Anathema

(curses)

I do not understand
How a saintly man like you
Can heap anathema
Upon those who fail
To agree with you all the time.

Arid

(dry)

You want to know
Why nobody likes you.
Nobody likes you
Because nobody wants to be
Affected by your arid mind
And impure vital.

Assailed

(violently attacked)

It is quite natural
That you will be assailed
By doubt
If you do not aspire.

Benignant

(gracious)

It is the benignant qualities
Of our heart
That endear others
And, at the same time,
Make us divinely beautiful
And supremely lovable.

Bias

(preference)

Naturally you will be an object
Of ruthless ridicule
If you show a definite bias
Towards a particular individual.

Chastise

(punish)

You think that you can do
Anything you want to.
I may not be able to chastise you,
But God can chastise you
Easily,
And He definitely will.

Chide

(scold)

I chide my mind
When it steals
My heart's happiness.

Circumscribe

(limit)

I am the last person to ask you
To circumscribe your meditation-hours.
On the contrary,
I want you to meditate more,
But always cheerfully
And devotedly.

Concomitant

(that which accompanies)

Failure is always
A concomitant
Of doubt.

Condone

(forgive)

The very nature of
A purity-heart
Is to condone
An unruly mind.

Contentious

(quarrelsome)

The cheerless mind
And the fearless vital
Frequently enjoy
Loud and contentious noises.

Cowered

(cringed)

His frightened heart
Cowered in the darkness-room
Of his wild vital.

Demean

(humiliate)

I do not want to demean myself
By associating with
My doubtful mind.

Disgruntled

(discontented)

Remain always cheerful.
Do not be disgruntled
In your climbing
Heavenward journey.

Disparage

(belittle)

Do not disparage anybody,
For it does not
Become you.

Effrontery

(shameless boldness)

Because you have the effrontery
To disobey your Master,
I take you as a useless
Human being.

Everybody hates him
Because he has the effrontery
To mistreat singularly kind
And honest people.

Enthralled

(fascinated)

There shall come a time
When the impurity-mind
Will be enthralled
By the purity-heart.

Equanimity

(composure)

My heart's sleepless hunger
For equanimity
Has silenced my turbulent mind.

Exonerate

(acquit)

To tell the truth
Is to exonerate oneself
From the impure
Falsehood-crime.

Extricate

(disentangle)

If you really want to be
A genuine God-lover,
Then you must extricate yourself
From the imaginary temptation-life.

Fealty

(faithfulness)

No fealty,
No progress
In the inner life.

Fulminate

(thunder)

Because of its own
Ocean-vast stupidity,
The mind fulminates against
The God-fondness-innocence
Of the heart.

Gainsay

(deny)

O my mind,
Why do you gainsay the fact
That you have stolen
My heart's childlike joy?

Gnome

(fairytale dwarf)

How can you be
Other than a gnome
In the world of spirituality
If you do not pray and meditate
Regularly plus soulfully?

Harbinger

(pioneer, presager)

Only your soul,
The God-representative on earth,
Can be the harbinger of your mind's
Full illumination.

Hedonism

(theory that pleasure is the highest good)

Hedonism means
World-pleasure-life-enjoyment.
Asceticism means
Self-torture-life-enforcement.

Henchmen

(devoted followers)

Quite often henchmen
Do undivine things
Just to please their superiors
And keep their names free of crimes.

Iconoclast

(one who attacks cherished beliefs)

He thinks he is endowed
With an inner vision.
Therefore he dares
To be an iconoclast.

Indolent

(idle)

With his indolent aspiration-life
He wants to satisfy God.
Indeed, this is the height
Of his stupidity!

Ingrate

(ungrateful person)

To me, an ingrate
Is the worst possible failure
In humanity's upward journey.

Innuendoes

(hints)

Since I am not a fool,
I can easily see through
Your secret and clever
Innuendoes.

Insipid

(tasteless, dull)

If you do not have
An inspiration-mind
And an aspiration-heart,
Then you are bound to have
An insipid life.

O my mind,
I am sick of your
Constant, insipid doubt-talk.

Intrepid

(brave)

You have to be truly intrepid
In your spiritual life.
Otherwise, the doubt-monster
Will devour not only your mind
But also your entire being.

Magnate

(man of prominence)

No doubt you are a magnate,
But because you do not
Believe in God,
I have nothing to do with you.

