Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 249

24801

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My Lord,

I can at most resist

Your Compassion-Eye,

But I shall never be able to resist

Your Forgiveness-Feet.

```

24802

```

If obedience

Is your life-boat,

Then in your life’s uncharted journey

You are bound to succeed. ```

24803

```

Alas, our expectation-key

Is apt to open

Only the wrong door.

```

24804

```

Today’s minute expectation

Can turn into tomorrow’s

Frustration-volcano.

```

24805

```

I can completely empty

My life’s dark problem-room

When the Name of God

Becomes the very breath of my heart. ```

24806

```

God tells me that I have become

A choice instrument of His

Precisely because

I have carpeted my entire being

With humility-grass.

```

24807

```

God can and will

Do the right thing for you

Only when your love for Him

Is pure and genuine. ```

24808

```

The mind craves attention,

The heart longs for reward.

Therefore, alas,

Neither the mind nor the heart is ready

To have unconditional love for God.

```

24809

```

How I wish I could always speak

To my Lord Supreme

Exactly the way my soul does:

In silence-whispers. ```

24810

```

We feel that God does not hear

Our cries,

But do we, even in our imagination,

Try to make our cries

Prayerful, soulful and self-giving?

```

24811

```

I ask my Lord

To come to me quickly.

My Lord asks me,

“Are you really ready

To receive Me?”

```

24812

```

If there is anybody,

Either in Heaven or on earth,

As furious with me as myself

For wasting so much of God’s Time

On earth,

Then that person is none other

Than my own soul!

```

24813

```

A purity-mind,

A devotion-heart

And a surrender-life

Must rule my very existence

At every moment.

```

24814

```

My Lord Supreme,

How I adore You!

Do You know why?

Because You transform

My helpless despair

Into most powerful and intense delight. ```

24815

```

What saves my life

At every moment?

Only one thing:

My heart’s gratitude-breath

To my Lord Supreme.

```

24816

```

If you love your Master

Unconditionally,

Then he becomes your heart’s

Emperor supreme.

But if you love him conditionally,

Then you can at any time

Turn him into a veritable beggar.

```

24817

```

When I tell God

That I love Him only,

Alas, do I really mean it?

```

24818

```

I ask God,

“My Lord, when You tell me

That You desperately need me,

Do You really mean it?”

My Lord tells me,

“I mean it, I mean it,

I shall always mean it, My child.”

```

24819

```

I ask my Lord Supreme,

“Do tell me

What is wrong with me.”

My Lord Supreme tells me,

“My child, only one thing:

You must love Me infinitely more

Than you love Me now.”

```

24820

```

“In God we trust.”

This is an American motto.

Does God trust us?

Poor God tells us

That He has not yet learnt

The art of distrust. ```

24821

```

Learn to look at yourself seriously.

Ask yourself,

“Do I really need God?”

Ask this question every day. ```

24822

```

Perfection will always long for

More perfection,

Abundant perfection

And infinite perfection. ```

24823

```

God-eagerness,

God-manifestation

And God-fulfilment:

Indeed, a supremely high trinity! ```

24824

```

My soul not only loves

My God-dreams,

But also shelters my God-dreams.

```

24825

```

Dream and dare,

Dare and dream

If you want to proceed fast

In your spiritual life. ```

24826

```

Do not expect anything spectacular

Either from God or from yourself.

Just give yourself to God

Happily and proudly.

The rest you must leave to God.

```

24827

```

Joy has failed to teach you.

Therefore, God has sent pain

To teach you.

```

24828

```

My Lord Supreme,

You have given me

A most difficult task:

You have asked me to count

All Your disappointments.

```

24829

```

My Lord Supreme is telling me

That He will enter into my heart

Only through my self-dedication-door.

```

24830

```

Be careful, O seeker,

Of your insecurity!

