Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 207

20601

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If you want to get

Inspiring, encouraging, fulfilling

And satisfying results,

Then everything you want to do,

Do with unremitting eagerness

And devotion. ```

20602

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O seeker,

Self-giving you are.

At His choice Hour

God’s Compassion-Eye

Is bound to remunerate you.

```

20603

```

If your old mind

Resists change,

How can you have a new heart,

A new oneness

And a new fulness?

```

20604

```

As the illumining soul

And the aspiring heart

Enjoy their close propinquity,

Even so, the doubting mind

And the grasping vital

Enjoy their close propinquity. ```

20605

```

A mind of sincerity

Is a rare achievement.

A heart of purity

Is an invaluable achievement. ```

20606

```

When it is a spiritual matter,

God never wants us to summarise,

But wants from us everything

In full detail. ```

20607

```

It is absolutely necessary

To have a long self-giving life

For the full manifestation

Of our Beloved Lord Supreme. ```

20608

```

If you treasure an indolent life,

How can you expect God

To shower His choicest Blessings

Upon you? ```

20609

```

O my mind,

Resist temptation.

O my heart,

Invoke illumination.

O my life,

Shun insecurity. ```

20610

```

The soul and the heart

Are always benign.

It is the mind and the vital

That are strangers to compassion.

I shall always live in the soul,

With the soul

And for the soul.

```

20611

```

A day of outer blunders

And inner remorse

Can torture the seeker’s heart

Throughout the entire year. ```

20612

```

You cannot hate man

And love God

At the same time.

It is undoubtedly

An absurdity.

```

20613

```

God admires and loves

Your soul’s deep inner hunger

Infinitely more

Than you can ever imagine. ```

20614

```

May my life-boat ply

Between

My self-offering

And my God-contemplation. ```

20615

```

If you do not pray and meditate

Regularly,

How can you expect to have a mind

Without confusion-jungle? ```

20616

```

Jealousy always thinks of revenge,

Dreams of revenge

And cannot live without carrying

A hidden revenge-sword. ```

20617

```

God shows the sincere seeker

Which way to go,

How to go

And why to go

With His Compassion infinite.

```

20618

```

Peace will definitely

Take the place of war

If and when

Our hearts desperately need peace. ```

20619

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O God’s Compassion-Eye,

Do see through my eye

And perfect me.

O God’s Forgiveness-Heart,

Do feel through my heart

And help me go far beyond

The domain of my little “I”.

```

20620

```

Every day

My soul-bird strives

For the high, higher, highest height.

```

20621

```

I shall no longer remain

In inner rebellion.

To You I shall offer

My surrender-promise

And my gratitude-heart.

```

20622

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No matter how sincerely, how devotedly

And how self-givingly you try,

You cannot fully recognise

The Absolute Lord Supreme. ```

20623

```

If you indulge in self-doubt

Day in and day out,

Then you are a seeker

With a heart-frightening curse

On your head.

```

20624

```

I believe

There is a great day coming

When my God-suspicion-mind

Will leave me for good,

For I am of God

And I am of aspiration.

I am my soul’s earth-blossoming

And world-penetrating eye. ```

20625

```

May my heart and my heart’s faith

Fly together

From one summit-height

To another. ```

20626

```

Do not wait for a miracle

To change your life.

The transformation of life

Cannot be achieved by miracles,

But by self-inquiry.

```

20627

```

O my heart-friends,

My heart is eager

To introduce you to God.

O my mind-enemies,

My mind is eager

To speak ill of you to God. ```

20628

```

God the Father-Mind

Warns me timely.

God the Mother-Heart

Saves me compassionately. ```

20629

```

The mind thinks

That God will eventually

Change His Way

And listen to the mind.

The heart feels

That God’s Way is the only way

To make the entire being happy.

```

20630

```

Anger, the boss,

Will never be able

To derive fulfilment

From its assets. ```

20631

```

You are a stark fool

If you are waiting for a crisis

To change your way of life.

You may indefinitely wait,

But meanwhile

Your suffering will only increase

In boundless measure.

```

20632

```

O ignorance-world,

Nothing that you say or do

Will ever weaken my faith

In my Lord Beloved Supreme. ```

20633

```

No more, no more

Shall I permit my mind

To correspond with

Ignorance-monster. ```

20634

```

O my disobedience-mind,

You will never be allowed

To enter into

My obedience-heart-happiness. ```

20635

```

Alas, dead aspiration

Is now the spiritual life

Of humanity.

