101. Ticket

Realisation is the one-way ticket
From the man-station
To the God-junction.

Manifestation is the round-trip ticket.

Aspiration is the money-power
That buys the ticket.

Surrender divine needs no ticket,
No money-power.
It has what it needs:
The Compassion-Feet
    Of the Lord Supreme.

102. Why are you sensitive?

You are sensitive to noise
    Because
You have not invented
    The Atom Bomb
    And
    The Hydrogen Bomb.

You are sensitive to noise
    Because
The outer world’s vast achievement is determined
    Not
To touch your feet.

You are sensitive to noise
    Because
God the Player divine,
God the Singer eternal,
God the Dancer immortal,
Has not claimed you in Heaven
As His partner on earth.

103. Above and beyond

Above the ignorance of birth and death he is.
Above destruction-night he is.
Beyond the world of suspicion his life of integrity is.
Beyond question his miracle-faith is.
Above all earth-awards he is.
Above all Heaven-rewards he is.
Beyond the universal insecurity he is.
He embodies Eternity’s Cry.
He reveals Infinity’s Smile.
He manifests Immortality’s Life.
Earth loves his heart of dedication.
Heaven adores his feet of protection.

104. Dependent and independent

My outer poverty follows
    In the train of luxury.
My inner poverty follows
    In the train of desire.

I know two things:
    My helpless hope is dependent on all.
    My ageless faith is independent of all.

105. Complete transformation-change

There is only one serious danger,
And that danger is doubt.
My Inner Pilot warned me of that danger.

There is only one serious temptation,
And that temptation is supremacy.
My Inner Pilot warned me against this temptation.

There is only one dark death,
And that death is fear.
There is only one true life,
And that life is love:
Love of the soul for the body’s
Complete transformation-change.

106. The achievement of non-possession

When he was a man of non-possession,
He became the marvellous blend
Of love and action.
His religion was not noisy,
His philosophy was not showy.
He advanced and achieved,
He achieved and advanced.
He knew that he was a descendent of God.
He knew that he was on a footing of equality with God.
Heaven gave him Heaven’s possession:
    Delight.
Earth gave him earth’s possession:
    Perfection.

107. Our many selves

We see
Only what we are.
We are
Our skin-deep selves.
We are
Our dissatisfied million selves.
We are
Our eyeless emotion-selves.
We are
Our helpless frustration-selves.
We are
Reaping the full harvest of our forgotten selves.

108. I depend

When I am in the mind,
I depend on doubt and fear.
When I am in the vital,
I depend on aggression and regression.
When I am in the body,
I depend on hopelessness and helplessness.
When I am in the heart,
I depend on insecurity and uncertainty.
When I am in the soul,
I depend on love and joy.
When I am in God,
I depend on His Forgiveness and Assurance.

109. He is a descendant of God

He is a descendant of Satan,
Therefore he is ignorant of love-light.
He is a descendant of Man,
Therefore he is ignorant of gratitude-might.
He is a descendant of God,
Therefore he is ignorant of ignorance-night.

110. My Inner Pilot discourages me

In the morning
    My Inner Pilot
Discourages me from bitter complaining.

In the afternoon
    My Inner Pilot
Discourages me from constant competing.

In the evening
    My Inner Pilot
Discourages me from useless brooding.

At night
    My Inner Pilot
Discourages me from fruitless dreaming.

111. My life alternates with God

My day alternates with night
My fear alternates with strength
My doubt alternates with certainty
My love alternates with hatred
My defeat alternates with victory
I alternate with God
My soul alternates with God the Dream
My heart alternates with God the Lover
My life alternates with God the Player.

112. I have done

O Lord, You are requesting me
To offer You an iota of love.
Hard is it to accede to Your request,
    But I shall try.

O Lord, You want me to give You
My pleasure-life and take from You
Your Joy-Life in return.
Hard is it to consent to Your terms,
    But I shall try.

O Lord, You propose that I represent
You on earth.
Easy, mighty easy, to consent to Your liberal proposal.
    And I am doing it.
    Lo, I have done it!

113. O sweet ones

O Sweet Lord,
    Forget me not
In my wanderings far and wide.

O sweet Heaven,
    Ignore not
The outpouring of my heart.

O sweet earth,
    Underestimate not
The eternal voyager in me.

Lord, we two are one.
Heaven, we are of each other’s Dream-boat.
Earth, we are for each other’s Reality-shore.

114. Clarion call

My eternal children sweet,
Hearken to my clarion call:
No fall there is, no fall,
Just quit, ignorance, quit.

115. I look

I look within and see
    My Lord’s Nectar-Delight.
I look without and see
    The face of destruction-night.
I look forward and see
    The golden dance of life.
I look backward and see
    The smile of a naked knife.

116. Slowly

Slowly my heart ascends
    To kindle the flame of love divine.
Slowly my heart descends
    To plumb the life of beauty’s mine.

Slowly my heart transforms
    The ceaseless pride of ignorance-night.
Slowly my heart fulfils
    The Golden Hour of God-Delight.

