Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 4
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My Lord,Do allow me to do
Only one thing:
I wish to spread
My soul’s dream-stars and planets
At Your infinite Compassion-Feet.
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Now that your hopesAre shooting only upward,
Each day will come to you
With perpetual morning-delight.
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Slowly, steadily and immeasurablyA true God-seeker’s and God-lover’s
Excellence-gratitude-flames
Mount and spread
And spread and mount.
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I shall definitely not mind,O my Lord Supreme,
Even if my worst foe pleases You,
As long as You are highly pleased.
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As you stretch out your beggar-armsTo receive from the world
Its glittering but fleeting riches,
Even so, you can lift your heart upward
To receive from Above
Light and Delight in infinite measure.
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The world applaudsOnly your manifestation-drops.
But in silence God applauds
Your aspiration-dedication-sea.
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He was not afraid of makingBold decisions.
Therefore, today he is blessed
With a new future:
Life-perfection in God-Satisfaction.
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O my heart,I am all gratitude to you,
For your flower-fragrance-purity
Is a most blessingful and powerful assault
On my ego.
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In the morning I shield myselfFrom the jealousies of my mind.
In the afternoon I shield myself
From the frustrations of my vital.
In the evening I shield myself
From the imperfections of my body.
At night I shield myself
From the failures of my life.
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My Lord, You please meEither by fulfilling my desires
Or by not fulfilling my desires.
What will happen, my Lord,
When I do not have any desires?
“My child,
When you do not have any desires,
Then I shall be able to plant
My own Eternity’s Aspiration-Plants
In your supremely fertile heart-soil.”
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My Lord,You have temporarily saved me
By Your strong refusal
To satisfy my mind’s desires.
Will You not permanently save me
By taking away once and for all
My desiring mind?
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Ignorance-night and IWeep together.
Knowledge-day also weeps.
It weeps for my illumination.
I will now change my partner
And stay with knowledge-day.
My Lord Supreme is smiling
At my decision
And at my new partner’s compassion.
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When I am inside my heart,I love my green plants of hope.
When I am inside my soul,
I love my blue trees of promise.
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My past, present and futureAre persecuting me —
My yesterday’s failure-life,
My today’s indecision-life
And my tomorrow’s fear-life.
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If you know everything,Then answer two questions
That have been torturing me
For a long time:
Is God really superior to me?
When am I going to be
Another God?
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Be a little more carefulWith your heart’s spirituality
If you really want your life
To become richly fruitful
And remain so forever.
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A single breathless act of surrenderHas granted him
A beautiful dream-tree,
A soulful truth-tree
And a fruitful love-tree.
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My mind never took insincerity;Insincerity took my mind.
My heart never took insecurity;
Insecurity took my heart.
My body never took impurity;
Impurity took my body.
I never took divinity-cry;
Divinity-cry took me.
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Heaven is speaking to you.Listen carefully!
God is inviting you
To His special Heart-Room.
Delay not!
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His heart of aspirationIs on intimate terms
With Eternity.
His life of dedication
Is on intimate terms
With Infinity.
His soul of vision
Is on intimate terms
With Immortality.
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My mind has discoveredThe torture of failure.
My heart has discovered
The rapture of success.
I have discovered
The satisfaction of God’s own Progress
In and through me.
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I tell you,The more your mind is informed,
The less you will understand.
The more your heart feels,
The less will be the distance
Between you and God.
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His aspiration-heartAnd his dedication-life
Are crying for him,
And he is crying to see
The world’s worry-free God-embrace.
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You tell meThat you have failed
In your spiritual life.
I tell you,
It is not hard to start again.
But this time start
With your unconditional surrender-heart.
You will definitely succeed!
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Your songs need onlyTwo divine qualities
To please your Beloved Supreme:
Soulfulness and dynamism.
Offer these two supremely
Divine qualities
In abundant measure
To your Inner Pilot.
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When I want to know something,I go and live inside
My Lord’s Mind-House.
When I want to become something,
I go and live inside
My Lord’s Heart-Home.
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I shall soon start dancingOn the waves of time,
Now that my Eternity’s dream-boat
Is repaired
And I am all ready to sail it
Across Infinity’s ocean-sky.
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Ambition is bondageWhen I want to sit
On humanity’s head.
Ambition is freedom
When I wish to sit
At the Feet
Of my Beloved Supreme.
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Just because I am old,Do you think I shall not
Be able to fulfil
Humanity’s necessity?
Just because he is young,
Do you think he will not
Be able to carry
Divinity’s message?
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Everything is changeable.Therefore, protest
The seemingly unchangeable
And make it not only changeable
But also extremely lovable.
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His soul’s lightPowerfully shines.
