Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 191

19001

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Alas, a world-wide shortage

Of humility and purity

Is considerably delaying the world’s

God-satisfaction-progress. ```

19002

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There is no real joy

In self-promotion.

Real joy abides

In God-manifestation

And God-satisfaction.

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19003

```

You must discard

Your dark and thickening doubts

And replace them

With fresh and fragrant faith. ```

19004

```

At every moment

Try to make your life

A cheerful, soulful and prayerful

Service-song

To please God in God’s own Way.

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19005

```

Only the upward-climbing

Thought-flames

Can illumine and liberate

The mind. ```

19006

```

Because your faith

Is so fleeting,

Your life’s inner progress

Will remain a far cry. ```

19007

```

The path of God-obedience

Is the only path

That I sleeplessly

And breathlessly need. ```

19008

```

May my thought-world embody

My soul’s divinity-flooded

Sweetness-paradise.

```

19009

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Mine is not the life

Of God-disappointment-tears.

Mine is the heart

Of God-fulfilment-smiles. ```

19010

```

When I become a prayerful server

Of God’s Dream,

God becomes a full supporter

Of my reality. ```

19011

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What am I doing?

I am exploring

My aspiration,

My surrender

And my gratitude-selves

At the Feet of my Lord Beloved Supreme. ```

19012

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I am no longer in my mind’s

Doubt-bondage-prison.

I am now in my heart’s

Faith-freedom-kingdom. ```

19013

```

The power of our soul’s

Immortality’s silence

Can and will

Transform this world. ```

19014

```

Each life reminds us

Of yet to be fulfilled

God-promises.

```

19015

```

When you pray,

Consciously try to smile

In the fragrance-life

Of your soul. ```

19016

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I want my heart’s aspiration-room

And my life’s dedication-room

Not to remain unfurnished.

```

19017

```

God is proud of me

Only when He is able

To blessingfully stroke

My humility-head. ```

19018

```

My Lord Supreme,

I am beginning

An altogether new day today,

With the art of prayerful listening. ```

19019

```

When your life bristles with problems,

Try to feel that

The God of the Beyond

Can enter into your sincere prayers. ```

19020

```

My Lord’s Forgiveness

Has always been extremely kind to me;

Therefore, I am still alive.

```

19021

```

My Lord wants me

To carefully count my good points,

So that I can approach Him

With a prayerful mind

And a cheerful heart.

```

19022

```

God does not want us

To decrease our soulful necessities.

He just wants us

To decrease our absurd expectations. ```

19023

```

God does not want me

To pay my gratitude-debt to Him.

He wants me only

To bring back my aspiration-heart to Him. ```

19024

```

God’s Compassion

Does not boss me around.

It is usually my mind

That becomes my lord,

With my inner consent.

```

19025

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Concentration-power

Must come to the fore

From the heart centre

For the fulfilment

Of high-climbing aspiration.

```

19026

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The more we use our mind

To give us joy,

The sooner we shall forget how to fly

With the Freedom-Wings

Of our Lord Supreme.

```

19027

```

At long last I am successful

At bidding farewell

To my bitter world-resentment-life!

```

19028

```

I am happy

Only when I accept

The transcendental Beauty of God’s Way

As my own, very own. ```

19029

```

O my stupid mind,

You always misinterpret

My Lord’s blessingful Silence-Messages!

```

19030

```

My life’s spontaneous willingness

To please God in His own Way

Has come from

My heart’s sleepless awareness

Of self-expansion in God.

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19031

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For the mind to grasp

The entire truth

In a divine way

Is almost an impossible task. ```

19032

```

If we do not take

Our Inner Pilot more seriously,

Then our mind will, without fail,

Prevent our heart from rising

To God-Heights.

```

19033

```

If I refuse to undertake

God-manifestation-responsibility,

Then it will be my loss,

And nobody else’s. ```

19034

```

Real mental renunciation

Will bring you nothing

But vital frustration.

```

19035

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Our only unfailing resource

Is our heart’s

Sleepless aspiration-cry.

