Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 9

801

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The heart of man sighs

For beauty-wings

So it can soar like a bird

In the vastness-height of the sky. ```

802

```

If you study the world

Of your heart,

God will bless you

With His Life’s Sunrise. ```

803

```

If you want to be

A perfect instrument of God,

Then never overestimate

Your mind’s wisdom

And never underestimate

Your heart’s obedience. ```

804

```

Because you are completely lost

In the jungle of impurity,

You cherish the audacity

To deny God’s unconditional

Compassion-Existence

In this world. ```

805

```

When man is his own revelation

And not God’s,

What can poor God do?

He simply retreats

To His secret and sacred Confines.

```

806

```

Purity is a soulful beauty

Which is long-lost and forgotten

Inside the mind’s confusion-jungle.

```

807

```

The ghosts

Of my past failure-life

Are still torturing

My tiny, delicate plant-heart. ```

808

```

I do not want to hear from

Your God-thirsty lips.

I want to feel

Your God-hungry heart. ```

809

```

The clouds of separation

Between you and God

Will before long disappear

If you are careful how you spend

Your waking hours.

```

810

```

Do not pray to God

To take you away from this world.

Pray to God

To change your nature here on earth.

What you need is transformation

And not escape. ```

811

```

The greatest tragedy is my own life.

Although I am God’s choice son,

I deliberately do not listen

To God’s Voice. ```

812

```

Because of your sincerity-mind,

Purity-heart and luminosity-soul,

You are being carried

By the Compassion-Current

Of God’s Heart-River.

```

813

```

O world,

I have this to say to you:

My heart shall never

Run out of aspiration,

My mind shall never

Run out of inspiration

And my life shall never

Run out of dedication. ```

814

```

His cry stole my heart.

His smile stole my soul.

His love stole my life.

His oneness with God

Stole my all.

```

815

```

Hope never deceives me.

Hope is a divine instrument

Which aspires to achieve and reveal

God-manifesting beauty. ```

816

```

I wish to be one of the few,

Very few,

Who can sincerely feel

That God is responsible

For my success

And that I am responsible for His. ```

817

```

Yours is the divinely created

Aspiration-blossom,

Permeated with sincerity’s

Divinity-fragrance. ```

818

```

Faith knows no tension,

For it knows that God

Is always with it

And always for it. ```

819

```

During my morning talk with God

He told me that there is no crisis

In any human life

That cannot be resolved

By a divinely sunlit smile.

```

820

```

On the way home

From earth to Heaven,

He brought along with him

Earth’s hope-sea

To play with Heaven’s fulfilment-sun.

```

821

```

When my soul is in Heaven,

It whispers a prayer

For compassion.

When my soul is on earth,

It whispers a prayer

For peace.

When my soul is with God,

It whispers a prayer

For God-satisfaction.

```

822

```

I feel such purity

When I gaze at the moon.

I feel such power

When I gaze at the sun.

But, alas, I feel such uncertainty

When I gaze at myself. ```

823

```

Yours is a world

From which God is always absent,

Do you know why?

Because you are always fond of wandering

In your mind’s wasteland.

```

824

```

God will definitely rescue you

From your anxiety-emergency

If you do not waste

Your heart’s obedience-breath. ```

825

```

In the heart of each struggle

There is always

A sun-vast victory-crown.

```

826

```

Sadness-purity is my life’s

Fleeting voice.

Gladness-divinity is my soul’s

Eternal voice. ```

827

```

My Lord Supreme,

Do widen the narrow rivulet

Of my life

So that I can forever surely flow

Into Your Heart’s Ecstasy-Ocean.

```

828

```

If your rebellious mind is unwilling

To admit defeat,

Your heart is doomed to carry

The stupidity-freedom of your life. ```

829

```

God’s ultimate Miracle

Shall secretly blossom:

You will become the perfection-beauty

Of your own soul’s

Stupendous God-discovery.

```

830

```

Responsibility cannot weigh you down

If you take responsibility

As a God-approved opportunity.

It can only lift you and your life

To the higher worlds.

```

831

```

His is the magic smile

That every day eclipses

My heart’s excruciating pangs.

```

832

```

Since Buddha did not come

For the East alone

And Christ did not come

For the West alone,

You should know

That you have not come

For yourself alone.

```

833

```

You are always allowed

To come near God

And play with Him,

Not because you live

In a great reality-world

But because you constantly cherish

God-dreams.

```

834

```

God’s Compassion-Sun is not invisible;

My heart is just blind.

God’s Forgiveness-Sky is not invisible;

My mind is just blind.

God’s Assurance-Ocean is not invisible;

My eyes are just blind. ```

835

```

The animal in me says,

“Why is there a God

When I do not need Him?”

The human in me says,

“Where is God

When I do need Him?”

