Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 8
701
When I pray,My Lord Supreme tells me
That in Heaven He will grant me
A most beautiful place to live.
When I meditate,
My Lord Supreme tells me
That I have found on earth
The most perfect place
For Him and His Satisfaction to live.
702
Ignorance-pirate has captured youBecause you did not go to enjoy
Your oneness-picnic
With God’s other seeker-children.
703
You have been persuadedTo the false conviction
That God does not want you
Or need you.
Therefore, your entire life is haunted
By doubt-phantom.
704
Every day my soul visitsMy Lord Supreme
And brings down faith-medicine
From His Salvation-Pharmacy
To cure my insincerity-mind,
Impurity-heart
And insecurity-life.
705
The donkey inside my mindLives an indecision-life.
The deer inside my heart
Is always ready with decision-speed.
The lion inside my soul
Enjoys immediate God-ordained
Satisfaction-action.
706
Your heart’s God-relianceIs a powerful shaft
Of God’s death-silencing Truth.
707
God does not allow my mindTo give talks on perfection
In His Amphitheatre,
But every day He invites my heart
To give talks on aspiration
And dedication.
708
Now that you have become oneWith your soul’s silence-light,
You can easily depart
From the doubt-madhouse of your mind.
709
O my life,Do not aim for anything else
Save and except
My Lord’s Satisfaction-Permanence.
710
The human mind finds itQuite impossible to believe
That it is an immigrant
From the ignorance-world.
711
Now that your heartIs no longer petrified
By insecurity-monster,
Your life can enjoy
The towering tallness
Of satisfaction-house.
712
Alas,My mind has destroyed itself
By thinking.
Alas,
My heart is looking for a hope-plant
Inside my barren life.
Alas,
My soul has become a complete stranger
To satisfaction-delight.
713
His is the formless God.He meditates and meditates
On God the Light
To illumine him.
Mine is the personal God.
I meditate and meditate
On God the Supreme Beloved
To fulfil me.
714
Now that you have launchedInto the spiritual life,
Just remain faithful.
You will definitely reach
Your golden destination.
715
My Beloved Supreme,I may not have many things to give You,
But I do have two things to give You:
A heart of gratitude
And a life of surrender.
716
Your self-relianceIs nothing short of God-defiance.
Therefore, you will always be denied
Infinity’s blue-gold ecstasy-dreams.
717
If you want to be perfect,Then what you need is
Minute-to-minute aspiration.
If you want to be satisfied,
Then what you need is
Year-to-year dedication.
718
Your mind has been stung so mercilesslyBy jealousy-bee
That you are not able to see
Your heart-bird
Inside God’s Love-Nest.
719
Who says you have become nothing?You have become the dead-end road
Of self-styled satisfaction.
Perhaps you do not realise it,
But that is something —
Something absolutely intolerable.
720
What am I doing?I am building my silver dream-boat
To sail my earth-bound human life
To the liberation-shore.
721
To see God the Light,To feel God the Light,
To become God the Light:
This is the only goal
Of my meditation.
722
When he meditated on light,Inside light he saw peace.
When he meditated on peace,
Inside peace he saw
The liberation of the world.
723
O my soul,Can you please tell me a few words
About God’s Eye and God’s Heart?
“God’s Eye
Is His Eternity’s Newness.
God’s Heart
Is His Eternity’s Fulness.”
724
If every day you put onThe armour of faith,
God will grant you
His most precious gift:
Satisfaction-Delight.
725
Yours is a lifeOf self-contradictory hungers.
Yours is a mind
Of continual hallucinations.
Yours is a heart
Of helplessness multiplied by weakness.
What then can anybody expect from you?
726
He who conquers his mindIs invited by God
To be a co-sharer
Of God-Immortality’s infinite Treasure.
727
There can be no greater absurdityThan to think that your life
Will no longer be able to succeed
And that your soul
Will no longer be able to proceed.
728
Give your heart’s beauty and life’s dutyTo the world’s tremendous necessity.
You will enjoy swift and lofty flights
To your Immortality’s self-transcendence.
729
Only an aspiring heart can feelThat God’s Vision-Eye
Is all promise
And that God’s Reality-Heart
Is all fulfilment.
730
When I pray soulfully,My Beloved Supreme gives me the capacity
To love my inner life infinitely more
Than I love my outer life.
When I meditate sleeplessly,
My Beloved Supreme grants me the capacity
To love Him infinitely more
Than I love my outer life of hope
And my inner life of promise.
731
The heart’s purityThe human hand cannot pollute.
The soul’s divinity
The human heart cannot grasp.
