Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 21

2001

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My Beloved Supreme,

I am totally lost

Without the Smile of Your Eyes.

“My child,

I am immediately lost

Without the love of your heart.” ```

2002

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God does scold the weak souls

That fail to manifest Him

Successfully on earth.

This is a direct report

A seeker has received

From the soul’s country. ```

2003

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God has dismissed my vital

For its restlessness.

God has dismissed my mind

For its carelessness.

God has dismissed my heart

For its helplessness.

But God has not dismissed me

For I am still all soulfulness. ```

2004

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The story of a former God-seeker is this:

God does not need him any more

And earth ridicules him evermore.

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2005

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If you lose your grip

On the obedience-rope,

You are bound to find yourself

Inside the abysmal abyss

Of destruction.

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2006

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God is ready to invent

A new way every day

For you to please Him.

Now the question is,

Are you going to accept it?

Are you?

Ever?

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2007

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Your life may be a slow

Aspiration-train,

But you will reach

Your God-ordained destination

Unmistakably.

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2008

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O my mind,

I am now all ready

To clip

Your shameless jealousy-wings

With my soul’s oneness-light.

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2009

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God will grant you

His Victory-Speed

If you are willing to sit

At His Compassion-Feet

With your heart’s surrender-smile.

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2010

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I see my helpless soul

Between my Lord’s

Blessingful Messages

And my mind’s

Deaf ear.

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2011

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My Beloved Supreme

Has lovingly and carefully shaped

My aspiration-statue

From ignorance-clay. ```

2012

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If you love God only,

Then God will sleeplessly protect you

From doubt’s giant embrace.

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2013

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Every day my aspiration-heart

Takes a number of exercises.

Otherwise my life will suffer

From my desire-burden’s excessive weight. ```

2014

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He who loves God

In the aspiration-world

Has no responsibility of his own.

The Compassion of God

Does everything for him.

He who loves ignorance

In the desire-world

Has also no responsibility of his own.

The temptation of ignorance

Does everything for him.

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2015

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The tentacles of attachment

Have crippled

His unlit earthly years.

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2016

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Why do you not claim

The ever-claimable God

Instead of claiming

Ignorance-rogue? ```

2017

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While crying,

If you get satisfaction,

Then God is unmistakably coming to you

For your liberation-smile. ```

2018

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I whistle

My universal oneness-song

In the sweet arms

Of my golden dreams. ```

2019

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Where am I?

I am in between

My heart’s newness

And my Lord’s Fulness. ```

2020

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The only time you can be beaten

By the world

Is when your mind becomes bound

By the chain of your fat pride! ```

2021

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In the outer world

Sincerity-children

Are in great demand.

In the inner world

Purity-saints

Are in great demand.

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2022

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My self-chosen ignorance-life

I started to forget

The day I chose to treasure

My Lord’s Silence-Smile. ```

2023

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If you are consistently receptive

To God’s blessingful Smile,

Then your liberation

Will not remain a far cry. ```

2024

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Because of your heart’s

Inner revelation

Today we are able to see the lustre

Of your outer illumination. ```

2025

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Now that I am

My heart’s silence-light,

My Lord has become

His own Ecstasy-Height. ```

2026

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A pioneer-soul

Is he who has

Two beautiful and powerful

God-serving wings. ```

2027

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Mine is the mind

That is hopeless helplessness.

Therefore, mine is the life

That is forced to be

An eternal ache.

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2028

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His mind is embarrassed to pray

Because its little inferior brother,

The vital,

Saw it praying to God the Destroyer

And not to God the Liberator.

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2029

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You are a fool

If you think

That it is not necessary

To keep your heart-rooms

Filled with shrines.

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2030

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The worst culprit is he

Who does not want to pray

To tomorrow’s God

And meditate on tomorrow’s God.

Who is tomorrow’s God?

The Peace-Dance of Oneness-Delight. ```

2031

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O my soul’s hunter-seeker,

You can easily kill

My life’s ignorance-tiger.

Just try!

You are bound to succeed,

You are bound to succeed! ```

2032

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Yesterday my mind

Was walking up a steep hill.

Today my heart

Is a beacon light

On that steep hill.

