Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 180

17901

```

Every day

I must steer my life-boat

With my eagerness-heart

And my enthusiasm-mind. ```

17902

```

If you want to succeed

In anything in life,

Then you must use

Your soul’s dauntless lion-power. ```

17903

```

Not only individual and collective

But also universal

Is the tendency to deliberately ignore

The dictates of the Inner Pilot. ```

17904

```

With your heart’s streaming tears

And not with your unshed tears

You can erase your dark past.

```

17905

```

Today’s

Self-indulgence-blessing

Inevitably becomes

Tomorrow’s

Life-destruction-curse.

```

17906

```

Nobody cares to know

What I am doing.

Alas, why do I care

To bare my secret thoughts? ```

17907

```

A man of sincerity

Is dismayed

By his own mind’s

Bold shout-power. ```

17908

```

Each and every flame

Of the aspiring heart

Is fed

By the blessingful and fruitful

Opportunity-sun.

```

17909

```

Unless all the aspiration

And dedication-troops

Of the world

Are mobilised,

The peace-manifestation-dream

Of earth

Will remain a far cry.

```

17910

```

O my mind,

My life is already

Too complex.

For God’s sake

Do not complicate it more

With your contagious doubts! ```

17911

```

The human mind

Likes to prophesy unhappiness

And not happiness

Day in and day out. ```

17912

```

The happiness

Of an ego-bloated mind

Is as enduring

As a mound of sand. ```

17913

```

If the mind’s sincerity

And the heart’s purity

Walk together,

Then every obstacle

On the way

Will definitely crumble. ```

17914

```

A self-giving thought

Is indeed

Time well-spent.

```

17915

```

A God-loving heart

Takes the doubting mind

As an unwelcome intruder.

```

17916

```

Quite often

Our expectations go downhill

Faster

Than our own imagination. ```

17917

```

I may not always know

What God’s Will is,

But I do know

What a good thought is.

Why do I not invite

The presence of a good thought

To lift me and my surroundings up?

```

17918

```

The beauty of the morning

Inspires us.

The beauty of the evening

Purifies us. ```

17919

```

May each morning come to me

With an inspiration-message-light.

May each evening come to me

With a gratitude-message-light. ```

17920

```

Be brave

To see the face of newness

And feel the heart of newness

If you want to start

Your life’s Godward journey.

```

17921

```

Each man has qualities

Good and bad.

God wants me to look

Only at man’s good qualities.

To correct his bad qualities

Is God’s Task.

I must not interfere

In God’s cherished activities. ```

17922

```

My Lord Supreme

Dearly treasures

My life’s progress-report.

```

17923

```

Nothing can be

More valuable and fruitful

Than to cherish

Each gratitude-breath

Of our heart.

```

17924

```

He is so sad

That his life-car

Is helplessly stalled

By doubt-giant. ```

17925

```

Life is nothing

Other than

An opportunity-fountain-smile.

```

17926

```

Desire-life

Always brings in

Ruthless frustration-night.

```

17927

```

Can you not see

That God is crying and weeping

For you to join Him in His Boat

To reach the Shore

Of the ever-transcending Beyond?

```

17928

```

If your mind is brave,

Then challenge thought!

If your heart is pure,

Then transcend thought! ```

17929

```

Love God unconditionally!

You will not be chained

By earth-bound time.

```

17930

```

The mind’s willingness

Is always treasured

By the heart’s openness.

```

17931

```

It takes a man of courage

To enjoy

Earth-adventure-journey.

```

17932

```

In the morning

I pray

To God’s Compassion-Eye.

In the evening

I meditate

On God’s Forgiveness-Heart.

```

17933

```

This world of ours

Has only two realities:

Sadness

And

Madness.

```

17934

```

Alas, I do not know

If the need for peace

Will ever be on the increase

In the human mind. ```

17935

```

O my mind,

When will you stop

Allowing your kingdom

To be ruled

By ruthless ignorance-night?

```

17936

```

The golden smile

Of Heaven

And the silver gratitude

Of earth

Are extremely fond of each other.

```

17937

```

Alas, each human life

Is either consciously

Or unconsciously bound

By unlimited expectation-chains. ```

17938

```

A surrender-life

Ascends.

A gratitude-heart

Expands. ```

17939

```

A heart of faith

Sees

No mind of doubt

Anywhere! ```

17940

```

Temptation and attachment

Are two members

Of life’s insecurity-team.

```

17941

```

True, a mind of sincerity

Is rare.

But rarer still

Is a heart of purity. ```

17942

```

I do not want to part with either of

My most precious possessions:

Two helpless eyes

And one hopeless heart. ```

17943

```

Where do I live?

I live in my sweet hope-home

And nowhere else.

```

17944

```

Each thought is uncertain,

Each action is uncertain,

Life itself is uncertain.

Alas, everything on earth

Is doomed to be uncertain.

```

17945

```

My Lord,

May my heart be flooded

With compassion-oneness-capacity.

```

17946

```

Ego means

Sleepless attention-necessity

And nothing else.

```

17947

```

Self-imposed obligation

Stupidly pleases

The undivine in me.

Self-forgetful sacrifice

Supremely pleases

The divine in me.

```

17948

```

Neither self-doubt

Nor self-aggrandisement

Can change the real reality

In us. ```

17949

```

Each good thought

Is a beautiful

Heart-flower.

```

17950

```

Unbelievable, but true:

My suspicion-mind,

My Lord’s Compassion-Eye

And my Lord’s Forgiveness-Heart

Together live.

```

17951

```

My morning meditation-beauty

Is my self-perfection.

My evening meditation-fragrance

Is my Lord’s Satisfaction. ```

17952

```

The God-satisfaction-seekers list

Has always been

Shorter than the shortest

Since the beginning of human aspiration. ```

17953

```

If God has the time

To smile at you powerfully,

How is it

That you do not have time

To cry for God soulfully?

