Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 7
601
My heart does not knowHow it can ever live
Without the daily
Compassion-Consolation-Embrace
Of my Beloved Supreme.
602
Because your mind sincerely needsIllumination,
Because your heart soulfully needs
Liberation,
Because your life desperately needs
Perfection,
God is going to give you, before long,
His own Credit Card.
603
Who else is a real foolIf not he who does not ask God
For anything
For fear of His Answer?
604
He is not sufferingFrom his disbelief.
He is suffering
From the extravagance
Of his self-styled faith.
605
My heart needs only one thing.It needs to be guided
Along the age-old path
Of life-blossoming self-awareness.
606
Allow me, O Lord,Immediately to stand
For the God-realisation examination.
I wish to be spared
The torment of waiting.
607
Self-indulgence meansThe extinguished flame
Of hope for God-realisation.
608
ExpectationIs the beginning of temptation
In the outer life.
Dedication
Is the beginning of satisfaction
In the inner life.
609
I have opened up an accountWith God’s Heart-Bank.
Therefore, I see nowhere
The battering waves of poverty-thoughts.
610
When are you going to realiseThat you are living in the dark
When you live in the great maze
Of tormenting thought?
611
A single breath of purityCan fell the hurtful
Division-tree.
612
Since you have survivedThe countless attacks of ignorance,
For you there can be
No illusion-prison of false dreams.
613
Bitter failures have taught you!Therefore, you do not have to remain
Any longer a stranger
To your pure self-insight.
614
Since temptation-life has failedTo bind your mind,
Fear-cramps cannot grip
Your heart.
615
A seeker’s humility-heartKnows how to become
The Smile of God.
616
If you start now,You will have plenty of time
To convince God to grant you
His immortal Smile
Before death forces you
To enter through its door.
617
If you constantly indulgeYour incapacities,
You will be forced to climb
The stairway of despair.
618
Do not bury the worldWith your indifference-eye
If you want to see
The beauty-hours of Heaven-days
On earth.
619
If you find faultWith God the Compassion,
How can you expect to see
The death of your desire-life?
620
If you can have patienceAs your inner breath,
Then you will have fortitude
As your outer body.
621
To feed my mindMy Lord has become great.
To feed my heart
My Lord has become good.
To feed my soul
My Lord has become perfect.
To feed my life
My Lord has become
His humanity’s cry
And His Divinity’s Smile.
622
Because your mindLives on stupidity-street,
Your heart’s divinity-flames
Are all extinguished.
623
I foresee a hopeless battleInside you
Between your mind and your heart.
Your mind wants to poison your heart
So it cannot pray to God.
Your heart wants to unburden your mind
So it will not put unnecessary
And unwanted pressure on the heart.
Indeed, this will be a hopeless battle.
God alone knows whether either party
Is going to win.
624
I do not want to rememberMy unaspiring heart,
Complacent mind
And strangling vital.
The very act of remembering
My past weaknesses
Can destroy me.
625
ImaginationIs the beauty of power.
Aspiration
Is the power of purity.
Realisation
Is the oneness of divinity.
626
His ego has been bluntlyAnd mercilessly assaulted.
Therefore, the human in him
Is heaving a sigh of remorse,
The divine in him
Is heaving a sigh of relief
And the Supreme in him
Is celebrating his new birth.
627
Your desire-livesAre your own history’s dust-heaps.
Your aspiration-lives
Are your God’s Heaven-climbing
And earth-illumining Towers.
628
Allow failure to teach youA supreme lesson:
Each sunset is the beginning
Of a very, very bright
And powerful sunrise.
629
If you want to succeedDivinely and supremely,
Then every day you must water
The green plants of your heart-garden.
630
The winter of your body’s lethargyCan immediately be over
Only if you are ready to welcome
The spring of your soul’s dynamism.
631
Do not be afraidOf your teeming weaknesses.
Brook no compromise with them!
Wrestle with the task
Of divinising them
With your soul’s wisdom-light.
632
Tame everything in your lifeSave and except
Your heart’s soulful tears.
633
Be not discouraged!Be only determined!