732
Because his heart is perfectedBy gratitude,
He is now blessed
With a liberated life.
733
If you are not ready to acceptSuggestion-light
From your heart’s Heavenly realm,
Then how do you expect to receive
Nectar-delight
From your soul’s unparalleled height?
734
You must expose yourselfTo only one thing
And that thing is
The divinity-world
Of Heaven’s infinite Love.
735
His life is hopelessly waveringBetween the world
Which wants to devour him
And his Beloved Supreme
Who wants to be devoured by him.
736
The visible God daily invites youTo come and eat with Him.
The invisible God silently asks you
To invite Him to eat with you
At least once in your entire life.
737
If there is no purity of purposeIn what we say and do
God will never be able to dance
His Satisfaction-Dance before us.
738
My Lord Supreme,Where can I find You immediately?
“My child,
You can find Me immediately
Inside the hearts of those
Who are selflessly and untiringly building
My Kingdom of Heaven
Here on earth.”
739
What you are doing is ridiculous!On the one hand
You are looking at your life
Through the maze of discouragement.
On the other hand
You are expecting the advent
Of a new saviour.
I have a new name for you:
Absurdity!
740
How can you see the bright hueOf your happiness-dawn,
When you sleeplessly enjoy
Your self-taught ignorance-game?
741
When are you going to learnThat you need to completely abandon
Your life’s monstrous insecurity-queen?
742
He who is sustainedOnly by his faith-force
Is cherished
By God’s transcendental Pride.
743
Only the unflinching determinationOf your heart
Can save you from your mind’s
Aching loneliness.
744
There can be no dead endNot to speak of a U-turn
For a genuine seeker-traveller
Of the Absolute Supreme.
745
Your mind is totally lostIn academic confusion.
Your vital is completely lost
In ruthless frustration.
Your heart is absolutely lost
In shameless unwillingness.
Alas, how then can you expect
Happiness from your life?
746
Do you want to keep your mind freeFrom the debris of impurity-thoughts?
If so, appoint your heart
To be your mind’s regular housekeeper.
747
Every day adhere to your convictions!Your mind’s brooding doubts
Are the worst enemies
Of your heart-life.
748
If your mind is devotedTo perfection-revelation,
Then your soul can dynamically activate
Your useless lethargy-body.
749
His soul is so kind to his mind.Every day his soul enters into his mind
And prescribes a new
And effective prayer-medicine
For its lingering doubt-disease.
750
If you enjoy sittingOn the bench of contentment-luxury,
Then how do you expect to complete
Your Godward race?
751
Personal and impersonal,With form and without,
God the Supreme
Encompasses all.
752
When I pray,I feel that I am a beggar
Looking at a rich man’s house.
Perhaps, out of compassion,
The rich man will give me alms.
When I meditate,
I feel that I am waiting for
My dearest friend
To do me a special favour.
Since we have established our oneness,
My Beloved Friend will definitely
Do the needful.
753
Why must you always ask,“When will I become beautiful,
When will I be free from ignorance?”
If you think that you are ugly,
All your joy disappears,
And ugliness becomes your name.
If you think that you are caught
In the meshes of ignorance,
You become bound, totally bound.
754
You want to secretly go upAnd not look back at anybody else
Once you have reached your height.
But I tell you,
Both realisation and manifestation
Are absolutely necessary
In God’s divine Game.
755
There is no other powerExcept the heart-power
To tame man’s
Dark-energy-flooded animal life.
756
Since you must rely on the worldTo sustain your body
While you strive
To attain God,
Can you not offer the world
A little peace, light and joy
In return?
757
What is my earth-bound mindIf not a daily
And regularly false promise
To itself?
758
Do not allow your lifeTo be lured into complacency-sleep
If you want to see and enjoy
The panorama of your heart’s
Beauty-perfection.
759
Death is flying on silence-wingsRight above you.
Be careful!
As soon as possible invite your soul-bird
To come to the fore
And chase away this death-bird.
760
Before my life-journey’s closeI shall realise God.
Indeed, this is not a matter of chance
But of unmistakable choice.
761
My Lord Supreme,May my flower-life grow
Inside Your Heart-Garden,
And may my existence be offered
On the shrine of Your Life-Breath.
762
I always pray to God for forgivenessWhen I do something wrong.
If God forgives me,
Then who can punish me?
763
Since it is with yourselfThat you must live,
You must teach your heart
The art of sacrifice
And you must teach your mind
The art of forgiveness.
764
With your lifeAn innocent heart was born.
With your life
A complicated mind will die.
765
The Master’s eye says,“The search begins here.”
The Master’s heart says,
“The search shall forever continue.”
