Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 8

701

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When I pray,

My Lord Supreme tells me

That in Heaven He will grant me

A most beautiful place to live.

When I meditate,

My Lord Supreme tells me

That I have found on earth

The most perfect place

For Him and His Satisfaction to live.

```

702

```

Ignorance-pirate has captured you

Because you did not go to enjoy

Your oneness-picnic

With God’s other seeker-children. ```

703

```

You have been persuaded

To the false conviction

That God does not want you

Or need you.

Therefore, your entire life is haunted

By doubt-phantom. ```

704

```

Every day my soul visits

My Lord Supreme

And brings down faith-medicine

From His Salvation-Pharmacy

To cure my insincerity-mind,

Impurity-heart

And insecurity-life.

```

705

```

The donkey inside my mind

Lives an indecision-life.

The deer inside my heart

Is always ready with decision-speed.

The lion inside my soul

Enjoys immediate God-ordained

Satisfaction-action.

```

706

```

Your heart’s God-reliance

Is a powerful shaft

Of God’s death-silencing Truth.

```

707

```

God does not allow my mind

To give talks on perfection

In His Amphitheatre,

But every day He invites my heart

To give talks on aspiration

And dedication. ```

708

```

Now that you have become one

With your soul’s silence-light,

You can easily depart

From the doubt-madhouse of your mind. ```

709

```

O my life,

Do not aim for anything else

Save and except

My Lord’s Satisfaction-Permanence. ```

710

```

The human mind finds it

Quite impossible to believe

That it is an immigrant

From the ignorance-world. ```

711

```

Now that your heart

Is no longer petrified

By insecurity-monster,

Your life can enjoy

The towering tallness

Of satisfaction-house. ```

712

```

Alas,

My mind has destroyed itself

By thinking.

Alas,

My heart is looking for a hope-plant

Inside my barren life.

Alas,

My soul has become a complete stranger

To satisfaction-delight.

```

713

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His is the formless God.

He meditates and meditates

On God the Light

To illumine him.

Mine is the personal God.

I meditate and meditate

On God the Supreme Beloved

To fulfil me. ```

714

```

Now that you have launched

Into the spiritual life,

Just remain faithful.

You will definitely reach

Your golden destination.

```

715

```

My Beloved Supreme,

I may not have many things to give You,

But I do have two things to give You:

A heart of gratitude

And a life of surrender.

```

716

```

Your self-reliance

Is nothing short of God-defiance.

Therefore, you will always be denied

Infinity’s blue-gold ecstasy-dreams. ```

717

```

If you want to be perfect,

Then what you need is

Minute-to-minute aspiration.

If you want to be satisfied,

Then what you need is

Year-to-year dedication.

```

718

```

Your mind has been stung so mercilessly

By jealousy-bee

That you are not able to see

Your heart-bird

Inside God’s Love-Nest.

```

719

```

Who says you have become nothing?

You have become the dead-end road

Of self-styled satisfaction.

Perhaps you do not realise it,

But that is something —

Something absolutely intolerable. ```

720

```

What am I doing?

I am building my silver dream-boat

To sail my earth-bound human life

To the liberation-shore. ```

721

```

To see God the Light,

To feel God the Light,

To become God the Light:

This is the only goal

Of my meditation.

```

722

```

When he meditated on light,

Inside light he saw peace.

When he meditated on peace,

Inside peace he saw

The liberation of the world.

```

723

```

O my soul,

Can you please tell me a few words

About God’s Eye and God’s Heart?

“God’s Eye

Is His Eternity’s Newness.

God’s Heart

Is His Eternity’s Fulness.”

```

724

```

If every day you put on

The armour of faith,

God will grant you

His most precious gift:

Satisfaction-Delight.

```

725

```

Yours is a life

Of self-contradictory hungers.

Yours is a mind

Of continual hallucinations.

Yours is a heart

Of helplessness multiplied by weakness.

What then can anybody expect from you?

```

726

```

He who conquers his mind

Is invited by God

To be a co-sharer

Of God-Immortality’s infinite Treasure. ```

727

```

There can be no greater absurdity

Than to think that your life

Will no longer be able to succeed

And that your soul

Will no longer be able to proceed.

```

728

```

Give your heart’s beauty and life’s duty

To the world’s tremendous necessity.

729

```

Only an aspiring heart can feel

That God’s Vision-Eye

Is all promise

And that God’s Reality-Heart

Is all fulfilment.

```

730

```

When I pray soulfully,

My Beloved Supreme gives me the capacity

To love my inner life infinitely more

Than I love my outer life.

When I meditate sleeplessly,

My Beloved Supreme grants me the capacity

To love Him infinitely more

Than I love my outer life of hope

And my inner life of promise.

```

731

```

The heart’s purity

The human hand cannot pollute.

