Arise!
Your Lord Supreme is crying for you.Awake!
Your Lord Supreme is waiting for you in the Sea of Transcendental Consciousness.Walk!
Your Lord Supreme is expecting your sure and safe arrival.March!
It is you who will realise your Lord Supreme in this very life.Run!
It is you who will fulfil your Lord Supreme in this life of yours here on earth.Fly!
Yours is the Goal of the ever-transcending Beyond. ```I came from God with God to see the Feet of His descending Grace.
I shall go from man with man to see the GOAL of his ascending face. ```Love will outlive the destructive mind.
Devotion will outlive the uncertain heart.Surrender will outlive the negative life.
```Each aspirant has to be a divine soldier.
He must consciously and constantly use his divine energy to drill himself into a liberated soul. ```A surrendered soul is God's dearest possession.
A transformed life is God's highest achievement. ```Senses are servants.
Senses are tyrants.Look forward and upward, your servants will obey you unconditionally.
Look backward and downward, your tyrants will torture you ruthlessly. ```I thought of God.
God smiled.I prayed to God.
God cried.I meditated on God.
God became my real God. ```Human love is a fruitless temptation in transit.
Divine Love is the Life of Eternity that enters into the Breath of Infinity. ```Since I have no love to give, I give You, O God, what I have: my teeming doubts.
Since I have no devotion to give, I give You, O God, what I have: my flowing ignorance.Since I have no surrender to give, I give You, O God, what I have: my sinking breath.
```According to one's fulfilment of aspiration, each human being is a tremendous success.
According to one's manifestation of realisation, each human being is a deplorable failure. ```The renaissance of our body is the offering of our life's capacity to the world.
The renaissance of our vital is the fulfilling marriage of love and power.The renaissance of our mind is the inner sincerity that cries to see the Face of Truth.
The renaissance of our heart is the constant devotedness to the Pilot Supreme.The renaissance of our soul is the Breath of Paradise that grants us an Immortal Life.
```Each human being can at once be a fighter and forgiver.
When self-doubt tortures him, he must play the role of a fighter.And when his own ignorance humiliates him, he must play the role of a forgiver.
```Man's heartbeat is God's purest Compassion.
God's Heartbeat is man's surest transformation. ```Man's height is aspiration.
God's depth is Compassion.Human truth is the fulfilling duty.
Divine Truth is the fulfilled Beauty. ```Let us serve the world soulfully.
The pay we will receive for our service will be in the currency of gratitude, God's gratitude, God the only gratitude. ```Cry within, dive within!
The pendulum of your life will in no time swing from the night of fruitless dream to the Light of fruitful Reality. ```No perfected man is less great than perfection itself.
```Life is the purposeful design of God.
Inspiration is the hopeful design of God.Aspiration is the truthful design of God.
Realisation is the fruitful design of God.Revelation is the perfect design of God.
Manifestation is the sempiternally perfect design of God. ```It matters not how Truth was created, but why Truth was created.
Truth was created by God Himself to energise His Vision and to manifest His Reality. ```Earth wants you to be great.
Heaven wants you to be good.God wants you to be spontaneously genuine.
When you become great, you will realise how insignificant you are.When you become good, you will realise how false your life is.
When you become spontaneously genuine, your life grows into God's perfect perfection. ```Mind forgets
butnever forgives.
Heart forgives
butnever forgets.
Soul forgives
andforgets
all at once. ```If you live in the body, you will be too weak to repress anything.
If you live in the vital, you will be too authoritarian to allow anything.If you live in the mind, you will be too indifferent to love anything.
If you live in the heart, you will be too indulgent to control anything.Live in the soul, God will say, I do and become everything for you.
```I cannot create Truth.
But I can discover Truth.I cannot create Love.
But I can discover Love.I cannot discover Aspiration.
But I can create Aspiration.I cannot discover Perfection.
But I can create Perfection. ```The love that commands soulfully and the love that obeys unconditionally enjoy the selfsame Bliss of the Supreme.
```Love and fear are incompatible.
Devotion and doubt are incompatible.Surrender and failure are incompatible.
```To listen to one's Master constantly is to see clearly the head of aspiration, the heart of realisation and the soul of absolute perfection.
```Truth is not behind me, but before me.
Realisation is within, and not without.Death is behind me, and not before me.
Transformation stands before me, and not behind me. ```In our human nature WHEN
imperfection seenperfection awakened
divinity invokedreality realised.
```Since God does not want to enjoy His Transcendental Delight always and everywhere, He has graciously granted liberation to some souls so that they can enjoy His Transcendental Delight.
Rest assured, God will grant liberation to many more today and tomorrow to the rest of mankind. ```If you do not deceive yourself, your liberation is certain.
If you do not find faults with yourself, your liberation is certain.If you can make your heart the cow of love, your body the dog of devotion, and your mind the deer of surrender, your liberation is absolutely certain.
```Nothing is effective and certain, but the heart of love.
Nothing is safe and certain, but the life of devotion.Nothing is fulfilling and certain, but the soul of surrender.
```A supremely realised man is the result of the earth's secret concern and Heaven's special care.
```He conquers who loves.
He loves who feels.He feels who sacrifices.
He sacrifices who aspires.He aspires who serves God in man.
```After you have enjoyed your life your name becomes frustration.
After you have employed your life your name becomes realisation. ```To know the value of love is to buy the Kingdom of Delight.
To know the value of Delight is to buy back one's own True Self. ```The animal in us wants destruction.
The human in us wants education.The divine in us wants illumination.
```Freedom is not in creating...
Freedom is not in destroying...Freedom is not even in loving...
Freedom is only in growing into the very image of God. ```Men of capacity the world needs.
Men of receptivity God needs. ```If you want God, open your heart and run.
If God wants you, open your eyes, close your ears and run. ```To love man is my only duty.
To love God is my only necessity.To become God the Dream is my only certainty.
To become God the Reality is my only inevitability. ```Veracity is expensive.
Mendacity is explosive.
Veracity grows by inches and does not die.
Mendacity grows by miles and dies by miles. ```Earth cries to marry the beauty of love.
Heaven cries to marry the revelation of perfection. ```Life is powerless against love.
Love is powerless against truth.Truth is powerless against compassion.
```The absence of temptation is the presence of resistance.
The movement of inner resistance is the moment of God. ```I hate ignorance not because it stays with me, but because it does not care for God's transforming and fulfilling Light.
```When your friends say that you are the greatest aspirant, be sure to correct and perfect them.
When your enemies say that you are the lowest aspirant, don't hesitate to correct and perfect yourself.Remember, in either case you are not the loser.
In your own perfection your enemies do not derive any benefit.When you make your friends perfect to assess you properly you don't lose anything.
Be correct and perfect; you will be able to fulfil God in you.Correct and perfect others, you will fulfil them in God.
```What the poet in me has is inspiration.
What the seeker in me has is aspiration.What the man in me has and always needs is God's constant Compassion.
```Truth is to give God His own.
Joy is to give Heaven its own.Fear is to give earth its own.
Love is to give me my own. ```When I touch the heart of the world, the world gives me its hands.
When I use the hands of the world, God smilingly sits on my shoulders and places the world inside His very Heart. ```Difficulties consciously tell an unaspiring soul what he is.
Difficulties unconsciously show an aspiring soul what he eventually can be. ```The mightiest Power is the highest Compassion.
This highest Compassion is at once God the Quality and God the Quantity.To realise God one needs God the Quality.
To help the world realise God one needs God the Quantity. ```A man thinks that he is always brave.
A woman thinks that she is always pure.A fool thinks that he is always right.
God knows that He is always the servant of the aspirant's surrendered love. ```Falsehood is jealous of truth.
