Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 60

5901

```

I live every moment

To please God.

God lives every moment

To illumine me. ```

5902

```

Humanity’s failure-cry

Is his partner

In his outer life.

Divinity’s victory-smile

Is his partner

In his inner life.

```

5903

```

Although

Yours is a desire-bound life,

God is inviting you

To sleep in His Compassion-Camp. ```

5904

```

If your heart is truly bleeding

For humanity’s need,

How can you have

Insecurity’s ugly face? ```

5905

```

If you want to discover

Delight-island,

Then be loyal

To your soul’s royalty. ```

5906

```

If you allow your dreams to die,

Then your life

Will run into the arms

Of destruction-night. ```

5907

```

If you have a heart of faith,

Then only can you expect

To have access to perfection-light.

```

5908

```

If you are always in the habit

Of desiring,

Then God cannot keep

His Himalayan Promise

To you.

```

5909

```

If you are unfaithful

In thought,

Your heart will never be able

To arrive at the threshold

Of Heaven.

```

5910

```

Your soulful prayers

And your powerful meditations

Will grant you

The all-seeing wakefulness

Inside sleep.

```

5911

```

To reach your soul’s highest height,

You must long for

A higher universe

Inside the heart of the Unknown. ```

5912

```

He loves one thing

More than anything else

In his life,

And that is the daily majesty

Of his sublime meditations.

```

5913

```

Alas, I did not know

That I would have to suffer so much

From the miseries

Of a doubting mind. ```

5914

```

A heart of faith:

What is it

If not a sleeplessly luminous

Companion? ```

5915

```

If you do not abandon

Your ignorance-thoughts,

Your life will be stranded

Without fail

On ignorance-island.

```

5916

```

Every morning I sing and sing

In God’s Compassion-Choir.

Therefore

God has given me the capacity

To run the fastest

Towards His golden Heart-Temple. ```

5917

```

If you can think

Golden thoughts,

That means already

You have changed the winter weather

Of your mind.

```

5918

```

Right now

You are a fallen god.

But do not give up

Your dear hope.

You will definitely once more become

The fully-risen God. ```

5919

```

You have to voyage

From the familiar to the unfamiliar,

From the known to the Unknown,

From the knowable to the Unknowable.

Indeed,

This is the God-ordained way. ```

5920

```

Make new inner friends:

Purity, humility and divinity

Are waiting for your invitation.

```

5921

```

How can God ever deny

A truth-loving and world-serving soul?

Impossible!

```

5922

```

Today

You are an intruder in the inner world

With your doubting mind.

Tomorrow

You will have to live

Inside the forest of fears. ```

5923

```

Is there anybody on earth

Who will not eventually see

The complete failure

Of the desiring mind? ```

5924

```

His is a mind

Of uncertainty.

His is a life

Of insincerity.

But his heart

Is constantly longing for divinity

And nothing else.

```

5925

```

Do not wait inactively

For progress-light,

Or you will always remain

A deplorable failure. ```

5926

```

A God-lover is he

Who is an explorer

Of God’s Vision-Worlds.

```

5927

```

Each doubt

Is an unmistakable maker

Of humanity’s incurable misery.

```

5928

```

If you are a hero-seeker,

Then you must destroy the pride

Of obstacle-walls

Ahead of you. ```

5929

```

If you think

That you are your own saviour,

Then why do you depend on others

To feed your exorbitant ego-life? ```

5930

```

A stainless thought

Shortens your Heavenward journey

And makes God real

More than ever. ```

5931

```

Nothing divine,

Nothing perfect,

Nothing worthwhile

Can ever be found ready-made. ```

5932

```

Where is the difference

Between your life of hatred

And your mind of desire?

```

5933

```

If you are lost

In your unaspiring past,

Who can give you

Your aspiring present? ```

5934

```

Who am I,

If not a boatman

Whose boat is completely sunk

In the sea of life? ```

5935

```

Do not be in a hurry.

God will definitely

Lengthen your time

If it is needed

For you to please Him

In His own Way. ```

5936

```

If you are not willing

To make the needed soulful effort

Every day,

You will be forced to suffer

Spiritual starvation.

```

5937

```

To be a superlative disciple,

You have to make friends

With faith

In your inner life

And with determination

In your outer life. ```

5938

```

Who says

That the purification of the mind

Is an extremely severe task?

No,

The illumination of the heart

Is infinitely more difficult. ```

5939

```

Every moment is the real time.

