Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 176

17501

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My Lord, in my case,

Not only Your Compassion-Eye

But also Your Forgiveness-Heart

Started loving me

Right from the very beginning.

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17502

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I am so proud

That I have at least two things

To make my Lord Supreme happy,

Truly happy:

My tearful heart

And my prayerful mind. ```

17503

```

Every day

My mind is compelled

To pay the unhappiness-penalty

To God, the Justice Supreme. ```

17504

```

Peace,

I have come to realise

That you are the only rightful owner

Of my aspiration-heart. ```

17505

```

True, my mind had

A slow doubt-start.

But my heart will have

A very strong faith-finish. ```

17506

```

I must realise that every day

I shall have to face

My frustration-enemy

If I want to succeed in life. ```

17507

```

Doubt and suspicion

Can never get a visa

To enter into the heart-country.

```

17508

```

My Lord Supreme,

I am so grateful to You

That You take the trouble

Of changing my plans. ```

17509

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My Lord, my Lord, my Lord,

Forgive me, forgive me, forgive me.

I took You for granted;

Therefore, I failed.

But now I shall make another attempt.

This time I shall sleeplessly pray to You

So that You can inundate my prayer-life

With Your infinite Compassion. ```

17510

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My Lord,

May my heart always remain

The gratitude-host

And may You remain

The Satisfaction-Guest.

```

17511

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I have lost my determination-mind.

My Lord tells me

That it is not a big loss.

I have lost my aspiration-heart.

My Lord tells me

That it is a very big loss,

A real loss.

```

17512

```

My Lord Supreme

Proudly treasures each moment

Of my innocence-mind.

```

17513

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Yesterday

I was volcano-pride.

Today

I am self-pity.

Tomorrow

I shall be heart-aspiration. ```

17514

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God wants me to thrive

In my heart-garden

And not just to survive

In my mind-forest. ```

17515

```

I am so happy

That my life has made

A permanent contract

With God-obedience. ```

17516

```

Each soulful prayer of my heart

Is a blessingful inspiration

Descended from God’s Compassion-Eye.

```

17517

```

The mind-town is full

Of useless absurdities.

The heart-village is full

Of fruitful surprises. ```

17518

```

Each time I offer my Lord Supreme

A pure thought,

He blesses me

With an angel-smile. ```

17519

```

Each time I serve God

Unconditionally,

I herald the advent

Of His supreme Victory

On earth.

```

17520

```

May my life

Grow into

My heart’s

Blossoming faith. ```

17521

```

My aspiration-heart

Every day hungers

For thrilling and illumining news

Of my soul. ```

17522

```

Alas, alas,

Each thought in my mind

Is complexity-futility’s nightmare!

```

17523

```

True,

Nothing human is perfect.

But it is we

Who have to make everything human

Divine and perfect.

```

17524

```

Before temptation comes

To threaten you,

Take shelter at God’s

Protection-Feet. ```

17525

```

Patience, patience, patience —

If you want your soul’s peace

To thrive

Inside your aspiration-heart. ```

17526

```

Now is the time

For me to start keeping

My God-manifestation-promises.

```

17527

```

Go far beyond

The domain of the obvious.

You will be able

To make God happy,

And you will be able

To make yourself happy, too. ```

17528

```

I succeed in everything I do

Because I never bow

At the altar of my mind’s

Confusion-night. ```

17529

```

Perfection

Is man’s unwritten song

To God.

Satisfaction

Is God’s unwritten song

To man.

```

17530

```

I must know that

Even my complexity-mind

Has to live in the world of aspiration

If I want to succeed. ```

17531

```

My Lord, my Lord,

Please tell me

If ever my ignorance-mind

Will stop playing

The doubt-game.

```

17532

```

Art is humanity’s

Ascending,

Awakening aspiration-cry.

Art is Divinity’s

Descending,

Flowering manifestation-smile. ```

17533

```

When God the creation

Asks God’s Compassion-Eye

To come down and feed

The hungry heart

Of the seeker,

The Compassion-Eye of God

Immediately comes down

And does the needful

Unreservedly.

But when God the Creator

Asks the gratitude-heart of the seeker

To come up and stay inside

His own Satisfaction-Heart,

The gratitude-heart of the seeker

Is always late, shockingly late. ```

17534

```

Alas,

How can this world of ours

Be freed from insecurity-eye

And impurity-face? ```

17535

```

Nobody can have

The all-illumining wisdom-life

Without having studied

The humility-lessons

In God’s inner School.

