Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 58
5701
A true God-lover is heWho every day celebrates
God’s Compassion-Victory
In his life.
5702
God told youYou are an unrevealed God.
You believed Him not.
Therefore
Both you and God
Are suffering.
5703
Alas, is it my fateThat God-days slip away
While I remain
In ignorance-sleep?
5704
Your heart broughtA very short-term aspiration
To God.
And now it wants
From God
A very long-term satisfaction!
5705
When the age of reason ends,The heart of peace
Will inundate the entire world.
5706
His heart is tryingTo do the impossible:
In one stroke
To transform
The world’s long history of hatred
With its oneness-song.
5707
God is faithfulTo your heart.
Ask yourself if you are truthful
In your life.
5708
Now that you have unchainedYour earthly dreams,
God will give you
His Heavenly Visions to treasure.
5709
Unless you becomeAn unobstructed flood of self-offering,
God will forget to remember
Your heart’s inner name.
5710
You live in fear-apartment house.Therefore, your life has become
Your heart’s burning teardrops.
5711
Alas, God won his heartFor five fleeting seconds,
Only to lose it
For an entire incarnation.
5712
What you needIs an ancient eye
And a modern heart
To see and appreciate
God’s Beauty.
5713
After a long time,Today he has learnt to levitate
From his disproportionately heavy
Lethargy-life.
5714
Unless you becomeYour heart’s friend,
How can God make you
His friend?
5715
God cameTo take away my fears.
I gave,
And also cleverly added
My ceaseless tears.
5716
Doubt-earthquakesHave destroyed your life-tower
Because you have not dug
The surrender-canal
For God’s Love-Boat.
5717
When you have offeredYour service to God,
How is it
That you have sent a bill
For your service?
5718
In your inner lifeIt is good to eat
At least one thing:
Hope-bread.
5719
The world’sNightmare-complexity
Is a self-perpetuating
Ignorance-show.
5720
You can easily outsmartThe cynics.
Just show them openly
What you have:
Your satisfaction-heart.
5721
Earthly satisfactionIn any walk of life
Has always been
A truly transient reward.
5722
EarthIs my long imperfection-snare
And Heaven
Is my long-forgotten home.
5723
If you do not haveThe God-nearness-need,
Why should God come to you
To feed your inner heart
Or outer need?
5724
What is surrender-lightIf not giving God
Your earthly all
And Heavenly all?
5725
Because you were a fool,You did not evict
Your mind
From your heart-apartment.
5726
You will always be buffetedBy gusts of insecurity
Because you did not accept
God’s blessingful Invitation
To come to His Palace.
5727
What can you possibly expectFrom your mind
Which is already so fat
With indulgence-thoughts?
5728
YesterdayIt was you who wanted
To keep your life-schedule empty.
Today
It is you again
Who are ready to lie
In your ingratitude-grave.
5729
My Beloved Supreme,How can my heart survive
Your powerful displeasure?
Do turn my life into
Your Oneness-Song.
5730
If you want to workIn an aura of love,
Then invite your soul
Every morning
To enlighten your mind.
5731
You will be ableTo care for God
Only if you every day take
Aspiration-strength-vitamins.
5732
If you are a genuine God-lover,Then every day you must celebrate
God’s Compassion
In your aspiration-dedication-life.
5733
Without believingWhat God tells you to do,
How can you tell the world
That you know who God is?
5734
What is meditationIf not Eternity’s infinite creation
In man for God?
5735
You are an alien from HeavenNot because
You do not pray and meditate
But because
You do not believe
In others’ prayer and meditation.
5736
My Lord Supreme,My songs create tears
In Your Heart
And Your Songs create smiles
In my life.
5737
God tells him,“Please pay more attention
To Me in My children,
And not the other way around.”
5738
Every day he enjoysA most special meal:
God’s Forgiveness-Delight.
5739
When madness becomesYour life’s only enemy,
Sadness becomes
Your soul’s only enemy.
5740
Never become lostIn your unaspiring past.
Do not become tired of knocking
At your heart’s new door.
5741
I do not want to see myselfAs I actually am.
I want to see myself
Exactly the way
My Beloved Supreme sees me.
5742
How can it be possibleFor a mind-seeker
To learn the dance
Of a God-lover?
5743
Do not cry, do not cry!God has already given you
His Life’s Compassion-Heart.
5744
You are not tiredOf sleeping
And God is not tired
Of knocking
At your heart’s door.
5745
He who wants to manifest GodAt times feels
That Eternity is too short.
5746
God wants you to be a spectatorIn His Cosmic Game,
But for that you must show God
What you have:
Your heart’s surrender-smile.
5747
He tells God,“God, pay more attention to me.”
God tells him,
“My son, show more affection to Me.”
5748
You gave up praying and meditating.Therefore, today you have
An expired aspiration-passport.
5749
My Lord Supreme,I shall definitely be able to survive
Your Anger-Eye.
But I shall not be able to survive
Your Sorrow-Heart.
5750
Countless rivals are thereFor God’s boundless Affection.
But is there anybody
Who is for God’s
Unconditional manifestation?
5751
You are such a fool!You want to know
God’s estimated time of arrival.
Do you not see
That God has already arrived?
5752
If ever a deplorable fight takes placeBetween earth’s helpless cries
And Heaven’s indifferent frowns,
I am sure God will help
Earth’s helpless cries
To best Heaven’s indifferent frowns.
