Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 171

17001

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My Lord Supreme,

Do give me the capacity

To sleeplessly long for

Your Fragrance-Presence

In my heart’s aspiration-life.

```

17002

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In my outer life,

How I wish I could be loved

By God the Perfection.

In my inner life,

How I wish I could be conquered

By God the Satisfaction. ```

17003

```

The aspiring heart’s

Perfection-silence

Cannot remain invisible

For a long time. ```

17004

```

O my mind,

There can be no specific reason,

Nay, no reason whatsoever,

For you to be heavy

With unwelcome thoughts.

```

17005

```

God the Compassion

Does not remain a stranger

Even to the desire-mind.

```

17006

```

A moment’s forgetfulness

Can throw us into the cave

Of most destructive disaster-night.

```

17007

```

Each self-giving God-lover

Is entitled to have

A foretaste of highest Heaven

Here on earth. ```

17008

```

A self-important person

Is an activity-flooded mind

And a sleeping and fruitless heart.

```

17009

```

God affectionately and proudly depends

On my readiness-mind

And my willingness-heart.

```

17010

```

God is not displeased with you,

Although your mind is enjoying

A silent revolt against Him.

God’s Forgiveness-Heart

Will do its duty.

```

17011

```

Do not indulge

Your teeming faults.

Do not enjoy

Your lame hesitation.

Do not overlook

Your blind imperfections. ```

17012

```

No genuine seeker

Will ever be found

In the land of fruitless and useless

Temptation-promises. ```

17013

```

Alas,

Is there any human being

Who is not eager

For continuous miracles

To happen in his life?

```

17014

```

O infinite power of faith,

Where are you?

May I have just a glimpse

Of your compassion-light? ```

17015

```

Alas,

How desperately I am trying

To throw myself open

To my Lord’s unconditional

Descending Compassion!

```

17016

```

A desire can be simple;

Nevertheless,

It can be overwhelmingly

And unbelievably powerful. ```

17017

```

The heart knows

How hard it is to have peace.

The mind knows

How hard it is to keep it. ```

17018

```

My Lord,

Do bless me

With only two dreams:

Humanity’s perfection

And Divinity’s Satisfaction.

```

17019

```

May each thought of my mind

Come from

My soul’s adamantine will-power.

```

17020

```

In which way

Is a desire-mind better

Than a turbulent confusion-ocean?

```

17021

```

If your heart

Does not make any progress,

Then true happiness

Will always remain

Beyond your reach.

```

17022

```

There was a time when I enjoyed

My mind’s disbelief-storms.

But now I am enjoying

My heart’s belief-dawn,

Belief-morning

And belief-day. ```

17023

```

What my eyes need

Is all-pervasive vision.

What my heart needs

Is all-pervasive compassion.

What my life needs

Is all-pervasive perfection. ```

17024

```

Enthusiasm can easily increase

The truth-seeker’s

And God-lover’s

Aspiration-speed. ```

17025

```

A true aspiring heart

Does have the capacity

To run infinitely faster

Than ignorance-chasers. ```

17026

```

God does not need

Your huge ornamentation-temple.

He only needs

Your small and pure

Devotion-shrine.

```

17027

```

Alas,

So many times in my life

I have had the chance

To surrender to God’s Will.

But I have just squandered

All my chances. ```

17028

```

My Lord Supreme,

I have three sweet desires.

Please, please do fulfil them!

I want to think of You

Before You think of me.

I want to love You

Before You love me.

I want to satisfy You

Before You satisfy me.

```

17029

```

If you can please your heart,

Then God will liberate you

From your mind-prison.

```

17030

```

A desire-life

Is a constant and useless life

Of contradiction.

```

17031

```

We all must establish

Our oneness

For the manifestation

Of God’s Hunger-Fulfilment

On earth.

```

17032

```

The clearer the mind

And the deeper the heart,

The easier is

God-manifestation on earth. ```

17033

```

Look ahead.

God has already forgiven you.

Look within

To forgive yourself. ```

17034

```

Each new generation

Is a new and illumining

Promise-Smile of God.

```

17035

```

Each time

I experience sorrow,

I feel that I am becoming

A permanent member

Of God’s Compassion-Family.

```

17036

```

Possibility lies

In the searching mind.

