Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 34

3301

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A constant gratitude-heart

Is a way of loving God

In God’s own Way.

```

3302

```

God visits me twice

Every day.

He visits my mind-room

Only to say how unsatisfied

And dissatisfied He is.

When God visits my heart-room,

He tells me

My heart’s perfection

And His Life’s Satisfaction

Will play their oneness-game

For all Eternity.

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3303

```

In the morning

God gave me

A lesson in His Beauty.

In the evening

God gave me

A lesson in His Silence.

```

3304

```

The heart that sleeplessly cries

For God’s Compassion-Light

Is made of God’s special

Fondness-Vision-Delight. ```

3305

```

The supreme Height of God’s Compassion

Can forgive humanity

But will never illumine humanity.

For the illumination of humanity,

The Supreme needs

Humanity’s conscious willingness. ```

3306

```

No matter how sublime my life is,

I will not be able to transform

Humanity’s confusion-clime.

But I will maintain my hope

That someday, somehow

My Lord Supreme will transform

Humanity’s mind-confusion-clime

Into Divinity’s Illumination-Kingdom. ```

3307

```

Two masters live in the same house:

The ignorance-prince

With his master, doubt,

And the wisdom-emperor

With his master, faith.

```

3308

```

There are two

Heart-illumining songs:

My purity’s obedience-heart,

My humility’s satisfaction-life. ```

3309

```

You want God to see you

Only through your heart-door,

But God wants to look at you

Through your narrow mind-door as well. ```

3310

```

His aspiration-campaign ended

In total failure

Because the members

Of his outer family

Did not support him at all.

```

3311

```

On the strength of his devotion,

His folded hands

Not only decreased

The animal strength in him

But also increased

The divine power in him. ```

3312

```

This life has only one project,

And that is

To inspire the outer world

And aspire for the inner world. ```

3313

```

Do not drag

Your despair-heart

And your doubt-mind!

Let them fall easily

Into the chasm of oblivion.

```

3314

```

If you believe

In the higher worlds

And do not help this world,

Then your confidence-life

Is nothing short of

A stupidity-mind. ```

3315

```

When the cosmic gods

Are on their way to church,

Christ comes to them

Running,

And asks them

To show him their temples

First.

```

3316

```

A surrender-life

Is a God-satisfied heart

In God’s perfection-dreaming creation.

```

3317

```

He desired all his thoughts

To be docked

In God’s Heart-Harbour,

And God has fulfilled

His snow-white desire.

```

3318

```

God refuses to ignore

Either my ignorance-mind

Or my unwillingness-life.

```

3319

```

Your mind hesitated.

Therefore

You missed the boat.

Your heart is hesitating.

Therefore

You will miss the Boatman.

```

3320

```

He has sent

A surrender-letter to God.

In return,

God has sent him

His Heart’s Satisfaction-Telegram.

```

3321

```

God has no pride;

Therefore

He can enter into your heart

Uninvited.

But once He has entered

Into your heart,

Will you be ready

To offer Him His due Throne? ```

3322

```

In silence

He shoots my inner troubles.

In silence

He announces my outer victory. ```

3323

```

His mind constantly lives

Between

Blind desire and dark hate.

```

3324

```

I do not want to live

On renewed hope.

I want to live

On the summit

Of my new aspiration-mountain.

```

3325

```

Who deserves

What God has given?

He who has made his life

Into an unconditional heart-flower. ```

3326

```

The song of excellence

Can be sung

Only by a seeker’s

Earth-illumining soul. ```

3327

```

If you really need God,

Then you do not have to

Wait in line.

You can go to God

Immediately.

```

3328

```

He wanted to earn

A doctorate in perfection.

God said to him:

“My child,

Be perfect in your devotion-life

First.

Then I shall grant you

A doctorate in perfection.” ```

3329

```

God values

Your surrender-life

Infinitely more than

Your aspiration-heart. ```

3330

```

You want God

To come to you first.

But I tell you,

If you go to God first,

Your heart’s ecstasy-experience

You will feel infinitely more. ```

3331

```

He is a divine disciplinarian.

Therefore

All those who are around him

Are receiving from him

Satisfaction-delight.

```

3332

```

There is always a better way

To offer one’s gratitude-heart

To God,

And that way is to feel

That God’s Compassion-Eye

Is available at every moment

For man’s heart to use.

```

3333

```

A mind of doubt

Is humanity’s old headache.

