Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 202

20101

O let my heart sow!
Let others’ lives reap!

20102

When I mix with earth-wallowers,
I feel that it is too late
For me to aspire.
When I mix with Heaven-followers,
I feel that it is too soon
For me; I am not ready.

20103

If we do not have
A burning yearning,
We cannot succeed
Even in our ordinary human life.

20104

O humanity,
I do not want to be
Even one step above you.
I want to be
On the same footing,
Not only to make you happy
But also to make myself really happy.

20105

Where is God?
I wish I knew.
Who is God?
I wish I knew.
What is God to me?
I wish I knew.
In how many ways am I pleasing God?
I wish I knew.
Have I ever disappointed God?
I wish I never knew.

20106

O my Lord Supreme,
Do empty my mind
Of all my unpleasant
Disobedience-stories.

20107

Anger thinks that
It can rule the world.
Depression thinks that
It is ruled by the world.

20108

The divine in me is rising
With the promise-sun.
The human in me is sinking
With the hope-moon.

20109

My Lord,
Will You continue to forgive me?
“Yes, my child, I shall.”
My Lord,
Will I continue to show You
My gratitude?
“My child,
You should and you must!
But even if you do not give Me
Your gratitude-heart,
My unconditional Love for you
Will forever remain the same.”

20110

The mind treasures
Stupid expectations.
The heart welcomes
Wise hopes.

20111

If we do not chase away
The hostile force-clouds
The way we chase barking dogs,
How can our divinity fully blossom?

20112

Alas,
The distance between
The mind’s suspicion
And the heart’s aspiration
Is almost unbridgeable.

20113

If your devotion
Is a mere display,
Then your God-receptivity-reservoir
Is bound to shrink.

20114

If you are a victim of pride,
There is only one way
For you to free yourself:
Take shelter
In your humility-heart-garden.

20115

Lethargy
Has millions of excuses.
Dynamism
Does not believe in excuses.
It only shatters lethargy’s pride.

20116

Every day
Try to memorise
One God-dream-song
To make yourself divinely happy
And supremely perfect.

20117

Each doubtful thought
Deliberately reduces
The brightness of my life’s day.

20118

I am not
A weeping weakling.
I am
God’s own Confidence-Strength
In the depths of my heart.

20119

Each unaspiring thought
Is indeed as useless
As pure nonsense.

20120

What you need is
Determination-fire.
Uneasiness, unwillingness and unreadiness
Will all surrender
To the beauty and fragrance
Of determination.

20121

Each desire of the mind
Has the capacity
And is the capacity
To wither the aspiration-heart-flower.

20122

What do we gain
By interfering?
We gain nothing.
We just become a victim
Of our own stupidity.

20123

Not only your meditation-tree
But also your prayer-plant
Must never be uprooted.

20124

O my Lord,
Do give me another chance
So that I can plead
For Your Forgiveness.
“My child,
I shall definitely give you another chance
To remove the desire-list
Of your mind
And replace it with the aspiration-list
Of your heart.”

20125

If you are a good man,
Then reject violence.
If you are a better man,
Then detest violence.
If you are the best man,
Then transform violence
Into the heart of oneness-love.

20126

Do not allow
Your heart-satisfaction-pocket
To become empty
If you want to fly
Higher than the highest
And faster than the fastest
In your aspiration-life.

20127

Doubt thinks
That it is extremely strong.
Faith knows
That it is infinitely stronger.

20128

Be not afraid
Of your God-dreams.
Your God-dreams are
Your life’s future
Satisfaction-perfection-realities.

20129

If you can love
The beauty of the world,
Then not only the beauty
But also the fragrance of the world
Will be your permanent possessions.

20130

Talkers,
I see you everywhere!
Listeners,
I see you occasionally!
Doers,
I see you nowhere!

20131

If you do not remain
In the desert of your mind,
Every day your heart
Will be able to weave
A beautiful, fresh and pure
Devotion-garland
For your Lord Supreme.

20132

Silence-fragrance within,
Activity-flower without:
This is precisely
What my life needs.

