Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 12
1101
My Beloved Supreme,My life is at Your disposal.
Do mould me, shape me and guide me
In Your own Way.
Do give me
Sincerity’s determination-capacity
To come to You — You alone.
1102
He is searching for his mind.Where is it?
His mind is buried beneath
A heap of fallen memories.
He is searching for his heart.
Where is it?
His heart is on the topmost branch
Of his aspiration-tree.
1103
In the morning I pray to my Lord SupremeTo deafen me to the clamour
Of the outer-world music.
In the evening I pray to my Lord Supreme
To awaken me to the nectar-delight
Of the inner-world music.
1104
Your Himalayan-high detachment-eyeHas fathomed the birthless
And deathless sorrows
Of countless human hearts.
1105
When my mind has pure thoughts,It gets a part-time job
In Heaven.
When my mind becomes a surrender-will,
It gets a full-time job,
Full of radiant future promises,
In Heaven.
1106
God does not want to know from youWhat you want.
He just wants to know from you
What you want to become
And what kind of help
You need from Him.
1107
If you are working only to becomeA great autocrat,
Then you will eventually find yourself
On a doubt-frustration-journey.
But if you are working to become
A choice instrument of God,
To serve Him in His own Way
At His choice Hour,
Then God will definitely allow you to enjoy
His Eternity’s Self-Transcendence-Journey.
1108
Your progress-life has made youYour heart’s shadowless face.
Your meditation-life has made you
Your God’s birthless and deathless Heart.
1109
Love the divine in yourselfInfinitely more
Than you have been doing,
So you will not have to imitate
The human in others.
1110
Your heart’s murmuring meditation-riverWill pass through your life’s desert
Because your mind is now enjoying
The absence of desire.
1111
If you can put your ignorance-criminalTo death,
You will easily be able to look
Into the Heart of God’s
Self-Transcendence-Reality.
1112
His heart is fondOf three special things:
The beauty of the sky,
The purity of the moon
And the power of the sun.
1113
The omnipotence within meAnd my Lord’s Silence-Smile
Are one and the same thing.
1114
Your oneness-heartDoes not have to say anything,
For it at once embodies
Both earth’s ascending aspiration-hope
And Heaven’s descending
Compassion-promise.
1115
I must forget my “I-ness”So that I can remember my oneness.
My oneness must be multiplied every day
So that my Lord and I can together enjoy
Our supreme fulness.
1116
O my mind’s sound-light,O my heart’s silence-delight,
O my soul’s satisfaction-height,
When can I consciously claim you
As my own, very own?
1117
His life’s difficultiesHave now become beautiful and delightful
Because his mind’s inspiration-bird
And his heart’s aspiration-bird
Are together soaring high,
Very high.
1118
When he looks at the beautyOf the morning sky,
He thinks and feels
That God the Dream
Suits him best.
When he looks at the power
Of the midday sun,
He thinks and feels
That God the Sound
Suits him best.
When he looks at the purity
Of the evening moon,
He thinks and feels
That God the Silence
Suits him best.
1119
I prayed to my Lord SupremeFor power.
My Supreme Lord has given me Love
Instead of power.
His Love has not only made
My heart powerful
But also is making
My life perfect.
1120
If you do not turn from your ignorance-life,Then who will do it for you?
If you do not want to enjoy
Nectar-delight in boundless measure,
Then who will do it for you?
1121
His vital is untouchedBy temptation.
Therefore, his life is embraced
By God the Satisfaction.
1122
If you allow your desire-greedTo lead you,
Then you will be compelled
To allow your destruction-sorrow
To follow you.
1123
Just do one thing:Let your Beloved Supreme
Take the initiative
In what you say and do.
Lo, He is banishing the ignorance-thief
From the garden of your life.
1124
Your heart-templeIs empty of worshippers.
Why are you not inviting
Your body, vital and mind
To come and worship God there?
1125
You want to possess God.Indeed, He is worth possessing.
But who can ever possess God,
Who is at once the eternal Possessor
And the eternal Possession?
1126
A dangerous and poisonousIgnorance-snake
Has bitten you mercilessly.
Therefore, it is impossible for you
To witness the rebirth of your life’s
Sweetness-fruitfulness-beauty.
1127
A machine-like obedience-freedomTurns man into a robot.
A childlike freedom-obedience
Turns man into a god.
1128
Your life has broken throughYour mind’s ego-barrier.
Therefore, your heart is able to stand
On the perfection-peak
Of God’s creation.