A life of self-offering

Is humanity’s old

And most effective medicine.

```

3334

```

If you want to visit Heaven,

Then learn God’s familiar song first —

The song of your heart’s

Perfection-surrender. ```

3335

```

If you want God

To sit beside you

At every moment,

Then immediately join

The God-loving army.

```

3336

```

He is a scoundrel.

He wants to be a saint.

What he needs every day

Is the reassurance

Of his love for God.

```

3337

```

If you are going to be

A perfect instrument of God,

Then you cannot afford

The doubt-risk in your life

At any time.

```

3338

```

His mind enjoys

Collision with truth.

His heart enjoys

Collision with doubt.

His soul does not enjoy

Any collision.

It only wants to be

With God-believers

And God-lovers.

```

3339

```

You fool!

Your earthly credentials

Will not change

Heaven’s opinion of you.

For Heaven to appreciate

And admire you,

You need only one

Heavenly credential,

And that is your sleepless

Self-offering. ```

3340

```

If you want to build

A better tomorrow,

Then invite humanity’s cry

And divinity’s smile

To help you together

In your project. ```

3341

```

When he gave serious thought

To God,

God in secret taught him

His Vision’s Silence-Song. ```

3342

```

If you do not obey God promptly,

Your heart’s sincerity-remorse

Will mercilessly torture you.

```

3343

```

My heart’s purity

Is my life-illumining song.

My soul’s divinity

Is my Lord’s God-revealing Dance. ```

3344

```

How can the heart of oneness-love

Be satisfied

When the unsatisfied vital

And the unsatisfied mind

Ruthlessly and shamelessly argue?

```

3345

```

The higher worlds forgot to tell me

Two things:

God loves me infinitely more

Than I love Him,

God treasures my heart’s

Companionship. ```

3346

```

A heart of selfless self-giving

Is the brightest part

Of my inner being.

```

3347

```

The God-hungry heart

Is the only heart

That can be inwardly genuine

And outwardly generous. ```

3348

```

The best news today!

God has found a vacancy

For my heart to fill.

```

3349

```

Run after opportunity

If opportunity does not run

After you,

For opportunity is the beginning

Of your God-blossoming divinity.

```

3350

```

He speaks of nothing,

Not because he has nothing,

But because the power

Of nothingness

Silences him.

```

3351

```

God’s Hour will come back

Again and again.

But will your God-receiving hour

Meet with God’s

Earth-illumining Hour?

```

3352

```

Your heart-alarm

Rings and rings.

But alas, your ignorance-mind

Continues to sleep. ```

3353

```

A heart of sleepless cry

Is the highway

To the transcendence

Of the Beyond. ```

3354

```

God does not sell expensive things

In His Love-Store.

He only sells expansive things.

```

3355

```

The higher world

Thinks that it does not need humanity.

The lower world

Ridicules humanity.

Only God’s World

Understands and values humanity. ```

3356

```

What God wants immediately

From you

Is a soulful cry

For humanity’s progress-height. ```

3357

```

I admire him

Not because he is great,

Not because he is good,

But because God has confidence

In him.

```

3358

```

Every morning God comes to him

And affectionately tells him:

“My child,

Renew your meditation-permit.” ```

3359

```

His soul carries inspiration-messages

From Heaven to earth

And his heart carries aspiration-messages

From earth to Heaven.

Therefore, God blesses his beauty’s soul

And God blesses his purity’s heart. ```

3360

```

When insecurity-insect bites you,

You have to know

That God has left you

To enjoy His Vacation

Elsewhere.

```

3361

```

If you are planning

To go to God,

Then God is asking you

To go to Him

With your dancing heart,

Not with your trembling life,

And certainly not

With your doubting mind. ```

3362

```

There is only one stupid question

On earth:

When shall I realise God?

```

3363

```

At night

He dreams only God-dreams,

And during the day

His life becomes a sleepless wave

Of gratitude.

```

3364

```

When temptation invites you,

You can accept this invitation

As destruction

Or as another opportunity

To strengthen your mind’s power

And increase your heart’s cry. ```

3365

```

If you do not laugh

At your own stupidity,

God will not open for you

Your closed divinity-door. ```

3366

```

If you can look

Beyond today’s torture,

Then tomorrow’s satisfaction-splendour

Will make you its choice friend. ```

3367

```

Since God has given you

His Oneness-Heart,

Can you not give Him

Your life’s newness-eye? ```

3368

```

Because of your self-deception

You are still a human being.

Because of your God-deception

God thinks you are a strange being. ```

3369

```

I could not live with God,

Not because

He really did not care for me,

But because

I wanted to replace Him.