Every moment is the real God-Hour.

Every moment God comes

Only to go,

Because of my unwilling receptivity.

```

5940

```

You hate your hope

Because your hope is never fulfilled.

But can you not

Go beyond your hope

And make friends with your heart’s

Climbing flames? ```

5941

```

To cross the borderline

Of imperfection

Is only the privilege

Of the pure. ```

5942

```

Develop heart-power.

Why?

Because the power of the mind

Has now become obsolete. ```

5943

```

Since you are walking

The peace-path,

Your mind will totally forget

That once upon a time

It was overcrowded with dark thoughts.

```

5944

```

Look, look

What God has done for you!

He has unconditionally withdrawn

Your ignorance-death sentence. ```

5945

```

A spark

From the heart’s sacred fire

Can show you the way

To your soul’s eternal peace. ```

5946

```

Is it not unfair of you

To ask God to play

On your untuned life-strings?

```

5947

```

Self-giving

Is an act of God-revelation.

But before that,

A seeker must be on the lookout

For God.

```

5948

```

An impurity-mind

Illegally stays

Inside the heart

Of purity-life. ```

5949

```

The human mind

Wants to know the truth.

The divine heart

Longs to embody

The Possessor of Truth:

God. ```

5950

```

A heart of surrender

Is God’s constant

And cheerful

Responsibility. ```

5951

```

If you do not fulfil

Your outer obligations,

Your inner illumination

Will always remain a far cry. ```

5952

```

You have all along resisted

Temptation.

Therefore

Transformation

Is knocking at your life’s door.

```

5953

```

First become

A seeker-flower,

If you long to become

A God-lover-fruit. ```

5954

```

Only a heart

Of universal oneness

Can be freed

From the permanent ignorance-illness. ```

5955

```

Do you know

That your mind’s doubt-partner

Is trying to destroy

Your heart’s oneness-friend:

Soul?

```

5956

```

If you want to silence

The turbulent waves of your mind,

Then become inseparably one

With the vastness-smile of the sky. ```

5957

```

Patience-light

Is the sleepless breath

Of my self-giving heart

For my Beloved Supreme. ```

5958

```

To talk to God sleeplessly,

Try to open your soul’s door.

If it is an impossible task,

Then open at least

Your heart’s door.

```

5959

```

If God’s Heart can smile

Through every flower,

Can you not have a heart

That can cry with every leaf? ```

5960

```

If you can have

A meditation-expanded life

And an ignorance-liberated heart,

Then you will be able to measure

The heights and depths

Of the Unknowable. ```

5961

```

If you can penetrate your mind

With your soul’s transcendental light,

Then you will be able to answer

The universal question easily:

“Who am I?”

```

5962

```

Because God’s Love-Sun shines

In each and every creation of His,

His Dream-Life is evolving

From mineral to man. ```

5963

```

Because you are a problem-creator,

Your life’s imperfection-crimes

Will never stop.

```

5964

```

When the soul opens

Its all-seeing eye,

The heart desires to be

Its faithful employee. ```

5965

```

The body

Always wants to sleep.

The vital

Always wants to fight.

The mind

Always wants to doubt.

The heart

Always wants to dream.

The soul

Always wants to witness.

The Supreme

Always wants to forgive and illumine. ```

5966

```

If your life is not surcharged

With God’s Compassion-Light,

Then your life will be poisoned

By ignorance-breath. ```

5967

```

A feeble ant-fear:

This is what his desire-life

Has always been.