1129
Name God the Compassion.Claim God the Liberation.
Become God the transcendental Silence.
1130
Enthusiasm-beautyIs the dawn of a seeker’s mind.
Enthusiasm-power
Is the noon of a seeker’s heart.
Enthusiasm-peace
Is the night of a seeker’s life.
1131
You are good,But you want to be better.
You can be better
Only by having a gratitude-heart.
You are better,
But you want to be best.
You can be best
Only by becoming a surrender-life.
1132
You are beautifulOnly when you praise
God the Creation.
You are powerful
Only when you praise
God the Manifestation.
You are fruitful
Only when you praise
God the Liberation.
1133
In my caseMy freedom is not worth having
Unless I can love my Lord Supreme
Only in His own Way.
1134
My Lord Supreme,I have taught myself
How to love You only
Even when You do not love me
Or care for me at all.
1135
What do I want?I want my animal life
To claim God the Forgiveness.
What do I want?
I want my human life
To claim God the Compassion.
What do I want?
I want my divine life
To claim God the Satisfaction.
1136
Self-awareness and self-givingAre two supreme gifts.
These two gifts
Are always their own God-winning rewards.
1137
At last I have succeededIn taming my mind
To want God, only God.
At last I have succeeded
In training my heart
To live for God, only God.
1138
He loves his inner life.Therefore he is beautiful.
He rules his outer life.
Therefore he is fruitful.
1139
If you can imagine your future,You are great.
If you can build your future,
You are good.
If you can surrender your future to God
For Him to use in His own Way,
You are perfect.
1140
He thought his God-realisationWas an easy task.
Therefore it became easy.
He thought his God-manifestation
Was a difficult task.
Therefore it has become most difficult.
1141
The animal life needs instructionFrom its teacher.
The human life needs correction
From its tutor.
The divine life needs
Perfection and satisfaction
From its Lover: God.
1142
You may think that your mindIs the architect
Of your life’s progress-plan,
But it is not true.
God’s Compassion is the Architect
Not only of your life’s progress-plan
But also of your life’s progress-play.
1143
A life of surrenderTo your Master’s compassion-divinity
Is absolutely the safest way
To establish your conscious
And sleepless oneness-reality
With God.
1144
When you feelYour love for your Lord Supreme
Inside His Heart,
You give up your old life,
Which was undivine in every way.
When you feel
The Love of Your Inner Pilot for you
Inside your own heart,
You see a new life dawning
On your heart’s horizon.
1145
I take each failure as an opportunityTo increase my surrender
And destroy my frustration-life.
I take each success as an opportunity
To bring forward my gratitude-heart
And totally destroy my ego-life.
1146
Your clever, tricky mindIs torturing you daily.
When you need rest,
It tells you that you are lethargic,
Empty of energy-light,
And when you do not need rest
It deliberately wants to make you
Harmful lethargy-pleasure
By telling you that you need more rest.
1147
If you give to your Beloved SupremeWhat you have and what you are,
A frustration-pool,
Then you can become
What He has and what He is:
The Satisfaction-Ocean.
1148
My only friend:The satisfaction of my desire-life.
God’s only friend:
The perfection of my aspiration-cry.
1149
The divine forces are always readyTo act in and through you.
It is up to you to accept them
In a divine way.
If you do not accept them,
There will be no difference
Between your heart’s excruciating suffering
And the suffering of a desire-imprisoned
Unaspiring human being.
1150
Do not expectWhat is beyond your capacity to receive.
Do not expect
What is beyond your capacity to achieve.
Otherwise, there will be a serious crash
Between your expectation-car
And your reality-train.
1151
If you allow your sincerity-gameTo go on and on —
Again and again confessing,
And then repeating the same mistakes
Without any determination-fire
To burn your insincerity-existence-life —
Then your progress on your
God-realisation-journey
Will be slower than the slowest.
1152
Surrender means oneness-beauty.On the strength of your surrender
You will become
The Oneness-Fulness-Reality
Of your Lord Supreme.
1153
There is one divine qualityThat can lead us the fastest
To our ever-transcending Goal,
And that is our unconditional surrender
To the Omniscience-Omnipotence-Will
Of our Inner Pilot.
1154
When I am able to surrenderWhat I have and what I am
To my Eternity’s Beloved Supreme,
I become inseparably one
With His Infinity’s Delight.
1155
When you surrender to your Inner Pilot,You increase and multiply the strength
Of your oneness-bliss,
And oneness-bliss itself expands
To become the vastness
Of the universe-fulfilling Bliss.
