A new song I have learnt:
My life shall becomeA perfect achievement
Of my heart. ```Mind,
Someday you will understandWhy I am not allowing you
To doubt humanity. ```God does not know
At least one thing.He does not know
How to hate Himself,The thing all human beings
So perfectly know. ```Division-desire
VersusOneness-aspiration.
The human in meAlways chooses the wrong one:
Division-desire. ```Be a heart of patience
And a life of dynamism.God will love you more.
```No entrance fee is needed
To enter intoGod’s Compassion-Heart.
```My heart,
I am mourningThe unexpected demise
Of your aspiration-life. ```The heart-interpreter
Is excellent in interpretingGod’s God-thoughts
To the human mind. ```Aspiration
Must listenTo realisation.
```Desire-tree
Has all destruction-branches.Aspiration-tree
Has four branches:Love,
Devotion,Surrender
And perfection. ```Why do you gamble away
Your shockingly limitedLife-energy?
```The fulfilment
Of your desire-lifeIs outside the sphere
Of spirituality. ```The more you eat
Faith-food,The closer you are
To God. ```I do not want to see
Your familiar faceOf frustration.
I want to seeYour heart of aspiration.
```Your soul hates you
Because you argueWith your heart.
```Responsibility
Has lengthened his lifeAnd strengthened his heart.
```Each temptation-seed
Becomes a frustration-treeAnd a destruction-fruit.
```He always turns
A deaf earTo the conversation
Of his mind’s desires. ```My mind,
Because of youI am in constant
Failure-trouble. ```Your concentration-arrow only
Can silenceYour noisy mind.
```A heart of aspiration
Is a free passTo the perfection
Of Heaven. ```No gulf
Between his heart’sAspiration-cry
And his life’sDedication-smile.
```You also can do!
You also can become!It is absolutely unnecessary
To pretend. ```You used to think
That you knew nothingAbout divinity.
Now you are nothing other thanDivinity itself.
```There was a time
When you were afraidOf falsehood.
Now falsehood is afraidOf your aspiration.
```You are supremely good.
You do not have to appearExceptionally great.
```Do not avoid
But transformThe things that need
Transformation. ```Before you speak
To man,God wants you to speak
To God first. ```Your doubting mind
May not change,But you can change.
You can tell your mindThat you will have nothing
To do with it. ```Self-glory annihilates.
Self-discovery liberates.Now make your wise choice!
```Be true to yourself.
The world will receiveImmeasurable help from you.
```First be pure
And then be sure.Rest assured,
Both God and manWill forever be yours.
```Reality sees nothing else
But Eternity’s equality,Infinity’s equality
And Immortality’s equality. ```The divine in you
Not only warns youAgainst the undivine
But also shows youHow to free yourself
From the undivine. ```A brick wall
Has no receptivity.An unwilling mind
Is infinitely worse. ```Who told you
That you are betterThan you think?
Who told youThat you are worse
Than you feel? ```It is beneath the dignity
Of your God-given inner courageTo criticise
The weak outer world. ```Stand not alone!
You will not be able to meetThe teeming demands
Even of your own life. ```You think you are independent.
Then why should you expect the worldTo be dependent on you?
```God is all ready
With His divine Meal.Do you think you can
Shortly be readyWith your hunger?
```As you and your weakness
Love each other,Even so, your strength and God
Love each other. ```God is not only approachable
But also adorable.Why do you then refuse
To approach Him? ```To a gratitude-heart
And a purity-lifeTruth can appear
In a flash of sudden revelation. ```Can you not
Once and for allLight your Olympic aspiration-torch
To feel and becomeGod-Infinity’s Delight?
```Your inner urge for self-transcendence
Is your safeguardTo save you from your life’s
Spiritual disintegration. ```Compel your desire-life
As soon as possibleTo shrivel into lifelessness
And nothingness. ```Alas,
How can God act for meWhen I do not ask Him
To make my schedules? ```Pray
To see the beauty of manIn his heart.
Meditate
To see the divinity of manIn his life.
```Readily forgive yourself.
Then you will escapeThe ache of disappointment.
```If you are not simple,
If you are not childlike,How can you expect
God the Supreme PlayerTo play with you?