The Golden Shore is eagerly waiting
For the arrival of your silver dream-boat.
634
No wonder your hope-rainbowHas completely vanished!
You have allowed your mind-sky
To be eclipsed by the darkness
Of countless doubt-clouds.
635
Unless you releaseYour heart’s hidden tears,
You will not be able to see
The beauty and divinity
Of your life’s improvement-sky.
636
O mountains of misunderstanding,I am praying to God
While, at the same time, waiting
For your life-stories to end.
637
My mind tells meThat God’s Timetable
Does not change at all.
My heart tells me
That God’s Timetable
Changes very slowly.
My soul tells me
That God’s Timetable
Changes not only speedily
But also perfectly.
638
You call itA tiny disobedience.
I call it
The unmistakable beginning
Of your life-destroying
Spiritual downfall.
639
Two things must live togetherInside a seeker:
His heart’s absolute truth
And his life’s grateful obedience.
Then alone can he be
A supremely chosen instrument
Of God.
640
Each soulIs an accomplished interpreter
For the unknown worlds
Of unmanifested divinity-flames.
641
If you really wantTo succeed in life,
Then do not allow
Your aspiration-heart to waver
Between wisdom-hope
And ignorance-despair.
642
My mind calls it complacency,My heart calls it carelessness,
My soul calls it blindness,
My God calls it uselessness
And I call it
My God-forgetfulness-life.
643
If your mind was bornTo inspiration,
If your heart was born
To aspiration,
If your life was born
To dedication,
If your soul was born
To illumination,
Then you were definitely born
To realisation.
644
One little act of selflessnessIs the magnet
That draws both God’s Perfection-Eye
And God’s Satisfaction-Heart.
645
The loser’s inner speedIs lethargy.
The loser’s outer speed
Is unwillingness.
The winner’s inner speed
Is self-offering.
The winner’s outer speed
Is self-perfection-smile.
646
Do not accept any substituteFor God.
God has asked me to inform you
That He never liked the idea
Of having a substitute for Himself.
647
To whom does the world belong?Certainly it does not belong
To my self-sufficient mind.
648
You have now becomeA supremely chosen instrument of God
Because you were ready to risk
The world’s dire disapproval.
649
Look what the dark impurityOf your mind
Has done to you!
It has given birth
To a giant rascal-ego.
650
How can you expect to find any proper cureFor your chronic depression-night,
When you were not even alarmed
By the early death
Of your faith-plant-life?
651
When your winning-lifeCeases to matter,
God’s loving Heart will grow
Quickly, proudly and unconditionally.
652
Since your mind is invadedBy uncertainty,
Your heart is bound to be caught
In a web of sorrow.
653
At the endOf its unimaginably long journey,
Intellect said to intuition:
“I am very sincerely yours.”
654
Always say a willing “Yes”To God
If you want Him to liberate you
From the prison of self-indulgence.
655
You have uprooted your faith-tree.Therefore, your God,
Unlike mine,
Has now become very small.
656
The shadow of a deep sorrowIs crossing your heart-path
Because you do not care
To shake ignorance-dust
From your two little eyes.
657
Yesterday I was happyBecause God’s Eye was watching me.
Today I am happy
Because my eyes are turning towards God.
Tomorrow I shall be happy
Because my eyes and God’s Eye
Will together dine.
658
As God the Heart-SearcherIs very careful,
Even so, God the Life-Saviour
Is very powerful.
659
How can Heaven be near your heartWhen you so deeply enjoy your stay
In the house of indulgence-luxury?
660
What can the body-bound natureOf man’s mind do?
It can only remain imprisoned
In its own low and abysmal life.
661
His heart is a born God-seeker.His life is a born God-lover.
His soul is a born God-distributor.
662
This world livesIn a totally false peace.
Therefore, my heart longs
To be left alone for Eternity.
663
His life is too pure to playWith the world’s temptation-flames.
His heart is too sure to play
With the world’s frustration-fires.
664
Where does he live?He lives on the altar
Of his heart’s sacred song-flames.
665
Truth does not knowHow to transcend,
But God knows!
Truth is old,
But God is at once
Eternally new
And eternally old.