The soul’s divinity

The human heart cannot grasp. ```

732

```

Because his heart is perfected

By gratitude,

He is now blessed

With a liberated life. ```

733

```

If you are not ready to accept

Suggestion-light

From your heart’s Heavenly realm,

Then how do you expect to receive

Nectar-delight

From your soul’s unparalleled height? ```

734

```

You must expose yourself

To only one thing

And that thing is

The divinity-world

Of Heaven’s infinite Love.

```

735

```

His life is hopelessly wavering

Between the world

Which wants to devour him

And his Beloved Supreme

Who wants to be devoured by him.

```

736

```

The visible God daily invites you

To come and eat with Him.

The invisible God silently asks you

To invite Him to eat with you

At least once in your entire life.

```

737

```

If there is no purity of purpose

In what we say and do

God will never be able to dance

His Satisfaction-Dance before us. ```

738

```

My Lord Supreme,

Where can I find You immediately?

“My child,

You can find Me immediately

Inside the hearts of those

Who are selflessly and untiringly building

My Kingdom of Heaven

Here on earth.” ```

739

```

What you are doing is ridiculous!

On the one hand

You are looking at your life

Through the maze of discouragement.

On the other hand

You are expecting the advent

Of a new saviour.

I have a new name for you:

Absurdity!

```

740

```

How can you see the bright hue

Of your happiness-dawn,

When you sleeplessly enjoy

Your self-taught ignorance-game? ```

741

```

When are you going to learn

That you need to completely abandon

Your life’s monstrous insecurity-queen?

```

742

```

He who is sustained

Only by his faith-force

Is cherished

By God’s transcendental Pride. ```

743

```

Only the unflinching determination

Of your heart

Can save you from your mind’s

Aching loneliness. ```

744

```

There can be no dead end

Not to speak of a U-turn

For a genuine seeker-traveller

Of the Absolute Supreme. ```

745

```

Your mind is totally lost

In academic confusion.

Your vital is completely lost

In ruthless frustration.

Your heart is absolutely lost

In shameless unwillingness.

Alas, how then can you expect

Happiness from your life? ```

746

```

Do you want to keep your mind free

From the debris of impurity-thoughts?

If so, appoint your heart

To be your mind’s regular housekeeper. ```

747

```

Every day adhere to your convictions!

Your mind’s brooding doubts

Are the worst enemies

Of your heart-life. ```

748

```

If your mind is devoted

To perfection-revelation,

Then your soul can dynamically activate

Your useless lethargy-body. ```

749

```

His soul is so kind to his mind.

Every day his soul enters into his mind

And prescribes a new

And effective prayer-medicine

For its lingering doubt-disease.

```

750

```

If you enjoy sitting

On the bench of contentment-luxury,

Then how do you expect to complete

Your Godward race? ```

751

```

Personal and impersonal,

With form and without,

God the Supreme

Encompasses all. ```

752

```

When I pray,

I feel that I am a beggar

Looking at a rich man’s house.

Perhaps, out of compassion,

The rich man will give me alms.

When I meditate,

I feel that I am waiting for

My dearest friend

To do me a special favour.

Since we have established our oneness,

My Beloved Friend will definitely

Do the needful.

```

753

```

Why must you always ask,

“When will I become beautiful,

When will I be free from ignorance?”

If you think that you are ugly,

All your joy disappears,

And ugliness becomes your name.

If you think that you are caught

In the meshes of ignorance,

You become bound, totally bound.

```

754

```

You want to secretly go up

And not look back at anybody else

Once you have reached your height.

But I tell you,

Both realisation and manifestation

Are absolutely necessary

In God’s divine Game.

```

755

```

There is no other power

Except the heart-power

To tame man’s

Dark-energy-flooded animal life. ```

756

```

Since you must rely on the world

To sustain your body

While you strive

To attain God,

Can you not offer the world

A little peace, light and joy

In return?

```

757

```

What is my earth-bound mind

If not a daily

And regularly false promise

To itself? ```

758

```

Do not allow your life

To be lured into complacency-sleep

If you want to see and enjoy

The panorama of your heart’s

Beauty-perfection.

```

759

```

Death is flying on silence-wings

Right above you.

Be careful!

As soon as possible invite your soul-bird

To come to the fore

And chase away this death-bird. ```

760

```

Before my life-journey’s close

I shall realise God.

Indeed, this is not a matter of chance

But of unmistakable choice. ```

761

```

My Lord Supreme,

May my flower-life grow

Inside Your Heart-Garden,

And may my existence be offered

On the shrine of Your Life-Breath.

```

762

```

I always pray to God for forgiveness

When I do something wrong.

If God forgives me,

Then who can punish me? ```

763

```

Since it is with yourself

That you must live,

You must teach your heart

The art of sacrifice

And you must teach your mind

The art of forgiveness. ```

764

```

With your life

An innocent heart was born.

With your life

A complicated mind will die. ```

765

```

The Master’s eye says,

“The search begins here.”