20133

Both the saints
And the sinners
Agree on one point:
The transformation of human nature
Is a most difficult task.

20134

You are impoverished
Not because
You do not have rich material possessions
But because of
Your very strong attachment-life-chains.

20135

Even the wisdom in us
Sometimes surrenders
To deplorable pleasure-life.

20136

If your heart has
Plenty of inner light,
Then your mind can be
Empty of outer fears.

20137

My Lord Supreme,
There was a time
When I was afraid
Not only of Your eternal Justice
But also of Your infinite Compassion.
But now my surrender-heart
Needs them equally
For my life’s complete transformation.

20138

God’s Fondness-Joy
Dances inside our heart
Only when
Purity’s tears and beauty’s smiles
Blossom inside our heart.

20139

We suffer
From a distorted mind
Just because we allow the mind
To house self-centred thoughts.

20140

There can be no human mind
That does not give its owner
A hard time.

20141

I do not want
A flood-tide of fame.
What I need is
A blessingful assurance from God
That He will make me a choice player
In His Cosmic Game.

20142

An aspiring heart
Desires to live
Only in God’s ecstasy-flooded Eye.

20143

My Lord,
Many things I desired from You
In the past,
But now I desire only one thing:
A sleeplessly self-giving gratitude-breath.

20144

God Himself tells me
That the confusion-darkness of my mind
Is no match
For the illumination-candle of my heart.

20145

To me
There are no absurdity-dreams,
But there are many
Absurdity-realities.

20146

God’s Tears
Have flowed so many times,
But this time
My heart is fully awakened
And is responding
Cheerfully and self-givingly
To my Lord’s Tears.

20147

I must force my eyes to see
That God’s Beauty
Is the only thing to look at.

I must force my heart to feel
That God’s Compassion
Is the only thing to live for.

20148

No matter what
The outer weather of the world is,
The inner weather of the world
Is always inspiring, encouraging
And elevating.

20149

Nothing displeases God more
Than when I say
That I am unchangeable.

20150

Be wise!
You must overcome
All your difficulties,
Not try to escape from them,
For there is no such thing
As escape.

20151

I am now enjoying
Real freedom
By liberating myself
From self-importance.

20152

God looks at everything
Except
My unworthiness-realisation-life.

20153

My Lord,
It is too horrible to mention
That my mind has betrayed me,
My vital has betrayed me,
My body has betrayed me.
Everything has betrayed me
Except Your Compassion-flooded Oneness.

20154

God does not want to know
What I want to say.
God just wants to know
What I want to eventually become:
His own Oneness-Heart
Or the division-mind of the world.

20155

O temptation-face,
You have brought tremendous disgrace
To my climbing aspiration-heart.
You are forcing me
To run backwards
Fast, very fast,
To my total destruction-shore.

20156

The unaspiring mind
Unconsciously but sleeplessly
Produces
Anxiety-worry-clouds.

20157

Idleness,
God wants you to remain always
A perfect stranger
To the seeker’s newness-desiring mind
And fulness-aspiring heart.

20158

No uncomely thought
Is negligible.
No smiling heart
Is insignificant.

20159

The ordinary human life
Is nothing but an excursion
Into a thick and endless
Desire-forest.

20160

Yesterday
Temptation was treacherous.
Today
Temptation is ferocious.
Tomorrow
Temptation will be voracious.

20161

The mind is
Its own constant,
Unlit ego-impatience-supremacy.

20162

O desire-despair-life,
You may think
That you are invincible,
But definitely you are not.

20163

Aspiration,
My desire-frustration-antidote,
I love your beauty,
I need your fragrance.
Illumination,
My confusion-temptation-antidote,
I love your beauty,
I need your fragrance.

20164

Peace
Beckons the wandering mind.
Peace
Silences the roaring vital.
Peace
Garlands the aspiring heart.

20165

O my mind-train,
Why do you delay so long
At each and every progress-station?

20166

The confidence of the heart
Is the remover
Of all the doubt-obstacles of the mind.

