Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 215

21401

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My Lord Beloved Supreme,

May I offer You every day

From my very heartbeat

A gratitude-life-energy-plant. ```

21402

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My heart cries

For humanity’s satisfaction.

Humanity cries

For my perfection. ```

21403

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This morning I gave my Lord Supreme

My most prayerful message:

“My Lord,

As long as I remain on earth,

My heart’s gratitude-plant for You

Will every day grow tall,

Taller and tallest.”

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21404

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There is no human being on earth

Who cannot bring to the fore

His own soul,

Which is already inundated with peace,

And offer this peace

To the world at large. ```

21405

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No other divine quality

Does God need

As much as He needs peace

For His full manifestation

Here on earth.

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21406

```

It is through peace

That God offers Himself,

And it is through peace

That He transcends Himself. ```

21407

```

God the Giver

And God the Receiver

Come from the same source:

Peace. ```

21408

```

The human in us

Is the possessor of earth-cries.

The divine in us

Is the possessor of Heaven-smiles. ```

21409

```

With my heart I sing

The song of God-oneness.

With my soul I dance

The dance of God-fulness. ```

21410

```

Without God-manifestation,

The divine in us is not perfect.

Without God-aspiration,

The human in us is not perfect. ```

21411

```

I sing my God-songs

Both through my heart-cries

And through my soul-smiles.

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21412

```

When God brings forward

A soul’s spiritual qualities,

The soul gets an immediate chance

To manifest these divine qualities

In and through the body, vital,

Mind and heart. ```

21413

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First invoke, then embody,

Then reveal and then manifest.

So many steps to climb up,

But if you believe in the first step,

Then immediately start!

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21414

```

How can you ever be happy

When you have allowed your mind

To be possessed

By the squalor of hatred? ```

21415

```

A single ego-bound action

Can destroy our heart’s satisfaction

Of decades.

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21416

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Cultivate patience every day.

You will see that

Your disappointment-walls

Will one day, without fail, crumble. ```

21417

```

If we sleeplessly pray and meditate,

The ruthless barriers

Of our mind

Will eventually be dissolved. ```

21418

```

One touch of inner silence

Can make us

A prince in the inner world.

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21419

```

You want to know

Where I study.

I study at the university

Of God’s Forgiveness-Light. ```

21420

```

Each time we surrender

To God’s Will,

We feel that our life

Becomes an unending flow of bliss. ```

21421

```

When I knock

At God’s Forgiveness-Door,

I clearly see

That God’s Forgiveness-Heart

Has already forgiven

My confusion-mind. ```

21422

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Happiness dances in my heart

When I feel that

My heart is of God

And my life is for God. ```

21423

```

Alas, when will I feel

That my life was born

Only to be

A supremely divine instrument

Of God,

To please Him always

In His own Way?

```

21424

```

Each aspiring thought

Must, without fail,

Mirror the illumining soul.

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21425

```

Sweet is my ancient hope.

Powerful is my modern promise.

My ancient hope and my modern promise

Are inspiring me,

Illumining me

And fulfilling me. ```

21426

```

Do not allow

Your conscience to be guilty

If you really want to make progress

In your spiritual life.

Do the right thing

And be the right person

Always.

```

21427

```

I know for sure

That the mind’s supremacy

Over the heart

Is nothing but a temporary conquest. ```

21428

```

The victory of the undisciplined vital

Is either absolutely foolish

Or dangerously fatal.

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21429

```

O my Lord Supreme,

I pray to You,

Do not allow my heart

To be a heart

Of sleepless and breathless sorrow.

```

21430

```

Mine was not a dream

But reality itself,

When I was flying high above

My life’s bondage-night. ```

21431

```

You do not have to forget

Many things.

Just forget one thing:

Forget your self-destruction-doubt-dagger. ```

21432

```

If you are not prepared

To wait indefinitely,

How can you dream

Of pleasing God

In His own Way eternally?

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21433

```

Take a closer look at yourself.

God the Compassion loves you.

God the Perfection needs you.

```

21434

```

We can be truly victorious

Only through

Our God-surrender-breath.