```

19036

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Your mind-anxieties

Will be put to rest

Only when you are ready

To conquer fear

With your heart’s oneness-will

With God. ```

19037

```

If you cease to love

God the Unimaginable,

Your meditations can never be

Deep, illumining and fulfilling. ```

19038

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It is only our soulful prayers

That can help our hope

Rise triumphantly.

```

19039

```

As long as you get joy

In your pride’s superiority,

You will be denied

God’s Satisfaction-Smile. ```

19040

```

The life of ignorance

Is both infinitely stronger

And infinitely stranger

Than we can ever imagine. ```

19041

```

If you tell God

That it is not within your capacity

To give up your desire-life,

Then God can help you

Only on the strength of

Your inner obedience-life. ```

19042

```

Real happiness

Can enter into my life

Only when I dare to think

God has not yet given up on me. ```

19043

```

If you do not forget

Your negativity-mind-depression,

God cannot come to you

With His Oneness-Heart-Bliss. ```

19044

```

I shall not let the moment

Have its way.

I want each and every moment

To follow my heart-Lord’s Way. ```

19045

```

It is better not to go to war

With either the stupidity-mind

Or the impurity-heart.

It is always advisable to pray

To the compassionate God

For their illumination. ```

19046

```

When we are inspired

With the self-giving will

To live for goodness,

God feels that the hour has come

For Him to smile

His transcendental Smile. ```

19047

```

The persistent ignorance-lover

Has no place

Either here or there —

Not even in God’s Heart. ```

19048

```

Weakness

Either in the mind

Or in the heart

Or in the body

Leads us

To inescapable slavery. ```

19049

```

Although we come into the world

To catch the beauty of the world,

We are quite often caught

By the ugliness of the world. ```

19050

```

Nature compassionately takes

Very little from us.

But we are always eager to devour

Not only everything from nature,

But also nature itself.

```

19051

```

True, at present life cannot be

All sunshine.

But there shall come a time

When our God-invocation-prayers

And God-satisfaction-meditations

Will make our life all sunshine. ```

19052

```

There is only one right course

Of action:

A sleepless and desireless

God-surrender-life. ```

19053

```

God does not want us

To draw experiences

From the pool of failure.

He wants us

To draw experience-light

From the heart-surrender-fountain. ```

19054

```

One single ignorance-thought

Can enter into our mind

In various forms

Of trials and tribulations. ```

19055

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My Lord, when I think of Your Heart,

I want to feel that it is reachable

And not unreachable.

My Lord, when I think of Your Mind,

I want to feel that it is comprehensible

And not incomprehensible.

My Lord, when I think of Your Justice,

I want to feel that it is mutable

And not immutable.

```

19056

```

What is spirituality,

If not constant self-vigilance

And self-discipline?

```

19057

```

I know, I know,

Attachment-power

Is mighty.

Detachment-power

Is mightier.

Enlightenment-power

Is by far the mightiest.

```

19058

```

I came into the world

Not to escape the miseries of life,

But to challenge and conquer

The ruthless torture of misery. ```

19059

```

If you have chosen the way

Of pleasing God in God’s own Way,

Then you must never be attached

To anything that lures you

Or tempts you.

```

19060

```

When we enter into desire-life

And want to remain there,

We cannot see the end

Of despair-night. ```

19061

```

The unripe individual ego tells me

That I am the possessor.

The ripe universal ego tells me

That God is the only Possessor

And the only Possession.

```

19062

```

Twice God smiles:

Once when I say

That I can accomplish

Whatever I want to

Without God’s Help,

And once when I say

That God does not care at all

Whether I accomplish

Or do not accomplish

Anything. ```

19063

```

I want to be blinded

And remain blinded

By God’s Compassion-Eye

And Protection-Feet. ```

19064

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Do not provoke a war

Between your mind’s impurity

And your heart’s purity.

Invoke God’s Presence

To do the needful

Inside the two. ```

19065

```

Two miracles

God has chosen to grant us:

He will give us the capacity

To manifest Him fully,

And we shall all become

His supremely choice instruments. ```

19066

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My Lord, protect my mind

When it is doing something wrong.

My Lord, support my heart

When it is doing something right. ```

19067

```

I was astounded

When I found out

That I was included

In God’s world-transformation-Plan. ```

19068

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My Lord, do give me the capacity

To live in a never-ending stream

Of self-offering-bliss.

```

19069

```

Readiness to please God

Is the minimal qualification we need

Once we enter into

The spiritual life. ```

19070

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My Lord Supreme assures me

That my sweetness-surrender-heart

Will be my fulness-satisfaction-life.

