Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 39

3801

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Try to claim

God’s Smiles

The way He claims

Your tears. ```

3802

```

Something is definitely wrong

With this world.

It does not even recognise

That every day

It suffers from the sharp pinch

Of imperfection. ```

3803

```

Your vital knows

The curse of temptation.

Now you have to know

The height of liberation. ```

3804

```

God does not mind

That He has to raise my blighted mind

As long as I cheerfully offer Him

My mind. ```

3805

```

Never allow

Your depression-vital

To clip your heart’s

Enthusiasm-wings. ```

3806

```

His mind was brave enough

To free his life

From obscurity’s fatal grip.

```

3807

```

If you do not have

Enough aspiration-postage,

Your letters to God

Will always remain undelivered. ```

3808

```

You must defy

Confidently and persistently

The tenebrous suspicion-nights.

```

3809

```

If you have to run,

Which you must,

Then you should run

With God’s earth-inspiring

Perfection-Banner.

```

3810

```

God’s Affection-Light

Every day

Blessingfully and powerfully waters

His heart’s aspiration-plants. ```

3811

```

Drive forward, drive forward!

Your life-car does not need

Reverse gear.

```

3812

```

God triumphantly thrives

On man’s beautifully happy

Smiles.

```

3813

```

If you do not have

A cheerful heart

In your spiritual life,

You will never see

Your soul’s

Birthless and deathless dawn. ```

3814

```

Unload your expectation-elephant

If you want to fly

With your soul’s

Transcendental silence-heights. ```

3815

```

Alas,

Every day I see

A tough tug-of-war

Between my deplorable fate

And God’s immeasurable Grace.

```

3816

```

God really did not want

The human life

To be divided into

Half joy and half sorrow. ```

3817

```

To be perfect

And to be fulfilled,

You must touch God’s Feet

With your hope-heart. ```

3818

```

Wherever he goes,

His heart carries for him

A thousand prayer-flowers.

```

3819

```

Because you love God only,

God is coming

To teach you how to dance

To His Self-transcending Tune. ```

3820

```

You have become

Your life’s lost lustre

Because you are no longer avoiding

Your temptation-thoughts. ```

3821

```

Good can come from bad.

This is a universal experience.

Bad can come from good.

This is an unknowable experience. ```

3822

```

Why is your stupid mind

Afraid to follow?

And why is your wise heart

Afraid to lead? ```

3823

```

The waterfall

Of his aspiration

Has made his life

Into satisfaction-delight

Undreamt of.

```

3824

```

You are stupid!

Therefore

You alone can foolishly try

To force your way

Into God’s Heart.

```

3825

```

The summit

Of his soul

Came down to shake hands

With the climbing heart

Of his life.

```

3826

```

Your self-giving heart

Is God’s

Treasured Experience-Delight.

```

3827

```

Now that he is

A choice instrument of God,

He devotedly hears

When God tiptoes

Across his heart.

```

3828

```

His spiritual heart-machine

Broke down

Even before it was put into operation.

```

3829

```

It is your fault

And not God’s

That your life-flute

Is totally mute. ```

3830

```

Alas,

He started with a dubious mind,

And now, what is worse,

He has become a mischievous mind! ```

3831

```

When God comes into your life,

He brings His Compassion-Chimes

To ring inside

Your aspiration-heart. ```

3832

```

You have all along known

What a vapid mind is.

Now try to know

What a rapid life is. ```

3833

```

O my stupid mind,

When are you going to end

Your stupid conspiracy

Against God’s Compassion-Light? ```

3834

```

By virtue of his aspiration

He has become

His heart’s stupendous

Swiftness-flight. ```

3835

```

On either side of aspiration-road

There are surrender-shops

Where you can purchase

Celestial souvenirs. ```

3836

```

Since God has not fulfilled

Your desires,

Your life has limitless

God-realisation possibilities. ```

3837

```

If you sincerely dig

Deep within,

Your heart’s aspiration-spring

Will not be able to hide

Any more.

```

3838

```

Because of the universality

Of his oneness-heart,

Peace follows him

Wherever he goes. ```

3839

```

You are deserting your heart

To please your mind.

But I tell you,

Your mind will desert you

Before long

And your heart will permanently

And unconditionally

Stay with you. ```

3840

```

You may give up

Your faith-life,

But God will not withdraw

His Concern-Heart. ```

3841

```

You fool!

Why do you want to revive

Your long-dead

Worst doubt-adversaries? ```

3842

```

In secrecy

God has told him

To maintain

His perfection-hunger

All the time.

```

3843

```

You are afraid of dreaming

God’s Dream-Life.

Therefore, God’s Reality-Life

Has no confidence in you. ```

3844

```

Your life is confined

To weakness-wheelchair

Because your mind

Has unconditionally surrendered

To inner world and outer world

Fears. ```

3845

```

Now that you have lost

Your heart’s aspiration-pocket,

Where will you keep

Your soul’s satisfaction-coins? ```

3846

```

God’s Compassion-Fund

Gladly accepts

Anything I want to give,

Including

My heart’s teeming worries

And my mind’s confusing doubts. ```

3847

```

An aspiration-melody

Definitely grows

Into a beautiful realisation-song.

```

3848

```

My happiness-heart proves

That God the Creator

Has real Compassion

For God the creation. ```

3849

```

Before I was born,

God the Vision

Played the Kettledrum

Of Delight.

And now I am playing

The kettledrum

Of self-oblivion.

```

3850

```

There is no such thing

As a sunrise

Of satisfaction-surprise.

