Journey's Goal, part 1

1. Oh, where is hell?

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Ah! Who can tell?

Try your mind-cave.

2. I had a dream

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I had a dream.

His compassion-stream.

I have a dream.

To support His team.

3. I see in him no more a beast

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His human life is released.

He will, ere long, enjoy God-feast.

4. I do not sing, I cannot sing

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I cannot sing.

I cry and sigh.

5. No haste

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Just slowly taste

More, ever more.

6. I have no skill

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I have no scheme.

I have no will.

God-Compassion-ring.

7. My mind shall not complain

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My heart shall not explain.

My body shall attain.

8. Ah! Who can feed my greed?

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My greed?

Ah! Who can lead

None.

9. Here is the key

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To open my heart.

To remove world-dirt.

Of oneness-glee.

10. My soul shall always share

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My heart shall always care.

I shall give God-oneness rare.

11. This is the way

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Indeed,

Heart-surrender-ray

With God to play,

Indeed,

12. I love the beauty of sleeping flowers

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Of sleeping flowers.

Of dying mortals.

Of seeking souls.

13. To be a friend divine

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I must be a supreme friend.

My stupid life I end.

14. One thing I know

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Heaven is unkind.

This world is slow.

Sincerity.

15. Heaven's will leads me

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Earth’s will feeds me, my heart.

My life nothing can bind.

16. I love because I must

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Because I must.

Because I last.

Because I need.

Because I feed.

17. How can I forget you

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You are so kind.

How can I forget you?

In all you do.

You are God’s choice.

18. I think of God

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Because

I think of man

He is so sad.

Because

I think of you

You are so mad.

19. O deaf Heaven

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I have two ears.

Gladly I shall share.

I have two eyes.

Sincerely I care.

20. Two distance-friends meet

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The finite cry

The infinite smile.

Equally I greet.

21. He sang his swan song

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“Man is great.

Life is hunger.

22. Your service-tree

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Is blossoming now.

Have kept your vow.

23. I love my task

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Daily I unmask

Daily I invite

24. I am not ready

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To feel the heart of man.

To see the Face of God.

I am all ready

To man.

I am all ready

To God.

25. Great is He

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Who lives

Good is He

Earth’s fulfilling liberty.

26. On my way back to life

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Life offered me its blossoming soul.

Death offered me its resting goal.

27. Your need and love are one

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You see their oneness white.

Your satisfaction-light.

28. Four important failures

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Earth has lost its sincerity.

Man has lost its divinity.

29. I feed a flame within

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I feed a smile without.

My animal kingdom I tame.

30. Heart, for my sake

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Do not neglect.

Do not reject.

Do not project.

31. Use not your tyrant-temper

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To devour the world.

And become earth’s perfection-soul

32. Pure love's first gift

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Beauty’s newness-Source.

Duty’s oneness-course.

33. I see no foe

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No matter where I go,

An endless newness-flow.

34. Pure as prayer-cry

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Sure as service-sky,

You are empty of night.

35. Faith is its own redeemer

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Confidence is its own fulfiller.

Doubt is its own destroyer.

Oneness is its own saviour.

36. A foolish prayer-night

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My Lord, give me.

My Lord, take me.

37. Life-flower quickly fades

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Friend-bond quickly breaks.

Ecstasy all-where pervades.

38. What about poor me?

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You have given him Your pen.

Father, what about poor me?

At My Heart-Gate.

39. Beyond the reach of Heaven

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The human cry.

A smile divine.

Peace.

Oneness-shrine.

40. I hope to learn

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The gratitude-song.

The self-announcement-gong.

41. What can I do?

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With God I can converse.

In peace I can immerse.

I beckon the soul of feeble dole.

I produce God-soul

Pave the way to perfection-goal.

42. One promise to my Heaven-height

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My heart shall always fly.

My soul shall always cry.

43. Lord, when my song is sung

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What shall I do?

Cry for your new dawn-dew.”

44. Do not give up

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Tomorrow you will pluck

You will become within God-dove.

Between humanity’s sigh

45. O sun of my soul

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I devotedly love your duty.

I soulfully love your beauty.

I surprisingly love your purity.

I love your generosity.

46. As a seeker-soul

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You will always win and gain.

You will be the hyphen

47. O Saviour dear

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You are so near.

Bind my heart, bind.

I am all yours, sure.

48. O winning speed

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You are our treasure-doll.

You sadden us all.

49. My tiny boat I row

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My little body I drag.

Shameless! Yet I brag.

