Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 11

1001

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Dear to my Lord

Is my aspiration-heart.

Dearer to my Lord

Is my surrender-life.

Dearest to my Lord

Is my gratitude-breath. ```

1002

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If your mind climbs up the pride-ladder,

Your life before long

Will fade into obscurity

And your heart will not be rediscovered

By Heaven’s Concern.

```

1003

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True, he cannot control his mind.

But his life has surrendered to his heart.

Therefore, his life is anchored

In the Golden Boat of the Lord Supreme. ```

1004

```

His heart’s ever-blossoming hope

Is holding both ends

Of the Infinity-Rope

Of God’s Eternity. ```

1005

```

He lives in ignorance-night

With only the echoing memories

Of his soul’s long-lost promises.

```

1006

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My Lord, destroy me!

If You do not want to destroy me,

At least destroy my mind’s hopelessness.

If you do not want to destroy

My mind’s hopelessness,

Please, please destroy

My heart’s helplessness.

```

1007

```

Your soul is asking you

To sleep in your life’s illumination-bed.

But what are you doing?

You are forcing your life

To lie beneath its annihilation-blanket.

```

1008

```

Finally his heart’s aspiration-life

Became so powerful

That it was able to totally paralyse

His mind’s desire-life. ```

1009

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God will not be there to receive you

If you hurriedly reach

Your life’s finish line.

He will not only receive you

But also garland you and embrace you

If you slowly, steadily and soulfully reach

Your life’s finish line.

```

1010

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What is wrong with you, my mind!

Why can’t you accept any defeat?

What is wrong with you, my heart!

Why are you afraid of winning

Continuous victories?

```

1011

```

If your heart is ready

To sparkle with eagerness,

Then God will definitely come

And stand right in front of you

With His Infinity’s Fulness.

```

1012

```

What is he doing?

He is sleeping with his rainbow-dream

Inside his silence-heart.

What else is he doing?

He is making the final revision

Of his surrender-life-script. ```

1013

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You may not realise it,

But God is carrying you,

And you are quite heavy.

Perhaps it is beyond your imagination,

But God has also developed

Very serious back pain

Because of your weight.

Can you not lighten His Load and cure Him

With your obedience-surrender-medicine?

Try, you can!

You have simply no idea

How proud God will be of you

If you do.

```

1014

```

My heart has undertaken

A very difficult task.

It wants to guide

My mind’s irregular search for God. ```

1015

```

My mind struggles for satisfaction.

My heart struggles for perfection.

My soul struggles for my life’s

God-preparation. ```

1016

```

Do you want to hear

What you say during your sleep?

You say that you love God alone

And need God alone, nobody else. ```

1017

```

Your heart feels that God

Does not speak to it

Because it is imperfect.

Your mind thinks that God

Does not speak to it

Because it has already reached

Perfection-height. ```

1018

```

An infant-cry is the soulful lover

Of self-transcendence,

God-discovery

And God-satisfaction. ```

1019

```

Do you know God

Or do you just know about Him?

If you know God,

Then I shall immediately become yours.

But if you just know about God,

Then even if the entire world claims you,

I shall never become yours.

```

1020

```

Today you are a God-dreamer.

Tomorrow you will become

A Heaven-sprinter.

The day after tomorrow you will become

Your soul’s wonder-speed

And your Lord’s Victory-Smile. ```

1021

```

Something to give to my Lord Supreme:

My soul’s promise-delight.

Something to give to humanity:

My heart’s aspiration-might. ```

1022

```

My child, I wish to have

A friendly competition with you.

You will run against Me

With your life’s ignorance-sky,

And I shall run against you

With My Heart’s Compassion-Sun. ```

1023

```

His absurdity-philosophy:

True happiness can be found

Only in sorrow.

His stupidity-philosophy:

Happiness is sorrow

In disguise. ```

1024

```

Truth is neither easy nor difficult.

Truth is spontaneous, self-revealing

And God-revealing all at once.

```

1025

```

No satisfaction shines

Where division is king.

No imperfection abides

Where oneness is emperor. ```

1026

```

History’s exclamation mark:

Man’s moon-adventure.

History’s question mark:

Man’s dissatisfaction-hunger. ```

1027

```

My Lord Supreme,

Do give me the capacity

To need Your Heart.

