Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 230

22901

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To make constant progress,

We must dream a dream

Of the ever-transcending Beyond.

```

22902

```

God sympathises

With all my weaknesses

Except

My unwillingness. ```

22903

```

Alas, I do not know when

My heart’s aspiration-train

Will finally enter

My mind-station. ```

22904

```

My Lord, do bless me

With promise-flames

To help me arrive

At Your Satisfaction-Sun. ```

22905

```

Since my aspiration

Every day

Is becoming stronger and stronger,

I am sure that soon

Ignorance will give me up

For lost. ```

22906

```

Never cling to the ancient past

If you want to enter into

The beauty and divinity

Of the beckoning future. ```

22907

```

One can never

Jump the hurdles of life

Without aspiration from within

And Grace from Above. ```

22908

```

The aspiration of the heart

Can definitely change

Possibility’s sigh

Into reality’s life. ```

22909

```

O my heart,

You have every reason to be happy.

You are chosen

By the Absolute Supreme Himself. ```

22910

```

My Lord,

Do tell me the truth.

Have I completely exhausted

Your Forgiveness-Power?

“My child,

Rest assured, you can never do that.” ```

22911

```

Do not become isolated

From the world

If you ever care

To see God happy. ```

22912

```

God’s Compassion

Is not only older

Than God’s Justice,

But also more powerful. ```

22913

```

Gratitude is the youngest

And the strongest

Of all our divine qualities.

```

22914

```

You want to know

Who is the keeper

Of your heart’s dreams.

The keeper and the giver

Are one and the same:

Your soul. ```

22915

```

My Lord Supreme,

I have only one prayer:

May my heart’s gratitude-blossoms

Never wither. ```

22916

```

When I tell the truth,

I become my heart’s beauty

And my life’s prosperity.

```

22917

```

My prayer

Is the whisper of my soul.

My meditation

Is the beckoning of my soul. ```

22918

```

Every morning

My soul, either happily or sorrowfully,

Brings God the very latest details

Of my previous day. ```

22919

```

It seems to me that

God-satisfaction is quite near.

Yet it somehow remains unattainable.

```

22920

```

God asks Himself

How it is that man

Does not care for

His own transformation.

God’s question remains

Unanswered. ```

22921

```

If you are not ready

To shoulder earth-responsibilities,

How can God bless you

With His Heaven-Prosperities? ```

22922

```

If I have

Blazing aspiration-intensity,

I shall definitely arrive sooner

At my sunlit God-realisation-summit. ```

22923

```

My Lord says to me,

“My child,

I have most significant plans for you.”

I say to my Lord,

“My Father,

I have most important pleas for You.” ```

22924

```

Peace does not fill

The impure mind.

It fills only

The pure heart. ```

22925

```

Never miss

Your morning prayer and meditation

If you want to adorn

Your aspiration-temple-heart. ```

22926

```

Although God has Infinity’s Patience,

When He calls, drop everything

If you want to make Him happy

And thus make yourself really happy. ```

22927

```

O God-seeker,

Be not blind!

Just see how close God is

To your climbing aspiration-heart. ```

22928

```

If your heart can speak

In words of oneness,

Then your life will be

Flooded with fulness. ```

22929

```

The song God does not like at all

From my mind is:

I shall aspire tomorrow.

The song God likes most

From my heart is:

I am aspiring now,

And I shall always aspire.

```

22930

```

At sunrise

I meditate

On God’s Cosmic Sound.

At sunset

I meditate

On God’s Universal Silence. ```

22931

```

Even my mind is astonished

At its own

Stupidity-cyclones.

```

22932

```

If I have anything

To be proud of in my life,

Then it is the purity

Of my heart-temple. ```

22933

```

God’s Forgiveness

Does not depend on

My mind’s clever stories,

But on

My heart’s pure songs.

```

22934

```

Of all the planes that fly

In the inner world,

Surrender-plane flies the highest.

```

22935

```

In vain

God’s Compassion-Light

Has toured

My unwillingness-mind-world. ```

22936

```

God never drags me.

God never pushes me.

It is my soul that drags my mind

Towards God.

It is my soul that pushes my heart

Towards God. ```

22937

```

My mind’s determination

Means

My life’s transformation.

My life’s transformation

Means

My Lord’s complete Satisfaction. ```

22938

```

A spiritual Master

Is at once

The safest and the longest

Ladder

To climb towards Heaven.

```

22939

```

I am filled with fear

When I have to touch

God’s Eyes.

I am inundated with delight

When I am able to feel

God’s Heart. ```

22940

```

Love of God

Is my real name.

Desire-fulfilment-cry

Is my false name. ```

22941

```

God performs

His unconditional Duty:

He implores and implores.

I perform

My determined duty:

I ignore and ignore. ```

22942

```

O my Lord Supreme,

If You really love me,

Then take away my mind’s

False freedom,

And place me at Your Feet

To enjoy real freedom. ```

22943

```

My heart’s purity

Has finally silenced

My mind’s desire-storm.

```

22944

```

My Lord,

You want me to be happy,

But do You not see

That jealousy’s eye

Is still looking

Through me? ```

22945

```

If you do not bury

Your mind’s doubt-intruder

Once and for all,

You will be perpetuating

Your life’s mightiest mistake.

```

22946

```

My smiling eyes

Have only one source:

My crying heart.

```

22947

```

A self-giving heart

Every day

Can easily run

A God-satisfaction-marathon. ```

22948

```

Each world-loving thought

Of mine

Comes from my heart’s

Willingness-breath. ```

22949

```

My peace of mind

Is the shortest distance

Away from

My Lord’s Satisfaction-Smile. ```

22950

```

If we really take

Our spiritual life

With utmost seriousness,

Then we must realise

That each God-satisfaction-task

Is only a one-time opportunity. ```

22951

```

A soulful smile

Is a valid passport

To enter into

God’s Heart-Kingdom. ```

22952

```

My Lord,

Do give me the courage to believe

That Your Answers are always wiser,

Infinitely wiser,

Than my prayer-grasp.