Truth is ashamed of falsehood.God blesses falsehood to be good.
God caresses truth to be nice. ```God exists.
We don't have to invent Him.Our mouth at least dares to prove God's existence.
But alas, peace does not exist on earth.Let us try to invent peace.
```There is a God in science.
There is a God in spirituality.These two Gods are one and the same.
The God in science constantly expands His capacity.The God in spirituality constantly transcends His capacity.
```To complete His Joy,
from aboveGod looks at man
with Hisdescending Compassion.
To complete his joy,
from belowman looks at God
with hisascending determination.
```He who conquers the Truth has been chosen by God's Heart, God the Heart.
```To define God is to confine God.
To fear God is to tear God. ```My ability
needsstability
for my perfection.My stability
needsability
for my realisation. ```I have measured my life.
It is too long.I have lived my life.
It is too short.While measuring I have realised myself.
While living I have fulfilled myself. ```A seeker's struggling mind needs the right path.
A seeker's searching heart needs the right teacher.A seeker's aspiring soul needs the right God.
```The right path is simplicity
pluspurity.
The right teacher is sincerityplus
spontaneity.The right God is Compassion
plusLiberation.
```The tree of life can never be separated from the tree of love.
The tree of love can never be separated from the tree of realisation.The tree of realisation can never be separated from the tree of transcendental perfection.
```Love favours the devoted heart.
Grace favours the surrendered soul. ```Anger is ink spilt and thrown over one's graceful heart of sweetness.
```An act of sweet pardon helps me to be really brave.
An act of anger helps me to see my own grave dug by me alone. ```Perhaps the universe is not rich enough to buy a man who is absolutely free from the snare of anger.
```Human life is always given strength to fly the kite of hope.
```Just feel that God is not yours, but you are God's; only then you discover that no hope of yours is ever dashed to the ground in frustration.
```Life hesitates to shake hands with All-Possibility.
Hope says to life: "Mother, fear not, I am everlastingly with you." ```Hope finds its true fulfilment only upon earth.
Heaven at most nourishes it, Hell simply kills it. ```Fear ruins man.
A fearful man spoils his mission.Ruined mission destroys God's Vision.
Fruitless Vision thwarts God's Will.Unfulfilled Will nullifies God's very purpose of existence.
```When your fear ceases for good, you see not only freedom but also become an embodiment of eternal freedom.
```Religion and philosophy fulfil and are complementary to each other.
Religion without philosophy is brainless.Philosophy without religion is heartless.
```My prose is my mind.
My poetry is my heart.Without my mind I am lame.
Without my heart I am blind. ```Life is my outer evolution.
Truth is my inner revolution. ```Love mankind.
This is an instruction of God.Love truth.
This is the instruction of God.Grow into the silence-height and the manifestation-light.
This is the only instruction of God. ```What my mind has is limited learned knowledge.
What I am is an unlimited source of light. ```Mind preaches more than it actually teaches.
Heart teaches more than it usually preaches.The soul neither preaches nor teaches.
It only learns.It learns the meaning of creation from God Himself.
```To conceal one's own ability is no virtue.
To reveal one's own ability is no crime.Not to fulfil God's Will on earth is the clear indication of the death of virtue and the undeniable birth of crime in one's life of aspiration.
```Absence is love.
Presence is joy.Love serves God unconditionally.
Joy fulfils God sempiternally. ```My consecration is my aspiration.
My aspiration is my realisation.My realisation is my transformation.
My transformation is my perfection.My perfection is God the manifested Vision of His Beyond on earth.
```Sincerity is to be judged by its intentions and not by its results.
Beauty is to be judged by its results and not by its intentions. ```Doubt is more to be disliked than death.
Why?Because when you doubt yourself or God, it is the real beginning of your hastening end.
```Concentration makes us perceptive.
Meditation makes us receptive.Contemplation makes us intuitive.
```Each inner experience is God's descending Compassion and man's glowing and fulfilling transformation.
```The Love divine crucifies human suspicion.
It perfects the seeker's aspiration.It reveals the realised soul's liberation.
```I do not want to hide my age.
My age is my breath.Thousands of times my breath has been purified by God the Purifier and saved by God the Saviour.
Lo, God the Liberator is entering into my breath.Since my fulfilling and fulfilled breath is my aspiring age, I have not to hide my age.
My age is God the eternal Grace. ```They say that old age is an unavoidable, incurable and unpardonable disease.
I think it is true.But what I feel infinitely more true is that there is and there can be no such thing as old age when one wants to live the life of aspiration.
For God the eternal Child abides and grows eternally in the heart of human aspiration. ```When I concentrate, I care about God.
When I meditate, God cares about me.When I contemplate, my perfected inner wisdom cares about God, and God's infinite ocean of Light cares about me.
```Optimism is the secret of self-reliance.
Self-reliance is the secret of a dynamic power.A dynamic power is the secret of an immediate success.
```The difference between an optimist and a pessimist is this: an optimist sees the sun behind the blackest clouds; a pessimist sees the brightest noon as midnight.
```Unfortunately the eye of fear has a free access to God's entire creation.
Fortunately the heart of courage also has a free access to God's entire creation. ```Each thought is either a gain or a loss.
Each second is either a gain or a loss.Each experience is either a gain or a loss.
And gain is gain; loss is loss, however insignificant. ```God the Father is the Dreamer.
God the Mother is the Schemer.God the Son is the Revealer.
God the Grandson is the Fulfiller. ```I know from within that my knowledge is illumination.
I know from without that my knowledge is hallucination.I know from Above that my knowledge is salvation.
I know from below that my knowledge is destruction. ```Oh Atheist!
You are going somewhere despite your repeated denials.You are seeing something despite your constant denials.
You are becoming someone despite your spontaneous denials. ```Oh Aspirant!
Your heart's cry is a real treasure.Do not allow your obscure, unlit, discouraging and damaging vital to make light of it.
Your heart's cry flies like an eagle to reach the Highest Goal of your purest soul. ```Cry within.
Meditate within.Dive within.
Your inner achievements will far outweigh your outer imperfections. ```When aspiration gives you her dedicated heart, you will have something of everything in the inner world to treasure forever.
```When you know the meaning of aspiration, and the value of dedication, then what is left for you is to know how to eat the fruit of realisation.
```How to conquer jealousy?
Conceal it consciously.To your wide surprise, one day you will not be able to trace it at all.
It will all be gone, a story of the past. ```How to conquer worry?
Ignore it deliberately.To be sure, worry also has its own pride.
It will ignore you totally.It will feel that it is beneath its dignity to come to you and offer all its problems and responsibilities.
```How to conquer fear?
Sit at the feet of your illumining consciousness-light.This light has the adamantine will-power to protect you, perfect you and liberate you.
```How to conquer doubt?
Observe the vow of inner silence; do inner meditation and inner selfless service.Your doubt will have no strength to shout at you.
It has to die and it will; for good. ```How to conquer ego?
Start chasing your ego, the thief, early in the morning.In the evening you will be able to catch it.
Once you catch it, cut it into pieces with your naked inner sword of universal oneness. ```How to conquer pride?
Early in the morning think a few times of the ones who are infinitely superior to you in Love and Power.In the evening try to feel that you are sleeping in the lap of the Supreme's Supreme Love.
```How to conquer arrogance?
Try to feel that your arrogance will be paid back in its own coin.Nay, what you used was a hand-bomb and what you will have to encounter is an atom-bomb.
```How to conquer anger?
Feel the necessity of perfecting yourself.When anger wants to enter into you, say, "I am so sorry.
I eat only one food.The name of my food is Peace.
