Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 201

20001

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O seeker,

Every day start

Your life’s journey

With a gratitude-heart-song. ```

20002

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Are you a fool, O seeker?

Why are you afraid

Of abandoning

Your old and useless

Ignorance-companion?

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20003

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Even inside

The mind’s ignorance-night,

The flickering light of the heart

Shines. ```

20004

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Wild ambitions

And huge frustrations

Have orphaned many minds

And many hearts. ```

20005

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Even when

God’s Justice descends,

It is accompanied by

His unseen Compassion. ```

20006

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No division-power of the mind

Can either love or serve mankind

Divinely and supremely.

Only the oneness-power of the heart

Can love and serve

Plus transform the world. ```

20007

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Nothing is simple to accomplish

When we use our doubting mind.

Nothing is too difficult to accomplish

When we use our crying heart. ```

20008

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Alas, at times

I am in a reality-bound cave

And at times

I am beyond the dream-free skies. ```

20009

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The aspiration-heart

Has and is the capacity

To fly into the sky

Of Eternity’s Oneness-Beyond. ```

20010

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The candles of the heart

Can easily be lit

Once and for all

By the God-oneness-flame

Of the soul.

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20011

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When your heart becomes

A soaring aspiration-bird,

The Beyond is bound

To beckon you. ```

20012

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How can you be happy,

Really happy,

If you cannot separate your heart

From your mind’s

Stark and ruthless confines?

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20013

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It is so strange

That the mind wants to live

Permanently

Inside its pitch-dark thought-prison. ```

20014

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To feed

God’s ceaseless and breathless Hunger,

What we need

Is a child-heart-joy. ```

20015

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A pure thought

Brightens the mind,

Sweetens the heart

And enlightens the life. ```

20016

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Be careful

Of your lethargy-body.

It can, at any moment,

Devour

Your heart’s inspiration-joy.

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20017

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Every day

I try to celebrate

The oneness-dream of my heart

Even inside

The division-enjoyment-mind.

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20018

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To a seeker,

Nothing can be more precious

Than his sacred

Morning meditation-hour. ```

20019

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We can sweeten and gladden

Our thoughts

Only with

Our heart-fragrance-prayers. ```

20020

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It is you

Who have to push aside

Your mind’s mountain-doubts

With the help of

Your soul-abundance-power.

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20021

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A receptivity-heart

Keeps all its inner doors open

To welcome

Its Lord Beloved Supreme. ```

20022

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You must never allow your mind

To drag you inside

The dark, darker, darkest

Thought-tunnel. ```

20023

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God knows

My gratitude-songs

By heart

And quite often sings them

To increase my aspiration-intensity.

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20024

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O my heart,

When are you going to be

The possessor of Infinity’s

Self-giving and God-fulfilling

Capacities?

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20025

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Alas, what a rogue

The human mind is!

With its shameless doubts

It tries to harass and embarrass

The divinity of the heart.

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20026

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My realisation-soul

And my aspiration-heart

Have the same message:

This world of ours

Will definitely have peace one day,

For the omnipresent God

Will reveal and manifest

His universal Peace. ```

20027

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Needless to say,

God has countless attributes.

But by far

The most significant attribute

Is peace.

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20028

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Peace is founded upon love.

Love is fulness-perfection

In the outer world.

Love is oneness-fragrance

In the inner world.

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20029

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God the Vision and God the Reality

Are inseparable.

Alas, when will man the dream

And man the reality

Become consciously, inseparably one?

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20030

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Anything that we truly need

For our abiding happiness

God will definitely grant us

At His choice Hour,

For God is eager to share

His Happiness with us. ```

20031

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Do not stop dreaming!

One day your world-peace-dream

Will inundate the entire world.

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20032

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A disciplined outer life

Is indeed a result of

The life of inner freedom.

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20033

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Perfection you want?

Then add regularity and punctuality

To your meditation-silence-meal.

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20034

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There is only one place

For a seeker to place

His devotion-heart,

And that is at his Lord’s

Compassion-flooded Nectar-Feet.

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20035

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The mind desires

A sympathy-audience.

The heart desires

A oneness-audience.

The soul desires

A God-loving,

God-caring and

God-fulfilling audience. ```

20036

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A fulness-heart’s tears

Can and shall satisfy

God’s Summit-Manifestation-Light.

