Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 256

25501

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My Lord Supreme,

Do bless me every day

With special Blessings

So that my entire being

Can beam with the light

Of tranquillity. ```

25502

```

My Lord,

Your powerful Smile

Is the peerless fortune

Of my life. ```

25503

```

To become fully acquainted

With your soul,

You must lovingly, devotedly

And unreservedly

Believe in your Master.

```

25504

```

A mind of worry

Is simply

A wasted life.

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25505

```

When gratitude survives

All disappointments,

Then it is real gratitude.

```

25506

```

Do not waste away

Today’s golden opportunity.

It will never come back!

```

25507

```

Each purity-thought in the mind

Will definitely help the seeker

In accelerating his inner progress.

```

25508

```

When divine necessity demands,

If you are not ready to bend,

Then you will not be able to rise

Higher than the highest. ```

25509

```

A God-readiness-mind,

A God-willingness-life

And a God-eagerness-heart

Every day make special contributions

Towards God-manifestation on earth.

```

25510

```

Alas, when my life takes a wrong turn,

I do not know how deeply

My Lord’s Heart suffers.

```

25511

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If you want to follow the spiritual life

In the strict sense of the term,

Then keep your heart-compass

Always in good condition. ```

25512

```

What the aspiring heart knows,

Feels and does

Will always remain far beyond

The comprehension of the mind. ```

25513

```

When we do not awake

To our Divinity’s Call,

Humanity may not feel

That it is a great loss,

But Divinity does.

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25514

```

If I do not conquer my ego-foe

In my inner life,

Then in my outer life

My ego-foe will just destroy me. ```

25515

```

Human action loves

The power of achievement.

Divine action loves

The beauty and fragrance

Of aspiration.

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25516

```

Unconditional surrender

Is an indispensable course

In the life-school of a seeker.

```

25517

```

The beauty that embodies a dream

Has also the power

To fully manifest a reality.

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25518

```

Where to begin?

With a readiness-mind,

With a willingness-life

And

With an eagerness-heart.

Where to end?

Nowhere,

Nowhere! ```

25519

```

Aspiration is the only bridge

Between our today’s heart-bloom

And our tomorrow’s life-blossoms.

```

25520

```

How to nourish your eagerness?

To nourish your eagerness,

Daily feed your selflessness.

```

25521

```

The suspecting mind,

The doubting mind

And even the searching mind

Do not care for the beauty, purity

And divinity of solitude.

```

25522

```

The destination of the desire-mind

Is frustration-thorns.

The destination of the aspiration-heart

Is perfection-roses. ```

25523

```

My God-realisation

Is not humanity’s gift

But Divinity’s Boon.

```

25524

```

The heart-experience

And the mind-experiment

Are absolutely essential

In our spiritual life. ```

25525

```

The inner ascent

Is infinitely steeper

Than the outer ascent.

```

25526

```

If you do not shake your fist

At your doubting mind,

Your doubting mind

Will never change. ```

25527

```

Give up your old, crystallized

Mind-vital-comforts

If you want to make a sincere effort

At God-discovery. ```

25528

```

Science thinks that it can live

Without God.

Spirituality knows and feels

That its very breath

Is God Himself.

```

25529

```

Science, like a dying man,

Secretly believes in God

And needs God.

```

25530

```

When science and spirituality

Receive an invitation-letter from God,

Spirituality immediately accepts it

With love, devotion and surrender,

But science does not even take the trouble

Of reading the invitation.

Science just discards it!

```

25531

```

An unaspiring man

Needs hope to live.

An aspiring seeker

Needs promises to make. ```

25532

```

Each divine moment of a seeker

Has the capacity

To capture his soul-essence.

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25533

```

My soul every day

Invites my body, vital, mind and heart

To come and converse with it,

But they all avoid the soul

Out of fear.

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25534

```

If we have surrendered

Consciously, constantly and sleeplessly,

Then we can outdistance everybody

And everything

In the God-satisfaction-race.

```

25535

```

I do not have to be first

In my outer race,

As long as I can do extremely well

In my inner race

Against doubt, worries and anxieties.