```

5968

```

Your life’s inner weather

Is always unpredictable

Because of the emotion-storms

Of your tormenting, impure vital. ```

5969

```

He is all happiness

Because of the vision

Of a sweet, hope-filled tomorrow.

```

5970

```

If you do not like

What you do for the world,

Then the beauty, perfection

And satisfaction of tomorrow

Will not knock

At your life’s door. ```

5971

```

Man in man

Is forcefully imprisoned.

God in man

Is cheerfully imprisoned.

Man in God

Enjoys an undeserved freedom.

God in God

Enjoys the Freedom of the Beyond. ```

5972

```

God’s supreme Will

Will lead you

Only after His infinite Compassion

Has decided to keep you

At your transcendental Destination.

```

5973

```

He has kept

His silence-filled mind

Far above the grasp

Of this gossip-world. ```

5974

```

I know it is an impossible task

For you

To cancel your teeming worries.

But you can, at least,

Try to postpone them!

```

5975

```

You have tried today,

And you have failed.

But tomorrow you will not fail,

Because you are now begging God

To try for you.

```

5976

```

If you speak to the world

About your failure

And get more satisfaction

From your failure-life

Than from your success-life,

That means your Inner Pilot

Has completely withdrawn from you.

```

5977

```

You are not asked

To meet God halfway.

You are just asked

To come out of

Your tiny, dark mind-room.

```

5978

```

Will you ever realise

That all your mistakes in life

Will be unmistakably followed

By God’s Forgiveness? ```

5979

```

Nobody can destroy you,

Nobody!

It is you alone

Who have the capacity

To destroy yourself

Through your own self-neglect. ```

5980

```

The Fulness of God’s Heart

Can abide in you

Only when you allow joy to reside

Inside your life-activities. ```

5981

```

You do not belong

To your unfortunate failure-past.

You completely belong

To the happiness of tomorrow’s

Vision-reality.

```

5982

```

A heart of compassion

And a soul of forgiveness

Are by no means

Two unavoidable compromises. ```

5983

```

You may not do the right things

Either in your inner life

Or in your outer life,

But you will be given every opportunity

To succeed in the outer life

And to proceed in the inner life. ```

5984

```

Unless you realise

That your desire-life

Is nothing short of frustration-life,

How can God grant you aspiration-life

To please Him

In His Dream-filled creation? ```

5985

```

God’s Compassion-Delight

Is waiting and waiting

For you to succeed unmistakably

And to proceed unprecedentedly. ```

5986

```

You serve devotedly:

This is your own experience.

You give joy to others:

This is not only your own

But also the universal experience.

```

5987

```

The heart’s simplicity

Shall always succeed

When and where

The mind’s complexity fails. ```

5988

```

Each negative thought

Has the capacity

To destroy immediately

Your life’s happiness-core. ```

5989

```

One God-Call

Can grant a seeker-heart

Fathomless satisfaction-delight.

```

5990

```

When he meditates on earth,

He clearly sees

That Heaven does nothing for him.

When he meditates on Heaven,

He clearly sees

That earth has nothing to tell him.

```

5991

```

Slowly and unmistakably

You are climbing

Your heart’s gratitude-tree.

```

5992

```

As long as fear owns

Your body, vital, mind and heart,

God will not invite you

To stand on His Platform

And speak.

```

5993

```

Your doubt-balloon has burst.

Therefore

God is granting you

The Breath of His Nectar-Love. ```

5994

```

I always cheerfully accept

The decree of my conscience-pilot

To save my mind

From doubt-catastrophes. ```

5995

```

You do not know how to quit;

Therefore, I admire you.

Your mind does not know how to doubt;

Therefore, I admire your mind.

Your heart does not know how to fear;

Therefore, I admire your heart

Far beyond your imagination-light.

```

5996

```

You have aspiration,

And this aspiration

Is nothing short of

God’s Confidence-Delight

In you.

```

5997

```

Unless you have secured your place

In the sacred temple of timeless time,

How will you appreciate

The Silence-Vision and sound-creation

Of God?

```

5998

```

No matter how fleeting

Your smile is,

Your smile is the very beginning

Of your wisdom-light. ```

5999

```

There is a special place

For your heart-confidence to glow,

And that special place

Is in the silence-cry

Of your meditation-mountain.

```

6000

```

Courage powerfully grows,

Love soulfully grows,

Gratitude amazingly grows

When you share them

With the rest of the world.

```

From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 60, Agni Press, 1984
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