Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 219

21801

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If you are born

In the sea of hope,

You can fly

In the sky of promise. ```

21802

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How sweet is the breath

Of the flower.

How illumining is the sacrifice

Of the fragrance. ```

21803

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When we live

In the doubting mind,

Our vision cannot go beyond

Vast stretches of nothingness. ```

21804

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Alas, I do not know

How I can be of any service

To my suffering heart

And sacrificing soul. ```

21805

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I really do not want

To sleep any more

In my dark and impure

Mind-cave. ```

21806

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I equally enjoy

Both the thundering

Of my mind-seas

And the lightning

Of my heart-sky.

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21807

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Just increase

Your heart’s faith in God.

You will be able to say farewell

To your mind’s deception. ```

21808

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To please God,

Our God-willingness-smile

Has to be both effortless

And breathless. ```

21809

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God tells me

That my flower-pure surrender

Has pleased Him

Far beyond what I can ever imagine. ```

21810

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My Lord,

The blessingful touch

Of Your Smile

Has given my heart

A new hope

And my life

A new promise.

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21811

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You can bury

Anything you want to

To give you joy,

But do not bury

Your hope-treasures,

For in your hope-treasures

You become tomorrow’s God.

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21812

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Alas,

Perfection has no entry visa

To this world of chaos.

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21813

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O my soul, stop hiding!

It is high time

For you to come to the fore

To illumine once and for all

The world around you.

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21814

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My Lord Supreme

Does not want me to have

An intermission

In my God-aspiration, God-dedication

And God-manifestation-play.

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21815

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God is always available,

But alas,

Will you ever have time

To visit Him? ```

21816

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God’s Himalayan Compassion-Heights

Will one day, without fail,

Illumine

My darkness-flooded mind. ```

21817

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My mind,

God has been so eagerly waiting

To hear from you.

Where have you been all along? ```

21818

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Human love

Is a meaningless story

From the beginning to the end.

Divine love

Is a sweet poem

With a divine beginning

And an ever-transcending end.

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21819

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One of the finest

And rarest qualities

Of a human being

Is his spontaneous faith

In his own higher self.

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21820

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God does not want you

To tell Him all about

Your darkness of the past.

He wants you to sing

Tomorrow’s light-songs

In today’s aspiring hearts. ```

21821

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I am progressing

Fast, faster, fastest,

Only because I pray and sing

Inside the God-obedience-temple. ```

21822

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No honest God-service

Will ever cause a deplorable loss

In the life of a seeker.

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21823

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Each Forgiveness-Act of God’s

Sends a thrill of joy and pride

Through all God-lovers.

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21824

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Our soul has the capacity

To prove itself flawless

In all its activities,

But it is under no obligation

To do so.

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21825

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When our surrender is complete,

We will be able to breathe

In and out

God’s Golden Breath. ```

21826

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Try to keep away from

The atmosphere of expectation.

Every moment of yours

Will be meaningful and fruitful. ```

21827

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When we have peace of mind

We diminish the power

Of destruction-danger.

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21828

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The religion of the mind

Loves complexity

More than anything else.

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21829

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O seeker, be careful.

As your present life

Is failing God,

Your future life

Can also do the same.

Therefore, right from here and now,

Try to be careful!

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21830

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O God-obedience-heart of man,

Do spread your satisfaction-wings

All-where.

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21831

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The mind’s nightmare of nonsense

Can come to an end

Only when God the Beloved becomes

Our sleepless and breathless Coach. ```

21832

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Never trust lethargy.

It always tells us:

Just a few more moments.

Alas, those few more moments

Have an everlasting life.

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21833

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My mind-book

Nobody wants to read.

I do not blame them,

For I know how worthless

And useless

My mind-book is. ```

21834

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It is instantly and universally believed

That God the Peace

Is infinitely more important

Than God the Power. ```

21835

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For the evolution of mankind

If God does not contradict Himself

At times,

Then who can and who will? ```

21836

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My faith in God

Receives nourishment directly,

Not from anybody else,

But from God Himself. ```

21837

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O my vital,

I do not like competition.