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21435

```

O my clever mind,

No matter how hard I try

To ignore your complexity,

I always sadly fail. ```

21436

```

The spiritual deaths

From God-disobedience-absurdity

Are so shocking

And, alas, so unnecessary. ```

21437

```

If you want to make abiding progress,

Then every day you have to see,

Appreciate and admire

Your own heart’s inner sunrise. ```

21438

```

O disobedience,

What you need and deserve

Is death-silence

And not life-sound. ```

21439

```

O seeker,

Your spiritual death is not permanent.

You can be revived.

Just apply your sincerity-mind

And purity-heart.

Success will be yours before long. ```

21440

```

O disobedience,

How can I ever be your friend,

Since you can never dare

To have a heart? ```

21441

```

Who needs a mind

That wants to stay unchanged

Forever and forever?

No, not a truth-seeker

And not a God-lover — never!

```

21442

```

Of all the places

That God has visited,

My gratitude-heart-shrine

Has given Him infinitely more joy

Than the rest.

```

21443

```

Who has bound me,

If not my own

Mind-possession-fantasy?

```

21444

```

Not just this year

But each and every year,

God’s unconditional Compassion

Is keeping me spiritually alive. ```

21445

```

My Lord, do bless me

With an extra supply of aspiration

So that I can remarkably increase

My progress-speed in my inner life. ```

21446

```

Only a true seeker admits

That he himself is the author

Of his anxieties and miseries.

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21447

```

Beautiful,

Unimaginably beautiful,

Is my tear-flooded

Gratitude-heart. ```

21448

```

O seeker,

Can you not see

That your own doubting mind

Is robbing

Your heart-progress-account?

```

21449

```

The devotion-compass

Helps us steer

Our aspiration-life-boat

To the Golden Shore. ```

21450

```

O my heart,

You must never be tempted

To tour my mind’s

Doubt-suspicion-cities. ```

21451

```

To feel that at long last

God will fulfil you

In your own way

Is the unhorizoned height

Of your stupidity.

```

21452

```

Unconditionally

God has stepped on your doorstep.

Delay not, O my heart!

Open yourself unreservedly

And unconditionally.

```

21453

```

What is a negative mind?

A negative mind is a mind

That has deliberately swerved

From the path

Of God’s Love, God’s Compassion

And God’s Concern. ```

21454

```

God does not want me

To send my mind into forest-exile.

He wants my mind to live

Inside my heart-kingdom. ```

21455

```

O seeker,

If your purity-heart-plant

Is damaged,

Then your progress-life

Will not be enough

To make your soul happy

And fulfilled.

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21456

```

Love

Keeps the devotion-door open.

Devotion

Keeps the surrender-door open.

Surrender

Keeps the gratitude-door open.

Gratitude

Keeps the transformation-door open.

Transformation

Keeps the perfection-door open. ```

21457

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Disobedience

Grows up quickly.

Disobedience

Spreads out overwhelmingly.

Disobedience

Does not want to die.

Disobedience

Wants to live everlastingly. ```

21458

```

Unwillingness,

You are not only deaf but also blind.

Mental sickness is your inner name.

Vital ruthlessness is your outer name. ```

21459

```

My soul is beautiful.

My soul is powerful.

My soul is perfect.

Alas, why and how

Can I be so blind to the obvious?

```

21460

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If we are not surrounded

By God’s Compassion-Smiles,

Then we are bound to be bombarded

By world-worries and anxieties. ```

21461

```

We do not please God

With our mind’s fastest speed.

We please God

With our life’s brightest perfection. ```

21462

```

My heart is a regular

God-dream-lover.

My mind is a constant

God-dream-chaser. ```

21463

```

I need a soul

That is eager to love.

I need a heart

That is eager to aspire.

I need a life

That is eager to sacrifice. ```

21464

```

Is there any day

That I do not read

My life’s progress-bulletin?

Again, is there any day

That I am not

Sorely disappointed by it? ```

21465

```

Only an unconditionally surrendered

God-lover

Can and will win

The self-perfection-race. ```

21466

```

When I am inside my aspiring heart,

I clearly notice the ascent

Of my own divinity.

When I am inside my doubting mind,

I invariably notice the descent

Of my own divinity.

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21467

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Try to be a peace-distributor.

If you cannot be a peace-distributor,

Then try to be a peace-lover.

If you cannot be a peace-lover,

Then try to be a peace-dreamer.

If you cannot be a peace-dreamer,

Then at least try to be a peace-thinker.

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21468

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Only a gratitude-heart

And a surrender-life

Are entitled to walk along

The clear road to Heaven. ```

21469

```

A heart of silence does not hide,

But reveals

The nectar-delight of peace.

