Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 199

19801

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When I am in my doubting mind,

Alas, unconsciously, if not consciously,

I vote against God’s Party.

But when I am in my aspiring heart,

I not only vote for God’s Party

But also do everything

Devotedly and self-givingly

For God’s Party. ```

19802

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God most compassionately tells me:

“My child, how I wish someday

I will be able to bless you

With a summit-wisdom-diploma.” ```

19803

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Be not afraid of adversity.

Be careful of complacency.

You are bound to arrive

At your destination. ```

19804

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Alas, I was totally blind

When God waved the aspiration-flag

At my seeker-journey’s start.

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19805

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O my mind,

At your funeral

I do not want anybody to come,

Not even God the Compassion-Heart. ```

19806

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The mind that is unhampered

By thought-billows

Will always have the capacity

To run the fastest

Towards the silence-flooded goal.

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19807

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Never turn your back

On your simplicity-mind,

Sincerity-heart

And humility-life. ```

19808

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May my aspiration-heart

At every moment

Burst with gratitude-songs

To my Lord Supreme. ```

19809

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If you do not illumine your mind

With the purity of your heart,

Then your heart will definitely

Be attacked and wounded

By hostile thoughts.

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19810

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May my soul-luminosity

Every day speak

To my heart-purity.

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19811

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He who is a God-lover

Will cheerfully and immediately

Accept challenges

From the inner world

And the outer world.

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19812

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My joy knows no bounds

When I see my tearful heart-sky

Welcoming the excruciating pangs

Of the entire world. ```

19813

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I am torn between two teachers.

One teacher says

I have the heart-capacity

And I am the soul-capacity

To fight against ignorance-night.

The other says

No capacity whatsoever

Will ever be at my disposal. ```

19814

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The easiest way to touch God’s Feet

Is through devotion-cries.

The easiest way to feel God’s Heart

Is through surrender-smiles. ```

19815

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Mine is the heart

That will always remain

A perfect stranger

To the sad loser’s lamentations. ```

19816

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When the mind speaks,

The heart is always available

To listen.

When the heart speaks,

The mind is nowhere to be found.

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19817

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Although most of us

Do not satisfy God,

God blessingfully invites us

To play anytime we want to

In His vast manifestation-field.

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19818

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Nothing is and nothing can ever be

As impossible and ruthless

As one’s own self-doubt.

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19819

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I want to love the God

Whom I do not and cannot see.

I want to need the God

Who will beckon me to sit

At His Compassion-Protection-Feet.

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19820

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Be not afraid

Of your mind’s desire-shadows.

Just beg your heart-light

To come to the fore

And illumine them.

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19821

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May my gratitude-heart-flower

Every day blossom

Inside God’s Heart-Garden.

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19822

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If you do not find peace

Inside your own heart,

Then you will not find it

Anywhere else on earth. ```

19823

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Each aspiration-heart

Is God the Creator’s

Satisfaction-Promise

To God the creation. ```

19824

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Do not expect God

To please you at every moment.

Poor God also needs a little break!

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19825

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No, nobody has

An insignificant place

In God’s infinite Compassion-Heart.

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19826

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God has bad days, too,

Especially when I feed

My mind with doubt,

My vital with aggression

And my body with lethargy.

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19827

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Jealousy and meanness

Are nothing other than

The outer expression

Of inner ugliness. ```

19828

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Only God’s Compassion

Has the capacity to stop us

From repeating the same mistakes

Endlessly. ```

19829

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A real God-seeker

Must try to see all obstacles

Neither in his head

Nor on his shoulders,

But at his thunder-feet.

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19830

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God-longing you will understand

Only the day your faith in God

Reaches its summit-heights.

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19831

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O my mind,

When I search for you,

Why do I invariably find you

In a doubt-jungle

And not in a faith-garden?

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19832

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How can we expect

The wisdom of the vastness-heart

To stay inside

A tiny little mind? ```

19833

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God swiftly comes

To rescue me

Whenever I am about to drown

In despair-sea. ```

19834

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Aspiration itself is wisdom.

Therefore, we cannot expect it

To surrender to stupidity.

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19835

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O truth-seeker and God-lover,

Never think that your heart

Is made of fruitless hopes!

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19836

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God the creation

Tells my mind

To shut up.

God the Creator

Tells my heart

To wake up. ```

19837

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Those who have crossed through

Desire-market

Will definitely arrive

At beauty’s aspiration-garden. ```

19838

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My doubtful mind

Is deeply indebted

To my forgiveness-heart

For its transformation. ```

19839

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God’s Pride knows no bounds

When my heart sings

A fountain-sweetness-song.

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19840

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The insecurity of the vital

And the fear of the mind

Always compel my heart-deer

To slow down its aspiration-speed. ```

19841

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Only a heart of peace

Can rightfully enjoy

The birth of freedom.

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19842

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My heart needs

Only the aspiration-flames

That will ceaselessly mount.

It does not need

The aspiration-flames

That do not or cannot climb up

To the summit-heights.

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19843

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God sings for me

Many, many songs,

But He enjoys

Compassion-Songs the most. ```

19844

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Yesterday’s mind-questions

Can easily be illumined

By today’s heart-answers.

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19845

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My soul-tree teaches me

How to climb up

From one heart-branch

To another

To reach my perfection-life.

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19846

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I must learn the art

Of appreciating greatness-minds.

I must learn the art

Of admiring goodness-hearts. ```

19847

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May my child-heart

Every day take its first breath

From the beauty, purity and divinity

Of the blossoming dawn. ```

19848

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I need a mind

That does not protest

The wisdom-advice

Of my soul. ```

19849

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I hope that my mind’s

Self-contempt

Will sooner or later be transformed

Into self-admiration. ```

19850

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The very heart

Of silence-meditation

Is the beauty

Of the soul’s sunrise. ```

19851

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O my mind,

Do not give up!