I won't be able to digest you.If ever I eat you, I will be destroyed within and without.
I don't want to be destroyed.I have to do much for the divinity in me and the humanity around me.
Oh Anger, you are knocking at the wrong door." ```How to conquer deception?
When you deceive someone, think that you possess the capacity only to please yourself and nobody else.Hence your capacity to achieve joy is very limited.
Your life is so meaningless that you cannot please even one person more than your tiny self in this vast world.But if you allow the fragrance of sincerity to enter into you, it will not only please you, but please all human beings.
```How to conquer despair?
Never cry for outer consolation.Ever cry for inner compassion.
Inner compassion is the flood of light.It is also the flood of perfection's realisation.
```How to conquer bondage?
Tell your body that your name is Aspiration.Tell your vital that your name is Determination.
Tell your mind that your name is Concentration.Tell your heart that your name is Compassion.
Finally see eye to eye with your soul when it says that your name is Illumination. ```How to conquer ignorance?
Look downward!Now say, "My Lord, I am coming.
I am sure that You are ready to receive me with your Infinite Compassion."Look forward!
Now say, "My Lord, I am come.I am sure that You are ready to receive me with your Infinite Benediction."
Look upward!
Now say, "My Lord, I have come.I am sure that You are ready to receive me with Your Infinite Realisation."
```Before the realisation, the body, by virtue of its very existence on earth, helps the soul unconsciously.
After the realisation, the body serves the soul, not only consciously, but unconditionally. ```Where is my mind?
My intellect and the senses know the answer.Where is my heart?
My vital and my soul know the answer.Where is my Goal?
The breadth of my aspiration and the length of God's Compassion know the answer. ```The experience of Peace indicates the Soul's inner assertion through its fulfilling incarnations.
The experience of Bliss indicates the eternal flow of God's selfless service to his children. ```To be good in a passive way is to say what I can do for humanity if I want to.
To be good in an active way is to realise the secret of secrets that I have already offered my Divinity's heart to humanity's body. ```Outer pleasure and inner pressure do not cry for each other.
They soon pass away like the morning dew-drops.Aspiration and realisation like each other.
They last forever because Infinity feeds aspiration and Immortality feeds realisation. ```Perfection is man's pure inner cry on earth.
Perfection is man's sure outer smile in Heaven. ```In order to be above the slavery of the senses, to lift the veil of ignorance, yesterday I needed the purity of a four-year-old child.
Today I need the sincerity of a seven-year-old child.Tomorrow I shall need the surety of a young man of nineteen.
```I never hesitate.
My inner confidence is my outer decision.I never doubt.
My inner conviction is my outer success.I never grieve.
My inner light is my outer might. ```When I think of my past, I see my God, the Dreamer.
When I think of my present, I see my God, the Warrior.When I think of my future, I see my God, the Liberator.
```Today's affirmation was yesterday's preparation.
Today's affirmation will be tomorrow's emancipation.Preparation is hopeful.
Affirmation is meaningful.Emancipation is fruitful.
```God the Poet sings and dreams.
God the Philosopher thinks and drinks.God the Lover loves and liberates.
The Poet-God sings the Song of Beauty.
He dreams the Dream of Duty.The Philosopher-God thinks the Thought of Height.
He drinks the Vastness of Light.The Lover-God loves the world as it is.
He liberates the world from what it is. ```To have joy is to have vision.
Joy is vision embodied and expanded. ```To have love is to have reality.
Love is reality expressed and manifested. ```To have faith is to have fulfilment.
Faith is fulfilment realised and revealed. ```You are really clever when you take the world of desire as it is and not as it ought to be.
You are really wise when you take the world of aspiration as it ought to be and not as it is. ```The body is loveless.
The vital is shameless.The mind is faithless.
The heart is lifeless.Nevertheless our journey is hopeful, our soul is meaningful and our goal is fruitful.
This is possible because the Supreme Pilot is within us and for us. ```God is the Confidence-Light in my life divine.
God is the Assurance-Might in my life human. ```How great is our God?
Our God is greater than our imagination, purer than our inspiration, swifter than our aspiration, surer than our concentration, deeper than our meditation, higher than our contemplation and wiser than our realisation. ```Ignorance ends in aspiration.
Aspiration ends in realisation.Realisation ends either in self-abnegation or in God-manifestation.
```My thought is eternal.
My will is eternal.Eternally my thought is crying and dying.
Eternally my will is braving and fulfilling. ```I think ten times before I say anything about the world.
I speak everything about God before I even think of Him once.Why do I do this?
The reason is quite simple.God is at once my inspiration and realisation: the world is at once all suspicion and all obstruction.
```My realisation is the bridge between God's limitless capacity and man's helpless incapacity, God's transforming Light and man's brooding night, God's perfect perfection and man's constant imperfection.
```Talk is cheap, but not when I talk with love.
Love is cheap, but not when I express love with my sacrifice.Sacrifice is cheap, but not when I offer sacrifice with my soul's divine oneness.
```To be happy, you don't have to go high.
Just start counting God's inner blessings.To be unhappy, you don't have to go down.
Just start counting your outer achievements. ```Before the Realisation, I the ignorance felt that God was my tireless expense.
After the Realisation, I the Knowledge feel that I am God's eternal expense. ```Think of God; your body's fleeting years will support you.
Meditate on God; your soul's streaming years will transport you.When you are in your body, you are God's creation.
When you are in your soul, you are God's realisation. ```To love those who love us is to do the right thing.
To love those who do not love us is to do the nice thing.To love God who loves us is to do the wise thing.
When we do the right thing, we are free.
When we do the nice thing, we are safe.When we do the wise thing, we are fulfilled.
```Our heart means impartiality.
Our mind means neutrality.Our vital means partiality.
Our body means irresponsibility.Our soul means responsibility.
```The human race is God's Grace.
The divine race is God's Face.The human race is God's necessity.
The divine race is God's spontaneity. ```Ignorance is not fate, but fatal.
Aspiration is not realisation, but salvation. ```In your life of desire, there is a mighty period after each progress.
In your life of aspiration, there is not even a tiny comma after each major progress.
```The Ultimate Truth cannot be discussed.
The Highest Divinity cannot be argued.Truth has to be realised.
Divinity has to be revealed. ```The mind says: "Seeing is believing."
The heart says: "Believing is feeling."The soul says: "Believing is feeling in the morning and seeing in the evening."
```Man thinks that he is too young to learn the Truth, but too old to unlearn his ignorance.
```When an unaspiring man looks upward, he feels that his life is obscure.
When he looks forward, he feels that his life is immature.When he looks backward, he feels that his life is premature.
And finally, when he looks inward, he sees that his life is a giant failure. ```When an aspiring man looks upward, he feels that his life is protection and salvation.
When he looks forward, he feels that his life is determination and realisation.When he looks backward, he feels that his life is imperfection and frustration.
When he looks inward, he feels that his life is illumination and perfection. ```Sincerity can never disgrace any seeker's aspiration.
Humility can never disgrace any man's realisation.Sincerity is the fruit.
Aspiration is the tree.Humility is the tree.
Realisation is the fruit. ```God has made everything out of nothing.
But we cannot make even one thing out of everything.Why?
The reason is quite simple and vivid: We do not have the living and fulfilling breath of the universal oneness. ```Spirituality is the transformation of man's fondest hope into the highest reality.
```Man's success is man's ability.
But ability is more than success.Man's ability is God's assurance and God's performance in and through man.
```Man's inner dignity and his outer necessity must live together in the house of the soul's illumining spontaneity.
```"The survival of the fittest."
Indeed, this is the zenith of the human knowledge.
