Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 9
801
The heart of man sighsFor beauty-wings
So it can soar like a bird
In the vastness-height of the sky.
802
If you study the worldOf your heart,
God will bless you
With His Life’s Sunrise.
803
If you want to beA perfect instrument of God,
Then never overestimate
Your mind’s wisdom
And never underestimate
Your heart’s obedience.
804
Because you are completely lostIn the jungle of impurity,
You cherish the audacity
To deny God’s unconditional
Compassion-Existence
In this world.
805
When man is his own revelationAnd not God’s,
What can poor God do?
He simply retreats
To His secret and sacred Confines.
806
Purity is a soulful beautyWhich is long-lost and forgotten
Inside the mind’s confusion-jungle.
807
The ghostsOf my past failure-life
Are still torturing
My tiny, delicate plant-heart.
808
I do not want to hear fromYour God-thirsty lips.
I want to feel
Your God-hungry heart.
809
The clouds of separationBetween you and God
Will before long disappear
If you are careful how you spend
Your waking hours.
810
Do not pray to GodTo take you away from this world.
Pray to God
To change your nature here on earth.
What you need is transformation
And not escape.
811
The greatest tragedy is my own life.Although I am God’s choice son,
I deliberately do not listen
To God’s Voice.
812
Because of your sincerity-mind,Purity-heart and luminosity-soul,
You are being carried
By the Compassion-Current
Of God’s Heart-River.
813
O world,I have this to say to you:
My heart shall never
Run out of aspiration,
My mind shall never
Run out of inspiration
And my life shall never
Run out of dedication.
814
His cry stole my heart.His smile stole my soul.
His love stole my life.
His oneness with God
Stole my all.
815
Hope never deceives me.Hope is a divine instrument
Which aspires to achieve and reveal
God-manifesting beauty.
816
I wish to be one of the few,Very few,
Who can sincerely feel
That God is responsible
For my success
And that I am responsible for His.
817
Yours is the divinely createdAspiration-blossom,
Permeated with sincerity’s
Divinity-fragrance.
818
Faith knows no tension,For it knows that God
Is always with it
And always for it.
819
During my morning talk with GodHe told me that there is no crisis
In any human life
That cannot be resolved
By a divinely sunlit smile.
820
On the way homeFrom earth to Heaven,
He brought along with him
Earth’s hope-sea
To play with Heaven’s fulfilment-sun.
821
When my soul is in Heaven,It whispers a prayer
For compassion.
When my soul is on earth,
It whispers a prayer
For peace.
When my soul is with God,
It whispers a prayer
For God-satisfaction.
822
I feel such purityWhen I gaze at the moon.
I feel such power
When I gaze at the sun.
But, alas, I feel such uncertainty
When I gaze at myself.
823
Yours is a worldFrom which God is always absent,
Do you know why?
Because you are always fond of wandering
In your mind’s wasteland.
824
God will definitely rescue youFrom your anxiety-emergency
If you do not waste
Your heart’s obedience-breath.
825
In the heart of each struggleThere is always
A sun-vast victory-crown.
826
Sadness-purity is my life’sFleeting voice.
Gladness-divinity is my soul’s
Eternal voice.
827
My Lord Supreme,Do widen the narrow rivulet
Of my life
So that I can forever surely flow
Into Your Heart’s Ecstasy-Ocean.
828
If your rebellious mind is unwillingTo admit defeat,
Your heart is doomed to carry
The stupidity-freedom of your life.
829
God’s ultimate MiracleShall secretly blossom:
You will become the perfection-beauty
Of your own soul’s
Stupendous God-discovery.
830
Responsibility cannot weigh you downIf you take responsibility
As a God-approved opportunity.
It can only lift you and your life
To the higher worlds.
831
His is the magic smileThat every day eclipses
My heart’s excruciating pangs.
832
Since Buddha did not comeFor the East alone
And Christ did not come
For the West alone,
You should know
That you have not come
For yourself alone.
833
You are always allowedTo come near God
And play with Him,
Not because you live
In a great reality-world
But because you constantly cherish
God-dreams.
834
God’s Compassion-Sun is not invisible;My heart is just blind.
God’s Forgiveness-Sky is not invisible;
My mind is just blind.
God’s Assurance-Ocean is not invisible;
My eyes are just blind.
835
The animal in me says,“Why is there a God
When I do not need Him?”
The human in me says,
“Where is God
When I do need Him?”
