Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 1

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My Lord,

You have commanded me

To offer You

Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees.

I shall obey Your absolute Command.

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2

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My heart

Is one of my homes,

But my heart’s only Home

Is God. ```

3

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To see the Face of God,

First I must devour

The Nectar-Dust

Of God’s Feet. ```

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To see the Eye of God,

First I must become

The Heart of God.

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5

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Earth’s cry ascends,

But before it touches Heaven’s Eye,

It returns.

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6

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Heaven’s Smile descends,

But before it feels earth’s heart,

It returns.

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7

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My God-gratitude-heart

Is my soul’s

Rainbow-dance-ecstasy.

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8

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My Lord Supreme,

Do expedite the birth

Of my gratitude-heart.

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9

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Today my heart and I

Are exceedingly happy,

For we are seeing my mind’s

Ego-balloon

Losing its altitude very rapidly.

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10

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My Beloved Supreme,

I do not want to become

A computer-brain.

I wish to become only

A devotion-chain.

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11

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A sincerity-mind

Is a long road.

A purity-heart

Is a longer road.

A divinity-life

Is the longest road. ```

12

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When the mind does not aspire,

It becomes a victim

To devastating and damaging thoughts.

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13

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It is not at all a difficult task

For the mind to become

Deliberately anti-divine.

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14

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O my mind,

How long will you enjoy

Your lame arguments

Against God’s Compassion-Eye? ```

15

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An Avatar is he

Who receives from God Himself

The world-purifying breath.

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16

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An Avatar is he

Who receives from God Himself

The world-saving fingertips.

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17

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An Avatar is he

To whom God Himself tells

The world-illumining secrets.

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18

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An Avatar is he

Who receives from God Himself

God’s own Dreams

For God’s full manifestation

Here on earth.

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19

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An Avatar is he

Who gladly stoops beneath

The weight of world-sorrows.

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20

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Abiding satisfaction

Lies only

In the roots of faith.

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21

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The suspicious mind

And the sagacious heart

Can never amicably agree.

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22

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My Lord,

Do You really see and feel

My throbbing heart’s deep sobs for You?

“My child, I do, I do,

And I claim them

To be absolutely Mine!”

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23

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Each day with a spiritual Master

Is a life-saving

And

Life-shaping opportunity

For the disciple.

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24

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Every day my Lord passes

My frustration-examination.

Every night my Lord passes

My exasperation-examination. ```

25

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O God-seekers,

How can you be such fools

That you do not realise

That each God-given task

Is a golden opportunity

For you to expedite

Your Godward journey?

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26

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O seeker,

Your soul is extremely embarrassed

To introduce you to God.

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27

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O seeker,

I feel extremely sorry for you!

Your entire life has become

A box of mind-worries. ```

28

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I want to become

The beauty and fragrance

Of a self-disciplined life.

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29

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If you lack sincerity

In your spiritual life,

Then you will be heading

Towards NOTHING. ```

30

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May my love of God

Swing

Into full action.

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31

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No more shall I allow

The temptation-snake

To bite my life.

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32

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I shall always

Feast my eyes

On God’s Lotus-Feet.

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33

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When I have a deep meditation,

I feel that my life is blossoming

Into a tree of paradise.

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34

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My sleepless surrender-heart

Is the official residence

Of my Lord’s Satisfaction-Eye.

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35

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To reach God’s Palace

You do not need an outer guide,

But you do need an inner cry.

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36

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Aspiration becomes frustration

When we want to fulfil our lives

In our own desperate way.

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37

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Every rule admits of exception

Under the law

Of supreme necessity.

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38

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When our surrender is complete,

We are able to fly

At a meteoric aspiration-speed.

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39

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You profess yourself

To be a wise seeker.

Then how is it that you still live

In your mind-desire-jungle? ```

40

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His heart-aspiration-volcano

Has destroyed the bridge

Between his mind

And the vital world. ```

41

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Do not worry,

My seeker-friend.

God has not told you

That you are a finished product. ```

42

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Every night my soul comes

And tells my heart

To sleep in a field

Of dream-flowers. ```

43

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God is so proud of me

Because I am totally lost

Inside my gratitude-heart.

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44

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You are saying that you have received

A new hope-supply.

That means God is dreaming

Through your new dreams. ```

45

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God’s Compassion-Eye intervened

And prevented him

From needing mind-surgery.

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46

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Lovingly and compassionately

My soul is asking my heart

To immigrate

To God’s Satisfaction-Country. ```

47

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Alas, why am I not allowing God

To handcraft my life

Inch by inch

According to His sweet Pleasure? ```

48

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I have completely withdrawn my loyalty

To my doubting mind.

All my loyalties have now gone

To my aspiring heart. ```

49

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Even if you sing prayerful songs

To an imaginary audience,

Your soul becomes

Extremely proud of you. ```

50

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If you sincerely love this world,

Then no proof is necessary.

But if you do not love the world at all,

Then no proof will be sufficient. ```

51

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Some are of the opinion

That God-manifestation

Is an impossibility,

While others think

That God-manifestation

Is a remote possibility.

Still others think that God-manifestation

Is a living reality.

I proudly and happily

Belong to the last category. ```

52

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My perfection-loving heart

Is the personal secretary

Of God.

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53

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My mind’s hope

Comes and goes,

But my heart’s promise

Will never leave me. ```

54

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True, I want to be a God-speaker,

But I want to be a God-seeker

Infinitely more.

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55

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God wants

Each and every aspiring heart

To be a universal peace-shrine.

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56

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God wants me to be a passenger

On His own Train,

And He Himself wants to take me

To His absolute Perfection-Station. ```

57

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I have three places to meditate:

I meditate inside

My God-searching mind.

I meditate inside

My God-yearning heart.

I meditate inside

My God-serving life.

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58

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Most special souls

Love and treasure

God’s most simple Life.

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59

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Do not allow

Your anxiety-arrows

To pierce

Your aspiration-heart-blossoms. ```

60

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Your blind imitation-mind

Can bring about for you

A life of tragedy.

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61

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My silence-heart

Has silenced

My mind’s loudspeaker-sound-pride.

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62

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A true God-seeker

Can enjoy

A divine symphony

With every breath. ```

63

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I see a soulful song

Taking birth

In each heartbeat of mine.

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64

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May my failure-desire-life

Set

With the setting sun.

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65

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May my soul-fountain-hopes

Never become

A weeping heart.

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66

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All seekers are accepted

By God happily,

Even the ones who come to God

At the very last moment. ```

67

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The promise-power

Of a positive thought

Cannot be measured.

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68

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Just listen to your soul’s

Charming whispers.

You can easily overthrow

Your mind-dictator. ```

69

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A soulful hope

And a beautiful dream

Live together.

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70

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I value and treasure God’s Hope

Inside my heart’s garden

Infinitely more than I value and treasure

Anything else. ```

71

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Life collects

Infinity’s

Smiling songs.

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72

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Death collects

Eternity’s

Sad stories.

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73

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The mind’s death-demolition

Can take place

When the seeker becomes

A God-gratitude-heart. ```

74

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Hesitation not only unconsciously,

But even consciously,

Takes the longest road.

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75

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If you are a part-time seeker,

Then God will nowhere be discovered

By you.

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76

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Only a rank fool

Can indulge

In future phantom worries

And anxieties. ```

77

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I implicitly trust the peace-seekers,

For I know that one day

They will become the peace-bringers.

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78

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When I become

A sincere God-seeker within,

God turns me into

A truth-seer without. ```

79

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Each aspiration-heart

And each dedication-life

Is an exclusive God-Responsibility.

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80

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God invites only those

To dine with Him

Who have developed

A genuine God-hunger. ```

81

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I must never allow

My God-manifestation-dream-blossoms

To wither.

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82

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Your stupidity knows no bounds!

You rely on your heart’s

Insecurity-tears.

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83

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The mind does everything wrong.

The poor heart, on behalf of the mind,

Has become a perpetual apology!

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84

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O my mind,

It is high time for you

To veer away

From the dark ignorance-path. ```

85

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Always aim directly

At perfection-target

And at nothing else.

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86

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O seeker,

Do not allow your purity-heart

To be shrouded

By fear, doubt and anxiety. ```

87

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No matter how hard we try

To be indifferent to our doubting mind,

The doubting mind monopolises

Our lives. ```

88

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My Lord Supreme,

Do give me the capacity

Plus opportunity

To put an end

To my arrogance-ego-talk.

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89

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A devotion-flooded heart

Can easily avoid

The mind-trickster.

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90

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A staunch God-lover knows

That his heart has the capacity

To go far beyond

His mind’s authority-limits. ```

91

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When you join the spiritual life,

You must consciously brace yourself

Against destructive ignorance-blows.

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92

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You and your heart-garden-beauty

And fragrance

Will always prevail.

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93

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God wants us to rise high

In our heart’s sky

To transform our earth-bound lives.

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94

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Long, long ago

I lodged my life

In God’s Heart-Home.

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95

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You absent yourself

From God’s Presence.

Poor God does not know

How to retaliate! ```

96

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His inner life is nothing other

Than a beautiful harvest

Of prayers and meditations.

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97

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My beautiful meditation-birds

Fly before me

Before dawn arrives.

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98

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A hope-plant

Grows faster

Than any other plant.

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99

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Who can penetrate

The jungle-jumble-mind

That has no aspiration-cry?

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100

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You must never trivialise

Your God-given

Spiritual life.

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101

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Why are we such fools?

How is it that we do not feel

That we are privileged

To perform our God-given duties? ```

102

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Pride

In any promise

Is simply intolerable.

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103

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I can clearly see

That the breath of Heaven

Every day

Feeds my God-surrender-soul. ```

104

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It is not an impossibility

To have a pyramid-high dream

Every day.

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105

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Nobody can appreciate you

And nobody will

If you deliberately become

The destruction-cloud

Of disobedience.

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106

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We do not want to claim time.

But we do not realise

How time claims everything.

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107

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Do you want to enjoy a miracle?

It is very simple.

Always say “Yes!” to God!

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108

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O my mind,

Do not waste precious time

Making gigantic master plans.

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109

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The sun is in the west,

A rainbow is in the east,

But I am neither in the sun

Nor in the rainbow.

I am only in God’s Satisfaction.

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110

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The tears of my eyes

Are forced to live

In a chorus of clouds.

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111

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I pray to God every day

To make my mind

The brightest God-vision-star.

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112

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If you do not dare to stop

Your meandering thought-train,

Your goal will always remain

A far cry. ```

113

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To hear God’s secret Whispers

Is to drink

Ecstasy-flooded dreams.

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114

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If you are indifferent

To name and fame,

Then certainly you are

Pleasing God

In a very special way.

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115

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Finally I have demolished

My mind’s

Doubt-tower.

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116

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God can easily answer

All our questions.

But He deliberately

Does not answer

Some of our questions

So that we can make

The fastest progress.

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117

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Forgiveness is a supreme virtue,

And this particular virtue

Can be practised by anybody.

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118

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Do not think!

The more you think,

The more you generalise

And categorise.

Thinking is of no avail

In the spiritual life.

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119

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A constantly questioning

And analysing mind

Does not even have the speed

Of an Indian bullock cart. ```

120

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If there is no love-foundation,

There cannot be

Any perfection-edifice.

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121

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Each service-opportunity

Is, indeed,

A progress-joy.

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122

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Every day

God’s Compassion-Eye

Forgives our wild blunders.

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123

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O seeker, if you have

A non-stop

Enthusiasm-eagerness,

Then for you there can be

No goal unattainable.

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124

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Criticism decreases

The beauty and fragrance

Of the God-searching mind.

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125

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The seeker who has

Angel-soft eyes of sweetness

Makes very fast progress

In the spiritual life. ```

126

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God’s Compassion

Is always eager

To carry us beyond our life’s

Self-styled limitation-zone. ```

127

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Let your mind’s discipline

And heart’s patience

Perform their miracles for you.

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128

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No more shall I permit myself

To be buffeted

By my life’s desire-surges.

