Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 10

9001

```

When I swim in the sea of

God-manifestation-smiles,

A bountiful God-Pride-harvest

Beckons me. ```

9002

```

May each thought of mine

Be a reservoir

Of love divine.

```

9003

```

Each gratitude-thought

Has the wings of the soul-bird

To fly in the vastness of the sky.

```

9004

```

Each life, indeed,

Is a masterpiece

Of our Lord Beloved Supreme.

```

9005

```

May my God-love

Be a fountain-joy to me

At every moment.

```

9006

```

I shall not allow

My mind to pause,

I shall not allow

My heart to halt

Until I have found myself

In the Heart-Garden

Of my Lord Beloved Supreme.

```

9007

```

As my soul is the haunting melody

Of my Lord Supreme,

Even so, I wish my body to be

The thrilling melody

Of my soul.

```

9008

```

What a supreme privilege

To be in the company

Of God-loving, God-serving

And

God-fulfilling seekers.

```

9009

```

In the spiritual life,

You will get spectacular results

From God

Not by giving and taking

But by becoming.

```

9010

```

Do not wait!

Do not delay!

Love God the Creator,

Serve God the creation

And

Become God the man. ```

9011

```

Our inner faith

Must determine the line

Of our outer actions.

```

9012

```

The mind-melodies

Are easy and insignificant.

The heart-melodies

Are sweet, beautiful, powerful

And all-illumining.

```

9013

```

Wisdom-light knows

What ignorance-night is.

Therefore it keeps no contact.

```

9014

```

The mind-confusion never allows

The heart-expectation to remain

Sweet and fulfilling.

```

9015

```

My Lord Supreme,

You were my only hope.

Do become my only way as well.

```

9016

```

My Lord abides between

My gratitude-heart

And

My perfection-dream. ```

9017

```

Unlike me,

My Lord Supreme never wants

To be complete

Without me. ```

9018

```

The beauty of self-giving

Eventually grows into

The fragrance of God-becoming.

```

9019

```

Alas,

How is it that my desires

Never come to realise

That they are heading

Towards destruction?

```

9020

```

If my heart is responsible

For God-satisfaction,

Then God is definitely responsible

For my life. ```

9021

```

Whenever I need inspiration,

Aspiration and satisfaction,

I immediately invoke

The descent of Compassion

From Above.

```

9022

```

In the outer life,

Admiration is my mind’s

Success-drum-sound.

```

9023

```

In the inner life,

Love is my heart’s

Progress-flute-melody.

```

9024

```

Because my heart

Is beautiful,

I love God the creation.

```

9025

```

Because my life

Is fruitful,

I love God the Creator.

```

9026

```

He who attacks outwardly

Definitely has

An inner problem.

```

9027

```

An unsolved problem

Is nothing other than

A revolving door.

```

9028

```

If I really accept the world

As my own, very own,

Then God will run towards me

With world-enlightenment-promises. ```

9029

```

God is always ready

To be responsible

For my actions,

But my stupidity-mind

Does not trust God.

```

9030

```

My heart’s total God-acceptance

Is the very beginning

Of my mind’s transformation-delight.

```

9031

```

Pray, pray lovingly and self-givingly.

God Himself will stand in front of you

And immediately end your life-worries.

```

9032

```

My heart’s devotional songs

God always takes as

His Life’s Victory-Gongs.

```

9033

```

The God-seeker’s

God-manifestation-promise

May not be certain.

```

9034

```

The God-lover’s

God-manifestation-promise

Is unquestionably

And absolutely certain. ```

9035

```

Practice gives me success.

Practice gives me progress.

Practice shall bring me God

And

Place my head at His Feet.

```

9036

```

When the heart’s oneness

Is expansion,

Life’s progress becomes

Perfect satisfaction. ```

9037

```

Only a receptivity-heart

Can adequately value

God’s Presence.

```

9038

```

When I liberated my mind

From expectation-prison-cell,

God invited me to join

His world-Transformation-Army. ```

9039

```

The mind lives inside

The unlit

Reason-cave.

```

9040

```

The heart lives inside

The all-illumined

Faith-palace.

```

9041

```

My heart of love

And my soul of delight

Are divinely and sleeplessly attracted

To each other. ```

9042

```

As long as you want God

And nobody else,

Then it does not matter

If you love God the finite

God the Infinite. ```

9043

```

As long as you want God

And nobody else,

Then it does not matter

If you love either

God the creation-matter

God the Creator-Spirit.

```

9044

```

In the hoary past,

The God-seekers sang

God’s Glory

Soulfully and spontaneously. ```

9045

```

In modern times,

The God-seekers sing

God’s Glory

Ostentatiously and pretentiously. ```

9046

```

The mind’s transformation

Without the heart’s meditation

Is the height of absurdity.

```

9047

```

Nothing important

Depends on

Your thinking process.

```

9048

```

Everything

Depends on

Your inner blossoming faith.

```

9049

```

There is not a single day that

God does not try to teach my mind

How to smile at Him.

Alas, it is of no avail. ```

9050

```

If you are afraid of world-criticism,

You have a very, very long way to go

To satisfy God.

```

9051

```

At the door of my earth-bound time,

The Heaven-free Smile of God

I see.

```

9052

```

If you expect all the time

From the world,

You definitely have another name:

Beggar. ```

9053

```

If you give and give

Everything that you have and are

To the world,

You definitely have another name:

Emperor.

```

9054

```

The outer world thinks that

I am ignorant.

Therefore, it does not hesitate

To make fun of me. ```

9055

```

The inner world sees that

I am all wisdom.

Therefore, it does not hesitate

To plead with me

For my wisdom-light.

```

9056

```

Peace is

The relationship-bridge

Between man and God.

```

9057

```

Worries and anxieties

Unconsciously invite death

To appear before the physical.

```

9058

```

If you are a seeker,

Then you must feel

That before you go anywhere,

God is already there. ```

9059

```

We cannot avoid

God’s Justice-Light.

It will one day catch us

By surprise. ```

9060

```

My aspiration-heart

And my dedication-life

Are desperately trying

To overthrow

The mind-government.

```

9061

```

May my heart

Always remain

A conscience-lover.

```

9062

```

Your progress-delight

Entirely depends

On your heart’s light-acceptance.

```

9063

```

My heart’s delight

Breathes in

My inseparable God-oneness.

```

9064

```

If we are persistent,

Then we are bound to reach the top

Of our God-realisation-mountain.

```

9065

```

My Lord,

Why did You choose me?

“My child,

Why did you need Me?” ```

9066

```

Everybody’s life

Will eventually be

The possessor of peace.

```

9067

```

My soul’s silence-garden

Is where

My heart blossoms.

```

9068

```

Despair

Is a form of

Ego-exhibit.

```

9069

```

Life becomes sweet

When the heart is hungry

For God’s Compassion-Light.

```

9070

```

When we do not aspire,

Lethargy becomes the ruler

Of our entire being.

```

9071

```

Stop immediately

All negative forces,

Before they stop you!

```

9072

```

May my mind become

A perfect stranger

To doubt and disobedience.

```

9073

```

My Lord,

Anything that You do

For each and every human being

Is unique and unsurpassable. ```

9074

```

Whenever we paint God’s portrait

With our gratitude-heart-tears,

God becomes

Happier than the happiest. ```

9075

```

My Lord,

I am absolutely sure

That nobody on earth

Can resist

Your Affection-Attraction-Magnet.

```

9076

```

My God-obedience-delight

Shall forever remain

Unparalleled in my life.

```

9077

```

What is my devotion?

It is the pleasure

Of my outer life

And the treasure

Of my inner life.

```

9078

```

My Lord, I want to fly

Infinitely faster than time

To have a glimpse of You

Inside Your Heart-Kingdom. ```

9079

```

What a failure I am

For loving my sleeping body,

Instead of loving

My all-illumining soul! ```

9080

```

My Lord,

Is it because I am weak

Or is it because I am insincere

That even my desperate cries and tears

Fail to reach You?

```

9081

```

When God really withdraws from us,

How can we have any hope

To walk along the road of life?

```

9082

```

I have smashed asunder

All my earthly bonds

Only to chain myself

To my Lord’s Lotus-Feet. ```

9083

```

Each world-possessing thought

Brings us to the verge

Of self-annihilation.

```

9084

```

My Lord,

Wherever You go,

You do not have to take me,

As long as You take

My life-breath with You.

```

9085

```

Every day

I pray to my Lord Supreme

To make my life

The beauty

Of a ceaseless prayer

And the fragrance

Of a breathless meditation.

```

9086

```

To be exclusively

My Lord’s possession,

I must cry and cry within

And smile and smile without. ```

9087

```

An intensity-oneness

Grants

An immensity-fulness.

```

9088

```

My Lord does not mind

My heart’s prayerful

And soulful demands,

But He does mind

My mind’s professional demands.

```

9089

```

My soul secretly gives me

Prayer-instructions. ```

9090

```

My heart sacredly gives me

Meditation-illumination. ```

9091

```

Anything that is self-giving

To the Lord Beloved Supreme

Never needs any award.

```

9092

```

O my blinding doubt-mind,

Are you not ashamed

Of your utter stupidity?

```

9093

```

O my sterling faith-heart,

I do not and I cannot live,

Even for a fleeting second,

Without you. ```

9094

```

When I am in a soulful consciousness,

My Lord asks me to enter into

His Heart-Garden

Secretly and unannounced. ```

9095

```

May my God-adoration

Be an all-consuming fire. ```

9096

```

I reserve everything

That is good in me

Only for the Feet

Of my Beloved Supreme. ```

9097

```

Every day I stretch and stretch

My gratitude-heart-line

Towards my Lord Supreme.

```

9098

```

If you keep your desires

Always pure,

Eventually they grow into

Sky-climbing aspiration-flames. ```

9099

```

My Lord,

As Your Eye is inundated

With Compassion,

Even so, do make my heart inundated

With devotion.

```

9100

```

After all is said and done,

Man does not want to come out of

His poison-mind.

```

9101

```

If you allow your silence-heart

To blossom,

Then God will blessingfully

Come to you. ```

9102

```

My Lord wants me to discover

My sacred heart-pathway

And not my secret mind-pathway.

```

9103

```

Quite often we take

The first backward step

Unseen and unnoticed,

Even by ourselves,

Before we take forward

Marching steps. ```

9104

```

To me, each earth-bound thought

Is a life-lowering temptation

Too great.

```

9105

```

To me, a self-giving

And self-effacing thought

Is, indeed, a perfect prayer.

```

9106

```

A simplicity-mind

An exquisite reality-achievement.

```

9107

```

My heart is a tear-drop

Trying to enter into

God’s infinite

Compassion-Ocean. ```

9108

```

My mind knows

How to beg for everything

From God.

```

9109

```

My heart knows

How to do everything

For God.

```

9110

```

O seeker, be wise!

Seek God sleeplessly

And breathlessly.

```

9111

```

O seeker, be wise!

Wait patiently

For God’s unmistakable Arrival.

```

9112

```

How stupid we are!

Is there any day

That we do not carelessly miss

A good many God-given opportunities? ```

9113

```

To feel God’s Love,

Always keep

A simplicity-life,

A purity-heart

And

A sincerity-mind. ```

9114

```

When we feed our clever mind

And not our simple heart,

Our lives become

Shockingly complicated. ```

9115

```

May each God-invoking thought

Be a guiding principle

Of my life.

```

9116

```

I always believe in the capacity

Of my self-giving

In my present life

And not in the achievements

Of my remote future.

```

9117

```

When I live inside my heart,

My Lord is ever-changing

And ever-blossoming.

```

9118

```

When I live inside my mind,

My Lord is inactive

And helpless.

```

9119

```

In my hours of need,

I see my Lord here, there

And everywhere.

```

9120

```

In the Hour of my Lord’s Need,

I am nowhere

To be found.

```

9121

```

May my aspiration-heart-bell

Ring every morning

And every evening

Like a temple bell. ```

9122

```

I swing on life’s playground

Between my unsteadiness-mind

And my eagerness-heart.

```

9123

```

I know it

From my personal experience:

There is no such thing

As God-withdrawal. ```

9124

```

O my soul-pilot

Of my life-boat,

Sail on!

Delay not!

I am all admiration

And all love for you. ```

9125

```

I am all eagerness

To see my mind-sun set

Inside my heart-sky.

```

9126

```

Eventually

Everybody’s life-possession

Shall end in

Infinity’s Nothingness. ```

9127

```

Not my capacity,

But my Lord’s

Unconditional Compassion

Has enabled me to have

An illumination-mind,

Compassion-heart

And

Oneness-life. ```

9128

```

God immediately expedites

His Journey

When my heart weeps tears

Of delight. ```

9129

```

Forgiveness-delight

Is what a spiritual Master

Teaches his disciples.