Mendicant

(beggar)

Be a sincere mendicant-seeker.
All your longings
Are bound to be fulfilled.

Momentous

(very important)

This is, indeed,
A momentous occasion.
We must all be
Sincere and alert.

Nettle

(annoy)

O useless thoughts,
I beg of you not to come
And nettle my mind
When my mind desires to enjoy
The unparalleled beauty
Of tranquility.

Nonplussed

(baffled)

I was quite nonplussed
When I felt that even his heart
Had stopped praying and meditating
Regularly.

Obeisance

(homage)

I made my obeisance
Most devotedly
To your compassionate heart.

Onus

(responsibility)

To take care of others
Is not an onus
But a golden opportunity
To become a perfect citizen
Of the world.

Optimum

(best)

Every hour is supremely divine.
Therefore, you do not have to wait
For an optimum moment
To meditate on God.

Oscillation ...

(a swinging back and forth)

Either accept the truth
Or become the falsehood.
Your oscillation between the two
Is ridiculous.

Ostracise

(cast off connection with)

At long last
His pure heart is ready
To ostracise his wild vital.

Parlous

(difficult)

A suspicious mind
Is no less parlous
Than a naked sword.

Peregrination

(pilgrimage)

Be not afraid
Of the inner peregrination;
Your Inner Pilot will definitely
Inspire you, encourage you
And guide you.

Perforce

(of necessity)

I must perforce be happy
To become a nicer
World citizen.

Perspicacity

(ability to penetrate and correctly judge)

His amazing perspicacity
Solved all our serious problems.

Pinnacle

(highest place)

Only an unconditional self-giver
Will unmistakably reach
The pinnacle-height
Of God's Satisfaction-Delight.

Platonic

(spiritual, not sensual, relationship)

Does platonic love exist?
Yes, it does, and it will,
Forever.

Pragmatic

(practical)

If you think that the spiritual life
Can never be pragmatic,
Then you simply do not know
What a really spiritual life is.

Preponderance

(superiority in importance)

The preponderance of the human mind
Can never be accepted
By the aspiration
Of a God-lover.

Presage

(foretell)

I cannot presage
The perfection
Of anything.

Proximity

(nearness)

A doubtful mind
Vehemently avoids
The proximity of
A faithful heart.

Purblind

(short-sighted, stupid)

Because you are purblind,
You are unable to see
The soulful purity
In the true seeker-hearts.

Recherche

(rare)

God will definitely grant you
His recherché Blessings
If you unconditionally offer Him
Your aspiration-heart.

Repercussions

(after-effects)

The repercussions
Of your deliberate lies
Will be most hurtful.

Reproving

(rebuking)

By reproving the unaspiring seekers
You cannot augment
Their hearts’ aspiration-flames.

Retrograde

(degenerate)

If your heart has a soulful cry
To dive within every day
During your meditation,
Then you can never retrograde
In your spiritual life.

Roseate

(optimistic)

Only a genuine truth-seeker
Is entitled to dream
Of a roseate future.

Ruction

(serious quarrel)

Just a little altercation
Eventually ended
In a most deplorable ruction.

Saga

(heroic story)

I want to be as successful
As you are in life.
Will you tell me the saga
Of your life
To inspire me?

Sanctimonious

(pretending to be holy)

He was openly ridiculed
By his fellow seekers
For his sanctimonious behaviour.

Satraps

(viceroys)

Suspicion and its satraps —
Doubt and jealousy —
Are responsible for
The deplorable condition
Of the human mind.

Sleight Of Hand

(clever deception)

With the soulfulness of your heart,
And not with your sleight of hand,
You will be able to win
The heart of humanity.

Sobriquet

(nickname)

In spite of his being
A big celebrity.
I deeply enjoy calling him
By his sobriquet.

Sophomoric

(immature)

He is not an advanced seeker.
Therefore anything that he says
About spirituality
Is sophomoric.

Stalwart

(reliable)

If you are a stalwart seeker,
I do not see how you can ever fail
In your spiritual life.

Stilted

(stiff and pompous)

To increase the aspiration
Of a seeker's heart
Stilted utterances are of
No avail.

Sub rosa

(secretly)

I tell you sub rosa —
God will make you
Another God.

I have heard sub rosa
Of your present lack of faith
In your spiritual life.
I would very much love
To assist you
To regain your faith.