The divine in me says,
“Whether I need God or not,
He eternally is.”
836
Alas, you have placed your happiness-lifeNot only in the hands of others
But also at their giant feet.
837
If you do not have surrender-tears,Then try to create them.
If you do have surrender-tears,
Then soulfully treasure them
And try to increase them.
838
There should not be any weaknessIn your thought-life
Or any carelessness
In your heart-life
If you care for
The transcendental Smile of God.
839
If you fear to aspire,Do you not realise
That you and your life
Will very soon
Expire with fear?
840
The difference between involvementAnd commitment is this:
If you are involved,
You are a problem-maker.
If you are committed,
You are a problem-shooter.
841
O my soul,Did you ask God
When my suspicion-mind
Will be unquestionably defeated
By my aspiration-heart?
O my soul,
I hope you have not forgotten
This time also.
842
The dust of the pastHas soiled his heart.
Therefore, he cannot win admission
To God’s pure Heart-Home.
843
To have your desiresFulfilled for the asking
Is to be forced to dance
With your life’s inner failures.
844
Instead of creating self-styled fantasiesTo decorate your life,
Why do you not become a translator
Of God’s Vision-fulfilling Silence-Message?
845
When I walk,I walk prayerfully
So that I can have
A soulful heart,
A powerful life
And a fruitful vision of God.
846
My heart’s dawn has come,My heart’s dawn has come.
Inside my heart
I see only one thing:
The happiness of a God-intoxicated
Beauty-life.
847
O my body-dungeon,Even you can be full of God.
Just do not mix with the mind.
Do not even listen to the mind,
For it is drunk
With egotism-night.
848
Since your heart was awakened,You have been praying and meditating
To see divine light,
And this light itself wants you to see
That there is another world
Where truth, peace and bliss abide.
849
O my soul,Each time you come down
Into the world-arena,
You bring with you the promise
To offer light to the world at large
And to manifest God in God’s own Way.
850
Inwardly and outwardlyYour Beloved Supreme
Is pleading with you
To listen to all His Requests
Cheerfully and soulfully.
851
If you do not make progressIn God’s own Way,
Then what you call progress
Will be only the aggrandisement
Of your ego.
If you make progress
In God’s own Way,
Then you are bound to feel
God’s Love, Peace and
Satisfaction
Inundating your life.
852
The thunder of soundIs God’s ambassador to earth.
The beauty of silence
Is God’s ambassador to Heaven.
853
My Lord Supreme,Why do I feel insecure?
“My child,
You feel insecure
Because you are afraid of vastness.
Try to claim the vastness
Of the ocean and the sky
As your own, very own.
Then you will never be insecure.”
854
My Lord Supreme,How can I maintain my inner strength?
“My child,
You can maintain your inner strength
Only by having peace of mind.”
My Lord Supreme,
How can I have peace of mind?
“My child,
To have peace of mind
What you need
Is purity in the body, the vital
And the mind itself.”
855
His prayerful mind and soulful heartHave made his life
A shadowless illumination-sun.
856
The East is for realisation.The West is for manifestation.
The East cares mainly
For height.
The West cares mainly
For length and breadth.
857
Your mind does not wantGod’s loving Heart.
God’s Heart does not want
Your doubting mind.
Unless and until you change your mind,
God is not going to change His Heart.
858
God has revealed His infinite LightThrough your glowing eyes.
Can you not reveal your soulful delight
Through God’s ever-fulfilling
And ever-transcending Heart?
859
Every day God and IExchange our dreams.
I share with Him
My mind’s frustration-dreams;
He shares with me
His Heart’s Satisfaction-Dreams.
860
Because your heart has becomeA God-pleasing prayer,
Your life has now become
God’s secret and sacred powerhouse.
861
If you live in the dark caveOf blind individuality,
How can you expect God
To grant you an interview?
862
Indeed, he is a chosen instrument of God,For his heart is aspiration-intensity,
His life is dedication-luminosity
And his breath is perfection-divinity.
863
Your desire-life will never desert youOf its own accord.
It is your aspiration-life
That has to discipline, illumine
And liberate your desire-life
From its sleepless ignorance-hunger.
864
Futile fears and doubts can neverImpose themselves upon him,
For he lives in his heart-life,
And his heart-life is always
Flooded with God-Light.
865
Every time he sails the boatOf confidence-light
He is befriended
By God’s Satisfaction-Delight.
