A true God-lover is he
Who every day celebratesGod’s Compassion-Victory
In his life. ```God told you
You are an unrevealed God.You believed Him not.
ThereforeBoth you and God
Are suffering. ```Alas, is it my fate
That God-days slip awayWhile I remain
In ignorance-sleep? ```Your heart brought
A very short-term aspirationTo God.
And now it wantsFrom God
A very long-term satisfaction! ```When the age of reason ends,
The heart of peaceWill inundate the entire world.
```His heart is trying
To do the impossible:In one stroke
To transformThe world’s long history of hatred
With its oneness-song. ```God is faithful
To your heart.Ask yourself if you are truthful
In your life. ```Now that you have unchained
Your earthly dreams,God will give you
His Heavenly Visions to treasure. ```Unless you become
An unobstructed flood of self-offering,God will forget to remember
Your heart’s inner name. ```You live in fear-apartment house.
Therefore, your life has becomeYour heart’s burning teardrops.
```Alas, God won his heart
For five fleeting seconds,Only to lose it
For an entire incarnation. ```What you need
Is an ancient eyeAnd a modern heart
To see and appreciateGod’s Beauty.
```After a long time,
Today he has learnt to levitateFrom his disproportionately heavy
Lethargy-life. ```Unless you become
Your heart’s friend,How can God make you
His friend? ```God came
To take away my fears.I gave,
And also cleverly addedMy ceaseless tears.
```Doubt-earthquakes
Have destroyed your life-towerBecause you have not dug
The surrender-canalFor God’s Love-Boat.
```When you have offered
Your service to God,How is it
That you have sent a billFor your service?
```In your inner life
It is good to eatAt least one thing:
Hope-bread. ```The world’s
Nightmare-complexityIs a self-perpetuating
Ignorance-show. ```You can easily outsmart
The cynics.Just show them openly
What you have:Your satisfaction-heart.
```Earthly satisfaction
In any walk of lifeHas always been
A truly transient reward. ```Earth
Is my long imperfection-snareAnd Heaven
Is my long-forgotten home. ```If you do not have
The God-nearness-need,Why should God come to you
To feed your inner heartOr outer need?
```What is surrender-light
If not giving GodYour earthly all
And Heavenly all? ```Because you were a fool,
You did not evictYour mind
From your heart-apartment. ```You will always be buffeted
By gusts of insecurityBecause you did not accept
God’s blessingful InvitationTo come to His Palace.
```What can you possibly expect
From your mindWhich is already so fat
With indulgence-thoughts? ```Yesterday
It was you who wantedTo keep your life-schedule empty.
TodayIt is you again
Who are ready to lieIn your ingratitude-grave.
```My Beloved Supreme,
How can my heart surviveYour powerful displeasure?
Do turn my life intoYour Oneness-Song.
```If you want to work
In an aura of love,Then invite your soul
Every morningTo enlighten your mind.
```You will be able
To care for GodOnly if you every day take
Aspiration-strength-vitamins. ```If you are a genuine God-lover,
Then every day you must celebrateGod’s Compassion
In your aspiration-dedication-life. ```Without believing
What God tells you to do,How can you tell the world
That you know who God is? ```What is meditation
If not Eternity’s infinite creationIn man for God?
```You are an alien from Heaven
Not becauseYou do not pray and meditate
But becauseYou do not believe
In others’ prayer and meditation. ```My Lord Supreme,
My songs create tearsIn Your Heart
And Your Songs create smilesIn my life.
```God tells him,
“Please pay more attentionTo Me in My children,
And not the other way around.” ```Every day he enjoys
A most special meal:God’s Forgiveness-Delight.
```When madness becomes
Your life’s only enemy,Sadness becomes
Your soul’s only enemy. ```Never become lost
In your unaspiring past.Do not become tired of knocking
At your heart’s new door. ```I do not want to see myself
As I actually am.I want to see myself
Exactly the wayMy Beloved Supreme sees me.
```How can it be possible
For a mind-seekerTo learn the dance
Of a God-lover? ```Do not cry, do not cry!
God has already given youHis Life’s Compassion-Heart.
```You are not tired
Of sleepingAnd God is not tired
Of knockingAt your heart’s door.
```He who wants to manifest God
At times feelsThat Eternity is too short.
```God wants you to be a spectator
In His Cosmic Game,But for that you must show God
What you have:Your heart’s surrender-smile.
```He tells God,
“God, pay more attention to me.”God tells him,
“My son, show more affection to Me.” ```You gave up praying and meditating.
Therefore, today you haveAn expired aspiration-passport.
```My Lord Supreme,
I shall definitely be able to surviveYour Anger-Eye.
But I shall not be able to surviveYour Sorrow-Heart.
```Countless rivals are there
For God’s boundless Affection.But is there anybody
Who is for God’sUnconditional manifestation?
```You are such a fool!
You want to knowGod’s estimated time of arrival.
Do you not seeThat God has already arrived?