Today’s insecurity

Will most likely turn into

Absurd haughtiness.

```

24831

```

My Lord Supreme,

Do give me

The beauty of love divine

And do give me

The fragrance of devotion divine

So that I do not have to remove

My prayerful gaze

From Your Compassion-flooded Feet. ```

24832

```

The more I am sincere

With my spiritual life,

The more it is clear to me

That I need only one thing:

God’s ceaseless Compassion-Eye.

```

24833

```

Alas,

We do not believe

The undeniable fact

That our lives are full of

Divinity-manifestation-possibilities

And opportunities. ```

24834

```

God has made it a point

Every day

To take a new picture

Of my prayerful and tearful

Gratitude-heart.

```

24835

```

The beauty of my surrender

And the Power of God’s Will

Are fond of living inseparably.

```

24836

```

God blessingfully and proudly

Accepts us

As His choice instruments

When we turn all our thoughts

Into prayers.

```

24837

```

O humanity,

Do not give up!

God’s Patience

Has not yet given up. ```

24838

```

My Lord Supreme,

Do bless me

With an ever-expanding faith

To please You

With every breath of my heart.

```

24839

```

Only he who has surrendered,

And not he who says

That he is going to surrender,

Will be cradled

In God’s ever-loving Embrace.

```

24840

```

Your Lord Beloved Supreme

Is eagerly waiting for you.

Just step inside your heart-temple.

```

24841

```

God the Love has invited me

To see His Heart, to feel His Heart

And to become His Heart.

```

24842

```

You are looking

For God’s Throne.

Alas, you are looking

In the wrong place!

The right place is your own heart.

```

24843

```

My life-boat treasures

Many passengers,

But peace-passengers

It treasures the most. ```

24844

```

O seeker, can you not see

That you have lovingly and proudly kept

All-destroying doubt

As your beloved friend? ```

24845

```

Self-giving is, indeed,

An everlasting,

Self-transcending journey.

```

24846

```

The mind can doubt

Its own doubts,

But the heart always agrees

With its faith. ```

24847

```

If you are afraid

Of your failure-life,

Then this very failure-life

Will never allow you

To make any progress

In your spiritual life. ```

24848

```

Not what you think

Will make you ever happy,

But what you prayerfully

And soulfully give

Can and will make you happy.

```

24849

```

I am so grateful to my soul,

For it has come today

To excavate

All my heart’s old buried dreams. ```

24850

```

The human mind does not realise

That there are

Infinitely more important things

In life

Than just increasing life’s speed.

```

24851

```

Everything that my heart does

I enjoy immensely,

Specially when my heart

Prayerfully and soulfully weeps

For God.

```

24852

```

O my sunshine-hope-heart,

I sleeplessly and breathlessly

Depend upon you.

```

24853

```

When you aspire,

You realise that Heaven hears

All your heart-whispers.

```

24854

```

A sleeplessly self-offering heart

Will definitely have

The highest mastery

Over the unaspiring life. ```

24855

```

My Lord tells me

That my very existence on earth

Is worthy of His deepest Concern.

```

24856

```

A sleeplessly self-giving heart

Is, indeed, a God-lover

Of the first rank.

```

24857

```

A universal oneness-heart

Will always remain

A dire challenge

To modern science. ```

24858

```

The human mind has changed

Next to nothing

Over the course of centuries.

```

24859

```

Every morning

I enter into my heart-home

To pay my prayer-visit

To God’s Compassion-Eye

And His Forgiveness-Feet.

```

24860

```

The beauty of love

And the fragrance of surrender

See each other everywhere.

```

24861

```

Each snow-white prayer

Is, indeed,

A God-inspired messenger.

```

24862

```

I want my life

Every day

To be ruled

By my soul-emperor. ```

24863

```

My life is running

Towards God’s Feet.

God’s Eye is soaring

Towards my heart. ```

24864

```

During my deep meditation

I clearly hear the voice of my soul

Ringing melodiously with celestial love.

```

24865

```

My God-given faith

I sleeplessly treasure.