```Stagnation:
This is what aspirationDoes not know
And does not want to know. ```His heart manifests God
In silence.His life manifests God
Through service. ```Your heart will succeed!
This is the unfailing assuranceFrom your soul.
```Obey,
If you want your mindTo be great.
Obey,
If you want your heartTo be good.
Obey,
If you want your lifeTo be perfect.
```O my doubting mind,
I do not hate you,But I do not want you
And I shall never need you. ```How can your heart enjoy rest
If you allow the ignorance-princeTo shake hands with you every day?
```If you take the trouble
Of calling God,Then He will also take the trouble
Of talking to you. ```Do not blame God!
He has warned youBoth inwardly and outwardly.
```True, God is with you,
But you have not askedHis Compassion
To show you the way. ```You are telling me
That you are an instrument,And I am asking you
To be on active service. ```Aspiration,
Not glorification,Has to be
On life’s mountain peak. ```A purity-heart
And a luminosity-soulSpeak the same dialect.
```Since certainty
Is your life’s ultimate goal,Do not enjoy
Your mind’s little pushInto uncertainty.
```God has discovered
Not just a crownBut His Crown
Inside your heart. ```Your soul’s supreme task
Is to bringYour life’s progress report to God
Every night. ```His soulful dedication
Has tremendously increasedHis manifestation-mileage.
```It is quite unfair
On your partTo make God invite you
Again. ```A mind of constant suspicion
Paves the wayTo man’s inevitable destruction.
```Ring God’s Doorbell
Gently and soulfully.He will immediately come
And open the doorAnd blessingfully let you in.
```A moment of despair
Is nothing butA hopeless waste
Of life-energy. ```When aspiration descends,
The seeker becomes availableTo ignorance-dictator.
```Be always a candidate
For God’sSatisfaction-Smile.
```Ego-gratification
Is alwaysAn unprofitable business.
```What I need
Is a smiling heartTo dance
Between my love of GodAnd God’s Love of me.
```Self-deception is dangerous.
This is what God tells us.The heart believes.
The mind does not. ```Confront your mind
Vehemently.Life’s contradictions will diminish
Amazingly. ```If you make your own decisions,
God does not mind.But if you make wrong decisions,
Then He does mind. ```The doubting mind
Tortures everyone.You fool!
You think you are an exception. ```Let your heart
Speak to God firstBefore you allow your mind
To speak to you. ```Be not afraid
Of your teeming imperfections.Weep not bitterly,
For the hero divineWill soon come to the fore
In you. ```Perfection you want?
Then concentration you needTo shield you from the world
Of illusion and temptation. ```Because you need God,
Only God,I am willing to become
A cheerful slave of yours. ```The mind wants to talk to God
When it is restless.The heart wants to talk to God
When it is helpless. ```Ignorance you have conquered.
You must not feelEven the slightest pity
For the vanquished. ```My Lord Supreme,
Do transform my pleasure-filled daysInto service-filled days.
```A purity-heart
Conquers the mind,Not to torture
But to illumine. ```Alas,
Why do I not listen to GodWhen He invites me
To spend Eternity with Him? ```Every day
Why do you surrenderTo God-denial
And notTo God-manifestation?
```Reason and argument
Will beYour terrible disillusionments.
```I thought the peaks
Of satisfactionWere unscalable,
But now I see they are not.Look where I now stand!
```If you go on your selfless way
Slowly and steadily,God will soon quietly lead you.
```Obstacles are meant
To be surmounted.Shun self-doubts
And be victorious. ```When God speaks,
He always welcomesThe interrogations of your heart.
```You do not have to live
In the unknown future.You can live
In the eternally known present. ```God’s Commands
For the outer desire-lifeWill not be His Commands
For the inner aspiration-life. ```A life of doubt
Lives betweenSlavery and mockery.
```Beneath
Your thought-debrisI watch
The futile danceOf your nothingness-night.
```God will not forget you
Even while you are walkingAlong your mind’s road,
The narrow road. ```His aspiration-life has collapsed,
Not becauseHis heart is insecure,
But becauseHis mind is impure.
```What kind of harm
Can ever befall youWhen you know that you belong
To God alone? ```From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 77, Agni Press, 1984
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