```

17536

```

God commands me to be playful

When He comes to me.

God requests me to be soulful

When I go to Him. ```

17537

```

O my unaspiring mind,

Leave me alone!

I do not want to live inside

The jungle-density

Of your useless thoughts. ```

17538

```

Once you have loved God

Soulfully, devotedly and unreservedly,

God will never accept your rejection —

No, not even your resignation. ```

17539

```

My Lord Beloved Supreme

Has time and again said to me

That just one glance

Of His Compassion-Eye

Is enough to help me

Challenge and conquer

The ignorance-sea.

```

17540

```

An unaspiring thought

Weakens us.

An unwilling mind

Destroys us. ```

17541

```

The desiring mind knows how

To blame God

Unnecessarily and endlessly.

The aspiring heart knows how

To love God and claim God

Sleeplessly and breathlessly. ```

17542

```

My mind’s desire-chains

Will definitely break one day.

My heart’s aspiration-plane

Will definitely fly one day

In my soul’s unhorizoned sky.

```

17543

```

Not true, not true, not true,

If anybody tells you

That the transcendental Truth

Is unteachable.

The infinite God Himself

Is teachable. ```

17544

```

Every morning

I collect cheerful souls

And proudly place them

At the Feet of my Lord Supreme. ```

17545

```

Every morning

I collect tearful hearts

And soulfully place them

At the Feet of my Beloved Supreme. ```

17546

```

There was a time

When I was a doubt-millionaire.

But now my Lord Supreme

Has made me a faith-billionaire. ```

17547

```

I wanted to be

A heavyweight in greatness.

But my Lord Supreme has made me

The heaviest weight of goodness. ```

17548

```

My Lord Supreme tells me

That only a heart of peace

Is the rightful owner

Of His world. ```

17549

```

Do you want to make progress

Fast, faster and fastest?

Then do not allow yourself to remain

In the grip of your mind’s fixed ideas. ```

17550

```

I shall no longer be satisfied

With the fleeting flickers

Of my mind’s confidence-candles.

```

17551

```

I shall no longer listen to

The weeping voice

Of my trembling insecurity-heart.

```

17552

```

I do not want

To keep any longer

The tortured and fractured mind

Of a thinker.

I want to remain only

Inside the beautiful heart

Of a God-seeker, God-server

And God-lover. ```

17553

```

The body

Has a liking for laziness.

The vital

Has a liking for boldness.

The mind

Has a liking for newness.

The heart

Has a liking for frankness.

The soul

Has a liking for fulness. ```

17554

```

God wants me

To sweeten my heart’s joy,

Not only for those

Who are around me,

But also for all human beings

On earth. ```

17555

```

May my mind become

A success-story of God.

May my heart become

A progress-song of God. ```

17556

```

Do you really want to become

A totally surrendered God-seeker,

God-lover and God-server?

Then I am telling you

That it is not too late to start now!

```

17557

```

The ghost

Of my deplorable misdeeds

Disappeared

The moment my mind devotedly sat

At God’s Forgiveness-Feet.

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17558

```

Each time

I sleeplessly, soulfully

And self-givingly meditate,

I add my soul’s dream-beauty

And my heart’s reality-joy

To my life’s

Transformation-perfection.

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17559

```

God’s Oneness-Heart

Will come to speak to you

If you cast aside

Your mind’s selfishness-blinders. ```

17560

```

Imitation

Stagnates us.

Aspiration

Liberates us.

Surrender

Fulfils the divine in us. ```

17561

```

O God-lover,

Allow yourself not

To be imprisoned

By your ignorance-cherishing mind! ```

17562

```

If your mind

Does not aspire,

It will speedily

Plus hopelessly

Be lost.

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17563

```

For the heart

There is no such thing

As not believing in the impossible.

The heart’s God-oneness-capacity

Can easily believe in the impossible.

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17564

```

Alas,

How can I liberate myself

From my daily

Futility-anguish? ```

17565

```

One day I must reach

The perfection-shore,

Although it is now

An Eternity away. ```

17566

```

Once we free our minds

From doubt-shackles,

Our lives will not remain

The same! ```

17567

```

A self-giving heart

Is a sure sign

Of inner progress.

