Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 18

1701

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My Lord,

How can I offer You enough gratitude?

“My child,

You and I are singing

The song of oneness.

This oneness-song goes beyond

The necessity of gratitude.

When oneness reigns supreme,

Who will be grateful to whom?”

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1702

```

You and your pride

Can live without God,

But God and God’s Compassion

Cannot live without you. ```

1703

```

If you are ready

To go with your Beloved Lord

Even to hell,

Then rest assured,

Your Lord will definitely turn hell

Into the highest Heaven. ```

1704

```

I am not imitating him.

He has achieved something before me,

But now God’s Hour

Has struck for me as well,

And I shall devotedly follow

In his footsteps.

What you call imitation,

I call oneness-sharing. ```

1705

```

Man misunderstands

God’s Justice-Light.

Man does not understand

God’s Compassion-Height. ```

1706

```

Let others call me a fanatic.

I will listen only

To my intuition-friend

Who tells me

When to run and sit

At my Lord’s Compassion-Feet. ```

1707

```

He who leads me to God

Is most precious,

For what else is he doing

If not playing the role

Of opportunity

For his faithful followers? ```

1708

```

A seeker’s winter of doubt

Is fleeting,

But his spring of faith

Can easily be lasting. ```

1709

```

Frustration-night can veil

Your face

If you do not sail

Your life-boat

Towards the Illumination-Shore.

```

1710

```

When your Master does anything

With serious and soulful concentration,

Do not miss the golden chance

To be with him.

Use every opportunity

To receive the utmost from him. ```

1711

```

He wanted to go to hell

And see what it looked like.

Teeming doubts came to him

And said,

“You do not have to take the trouble

Of going to hell.

We have brought hell to you.”

```

1712

```

O ex-God-lover,

The stark ignorance-axe

Is fast descending

On your head. ```

1713

```

God is older than anybody.

Again, what is God

If not an eternal Child

Playing in His infinite

Garden of Beauty?

```

1714

```

What is selfless service?

Some call it humility-service,

Others call it humiliation-service,

But I shall always call it

Illumination-service.

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1715

```

Now that you have got

Freedom-confidence,

One by one, your forgotten hopes

Will reappear. ```

1716

```

A true God-ambassador-messenger

Is he who delivers

Divinity’s Smile

To humanity’s crying door. ```

1717

```

Be an eternal child.

Only an eternal child

Can appreciate

Divinity within and divinity without.

Only an eternal child

Can make inner and outer progress

To satisfy God in His own Way.

```

1718

```

Whether it needs rest or not,

You must compel your wandering mind

To rest,

And ask your still heart’s faith-flower

To blossom

Slowly, steadily and beautifully. ```

1719

```

Do not cry.

I love you.

Do not cry.

The world needs you.

Do not cry.

God is still dreaming

Inside you and for you.

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1720

```

God should not have to

Plead with you.

Just do the right thing

Sooner than at once

And become His Eternity’s

Choice and fond instrument. ```

1721

```

Each truth-seeking cry

Will eventually become

A God-manifesting smile.

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1722

```

A servant of the transcendental Truth

Can never be lost

In the backwoods of ignorance-night.

```

1723

```

Because of your

Disproportionate tongue-greed,

Your success-boat

Had to capsize and vanish. ```

1724

```

In his inner and outer life

He was shining.

His Lord Supreme made him

A messenger boy on earth.

Why?

Only to teach him

How to shine in humility.

```

1725

```

God’s selfless Service is found

Here, there, everywhere.

Whatever good things

He has been doing for His creation,

He is now asking you to do.

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1726

```

Do not loiter

On your frustration-street!

God is inviting you

To come to His Street

And hoist His Satisfaction-Banner.

```

1727

```

In top silence,

Patience-light

Broadcasts its indomitable power.

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1728

```

Through his selfless service-offering

He at once

Smashed his outer pride

And expedited his inner illumination. ```

1729

```

You want to make a noble sacrifice,

But first ask if it is God’s Will.

You must always go beyond morality

And allow Divinity

To make the decision for you.

```

1730

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Be grateful to morality,

For it has established

Some harmony on earth.

But remember,

You are a truth-seeker.

For you spirituality

Must always come first.

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1731

```

You are not only sitting

On the bondage-bench,

But you are enjoying

The boring sound of bragging. ```

1732

```

God wants you

To come and play with Him

And acquire

Divine name and fame.

But you must first

Throw off the blame-blanket

That you have put on humanity.

```

1733

```

If you serve

Faithfully, devotedly and punctually,

Although you have

Teeming problems and weaknesses,

Inwardly you will feel

Joy in boundless measure

From your selfless service-offering.

```

1734

```

God’s Vision-Island

Is waiting for you.