The divine in me says,

“Whether I need God or not,

He eternally is.”

```

836

```

Alas, you have placed your happiness-life

Not only in the hands of others

But also at their giant feet.

```

837

```

If you do not have surrender-tears,

Then try to create them.

If you do have surrender-tears,

Then soulfully treasure them

And try to increase them.

```

838

```

There should not be any weakness

In your thought-life

Or any carelessness

In your heart-life

If you care for

The transcendental Smile of God. ```

839

```

If you fear to aspire,

Do you not realise

That you and your life

Will very soon

Expire with fear?

```

840

```

The difference between involvement

And commitment is this:

If you are involved,

You are a problem-maker.

If you are committed,

You are a problem-shooter. ```

841

```

O my soul,

Did you ask God

When my suspicion-mind

Will be unquestionably defeated

By my aspiration-heart?

O my soul,

I hope you have not forgotten

This time also. ```

842

```

The dust of the past

Has soiled his heart.

Therefore, he cannot win admission

To God’s pure Heart-Home. ```

843

```

To have your desires

Fulfilled for the asking

Is to be forced to dance

With your life’s inner failures. ```

844

```

Instead of creating self-styled fantasies

To decorate your life,

Why do you not become a translator

Of God’s Vision-fulfilling Silence-Message? ```

845

```

When I walk,

I walk prayerfully

So that I can have

A soulful heart,

A powerful life

And a fruitful vision of God. ```

846

```

My heart’s dawn has come,

My heart’s dawn has come.

Inside my heart

I see only one thing:

The happiness of a God-intoxicated

Beauty-life. ```

847

```

O my body-dungeon,

Even you can be full of God.

Just do not mix with the mind.

Do not even listen to the mind,

For it is drunk

With egotism-night. ```

848

```

Since your heart was awakened,

You have been praying and meditating

To see divine light,

And this light itself wants you to see

That there is another world

Where truth, peace and bliss abide. ```

849

```

O my soul,

Each time you come down

Into the world-arena,

You bring with you the promise

To offer light to the world at large

And to manifest God in God’s own Way. ```

850

```

Inwardly and outwardly

Your Beloved Supreme

Is pleading with you

To listen to all His Requests

Cheerfully and soulfully.

```

851

```

If you do not make progress

In God’s own Way,

Then what you call progress

Will be only the aggrandisement

Of your ego.

If you make progress

In God’s own Way,

Then you are bound to feel

God’s Love, Peace and

Satisfaction

Inundating your life.

```

852

```

The thunder of sound

Is God’s ambassador to earth.

The beauty of silence

Is God’s ambassador to Heaven. ```

853

```

My Lord Supreme,

Why do I feel insecure?

“My child,

You feel insecure

Because you are afraid of vastness.

Try to claim the vastness

Of the ocean and the sky

As your own, very own.

Then you will never be insecure.”

```

854

```

My Lord Supreme,

How can I maintain my inner strength?

“My child,

You can maintain your inner strength

Only by having peace of mind.”

My Lord Supreme,

How can I have peace of mind?

“My child,

To have peace of mind

What you need

Is purity in the body, the vital

And the mind itself.”

```

855

```

His prayerful mind and soulful heart

Have made his life

A shadowless illumination-sun.

```

856

```

The East is for realisation.

The West is for manifestation.

The East cares mainly

For height.

The West cares mainly

For length and breadth. ```

857

```

Your mind does not want

God’s loving Heart.

God’s Heart does not want

Your doubting mind.

Unless and until you change your mind,

God is not going to change His Heart. ```

858

```

God has revealed His infinite Light

Through your glowing eyes.

Can you not reveal your soulful delight

Through God’s ever-fulfilling

And ever-transcending Heart?

```

859

```

Every day God and I

Exchange our dreams.

I share with Him

My mind’s frustration-dreams;

He shares with me

His Heart’s Satisfaction-Dreams. ```

860

```

Because your heart has become

A God-pleasing prayer,

Your life has now become

God’s secret and sacred powerhouse. ```

861

```

If you live in the dark cave

Of blind individuality,

How can you expect God

To grant you an interview? ```

862

```

Indeed, he is a chosen instrument of God,

For his heart is aspiration-intensity,

His life is dedication-luminosity

And his breath is perfection-divinity. ```

863

```

Your desire-life will never desert you

Of its own accord.

It is your aspiration-life

That has to discipline, illumine

And liberate your desire-life

From its sleepless ignorance-hunger. ```

864

```

Futile fears and doubts can never

Impose themselves upon him,

For he lives in his heart-life,

And his heart-life is always

Flooded with God-Light.