Inevitability lies

In the self-giving heart. ```

17037

```

Each self-giving thought

Of mine

Eventually grows into

A Satisfaction-Smile

Of my Lord Supreme.

```

17038

```

The spirituality of the Western mind

Need not and cannot be

A doubtful reality.

```

17039

```

Each moment is sacred.

Secretly use it

Only for God’s Satisfaction-Delight

On earth. ```

17040

```

It is not ceaseless action

But a flowering selfless action

That will be able to please God

In His own Way. ```

17041

```

Most human beings

Are totally lost

Between the suffering mind

And the unaspiring heart. ```

17042

```

I must ask my mind

To master hesitation.

I must ask my heart

To master aspiration. ```

17043

```

God wants

My service-contribution

And not

My victory-glorification. ```

17044

```

Who says that I do not pray?

I pray for the death

Of my desire-life.

```

17045

```

Who says that I do not meditate?

I meditate on my higher self

For my mind’s illumination.

```

17046

```

The Compassion-Height

Of my Lord Supreme

Is only one size,

But it fits all.

The Justice-Light

Of my Lord Supreme

Is only one size,

But it fits all. ```

17047

```

Alas,

Consciously and deliberately

Not only do we undermine

And underestimate,

But we also betray

Our higher self

Totally.

```

17048

```

Alas,

I am totally lost

Between my mind’s oppression

And my heart’s depression. ```

17049

```

Not God the Justice

But God the Compassion

Earns our heart’s teardrops.

```

17050

```

A moment’s undeniable miracle

Comes into existence

From unimaginable hard work.

```

17051

```

Alas,

I do not know

When my life-boat will arrive

At my soul’s silence-shore. ```

17052

```

To find a mind of sophistication

Is not a difficult task.

But to find a life

Of sleepless dedication

Is almost an impossible task.

```

17053

```

My heart is very happy

That my mind’s doubt-popularity

Is waning.

```

17054

```

My soul is telling me:

“Be careful of unhappy people,

For unhappiness is not only contagious

But also dangerous.” ```

17055

```

Life’s perfection-shore

Can be found only inside

The heart’s aspiration-temple.

```

17056

```

My soul’s progress-report to God

About my mind

Has completely shattered its pride.

My soul’s progress-report to God

About my heart

Has thrown my heart

Into a sea of ecstasy. ```

17057

```

God’s Compassion-Eye cries

When His faithful ones

Blunder and flounder

On their way to their destination. ```

17058

```

This time my heart of devotion

Is determined to conquer

Once and for all

My mind of temptation

And frustration.

```

17059

```

Since the beginning of creation

There has always been

A most deplorable shortage

Of unconditional seekers

And self-givers.

```

17060

```

God tells me that

Only a perfection-heart-voice

Is entitled to

A satisfaction-happiness-choice. ```

17061

```

My soul’s illumination-light

And my life’s realisation-delight

Have become inseparable friends.

```

17062

```

What kind of God-obedience is it

If it has to satisfy

The understanding of the mind?

```

17063

```

Every day I pray

To God the Creator

To grant me the capacity

To offer my gratitude-heart-fragrance

To God the creation.

```

17064

```

I have decided to make friends

With my heart’s old friend —

Patience —

And not with my mind’s old friend —

Intolerance.

```

17065

```

Hard is it

For the doubt of the mind

And the doom of life

To remain separate. ```

17066

```

Alas,

Spirituality-practitioners

And spirituality-pretenders

Are immediate neighbours. ```

17067

```

My mind loves the new God:

The God who

Does not demand my perfection.

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17068

```

My heart loves the old God:

The God who

Expects my perfect perfection.