Can you not quickly embark

In your heart’s swiftest progress-plane? ```

1735

```

Keep swinging on

Your heart’s gratitude-gate.

God will before long

Transform your earth-bound fate

Into a Heaven-free smile.

```

1736

```

When your Master asks you

To obey the Divine in him,

You have to know

That he himself

Always obeys Someone —

His Eternity’s Pilot Supreme. ```

1737

```

What do I want?

I want to see my mind’s

Falling desire-star.

What do I want?

I want to see my heart’s

Rising aspiration-sun. ```

1738

```

If you have made

Your ego-life a big eater,

How is it you cannot make

Your surrender-life a great God-dancer? ```

1739

```

If you do not take

Your Lord Supreme’s Gifts

With a gratitude-heart,

Who will be the real loser? ```

1740

```

When he soulfully offered to others

What his Beloved Supreme had given him,

He immediately increased

His own devotion-delight. ```

1741

```

God asks me to show Him

What I gave Him yesterday —

Proper enthusiasm.

If I can show proper enthusiasm

To Him today,

Then He will give me

What He truly is — Love.

```

1742

```

If you do not perfect

Your determination-exercise,

God will not invite you to see

His Satisfaction-Dance. ```

1743

```

The disciple offers the Master

His soulful receptivity.

The Master offers the disciple

His heart’s sweetest gratitude

And his soul’s highest blessings.

```

1744

```

In the life of a true seeker

Receptivity is not a mere word

Found in the dictionary,

But a living reality

That touches the very Depth

Of God’s Heart. ```

1745

```

You are asking me,

What has God’s Compassion-Smile

Done for me?

God’s Compassion-Smile

Has demobilised my doubt-army

For good. ```

1746

```

You are longing for

Your desires’ death.

How can you kill your desires

Unless you are badly in need of

God’s Breath?

```

1747

```

Whenever you sincerely

And soulfully meditate —

No matter when, no matter where —

Your Master’s inner sun

Will respond without fail.

```

1748

```

When you are meditating

In your Master’s absence,

Your imagination-power

Can either bring your Master

Right in front of your mental vision,

Or it can send

Your meditation-consciousness

To your Master. ```

1749

```

You must defend

Your life’s manifestation-power

With your heart’s aspiration-tower.

```

1750

```

Your faith-tree has dropped dead

And now what I still hear

Is a deafening sound.

```

1751

```

The Lord Supreme

Needs only those

Who are eternally faithful,

Sleeplessly cheerful

And ready to follow Him

At all times. ```

1752

```

You are perfectly surrendered

To your mind.

You have become

Your mind’s best instrument.

You think that you know everything

Better than God.

Alas, what can poor God do for you?

```

1753

```

God’s Hour had struck for him.

But when he deliberately

Neglected his meditation,

The inner divine forces

Kicked him

Infinitely harder

Than he would ever have imagined.

```

1754

```

When opportunity knocks at your door,

Pay attention!

If you ignore your opportunities,

The retribution will be unimaginable. ```

1755

```

Unless you take your mind-student

To your heart’s illumination-palace

Every day,

It will die to keep company

With confusion-crowd.

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1756

```

God has already given you

What He has for you —

His transcendental Smiles.

When are you going to give Him

What you have for Him —

Your heart’s gratitude-tears? ```

1757

```

The Hour has struck for you.

Proceed

According to your own capacity.

Why wait

For those who are not ready

To fly high, higher, highest? ```

1758

```

What is transcendence,

If not a minor alteration

Of my earth-aspiration-cry?

```

1759

```

Don’t hide your doubt-drums.

Strike hard!

And let them burst into pieces

Immediately. ```

1760

```

There should be no difference

Between your everyday heart-aspiration

And your life-newness.

There should be no difference

Between your everyday heart-soulfulness

And your life-fulness. ```

1761

```

God is not interested

In the eagerness of your vital

To defeat others.

God is only interested

In the eagerness of your heart

To achieve perfection

In your own life.

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1762

```

Just think of

Your life’s transformation.

God will then definitely love you

Infinitely more. ```

1763

```

False light will tell you

What you can never do.

Real light will tell you

Not only what you can unmistakably do

But also

What you have perfectly done already

To please your Beloved Supreme.

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1764

```

To appreciate the beauty

Of a flower

Is not a difficult task.

But to become the flower itself

Is indeed a difficult task.

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1765

```

Cry and cry sleeplessly

If you want to change the world.

Love and love constantly

If you want to change yourself. ```

1766

```

Self-deception:

This is what the human nature knows.

Self-perfection:

This is what the divine nature knows.