One day you will definitely

Be able to enter into

My heart’s peace-room.

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19852

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There is not a single hope-bird

That does not want to fly

In the sky of freedom.

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19853

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When I soulfully meditate,

I see a golden lake

Of God’s Love-Beauty

Inside my heart. ```

19854

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There is a great distance

Between

My mind’s prayer-cry

And my heart’s meditation-smile. ```

19855

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Is there any mind

That can liberate itself

From endless doubt-questions?

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19856

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O my mind,

You have many important things

To do on earth.

Do not waste time

In needless anxieties and worries.

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19857

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You will soon see

The inner collapse of aspiration

When the heart mixes

With the dry mind. ```

19858

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Every self-centred activity

Is indeed an ultimate failure.

Every God-centred activity

Is indeed an immediate inner victory. ```

19859

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The unaspiring mind

Can neither prosper nor prevail.

It only grows

Into helpless worries. ```

19860

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The aspiration-stairways

Are meant only for

The self-giving confidence-hearts.

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19861

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What is my mind?

I wish I never knew.

What is my heart?

I wish to immediately know. ```

19862

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To perpetuate

Our aspiration and dedication,

We need two things:

A purity-heart

And

A sincerity-mind. ```

19863

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We cannot conquer God’s Heart

With our mind’s smartness.

We can conquer God’s Heart

Only with our heart’s soulfulness. ```

19864

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I can, at best,

Think of God fondly.

But God can easily

Think of me self-givingly. ```

19865

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Today’s wisdom can erase

Yesterday’s follies,

Provided we value

Our higher-than-the-highest Goal. ```

19866

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O my heart’s sweetness,

You do have the capacity

To save my mind and its dryness

With your compassion-light. ```

19867

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God blessed me

With His Compassion-Fortune.

Alas, my stupid mind

Has squandered it. ```

19868

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God never comes to visit

My mind-palace,

But He frequently comes to visit

My heart-cottage. ```

19869

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O my insincere mind,

Your spirituality-practice

Not only amuses me

But also embarrasses me. ```

19870

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O my endless desire-mind,

Are you not afraid

Of your forthcoming

Desire-death sentence? ```

19871

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God smiles and smiles

When I entertain Him.

God cries and cries

When I try to ascertain

The extent of

His Compassion for me. ```

19872

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If aspiration

Is not available,

How can realisation

Be available? ```

19873

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Before, God and I

Were very close to each other.

Now that I have withdrawn my love,

Poor God finds it impossible

To be close to my heart.

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19874

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I prefer

God’s Justice-Hand

To man’s compassion-eye.

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19875

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Do you love God,

Or do you love yourself?

If you love God,

Then both my heart and my mind

Will be for you.

But if you love yourself,

Not even my mind,

Not to speak of my heart,

Will be for you.

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19876

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Believe me,

Sincerity saves our mind,

Purity saves our heart,

Simplicity saves our life. ```

19877

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May my life-pendulum swing

Between

God’s Compassion-Eye

And God’s Forgiveness-Hand. ```

19878

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You do yourself a great disservice

When you do not allow God

To speak to the world

On your behalf. ```

19879

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Human love

Blooms with a thorn.

Divine love

Blossoms with

An ever-brightening dawn.

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19880

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The mind’s complacency

Has to be replaced

By the heart’s

Action-perfection-adequacy. ```

19881

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When I ask God

If He loves me unconditionally,

He blesses me

With an unquestionable “Yes!” ```

19882

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O my heart,

Why do you so often allow

Your helplessness and hopelessness

To torture my life? ```

19883

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Now that you are free

Of your ignorance-mind,

Can you not love all the time

With your wisdom-soul? ```

19884

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The mind,

Even while looking,

Sees nothing.

The heart,

Even without looking,

Sees everything.

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19885

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O my Lord,

When I doubt You,

Do turn my life into

A voiceless victim of fear. ```

19886

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Each day

May a thousand God-dreams

Energise my mind

And thrill my heart. ```

19887

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At last

My mind is set free

By God’s

Compassion-Miracle-Eye. ```

19888

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No mental illusion

Can ever be shattered

Without God’s

Compassion-flooded Smile. ```

19889

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The mind is fond of scattering

Thousands of meaningless

And useless fantasies.

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19890

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May my noise-tired heart

Be found inside

God’s Silence-Fountain-Heart.

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19891

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There can be no abiding happiness

Unless and until we hew down

Our uncomely thought-enemy-trees.

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19892

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My soul and my Lord Supreme

Never need an appointment

When they want to meet together

And give each other joy. ```

19893

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Falsehood

Prospers for a day.

Truth

Prevails forever. ```

19894

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No human being,

But God alone, may be found

For an immediate supply

Of Compassion-Consolation. ```

19895

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If you sit

In the doubter’s seat,

Believers will immediately

Disappear from your sight. ```

19896

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My mind-leader

Is devoid of vision.

My heart-leader

Is devoid of aspiration.

My life-leader

Is devoid of dedication.

Alas, all my leaders

Have failed me! ```

19897

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Each time

I cherish a good thought,

I create

Universal oneness-bliss. ```

19898

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A doer

I love.

A listener

I like.

A talker

I hate. ```

19899

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Each man is a desert-mind.

How difficult it is

For the heart-traveller

To cross that mind-desert! ```

19900

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The hearts of all men and women

Will beat together

To offer their gratitude-fragrance

When God’s Compassion-Hour strikes. ```

From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 199, Agni Press, 1994
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