Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 96

9501

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Are you a seeker?

Then for you

There is only one reality-smile,

And that reality-smile

Is your heart’s aspiration-cry.

```

9502

```

If you do not start shortening

Your wishful-thinking list,

You will not be able to free yourself

From the unforeseen,

Inescapable consequences.

```

9503

```

He who has become a God-lover

Cannot be a stranger

To self-giving.

```

9504

```

A seeker’s faultless faith

In God’s Heart-Nest

Is God’s Vision-fulfilling Happiness.

```

9505

```

Do you know the gift

Of your silence-mind?

It is the vastness

Of illumination-sky. ```

9506

```

Disobedience is firmly standing

On your life’s doorstep.

How then can God

Kindle your heart’s aspiration-flame? ```

9507

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Once you have accepted

The spiritual life,

Your mind’s hesitation

Is nothing short of ruthless disobedience

In disguise.

```

9508

```

God will not grant you leave of absence

From your spiritual life.

But you can absent yourself —

Of course, without receiving

God’s Satisfaction-Salary.

```

9509

```

If your mind is weak

In accepting your heart’s delight

As a true treasure,

Then yours will be the life

Of utter confusion.

```

9510

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O my mind,

When are you going to announce

The death of your unrecognised enemy,

Doubt? ```

9511

```

If you push the desire-button,

You will see the temptation-deer

Coming out

Only to charm and destroy your life. ```

9512

```

If you can consciously raise

The value of your faith-life,

You will before long see

The downfall of your doubt-mind. ```

9513

```

Are you a fool?

Why do you want to repair

Your broken ego?

Break it once and for all! ```

9514

```

Possession-trees eventually become

Fruitless, flowerless and even leafless.

Detachment-plants grow and glow

In rapid succession. ```

9515

```

If you listen

To what silence says to you,

Then you will not be struck

By desire-hand. ```

9516

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What do you want?

A heart of aspiration

Or a life of admiration?

Make up your mind,

And make the right choice!

```

9517

```

A true seeker knows the value

Of his inner progress.

His inner progress outshines

His life’s outer prosperity. ```

9518

```

Breathe the air

Of aspiration.

Live under the sky

Of dedication.

Perfection-Emperor

Will fast approach you. ```

9519

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Cherish not

The long-dead treasures

Of dark attachment,

For you are a chosen runner

In God’s earth-illumining Race.

```

9520

```

Your heart’s sweet smile

Can easily conquer

The unconquerable stark frown

Of the outer world. ```

9521

```

It is not enough

To chain your heart’s

Ingratitude-beast.

You must slay it

Once and for all!

```

9522

```

You are your world-loving

Mountain-thoughts.

Therefore, God is going to be

Your lifelong Satisfaction-Partner. ```

9523

```

He who ignores ignorance mercilessly

Can easily adore

His heart’s ever-blossoming

And ever-radiating

Wisdom-sun.

```

9524

```

O prisoner of possession-life,

Can you not see

That nobody wants to stay

In your heart-cave? ```

9525

```

Do not surrender

If the ferocious ignorance-tiger

Attacks you.

Be brave

And conquer the devouring tiger!

```

9526

```

You do not have to go to the length

Of speaking ill of others

Outwardly.

With your negative feelings,

Cleverly and secretly,

You are already creating

Untold problems for them

Inwardly. ```

9527

```

Faith and meditation go together.

From faith,

A seeker’s meditation

Becomes more powerful.

From regular meditation,

Automatically a seeker’s faith

Increases.

```

9528

```

Each supreme Request

God makes

Only for the expansion

Of your aspiration-heart. ```

9529

```

You do not need to know

Who is right and who is wrong.

In the Court of the Supreme

The supreme Judge

Is Oneness-Light and Oneness-Delight

For both parties. ```

9530

```

Every day remind yourself

Of the supreme fact

That the past is something

You do not need. ```

9531

```

To reach your goal the fastest,

Every day

Make a new attempt;

Every day

Feel that you are a fresh flower.

```

9532

```

He is a master poet

Who reaches the highest height

In one poem

And swims in the sea of ignorance

With his oneness-identification-heart

In the next. ```

9533

```

My Lord,

Are You happy with me?

“My child,

If you are soulfully happy,

Definitely

I am happy with you.” ```

9534

```

God granted his desires

Because God saw that he was not meant

For the spiritual life.

But God is not going to grant

The silly desires of a true seeker,

Never! ```

9535

```

Here on earth if you fail,

There in Heaven you may also fail.

But here on earth if you succeed,

There in Heaven you will definitely succeed. ```

9536

```

O foolish seeker,

If you do not aspire,

Do you think you will be granted

God’s Compassion-Flood

Forever and forever?