```

22953

```

My Lord’s Compassion-Smile

Is always my mirror

When I see myself.

```

22954

```

God-Vision’s

Dearest, oldest and loveliest

Eternal child

Is peace. ```

22955

```

A seeker-heart never sleeps.

Neither does

A confusion-mind.

```

22956

```

My soul

Creates my inner beauty,

And my heart

Perpetuates it. ```

22957

```

The secret name

Of my gratitude-heart

Is my Lord’s constant Grace.

```

22958

```

Alas, how can I

Make rapid progress

In my spiritual life

When I so often allow my mind

To be rocked by doubt-waves?

```

22959

```

What hides inside my silence

Is God’s Smile.

What hides inside God’s Smile

Is my future perfection. ```

22960

```

God taught my soul

How to cross

The infinite sea of time and space.

My soul is teaching

My aspiration-heart

Exactly the same thing. ```

22961

```

Alas, sometimes

My stupidity-mind

Shockingly amazes

My soul and my heart. ```

22962

```

Fight, fight

For the Inner Pilot Supreme!

Lo, light is everywhere,

Both before you and around you. ```

22963

```

Human friends I have always had

And I will always have.

What I need is an absolutely new friend:

God, my Lord Beloved Supreme. ```

22964

```

My soul is always ready

To answer

My mind’s never-decreasing questions.

```

22965

```

Every day my soul

Most compassionately teaches my mind

The language of my heart.

```

22966

```

A sincerity-mind,

A purity-heart

And a self-giving life

Can definitely minimise

Our life-problems.

```

22967

```

God tells us

Inwardly and outwardly

That we all must live up to

Our divinity’s birthright. ```

22968

```

When I open my mouth,

I drown in noise-ocean.

When I close my mouth,

I swim in silence-sea. ```

22969

```

The tears of my eyes

The world sees.

The tears of my heart

Only the Compassion-Eye

Of my Lord Supreme sees.

```

22970

```

Man does not know

What a significant part

He is unconsciously playing

In God’s Cosmic Drama. ```

22971

```

What the world needs

More than anything else

Is not self-confidence,

But unconditional God-dependence. ```

22972

```

The compassion-eye

Of a spiritual Master

Is an ever-light-flooded stairway

To Heaven’s summit-heights. ```

22973

```

The prayer of my mind

Is God’s regular telephone line.

The meditation of my heart

Is God’s private phone number. ```

22974

```

God gives a full-time job

Only to those

Who have realised Him.

```

22975

```

If you always live in the mind,

Sooner or later

Even your heart’s devotion-flower

Is bound to wither. ```

22976

```

I bury my doubt-intruder

To enjoy the beauty

Of my Lord’s Satisfaction-Eye.

```

22977

```

My Lord,

Take away the restlessness

Of my freedom-craving mind

And make me all Yours. ```

22978

```

The determination of the mind

Is, indeed,

The transformation of life.

```

22979

```

You are now

In your heart’s devotion-lane.

Do not slow down!

God is eagerly awaiting your arrival. ```

22980

```

The fulfilment of peace

Is not an invention

But a discovery,

Along the way to

Self-discovery.

```

22981

```

When the mind has doubt,

That means the mind

Has been attacked

By the lower world. ```

22982

```

A self-giving heart

Constantly climbs upward

Into the satisfaction-light

Of inner freedom. ```

22983

```

My earthly desires

And my Lord’s Smiles

Are never to be found

Together. ```

22984

```

“I shall love God.”

“I shall please God

In God’s own Way.”

These are, indeed, my heart’s

Mountain-high promises.

```

22985

```

After crying for a long time

Breathlessly for God,

When I try to go to God,

God most proudly welcomes me. ```

22986

```

If God looked at me now,

Alas, how I wish He would see

That I am no longer

A desire-victim. ```

22987

```

My soul

Remembers my heart

From centuries ago.

My heart

Is trying desperately

To remember my soul

Exactly the same way.

```

22988

```

Lightning

Is faster than the fastest,

But my Lord’s Forgiveness-Heart

Is, indeed, infinitely faster. ```

22989

```

The mind’s

Hesitation-procrastination-key

Can never unlock the Truth-door.

But the heart’s

Aspiration-determination-key

Can easily unlock it. ```

22990

```

Since your mind is immersed

All the time

In worldliness,

How can you expect

God’s Satisfaction-Smile?

```

22991

```

Our soul’s

God-obedience-happiness

Can never be measured

By our mind —

No, not even

By our heart. ```

22992

```

God is always ready

To inscribe His Name

In your heart-book,

But your heart-book

Is nowhere to be found.

```

22993

```

God cries and cries

When we approach Him

With our doubt-caught mind

And our fear-tortured heart. ```

22994

```

A life of God-surrender

Has a sunflower-heart

That turns and gazes always

At the all-illumining God-Sun. ```

22995

```

God offered me His All,

But the human in me

Immediately declined.

```

22996

```

God tells us every day

Not to be satisfied

With our outer life.

But, alas, we fail to obey Him. ```

22997

```

My Lord Supreme moves around

Incognito

To see if I am purifying

My ignorance-night. ```

22998

```

Each time a self-giving thought

Enters into my mind,

I see a universe revolving

Happily and proudly

Inside my heart.

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22999

```

God loves to sit

On the wings of my golden smiles

And fly all over the world.

```

23000

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Not for nothing

Does my Lord Supreme suffer.

There is always a special reason.

My aspiration-heart

Must try to discover it.

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From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 230, Agni Press, 1996
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