The Master’s heart says,

“The search shall forever continue.” ```

766

```

The separation-clouds between you and God

Will disappear only when

You are ready to accept cheerfully

Everything from God’s Compassion-Sky. ```

767

```

His life is running towards

The Infinite

And his heart is transfixed

In ecstasy-sky

Because his soul

Is a God-tuned lover. ```

768

```

Each seeker must become

A lion of self-control

Before he can dream of turning into

A selfless saint. ```

769

```

He has left the path

Of divine love,

And now his life has become

A completely withered tree. ```

770

```

He is incapable of saying “No”

To the outer life.

He is incapable of saying “Yes”

To the inner life.

Every day problems appear to him,

But solutions never. ```

771

```

If you allow your heart to stand in the Light

Of God’s blessingfully unchanging Eye,

Then your imagination-life

Will be totally satisfied. ```

772

```

My Lord Supreme,

How can I achieve wisdom?

“My child,

You can achieve wisdom

Only through an obedience-life

And a surrender-heart.” ```

773

```

God wants you to know Him

As your Eternity’s Friend.

He does not like you to think of Him

As your Eternity’s Sovereign. ```

774

```

There was a time when my life

Held my heart’s rainbow-dreams.

Alas, my life has now become

A blazing fire of false hunger. ```

775

```

You are your mind’s

Quenchless attachment-thirst.

Therefore, your life has become

A godless poison-drink. ```

776

```

Let us try to recapture

Our lost time

If we really want not only to see

But also to expedite

The arrival of God’s Hour.

```

777

```

I am just learning to feel

That I do not have to actually catch God,

But that someday God will catch me

And pour into my heart

A flood of ineffable Delight.

```

778

```

He is eternal and immortal.

He is within this world and beyond it.

He is the Creator,

Both universal and transcendental. ```

779

```

If you are a sincere seeker

But have not prayed and meditated

For a long time,

Then your heart’s utopia-dream

Is fast turning into

Your mind’s autocracy-nightmare. ```

780

```

Loneliness has mercilessly attacked mankind

And made half the world suicidal.

Alas, when will each human soul realise

That its inner and outer nothingness

Can easily be transformed into

Plenitude without and infinitude within? ```

781

```

There are many marathon-questions

In life,

But the only sprint-answers are these:

A hopeful heart

And a purposeful soul.

```

782

```

The mind is painfully running

Towards death,

Whereas the heart is powerfully denying

The very existence of death. ```

783

```

Since your life has become

A loud self-proclamation-drum,

How will you ever feel the joy

Of a transcendence-satisfaction-life? ```

784

```

Your own sincere search

For yourself

Will become a synonym

For perfection-happiness. ```

785

```

Your mind’s only business

Is to stop torturing God.

Your heart’s only business

Is to please God.

Your life’s only business

Is to become another God. ```

786

```

Mine is the mind

That is tired of losing,

Yet mine is the heart

That enjoys frequent competition. ```

787

```

You tell me

You are a noble-minded soul.

Then show me

Your ignorance-renouncing life! ```

788

```

His every breath is an ascending prayer

For God to stop the tug-of-war

Between his insecurity-mind

And his impurity-vital. ```

789

```

The mind-knowledge travels

To the moon.

The heart-wisdom not only travels

To the sun

But also brings down the sun’s

Silent flame-smiles. ```

790

```

Do you know what is going to happen

Eventually

To your suspicious mind?

It will collapse in a house

Of wild madness.

```

791

```

Unconsciously you cherish

A chain of falsehood-mountains.

Consciously you would like to cherish

The advent of beauty’s skies.

Alas, you have become a life

Of sorry contradictions. ```

792

```

If you consciously throw yourself

On God’s side,

God will grant you

The Concentration-Arrow

Of His Eye

And the Meditation-Bow

Of His Heart.

```

793

```

Truth tells you

When your mind will wake up.

Peace tells you

When your heart will wake up.

God’s Satisfaction tells you

When your life will wake up. ```

794

```

Instead of always saying,

“God, I need You to please me,”

Can you not only once say,

“God, I love to please You”? ```

795

```

If you want to better your inner life

Of aspiration and dedication,

Then uproot the long-cherished

Unwillingness-tree

That is growing in your mind.

```

796

```

No wonder the nebulous clouds

Of uncertainty

Are torturing your mind

Constantly!

Do you not realise that your mind

Lacks even a trickle

Of sincerity-determination?

```

797

```

O my mind,

Are you not sick of losing

Time and again

In the battlefield of life?

When are you going to claim

The marvel of faith divine

As your birthright?

```

798

```

God is inviting you

To share His Life.

But before you do,

He expects you to do Him a favour.

He wants you to ruthlessly destroy

Your desire-thoughts. ```

799

```

Every day

During his morning prayer,

He enters into his heart’s hope-meadow

To enjoy God’s Company,

Even if only for a few brief moments.

```

800

```

My Beloved Supreme,

You are my real Friend.

I do not have to ask You

For anything,

For You know all my needs.

```

From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 8, Agni Press, 1983
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