Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 57

5601

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In my life of surrender,

Each step of my inner running

And each step of my outer running

I am offering, offering, offering

To my Lord Supreme.

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5602

```

When the physical consciousness

Is radiating the soul’s light,

The vital and mind may become jealous.

But ultimately they will surrender,

And also turn to the soul.

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5603

```

Seeing the heart

Flooded with the soul’s light,

The mind cursed itself:

“Oh, why am I so stupid!

Why do I not visit my soul

Every day?” ```

5604

```

In this world we kill ourselves

All for outer success.

But there is another world

Where our happiness

Does not depend on outer results.

```

5605

```

Impossibility is a mere word.

Such being the case,

Impossibility must surrender,

And it does surrender,

To the seeker’s completely devoted oneness

With the Will of his Beloved Supreme. ```

5606

```

Is your heart crying

To inspire others?

Then immediately start

Making tremendous progress

And creating stupendous improvement

In your own life.

Others are bound to see

A new radiance on your face

And obey you unconditionally.

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5607

```

The heart’s intensity

Immediately becomes one

With God’s Music.

But the dictator-mind

Wants to show off and prove

That it can have the same intensity

In a negative way

By destroying the heart’s

Inner peace and delight.

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5608

```

O seeker,

How can you even think of leaving

The Supreme’s Golden Boat

After staying so long

In your heart’s only home?

```

5609

```

To be a God-dreamer

What you need

Is a God-lover’s heart

And a man-server’s life. ```

5610

```

Take a close look at yourself.

Your heart has travelled

Miles and miles

For a blessingful Smile from God. ```

5611

```

Before God grants you

Your liberation,

You will have to pass

His purity-inspection. ```

5612

```

God does not care for

Your millions of thoughts

And your millionaire-mind.

He cares only for

Your beauty’s life

And your purity-heart. ```

5613

```

Where are the world’s peace-leaders?

They are all inside your hearts.

They are begging your minds

To open their doors

And keep them wide open

For God the man and man the God

To sport together.

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5614

```

What can God’s Compassion do?

It can easily end

Your doubt-decade

And help you begin

Your aspiration-era.

```

5615

```

God’s omniscient Eye

Will guide you

Provided your aspiration-heart

Is not afraid

Of His omnipotent Hand.

```

5616

```

It is always

Inside your ancient heart

That you can have

An ever-new harvest. ```

5617

```

The outer day

Belongs to his devotion.

Therefore

He is divinely good.

The inner day

Belongs to his surrender.

Therefore

He is supremely perfect. ```

5618

```

To aspire

For God’s infinite Compassion-Light

Is to learn

The practicality-lesson

In God’s inner School.

```

5619

```

How can you ask God

To measure His Height

With an earthly measuring tape?

How can you?

And why should you?

```

5620

```

God does not want to know

His own Height.

He just sings the Song

Of Self-Transcendence. ```

5621

```

Now that you are

Spiritually awake,

You, and nobody else,

Will carry the Banner

Of the Lord Supreme.

```

5622

```

Along with sincerity

Something else is needed

To take you to your goal

Faster than the fastest,

And the name of that something

Is intensity. ```

5623

```

Let at least one member

Of your inner family

Listen all the time to the soul.

Its progress, happiness and satisfaction

Will immediately inspire

The other members to follow. ```

5624

```

What an unfortunate seeker!

Not even one member

Of his inner family

Is fully convinced

That the soul is always right —

No, not even his heart! ```

5625

```

My Lord Supreme,

I am aspiring to do something good.

Will You approve it, please?

My Lord Supreme,

I am desiring to do something bad.

Will You forgive me, please?

```

5626

```

My Supreme Lord,

You are the Origin of everything.

Therefore

Ultimately, nothing can take place

Except through Your Will.

“True, My child, true.

But some things I approve of,

While others I only tolerate.”