```

9130

```

God has given me

Two sleeplessly God-dreaming eyes,

And I have given Him

My gratitude-heart-tears

In return.

```

9131

```

God has given me

One breathlessly God-smiling soul,

And I have given Him

The beauty and fragrance

Of my silence-heart

In return. ```

9132

```

Ingratitude-night

Is what we teach

Our Master-teacher.

```

9133

```

When I give my Lord

All my weaknesses,

He tells me that

He wants to claim them

As His own

Before He strengthens them. ```

9134

```

How do I make my mind sweet?

I make my mind sweet

By developing

Continuous God-thirst. ```

9135

```

How do I make my heart

Ecstasy-flooded?

I make my heart ecstasy-flooded

By developing

Continuous God-hunger.

```

9136

```

My curious mind

Enjoys

Secrecy-stories.

```

9137

```

My aspiring heart

Enjoys

Ecstasy-songs.

```

9138

```

I enjoy striking

My God-oneness-

Manifestation-gong.

```

9139

```

My purity-mind

Is, indeed,

A glorious achievement

Of mine. ```

9140

```

My selflessness-heart

Is a precious achievement

Of my Lord Supreme.

```

9141

```

Despair

Is nothing short of

A sharp ego-weapon.

```

9142

```

How can we have

A purity-heart

Without love of God?

```

9143

```

How can we have

Love for God

Without having

A crying heart? ```

9144

```

A mind with no silence

Makes a zigzag

Towards God.

```

9145

```

With a silence-heart

We fly higher than the highest,

Faster than the fastest

Towards our destination. ```

9146

```

May each heartbeat of mine

Be sanctified

By my Lord’s Compassion-Eye.

```

9147

```

Silence is

The Vision-Eye

Of God the Absolute.

```

9148

```

Silence is

God’s earth-perfection-

Dream-Reality.

```

9149

```

Silence is

God’s Heaven-newness,

Heaven-oneness,

Heaven-fulness-Satisfaction. ```

9150

```

Behold!

Uncharted God-horizons

Are beckoning

My God-crying heart. ```

9151

```

What is my meditation,

If not my heart’s

God-oneness-delight?

```

9152

```

My eagerness-heart

Is constantly increasing

My God-oneness-love.

```

9153

```

My eagerness-heart

Is the bridge

Between my readiness-mind

And my willingness-vital. ```

9154

```

With each thought,

I desperately try to cultivate

A flower-purity-life.

```

9155

```

Without the conscious cooperation

Of the mind,

We can never silence

The mind. ```

9156

```

The mind will never know

The direct route to God.

It only knows

The roundabout route to God. ```

9157

```

Early in the morning

When I pray,

I feel and see

My heart becoming

A rainbow-dawn-beauty.

```

9158

```

An aspiration-heart

Does have the capacity

To protect the mind

From thought-invasions. ```

9159

```

Every morning

I start my God-manifestation-task

Devotedly and self-givingly

Only after

My soul-alarm goes off.

```

9160

```

Why should God edit

Our life-book

If we are not going to give Him

Full credit for editing? ```

9161

```

My mind-obedience

Has always been

My God-sheltered life.

```

9162

```

My heart’s aspiration-fire

Is ablaze

Inside my mind-forest.

```

9163

```

My Beloved Supreme

Smiles and smiles

At my readiness-mind.

```

9164

```

My Beloved Supreme

Blesses and blesses

My willingness-life.

```

9165

```

My Beloved Supreme

Embraces and embraces

My eagerness-heart.

```

9166

```

My God-oneness-breath

Kisses and kisses

The Feet of my Lord Supreme.

```

9167

```

God always gives us

Ample opportunity

To destroy or illumine

Our wrong actions. ```

9168

```

What my mind thinks of others

And what it thinks of me

Is totally unnecessary

For me to know. ```

9169

```

Yesterday

My main objective was

To discover God

For my sake. ```

9170

```

Today

My main objective is

To please God

In God’s own Way. ```

9171

```

Tomorrow

My main objective will be

To cry sleeplessly

With Mother Earth’s heart

And smile proudly

With Father Heaven’s Eye. ```

9172

```

My life is in between

God’s Compassion-Eye

And

God’s Forgiveness-Sea. ```

9173

```

To love God

For God’s sake

Is the only thing I need.

Everything else

Is worse than useless.

```

9174

```

A haughty mind

I definitely was.

A humble heart

I unmistakably am. ```

9175

```

My Lord,

I know I have lost You

Because of my lack of faith in You.

But I never think

You will lose me —

My gratitude-heart. ```

9176

```

My Lord Supreme,

Will Your Sweetness-Affection

Ever flower in my heart-garden?

```

9177

```

O confusion-mind,

You can never blur

My soul’s

God-manifestation-vision. ```

9178

```

Satisfaction is available

Only when we do not enjoy

Self-doubt.

```

9179

```

Nothing

Can be as sweet

As my gratitude-heart-smile.

```

9180

```

My Lord,

Do give me the capacity

To pray to You

For the fragrance of Your Love,

Blessings and Compassion.

```

9181

```

If you have a Master,

Everything that he says to you

You must take

As a divine Command. ```

9182

```

Before the mind-night

Sets in,

I must reach

My heart-light-home. ```

9183

```

Do not look left or right,

Forward or backward.

Fly upward

To reach your destined Goal! ```

9184

```

We do not know at what point

Self-ambition will lead us

To life-destruction.

```

9185

```

Everything divine that you do

Is not only pleasing your Master

Inwardly,

But also fulfilling your Master

Outwardly.

```

9186

```

The mind thinks

God is

Far away.

```

9187

```

The mind feels

God is

Wandering aimlessly.

```

9188

```

The heart feels

God is

Here, there, everywhere,

Singing only one song:

Humanity’s self-transcendence.

```

9189

```

My gratitude-heart-tears

And

My gratitude-life-smiles

Are my constant companions. ```

9190

```

It is quite natural and normal

To be afraid of

God’s Justice-Administration.

```

9191

```

It is quite beautiful and fragrant

When God’s Compassion-Eye

Forgives us, illumines us

And fulfils us. ```

9192

```

I believe you

When I hear you talk

About God.

```

9193

```

I love you

When you entirely depend

On God.

```

9194

```

I need you

When you become

God’s representative

And spokesman. ```

9195

```

When my hands are empty,

The human in me

Cries.

```

9196

```

When my heart is empty,

Both the human and the divine in me

Smile.

```

9197

```

God never tells me

That He will meet with all

My expectations.

```

9198

```

God ever tells me

That He will meet with all

My aspiration-dedication.

```

9199

```

My mind’s

Desire-fulfilment

Is my heart’s

Aspiration-bankruptcy. ```

9200

```

An ingratitude-heart

Does not have the capacity

To smile.

```

9201

```

In his inner life,

He is an insignificant ant.

In his outer life,

He pretends to be a huge elephant. ```

9202

```

If I place myself first

In everything that I do,

Then I shall have to be responsible

For my life. ```

9203

```

If I place myself last

In everything that I do,

Then my Lord tells me

That He will be responsible

For my life.

```

9204

```

God’s Compassion-Eye

Feeds

My aspiration-heart.

```

9205

```

God’s Forgiveness-Feet

Lead

My dedication-life.

```

9206

```

Life means

To grow into

The inner Beauty

Of God. ```

9207

```

Life means

To fulfil

The outer duty

Of man. ```

9208

```

To long for our Lord Supreme

Only through speech

Is not enough.

We must also long for God

Through action.

```

9209

```

My Lord, do tell me

Once and for all

How many tears I have to shed

Sleeplessly and breathlessly

To please You.

```

9210

```

I am determined

To learn by heart

Each and every page

Of my soul-book. ```

9211

```

Some go up to realise God

And then come down

To become part and parcel

Of humanity,

While others go up

And never return. ```

9212

```

My Lord,

Do protect me every day

From two dire enemies:

My self-confidence-vital

And

My self-importance-mind. ```

9213

```

May my self-indulgence-story

Be a story

Of the remote past.

```

9214

```

Quickly I rise,

Brightly I shine

For the satisfaction

Of Mother Earth. ```

9215

```

My Lord,

Please do not allow me

To dine with ignorance-night

Anymore.

This is my only prayer

That I place

At Your Compassion-Feet.

```

9216

```

My Lord,

If You really love me,

Then allow my life

To be founded on

Your thunderous Commands.

```

9217

```

My Lord,

Give me not

Your compromise-poison.

Give me any other poison

If You want to.

```

9218

```

Each soulful action

Will bring virtue

Into our life.

```

9219

```

The more we give importance

To the mind,

The more complications we create

For our life. ```

9220

```

May constant self-giving

Be the guiding principle

Of my life.

```

9221

```

The unaspiring mind

Tells me

That God never changes.

He always remains

The same.

```

9222

```

The aspiring heart

Tells me

That my Lord is an ever-changing,

Ever-blossoming

And ever-transcending Reality.

```

9223

```

I live for no other reason

Than to become inseparably one

With my Lord Beloved Supreme.

```

9224

```

We must pass

Life’s examinations,

Significant and insignificant.

Only then

God can have implicit faith in us.

```

9225

```

Only chosen instruments of God

Can live on earth

By God-faith alone.

```

9226

```

The philosopher in me

Tells me:

Self-discovery

And

God-realisation

Are two different things. ```

9227

```

The God-lover in me

Tells me:

God-realisation

And

Self-discovery

Are two names

Of the same Reality.

```

9228

```

My mind is apt to desert me

In my hour

Of God-manifestation-service.

```

9229

```

My outer life

Is all eagerness

For a fleeting Smile

From God. ```

9230

```

My inner life

Is eager

Only for my Lord’s

Compassion-flooded Heart. ```

9231

```

Without union with God,

Communion with God

Does not last forever.

```

9232

```

May my God-love

Be all-loving

And all-intoxicating.

```

9233

```

Do not miss

Your God-given opportunities.

If you miss,

Your soul will take up a new name:

Disappointment.

```

9234

```

For an unaspiring person,

Each desire-bound temptation

Is too difficult to conquer.

```

9235

```

For an aspiring person,

Each temptation

Is nothing other than a challenge

To conquer the pride

Of ignorance-night.

```

9236

```

When my heart overflows

With God-devotion,

My Lord Beloved Supreme

Starts dancing all around me. ```

9237

```

My God-adoration

Is feeding my inner life

And making me ready

To remain seated eternally

At the Feet

Of my Lord Supreme. ```

9238

```

God wants me to come

And stand at His Heart-Gate

Before He allows me to paint

His portrait. ```

9239

```

If we do not love God

For God’s sake,

We will suffer the worst possible

Failure-tragedy. ```

9240

```

Whenever I do something for God,

I get tremendous joy.

But when I obey God immediately,

My heart-ecstasy

Becomes unsurpassable.

```

9241

```

May my God-attraction-heart

Before long become

My God-satisfaction-life.

```

9242

```

We must love God

With our heart’s

Ever-increasing intensity

Instead of our mind’s

Misguided insanity.

```

9243

```

When there is God-thirst

And God-hunger,

The heart has to be

Sweetness-beauty. ```

9244

```

Service is self-giving —

Visible

In every possible way.

```

9245

```

All living things

In God’s creation

Are the fragrances of sacredness.

```

9246

```

The purity of the mind

And the fulness of the heart

Always go together.

```

9247

```

My Lord,

If You really love me,

Do not allow me to have

Even an iota of independence.

I want to depend on You

In every way. ```

9248

```

What is despair?

It is a clever way of displaying

One’s egoism.

```

9249

```

Without having a golden heart,

We cannot give real satisfaction

To our Lord Supreme.

```

9250

```

May my life unfold itself

Like the lotus inside my heart

Every day.

```

9251

```

Each soul

Is a God-Whisper

To mankind

From God’s Silence-Heart. ```

9252

```

When doubt, suspicion

And negativity in the mind

Get the upper hand,

Our inner life becomes

Completely bankrupt.

```

9253

```

Do not allow the mind-government

To intimidate your innocent

Body, vital and heart

Without rhyme or reason. ```

9254

```

Each and every time I deny

The unjust claim of my desire-life,

I come closer and closer to God.

```

9255

```

Faith is not blind.

Faith is all-seeing,

Faith is all-knowing.

Finally, faith is all-becoming. ```

9256

```

Our ruthless doubts,

By their very nature,

Do not believe in conviction.

```

9257

```

When I think of faith,

I immediately develop

Spontaneous love for God.