The divine knowledge is the revival of the dead souls, the souls that do not aspire. ```Think in the sinking past.
Act in the living present.Grow into the liberating future.
```What human love requires is illumination.
But what it acquires is frustration.What divine love requires is God's Heart.
What it acquires is not only God's Heart but also God the Realisation of inseparable oneness. ```When an aspirant does not meditate regularly, he loses two things: Today's pride for him, Tomorrow's smile on him.
```Yesterday I needed God's Smile.
Today I need God's Grace.Tomorrow I shall need God's Concern.
Finally I shall need God's Fulfilment and nothing else. ```If you want to enslave your animal thought, then meditate on God's Feet.
If you want to illumine your human thought, then meditate on God's Heart.If you want to fulfil your divine thought, then meditate on God's Eye.
```Doubt can be ended by love alone.
Fear can be ended by action alone.Anxiety can be ended by surrender alone.
Frustration can be ended by faith alone.Destruction can be ended by Grace alone.
```Human doubt does not live but lingers.
Divine love does not linger but lives.We shall linger to see the utter failure of doubt.
We shall live to see the complete victory of faith. ```The mind's simple sincerity and the heart's subtle beauty are well linked.
```When love links two human beings, the divine and the undivine, the divine human being is always misunderstood, and the undivine human being is always frustrated.
```The divine lion in man shows its strength to Ignorance.
The divine deer in man shows its speed to Darkness.The divine dog in man shows its faithfulness to Falsehood.
```Human love says to God: "Father, I can live neither with You nor without You."
Divine love says to God: "Father, if you live, I shall live for You.If I live, You must not take the trouble of living for me."
```Faith without action is feeble.
Action without faith is brittle. ```Love of God is the beginning of human wisdom.
Surrender to God's Will is the flowering of divine wisdom. ```Human love begins in false delight and ends in uncertain wisdom.
Divine love begins in infallible wisdom and ends in perpetual delight. ```Knowledge is man's outer cry for his mind's satisfaction.
Wisdom is man's inner cry for his soul's revelation. ```Knowledge is our yesterday's surrendering and dying strength to the new light.
Wisdom is our tomorrow's illumining and fulfilling power in the eternal Light. ```Self-control is the root of higher wisdom.
Self-realisation is the tree of inner wisdom. ```Never does God's divine Light say one thing and man's real Height say another.
Never does man's outer doubt say one thing and man's inner destruction say another. ```When I cry, God weeps.
When I weep, God peeps.When I peep, God sings and sings.
```There is a weapon that can pierce every shield and that weapon is love.
There is a weapon that pierces any shield, and that weapon is truth. ```My physical friend is bliss.
My vital friend is power.My mental friend is peace.
My spiritual friend is consciousness. ```Man without God is sheer exaggeration.
God without man is pure imagination. ```Vanity looks around.
Pride looks forward.Doubt looks backward.
Peace looks inward.Joy looks upward.
Concern looks backward, forward, inward, around and upward. ```Insincerity is a durable but curable disease.
Impurity is a curable but durable disease.Doubt is almost an incurable disease.
Self-indulgence is really and truly a life-long disease. ```World-love is a prayerful task.
World-peace is a hopeful task.World-union is a soulful task.
World-emancipation is a meaningful task. ```God-realisation is a tearful task.
Nature-realisation is a fearful task.Ignorance-illumination is a fruitful task.
```Man has freedom of choice and voice.
God is Freedom in action and Freedom of action. ```A real aspirant is he who has consciously made his life a devoted channel for the inflow and outflow of God's Will.
```My dark ignorance wants to change God.
My feeble knowledge wants to change the world.My humble wisdom wants to change my entire life.
```To talk to God is to sit at the Foot of God the Mountain.
To listen to God is to climb up God the Mountain. ```God is unreachable because man's self-doubt is unteachable.
```Today I choose the path of aspiration.
Tomorrow God will choose me to see, feel and be His Realisation. ```You can father many spiritual inventions, if God is your only expectation and only realisation.
```Books are food for the mind.
Love of concern is food for the heart.Bliss of oneness is food for the soul.
```Man's forgotten essence is God.
Yet God's fulfilling substance is Man. ```It is said that one cannot serve two masters.
In my case I do serve two masters every day.I serve man the constant delusion and frustration.
I serve God the eternal Compassion and Illumination. ```When I think, I sink.
When I choose, I lose.When I cry, I fly.
```To be a spiritual Master what one always needs is the heart of a child.
```Seeking without knocking softly and devotedly at God's Door is as fruitless and absurd as reaping without sowing.
```When I control my life, God enrolls my soul and extols my goal.
```To know is to sow.
To sow is to grow.To grow is to flow.
To flow is to blow God's Trumpet.To blow God's Trumpet is to row God's Dream-boat, soulfully and eternally.
```The result of my experience is my wisdom-light.
The result of my realisation is my freedom-right.The result of my manifestation is my supremacy-height.
```My mightiest armour, my safest harbour and my rarest treasure is my realisation.
```My daily teachers are human ignorance and divine compassion.
```A spiritual teacher is not a camel.
But he has to have the shoulder of a camel. ```The wisest man says: "God is the Question."
The greatest fool says: "An atheist is the Answer."The purest seeker says: "God is man-made Question and self-revealed Answer."
```A doubting mind and an aspiring heart can never be the same man.
An unaspiring heart and a surrendering soul can never be the same man. ```My heart's consideration is my mind's comprehension.
My heart's consideration is my life's affirmation.My heart's consideration is my soul's manifestation.
My heart's consideration is my Lord's Perfection. ```God alone is.
Who is God?God is the Son of my satisfaction and the Father of my perfection.
```When I am without God, I try and cry.
When I am with God, I feel and fill.When I am in God, I think and bring.
When I am for God, I row and sow.When I am of God, I really am.
```Love is the whole history of my soul's life.
Surrender is the ultimate Goal of my life's soul. ```When we kneel, we rise.
When we rise, we see the Beyond.When we see the Beyond, we shake hands with our Divinity's Reality.
```Vision is the outer power of the inner faith.
Faith is the seeker's eternal Haven. ```Reluctance-Night is not to be found in God's dictionary.
Oneness-Light is not to be found in man's dictionary. ```Between my life and death I see only God the Aspiration.
```Prayer is man's protection.
Meditation is man's salvation.Realisation is man's transformation.
```Unity without purity is an impossibility.
Meditation without aspiration is an absurdity.Realisation without God is futility.
```God shoots the arrows of concern from the bow of compassion.
Man shoots the arrows of ingratitude from the bow of ignorance. ```To fulfil the demands of the space age man needs God's Power.
To perfect the face of the space age man needs God's Concern. ```Not to have any inspiration is unthinkable.
Not to have any aspiration is unpardonable. ```In the swift passage of day and night I have a friend and an enemy.
My enemy's name is human necessity.My friend's name is divine opportunity.
```When I climbed the hills of doubt, I saw the prince of confusion.
When I climbed the hills of ignorance, I saw the prince of destruction.When I climbed the hills of life, I saw the prince of liberation.
```Opportunity means service.
Service means oneness.Oneness means perfection.
Perfection means man's smile and God's pride. ```Each divine moment is an extension of our human capacity and perfection of our earthly necessity.
```False knowledge may be charming and interesting.
But true knowledge is not only inspiring and illumining but fulfilling. ```Are we hungry?
Yes, we certainly are.Who is free from hunger?
No, not even God.God is really and truly hungry.
Let us feed him with our purified love and illumined gratitude. ```The difference between desire and aspiration is very simple.
Desire tells us what we can say, see and do.Aspiration tells us what God has done, is doing and will be doing for us.