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20037

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O God-lover and world-server,

Be not doomed to disappointment,

For there shall definitely come a time

When you will see

The transformation-face of humanity.

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20038

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We have one common goal:

Peace.

But how do we achieve it?

Only through meditation

On peace itself.

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20039

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The fastest outer sprinter

And the fastest inner sprinter

Are not rivals.

They are two complementary souls.

The outer sprinter

Charms the inner sprinter.

The inner sprinter

Illumines the outer sprinter. ```

20040

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Precisely because

We are God’s chosen instruments,

He has given us

His most secret, most sacred

And most precious inner wealth —

The inner hunger. ```

20041

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The name of God’s Life

Is infinite Compassion.

The name of God’s Heart

Is immortal Love. ```

20042

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God the Compassion

Blesses us

With His Satisfaction-Delight.

God the Justice

Blesses us

With His Perfection-Height. ```

20043

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Every day I join my heart

When it sings God-obedience-songs.

Every day I join my life

When it sings God-surrender-songs. ```

20044

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A faith-runner

On the aspiration-road

Can deal easily

With doubt-attacks. ```

20045

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When humanity’s lethargy

Comes to power,

Ignorance-night is bound

To rule supreme

On earth.

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20046

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My heart’s soulfulness-speed

Is fed and multiplied

By God’s own Dream.

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20047

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God loves

Only one philosophy,

And that is the

Do-it-here-now philosophy. ```

20048

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Concern gives

According to its limited willingness.

Love gives

According to its complete cheerfulness. ```

20049

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God wants each and every seeker

To be a thief —

To steal beauty from His Eye

And bliss from His Heart. ```

20050

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If you do not meditate

On your Inner Pilot,

Definitely you are going to miss

Something most significant.

If you meditate

On your Inner Pilot,

You will grow into

A greatness-mind-tower

And a goodness-heart-flower.

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20051

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Peace will show you

The way to God.

Bliss will teach you

How to preserve God. ```

20052

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O my heart, dive deep within

And see if there is anything

That you have not yet given

To your Beloved Supreme. ```

20053

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My prayer-mind

Is my uncertain investment.

My meditation-heart

Is my certain, absolutely certain,

Investment.

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20054

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I never felt

And never even thought

That God would be so eager

And anxious

To see me happy.

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20055

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Each soulful thought

Is unimaginably precious

In serving God the creation.

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20056

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The mind is always ready

To blame somebody else.

The heart is quite often ready

To blame itself.

The soul says:

“O mind,

By blaming others

You can never be happy.

O heart,

By blaming yourself

You will get nothing worthwhile.

O mind, O heart,

Stay not in the world of blame.

Pray to God, meditate on God

For illumination.”

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20057

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Alas, why is God so indifferent

To me, my suffering?

Alas, when will God play the role

Of my Saviour

And not my Observer?

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20058

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Be brave, sleeplessly brave.

Do not surrender

To the inevitable.

The strength of your soul

Can silence the buffets of fate.

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20059

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O my eyes,

When will I see

The beauty of the dawn

Inside you and around you?

O my world,

When will I see

The peace of the evening

Inside you and around you? ```

20060

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Inspiration

Is the God-journey’s start.

Aspiration

Is the God-speed.

Realisation

Is the God-destination. ```

20061

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O my suspicion-mind,

I thought you had left me

For good.

Alas, you have come back again

To torture me, my entire being.

Unless and until, my mind,

You are ruthlessly under arrest,

Peace will remain a far cry. ```

20062

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Do not complain;

Do not complain.

Just train your mind

To look at the world

With a compassion-eye.

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20063

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Are you not the worst fool?

If not, why do you allow your mind

To lord it over you

Day and night? ```

20064

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The outer world thinks

My little heart is useless.

But the inner world knows

My little heart is both

Priceless and measureless.

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20065

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In the inner world

My name is tolerance.

In the outer world

My name is perseverance. ```

20066

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May my inner

God-aspiration-necessity

And my outer

God-manifestation-capacity

Remain always inseparable.

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20067

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Where is

My mind’s freedom?

It is inside

My heart’s peace.

It is inside

My life’s surrender. ```

20068

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The vital is always eager

To fight.