```

9258

```

My will to proceed

In the inner world of aspiration

Is unmistakably a God-given Gift.

```

9259

```

I am never moved by

The omnipotent Mind-Power

Of God.

```

9260

```

I am always moved by

The omnipresent Love-Fragrance

Of God.

```

9261

```

The music of the soul

Is, indeed, a transformation-call

For our earthly life.

```

9262

```

May every day God give me

More and more strength

To embrace all humanity

In its sleepless struggle

For self-discovery.

```

9263

```

To me, meditation means

My mind’s adoration for God

And

My heart’s devotion to God. ```

9264

```

The spiritual Master

Is always Heaven-sent,

Whether the earthly seekers

Believe it or not. ```

9265

```

My Lord,

I am not asking You

Why You chose me.

I am asking You

Why You are not reprimanding me

When I am doing everything wrong.

If You really care for my transformation,

I feel that I badly deserve

Your severe scoldings.

```

9266

```

Be persistent like an ant

In your outer determination

And in your inner God-invocation

If you want to succeed

In the battlefield of life.

```

9267

```

O death, can you not see

That I have not finished

Taking all my lessons

From Mother Earth?

Why have you approached me

Untimely, unjustifiably? ```

9268

```

O my inner happiness,

Let everybody desert me.

I won’t mind.

But you must never desert me,

I beg of you.

```

9269

```

The parade of the vital,

The mind and the body

Can never end in peace.

```

9270

```

My God-gratitude-heart-flowers

Grow only inside

My Lord’s Silence-Garden.

```

9271

```

If you have a God-singing heart,

Then you can easily discover

God’s smiling Face.

```

9272

```

Alas, I am eagerly waiting for

My mind-sun

To sleep for good

With my ignorance-day. ```

9273

```

Beg, beg for your mind-illumination.

Before long

God will respond to your prayers.

```

9274

```

May my heart ring

Sleeplessly and breathlessly

Like the most sacred temple bell.

```

9275

```

O Captain of my life-journey,

On You sail, on You sail,

Carrying me.

```

9276

```

My aspiration-tear-drops

Are beautiful.

My dedication-tear-drops

Are more beautiful.

My surrender-tear-drops

Are infinitely more beautiful.

I place all my tear-drops

At the Feet of my Lord Beloved Supreme. ```

9277

```

Do not make friends with

The doubting mind.

You are bound to fall down

From your heart’s aspiration-mountain. ```

9278

```

Aspiration is

A God-dream-manifesting reality

To go beyond the cruel touch

Of destiny. ```

9279

```

Surrender embodies

Everything that we need

For our God-realisation.

```

9280

```

I weep tears of delight,

Not when I think of God,

Not when God thinks of me,

But the moment I see and feel

The Presence of my Beloved Supreme

All-where. ```

9281

```

What is patience?

Patience is God’s unique

Wisdom-Delight

In action. ```

9282

```

My Lord,

My heart is all gratitude,

For my Himalayan ego has fallen

Like a battered wall. ```

9283

```

At every moment

May a new hope

And a new promise

Come out of

My heart’s God-loving tears.

```

9284

```

My heart never fails,

Because it is always nurtured

By God’s fond Embrace.

```

9285

```

To me, all those who mix with God

Are lovable.

To me, all those who remain seated

At the Feet of God

Are indispensable.

I want to be one of those. ```

9286

```

Who am I,

If not an unconditional choice

Of God?

```

9287

```

Who am I,

If not a God-thirsty mind,

God-hungry heart

And God-serving life? ```

9288

```

May my soul’s ecstasy-dreams

Blossom

Inside the heart-garden

Of each seeker. ```

9289

```

Finally

I have completely cleared the road

Of my disobedience-mind.

```

9290

```

To arrive at

The God-manifestation-summit,

I do not have to give up anything.

I just have to transform and illumine

Everything that belongs to me.

```

9291

```

My Lord,

Do tell me,

Will I ever be able to regain

In this lifetime

My long-lost aspiration-determination

And dedication-eagerness? ```

9292

```

Do not allow your doubting mind

To come to the fore.

The doubting mind is armoured

With a host of destructive forces. ```

9293

```

Each day

I pray to God

To give me the capacity

To break

My God-satisfaction-records.

```

9294

```

If you do not challenge

Your obstacle-adversaries,

Nobody can

And nobody will. ```

9295

```

Each time I make friends

With my doubting mind,

I am compelled to swim

In an endless ocean of difficulties. ```

9296

```

A smiling face

Is the supreme beauty

Of a divine child.

```

9297

```

Each spiritual Master

Comes into the world

To bridge,

Powerfully and satisfactorily,

The gulf between

Divinity’s Smiles and humanity’s cries. ```

9298

```

There is not a single human being

Who can dare say

That he has not received

A call from Above

To fulfil God in God’s own Way.

```

9299

```

May humanity’s heart-sorrow

Fall away

Like the drops of water

From a lotus. ```

9300

```

When we have

A childlike state of mind,

It becomes extremely easy to find God

Here, there and everywhere. ```

9301

```

Every day

My Lord Supreme blesses me

With new celestial flowers

To decorate

My love-devotion-surrender-

Heart-shrine. ```

9302

```

My soul is helping my heart

At every moment

To be inundated with aspiration-cries

And dedication-smiles. ```

9303

```

If there is obedience,

Then we are bound to hear

The bell ringing

In our heart-temple. ```

9304

```

The Altar of Divinity’s Soul

Has been indefinitely waiting

For humanity’s aspiration

To arrive. ```

9305

```

Divinity

Can never be measured

By the intelligence

Of the mind. ```

9306

```

Divinity

Can be measured

Only by the constant God-vigilance

Of the heart. ```

9307

```

If we have to give up something

To receive something else

Infinitely better,

Then why do we hesitate

To give up our pleasure-life

For the life of Bliss? ```

9308

```

It is the heart of love

That is the God-conqueror

And not the mind of pride.

```

9309

```

The false Master

Preaches endlessly. ```

9310

```

The true Master

Teaches sleeplessly. ```

9311

```

God the Master

Breathlessly receives

And God the disciple

Unconditionally gives. ```

9312

```

My aspiration-heart

Is synonymous with

God-Satisfaction-Heaven.

```

9313

```

My dedication-life

Is synonymous with

God-manifestation-victory.

```

9314

```

May my life become

The confluence

Of my illumination-soul-river

And my aspiration-heart-river. ```

9315

```

Who has disowned whom:

God, the unconditional Lover,

Or man, the endless doubter?

```

9316

```

Unlike our meanness-mind,

God’s Heart always gives us

The lion’s share.

```

9317

```

My aspiration-heart

Teaches me how to dine

With God.

```

9318

```

My dedication-life

Teaches me how to fast

For God.

```

9319

```

Whenever we think of

An unaspiring mind

And an unaspiring vital,

We lose the beauty and fragrance

Of our aspiration-heart.

```

9320

```

Nothing gives me more satisfaction

Than when I envision

The aspiration-hearts of my ancestors

Of the hoary past. ```

9321

```

My Lord Beloved Supreme

Never subscribes to

The doom-message of my heart.

```

9322

```

The God-doubting mind,

The God-disregarding vital

And the God-failing life

Are disgustingly overweight. ```

9323

```

May my electricity-aspiration-heart

Never fail me. ```

9324

```

Life can fly at every moment

Only on the heart’s

God-obedience-wings.

```

9325

```

All sweet dreams blossom

In the heart’s

Silence-garden.

```

9326

```

If you meditate soulfully,

God is bound to inundate you

With His

Newness-Sweetness-Fulness-Love. ```

9327

```

My aspiration-heart

Does have the capacity

To break through

The unwillingness-mind-walls. ```

9328

```

I speed up my life every morning

To watch

My outer success-march

And

My inner progress-dive.

```

9329

```

Each God-love-thought

Illumines our mind

And fulfils our heart

In an unimaginable way. ```

9330

```

An impossible task:

To avoid the busy

Mind-vital-body-airport

And its all confusion-flights. ```

9331

```

Surrender you must at every moment

To God’s Will.

Only then God will help you

Settle into

His Love-Satisfaction-Arms.

```

9332

```

Every day the God-searching mind

Needs an extra

Heart-readiness-willingness-

Eagerness-push

To run towards its Goal.

```

9333

```

Silence-meditation

Is of paramount importance

To tame

The restlessness-unwillingness-mind. ```

9334

```

Every morning

What we desperately need

Is a devotion-enlightenment-newspaper

And not life’s

Blunder-thunder-downpour.

```

9335

```

A God-loving heart

And

A self-giving life

Are today’s blooming God

And

Tomorrow’s blossoming God. ```

9336

```

My Lord, do bless me

With an aspiration-heart

That every day climbs up

An Everest height. ```

9337

```

The doubting mind

Gets malicious pleasure

In capsizing

The God-reaching heart-boat. ```

9338

```

May the heart of each and every

Human being

Be a passenger of

A God-dreaming boat,

Sailing towards the Golden Shore.

```

9339

```

O my soul,

Do tell me when I will be able

To strike my heart’s

World-oneness-gong. ```

9340

```

When I am a God-worshipper,

God asks me to sit

At His Lotus-Feet.

```

9341

```

When I am a God-lover,

God comes running

To embrace

My God-surrender-heart. ```

9342

```

Do not escape.

Be a hero supreme.

Do not miss the opportunity

Of becoming

God’s transcendental Pride.

```

9343

```

Not slowly,

But prayerfully and soulfully live

To have a heart of love

And a life of peace. ```

9344

```

As darkness melts

When the morning dawns,

Even so when faith blossoms,

Doubt dies. ```

9345

```

A mother’s self-giving heart

Is the child’s

All-learning classroom.

```

9346

```

To me,

Music is not something

That we see.

```

9347

```

Music

Is not even something

That we feel.

```

9348

```

Music

Is something

That we must grow into.

```

9349

```

Soul-filled music

Does have the capacity

To wash away the dust

From the human mind. ```

9350

```

Music is the full birthright

Of God-manifesting angels

Here on earth.

```

9351

```

No matter how great the music is,

If sacredness is missing,

Then I cannot call it

Music of God for God. ```

9352

```

We adore

The sovereign Creator

Of the Universe.

```

9353

```

Love we must

The Lover divine

And the Beloved Supreme

Of the Universe. ```

9354

```

May the outer name

Of each human being

Carry the inner flames

Of his heart. ```

9355

```

Of all our enemies,

Pride is the worst enemy

That prevents us from starting

Our God-destination-journey. ```

9356

```

What is a problem?

It is something that comes

In different forms and shapes

To intimidate us. ```

9357

```

If you want to embody

Divinity’s Love and Pride,

Then keep your mind, heart and life

Absolutely humble. ```

9358

```

I pray to my Lord Supreme

Not to reserve anything

About my life

For His future unfoldings. ```

9359

```

There is only one mystery,

And that mystery is:

Why there is so much

Confusion-supremacy

In God’s Compassion-creation.

```

9360

```

Obedience, obedience, obedience:

This is indeed God’s first Law,

Last Law and only Law.

```

9361

```

Nothing is as beautiful,

Nothing is as fragrant

As God-obedience.

```

9362

```

Obedience is our aspiration-highway

To take us faster than the fastest

To our God-Satisfaction-Destination.

```

9363

```

A wicked man

And a God-fear-life

Together live.

```

9364

```

A goodness-heart-man

Is the supernal pride

Of both Mother Earth

And Father Heaven. ```

9365

```

Although I have written

Over a thousand books,

I can never describe adequately

The beauty and fragrance

Of a devotional song.

```

9366

```

My heart is always

My Lord’s

Inspiration-child.

```

9367

```

We cannot separate

God-gratitude-tears

And meditation-bliss.

```

9368

```

O stupidity-mind,

Why are you afraid of

My meditation-heart,

Why? ```

9369

```

My meditation-heart

Eagerly waits for my Lord

To smile and radiate.

```

9370

```

O tall tree,

You remind me

That everything on earth

Is astonishingly temporal. ```

9371

```

O seeker,

Reveal your devotion-eagerness.

God-Silence-Benediction

Shall all be yours. ```

9372

```

I am eagerly expecting

My Lord Supreme

To devour the aspiration-tears

Of my heart

Once and for all.

```

9373

```

My Lord loves me.

I do not have to know

Why and how He loves me.

```

9374

```

The mind can never dream

Of believing

In the unimaginable.