```A real aspirant is he who in the sunset hours of his life meditates on absolute surrender to God's Will and not on God's Peace and Bliss.
```Your simplicity and sincerity helped you as stepping-stones to your fulfilment.
Your inspiration and aspiration help you as stepping-stones to your fulfilment.Your realisation and manifestation shall help you as stepping stones to your fulfilment.
```Realisation is something we often wait for.
Aspiration is something we often have.Inspiration is something we often feel.
```Love has the power which transcends separation.
Bliss is the power which transcends union. ```Light is the real food to eat.
Life is the real opportunity to meet. ```God's Grace can and will blot out the past if and when you are ready to face and transcend the facts of your present life.
```Cultivate concern, you will reap a harvest of love.
Cultivate compassion, you will reap a harvest of delight.Cultivate oneness, you will reap a harvest of God's Glory and Pride.
```If you are poor in your acceptance of God's Light, then try at least to be rich in your rejection of the world's ignorance.
```Life is aspiration, growing and reaching.
Death is necessity, nesting and resting. ```Today's mistakes are only for today.
Tomorrow we shall admit them.The day after tomorrow, we shall not repeat them.
```The fulness of life lies in dreaming and manifesting the impossible dreams.
```To agree with me is to love me.
To love me is to pierce the veil of ignorance and multiply the power of light. ```Patience constitutes my bank of fortitude.
Love constitutes my bank of peace.Concern constitutes my bank of joy.
```It is not easy to understand a fool.
It is not difficult to understand a wise man.It is easy to understand God's secret.
It is difficult to understand man's ideas. ```Familiarity breeds contempt.
This is not the case with the spiritual Master.In his case, it is impossible for him to express contempt for anyone.
Further, the more he mixes with his sincere disciples, the sooner he will be able to bring them out of the ignorance-sea. ```When I cleave to my own will, I expose all my ignorance.
When I cleave to God's Will, not only do I know what God has, but also I freely reveal to the world what God is. ```The Supreme has to be received.
The Supreme has to be achieved.In this life, here and now.
```Love and concern are mutually inclusive.
Love and fear are mutually exclusive. ```The difference between the heart and the mind is this: the heart wants to give, the mind hates to lose.
```To love God is to love God's Dream.
To love God's Dream is to love His creation.To love His creation is to love His Realisation.
```Peace is God's constant Grace.
War is man's immediate disgrace. ```Inner joy, inner love and inner concern are always compatible with every station in life.
```When morning clears, I pray to God to inspire me, I pray to God to aspire within me, I pray to God to concentrate on me, I pray to God to meditate for me.
```God needs me.
This is true.God utilises me.
This is more true. ```My humility tells me that my God likes me.
My sincerity tells me that my God loves me.My purity tells me that my God cherishes me.
```My mind tells me that my God seldom thinks of me.
My heart tells me that my God often thinks of me.My soul tells me that my God always thinks of me.
I tell my soul to forgive my ignorance.I tell my heart that we must forgive our joint ignorance.
I tell my mind that I have the capacity to forgive its ignorance. ```Surrender yourself entirely to God's Will and you will see that you can never overestimate the significance of its value.
```To concentrate on God is to live with God.
To meditate on God is to live for God.To contemplate on God is to possess and be possessed by God.
```The most important thing in life is not to win the race, not even to run the race, but to see God's Face while sleeping, standing and running right in front of your own face.
```Who I am is of no value.
What I am is equally of no value.But God thinks of me.
That is why my life is really meaningful.God loves me.
That is why my life is fruitful. ```Morning tells me that my Lord is concern.
Noon tells me that my Lord is patience.Evening tells me that my Lord is compassion.
```Patience is the experience of the seeker's inner power.
Concern is the experience of the seeker's inner delight.Compassion is the experience of the seeker's own existence.
```I believe in freedom of divine surrender, but I never believe in divine freedom without surrender.
```To me I am an inescapable obligation.
To God I am the freedom of constant opportunity. ```I must never forget that when God is my heart's concentration, I am His Soul's first consideration.
```My mortality observes me.
My reality preserves me.My divinity expands me.
```What is my history?
This is more than a question.God is my eternal history.
God knows it and I am trying to learn it. ```God employs man secretly and daily.
Man enjoys God openly, but rarely. ```The human in me wants quantity.
The divine in me wants quality.The human in me wants God-realisation.
The divine in me wants my acceptance of God. ```When we nurture our weaknesses, we shake hands with the breath of painful compromise.
```Who comes first, God or man?
If man comes first, I have to give up God.If God comes first, I have not to give up any man.
For man is God's conscious life-breath. ```Aspiration is the creative power.
Realisation is the sustaining substance and fulfilling essence. ```Our wild impatience destroys our spiritual growth.
Unlike other trees our patience-tree bears three kinds of fruit: inspiration, aspiration and realisation. ```Perfection I have inherited from God in my inner life.
Transformation I have inherited from God in my outer life. ```Only a real aspirant's life can have the story of indomitable courage, inner and outer.
```Man creates necessities.
God creates opportunities.Man thinks that his life is a mere possibility.
God thinks that man's life is a constant ability. ```Love can tell you where God is.
Devotion can tell you what God is.Surrender can tell you who God is.
```My ego knows what God's law of justice means.
My surrender knows what God's law of love is. ```My imperfect gift to God is "yesterday — yesterday's experience."
God's perfect gift to me is "today — today's realisation." ```I employ my fleeting seconds for God miserly.
God employs His lasting hours generously for me. ```God's main experience in us is a chain of frustration.
Our main experience in God is the reign and rain of perfection. ```Man's fond secret is passion.
Nature's sincere secret is patience.God's open secret is Compassion.
```Only a thankful heart can have a meaningful life and a fruitful soul.
```A child's heart means a God's soul.
```He alone is the divine leader who has the capacity to implant inspiration in the heart of the human soul.
```When love fails, the story is not over; compassion speaks and succeeds.
```He who serves is God's representative.
He who is awakened is man's representative. ```Attachment is man's wisdom.
Affection is nature's wisdom.Concern is God's wisdom.
```Nothing is as pure as the heart's aspiration.
Nothing is as sure as the soul's realisation. ```Humility to one's superiors is a duty, to one's equals is a necessity, to one's inferiors is divinity's profundity.
```Passion is the life of man.
Compassion is the life of God. ```Progress is eternal patience.
Success is constant reliance: self-reliance and God-reliance. ```Inspiration tells me to live in the world of imagination.
Aspiration tells me to live in the world of vision.Realisation tells me to live in the world of revelation.
Transformation tells me to live in the world of manifestation. ```To value God's constant compassion is to use God's eternal and Transcendental Realisation.
```When dedication and surrender play together, you can expect an immediate miracle.
```God has given me a fortunate spiritual family.
In return I shall give Him a supremely victorious family. ```By seeing the past I gain nothing.
By knowing the future I gain something.By living the present I gain everything.
```Jealousy — that is what a fool truly has.
Suspicious — that is what a fool always is. ```Tell God that you want Him.
Lo, He has outlined His plans for you.Tell God that you need Him.
Lo, He has already offered His Transcendental Goal to you. ```When I love God, I know what independence of self-offering is.
When I love myself, I know what independence of ego is. ```You can succeed in all pioneering activities if you know that your inner name is "God's Will" and your outer name is "God's Grace."
```An unbeliever is your half enemy.
A disbeliever is your full enemy.A half believer is the unreal beside you and around you.
A full believer is the eternally real you, in you and for you. ```My life I gave to God.
That is why I eternally breathe.My death I gave to ignorance.