1156
If tomorrow I become a better person,I must offer that better life of mine
To God.
If the next day I again become worse,
I must cheerfully offer that life, too,
To God.
In this way each day
I can go one step forward
Towards my ultimate
Oneness-perfection-delight
With my Beloved Supreme.
1157
One day you may be spiritually lame,And the next day you are the fastest sprinter.
True surrender is to offer
Both your slowness and your speed,
Whatever you have and whatever you are,
To your life’s Absolute Supreme,
And to nobody else.
1158
Inwardly send your soul’s goodwillTo everybody and to every place
In God’s creation.
Your goodwill will definitely
Be echoed and re-echoed
Everywhere in every heart,
And be received —
Of course, according to
The world’s receptivity.
1159
My Lord, I do not knowAnd I do not want to know
What Your Will is.
For if I know Your Will,
My mind may create only
Confusion and rebellion
And make me feel
That I am not doing the right thing
By obeying You.
1160
My Lord Supreme,You do not have to tell me
What Your Will is
Or what Your Intentions are.
Only allow me to cheerfully
Pray to You
For the fulfilment
Of Your Absolute Will Supreme.
1161
My mind always likesTo take different sides.
My heart always takes
Only Your side, My Lord.
One day I shall compel my mind
To act like my heart.
O my Beloved Supreme,
I feel in the depths of my heart
That that day is fast approaching.
1162
Be careful!If you allow your vital
To make your heart impure,
Then your poor heart-vessel,
Like your mind,
Will be filled with doubt-poison.
1163
If you see your enemy coming,You can close the doors and windows
Of your life
To keep him out.
But if your enemy
Is already comfortably settled
Inside your heart-room,
It is not an easy task
To grab him and throw him out.
Therefore be extremely careful
Of your enemy within.
1164
My human mind tells meThat you are lethargic
Because I get up long before you.
My divine heart tells me
That you have worked very hard,
Therefore your chosen hour
Is the right time for you to get up.
1165
Each time he made progress,He declared his previous standard
“The height of lethargy”
Because he had far surpassed
That height.
1166
Speed and dynamism go together.If you can convince your mind
That you are running very fast,
Then no matter what your actual speed is,
The pure dynamism
Of your imagination-deer
Will definitely enter into you.
1167
An idea has entered into your mind:“I am very bad, impure, undivine!”
You must replace it immediately
With another idea:
“I am God’s child,
So how can I be impure and undivine?
Totally absurd!”
1168
How to conquer the undivine forcesInside your heart-room?
Either use your strength from within
To forcefully push them out
Or bring down light from Above
To powerfully pull them out.
1169
When hostile forces attack you,Have nothing to do with them.
Create a world of indifference
Within and around you.
Their own pride will compel them
To leave you.
1170
YesterdayMy Master’s silver advice
To me was:
Love all in God.
Today
My Master’s golden advice
To me is:
Serve all for God.
Tomorrow
My Master’s diamond advice
To me will be:
Become one with all in God.
1171
Your vital has walked alongFrustration-road for a long time.
Now it is completely exhausted.
Your mind has walked along
Suspicion-road for a long time.
Now it is totally exhausted.
Your heart has walked along
Illumination-road for a long time,
Yet there is no sign of its being exhausted.
Your soul has been walking along
Eternity’s Liberation-Satisfaction-Road
From time immemorial,
Yet it will never become exhausted.
1172
O skyward eyesOf purity-flooded beauty,
I know, I know,
You will not be satisfied
Until you have reached
The Liberator’s Liberation-Feet.
1173
You are telling me that you have triedThe conventional approach to realise God.
Alas, your austerity-approach
And your sacrifice-approach
Have not liberated your earth-bound life.
Such being the case,
I am advising you to try
A long-lost conventional approach
Inside your heart.
Indeed, this is your life’s
Surrender-flower-approach.
1174
Because your life was raisedOn God’s Compassion,
Your mind does not have to live
On doubt-poison.
1175
Life was perfect thenWhen I soulfully whispered:
“I am only for my Beloved Supreme.”
Life is totally imperfect now,
For I have boldly declared:
“God is and has to be for me,
For I have far surpassed others.”
1176
When I pray to my Lord Supreme,I say, “My Lord, do keep my heart
In Your Compassion-Net.”
When I meditate on my Beloved Supreme,
I say, “My Lord, do make my heart
And my entire being
Your Compassion-Net.”
