Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 217

21601

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The caged bird

Is crying for freedom.

The uncaged bird

Is striving for peace. ```

21602

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Every day

I want my hope-life to go

At least one step farther

To help me reach

My ultimate destination.

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21603

```

I am fated to stumble,

But I shall not allow myself

To be doomed to sink.

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21604

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You can go on denying and denying

The existence of your soul,

But there shall come a time

When you will realise

That in your life

There is only one reality:

The soul.

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21605

```

Disobedience

Is neither thrilling

Nor fulfilling.

It is nothing other than

A wrong way of life.

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21606

```

Each time I cherish

A doubt,

I see the escalation

Of world-hostility. ```

21607

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When I am in

My doubtful mind,

Nothing motivates me;

Everything dominates me. ```

21608

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How do I remove

My ego’s mask?

Just by offering

My obedience-heart

Constantly to my Lord Supreme.

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21609

```

When I do not live

In my anxiety-world,

What do I do?

I carry my life

From foolishness to soulfulness.

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21610

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Each time I cherish

A good thought,

I throw a powerful light

On everything that I see. ```

21611

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Impurity and insecurity

Can and will

Cause any aspiring heart

To fail. ```

21612

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Alas, a mind of darkness

And a life of ignorance

Are still very much with us.

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21613

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Keep on praying and meditating.

Your mind’s God-doubting thoughts

Will gradually fade away

Into nothingness. ```

21614

```

O Heaven,

Be not cruel to me.

Do not tell me

All my faults

To my face.

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21615

```

Alas, I simply have no idea

How sweet will be the fruits

Of my patience and perseverance.

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21616

```

Two things

I have to choose carefully:

A mind of discrimination

And a life of dedication. ```

21617

```

When I quote my Lord

With joy, love and pride,

My Lord sings

His Victory-Song for me. ```

21618

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My heart’s obedience

Will rise again,

Illumining my teeming

Darkness-mind. ```

21619

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Each unconditionally surrendered soul

Lives

On God’s deathless Breath.

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21620

```

God has sung many songs

In my life.

Alas, I do not know when

He will sing His Song

Of complete Satisfaction.

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21621

```

God is saddened to discover

That every day

I am happily and proudly feeding

My God-questioning mind. ```

21622

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God is gladdened to discover

That every day

My heart is increasing its disgust

For God-disobedience. ```

21623

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Each self-giving thought

Lives in the home of

The God-fulfilling immortals.

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21624

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My hope is young.

My faith is strong.

Therefore, I shall be able

To cover the longest distance

In my spiritual life.

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21625

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Man’s life may be less than

One hundred fleeting years,

But he can achieve

Unending good things

For God-fulfilment

On earth. ```

21626

```

When my soul-bird flies off

For good,

I hope it flies

With tremendous happiness

And fulness.

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21627

```

My heart needs

Only the aspiration

That will never be tired

Of rising high, higher, highest. ```

21628

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O my Lord,

Do give me a heart

That will never be tired

Of singing

Your Eternity’s Victory-Songs.

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21629

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O my Lord,

Do give me a life

That will never be tired

Of expressing

Its prayerful and soulful gratitude

To You. ```

21630

```

Each time I pray

I clearly feel

The supreme necessity

Of enhancing my God-need. ```

21631

```

However far I may stray

From God’s Light,

I am sure God’s Compassion

And Forgiveness

Will definitely bring me back

To His Feet. ```

21632

```

Why is my mind so ugly?

My mind is so ugly

Because it likes to bind and blind

Everything that it sees around it. ```

21633

```

To my extreme joy

My obedience-heart

Has won all the medals

From God. ```

21634

```

O my doubting mind,

Be careful!

I tell you,

Destruction is right in front of you! ```

21635

```

The Smile

Of God’s Compassion-Eye

Escapes

My mind’s very limited grasp. ```

21636

```

There is no shame

In confusion.

Confusion does have the capacity

To expedite

The arrival of illumination.

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21637

```

O world,

I do not blame you

For not reading

My mind-book.