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17069

```

My soul loves the eternal God:

The God who

Just gives and gives everything

Unconditionally. ```

17070

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If peace of mind

Is not your top priority,

Then no matter what you achieve,

Satisfaction will remain

An unattainable goal.

```

17071

```

This world of ours

Has become destruction itself

Precisely because

Every day it enjoys playing

The suspicion-game.

```

17072

```

I simply do not want to admire

My mind’s famous hero.

I just need to adore

My heart’s precious God. ```

17073

```

Between the mind’s willingness

And the life’s fulness,

The distance is extremely short.

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17074

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A sleeplessly self-giving life

Does not walk,

Does not march,

Does not run.

It just sprints

To God the Satisfaction-Destination. ```

17075

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I am not going to give up

No matter how many times I fail

In my life-perfection-promise.

```

17076

```

A doubtful mind I was.

A faithful heart I am.

A fruitful life

I shall before long be. ```

17077

```

The mind’s hesitation I was.

The heart’s aspiration I am.

The life’s transformation

I shall before long be. ```

17078

```

God never holds you

To your countless promises.

Alas, why do you hold God

To each and every Promise of His? ```

17079

```

My Lord’s smiling Eye

Is undoubtedly

My heart’s measureless bliss.

```

17080

```

I must not reject the summit Proposal

Of my Lord Supreme:

He wants me to satisfy Him

Every day and every hour

In His own Way.

```

17081

```

Who else is beautiful

If not you,

As long as you remain near

Your own fragrance-heart-flower? ```

17082

```

As long as our surrender

Remains incomplete,

God will not be able to give us

His complete Satisfaction-Eye. ```

17083

```

O my heart’s hope-garden,

Where are you?

O my mind’s frustration-forest,

Where are you not? ```

17084

```

As God’s Forgiveness-Height

Thrills me,

Even so, my progress-light

Thrills God. ```

17085

```

Since God wants to see in me

At least a good world-citizen,

I must have a purity-heart,

A sincerity-mind

And a simplicity-life.

```

17086

```

God loves many things of mine,

But He loves most

My surrender-gratitude-heart.

```

17087

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If your mind is hungry

To run farther,

And if your heart is hungry

To run faster,

Then God cannot and will not

Remain invisible. ```

17088

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O suspicion-mind,

I do not need you.

O inspection-mind,

I do not need you.

O interrogation-mind,

I do not need you.

O illumination-mind,

I need you,

I have always needed you

And I shall always need you. ```

17089

```

What makes my heart so special?

My heart loves God

In God’s own Way.

My heart loves

Even my constantly doubtful mind.

```

17090

```

Each time

I take a silence-step,

I become

A more powerful desire-extinguisher. ```

17091

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A desire-man

Has God the Power

On his lips.

An aspiration-man

Has God the Lover

In his heart.

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17092

```

Faith

Silences fear.

Truth

Silences doubt.

Aspiration

Silences confusion. ```

17093

```

The mind

Knows how to scream.

The heart

Knows how to dream.

The soul

Knows how to please the Supreme. ```

17094

```

In the morning

God shares His Breath

With me.

In the evening

I share my dreams

With God.

```

17095

```

Each surrendering life-breath

Will be blessed

With a new, hopeful, illumining

And fulfilling dawn. ```

17096

```

To know the truth,

Listen to the heart’s tiny voice,

Not to the mind’s loud noise.

```

17097

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He who believes in

The mind’s sincerity

And the heart’s purity

Is definitely

A peace-loving

And peace-manifesting

Instrument of God.

```

17098

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Poor God!

Every day in vain

He wants to be fed by us

With aspiration

And not frustration.

```

17099

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My Lord,

May I be at once

A forward-marching life

And an upward-climbing heart. ```

17100

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My Lord Supreme,

Do give me only one thing:

A tear-flooded gratitude-heart.

```

From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 171, Agni Press, 1992
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