Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 22
2101
My gratitude-heart tells meWhat I can ultimately become.
My surrender-life tells me
What I eternally am.
What can I ultimately become?
God’s Vision-Eye.
What am I eternally?
God’s Self-Transcendence-Song.
2102
Since you have become the ugly faceOf your jealousy-mind,
How can your heart-wings
Carry you through space?
2103
Do not interfere with God.Let Him become a regular Visitor
To your heart-temple.
2104
I am God’s.This is what God
Secretly and compassionately tells me.
God is mine, only mine.
This is what I openly and proudly
Tell the whole world.
2105
Happiness-moon is rising.I am adoring its beauty.
Perfection-sun is rising.
I am becoming its delight.
2106
Who else can beThe mischief-creator
If not my mind,
The usual ringleader!
2107
Lend a hand to your fellow seekerNow, right now,
And before long you will see
Your aspiration-bud
Blossoming into
A realisation-flower.
2108
My mind is an attachment-jungle.My life is full
Of entanglement-thorns.
Oh, how can I satisfy
My Beloved Supreme,
How can I?
2109
A life of spiritualityIs God’s Certainty.
This life can never be
Uncertainty’s confusion-jungle.
2110
My heart’s faith-boat was builtBy God’s Vision-Eye.
Therefore, it can weather any storm
In any sea, at any time.
2111
Alas, alas,His soul came into the world
To tell the most authentic
Life-story
To a sleeping humanity!
2112
When I live in the desire-worldAnd do not pray and meditate,
I clearly see that my mind’s ego
Is my life’s tallest tree.
When I live in the aspiration-world
And pray and meditate,
I see that my heart’s oneness
Is undoubtedly my life’s tallest tree.
2113
When I surrender my desire-lifeAnd my aspiration-life
Soulfully and unconditionally
To my Beloved Supreme,
I say to Him,
“My Lord, to You I give
What I had before — my desire life —
And what I am now — my aspiration-life.
Both at the same time
I place at Your Feet.”
My Lord Supreme grants me
His own Satisfaction-Tree,
Which is infinitely taller
Than my desire-life-tree
And my aspiration-life-tree
Put together.
2114
O my Lord Supreme,I shall give You what I had — desire —
What I am — aspiration —
And what I shall become — satisfaction.
I shall offer You
My desire-life of the past,
My aspiration-life of the present
And my satisfaction-life of the future,
All three together,
To make You happy all the time
In Your own Way.
2115
My mind is such a fool!Every day it is satisfied
With imagination-trophies
Without running a race
Either in the inner world
Or in the outer world.
2116
I wish I were another God.I really and truly want to advise
The present God
To be more strict with His creation
So that perfect Perfection-Life on earth
Before long can blossom.
2117
The Eye of HeavenHas started visiting him every day,
For it has observed
A miraculous change in his mind.
2118
O my dream-worlds,How I wish I could remain
Always inside you.
Quite often I reject you,
Yet I survive.
But I am absolutely certain
That if ever you reject me,
I shall not be able to live on earth.
O my dream-worlds,
You are my Lord’s Vision-Perfection;
You are my Lord’s Realisation-Satisfaction.
2119
The mind meets with obstaclesBecause it secretly treasures
Confusion-night.
The heart meets with no obstacles
Because it knows
There is nothing but illumination.
2120
Every morning my Lord comes to meAnd gives me
His Compassion-Umbrella,
His Protection-Shoes,
His Perfection-Pen.
2121
Two unexpected dreamsHave turned into realities.
God’s beautiful Face
Is glowing on earth,
Man’s soulful heart
Is playing in Heaven.
2122
How can you be so cruel!How can you be so stupid!
How can you desert
The lonely sea of humanity!
2123
I do not mind failing,As long as
I do not stop trying
Altogether.
2124
When I say it is all my fault,Openly
My Beloved Supreme starts crying.
When I say it is all God’s fault,
Secretly
My Beloved Supreme starts smiling.
When I say it is neither
God’s fault nor my fault,
Immediately
My Beloved Supreme starts dreaming
A new Dream.
2125
The day before yesterday, by mistakeI kept my mind’s frustration-window open.
Yesterday, by mistake
I kept my vital’s destruction-door open.
Today I am forced to see
That the flame of my aspiration-heart
Is completely extinguished.
2126
Thirteen self-giving minutes a dayCan please God the man on earth
And transform man the God in Heaven
Far beyond anybody’s imagination.
2127
In the depths of my heartA blue bird is constantly singing.
Although I am now chained
To earth-bound time,
My blue bird is telling me
That if I listen to it
While it sings soulfully,
It will free me from earth-bound time
And carry me
Into God’s Vision-Sky to fly.
2128
Yesterday you enjoyedAn arsenal of doubt.
No wonder today
All your heart’s aspiration-flames
Are totally extinguished.
2129
You are a mind-juggler.You are not a heart-voyager.
How then can Heaven allow you
To walk along its splendour-road?
2130
Only when my heart becomes the hostDoes humanity have a constant free access
To my God-pleasing life.
