Editor's introduction to the first edition

Twenty-seven thousand aspiration-plants is a series of 27,000 poems that Sri Chinmoy began composing on 10 July 1983. Each of these unfolding poem-plants contains the essence of that ultimate spiritual perfection towards which all mankind is growing and striving. As the 270 volumes flow forth from the illumined mind and liberated life of Sri Chinmoy, aspiring mankind will be able to trace this spiritual metamorphosis through its countless stages and discover in the divine beauty and supreme truth of Sri Chinmoy’s messages a unique source of spiritual inspiration-light.