Poetry

Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants

7601
A new song I have learnt:
My life shall become
A perfect achievement
Of my heart.

7602
Mind,
Someday you will understand
Why I am not allowing you
To doubt humanity.

7603
God does not know
At least one thing.
He does not know
How to hate Himself,
The thing all human beings
So perfectly know.

7604
Division-desire
Versus
Oneness-aspiration.
The human in me
Always chooses the wrong one:
Division-desire.

7605
Be a heart of patience
And a life of dynamism.
God will love you more.

7606
No entrance fee is needed
To enter into
God’s Compassion-Heart.

7607
My heart,
I am mourning
The unexpected demise
Of your aspiration-life.

7608
The heart-interpreter
Is excellent in interpreting
God’s God-thoughts
To the human mind.

7609
Aspiration
Must listen
To realisation.

7610
Desire-tree
Has all destruction-branches.
Aspiration-tree
Has four branches:
Love,
Devotion,
Surrender
And perfection.

7611
Why do you gamble away
Your shockingly limited
Life-energy?

7612
The fulfilment
Of your desire-life
Is outside the sphere
Of spirituality.

7613
The more you eat
Faith-food,
The closer you are
To God.

7614
I do not want to see
Your familiar face
Of frustration.
I want to see
Your heart of aspiration.

7615
Your soul hates you
Because you argue
With your heart.

7616
Responsibility
Has lengthened his life
And strengthened his heart.

7617
Each temptation-seed
Becomes a frustration-tree
And a destruction-fruit.

7618
He always turns
A deaf ear
To the conversation
Of his mind’s desires.

7619
My mind,
Because of you
I am in constant
Failure-trouble.

7620
Your concentration-arrow only
Can silence
Your noisy mind.

7621
A heart of aspiration
Is a free pass
To the perfection
Of Heaven.

7622
No gulf
Between his heart’s
Aspiration-cry
And his life’s
Dedication-smile.

7623
You also can do!
You also can become!
It is absolutely unnecessary
To pretend.

7624
You used to think
That you knew nothing
About divinity.
Now you are nothing other than
Divinity itself.

7625
There was a time
When you were afraid
Of falsehood.
Now falsehood is afraid
Of your aspiration.

7626
You are supremely good.
You do not have to appear
Exceptionally great.

7627
Do not avoid
But transform
The things that need
Transformation.

7628
Before you speak
To man,
God wants you to speak
To God first.

7629
Your doubting mind
May not change,
But you can change.
You can tell your mind
That you will have nothing
To do with it.

7630
Self-glory annihilates.
Self-discovery liberates.
Now make your wise choice!

7631
Be true to yourself.
The world will receive
Immeasurable help from you.

7632
First be pure
And then be sure.
Rest assured,
Both God and man
Will forever be yours.

7633
Reality sees nothing else
But Eternity’s equality,
Infinity’s equality
And Immortality’s equality.

7634
The divine in you
Not only warns you
Against the undivine
But also shows you
How to free yourself
From the undivine.

7635
A brick wall
Has no receptivity.
An unwilling mind
Is infinitely worse.

7636
Who told you
That you are better
Than you think?
Who told you
That you are worse
Than you feel?

7637
It is beneath the dignity
Of your God-given inner courage
To criticise
The weak outer world.

7638
Stand not alone!
You will not be able to meet
The teeming demands
Even of your own life.

7639
You think you are independent.
Then why should you expect the world
To be dependent on you?

7640
God is all ready
With His divine Meal.
Do you think you can
Shortly be ready
With your hunger?

7641
As you and your weakness
Love each other,
Even so, your strength and God
Love each other.

7642
God is not only approachable
But also adorable.
Why do you then refuse
To approach Him?

7643
To a gratitude-heart
And a purity-life
Truth can appear
In a flash of sudden revelation.

7644
Can you not
Once and for all
Light your Olympic aspiration-torch
To feel and become
God-Infinity’s Delight?

7645
Your inner urge for self-transcendence
Is your safeguard
To save you from your life’s
Spiritual disintegration.

7646
Compel your desire-life
As soon as possible
To shrivel into lifelessness
And nothingness.

7647
Alas,
How can God act for me
When I do not ask Him
To make my schedules?

7648
Pray
To see the beauty of man
In his heart.

Meditate
To see the divinity of man
In his life.