2131
Who am I?A beautiful love-beam
From God’s Heaven.
What shall I become?
A perfection-dream
For the world’s soul.
2132
An ordinary soul is afraidOf the door of birth.
An ordinary man is afraid
Of the door of death.
2133
Do not tell the worldThat your aspiration
Has deserted you.
But tell the world
The absolute truth:
That you have deserted the man
Who is in the process
Of becoming God in you.
2134
It is undoubtedly a fruitless searchWhenever you want to see and feel
Even an iota of Peace, Light and Bliss
In your mind-closet.
2135
Who says mourning is not good!When I mourn the disappearance
Of my devotion-heart
I get added strength
To revive my old aspiration-life.
2136
Not knowing what to do,Quite unexpectedly
He spoke ill of God
And quite unexpectedly
He spoke well of man.
2137
Never thinkThat you are the puppet
Of your heart’s fading faith.
Do you know who you are?
You are the ever-rising sun
Of God’s infinite Vision-Smile.
2138
Both God and I are waiting.God is waiting
For my life’s surrender to arrive,
And I am waiting
For God’s Love to arrive.
2139
My fears and God’s TearsFollow me wherever I go
Both in the inner world
And in the outer world.
2140
Every day I goTo my Lord’s Compassion-Library
To read only one book,
And the name of that book is
“God’s Forgiveness-Smile”.
2141
The day is fast approachingWhen the hope-caravan of the seekers
Shall successfully and gloriously
Pass through the frustration-desert.
2142
Falling, crying and smilingAre three
Oneness-brother-friends.
2143
In vain I knockedAt your mind’s door
For admittance.
In vain God knocked
At my heart’s door
For admittance.
Oh, open your mind’s door soon
And teach me
How I can open my heart’s door
To God.
2144
Where is the differenceBetween my heart’s forgetfulness
And my life’s ungratefulness?
2145
Can you not seeThat your heart becomes damaged in transit
While travelling home
From the vital and mental worlds?
2146
When I sleep in Heaven,Everybody there tells me
I look beautiful
And should come down
And show my beauty
To earth.
When I sleep on earth,
Everybody there says I look ugly
And must never think of
Visiting Heaven.
2147
I prayed to GodTo grant me His infinite Peace,
Light and Bliss.
My Lord said to me,
“My child, before I do that,
I have to announce
To the world at large
Your ego’s unconditional death.”
2148
For many, many years,My Lord Supreme,
I have been praying to You
For many, many things.
But from today on
I shall pray for only one thing:
Do make me
A well-tuned heart-instrument
Of Yours.
2149
My soul was the beautiful beginningOf God’s Vision-Eye.
My heart is the fruitful fulfilment
Of God’s Promise-Reality.
2150
God accompanies you everywhere.Can you not accompany Him
Only to one place:
His sleepless Satisfaction-Home?
2151
Every day you have to energise yourselfWith your superhuman dreams.
Otherwise, you are bound to stagger
Along the road of self-doubt.
2152
My Lord Supreme,You have given me
Two weak hands.
“But My child,
I have given you also
My own powerful Heart.”
My Lord Supreme,
You have given me
Two blind eyes.
“But My child,
I have given you also
My own Immortality’s Vision-Life.”
2153
Do not clingTo what is not your own
And what can never be your own:
Your ignorance-life.
2154
You are an imprisonedDarkness-dancer.
How can you also be the distributor
Of your soul’s ecstasy?
2155
Yesterday my desire-lifeDesired to bind God.
Today my aspiration-life
Is begging God to liberate me.
2156
Life’s two longest-lasting diseases:“I know everything!”
“I know nothing!”
2157
Your idleness-mindHas conquered
Your willingness-heart.
Therefore your life is doomed
To utter disappointment.
2158
God has loweredHis transcendental Height
Considerably.
Now I must raise
My universal height a little.
Try I must, try I must,
So that my ascent and my Lord’s Descent
Will meet together.
2159
When I soulfully prayFor His Compassion,
My Beloved Supreme tells me
That I am as beautiful as He is.
When I powerfully meditate
On His Forgiveness,
My Beloved Supreme tells me
That I am as perfect as He is.
2160
My heart’s gratitude-nestIs the new Home
Of my Beloved Supreme.
2161
Every day my Beloved SupremeBreaks His old Record
And establishes a new Record
In my outer life
With His Compassion-Acceptance.
Every day my Beloved Supreme
Breaks His old Record
And establishes a new Record
In my inner life
With His Forgiveness-Delight.
2162
Will you believe, can you believe,That my Beloved Supreme
Loves the blue-gold flames
Of my heart-temple
Infinitely more
Than He loves anything else
In His entire creation?
2163
Do you know that you haveA pure heart?
And do you know that you also have
Two impure eyes?
On the strength of your pure heart
You have covered half the distance.
Now try to have two pure eyes!
Then you will be able to cover
The full distance.
Finally you will be able to sit
Right in front of the Throne
Of your Beloved Supreme
Permanently.