My Lord Supreme,

Do give me the privilege

To love Your Life. ```

1028

```

Since time will not wait for me,

I also shall not wait for time.

I shall go ahead of time

With my soul’s silence-stillness-smile. ```

1029

```

My mind tells me

That my prayer-life

Is something strange

Yet quite familiar.

My heart tells me

That my meditation-life

Is always familiar

And never strange. ```

1030

```

My sweet child,

Early each morning

Instead of asking Me

Whether I love you,

Just ask yourself

Whether you need Me. ```

1031

```

O my body and vital,

Be not afraid of my mind’s greatness.

O my mind,

Be not afraid of my heart’s goodness.

O my heart,

Be not afraid of my soul’s oneness.

O my soul,

You are never afraid of my Lord’s Fulness. ```

1032

```

When a true God-lover

Cannot decide what to do

In his outer life,

God, out of His infinite Bounty,

Takes it as His bounden Duty

To help that person choose

The right thing to do.

```

1033

```

Something is wrong,

But I do not know what.

Perhaps my heart does not

Love God intensely any more.

Something is right,

But I do not know what.

Perhaps my mind has sincerely

Started longing for God at last. ```

1034

```

Where is my home?

My home is inside

My world’s possession-cry.

Where is my Lord’s Home?

My Lord’s Home is inside

His Eternity’s

Acceptance-Satisfaction-Smile.

```

1035

```

Your heart’s climbing cry

Is like a rope,

Longer than the longest,

Extending from earth to Heaven.

Once you start climbing that rope

Cheerfully and powerfully,

Who can prevent you from reaching

The highest perfection-satisfaction-height? ```

1036

```

Your Inner Pilot is telling you

That you will, without fail,

Make progress.

You fool!

Why are you consciously and deliberately

Trying to prove Him wrong? ```

1037

```

Pride and insecurity

Come from only one source: impurity.

He who is bloated with pride

And he who is insecurity incarnate

Are both absolutely useless.

```

1038

```

Purity has the capacity

To immediately destroy

Insecurity and pride.

Purity has the capacity

To immediately create

Oneness with God’s

Transcendental Will.

```

1039

```

Whoever experiences

His life’s surrender-smiles

As a permanent reality

Is undoubtedly the choicest instrument

Of his Beloved Supreme.

```

1040

```

If you are loyal to God

And take Him as your only Friend,

How can you have any serious problems?

Impossible!

Even your mind-problems

Will be taken care of

By His Heart’s Compassion-Concern-Sky.

```

1041

```

If your consciousness

Remains deep inside your heart

And you are constantly

Thinking of God,

Then all your problems will be solved,

Even if you simply ignore them.

Needless to say,

This applies only to you,

Since you are a soulfully sincere seeker.

```

1042

```

Three signs of progress:

To do something better

Than you have previously done it,

To maintain your standard,

To have a cheerful heart

Even if your standard goes down. ```

1043

```

For years you have neglected

Your teeming weaknesses.

But now that you want

To conquer them,

What you need

Is an ever-climbing heart-cry. ```

1044

```

Aspiration-fire is immediate purification.

It powerfully purifies

The sleeping body,

The strangling vital

And the doubting mind.

```

1045

```

In your life of service to humanity

Confidence is supremely good,

But do not develop

Disproportionate self-confidence,

Not to speak of pride and haughtiness.

```

1046

```

If you think that you are

Most graciously helping others,

You are badly mistaken.

You should feel that you are offering

Your service-smile

To the Supreme in others. ```

1047

```

If your service-life

Is only increasing your ego-power,

Then rest assured

You are a stark failure

In the inner world.

```

1048

```

Someday you will realise

That your Master is

The direct representative

Of the Supreme.

Someday you will realise

Your Master’s Eternity’s oneness

With the Supreme.

```

1049

```

He started with utmost sincerity

Trying to please the Supreme

In the Supreme’s own divine Way.

Alas, now he is shamelessly

Begging the Supreme to please him

In his own human way. ```

1050

```

Either please God

In His own Way

Or go back to your old life

Where your desire-fires

Reigned supreme.

```

1051

```

If you feel that God’s Way

Is not the only way,

And you have a totally different way,

Then why should anybody

Care to prevent you

From following your own way? ```

1052

```

True, nobody is indispensable.

But if you can please the Supreme

In His own Way,

Then He will definitely need you

Infinitely more than He needs

Anybody else. ```

1053

```

My Lord Supreme,

May I sleeplessly remember You.

