Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 98

9701

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Who says

That joy is not available

On earth?

Just ask a self-giving seeker

Of the Absolute Supreme!

```

9702

```

Remember, it is God’s world.

No matter how many times

You displease Him,

He may still keep you with Him.

For after all, even poor God

Does need some instruments. ```

9703

```

When you think you are responsible

For yourself,

You create tremendous confusion

In the mind

And tremendous frustration

In the vital. ```

9704

```

How to inspire others

When inspiration deserts you?

Speak of the bright sunny days,

Which you have seen countless times

Inside you.

Perhaps others have never had

Even one sunny inner day.

```

9705

```

There are so many ways

To see the divine in yourself

And not the undivine.

Do not think of

What you were yesterday

Or even what you are today,

But only of what

You want to become tomorrow. ```

9706

```

You want to know

Who is your real friend?

Ask your heart.

Your heart will tell you

Who can inspire you,

Who can help you

Run the fastest.

```

9707

```

O seeker,

Who can be more fortunate

Than you?

For the Lord Supreme feels

It is His bounden Duty

To become better acquainted with you. ```

9708

```

If you ask the question

Who is right and who is wrong,

The only answer is:

Our Beloved Supreme is always right

And our ignorance is always wrong.

```

9709

```

Man’s attachment to man

Binds man.

Man’s devotion to God

Liberates man. ```

9710

```

You think I am foolishly enjoying

Mental hallucinations

Because I feel I need God.

I think you are a rank fool

Because you think you do not need God.

```

9711

```

Employ your inner will

To identify itself

Not with dry imitation-prayers

But with warm aspiration-dedication-days. ```

9712

```

As everybody has to leave,

He will also one day leave

This earth.

But he will be able to say

That he left something

For both Heaven and earth to treasure:

His Transcendental Consciousness.

```

9713

```

You fool,

Do you want God to pay the penalty

Like you?

By fulfilling your desires

He will only delay His Manifestation!

```

9714

```

If you are meant to do something great

For God,

Then the desire-life is not meant

For you. ```

9715

```

If God wants you to manifest His Light

In a certain way,

Rest assured He will provide you

With the necessary opportunities. ```

9716

```

Alas,

Your soul cannot do anything for you.

Even God cannot do anything for you!

Why?

Because you do not have any obedience

To the Divine Will. ```

9717

```

Every morning ask yourself

If you are ready to remain obedient —

If not unconditionally,

Then cheerfully;

If not cheerfully,

At least reluctantly.

If you want to stay

In the Golden Boat of the Supreme,

Your last resort is reluctant obedience.

```

9718

```

Only if we are insincere

Can we fool ourselves

Into feeling that we have done

More than we were supposed to do

For God and man.

```

9719

```

When he failed to obey

His inner world,

He saw that the world outside

Was waiting for him.

Alas, he was more than prepared

To become a member

Of that outer world!

```

9720

```

Poor God

Has been getting a series

Of most deplorable experiences

From His spiritual children.

Now He wants you to bring Him

Encouraging, inspiring

And illumining experiences.

```

9721

```

If a seeker neglects

His God-ordained task

And deceives the world,

He is only adding more pain

To God’s Heart.

```

9722

```

Be cheerful!

You will get a lion’s strength.

Immediately you will be able

To throw aside the burden of your past:

The elephant of depression,

Frustration and failure. ```

9723

```

Once upon a time

He was an excellent instrument.

But alas,

Obedience and enthusiasm

Left him

And he only descended and descended. ```

9724

```

God’s instruments may fail

One by one,

But God’s Manifestation

Will still succeed,

For new passengers will arrive

Who will be able to please

The Supreme Pilot

In His own Way. ```

9725

```

You are aspiring.

That means you are lifting up

The consciousness

Of those who are around you. ```

9726

```

A loving heart is the interpreter

Of the soul.

An illumining soul is the interpreter

Of God.

God Himself is the interpreter

Of His self-transcending Vision. ```

9727

```

You are trying to liberate the world.

Before you can do that,

You have to raise

Your own spiritual standard

High, very high.

```

9728

```

It may take centuries,

But I shall one day definitely become

An unconditionally surrendered seeker

Of the Lord Supreme. ```

9729

```

Train your mind

To obey you.

Train your life

To surrender to your heart.

Happiness will be

Your permanent property. ```

9730

```

A heart of surrender

Is what you need

To transform your life of frustration

Overnight. ```

9731

```

God has done something

Very special for you.

He has granted you

His transcendental Blessing-Smile,

Which you not only did not deserve

But also did not long for. ```

9732

```

The mind knows

How to curse darkness.

