed so many times,

But this time

My heart is fully awakened

And is responding

Cheerfully and self-givingly

To my Lord’s Tears.

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20147

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I must force my eyes to see

That God’s Beauty

Is the only thing to look at.

I must force my heart to feel

That God’s Compassion

Is the only thing to live for.

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20148

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No matter what

The outer weather of the world is,

The inner weather of the world

Is always inspiring, encouraging

And elevating.

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20149

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Nothing displeases God more

Than when I say

That I am unchangeable.

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20150

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Be wise!

You must overcome

All your difficulties,

Not try to escape from them,

For there is no such thing

As escape. ```

20151

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I am now enjoying

Real freedom

By liberating myself

From self-importance. ```

20152

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God looks at everything

Except

My unworthiness-realisation-life.

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20153

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My Lord,

It is too horrible to mention

That my mind has betrayed me,

My vital has betrayed me,

My body has betrayed me.

Everything has betrayed me

Except Your Compassion-flooded Oneness.

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20154

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God does not want to know

What I want to say.

God just wants to know

What I want to eventually become:

His own Oneness-Heart

Or the division-mind of the world. ```

20155

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O temptation-face,

You have brought tremendous disgrace

To my climbing aspiration-heart.

You are forcing me

To run backwards

Fast, very fast,

To my total destruction-shore.

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20156

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The unaspiring mind

Unconsciously but sleeplessly

Produces

Anxiety-worry-clouds. ```

20157

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Idleness,

God wants you to remain always

A perfect stranger

To the seeker’s newness-desiring mind

And fulness-aspiring heart.

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20158

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No uncomely thought

Is negligible.

No smiling heart

Is insignificant. ```

20159

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The ordinary human life

Is nothing but an excursion

Into a thick and endless

Desire-forest. ```

20160

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Yesterday

Temptation was treacherous.

Today

Temptation is ferocious.

Tomorrow

Temptation will be voracious. ```

20161

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The mind is

Its own constant,

Unlit ego-impatience-supremacy.

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20162

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O desire-despair-life,

You may think

That you are invincible,

But definitely you are not. ```

20163

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Aspiration,

My desire-frustration-antidote,

I love your beauty,

I need your fragrance.

Illumination,

My confusion-temptation-antidote,

I love your beauty,

I need your fragrance. ```

20164

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Peace

Beckons the wandering mind.

Peace

Silences the roaring vital.

Peace

Garlands the aspiring heart. ```

20165

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O my mind-train,

Why do you delay so long

At each and every progress-station?

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20166

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The confidence of the heart

Is the remover

Of all the doubt-obstacles of the mind.

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20167

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I make God happy

By offering Him

My devotion-heart.

I make God infinitely happier

By offering Him

My surrender-life. ```

20168

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Every day

I shall keep my heart-channel tuned

To my Lord’s

Compassion-Affection-Broadcast. ```

20169

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The summit-bliss

Of aspiration-mountain

We can achieve

Only with our meditation-ladder. ```

20170

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When we walk along

Our heart’s devotion-road,

Aspiration and satisfaction

Will devotedly follow us. ```

20171

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May my mind always remain

Beyond the reach of thought,

So that I can see, feel and grow into

God’s Satisfaction-Smile. ```

20172

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Time is very limited.

Life is very short.

Alas, when will I have

The burning desire

To realise God, manifest God

And fulfil God in His own Way? ```

20173

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Every dream

Has a beauty of its own.

Every dream

Has a fragrance of its own.

Every dream

Embodies tomorrow’s God. ```

20174

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Inside each grain of hope,

Every day

God is dreaming

Of a new creation. ```

20175

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The mind

And its shallow thoughts

Seem so odd

To our aspiration-heart. ```

20176

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O seeker,

Instead of making

Whining complaints to God

Against humanity,

Can you not offer

Your soulful appreciation

Of humanity?

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20177

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Each man can be a perfect copy

Of God’s Dream-Fulfilment-Reality

On earth.

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20178

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My life,

I want to surprise you

With my heart’s

God-hunger-cries. ```

20179

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My ego forgets

Even God’s unconditional Compassion-Eye

And His unconditional Forgiveness-Heart.

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20180

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True,

Once upon a time

You were a fool,

But you do not have to remain so

Forever.

Just become the song

Of constant self-offering.

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20181

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O critic,

You always remain alien

To the beauty, divinity

And immortality

Of oneness-heart-delight.

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20182

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God’s Compassion-Eye

Brings God to me

No matter where I go,

Even when I hide. ```

20183

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God counts Himself

Extremely fortunate

When He gets

One unconditional seeker. ```

20184

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Each desire of mine

Is a slave

To my illusion-delusion-mind.

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20185

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I prayerfully asked God

To name a few

Perfect instruments of His.

God did listen to my prayer,

But alas,

Somehow He forgot

To mention my name!

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20186

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Desire is so powerful

That it has the capacity

To compel us to run after

Even its shadow. ```

20187

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Each choice instrument of God

Will one day prove to be

A living God-monument.

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20188

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If you want to climb up

To your heart’s aspiration-mountaintop,

Then you must liberate yourself

From your disobedience-exile. ```

20189

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I love the beauty of a God-dreamer.

His beauty is real;

His beauty is at once earth-illumining

And Heaven-fulfilling. ```

20190

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You cannot acquire self-esteem

By fault-finding.

You can acquire self-esteem

By becoming an aspiration-heart

And a dedication-life.

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20191

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May my heart become

An excellent God-song-singer.

May my life become

An excellent God-story-narrator. ```

20192

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A vice does not remain a vice

When I am absolutely determined

To transform it into a virtue.

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20193

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The vital and the mind are convinced

That they are always right.

The heart is determined

To be always right. ```

20194

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Your God-disobedience-cry

Will betray you

Into endless crimes,

Long before your final hour

Strikes.

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20195

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Where are You going, God?

“My child,

I am not going anywhere.

In fact, I am coming to you

To hear from you

What your future plans are

With regard to our friendship.”

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20196

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Anybody who has strictly examined

His own mind

Will find either an aspiration-famine

Or a desire-cyclone. ```

20197

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I do not want to have a mind

That always quarrels with the world.

I want to have a heart

That sports

With the beauty of the world

And dances

With the fragrance of the world.

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20198

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I call it

My heart’s gratitude.

God calls it

His own Divinity’s Fragrance. ```

20199

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O my heart’s aspiration-flames,

O my soul’s realisation-sun,

Do tell me how far you are

Away from each other! ```

20200

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May each page

Of our heart’s aspiration-book

Have three messages:

God the Creator,

We are of You.

God the creation,

We are for You.

God the Beloved Supreme,

May You be found

In the tears of our hearts

And in the smiles of our souls.

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From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 202, Agni Press, 1994
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