Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 229

22801

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A devotion-heart

Every day runs an inner marathon

Happily, prayerfully and self-givingly.

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22802

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Peace and God

Came and went, alas,

When my heart and my life

Were fast asleep. ```

22803

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A climbing heart

Reaches God’s Summit-Satisfaction-Heights

Sooner than anything else.

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22804

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To have peace of mind,

You must take God always

As He is.

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22805

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There is no inner illness on earth

That cannot be cured

With the streaming tears

Of the heart. ```

22806

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Obstacles

Existed, exist and will always exist

In the mind

Unless and until

We make our God-surrender complete.

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22807

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My sadness-eyes

To Heaven I offer daily.

My madness-eyes

To earth I offer daily.

My happiness-eyes,

Alas, I have long lost —

I hope not forever.

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22808

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My heart’s sleepless obedience

And my Lord’s endless Satisfaction

Are interdependent.

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22809

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God does not want us

To crucify

Our life’s ignorance-night.

He wants us

To purify and beautify

Our life’s ignorance-night. ```

22810

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O my self-importance,

I have had enough of you.

Now leave me alone!

O my God-dependence,

Do hasten your arrival.

I am in sleepless expectation!

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22811

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We are all God-representatives,

But because of doubting minds

And fearful hearts

We fail to know what we truly are. ```

22812

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Today

I do not know why and how

My willingness-eagerness-heart

Is overcast

By my doubt-darkness-mind.

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22813

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There can be no wall of separativity

Between the mind’s clarity

And the heart’s purity.

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22814

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If you want to be captured,

Then allow yourself

To be captured by ambition,

And not by lethargy. ```

22815

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Each individual seeker

Is blessed with

An inner doubt-devouring faith.

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22816

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Ego and ego’s loud bark

Always

Remain inseparable.

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22817

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If you are a seeker

Of the highest Truth,

Then there shall come a time

When you will no longer remain

A prisoner of your fate.

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22818

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O my Lord Supreme,

Do give me back

Only one thing:

My soul’s vision-eye. ```

22819

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God does not want me to offer

My sad eyes to Heaven’s Light,

But He wants me to open

My happy heart to Heaven’s Light. ```

22820

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Nothing can be more beautiful

Than my heart’s gratitude-tears

When I place them at the Feet

Of my Lord Supreme. ```

22821

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It is never too late

To offer our doubting mind

To our Lord Supreme

For its radical transformation. ```

22822

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What can you expect from surrender?

You can expect many things —

Almost everything.

The easiest way

To make your obstacles and hurdles

Fade away

Is to be a constant surrender-will

To the Will of the Supreme. ```

22823

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When we please God

In His own Way,

God immediately blesses us

With a torrential downpour

Of His Affection,

Sweetness

And Fondness.

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22824

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A heart and its purity

Must always remain

Two inseparable companions.

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22825

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What we all need

Is a doubt-defying

Inner ascent.

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22826

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Today, like other days,

I must not try to fool God

With my insincerity-mind,

Impurity-heart and ingratitude-life. ```

22827

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Self-importance is a game

That we have played

For a very, very long time.

God-reliance is a new game.

Let us play this game

Forever and forever. ```

22828

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May my heart’s love

Always burn

Free from self-doubt.

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22829

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When we powerfully aspire,

All our heart’s messages

Kindle a fire

Of inner illumination in us. ```

22830

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My Lord Supreme,

Do give me the capacity

To speak only with Your Breath

Inside Your Universal Heart. ```

22831

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Every day is a step

Into the unknown

If we live in the mind.

But every day can be a step

Into the eagerly anticipated

If we live in the heart

Of our self-offering.

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22832

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He whose mind is wanting

In imagination

Will never be able to succeed

In life. ```

22833

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Of all virtues,

Obedience

Will forever remain

Unparalleled. ```

22834

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O mind,

Why do you think

That you were made

Only to think?

You were made to aspire.