```

9537

```

Something is rebelling consciously

Against God’s unconditional Compassion.

What is the name

Of that worst possible thing?

Your own mind’s stupidity-donkey.

```

9538

```

Why has disobedience started?

Because the vital is enjoying impurity.

When will obedience start?

When the vital is nothing but purity. ```

9539

```

You are wondering

Whether your prayers and meditations

Are really helping God.

I am telling you,

You are helping God

Because simply by thinking of Him

You are becoming good.

```

9540

```

Sincere prayers can produce divine results

In many ways.

Your prayers for mankind

Are definitely helping you,

Not to speak of helping others.

```

9541

```

If you do not want to make progress,

What can poor God do?

But at least do not try to stop Him

In His own Progress-March

Through His Heart’s

Vast Creation-Garden. ```

9542

```

My life is not

My expectation-walk.

My life is

My promise-march. ```

9543

```

He has finally found a cure

For his disobedience

To his Supreme Pilot.

He has jumped from the Golden Boat

Into the sea of ignorance-night,

Where the question of disobedience

Does not even arise.

```

9544

```

He is cherishing disobedience.

What else is he doing?

He is embracing his spiritual death.

```

9545

```

If you want to make progress

In your own way

And not in God’s Way,

Then you will have to make it

In your own tiny raft,

And not in God’s Golden Boat. ```

9546

```

If it is really good for you,

It is also good for God.

If it is good for God,

It is really good for you.

This is the oneness

Between the God-seeker and God Himself. ```

9547

```

There is another world.

To that world

You will not be able to carry

Earthly blessings,

But only Heavenly blessings:

Aspiration-purity,

Dedication-beauty

And meditation-divinity. ```

9548

```

Without discipline and obedience,

Man belongs

Not to the divine world,

Not even to the human world,

But to the all-devouring animal world.

```

9549

```

A God-realised soul

Gives to humanity

Beautiful Peace, soulful Light

And powerful Bliss,

And receives in return

The world’s untold suffering. ```

9550

```

My Lord,

One moment my entire being

Is flooded with light and delight.

The next moment

I am totally helpless.

Is it because

I do not really want constant joy in my life

Or is it because

I become a prey

To ignorance-force? ```

9551

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What has become of humanity?

In the days of the hoary past,

People had tremendous faith.

Therefore

They made tremendous inner progress.

But now each person

Carries a heavy load of doubt.

Therefore

Inner progress is not to be seen.

```

9552

```

How to receive

God’s Heart of Love and Gratitude?

Be regular in your life

Of devoted and selfless service. ```

9553

```

You are running away from God.

Why?

Because your stupidity-mind

Is telling you that

God does not need you

And He has never cared for you. ```

9554

```

The Western world cried

For salvation from sin.

God granted its prayer.

He sent His Son, Christ.

The Eastern world cried

For liberation from ignorance.

God granted its prayer.

He sent His Son, Sri Krishna. ```

9555

```

I have been God the lover.

I now have to become

God the Beloved.

I have been God the creation.

I now have to become

God the Creator.

```

9556

```

Even a true God-seeker

Cannot enjoy

An interest-free loan

From God. ```

9557

```

Lucky he was

To see the beginning

Of his God-manifestation-plant.

Unlucky he was

That he could not see the plant

Grow into a huge banyan tree.

```

9558

```

O seeker,

Be not discouraged

By the long climb ahead of you.

Regain your enthusiasm-surge!

Lo, you have transcended

Your depression-height. ```

9559

```

Unless I make

A fresh progress-start

Every day,

World-ignorance will drag me back

To my same old, stupid self!

```

9560

```

If you can meditate

A little longer,

It will be better for you,

As long as you meditate

On your heart

And not on the hands of the clock. ```

9561

```

Do not be discouraged!

Aspiration-mountain

Cannot be climbed

With one stride. ```

9562

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Just work for God,

Even if you work reluctantly.

Eventually your sincerity will pinch you

And compel you to work for God

Soulfully and devotedly.

```

9563

```

Man’s soulful gratitude

Gives the Supreme

More hope for him

And more faith in him. ```

9564

```

Your devotion

To your depression-life

Is compelling your breath

To yield to your spiritual death. ```

9565

```

Sadness is when I do not

Claim God.

Gladness is when I realise,

“Whom do I need

To be dependent on,

Save God?” ```

9566

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He evicted his sincerity-mind

Because

He thought that his sincerity-mind

Was too weak.

He evicted his purity-heart

Because

He thought that his purity-heart

Was too obstinate.