There is only a sunrise

Of satisfaction-universality.

```

3851

```

One thing

Unmistakably I have realised:

My gratitude-heart

Is my Eternity’s silence-surrender. ```

3852

```

His hope-life

Loves prayer.

His promise-life

Loves realisation. ```

3853

```

You have received

The realisation-diploma

From God

Not because you have done

Something great for God,

But because God wants to do

Something good for Himself

In and through you. ```

3854

```

He knows that one day

He will see God

Without fail

Because he is

An island of hope.

```

3855

```

Your mind’s secret motives

Are soiling

Your heart’s sacred deeds.

```

3856

```

You have taken God’s side:

You have done the right thing.

You have left the rest:

You have once again done

The right thing.

```

3857

```

To me

World-blame and world-acclaim

Do not have the same meaning,

But have the same value. ```

3858

```

What I constantly need

Is a liberated heart

So that I can be caught

By the transcendental Beauty

Of God.

```

3859

```

Poor fellow,

What can he do?

He does not know

Why and how

His body-shell

Is so tough

And his heart-core

Is softness incarnate. ```

3860

```

I am not sorry,

O my sleeping mind,

That I woke you up,

Never! ```

3861

```

My Lord is ready

To give me another chance

To change my life,

But I do not know

When I am going to accept it.

I really don’t want

To fail any more.

```

3862

```

You lead a life of compromise,

Yet you want God to feed you.

Is it not the height

Of your stupidity? ```

3863

```

Do not hide

Your heart’s inner cry

Behind a false humility-curtain.

```

3864

```

If you beg

Your soul-beauty-Provider,

You will be granted

An abbreviated God-realisation-journey. ```

3865

```

As the purity of the evening

Puts the day’s turmoil to rest,

Even so, the divinity of your soul

Will put your impurity-mind

To eternal sleep.

```

3866

```

If you are

A real human being,

Then you will have

Only one answer to God:

A cheerful YES!

```

3867

```

Three undeniable facts:

Heart devotedly follows faith.

Mind unmistakably follows doubt.

Man helplessly follows death. ```

3868

```

Do you think that God

Does not mind

When you delay your meeting

With Him? ```

3869

```

The only reason

Why he succeeds

Is because he begs

His Inner Pilot to proceed

Ahead of him.

```

3870

```

My realisation-bird smiles

While watching

My inspiration-bird sing

And my aspiration-bird fly. ```

3871

```

If you worship the wrong god,

Why do you expect the right God

To guide your eyes

And lead your life? ```

3872

```

Since God has decided

Not to be deafened

By your insistent demands,

Can you not be wise

Once and for all?

Plead with God

To fulfil your prayers!

```

3873

```

If God gives you

Your merit-medals,

You will be simply shocked

To find

That you merit nothing.

Therefore,

Pray to God to give you

His Credit-Miracles. ```

3874

```

I have asked myself

Many times

What true joy is.

I have now the answer:

True joy

Is my life’s forgotten story. ```

3875

```

Do not say

That you have realised God,

But say

That God is experiencing you

Every day

In an ever-new way. ```

3876

```

Behold,

Your heart of illumination

Is inviting your ailment-life

To take its rescue-remedy! ```

3877

```

My Beloved Lord Supreme

Is leaving His blue-gold Footprints

Inside my aspiration-heart-room.

Therefore, my life of chaos

Will immediately end.

```

3878

```

A life of flattery

Will miserably fail

When it tries to reach

The real heights

Of human life.

```

3879

```

My mind brings me into

A tunnel to darkness.

My heart becomes

A bridge to light. ```

3880

```

As your heart

Is meant for deeper things,

Even so, your mind

Was meant for higher things. ```

3881

```

You can sing

Your life’s liberation-song

If you can keep yourself happy

In the heart

Of your aspiration-cry.

```

3882

```

Your mind is uncluttered.

Therefore

Constantly you feel

That God has

A very special Concern

For your life. ```

3883

```

If you are already

An unwilling prisoner

Of your mind,

Who can force you to be

A willing prisoner?

```

3884

```

Each new day beckons you

To walk on the road

Of self-transcendence.

```

3885

```

A single-minded search

For God

Will liberate you

From your age-long ignorance-dream. ```

3886

```

Secret sins

Eventually become

Open crimes.

```

3887

```

Your life

Must capture time

In time

To live for God alone. ```

3888

```

When his insecurity-insect bites

It bites everyone

With no preference.

```

3889

```

Each day

My Beloved Supreme weeps

Inside my dark and dingy

Mind-cave. ```

3890

```

A scholar is satisfied

Because of everything he knows.

A God-lover is satisfied

Because God knows everything. ```

3891

```

Your heart’s aspiration

Must not wait

For the doubting mind-guard

To fall asleep. ```

3892

```

All my complaints

Turned into gratitude-tears

When my Lord Supreme approached me

With His Smile-flooded Face. ```

3893

```

Nobody admires

Your doubt-rockets.

Everybody not only admires

But also adores

Your heart-boat.

```

3894

```

His suspicion-mind

Has compelled him

To walk along the dark

And dry road

Of misunderstanding.

```

3895

```

My heart creates soulful tears

Only when

I hear my Lord singing

His Self-transcendence-Songs. ```

3896

```

The day I spoke about myself

And not about my Lord Supreme

I became an alien

From Heaven. ```

3897

```

My aspiration-barrenness

Is due to

My conscious entrance

Into frustration-night. ```

3898

```

God secretly won me back.

Now I openly treasure

My oneness-love with God.

```

3899

```

By God’s Grace

Everything is possible.

Insecurity-plants can be transformed

Into powerful security-banyan trees. ```

3900

```

With one Eye open,

God asks the world

To be perfect.

With another Eye open,

God tells the world

That He Himself will do

The work of perfection

For the world. ```

From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 39, Agni Press, 1984
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