```

5627

```

Before the race

They are all surrender.

They are praying for God’s Victory.

But during the race

And after the race

They are thinking of

Nothing but their own victory!

I do not want you

To be in their company.

```

5628

```

The cosmic gods and goddesses

Do not have to learn songs

By heart.

They just allow their divine capacity

Spontaneously to sing.

```

5629

```

In my highest consciousness

No disturbance can breathe.

I can forgive the whole world.

I can even forgive myself,

For there I am

In God’s Eternity. ```

5630

```

The undivine may have won

An immediate victory,

But the ultimate Victory

Will always belong to God. ```

5631

```

An inner defeat:

A great seeker has fallen

And lost his progress-chance

For this entire lifetime.

An inner victory:

The same seeker may return

To earth

With renewed aspiration

And more powerfully proceed

To a higher level than before. ```

5632

```

If you can take everything

As God’s Blessing,

Rest assured, you will always remain

At your highest height. ```

5633

```

O purity, I love you,

For when you come forward

You create

Beauty’s oneness

And divinity’s fulness.

```

5634

```

How to conquer fear?

With oneness within

And oneness without.

In oneness-light

There can be no fear.

```

5635

```

O purity,

By the very sound of your name

Anything that is attacking me

Is weakened

And my own good qualities

Come to the fore. ```

5636

```

Look around!

You will see so many things

To do for the world.

Dive deep within!

You will not only see

But also at once do

Many things for God. ```

5637

```

In the world of aspiration

There are many roads,

But all the roads

Lead to the same Goal:

God, the Absolute Supreme.

```

5638

```

The music of the heart,

The beauty of the soul

And the Divinity of God

Are inseparable.

This secret and sacred truth

Reveals itself

To the seeker-lovers of music.

```

5639

```

Through each good action

I am carrying myself

Slowly but unmistakably

Towards my eternal Destination:

The Golden Shore of the Beyond.

```

5640

```

Everything has to be done

On the basis of surrender.

Whatever we may do

Without surrender

Will remain utterly meaningless.

```

5641

```

When I surrender my finite existence

To the infinite Consciousness,

Then my surrender is perfect,

For my lowest is surrendering

To my highest.

```

5642

```

When I sing,

I know that I am singing

For the Supreme Singer.

When I play music,

I know that I am becoming one

With God the Supreme Musician.

```

5643

```

You have a stubborn mind.

This is what I see.

You have an unborn heart.

This is also what I see. ```

5644

```

When the seeker surrenders,

Then only

He becomes one with the Reality

He has been longing to reach. ```

5645

```

Over the years

He has totally lost

His intense aspiration-flame.

But his own inmost sincerity

Still has the power

Once more to bring to the fore

The soulful inspiration and aspiration

That once upon a time

Started his spiritual journey.

```

5646

```

He had an infallible vision:

The cosmic goddesses

Were so deeply moved

By the seekers’ soulful singing

That they came and joined

The singers

And most powerfully sang

In and through their human voices. ```

5647

```

I assure you,

Unlike the outer world,

The inner world is not asleep.

The inner world only watches and waits

For a little receptivity

From the outer world

So that it can pour and pour into it

Its unreserved blessings and love. ```

5648

```

Once upon a time

You used to defeat ignorance-prince.

But now you are practising

Your surrender to ignorance.

Do you really think

That this kind of surrender

Is what your Beloved Supreme

Wanted from you? ```

5649

```

Alas,

Where is my true

Aspiration-life?

Alas, alas,

When will I again

Pray and meditate

With my heart’s utmost intensity?

```

5650

```

O God-musician!

You are creating

An absolutely new world.

You are adding so much

Divine beauty and supreme majesty

To God’s worlds of aspiration,

Dedication and manifestation.

Perhaps God only

Appreciates you adequately.

```

5651

```

What else

Is my tremendous achievement,

O my Lord Supreme,

If not the manifestation

Of Your own supremely unparalleled

Compassion-Capacity? ```

5652

```

Revive your old spiritual grandeur!

Even if your stone-heart

Does not feel it,

Your eyes are bound to see

That others are now lifting the burden

That once upon a time

You devotedly carried

For your Lord Supreme. ```

5653

```

To have intensity

Without sincerity

Is like trying to reach

The Highest

By hook or by crook.

