Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 65

6401

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O my soul,

O my Eternity’s friend,

Please, please give me a hint:

Who am I?

What am I?

```

6402

```

My soul is always right

When it talks about oneness-delight.

My heart is always right

When it talks about love-light.

My mind is always wrong

When it talks about others’ confusion.

My vital is always wrong

When it talks about others’ destruction. ```

6403

```

What I see in you

Is a sea of fear.

What you see in me

Is a sea of doubt.

What can we do?

We must free ourselves

From the earth-bound desire-life

To free ourselves

From teeming doubts and teeming fears.

```

6404

```

Because you are suffering

From the insecurity-illness,

You will not be able to enjoy

The beauty of progress-light. ```

6405

```

Even God the Compassion

Does not want to guide

The unwilling.

```

6406

```

Wherever I go,

My soul’s reality-friend

And my heart’s dream-friend

Accompany me. ```

6407

```

The disputes of clever minds

Can never be solved

Even by wise hearts,

For clever minds

Never, never want to be illumined

By the light of the heart. ```

6408

```

Do you want to relay

God’s Message?

Then You must always live

In God’s all-loving

Compassion-Eye.

```

6409

```

At long last

Your passport to ignorance-land

Has expired.

Therefore, my pride in you

And God’s Confidence in you

Will remain forever unparalleled. ```

6410

```

Live in the delight

Of the soul.

You will not be able to hear

Death’s call. ```

6411

```

The insecurity-mind

And the jealousy-vital

Are extremely fond of each other.

They have developed

An inseparable friendship.

```

6412

```

I can never catch my Lord Supreme

Withdrawing

From His Compassion-Eye

And His Forgiveness-Heart. ```

6413

```

If you mistake ignorance

For innocence,

Then how can you expect God

To present you

With His celestial Awards?

```

6414

```

Although your earth-bound life

Has an indolent body,

Do not forget

That your Heaven-free life

Has a redolent soul.

```

6415

```

Heaven wants to open

A Satisfaction-Branch

Here

On this dissatisfaction-earth. ```

6416

```

Each breath asks me

The same question:

Will I ever be able to please God

Unconditionally

In His own Way?

```

6417

```

Unless and until you move

Out of the doubt-neighbourhood,

God will not appear

Before you

And will not introduce Himself

To you. ```

6418

```

When your uncomely thought-waves

Subside,

Yours will be the life

Of a fruitful God-lover

And Heaven-messenger.

```

6419

```

Self-pity and its ancient tears

Can never be successful

In opening the door

Of satisfaction-delight. ```

6420

```

In vain

He tries and cries

And cries and tries

To be touched

By the sunset-smile of peace.

Why does he fail?

He fails because

He deliberately ignores

The heart’s sunrise-cries.

```

6421

```

There is a great similarity

Between you and God.

Both of you are sleepless

Hope-distributors. ```

6422

```

If you are participating

In the surrender-drama,

Then you may try

To play the role

Of your heart’s gratitude-tears.

```

6423

```

God does not want

His Vision’s Delight-Book

To be edited by human hands.

```

6424

```

Your mind’s jealousy-glance

Is responsible for the injury

Of your oneness-heart.

```

6425

```

God will forgive me

Only on one condition:

If my heart’s oneness-love

Is always ready

To increase and proceed.

```

6426

```

You stretch your leg muscles

To give you joy.

Can you not start stretching

Your heart-muscles

To give God joy?

```

6427

```

Conviction you have.

But this conviction

Is not being manifested.

For that, what you need

Is sleepless soul-force.

```

6428

```

Just run the fastest!

If you get tired,

You can slow down your pace.

But if you hesitate

At the beginning of the inner race,

You will feel exhausted

Even before you start.

```

6429

```

Your aim

Is to reach the Himalayas.

But right now if you say

That your aim is only to remain

At the foot of the Himalayas,

You will lose your vision’s height.

You will be satisfied instead

By staying inside a tiny cave

And looking at the Himalayas

From afar. ```

6430

```

In the spiritual life

Nothing is as important

As enthusiasm.

When one loses one’s enthusiasm,

One loses everything.

```

6431

```

He is really something!

He has learnt the supreme secret

Of tirelessly working

For the divine manifestation

Without receiving or demanding

Any outer recognition. ```

6432

```

Yesterday he said

You were bad,

For he saw all darkness

In your face.

But today he is saying

You are good,

For he is seeing your face

Flooded with sunshine. ```

6433

```

Some people get a bad start,

But then they run the fastest

And win the race.