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129

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In the bloom of early hours,

God Himself comes

And takes

My meditation-attendance. ```

130

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My debate with God

Is not only shameless

But also useless

In every possible way. ```

131

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Every morning

God gives me an opportunity

To fly upon the wings

Of my devotion-songs. ```

132

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Before leaving,

Try loving more,

Infinitely more.

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133

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Alas, how many God-dreams

Are waiting inside me

For their full manifestation!

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134

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I am determined

To make the fastest progress

In my spiritual life

And not be satisfied with my years

Of ping-pong progress.

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135

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Even the tiniest aspiration-tear

God treasures

In His Satisfaction-Heart.

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136

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In the morning,

I wish to be the sunrise-beauty

Of a climbing heart.

In the evening,

I wish to be the sunset-beauty

Of a sailing heart. ```

137

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No more shall I allow

My life to be eclipsed

By failure-darkness

And failure-sadness. ```

138

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Today’s

Peace-bloom-dreamer

Will become

Tomorrow’s

Peace-blossom-bestower.

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139

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My mind, you are versed

In the science of self-deception.

Can you not get a new life

By becoming versed

In self-illumination?

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140

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The birth-cry

Is Infinity’s beauty.

The death-cry

Is Eternity’s duty. ```

141

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My Lord does not come alone

When He visits

My gratitude-heart.

He comes

With His Satisfaction-Embrace.

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142

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A God-seeker is he

Who has a prayerful song

In his heart

All the time for everyone. ```

143

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I am kept alive

Only by

My God-hope-fragrance.

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144

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Do not allow

Your tomorrow’s unborn sorrows

To destroy your today’s

Fully-blossomed happiness. ```

145

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The doubting mind

Will eventually be known

And convicted

As a misleader of mankind. ```

146

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When impatience becomes

A God-seeker,

It will definitely meet its end

In a great disaster. ```

147

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If we have soulfulness

Inside our heart,

Then we shall appreciate

And admire

The fulness of each moment.

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148

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Begin your spiritual life

By totally forgetting

Everything

That has disappointed you. ```

149

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Be careful, O seeker!

Your every wasted opportunity

May cost a lifetime.

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150

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My Lord Supreme,

Do come and steal

All my heart-blossoms.

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151

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My Lord Supreme,

Do come and steer my heart-boat

In accordance with Your sweet Will.

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152

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I am eager

To take the earliest flight

From ignorance-land

To the land of wisdom-light. ```

153

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Your self-help-quest

Will not lead you

A great distance.

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154

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Your weak and cowardly faith

Will not receive

A God-Palace-entrance-ticket.

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155

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Readiness, willingness

And eagerness

Can bless your life

With a new God-viewpoint. ```

156

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I can hide everything,

Save and except

My mind’s frustration-tears.

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157

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I want to explore

The sacred secrets

Of my aspiration-heart.

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158

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Happily and proudly

I have relinquished

At long last

My ego-throne. ```

159

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Purity in boundless measure

Resides inside the lotus

Of our aspiration-heart.

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160

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I am overwhelmed with joy

To see my real spiritual life

Blossoming again.

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161

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I am expediting

My life-journey

With beams of hope.

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162

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The power

Of the spiritual current

From his eyes

Cannot be fathomed. ```

163

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His heart is seated

On the rose petal

Of sweetness, newness

And fulness. ```

164

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A seeker’s heart

Sparkles

With beauty’s wisdom-stars.

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165

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O Pilot of my heart’s dreams,

You are the breath

Of my Godward journey!

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166

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I clearly see that my soul

Is in the galaxy

Of star-dreams.

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167

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If you do not aspire,

One day

You will find yourself

In dark thought-tunnels. ```

168

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Each aspiring moment

Is Divinity’s

New birth.

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169

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Do not allow your heart

To be a trembling leaf

Of insecurity-night.

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170

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My soul tells my mind

That it has no right to mar

The beauty of my heart’s

Rising sun. ```

171

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Each truth-seeker

Must make his heart-muscle

Stronger than the strongest.

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172

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O doubting mind,

I shall not allow you

To eclipse all my heart-dreams.

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173

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Forgiveness-flower

Is infinitely more beautiful

Than anything else.

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174

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He is so stupid!

He is enjoying

His self-congratulation-indulgence.

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175

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God’s Compassion-Eye

Has put me back

On the aspiration-road.

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176

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God is telling me

That I will do Him a big favour

If every day,

In the small hours of the morning,

I think of Him, pray to Him

And meditate on Him. ```

177

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My searching mind

Is born to succeed.

My aspiring heart

Is born to proceed. ```

178

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You can be

A personal relation to God

If you can raise

Your God-aspiration-standard. ```

179

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I gave a special surprise to God

On His Birthday

By awakening from

My spiritual coma. ```

180

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I have a very special surprise

For God’s Birthday:

My absolutely unconditional

Surrender-life. ```

181

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God’s Compassion-Eye

Has taught me

How to become

A sleepless God-obedience-server. ```

182

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I shall not allow

Even one ego-plant

To grow alongside

My heart-blossoms. ```

183

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My Lord Supreme

Is heaving a sigh of relief

Because I am no longer

A friend of ignorance-night. ```

184

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If God is our only escort

In our aspiration-dedication-life,

Then we shall arrive

At the destination safely. ```

185

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Until we see the invisible

Inside the visible,

We must not be satisfied.

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186

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Each day God gives me

The capacity to offer humanity

A stream of inspiring

And aspiring deeds. ```

187

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I am fully determined

To dismantle

All my evil thought-buildings.

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188

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God’s Satisfaction-Heart

Clears the path

For peace-pilgrims.

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189

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Every morning

When I pray and meditate,

God’s Compassion-Eye

Plucks the strings

Of my inner harp.

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190

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Delay not!

Immediately break

The age-old ignorance-chain

Of your mind. ```

191

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Every morning

God deposits

His special Blessings

In your heart-safe. ```

192

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We have to ascend

To our summit-heights

To transcend and transform

Our mind. ```

193

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My mind,

Enough of your arrogance!

Enough of your self-indulgence!

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194

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I am so happy

That my mind’s

Temptation-indulgence-days

Are numbered. ```

195

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He has an overwhelming urge

Not to speak

To God,

But to speak

For God.

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196

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God is holding back

His real Smile

Until the boundaries of the world

Are no more. ```

197

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Only God-lovers are entitled

To be members

Of the perfection-assembly

Of the cosmic gods and goddesses. ```

198

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Today’s beautiful gratitude

Will become

Tomorrow’s powerful surrender.

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199

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No matter which country

We go to,

God-surrender-lovers

Are extremely rare. ```

200

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God’s Pride

In His cheerful surrender-children

Is unimaginable.

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201

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God did not mean

To frighten your mind.

He just wanted

To enlighten your mind. ```

202

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To become flawless children

Of God,

We must remain firmly seated

In His Compassion-Sailboat. ```

203

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Too often we neglect

Our God-ordained tasks;

Therefore, our perfection-life

Remains a far cry. ```

204

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I see God on rare occasions.

But I keep meeting

His Compassion-Eye

And Forgiveness-Heart

Every day.

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205

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I cannot believe

That today my mind

Is singing soul-carols.

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206

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Our heart’s purity

Embodies

Measureless strength.

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207

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There is always a choice for me:

Either to place my life

At the Feet of God

Or to place my life

In the hands of my mind.

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208

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The only way

To sing God’s Victory

Is to sing the songs

That my soul sings. ```

209

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I know, my Lord,

How much You love me.

But do You know

How much I love You? ```

210

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A long string of successes

In his outer life

Has extinguished his heart’s

God-loving aspiration-flames. ```

211

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If you have the power

In your mind

To rule the world,

Never use it!

If you have the love

In your heart

To become the world itself,

Then use it! ```

212

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When I am inside my mind-prison,

I serve time.

When I am inside my heart-garden,

I love time. ```

213

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His tranquillity-mind

Is not affected,

Although problems are tumbling

One on top of another. ```

214

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Not only unconsciously

But also consciously

My God-doubting mind

Is in league

With the hostile forces.

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215

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If you have an iota of peace

In your mind,

Then you cannot snarl

And growl

At other seekers.

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216

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Nothing can ever

Compensate God

For His infinite Compassion

For us. ```

217

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We must be always

On the royal road

To the palace

Of God-manifestation. ```

218

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When I lost contact

With my soul,

I became as destitute

As a street beggar. ```

219

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You are absolutely wrong

When you expect God

To placate you.

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220

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Our Beloved Lord cries and cries

When He sees

That we are consciously allowing

Impatience to assail us. ```

221

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The smallest act

Of self-offering

Can give us

An ocean-vast joy. ```

222

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To smite our doubt-foe,

Let us bring to the fore

Our faith-sword.

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223

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When our soul-birds carry us

On their blue-gold wings,

They take us directly to paradise.

There is no stopover on the way. ```

224

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You too can be

A great God-manifestation-hero,

If you can specialise

In sterling devotion. ```

225

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My Lord Supreme took me aside

For a moment

To speak to me in a silence-whisper:

“My child, I desperately need

Both your love and concern.”

```

226

```

You do not need a high soul

To embark on your God-journey.

What you need is a high goal.

```

227

```

My mind admits

That it arrives nowhere

When it deliberately speaks ill

Of my heart. ```

228

```

A God-loving seeker

Has a lifetime supply

Of God-Smiles.

```

229

```

When God is really pleased

With our aspiration and dedication,

He shows us the private entrance

To His celestial Abode. ```

230

```

At the beginning of time,

God gave us a route

To reach Him.

Those who think

They have discovered

A new route to God

Are all mistaken.

```

231

```

There are some people

Who enjoy having a face-lift.

I am not one of those!

But please give me

A faith-lift,

Which I desperately need. ```

232

```

If your life-breath

Is in your devotion-tears,

Then your Goal

Is within your reach. ```

233

```

Everything in his life

Is weakened

By his long ignorance-imprisonment.

```

234

```

Constant disobedience-fire

Within —

Total destruction-smoke

Without. ```

235

```

Man’s constant ingratitude

Is God’s

Everyday experience.

```

236

```

Nobody has forced me

To play the sad flute

Of a failure-life.

```

237

```

Even my soul-stirring

Heart-peace-melody

Cannot satisfy my mind.

```

238

```

A God-lover’s obedience

Crowns his days

With boundless satisfaction.

```

239

```

God tells me that

My love-devotion-surrender-letters

Do not need perfect grammar.

```

240

```

If you live in your mind-jungle

All the time,

You are bound to suffer

From God-disobedience-blunders. ```

241

```

God will come and embrace you

Only if you are prepared

To throw yourself headlong

Into the aspiration-sea. ```

242

```

My aspiration-heart-room

Is always

Impurity-proof.

```

243

```

I am constantly searching

For my heart’s

Blissful peace-hermitage.

```

244

```

Desire-fed worldly people

Are definitely

Homeless wanderers

In the inner life. ```

245

```

God says to me

That He has read

More than He needed to

Of my promise-failure-letters. ```

246

```

My willingness-heart-wealth

Is my soul’s

Very special treasure.

```

247

```

You are bound to arrive

At your Goal

If you continue to follow

God’s discipline-schedule. ```

248

```

A purity-heart

Is entitled to have

Sacredness-breath.

```

249

```

My God-faith

And my God-devotion

Are my two most reliable oars.

```

250

```

Nothing is incurable!

Nothing is unchangeable!

This should be the slogan

Of the God-believer. ```

251

```

To his great shock and surprise,

Man chains himself

To the pillar of suffering.

```

252

```

Every day my aspiration-heart

Makes a soulful flute

For me to play.

```

253

```

Whenever I have a deep meditation,

I hear God’s Nectar-Messages

Resonate in my delight-heart.

```

254

```

My soul is using

All its divine light

To unearth my mind’s

Doubt-landmines. ```

255

```

Every morning

I deeply enjoy

My soul-fragrance-walk

Through my heart-garden. ```

256

```

If you want to make

The fastest progress,

Try to stay as long as you can

In the sweet presence

Of a God-lover.

```

257

```

Bind God’s Feet

With your heart’s love.

You will see your soul

Blinding your desire-eyes. ```

258

```

The step from God-realisation

To God-manifestation

Can be infinitely longer

Than you can ever imagine. ```

259

```

After staying on the spiritual path

For a long time,

If you leave the path,

Your life becomes a compendium

Of spiritual disasters.