117. Not now

My light shall flood the world.
    Not now, not now, not now!
My will shall feed the world.
    Not now, not now, not now!

My smile shall lift the world.
    Not now, not now, not now!
My boat shall sail the world.
    Not now, not now, not now!

My light, my will, my smile,
    My boat, shall change the face
Of earth and inspire the world
    To win the Godward Race.

118. I know and I know not

I love the world;
I know not why and how.
The world loves me;
I know not why and how.

I love my Lord;
Oh, I know why and how.
My Lord loves me;
Oh, I know why and how.

Two strangers, the world and I.
O world, where are we, where?
Two friends, my Lord and I.
Here we are, eternally here.

119. I see

In the beams of the moon
I see my beauty’s face.
In the rays of the sun
I see my duty’s race.
In the flames of the sky
    I see my oneness divine,
    I feel my oneness immortal
    With my Pilot’s Nectar-Embrace.

120. My life is transcending

From the blue of the sky
My soul began its descending flight.
In the black of my body
My life is sleeping and sleeping.
In the green of my vital
My life is struggling and struggling.
In the red of my mind
My life is searching and searching.
In the white of my heart
My life is becoming and becoming.
In the gold of my soul
My life is transcending and transcending.

121. The banner

In the core of the hoary past
There lived a Master
    Of loftiest magnitude.

    He believed in his disciples’
Constant and striking promises.
    Therefore he was entitled
To hoist the Banner of Transcendental Pride.

    Alas, there the story ended not.
Sorrowfully and helplessly
    He watched his disciples’
Hopeless achievements.
    Therefore he was doomed
To hold the flag of permanent failure.

122. She speaks

Softly she speaks;
Therefore she is kind.
Slowly she speaks;
Therefore she is confident.
Soulfully she speaks;
Therefore she is divine.
Compassionately she speaks;
Therefore she is immortal.
Unconditionally she speaks;
Therefore she alone is indispensable.

123. When I meditate

When I meditate on God,
My world becomes the sunshine
    Of Immortality’s Birth.
When I meditate on mankind,
My world becomes the thick clouds
    Of uncertainty’s life.
When I meditate on my puny “I”,
My world becomes the destined dance
    Of blind destruction-flood.

124. God feels

God feels good
When you embody
The life of sincerity.

God feels great
When you embody
The breath of purity.

God feels proud
When you embody
The soul of humility.

God feels victorious
When you embody
The role of His Duty.

125. I fly

I fly on the wings of morning
To see in Heaven God’s Beauty.
I fly on the wings of noon
To see on earth God’s Power.
I fly on the wings of evening
To feel in my heart God’s Silence.
I fly on the wings of night
To feel in my soul God’s Bliss.

126. When I blow the trumpet

When I blow the trumpet of the sky,
    God smiles at me.
When I blow the trumpet of the earth,
    God shakes hands with me.
When I blow the trumpet of ego-life,
    God devours my pride.
When I blow the trumpet of God’s Silence,
    God embraces my height.

127. Your gifts for the world

Your tongue filled with venom-praise
    For the world.
Your heart filled with deathless hatred
    For the world.
Your mind filled with lifeless love
    For the world.
Your vital filled with elephant-madness
    For the world.
Your body filled with ignorance-dream
    For the world.
Your life filled with uncertainty-sea
    For the world.
Your soul filled with indifference-sky
    For the world.

128. I become

Slowly and steadily
With silver tears
I see the Head of God.

Lovingly and silently
With gold tears
I breathe the Heart of God.

Constantly and unconditionally
With diamond tears
I become the Feet of God.

129. His life

His life of aspiration
    Buys and buys
Expensive will-flames divine.

His life of desire
    Sells and sells
Explosive vital human thoughts.

In his life of ascent
    He is
An unchallenged capacity.

In his life of descent
    He is
Poorer than the poorest stability.

130. What I am

Ability is my soul
Stability is my heart
Reality is my Goal
Necessity is my Lord
Infinity is my smile
Eternity is my cry
Divinity is my face
Immortality is my race.

131. He wants he needs

Freedom of religion,
    He wants.
Freedom of church,
    He needs.

Freedom of bondage,
    He wants.
Freedom of ignorance,
    He needs.

Freedom of life,
    He wants.
Freedom of silence,
    He needs.

132. Yet you are fond of me

God, I am absent-minded;
Yet You are fond of me.

God, I am negligent;
Yet You are fond of me.

God, I am insecure;
Yet You are fond of me.

God, I am impure;
Yet You are fond of me.

God, why are You so fond of me?
“My child, I am fond of you,
    Because
    You try,
    Because
    You cry.”

133. He thinks, he feels, he knows

His vital thinks
To live with God the disciplinarian
    Is ridiculous.

His mind thinks
To live with God the simpleton
    Is ridiculous.

His body thinks
To live with God the inconsiderate
    Is ridiculous.

His heart feels
To live without God the Beloved
    Is ridiculous.

