Inner Cry
Aspiration is the mounting cry, the climbing cry inside our heart. We can enter into the divine consciousness through our inner cry. This cry is not for name and fame. This cry is our total, unconditional, unreserved oneness with God, who is the Inner Pilot of our life-boat.
We have to make God a living reality in our day-to-day lives. We have to
feel that God's presence is of paramount importance. If we do not eat every
day, we starve our body. Similarly, we have to feel that if we do not pray
and meditate every day, then we are starving our spiritual body. When we
aspire with our heart's tears, we see that God is coming down to us, descending
from above. It is just like two persons meeting; one is on the first floor
and the other is on third floor. We go up to the second floor. There we meet
and fulfill each other.
The stairway to the second floor is created by our heart's cry. This is the
cry of aspiration; it is not like shedding tears when you do the wrong thing.
The heart is crying and yearning like a mounting flame burning upward, always
rising. God descends with His Grace, like a river running downward. When
aspiration and Grace meet together, we come to experience the divine fulfillment
of union with God.
- Sri Chinmoy, The Wings of Joy