7649
Readily forgive yourself.
Then you will escape
The ache of disappointment.

7650
If you are not simple,
If you are not childlike,
How can you expect
God the Supreme Player
To play with you?

(Sri chinmoy:Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 77)

 12901
May my each living breath
Be a gratitude-whisper
To my Lord Beloved Supreme.

12902
The foolish mind
Quite often performs
In the illusion-theatre.

12903
Finally
My prayerful cries
Have freed me
From thought-domination.

12904
Right before I meditate
My soul comes to decorate
My heart-room.

12905
Devotion-tears
And gratitude-smiles
Are most intimate friends.

12906
A soulfully crying heart
Is always protected
By God’s
Soundless Compassion-Footprints.

12907
The human mind
Regularly produces
Danger-desires.

12908
The aspiration-heart
Has no time to listen
To the mind’s doubt-broadcasts.

12909

How can my heart’s
Illumining faith
Ever abandon my searching mind?
Impossible!

12910
My morning prayer-songs
Affectionately greet
My morning meditation-heart-flowers.

12911
The soul places
The mind’s thought-bombs
At God’s omnipotent
Thunder-Feet.

12912
Only the names of
Self-giving aspiring souls
Are listed
In God’s Satisfaction-Directory.

12913
Unlike us,
God has only two Dreams:
Humanity’s satisfaction-heart
And humanity’s perfection-life.

12914
O detachment-axe,
I have been longing for you
Sleeplessly and breathlessly
In vain.

12915
Be careful,
My young seeker-friends!
Do not allow ambition
To masquerade as aspiration.

12916
I have so many things to do.
Let me start by shaking off
My lethargy-loaded desire-life!

12917
Because of the unaspiring mind
The soul and the body
Find it almost impossible
To maintain their oneness-friendship.

12918
A doubting mind
Is an inevitable and ultimate
Failure.

12919
Pay no attention
To the lessons that despair
Unreservedly preaches.

12920
Truth has the capacity
To sing to the heart
Of the heart’s soul-bird.

12921
O my mind,
Why do you allow yourself
Every morning to be crushed
By your imaginary mountain-worries?

12922
Rainbow-dreams blossom
Most beautifully
Inside the seeker’s
Purity-heart-sky.

12923
O my mind,
Why do you cherish
Blind indifference every day
To the world at large?

12924
May my heart at every moment
Cherish my soul-divinity’s
Imperishable Heaven-dream.

12925
Each drop of divine love
Is indeed a universal gift
From the Absolute Lord Supreme.

12926
O my mind-philosopher,
You must do something better
Than scoff at my heart-lover!

12927
My aspiration-life-tree
And its dedication-branches
Every day I offer
To my Lord Supreme.

12928
Every morning
During my meditation
My soul goes at express-train speed
To my Lord’s Compassion-Height.

12929
The human mind
Not devotedly,
Not even cheerfully,
But reluctantly listens
To the dictates of the heart.

12930
My soul’s adamantine will
Will never allow
My mind’s doubt-multitude
To approach my aspiration-heart.

12931
It is necessary
To honour the past,
But it is compulsory
To welcome the future.

12932
O seeker,
Every day
Try to begin a new,
Soulful and self-giving life-story.

12933
What can separate
The purity of the present
From the divinity of the future?
Nothing!

12934
God’s Compassion-Eye
And His Forgiveness-Heart
Blessingfully give me
Tomorrow’s satisfaction-delight.

12935
My service to humanity
Is my real opportunity
To prove my genuine love
For God and God alone.

12936
Be not lost, O seeker,
Between your complaining mind
And your expecting heart!

12937
O mind,
Is there any human being
Who has never suffered
From the attacks
Of ceaseless and ruthless doubts?

12938
May my vital do something
Infinitely better
Than pray for tireless attention
And ceaseless admiration.

12939
Peace-bridge is built
On mutually self-enlarging
And self-giving foundations.

12940
How I wish that my heart
Would insist
Exactly the same way
That my vital resists!

12941
If you lose cheerfulness,
You have lost something great.
If you lose faith,
You have lost something indispensable.

12942
I never thought that my mind
Would have a transformation-gate
That would be kept open
To God’s Illumination-Eye.

12943
Every morning, to my extreme sorrow,
I see a begging God
Inside my heart
Asking for a flower-sweet smile
From me.

12944
My Lord,
May my heart be always
A cheerful willingness-bird
To fly at Your loving Command.

12945
I shall never revisit
My long-abandoned
Inferiority-insecurity-insincerity-cave.

12946
I listen only to one thing,
And that is my heart’s
Beautiful, soulful and powerful silence.

12947
Hello, hello, hello,
My life’s self-acceptance!
Good-bye, good-bye, good-bye,
My long-torturing self-aggrandisement!