```

3370

```

Even the slowest

And the smallest

Aspiration-steps

Will unmistakably take you

To the highest floor

Of God’s Mansion. ```

3371

```

He has lost his old world

Only to find his own new world,

The world that God Himself

Chose for him

For His Manifestation.

```

3372

```

O my Lord Supreme,

What I have for You

Is only a tiny heart of gratitude.

Therefore

Do not expect much from me.

If You expect more from me,

I shall certainly fail You,

And I know You do not deserve that. ```

3373

```

If you want to see

The garden of my heart’s delight,

Then you must make friends

With my Eternity’s only Friend,

God the unconditional Lover.

```

3374

```

God never manufactures hardships

To help us reach Him.

It is we who unconsciously or consciously

Fracture our limbs

In order to draw His compassion.

```

3375

```

Unless I sleeplessly increase

My love-light for God,

He will not grant me

His Infinity’s Nectar-Delight. ```

3376

```

A true seeker

Stands between humanity’s

Utter dissatisfaction

And divinity’s

Shadowless satisfaction.

```

3377

```

If you are afraid

Of the billows of your mind-sea,

God will not grant you

The pillars of His transcendental Palace. ```

3378

```

A true God-lover,

In the beginning of his life,

Realises that what God is

Is Vision.

And then,

When his journey is far advanced,

He realises that what God is

Is Illumination. ```

3379

```

A careless mind

And a fearless heart,

Although immediate neighbours,

Never see eye-to-eye

With each other

On any subject. ```

3380

```

My Lord, do give me

Purity’s moon-heart.

My Lord, do give me

Divinity’s sun-life. ```

3381

```

A prayerful seeker,

A hopeful seeker

And a God-fulfiller

Sail always in the same boat. ```

3382

```

Unless and until

The sovereignty of humanity’s head

Touches the dust

Of divinity’s protection-feet,

Humanity’s pride will remain

As destructive

As a mad, wild elephant.

```

3383

```

The day I realised God’s Compassion

I also realised something else:

My perfection-light

Will never remain a far cry. ```

3384

```

When I concentrate,

God gives me His Power.

When I meditate,

God gives me His Light.

When I contemplate,

God gives me His Oneness-Delight. ```

3385

```

Unless man discovers

The stupidity of his mind,

God is not going to invent

A new illumination-mind for him. ```

3386

```

Your desire-life tells you

What you can do for yourself.

Your aspiration-life tells you

What God is always going to do for you. ```

3387

```

If your soul is endowed

With God’s Vision-Light,

Then your life’s mission

Cannot forever lag behind. ```

3388

```

Ignorance-wildfire surrenders

Only when God unconditionally threatens

The ignorance-fire

Of man’s bygone centuries. ```

3389

```

Since God is utterly sick

Of your old mind,

Can you not show God

The other thing that you have:

A new heart?

```

3390

```

My heart’s satisfaction

Is founded upon

God’s Compassion-Eye.

God’s Compassion-Eye

Is founded upon

The knowable God’s Love

For the unknowable God. ```

3391

```

He who has become

His heart’s obedience-life

Has become the choicest instrument

Of His Beloved Supreme. ```

3392

```

A seeker’s heart

May be helpless today.

But tomorrow

His heart will not only be powerful

But also shadowless.

```

3393

```

Discrimination, discrimination —

This is absolutely necessary

For the evolution

Of the morality-bound life.

But acceptance of everything

In God’s Life

And transformation of everything

In God’s own Way

Is the transcendental Message

Of God’s Absolute Vision. ```

3394

```

His doubting mind

Was wonderstruck

When it saw his heart’s

Devotion-elevator

Reaching the highest height.

```

3395

```

If you are devoted

Only to yourself,

You will definitely become

The champion

Of ignorance-discovery.

```

3396

```

I show my Lord

My face,

And

My Lord shows me

His Tears

On my face. ```

3397

```

The day you allowed

Your gratitude-heart

To be destroyed

Was the day when Heaven

Shed a few silence-tears.

```

3398

```

Success

Does not solve

Any human problem.

Progress

Always does it.

```

3399

```

O my mind,

It is you who overfed my ego.

Why do you not accept the complaints

Against my poor ego? ```

3400

```

In my letter to God

I sent only one short message:

“My Lord, I love You only.”

God immediately sent me

An express telegram:

“I am coming.

I need you badly.”

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From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 34, Agni Press, 1984
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