I mean, Your Compassion-Eye.

My Lord Supreme,

May I sleeplessly remember

Your Compassion-Eye.

I mean, Your Forgiveness-Heart.

My Lord Supreme,

May I sleeplessly remember

Your Forgiveness-Heart.

I mean, Your Oneness-Life. ```

1054

```

My dreamer-eye,

My listener-heart,

My observer-soul,

My Liberator-God,

I enjoy your festival

Of Eternity’s Satisfaction-Sun. ```

1055

```

Purify your sound-breath,

Illumine your sound-life.

You will immediately feel

Ecstasy’s silence-embrace. ```

1056

```

They call it

My hermit-heart.

I call it

My divinity’s tapestry of truth. ```

1057

```

To make me happy

My Lord Supreme

Has kidnapped my heart.

To make me perfect

My Lord Supreme

Has granted me the Transformation-Flute

Of His Compassion-Light.

```

1058

```

O secret and sacred

Bird of my heart,

You have given me

Your indomitable inner strength

And freed me from

The bondage of fate. ```

1059

```

My impatient heart

Has become an incurable patient

Suffering inside

My aggressive vital-hospital. ```

1060

```

My sound-activity

Has pleased neither Heaven nor earth.

My silence-receptivity

Has at once pleased

Both Heaven’s eye and earth’s heart.

```

1061

```

You are aspiring to grow.

Indeed, this is a happy experience.

You are searching for truth.

Indeed, this is a happier experience.

You are surrendering your earth-existence

To the life of delight.

Indeed, this is the happiest experience.

```

1062

```

Because of your purity-heart

Every day God is granting you

His Himalayan Smile.

Because of your surrender-life

Every day God is granting you

Your victory’s crown. ```

1063

```

The heart’s inner purity

Helps us blossom

Out of the animal kingdom.

The soul’s God-embracing beauty

Helps us blossom

Out of the human kingdom. ```

1064

```

Yesterday your mind enjoyed

The gales of dark disbelief.

Today your entire life

Has become the burial ground

Of your shipwrecked mind.

```

1065

```

When your mind starts enjoying

Complete union with God,

Your life, without fail, will become

The absolute manifestation of God. ```

1066

```

The human activities

Of the divine soul

Do not confuse me.

They only increase

My genuine admiration

For its compassion-flooded reality. ```

1067

```

His heart cannot race

Towards the unfathomable beauty

Of the unknown

Because he has allowed his mind

To become nothing but

A dry intellect-field. ```

1068

```

God will be proud of you

If you can tell yourself

That there is no such thing

As failure.

God will love you infinitely more

If you can accept any so-called failures

As experiences He Himself is having

In you and through you. ```

1069

```

He is a rank fool!

He no longer wants

To please his Master

Because he thinks that others

Who are not pleasing the Master

Are still very close to him. ```

1070

```

To make the fastest progress,

Be an absolutely cheerful

Hero-warrior

And take both victory and failure

As parallel experience-rivers

Leading to the sea

Of progress-delight.

```

1071

```

Those who want to please the Supreme

In His own Way

Will have Heaven’s fastest

Satisfaction-speed.

Those who do not want

To please the Supreme in His own Way

Will have earth’s slower than the slowest

Frustration-destruction-speed. ```

1072

```

Your Master’s outer smile

May at times confuse you.

Your Master’s inner smile

Will not only illumine you

But also manifest the divine in you.

```

1073

```

If we are real seekers,

Sincere seekers, genuine seekers,

God will definitely grant us

What He eternally is:

Infinity’s Love immortal.

```

1074

```

Alas, you have developed

Disproportionate pride.

Now it is you and nobody else

Who can and must take every day,

Every hour and every second

As a God-granted opportunity

To conquer your abysmal pride.

```

1075

```

Some unfortunate seekers

Who are with a spiritual Master

Of the highest height

May jump out of his boat

Only to sink and fail.