```

260

```

To pilot our aspiration-plane,

We need

A God-lover-pilot.

```

261

```

O unfortunate seeker,

Do not worry.

God Himself will come

To take you out of your mind’s

Impurity-tragedy-school.

```

262

```

Alas, what has happened to me?

How is it that I have all of a sudden

Become a victim

Of my doubt-dominated mind? ```

263

```

This morning God planted

Inside my heart

A special kind of faith-tree

That will climb far above

My mind’s doubt-clouds.

```

264

```

I am determined

To stop living

Inside the forest

Of my God-forgetfulness-mind. ```

265

```

If we do not aspire

And offer our love to God

In the morning,

Then the whole day

Becomes a dull monotony

Of mechanical efforts. ```

266

```

Those who do not get

Spontaneous joy

From the rainbow-dawn

Will find the day

A total failure.

```

267

```

I plan to restart

My spiritual life anew.

This time my spiritual life

Will be “God for God’s sake.” ```

268

```

May my life become

The goodness

Of a newness-hope

And the greatness

Of a fulness-promise.

```

269

```

As soon as you enter

Into the spiritual life,

You must kindle

The flame of self-awareness. ```

270

```

Truth has the capacity to shatter

And it ultimately does shatter

The pride of cynicism.

```

271

```

My soul is advising me

To smile

As if I never had

A darkness-mind. ```

272

```

The beauty of peace

And the fragrance of bliss

Shall remain together forever.

```

273

```

Why should God’s Compassion-Eye

Wait for you?

Walk, march, run and sprint

Towards God!

What for?

For your own satisfaction! ```

274

```

Once I saw an inspiration-sun

Inside my eyes.

But now I see a destruction-volcano

Inside my eyes. ```

275

```

To our great sorrow,

Our mind quite often enjoys

A hesitation-festival.

```

276

```

My Supreme tells me

Again and again

That His Promise-Land

Is inside my fragrance-heart

And nowhere else.

```

277

```

My mind enjoys

Competition-fire.

My heart enjoys

Cooperation-stars. ```

278

```

The security of the heart

Longs for God’s Command.

Insecurity seeks its own company.

```

279

```

My heart lives

On God’s

Compassion-Protection-Smiles.

```

280

```

My Lord, every day

At every moment

I implore Your absolute Command.

```

281

```

If you claim any superiority

Over others,

Then you are nowhere

Near perfection. ```

282

```

To serve one’s Master

With sterling devotion

Is, indeed, the fastest way

To arrive at God’s Palace. ```

283

```

I do not look

For a man-made crown,

But I sleeplessly and breathlessly long

For God’s Compassion-Eye. ```

284

```

When I do not aspire,

When I do not pray

And when I do not meditate,

My mind becomes the heavy weight

Of futile frustration.

```

285

```

Alas, my mind

Is a blighted dream

And my heart

Is a dashed hope. ```

286

```

To become an excellent instrument

Of my Lord Supreme,

At every moment I must offer Him

My heart’s delight-tears. ```

287

```

I do not know when and how

Depression has found a home

In my vital.

```

288

```

No matter how hard we try,

It is almost impossible

To escape our desire-prison.

```

289

```

God has kept in front of you

Both desire-wings and aspiration-wings.

Why are you not using aspiration-wings

To fly to God’s Summit-Palace? ```

290

```

My mind

Is trained on God,

But my heart

Was trained by God. ```

291

```

Every day

I want to hear

God’s Victory-celebration-drums.

```

292

```

Only the music

Of the aspiration-heart

Can unlock the door

Of Heaven. ```

293

```

My heart dresses

In rainbows

To pay a visit

To my Lord Supreme. ```

294

```

If you ever lose your life’s

God-surrender-keys,

Then how will you unlock

God’s Heart-Door? ```

295

```

To know what is destined

Is unnecessary.

But to know what role

You are supposed to play

In God’s Cosmic Play

Is absolutely necessary. ```

296

```

Together they went to God:

My aspiration-heart

And my dedication-life.

```

297

```

Do not expect God

To approve everything you do

And everything you say.

Just pray to God

To give you the capacity

To do the right thing always. ```

298

```

God does not always want you

To come Home immediately.

If you are totally exhausted,

Then take rest

Until you can resume your journey.

```

299

```

There is every possibility

That one day our mind-knowledge

Will explode

And our heart-wisdom

Will expand.

```

300

```

Our high-altitude God-visions

Will ultimately transform

The four corners of the globe.

```

301

```

The computer-mind-speed

Will never be able

To save the world.

```

302

```

The oneness-heart-speed

Will definitely be able

Not only to save the world

But to elevate the world. ```

303

```

There is no reason

Why your aspiration-decline

Has to last

For such a long time. ```

304

```

O my doubt-enemy,

I never thought

That you would be

So formidable. ```

305

```

There is nothing wrong

With each and every generation

Defining God.

```

306

```

As we are addicted

To outer rules and regulations,

Even so,

We should be devoted

To our inner laws and ordinances.

```

307

```

May each newborn thought

In my mind

Open immediately its eyes

To my heart’s inner light. ```

308

```

I do not know

If any great soul

Does not suffer

From oppressive

And weighty problems.

```

309

```

God wants me to destroy

My mind-computer completely

To avert my spiritual disaster.

```

310

```

If your aspiration-heart

Is devoid of intensity,

Your God-realisation

Will always remain a far cry. ```

311

```

To begrudge the happiness

Of others

Is to delay one’s own happiness

Indefinitely. ```

312

```

To my great joy,

My mind’s doubt-interest

Is rapidly waning.

```

313

```

Each human life

So often is found

In a bewildering sea

Of uncertainty. ```

314

```

O my mischief-making mind,

One day you are bound

To sit at the Feet

Of my God-loving heart. ```

315

```

I am so proud to see

That all my doubts

Are proudly finishing

Their last acts. ```

316

```

I tried to please man

In his own way.

I have failed!

Now I am trying to please God

In His own Way.

My Lord says to me:

“My child, you have already done it!”

```

317

```

Alas, in vain I am trying and trying

To come out of my medley

Of confusing and confused thoughts.

```

318

```

When the simplicity-safeguard-life,

The sincerity-safeguard-mind

And the purity-safeguard-heart

Work together,

They prove that they are invincible.

```

319

```

The fog of our uncertainty-mind

Does not dare to come

Near our soul

When it whispers

To our heart.

```

320

```

My expectation-boat has capsized.

Therefore, I am now ready

To embark on the real spiritual life.

```

321

```

My soul has come forward

To train my life

To the highest pitch

Of God-reliance. ```

322

```

My Lord’s unconditional

Compassion-Eye

Is bulldozing all my doubts

Out of the way. ```

323

```

God and God’s Concern

Always escort me

All the way

To my Divinity’s Home. ```

324

```

My paradise is only inside

My God-gratitude-heart,

And nowhere else.

```

325

```

God has told my surrender-life

And gratitude-heart

That they can enter

The court of Heaven

At any time that they want to.

```

326

```

If you can please God

In God’s own Way

Here on earth,

Then instead of trembling,

You will be dancing

When you arrive at the gate of death. ```

327

```

May my aspiration-heart-speed

Be faster than

The fleetest of horses.

```

328

```

Each time I sing

A God-Victory-song,

God asks me to mount

His own

World-manifestation-chariot.

```

329

```

God loves only

The love inside me

That He has already

Given me. ```

330

```

So far,

Nobody has discovered

A successful remedy

For an ingratitude-mind. ```

331

```

No matter what I do,

God always keeps me

In His Heart-Embrace.

```

332

```

For a human mind

Not to have restless thoughts

Is almost an impossibility.

```

333

```

To sit on the throne of time,

Our life has to be armed

With prayers and meditations.

```

334

```

My heart enjoys

Regular adventures

In my soul’s country.

```

335

```

God’s Grace embodies

Not only enlightenment

But also enchantment.

```

336

```

By staying always

In a state of depression,

You make your Lord Supreme

Extremely unhappy. ```

337

```

Each time you deliberately

Do something wrong,

You must realise

You are sinking once more

Below the waves of ignorance-sea.

```

338

```

The mind has to be freed

From unlit thought-hunger

Every day.

```

339

```

The soul invites

The heart, mind, vital and body

To accompany it

While it is swimming

In God’s Ocean of Bliss.

Only the heart at times

Accepts the invitation.

```

340

```

God’s Forgiveness-Power

Is the magic touch

Of God’s Compassion-Eye.

```

341

```

Disobedience does not know

That it will be chased

By destruction.

```

342

```

O my mind,

God’s Will is not

An object of frustration,

But it is

An object of adoration.

```

343

```

My Lord’s Satisfaction-Smile

Is within easy reach

Of my gratitude-heart.

```

344

```

Tears stream

From the Heart-Eye of God

When I say that

I am not meant for

The spiritual life.

```

345

```

May my aspiration-heart-tree

Every day offer

Fresh and sacred blossoms.

```

346

```

Without faith,

A man is like

A waterless cloud.

```

347

```

God does not mind

If I quarrel with Him,

As long as I agree

At the end of the quarrel

That I am wrong and He is right.

```

348

```

God is so pleased

That I have requested Him

To undertake

My mind-transformation-task. ```

349

```

My purity-heart

Is my only

Safe shelter.

```

350

```

You get no satisfaction-result

From your spiritual life

Because for you

God is only a word,

Nothing more.

```

351

```

You must increase

Your imagination-height,

Your inspiration-height

And your aspiration-height

All at the same time

Every day. ```

352

```

If you want to sit

In the front seat of God’s Car,

Then you must offer Him first

The beauty and fragrance

Of your aspiration-heart-flower.

```

353

```

A soulful question

Always receives

A blessingful answer.

```

354

```

I am so happy

That my mind

Is totally disappointed

With playing with doubt. ```

355

```

I have replaced most happily

My mind-victory-thirst

With my God-Victory-hunger.

```

356

```

When the oneness-heart

Comes to the fore,

Victory cannot remain invisible.

```

357

```

To me, a powerful

And blessingful Smile

From my Lord

Is far more significant

Than the Bliss of Heaven.

```

358

```

I am always hungry

For God’s Peace-Breakfast

And not man’s power-lunch.

```

359

```

O my mind,

Do not remain anymore

A spirituality-spectator,

But become

A spirituality-participant!

```

360

```

Only when I become

A sacred mind

Does God share with me

His secret Thoughts. ```

361

```

To seal all the ignorance-holes

Of the mind

Is imperative.

```

362

```

My life becomes a wave of joy

When my heart

Is armed with faith.

```

363

```

Because of your

Devouring doubt-mind,

God does not want

To be visible to you. ```

364

```

I am truly, powerfully

And endlessly proud

Of my oneness-blossoming

And oneness-spreading heart. ```

365

```

My Lord’s

Forgiveness-Heart-Nest

Has captured me and my all.

```

366

```

My Lord’s Satisfaction-Smile

Is my only reason

For living on earth.

```

367

```

Three things have to be done

Sooner than at once:

My God-aspiration,

My God-realisation

And my God-manifestation.

```

368

```

I need only

God’s Compassion-Eye

To remain in

My life’s control-tower. ```

369

```

Each time my life makes progress,

God sings a special Pride-Song

For me and my life.

```

370

```

Man’s faith-gift-offering

To God

Is man’s highest achievement.

```

371

```

My Lord,

Do show me the way

To undo the wrongs

That I have already done. ```

372

```

My Lord,

From this very moment

I shall destroy my age-old

Ignorance-attachment. ```

373

```

My Lord,

Come quickly and break my head

Into millions of pieces

To save my poor heart! ```

374

```

Encouraging

Is my God-search.

Inspiring

Is my God-chosen path.

Fulfilling

Are my God-offering-cries. ```

375

```

Secretly I wait

In my Lord’s Heart-Room,

Devotedly to serve Him

When He is in need. ```

376

```

The finish line is at once

Blissful to see

But painful to reach.

```

377

```

The more I am generous

With my heart,

The more I am precious

In God’s Heart. ```

378

```

When we are our indomitable will,

The temptation-wall falls down

At our feet.