Self-transcendence:

This is what the supreme nature knows. ```

1767

```

He mistakenly feels

That what others have to offer him

Is of no value.

In the name of self-sufficiency

He is just riding his own ego-horse.

```

1768

```

If your Lord Supreme requests you

To do something,

Rest assured,

He has already given you the capacity —

Even more than necessary —

Long before you actually need it. ```

1769

```

When I think of God,

I think of God’s Quantity-Life.

When God thinks of me,

He only thinks of my quality-heart. ```

1770

```

Mine is purity’s

Attraction-heart.

Mine is impurity’s

Repulsion-mind.

In between the two

I am totally lost. ```

1771

```

When you walk

With your fellow travellers

Along Eternity’s Road,

Like a magnet

You should try to draw

Inspiration and aspiration from them. ```

1772

```

Just because God

Thinks of your enemy too,

Do you think

He loves you less? ```

1773

```

Insincerity is dangerous.

Sincerity is adventurous.

Purity is prosperous.

Divinity is precious. ```

1774

```

You do not have to

Give up anything.

Just value your spiritual life

And automatically you will feel

That this new life of yours

Comes first. ```

1775

```

By accepting the spiritual life

You are telling me

That God comes first in your life.

Now do everything soulfully

To bring yourself closer to Him,

And also try to feel

That He, only He, is your Eternity’s All.

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1776

```

Two things of yours

Always astonish me:

Your mind’s confusion-forest

And your heart’s perfection-garden. ```

1777

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Opinion:

This is what my mind wants.

Perfection:

This is what my heart wants.

Liberation:

This is what my life wants.

God-Satisfaction:

This is what I want. ```

1778

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During the day

Use your imagination-power

To remember your soulful and powerful

Morning meditation.

Imagination is a world of its own,

And this imagination-power

Can save you, illumine you and fulfil you.

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1779

```

Soulfully ask God

How to use the spiritual energy

You receive in your meditation.

Then it will never be wasted. ```

1780

```

Indecision

Tells me two things perfectly:

What death looks like

And

Where death is.

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1781

```

God is not asking you

To desert your mind

Immediately.

He is only asking you

To illumine your mind

Completely. ```

1782

```

God asks you to come Home.

He does not ask you

What you will do

When you come Home. ```

1783

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Yesterday

You allowed your mind

To be overcrowded with thoughts.

Today

You are allowing your mind

To be overcrowded with doubts.

Yet you want to have

A peaceful mind and a fruitful life! ```

1784

```

Your heart’s love-quality

Is quite poor.

How do you then expect

To awaken the sleeping human beings?

Your wishful thinking

Will eventually end

In a powerful frustration.

```

1785

```

You want to be first in everything.

Now make up your mind

Once and for all

Whether you want to be first

In the world-illumination-race

Or in the world-possession-race. ```

1786

```

Alas, you cannot explain

God the Great.

Alas, you cannot feel

God the Good.

Alas, you cannot imagine

God the Perfect. ```

1787

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What is your primary concern —

To love God

Or to serve God?

If you want to love God,

Pray for inner purity.

If you want to serve God,

Pray for inner certainty.

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1788

```

A talker may only

Talk on perfection,

But a listener can definitely

Grow into perfection. ```

1789

```

God definitely wants you

To succeed in life.

But it is you

Who have to do always

The best thing.

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1790

```

The heart’s silence-sunrise

Is the harbinger

Of the life’s sound-joy.

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1791

```

You must implore

God’s Compassion-Light

Before you dare to explore

The beauty and divinity

Of the inner world.

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1792

```

Be not afraid

Of revealing the truth.

Be only afraid

Of concealing falsehood. ```

1793

```

Everything comes and goes,

But oneness-love remains,

And it remains so permanently.

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1794

```

Whether your mind

Is running after desire

Or desire is running after

Your mind

Is quite unimportant.

Both your mind and desire

Are quite harmful.

Therefore, watch out! ```

1795

```

God has already built

A road for you.

Can you not at least

Walk on it

And see if it is satisfactory?

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1796

```

Ask your heart to give

The right kind of advice

To the world.

Ask your mind to receive

The right kind of advice

From the world. ```

1797

```

God wants you to entertain Him.

Alas,

Instead of entertaining Him richly,

You have enchained Him mercilessly. ```

1798

```

God has a question for you.

Answer it immediately:

Do you want Him

To save you from yourself

Or to save you from the world?

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1799

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God does not mind

If your road is different

From His road.

But He will definitely mind

If both of you

Finally do not arrive

At the same destination.

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1800

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Realisation is not

The end of the road.

It is only a challenge

On the way to God’s

Perfect Manifestation on earth.

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From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 18, Agni Press, 1983
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