Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 10
901
Claim God’s Delight-FountainWith your heart’s
Purity-flooded innocence-cry.
God has been waiting for you to do so
For a very, very long time.
902
A prayer-mountain:This is what my mind urgently needs.
A meditation-fountain:
This is what my heart sleeplessly needs.
903
Even a segment of a sincerity-heartAnd the firmament of a divinity-soul
Are extremely fond of each other.
904
Even if I remember God too late,God will not hesitate
To give me a beautiful flower
From His Heart-Garden.
905
This moment my mindIs a pathless forest.
Next moment my mind
Is my heart’s silence-devouring tiger.
906
When God’s HeartIs my only choice,
God not only fulfils my prayers
But also grants me
His Rainbow-Voice.
907
A life that does not aspireIs indeed a failure-life
That returns again and again
Through Eternity’s revolving door.
908
When I soulfully love God,I consciously become
A God-taught student
Of God-Satisfaction.
When I do not love God
But only love myself,
I helplessly become
A self-taught student
Of deathless dissatisfaction.
909
Do you know what my mindHas done?
It has tapped my heart’s
Telephone line to God.
Why?
It suspects that my heart
Is speaking ill of it secretly
And that God is powerfully encouraging,
Appreciating and loving my heart.
910
My mind becomes familiarWith the word “No”
When God speaks to my mind.
My heart becomes familiar
With the words “Yes” and “No”
When God speaks to my heart.
My soul remains familiar
With the word “Yes” — always “Yes” —
When God speaks to my soul.
911
O my mind’s stupid anger,Can you not see what you have done?
You have chained me
To my worst enemy: doubt.
912
My mind, heart and soulAll work for my Lord Supreme.
My mind demands a high salary.
In order to keep peace,
My Lord grants my mind
A high salary.
My heart needs only a low salary.
God grants my heart a low salary
And thus satisfies my heart.
My soul does not want any salary.
It works for God for free
And is all gratitude to Him
For using it as His instrument.
God says to my soul,
“You are My Eternity’s Pride,
My Infinity’s Joy
And My Immortality’s Love.”
913
He does not hate God any moreBecause he now wisely knows
That he depends on God.
He does not hate the world any more
Because the world finally realises
That it helplessly depends on him.
914
I have lockedInside my body-prison
Two things:
God’s morning Smile
And
Man’s evening cry.
915
My heart tells meThat God the Lover
Is a sprinter.
My soul tells me
That God the Smiler
Is a middle-distance runner.
My body tells me
That God the Dreamer
Is a long-distance runner.
916
Your beauty-spreading life-flowerIs bound to fade
If you do not soulfully offer
Your heart-tears
To your Beloved Supreme.
917
My mind says to my Lord Supreme,“Please do not fire me,
Although I am not working hard
For You.”
My heart says to my Lord Supreme,
“Please do not employ me
Until I can become a good instrument
Of Yours.”
918
When he searched withinHe discovered two things:
A silver purity-sky
And a golden divinity-sun.
919
If you can playOn your heart’s gratitude-flute,
Then God will definitely grant you
His Vision’s unhorizoned Smile.
920
My Lord,You have severely scolded me
Not because I love You
Less than before,
Not because You love me
Less than before,
But because I have started
Loving excessively
My frustration-generating desire-life.
921
As long as God is on my side,I shall not care
Whether or not this world will ever be
On my side.
922
You know perfectly wellThat what you have
Is a good-for-nothing mind.
Why, then, do you spend so much time
With your mind, in your mind
And for your mind?
You know perfectly well that yours
Is a good-for-everything heart.
How is it, then,
That you always act like a stranger
Towards your heart?
923
O my uncooperative mind,What you need from my Lord
Is a powerful Kick
And not a blessingful Touch
For your illumination.
924
My Lord,I shall no more give You
My mind’s despair-tears.
I shall give You only
My heart’s aspiration-smiles.
925
Your life has becomeA difficulty-mountain
Because you feel that God is
Neither His Compassion-Eye
Nor His Forgiveness-Heart.
926
If you regularly flyIn your aspiration-plane,
God will definitely invite you to fly
In His Satisfaction-Plane.
927
When you fell from your pride-tree,Did you not see God standing
On your heart’s oneness-lawn,
Looking at you with His Compassion-Eye?
928
My heart’s aspiration-road is pavedWith God’s ever-blossoming Beauty.
My life’s dedication-road is paved
With God’s ever-illumining Duty.
929
Your vital is on strike!But alas, your vital is not suffering
From the strike.