```

9375

```

When I pray,

My Lord Supreme

Chains my mind, vital and body

At His Feet. ```

9376

```

When I meditate,

My Lord Supreme

Tutors me inwardly

And examines me outwardly,

To see if I am ready

To receive His blessingful Light

And fruitful Delight from Him.

```

9377

```

My Lord,

I see the Face of Your Beauty

When I look at a mountaintop.

```

9378

```

My Lord,

I enjoy the Fragrance of Your Heart

When I adore

Your Heart-blossoming Dreams

On earth.

```

9379

```

Alas,

The more

My heart finds,

The more my mind

Denies God.

```

9380

```

God the Compassion-Light

Whispers in my ears

At every moment.

```

9381

```

God the Justice-Mind

Thunders before

My division-cherishing mind.

```

9382

```

God does not mind

If my heart-secrets

Are not uplifting.

```

9383

```

God does mind

If my heart-secrets

Are not sacred.

```

9384

```

How can you ask your Master

To give you his all

When you love to remain

Small within and small without? ```

9385

```

May I live between

My softness-heart

And tenderness-life

Sleeplessly and breathlessly. ```

9386

```

In my outer life,

What I need

Is a gentle mind.

```

9387

```

In my inner life,

What I need

Is a strong heart.

```

9388

```

I am sure there shall come a time

When the faith of the world-heart

Will conquer

The doubt of the world-mind. ```

9389

```

Our Creator does not brood.

Alas, I do not know

Why we have made friends

With our brooding mind and vital. ```

9390

```

O God, give me

Humility-heart-tears

And make me responsible

For world-progress-cheers. ```

9391

```

My heart-breath is not in those

Who admire me,

But in those who love me, perfect me

And at the same time need me. ```

9392

```

If there is selfless teamwork,

Then victory’s goal

Is absolutely certain.

```

9393

```

May my willingness-mind

Run at the same speed

As my cheerfulness-heart.

```

9394

```

God will never

Be tired

Of loving me.

```

9395

```

How is it that

I am always tired

Of serving God?

```

9396

```

May my life be

The compassion-heart

Of my Master.

```

9397

```

My seeker-friend,

What you need is patience.

God will bless you

With His Perfection-Freedom-Life. ```

9398

```

Your fear of God

Is indefinitely delaying

Your God-satisfaction.

```

9399

```

My Lord,

Out of Your infinite Bounty,

You have possessed

My aspiration-heart

And

My renunciation-life.

My Lord,

Can You not do the same

With my suspicion-mind?

```

9400

```

Do not hate the mind-school-thoughts.

Just use the heart-school-will

To transform

The mind-school-thoughts. ```

9401

```

May my liberating aspiration

Be as sincere and intense

As my binding desires.

```

9402

```

I pray to my Lord Supreme

Not to close His Compassion-Eye

While I sleep.

```

9403

```

My Lord’s Gratification-Delight

Can alone be

My life’s perfection-peace.

```

9404

```

I do not need a mind

That does not approve

Of all the activities

Of my God-loving heart. ```

9405

```

God loves

Only the needy

And never the greedy.

```

9406

```

Do not waste

Your Master’s time

By arguing with him shamelessly

With your stupidity-founded

Mind-knowledge.

```

9407

```

My Lord, did You ever

Enjoy a vacation,

Even before You began

Your creation? ```

9408

```

God is definitely

Millions of miles away from you

When you allow your mind

To lord it over you. ```

9409

```

My own heart-lesson

I never learn.

Yet I try to illumine others

With my God-barrenness-mind. ```

9410

```

The formless is as true

As the form,

As beautiful,

If not infinitely more beautiful,

As the form.

```

9411

```

By telling God

That your life is a fraud,

You cannot near God.

```

9412

```

You can near God

Only by giving your heart’s

Repentance-tears.

```

9413

```

My Lord,

I am ready to give You

What I have.

```

9414

```

Alas, my Lord,

I am not yet ready to give You

Who I am.

```

9415

```

If your heart

Truly believes in God,

How can your mind

Indefinitely deny God? ```

9416

```

Doubts, anxieties and fears

Are afraid of the seeker

When his Destination nears.

```

9417

```

If you are not courageous enough

To live your own lifestyle,

How can the beauty and fragrance

Of newness-life beckon you? ```

9418

```

Do not think God is only inside

Your happiness-heart.

He is also in your dryness-mind.

```

9419

```

What does my Lord do

All the time?

He carries His Compassion-Eye-Sword

To protect my life. ```

9420

```

My aspiration-heart-flames

Have burnt

All my mind-weeds.

```

9421

```

Surrender-famine

Is the real

Spiritual failure.

```

9422

```

Alas, I am hesitant,

I am reluctant,

When it comes to any kind

Of God-surrender-life. ```

9423

```

I am so happy

That my heart-peace

Is enjoyable.

```

9424

```

My Lord is so happy

That my heart-peace

Is portable all-where.

```

9425

```

No more

The desire-mind dares

To dictate my life.

```

9426

```

O aspiration-heart,

Dictate my life

Powerfully plus ceaselessly.

```

9427

```

I shall not allow God

And God’s Patience

To sigh in my spiritual life.

```

9428

```

God tells me

That my gratitude-heart

He values infinitely more

Than I can ever imagine. ```

9429

```

Every day I hear my Lord Supreme

Blessingfully sing in cadence

With my Heaven-climbing heart-throbs.

```

9430

```

Where is your life’s enlightenment,

If not in your

Mind-doubt-impeachment?

```

9431

```

O seeker,

Your restlessness-mind

Will lead you nowhere,

Absolutely nowhere. ```

9432

```

My Lord,

I have lived my entire life

Just to have a glimpse

Of Your Heart’s Satisfaction-Smile. ```

9433

```

Humanity

Shall treasure

Our life’s humility-car.

```

9434

```

Humanity

Must needs forget

Humanity’s pride-chariot.

```

9435

```

Alas, the world does not know

That a purity-mind

Is unimaginably strong.

```

9436

```

O human mind,

Humanity does not need anymore

Your heedless and reckless

Pleasure-exploits. ```

9437

```

If you are a good God-lover,

Then you are bound to love

His chosen children:

Saints and seers, yogis and avatars. ```

9438

```

Like the planet sun,

I shall one day lovingly

Offer my heart’s compassion-beams

To all humanity. ```

9439

```

Never cease to dream

Of God’s

Satisfaction-Delight.

```

9440

```

The unaspiring mind

Always acts like

An impudent youth.

```

9441

```

If the ignorance-world

Challenges you,

Fight not back.

```

9442

```

Just fly and fly

Far beyond

The world’s tempting

And binding snares. ```

9443

```

I keep my mind

Fully awake

To God the omnipotent Power.

```

9444

```

I keep my heart

Fully awake

To enjoy God-Beauty’s life

In my heart-garden. ```

9445

```

May my outer name

Become

A God-Beauty-Face.

```

9446

```

May my inner life

Become

A God-Nectar-reality.

```

9447

```

Good men descend

From high above

To touch God’s Feet

And feel God’s Fragrance. ```

9448

```

God crowns my meditation-heart

Not only timely

But also proudly.

```

9449

```

May my poems be

The utterances of God’s

Fountain-Love-Truth.

```

9450

```

A greatness-mind

Collapses on the way

To God-discovery.

```

9451

```

May my goodness-heart’s

Availability

Surprise and satisfy God.

```

9452

```

Avoid wisely and powerfully

Your desire-fulfilment-expectations,

For these expectations will kill you

Long before you are fully aware of it. ```

9453

```

May my life

Eventually become

The God-Compassion-

Satisfaction-Home. ```

9454

```

Be a never-sleeping eye,

If you want God to give you

A world-awakening heart.

```

9455

```

I do not want my mind-conviction

To be as strong

As an army.

```

9456

```

I want my mind-conviction

To be my life’s

Flexibility-delight.

```

9457

```

When we are

Our eagerness-heart,

Nothing remains

Permanently impossible. ```

9458

```

My Lord, do give me a mind that,

Like my heart,

Will forever remain

Beyond the clutch of time. ```

9459

```

My aspiration-heart

Must carry me far beyond

The boundary lines

Of my limiting and limited mind. ```

9460

```

My Lord,

I wish to walk

On my oneness-heart-feet.

```

9461

```

My Lord, can You not ignore

My Himalayan ego’s

Groundless and baseless

Accusations? ```

9462

```

O seeker,

Conquer your pride once and for all.

If not, your pride will collect the dust

Of uselessness. ```

9463

```

Alas, what has

The doubting mind done

To the aspiring heart?

```

9464

```

The doubting mind

Has destroyed

The heart-beauty’s aspiration.

```

9465

```

God does not allow

The genuine seeker’s love

Ever to hide.

```

9466

```

My self-giving life

Is the Satisfaction-Nest

Of my Lord Supreme.

```

9467

```

When we travel on the aspiration-road,

We must never carry

A doubting mind

And

A hesitating life.

```

9468

```

May my heart take

Illumination-lessons

Every day from my soul.

```

9469

```

Disobedience is not fully satisfied

Unless and until it betrays

The divinity in the seeker.

```

9470

```

God is fully satisfied only when

My heart’s devotion-tears

Sing His Victory-Songs.

```

9471

```

While my Lord Supreme

Moves around my heart-garden,

He asks my soul to sing

And my heart to play. ```

9472

```

God wants my heart-garden

Every day to be flooded

With my prayer-tears

And my meditation-smiles. ```

9473

```

My Lord,

May each breath of mine

Be a perfect manifestation

Of Your Life here on earth. ```

9474

```

If there is heart-obedience,

Then the life is bound to

Richly prosper.

```

9475

```

Aspiration-wings

Are the only wings that we need

To fly to Heaven.

```

9476

```

My Lord tells me that

If I really want to become

A perfect child of His,

Then I must never ask Him

For a day off.

```

9477

```

O seeker,

Be extremely careful

In your aspiration-life.

Do not allow

Your doubting mind

To caricature

Your aspiration-heart.

```

9478

```

I am frightened to death

When I meet with any member

Of the sorrow-family.

```

9479

```

When I grow into

My heart-tears,

My soul swims

In ecstasy-sea. ```

9480

```

Every day I beg my Lord Supreme

To come to me as Forgiveness-Delight

And become my life’s

Only Saviour. ```

9481

```

My Lord Supreme,

Do show me where

My brooding weaknesses are

Inside my heart. ```

9482

```

I shall either illumine my weaknesses

Or destroy them

With my heart’s aspiration-hunger.

```

9483

```

Our life’s simplicity

And our heart’s sincerity

Can take us right up to

The Golden Gate

Of our Lord Beloved Supreme.

```

9484

```

From now on, every day

My heart shall collect

All my gratitude-tears

And place them at my Lord’s Feet. ```

9485

```

I ask my Lord Supreme

Which flower He likes best

In my heart-garden.

My Lord says to me:

“Each and every flower

I equally love

And I am equally fond of.”

```

9486

```

May each thought of mine

Rise

Like incense-prayers.

```

9487

```

How difficult for my mind

To develop even an iota

Of God-surrender-capacity!

```

9488

```

Only my doubting mind

Can ignore indefinitely

My heart’s world-oneness-capacity.

```

9489

```

My Lord’s Compassion-Height

Saves me

At every moment.

```

9490

```

My Lord’s Justice-Light

At every moment

Tries to perfect me.

```

9491

```

I have been longing for years

To see the oneness-stars and planets

And the newness-moon and fulness-sun

In my heart-sky. ```

9492

```

May every day a new prayer

And a new meditation

Inspire and enlighten me.

```

9493

```

Every day I beg God

For only one thing:

His Forgiveness-Feet.

```

9494

```

Every day God begs me

For only one thing:

A determination-heart.

```

9495

```

As my soul is rich

In wisdom-light,

Even so, my heart is rich

In self-giving-delight. ```

9496

```

My soul repeatedly has told me,

“No compromise, no compromise

With ignorance-night.”

```

9497

```

My body does not obey my soul,

Yet the body is on earth

On the strength of the soul’s

Constant concern-forgiveness-smile. ```

9498

```

Be not afraid

Of your heart’s

Emptiness.

```

9499

```

Your heart’s emptiness

Will be filled by God’s

Superior Existence-Light.

```

9500

```

If you do not have a prayerful life

And a tearful heart,

You cannot reach the summit-height

Of aspiration-mountain. ```

9501

```

Alas, is there any day

That I am not unloading

My desire-excess?

Yet, aspiration is not to be found

In my inner life.

```

9502

```

We are devoured

By our greed,

But we shall one day be devoured

By God’s inner Need. ```

9503

```

May my heart live

Only to see and feel and breathe

God’s Love.

```

9504

```

The proud mind

Stops the humble heart

Ruthlessly.

```

9505

```

God has kept His Promise.

He has blessed me with

A golden dawn-heart.

```

9506

```

I do not have to survive

On hope-drops.

