Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 17
1601
My Lord Supreme,What will happen
If I obey You unconditionally?
“My child
Your entire life will be flooded
With My Heart’s sweetest Intimacy.”
1602
With my praying handsI go to see God.
With my meditating heart
I invoke God to come and see me.
1603
You want to knowWhere I live in the inner world.
In the inner world I live
Between my Lord’s powerful
Smile-Ocean
And my heart’s soulful
Tear-river.
1604
You are telling meThat you have nothing to do
And therefore
You are not doing anything.
But I am clearly seeing
That you are doing something:
You are starving poor God to death.
1605
Now that you have put your desire-lifeOn a perfect diet,
God is definitely going to invite you
To His Nectar-Silence-Feast.
1606
You tell meThat you are very brave.
Then show me your bravery
By fighting against your lower self
Constantly
And by loving your higher self
Unreservedly.
1607
You are telling meThat you do not have any friend.
Nobody thinks of you,
Nobody likes you,
Nobody loves you,
Nobody treasures you.
Well, I clearly see that you have
An excellent friend.
Your ignorance-friend does think of you,
Does like you,
Does love you,
Does treasure you at every moment.
1608
What else can you expectYour confusion-mind-boat to do
But to carry you
To an alien destruction-shore?
1609
The dawn of a permanent purity-dayHas made its permanent abode
Inside his heart.
1610
God the Lover created this world,And not man the doubter.
Since God the Lover
Created the world,
How can you trust or even ask
Man the doubter to take care of it?
1611
The life that does not believeIn hope-power
Is nothing but a nightmare
To itself.
1612
God does not thinkThat you are unworthy
Of realising Him.
But He knows
That you are unwilling
To realise Him.
1613
You want to show the worldThe smiling sweetness-moon
Of your eyes
Without having a oneness-life.
You simply cannot do that!
1614
When are you going to come out ofYour self-pity-sea
And jump into
God’s Satisfaction-Ocean?
When?
1615
Alas, it was too lateFor him to save himself,
For a false saviour
Had totally destroyed
His aspiration-heart.
1616
I have two teachers:God and ignorance.
I have so many questions.
God the Teacher
Does not answer my questions.
Ignorance the teacher
Is unable to answer my questions.
Alas, what am I going to do now?
I am totally lost.
1617
It creates a tremendousEncouraging excitement
In his vital and body
When his mind’s doubt-thunder roars.
But his soul and heart
Laugh and laugh
At his mind’s shameless stupidity.
1618
You have been acceptingTemptation’s invitation
For such a long time
And not accepting
God’s Invitation.
Do you not think
That it would be nice of you
To accept God’s Invitation
At least once?
1619
My Lord,Open my heart’s new eye
So that I can prayerfully watch You
While You are flying towards me.
1620
God asked me to sing one song:The song of aspiration.
I sang that song for Him.
He liked my song so much
That He asked me to sing
A few more songs.
I was so delighted and excited
That I sang two more songs
One after another:
My life’s surrender-song
And my heart’s gratitude-song.
1621
You are begging GodFor a gift.
Has He not already given you
His best and highest Gift:
Compassion?
1622
The roots of his happiness-life-treeAre so strong
That the wild winds of despair
Will never be able to frighten him.
1623
God’s Life has already touchedMy compassion-heart.
But alas, when shall my life touch
God’s Compassion-Feet?
1624
You call itA dying temptation,
But I call it
A vanishing destruction.
1625
A new aspiration-hope is risingFor him to reach
The highest height
Of his soul’s promise-land.
1626
Tell me, my friend,Is it your dream
Or is it your mental hallucination?
Tell me, my friend,
Is it your vision
Or is it your perfection?
I do not see the difference
Between your dream and your hallucination.
Again, I do not see the difference
Between your vision and your perfection.
1627
There was a timeWhen I used to live
On frustration-flames.
But now that I have a new life
Of aspiration-cry,
I am living inside the heart
Of the illumination-sun.
1628
God was his Teacher.The Teacher and His student
Were unable to please each other.
The student left the Teacher
And found a new teacher:
Ignorance.
God the Teacher is not sure
Whether it is worthwhile for Him
To look for a new student.
1629
Before youIs a powerful silence-sea.
Behind you
Is a powerful doubt-storm.
Do not delay, make the right choice!
Let the world be inspired
By your right choice.
Then it will also make the right choice
When the time comes
For it to make a choice.
1630
If you do not want to forgetYour desire-language completely,
No harm,
But you must not use it.
God-Language is so soulful and powerful
And now that you have learnt it
Most satisfactorily,
Why do you have to use
Your vulgar desire-language?
Anyway,
In the new world that you are living in,
Nobody will understand
Your old desire-language.
1631
This morningMy Lord Supreme said to me
That if I can show Him
That I have the capacity
To speak less,
Then He will give me the capacity
Not only to hear Him more
But also to fulfil myself
Infinitely more.
1632
My Lord SupremeDo tell me one thing:
Determination —
Is it something
That I do not have at all
Or is it something
That will remain indefinitely dormant
Inside my heart?