```

20636

```

My Lord Supreme,

Do give me a sleepless heart

To cry

For Your endless Delight. ```

20637

```

When I lived for myself,

I found absolutely nothing

Worth treasuring.

Now that I live for God,

Everything is not only beautiful

But also invaluable. ```

20638

```

Alas, I do not know

If there will ever come a time

When my sadness-burden

Will be taken away

By God the Compassion infinite.

```

20639

```

Let my mind live with doubt

And live in doubt.

I shall no longer try to bring God

Into my mind.

I have already brought God

Into my heart-nest,

Where I shall preserve Him

And treasure Him,

Treasure Him and preserve Him.

```

20640

```

As my self-acceptance

Gladdens God’s Heart,

Even so, my self-denial

Saddens God’s entire creation. ```

20641

```

To love God sleeplessly

Is to defeat and destroy

Disobedience totally.

```

20642

```

I do hope

That your aspiration-bird

Will once more fly

In God’s Compassion-Satisfaction-Sky. ```

20643

```

If you dare to say

That you are God’s chosen child,

Then you must also struggle and struggle

As God sleeplessly struggles. ```

20644

```

Alas, my disobedience-mind

And my ingratitude-heart

Are in collusion

To rob me of my inner silence,

Inner peace and inner delight.

```

20645

```

God’s Forgiveness-Train

Travels sleeplessly.

We just have to enter into the train

Prayerfully and self-givingly. ```

20646

```

When I am in my soul,

I adore God’s transcendental Beauty.

When I am in my heart,

I implore God’s universal Compassion.

When I am in my mind,

I ignore God’s immortal Forgiveness. ```

20647

```

My Lord,

Do blessingfully give me the capacity

To befriend You

And not to defend myself against You

At any time.

```

20648

```

My Lord,

I am so grateful to You

That You have sent Your Peace

To live permanently

In my mind.

```

20649

```

Unconditional surrender

Is an indispensable necessity

For a God-lover

Who wants to please God

Always

In His own Way. ```

20650

```

The human in me

Proudly loves self-reliance.

The divine in me

Self-givingly loves soul-reliance. ```

20651

```

We deceive our hearts,

But our hearts do not

Give up on us.

They feel that one day

Our deceptions will be

Transformed and illumined. ```

20652

```

It is infinitely easier

For me to see and feel

God’s Faith in me

Than for me to have

Faith in God.

```

20653

```

Nothing is as fleeting

As the mind’s

God-acceptance

And God-rejection. ```

20654

```

O my mind,

Do not interfere

With hope,

Do not interfere

With promise,

Do not interfere

With the soul’s activities

In and through you. ```

20655

```

My mind looks forward

Restlessly.

My heart looks inward

Steadily.

My soul looks on

Compassionately. ```

20656

```

God’s Peace-flooded Eye

Has given my mind a new hope,

My heart a new promise

And my life a new direction. ```

20657

```

God’s Forgiveness-Eye

And my gratitude-heart

Together

Live and sing. ```

20658

```

O my Lord Supreme,

Do not ever allow my heart’s

Breathless willingness and eagerness

To falter. ```

20659

```

God tells my mind

That He does not expect it

To understand anything.

He only expects my mind

To be an attentive

And self-searching student. ```

20660

```

When I am in my mind,

I blame God.

When I am in my heart,

I serve God.

When I am in my soul,

I claim God. ```

20661

```

Every morning

God, out of His infinite Bounty,

Helps me inject my life

With the beauty of enthusiasm

And the fragrance of eagerness.

```

20662

```

The secret God

Keeps everything sacred

And blesses us with the blossoming

Of outer beauty and inner fragrance. ```

20663

```

Inner disobedience

And outer unhappiness

Are always found together.

```

20664

```

God does not believe in compromise.

To reach the Golden Shore,

We also must not make

Any compromise

With ignorance-mind.

```

20665

```

God’s Heart does not believe

In the insignificance

Of any of His creations.

To Him,

They are all significant.

```

20666

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Would You tell me, my Lord,

Once more,

That I do have the capacity

To please You in Your own Way? ```

20667

```

Patience believes in

Humanity’s transformation.