The heart knows

How to forgive darkness.

The soul knows

How to illumine darkness. ```

9733

```

If you hesitate

In your aspiration-life,

Then God is never going

To make you a candidate

For His Satisfaction-Crown.

```

9734

```

You have allowed ignorance

To conquer you.

Can you not now allow your determination

To conquer you

And release you from ignorance?

```

9735

```

Self-giving

Determines your inner progress.

Inner progress

Determines God’s Satisfaction.

God’s Satisfaction

Reveals a new creation. ```

9736

```

The world sees you

As an innocent life.

God sees you

As His puissant Heart. ```

9737

```

My Lord Supreme,

Let me no longer play the game

Of attachment.

I wish only to play the game

Of devotedness —

To You, to You and to nobody else. ```

9738

```

Once you have learnt how to sprint,

Why do you have to crawl?

When your boat is about to reach

The destination,

Why does it have to capsize?

```

9739

```

Do not waste time

Talking of love human.

What you need

Is to experience love divine

And to become oneness-delight.

```

9740

```

My body is lightless,

My vital is restless,

My mind is careless

And my heart is helpless. ```

9741

```

Alas, you just do not want to see

That God wants to ban doubt

From your aspiration-life.

```

9742

```

Believe me!

Your trembling tears of today

Will become conquering smiles tomorrow.

```

9743

```

Alas,

It is my hesitation

That has built walls

Between my aspiration

And my Lord’s Compassion.

```

9744

```

His vision-eye was eclipsed

By the titan-frown

Of ignorance-night.

```

9745

```

I clearly see trouble in your face.

Search keenly deep within yourself!

Your trouble will disappear.

```

9746

```

You must choose

Both to give and receive

If you want to free your life

From your mind’s slavery. ```

9747

```

Rekindle the flames

Of your aspiration-heart

And dedication-life.

God is all ready

To feed your faith

And starve your doubt. ```

9748

```

In the morning

He runs a race

Against his desire-life.

In the evening

He runs a race

Against his complacence-life.

```

9749

```

A self-giving heart

And God’s smiling Eye

Have always been

Two close associates. ```

9750

```

Although it is an unfair trade,

My heart is more than willing

To offer its light to my mind

In return for my mind’s darkness. ```

9751

```

You do not have to convince

The spiritually blind

That there is light on earth.

Let them remain

In their self-styled darkness.

But offer more and more illumining light

To those who are awakened

And have a little God-Vision. ```

9752

```

My vision-eye tells me

That I am already chosen

To please my Lord Supreme

In His own Way.

My reality-life tells me

That uncertainty is my other name. ```

9753

```

If you are fighting against ignorance

Reluctantly and half-heartedly,

Then half of you is for wisdom-light

And half is for ignorance-night. ```

9754

```

You gave up the life of aspiration.

That was the choice

Of your doubt-cherishing mind.

You are starting again.

This is the choice

Of your God-loving heart.

```

9755

```

O my mind,

Do you know what you have done?

You have taken away purity’s breath

From my life

And sincerity’s light

From my heart. ```

9756

```

Because you are a seeker,

The world rightfully expects

Your soulful and devoted service.

Your sincere service will contribute much

To the harmony and peace

Of the world. ```

9757

```

O my cheerfulness-mind,

Your strength far surpasses

The strength of a mighty elephant.

```

9758

```

At every moment

Ask your inner being

Whether you are doing

What God wants you to do

Or what God does not want you to do.

If you are not doing

What God wants you to do,

The Golden Boat will reach its destination

Without you as a passenger.

```

9759

```

If you do not listen to God,

Your life is your own.

If you listen to God

And make Him part and parcel

Of your life,

At every moment you can count on Him. ```

9760

```

When he asked God to fulfil his desires,

He took God’s Silence

As His Approval.

But God was only waiting

For his foolish desires to go away.

```

9761

```

An irony of fate:

His cheerful obedience

Has turned into

Powerful disobedience,

Because God has not pleased him

In his own way. ```

9762

```

God, too, has expectation.

He expects your dynamic inspiration

And aspiration

To run the fastest

On Eternity’s Heart-Road.

```

9763

```

My Lord, forgive me.

If You forgive me, who knows?

Perhaps my ignorance-life

Will never return. ```

9764

```

Those who are destined

To do something divinely good

Or become something supremely good

Do not need to know God’s Philosophy.

They need only to envision His Light.