766
The separation-clouds between you and GodWill disappear only when
You are ready to accept cheerfully
Everything from God’s Compassion-Sky.
767
His life is running towardsThe Infinite
And his heart is transfixed
In ecstasy-sky
Because his soul
Is a God-tuned lover.
768
Each seeker must becomeA lion of self-control
Before he can dream of turning into
A selfless saint.
769
He has left the pathOf divine love,
And now his life has become
A completely withered tree.
770
He is incapable of saying “No”To the outer life.
He is incapable of saying “Yes”
To the inner life.
Every day problems appear to him,
But solutions never.
771
If you allow your heart to stand in the LightOf God’s blessingfully unchanging Eye,
Then your imagination-life
Will be totally satisfied.
772
My Lord Supreme,How can I achieve wisdom?
“My child,
You can achieve wisdom
Only through an obedience-life
And a surrender-heart.”
773
God wants you to know HimAs your Eternity’s Friend.
He does not like you to think of Him
As your Eternity’s Sovereign.
774
There was a time when my lifeHeld my heart’s rainbow-dreams.
Alas, my life has now become
A blazing fire of false hunger.
775
You are your mind’sQuenchless attachment-thirst.
Therefore, your life has become
A godless poison-drink.
776
Let us try to recaptureOur lost time
If we really want not only to see
But also to expedite
The arrival of God’s Hour.
777
I am just learning to feelThat I do not have to actually catch God,
But that someday God will catch me
And pour into my heart
A flood of ineffable Delight.
778
He is eternal and immortal.He is within this world and beyond it.
He is the Creator,
Both universal and transcendental.
779
If you are a sincere seekerBut have not prayed and meditated
For a long time,
Then your heart’s utopia-dream
Is fast turning into
Your mind’s autocracy-nightmare.
780
Loneliness has mercilessly attacked mankindAnd made half the world suicidal.
Alas, when will each human soul realise
That its inner and outer nothingness
Can easily be transformed into
Plenitude without and infinitude within?
781
There are many marathon-questionsIn life,
But the only sprint-answers are these:
A hopeful heart
And a purposeful soul.
782
The mind is painfully runningTowards death,
Whereas the heart is powerfully denying
The very existence of death.
783
Since your life has becomeA loud self-proclamation-drum,
How will you ever feel the joy
Of a transcendence-satisfaction-life?
784
Your own sincere searchFor yourself
Will become a synonym
For perfection-happiness.
785
Your mind’s only businessIs to stop torturing God.
Your heart’s only business
Is to please God.
Your life’s only business
Is to become another God.
786
Mine is the mindThat is tired of losing,
Yet mine is the heart
That enjoys frequent competition.
787
You tell meYou are a noble-minded soul.
Then show me
Your ignorance-renouncing life!
788
His every breath is an ascending prayerFor God to stop the tug-of-war
Between his insecurity-mind
And his impurity-vital.
789
The mind-knowledge travelsTo the moon.
The heart-wisdom not only travels
To the sun
But also brings down the sun’s
Silent flame-smiles.
790
Do you know what is going to happenEventually
To your suspicious mind?
It will collapse in a house
Of wild madness.
791
Unconsciously you cherishA chain of falsehood-mountains.
Consciously you would like to cherish
The advent of beauty’s skies.
Alas, you have become a life
Of sorry contradictions.
792
If you consciously throw yourselfOn God’s side,
God will grant you
The Concentration-Arrow
Of His Eye
And the Meditation-Bow
Of His Heart.
793
Truth tells youWhen your mind will wake up.
Peace tells you
When your heart will wake up.
God’s Satisfaction tells you
When your life will wake up.
794
Instead of always saying,“God, I need You to please me,”
Can you not only once say,
“God, I love to please You”?
795
If you want to better your inner lifeOf aspiration and dedication,
Then uproot the long-cherished
Unwillingness-tree
That is growing in your mind.
796
No wonder the nebulous cloudsOf uncertainty
Are torturing your mind
Constantly!
Do you not realise that your mind
Lacks even a trickle
Of sincerity-determination?
797
O my mind,Are you not sick of losing
Time and again
In the battlefield of life?
When are you going to claim
The marvel of faith divine
As your birthright?
798
God is inviting youTo share His Life.
But before you do,
He expects you to do Him a favour.
He wants you to ruthlessly destroy
Your desire-thoughts.
799
Every dayDuring his morning prayer,
He enters into his heart’s hope-meadow
To enjoy God’s Company,
Even if only for a few brief moments.
800
My Beloved Supreme,You are my real Friend.
I do not have to ask You
For anything,
For You know all my needs.