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2033

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I worship

God’s Compassion-Flood.

God energises

My life-blood. ```

2034

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O desire-man,

Your heart’s door

Has a very strong lock.

No man-made key can open it.

Therefore, I am praying

To God’s Vision-Eye

Not only to open your heart

But also to help me enter

Into your heart

And play with you there

God’s Satisfaction-Game.

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2035

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God’s Compassion-Heart

Is always for sale,

But God’s Justice-Eye

Is never for sale. ```

2036

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My prayer is my heart’s

Hidden power.

My meditation is my soul’s

Revealed light. ```

2037

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A soulful seeker will never allow

The wild hunger

Of his untamed vital-tiger

To be deathless. ```

2038

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Do not allow your hope to fade!

It is never too late

To become a perfect instrument

Of God. ```

2039

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His life’s crucifixion

Is the daily giver

Of human aspiration.

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2040

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If you desperately need God,

God will grant you

A full moon in your hope-sky.

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2041

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Yesterday my desire-life

Desired to bind God

From the Sole of His Foot

To the Crown of His Head.

Today my aspiration-life

Is begging my Lord Supreme

To liberate me.

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2042

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Two are the incurable

And unending diseases in my life:

My mind knows everything,

My life does not learn anything. ```

2043

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My serving life

Belongs to him alone

Who needs my loving heart.

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2044

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How can I be your friend,

My mind,

When you are disproportionately infatuated

With your little self? ```

2045

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A church-goer is supposed to be

A God-believer.

But, alas!

A God-believer is supposed to be

A God-lover.

But, alas!

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2046

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If you want to neglect anything,

Then neglect your old

Unaspiring life.

Let it totally die

Of neglect!

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2047

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How and why should God

Open His Heart-Gate to you

If you secretly enjoy

The storm of hate? ```

2048

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Your soul’s God-love will outlast

Your heart’s inner frustration

And your mind’s outer destruction.

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2049

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Alas, why have I allowed

My deception-mind

To hijack my heart’s

Aspiration-airplane?

Why?

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2050

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Your mind may be

In jealousy’s prison,

But your heart is definitely

In the delight-waves

Of oneness-sea.

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2051

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I prayed to God

For a doubt-free mind.

Therefore, His Protection-Umbrella

Is shielding my head. ```

2052

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I have two beloved Guests:

God the visible Cry

And God the invisible Smile.

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2053

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If you are a true truth-seeker,

How can you fear

Investigation?

If you are a true God-lover,

How can you not fear

Procrastination? ```

2054

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A heart of silence

Is the perfect answer

To my mind’s volley of questions.

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2055

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What are you doing?

Can you not hear

That your soul

Is summoning you?

Can you not see

That real happiness-petals

Are blossoming within you?

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2056

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Because your mind is searching

For hope,

Your soul will free your life

From ignorance. ```

2057

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Although yours

Is a self-chosen pain,

The physician within you

Has decided to cure you

Completely.

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2058

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Every day my Beloved Supreme

Affectionately and blessingfully

Trains my devoted heart

On my soul’s beautiful track. ```

2059

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The Compassion-Eye of my sweet Lord

Is always ready to lead,

But is my insecurity-heart

Willing to follow? ```

2060

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I have a cute monkey-mind

To entertain my outer life.

I have a soulful flute-heart

To enlighten my inner life. ```

2061

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My Beloved Supreme,

Do give me only one boon:

That I shall not make

Even a single mistake

In my next lifetime.

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2062

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Every morning I ask myself

Only two questions:

Why am I not loving my Beloved Supreme

More, infinitely more?

Is God pleased with me,

Really pleased with me? ```

2063

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Alas, my Beloved Supreme and I

Do not see eye-to-eye with each other.

This morning I was so excited

In telling my Lord Supreme

That I have become, at last,

The purity-glow of my soul.

My Beloved Supreme

Immediately corrected me:

“My child,

It is not the purity of your soul

That you have become.

You have become the pretence-show

Of your vital!”

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2064

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During your meditation

God appears and reappears

Many, many times before you,

But your blind despair-life

Prevents you from recognising God.