666
When I open my eyesI see God,
The Beauty of the finite.
When I close my eyes
I see God,
The Divinity of the Infinite.
667
My heart’s willingnessHas the capacity to open
My life’s locked limitation-doors.
668
If you keep your faith-treasure safe,Your doubt-mind cannot decide
The course of your life.
669
O my backward-thinking mind,How will you ever feel
The delight-touch
Of my soul-light?
670
Because you offer GodOnly imitation prayers,
God is not liberating you
From your swarm of wild
And dangerous worries.
671
What is an unaspiring lifeIf not an unbearable agony
Of self-deception?
672
A disturbing thought:This is what your mind
Can any time be.
An illumining oneness:
This is what your heart
Forever shall remain.
673
Unless your heart becomesA constantly spinning hope-top,
How can your life set an abiding trend
Of success-smile and progress-dance?
674
What was I doing?I was hunting my mind’s
Dangerous thoughts.
What am I doing now?
I am obeying my soul’s
Precious will.
675
If you want to proveYour unparalleled capacity,
You will end up exhibiting
Your unparalleled incapacity.
676
Twice I was awestruck.Once I was awestruck
By the imperfection-night
Of my life,
And once I was awestruck
By the Compassion-Sun
Of God’s Heart.
677
Do you want to knowWhat I am missing?
I am missing my heart’s
God-loving orphan-sorrow.
678
There can never be any differenceBetween the haughtiness of
A self-sufficient mind
And the emptiness of
A God-deficient life.
679
My life of dedicationCheerfully owns
Only what God has unconditionally sown
Inside my aspiration-heart.
680
The mind isIts own nonsense-cleverness.
The heart is
Its own wisdom-oneness.
The soul is
Its own perfection-fulness.
681
If you do not makeThe people around you happy,
Your heart’s inner shrine
Will be without God.
682
What is lifeIf not a longing for
The blossoming of an opportunity
To become an integrally perfect man?
683
Today before the sun setsI must realise that my mind
Is only a fleeting thing
And that my heart
Is an abiding treasure-gift from God.
684
My prayer-lifePowerfully awakens me.
My meditation-life
Richly rewards me.
685
Nobody, not even God,Enjoys the confrontation between
Light-beauty and darkness-ugliness.
How, then, can you enjoy it?
686
My tiny gratitude-plantAnd God’s huge Compassion-Tree
Are inseparably growing together.
687
A life ruled byThe laughable certainty
Of the finite mind
Is even worse
Than a life hopelessly lost
In a labyrinth of possibilities.
688
So simple a thing as love divine,Alas, nobody wants.
So sweet a thing as oneness perfect,
Alas, nobody needs.
689
Victory over the mindHelps you become
The partner of God the Liberator.
690
Experience is the miracleOf transformation.
Realisation is the natural awareness
Of oneness-perfection.
691
To establish your reignIn every atom,
You must scatter the seeds
Of universal oneness-love.
692
My Beloved Supreme,I shall gladly allow You
To steal my heart
Only on one condition:
That You do not return it.
693
Because of your impure mind,Yesterday you were tempted to take.
Because of your pure heart,
Today you are prompted to give.
694
What I knowAnd what I do not know:
I know the abyss of hell,
And I do not know
The transcendental heights of Heaven.
695
If you thinkYou are God’s slave,
Then beg Him slavishly
To give you an iota of Love.
If you think
You are God’s child,
Then ask Him soulfully
To give you His infinite Delight.
696
Alas, when will life’sTreacherous vanity
Be illumined by the soul’s
Sleepless God-loving thirst?
697
His heart has become as generousAs a fountain of art.
Therefore, his life is becoming
Humanity’s precious journey’s start
To Heaven’s unmeasured
And unscaled heights.
698
Enslave your ambition-horseIf you want to become
God’s fondness-lamb.
699
Do you not seeThat your life’s excessive hope
And your mind’s possessive nature
Will before long destroy you
Completely?
700
My Beloved Lord Supreme,Your Justice-Flames may not know,
But Your Forgiveness-Sun does know
How to make me Your own, very own.