Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 148

14701

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There is only one way

To purify my human life,

And that way is

To burn the soul-fire

Within my heart.

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14702

```

Alas,

Why does my mind have to walk

Through the dust of the past

Every day? ```

14703

```

Spend not even a moment

In hesitation-night

If yours is the goal

Of fastest speed. ```

14704

```

My Lord,

I can hide from Your Justice-Might,

But I will never be able to hide from

Your Compassion-Height. ```

14705

```

There shall come a time

When the hustle and bustle

Of the vital life

Will cease

And the secret and sacred whisper

Of the psychic life

Will reign supreme.

```

14706

```

I have decided to choose

A new future.

In this new future

I shall let God make

My daily routine.

```

14707

```

Do you want to change your mind

Or do you want your mind to change you?

If you want to change your mind,

Then inject your heart’s meditation-fragrance

Into your mind.

```

14708

```

Imagination and inspiration I need

To improve my outer life of duty.

Aspiration and surrender I need

To improve my inner life of divinity. ```

14709

```

A smile from your oneness-heart

Is undoubtedly the best weapon

To save you from

The bite of insecurity. ```

14710

```

Intensity expedites our progress

In every sphere of life.

Therefore,

In everything we do and become

Intensity is of paramount importance.

```

14711

```

If you strike your heart’s aspiration-gong

For God’s Victory

Every morning and evening,

You will be able to calm

Your mind’s destruction-hurricane.

```

14712

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May my searching mind and my loving heart

Today start

A soulful and fruitful relationship

To please the Lord Supreme

In His own Way.

```

14713

```

Like God’s Compassion,

Your concern for mankind

Can speak each and every language

On earth. ```

14714

```

O my heart’s hope-fountain,

In all sincerity I wish to tell you

That you are my life’s only saviour.

```

14715

```

My humility-strength

Is my Lord’s

Fondness-Pride in me.

```

14716

```

My Lord,

Just remember when I love You,

And not when I ignore You.

“My child,

That very thing I always do.”

```

14717

```

God wants you

At every moment to assert

Your inner and outer relationship

With Him alone. ```

14718

```

Unalloyed ecstasy does exist,

But it exists only

In my heart’s self-giving breath.

```

14719

```

As time does not stop,

But always proceeds

Either slowly or speedily,

Even so, my heart’s aspiration-cry

Will not stop.

It will cry either powerfully or faintly. ```

14720

```

Do not allow yourself to be suffocated

By the ruthless ignorance-demands

Of the outer world.

Your freedom-choice is coming

From God’s inner Voice.

```

14721

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When you talk about God’s Compassion,

You maximise

Your inner strength.

When you talk about your aspiration,

You do not maximise

Your heart’s sincerity-beauty. ```

14722

```

Do not be afraid of

The new challenge ahead every day.

Each new challenge

Makes your love of God

Infinitely stronger

Than you can ever imagine. ```

14723

```

My heart’s loneliness

And my life’s separation from God

Are two most powerful blows

That I will never be able to endure

Even for a fleeting second.

```

14724

```

Every morning, when I place my head

At the Feet of my Lord Beloved Supreme,

Immediately He says to me,

“My child,

I want to hear something new

From you today!” ```

14725

```

God tells me not to take Him seriously

When He does not want to give me

Another chance

For my life-transformation. ```

14726

```

If you can make friends

With your heart’s hope-fountain,

Your life’s dream-boat

Will unmistakably reach its destination. ```

14727

```

Your mind’s clever deception

Will eventually end in

A volcano-eruption.

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14728

```

O my mind’s frustration,

You must relinquish

Your illegal and unauthorised

Frustration-dominion. ```

14729

```

O my mind’s ignorance,

You may defeat my soulful heart

With your clever tricks

For the time being,

But my heart still enjoys

Supreme popularity. ```

14730

```

When all your thoughts are aspirations

Multiplied by actions,

You become God’s choice child

To live permanently in His Heart-Home. ```

14731

```

There is only one song

That each human being likes to sing

From the cradle to the grave,

And that song is his hope-song. ```

14732

```

You are supposed to expose

Your ego-life

And not merely eclipse it

To make the fastest progress

In your spiritual life.

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14733

```

When a mental catastrophe strikes,

Intensify your psychic cries

For your liberation-life.

```

14734

```

If you enjoy your hesitation-mind,

It will eventually

Turn your heart-faith false.

```

14735

```

My prayer-life is my helpless

Earth-ascending cry.