```

379

```

Do not enter into

The temptation-tunnel.

It is inexplicably dark.

```

380

```

Nobody can force you

To have doubt

On every page

Of your life-book. ```

381

```

The mind is satisfied

With good fortune.

The heart is only satisfied

With God-fortune. ```

382

```

O seeker, no more rest!

It is high time for you

To resume your aspiration-ascent.

```

383

```

Only with your heart’s

Devotion-tears

Can you sound

God’s Victory-Trumpet. ```

384

```

My Lord,

In my inner world,

You are my secret hope.

In my outer world,

You are my sacred promise.

```

385

```

You say that

You do not know

When God is pleased with you.

I am telling you the supreme secret:

God is pleased with you

Only when you are pleased with Him. ```

386

```

One by one

The soul offers its divinities

To the Absolute Supreme.

```

387

```

My Lord, my Lord,

It is only at Your Compassion-Feet

That my gratitude-heart’s bumper crop

Grows. ```

388

```

There is a constant

Affection-play

Between my soul and my heart.

There is also a constant

Attachment-play

Between my mind and my vital. ```

389

```

My bleeding heart

Has the prayerful capacity

To touch the pinnacle

Of God’s Compassion-Eye. ```

390

```

The world mistrusts you

And mistreats you.

But love the world all the more,

For that is what God expects

From you.

```

391

```

My Lord,

You never waste

Even an iota of time.

May I not be

Your most devoted follower?

```

392

```

The doubting mind does not realise

That it is engaged in a headlong rush

Towards its own destruction.

```

393

```

God wants both God-lovers

And God-servers

To remain always on the alert.

```

394

```

My heart strongly feels

That there are more God-yearning lovers

Than God-manifesting servers.

```

395

```

Be careful of your

Overconfidence-sermon!

God is listening.

```

396

```

Each sincere prayer

Is a sincere effort

To catch the doubt-thief

In our mind. ```

397

```

I am so proud

Of my aspiration-heart

For radiating sunshine-beauty

Around my life. ```

398

```

Unlike the mind,

No matter how weak the heart is,

It does not betray God’s Trust.

```

399

```

Do not hide from the eye

Of criticism.

Face it and disgrace it!

```

400

```

True, obstacles may seem to be

Insurmountable,

But they are no match

For God’s Compassion-Eye. ```

401

```

Ask not:

“Why?”

Say:

“It is all done!” ```

402

```

God’s faith

In me

Admits of no doubt.

```

403

```

The mind

Is a world-peace-stranger

And

A world-peace-strangler. ```

404

```

The heart

Is a world-peace-dreamer

And

A world-peace-lover. ```

405

```

The inevitable necessity

Must

Be fulfilled.

```

406

```

Man-question

Is a soldier.

God-answer

Is a singer. ```

407

```

Regret-torture

Can easily

Be avoided.

```

408

```

Nothing can resist the mind

When it becomes

A God-determination-manifestation-rock.

```

409

```

The tears of my heart

At every moment cherish

God-Affection-Smiles.

```

410

```

In vain the computer-mind

Tries to silence

The oneness-beauty

Of the aspiring heart. ```

411

```

The athlete of the heart

Runs and jumps

Inside the soul’s

Illumination-garden. ```

412

```

God blesses

Doubt-conquering faith

With peace-sun-satisfaction.

```

413

```

Every Avatar

Is a new

God-Arrival-announcer.

```

414

```

My God-expansion-heart and I

Are enjoying

My mind’s ego-explosion.

```

415

```

My intense and unreserved

Love of God

Has many times surpassed

The speed of time. ```

416

```

The light in the heart of man

Can easily guide

The eyes of man.

```

417

```

Life’s tasteless fruits

Can be turned into sweetness itself

By God’s Compassion-Touch.

```

418

```

O my mind,

What makes you think

That you can always sit

In the judgement seat? ```

419

```

My soul’s voiceless voice

Always remains

Close to my heart.

```

420

```

The stars of the sky

Always adorn

Only the brave.

```

421

```

An Avatar is he

Who lovingly and faithfully

Brings the longing of man

To the Absolute Supreme. ```

422

```

Be on the alert always!

At any moment

You can stumble

On the way to Heaven. ```

423

```

God treasures

Your gratitude-tears

More than anything else.

```

424

```

How beautiful, charming,

Illumining and fulfilling

Is my rising moon

Above the horizon! ```

425

```

Be careful

Of your dissatisfied mind.

It can before long

Become rebellious. ```

426

```

God blows His Joy-Whistles

In the child-heart

Of the seeker.

```

427

```

The ecstasy-flooded flute

Of the soul

Never stops playing.

```

428

```

At last

My mind is freed

From desire-headaches!

```

429

```

Do not forget

To keep your vital-tiger

On a very short leash.

```

430

```

He is really fortunate

Who does not have to carry

Excess attachment-weight.

```

431

```

Worries, anxieties and frustrations

Are found in abundant measure

On the temptation-road.

```

432

```

Change your inner attitude first!

Your outer environment

Will automatically change.

```

433

```

I have two rooms to live in:

My illumining mind-room

And

My beautifying heart-room. ```

434

```

My soul is teaching my heart

How to climb up

To the very summit of self-giving.

```

435

```

Rich imagination you need.

Richer inspiration you need.

Richest aspiration you need.

```

436

```

It seems each and every

Individual mind

Is susceptible

To frustration-torture. ```

437

```

Man’s desire-story

Will become

A fable.

```

438

```

Man’s aspiration-songs

Will become

A legend.

```

439

```

To desire God

Is a common

Hunger.

```

440

```

To satisfy God

Is an exquisitely uncommon

Meal.

```

441

```

In my own life

I shall become

A God-satisfaction-tower

That can never be tarnished. ```

442

```

Offer a smile-gift

To every eye.

Your God-hunger-heart

Will be nourished. ```

443

```

The neutral moment

And

The compromising hour

Will never succeed. ```

444

```

Heartily embrace

The challenge

Of human nature-transformation.

```

445

```

My heart and I proudly observe

The funeral procession

Of my ignorance-mind.

```

446

```

The earth-bound desire-mind

Is apt to swim

In a goalless circle.

```

447

```

My pure soul

Receives undeserved mistreatment

From my body, vital and mind.

```

448

```

My soul is my perfect

Mind-purification-

Counsellor.

```

449

```

My heart is my strict

Mind-ignorance-appointment-

Canceller.

```

450

```

Every morning

God blesses me

With a new aspiration-tear

And a new dedication-smile. ```

451

```

Every day

I expand my tiny heart

With streaming tears

To please my Lord Supreme. ```

452

```

Every day try to feel

The blossoming goodness

Of others

As your very own. ```

453

```

Your heart’s God-surrender-joy

Can easily conquer

Your mind’s doubt-thoughts.

```

454

```

If you are looking for peace,

Then look for it

Inside your oneness-heart-depth,

And nowhere else. ```

455

```

The beauty of newness

And

The fragrance of willingness

Can easily be found

Inside the eagerness-heart.

```

456

```

Tears of joy

Can purify and illumine

The sorrows of the heart.

```

457

```

Deep meditation

Does have the power

To remove all mind-barriers.

```

458

```

My God-willingness-heart

Has melted

All my mind-resistance.

```

459

```

God is ready to speak to me

Only when I offer Him

My silence-heart.

```

460

```

God tells His Life-History in full —

Lovingly, affectionately

And self-givingly —

To the unconditional surrender-life

Of a seeker.

```

461

```

My aspiration, my dedication

And my realisation —

Everything that I have and I am —

Is in the ever-blossoming process

Of God’s Will-fulfilment.

```

462

```

May my life be full

Of everything

That is spiritually beautiful,

Soulful and fruitful! ```

463

```

If you have patience

In abundant measure,

You can succeed

In your outer life. ```

464

```

If you have surrender

In boundless measure,

You can succeed

In your inner life. ```

465

```

It seems that we all have

Two hearts within us:

One heart is for God-adoration

And

One heart is for man-admiration.

```

466

```

My negativity-mind disappears

The moment I accept

God’s Will as my own will.

```

467

```

My gratitude-heart

Always bears testimony

To my Lord’s Compassion-Flood.

```

468

```

A sleepless gratitude-heart

Is tantamount

To a great miracle.

```

469

```

The Smiles that we receive

From our Lord Beloved Supreme

For manifesting Him on earth

Can never be calculated

By our human mind.

```

470

```

God feasts His Eyes

On the happiness-news

That my heart offers to Him.

```

471

```

The exquisite beauty of the soul

Can never be robbed

By human desires.

```

472

```

My Lord, like You

I do not want to spend

Even a fleeting moment

Complaining. ```

473

```

My Lord, like Your Heart

I want my heart also

To be empty of anger

And frustration. ```

474

```

Alas, my uncertainty-mind and I

Have been living together

For a very long time!

```

475

```

Even though I do not have

Any right,

God does not mind

If I ask Him for a favour. ```

476

```

God tells me

That if I want to start again

With my spiritual life,

Then I must abandon immediately

All my guilt-miseries.

```

477

```

I treasure every peace-thought

Of my mind

Inside my God-gratitude-heart.

```

478

```

One single God-Compassion-Look

Is the master-key

That unlocks and discards

All my mind-problems. ```

479

```

Not the happiness

That comes and goes,

But the silence-fulness

That comes and never goes

Is what I need.

```

480

```

Today we can avoid God’s Will,

Perhaps even tomorrow,

But we cannot forever and forever

Avoid God’s Will. ```

481

```

You may not believe

In the power of your prayer,

But God firmly believes in it.

```

482

```

The destined Hour has struck!

I must place

My disobedience-insolence-mind

At the Feet

Of my Lord Beloved Supreme.

```

483

```

All the beauty

Of the world within

And the world without

Has the same Source:

God’s Compassion-Eye.

```

484

```

O my devotion-heart-fountain,

Where are you?

I have been searching for you

For such a long time! ```

485

```

I must obliterate

My past

Failure-life-torture.

```

486

```

The hostile forces

Fail to catch me

When I become a completely

God-dependent seeker. ```

487

```

I enjoy Immortality’s Nectar-Bliss

The moment I receive

From my Master

A sweetness-affection-smile. ```

488

```

When I pray and meditate

To please God in His own Way,

He tells me:

“My child, I am giving you

A mind inundated with silence-peace.”

```

489

```

O seeker, do not waste your time

Thinking of the distance

To your destination.

I tell you in secrecy supreme

That your destination

Is much closer than you think. ```

490

```

My Lord, my only desire:

The capacity

To devotedly blossom

At Your Lotus-Feet. ```

491

```

To reach your loftiest

Aspiration-summit-height,

Offer all your gratitude-tears

And gratitude-smiles

Simultaneously

To God’s Compassion-Eye. ```

492

```

My humility-mind

And my purity-heart

Are my life’s real safeguards.

```

493

```

Finally my heart’s wisdom-key

Has unlocked all my mind’s

Obstruction-doors.

```

494

```

Let my mind

Be as old as the world itself,

But I want my heart

To be as young as a bud. ```

495

```

The heart that is inspired

By God’s Compassion-Eye

Does not need wings to fly.

```

496

```

May my mind

Be fully aware

Of disobedience-disasters.

```

497

```

Quite often the enthusiasm

Of the human mind

Is next to zero.

```

498

```

It is an easy task

For the doubting mind

To be a gossip-collector.

```

499

```

Under God’s Protection-Eye,

Not even a weakling

Can stumble.

```

500

```

With my soul’s adamantine

Will-power,

I have trampled my disobedience-mind

Into the dust. ```

501

```

My soul has made

A blessingful promise

To my heart, mind

Vital and body

To show them God’s Face.

```

502

```

My Lord has kept His Promise.

All Heaven-born dreams

Are flowering

Inside my life. ```

503

```

Avoid

The confusion-life-abyss

All the time!

```

504

```

I have buried

My yesterday’s mind

Completely.

```

505

```

It is unnecessary to be

Today

What we were yesterday.