1633
Do not pay any attentionTo your unaspiring mind.
Just feed your hunger-heart
Even more than you have been feeding it
And let your unaspiring mind
Starve and die.
1634
God is always readyTo grant me His two giant Wings
To lift me from my heavy despair.
But alas,
I have no confidence
In God’s two Wings.
1635
Unless you are ready to enjoyThe immediate collapse
Of your earth-bound mind,
How will you be able to enjoy
The infinite beauty and expansion
Of your heart’s Heaven-free bridge?
1636
In the outer worldWhen I run, I use new shoes
Once in a blue moon.
In the inner world,
God gives me a new pair of shoes
Every day.
He tells me
That a new pair of shoes every day
Will give me
A new inspiration, a new aspiration
And a new destination.
1637
When I cry,I cry only to see God’s Face.
When I smile,
I smile only to feel God’s Heart.
1638
To see God’s FaceYou do not have to face
The mounting wave of doom.
To see God’s Face
You have to love more and more
Your own mounting wave
Of inner bloom.
1639
You are your life’sSelfish pleasure.
Yet you want God
To treasure you!
What can be more absurd?
1640
You do one thing every day:You admire your mind-elephant
To your satisfaction.
God also does one thing every day:
He loves your heart-deer
To His Satisfaction.
1641
You are such a foolThat you cannot appreciate
The beauty and divinity of truth.
Yet you want
A monopoly on truth!
1642
God’s Illumination-BuildingDoes not believe
In having a conference room.
1643
Do not go anywhere alone —There is no safe place on earth.
You must always carry with you
Your soul’s silence-smile.
1644
His vital-bull and his mind-pantherHave at last decided
To sign a peace treaty.
Therefore
God in Heaven has invited
His heart and soul
To enjoy a supreme feast.
1645
There is every possibilityThat an unemployed God-lover
May eventually become
A true God-hater.
1646
O my mind,You are asking me why
I do not want to utilise you
The way I utilise my heart.
Every day my heart,
On its own,
Goes to the soul-laundry
To be laundered,
But you do not want to do that.
How do you then expect me
To use you every day
When you do not at all
Keep yourself clean?
1647
You are telling meThat you do not know
What stupidity is.
I am telling you,
Stupidity is the thing
That tortures and ruins
Your God-given flower-heart.
1648
O insecurity-weakness,I never thought
That you could be
So unimaginably powerful!
1649
When one soldier is out of step,An army loses its strength.
Similarly, when one good thought
Either disappears from the mind
Or is out of employment,
It creates a serious problem
In one’s inner life.
1650
Your eyes are telling meThat you want to destroy
My teeming weaknesses.
Your heart is telling me
That you want me to transform
My weaknesses into strengths,
My imperfections into perfections
And my suffering into delight.
1651
Now that your lifeIs completely saturated
With surrender-nectar,
Your God-realisation-hour
Cannot remain a far cry.
1652
You can borrowYour heart’s illumination-saw
To cut into pieces
Your confusion-treasuring mind.
1653
In the morningMy Beloved Supreme
Keeps my soul filled
With promise-perfection,
And during the entire day
He keeps my heart filled
With hope-aspiration.
1654
Do you want to knowWhat you can do
With your naughty mind?
You ask your mind
To look for and live for
The compassionate Heart of God.
1655
Unless you deliberately set fireTo your mind’s rubbish-store,
Your mind’s fire-pure transformation
Will not take place.
1656
O seeker,Always be on the alert.
Your heart’s blossoming faith
Can be devoured
By your mind’s brooding doubts.
1657
With your deception-life-boatHow can you ever reach
Perfection-shore
To see God’s Satisfaction-Dance?
1658
If you want to escapeFrom desire-fire,
Then ask your soul
To grant you every day
A new aspiration-flame.
1659
God does not want to reviseYour mind-book,
For there is nothing to revise.
It is all meaningless and useless.
God will be pleased to revise
Your heart-book,
For it embodies profound wisdom-light.
There are a few minor mistakes
In the book,
But God will be more than pleased
To correct them
And make your heart-book
Absolutely perfect,
Illumining and fulfilling.
1660
Your eyes want to tell meThat you have realised God.
Your heart tells me
That your God-realisation
Is still a far cry.
I am sorry,
I have to trust your heart
And not your eyes.
1661
God expectsEach and every human being
To play at least one melody
Correctly and soulfully
Before his life-lease expires
On earth.
1662
He always does unthinkable things.We are dying to escape
From darkness to light.
And what has he done?
He has escaped from light
To ignorance
Consciously and deliberately.
1663
Your soul kept its promise.It did listen to God every day
And please God every day
In every way.
But your blind body, blind vital
And blind mind could not see it.
1664
He is giving youHis affection-rainbow.
But if you do not value
His affection,
Do you think he will ever
Care to give you
His illumination-sun?
1665
While he was sailing,Both the illumination-shore
And the temptation-shore
Wanted him.