Alas, alas!

```

9567

```

If you cannot enter

The God-opportunity-room

Every day,

Your desire-disease

Will remain incurable.

```

9568

```

Each human being

Wants to join the perfection-parade,

Knowing perfectly well

That his own perfection-life

Is still a far cry.

```

9569

```

Unless your mind’s hostility

Surrenders

To your heart’s humility,

You will be struck

By frustration-thunderbolt.

```

9570

```

Self-indulgence:

An experience that has to be buried

In oblivion

Forever. ```

9571

```

If you are a deliberately blind traveller

Along Eternity’s Road,

You will never be able to see

The rising of your soul’s

Satisfaction-sun.

```

9572

```

Sincerity

Is a good teacher.

Purity

Is a better teacher.

Surrender

Is by far the best teacher. ```

9573

```

Sincerity is the first step,

But you may fall back.

Only if you have determination

With sincerity

Will your every step go forward.

```

9574

```

While meditating with your Lord Supreme,

Ask Him

To grant you the capacity

Only to smile at Him. ```

9575

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Humanity’s Saviour,

Divinity’s Beloved Son,

We bow to You

Because You forgive us.

We love You

Because You are protecting us.

Our beautiful souls are of You.

Our fruitful lives are for You,

For You alone.

```

9576

```

Everybody wants

To become a candidate

For perfection-award,

Although almost nobody

Has faith in surrender-power.

```

9577

```

You have not yet begun

Your aspiration-draft.

How do you expect to complete

Your manifestation-book? ```

9578

```

Each seeker and each God-lover

Must be blessed

By the sunrise of golden enthusiasm.

```

9579

```

Faith is a reliable partner

In my aspiration-life.

Surrender is an indispensable partner

In my dedication-life. ```

9580

```

In a seeker’s life

Faith-happiness is an antidote

To doubt-sorrow.

```

9581

```

When your heart’s dedication

Declines,

Your life cannot remain immune

To imperfection-disease. ```

9582

```

Lose not receptivity,

The silver secret of the inner life.

Receptivity’s rapid result

Is the seeker’s perfection-song. ```

9583

```

If your mind knows

How to resist,

Then ask it to assist your heart

In its God-loving progress

Evermore.

```

9584

```

Every year God is brave.

Every year He makes

The same Resolution:

No Compassion-Light;

Only Justice-Height.

Fortunately, He badly fails

In keeping His Resolution.

```

9585

```

Your earthly hours

Cannot be more important

Than God’s Heavenly Hours.

If God has the time

To meditate on you,

Then can you not also

At least take the time

To pray to Him? ```

9586

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Already you have the lead

In the inner race.

But instead of exercising your own capacity

And continuing forward,

Why are you standing in front

Of other inner runners

And blocking their way?

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9587

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My Beloved Supreme,

I know, I know,

When You ask me to do something

And when You ask others to do something

But do not ask me,

It is invariably for my own good. ```

9588

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A true seeker’s

Full inner conviction:

As I am right in what I say and do,

Other seekers may also be right

In what they are saying and doing.

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9589

```

He only works and works.

She only meditates and meditates.

But only a life of both

Work and meditation

Can hope to achieve

A world of perfect harmony. ```

9590

```

A God-lover comes into the world

Only to love

And, through love,

To raise humanity’s consciousness. ```

9591

```

God is a Dreamer.

He dreams of only one thing:

The transformation of His Vision’s creation.

You can also be a dreamer

If you do not allow

The imperfections of life

To forever torture you.

```

9592

```

A seeker belongs to only one school:

The inner school.

This school has only one Teacher:

The Beloved Supreme. ```

9593

```

O vast ocean of peace,

In you I see all perfection,

For your infinite expanse

Easily engulfs

All my imperfections and limitations.

```

9594

```

If you do not remember

Your aspiration-past,

How do you expect God to remember

Your satisfaction-heart? ```

9595

```

If you think

Religion is nothing other than ritual,

Why not try

To go beyond the ritual

And enter into the heart

Of the world-heart:

Yoga?

```

9596

```

Put your wisdom-light to work.

The life of aspiration-dedication

Is for daily use.

```

9597

```

Your ignorance-days are numbered!

Your mind does not want to study

The doubt-doctrines any more.

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9598

```

Flow with the consciousness-river

Within.

You will be able to learn

The language of God-perfection. ```

9599

```

There is only one book you should read,

And that book is inside your heart-cave.

The name of that book is

Oneness-satisfaction. ```

9600

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Aspiration is a land

Where beauty’s love

Grows on divinity’s trees.

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From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 96, Agni Press, 1984
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