The mind is always eager

To doubt.

The heart is always eager

To cry.

The life is always eager

To surrender. ```

20069

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Truth is not

A new invention.

Truth is not

A new discovery.

Truth is

Eternal self-evidence. ```

20070

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O my oneness-heart’s rose-beauty,

Where are you?

O my division-mind’s thorn-torture,

Why are you here? ```

20071

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From ancient times,

Even until now,

The transformation of human nature

Has seemed to be

An impossible task.

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20072

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The smiles of victory

And the tears of defeat

Exist only

In the aspiration-famine

Of the human mind.

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20073

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I know

My spiritual riches will grow

Only when I go

Straight to my heart’s

Aspiration-garden

Every morning. ```

20074

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We may not see

But we do feel

That there is a Hand

Which is beckoning us

To a supreme Destination.

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20075

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When my vision-eye flies

Towards the moon,

My heart becomes beautiful and pure.

When my vision-eye flies

Towards the sun,

My heart becomes confident and sure. ```

20076

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Each self-giving act of mine

Helps my life

To strengthen my soul’s

God-manifestation-promise. ```

20077

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In all human beings lies hidden

The seed

Of God-satisfaction-promise.

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20078

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It is not advisable

To measure the depths

Of life’s

Most deplorable failures. ```

20079

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Let each and every human being

Be cautious of

His violence-temper-destruction.

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20080

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Each aspiration-heart

Is indeed a radiance-smile

Of God’s Compassion-Eye.

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20081

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O my mind,

When will you start

Praying and meditating

At the foot

Of my soul’s peace-mountain?

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20082

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When the heart is charged

With enthusiasm-flames,

All earthly barriers

Can be surmounted. ```

20083

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May I be my mind’s

Inspiration-march.

May I be my heart’s

Aspiration-flight.

May I be my soul’s

Illumination-depth. ```

20084

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When the mind arrives soundlessly

At the heart’s door,

The inner host immediately

Opens the door. ```

20085

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Who is a God-realised soul?

A God-realised soul is he

Who carries Eternity’s

God-ordained

Responsibility-oceans.

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20086

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O my Lord Supreme,

Do give me an iota

Of Your Tolerance-Ear

And an iota

Of Your Compassion-Heart

To love You in the inner world

And serve You in the outer world.

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20087

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My life’s pendulum

Is moving to and fro

Between my mind’s

Uncomely and ancient thoughts

And my heart’s

Beautiful and noble feelings. ```

20088

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When I do not pray and meditate

Early in the morning,

I invariably enter into my mind’s

Anxiety-anguish-jungle. ```

20089

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We must renounce

Our ego-pride-life

If we want God to announce

His Victory in and through us. ```

20090

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The absence of faith

In the heart

Can easily be the cause

Of the destruction-rain

Of the spiritual life.

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20091

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The human in me thinks

My life is a big joke.

The divine in me knows

My life is a Dream of God.

Alas, I am lost

Between my human experience

And my divine reality.

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20092

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A resolute mind

And a self-giving heart

Can surmount all obstacles

Without fail. ```

20093

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O my mind,

Can you not see

That you are day by day

Withering

In your hopeless, helpless

Forest-life? ```

20094

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O my mind,

Throw away the desire-clutches

And desire-nets

If you want to fly

In the firmament of Infinity’s Freedom.

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20095

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If you please God

Here on earth

In God’s own Way,

At the end of your journey’s close,

God Himself will greet you

And receive you

At His transcendental Palace

In Heaven. ```

20096

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Each time I offer

My heart’s willingness-smile

To my Lord Supreme,

He blessingfully invites me

To come close, closer, closest

To Him. ```

20097

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In the inner life

We must become meditation-mountains

To transcend ourselves.

In the outer life

We must become dedication-trees

To transcend ourselves. ```

20098

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Because my heart is

A breathless lover of God,

The whole world belongs

To my heart’s oneness-love. ```

20099

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May my life be dedicated

Only to those

Who believe in world-peace

And wish their inner lives

To be inundated with peace.

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20100

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First use your imagination-power

To create a better world.

Then sleeplessly serve

The present world

To turn your imagination

Into reality. ```

From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 201, Agni Press, 1994
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