2164
Only a pure surrender-lifeAnd a sweet gratitude-heart
Can have every night
God’s dream-flooded sleep.
2165
There is so much in meThat needs to die.
There is so much in me
That wants to live.
My Lord Supreme tells me that
At present
There is nothing inside me
That I should keep;
There is nothing inside me
That I should even imagine treasuring.
2166
Yesterday I did not prayAnd I did not meditate.
Therefore, my Lord Supreme remained
His unfulfilled Promise.
Today again I have not prayed
And I have not meditated.
Therefore, my life is now
My own abandoned hope.
2167
To liberate my lifeFrom humanity’s insane
And inhuman voice,
I have no other choice
Than to become another God.
2168
God’s first Invention is:I am.
Man’s first discovery is:
I do not know.
2169
My human lifeIs neither an animal-hunger
Nor an angel-dance.
My human life
Is a Perfection-Dream of God.
2170
My Lord Supreme has cancelled His VisitNot because He is irresponsible,
Not because my heart is ungrateful,
But because my mind
Will not cheerfully accept
His supreme Oneness-Authority.
2171
The inner worldDoes not want to tell you
What it has and what it is.
The outer world
Does not want to know
Who you are and what you have.
2172
My Lord Supreme told meThis morning
That my gratitude-heart
Has nullified the distance
Between my earth and His Heaven.
2173
I want my mindTo be a twenty-four-hour truth-seeker.
I want my heart
To be a twenty-four-hour God-lover.
I want my life
To be a twenty-four-hour God-dreamer.
2174
He is seeking the impossible.He wants his soul’s Heaven-phone
To ring
Inside his mind of impurity.
2175
My sweet Lord,I am sure You know
Perfectly well
That You hurt me deeply
When You say I do not love You
The way I used to love.
My fellow human beings,
You deeply hurt me
When you try to convince me
That I do not care for you
The way I used to care.
2176
Again and againI fail my Beloved Supreme
In my life’s examination.
Yet again and again
He asks me to sail with Him
In his Eternity’s Vision-Boat
To His Infinity’s Self-Transcendence-Shore.
2177
His mind’s open smileCures humanity’s headache.
His heart’s secret tears
Cure humanity’s heartache.
2178
The golden faith-flamesOf your heart’s aspiration
Can and shall melt
Your mind’s doubt-suspicion-shame.
2179
Claim God’s HeartAnd receive God’s Hands.
Lo, death is bowing low!
2180
The more you try to hideYour inner insecurity,
The more you expose
Your outer embarrassment.
2181
After years of makingDeplorable mistakes,
He is now smiling
The perfection-smile
In his aspiration-life.
2182
Divinity’s oneness-plateauIs the supreme summit
Of humanity’s sleepless hunger.
2183
O bright newness of the day,I adore you.
O deep stillness of the night,
I love you.
2184
Your life is divinity’s beautyBecause God has made your heart
Sweet with sleepless hunger.
2185
If you are longingTo unfurl the sail
Of your dream-boat,
God will definitely shelter
Your pure longing.
2186
My heart’sIndomitability-seed
Is my life’s
Certainty-tree.
2187
Unless you ownTears of overwhelming gratitude,
How can you profusely drink
God’s Silence-Delight?
2188
When God goes out shoppingIn His universal Market,
He starts loving unreservedly
His Vision-made human dolls.
2189
When my life becamePurity’s humility-sand,
God came to me
And stood before me
On His Divinity’s Compassion-Feet.
2190
My Lord’s invisible SmileBecomes visible
Only when I make
My heart’s mounting cry
Invincible.
2191
When I becomeMy life’s surrender-shuttle
Between earth’s aspiration-station
And Heaven’s illumination-station,
God dances
His absolute Satisfaction-Dance.
2192
To dare to love GodIs not my mind’s audacity
But my heart’s sleepless necessity.
2193
The seeker in me knowsWhy to love God.
The lover in me knows
How to please God.
2194
Nothing is unclaimable by me —No, not even my Beloved Lord’s
Ever-transcending Vision-Delight.
2195
God the Supreme BidderShall easily and unmistakably win
At your heart-auction.
2196
What a useless mind you have!It cannot even hatch
A tiny oneness-bird.
2197
God always keeps your heart-wealthInside the protection-pocket
Of His Satisfaction-Smile.
2198
Alas,My mind’s restless twists
Are afraid of meeting with God
Even in silver dreams.
2199
If you do not humble yourself,How can you either
See God’s Face
Or hide from yourself?
2200
I went to God with all my credentials.God laughed and laughed and laughed.
He said to me,
“Come back in a few years’ time
With your new achievements.”
I went back to God for the second time,
This time with an empty heart.
As soon as my Lord Supreme
Saw my empty heart,
He became excited and delighted.
He said to me,
“Ah, that is Mine!
Where did you get it?
Who gave it to you?
Your empty heart is absolutely
My own Wealth.
My child, I am so grateful to you
And so proud of you
Because you have returned to Me
My own Possession, My own Wealth,
My own Achievement.”