His heart’s love
Unreservedly gives.
Therefore his life’s breath
Has consciously become one
With God’s Breath.
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God wants to hearYour prayers now.
He will have no time to listen
To your deathbed prayers.
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Man the loverWill never become a beggar
In the inner world.
Man the seeker
Will never become a loser
In the outer world.
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If ignorance has the capacityTo close your eyes,
Do you not think
That God has the capacity
To open your eyes?
Just give God a chance!
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Why is it so easy for meTo have faith in God
But not in myself?
Either because I disproportionately
Extol myself to the skies
Or because I foolishly
Belittle myself.
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If God the VisionHas started working in you,
Then rest assured,
God the Compassion
Will complete the task.
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There was a timeWhen I used my mind-telescope
To see God’s Compassion-Eye.
Now I am using my heart-microscope
To see God’s Satisfaction-Heart.
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Do not try to possessThe binding body of the world.
Only prepare yourself to be claimed
By the illumining soul of the world.
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Even when the mind surrenders,Its unwillingness-breath
Does not surrender.
But when the heart surrenders,
Its willingness-oneness-life
Also surrenders.
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If your eyes are made of hopesAnd if your heart is made of promises,
Then there shall come a day
When your life will be made
Of God’s Vision-Delight.
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I am smilingBecause today I have discovered
My old friend doubt
Caught in the act
Of hypocrisy.
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I tell my mind’s oblivion,“I have no time to wait for you.
My heart and I are now on our way
To Heaven’s Delight supreme.”
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How can your life succeed,How can your heart proceed,
If you always beg God
To grant you the experiences
That He has kept aside for others?
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In the beginning it seemsThat even God the Compassion
Is not approachable.
But after you make
Considerable inner progress,
Not only is God the Compassion
Approachable,
But so is God the Justice.
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Certainly the mind is a road.But if this road does not lead me
To my choice destination,
Then for me this road
Is worse than useless.
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O my confusion-mind,Slow down, slow down!
Let my aspiration-heart
Come to the fore
And catch up with you.
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Because of the severe pressureOf his inner weaknesses,
He no longer sees
His mountain peak of hope.
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If you want to becomeGod’s ambassador,
Then the most important thing to do
Is to watch the quality
Of your thought-life.
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When God invites you,Go to Him
Not with the dead leaves of desire
But with the fresh plant
Of aspiration.
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If you want to masterThe length of ignorance-night,
Then you must live
In the depth
Of Wakefulness-God.
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The delight of the morning skyIs welcoming you.
No more can the tears of sorrow
Shatter your heart.
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I am gladThat you have
Broken completely
The chains of intellect.
I am glad
That your mind-energy
Is no longer enslaved.
I am glad
That you are
No longer possessed
By a stone-hearted life.
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If you are alwaysIn love with tears,
How can you ever enjoy
The vision of God’s
Constant Self-Transcendence?
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What my mind needsIs a promising hope
And not a tempting desire.
What my heart needs
Is a loving God
And not a binding world.
What my soul needs
Is man’s satisfaction-delight
And not man’s perfection-promise.
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Your conscious mistakesHave the power
To show you the giant footsteps
Of your spiritual death.
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Your soul still loves youAlthough you are a slave
Of envy-passion.
Your God still needs you
Although you deliberately
Try to avoid Him.
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Today if your mind enjoysAn iota of darkness,
Then tomorrow your life
Will be mercilessly forced to enjoy
A sea of misery.
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Alas, how can my Lord SupremeEnjoy His birthless and deathless
Satisfaction-Delight,
Unless I totally give up enjoying
My age-old oblivion-night?
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Do not fill your lifeWith self-accusations.
Just look at your endless
Inner self-transcendence-light.
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Each human life abidesBetween the cheerful question of life,
“Who am I?”
And the powerful answer of death,
“I am all.”
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Each good thoughtIs a small heaven.
Ask your heart if I am correct.
Each bad thought
Is a big hell.
Ask your mind if I am correct.
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Since your mind is only dreamingAnd your heart is not loving,
How can you expect to change your face?
How can you?
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Your life’s uncertaintiesVanished away
The moment your mind
Stopped seeking dominion
And started seeking liberation.
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Unbelievable but true:My confusion-mind is longing
For liberation
To see God enjoying
His Infinity’s Delight.
365
I am not going to listenTo your wild arguments,
O my stupid mind.
From now on I shall listen
To the ocean-deep wisdom
Of my soul
For my fast-approaching enlightenment.
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You tell meThat you are enjoying
The absence of desire-forest
Inside your mind.
But you have forgotten
To tell me something else.
I am sure you are also enjoying
The presence of aspiration-mountain
Inside your heart.