50. I prepare my faith-hunger

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I declare my hunger-meal.

Destruction’s dark eyes I seal.

51. My peace I treasure

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Beyond all measure.

My ‘I’-ness I tarnish.

52. Believe it or not

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I love my duty’s flow.

It spreads far and wide

53. In your case, what you need

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What you need

In his case,

Is a life-denial role.

What I need

54. Everything that a man needs

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He surely cares

Everything that a cosmic God has

To have.

55. If you love God

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You will remain

If you love yourself,

Of your deceased fame.

56. How to know the singer?

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From the song?

The singer is God’s unparalleled

The song is God’s unprecedented

57. They love your compassion-heart

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You love their blossoming soul.

You love their God-realising Goal.

58. Nothing I do

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Can satisfy you.

I shall love you more

Keep your body-soul

59. Keep your mind-poise

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You will ascend.

You will transcend.

60. Half experience

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Man is man-night.

Man is God-height.

Man is God-Eternity’s

61. For a knowledge-teacher

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He had wisdom-tutor rare.

Wisdom is realisation and perfection-glow.

62. Man is dear to man

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Because of his failure-cry.

Because of His failure-success-

63. I build my hope-tower

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Inside the smile

I bury my frustration-shower

Of earth’s loud cry.

64. Why do I fail?

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No, not because

No, not because

No, not because I am a fool

Oh, but because

Therefore, I fail.

65. One man-like God

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One God-like man

My longing ken.

66. In body and soul

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I know.

I grow.

I glow.

I flow.

67. Faith cures my sorrows

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Love feeds my morrows.

Bliss cancels death-knife.

68. Death, be not ruthless

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Life, be not helpless.

Journey, be not Godless.

69. My silence speaks

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My sound is mute.

God plays my flute.

70. My feet have wings

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They fly.

They cry.

It shines.

It dines.

71. Your rising glory

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A beauty-game.

A purity-flame.

72. My heart's only friend

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The humble grass.

The crystal glass.

73. Some are born to ecstasy's light

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But I am not.

But I am not.

But I am not.

But I am not.

74. Since you are a candidate

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For power, you will succeed.

For light, I shall not only succeed,

75. God opens His morning Eye

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And it is all Duty.

And it is all Beauty.

76. O endless night

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I have a new friend,

A new leader-light:

77. One aspiration-drop

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Fills the vast immensity.

Kindles the unlit mortality.

78. Some men were destined to fly

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I am not one of those

Some Gods were meant for knowledge-sun.

Who knew.

79. I loved yesterday's unconditional grace

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Yesterday’s unconditional grace.

Today’s winning race.

Tomorrow’s perfection-face.

80. Yesterday I loved

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Imagination-flight.

Aspiration-white.

Realisation-light.

81. I longed to give my heart and soul

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To the animal world.

I longed to give my heart and soul

My human fellows

I longed to give my heart and soul

My divine friends

82. I shall obey You

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I shall be at Your Feet.

And serving You.

83. A new world of peace

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A new world of light,

Can alone give me

84. I know the secret desires of your heart

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You want to bind,

This world of beauty’s glow.

Indeed, you are so smart.

85. Power influences my life

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Light inspires my soul.

Man augments my strife.

86. Faith is a secret way

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To go and see God’s Face.

To win God and God’s Grace.

87. Heavenly time

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And

We must measure,

Meaningful is time,

88. Ancient night

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I salute your soulful cry.

I salute your fruitful sky.

89. Speak, silence, speak

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Teach me how to seek.

You are soulless,

You are weaker,

Than a tiny drop.

90. O piercing ray

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Do pierce this body of clay.

Do illumine this life of night.

91. Breathless with adoration

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Sleepless with aspiration,

You are.

From liberation-strength

92. Blissful solitude

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Peaceful plenitude,

To you three

93. Ecstasy of my psychic fire

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No soul can endure.

So soulful and pure.

94. Always to be inside

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The heart of life

Some day a cosmic ray

95. I take the endless way

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I play the endless game,

To see God-Compassion-Flame.

96. There is a star

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Not far, not far,

Its beauty’s reign

An express train

97. Cease not fighting

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The inner fight!

Must kiss the dust.

On earth must last.

98. Life, what is it?

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A soulful prayer.

A fruitful power.

A journey to the silence-clime

99. My eyes behold

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God-Beauty’s Eye.

Frustration-sigh.

100. Give me a little time

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I shall tell you, my friend,

He is at the very end

And

101. My heart shall die

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In Your Silence long.

With Your Compassion-Song.