But the Master himself

Can never ultimately fail,

For his is a God-ordained mission. ```

1076

```

Impurity divides.

Purity unites.

Because God is pure,

He is One:

He is His Heart’s Oneness-Song

In His Life’s Fulness-Dance. ```

1077

```

If it is possible

To create pride inside your mind,

Impurity will do it.

Alas, it has already

Done the damage.

If it is possible

To create insecurity inside your heart,

Impurity will do it.

Alas, it has already

Done the damage.

```

1078

```

O my hesitation-mind,

Do you know

That there is something

Called illumination-eye?

O my illumination-eye,

I am sure you know

That there is something

Called God’s constant Satisfaction-Heart. ```

1079

```

The seeker’s purity-heart-road

Is destined to join

The Highway of the Supreme.

When the hour strikes,

Both meet together and become one.

```

1080

```

O my mind’s confusion-bound intellect,

You are imperfect, to say the least!

Alas, even after you have covered

A very long distance

In the wrong direction,

You are not aware of what you are doing

Or where you are.

When will you learn

That satisfaction-smile abides

Only in intuition-core? ```

1081

```

An insecurity-heart cannot run,

Walk or even crawl.

What is worse,

It sees right in front of it

At every moment

A tangled jungle-mind. ```

1082

```

A purity-heart can live

Only in a beauty-life.

A beauty-life can live

Only in a surrender-breath.

A surrender-breath can live

Only in God’s

Fulness-Satisfaction-Heart.

```

1083

```

My hope-bird soars

Every morning and evening

In my soul’s moon-embraced

And sun-blessed sky. ```

1084

```

Your mind usually lives

Inside the forest of wild desires.

Can you not ask it

To live inside the garden

Of your soulful aspiration

Only for a day,

Just for a brief change?

```

1085

```

If your life swims every day

In the river of insincerity-tears,

How can you ever reach

And become one with

The smiling Waves

Of God’s Divinity-Ocean? ```

1086

```

God is happy with you

Not because you are perfect,

But because every day you allow Him

To water your heart-garden

With His Infinity’s Compassion-Light.

```

1087

```

Doubt-clouds appear only

In the mind-sky.

They never appear

In the heart-sky,

Which is flooded with

The rainbow-beauty-life

Of the inner sun.

```

1088

```

My sweet Lord,

When You give me something,

Do give me the capacity

To divide it.

My sweet Lord,

When I give You something,

Do give me the capacity

To multiply it. ```

1089

```

A genuine God-lover

Is he who can easily differentiate

Renunciation-enjoyment

From possession-greed. ```

1090

```

Every day cultivate adamantine will

In the depths of your heart

So that with no difficulty you can bestride

All your problems in the mental world. ```

1091

```

Hope and doubt

Are two absolutely worst foes.

From time immemorial

They have been fighting,

Sometimes one winning

And sometimes the other. ```

1092

```

He who is pleasing God

In God’s own Way

Will find all earthly and Heavenly

Experiences in his life agreeable. ```

1093

```

If you love God alone,

Then certainly you can easily articulate

Your aspiration in the inner world

And your dedication in the outer world. ```

1094

```

Peace of mind

Cannot be obtained overnight.

To achieve peace of mind

We have to invest many silence-years

In spirituality.

```

1095

```

Life’s perfection-road

Is very long,

But the journey is richly rewarding.

```

1096

```

Life is not competition.

Life is preparation —

Preparation for Heaven’s and earth’s

Transcendental Victory. ```

1097

```

Once upon a time you were

Your soul’s rainbow-dream.

Now you are

Your heart’s golden reality.

In the near or distant future

You will become

Your life’s splendid divinity.

```

1098

```

Dreams make progress

And become reality.

Reality makes progress

And becomes divinity.

Again, divinity makes progress

When it becomes reality,

And reality makes progress

When it becomes

The ever-transcending Dream.

```

1099

```

Now that he has uprooted

His life’s expectation-tree,

God has unconditionally granted him

His own Heart-Home. ```

1100

```

Long before you can bind God’s Hands

With your mind’s doubt-chains,

God will bind your life

With His Heart’s Love-Oneness-Chain. ```

From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 11, Agni Press, 1983
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