O my mind,

I do not like comparison.

O my heart,

I love your way —

The way of oneness-joy.

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21838

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If you doubt

Your own love of God,

Then you will remain

Spiritually homeless

All the time.

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21839

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My disobedience does not have

A heart.

My disobedience does not have

Even a mind.

My disobedience has only

A ruthless and useless

Vital.

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21840

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May every second of my aspiration

Hold a place of special importance

In my own God-loving inner life.

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21841

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What I need is

A gigantic courage

To avoid all stumbles

In my aspiration-life. ```

21842

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When the soul-bird flies off,

Its happiness adorns

The beauty of Heaven.

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21843

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My hope is fed

By my faith in God.

My faith is fed

By God’s Compassion. ```

21844

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If you have genuine aspiration,

Rest assured,

It will never be tired

Of climbing

To high, higher, highest heights.

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21845

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O my ignorance-life,

You have been living with me

For such a long time.

Now do let me live alone

To enjoy the happiness

Of freedom from you. ```

21846

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Right from the beginning

Of my God-studies

I clearly felt

That I would be able

To fulfil and please God

In His own Way. ```

21847

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He who fails to fathom

The significance of God-obedience

Will never be truly happy.

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21848

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O my mind,

I do not want you to be

My advocate.

I do not want you to be

The defender

Of my million excuses

Why I do not and cannot

Please God in His own Way. ```

21849

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Alas, will I ever be able

To liberate myself

From the old familiar faces

Of fear and doubt? ```

21850

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O constantly complaining mind,

You will never have the capacity

To knock

At God’s Illumination-Door! ```

21851

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Each time my meditation is deep,

God blesses me

With a full harvest

Of God-manifestation-opportunities. ```

21852

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My soul’s minimum requirement

From me

Is a prayerful heart,

And its maximum requirement

Is a twenty-four-hour heart-cry

For God. ```

21853

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What I really love about God is this:

He not only loves me

But also claims me,

Even with my ever-increasing blunders. ```

21854

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The moment I lose faith in God

I ruthlessly hurl myself

To my own destruction.

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21855

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Experience

Is my aspiring life’s

Very just, yet kind

Banker. ```

21856

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If you do not have

Peace of mind,

Then the agonies of your heart

You cannot avoid. ```

21857

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My God-loving day begins

With my soul’s brightest smile

And my heart’s deepest cry.

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21858

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Never stop loving your life,

But love your life

The way God wants you to love it.

God Himself loves your life

In order to teach,

And not to examine. ```

21859

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When I use my aspiring heart,

I better my life.

When I use my doubting mind,

I fetter my life. ```

21860

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O my doubtful experience-life,

I do not want

To waste my time any more

With you,

For my soul’s God-realisation

Is beckoning me. ```

21861

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When I see myself

Through my own eyes,

I see and feel

That my life is not an inch better

Than the life of a beast.

When I see myself

Through God’s Eye,

I see and feel

That I am on the fair road

To Godhood.

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21862

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When I belong to my heart’s cry,

I see God right in front of me.

When I belong to God’s Smile,

I feel my inseparable oneness

With my Lord Beloved Supreme.

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21863

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God tells me

Not to be disappointed

When I see I must lower myself

In order to rise high, higher, highest. ```

21864

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The farthest reach

Of my inner faith

Is not my God-realisation

Or God-revelation,

But my God-manifestation.

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21865

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O ignorance-night,

Are you not ashamed

Of harassing me and my life

Constantly? ```

21866

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Do not squander time,

For time is the breath

Of your prayer-mind

And aspiration-heart. ```

21867

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God is always ready

With His Praise for you.

When will you be ready

With your divine receptivity? ```

21868

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Love, devotion, surrender:

These three words

Are absolutely foreign

To a doubting mind

And strangling vital.