It is your heart that is suffering
Endlessly.
930
If you live in the cramped room of fear,How can you ever be
A choice instrument of God?
931
Between my present happinessAnd my future happiness,
Two divine things exist:
My promise-divinity
And
My faith-beauty.
932
He who thinksThat he does not know
What truth is in the inner world
Is an illegal alien there.
933
Long before my heart’sLittle light grows dim,
I must capture the vast Light
Of my Lord’s infinite Heart.
934
In the outer worldI have buried
My inferiority complex
To become great.
In the inner world
I have buried
My superiority complex
To become perfect.
935
Your stupid and ungrateful mindIs not ready to pay
Even a courtesy call on God,
Whereas your heart every day pays
A devoted and surrendered visit to God.
936
The mind that does not wantTo change
And the life that does not want
To grow
Have already contracted a deadly disease:
Suspicion.
937
In your spiritual lifeDrive forward fast, very fast.
If you cannot do that,
At least drive forward slowly.
But never, never
Drive in reverse!
938
If you live a lifeOf loveless duty,
How can you experience
The divinity of a day
Freed from endless ordeals?
939
My Lord,I cannot separate
Your Heart of Tears
From Your Eye of Scoldings.
To me they are absolutely the same.
940
When you are your heart’sDiamond calmness,
God becomes His thousand Smiles
And million Dances.
941
His newly illumined life-boatPlies between his mind’s silver trance
And his heart’s golden dance.
942
Unless you challengeThe age-old victory of ignorance,
Your life is doomed to remain
A failure-sigh.
943
My Lord gave meHis magical Vision-Eye
And now I am giving Him
My radical reality-life.
944
Yesterday’s stupidity-lifeI gave up.
Today’s insecurity-life
I am giving up.
Soon I shall start enjoying
Tomorrow’s practical God-life.
945
My mind is satisfiedBeing God’s tortoise.
My heart is satisfied
Being God’s deer.
My soul is satisfied
Being God’s lion.
And I am satisfied,
Completely satisfied,
Being God’s lamb.
946
Each hope-blossomIs a God-sent messenger
From Heaven’s God-distributing
Delight.
947
Your division-mindIs a sea of fears.
Therefore, your oneness-heart
Has become a flood of tears.
948
His is the heartThat is as young
As a morning promise.
His is the life
That is as old
As an evening hope.
949
I know where I stand.I stand between
The nothingness-desert
Of my mind
And the fulness-sea
Of my heart.
950
The beauty that feedsThe greedy eyes
Is no beauty at all.
The beauty that is hungry
For God’s Eye
Is the only real beauty.
951
The slow decline of his progressBegan the day he lost touch
With his heart’s faith.
952
Do you thinkGod’s omniscient Eye
Cannot see
Your transient cry?
How can you expect
With this transient cry
To win God’s ever-effervescent Smile?
953
You cannot live inDesire’s bondage-cave
And aspiration’s freedom-sky
At the same time.
954
God never wants from youYour mind’s fearful prayers.
He wants from you
Only your heart’s prayerful meditations.
955
Your mind may be chainedTo doubt,
But your heart is always hoisting
Faith’s victory-banner.
956
Although your life overslept,You are not doomed
To utter disappointment.
Now that you are up,
Start walking and running
Along Eternity’s Road
And begin to enjoy
Your endless journey.
957
God’s HeartIs my lover within,
And God’s Eye
Is my supplier without.
958
When we live inside the body-room,We see God the Stranger.
When we live inside the heart-room,
We see God the Lover.
When we live inside the soul-room,
We see God the Dreamer.
959
The East is like a treeWithout branches, leaves,
Flowers or fruits.
The West is like a tree
Poorly nourished,
With dying roots.
Who can appreciate either tree?
960
You are running forward,Asking, “Where is the goal?”
I tell you,
If you have no sense of speed,
How can there ever
Be a goal for you?
961
Not one but all my limbsI broke
As I was speedily climbing down
Ingratitude-hill.
962
A man of suspicionUndoubtedly lives
A lonely insecurity-life.
963
Every day you must aspireIf you want to remain
An active player
In God’s life-transforming
Cosmic Game.
964
The Guru is both vision and reality.Through meditation we realise
The vision of the Guru.
Through dedication we manifest
The reality of the Guru.
965
If you want to wage a successful warAgainst despair,
Then once and for all fortify
Your aspiring heart
And searching life.
966
If you feel thatTo work for mankind
Is beneath your dignity,
Then you are, indeed,
An unfortunate God-seeker.