I am going to survive

With a huge promise-fountain. ```

9507

```

Alas, everything else has failed,

Everything else will fail.

But I keep dreaming,

For this is the only way

For me to arrive

At the Golden Shore-Destination. ```

9508

```

No soul can be doomed

To dwell beyond

God’s Compassion-Extension.

```

9509

```

As it is never too late

To learn the inner lessons of faith,

Closeness and oneness,

Even so, it is not too late

To unlearn everything

The mind has taught us. ```

9510

```

The unaspiring mind

And

The restless vital

Are always afraid of

The inner sea of light.

```

9511

```

Every day I walk along

My life’s road

To kindle a new dream,

A dream for humanity. ```

9512

```

God loves

My outer obedience-beauty.

God needs

My inner obedience-fragrance. ```

9513

```

We do not see God-Smile

In our possession-life.

We do not see God-Smile

In our renunciation-life.

We see God-Smile

Only in our world-acceptance-life

With our self-giving breath.

```

9514

```

The fastest runners in the inner world

Are those who are

God-willingness-runners.

```

9515

```

My Lord,

Do give me the capacity

To cultivate in my heart

The soaring oneness-cries. ```

9516

```

I must add every day

A newness-note

To my devotion-heart-melody.

```

9517

```

O my mind, rest not!

Wake up, wake up

To God’s unreserved Heart-Smiles.

```

9518

```

My Lord Supreme

Every morning asks me to join Him

In spreading cheerfulness

Throughout the length and breadth

Of the world.

```

9519

```

My morning prayers soar

Faster than the fastest

To touch God’s Feet.

```

9520

```

Not my confidence-mind

But my God-reliance-heart

Destroys all doubts in my life.

```

9521

```

Self-giving is a song,

Sweeter than the sweetest,

That we hear in our soul’s

Illumination-garden. ```

9522

```

If you are a true seeker,

Then you automatically become

A heart-climber

Who climbs upward at every moment. ```

9523

```

The singers of the heart

Are taught by God Himself

Devotion-songs every day.

```

9524

```

When I pray and meditate,

God tells me that

I do not have to fly on hope-wings.

I can fly on God-manifestation-

Promise-wings.

```

9525

```

Since the mind does not listen

To my heart’s request,

I have forced my mind

To sit down

In front of my Lord’s Feet.

```

9526

```

My soul is giving my heart

The capacity to discover

Its God-dependence-capacity daily.

```

9527

```

My soul-meditation

Opens up my heart-sky

Of ecstasy.

```

9528

```

My aspiration-heart is the escalator

To reach the highest height

Of the ever-transcending Beyond.

```

9529

```

My surrender-breath is the elevator

To reach the highest height

Of the ever-transcending Beyond.

```

9530

```

Each action has to be offered

To God

In the spirit of God-service-flame.

```

9531

```

Each time I sing a soulful song,

My Lord blessingfully offers me

A most beautiful satisfaction-flower

From His Heart-Garden. ```

9532

```

The aspiration-tree always thrives

With the beauty and fragrance

Of the inner world.

```

9533

```

My heart’s faith

Every day

Rescues my mind

From doubt-attack. ```

9534

```

My soul is teaching my heart

How to converse with God

In the depths of a silence-sea.

```

9535

```

If we do not follow the spiritual life,

Then sooner or later

We will be forced to sink

Beneath the heaviest weight

Of our mind’s burden.

```

9536

```

We call it

Our disobedience-laughter.

God calls it

His Heart-Tear. ```

9537

```

The unaspiring mind

Does not care for God,

But the happy heart

Begs and begs God

Not to be left alone.

```

9538

```

My Lord Supreme,

Out of His infinite Bounty,

Today has accepted

My lifelong faith-offering. ```

9539

```

My Master’s gladness-sweetness,

Sadness-tears and oneness-delight

Always fall into my heart.

```

9540

```

A true aspiration-life

Is a perfect stranger

To pleasure-recreation.

```

9541

```

From today on

I shall try to do only one thing:

I shall try to discover

God’s Heart-Nest-Home. ```

9542

```

Each time I offer myself

To God the Creator

And God the creation,

My life becomes

A rainbow of God-Blessings.

```

9543

```

Drink, my soul,

Drink, my heart,

Drink, my mind,

Drink, my vital,

Drink, my body,

My Lord’s

Compassion-Nectar-Delight

To the last drop. ```

9544

```

My constant God-obedience

Is undoubtedly the most direct way

To the Golden Shore.

```

9545

```

My life, this is the time

For you to forget altogether

Your desiring mind.

```

9546

```

My life, this is the time

For you to remember constantly

Your illumination-soul.

```

9547

```

We can offer God tremendous delight

Only when we live inside

Our obedience-mind and purity-heart.

```

9548

```

The outer teacher shows us the way

To reach the destination.

The inner teacher carries us

Compassionately, self-givingly,

Smilingly and proudly

To the destination itself. ```

9549

```

O seeker, be careful!

If not, you will get lost once more

In a desire-sea.

```

9550

```

The mind

Is always full of

Worthless speculations.

```

9551

```

The meditation-path is a sunlit path

Leading to the Destination

Of the Beyond.

```

9552

```

My mind longs for adulation

All the time.

My heart longs for God-realisation

And God-satisfaction

All the time.

```

9553

```

A sincere belief

Eliminates

All our mental problems.

```

9554

```

Alas, I did not know

That the mind-road

Is extremely slippery.

```

9555

```

The mind has the capacity

Only to make feeble and half-hearted

God-realisation-attempts.

```

9556

```

May each heart

Open to God

Like the buds

Towards the sun. ```

9557

```

If you live in the heart,

God will answer

Your telephone call.

```

9558

```

Unlike any other thing,

Meditation has the capacity

To shed light

On everything and everybody. ```

9559

```

My soul loves

To say and do everything

In whispers.

```

9560

```

Happiness

Eventually blossoms

From the heart of sorrows.

```

9561

```

God visits our heart-garden

When He sees that we are all ready

To receive Him.

```

9562

```

A constantly self-giving seeker

Is a Heaven-made man. ```

9563

```

My Lord, do obliterate

My negativity-thoughts

And

My negativity-actions

From my heart-book.

```

9564

```

The frightening

And threatening jungle

Is in the doubting mind.

```

9565

```

My Lord assures me

That all my obstacles

Will be taken care of

By Him. ```

9566

```

The obstinacy of the mind

Will never feel

And never be able to drink

The beauty and fragrance of Silence. ```

9567

```

God tells us repeatedly

That each individual

Is a representative

Of God Himself. ```

9568

```

God is always eager

To hear news

From my aspiration-heart.

```

9569

```

May each day

Celebrate the birth

Of a new dawn.

```

9570

```

Every day I pray to God

To give me the capacity

To fly on the wings

Of measureless speed. ```

9571

```

In the inner world,

God tells us

That no excuse is acceptable.

```

9572

```

Do not compromise,

If peace is what you desperately need

In your life.

```

9573

```

The devotion

Of the aspiration-heart

Knows no equal.

```

9574

```

God accepts

Our devotion-tears

With boundless Satisfaction.

```

9575

```

May my mind enjoy

Peace-excursion,

Exactly the way my heart does.

```

9576

```

Do not be afraid of doubts.

Have faith in God’s

Unconditional Compassion.

Your life will sail

In God’s own Heart-Boat.

```

9577

```

My earthly days

Are found

In a crowded life-market.

```

9578

```

God tells us

That time is endless

Only if we live

In our aspiration-heart. ```

9579

```

God tells us

That He is going to sign

Our heart-book

And no other book. ```

9580

```

A soulfulness-heart

An ever-blossoming bliss.

```

9581

```

Faith protects us

Infinitely more

Than we can ever imagine.

```

9582

```

Self-giving has free access

To God’s Kingdom

Of infinite Bliss.

```

9583

```

I am ready to pray to God

Ceaselessly

But not secretly.

```

9584

```

When we bring to the fore

Our heart-power,

We silence

Our mind-volcano. ```

9585

```

As long as we allow our ego-king

To lord it over us,

We will have no peace of mind.

```

9586

```

My Lord’s Compassion-Heart

Comforts me every day,

Without fail.

```

9587

```

Frustration becomes intolerable

When we feed sumptuously

Our ego-mind.

```

9588

```

My heart’s obedience

Has always been

My life’s

Nectar-delight-banquet. ```

9589

```

Each prayerful thought

Is an extra forward step

Towards God.

```

9590

```

Every day

My heart and I protect ourselves

From the haughtiness

Of our disobedience-mind. ```

9591

```

If God is for God’s sake,

Then no desire

Can storm our life.

```

9592

```

If I love You, my Lord,

For Your own sake,

Then only my mind will be free

From obscurity-confusion-darkness. ```

9593

```

My gratitude-heart

Strikes God’s Victory-Drum

Every day.

```

9594

```

When I am happy

In my Lord’s Name,

My inner life is safe

And

My outer life is strong.

```

9595

```

May my mind-night

Develop thirst

For God’s all-illumining Light.

```

9596

```

Not because our eyes are blind,

But because our hearts are not hungry,

We cannot and do not have

Even a glimpse

Of our Lord Supreme.

```

9597

```

My Lord’s Compassion-Eye

Every day teaches me

How to be truly myself.

```

9598

```

We are always talking to God,

Either directly or indirectly,

Either consciously or unconsciously.

```

9599

```

Only a heart that longs for God

Is granted by God

The capacity to live

In a higher and larger world. ```

9600

```

If we really love God

In God’s own Way,

Then only our mind-confusion

And our life-fantasies

Will be compelled to leave us.

```

9601

```

Every day I read spiritual books,

But I read again and again

God-obedience-books.

```

9602

```

In my heart’s darkest hour,

My God-remembrance saves me,

Illumines me and fulfils me.

```

9603

```

A heart-runner

Is a God-lover

Par excellence.

```

9604

```

May the distance

Between

My heart’s faith

And

My mind’s doubt

Forever remain as far as

The East is from the West —

Even infinitely farther. ```

9605

```

My heart’s

Devotion-thoughts

Immediately thrill my soul.

```

9606

```

To reach my life’s happiest goal

I have only one thing to do:

Unconditionally surrender

To my Lord’s Will. ```

9607

```

I ride, I ride, again I ride

Only my heart’s

God-speeding horse.

```

9608

```

Today’s hope will be

Tomorrow’s realities.

Tomorrow’s realities

Will surprise humankind. ```

9609

```

What is doubt,

If not a serious blunder

Of the mind?

```

9610

```

What is doubt,

If not an unnecessary heavy burden

Of the aspiration-life?

```

9611

```

Enthusiasm has the capacity

To catch fire

In the very depths

Of my inner being. ```

9612

```

Expectation quite often

Fails to reach the highest height

It aims at.

```

9613

```

We must dare all the difficulties in life.

Only then, dangers will be subdued

And will disappear.

```

9614

```

Without God’s Compassion-Eye,

Mine is a rudderless

Life-boat.

```

9615

```

O my God-faith,

You have brought the distant beauty

And divinity of Heaven

To me. ```

9616

```

We must meditate and meditate

To bring down the Light

That breaks forth from the dark abyss.

```

9617

```

Each morning

A blossoming hope

Knocks at my heart-door.

```

9618

```

I love, I just love

The immensity and intensity

Of my soul’s whispers.

```

9619

```

I know I am imperfect.

I know perfection is still a far cry,

And perhaps it will always

Remain a far cry.

But I do know, my Lord,

That You love me,

And I feel it.

```

9620

```

Nobody really knows

What the new millennium

Is going to bring

For the world-citizens. ```

9621

```

My soul’s one joyful smile

Gives my heart

Measureless happiness.

```

9622

```

To make life perfect,

What we all need

Is an undying, flaming

Heart-faith-fire. ```

9623

```

I do not want

Even my worst adversary to live

In the abysmal abyss-cave

Of the mind. ```

9624

```

Each soulful prayer is, indeed,

A speck of living, illumining

And fulfilling light.

```

9625

```

What is happiness?

It is something that spreads its wings

Everywhere, like a happy bird.

```

9626

```

Each desire, big or small,

Has the capacity to blind the mind

With wild delusion.

```

9627

```

My Lord, out of His infinite Bounty,

Has removed helpless orphan-days

From my heart’s life.

```

9628

```

Now Infinity’s Hope-Promise-Light

Is blossoming

Inside my heart-garden.

```

9629

```

Truth always appears

In its simplicity, beauty

And divinity-perfection.

```

9630

```

What I have proudly said

Over the years

Has no value.

```

9631

```

What I have humbly become

Over the years

For me is invaluable.