```

506

```

God’s unconditional Grace

Has descended.

My desert-mind is blooming

And blossoming. ```

507

```

Anything unconditional

Surprises

Everybody.

```

508

```

When aspiration

Is tired of aspiring,

Confusion comes to the fore

And becomes the ruler. ```

509

```

My Lord,

Your express Command

I humbly take

As my life-heart-song. ```

510

```

A genuinely aspiring heart

Asks everything for God

And nothing for itself.

```

511

```

May my heart every day

Become

A God-satisfying prayer.

```

512

```

O my mind,

Finally your total

Transformation-time

Has arrived! ```

513

```

Just one Compassion-Smile

From my Lord Supreme

Is needed

To change my mind’s bitterness

Into my heart’s sweetness.

```

514

```

To my greatest joy,

Meditation-silence once more

Is rising in my heart.

```

515

```

The human mind

Is terribly afraid

Of the presence

Of divine Love. ```

516

```

God loves immensely

Even my amateur

God-aspiring heart

And God-serving life. ```

517

```

Every day I pray to God

To bless me with the capacity

To offer Him a sumptuous

Gratitude-meal. ```

518

```

No mind can come

To God’s Country

Without crossing

God’s Silence-Bridge. ```

519

```

If you are not one hundred percent

On God’s side,

God will not give you His Ladder

To climb up to His highest Height. ```

520

```

For the poor seekers

Vacation is granted,

But not for the rich seekers.

```

521

```

God is extremely fond

Of my life’s

Pilgrim-progress-smile.

```

522

```

My joy knows no bounds

Because today I have turned over

A new

Love-devotion-surrender-leaf. ```

523

```

Desire-fulfilment

And life-enlightenment

Are never allowed to meet together

By my Lord Supreme. ```

524

```

In the morning

I take two deep breaths:

A blossoming hope-breath

And a fulfilling promise-breath. ```

525

```

To silence my desire-storm,

My life and I

Have prayerfully placed our surrender

At the Feet

Of our Lord Beloved Supreme.

```

526

```

God asks

My desiring mind

To leave Him alone.

```

527

```

God is making

My aspiring heart

Ready to be

His Divinity’s Throne. ```

528

```

All my world-fears have vanished

Into thin air

Since I have taken shelter

Inside my God’s Smile. ```

529

```

Every morning

God blessingfully helps me

To be on the same wavelength

As His Sweetness-Compassion-Whispers. ```

530

```

The stronger your

God-obedience-loyalty,

The faster you will run

Towards God’s Palace. ```

531

```

God gives us the capacity

To be uniquely qualified

Not only for His infinite Grace,

But also for His immortal Pride. ```

532

```

Every day,

Each and every inspiring,

Aspiring and self-giving thought

I celebrate

With my God-gratitude-joy.

```

533

```

I shake my head in utter disbelief

When my Lord tells me

I am a choice instrument of His.

```

534

```

How beautiful and how powerful

Is the silver whisper

Of a golden dream!

```

535

```

If our God-gaze is fixed

And unwavering,

Then God invites us

To come and play with Him

For as long as we want to.

```

536

```

My soul does not believe

In games of secrecy.

My soul believes only

In games of ecstasy. ```

537

```

My soul’s two favourite pastimes:

Self-offering

And God-manifestation.

```

538

```

O my willingness, do not delay!

Eagerness is waiting for you

At your door

So both of you can start

Your Godward journey.

```

539

```

Every morning I offer two songs

To my Lord Beloved Supreme:

My mind’s enthusiasm-song

And my heart’s gratitude-song. ```

540

```

My soul is fully confident

That eventually my doubting mind

Will surrender

And follow my aspiring heart. ```

541

```

Alas,

I am totally shocked to see

That my aspiration-credit card

Expired long ago. ```

542

```

Invariably my soul caters

To my heart’s

God-hunger.

```

543

```

O my mind, be not a fool!

Do not swing all the time

On your indecisiveness-pendulum.

Like my heart, swing on

Your God-devotion-pendulum.

```

544

```

Be strong, be brave, be perfect

In every way

So that no unaspiring human being

Can drag you

And your aspiration down!

```

545

```

My aspiring heart

And my serving life

Are finally enjoying

The surrender of my God-doubting

And God-denying mind.

```

546

```

May my obedience-mind

Stand like an immortal statue

In my heart-garden.

```

547

```

My Lord wants me

To chat with Him

More than He wants me

To sing for Him. ```

548

```

My Lord,

When I deliberately absent myself

From Your Presence,

My life becomes

A living nightmare.

```

549

```

My Lord Supreme

Wants me to believe

That I am infinitely higher

And stronger

Than I imagine.

```

550

```

God-realisation

Is far beyond

The flight of imagination.

```

551

```

Satisfaction shall greet

All your efforts

If surrender looms large

In your life. ```

552

```

He started with willingness,

But on his way to God,

Eagerness met him

And accompanied him. ```

553

```

Life’s experiences

Roam

On zigzag roads.

```

554

```

You do not have time,

But God has plenty of time.

Therefore, He does not mind

Crying for you. ```

555

```

Sleepless faith is necessary

To nurture

One’s fastest aspiration-speed.

```

556

```

God gives His private number

Only to the aspiring heart

And not to the torturing mind.

```

557

```

What you need

Is the beauty of discipline

And not the storm

Of self-indulgence. ```

558

```

The mind’s sunrise

Is quite baffling.

The mind’s sunset

Is so inspiring. ```

559

```

My mind,

Have nerves of steel!

Doubt is fast approaching you.

```

560

```

Although I meet my Lord

Only on rare occasions,

I love Him more

Than I could ever imagine. ```

561

```

I thought my journey

Towards God’s Palace

Would be quite short.

But now I see that

This was a tragic miscalculation.

```

562

```

God asks me

To come to Him

With sacred steps,

And not with secret steps. ```

563

```

The human mind

Is so often afraid

Of striking out

Against injustice-night. ```

564

```

A purity-heart just loves

To embrace God’s Will

All the time.

```

565

```

You just become

A total surrender-life.

God Himself will hoist

Your victory-banner. ```

566

```

My soul tells me

That God will succeed

Only when I proceed.

```

567

```

My Lord, do You really

Care for me?

“My child, I do!

I do not have anything better

To do.”

```

568

```

My Lord, do You really

Care for me?

“My child, I do!

I feel this is the best thing

I can do

For our inseparable oneness.” ```

569

```

My Lord, do You really

Care for me?

“My child, there was a time

When I cared for you,

But not now!

Do you know why?

In those days you claimed Me

As your own.

Alas, now your soul tells Me

That this is a long-forgotten story.” ```

570

```

God tells me

To stay at His Feet

Not only devotedly

But also proudly. ```

571

```

There is no stormy day

In human life

That cannot be transformed

Into the brightest sunrise. ```

572

```

Peace is within your reach.

Do not be afraid

Of touching it,

Feeling it

And claiming it.

```

573

```

Two key questions

Of human life:

Does God really care

For humanity?

Does God really need humanity?

```

574

```

An unbearable disaster:

The Master asked the disciple

To leave.

```

575

```

An unthinkable disaster:

The disciple left

The Master.

```

576

```

When the Master

Asks the disciple to leave,

He may give the disciple another chance

In the course of time. ```

577

```

When the disciple

Leaves the Master,

The Master is under no obligation

To take the disciple back. ```

578

```

Somehow we allow

Untold sufferings

To loom large

On our heart’s horizon. ```

579

```

God expects everybody

To be an excellent learner

In His Heart-School.

```

580

```

No more

Shall I remain

A world-compliment-begging

Mind. ```

581

```

Every day I pray and pray

And pray to God

To bless me

With a oneness-blossoming heart. ```

582

```

Your willingness-signal

Has made God

Immensely happy.

```

583

```

My Lord,

I am praying to You

For Your inner Affection

And not for Your outer Attention. ```

584

```

A sweetness-heart

Has a free access

To God’s Satisfaction-Heart.

```

585

```

Like my heart,

I shall make my mind also

A hallowed purity-shrine.

```

586

```

In spirituality

The inner oneness

And outer fulness

Must go together. ```

587

```

A God-blossoming heart

I sleeplessly longed for,

And now I have it.

```

588

```

Where do I live?

I live in between

My mind’s ingratitude-jungle

And my heart’s gratitude-garden. ```

589

```

An insincerity-mind

Must be kept

Under control.

```

590

```

True, I have done many things

Uninspiring, unillumining

And unfulfilling,

But I feel that I am

Accountable

Only to my Lord Supreme. ```

591

```

My soul is telling my heart

That it will be very happy

Only if my heart lives

In God’s Neighbourhood. ```

592

```

Alas, I have been fighting

And fighting

With my stubborn mind!

```

593

```

God is working day and night

To establish His permanent friendship

With my mind.

```

594

```

I am happy when I have

God’s Eye

Inside my heart.

```

595

```

I am happier when I see

God’s Heart

Inside my heart.

```

596

```

I am happiest when I feel

God’s Feet

Blessing my heart.

```

597

```

My heart’s faith

Chased my mind’s doubt,

Finally caught it

And disarmed it completely. ```

598

```

An unaspiring mind

Is a perfect stranger

To hope and promise.

```

599

```

In life’s tug-of-war,

Paradise is nowhere

To be found.

```

600

```

May my aspiration-heart

Every day, without fail,

Rise like the morning sun.

```

601

```

My gratitude-heart

And my surrender-life

Are two God-microphones.

```

602

```

If you would like to be

God’s first-class server,

Then be simplicity incarnate,

Sincerity incarnate

And purity incarnate.

```

603

```

My Lord, what shall I do

When the whole world

Speaks ill of me?

Shall I laugh or shed tears?

“My child, just remain silent!”

```

604

```

God finds gold

Inside our smiles.

He finds diamonds

Inside our tears. ```

605

```

In the world

Of dissatisfaction-frustration

My mind roams and roams.

```

606

```

I do not have to prove anything

To God,

But I have to prove each and every thing

To myself. ```

607

```

Each seeker has

Two far-away dreams:

His God-realisation-dream

And his God-manifestation-dream. ```

608

```

My aspiration-heart

Is the only reality

That I call my own.

```

609

```

May my aspiration, dedication

And surrender

Speed up to thwart ignorance.

```

610

```

There is no such thing

As a maximum

Aspiration-speed limit.

```

611

```

Every day our complaint-volume

For God

Is becoming larger and larger.

```

612

```

Finally I have forced

My desire-dragon

To leave me

And live inside the darkness-abyss. ```

613

```

O my seeker-friend,

You must realise

That God never wants you

To lament the past.

He wants you to go forward

Faster than the fastest. ```

614

```

I love

My God-ordained burdens

And not my self-styled burdens.

```

615

```

Regularly, devotedly and faithfully

You must weed out

All impurity-thoughts

From your mind. ```

616

```

May my everyday life

Be a roaring waterfall

Of creativity.

```

617

```

There is a constant interaction

Between my mind’s doubts

And my life’s worries.

```

618

```

If you want to be happy,

Really happy,

Then you must needs keep

Simplicity, sincerity and purity

In your life-environment.

```

619

```

A strong desire

Has not only a voracious

But also a ferocious

World-devouring hunger. ```

620

```

A desire-mind

Is terribly afraid

Of sunshine-transformation.

```

621

```

The mind’s reasoning power

Has considerably weakened

The aspiration-world.

```

622

```

The insecurity of the heart

Is born

Out of the jealousy of the mind.

```

623

```

Life’s uncertain directions

Are meant only for those

Who have not entered

Into the spiritual life. ```

624

```

The aspiration-heart must take

Longer than the longest

And faster than the fastest steps.

```

625

```

Every day your Master

Blessingfully supplies you

With a gold compassion-coin.

Use it with wisdom-light! ```

626

```

If you have sincerity in your obedience,

Then you will, without fail,

Not only follow

But also understand God’s Will. ```

627

```

Alas, I am expert at seeing

The things wrong in others

That have been looming large

Inside my own life. ```

628

```

To the extreme sorrow

Of my aspiration-heart,

The gratitude-world

Still remains unexplored. ```

629

```

I am helplessly and hopelessly

Devastated

By my mind’s disobedience-insolence.

```

630

```

A life of unconditional surrender

Is God’s only prescription

For humanity’s imperfection-life.