866
An unexpected Compassion-TouchFrom Above
Can transform the absurd inventions
Of the intellect
Into God’s all-satisfying
Intuition-Treasures.
867
Your mind foolishly triesTo fathom God.
Your heart soulfully waits
For God’s Compassion-Light
And Forgiveness-Height
To measure your life.
868
Your mind-conquestIs yesterday’s forgotten resolution.
Therefore, how can you conquer
Today’s desire-hunger?
869
God does not need your mind’sPartial insecurity-surrender.
God needs only your heart’s
Inseparable oneness-hunger-delight.
870
My aspiration-days and devotion-nightsHave successfully and permanently removed
My life’s ego-mask.
871
Your soul has been hidingFor centuries.
But rest assured,
It will not remain hidden forever.
Someday, somewhere, somehow
It will reveal
Its God-manifesting perfection-delight.
872
You do not want to removeYour ego-mask,
Yet you wonder why yours has become
An upside-down life-view.
873
Your heart-compass does notAlways point to God.
How then do you expect
Your life-star to ever rise
In Eternity’s Infinity-Sky?
874
Your mind-land neither loves youNor needs you.
Alas, even so, you are not willing
To go back to God’s Heart-Land.
875
Alas, right nowYou are your own vital-fury.
Do you not realise that before long
You and nobody else
Will become your own heart-injury?
876
I am glad that you likeYour heart-beauty’s friend:
Life.
I am glad that you like
Your life-warning friend:
Death.
877
You have abandonedYour heart-shrine,
Yet still you are looking for
The presiding deity of your life.
878
Jump over your limitation-hurdlesAnd become a bold bondage-breaker!
Then your life will not remain
A drooping question mark.
879
Love makes all human beings equal.Oneness makes all human beings perfect.
Satisfaction makes all human beings
Exactly the same as God.
880
Since God isHis own Patience-Light,
Can you not become
Your own obedience-delight?
881
Your aspiration-crisis has alarmedNot only Heaven’s mounting heights
But also earth’s crying lengths.
882
His is an unusual interpretationOf spiritual awakening.
He thinks that first man shakes God,
And then God wakes man.
883
You will be caughtIn time’s clutches
If your dedication-life
Does not grow into a surrender-heart
To please God in His own Way.
884
My best speciality is this:I never allow my life
To be caught
In my mind’s confusion-net.
885
If you go on placatingYour screaming vital,
How will you ever see
Your life’s sunrise?
Will you not always remain
In your death’s moonless night?
886
If your love is in transitTo devotion
And your devotion is in transit
To surrender,
God will cheerfully and proudly
Tell you His Code-Name
So you can invoke Him
At any time you want.
887
O stupid world,Why should my soul be responsible
For piercing your thick bravado-shell?
My soul is accountable
Only to God the Justice-Light.
888
Every day you are trying so hardTo discover your guardian angel.
I tell you,
Your aspiration-dedication-faith-flames
Can easily do the work
Of your guardian angel.
889
An insecurity-heartHears a loud shout
In every feeble whisper.
890
Until a better dream begins,His heart will be longing
For only one thing:
God’s Compassion-Smile.
891
Darkness will arriveWithout any warning
If love is not found daily
In your life’s dictionary.
892
Truth can live only with right.Falsehood can live only with wrong.
Ask your mind and heart
To make their choice.
893
His unquenched thirstFor greatness-height
Has fallen under
The inescapable thumb of death.
894
The past tense of hopeIs promise.
The future tense of hope
Is dedication.
895
Because of your complacent mind,You are now lost
In a lifeless desert
With an endless inheritance
Of sorrow.
896
Do you think that GodDoes not want to retire?
He does want to retire!
He has time and again asked
The cosmic gods
To arrange His retirement party,
And each time the cosmic gods
Are obliged to refuse.
But the more God asks them
For this special favour,
The stronger become their hearts’
Failure-pangs
For not having transformed
Humanity’s life.
897
Unless you give upThe shameless tricks
Of your mounting pride,
Death will hasten
Its impending visit to you.
898
When you soulfully become,What do you become?
You become God’s partner.
When you unreservedly give,
To whom do you give?
You give to God.
899
Nothing can helpAnd nothing will help
Steer God’s Boat
Save and except your sleepless life’s
Cheerfulness-breath.
900
When my Lord plays upon my life-flute,He gives me the boundless capacity
To walk along His royal Road
To reach His Immortality’s Heart-Kingdom.