He did not want to satisfy
Only one of his hosts.
Therefore he offered
His mind to temptation
And his heart to illumination.
1666
Not only on earthBut also in Heaven
There is a book that can never be
A best-seller.
Do you know what book this is?
God’s Justice-Book.
1667
O my doubtful mind,Your life is ridiculous.
O my fearful heart,
Your life is ridiculous.
O my uncertain soul,
Your life is ridiculous.
O my sleeping body,
Your life is ridiculous.
O my strangling vital,
Your life is ridiculous.
1668
Hammering and hammeringAt your ignorance-rock,
Poor God has become extremely tired.
Do you not think
That it is high time for you
To start hammering
At your ignorance-rock
And give poor God a little rest,
Which He so rightly deserves?
1669
Not only the doubt-tumourIn his heart
But also the heart itself
Has been surgically removed.
And now God the Compassion-Doctor
Has transplanted into him
A new heart of perfection-faith.
1670
He has very strange theories about God.He thinks that he can live
Without thinking about God,
Whereas God cannot live
Without thinking about him.
He also thinks that there are two Gods.
One God is a strict disciplinarian.
This disciplinarian God wants nothing
But perfection from the world.
The other God is God Himself
Who always remains Self-enamoured
And Self-satisfied.
1671
God wanted me to show HimMy heart-garden.
Alas, I am able to show Him
Only my impurity-futility-weeds.
1672
God wants you to beHis perfection-partner.
Instead of listening to Him,
You have become a partner
Of the temptation-world.
1673
If you love the touch of the worldMore than the Touch of God,
How can you expect
Eternity and Infinity
To claim you as their own?
1674
His heart’s life-boat has capsizedBecause he did not care
To see the bloom
Of the aspiring consciousness-bud.
1675
Your life will never beA fallen leaf
If you every day worship
The Vision-Eye of God’s Life-Tree.
1676
When the hour strikes,Every athlete-seeker
Will win his God-realisation-medal
In the heart-Olympics.
1677
Consciously if you do not deepenYour heart’s love for God,
Unconsciously you will cheapen
Your life in God’s world.
1678
God will not let anyone elseWrite your perfection-biography.
He has decided
To do it Himself.
1679
You are your self-offering race,God is His Self-Transcendence-Eye,
And I am my life-satisfaction-smile.
1680
At last you have made God happyBy becoming
Your heart’s rising aspiration-star.
1681
Increase your aspiration-appetiteEvery day.
You will not be daunted and haunted
By disappointment-dart.
1682
The desire-storm of your vitalHas totally destroyed
Your heart’s faith-flames
And even your life’s aspiration-sun.
1683
Who says that God does not needAny favour from you?
He does need one favour:
Your heart’s unconditional
Aspiration-cry.
1684
If your heart is a falteringFaith-flame,
How can you ever dance
Perfection-dance
In God’s Immortality-Hall?
1685
You do not have to offerA gratitude-sea to God.
Even a dribble from your heart’s
Gratitude-well
Can and will satisfy God.
1686
O my mind,You have overfed my ego,
And now what is happening?
You are suffering pangs
That are unimaginably excruciating.
1687
Try to remainOn your life’s dedication-diet.
You will soon be able to celebrate
The death of your desire-life.
1688
You have asked your mindTo drive your life-car.
Quite often the car
Is out of control.
Why do you have to blame
God the Driver,
Whom you have not invited
To drive your life-car?
1689
Luminosity is looming largeIn your life
Because you have successfully
Commanded your mind
To be constantly in touch
With your soul.
1690
Tranquillity comes fromThe heart’s diving.
Tranquillity comes from
The life’s surrendering.
1691
What does he do regularly?He regularly dethrones his doubting mind
Early in the morning,
And then he enthrones his aspiration-heart
And keeps it
Inside his beautiful soul-room
For the entire day.
1692
Alas, my heart’s gratitude-dropIs so fearful
That instead of entering into the sea
Of light and delight,
It is ready to be tortured constantly
By limitation, division and frustration.
1693
Only your heart’sDetachment-injection
Can cure you of your life’s
Attachment-failure-infection.
1694
God has given His Realisation-LifeA specific job.
Every day
It goes out to install
Sweet oneness-will
Inside all human hearts.
1695
Aspire to winYour oneness-belt
In God’s cosmic Fulness-Game.
1696
Do you knowHow God has become
The Possessor of infinite Wealth?
God has become
The Possessor of infinite Wealth
By investing countless Smiles
In His cosmic Vision-Stock.
1697
Every dayYou are mercilessly persecuted
By temptation dreams,
Yet you are not longing for
A perfection-reality-life.
1698
Your deviation from oneness-goalHas turned your entire life
Into meaningless and useless coal.
1699
My Lord Supreme,Do tell me if there is a way
To cure man of his chronic invention
Of destruction-weapons.
1700
If you want to achievePerfection and satisfaction
Within and without,
Then enthrall your world
With nectar-spreading enthusiasm