```

25536

```

The secret and sacred code

Of all truth-seekers and God-lovers

Is surrender to God’s Will.

```

25537

```

Love, love, love, love!

This is the source

Of inspiration-light

And aspiration-delight. ```

25538

```

The autocrat-mind’s triumph

Over the heart

Can never be abiding.

It is brief, very brief. ```

25539

```

O my mind, O my vital,

I cannot imagine how you two

Are not ashamed of your disloyalty

To our Lord Beloved Supreme. ```

25540

```

Only the soul can make

God’s Victory-predictions

Correctly and perfectly.

```

25541

```

Your arid mind has reached

The height of stupidity:

It consciously avoids

God’s Compassion-Abundance. ```

25542

```

Our heart’s devotion must reach

Himalayan purity-heights every day,

Without fail.

```

25543

```

Faith is the blooming present

Of our life.

Surrender is the blossoming future

Of our life. ```

25544

```

A soulful smile-song

Can easily expedite

Our Godward journey.

```

25545

```

Every morning the aspiring heart

Composes many oneness-songs

To please our Lord Supreme

In His own Way. ```

25546

```

The searching mind is stunned

When it is attacked

By brooding doubts.

```

25547

```

May my heart’s dedication-car

And my life’s service-engine

Every day run fast, faster, fastest.

```

25548

```

My Lord Supreme

Accepts my life’s humble service

Not only readily,

But also happily and proudly. ```

25549

```

My Lord, I know well

That I deserve Your Scoldings

Infinitely more than I deserve Your Smiles.

Therefore, I do not know why and how

You smile at me

Infinitely more than You scold me. ```

25550

```

What is not a meditation?

Anything that tells me

That God is not for me,

For my blunders,

But that God is for others.

```

25551

```

When I am in the physical presence

Of my Master,

I try to hide my weaknesses.

But alas, he repeatedly tells me

That my weaknesses are his

And it is his bounden duty

To illumine my ignorance

With his own divine light. ```

25552

```

So many times I ask myself:

“Is there anything that I really need

From humanity?”

In my deepest meditation

I get the answer:

“No, there is not, as long as

God is with me and for me!”

```

25553

```

When I spontaneously surrender

To God’s Will,

God sheds immediately Tears

Of Joy, Love and Pride. ```

25554

```

The doubting mind

And the aggressive vital

Will never know

Where the all-illumining soul lives. ```

25555

```

The face of surrender

Is beautiful to the extreme,

And perfect perfection.

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25556

```

Alas, I do not know why I cry

When my Lord smiles at me

And, again, why I smile

When my Lord cries for me.

Why?

I must reciprocate His Smiles.

I must reciprocate His Cries. ```

25557

```

My Lord tells me

That yesterday’s gratitude-flower

Pleased Him yesterday,

But today’s gratitude-flower

I must give Him today

To please Him. ```

25558

```

Our self-assertion

God never takes as a source of inspiration.

Our God-affirmation

For our fastest inner progress

Is God’s only source of delight.

```

25559

```

My Lord, I am eagerly waiting,

Waiting in my heart-garden for You.

Where is Your Compassion-Eye, where?

Where is Your Forgiveness-Heart, where,

My Lord Beloved Supreme?

```

25560

```

Your soul is always ready

To tell you everything about God,

But do you believe in your soul?

No, never! ```

25561

```

My Lord,

I am praying for that magic moment

When I shall be able

To sincerely claim You as my own,

Very own.

```

25562

```

What is the difference

Between my soul and my mind?

My soul is a supreme authority

On faith,

And my mind is a supreme authority

On doubt. ```

25563

```

When we pray to God for God’s Victory,

God invites us to live

Inside His own Heart-Garden

Of Beauty and Fragrance. ```

25564

```

My Lord Beloved Supreme tells me:

“My child, My child, come quickly,

Come quickly!

I am all ready.

I am all ready

To barter My Compassion

For your ignorance.”

```

25565

```

My vital and my mind

Are finally ready

To see the Light of God

Through the aspiration

Of my heart.