Some have an excellent start,

But then they lose enthusiasm.

Who knows if they will ever

Finish the race?

```

6434

```

When God is displeased with you,

Take it as an opportunity

To run faster.

When God is sincerely pleased

With you,

Take this, too, as a golden opportunity

To run faster than the fastest

And win the Godward race. ```

6435

```

If I love earth’s suffering

And have established my oneness

With earth’s suffering,

Then my slowest race

Will be my best achievement.

If I love Heaven’s delight

And have established my oneness

With Heaven’s delight,

Then my fastest race

Will be my best achievement.

```

6436

```

Unless and until

Everything is manifested

On the physical plane,

The transformation of human nature

Will not be complete.

```

6437

```

My earth-bound life

Is fleeting.

But inside me is another life —

My Heaven-free life —

And that Heaven-free life

Is immortal. ```

6438

```

The Immortal in me

Is my God.

The Infinite in me

Is my God.

The Eternal in me

Is my God. ```

6439

```

Where

Is my happiness?

It is inside my peace

And nowhere else. ```

6440

```

Satisfaction

Is founded upon oneness.

If you stand first in the race,

On the strength of my oneness,

I will feel

That I have done it. ```

6441

```

Because he meditated

In the past,

Now he has only to revise

The meditation-book

That once he knew so well.

```

6442

```

You want to acquire power?

Then be like an arrow

And pierce the object

Of your concentration

Sooner than at once.

```

6443

```

If you want to feed

The peace-starving humanity,

Carry only one thing with you:

A purity-heart. ```

6444

```

What do I see in my meditation?

In my meditation I see

A larger-than-the-largest

Ocean of peace

And blue-vast sky

Inside my tinier-than-the-tiniest

Heart.

```

6445

```

My Lord,

Do sanctify my aspiration-heart,

Do purify my desire-mind,

So that You can fulfil Yourself

In and through me

And also be supremely proud of me. ```

6446

```

There was a time

When I wanted name and fame.

That was my human desire.

But now

I want only to manifest God

In His own Way.

Indeed, this is my divine aspiration.

```

6447

```

Peace means satisfaction —

Satisfaction through prayer,

Through meditation

Or through surrender

To God’s Will.

```

6448

```

In the outer life

You make great sacrifices

To build a perfect temple.

Similarly, in the inner life

You can offer daily

Your inspiration, aspiration and dedication

To make your body

A perfect temple of the Supreme. ```

6449

```

There was a time

When I lived

Inside my Lord’s Compassion-Eye.

But now I live

Inside my Lord’s Forgiveness-Heart.

```

6450

```

God’s Compassion ruled my life.

Therefore, I lived.

God’s Love rules my life.

Therefore, I am alive. ```

6451

```

You cannot hurry God.

He has His own Dreams.

He has His own choice Hour.

```

6452

```

A man with no dreams

Will have difficulty

In gaining victory

Over his human life. ```

6453

```

How can it ever be possible

To forget the God

Whom you claim to love sleeplessly?

```

6454

```

Your old mind and vital-roads

Have disappointed you.

Can you not try a new road,

Your heart-road,

To satisfy yourself?

```

6455

```

Why did you make

Such a dangerous decision?

Who asked you to sign

A life-long contract

With ignorance-night?

```

6456

```

Your earth-bound life

Is no longer in wild disorder,

For God has granted you

A silent midnight talk

With Him.

```

6457

```

Doubt-floods have washed away

Your success-trees.

Fear-floods have washed away

Your progress-plants. ```

6458

```

Peace

Is not only the whole truth,

But the only truth

That can satisfy God

In His own Way.

```

6459

```

Every day, every hour,

I soulfully salute

The Captain of my heart

So that He will make my life

A choice instrument of His.

```

6460

```

If you walk the streets of Eternity,

Then the smiles of Infinity

Cannot remain a far cry.

```

6461

```

The mind is aware

Of only one thing:

The frightening distance to God.

The heart is conscious

Of only one thing:

The nearing distance to God.

```

6462

```

You already have

A listening ear.

Therefore

God will before long grant you

A glistening heart.

```

6463

```

When each man longs to live

In his happiness-house,

God grants him

His Immortality’s Oneness-Home. ```

6464

```

No failure is final,

For God’s Compassion-Heart

Hears each failure-sigh.

```

6465

```

If you dare to dream,

Then there shall come a time

When your life will be

Happy and perfect. ```

6466

```

You were born beautiful.

Now can you not make your life

Supremely peaceful?