```

17954

```

What I need

Is the beauty of hope

And the duty of patience

To make enormous progress

In my inner life.

```

17955

```

To my great surprise,

Every day I get

Quite unexpected Blessing-Gifts

From my Lord Supreme. ```

17956

```

The heart’s aspiration-cries

Must never be neglected

For the ruthlessly doubting mind.

```

17957

```

Sweeping changes in my inner life

Have strengthened me

To pray and meditate once more,

Sincerely, soulfully and self-givingly. ```

17958

```

Every day I do two things:

I make a hope-garden

Inside my heart,

And I create a promise-mountain

Inside my mind.

```

17959

```

If you are rooted

To a comfort-life,

Then God’s Satisfaction-Heart

Can never be claimed by you. ```

17960

```

I am really happy now

Precisely because

I have realised the futility

Of my expectation-mind. ```

17961

```

Can there be a greater fool

Than you are

If you postpone

Your self-improvement-life? ```

17962

```

The path of the heart’s insecurity

Can never lead us

To our divinity’s

Transcendental Reality. ```

17963

```

An uncommitted heart

Is indeed

A most deplorable failure

In our aspiration-life. ```

17964

```

You must do something better

Than just sounding

Your aspiration-dedication-drums

At every moment. ```

17965

```

Is there any day

When little deaths

Do not visit human beings?

```

17966

```

The armour of fear

Is reigning supreme

On earthly soil.

```

17967

```

I have two

Most significant friends:

My soul

And my soul’s unfinished task. ```

17968

```

There shall come a time

When this world of ours

Will have a new, all-loving

And all-fulfilling Master:

Peace.

```

17969

```

A self-giving thought

Is a step forward

Towards humanity’s

Perfection-life. ```

17970

```

O insecurity,

For years I considered you

My best friend.

But from now on,

I shall take you as

My worst foe! ```

17971

```

Darkness has the capacity

To choose you

Only when you do not turn

Towards the life-illumining light. ```

17972

```

May I treasure

Only those prayers

That stand as champions

Of universal harmony. ```

17973

```

The higher worlds fondly treasure

Humanity’s hope-birds

And promise-sky.

```

17974

```

O excruciating suffering,

You are so powerful!

I do hope that someday

You will prove to me

That you are meaningful

And fruitful as well. ```

17975

```

O sadness,

I do not know why

You came to me.

Is it because I deserve

Your ruthless presence?

Or is it because you are helpless

And it is predestined that you give me

A God-ordained experience? ```

17976

```

Where do I live?

I live in between

God’s human tears

And God’s divine Smiles. ```

17977

```

Each self-giving life

Has a permanent passport

To enter and live in

God’s Consciousness-Light-Bliss-Realm. ```

17978

```

O my sound-mind,

How can I live

With your destruction-frown?

O my silence-heart,

How can I live

Without your fulness-love?

```

17979

```

A self-giving life

Is far beyond

The temptation-desire-snare.

```

17980

```

God needs from you

Your soul’s childlike smile

And your heart’s childlike cry

Before He allows you

To breathe in

His universal Breath. ```

17981

```

The Lord Supreme tells

Each and every human being

That the strength of sincerity

Knows no finite boundary. ```

17982

```

O my stupid mind,

I am urging you

To pay all attention

To your soul’s invaluable,

Step-by-step

Nectar-instructions. ```

17983

```

Only the heart

Of a genuine God-lover

Can house

God’s infinite Vision-Smile. ```

17984

```

Each unaspiring human being

Is hopelessly and helplessly lost

Inside his mind’s darkness-cave

And his heart’s ignorance-breath. ```

17985

```

The failures of the past

Want to be your boss.

The frustrations of the present

Want to be your boss.

The visions of the future

Want to be your boss.

The Compassion-Eye of God

Wants to be your boss.

It is you who have to make the choice.

I hope that you make

The right and infallible choice.

```

17986

```

Before he entered into

The life of aspiration,

What he had and what he was:

A thunder-mind.

And now,

What he has and what he is:

A flower-heart.

```

17987

```

What weighs infinitely more

Than anything in this world?

The frustrations

Of each human being. ```

17988

```

God invites only

The sleepless gratitude-souls

To participate in

His Victory-Procession through Heaven. ```

17989

```

Each morning and each evening

May I become my heart’s

Rainbow-melody-flute.

```

17990

```

God has challenged Himself

To see perfection

In each human being.

```

17991

```

I am determined to climb over

Each and every mountain-obstacle

I encounter in my life.

```

17992

```

It seems that

All human beings suffer

From earth’s attachment-life

And Heaven’s detachment-soul. ```

17993

```

The doubting mind

Always finds mistakes

Not only

In God the creation

But also

In God the Creator. ```

17994

```

What can save us?

Our quenchless thirst

For the ever-loving

And ever-transcending Beyond. ```

17995

```

No sleepless determination

Can remain unsuccessful

And unfruitful.

```

17996

```

I can never be happy

Unless I can return my heart

To its Source:

God the infinite Compassion-Light. ```

17997

```

God-seeking eyes

I needed.

A God-loving heart

I now need,

And I shall forever need.

```

17998

```

A single Compassion-Smile from God

Lifts me up

To my summit-self-transcendence-height.

```

17999

```

My soul’s purity-fragrance-breath

Does have the capacity

To smash my mind’s attachment-chains.

```

18000

```

My Lord Supreme

Builds a peace-temple

Inside each purity-thought

Of my mind

And each aspiration-cry

Of my heart. ```

From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 180, Agni Press, 1993
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