My man-given doubt

I vehemently abhor. ```

24866

```

The latest news

From God’s Universal Heart

Is this:

God’s Forgiveness-Feet

Will never leave me,

And God’s Compassion-Eye

Will always take care of me.

```

24867

```

May my future life

Be flooded with Divinity’s

Immortality-Dreams.

```

24868

```

When I live inside my heart-home,

I clearly see that my faith

Can run infinitely faster

Than my doubt

To carry me to my destination.

```

24869

```

A soulful smile

Is definitely a sign

Of love-devotion-surrender-progress.

```

24870

```

God tells me

That it is definitely possible

To free my mind

From the tangle of brooding doubts. ```

24871

```

A selfless life is, indeed,

A beautiful and powerful experience

Of God Himself

Inside the seeker. ```

24872

```

There is not a single time

When the heart-flute does not play

Sweetness-melodies.

```

24873

```

God gladly and proudly

Adds beauty and fragrance

To each service-moment

Of my life. ```

24874

```

Where is abiding security?

It is only

Inside our oneness-heart.

```

24875

```

If your life becomes

A torrential rain of eagerness

And intensity,

Then you are bound to become

A tree of God-Satisfaction-fruits.

```

24876

```

Every day when I meditate,

God blesses me

With His own Heart-Silence-Whispers.

```

24877

```

To be an unaspiring mind

Is the beginning

Of self-destruction.

```

24878

```

The disobedience of your darkness-mind

Will disappear

When inside your heart

You discover your God-devotion-magnet. ```

24879

```

When we obey God’s Call,

God blessingfully invites us

To come

To His Heart-Kingdom. ```

24880

```

My small heart

Is nothing but frustration

And exasperation.

My big heart

Is nothing but compassion

And illumination. ```

24881

```

If we can adorn

Our sacred heart-shrine

With love, devotion and surrender,

Then we shall never be blinded

By the desire-world.

```

24882

```

What is determination?

Determination is something

That conquers the undivine in us

For the full manifestation

Of the divine in us.

```

24883

```

Oneness is ultimately

The full victory

Of our aspiration-heart

And dedication-life. ```

24884

```

Our throbbing

Aspiration-heartbeats

Please God infinitely more

Than we can ever imagine. ```

24885

```

The mind never runs out of

Doubt-poison.

The heart never runs out of

Faith-nectar. ```

24886

```

Our love of God

Chases the unwillingness-thief

From our mind.

```

24887

```

Surrender, surrender to God’s Will

Happily and proudly!

Lo, all your frustration-tears

Have completely disappeared. ```

24888

```

Each seeker has to be armed

With indomitable determination.

If not, he may sink

Into utter despair

Along the spirituality-road.

```

24889

```

The secret of sleepless aspiration

Lies in singing the songs

Of Heavenly glory.

```

24890

```

It is not my self-confidence

But my God-reliance

That feeds my heart

With Infinity’s Joy. ```

24891

```

Finally,

My ignorance-vital-volcano

Has surrendered

To my wisdom-heart-garden. ```

24892

```

Each good thought of my mind

Immediately adds

To my perfection-qualities list.

```

24893

```

Every day I pray to God

To help me see

The beauty and divinity

Of my silence-soul. ```

24894

```

What is obedience,

If not the first requisite

Of God-aspiration, God-realisation

And God-manifestation? ```

24895

```

I can cheer up my sad heart.

But alas,

I can never tame my mad mind.

```

24896

```

Every day my Lord is eager

To help me grow

Aspiration-heart-wings,

But alas, I am never ready. ```

24897

```

If we do not possess

The full measure of obedience-light,

Then we shall never be able

To come out of ignorance-night. ```

24898

```

A God-server

Has to be a God-lover.

He cannot be otherwise!

```

24899

```

God tells me

If I want to see His Compassion-Eye,

Then I must sweep away

My mind’s confusion-dust. ```

24900

```

A constantly cheerful self-giver

To God’s Will

Is the sweetest God-singer.

```

From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 249, Agni Press, 1998
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