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19071

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In the past

I saw the speed

Of God’s Compassion-Light.

Now I see the speed

Of God’s Forgiveness-Joy.

```

19072

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I have now come to realise

That I can pave the God-road

Not with my powerful words

But with my prayerful deeds. ```

19073

```

God will allow us to walk

Along the illumination-road

If we carry with us

Nothing but a silence-heart. ```

19074

```

Alas, will ever human beings

Come to realise

Why they enjoy so much

Their fragile ego-shelter? ```

19075

```

Ignorance cannot stain any soul.

But ignorance can definitely

Most deplorably delay

The manifestation of the soul’s vision

On earth.

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19076

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Whenever we live in the mind,

We must realise that we are

The prisoners of the mind.

And whenever we live in the heart,

We must realise that we are living

In the most spacious palace of the heart. ```

19077

```

Man is not God’s disastrous mistake.

But man himself in the course of time

May be the creator of disastrous mistakes.

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19078

```

Human friendship

Is quite often brittle

Because this friendship is made

From two unlit human minds. ```

19079

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O my heart,

I want you to remain always

Untarnished

By selfishness, narrowness

And unwillingness.

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19080

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It is not a crime

To be plagued by doubts.

But it is indeed a crime

If we do not pray to God

To illumine our doubting mind.

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19081

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An unaspiring man is,

Without fail,

Bound to live a life

Of endless and deathless contradictions. ```

19082

```

Our life is anchored

To fulfilling hope

Only when our soulful prayers

Touch the Compassion-Feet of God. ```

19083

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Surrender, surrender,

Surrender to God’s Will!

Then you will see that

Happiness lies in your path

Here, there and everywhere.

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19084

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O seeker, if you do not please God

In God’s own Way,

Destruction-despair

Will frequently visit you. ```

19085

```

You do not have to push yourself

Towards God

For all you are worth.

Just place your oneness-heart

At God’s Compassion-Feet.

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19086

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I want my life’s pendulum

To swing upward and inward,

Not backward and forward.

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19087

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My Lord, I do hope

That someday You will release me

From the heavy burden

Of my unruly thoughts. ```

19088

```

My heart seeks shelter

Inside God’s Compassion-Eye

And not in my mind-made excuses.

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19089

```

There was a time

When I was only

A supremacy-thirsty world-traveller.

But now I long to be

A God-ecstasy-hungry heart-seeker.

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19090

```

The fortune of my life

Has at last arrived:

My aspiration is far beyond

Ignorance-snares. ```

19091

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God Himself came down

From His celestial Throne

To bless me

When He saw that my life had become

A life of unconditional surrender.

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19092

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The days I do not pray and meditate

My heart makes me feel

That my life is shamelessly

Frittering away

Its precious and auspicious days.

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19093

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If you do not believe in

God’s Compassion-flooded workings

Inside your life,

Then you are not ready to embark

On your spiritual journey.

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19094

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The eyes of the mind

Quite often deceive us

Far beyond

What our heart can imagine. ```

19095

```

The desire-mind

Is a name-fame-hunter.

The aspiration-heart

Is a God’s Love-Name-chanter. ```

19096

```

A God-manifestation-soul

Finds no necessity

For a pleasure-vacation.

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19097

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Who is a genuine seeker?

A genuine seeker is he

Who carries wherever he goes

God’s Love in his smile. ```

19098

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I long for the rainbow-beauty

Of the inner world,

And not for the power-capacity

Of the outer world. ```

19099

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God does not turn you away.

It is your mind

That turns away from God.

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19100

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To think of peace

Is not the answer.

To speak of peace

Is not the answer.

Even to dream of peace

Is not the answer.

But to pray for the delight of peace

Is the answer,

The only answer,

To life’s countless problems. ```

From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 191, Agni Press, 1993
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