Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 32
3101
There shall come a timeWhen each soulful prayer-tree
Will reach Heaven’s perfection-height.
3102
Where were youWhen God came to your door
To deliver
His Infinity’s Immortality-Delight?
3103
His very compassion-smileCan make heavy hearts
Immediately and immeasurably light.
3104
I striveBecause I am alive.
I am alive,
Therefore I must reach
God’s Heavenly Throne.
3105
My Lord is not discouraged,Although I have failed many times.
On the contrary,
He is begging me to continue.
3106
Your heart’s ultimate awakeningWill definitely bring to you
God’s transcendental Crown.
3107
Let everybody look uponYour outer life.
Only God will look upon
Your inner life.
3108
He wants his pride in himselfAnd God’s Pride in him
To be equal.
Is there anybody
Whose stupidity
Can equal his?
3109
You can change your lifeIn a twinkling
Even with a feeble effort
Provided you love only God,
Your Supreme Beloved,
In your wakeful hours
And in your sleeping hours.
3110
Your purity-heartAnd God’s Satisfaction-Smile
Will together guard
Your soul-castle on earth.
3111
There is not a single dayWhen I do not see
Wave-doubts
On my mind-shore.
3112
A silence-mindIn silence appreciates
God’s Lecture.
A purity-heart
With devotion receives much
From God’s Lecture.
3113
He is so braveWithin and without
That ignorance-teacher
Had to expel him
From ignorance-school.
3114
God for God’s sake only:This is the supreme reality
That each seeker must understand
When he enters into the spiritual life.
3115
You are chanting God’s NameSleeplessly.
Definitely you can expect
God’s sure Descent
From Heaven.
3116
A soulful sincerity-cryAnd a powerful purity-smile
Are fast-fading flowers
Of my life-tree.
3117
All outer entanglementsAre avoidable
If you love and feed
Your inner shrine.
3118
Only an unconditionalGod-lover
Is allowed to fly
God’s Love-Kite.
3119
Ignorance-feast has ruinedNot only his inner life
But also his outer body.
3120
He was attacked mercilesslyBy teeming doubts.
Therefore, he was desperately carried
To Heaven’s emergency room.
3121
Your extra attachment-poundsHave considerably slowed down
Your inner progress-speed.
3122
The heart that loves GodOnly for God’s sake
Has a road map
To God’s secret and sacred City.
3123
If you pray to GodAnd meditate on God
Along with a thousand outside interests,
Do you think God
Will ever satisfy you?
3124
God’s Justice-LightWanted to illumine him.
Alas,
Instead of illumining him,
It has frightened him.
3125
No previous qualificationIs needed
When you want to study
In God’s inner School.
3126
You may desire everythingFrom God,
But ask yourself
If you deserve anything.
3127
If you are not deeply absorbedIn your inner life,
You will remain a stranger
To God-Satisfaction-Country.
3128
A mind of silenceIs the best preface
To the meditation-book.
3129
God’s CompassionHas a very special love
For the seeker’s listening ears.
3130
Work with what you have.Then God will give you
Not only what He has
But also what He is.
3131
Your heart-tearsDefinitely have the capacity
To tear down
Your mind’s impossibility-barriers.
3132
Because you are reluctantTo leave your familiar
Ignorance-home,
You are delaying indefinitely
God’s Satisfaction-Smile
On your face.
3133
God will call youTo be near Him
Only if you have not squandered
Your hope-wealth.
3134
There is no insincerity involvedWhen I say
That my daring aspiration
Will be responsible
For your illumining realisation.
3135
My Lord,Where have You been
For so long?
“My child,
I have been looking
For a place
Of silence and happiness
For your heart
To permanently live.”
3136
Your unlimited aspirationWill be available
Only if you are ready
To free yourself
From fame-prison.
3137
If you want enduranceIn your life,
Then you must cultivate purity
In your heart
First.
3138
Each unaspiring,Unrevealed
And unmanifested soul
Is like a caged lion
In man’s life-circus.
3139
First becomeA deathless longing for God.
Then your life will automatically become
A deathless seed
In the Heart of God the Creator
And a deathless flower
In the heart of God the creation.
3140
When my heart feedsMy humility-feet,
I walk along purity-road
And reach my satisfaction-destination.
3141
Your businessIs to be conscious
Of your faults.
God’s Business
Is to make you conscious
Of your unmanifested divinity.
3142
Although ignorance-nightTempts him,
He has kept his heart
Far, far away
From its temptation.
His heart is at the Feet
Of his Beloved Supreme.
3143
Openly you must criticiseYour lower nature.
Secretly you must treasure
Your higher nature.
3144
When my silence-soul speaksTo my heart,
My reasoning mind ridicules
My soul and my heart.
Therefore, I am fully prepared
To discard my mind.
3145
You have enteredInto life’s battlefield
On earth.
Therefore, impurity-army
Has vehemently attacked you.
3146
Your devotion-arrowsAre missing!
What can your love-bow alone do?
3147
Once you allowAny aimless thought-birds
To fly in your life,
They will tirelessly fly
And ruin your peace of mind.
3148
I always want to studyYour soul-history,
But alas,
You have not kept
Even a simple diary
Of your soul’s life.
3149
If you are trulyAn unconditional truth-seeker,
That means you have become
A living testament
To God’s Compassion-Firmament.
3150
If you are feeding your desire-lifeEvery day,
Then definitely you will take
A false start
In your Heavenward race.