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25566

```

Sweet thoughts

Can definitely revive

Your mind

From its shameful death. ```

25567

```

Now it is my heart’s turn

To speak about God

And manifest God here on earth.

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25568

```

Whenever I speak from my faith-heart,

My Lord comes

Closer than the closest to me

And blesses me with all His Pride. ```

25569

```

My Lord, my Lord, my Lord,

Only one prayer:

Do awaken my heart,

My Lord, my Lord! ```

25570

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Alas, for so many years

I have been studying

The heart-language,

Yet I have not acquired any mastery. ```

25571

```

I am finally ready to keep

Only my heart’s sweet

And inspiring memories.

```

25572

```

If you speak from your faith-heart,

Then both humanity and Divinity

Will eventually trust you

And fulfil you. ```

25573

```

What do we see in God’s Heart-Garden?

We see two most important

Dream-realities:

God-Beauty and God-Fragrance. ```

25574

```

The realisation of the ancients

We do not long for, alas!

The perfection of Heaven

We do not long for either, alas! ```

25575

```

Do not boast of your mind’s

Supremacy-freedom.

If you want to boast,

Then boast of your soul’s

God-oneness-freedom.

```

25576

```

O my aspiration-heart,

Do not wait!

Attack the undivine, hostile bandit-forces

Before they get any chance to attack you. ```

25577

```

If you use your heart for everything,

Then only you shall be able to arrive

At God’s Satisfaction-Station-Stop.

```

25578

```

Because you have

A longing heart of hope,

You will be able to arrive

At your Golden Shore. ```

25579

```

God needs seekers not to win

In the battlefield of life,

But to surrender to Him the results

In the battlefield of life. ```

25580

```

A sincere God-lover

Will never ask God to reconsider

His divine Intention.

```

25581

```

The mind’s promises

Are infinitely easier to keep

Than the heart’s

God-fulfilment-promise. ```

25582

```

My aspiration-life, to my greatest joy,

Is cradled by God Himself

Inside His

Compassion-Concern-Heart-Garden. ```

25583

```

Like us,

God also needs every day

Good news

To smile at His creation. ```

25584

```

God not only sees, knows and feels

But also takes all our problems

As His own, very own.

```

25585

```

An enforced obedience is worse

Than the worst possible obedience

For a God-seeker.

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25586

```

Not only our heart,

But also our mind, vital, body —

Everything that we have

Is God’s own Handiwork. ```

25587

```

Quite often our minds are dry.

Our hearts are at times dry.

But our souls are always happy

And cheerful.

They are never dry.

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25588

```

If you accompany truth-seekers

And God-lovers repeatedly,

Yours will be very fast spiritual progress.

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25589

```

There are no such things

As love-excess, devotion-excess

And surrender-excess.

No! ```

25590

```

God never asks us to whisper

In His Presence.

He asks our mind, heart and life

To speak as loudly as possible,

Provided they are soulful.

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25591

```

If you allow irritation

To enter into your mind

And frustration to enter into your vital,

How can you expect to make real progress

In your spiritual life?

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25592

```

You need rich smiles

And helpless tears

To conquer the Heart of God.

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25593

```

Spirituality is not meant

For those who enjoy deliberately

A mist-enshrouded mind.

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25594

```

Be strong both inwardly and outwardly

To transfer your love

From your body, vital and mind

To God. ```

25595

```

Do not be absorbed in your troubles.

Dive deep within to bring to the fore

Your adamantine will.

```

25596

```

You have to invoke peace

Every day in your life,

Not only when

You are worry and anxiety-stricken. ```

25597

```

Every day pray to God

To bless you with new enthusiasm.

Otherwise your old enthusiasm

May at any time evaporate. ```

25598

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My Lord Supreme,

Do whatever You want to do

With this insignificant life of mine.

My life and I are all ready

To make You happy in Your own Way.

```

25599

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The sole purpose of my life

Is to go back once more

To my peace-home-heart.

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25600

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The singing and dancing flames

Of our aspiration-heart

And dedication-life

Shall, without fail, reach

The highest Heaven of Delight.

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From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 256, Agni Press, 1998
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