```

17568

```

I am caught between

My heart’s simplicity-needs

And my mind’s complexity-wants.

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17569

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My Lord Supreme,

Please tell me

How I can be happy

And remain happy

For the entire day.

“My child,

Give Me immediately

Your expectation-bondage-chain.

I shall fly you

In My own Freedom-Ecstasy-Plane

In My Infinity’s Heart-Sky.”

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17570

```

My Lord Supreme,

How can I make You truly happy?

“My child,

Consciously and soulfully

Try to share My earth-burden.”

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17571

```

My Lord,

You are Your Compassion-Eye.

How I wish

I could be my gratitude-fragrance. ```

17572

```

My Lord,

Do not allow me to enjoy

My mind’s illusion-skies.

Please allow me only to enjoy

My heart’s perfection-progress.

```

17573

```

My Lord, my Lord,

Please tell me that there will be

No next time for me.

This is the only way, my Lord,

That I shall be able to be more serious,

Infinitely more serious,

In my self-giving to You

At every moment. ```

17574

```

My Lord,

Does Heaven need anything?

“Yes, My child, it does.

It needs your surrender-smile

And gratitude-tears.”

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17575

```

My Lord Supreme,

How can I go everywhere

To sing Your Victory-Song

And spread Your Manifestation-Light?

“My child,

Be the possessor of an open heart.

Your open heart will carry you

Everywhere.” ```

17576

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My Lord,

When will I be able to hear

Heaven’s Voice?

“My child,

You will be able to hear

Heaven’s Voice

When you stop your desire-jumps

And start your aspiration-journey.” ```

17577

```

Each time I breathe in

Purity-fragrance,

I come one step closer

To my Lord Beloved Supreme. ```

17578

```

O my heart,

The world may desert you,

But you will never be lost,

For my Lord Supreme

Definitely cares for you.

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17579

```

May my daily prayer to God

Sow new hope-seeds

In the broken and hopeless hearts.

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17580

```

Ignorance-poison we drink

Right from the very time

We first see the light of day.

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17581

```

O my mind,

Be not an old prisoner

Of binding, blinding

And strangling thoughts. ```

17582

```

Self-oblivion

Is not self-perfection.

Self-illumination

Is self-perfection. ```

17583

```

My life’s oneness-flow

And my heart’s fulness-glow

Together live.

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17584

```

No more

My mind’s desire-clouds

Can cover

My heart’s aspiration-sun. ```

17585

```

My ego-self,

When will you make friends

With divine love, divine devotion

And divine surrender

To make me consciously aware

Of my divinity’s height? ```

17586

```

My mind needs

Constant newness.

My heart needs

Constant cheerfulness.

My life needs

Constant fulness.

Only then

Can I ever become perfect. ```

17587

```

True illumining and fulfilling

Satisfaction

Can dawn only in the heart’s

All-loving freedom. ```

17588

```

An aspiring heart knows

Neither the mind’s division

Nor the life’s separation.

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17589

```

You fool!

Do you not know

That there is no such thing

As security

For your blind ego?

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17590

```

I am no longer

A restless monkey-mind.

I am now

A breathless deer-heart. ```

17591

```

I want to go far beyond

The domain of the mind’s

So-called goodness.

I want to live inside my heart’s

True oneness-perfection.

```

17592

```

My heart gets joy

By believing everything.

My mind gets pleasure

By believing nothing. ```

17593

```

An aspiring heart

Does not suffer

From emptiness, isolation

And frustration. ```

17594

```

Because you have kept your mind

As your sole boss,

You have the exorbitant need

For continuous supremacy. ```

17595

```

A heart of newness-dream

Gives birth

To a lasting breath

Of fulness-reality. ```

17596

```

O my mind,

With your curiosity-motivation-eye,

How do you expect

Either to dive within or to fly above? ```

17597

```

I see my goal

Beckoning me

Only when I prayerfully converse

With my soul. ```

17598

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O my heart,

Do not indulge in depression.

O my mind,

Do not indulge in exasperation.

You both

Have extraordinary things to do

To fulfil the Lord Supreme.

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17599

```

Each man is the owner

Of zigzag problems,

But God is the Owner

Of straight Answers. ```

17600

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You want to know

What God’s Grace has done for me.

God’s Grace has done the impossible.

Before, I was my mind’s

Unwillingness-sea.

And now I have become my heart’s

Willingness-mountain.

```

From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 176, Agni Press, 1993
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