3151
I have enduredA volley of insults
From this ungrateful world.
But its final insult,
That I do not love God in man,
Is impossible for me to endure.
3152
Alas,I really feel sorry for you,
For you have locked your mind
In a bitterness-cave.
3153
Your soul is smilingThrough your heart’s tears.
Therefore
God is addressing you
As His Eternity’s Fondness-child.
3154
The love-bondBetween man’s emptiness
And God’s Fulness
Is something
That God sleeplessly treasures
And man unconsciously forgets.
3155
As long as determination-mindAnd aspiration-heart
March ahead of me,
I am definitely going to win
In the battlefield of life.
3156
You are not a childOf the fearful past.
You are a son
Of the fruitful future.
3157
God’s Silence-SmileIs a messenger
Between my aspiration-heart
And God’s Satisfaction-Eye.
3158
He has sheltered his lifeUnder a canopy of ignorance-sleep.
Therefore
The delight-wings of his heart-bird
Are ruthlessly clipped.
3159
You live in the valleyOf forgetfulness.
There your demanding vital
Demands
God’s measureless Fondness.
3160
God will not acceptFragments of my broken heart.
He only accepts
My purity’s oneness-heart.
3161
In the morningLove feeds his heart.
At noon
Hope leads his life.
In the evening
He and hope together swim
In satisfaction-sea.
3162
Can you believeThat God Himself
Wants to preside over
My self-transcendence-play?
3163
During his meditationGod whispers immortal Messages
In the ears
Of his silence-heart.
3164
God has not closedHis Fondness-Door
Against you.
It is you who have closed
Your acceptance-door
Consciously and deliberately.
3165
You live in darkIgnorance-cave,
Yet you want to hear the whispers
From Immortality’s heights.
3166
I do not want to knowHow long I have been sleeping
In the cradle of ignorance.
But I do want to know
When I will be able to free myself
From the cradle of ignorance.
3167
Always sailIn the blue-white hope-boat.
You are bound to reach
The Golden Shore of the Beyond.
3168
There is no such thingAs the wrong place
When you sincerely
Look for God.
3169
If you are more than satisfiedWith your purity-flames,
God is not going to give you
His Divinity-Sun.
3170
Every day he plowsThe barren mind-soil.
Yet he hopes to collect
A bumper crop of realisation.
3171
God took a glimpseThrough His Vision-Eye
And found that my case
Is not as hopeless
As I thought.
3172
Because you did notObey God today,
You are sentenced
To a lifelong ignorance-torture.
3173
At long lastI have started playing
Soulfully and untiringly
My heart’s gratitude-game.
3174
The constant rivalryBetween my mind and my vital
Is utterly stupid and fruitless.
3175
If you pay attentionTo God’s Compassion-Talks,
Your life will grow into
A marvellous creation of God’s.
3176
If our hearts could singInstead of our minds talk,
We would not have any
Unfortunate misunderstandings.
3177
Take shelterIn your aspiration-life!
Otherwise
You will soon be forced
To live in the graveyard
Of your unfulfilled desires.
3178
You thinkYou can desert your soul.
I tell you,
You are attempting
An impossible task.
3179
Only at God’s choice HourGod reveals to man
The Power
Of His all-knowing
Vision-Eye.
3180
His heart’s cryAnd his soul’s smile
Together
Will plant and cultivate
A divine life on earth.
3181
What you need isNot the fulfilment
Of your desire-life,
But to have a life
That will grow
Into the steady flow
Of faith-river.
3182
Since you have plungedInto the aspiration-ocean,
Your triumph over your past life
God Himself will announce.
3183
Alas,God’s Satisfaction-Smile
Has never dawned
In his life.
3184
Self-transformationIs not possible
For the seeker
Who is secretly in love
With insecurity.
3185
Despite his outer knowledge,He is worse than useless
In the inner world.
3186
You are not readyEven for the aspiration-walk
And you want to win
The realisation-race?
3187
The soul does not needA big audience
To reveal
Its immortal divinity.
3188
Sincerity-hotel,Humility-hotel
And purity-hotel:
These hotels have quite often
Many vacancies.
3189
How will it be possibleFor you to see
Your heart’s illumination-sun
If you enjoy
Your mind’s depression-storm?
3190
How can a foolTake the final step
When he is afraid of taking
Even the initial step?
3191
Unless you are brutally sincereWith yourself,
You will not be able
To cross ignorance-sea
At a single leap.
3192
You are gaspingFor God’s Breath.
Therefore
Strangling death
Is bound to disappear.
3193
Your mind is shroudedIn confusion-fog.
Therefore, your life’s worries
Will never disappear,
Even if Heaven’s light
Appears to you.
3194
If meditation cannot give youYour needed satisfaction,
Then try surrender.
It will work!
3195
I know one dayI shall thank you profusely
For scolding me.
But today
I am inwardly cursing you
For scolding me.
3196
He is totally lostBetween
His unscrupulous past
And his superfluous present.
3197
His soul’s goodwillBathes
The purity of the saints
And the impurity of the sinners
Alike.
3198
He offers his gratitude-lifeEvery day
To God the Lover.
He offers his surrender-life
Every day
To God the Transformer.
3199
God will grant youHis Attention
If you are sure
That His Companionship
Will give you
Perpetual satisfaction.
3200
Every day God wants to hearThe surrender-story
Of the aspiration-hero
Who lives only to please God
In God’s own Way.