That is why it mercilessly returns. ```When the splendour of God's Compassion sheds its infinite effulgence, even the sleepy, the heedless and the undeserving are welcome.
```He needs your divine wisdom who thinks that in the distant future he will think of God and meditate on God.
Tell him that right now his life is a life of disgrace and that he will perish in a thousand agonies before the Hour strikes. ```Concern is the remedy for all ills.
Love is the remedy for all evils.Compassion is the remedy for all imperfections.
Aspiration is the remedy for all ignorance-nights. ```God wants each aspirant to be in love with two divine soldiers: wakefulness and readiness.
```A spiritual Master appears and then disappears.
When he appears, he is disdained.When he disappears, he is adored.
Why?The Light of his appearance is unbearable.
The forgiveness of his disappearance is unforgettable. ```When I live in the soul, I expect God's justice and I respect God's justice.
When I live in the body, I reject God's justice and I inject my revolt.When I expect and respect, I learn the meaning of God's Wisdom-Light.
When I reject and revolt, I learn the meaning of God's Compassion-Height. ```Yesterday I was overlooked.
Today I am unappreciated.Tomorrow I shall love God.
The day after tomorrow the world will cherish me. ```When the world needs my help, I shall offer my sure help without haste.
When God wants my service, I shall offer my pure service without delay. ```To pray to have a spiritual Master before entering into the spiritual life is to do the first thing first.
To pray for God-realisation before entering into the spiritual life is to try to do the last thing first.And what does it mean?
It means that you are one with ignorance-sea, you are in ignorance-boat and you are for ignorance-goal. ```A poor man complains.
A rich man fights.A spiritual man struggles.
A realised man serves. ```I speak not because the world needs me, but because God wants me to speak for Him.
```Individuality is not my necessity.
Personality is not my necessity.Reality's divinity is my necessity, only necessity.
```Physical absence is suspicion.
Physical presence is frustration.Spiritual absence is necessity's realisation.
Spiritual presence is opportunity's illumination. ```Two minds often struggle and strangle.
Two hearts often meet and greet.Two souls always supremely soar and divinely roar.
```Cultivate divinity, you are bound to harvest Immortality.
```Reality makes me.
Divinity teaches me.Eternity utilises me.
```Hunger for temptation's heart is man's choice.
Hunger for perfection's soul is God's choice. ```When I think God is mine, temptation may torture me and frustration may devour me.
When I think I am God's, aspiration awakens me, realisation liberates me and revelation fulfils me. ```Love without heart is blind.
Heart without love is lame.Love with heart is God's message.
Heart with love is God's pride. ```What is necessity if not a self-chosen choice.
Choice means either perfection's bloom or destruction's doom. ```The animal in us imagines only the tempting necessities.
The human in us sees only the burning necessities.The divine in us feels only the fulfilling necessities.
```My love sees God's Depth.
My devotion sees God's Height.My surrender feels and becomes God's Height and His Depth.
```Surrender is no wishful imagination.
Never.Surrender is always the soul's pre-vision.
```Don't measure the breath of your surrender.
Lo, God has preserved and reserved His transcendental Pride especially for you. ```If you meditate, then you don't hesitate.
If you hesitate, then you don't meditate.If you sigh, then you do not fly.
If you fly, then you don't sigh. ```Oh loving surrender, God wants you.
Oh devoted surrender, God needs you.Oh all-giving surrender, God embraces you and cherishes you.
```Failure has an enemy: faith.
Ignorance has an enemy: faith.Victory's only friend is faith.
Liberation's only friend is faith. ```No loneliness makes an aspirant more lonely than the absence of his master from his heart.
```My will is the bow.
God's Will is the arrow.Immortality's perfection is the target.
```The head of my aspiration and the feet of God's Compassion are eternally inseparable.
```I think of God because I think that I am hopeless.
God thinks of me because He feels that I am helpless.When I don't think of God, I lose my hard-earned achievements.
When God does not think of me, I enter into the animal kingdom once again. ```When I transform my mind into readiness, God will transform His Heart into willingness.
```Yesterday my teacher was self-affirmation.
Today my teacher is self-abnegation.Tomorrow my teacher will be self-realisation.
```When my necessity is God and not experience, I get both God and experience.
But when my necessity is experience and not God, then I may expect experience, but how can I expect God? ```My aspiration is the eternal song of my heart.
My realisation is the eternal song of God's Soul. ```In my inspiration I see God the plant.
In my aspiration I see God the flower.In my realisation I see God the fragrance.
```God, the Father, is all-protection to the seeker.
God, the Mother, is all-nourishment to the seeker. ```God's strength is His Sacrifice.
Man's strength is his acceptance. ```Human love is the boat that plies between the greatest admiration and the quickest rejection.
Divine love is the boat that plies between God's immediate Concern and God's constant Pride. ```To separate fruitful reality from wishful thinking we all need only one thing: God's Grace.
```Constantly will your life be blessed with fulfilling achievements if you grow into the flame of aspiration.
```Temptation runs rampant until it is taught by self-control.
When self-control reigns supreme, frustration sees the face of realisation. ```Our necessity's face does not fulfil our teeming requirements.
Our surrender's heart to God's Will can and will always fulfil our endless requirements. ```Human life is a struggle between desire and necessity.
Divine life is opportunity's book and necessity's pages. ```Accidents are facts.
God's protection is not only a truth but the Truth. ```The food of my eyes is scenery.
The food of my nose is fragrance.The food of my ears is spiritual teaching.
The food of my mind is clarity.The food of my heart is purity.
The food of my soul is Liberation. ```It is not love that fulfils, but concern.
It is not concern that fulfils, but sacrifice.It is not sacrifice that fulfils, but the feeling of oneness.
```Humanity's aspiring child is man.
Divinity's fulfilled child is man. ```When does God bless you?
God blesses you only when your body is prayerful, your vital tearful, your mind soulful, your heart fruitful and your soul supremely grateful. ```If all that you have is for God, then you can truly be successful.
If all that you are is for God, then you can be truly happy.If all that you are becoming is for God, then you can truly be proud.
```I see myself as God always sees me: Immortal.
I always see God as He sees Himself: Unconditional. ```Experience is cheerful.
Realisation is powerful.Experience is a growing tree.
Realisation is a fruit-bearing tree. ```Wherever you go, go with inspiration and aspiration.
Whatever you do, do with love and concern.Whomever you see, see with purity's beauty and responsibility's glory.
```Pleasure is a brief word.
Joy is a shining and glowing word.Love is a transforming word.
Concern is a fulfilling word. ```To rise triumphant out of every trial, what you need is inner courage.
What is inner courage?Inner courage is the constant acceptance and fulfilment of God's Will.
```Whomever you are, you are God's eternal journey.
Whomever you are, you are God's inmost soul. ```Surrender is at once our transforming light and fulfilling power in action.
```Do you really want to entrap the Supreme?
Then make yourself a perfect net of surrender. ```True, an unconditional surrender is almost an impossibility, but we have to know that our highest realisation is likewise not merely a one-day wonder.
```Surrender is the divine power before which all human powers are next to nothing.
```Multiplicity is the outer robe of unity.
Unity is the outer robe of divinity. ```When you consciously come to know that in you is the universe and with you is the Light and for you is God, you have won the Divine Race.
```Enlightenment and Liberation, do they mean the same?
No, you can have enlightenment in the mind, in the heart or in any part of the being.But in Liberation, you are free from the fetters of ignorance and from the monstrous jaw of death.
You can also say that enlightenment announces the dawn of liberation. ```Can you see God?
Can you speak to God face-to-face with your personal effort?Impossible.
You need God's infinite Grace in addition to your personal effort.Without God's Grace, you will but try, like a fool, to stamp with your foot on the shadow cast by your own head.