```

631

```

Alas, there are very few students

Who are eager to study

At God’s Heart-School.

```

632

```

A superiority-sneer

Will never be able

To endear itself to God’s Heart.

```

633

```

God has a habit of repeating Himself

So that nobody remains

With His Philosophy unlearned.

```

634

```

My Lord, I have nothing else

Save and except

My heart-rending cries,

Which I place devotedly

And self-givingly at Your Feet.

```

635

```

Alas, how desperately

My God-doubting mind

Is trying to obliterate

My heart’s fountain-love for God! ```

636

```

Never allow your mind’s

Darkness-pride

To eclipse your oneness-heart-sky.

```

637

```

To find

An equanimity-mind

Is almost an impossibility.

```

638

```

A seeker’s unconditional

Gratitude-heart to God

Definitely has a place

In the galaxy of stars. ```

639

```

I want to worship the God

Who is singing, playing and dancing

Right in front of me,

And not an aloof God. ```

640

```

It is I who am responsible

In every way

For my doomed failure-life.

```

641

```

The fragrance of my soul

Comes from its constant

And unreserved

God-satisfaction. ```

642

```

My louder than the loudest laughter

Is, indeed,

One of my life-preservers.

```

643

```

May my life be blessed

Every day

With new God-gratitude-heart-petals.

```

644

```

God has blessingfully sent

His Protection-Wings

To carry me to His highest Heaven.

But alas,

Where is my readiness,

Where is my willingness,

Where is my eagerness,

Where? ```

645

```

Before I walk along

The sunlit Path to God,

I must first ring my heart’s

Devotion-bell. ```

646

```

My Lord Supreme,

Why do You allow me

To forget You so often?

“My child, I fearfully obey

Your mind’s express order.”

```

647

```

Alas,

I am forced to live

Between my impatience-torture-mind

And my patience-rapture-heart. ```

648

```

He has cast aside

His doubting mind.

Lo, the beauty of his soul

Is dancing on his face

Once again.

```

649

```

Not a forced surrender

But a prayerful and cheerful surrender

Is the winner

Of the divine race. ```

650

```

God blesses

The gratitude-heart-sky

Of each seeker

With His own Victory-Flag. ```

651

```

God-centredness

Is the source

Of universal oneness.

```

652

```

The heights of Heaven

Remain far beyond the reach

Of human expectation.

```

653

```

Do not delay, my seeker-friend!

Immediately start steering

Your God-Destination-boat.

```

654

```

My soul’s adamantine will

Helps me all the time

To break through the stormy obstacles

Created by my mind. ```

655

```

If falsehood

You keep out of your mind,

Peace will hasten towards you.

```

656

```

Do not catch depression!

It will before long

Turn into something fatal.

```

657

```

To unleash the divine power

Within you,

Make your inner faith

Complete and perfect. ```

658

```

He who is reluctant

To break stones

Will never be able to become

A path-maker. ```

659

```

The mind always tries

To heap doubt-clouds

Upon the aspiring heart.

```

660

```

Do not allow yourself

To be tempted

To visit your past life.

You may be voraciously devoured

By the tiger of your past!

```

661

```

Smile, always smile!

You will be able to disarm

Even your worst foe.

```

662

```

Be careful!

Do not allow

Your vital-depression-flames

To spread

Into your God-searching mind.

```

663

```

The seeker in me

Is now enjoying

My mind’s volcano-doubt-explosion.

```

664

```

Every God-experience

Has the capacity

To move and shake the whole world.

```

665

```

Obey implicitly and devotedly

The dictates

Of your all-illumining soul.

```

666

```

At God’s choice Hour,

Everybody’s God-love awakens.

Nobody can be either too soon

Or too late! ```

667

```

Every day

My mind starts praying

And my heart starts meditating

When dawn starts showing

Its beautiful and cheerful

Rainbow-colours. ```

668

```

Your unbending and unwilling mind

Is taking you

Farther than the farthest

From your own inner divinity. ```

669

```

Never surrender

To your unready mind

If you want to succeed

In your spiritual life. ```

670

```

God’s Heart

Is always expecting

Your safe and cheerful return.

```

671

```

The cosmic gods

Love to live

On the fragrance of Mother Earth.

```

672

```

My Lord Supreme,

I am so grateful to You

For blessing me and my life

Every day

With a new dream.

```

673

```

My Lord, do bless me

With ever-quickening steps

Towards my supreme Destination.

```

674

```

God always wants me

To take shelter

Under the canopy

Of His unconditional Love. ```

675

```

Do not suffocate your life

With your mind’s insincerity

And your heart’s insecurity.

```

676

```

Arrogance, insolence

And intolerance

Are three intimate roommates.

```

677

```

Artificial sincerity

Cannot avoid

Imminent disaster.

```

678

```

Because outer prosperity

You have amassed,

Your inner prosperity

Has disappeared. ```

679

```

Is there any place on earth

Not swarming

With insincere seekers?

```

680

```

No matter how insincere

And impure we are,

God still remains His Forgiveness-Heart.

```

681

```

Remorse is not the answer!

Determination

To do the right thing

Is the answer of answers. ```

682

```

Not an aspiring

But an unaspiring human being

Has to depend totally on his fate.

```

683

```

The purity in our mind

Passes away

As swiftly as a shooting star.

```

684

```

Human life

Is nothing short of

An insane chase

After earthly pleasures. ```

685

```

Disobedience means

Being deliberately deaf

To God’s Nectar-Message.

```

686

```

My prayers and my meditations

Are the shields

That protect me

From ignorance-attacks. ```

687

```

Each God-loving thought

Is an antidote

For our mind-miseries.

```

688

```

The rising sun

Tells me where to go.

The setting sun

Tells me where to stay. ```

689

```

A truly aspiring heart

Does not want to be

A citizen of frustration-country.

```

690

```

My mind,

What a fool you are!

You do not care to answer

Our Lord’s

Blessingful and powerful Knock.

```

691

```

My heart’s tears and smiles

Have, indeed,

God-pleasing capacities.

```

692

```

Only a oneness-heart

Can swim in the fulness

Of the universal sea.

```

693

```

The soul of the morning

Every day sings

A new song

For Mother Earth. ```

694

```

Every day

I cheerfully and proudly

Participate in two races:

Aspiration-race

And dedication-race.

```

695

```

We must obliterate

All the fingerprints

Of doubt

From our mind! ```

696

```

Meditation is

Our heart’s secret

And sacred treasure.

```

697

```

O seeker-friend,

I clearly see

How sincerely you are trying

To free yourself

From your mind’s notorious

Doubt-obstinacy. ```

698

```

To the heart’s determination-rock

The body, the vital and the mind

Have to flock.

```

699

```

My Lord unreservedly sympathises

With the sadness

That devastates my heart.

```

700

```

My prayerfully smiling gladness

Gladdens

My Heavenly soul.

```

701

```

Humanity’s

Pilgrim-sunrise-days

Will never be over.

```

702

```

Surrender is a prayerful, cheerful, Sleepless and breathless

God-commitment. ```

703

```

Disobedience is not

A mere incident,

But a serious accident.

```

704

```

No spiritual Master

Wants his life

To be thronged

By curiosity-mongers. ```

705

```

The lives of so many human beings

Are governed

By superficial happiness.

```

706

```

Pride says to God,

“I do not need You.

That is an understatement!”

```

707

```

Insolent disobedience

Is followed by

Endless disaster.

```

708

```

Impurity of the mind

Is an inner cancer

In a seeker’s life.

```

709

```

Seekers are expected to be

Divine swimmers

And swim against the stream

Of past bad habits. ```

710

```

I have come to learn

That all short cuts to God-realisation

Are not only fruitless but also futile.

```

711

```

Is there any human being

Who does not surf

On God’s

Concern-Compassion-Forgiveness-Waves? ```

712

```

If you do not carefully listen

To God’s Lectures,

Your life will not be adorned

With the beauty of self-transcendence. ```

713

```

Only for God-disobedient human beings

Does God use His

Thunder-Command-Roar.

```

714

```

Those who are clad

In the armour of divine love

Will be able to expedite

Humanity’s outer success

And inner progress.

```

715

```

Each divine thought

Is a most beautiful

Angel.

```

716

```

The Master’s footprints

Show the brightest way

To Heaven.

```

717

```

Try to live

In the eternal springs

Of enthusiasm and eagerness.

```

718

```

No matter where I live —

Inside my body, inside my vital,

Inside my mind

Or even inside my heart —

I meet with uncomely thought-intruders.

```

719

```

My aspiration-heart

Is the sworn enemy

Of my desire-life.

```

720

```

I desire only

A God-blessed life,

And nothing else.

```

721

```

Spirituality enjoys

Accepting the challenge

Of temptation-forces.

```

722

```

We are always in the prison

Of our self-styled ideas

And ideals.

```

723

```

O my mind,

Do not sleep and snore anymore

Beneath the blankets

Of illusion and delusion. ```

724

```

God tells us

We have to make the choice:

Whether we want to wear

An aspiration-garland

Or a desire-python

That will strangle us. ```

725

```

Depression

In the unaspiring vital

Will never die.

```

726

```

His mind’s goalless boat

Is wandering in the ocean

Of life’s ignorance-night.

```

727

```

The desire-world

Is nothing short of

A suffocating prison-life.

```

728

```

To my extreme joy,

My disobedience-mind-tower

Has totally collapsed.

```

729

```

Today’s unwillingness

Will be forced to enter

Into the abysmal abyss

Of nothingness. ```

730

```

My high-soaring dreams

Are embraced

By God’s own Realities.

```

731

```

You have to come and sit

With your heart’s streaming tears

At the Feet of God

To see God’s highest Satisfaction-Smile. ```

732

```

God’s Victory-Trumpet

Sounds absolutely the best

Inside my surrender-heart-garden.

```

733

```

To my greatest satisfaction,

My life and my heart

Have been captured by Eternity’s Love

And not by Infinity’s Power. ```

734

```

The dearer than the dearest choice

Of my aspiration-heart

Is God’s Satisfaction in God’s own Way.

```

735

```

Looking at my aspiration-failure-life,

My soul and my Lord Supreme

Are together crying and weeping.

```

736

```

A life of purity-breath

Is always

For the divine in us.

```

737

```

Tear-flooded

Is man’s outer life.

Rapture-flooded

Is man’s God-surrendered inner life. ```

738

```

We must study lovingly,

Devotedly and self-givingly

Our heart’s aspiration-pages.

```

739

```

Day and night I am searching

Lovingly, devotedly, prayerfully

And self-givingly

For only one thing: God’s Footprint. ```

740

```

You refuse to accept

God-aspiration-opportunity,

Yet you are longing for

The God-realisation-award. ```

741

```

You fool!

How do you expect to succeed

In your spiritual life

If you put God at the very bottom

Of your priority list?

```

742

```

If you do not want to love God

For God’s sake,

Eventually you are bound to give up

Your spiritual life. ```

743

```

Have God-enlightenment first,

Then think of God-establishment

In your life.

```

744

```

If God is just a word to you,

Then you will not be able

To come out of your mind-jungle.

```

745

```

You have to tame your vital

Every single day.

Otherwise, any day you may suffer

From an emotion-explosion. ```

746

```

Consciously and bravely

Cast aside all insecurity-thoughts

And feelings

From your heart. ```

747

```

My soul insists and insists

On only one thing:

God’s Way is the only way.

```

748

```

Why do you think

That God considers your case

Utterly hopeless and useless?

You are absolutely wrong! ```

749

```

To see complete Satisfaction

In God’s Eye,

Your heart must muster lion-courage

To defeat the pride

Of ignorance-night.

```

750

```

God wants to be visible,

But He is afraid

His Power-flooded Visibility

Will cause your immediate collapse. ```

751

```

God’s Compassion

Can never

Be bribed.

```

752

```

God was shocked

When He heard that I had given my mind

His World-Transformation-Message

To deliver to the world. ```

753

```

No matter how many times

My roguish mind

Changes its telephone number

After committing serious crimes

Against God,

My God-oneness-heart

Somehow finds it out.

```

754

```

Successful negotiation

Begins with the illumination

Of two totally different forces.