12948
Alas, how long
Am I going to remain stuck
Between my body’s lethargy
And my mind’s complacency?

12949
With infinite compassion
My silence-breath separates me
From the thought-world.

12950
If your heart’s faith in God
Is genuine,
Then you are bound to survive
Each and every doubt-attack
Of the mind.

(Sri Chinmoy:Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 130)

26701
The human life is, indeed,
A golden
God-serving opportunity.

26702
A soulful smile is, indeed,
A messenger descended from
God’s celestial Palace.

26703
Self-giving is, indeed,
An indispensable piece
Of God-Wisdom in us.

26704
When God hears that His dear ones
Have given up the spiritual life,
He deeply sighs and mourns.

26705
When God sees that His dear ones
Have increased their aspiration,
He congratulates them
Far beyond their imagination.

26706
God the Compassion only
Connects the road between
My determination
And God-Satisfaction.

26707
O disobedience-mind,
Be careful!
You will soon be imprisoned
By my aspiration-heart —
Indefinitely!

26708
My faith in the world
Goes far beyond
The deplorable deeds
Of the world.

26709
My heart-bird
Sleeplessly enjoys
Soaring aspiration-flight.

26710
Each time I soulfully pray,
I become the beauty
Of my heart-blossom.

26711
A God-crying heart
Is
A God-manifesting smile.

26712
A desire-bondage-freed chain
Our life becomes
When our aspiration reaches
Its zenith-height.

26713
What is humility,
If not our soul’s nobility
Revealed in and through
Our lives?

26714
May each human being become
A peace-loving God-dreamer,
God-lover and God-server.

26715
I am so proud of myself
That I am captured by
My Lord’s
Compassion-Protection-Feet.

26716
If we are chosen instruments
Of God,
Then we must only support
The good qualities of others
And deliberately connive
At their weaknesses.

26717
I call it disobedience.
My Lord calls it
My life-disaster.

26718
An unconditional surrender
Is
A God-blossoming beauty.

26719
An unconditional surrender
Is
A God-becoming fragrance.

26720
There is no fixed hour
For our aspiration-heart-journey.
We can at any moment start.

26721
When we pray and meditate well,
We are blessed by God
With His Satisfaction-Pride-Surprise.

26722
May my heart and I
Live always
In our God-gratitude-life.

26723
How stupid we are!
We are seeking security
In weak man-made
Weaker sanctuaries.

26724
When all else is taken away
From our life,
We see God’s Compassion-Eye
Is still with us and for us.

26725
Alas, our fear and doubt
Are infinitely more powerful
Than our faith in God.

26726
Each heart-experience
Is an expansion
Of God-Fulfilment
On earth.

26727
Frustration frowns at us
When we do not regularly feed
Our heart’s
Aspiration-cries.

26728
Never regret the past.
Just go forward,
Fly upward,
Dive inward.
Be a man of wisdom-delight.

26729
Freedom, freedom!
Freedom within, freedom without,
To allow
Beautiful, soulful
And powerful creativity
To take birth in us.

26730
God’s Compassion-Eye
Is the driving force
Behind man’s goodness-actions.

26731
My Lord,
Since You love me so dearly,
How is it that You do not shelter me
From life’s constant ups and downs?

26732
In my case,
The absence of God
Is not only heartbreaking,
But also God-Delight-denying.

26733
Every morning we must charge
Our aspiration-heart
To inspire our
God-manifestation-service-life.

26734
No miracle
Can ever truly feed
Our genuine God-hunger.

26735
God loves us
Just the way we are,
But He can and He will love us
Infinitely more
If we become what He wants us
To be.

26736
God’s Eye
Is
God’s Compassion-Umbrella
Wide open to protect us.

26737
If you want to bring about peace,
Never pay any attention
To your imperfections,
But pay all attention
To your readiness, willingness
And eagerness
For world-transformation.

26738
Each godless dream
Ends in
Man-frustration-torture.

26739
No ardent aspiration-attempt
Will ever end
In failure.

26740
There is not a single seeker
On earth
Who has never passed through
The valley of uncertainty.

26741
Each day is my soul’s
God-manifestation-commitment
On earth.

26742
If we keep our newness-mind alive,
Then our life will be
A Fulness-God-Blessing-delight.

26743
Our Lord Supreme asks our souls
To intercede
When the mind and the heart
Are not on good terms.

26744
May my God-satisfaction-hunger
Remain permanent
In my inner aspiration-life.

26745
Nobody can deny the fact
That his life has been
A long-standing friendship
With ignorance-night.

26746
Each time we are relaxed
In our spiritual life,
We are forced to suffer
God-disobedience-outbreak.

26747
If we do not take our aspiration-life
Seriously,
Then ours will be an unfulfilled
God-satisfaction-future.

26748
In everything else
We take risks,
But in our God-faith-investment
There can be no risk.

26749
God wants us to be
Aspiration-dreamers,
Aspiration-lovers
And, finally,
Aspiration-dispensers.

26750
What is doubt,
If not complete distortion
Of God-belief in us?

(Sri Chinmoy: Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 268)

 

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