Subjugate

(conquer)

The fear of death
We must subjugate.

The aspiration-heart
Does not want to subjugate
The suspicion-mind;
It only wants to awaken the mind
From its dark ignorance-sleep.

Sunder

(separate)

Do you know what the mind knows?
It knows how to blunder;
It knows how to plunder;
It knows how to sunder;
It knows how to thunder.

A searching mind
And an aspiring heart
Must not be sundered.
They needs must sing
The oneness-song
To please God the Supreme Singer.

Supernal

(supreme)

No, not even an iota
Of the supernal peace and joy
For a sceptical mind!

Tenebrous

(gloomy)

Aspire regularly, aspire devotedly.
If not, you will be forced to remain
Inside the tenebrous abyss of your vital.

Thaumaturgist

(miracle-worker)

The Supreme Thaumaturgist
Has the incredible capacity
To transform Heaven's
Indifference-mind-frown
Into its concern-heart-smile.

Timorous

(fearful)

No timorous heart
Can ever succeed
Either in the world
Of aspiration-purity
Or in the world
Of dedication-beauty.

Troglodyte

(cave-dweller)

To be a sleepless
Truth-seeker and God-lover
And not a mere troglodyte
Is the divine purpose
Of my life.

Tyro

(beginner)

In spite of being a tyro
In weightlifting,
He has surprised
The weightlifting world
By lifting up exceptionally
Heavy weights.

Ultimatum

(last demand)

O my doubting mind,
My final ultimatum:
Either surrender to my faith-life
Or I shall leave you for good.

Uncouth

(lacking in good manners)

Although he appears
To be uncouth,
He has a heart
Vaster than the vastest.

Unfeigned

(genuine)

Your love of God
And surrender to God
Must be unfeigned
At every moment.

I am glad to notice that,
Like me,
You, too, have an unfeigned love
For nature's beauty.

Untoward

(regrettable)

Alas,
Untoward circumstances prevent me
From praying in the morning
And from meditating in the evening.

Valedictory

(farewell)

In his valedictory address to earth
He said, "Mother-Earth,
My soul is carrying me
To its celestial abode,
But I am leaving behind with you
My soulful gratitude-heart."

My soul's valedictory message:
"Smile to Heaven was too short."
My heart's valedictory message:
"Cry to earth will be too long."

Valetudinarian

(person in poor health)

True, I am a valetudinarian,
But that does not mean
That I shall not be able to invoke
God's Compassion-Eye to cure me,
My ignorance-illness.

Venerable

(worthy of respect)

He is venerable
Both for his wisdom-light
And for his sacrifice-heart.

Vicarious

(to feel as one's own experience)

My dear friend,
I experience a vicarious joy
In your tennis success-glory.

Villify

(slander)

A oneness-heart will never villify
Others' name and fame
And mountain-achievements.

Volition

(choice)

My present
Self-surrender-light
Is of my own volition.

Vying

(contending)

I am not vying
With any God-seeker
For God's
Extra Compassion-Light.

Wane

(fade)

Have a purity-breath.
If not, your aspiration-heart
Will wane.

Wary

(cautious)

Be wary!
Your doubting mind
Can blight your loving faith.

Welkin

(sky)

I am dauntlessly determined
To make my inner welkin ring
With my heart's sleepless
Aspiration-cry.

Live in your heart-welkin
To be ever happy.

Welter

(wallow)

How long will you welter
In ignorance-mire?

Although his mind welters
In the pleasures of ignorance-life,
His aspiration-heart has made
Its unconditional surrender
To God's Will.

Whit

(smallest fragment)

You do not have
A whit of love.
How can God cherish you?

Winsome

(agreeable)

Because you are winsome,
The world within
And the world without
Are all for you

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Wizen

(wither)

Doubt-heat wizens
Devotion-plants.

Wont

(regular habit)

As is my wont,
I sing God-songs
Every morning and every evening.

Wreak

(inflict)

I am a purity-heart.
Wreak not your wild anger
On me.

Xenophile

(one who is fond of the foreign life)

I love all climes
As my very own;
I am more than
A xenophile.

Zenith

(highest point)

When my heart-sun
Is at its zenith,
My Lord tells me
I am another God.

Zephyr

(gentle breeze)

Zephyrs are blowing.
My heart is all inspiration.
My boat is reaching
The Golden Shore.