```

6467

```

If you delay

In your perfection-search,

God will never invite you

To join in His Satisfaction-March. ```

6468

```

Now that your heart-songs

Have reached God’s listening Ears,

God will definitely tell you

Why you have chosen this earth-planet. ```

6469

```

Dispel

The darkness of ignorance

To hear

Truth’s clarion call. ```

6470

```

If your heart longs

Only for the real,

Then you will be able to survive

All your mind’s impurity-attacks. ```

6471

```

Widen your outer life,

If you want to enlighten

Your inner heart.

```

6472

```

He met his long-forgotten Friend,

God,

Deep in the embrace of Peace.

```

6473

```

Why do you still cherish

Your teeming doubts?

Do you not see

That they have put out

Your vision-light

And now you are blind,

Completely blind?

```

6474

```

I know not,

And I cannot know,

How and why

God so often forgives me. ```

6475

```

If you do not close

The eye of the mind,

Doubt-dictator

Is bound to rule your life. ```

6476

```

My intuition-eye tells me

That there shall come a time

When the world’s wild criticism-chorus

Will forever stop. ```

6477

```

Do not allow your heart-strings

To play any melody except one:

Oneness-melody.

```

6478

```

Your heart’s surrender-shrine

Is the beauty unparalleled

That climbs up

To touch the core of Heaven. ```

6479

```

Smile, smile with God

Inside your heart

When you see your life’s

Newness-dawn. ```

6480

```

My sweet Lord,

I know that only if You come

And knock at my heart’s door,

Out of Your infinite Bounty

And unconditional Compassion,

Only then will I regain

My lost opportunity.

```

6481

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He wanted once again to march along

The inner path he once followed.

But alas,

A baseless fear caught him,

And he felt that perhaps

Again he would fail,

So the best thing would be

Not to even try.

Look at the height

Of his stupidity! ```

6482

```

Encaged in my body-cave,

I am finite.

But when I go deep within,

I see that I am infinite. ```

6483

```

By virtue of his inner capacity,

Each and every human being

Will someday become aware

Of his own Eternity,

Infinity and Immortality.

```

6484

```

A perfect combination

Of prayer and surrender:

“Not my will, but Thine.”

“Let Thy Will be done.” ```

6485

```

Of what use is my achievement

If I have the fear

That tomorrow

Somebody will do better than I? ```

6486

```

You do not need

An endless prayer

To penetrate Heaven.

What you need

Is a short and soulful prayer.

```

6487

```

When your aspiration-life

Disappears

And your desire-life

Powerfully appears,

Do not forget that

That is the proper time

For personal introspection.

```

6488

```

You once lived in the heart

For the soul.

Alas, what has now compelled you

To join the mind-confusion-club? ```

6489

```

In the calmness of my self-surrender

I have realised that my Beloved Supreme

Yesterday played the role

Of the Talker

And today is playing the role

Of the Doer. ```

6490

```

Beyond my imagination!

Not only did God grant me

Illumination,

But He also remembered

My desire-life

So that He could purify it

And make it His Aspiration-Life.

```

6491

```

My Lord,

This is my sincere prayer:

Please do not fulfil my desires.

Only manifest Yourself

In and through me.

I do not want anything from You

Except whatever You want to give.

```

6492

```

Because you have become

Your mind’s untouchable thoughts,

God has withdrawn from you

His Heart’s snow-white Dreams. ```

6493

```

Every day you are late

For your prayer-appointment,

Yet every day you expect God

To arrive on time with Enlightenment. ```

6494

```

Not God the Justice,

Not God the Compassion,

But God the Forgiveness alone

Sits upon my heart’s love-throne. ```

6495

```

When you dive

From the springboard of faith,

You see within,

You become without

God-Infinity’s Satisfaction-Delight.

```

6496

```

Hasten your realisation-hour

And your perfection-days

If you want to become inseparably one

With God’s Manifestation-Hour. ```

6497

```

Make friends

With the perennial Peace-Source

Deep within you.

Then you will be able to shake hands

With God’s Ecstasy-Heart.

```

6498

```

My life’s supreme necessity

Each day blossoms

With a sea-deep hope

And a sky-vast promise. ```

6499

```

First I say,

“The Highest in me is God.”

Then, when I realise the Highest,

I say,

“My own Highest is God.”

```

6500

```

Do you not see?

Inside your heart

Somebody is continuously

Praying and meditating.

Can you not feel?

The divine Heartbeat

Of the Supreme Beloved

Is constantly beating within you. ```

From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 65, Agni Press, 1984
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