But I do blame you

For not listening to

My heart-song.

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21638

```

A seeker’s eyes

Become astonishingly bright

With the triumph

Of his God-Satisfaction. ```

21639

```

God tells me

That my ignorance-pleasure-life

Has gone far enough —

Farther than He ever imagined! ```

21640

```

I am so happy

That my sleepless need

For God-Forgiveness

Has finally pleased God. ```

21641

```

At the end of my spiritual journey

I am sure

No life-riddle

Will remain unsolved. ```

21642

```

My mind wonders

If any seeker has noticed

That it is not meditating

Sincerely and soulfully. ```

21643

```

My Lord of Compassion

Listens intently

To hear my heart’s

Feeble cries. ```

21644

```

To bring down a higher truth

To earth,

God does not hesitate

Even to contradict Himself. ```

21645

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Alas, how is it

That I do not see

That my desire-bound life

Has made God miserably unhappy? ```

21646

```

When I am sincere,

I do not blame God

For being utterly displeased

With me. ```

21647

```

Alas, I can clearly see

That my Lord’s Patience

Is running short.

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21648

```

God’s Compassion and Forgiveness

Are cheerfully paying

My life’s

God-Destination-plane fare. ```

21649

```

What do I see?

I see that my mind

Is completely lost

In uselessness.

What else do I see?

I see that my heart

Is blossoming at every moment

In usefulness. ```

21650

```

Not only do we not value it,

But we simply do not

Want to value it

When we achieve the thing we want

Easily.

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21651

```

The little things,

More often than the big things,

Are helping us considerably

Towards our perfection. ```

21652

```

The mind is so clever!

It tries to convince me

That my weakness

Is nothing other than

My hidden strength.

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21653

```

We make the fastest progress

When we make our mind cry

For God’s Compassion-flooded Heart.

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21654

```

When a seeker succeeds

In his spiritual life,

God magnifies and multiplies

His God-fulfilling achievements. ```

21655

```

I am so happy

That my mind believes

What my heart imagines.

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21656

```

I have come to realise

That My Lord has given me

A heart

That remains always pure,

To expedite

My God-manifestation-journey. ```

21657

```

Alas, I do not know

Why and how

My mind has taken control

Of nearly everything

In my life.

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21658

```

Alas, I do not know

Who will help me to kindle

My mind-candle.

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21659

```

When the doubting mind speaks

Of God’s Compassion,

It is nothing short of

A nightmare of nonsense. ```

21660

```

I shall please my Lord Supreme

With my heart’s solid certainty,

And not with my mind’s

Weak confidence. ```

21661

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Let us not stop.

Let us continue and continue.

If we have an iota of peace,

Then we have to get more peace,

Abundant peace, boundless peace.

This is our way

Of transcending and becoming,

Becoming and transcending. ```

21662

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There shall come a time

When each individual

Will pray and meditate soulfully

And unconditionally

To become God’s choice instrument,

For that is the Will

Of the Absolute Supreme.

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21663

```

God will not be satisfied

With individual success or progress.

He wants His entire creation

To be absolutely perfect.

It is just a matter of time.

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21664

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God is all Compassion.

Justice itself

Is a form of Compassion,

To perfect our human nature

And expedite our spiritual journey.

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21665

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We will never limit ourselves

If we can feel

That there is Somebody deep within us

To inspire us, to guide us,

To mould us, to shape us

And to take us

On an endless journey

To an ever-transcending Reality. ```

21666

```

We think of ourselves

As ignorance incarnate,

But God thinks of us

As another God

In the process of blossoming,

And thus illumining and fulfilling

His cosmic Vision.

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21667

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When each human being becomes

A choice instrument of God,

Then the world-oneness-home

Cannot and will not remain

A far cry.