Success is just impossible. ```

5654

```

You think that at the last moment

You will win the race.

But I am telling you,

Without tremendous inner intensity

How can you be sure

That you will even finish the race? ```

5655

```

When your Master gives you

A private interview,

Remember that you are

Face to face

With God’s own personal representative.

```

5656

```

In your deep meditation

All is oneness.

Never allow division

Even to start,

Or soon it will take you

To the utter frustration

Of separativity-consciousness.

```

5657

```

An undivine force came to attack.

It stood right in front of him!

But he challenged it

And conquered it

By invoking purity and light

From his Master

And from his own soul.

```

5658

```

Before you go to sleep,

Do not forget to ask

For your Lord’s Protection.

If your consciousness is high,

You will not have to worry

About unwanted nightmare-friends. ```

5659

```

You are trying to fight with God.

But where is your capacity

And where is God’s Capacity?

At the right moment

He will simply change your mind.

His Compassion-Light

Will be your Satisfaction-Delight.

```

5660

```

My Lord,

You have entered into my heart

And made me feel

That we are all brothers and sisters

Of one world-family.

Now do enter into my mind

So it will act like the heart,

And I will not be able

To hurt others.

```

5661

```

I am grateful to you,

My Master-Lord,

For when I cannot hear

My inner voice,

Your outer messages

Carry the voice of my own soul. ```

5662

```

Easily you can hear

The voice of your Master.

Is his voice not inside

His books?

Is his voice not inside

His meditation? ```

5663

```

O my body,

Do not suspect the soul,

Which has glowing faith in you

And infinite patience with you.

O my body,

Once you have full faith

In the soul,

You will no longer need the help

Of the vital, the mind

Or even the heart.

You will have your own free access

To the soul. ```

5664

```

True, there was a time

When the mind and the vital

Were bitter rivals.

But now that their past rivalries

Are buried in oblivion,

Can they not become fellow travellers

In the search for God?

```

5665

```

When he bragged about his past,

Some believed it and got inspiration

To become truly good.

If the result was nothing but truth,

Then who can say it was wrong

For him to tell lies? ```

5666

```

The world is ruled

By human opinion.

Even one opinion

Has the strength

To divide the entire world.

```

5667

```

O lethargy-prone seeker,

Spirituality you are separating

From your body, vital and mind.

But do not forget the Vedic times

When spiritual strength

And physical strength went together.

Once again

Spirituality has to be

In the physical and for the physical.

```

5668

```

How I wish my heart

To remain always

Under the control of my soul,

So that every day my inspiration

Can soar beyond my belief,

And never will my service-offering

Become mechanical.

```

5669

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Insincere seekers

Will ask countless questions.

But those who soulfully hunger

For the Master’s illumination

In silence only receive and receive.

```

5670

```

To those who work very, very hard

In any field of life,

God will eventually give inner experiences —

Unimaginable and undeserved —

To tell them:

“Do not halt!

Do not stop here!

There is something infinitely higher,

Far beyond your present life.”

```

5671

```

You are working for name and fame

With the expectation

That they will make you

Outwardly happy.

He is praying and meditating

Without any expectation,

And he is already receiving

Abundant inner joy. ```

5672

```

His unprecedented adventures

Offer tremendous confidence

To his seeker-brothers and sisters.

Why?

Because his great achievements

Are for his Beloved Supreme alone,

And for nobody else.

```

5673

```

Right now we have to start,

Although insincerity is mixed

With our sincerity.

Eventually we will have pure sincerity

And ultimately we shall proceed

From illumining light

To more illumining light.

Right now we have to start. ```

5674

```

The child believed

That his thief-father was a saint.