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21470

```

Lethargy attacks my body

Secretly.

Enthusiasm inspires my heart

Lovingly and dynamically. ```

21471

```

Renounce everything else

Save and except

Your heart’s streaming tears

And your soul’s all-illumining smiles. ```

21472

```

My morning meditation is indeed

Heaven’s Boon to me.

My evening meditation is indeed

My gift to Heaven. ```

21473

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O seeker,

Once and for all decide

Whether you are going to rule your life

With your heart’s faith in God

Or with your mind’s doubt of God.

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21474

```

God will love you

If you need Him desperately.

God will need you

If you accept Him breathlessly. ```

21475

```

My heart’s aspiration

Thrives

Only when my life’s dedication

Multiplies. ```

21476

```

O my mind,

Aspire, aspire!

If not, you will be buried

In the dust of despair. ```

21477

```

The power of love

Is extremely beautiful and fruitful.

The love of power

Is extremely dangerous and contagious. ```

21478

```

Once you enter

Into the spiritual life,

Do not allow imaginary fears

To threaten and frighten you. ```

21479

```

The animal in me teaches me

How to ignore God.

The human in me teaches me

How to doubt God.

The divine in me teaches me

How to adore God. ```

21480

```

My soul teaches me

How to have

Mountain-high aspiration.

My heart teaches me

How to have

Fountain-beautiful dedication.

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21481

```

Alas, when shall I realise

That I am still in bondage-chains

Because I believe

That my capacity

And not God’s Compassion

Can liberate me? ```

21482

```

Mine is the soul

Made of God’s golden Dreams.

Mine is the heart

Made of my broken dreams. ```

21483

```

An unfaithful God-seeker

Without fail has to walk

Along the mind’s calamity-avenue

Or the vital’s destruction-lane. ```

21484

```

Each time I do not accept God’s Will

As my own, very own,

I am doomed to an unavoidable,

Inescapable and unbearable failure. ```

21485

```

I owe my earth-existence

And my Heaven-existence

To my inner bodyguard:

God’s Compassion-Heart

And to my outer bodyguard:

God’s Protection-Eye. ```

21486

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My Lord, I long to take from You

Many lessons.

May my first lesson be in losing

My heavy ignorance-weight. ```

21487

```

Alas, will I ever be able

To receive from God

His world-tolerance-award?

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21488

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I am blessed with a shower

Of peace-petals from Above

Only when my meditation

Is smilingly, soulfully

And self-givingly deep.

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21489

```

I am utterly ashamed

Of my doubt,

For it doubts even my heart’s

Faith-life. ```

21490

```

My Immortality-soul

Longs to love God, only God,

In God’s own Way.

My mortality-heart

Pines to be loved by God, only God,

In its own way. ```

21491

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My God-obedience-mind

And my God-gratitude-heart

Aspire to live together

Gloriously and peacefully.

My God-disobedience-vital

And my man-destruction-life

Conspire to live together

Shamelessly and dauntlessly. ```

21492

```

If you want to cure

Your heart’s headache,

Then try to have your soul

As your only friend. ```

21493

```

God’s new address

Is God’s old address

Plus my heart-flower.

God’s new address

Is God’s old address

Plus my soul-fragrance. ```

21494

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O seeker,

If you want to make fast,

Faster, fastest progress,

Never sleep

On your lethargy-pillow.

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21495

```

If our life is not consecrated

Constantly and consciously

To the Will of God,

Then we are bound to have

Insufficient funds in our heart-bank.

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21496

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My Lord Supreme,

Even for a fleeting second

Do not allow me to suffer

From devotion-shortage. ```

21497

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My Lord Supreme,

I shall be happy only when

Each and every heartbeat of mine

I offer to you to claim

As Your Compassion-Possession.

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21498

```

What is happiness?

Happiness is the producer

Of ceaseless energy.

It is our heart’s willingness

That has the capacity to help us fly

To our highest happiness-heights. ```

21499

```

What is real love?

Real love is the manifestation

Of the heart

That has already surrendered

Completely to the Will of God.

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21500

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My Lord Supreme,

Is there anything I can do

To give You a few seconds of rest a day?

“Definitely, My child.

You can help Me if you try every day

To love your human brothers and sisters

Infinitely more than you do now.”

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From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 215, Agni Press, 1994
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