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21668

```

Without the heart’s aspiration-cry

No seeker can run the fastest

Along the path of spirituality.

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21669

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I do not want to know

What they do in Heaven.

I do not even want to know

What others do on earth.

I just want to do the things

That will keep my Lord Supreme smiling. ```

21670

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Our present world-experiences

Are disheartening and heartbreaking,

But I do believe that our hope

Of world-transformation

Will eventually be fulfilled.

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21671

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If there is a hell on earth,

Then I am absolutely sure

That that hell

Is our suspicion-mind. ```

21672

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There was a time

When I happily allowed lethargy

To bind me.

But now I am so happy

That self-discipline is guiding

And illumining my life,

And lethargy I have buried in Heaven.

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21673

```

How long can injustice-night

Torture the God-loving seekers?

The God-loving seekers

Will definitely be victorious

Before long.

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21674

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We are starving

Our future hopes

By constantly thinking of

Our past failures. ```

21675

```

A heart of God-gratitude

And a life of God-surrender

Will always represent mankind

At its best. ```

21676

```

Self-offering

Is the hardest of all virtues.

To practise this virtue

We desperately need

God’s unconditional Compassion-Eye.

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21677

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If I fail to discard my old thoughts,

How can I ever welcome and absorb

My new and illumining thoughts?

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21678

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The more sincerity we have

In our prayer-life,

The sooner we will be able

Not only to oppose

But also to conquer

The ignorance-forces

Before us and around us.

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21679

```

Each undivine thought

Is an immediate danger

To my heart’s peace

And my life’s safety. ```

21680

```

My heart’s hope

And my soul’s promise

Are pushed aside, alas,

By my mind’s

Constant God-disobedience.

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21681

```

No hope-candle-flame

Can ever die

If we cherish our hope-flower-heart

Every day. ```

21682

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God’s Home on earth is as beautiful

As His Home in Heaven.

Therefore, we must not feed our stupidity

By crying for God’s Home in Heaven.

His Home on earth definitely can give us

What we need: satisfaction. ```

21683

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A heart of purity

And a mind of sincerity

Lovingly appreciate each other

To fulfil God on earth. ```

21684

```

When the mind chooses to live

In the Infinite,

The heart feels

Infinity’s Delight. ```

21685

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When the mind confesses

Its failures,

That is the very beginning

Of the mind’s lofty progress. ```

21686

```

Do not try to discover

Others’ deficiencies

If you really want to expedite and increase

Your own efficiencies. ```

21687

```

As critics are ready-made,

Even so,

God-lovers are God-made.

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21688

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I know I shall never fail

Because God’s Hope-Monument

Is still shining inside my heart.

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21689

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Alas, nothing else

Is as uncertain and unpredictable

As my peace of mind.

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21690

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O God-lover,

If you are genuine,

There can be no justifiable way

For you to find fault with God. ```

21691

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If we cherish the dry intellect

Of our mind,

We shall never be able

To give joy or to receive joy

From the world.

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21692

```

If you have the courage

To die for God’s Cause gallantly,

Then how is it

That you do not have the courage

To live for God on earth

Unconditionally? ```

21693

```

It is the weakness of the mind

That neglects God,

Not the strength of the mind.

The strength of the mind

Always invites God

To fulfil Him in His own Way. ```

21694

```

In the outer world, the mind says

That it wants perfection.

But in the inner world, the mind craves

Only satisfaction. ```

21695

```

Each wrong deed

Will definitely be accompanied

By fear.

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21696

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Man is worse than an animal

When he greedily eats

At jealousy-table.

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21697

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To please God in His own Way

Is to enjoy oneself

Most lovingly and most effectively.

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21698

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A sleeplessly self-giving heart

Has already travelled

Halfway to Heaven.

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21699

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If I do not surrender

My mind’s greatness

To my heart’s goodness,

How can I ever have

God’s Fulness in my life?

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21700

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A day will come

When this world of ours

Will be liberated from misunderstandings,

Limitations and weaknesses.

It will be a happy, illumining

And fulfilling oneness-family. ```

From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 217, Agni Press, 1994
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