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Now that you have learntThe invaluable art of whispering
To God,
Your life will soon become
A panorama of divine perfection.
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Heaven’s unanswerable “Why”Will now surrender to you
Because the Absolute Supreme
Is smiling through your heart-tears.
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Do you rememberThat once upon a time
You were a flaming torch of love?
Do you remember
That once upon a time
You constantly flew upward
To your Beloved Supreme?
Do you remember
That once upon a time
You pleased God unconditionally?
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You tell meThat God is not always needed,
But can your mind dare to say
That God the Compassion
Is not always needed?
Can your heart dare to say
That God the Forgiveness
Is not always needed?
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God has given youThe power to choose,
But what have you chosen?
You have chosen
To grovel in darkness,
You have chosen
To live in appalling ignorance.
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You have chosen to liveIn ignorance.
Ignorance has chosen to live
In temptation.
Temptation has chosen to live
In deathless frustration.
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Do you really wantThe highest illumination
In your life?
Then keep yourself always free
From the false bubble of reputation.
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There is an absoluteGod-perfection-room
Inside my heart,
But my mind never dares
To enter there.
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You have already becomeAn observing eye
And a remembering heart.
Can you not also become
A self-giving life?
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Ask your mind not to sinkInto the sleep of despair.
Ask your heart not to rest
Until it has discovered
The ultimate meaning
Of human life on earth.
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My Lord Supreme,By praising You,
Not only do I get deep joy
But also invaluable self-confidence
In measureless measure.
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I use the ears of my heartTo hear my Perfection-Lord Supreme.
I use the eyes of my heart
To see my Satisfaction-Lord Supreme.
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He conceals humanity’s imperfectionInside his heart.
He reveals divinity’s satisfaction-promise
With his illumination-soul.
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As I believe in the emptinessOf desire-possession,
Even so, I believe in the fulness
Of ignorance-renunciation.
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Since you have developedThe inner courage to correct yourself,
God is now all ready to dance
His Satisfaction-Dance
Inside your heart
And before your mind.
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You have now startedTo experience envy,
God has now started
To experience sorrow
And I have now started
To experience complete bewilderment.
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God is waitingFor the revelation
Of my powerful potentialities.
I am waiting
For the completion
Of God’s bountiful Vision.
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God has three very special friends:My soulfulness-life,
My willingness-mind
And my oneness-heart.
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Mine is the mindThat likes fantastic minds.
Mine is the heart
That loves ecstatic hearts.
Mine is the soul
That becomes inseparably one
With God-intoxicated souls.
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The eye of my soulThreatens ignorance.
The mouth of my soul
Frightens ignorance.
The life of my soul
Transforms ignorance.
The Pilot of my soul
Illumines ignorance.
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His heart was extremely gratefulTo those who came forward
To sing his aspiration-realisation-
Manifestation-songs.
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What can the absenceOf desire do?
It can make you see
That you are a meditation-river
Running into the realisation-sea.
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My sound-life means nothingTo you,
But your silence-life means everything
Not only to my aspiration-life
But also to my desire-life.
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Although my vital does not know it,There is a secret joy
In serving.
Although my mind does not know it,
There is a great power
In unlearning.
Although my life does not know it,
There is a supreme satisfaction
In surrendering.
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There is no such thingAs might is right or right is might.
Wisdom-light is both right and might,
And this wisdom-light
Is nothing other than
Our heart’s love-oneness-perfection.
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My dependencyOn my Lord’s Compassion-Eye
And Forgiveness-Heart
Is not my helplessness
But my perfect wisdom-light.
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If you keep your mind-door closed,You can easily go in and out
Through your heart-door,
For that door is always kept wide open
By God’s own Satisfaction-Heart.
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I have two friends.One is my mind’s
Unconscious teacher:
Ignorance.
The other is my heart’s
Conscious tutor:
God.
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Nobody can force youTo be the author
Of your own despair.
Nobody can prevent you
From being the fulfiller
Of your golden dreams.
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No, human life is notAn endless limitation.
Human life is the breathless
And deathless Vision-Light
Of our Pilot Supreme.
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As God’s CompassionIs a definite necessity
In my outer life,
Even so, God’s Satisfaction
Is a supreme necessity
In my inner life.
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If you demand,You are a fool.
Why?
When you demand,
You try to force others
To give you joy.
With force you cannot conquer the heart,
And if you cannot conquer the heart,
Then there is no true joy.
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For him to reach the highest heightOf his realisation-tree
Was an extremely easy task.
For him to bring down its fruits
Was a harder task.
For him to distribute these fruits
To the world in abundant measure
Was an extremely difficult task.
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Do not recognise any defeat!Recognise only one thing:
Your own soul’s omnipotence
In your life.