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21869

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When we are constant

In our humility,

God’s Divinity

On its own

Comes down and befriends us.

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21870

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My very desire

To make progress

Is the first step

Of my progress. ```

21871

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Since somebody has to have

The last word,

I have decided my soul

Should perform that task

In my life.

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21872

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Let us restore

Our ancient aspiration-land

Inside our own hearts.

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21873

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I have been to God many times

Empty-handed,

But this time I have decided

That I shall give Him

What I truly consider my own:

My little “I”. ```

21874

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God is under no obligation

To accept me as His consultant

For everything that He does.

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21875

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Eagerness

Gives us the wings

To fly

In the sky of freedom. ```

21876

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If I do not truly treasure

The few moments I spend with God,

Why should God bless me

With hours to spend with Him? ```

21877

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God was dumbfounded

When He saw my heart

Of endless ingratitude.

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21878

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What does detachment mean?

Detachment means

An indomitable protection-shield.

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21879

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If a surrender-seed

Grows only in one season,

And does not grow all the time,

Then it is not

A real surrender-seed at all.

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21880

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A God-lover is he

Who wants to come out of

His pride-prison-life.

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21881

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My gratitude-heart

Is precisely the place

Where angels dwell.

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21882

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My mind’s supermarket thinks

That it is as good as,

If not better than,

My heart-temple. ```

21883

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O seeker,

Once upon a time

You definitely had

A life of surrender

And a heart of gratitude.

Dive deep within.

You will discover

Your own lost treasure. ```

21884

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Like my heart,

I want my mind

To be always optimistic.

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21885

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I do not know whether

My mind’s sun is rising or setting,

But I do know that

My heart’s aspiration-life

Will never cease to exist.

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21886

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God gives us opportunities

A great many times

To disappoint our attachments

Long before our attachments

Dare to disappoint us.

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21887

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Only a life

Of God-surrender

Has an ecstasy-melody-heart.

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21888

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God answers my prayers

Only when He sees

That I shall not misuse

His Answer. ```

21889

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God’s Compassion

Does not hide from me.

It is my expectation

That is taking me away

From God’s Compassion-Eye.

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21890

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In the inner world

There is a secret name

For expectation,

And that secret name is

Demand.

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21891

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The vital possessions

Have the capacity to destroy

The physical possessions.

The mental possessions

Have the capacity to destroy

The vital possessions.

The psychic possessions

Have the capacity to destroy

The mental possessions,

But the psychic possessions

Illumine the mental possessions

Instead. ```

21892

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My mind craves

For the freedom of voice,

Binding and blinding.

My heart longs

For the freedom of choice,

Self-giving and all-illumining. ```

21893

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My heart consciously likes

To be a purity-distributor

Every day.

My mind unconsciously

If not consciously likes

To become an impurity-collector. ```

21894

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A God-oneness-heart

Can never be deceived.

It can only be amused.

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21895

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Every morning God invites me

To visit His Compassion-Home.

But I cherish

My own frustration-home;

Therefore I do not accept

His Invitation. ```

21896

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God’s Way

Will remain misunderstood by humanity

Unless and until

Humanity perfects its life-breath

In God-surrender.

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21897

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God’s Sound-Messenger

Has not satisfied me.

God’s Silence-Messenger

Has not satisfied me.

Only God’s Forgiveness-Messenger

Can and will satisfy me. ```

21898

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God receives me only when

My mind’s simplicity and sincerity

And my heart’s humility and purity

Accompany me to His Palace. ```

21899

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Do not invoke either

The tears or the smiles

Of tomorrow.

Just try to transcend

Tomorrow’s tears and smiles

To live in the Satisfaction-Heart-Nest

Of your Lord Supreme.

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21900

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I ask God

How I can make Him happy.

God tells me

There is only one way

To make Him happy,

And that is through

The happiness of my entire being.

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From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 219, Agni Press, 1995
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