You were made to offer yourself

Clearly and constantly

To the ocean of the heart. ```

22835

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God uses His Express Train

To come and meet us

Only when our heart

Is all eagerness

And our mind

Is all willingness

To receive Him.

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22836

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There are many who would like to be

The keeper of my heart-key.

But I shall accept only

God’s Compassion-Eye

As the keeper of my heart-key.

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22837

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Only two things we need

To greet God face to face:

A life of ceaseless surrender

And a heart of breathless gratitude. ```

22838

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The “Yes” of my mind

Is a powerful choice.

The “Yes” of my heart

Is a beautiful voice. ```

22839

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Each good thought that we cherish

Comes directly from

God’s Dream-manifesting World.

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22840

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When we are in the soul’s world,

We sing and dance

Not only with our possibility-hopes,

But also with our inevitability-promises. ```

22841

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A God-oneness-heart

Is always loved

By Infinity’s Peace

And Immortality’s Bliss. ```

22842

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Unless and until we arrive

At our inner frontiers,

We cannot have abiding peace.

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22843

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We take great strides

To fulfil our desires,

But not to overcome

Our ignorance-life. ```

22844

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Mine is the heart

That is always inspired

To go far beyond the domain

Of the limitation-mind. ```

22845

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O noiseless foot of time,

Where are you?

My heart is longing to follow you

Lovingly and prayerfully. ```

22846

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It is not so easy

To sit on the wisdom-chair of life

All the time.

But it is definitely possible

To see the divine, only the divine,

In all our actions. ```

22847

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If the doubts of the mind

Are close to us,

Then God’s Compassion-Eye to protect us

Is infinitely closer. ```

22848

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When my body runs,

My soul jumps,

And my Lord Supreme sings and dances

With enormous Delight. ```

22849

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Let us try to live

In a oneness-world

So that insecurity and jealousy

Cannot blindfold

Our Heaven-climbing aspiration-eyes.

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22850

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Alas, we always broadcast

Our own achievement-glories,

But we never appreciate,

Admire and extol

The Compassion-Beauty

Of our Beloved Lord’s Eye. ```

22851

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The sweetness-fragrance

Of our aspiration-life

And our dedication-life

Will never have a parallel. ```

22852

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If the dreamer in you

Is not your soul,

If the lover in you

Is not your heart,

If the sacrificer in you

Is not your life,

Then your ultimate failure

Is destined. ```

22853

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The chains of oneness-love

Do not bind,

But strengthen,

Illumine and fulfil us. ```

22854

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Every day we need a fresh dream

To enter into

God’s Perfection-Satisfaction-Kingdom.

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22855

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When we love God prayerfully

In God’s own Way,

We can fathom the depth

Of the ineffable. ```

22856

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No more teeming problems

Will be able to crowd

Along my life’s path,

For I can clearly see

That a new age of love and promise

Is dawning within me. ```

22857

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Peace never comes to me alone.

It comes with either

Its ever-blossoming silence

Or its ever-manifesting delight. ```

22858

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Our Lord Supreme

Not only acknowledges

Our surrender smilingly,

But also welcomes it

With boundless joy.

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22859

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Neither the inner duty

Of God-aspiration,

Nor the outer duty

Of God-dedication

Should be kept waiting.

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22860

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Disobedience

Is its own failure.

Disobedience

Is its own tragedy.

Plus, disobedience

Is its own total destruction. ```

22861

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You tell me

That God does not love me.

I tell you, “So what?”

You tell me

That God does not need me.

I tell you, “So what?”

God may not love me;

God may not need me.

But do I love God?

Do I need God?

Yes!

This is the only thing I want to hear

At every moment

From my aspiration-heart

And my dedication-life. ```

22862

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Obedience and peace

Belong to

An affection-flooded family.

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22863

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For a long time

Speech was my only teacher.

Now I have a totally new teacher,

Silence,

And this teacher I shall keep

Forever and forever. ```

22864

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True, God’s Justice-Light

From time to time forgets me,

But never His Compassion-Height.