967
If you care only for manifestationAnd not for realisation,
There will be no true
Spirit of God-oneness
In your actions.
968
Salvation-light:This is the message of the West.
Liberation-height:
This is the message of the East.
Perfection-Delight:
This is the Message
Of my Beloved Supreme.
969
Doctors call itAn emergency room.
I call it
God’s Compassion-Exercise Room.
970
Why do you want to remainAlways seated with folded hands?
Come out into the world.
Manifest God in a new way:
Through your life of self-giving.
971
For centuriesI travelled alone in paradise
With my silence-eye.
Finally, whom did I see?
My Eternity’s dear fellow-enjoyer,
My soul.
972
Do you not see the differenceBetween your past power-life
And your present light-life?
With power you became a hero-warrior.
With light you are earth’s life-transformer.
973
True, sleep covers all human doubtsAnd all human thoughts.
But since it does not transform
Doubt into faith and thought into will,
It is as useless
As a deplorably unmanifested man.
974
The message of Heaven is briefBut most powerful:
God loves me unconditionally.
The message of earth is long, uncertain
And most painful:
Earth does not need me.
975
O my mind,Do not hide in
Your own darkness-night.
O my heart,
Wake up before
Ignorance-prince steps in.
O my soul,
Do spread your oneness-smile
Within and without my life.
976
If you have an aspiration-heart,Then allow it to enjoy
The soaring eagle-flight
Of your progress-smile.
977
If you remain inside God’s Consciousness,You will see God
As your Father and Mother,
Your Sister and Brother,
Your Friend, Your All.
978
My Lord Supreme,I am tired of playing hide-and-seek
With You.
“My child, I am also tired
Of playing this ancient game.
Let us now start playing a new game,
A totally new game: oneness-fulness.”
979
Capacity isHis life’s shrine.
Willingness is
His heart’s deity.
980
God the Sprinter feels sorryFor my body’s incapacity.
God the Lover feels sorry
For my heart’s incapacity.
God the Dreamer feels sorry
For my life’s incapacity.
981
My earth-born thoughtCan never do the work of love.
My Heaven-born thought
Will do not only the work of love
But also the Work of God.
982
No wonder you are a strangerTo your Heaven-shining skies.
You are not at all receptive
To Heaven’s God-descending light.
983
My heart’s cryingIs my life’s sacred hunger.
My soul’s soaring
Is my Lord’s secret Meal.
984
You want to know where I liveMost of the time.
I live most of the time
In the silence-garden of my soul’s music
Where no disharmony can ever eclipse
The sovereignty of my soul.
985
His heart is studyingThe technology of tears
So that his life can become
A factory of God-Smiles.
986
How can God give youA taste of His universal Delight
If you are not willing
To forget totally
The taste of your personal fears?
987
Your life-plant is growingWithin the shadow of your suspicion-mind.
How then can you expect to see
The flowering of your oneness-smile?
988
Every day you allow the temptation-birdTo sing inside your vital.
How can you then live
In Eternity’s sunrise?
989
Every morning my Beloved SupremeBegs me to touch His Smiles.
Every evening my Lord Supreme
Commands me to wipe His Tears.
990
If you want to becomeA world-class seeker,
Then you must take a course
At God’s Compassion-University.
991
With his national mindHe began
His life’s earthly journey.
With his international heart
He completed
His life’s Heavenly journey.
992
My Beloved SupremeLeads my aspiration-heart,
And I follow His Vision-Eye.
993
O my mind,I do not mind if you are old,
But I do mind if you fail to tell me
A new, inspiring and illumining earth-story.
994
God the VisionWas in the beginning.
God the Satisfaction
Will be at the end.
God the Dedication
Is in between.
995
A constant, prayerful, cheerfulAnd soulful obedience
Is unmistakably a record-breaking
Inner achievement-event.
996
You want to knowWhether you should live or love.
If you love your body alone,
Then you should only live.
If you love your heart alone,
Then you should only love.
If you love God alone and nothing else,
Then you must at once live and love.
997
There was a time when your mindWon the world over
To division-night.
Now your heart
Is winning the world over
To oneness-day.
998
A superlative God-loverIs he who never loses his grip
On God’s Compassion-Divinity.
999
What you have doneMay not have pleased God,
But what you have not done
Has certainly pleased God.
What have you not done?
You have not accepted
The daily invitation
From ignorance-prince.
1000
I do not have to knowWhat the truth is.
All that I have to know
Is that God is the only Truth.