```If ever a deplorable fight takes place
Between earth’s helpless criesAnd Heaven’s indifferent frowns,
I am sure God will helpEarth’s helpless cries
To best Heaven’s indifferent frowns. ```A true hospital
Gladly welcomes the suffering world.A true doctor
Immediately heals the suffering world.A true nurse
Inseparably becomes one withThe suffering world.
```How can God teach you
His God-DanceIf your heart does not feel
The necessityTo bleed for humanity’s need?
```I can never separate
Your desire-bound lifeFrom your heart’s
Ingratitude-grave. ```Now that you have abandoned
Your obscure thought-world,God’s Sea of Peace will embrace you
With the swiftness of a thunderbolt. ```Even though you are a prey
To impurity,Do not forget to sleep
In God’s Compassion-CampEvery night.
```Do not wait for the inner storm
To subside.It will never subside on its own,
Never! ```Only if you pray
In the small hours of the morning,Will you be able to see
The morning sun’s victory-delight. ```God’s Love
Has grasped his heart.God’s Compassion
Has grasped his eye.God’s Satisfaction
Has grasped his life. ```He is always looking —
Looking for more sincerity,More humility
And more dedicationIn his life of aspiration.
```What can meditation do?
It can stop the final victoryOf sorrow.
```If you prolong
The animal in your human life,Then you are bound to delay
The divine in your human life. ```Give what you have
And what you are.Then you will be blessed
With new morningsIn new worlds.
```Can you not see
That you are imprisonedBy your desire-worlds
For your constant dissatisfaction? ```Only the seekers
Of the infinite TruthWill be blessed with the birth
Of a universal oneness-life. ```God has always been taking
Good care of my heart.Now I am trying to take
Good care of the dustOf His Feet.
```How do you expect to get
From meMy kindly affection
With your artificial aspiration? ```You will always be crippled
By incapacityUnless divinity
Is your first and foremost choice. ```Yes, God gets angry.
Do you know why?Because your mind is not hungry
For His Love and Oneness-Life. ```The world’s temptation-tricks
Are too swiftFor man’s eye to catch.
```Your earthly years are not led
By your Heavenly wisdom-sun.Therefore
How can God give youA spotless surrender-satisfaction?
```God is more than willing
To pay an exorbitant rentProvided you give Him sole occupancy
Of your purity’s heart-room. ```Any self-transcendence-attempt
Will enable the seekerTo go beyond the circle
Of birth and death. ```Each human being
Is swept away by his thought-waves.Therefore, how can God’s
Peace-Promise on earthBe fulfilled?
```He is always ready to feed
Your God-nearness-longingAnd to illumine your aspiration-heart
And dedication-life. ```How is it possible
That your aspiration-heartCould not hear
God’s courier’s courage-call? ```If you become
Your inspiration’s dedication-life,Then your satisfaction-soul
Cannot remain a far cry. ```How can you be happy
Unless you dailyExamine and perfect
Your heart’s aspiration-life? ```To withstand ignorance-attack,
I have removedAll my old attachment-furniture
From my mind-room. ```The instigation-boldness
Of your vitalAnd the hesitation-art
Of your mindHave paralysed your aspiration-heart.
```The latest arrival
At Heaven’s gateIs my life’s
Gratitude-heart. ```I can clearly see
That you have grown intoYour mind’s clever capacity
To confuse your fellow travellersIn the spiritual life.
```God is examining everyone.
Do not laugh!You may be next!
```Today I have discovered
Something most special;Today I have discovered
Something unique:God loves me infinitely more
Than I can ever love myself. ```He who does not aspire soulfully
May make a serious blunder.His mind may mistake psychic ecstasy
For vital lunacy. ```There is no last chance
And no last hopeFor you to see your soul’s
Most familiar eye and face. ```When I look at him
I see only one thing:The same old familiar
Aspiration-heart.When I look at you
I see only one thing:The same old barren
Desire-face. ```If you live inside your heart
For your soul,Then for you to arrive at your goal
Will not be a difficult task. ```He lives in God’s
Forgiveness-Sun.God lives in his
Surrender-sky. ```If sadness
Is your only enemy,Then why do you not ask
OnenessTo be your only friend?
```If you are already an awakened soul,
Then you must realiseThat God has already given you
A supreme task to perform:He wants you to work
For His Vision’s world-blossoms. ```What my heart sleeplessly needs
Is my soul’sSleepless, tranquil faith
In my Beloved Supreme. ```If you want to be
God’s Compassion-Song,Turn your life into
Your heart’s aspiration-cries. ```God does not mind
When you do not believe Him,But He feels that someday
It will be a difficult taskFor Him to console you.
```If you have a vital
Which is a hotbed of desire,How can you free yourself
From lifelong agony? ```Does your mind ever tell you
That misfortune pursues youPrecisely because
Every day you drinkFrom desire-cup?
```His is a birthless
And deathless searchFor a nation of God-lovers.
```Now that your aspiration-life
Shuns jealousy’s ugly face,You can easily discover
Your soul’s delight-island. ```My dedication-life
Needs the swiftness of a deerTo run at top speed.
My aspiration-life
Needs the soulfulness of a childTo run faster than the fastest.
```From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 58, Agni Press, 1984
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