```

9765

```

The Supreme’s ardent Request

To all His children:

“Every day pray and meditate,

At least to maintain your spiritual height

If you cannot transcend it.”

```

9766

```

Why do you listen to your mind

When it tells you

That you are wasting your time

Looking for illumination, perfection

And God-Satisfaction?

```

9767

```

Allow not your mind

To act freely,

For it may either lead or follow

Evil thoughts. ```

9768

```

Yours is a divided mind

And an undecided heart.

How can you then

Succeed and proceed? ```

9769

```

Every day his mind is visited

By wild memories

And his heart is visited

By deathless reality-experiences. ```

9770

```

If you want to develop

A special bond of oneness-delight

With God,

Then use your unused inner cry. ```

9771

```

Not the sound of freedom

But the silence of oneness

Is calling his heart.

```

9772

```

Sing not soulful songs

With your yesterday’s mind.

Sing fruitful songs

With your today’s heart. ```

9773

```

No storm can uproot

The faith-plant

Of his aspiration-heart,

Because of his implicit surrender

To the Will of his Lord Supreme.

```

9774

```

When at last I found him

Deep inside his mind-forest,

I found him

Most deplorably helpless. ```

9775

```

Your mind wants to learn

The secrets of a withering rose.

Your heart wants to become

A sacred and ever-blossoming rose. ```

9776

```

My Lord,

I know I do not care for You,

But if You do not care for me,

I know that I shall sadly fail. ```

9777

```

If your heart is robed in purity,

Then your life will become

The blossoming Light of Divinity.

```

9778

```

Why are you so rich

In stupidity?

Are you not afraid

Of living alone

Without beliefs?

```

9779

```

All I truly want from God

Is His Compassion-Ocean,

And all I want from man

Is his sincere attempt

To understand me.

```

9780

```

I shall try

To shield you from shame

Only when you do not try

To blame the world

For your downfall.

```

9781

```

Unless you aspire,

You will always be compelled

To remain a prisoner

Of bewilderment. ```

9782

```

Leave me alone, O world!

Blame me not!

I shall be liberated

Without your help,

For the blue bird of my soul

Has come to the fore

To liberate me.

```

9783

```

Your heart has come into the world

To work for God

And not to be worshipped by man.

```

9784

```

You must take each day

As the blessing-touch

And compassion-smile

Of your new birth. ```

9785

```

Newness,

Do come and take birth

In my mind.

Fulness,

Do come and take birth

In my heart.

Satisfaction,

Do come and take birth

In my Beloved Supreme.

```

9786

```

Little soulful efforts

Can make not only a good seeker

But also a perfect instrument of God.

```

9787

```

The only perfection I know

Is Your Vision-Eye.

The only satisfaction I know

Is Your Oneness-Heart. ```

9788

```

Your inspiration-mind

May love the sound-life,

But your aspiration-heart

Will always love the silence-life. ```

9789

```

If your mind studies

In the forest of intellect,

Life-transformation

Will always remain a far cry. ```

9790

```

My ears have heard

The Songs of God’s Heart.

My breath has embraced

His Compassion-flooded Feet. ```

9791

```

My Lord Supreme,

My last wish is this:

That I shall plant Your

Satisfaction-Plant

Inside my heart-garden.

```

9792

```

Today’s powerful pride

Will eventually grow into

Tomorrow’s mournful humiliation.

```

9793

```

I have seen two things:

God’s Compassion and God’s Forgiveness.

But I have become only one thing:

A gratitude-life. ```

9794

```

What you need is the courage

To transcend your desire-life.

What you need is the surrender-life

That meets with God’s Satisfaction-Heart. ```

9795

```

God wanted you to have goodness

As your desire-free companion.

But you want to be satisfied

With weakness-stranger. ```

9796

```

As your mind is not tired

Of confusion-sound,

Even so,

Your heart should not be tired

Of aspiration-silence.

```

9797

```

He wants to magnify

His gratitude-life.

Alas, he does not realise

He is tied in temptation-knots. ```

9798

```

If you want to remain pure,

Then every day you must continue

Your soul’s inner pilgrimage.

```

9799

```

If you are devoted to depression,

You cannot be a student

At God’s earth-transformation-school.

```

9800

```

My Lord,

Wherever Your Compassion takes me,

I shall go.

My Lord,

Wherever I go,

Do allow Your Forgiveness

To follow me. ```

From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 98, Agni Press, 1984
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