My meditation-life is my fearless

God-descending smile. ```

14736

```

If desire controls your life,

Then God will not keep you

On His Compassion-Satisfaction-Payroll.

```

14737

```

The sweetness of hope

And the power of promise

Keep my dream-reality alive.

```

14738

```

O my mind’s thought-life,

Do make friends with

My heart’s newness-fulness

And my God’s Fulfilment-Promise. ```

14739

```

Be not afraid of your meditation-sunburst.

This sun will connect you with

Your own Eternity’s peace

And Infinity’s delight. ```

14740

```

Not my division-mind

But my oneness-heart

Is practising to participate

In the self-transcendence

Olympic Games.

```

14741

```

My Lord,

Every day I think of You soulfully

For half an hour.

Do I have to think of You more?

“Yes, you do, My child.

But if you want to hasten

Your realisation-hour,

Then walk along the path

Of your mind’s surrender

And your heart’s gratitude.” ```

14742

```

God asks you to do

Only two things:

To make Him laugh loudly

And make Him dance powerfully. ```

14743

```

When I speak ill of my mind to God,

My mind also speaks ill of me to God.

God tells us

That we two are saddening His Heart

Beyond our imagination.

```

14744

```

The mind is a member

Of the heart-family.

But, alas, it mistakenly thinks

That the heart is its very distant relative. ```

14745

```

Until I become completely desireless,

I have decided to put my desire-life

On a very strict and very limited budget.

```

14746

```

My mind likes to take

Doubt-training.

My heart likes to take

Faith-training.

My soul likes to take

Surrender-training.

My God wants me only to take

God-oneness-training. ```

14747

```

My morning meditation

Weakens the power of my sound-life

And augments the satisfaction

Of my silence-life. ```

14748

```

What else can you expect

From a vagabond mind

Than daily to make new

ignorance-friends? ```

14749

```

When my longing heart-tears

Wash God’s Compassion-Feet,

He tells me,

“My Manifestation-Life,

My child, I leave entirely in your hands.”

```

14750

```

Concentration-speed I need

To run forward.

Meditation-speed I need

To dive inward.

Contemplation-speed I need

To claim and be claimed

By the higher God,

The inner God

And the outer God.

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14751

```

Do we love others?

This is the wrong question.

Do we love ourselves?

This is the right question. ```

14752

```

Do we see God?

This is the wrong question.

How do we see God?

This is the right question. ```

14753

```

Are there many ways to realise God?

This is the wrong question.

Is there one way to realise God,

Which is God’s own Way?

This is the right question.

```

14754

```

Does God love my mind?

This is the wrong question.

Does my heart love God?

This is the right question. ```

14755

```

When I am unhappy,

What does God do?

This is the wrong question.

What do I do

To make God happy?

This is the right question. ```

14756

```

Is God nice to me?

This is the wrong question.

How many times a day

Am I nice to God?

This is the right question.

```

14757

```

Is God old or is God young?

This is the wrong question.

Is God eternal and immortal?

This is the right question. ```

14758

```

Where is God?

This is the wrong question.

Am I feeling God right now

Inside my heart?

This is the right question.

```

14759

```

Has anybody ever seen God?

This is the wrong question.

When am I going to see God?

This is the right question. ```

14760

```

Are there many gods, or only one?

This is the wrong question.

Do I need many gods or only one

For my realisation?

This is the right question.

```

14761

```

Does God need me?

This is the wrong question.

How many times a day

Do I sincerely need God?

This is the right question.

```

14762

```

Will God ever treasure me?

This is the wrong question.

Will I ever love God

In His own Way?

This is the right question.

```

14763

```

Who told me first about God?

This is the wrong question.

Have I told anybody about God?

This is the right question. ```

14764

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When will God change this world

Into a better world?

This is the wrong question.

Will I be able to become a partner of God

To create a better world?

This is the right question. ```

14765

```

When will God come to me?

This is the wrong question.

When God comes to me,

Will I be able to receive Him

With deepest love and gratitude?

This is the right question. ```

14766

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God, will You give me the capacity

To please You?

This is the wrong question.

God, will You give me the capacity

To sleeplessly pray

And breathlessly meditate?

This is the right question.