```

755

```

The small “I”

Has man-thirst.

The big “I”

Has God-hunger. ```

756

```

I want my mind

To be filled with God’s Sound,

But God wants to fill my heart

With His Silence. ```

757

```

My heart-sky

Is not only wakeful

But God-full.

```

758

```

Be the perfect embodiment

Of sincerity.

God will, without fail,

Listen to your heart-cries. ```

759

```

I am in the same boat

As my silence-starved

Heart.

```

760

```

If you allow disobedience

To get a foot in your mind-door,

Then that is the beginning

Of your destruction-hurricane. ```

761

```

Alas, I do not know

Why I am forced

To wander in my thought-wilderness

So helplessly! ```

762

```

Every day I pray to God

To turn my mind into a serenity-flower,

My heart into a purity-flower

And my life into a simplicity-flower. ```

763

```

Whatever directs

Your one-pointed attention

To the Divine

Is not only perfect

But most perfect.

```

764

```

God wants me to cry

On His Shoulder,

But I prefer to cry

At His Feet. ```

765

```

My Lord, do give me the capacity

To wipe every tear

From every heart.

```

766

```

Countless God-seekers

Are shedding tears every day

For the betterment of the world.

```

767

```

God will befriend you

And claim you as His own

If you unleash

A new spirit of humility. ```

768

```

Because I have become

A sincere God-lover,

My days of gloom and doom

Are all over. ```

769

```

Because my mind talks incessantly,

My inner Guide

Has taken a vow of silence.

```

770

```

Do not sell

Your aspiration-heart

For worthless earthly pleasures.

```

771

```

God dearly loves

Your constant refusal

To be unhappy.

```

772

```

If love prompts

Your God-obedience,

Only then are you

Absolutely perfect. ```

773

```

It does not take

More than a modicum of effort

To please our Beloved Lord Supreme.

```

774

```

I deeply admire

Your devoted cheerfulness,

O God-seeker,

Although your Goal

Is a billion miles away.

```

775

```

If you are not fully prepared,

Then do not embark

On your aspiration-expedition,

For you will not arrive at

Your ultimate Goal.

```

776

```

God wants me to hide

My sound-mind

Inside my silence-heart.

```

777

```

A wide-open heart

And a sunshine-smile

Are enough to conquer

The heart of humanity. ```

778

```

I offer my humility-life

To my Lord Supreme.

He showers me

With His boundless Pride. ```

779

```

My Lord, please tell me,

What is left for me

If You leave me alone?

```

780

```

My mind’s ego every day

Comes to the fore

To ruthlessly torture

My poor heart. ```

781

```

My heart was swimming in tears

When it saw how badly my mind

Was disobeying God.

```

782

```

The dreamers of Paradise

Have to be heart-weepers

And heart-smilers.

```

783

```

There is so much disparity

Between the mind’s possessiveness

And the heart’s submissiveness!

```

784

```

O my mind,

Why do you allow yourself

To be haunted by fear and doubt?

```

785

```

O my vital,

Why do you allow yourself

To be assailed by depression

And frustration? ```

786

```

O my heart,

Why do you allow yourself

To be ruthlessly strangled

By insincerity and impurity? ```

787

```

O my body,

Why do you allow yourself

To be devoured

By lethargy-sleep? ```

788

```

Each meditation-breath

Is the flowering

Of our inner divinity.

```

789

```

You are badly mistaken

When you say that spirituality

Is empty of practicality.

```

790

```

The outer life

Likes to dwell

In the mind of possibility.

```

791

```

The inner life

Loves to dwell

In the heart of inevitability.

```

792

```

Slowness begets unreadiness.

Unreadiness begets unwillingness.

Unwillingness begets uneagerness.

```

793

```

As there is no end

To our sound-prayers,

Even so there is no end

To our silence-meditations. ```

794

```

My intense God-love

Is my life’s

Deep God-satisfaction.

```

795

```

The mind’s brooding cares

Disappear

When the heart’s tranquillity

Dawns. ```

796

```

There was a time

When I lived inside

My mind’s uncertainty-cave,

But now I live

In my heart’s certainty-palace.

```

797

```

With imperfection I went

To see God’s Eye;

With perfection I sat

At God’s Feet. ```

798

```

God tells me

That He does not need

My perfection-life.

He needs only

My willingness-heart.

```

799

```

Devotion is frustration

Only when expectation

Looms large.

```

800

```

“Tomorrow I shall become perfect!”

Is the absurd philosophy

Of the idle.

```

801

```

There is definitely a dividing line

Between goodness and greatness,

And this line is quite distinctive.

```

802

```

You will always miss peace

If you remain inside

Your unaspiring mind-room.

```

803

```

Do not indulge

In temptation-game!

It never wants to stop.

```

804

```

His mind’s persistent disobedience

Has taken him away

Farther than the farthest

From God’s Compassion-Eye. ```

805

```

Purity-exercises give us

Very quick results.

Our inner existence becomes

Extremely powerful. ```

806

```

God is bound to disappear

If you surrender

To your depression-frustration-vital.

```

807

```

When your aspiration rises,

Do not look at desire’s face

Anymore.

```

808

```

You are trying to do an impossible task!

Your cleverness will never be able

To fool your soul.

```

809

```

The mind wants to exploit the heart,

But the mind does not know

That the heart is always assisted by God.

Therefore, the heart will brook

No exploitation.

```

810

```

Our outer life is conversant

With the complicated mind-schemes.

Our inner life is conversant

With the beauty of heart-dreams. ```

811

```

God wanted me to have

An ego-free life.

Alas, what am I doing?

I am enjoying an ego-fat life. ```

812

```

When you give an inch

To disobedience,

It immediately demands a long mile.

```

813

```

If you want to enjoy God-nearness,

Then develop sweetness

In your entire being.

```

814

```

Not self-infatuation but self-expansion

Can and shall lead us

To our God-Destination.

```

815

```

When God’s Grace rushes towards you,

God expects from you

A receptivity-heart.

```

816

```

It takes enormous courage

To have implicit faith

In God’s outer operations.

```

817

```

Life’s turbulence cannot frighten you

If your mind longs for God’s

Immortal Opulence: Peace.

```

818

```

If you do not give

Your wholehearted loyalty

To your own soul,

How can you expect to have

A life of real satisfaction?

```

819

```

Ignorance eagerly waits

For your surrender

In the sound of your outer life

And in the silence of your inner life. ```

820

```

The fear of the mind

Can easily petrify

The vital and the body.

```

821

```

Keep your intensity-heart alive

No matter how many times a day

You meet with your Master.

```

822

```

May your prayerful and soulful smile

Embody man’s perfection-dream

And God’s Satisfaction-Reality.

```

823

```

My surrender has always been

My life’s most powerful

Safety-haven.

```

824

```

God-Satisfaction-dreamers

And servers

Know no rest.

```

825

```

Your mind’s determination-stride

And your heart’s aspiration-stride

Every day must increase.

```

826

```

The mind

Is always fond

Of ever-changing forecasts.

```

827

```

Every day at least once

God goes through His Family Album,

Which contains

The Beauty and Fragrance

Of His Universal Dream.

```

828

```

God has no intention of threatening you

In any way.

He only wants to enlighten

Your body, vital, mind and heart

In every possible way.

```

829

```

Every day

God is eager to see a new record

Set by His chosen seekers

On His Heart-Track. ```

830

```

God has

His Compassion-Eye

And His Satisfaction-Heart

For the aspiring world. ```

831

```

God has His Forgiveness-Heart

For the unruly, unaspiring

And self-centred world.

```

832

```

God tells me that I always know

Right from wrong,

But I do not want to take the trouble

To do the right thing. ```

833

```

A self-giving life

Is God’s

Best amplifier.

```

834

```

God is

His Employer-Eye.

God is

His Employee-Heart. ```

835

```

God the Creator

Is prone to smile.

God the creation

Is prone to cry. ```

836

```

The supermarket-mind

Of unaspiring human beings

Every day

Demands extra supplies. ```

837

```

God’s great Justice-Light

Is always

Up to date.

```

838

```

God’s Protection-Eye

Stays on twenty-four-hour duty

To protect the lives

Of His chosen children. ```

839

```

God’s Heart

Knows how to whisper.

Man’s mind

Knows how to whimper. ```

840

```

The mind-batteries

Never work properly.

The heart-batteries

Never run low. ```

841

```

My desire-fulfilment

Is not

God’s priority.

```

842

```

My aspiration-awakening

And aspiration-blossoming

Are God’s top priorities.

```

843

```

When I am on God’s Compassion-Wings,

I fly not only the highest

But also the farthest.

```

844

```

Pure dreams

Import and export.

Impure dreams

Only explode. ```

845

```

Every day my heart

Gives my mind God-lessons

In vain!

```

846

```

God is always ready

To secretly cover all my faults,

But my enemies at every moment

Point out each and every fault of mine. ```

847

```

Alas, when will my mind smile?

When?

Alas, when will my heart cry?

When? ```

848

```

The dust-tornadoes of the mind

Do have the power

To destroy the inner poise of our heart.

```

849

```

God the Mother

Teaches me how to look upward

And ceaselessly cry.

```

850

```

God the Father

Teaches me how to dive deep within

And sleeplessly smile.

```

851

```

I want the wisdom of my heart

To be the source

Of my freedom-loving mind.

```

852

```

God asks my heart

To tell Him its mantra.

My heart replies,

“My Lord, my only mantra is,

‘I sleeplessly and breathlessly love

Only You.’” ```

853

```

Alas,

How long shall I remain

A totally vision-blind mind?

```

854

```

His God-denying mind

Could not foretell

His imminent perdition.

```

855

```

His God-loving heart

Could foretell

God’s imminent Satisfaction-Smile.

```

856

```

The indolence of the body

And insolence of the vital

Are two destructive hostile forces.

```

857

```

Your ignorance-night will be thickened

If you enjoy the presence

Of a God-denial-mind.

```

858

```

God tells us

That ultimately

Nobody will fail His final Test.

```

859

```

The power-hungry mind

Deliberately rejects

God’s Compassion-Eye-Nest.

```

860

```

Do you want to offer delight to God?

Then steal His Light

As much as you want to

At your sweet will. ```

861

```

Unimaginable delight awaits him,

For his life has become

A surrender-breath.

```

862

```

When we do not pray and meditate Regularly,

God’s heavy Sighs

Devour His living Breath.

```

863

```

If you do not nurture your divine life,

Your animal life will, without fail,

Return.

```

864

```

When we live in our restless mind,

No matter what God gives us,

We immediately reject it.

```

865

```

Not by crying and crying,

But by singing and dancing,

His life came out of his darkness-mind.

```

866

```

Alas, he never realised

That his computer-brain

Would steal the beauty and fragrance

Of his happiness-heart. ```

867

```

God the Satisfaction came down

Happily and proudly

To greet his gratitude-heart.

```

868

```

Before trying to embrace God,

Humanity should try to trace

God’s Footprints.

```

869

```

God is at a loss

When He stands in between

The complexity of science

And the simplicity of spirituality. ```

870

```

God tells me

That He is giving me

A full-time job:

Aspiration. ```

871

```

Worries and anxieties

Are the faithful messengers

Of death.

```

872

```

I pray to God every day

For the victory of my heart’s happiness

Over my mind’s unhappiness.

```

873

```

To defeat the commotion-mind

Once and for all,

Our heart needs sleepless

And breathless God-devotion. ```

874

```

Weak disciples do not believe

In their Master

When he says that he has shortened

The distance. ```

875

```

Not the abnegation

But the illumination

Of our desire-life

We need. ```

876

```

God wants our mind to be authentic,

Our heart to be sympathetic

And our soul to be prophetic.

```

877

```

God’s Greatness frightens us.

God’s Goodness enlightens us.

God’s Fulness feeds us.

```

878

```

Two things I dearly love:

My God-obedience-heart

And my God-surrender-life.

```

879

```

My heart is always eager

With all its affection

To teach my mind, vital and body.

But, alas, its eagerness-sun

Turns into frustration-night.

```

880

```

Does the human mind

Have the opportunity to excel?

Yes, it does!

But unfortunately the mind

Does not apply itself.