You are fit to receive God's Grace the moment you feel and realise that your limited personal efforts are also due to His boundless Grace. ```Can we gain anything from suspicion?
Nothing worthwhile can we gain from suspicion.Suspicion is a slow poison.
It is more useless than uselessness itself. ```Belief holds the world.
Confidence nourishes the world.Love transforms the world.
```They say that woman is the matchless hunting-ground for pleasure.
Is there any hunting-ground for abiding delight?Yes, there is.
God is the supremely delightful hunting-ground located in the inmost recesses of each woman's heart. ```What is misery?
Emotional misery is the result of desire in the mind.There is also physical misery.
This misery is caused by the nerves when they are tensed.When one does not have faith in oneself, it is the beginning of one's misery.
When one loses faith in one's master, he feels within the damaging breath of misery. ```A new year is a new life.
A new life is a new second.A new second is a new opportunity.
A new opportunity is a new blessing from the Infinite Supreme. ```My spiritual children, your new year has to be the year of faith and not of doubt.
Your new year has to be the year of joy and not of despair.Your new year has to be the year of achievement and fulfilment and not of failure and disgrace.
Your new year has to be the year of immortalising life and not of darkening death. ```In order to conquer your jealousy, give me all your mental fantasies.
In order to conquer your doubts, shout at your stupid mind as vehemently as possible. Also, there is an easier and more effective way. When doubt wants to assail you, just throw it into my boat. I shall sail it to the shores of total and perfect annihilation.God, the Musician, knows that His music is His Transcendental Self-communion. Man, the musician, thinks that his music is his world’s life-long companion.
God, the Musician, is divinely and eternally mysterious. Man, the musician, is humanly and temporarily marvellous.
God’s music tells us that music is the realisation of the universal soul. Man’s music tells us that music is the aspiration of the individual soul.
God’s music runs from the height to the depth. Man’s music runs from the breadth to the length. On the height God’s music is His Vision. In the depth God’s music is His Reality. In the breadth, man’s music is his crying soul. In the length, man’s music is his victory’s goal.
God’s music is the constant expansion of His Soul’s Delight. Man’s music is the preparation of his life’s hunger for perpetual joy.
God’s music kills God with its infinite luminosity. Man’s music kills man with its undying curiosity.
Music in the unlit body is destruction. Music in the unlit vital is passion. Music in the unlit mind is confusion. Music in the unlit heart is frustration.
Music in the aspiring body is creation. Music in the aspiring vital is purification. Music in the aspiring mind is liberation. Music in the aspiring heart is revelation.
My God, the Supreme Musician, has two families. One is in the East, the other in the West. He tells His eastern children, precisely, His Indian children, that music is the soul’s purity. He tells His western children that music is life’s beauty. He tells His eastern children that music is the fulfilling rest at the bottom of the life-sea. He tells His western children that music is the dance of the multitudinous waves of the life-sea. He tells His eastern children: “My children, among you those who can run will run, those who can march will march, and those who can walk will walk towards their destined goal.” He tells His western children: “My children, I want you all to stay together. I want you all to run together towards your destined goal.” He tells His eastern children: “My children, what you have is a one-pointed and unbroken chain of unity. That is good.” He tells His western children: “My children, what you have is the unity in diversity. That is great.” He tells His eastern children: “My children, what you have is your dream’s poetry, what you have is your reality’s literature.” He tells His western children: “My children, what you have is your dream’s arithmetic, what you have is your reality’s mathematics.”
Here we are all seekers, seekers of the infinite Truth. I wish to tell you that Beethoven was also a genuine seeker. Some of you are consumed with the desire to arouse and awaken your Kundalini so that you can have occult powers to perform miracles. Well, I wish to tell you that you do not have to practise any specific spiritual discipline in order to awaken your Kundalini. Beethoven is a striking example. His soulful music of the other world did awaken his Kundalini. You try with your own soul’s music. I assure you that you, too, will succeed. Now, what Beethoven says on music is true not only from the intellectual and emotional point of view, but also from the spiritual point of view:
> “Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. Although the spirit be not master of that which it creates through music, yet it is blessed in this creation, which, like every creation of art, is mightier than the artist.”
Music is the Vedic bird in us. This bird is called Suparna. This bird divine flies in the welkin of Infinity, through Eternity, with the message of Immortality. Here on earth, we do notice that the birds have the capacity to sing in endless measure, whereas we human beings try to create or develop this capacity. Tagore defends us:
> “To the birds you gave songs, the birds gave you songs in return.
> You gave me only voice, yet asked for more, and I sing.”The poet-bird in Keats, divinely intoxicated, flies in front of me, before my ken:
> “Was it a vision, or a waking dream?
> Fled is that music: — do I wake or sleep?”The music bird is within us to stay, to give us love.
The music bird is without us to fly, to give us joy.Since music is a universal language, it has no need to express itself in any particular language of the world. Rabindranath Tagore says: “Music is the purest form of art, and, therefore, the most direct expression of beauty, with a form and spirit which is one and simple, and least encumbered with anything extraneous. We seem to feel that the manifestation of the Infinite in the finite forms of creation is music itself, silent and visible.”
Our body’s food is either vegetable or meat or both. But our soul’s food is music. Undoubtedly it is so. Even our physical nature at times desperately needs music.
What Bovee says is undeniably true: “Music is the fourth great material want of our nature, — first food, then raiment, then shelter, then music.”
In the spiritual world next to meditation is music, the breath of music. Meditation is silence, energising and fulfilling. Silence is the eloquent expression of the inexpressible. “After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
They say, “Music is another woman who talks charmingly, but says nothing.” I say, “Music is verily the woman who, at once, tells everything divinely and offers everything unreservedly.”
They say, “Classical music is the music without words, modern music is the music without music.” I say, “Classical music is the music that lasts after it has all been sung, modern music is the music that begins long before it actually begins.” In classical music we try to see God the eternal Beyond. In modern music we see God the eternal Now.”
Music is our soul’s home. God is the Supreme Musician. In Sri Krishna I see God the Supreme Musician. Krishna’s flute stirs the universal consciousness. He plays on His flute. We listen. We do something more. We barter our body’s dust with His Soul’s plenitude.”
To Sri Krishna I bow, we bow.The outer beauty that a lover of God desires is totally different from the beauty that an unaspiring man cries for. An unaspiring man is both tempted and tempting. When he is tempted, he wants the outer world of beauty to cherish him. When he is tempting, he wants to bind the outer world of beauty. His acts of tempting others and of being tempted by others eventually lead him into frustration. Lo, inside his frustration there are two animals, a tiger and a cat. The cat is being devoured by the tiger. Soon he comes to realise that the tiger is none other than his all-devouring ego, and that the cat is none other than his ever-crying and begging desire.
A God-lover's outer beauty: he wants his outer beauty to inspire the length and breadth of the world. His beauty is the beauty of a fragrant rose. His beauty is the affection of an affectionate mother. His beauty is the beauty of a fruitful tree.
A fragrant rose makes our outer body fragrant. An affectionate mother offers to our outer life a flood of affection. A fruitful tree reminds us of our inner tree which bears joy, countless joys.
A God-lover's inner beauty: his inner beauty is the flowering of his consciousness. His inner beauty is the height of his aspiration. His inner beauty is the light of his realisation.
The outer beauty is the necessity of humanity. The inner beauty is the light of his realisation.
An aspirant is really beautiful when he comes to learn that he is all heart. An aspirant is divinely beautiful when he feels that he is all soul. An aspirant is supremely beautiful when he discovers that he has in abundant measure what God eternally is.