So right from the beginning

The son became good

And remained good,

Leading a saintly life

As he thought his father had.

```

5675

```

Your Master’s voice

Is inside your heart,

For your soul and your Master

Are always together. ```

5676

```

I come from the Hindu family,

And perhaps you come from

The Christian family.

Although we live

In two different houses,

We can always come together

To share our ideas and ideals,

For together

We will be of greater service

To aspiring mankind. ```

5677

```

God the Omnipotent

Created this universe.

Will He allow you or me

Or even the most hostile force

To destroy it?

Absurd! ```

5678

```

God the Creator,

With His infinite Vision,

His infinite Light and Delight,

Has created us.

We are part of His universe.

This universe is His

Dream-Reality’s Satisfaction-Delight.

```

5679

```

How to minimise the strength

Of a hostile force?

Ignore it totally!

Feel that it is only a monkey

That is pinching and biting you.

Immediately you will be able

To reduce its strength considerably.

```

5680

```

You say that the hostile forces

Have caused an atomic explosion

In the inner world.

But I say it was only a needle

That dropped to the ground.

I tell you, those undivine forces

Stand helpless before the Supreme in me.

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5681

```

When I pray and meditate,

When I soulfully sing

And even when I devotedly run,

I am following promise-roads

Taking me to my soul’s eternal Home.

```

5682

```

What else are a seeker’s

Personal experiences

If not a solid reality

To help him

In his life of aspiration

And to lead him

To his Eternity’s Beloved Supreme?

```

5683

```

What you are

Is your heart’s unknown capacity.

Someday you will be able

To use this capacity

To uncover your mind

And discover your God. ```

5684

```

My Lord, please tell me,

Have I ever expressed

Real gratitude to You?

“My child, certainly you have!

Just remember the first time

You ever meditated with Me.

That was the first time

Of many.” ```

5685

```

When God sends for you,

Why do allow your mind

To carry your body away

Fast, very fast? ```

5686

```

Do not forget

Your final prayer:

God-Satisfaction

And your perfection

Must dine together.

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5687

```

If you allow your mind

To enjoy endless questions,

Then you will be doomed to live

In a fathomless cave. ```

5688

```

When he saw his previous height

He laughed and laughed,

For when he tried to measure it,

He realised that

It was lower than the lowest.

```

5689

```

God’s Concern-Branches

Are for your searching mind.

God’s Compassion-Tree

Is for your aspiration-heart.

God’s Blessing-Fruit

Is for your surrender-life. ```

5690

```

Begin again and again

If you really want to win

God’s Satisfaction-Heart again.

```

5691

```

God’s infinite Compassion-Light

Took full responsibility

For the breakdown

Of his useless computer-mind. ```

5692

```

If you cannot carry the message

Of surrender-light

Inside your surrender-heart,

Then God will not grant you

The purity-insurance

Against world-temptation. ```

5693

```

Once you have taken up

The spiritual life,

Do not give up!

If you give up,

The unnourished aspiration-heart

In you

Will be swept away

On a river of tears. ```

5694

```

Study with your heart-tutor.

Your mind’s desire-waves

Will not be able to disturb

Your life’s powerful poise. ```

5695

```

Your heart’s perfection-step

Will, without fail,

Avoid the life-capturing trap.

```

5696

```

God secretly laughs

At His own creation,

But openly and lovingly

He tells us to smile

At His creation.

```

5697

```

When are you going to realise

That your godless life

Has definitely become a helpless raft

In the vast ignorance-sea? ```

5698

```

Because you have become

The world’s aspiration-tree,

God will grant you

His Vision’s realisation-fruit. ```

5699

```

It is almost an impossible task

For the human mind to arrive

At the self-discipline-harbour

With its cherished bondage-cargo. ```

5700

```

Do not ask when

You will achieve God’s Height.

You have already achieved it

On the strength of your oneness

With Him.

Just believe it,

That’s all!

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From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 57, Agni Press, 1984
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