```

9632

```

I find strength, divine strength,

Fulfilling strength,

Only in my humanity-service.

```

9633

```

Each evening God compels me

To forgive the mistakes that I have made

During the day.

```

9634

```

Our aspiration should be

To build a new Heaven

With our heart-dreams.

```

9635

```

If you are a divine lover,

Only then will you know

That your Beloved, too,

Is love, all love for you. ```

9636

```

There is only one way for the heart

To learn from the soul.

It is through the breath of silence.

```

9637

```

The unaspiring mind is unjust.

The aspiring heart is always just,

And justice eventually prevails.

```

9638

```

Each aspiration-heart

Finds a new open gate

To Heaven’s Delight-Palace.

```

9639

```

The more

The heart can do,

The greater

The life becomes. ```

9640

```

O my mind, do not distract me,

I warn you,

When my heart and I are conversing

With our Lord Supreme. ```

9641

```

Realise one thing, O my heart:

That all limitations are fleeting,

And never, never everlasting.

```

9642

```

Each fruitful meditation

Has the capacity to inundate us

With the light of Infinity’s sunburst.

```

9643

```

This world is so confusing.

It comes to us

With too many temptation-choices.

```

9644

```

Aspire, my heart, aspire!

You will see our life-boat

Will definitely reach the Golden Shore

And never capsize on the way. ```

9645

```

You must increase your faith every day,

Every hour, every minute, every second,

Since you know perfectly well

Doubt is in the air. ```

9646

```

If you want to specialise

In spirituality,

Then you must grow into

The beauty and fragrance

Of your heart-tears.

```

9647

```

The life’s simplicity

And the heart’s sincerity

Definitely shorten the way

To our God-realisation. ```

9648

```

Love without inner beauty

Is like a tree

With no flowers.

```

9649

```

Is there any place

Where we can find God

Easily?

```

9650

```

We can easily find God

In the beauty-smile

Of the morning flowers.

```

9651

```

My soul and I always dare

To travel the uncharted land

Of impossible dreams.

```

9652

```

God tells the world that

Only a sleepless and breathless

God-lover and server

Will He take as His second in command. ```

9653

```

O brave God-seekers,

Be confident within and without.

You will definitely reach

Your destined Goal

In the face of all disappointments.

```

9654

```

I was

My arrogance-mind-life.

I am now

My compassion-heart-breath. ```

9655

```

Our souls are begging God

To grant us

Transcendental freedom

And universal peace. ```

9656

```

We must know

That both transcendental freedom

And universal peace, once achieved,

Must be practised in a practical

And tangible way.

```

9657

```

If it is real truth,

Then it can never be separated

From God’s Satisfaction

And God’s Light. ```

9658

```

My soul repeatedly tells me

That I am accountable

Only to God,

And to nobody else. ```

9659

```

When our aspiration-level

Quite often fluctuates,

We become less and less important

In God’s Cosmic Play. ```

9660

```

If you can be spiritually oriented

From a young age,

Then you will go far, very far,

In the realm of spirituality

And God-Satisfaction-Pride.

```

9661

```

I will never be able to describe

The beauty and fragrance

Of an aspiration-heart.

```

9662

```

The mind-army

Is marching and marching —

Destination nowhere.

```

9663

```

To attain to aspiration-maturity

Is not a matter of a day or a year.

It is a lifelong process.

```

9664

```

Each individual must become

A very powerful mind-river

That can carry

All uncomely thought-debris. ```

9665

```

Alas, at every moment

We find ourselves in between

The clash of undivine darkness

And divine Light. ```

9666

```

Each one must try to strengthen

His own aspiration-cries

To invoke

His Lord Beloved Supreme. ```

9667

```

My Lord, I wish to pray

Only for Your Fulfilment

And not for my own

Lasting happiness. ```

9668

```

My Lord,

Only in Your complete Fulfilment

Abides my divinity’s

Full blossoming. ```

9669

```

If you carry with you

Your ancient pride of aloofness,

Then you will be a total spiritual failure.

```

9670

```

May my heart weep tears of delight

The moment I am in the company

Of spiritual figures.

```

9671

```

Patience is

The sacred and secret wealth

Of spiritual Masters.

```

9672

```

Being grounded in real spirituality,

How can I make friends

With a doubting mind?

I cannot understand. ```

9673

```

My soul firmly tells me

That I am not yet finished

With my life on earth.

```

9674

```

I must continue

To fulfil my Lord Supreme

And please Him all the time

In His own Way. ```

9675

```

Neither the mind nor even the heart,

But the soul alone can encompass

All contradictions.

```

9676

```

To equate God’s Compassion

With God’s Satisfaction

Is the height and depth

Of my God-discovery. ```

9677

```

O my heart,

Before you finish with life on earth,

Let us go together

And place ourselves at God’s Feet

For our God-manifestation-fulfilment

On earth. ```

9678

```

We are mistaken.

Death does not and cannot

Unshackle us.

```

9679

```

It is our aspiration-flames

That can and do unshackle us

From ignorance-night.

```

9680

```

Darkness invades

Light.

Light does not invade

Darkness.

Light only illumines

Darkness. ```

9681

```

Light compassionately enters into

The heart of darkness

Smilingly, blessingfully

And unreservedly

To transform darkness into light.

```

9682

```

Only God’s Compassion-Eye

Or His Forgiveness-Heart

Can liberate us

From our self-chosen bondage-night. ```

9683

```

Nothing divine can ever be forced

Into anybody’s life,

Specially faith.

```

9684

```

A true seeker is he who feels

His life is for God-adoration

And not a God-questioning mind.

```

9685

```

God always wants

Surrender to lead

His divine Army.

```

9686

```

A failure is not destruction.

A failure is a challenge

To overcome and go forward.

```

9687

```

I do not mind

If everything leaves me alone

As long as I have

God-satisfaction-hunger

In my life.

```

9688

```

May my soulfulness-heart

Prayerfully greet

God’s Compassion-Rain

Every day. ```

9689

```

God is God’s

Unconditional

Compassion.

```

9690

```

God’s Compassion enters into

The seeker’s heart

Exactly the way the morning sun

Unconditionally enters into

The world of darkness.

```

9691

```

May each heart-tear

Of mine

Become a home of my life.

```

9692

```

Earthly friendship

Is most deplorably

Fragile.

```

9693

```

Heavenly friendship

Is constant self-awakening

And self-blossoming.

```

9694

```

Heavenly friendship

Is only between

The God-lover in us

And

The God-Beloved in us.

```

9695

```

The mind wants supremacy

Here, there, everywhere —

But all in vain.

```

9696

```

God does not want appreciation,

But He expects satisfaction from us

When He blesses us with a divine Gift.

```

9697

```

The soul does not

Command.

The soul does not

Reprimand. ```

9698

```

The soul only whispers to us

To do the right thing

And become the right person.

```

9699

```

Self-denial,

In the spiritual life,

Is not and cannot be the answer.

```

9700

```

Self-correction and self-perfection

Can alone be the two answers

Of our questioning life.

```

9701

```

We shall never falter,

We shall never stumble on the path,

If devotion we nurture

In our aspiration-heart. ```

9702

```

God guarantees us abiding happiness

Only when our surrender becomes

Totally unconditional.

```

9703

```

If you do not keep a burning faith

Inside your heart,

The undivine forces will compel you

To recede into the background. ```

9704

```

O seeker,

Do you really not know

Where you are?

```

9705

```

You are in between the collision

Of your restless vital

And

Your faithless mind. ```

9706

```

When our aspiration level fluctuates,

We neither see the beauty of life

Nor feel the fragrance of Heaven.

```

9707

```

God is extremely happy with me,

God is extremely proud of me

Precisely because I have narrowed down

My long desire-list at long last. ```

9708

```

O my mind, be wise, be wise.

Once again invoke

A Godward train of thought.

```

9709

```

O seeker, how is it possible

For you not to know

Where God is?

```

9710

```

God is inside

The crescendo

Of your aspiration-heart.

```

9711

```

If the God-Smile is taken away

By our unlit vital,

Then we are doomed,

Completely doomed. ```

9712

```

Today you may not be

Spiritually oriented,

But tomorrow you certainly can be,

If you really want to. ```

9713

```

Without constant God-obedience

In the spiritual life,

We can make no satisfactory progress.

```

9714

```

May God-manifestation

Be the only joy of my heart

In my aspiration-life.

```

9715

```

Disobedience not only takes us away

From God’s Compassion-Depth,

But also betrays us shamelessly

And dramatically. ```

9716

```

You can walk along

The aspiration-road easily.

It is not the sole monopoly

Of any individual. ```

9717

```

Just convince yourself

That God loves you,

No matter what you do

And what you do not do. ```

9718

```

My Lord is more than

Anxious and eager

To walk inside my heart-garden

Blessingfully and proudly,

If I dare to claim Him as my own,

Very own. ```

9719

```

The restlessness of the mind

Weakens

Our God-awakened heart.

```

9720

```

My heart teaches

My mind

How to be absolutely pure.

```

9721

```

My mind teaches

My heart

How to be insecure and impure.

```

9722

```

It is of supreme necessity

For a seeker to increase

His surrender-capacity

Every day, every hour,

Every minute, every second.

```

9723

```

May my heart be

A mountain-rock

To stand against

My mind’s ruthless invasion. ```

9724

```

My Lord Beloved Supreme,

Do ignore me,

For this is the only way

I can develop true humility-bliss

In my life.

```

9725

```

My Lord, I have been all along

Relying on myself,

In spite of repeated failures

In my life. ```

9726

```

My Lord,

Please give me the capacity

To love You more

And to rely only on You,

Only on You.

```

9727

```

God does not believe in

Any kind of sacrifice

In anybody’s life.

```

9728

```

God only believes in constant oneness,

Cheerful oneness,

Self-giving oneness-establishment

From us. ```

9729

```

It is only in our heart’s

Aspiration-nest

That the realisation-bird lives.

```

9730

```

My mind teaches my vital

And my body

How to discredit my heart.

```

9731

```

My heart teaches my vital

And my body

How to be obedient only to the soul,

And not even to the heart itself. ```

9732

```

Today

We deliberately start with

God-disobedience.

```

9733

```

Tomorrow

We inevitably end in

God-betrayal.

```

9734

```

Our God-betrayal is

Something most painful,

Both for our Lord Supreme

And for our own souls. ```

9735

```

Sweet are the prayer-tears.

Sweeter and sweetest they become

When we live only for God-satisfaction

In our aspiration-heart

And dedication-life.

```

9736

```

The eagerness and intensity of devotion

Give us the fastest speed

To run towards our destined Goal.

```

9737

```

All our imperfections

Slowly appear

In our Master’s mind.

```

9738

```

All our imperfections

Quickly disappear

In our Master’s heart.

```

9739

```

All our imperfections slowly, steadily

And unerringly

Are perfected and illumined

At our Master’s feet. ```

9740

```

If you want to be a God-seeker,

Then you must always listen to

Your heart-cry-alarm.

```

9741

```

Wake up, my mind! Wake up!

God’s Justice-Light

Is about to strike

The destruction-gong. ```

9742

```

Humanity’s prayers

Divinity definitely needs

For God-Satisfaction

On earth. ```

9743

```

With our clever minds,

We find answers

To our life’s problems.

But these answers

Are not real solutions.

```

9744

```

There are many things in life

I cherish,

But my heart’s ever-blossoming smile

I love the most. ```

9745

```

The mind with no God-hunger

Loves to parade

Through the God-disobedience-street.

```

9746

```

Divinity sends its tutors

To illumine the mind of mankind,

But the mind of mankind

Pays no attention to them. ```

9747

```

You can hear God’s Voice

Only in

Your silence-heart-temple.

```

9748

```

You can see God’s Beauty

And become God’s Fragrance

Only in

Your own silence-heart-garden. ```

9749

```

Only peace of mind

Has the capacity

To illumine world-sufferings.

```

9750

```

My openness-mind

And oneness-heart

Are unconditional blessings

From Heaven. ```

9751

```

Where do I live?

I live in the illumination-beauty

Of my soul’s dream.

```

9752

```

Negativity

Is nothing other than

A lonely mind-chasm.

```

9753

```

Each earth-discovery

Is a manifestation

Of God’s Dream.

```

9754

```

If everything else has failed

In your life,

Then try cheerful surrender.

Your victory will be well founded. ```

9755

```

Your God-oneness-heart

Will definitely put your ignorance-mind

Into a state of decay.