When we live in the emotional vital, our beauty is an outer gift. When we live in the aspiring heart, our beauty is an inner gift. The outer gift feels the outer world as a world of strangers. The inner gift feels the inner world as a world of illumining and illumined oneness.
Beauty without light is a flower without fragrance. Beauty with light is a human being without ignorance.
The beauty of life is our purity's spontaneity. The beauty of truth is our sincerity's necessity. The beauty of God-realisation is our aspiration's divinity.
We look beautiful within when our passions die. We look more beautiful within when our inner flame mounts. We look most beautiful within when our sun of realisation bursts.
The power of beauty is an aspirant's manifested motherhood. The peace of beauty is an aspirant's fulfilled fatherhood. The bliss of beauty is an aspirant's transformed and divinised manhood.
When I am physically beautiful, God smiles. God smiles at me because I am using His own dress. When I am spiritually beautiful, God plays. God plays with me because He has got me as His own playmate.
He who does not become, spiritually, the pages of cosmic beauty, will one day ruthlessly be compelled to read the book of fate, by Ignorance. Not even God the Compassionate will hide the book of fate from him.
If we start with the soul's beauty, we can end in the Supreme's transcendental Reality. Let us start.
Obscurity says to Beauty: "Beauty, why are you so beautiful?"
Beauty answers, "Obscurity, better ask me how I am so beautiful and not why. I am beautiful because my heart's soulful cry always touches the feet of God."
Purity speaks to Beauty: "Beauty, I wish to stay with you for some time."
Beauty answers, "Purity, certainly you may. I would love to have you. But don't forget to bring your identification."
"What is my identification?" asks Purity.
"Don't you know what your identification is? Your identification is your life-long spontaneity."
Austerity speaks to Beauty: "Beauty, you are a fool. You never aspire. I am really sorry to tell you that you are God's only failure."
"Austerity, granted, I am God's failure. But certainly you are no better than I am. Remember, God is all Love. Remember, God is all recreation."
Calamity says to Beauty: "Beauty, I loved you. Look at my deplorable consciousness. Look at time which has deserted me. Look at my fallen life!"
"Calamity, I can solve all your problems, once and for all. Give me your deplorable consciousness. From now on, it will live with my inner life. Give me the time that has deserted you. From now on, it will live with my inner breath. Give me your fallen life. From now on, it will live with my inner Goal."
Dignity speaks to Beauty: "Beauty, I understand perfectly why others bow down to you, but I do not know what makes me bow to you."
"Dignity, your heart's necessity tells you that I have the power to increase the capacity of your nobility's light."
Hostility says: "Beauty, my name is Hostility. I want to destroy you. I want to banish you from God's world. I want to destroy your beauty, both inner and outer, here and now."
Beauty says, "Hostility, you can never destroy me because inside me God the Necessity is immortalising me. Outside me, God the Omnipotent Reality is protecting me, cherishing me and fulfilling me."
Divinity whispers: "Can you tell me, Beauty, why I need you throughout Eternity?"
"Mother, you need me because within me you see your own everlasting divine sovereignty."
Knock at the door of Silence.
Silence you want?Knock at the door of Surrender.
You will get what you want and something more: Liberation.Another day, another day.
My Lord Supreme is far away.Another day, my heart can be
The all-giving breath of patience-tree.Another day, my life can feed
My soulful world with its crying need.Another day, I own to hear
God’s Voice of Light and feel Him near.Another day, another day.
My tears shall win His blue-gold Ray.Another day, another day.
And then, no more my ignorance-clay.Another day, I’ll be God’s love
Within, without, below, above. ```This bird is called Suparna.
This bird divine flies in the welkin of Infinity through Eternity with the message of Immortality.The sky with sun and moon and stars
Leans down today to clasp my soul.Their boundless love and peace sublime
Lead me to Freedom, snow-capped goal.I hear the Hymn that bars decay
And makes my bosom ever greenWith faith and ardent inmost call,
I have become the Freedom-Sheen.My bird of dawn is on the wing,
Its wonder-goal within its ken.The sombre death now weeps in awe
Alone in his secret eyeless den. ```My foe is none but I.
All future I reap from deeds of mine.If I receive not aid
From me, no soul will make me shine.The evil forces lie
Within, around my symbol sheath.They seize my knowledge-sun,
And tear my mind with dragon teeth. ```The tree of love can never be separated from the tree of realisation.
The tree of realisation can never be separated from the tree of transcendental perfection.I feel in all my limbs His boundless Grace;
Within my heart the Truth of life shines white.The secret heights of God my soul now climbs;
No dole, no sombre pang, no death in my sight.No mortal days and nights can shake my calm;
A Light above sustains my secret soul.All doubts with grief are banished from my deeps,
My eyes of light perceive my cherished Goal.Though in the world, I am above its woe;
I dwell in an ocean of supreme release.My mind, a core of the One’s unmeasured thoughts,
The star-vast welkin hugs my Spirit’s peace.My eternal days are found in speeding time,
I play upon His Flute of rhapsody.Impossible deeds no more impossible seem,
In birth-chains now shines Immortality. ```To read the words of Sri Chinmoy is to feed the aspiring mind spiritually. To feed the aspiring mind is to eventually touch the heart. The heart is the home of the soul. When the heart is touched, we are aware of God's Presence within us.
Sri Chinmoy has written for January 20th: “Earth wants you to be great. Heaven wants you to be good. God wants you to be spontaneously genuine. When you become great, you will realise how insignificant you are. When you become good, you will realise how false your life is. When you become spontaneously genuine, your life grows into God’s perfect perfection.”
When we concentrate on our divine ideal, we ARISE from our ignorance-sleep. When we meditate on the daily aphorisms, our lives are AWAKENED. When we meditate on Sri Chinmoy, we WALK with him, our unerring guide. When we sit in front of him and meditate while receiving his Blessing, we MARCH with the swiftest.
When our soul’s cry and God’s Delight are in communion, we RUN with the fastest. When we are totally one with God, we FLY.
For me, these daily meditations are God's teachings. Both of us, you and I, can endlessly learn from these teachings.
“Please tell me, God, how can I make these teachings most meaningful for me? I wish to Arise, Awake, Walk, March, Run, Fly.”
If you care enough to ask God this question every morning, to read each day’s meditation, three times, most soulfully, and to empty your mind of everything except the silence of God’s Presence, then God’s Voice will answer this question through your heart. Beyond this, if you can remember each day’s meditation throughout the day, you will see and feel your life in the process of complete transformation.
The meditations have meaning for the aspirants who are only awakening as well as for those who are ready to fly. Within a single meditation there are often multiple meanings depending on the level of understanding of the aspirant.
Inherent in them are hints of the overall teachings of Sri Chinmoy, and of that most precious living Master-disciple relationship. Most incredibly, Sri Chinmoy is alive in this century and is available to help sincere seekers!
Sri Chinmoy has written and published many essays, stories, poems, and songs. This creation of his is all the more astonishing when one feels that his achievements in the inner world dwarf the achievements in the outer world. For he is not only in touch with each disciple every day, no matter where the disciple may be (and the disciples are spread out over several continents), but he is able to give the most blessed help the human mind can imagine, as it is needed, when such help is in keeping with God’s Cosmic Will.
The Supreme Guru is God Himself. Sri Chinmoy, through his words and through his presence, helps us feel God’s Love, Peace, Light, Bliss, and Power. The meditations open the door to Sri Chinmoy’s Garden where God has planted a bumper crop to feed all aspirants. Indeed, it is the feast of the century.From:Sri Chinmoy,Arise! Awake! Thoughts of a yogi, Frederick Fell, Inc, New York, 1972
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