```

881

```

The secret is out:

The desiring mind

Does not want to room

With the aspiring heart. ```

882

```

The undivine mind does not believe

In practising.

It only believes in preaching.

```

883

```

The joyful tears of our soul

Nurture and support

Our God-fulfilling oneness-heart.

```

884

```

God Himself

Is enjoying the resurrection

Of the long-lost aspiration-cries

Of my heart. ```

885

```

The heavy pressure

Of hidden anxieties

Can never be adequately described.

```

886

```

God begs me to see sense

And not nonsense

In everything.

```

887

```

Rest assured,

God is not going to cheer up your mind

If you carry fear with you

When you visit God’s Palace. ```

888

```

For an unaspiring mind,

It is impossible to sacrifice

The pleasure-life

For a supreme cause. ```

889

```

Never allow

Your heart to surrender

To the feeling of unworthiness.

```

890

```

Try to be pacified

By hope

And fortified by promise.

```

891

```

Finally,

Your suspicion-mind

Enters into the abyss

Of nothingness. ```

892

```

The old millennium says

To the new millennium:

“My Brother,

Do not commit the same mistakes

That I made!”

```

893

```

God wants my heart

To enjoy every day

The bounty of aspiration

And my life,

The bounty of dedication.

```

894

```

The aspiration-heart-life

Will sooner or later, without fail,

Thrive.

```

895

```

I have nothing to do with

The mind that desires

World-domination.

```

896

```

If you maximise,

God will immortalise

The tears of your aspiration-heart.

```

897

```

I tell my mind

That it can never overestimate

The capacities of my soul.

```

898

```

I beg my mind

Not to underestimate

The capacities of my heart.

```

899

```

There can be

No adequate replacement

For God’s Compassion-Eye-Touch.

```

900

```

To try to define illumination

Is to feed the hunger

Of frustration.

```

901

```

Our mind, our heart

And our earth-existence

Will be glorified

If we feel that our Lord Supreme

Has an iota of faith in us.

```

902

```

I clearly see that my aspiration-heart

Is being cradled

By God’s Compassion-flooded Eye.

```

903

```

O my mind,

Your stupidity knows no bounds!

Look how far you have gone away

From God’s Heart-Home. ```

904

```

My Lord,

Break my life into millions of pieces

Since it is still unwilling

To sit at Your Lotus-Feet. ```

905

```

God wants me to give Him

Only one thing

To make Him supremely happy:

My heart-beauty-smile. ```

906

```

Every day I surrender

My life’s limited sighs

To God’s unlimited Compassion-Breath.

```

907

```

God is not satisfied

In seeing me close to His Heart.

He wants me to be deep inside

His Heart-Home. ```

908

```

My life moves at bullock-cart speed.

Time does not wait for me.

My nature’s transformation, alas,

Will remain always a far cry. ```

909

```

I shall no more blow

My mind-trumpet.

From now on I shall only blow

My soul-trumpet. ```

910

```

God wants my willingness

And not my capacity

To love Him and serve Him.

```

911

```

Every day I feel miserable

To see and feel

That my desire-life

Is expanding its boundaries. ```

912

```

Alas, what do I see

When I dive within?

I see a sea of sadness

And a mountain of failure. ```

913

```

Each time you climb up

To a new aspiration-height,

Your realisation-stars

Come near you and perform

A new God-Victory-dance.

```

914

```

My seeker-friend, you are telling me

That you have nothing.

But I clearly see that wherever you go

You radiate Infinity’s blue Light. ```

915

```

Not an easy task

To throw insecurity

Completely out of one’s life.

But I have done it!

Yes, I have done it!

```

916

```

My confusion-mind

And my dissatisfaction-life

Are intimately fond of each other.

```

917

```

Like a postage stamp,

Stick only to God’s Heart

Of infinite Love.

```

918

```

A life without ups and downs

May not be

So completely fulfilling.

```

919

```

True happiness does not spring

From the mind’s

World-possession-thirst,

But from the heart’s

God-surrender-hunger.

```

920

```

Opportunity

Makes the undivine in us a thief

And the divine in us a saint.

```

921

```

A big mouth

Is not always accompanied

By a big heart.

```

922

```

The heart-torch shines

Most powerfully

Inside the darkness of the mind.

```

923

```

The joy of the heart

Belongs to nobody

Until it belongs to everybody.

```

924

```

Prayers and meditations

Are citizens

Of God’s Heart-Country.

```

925

```

Share a smile of your heart

With humanity.

Lo, you have become

Divinity’s pride! ```

926

```

Impurity’s very presence

In anybody’s life

Is a real threat to everybody’s purity

Everywhere. ```

927

```

Knowledge we acquire

By working hard.

Wisdom we acquire

By surrendering ourselves

To God’s Will.

```

928

```

Your sterling devotion

To God’s Will

Tells you what true love

And what false love are. ```

929

```

Ignore your vital-dog,

Which is always barking

Inside your heart-garden.

```

930

```

He who smiles sleeplessly

Lives in the Eye of the Supreme,

And he who cries breathlessly

Lives in the Heart of the Supreme. ```

931

```

The sound of my mind

Can be quoted and misquoted,

But not the silence of my heart.

```

932

```

There is always

Plenty of room

At the highest Heights.

```

933

```

To love your heart of love

Is to love its Source:

God.

```

934

```

Do not worry

About your future.

Pay all attention

To the Eternal Now. ```

935

```

Never too late

To practise your spiritual life

And to please God

In God’s own Way! ```

936

```

Indecision forces your mind

To remain inside

A darkness-cave.

```

937

```

You must give up

Once and for all

Your mind’s anxiety-indulgence!

```

938

```

Your emotion-life

Must totally surrender

To your vision-eye.

```

939

```

God is a Sweetness-Whisper

And not a loudness-trumpet

Inside your heart-temple.

```

940

```

My Lord’s Sunshine-Heart-Eye

Has been beckoning me

For centuries!

```

941

```

There is always

An unseen light

Inside our heart-hope.

```

942

```

Our teeming hopes

And glowing promises

Must needs be harmonised.

```

943

```

My Lord always lives

Inside the secret and sacred chamber

Of my silence-heart.

```

944

```

Unlike us,

God loves to sing two songs:

A heart-oneness-song

And a life-fulness-song. ```

945

```

My devotion is the golden bridge

Between my aspiration-heart

And God’s Satisfaction-Smile.

```

946

```

We simply have no idea

How often

We dare to throw God forcefully

Out of our hearts. ```

947

```

Love is not a business deal

Of the mind.

It is a oneness-skill

Of the heart. ```

948

```

Modern science is foolishly making

Attempt after attempt

To replace

God’s Compassion-flooded Heart. ```

949

```

If my surrender-heart blossoms,

Then I know my happiness-destination

Will be within my easy reach.

```

950

```

My Lord Supreme,

Do bless me with a lifelong

Gratitude-heart-plant.

```

951

```

My heart’s

Aspiration-attendance

Is quite satisfactory,

But, alas, not my life’s

Dedication-attendance.

```

952

```

You must discard immediately

Your mind’s old, unhealthy

And unaspiring thoughts.

```

953

```

I must save

My earth-existence

From constant self-abnegation.

```

954

```

My Lord Beloved Supreme

Suffers and suffers

When my mind discourages and belittles

The beauty and fragrance

Of my blossoming heart.

```

955

```

The doubting mind

Finally dies

Of its own monotony-life.

```

956

```

Do not believe the falsehood-carriers

Who inform the world

That the God-thirst

Can never be fully appeased. ```

957

```

A peaceful mind

And a blissful heart

Are Eternity’s twins.

```

958

```

My heart and I know for certain

That God’s Compassion-Eye

Is the source of God’s Life.

```

959

```

Perseverance

Eventually shall arrive

At the Golden Shore.

```

960

```

Two doors —

God’s Compassion-Door

And God’s Forgiveness-Door —

God keeps always open. ```

961

```

My God-dependence-wings

Invariably shall take me

To God’s highest Palace.

```

962

```

Day after day

God continues to warn us

Not to be at all friendly

With ignorance-night. ```

963

```

God wants everybody to be familiar

With the length and breadth

Of His Will.

```

964

```

God tells me that

His Philosophy is:

Man’s mind has to unlearn;

Man’s heart has to learn. ```

965

```

For years and years

I have been planning and planning

To offer my gratitude-heart

To my Lord Supreme.

Alas, my success

Still remains a far cry. ```

966

```

The difference between

My own desire and God’s desire

Is this:

I want to bind God,

And God wants to liberate me.

```

967

```

Every day

With a new happiness-heart

I try to reach

My aspiration-mountain-heights. ```

968

```

God tells me that

I do not have to make up

For lost time.

It will be perfectly all right

If I run faster

Right from here and now. ```

969

```

A stupidity-mind’s

Best friend

Is an absurdity-thought.

```

970

```

The mind’s ambition-tower

Always overcrowded.

```

971

```

What am I?

I am my heart’s helpless cry

To reach my God-Destination.

```

972

```

When I look upward,

I become

My life’s prayer-beauty.

When I look inward,

I become

My heart’s meditation-fragrance. ```

973

```

My heart-alarm

Not only awakens me

But also guides me

All the way to my Destination. ```

974

```

Sing prayerfully and self-givingly!

God Himself will come down

To establish His Oneness-Friendship

With your life. ```

975

```

The torturing mind

Gets malicious pleasure

When it sees the suffering heart.

```

976

```

We must ignite our minds

With the beauty of new hopes

And the fragrance of new ideals.

```

977

```

My heart’s inner aspiration-tears

Will unmistakably and easily outlast

The wrong actions of my outer life.

```

978

```

Each time I dive deep

In my meditation,

My heart starts singing

Peace-melodies. ```

979

```

So often my expectation-mind

Gives heart attacks

To my God-surrender-life.

```

980

```

O God-seeker, rest assured,

Nobody will erect a monument

To your hostile critics.

```

981

```

The curiosity-mind

Never sees

The face of Reality

And never feels

The heart of Divinity.

```

982

```

Have a mind of imagination.

Have a heart of aspiration.

Have a life of dedication.

You need nothing more! ```

983

```

My Lord, how I wish

You would make my life

A perfect perfection,

Even for a fleeting second! ```

984

```

You can have no inspiration

To serve God the creation

If you have no aspiration

To realise God the Creator. ```

985

```

I have been developing

An indomitable will

To fulfil

My God-manifestation-promise

Since the moment

I saw the light of day. ```

986

```

Human life is nothing but

A series

Of unfulfilled desires.

```

987

```

I shall never allow

My aspiration-heart

To be defeated

By my desire-mind. ```

988

```

The heart’s oneness-game

I enjoy

And not the mind’s

Competition-division-game. ```

989

```

From each small God-devotion-step

There comes into existence

A giant God-surrender-step.

```

990

```

To hope against hope

Can eventually become

A positive reality.

```

991

```

Our Lord Beloved Supreme

Will unmistakably fulfil

His Peace-Promise here on earth.

```

992

```

Spirituality is full of

Astonishing promises

And assurances.

```

993

```

Expectation-misery covers

The length and breadth

Of the mind.

```

994

```

A sleepless God-gratitude-heart

Will always be blessed

With Divinity’s Peace and Bliss.

```

995

```

My mind wants

To import greatness.

My heart wants

To export goodness. ```

996

```

Only the invited God-pleasing guests

Are allowed to enter

Into God’s Heart-Room.

```

997

```

My God-surrender-light-wings

Fly me happily and proudly

To the Shores of the Beyond.

```

998

```

My Lord, do fulfil

My snow-white desire:

May my heart become

The perfect embodiment

Of Your Immortality’s Goodness.

```

999

```

Two things are never out of season:

God’s Compassion-Eye

And God’s Forgiveness-Heart.

```

1000

```

My Lord,

My Absolute Lord Beloved Supreme,

You have commanded me to write

Seventy-seven thousand service-tree-poems.

I have just completed one thousand.

My heart, my mind, my vital, my body

And I

Are most sincerely tired.

“My child, My own Divinity’s child,

Tiredness is unacceptable.” ```

From:Sri Chinmoy,Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 1, Agni Press, 1998
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