My bondage-life is my self-invention
1.
Little do I knowOr care to know
That my bondage-life
Is my self-invention.
2.
Prayer-tearsAre indeed pure.
Meditation-smiles
Are supremely sure.
3.
We cannot solve life's riddlesOn our own.
Each riddle of life
Needs a special
Compassion-Smile from God
For its liberation.
4.
We celebrateThe supremacy
Of the division-mind,
Which is absurdity itself.
We must celebrate
The satisfaction-ecstasy
Of the oneness-heart.
5.
Ego and fearChase each other.
Doubt and faith
Chase each other.
Confidence and insecurity
Chase each other.
6.
ForgivenessIs a matter
Of luminous choice.
Forgiveness
Can enter
And does enter
The heart
Of progress-delight.
7.
We do not need a mindOf constant contradiction.
What we need is a heart
Of constant
Heaven-climbing aspiration.
8.
Aspiration-shortageIs a very old story.
Let us write
A new story:
Aspiration-plenitude.
9.
May each seeker's love of GodAnd surrender to God's Will
Be a fragrance-flooded
One-way street
With no U-turn.
10.
Our world-attachmentsWill vanish
Only when our minds
Sincerely care for
The world-transforming
Illumination.
11.
Alas,Long lost are
My God-loving days
And
God-worshipping nights.
12.
At last wisdom-lightHas dawned in my heart.
No more
Shall I be trapped
In the net
Of unhealthy,
Earth-bound thoughts.
13.
The complexity-challengesOf life
Are outwardly hurtful
But inwardly fruitful.
14.
The triumphantGod-loving hearts
Are happily treasured
By God's Compassion-Eye
And Satisfaction-Heart.
15.
Each seeker-heart realisesThat his Master-Saviour
Is an extraordinary member
Of God's immediate Family.
16.
MortalIs the life of hope.
Let us try to place
Immortality
Inside the heart-breath
Of hope.
17.
Aspiration and dedicationAre by far
The best instruments
Of the God-manifesting souls.
18.
Let us abandonOur yesterday's minds.
Let us deal with
Our today's
God-manifesting hearts.
19.
When I treat othersAs God-manifesting
Divinity-souls,
I feel that I am
Safely on my way
To God-manifestation-lands.
20.
Try to liveAccording to your heart's
Aspiration-wisdom-dictates.
21.
The man-made lifeIs too weak to climb up
To the highest.
The God-made life
Remains always
At the summit-heights.
22.
Be not infatuatedWith money-power
Or possession-power,
For their lives
Are extremely short.
Frustration
And
Destruction
Quickly follow them.
23.
The failureOf desire-life
Is the satisfaction
Of earth's
Aspiration-victory.
24.
The capacitiesOf the inner man
Far transcend
The impossibility-barriers
Of the outer life.
25.
Continued effortIs the open secret
Of success-life.
Continued surrender
Is the open secret
Of progress-heart.
26.
My success-choiceHas made my life
Miserable.
My progress-choice
Will make my heart
Always laudable.
27.
O man, hide notYour earth-bound desires.
Bring them to the fore,
Illumine them
And help them reach
Their destined goal:
Satisfaction divine.
28.
Since the mind-prisonIs never locked,
Insincerity and impurity
Frequently visit there.
29.
Blameless peopleNever dream of blaming
The blighted
Imperfection-world.
30.
When I inviteGod the Voice
To fulfil me,
I reach the heart
Of my own
Perfection-choice.
31.
He who hasThe abundant capacity
To forgive others
Sees that he has
Nobody to forgive.
32.
To forgiveIs to identify oneself
With
God's God-Satisfaction.
33.
Nobody elseCauses my suffering.
My own choices
Are the only cause
Of my suffering.
34.
My mindWants to change
The minds of others.
My heart
Does not want to change
Any other heart.
It only wants to become
Part and parcel
Of all hearts.
35.
Listen to the soundless voiceTo give you the capacity
To make the perfect choice
In your outer life.
36.
Mine is the choiceEither to blindly bind
Or to smilingly liberate
The world.
37.
Spirituality is not likeA scientific experiment.
Spirituality is divinity's
God-fulfilment-experience.
38.
He who has faithIn abundance
Can never lose
The reality,
For he has already
Become the reality.
39.
The clever man does not knowThat God is great.
The wise man knows
That God is not only
Divinely great
But also supremely good.
40.
The congregationOf aspiring hearts
Is the liberation
Of binding lives.
41.
Each man must tryNot only to curtail
But actually to end
His self-indulgence
Pleasure-life.
42.
To seeThe perfection-divinity
In a human being
Is the most precious
Opportunity
Of a lifetime.
43.
The mind is always eagerTo export stupidity.
The heart is always eager
To import wisdom.
44.
My life'sHeavenward journey
Is the liberation
Of my mind's
Ignorance-night.