5753
A true hospitalGladly welcomes the suffering world.
A true doctor
Immediately heals the suffering world.
A true nurse
Inseparably becomes one with
The suffering world.
5754
How can God teach youHis God-Dance
If your heart does not feel
The necessity
To bleed for humanity’s need?
5755
I can never separateYour desire-bound life
From your heart’s
Ingratitude-grave.
5756
Now that you have abandonedYour obscure thought-world,
God’s Sea of Peace will embrace you
With the swiftness of a thunderbolt.
5757
Even though you are a preyTo impurity,
Do not forget to sleep
In God’s Compassion-Camp
Every night.
5758
Do not wait for the inner stormTo subside.
It will never subside on its own,
Never!
5759
Only if you prayIn the small hours of the morning,
Will you be able to see
The morning sun’s victory-delight.
5760
God’s LoveHas grasped his heart.
God’s Compassion
Has grasped his eye.
God’s Satisfaction
Has grasped his life.
5761
He is always looking —Looking for more sincerity,
More humility
And more dedication
In his life of aspiration.
5762
What can meditation do?It can stop the final victory
Of sorrow.
5763
If you prolongThe animal in your human life,
Then you are bound to delay
The divine in your human life.
5764
Give what you haveAnd what you are.
Then you will be blessed
With new mornings
In new worlds.
5765
Can you not seeThat you are imprisoned
By your desire-worlds
For your constant dissatisfaction?
5766
Only the seekersOf the infinite Truth
Will be blessed with the birth
Of a universal oneness-life.
5767
God has always been takingGood care of my heart.
Now I am trying to take
Good care of the dust
Of His Feet.
5768
How do you expect to getFrom me
My kindly affection
With your artificial aspiration?
5769
You will always be crippledBy incapacity
Unless divinity
Is your first and foremost choice.
5770
Yes, God gets angry.Do you know why?
Because your mind is not hungry
For His Love and Oneness-Life.
5771
The world’s temptation-tricksAre too swift
For man’s eye to catch.
5772
Your earthly years are not ledBy your Heavenly wisdom-sun.
Therefore
How can God give you
A spotless surrender-satisfaction?
5773
God is more than willingTo pay an exorbitant rent
Provided you give Him sole occupancy
Of your purity’s heart-room.
5774
Any self-transcendence-attemptWill enable the seeker
To go beyond the circle
Of birth and death.
5775
Each human beingIs swept away by his thought-waves.
Therefore, how can God’s
Peace-Promise on earth
Be fulfilled?
5776
He is always ready to feedYour God-nearness-longing
And to illumine your aspiration-heart
And dedication-life.
5777
How is it possibleThat your aspiration-heart
Could not hear
God’s courier’s courage-call?
5778
If you becomeYour inspiration’s dedication-life,
Then your satisfaction-soul
Cannot remain a far cry.
5779
How can you be happyUnless you daily
Examine and perfect
Your heart’s aspiration-life?
5780
To withstand ignorance-attack,I have removed
All my old attachment-furniture
From my mind-room.
5781
The instigation-boldnessOf your vital
And the hesitation-art
Of your mind
Have paralysed your aspiration-heart.
5782
The latest arrivalAt Heaven’s gate
Is my life’s
Gratitude-heart.
5783
I can clearly seeThat you have grown into
Your mind’s clever capacity
To confuse your fellow travellers
In the spiritual life.
5784
God is examining everyone.Do not laugh!
You may be next!
5785
Today I have discoveredSomething most special;
Today I have discovered
Something unique:
God loves me infinitely more
Than I can ever love myself.
5786
He who does not aspire soulfullyMay make a serious blunder.
His mind may mistake psychic ecstasy
For vital lunacy.
5787
There is no last chanceAnd no last hope
For you to see your soul’s
Most familiar eye and face.
5788
When I look at himI see only one thing:
The same old familiar
Aspiration-heart.
When I look at you
I see only one thing:
The same old barren
Desire-face.
5789
If you live inside your heartFor your soul,
Then for you to arrive at your goal
Will not be a difficult task.
5790
He lives in God’sForgiveness-Sun.
God lives in his
Surrender-sky.
5791
If sadnessIs your only enemy,
Then why do you not ask
Oneness
To be your only friend?
5792
If you are already an awakened soul,Then you must realise
That God has already given you
A supreme task to perform:
He wants you to work
For His Vision’s world-blossoms.
5793
What my heart sleeplessly needsIs my soul’s
Sleepless, tranquil faith
In my Beloved Supreme.
5794
If you want to beGod’s Compassion-Song,
Turn your life into
Your heart’s aspiration-cries.
5795
God does not mindWhen you do not believe Him,
But He feels that someday
It will be a difficult task
For Him to console you.
5796
If you have a vitalWhich is a hotbed of desire,
How can you free yourself
From lifelong agony?
5797
Does your mind ever tell youThat misfortune pursues you
Precisely because
Every day you drink
From desire-cup?
5798
His is a birthlessAnd deathless search
For a nation of God-lovers.
5799
Now that your aspiration-lifeShuns jealousy’s ugly face,
You can easily discover
Your soul’s delight-island.
5800
My dedication-lifeNeeds the swiftness of a deer
To run at top speed.
My aspiration-life
Needs the soulfulness of a child
To run faster than the fastest.