```

14767

```

Who can tell me today

How great God is?

This is the wrong question.

How many people can I tell today

How good God is?

This is the right question. ```

14768

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God, what will You give me today?

This is the wrong question.

God, will You give me the capacity

To give You everything

That You ask of me today?

This is the right question. ```

14769

```

God, if I do not please You

Here on earth,

Will You give me another chance

To please You in Heaven?

This is the wrong question.

God, will You give me another chance

To fulfil You and please You

In Your own Way here on earth?

This is the right question.

```

14770

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God, will there be a time

When there will be no wars

On earth?

This is the wrong question.

God, how can we serve You

Most soulfully and most effectively

In Your world-peace-manifestation

On earth?

This is the right question.

```

14771

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God, will You make my mind

As vast as the ocean?

This is the wrong question.

God, will You make my mind

As pure as a flower?

This is the right question. ```

14772

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God, can You tell me

How many drops there are

In the ocean?

This is the wrong question.

God, will You make my heart’s

Gratitude-tears

As countless as the drops

Of the ocean?

This is the right question.

```

14773

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The stupid mind never thinks

That God is approachable.

The wise heart knows

That God can be approached

For anything.

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14774

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A special Grace from Above

Has to flood the world

If the world is to be saved

From oneness-bankruptcy. ```

14775

```

His heart is hiding

Inside his mind

To illumine his mind

Affectionately and compassionately

At the right moment.

```

14776

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Since God’s Compassion and Forgiveness

See through all our disguises,

Can we not be sincere and wise?

```

14777

```

Only the hopes and dreams

That live inside my heart

Can make friends with Immortality.

```

14778

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I have bravely forgiven

All my yesterdays

So that today I can cheerfully run

Towards my destined Goal. ```

14779

```

O my mind,

You say that you cannot wait

For a better world.

But tell me, what have you done

To speed the arrival

Of a better world? ```

14780

```

Only a sleepless enthusiasm-strength

Can build a bridge

Between earth’s ceaseless cries

And Heaven’s sleepless smiles. ```

14781

```

To spend a moment in hesitation

Is to go away

Further and further

From Reality’s Satisfaction-Delight. ```

14782

```

Only by singing

Your heart’s soul-songs

Will you be able to tame

Your unruly mind. ```

14783

```

The vigilance of the soul

Can grant enormous confidence

To the aspiring mind.

```

14784

```

A soulful meditation

Does have the capacity

To minimise the mind’s

Anxiety-pressure. ```

14785

```

A tearful gratitude

Can easily increase

The depth and height of your meditation.

```

14786

```

Because of his heart’s readiness

He ran the fastest from the very start

To reach God’s Satisfaction-Destination.

```

14787

```

Some people have many guides,

But I have only one guide,

And that guide is my fondness-dream.

```

14788

```

I am glad that you are

Your heart’s implicit devotion-cry

To reach God’s Summit-Palace.

```

14789

```

When God comes with His Compassion-Eye

To speak to my doubting mind,

My doubting mind, like a thief,

Disappears from God’s Presence. ```

14790

```

Why do you waste your time

Arguing with your doubting mind?

Your mind is already a fool.

Do you want to be another fool? ```

14791

```

On this very special day

My Lord Supreme

Is in an excellent mood

To answer any questions

I can possibly ask.

Alas, alas!

Where are my life-illumining questions?

```

14792

```

It is the heart that suffers

From its separation from the mind,

And not the reverse.

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14793

```

God’s unconditional Compassion

Never keeps

An unlisted telephone number.

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14794

```

The moment I think of God,

I clearly see only one thing:

His Summit-Forgiveness-Smile.

```

14795

```

You may be a rogue,

But don’t think God is a fool.

He will not give you maximum results

For your minimum effort! ```

14796

```

O my mind,

Can you not see that

Because of your stark stupidity-acts

You are quite often entangled

By frustration-nets?

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14797

```

An unaspiring heart

Can have only a fragile faith,

And never a faith everlasting.

```

14798

```

I wanted my aspiration-dream

To fly.

Alas, it is not even crawling!

```

14799

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Seekers come in three categories:

Some want only to be pleased

By God.

Others want to please God

And be pleased by God.

Still others soulfully sing

Their heartbeat-motto:

“God for God’s sake.” ```

14800

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May my life be an enthusiasm-server,

May my heart be an eagerness-crier

To sing my Lord’s Victory-Song.

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From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 148, Agni Press, 1991
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