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2065

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My Beloved Supreme tiptoed

Through my golden dreams

And left behind on my bed

His Compassion-Eye

And His Forgiveness-Heart.

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2066

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Until I have unmistakably realised

That my desire-life is a dead-end street,

How can my Lord Supreme show me

And lead me along

His free Highway?

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2067

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How can you have

A free parking permit

In God’s Self-Transcendence-World

When you have not prayed to God

To give you one of His

Earth-transcending

And Heaven-transcending

Vision-Cars? ```

2068

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At long last

My mind has become divine!

This morning

My mind gave a standing ovation

To my heart

For its free access to my soul. ```

2069

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My heart is every day

Carefully nurturing the aspiration

Of its infant brother, mind.

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2070

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Aspiration-medicine cures

Both the mind’s foolishness

And the heart’s barrenness.

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2071

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Oh, I need help,

I need everybody’s help!

My life is chained

To my mind’s despair-night. ```

2072

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You may at most

Touch another’s mind,

But never, never

His mind’s doubts. ```

2073

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Only a heart of implicit faith

Is chosen to be

On Heaven’s Board of Directors.

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2074

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Do not be a fool!

God has already lowered

The God-realisation-price

Considerably.

He is not going to lower it

Any more. ```

2075

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Self-pity,

Are you not the worst foe

Of my God-given

Satisfaction-capacity? ```

2076

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Behold!

God has given you

A front-row seat

To watch His Satisfaction-Dance. ```

2077

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A common experience:

A doubting mind

Eventually becomes

A betraying mind. ```

2078

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Unless you have a mind

Of equanimity,

How can you live

Inside the Satisfaction-Home

Of God’s Heart?

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2079

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Because I am spanning

The summits of the mind,

My life is able to live

In the house

Of tomorrow’s perfection-smile.

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2080

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My heart touched God’s

Dream-Boat

Only to become

A reality-passenger. ```

2081

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My Lord Supreme,

Only one prayer I have:

Do give me a gratitude-heart

Of birthless origin

And deathless end.

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2082

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God has broken my mind

So that my heart can claim

His Life as its very own.

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2083

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You doubt me.

That means you do not see

God’s Vision-Beauty

In me and through me. ```

2084

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My heart’s mountain-moving faith

And my Lord’s Compassion-descending Eye

Shall eternally remain

Two excellent friends. ```

2085

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My mind is never ready

To choose anything.

My heart is always ready

To choose silence. ```

2086

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God always wants

A purity-heart

To be His Satisfaction-Standard-Bearer.

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2087

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As a doubting mind

Deserves an immediate death,

Even so, a faithful heart

Deserves an eternal life. ```

2088

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My Lord, alas,

My heart-bridge is broken.

“My child,

Do not worry.

Give your soul a chance.

It will be able to repair it

Easily and perfectly.”

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2089

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Your mind’s brilliance

Will lose all its charm

Long before your heart

Is ready to wake up fully. ```

2090

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Your inner life needs

A constant reminder

Of purity’s beauty.

Your outer life needs

A constant reminder

Of sincerity’s certainty.

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2091

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Your mind’s ignorance

Will examine you.

But your soul’s wisdom

Must examine you first

If you want to become

A perfect God-lover. ```

2092

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Alas, my heart’s surrender-plant

Does not grow,

And my life’s gratitude-fruit

Never ripens. ```

2093

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Beg your conscience

To examine you.

It will help you to become a good student

At God’s Perfection-School. ```

2094

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My Lord,

Yesterday You were something to me.

Today You have become everything

In my life. ```

2095

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Heaven gave him

An all-seeing soul.

He is giving Heaven

An all-loving heart. ```

2096

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Desire-life

Burns his body.

Aspiration-heart

Not only illumines him,

But also satisfies God.

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2097

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God’s most favourite Dance

Is my nature’s

Fire-pure transformation.

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2098

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Why do you have to wait

For time to carry you to God?

Can you not carry

Your little human body

To God immediately?

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2099

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His mind’s aspiration-plant

Is saving him

From frustration within

And frustration without. ```

2100

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All that is needed

Is aspiration

To realise God.

All that is needed

Is surrender

To become another God.

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From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 21, Agni Press, 1984
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