1177
The world thinksThat something is seriously wrong
With my mind
Because my mind has forgotten
How to think.
My Lord Supreme tells me
That my mind has become
The boundless joy of perfection-receptivity.
1178
True, God does not ignore anybody.Therefore He does not ignore
Small-minded human beings.
But it is also equally true
That He never intends to use them
To serve Him in any way.
1179
When the doubting mindAccuses the heart of insecurity,
The loving heart does not
Accuse the mind of impurity.
When the mind accuses the heart,
It immediately creates a blemish
On the heart’s beauty.
When the heart does not accuse the mind,
It immediately creates a golden opportunity
For the mind’s self-transcendence.
1180
When you are extremely soulful,God sees you as a beautiful rose.
When you are not at all aspiring,
What does God see?
Only a few thorns.
God highly appreciates the rose,
But how can He appreciate thorns?
1181
Try to reach your highest heightIn the twinkling of an eye.
Your highest height may not be
Your Lord’s highest Height,
But the very fact that you can
Raise your consciousness quickly
Gives Him tremendous Joy
And immense Satisfaction.
1182
In your meditationIf you are desperately trying
To reach the acme of perfection
But you are failing,
Do not give up.
As one who does the long jump
Rests in between each attempt,
Wait and try again.
Who knows, in your next attempt
You may do extremely well.
1183
There are many who do not want to tryTo succeed in the spiritual life.
But you must be a hero-warrior
Who will try again and again
Until success-satisfaction is won.
1184
Always he had more important things to doThan to pay attention
To his spiritual life.
Indeed, even from a little meditation
He feared a spiritual overdose.
1185
You may do the worst possible meditation,But as long as you sincerely try,
God will one day shower
His bountiful Blessings upon you,
And you will be able to meditate
Extremely well.
Just try, wait and see.
1186
Each genuine truth-seekerNeeds only one thing:
A sleepless inner hunger
For infinite Peace,
Light and Bliss.
1187
If you see that you are being attackedBy undivine thoughts,
Or if sleep has entered
Into your entire being,
Do not fool yourself into believing
That you are doing your best meditation.
1188
You are, indeed, a foolIf you think you have passed
Your inner examination
According to your own standard
And that for you
Aspiration is no longer a necessity.
1189
Your Inner Pilot is the only judgeWho can tell you whether or not
You have successfully passed
Your spiritual examination.
It is up to you to have faith
In His infallible Judgement.
1190
On the strength of your sincere practiceThere shall come a time
When any time or any place —
Even in the hustle and bustle of life —
You will be able to enter
Your highest meditation
At your express command.
Then you will be a true hero-warrior
Of your Beloved Supreme.
1191
My Beloved Supreme tells meThat there is nothing
I will not do for Him
Eventually,
And that there is nothing
He will not do for me
Sleeplessly.
1192
Just as the SupremeHas made your Master
His supremely chosen instrument,
Even so, at His choice Hour
The Supreme will make you
His supremely chosen instrument.
Just be obedient, be patient,
Inwardly and outwardly.
1193
Your Lord SupremeIs not standing in front of you
With an iron rod
Ready to strike you
The moment you make any mistakes.
Far from it!
Through your obedience-light
One day you will realise
His Oneness-Delight with you.
1194
Poor God can countOn His Fingertips
Those very, very few
Who are implicitly obedient to Him,
Both in their inner aspiration-lives
And in their outer dedication-lives.
1195
Today if you can fulfilYour Lord Supreme
Cheerfully, devotedly and soulfully,
Then there shall definitely come a time
When you will please Him
Unreservedly and unconditionally.
1196
Progress comes from obedience.Obedience comes from faith.
If you have faith in God
And faith in yourself,
Then automatically you will develop
The power of obedience.
If you obey God,
Then at every moment
You will make progress
Far, far beyond
The flight of your imagination.
1197
Think not of the ferocious tigerThat your ignorance-life now embodies,
But of the beautiful white lamb
Or the swift-moving deer
That your aspiration-life
Hopes to become.
1198
I am a tiny dropInside an infinite ocean of light.
I have only to expand slowly and steadily
To become the ocean itself,
And then I shall unmistakably
Be able to claim the entire ocean
As my own, very own.
1199
As long as my heart can soulfully cryTo realise God,
I shall not mind in the least
Even if God deliberately delays
His choice Hour.
1200
O my Inner Pilot,I have not done anything.
It is You who have done everything
In and through me.
Now may I become only one thing
For the rest of my life:
A gratitude-heart within and without.