```

9756

```

When I pray,

I pray to God only for one thing:

I want to see myself

In the Beauty of His Eye

And

In the Fragrance of His Heart. ```

9757

```

May my heart-shrine

Be flooded

With my soul-smiles

And my life-tears. ```

9758

```

The unknowable Beauty of the Beyond

Clasps me

When I become

An unconditionally surrendered

God-lover.

```

9759

```

The mind that is poisoned

By insecurities and jealousies

Will be forced to walk

On perilous pathways. ```

9760

```

He who is afraid

Of future failure

Has already become

A God-failure. ```

9761

```

May my gratitude-heart

Always remain

A God-pleasing reality.

```

9762

```

Where is God’s Hour,

If not inside

Each and every moment?

```

9763

```

O my Lord Supreme,

You are the only one

Who can help me sail my life-boat

In Infinity’s Beyond. ```

9764

```

There is no bird above me.

There is only one blue-gold bird

Inside my heart,

And its name is my soul. ```

9765

```

I do not subscribe to the view

Of those who tell me

That life’s tensions

Shall always remain unavoidable. ```

9766

```

Each summit can shine

Without having

Any perilous abyss.

```

9767

```

Faith is nothing other than

An absolute power in us

To love and please God

In His own Way. ```

9768

```

There is only one place

For me to take shelter,

And that welcoming place

Is under my Lord’s

Compassion-Smile-Tree.

```

9769

```

Today’s God-dreamers

Become

Tomorrow’s God-lovers.

```

9770

```

Today’s God-lovers

Become

Tomorrow’s God-builders

On earth. ```

9771

```

When my mind is pure,

My Lord asks my mind

To feed all His Dreams.

```

9772

```

Tomorrow’s perfection

Has to entirely depend on

Today’s aspiration-dedication.

```

9773

```

Service-trees are not only beautiful

But also extremely soulful

And fruitful.

```

9774

```

Each one has to discover

His God-Arrival-way

Through his heart-prayers.

```

9775

```

The God-doubter

Is bound to meet with

The cyclone of frustration.

```

9776

```

God smiles at me,

Talks to me

And embraces me

Only after I have climbed

My summit-aspiration-tree.

```

9777

```

May my soul’s perfection-rain

Nourish all the things

That I claim to be my own.

```

9778

```

Days run into weeks,

Weeks into months,

Months into years.

Alas, I am still waiting

For a glimpse

Of my Lord’s Smile. ```

9779

```

Jealousy and resentment

Are two roommates. ```

9780

```

Alas,

The insecurity of my mind

Buries

All my heart-potential. ```

9781

```

Each new Smile of God

Is a new birth

Of a new world.

```

9782

```

Whenever I see that

My heart is unbound,

God fails to remain unfound.

```

9783

```

May my heart-songs never cease

At the appearance of

My mind-doubt.

```

9784

```

The heart of a purity-seeker

Is always filled

With God-spreading

And manifesting dreams. ```

9785

```

If your life is absolutely pure,

Then the world shall see your heart

In your eyes.

```

9786

```

Sleeplessly

My life needs

My Lord Supreme.

```

9787

```

Breathlessly

My heart lives for

And dreams of

God-Arrival. ```

9788

```

I am happy

Only when I soulfully pray

To my Lord

To keep me inside

His Heart-Garden.

```

9789

```

Before,

I was a constant beggar

Of God’s Compassion.

```

9790

```

Now

I am a constant dreamer

Of God’s Compassion.

```

9791

```

There shall come a time

When I shall be

A constant lover

And server

Of God’s Compassion.

```

9792

```

In the morning

I am happy and fulfilled

Because my Lord allows me

To kiss His Feet. ```

9793

```

In the evening

I am happy

Because my Lord allows me

To embrace His Heart. ```

9794

```

The moment I hear

My Lord’s life-transforming Flute,

I immediately enter into

My gratitude-heart-garden. ```

9795

```

Each God-dreamer

Is the fulfiller

Of God’s choice Hour.

```

9796

```

O my devotion-heart,

You are the fragrance

Of my meditation-soul.

```

9797

```

My Master has taught me

The art of life. ```

9798

```

Now my Master is teaching me

The art of a self-giving life. ```

9799

```

How can I expedite

The Hour of God?

I can expedite the Hour of God

Only by virtue of

My self-giving breath to humanity.

```

9800

```

When I cry alone,

My Lord does not answer.

He answers only when I cry

For my whole family:

My body, vital, mind, heart and soul.

```

9801

```

Who is the producer

Of my jealousy-mind,

If not the birth

Of a poison-thought? ```

9802

```

Today

No man is exempt

From self-doubt.

But tomorrow

No man on earth will be without

The beauty and fragrance

Of a God-loving, God-serving

And

God-fulfilling life.

```

9803

```

If you can become a masterpiece

Of simplicity-mind, sincerity-heart

And purity-life,

You will find God

Within your easy reach.

```

9804

```

My soul tells me time and again

To be extremely careful of

My doubting mind

And to be extremely mindful of

My aspiration-heart.

```

9805

```

My Lord,

Do bless me with a never-ending cry

Inside my life-transforming dream.

```

9806

```

Alas,

The human mind never values

God’s Nectar-Fountain-Presence

Inside its barren life. ```

9807

```

My Lord is so happy

That He and I are working together

To bring up humanity’s tears

And bring down Divinity’s Smiles. ```

9808

```

At long last I have come to know

Why my Lord Supreme

Composed His Heart-Songs.

```

9809

```

My Lord Supreme

Composed His Heart-Songs

For humanity to sing

With its soul, heart, mind, vital

And body.

```

9810

```

Always remember,

True soulfulness comes from

The very depth of the heart.

```

9811

```

Alas, sometimes we sing

Beautifully, charmingly and faultlessly,

But the heart and mind are lost

Inside the mind-jungle. ```

9812

```

Let us sing

Each and every God-song

With sincerity, purity

And self-giving. ```

9813

```

When we sing with soulful self-giving,

The hearts of those songs

Are destined for Immortality.

```

9814

```

When we have prayerful enthusiasm,

The Supreme’s Blessings and Joy

Descend upon us

Like torrential rain. ```

9815

```

May each and every truth-seeker

Be flooded with God’s divine Pride

In him.

```

9816

```

When humanity sings God-songs,

God Himself swims in the sea

Of His Delight-Ecstasy.

```

9817

```

May beauty, fragrance, light, delight,

Divinity and Immortality

Grow inside my heart-garden.

```

9818

```

A soulful song transports even God

To the highest heights of the Beyond

Of the musical world.

```

9819

```

You cannot imagine how sincerely

The Supreme is fulfilled

By His own Fountain-Art.

```

9820

```

The Fountain-Art of the Supreme

Is itself a song, a song of the heart,

A song for the heart.

```

9821

```

O freedom-bird, flying in the hope-sky,

It is you who bring down to me

The real message of peace.

```

9822

```

Just smile twenty-four hours a day.

Lo, all the doubt-poison in you

Will disappear.

```

9823

```

Lovers of aspiration-dedication-music

Will forever sport and sing

With God

The Supreme Musician. ```

9824

```

What I truly want

Is consciousness-elevation,

Not body-levitation.

```

9825

```

Each country’s speciality

Must be appreciated and admired

By the entire humanity.

```

9826

```

Each individual’s speciality

Should be received

By humanity’s

Immediate oneness. ```

9827

```

Better to have excellent promises,

Whether they are fulfilled or unfulfilled,

Than to have no promise at all.

```

9828

```

If readiness, willingness and eagerness

Loom large in sincerity,

Then we can accomplish everything

In life. ```

9829

```

I have written

On the tablet of my heart

That God received a drop from me

And gave me the ocean in return. ```

9830

```

Do not just carry the tune

But the real inspiration-voice

Of the music.

```

9831

```

Do not just carry

The body of the music,

But carry the true heart

Of the music. ```

9832

```

Without a soulful voice,

One is only practising

Mechanical geometry-music.

```

9833

```

If smartness is inside the mind and vital,

Then automatically

The sense of strength is in the body.

```

9834

```

When dynamism is missing,

Life is but

A stagnant swimming pool.

```

9835

```

Along with enthusiasm,

What is needed

Is the dynamic vital.

```

9836

```

Without the dynamic vital,

Nobody can achieve

Anything extraordinary.

```

9837

```

Time

Does not create us;

We create time.

```

9838

```

If lethargy befriends us,

We surrender

To time.

```

9839

```

If we have dynamic enthusiasm,

Then time, without fail,

Surrenders to us.

```

9840

```

I have to keep time at my feet.

Otherwise,

Time will discourage me,

Dishearten me

And even destroy me.

```

9841

```

Why should I surrender

To time’s authority?

I needs must

Put an end to time’s authority. ```

9842

```

God is begging the truth-seekers

Not to lose inspiration and aspiration

When they see humanity’s descent.

```

9843

```

Never expect anything from the world.

You have come to earth

Only for your Lord Supreme.

```

9844

```

Serve God with utmost enthusiasm.

Lo, you have made

Faster than the fastest progress.

```

9845

```

To miss our golden opportunities

Is to make deplorable,

Slower than the slowest progress.

```

9846

```

Bring to God your aspiration,

And take from Him

His Blessings and Pride.

```

9847

```

If you give God your aspiration,

God will give you

His Blessing-Heart

And

His Compassion-Soul.

```

9848

```

No demand, no demand!

If God does not listen to your demands,

You may disappear,

And God will remain silent. ```

9849

```

No expectation, no expectation!

If God does not fulfil your expectations,

You may withdraw,

And God will remain silent. ```

9850

```

When God’s children are failing,

God feels

That He is also failing.

God is always

God’s Oneness-Heart.

```

9851

```

When world-aspiration disappears,

Not madness, but sadness becomes

The name of God’s Heart.

```

9852

```

Always proceed forward.

Once you turn around,

The backward march

Is absolutely endless. ```

9853

```

A spiritual musician

Transports the audience

Into another world,

Far beyond the critical mind. ```

9854

```

A spiritual musician

Is loved as a man of peace,

And not judged for his expertise.

```

9855

```

Hope is here,

Hope is there,

Hope is everywhere.

Therefore,

We must live on hope.

```

9856

```

Every morning

I am extremely eager

To hear

My Lord’s wake-up Call. ```

9857

```

Doubt is always ready

To interfere

In every divine project

We undertake. ```

9858

```

Our gratitude-heart

Serves God

As a most delicious meal.

```

9859

```

My own gratitude-heart,

I feel,

Is another name for Heaven.

```

9860

```

Ambition and pride

Always love

To live together.

```

9861

```

The mind is always

Spiritually weak, spiritually poor,

Blind and deaf.

```

9862

```

God’s Forgiveness-Journey

Is never going

To end.

```

9863

```

A sincere heart

Is, indeed, a long step

Towards understanding

What God actually needs from us. ```

9864

```

Negativity foolishly thinks

That ignorance-night

Is winning

In the battlefield of life. ```

9865

```

God sees

Our unwillingness-mind,

But He has infinite Patience

And Forgiveness

To illumine and transform

Our unwillingness-mind. ```

9866

```

Our Lord Supreme

Is far too polite

To tell us “No”

At any time. ```

9867

```

Ingratitude can never win

In any inner race,

No matter how short or long.

```

9868

```

Keep aside uncertainty.

Uncertainty is the downfall

Of life.

```

9869

```

A God-hesitation-life

Is a total

Failure-life.

```

9870

```

I love and need desperately

Every day

The rising sun of peace.

```

9871

```

Be wise,

Be not over-smart.

Listen to God

Lovingly and devotedly. ```

9872

```

God asks us to narrate

Again and again

His Peace-Stories.

```

9873

```

We must not wait

Until tomorrow

For any divine thing.

Our aspiration has to be

Very sincere and very intense.

```

9874

```

Nothing can ever be

Way over our head

To accomplish —

Never! ```

9875

```

A heart of surrender

Will always be fortunate

From the beginning to the end.

```

9876

```

My Lord’s Compassion-Eye

Is my only gospel

In life.

```

9877

```

God every day asks us

To go beyond the frontiers

Of our narrow mind-grasp.

```

9878

```

We can see, feel and even grow into

Tomorrow’s bliss-flooded dawn

If we can become

The very breath of surrender-life. ```

9879

```

My self-discovery

Offers God

A flood of delight.