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22865

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Each blossoming century

Begins with a new Hope

From God’s Heart

And a new Promise

From God’s Eye.

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22866

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Today I am praying to God

To punish me and my mind severely

If we continue to deceive the world

Around us and within us. ```

22867

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Every day,

In the small hours of the morning,

God eagerly waits to hear from my soul

The very latest details

About my body, vital, mind and heart.

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22868

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I have two hopes:

God-realisation-hope

And God-manifestation-hope.

May these two hopes

Never wither.

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22869

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Sound comes to me

From the house of the mind.

Silence comes to me

From the home of the soul. ```

22870

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To destroy another’s hope

Is nothing but

An unforgivable crime.

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22871

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Real satisfaction

Is attainable

Only by my oneness-heart

With God’s Will. ```

22872

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I celebrate

My sound-life-victories.

God celebrates

My silence-eye-beauty. ```

22873

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I give God what I have:

My questioning mind.

God gives me what He has:

His answering Heart. ```

22874

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He who does not practise spirituality

Will suffer from inner paralysis

Without fail.

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22875

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My heart’s willingness

And my life’s competence

Are found together always.

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22876

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My Lord’s Compassion-Eye-Smile

Is the master key

To every crying heart.

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22877

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My soul inspires me

And tells me

Not to be afraid of

The God-Summit-Heights. ```

22878

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There is no height

That cannot be reached

With our life’s

God-surrender-wings. ```

22879

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God-inspiration-mind,

God-aspiration-heart

And God-manifestation-life

Are three inseparable friends. ```

22880

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In the small hours of the morning,

My soul awakens

My sleeping God-hunger-heart.

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22881

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No matter how sweet

Our old thoughts are,

They are not powerful enough

To show us a new way

To arrive at our destination.

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22882

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When my mind tells me God-stories,

I fall asleep immediately.

When my heart sings God-songs for me,

I not only remain fully awake,

But also enjoy them immensely.

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22883

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O heights of superiority-mind,

You are indeed worthless and useless!

O abyss of inferiority-life,

You are equally worthless and useless! ```

22884

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Only deep meditation

Knows what the deepening silence

Of the Beyond is.

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22885

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My Lord Supreme tells me

That there is nothing

And there can be nothing

Beyond my heart’s aspiration-reach. ```

22886

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Only a surrender-heart

Knows how to breathe in

The freedom of Heaven.

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22887

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My heart strongly feels

That my mind’s negativity-death-hour

Will before long strike.

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22888

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Not only God the Compassion

But also God the Justice

Dearly loves my obedience-heart.

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22889

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There shall definitely come a day

When the beauty and divinity

Of spirituality

Will guide and lead the entire world. ```

22890

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This moment my heart lives

In sorrow-whispers

From below.

The next moment my heart lives

In smile-whispers

From Above. ```

22891

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My God-love-heart-power

Has drastically reduced

My body’s sleep-hour.

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22892

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Mind-improvement

For God-realisation

Is the most difficult miracle

Of all miracles. ```

22893

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My enthusiasm-mind

Has immensely increased

The beauty of my life’s

Aspiration-flames. ```

22894

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Each time I sing

A God-surrender-song,

My heart dives into

God’s Oneness-Satisfaction-Heart. ```

22895

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Living is nothing short of dying

When love for God-Light

Is missing.

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22896

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O my Lord Supreme,

I need only one thing from You:

Do play on my heart-swing

At least five minutes a day! ```

22897

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If you follow God

With your heart’s devotion-steps,

God will turn around

And bless you

With His Victory’s Fragrance-Garland.

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22898

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Smile, smile, smile

At your mind

As often as possible.

Your smiling will considerably reduce

Your mind’s tearing tension.

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22899

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When we offer God

Our purity-heart,

God invites us to come and play

In His beauty-flooded

Heart-Garden.

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22900

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When God’s Name echoes and re-echoes

In our aspiration-heart

And receptivity-life,

God-realisation does not remain

A far cry.

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From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 229, Agni Press, 1996
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