20167

I make God happy
By offering Him
My devotion-heart.
I make God infinitely happier
By offering Him
My surrender-life.

20168

Every day
I shall keep my heart-channel tuned
To my Lord’s
Compassion-Affection-Broadcast.

20169

The summit-bliss
Of aspiration-mountain
We can achieve
Only with our meditation-ladder.

20170

When we walk along
Our heart’s devotion-road,
Aspiration and satisfaction
Will devotedly follow us.

20171

May my mind always remain
Beyond the reach of thought,
So that I can see, feel and grow into
God’s Satisfaction-Smile.

20172

Time is very limited.
Life is very short.
Alas, when will I have
The burning desire
To realise God, manifest God
And fulfil God in His own Way?

20173

Every dream
Has a beauty of its own.
Every dream
Has a fragrance of its own.
Every dream
Embodies tomorrow’s God.

20174

Inside each grain of hope,
Every day
God is dreaming
Of a new creation.

20175

The mind
And its shallow thoughts
Seem so odd
To our aspiration-heart.

20176

O seeker,
Instead of making
Whining complaints to God
Against humanity,
Can you not offer
Your soulful appreciation
Of humanity?

20177

Each man can be a perfect copy
Of God’s Dream-Fulfilment-Reality
On earth.

20178

My life,
I want to surprise you
With my heart’s
God-hunger-cries.

20179

My ego forgets
Even God’s unconditional Compassion-Eye
And His unconditional Forgiveness-Heart.

20180

True,
Once upon a time
You were a fool,
But you do not have to remain so
Forever.
Just become the song
Of constant self-offering.

20181

O critic,
You always remain alien
To the beauty, divinity
And immortality
Of oneness-heart-delight.

20182

God’s Compassion-Eye
Brings God to me
No matter where I go,
Even when I hide.

20183

God counts Himself
Extremely fortunate
When He gets
One unconditional seeker.

20184

Each desire of mine
Is a slave
To my illusion-delusion-mind.

20185

I prayerfully asked God
To name a few
Perfect instruments of His.
God did listen to my prayer,
But alas,
Somehow He forgot
To mention my name!

20186

Desire is so powerful
That it has the capacity
To compel us to run after
Even its shadow.

20187

Each choice instrument of God
Will one day prove to be
A living God-monument.

20188

If you want to climb up
To your heart’s aspiration-mountaintop,
Then you must liberate yourself
From your disobedience-exile.

20189

I love the beauty of a God-dreamer.
His beauty is real;
His beauty is at once earth-illumining
And Heaven-fulfilling.

20190

You cannot acquire self-esteem
By fault-finding.
You can acquire self-esteem
By becoming an aspiration-heart
And a dedication-life.

20191

May my heart become
An excellent God-song-singer.
May my life become
An excellent God-story-narrator.

20192

A vice does not remain a vice
When I am absolutely determined
To transform it into a virtue.

20193

The vital and the mind are convinced
That they are always right.
The heart is determined
To be always right.

20194

Your God-disobedience-cry
Will betray you
Into endless crimes,
Long before your final hour
Strikes.

20195

Where are You going, God?
“My child,
I am not going anywhere.
In fact, I am coming to you
To hear from you
What your future plans are
With regard to our friendship.”

20196

Anybody who has strictly examined
His own mind
Will find either an aspiration-famine
Or a desire-cyclone.

20197

I do not want to have a mind
That always quarrels with the world.
I want to have a heart
That sports
With the beauty of the world
And dances
With the fragrance of the world.

20198

I call it
My heart’s gratitude.
God calls it
His own Divinity’s Fragrance.

20199

O my heart’s aspiration-flames,
O my soul’s realisation-sun,
Do tell me how far you are
Away from each other!

20200

May each page
Of our heart’s aspiration-book
Have three messages:
God the Creator,
We are of You.
God the creation,
We are for You.
God the Beloved Supreme,
May You be found
In the tears of our hearts
And in the smiles of our souls.

The Sri Chinmoy Library