My Fifty Gratitude-Summers
1.
Aspiration begins.Surrender continues.
Gratitude concludes.
2.
Enthusiasm isGod's God-Beauty
In His seeker-children.
3.
Sincerity is my heart'sSilver dawn.
Purity is my soul's
Golden sunrise.
4.
We know and we do not know.We know how to roam,
But we do not know
How to return Home.
5.
My Beloved Supreme,I prayed to You to make me
A realised soul.
Alas!
Instead of making me
A realised soul,
You have made me
A mechanised human body.
6.
AspirationIs my heart's beauty.
Illumination
Is my soul's beauty.
Satisfaction
Is my Lord's Beauty.
7.
Forget what God hasAlready forgotten:
Your insincerity-mind,
Your impurity-heart
And
Your ingratitude-life.
8.
How can I haveA new king: my God,
In my heart-kingdom
If I do not dethrone
The present king: my ego?
9.
My psychic gladnessAnd
My vital madness
Never live together.
10.
BeA God-dreamer.
All your fear-tortures
Will leave you.
11.
WhenI am sincere,
My Beloved Supreme
Is pleased with me.
When
I am pure,
I am satisfied
With my Beloved Supreme.
12.
GodIs for
My aspiring heart.
Spirituality
Is for
My searching mind.
13.
I pray to GodFor His Absolute Vision
And not for
His Possession-Universe.
14.
My mind's discovery:God has given me
Heavy burdens.
My heart's discovery:
God has given me
Strong shoulders.
15.
The gift of my outer lifeTo my inner life
Is my constantly soulful
Service.
The gift of my inner life
To my outer life
Is my sleeplessly fruitful
Love.
16.
YesterdayMy mind was
An uneducated and ignorant fool.
Today
My mind is
An educated and learned fool.
Tomorrow
My mind shall be
A sleepless ignorance-hunter.
17.
Am I ready to scoldMy impurity-mind?
Am I?
Am I ready to warn
My insecurity-heart?
Am I?
18.
BecauseYou are a childlike believer,
Your God is a constant
Giver.
19.
He had to enter intoHis own spiritual grave.
Why?
Because he was
Sleeplessly fond of his
Confusion-mind.
20.
I may not knowThe beginning.
But
I shall definitely know
The end.
21.
SimplicityIs and will forever remain
A perfect stranger
To the modern mind.
22.
A purity-lifeAnd
A gratitude-heart
Are immediate neighbours.
23.
The most glorious beginningOf my miracle-life: I have
Started loving God, my Beloved
Supreme, in His own Way.
24.
God is ready to give meAnother chance.
Alas, am I ready?
Will I ever be ready
To accept it?
25.
Each aspiring lifeIs a prolonged and
Extensive Dream
Of God.
26.
My past was completelyDestroyed on the day
I employed my surrendering
Thoughts to help me
Reach my God.
27.
O my vital, do not complain;You may be totally wrong.
O my mind, do not assert;
You too may be
Totally wrong.
28.
Be not afraid of God,Be not afraid.
Your sweet reunion
Need not be delayed.
29.
Reveal constantlyWhat you are: a supremely
Chosen instrument of God.
Conceal powerfully
What you are not:
A giant prince of
Ignorance-dream.
30.
An uninspiring thought,Short or long, is spiritually
Wrong.
An unaspiring life,
Short or long, is spiritually
Wrong.
31.
My wisdom-flamesPray to God.
My stupidity-seas
Pray for God.
32.
Self-perfection:Yes!
Self-annihilation:
No!
33.
I exportAspiration-flames
From earth to Heaven.
I import
Satisfaction-suns
From Heaven to earth.
34.
Each timeYou have a chance,
Hurl your wisdom-lance
At ignorance-tiger.
35.
The divineWill definitely conquer
The human, the way
The human
Has conquered the animal.
36.
If you acceptFantasies,
Ecstasy will not
Receive you.
37.
O my mind,You have talked enough.
Now begin to listen.
I have got a superb teacher
For you.
You will simply
Love your new teacher: heart.
38.
ConfusionCannot last.
Just change
Your direction.
39.
When told that all human beingsAre by nature ungrateful,
Everybody thinks that
He is an exception.
40.
I see youAs an ordinary man.
You see yourself
As a demigod.
God sees you
As another God.
41.
Do you want to beThe real winner,
Do you?
Then lose to Truth,
Lose!
42.
It is not enoughTo love God
In the God-lover.
We must also love God
In the God-hater.
43.
The illumining soulUncovers,
And
The aspiring heart
Discovers.
44.
SuccessIs an incident.
Progress
Is an experience.
45.
Make your choice:Do you want to be
The servant of a book
Or
A good student
Of your soul?
46.
God-seekersFeast
On God's great
Silence.
47.
There is onlyOne perfect road
And
That road is ahead of
You,
Always ahead of
You.
48.
OnlyThe God-centred souls
Can spread
Their victory-trophies
At God's Feet.
49.
His mind livesinside the secret
Sorrow-cave.
His heart lives
Inside the sacred
Sorrow-home.
50.
His life's late-evening discovery:God's Forgiveness-Power
Has smashed
God's Justice-Tower.