```

9880

```

All seekers ultimately

Come to the same conclusion:

That God’s Heart is made of

His Infinity’s Compassion. ```

9881

```

Unity in multiplicity

Has always been the plan

Of Mother Nature.

```

9882

```

God asks me to accept

Any challenge

From ignorance-night.

```

9883

```

God is absolutely sure

That all challenges in life

Will kiss the dust of my feet.

```

9884

```

We can reach God’s

Forgiveness-Throne

On the strength of

Our heart-garden-delight. ```

9885

```

Man promises to God

That he will offer

His very existence to God

Unconditionally. ```

9886

```

My Lord, do give me the capacity

To open every day

My nearness-heart-door to You

To become a fulness-life

In Your Heart-Home.

```

9887

```

My Lord, do give me the capacity

To have a sincere hunger

To fulfil each and every wish

Of Yours. ```

9888

```

It is not an impossible task

To obtain

A God-realisation-nectar-fruit.

```

9889

```

God shall remain

Infinitely more beautiful

Than mankind can ever imagine.

```

9890

```

May my gratitude-heart

Always remain

Under my Lord’s

Concern-Compassion-Canopy. ```

9891

```

A mind that has poise

Will neither be troubled nor tortured,

Either by outer confusion

Or inner chaos. ```

9892

```

Each temptation-thorn

Is more dangerous and destructive

Than the previous one.

```

9893

```

If you are weighing the pros and cons

Of your spiritual life,

Then you are nowhere near

Your real God-surrender-life. ```

9894

```

Alas, how is it

That we cannot overlook

Our human flaws

The way our Lord Beloved Supreme

Does?

```

9895

```

O my mind,

Every day I am praying

For you to be liberated from

Your ignorance-darkness-abyss. ```

9896

```

God builds His Life

On man’s

Aspiration-dream-foundation.

```

9897

```

Expectation-effects

Are always discouraging

And disastrous.

```

9898

```

I love all my heroes,

But I am specially fond of

My humility-hero.

```

9899

```

Every day

We must try to accelerate

Our aspiration-heart-drive.

```

9900

```

My mind’s frustration

Is meant to be illumined or destroyed

By my heart’s poise.

```

9901

```

Do not allow your difficulties

To be insoluble.

Long before your difficulties

Capture you,

Take shelter at God’s Feet.

```

9902

```

If you really need faith-Blessings

From God,

Then start crying like an infant

For its mother’s love. ```

9903

```

If we do not care for gratitude

In our heart,

Then there is no reason for God to care

For our life. ```

9904

```

The fools think the long-lost past

Is the real destination.

The real destination is always

Ahead of us,

Not behind.

```

9905

```

A living faith

Is of paramount importance

When we want to live

A God-serving life. ```

9906

```

God tells us

That each aspirant

Is a God-Heart-Treasure-bearer.

```

9907

```

Our hopes

Have to be nurtured

By ever-blossoming dreams.

```

9908

```

God always tells us

To keep track of

Our self-giving deeds.

```

9909

```

We have to sail our life-boat

Beyond our mind’s thought-waters

To enter into the ocean

Of light and delight. ```

9910

```

God has made it a point

To wait for my mail

On a regular basis.

```

9911

```

The meditation of the heart

Is the satisfaction-smile

Of life.

```

9912

```

God wants us to write

Our heart-poems

With our mind’s purity-ink.

```

9913

```

God definitely wants

Each and every individual

To be under

The ever-compassionate care

Of God’s Will.

```

9914

```

If we withhold anything

From our Lord Beloved Supreme,

Then we are bound to live

A stupidity-flooded life. ```

9915

```

Alas, will I ever care to know

Whether God really cares for

A little piece of good news

From me? ```

9916

```

When my mind attacks my heart,

My heart weeps

And my soul challenges and conquers

My mind’s ignorance-pride. ```

9917

```

A seeker’s heart-sky

Is made of

Heaven’s Beauty.

```

9918

```

In the spiritual life,

Happiness abides in the heart’s

Ever-blossoming faith

In God. ```

9919

```

I am extremely fortunate

And extremely happy

That my Lord’s Compassion-Eye

Understands my mind,

And His Forgiveness-Feet

Shelter my life. ```

9920

```

My obedience-heart-life

Is proudly claimed

By God Himself

For His Manifestation-Life

On earth.

```

9921

```

My heart spends all its time

In serving

God the creation.

```

9922

```

My mind is occupied

All the time

In feeding and exhibiting

Its own pride. ```

9923

```

I call it my service-life-day.

God calls that very thing

God-manifestation-delight.

```

9924

```

Two angels:

One angel lives inside

My heart’s

Inspiration-aspiration-tears,

Another angel lives inside

My soul’s

God-satisfaction-smiles.

```

9925

```

The mind-empire

Is nothing other than

Confusion-producer.

```

9926

```

Nothing can ever pain my heart

As ruthlessly as my own

God-disobedience-mind.

```

9927

```

May the devotion-star

Of my heart-sky

Sleeplessly twinkle

To please my Lord’s

Compassion-Heart.

```

9928

```

My self-giving heart

Is by far the best

Desire-fire-extinguisher

Of my mind. ```

9929

```

O my success-beggar-mind,

How I wish you could feel,

Once and for all,

My utter disgust! ```

9930

```

Without passing

The mind-purity-examination,

We cannot reach

The heart-summit-meditation. ```

9931

```

My Lord,

To serve You

Is to breathe in

The Sweetness-Fragrance

Of Your Heart.

```

9932

```

I need a gratitude-heart

As vast as Infinity’s Sky

To please the Power

Of God the Creator

And love the Hour

Of God the creation. ```

9933

```

My Lord,

Do bless me with the capacity

To cry for birthless and deathless

Gratitude-tears. ```

9934

```

My self-giving

Is the sunlit, solid path

Leading to my Lord’s

Heart-Kingdom. ```

9935

```

My Lord Supreme

Wants me to give Him

His absolutely legitimate due

Inside each human being. ```

9936

```

The best way

To radiate love

Is to sing

A oneness-heart-song. ```

9937

```

My Beloved Supreme

Wants my heart every day

To feast on

My nectar-meditation-meal. ```

9938

```

My endless gratitude-breath

I take in

The moment my heart envisions

My Lord’s Compassion-Eye. ```

9939

```

I am praying to my Lord Supreme

Not to allow

Even an iota of thought

To enter into my heart-temple. ```

9940

```

If we cannot lose

The desire-mind-weight,

We cannot gain

The aspiration-heart-weight. ```

9941

```

There must be no U-turns

On my life’s

Progress-service-road.

```

9942

```

O my mind,

Do not come every day late

To God’s Compassion-Feet.

God has infinitely more important

Things to do

Than to unnecessarily wait

For you.

```

9943

```

Imagination plays with

Infinity’s Beauty

And

Immortality’s Fragrance. ```

9944

```

If you do not stop regretting

And grieving,

How do you expect to receive happiness

Either from God the Creator

Or God the creation?

```

9945

```

I have taken a solemn oath:

I shall never, never live

In the din-confusion

Of my mind-market. ```

9946

```

We cry because

We do not succeed.

God cries because

We do not proceed. ```

9947

```

Only our inner faith in God

Can provide us with a glimpse

Of Heaven’s Delight.

```

9948

```

You may not see

That God is ahead of you,

You may not see

That God is behind you,

But you must try

To see and feel God

Within you.

```

9949

```

God’s whispering Secrets

Have world-illumining

Readiness, willingness

And eagerness. ```

9950

```

If my heart does not water

My life-faith-seed regularly,

Then my God-hungry life

Will die before long. ```

9951

```

Aspiration has to be your task,

If you want amplification

To be God’s Task.

```

9952

```

God will clasp you

Only after you have placed your heart

At God’s all-fulfilling

And all-forgiving Feet. ```

9953

```

May my doubtful mind

Every day

Become weaker and weaker

Before the inevitable arrival of death. ```

9954

```

Man has the potentiality,

Man has the opportunity,

Man has the possibility,

Man has the inevitability

Of realising God.

```

9955

```

Temptation

Does not come to us

Uninvited.

```

9956

```

I look beautiful

When I fold my hands devotedly

In front of my Lord Beloved Supreme.

```

9957

```

I look powerful

When I bow my head prayerfully

Before my Lord Beloved Supreme.

```

9958

```

I look beautiful, I look powerful,

Plus I become perfect

When I prostrate myself self-givingly

At the Feet

Of my Lord Beloved Supreme.

```

9959

```

You see yourself only crying.

Do you not see something more?

Your Beloved Supreme

Is standing beside you. ```

9960

```

At top speed you can run

In the inner world

Only when you feed your faith in God

Regularly and unfailingly. ```

9961

```

Each individual can have many friends.

But when dire necessity demands,

One may not find helping hands

Anywhere. ```

9962

```

The unreal in me

Dares to live

On God’s Justice-Head.

```

9963

```

The real in me

Loves to live

At God’s Compassion-Feet.

```

9964

```

God becomes proud of me

Only when I ask Him

What I must become

And not what I should do. ```

9965

```

When my pride

Wants to understand God,

God tells my pride

That He has no objection. ```

9966

```

When my humility

Longs to feel God,

God tells my humility

To touch Him,

Any part of His Body.

It will feel only His Heart. ```

9967

```

If you live inside your mind,

Your body becomes old

Fast, very fast.

```

9968

```

If you live inside your heart,

Your life becomes an eternal child’s

Ever-blossoming God-smile.

```

9969

```

God disappears from your presence

Only when your mind-lord demands

Your full attention.

```

9970

```

Alas, I am so stupid

That I do not know

The difference between

A computer-head

And a confusion-mind.

```

9971

```

Each soul is endowed

With many divine qualities,

But alas, these divine qualities

May remain unmanifested

Indefinitely.

```

9972

```

God cries and cries most pitifully

When you allow your pride

To claim you.

```

9973

```

God does not want many things from me.

He wants only one thing from me:

His full control of my earthly days.

```

9974

```

When I tell God that my life is

One hundred per cent failure,

God says,

“Since I am the only Doer, My child,

You are insulting Me

Far beyond your imagination.” ```

9975

```

Everything has to die finally.

Therefore, O my attachment-life,

How do you dare to think

That you are immortal? ```

9976

```

Attachment-sufferers

My mind

And my life were.

```

9977

```

Detachment-enjoyers

My soul

And my heart are.

```

9978

```

As your faith in any human being

Will expedite

Your spiritual journey amazingly,

Even so, your doubt in any human being

Will delay

Your journey shockingly. ```

9979

```

When it is a matter of

Earthly friendship,

Time and again it has been proved

That your own best friend

Can easily and shamelessly betray you.

```

9980

```

When it is a matter of

Heavenly friendship,

Which is founded upon

Constantly mutual self-giving,

That friendship

Is God-Eternity’s God-partnership. ```

9981

```

Action and happiness

May not follow each other,

But a God-surrender-life

Is both action in happiness

And happiness in action.

```

9982

```

Have a purity-flooded heart.

You will not only be able to endure Humanity’s illness,

But also cure

Humanity’s illness. ```

9983

```

Each new God-dream

Is, indeed, a more inspiring

And more encouraging

God-pathfinder. ```

9984

```

You can conquer your mind

Only if you have implicit faith

In your own heart.

```

9985

```

What is self-doubt,

If not an immediate

Danger zone?

```

9986

```

Enthusiasm and eagerness

Are extremely proud of

Their own divinity’s

Oneness-embrace. ```

9987

```

Possession and the mind

Endlessly admire

Each other.

```

9988

```

Aspiration and the heart

Are extremely fond of

Each other.

```

9989

```

Illumination and the soul

Constantly fulfil

Each other.

```

9990

```

Alas,

When God wants to come near me,

Fear immediately comes

And stands nearer. ```

9991

```

Alas,

When my heart and I want to converse

With our Lord Beloved Supreme,

Uncertainty looms large,

Here, there and everywhere,

In my God-acceptance-life. ```

9992

```

If you are an excellent seeker,

Then you are bound to answer

The Call

Of your Beloved Supreme

On the first ring.

```

9993

```

A ceaseless and breathless

Self-giving heart

Is the best place to clasp

The Feet of God. ```

9994

```

When I offer God

My obedience,

He immediately tells me

And shows me

His loftiest Plans for me.

```

9995

```

Each day

Is important,

Each hour

Is more important,

Each moment

Is infinitely more important

When we choose to manifest God

In God’s own Way. ```

9996

```

My Lord,

My heart breathes

Precisely because

You are inside my breath,

Smiling, singing and dancing.

```

9997

```

My Lord,

Yesterday I lived

Because You were

All for my life. ```

9998

```

My Lord,

Today I am living

Because I am

All for Your Life. ```

9999

```

My Lord,

Tomorrow I shall live

Only to become

The golden dust

Of Your Feet.

```

10000

```

My Lord Supreme

Compassionately and blessingfully

Tells me

That each moment is His choice Hour

To love, serve and become

The living breath of the Universe. ```

From:Sri Chinmoy,Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 10, Agni Press, 1998
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