```

865

```

Every time he sails the boat

Of confidence-light

He is befriended

By God’s Satisfaction-Delight. ```

866

```

An unexpected Compassion-Touch

From Above

Can transform the absurd inventions

Of the intellect

Into God’s all-satisfying

Intuition-Treasures. ```

867

```

Your mind foolishly tries

To fathom God.

Your heart soulfully waits

For God’s Compassion-Light

And Forgiveness-Height

To measure your life. ```

868

```

Your mind-conquest

Is yesterday’s forgotten resolution.

Therefore, how can you conquer

Today’s desire-hunger? ```

869

```

God does not need your mind’s

Partial insecurity-surrender.

God needs only your heart’s

Inseparable oneness-hunger-delight. ```

870

```

My aspiration-days and devotion-nights

Have successfully and permanently removed

My life’s ego-mask.

```

871

```

Your soul has been hiding

For centuries.

But rest assured,

It will not remain hidden forever.

Someday, somewhere, somehow

It will reveal

Its God-manifesting perfection-delight.

```

872

```

You do not want to remove

Your ego-mask,

Yet you wonder why yours has become

An upside-down life-view. ```

873

```

Your heart-compass does not

Always point to God.

How then do you expect

Your life-star to ever rise

In Eternity’s Infinity-Sky?

```

874

```

Your mind-land neither loves you

Nor needs you.

Alas, even so, you are not willing

To go back to God’s Heart-Land. ```

875

```

Alas, right now

You are your own vital-fury.

Do you not realise that before long

You and nobody else

Will become your own heart-injury?

```

876

```

I am glad that you like

Your heart-beauty’s friend:

Life.

I am glad that you like

Your life-warning friend:

Death. ```

877

```

You have abandoned

Your heart-shrine,

Yet still you are looking for

The presiding deity of your life. ```

878

```

Jump over your limitation-hurdles

And become a bold bondage-breaker!

Then your life will not remain

A drooping question mark. ```

879

```

Love makes all human beings equal.

Oneness makes all human beings perfect.

Satisfaction makes all human beings

Exactly the same as God. ```

880

```

Since God is

His own Patience-Light,

Can you not become

Your own obedience-delight? ```

881

```

Your aspiration-crisis has alarmed

Not only Heaven’s mounting heights

But also earth’s crying lengths.

```

882

```

His is an unusual interpretation

Of spiritual awakening.

He thinks that first man shakes God,

And then God wakes man. ```

883

```

You will be caught

In time’s clutches

If your dedication-life

Does not grow into a surrender-heart

To please God in His own Way.

```

884

```

My best speciality is this:

I never allow my life

To be caught

In my mind’s confusion-net. ```

885

```

If you go on placating

Your screaming vital,

How will you ever see

Your life’s sunrise?

Will you not always remain

In your death’s moonless night? ```

886

```

If your love is in transit

To devotion

And your devotion is in transit

To surrender,

God will cheerfully and proudly

Tell you His Code-Name

So you can invoke Him

At any time you want. ```

887

```

O stupid world,

Why should my soul be responsible

For piercing your thick bravado-shell?

My soul is accountable

Only to God the Justice-Light.

```

888

```

Every day you are trying so hard

To discover your guardian angel.

I tell you,

Your aspiration-dedication-faith-flames

Can easily do the work

Of your guardian angel. ```

889

```

An insecurity-heart

Hears a loud shout

In every feeble whisper.

```

890

```

Until a better dream begins,

His heart will be longing

For only one thing:

God’s Compassion-Smile. ```

891

```

Darkness will arrive

Without any warning

If love is not found daily

In your life’s dictionary. ```

892

```

Truth can live only with right.

Falsehood can live only with wrong.

Ask your mind and heart

To make their choice. ```

893

```

His unquenched thirst

For greatness-height

Has fallen under

The inescapable thumb of death. ```

894

```

The past tense of hope

Is promise.

The future tense of hope

Is dedication. ```

895

```

Because of your complacent mind,

You are now lost

In a lifeless desert

With an endless inheritance

Of sorrow.

```

896

```

Do you think that God

Does not want to retire?

He does want to retire!

He has time and again asked

The cosmic gods

To arrange His retirement party,

And each time the cosmic gods

Are obliged to refuse.

But the more God asks them

For this special favour,

The stronger become their hearts’

Failure-pangs

For not having transformed

Humanity’s life. ```

897

```

Unless you give up

The shameless tricks

Of your mounting pride,

Death will hasten

Its impending visit to you.

```

898

```

When you soulfully become,

What do you become?

You become God’s partner.

When you unreservedly give,

To whom do you give?

You give to God.

```

899

```

Nothing can help

And nothing will help

Steer God’s Boat

Save and except your sleepless life’s

Cheerfulness-breath.

```

900

```

When my Lord plays upon my life-flute,

He gives me the boundless capacity

To walk along His royal Road

To reach His Immortality’s Heart-Kingdom. ```

From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 9, Agni Press, 1983
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