Patience believes in

Divinity’s Satisfaction. ```

20668

```

The mind-monkey climbs up

To frighten us.

The soul-dove flies down

To enlighten us. ```

20669

```

My Lord Supreme,

What can I do for You?

“Transcend yourself

To strengthen your oneness with Me.” ```

20670

```

To talk to humanity,

I badly need a microphone.

To talk to my Lord Beloved Supreme,

I don’t need even a telephone. ```

20671

```

It took him many years

To celebrate the occasion

Of his suspicious mind’s surrender

To his auspicious heart. ```

20672

```

My Lord says to me,

“My child,

Give Me the beauty

Of your heart-cry.

I shall give you the Fragrance

Of My Breath-Smile.” ```

20673

```

God does not mind showing us

The Beauty of His Eye

When we long for it.

But usually He hides from us

The Power of His Eye.

```

20674

```

While looking at God’s Eye,

I sing my first soulful song.

While placing myself at God’s Feet,

I sing my second soulful song.

While entering into God’s Heart-Garden,

I sing my third soulful song. ```

20675

```

The journey is too long

When we take the mind-guide

To help us reach the destination.

The journey is shorter than the shortest

When we take the heart-guide

To help us arrive at the destination. ```

20676

```

Why are you so afraid of God’s Eye?

Do you not know that His Eye

Is made of Compassion-Moon

And not of Justice-Sun? ```

20677

```

God does not mind

When I overestimate

My divinity,

But He does mind

When I underestimate

My spirituality. ```

20678

```

The mind’s hallucination-night

Can be replaced only by

The heart’s aspiration-light.

```

20679

```

Impurity and insincerity

Frown through the mind.

Purity and sincerity

Smile through the heart. ```

20680

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A genius mind

And a stupid life

Quite often are found

Together. ```

20681

```

My promise-teacher teaches my mind

How to be brave.

My hope-teacher teaches my heart

How to be sweet. ```

20682

```

To cure

All my mental ills,

I grow into

My God-faith-thrill. ```

20683

```

When it is a matter of

Simplicity’s life and purity’s heart,

I choose both.

When it is a matter of

Insincerity’s mind and impurity’s vital,

I choose neither. ```

20684

```

Whenever anyone wants to visit me,

I wish to always be found

Either inside my humility-life

Or inside my purity-heart. ```

20685

```

Invisibility gladly becomes

Visible on its own

To serve the vision of

The inner eye. ```

20686

```

Hard is it to separate

The confusion of the mind

From the frustration of the heart.

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20687

```

The more we enjoy

Our desire-life,

The sooner we lose

Our divinity’s birthright. ```

20688

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In the morning

God and I meet together

To exchange

Our Compassion and aspiration.

In the evening

God and I meet together

To exchange

Our Forgiveness and gratitude. ```

20689

```

O my heart’s sweet dreams,

Where are you?

Without your rainbow-smiles

My life is totally lost. ```

20690

```

Yesterday,

My mind’s highest height

Fascinated me.

Today,

My heart’s deepest depth

Has liberated me.

```

20691

```

Although life is brief,

God blesses us

With numerous opportunities

To become His choice instrument

And please Him in His own Way.

```

20692

```

My surrender-life

And my gratitude-heart

Are being protected

Inside the heart

Of God’s own Immortality.

```

20693

```

God wants to multiply

By millions of solar years

The beauty and fragrance

Of my aspiration-heart. ```

20694

```

My human friendships

Entirely depend

On my self-giving life.

My divine friendships

Sleeplessly depend

On my God-longing breath.

```

20695

```

O my heart-gardener,

With your blessingful help

I wish to long only for

God’s Compassion-Eye! ```

20696

```

When I implore

My adorable God,

No problem can ever be

Insurmountable. ```

20697

```

The more we desire

Our desire-fulfilment,

The sooner we arrive

At our life’s dead-end road. ```

20698

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I get immense joy

Only when I keep

My aspiration-life

Inside my heart’s

Secret and sacred silence-room.

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20699

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Every moment is an open door

To invite either

Aspiring and illumining thoughts

Or desiring and binding thoughts. ```

20700

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May I repeat

My Lord Beloved Supreme’s Name

Over and over again

Without an end,

Ceaselessly,

Breathlessly

And self-givingly.

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From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 207, Agni Press, 1994
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