His soul knows
To live without God the Lover
    Is ridiculous.

134. None

None will try for me
    When I try.
None will cry with me
    When I fail.
None will sigh over me
    When I am doomed.
None will think of me
    When I am gone.

135. The stories of his lives

He started his pilgrim-life
    With implicit faith in man.
He ends his pilgrim-life
    With a frustration-mountain.

He started his vagabond-life
    With no faith in God.
He ends his vagabond-life
    With God’s Face in his heart
    And God’s Heart in his eyes.

136. When I do

When I do
One thing at a time,
    I am successful.

    When I do
Two things at a time,
    I am doubtful.

    When I do
Three things at a time,
    I am fearful.

    When I do
Four things at a time,
    God smiles at me.

    When I do
Five things at a time,
    God cries with me.

    When I do
Six things at a time,
    God dies with me.

    When I do
Seven things at a time,
    God does them all for me.

137. The strangers

His deeds
    Are strangers to deception.
His words
    Are strangers to truth.
His life
    Is a stranger to success.
His death
    Is a stranger to hope.

138. Secretly and openly

Secretly he borrows from God
His Illumination-flood.
Openly he lends an iota to mankind
With an exorbitant interest.

Secretly he learns free from God
His infinite Songs of Oneness supreme.
Openly he teaches only one to mankind
For an unsurpassable fee.

139. He spoke

He spoke to his past.
Alas, he is clothed
In soulless tears
And lifeless sighs.

He spoke to his present.
Alas, he is clothed
In brooding fears
And teeming doubts.

He spoke to his future.
Alas, he is clothed
In a visionless soul
And a missionless goal.

140. The liberal

Liberal was he then
    In constant advice.
Liberal is he now
    In continuous promise.
Liberal will he be
    In ceaseless self-giving.
    His advice: Be divine.
    His promise: You I shall make divine.
    His self-giving: Lo, you are divine!

141. All are unselfish

Doubt shares its capacity
    With the mind.
Therefore, unselfish is doubt.

Arrogance shares its capacity
    With the vital.
Therefore, unselfish is arrogance.

Lethargy shares its capacity
    With the body.
Therefore, unselfish is lethargy.

Insecurity shares its capacity
    With the heart.
Therefore, unselfish is insecurity.

Uncertainty shares its capacity
    With the soul.
Therefore, unselfish is uncertainty.

Man shares his ignorance-capacity
    With God.
Therefore, unselfish is man.

142. Two birthdays

I count my age
    From two different years.

To celebrate my human life,
    I count my age
    Right from 1931.

To celebrate my life divine,
    I count my age
    Only from 1944.

143. A seeker's three birthdays

Each seeker can count his age
    From three different dates:
The day he saw the light of day,
The day he sat at his Master’s feet,
The day he became the Heart
    Of the Pilot Supreme.

144. Be Thou

Be Thou my body
That I may wake.
Be Thou my vital
That I may run.
Be Thou my mind
That I may fly.
Be Thou my heart
That I may dive.
Be Thou my soul
That I may reveal.
Be Thou my goal
That I may fulfil.
Be Thou my all
That I may only be Yours.

145. I entered

I entered
Into the sombre care of human thought.
    Nothing there was.

    I entered
Into the illumined Palace of Thought divine.
    Something there was.

    I entered
Into the conditionally surrendered
    Soul of human life.
    There I saw God smiling.

    I entered
Into the unconditionally surrendered
    Soul of Life divine.
    There I saw God becoming.

146. What do the teachers teach?

Death’s lifeless night I was.
Life’s endless day I am.
God’s ceaseless Bliss I shall be.

Night taught me how to sigh.
Day teaches me how to try.
Bliss shall teach me how to cry.

I taught night how to surrender.
I teach day how to endeavour.
I shall teach Bliss how to devour.

147. O my poor loneliness

O my poor loneliness,
You live in thought’s wilderness.
O my poor loneliness,
Your wings are clipped.

O my poor loneliness,
How long must you cherish
The cave of tenebrous night?

O my poor loneliness,
Why do you stay
With the lifeless body of destruction-night?

O my poor loneliness,
The tallest pavilion of Heaven,
The Golden Radiance of Eternity,
Are cancelling the fate of your death
And immortalising the transformed face of your life.

148. My three possessions

When I pray,
My inspiration owns
    The fount of eternal Peace.

    When I meditate,
My aspiration owns
    The fount of immortal Light.

    When I dedicate,
My realisation owns
    The fount of supreme Bliss.

149. Mutual love

I adore God
For what He has:
Yesterday’s Promise,
Today’s Assurance,
Tomorrow’s Gift.

God loves me
For what I am:
Curiosity-Prince,
Stupidity-King,
Futility-Emperor.

150. He died in his life-car

He died
In his life-car
    When his mind was in high,
    His body in neutral.

    He died
In his life-car
    When his vision-race was in high,
    His reality-face in neutral.

    He died
In his life-car
    When his elephant-confidence was in high,
    His rabbit-capacity in neutral.