My Lord reads my letters
1.
My Lord readsMy gratitude-surrender-letters
Long before
He does anything else.
2.
The mindSatisfies itself
By criticising God.
3.
The vitalSatisfies itself
By disobeying God.
4.
The bodySatisfies itself
By forgetting God.
5.
The heartSatisfies itself
By worshipping God.
6.
The soulSatisfies itself
By manifesting God.
7.
I satisfy myselfBy devouring
The dust of God's Feet.
8.
My mindWants to possess
God's Height.
9.
My heartWishes to be possessed
By God's Depth.
10.
My philosophyIs
An independent life.
11.
God's PhilosophyIs
An interdependent existence.
12.
My philosophyIs
The manifestation of my
Supremacy-mind.
13.
God's PhilosophyIs
The manifestation of His
Intimacy-Heart.
14.
Alas,My heart is afraid
Of diving.
15.
Alas,My mind is afraid
Of climbing.
16.
Alas,My vital is afraid
Of surrendering.
17.
Alas,My body is afraid
Of waking.
18.
Alas,I am afraid
Of transcending.
19.
When God comes to meAs God,
I do not understand Him.
20.
When God comes to meAs man,
I do not believe Him.
21.
When God comes to meAs God,
I ignore Him.
22.
When God comes to meAs man,
I ridicule Him.
23.
When God comes to meAs God,
I hide from Him.
24.
When God comes to meAs man,
I run away from Him.
25.
When God comes to meAs God,
I instruct Him.
26.
When God comes to meAs man,
I betray Him.
27.
When God comes to meAs a flower,
I love Him.
28.
When God comes to meAs a child,
I treasure Him.
29.
When God comes to meAs His Life-Breath-Sacrificer,
I immediately become Him.
30.
I forgetTo tell God
That I love Him.
31.
God forgetsTo tell me
That He needs me.
32.
I forgetTo tell God
That He is extraordinary.
33.
God forgetsTo tell me
That I am not transitory.
34.
I forgetTo tell God
That He is always perfect.
35.
God forgetsTo tell me
That I am always correct.
36.
I forgetTo tell God
That He is indispensable.
37.
God forgetsTo tell me
That we are inseparable.
38.
I intentionally forgetTo touch
God's blessingful Feet.
39.
God intentionally forgetsTo touch
My boastful mind.
40.
I forgetTo ask God
Who I am to Him.
41.
God forgetsTo ask me
What I have for Him.
42.
My forgetfulnessOf God,
God does not announce.
43.
God's forgetfulnessOf me,
I vehemently and openly
Denounce.
44.
My Lord,Please tell me frankly
What You think
Of my spiritual life.
45.
"My child,Please tell Me frankly first
What you think
Of My unconditional
Forgiveness-Heart."
46.
My Lord,Please tell me
Once and for all
If You really love me.
47.
"My child,Please tell Me
Once and for all,
If you really love Me,
Then why do you always
Remain far away from Me?"
48.
My mindCannot imagine
How my heart
Can be so self-giving.
49.
My heartCannot imagine
How my mind
Can be so unwilling.
50.
My mindCannot imagine
How the Heart of God
Inspires my heart.
51.
My heartCannot imagine
How the very thought of God
Bewilders my mind.
52.
God wantsOur minds to see
That His creation
Is divinely beautiful.
53.
God wantsOur hearts to feel
That His creation
Is supremely fruitful.
54.
God wants meTo add to
His eternally blissful creation.
55.
May my mindEvery day
Play its role nobly.
56.
May my heartEvery day
Play its role prayerfully.
57.
May my lifeEvery day
Play its role unreservedly.
58.
May IEvery day
Play my role unconditionally.
59.
May my heart's aspiration-treeEvery day grow to reach
The highest height.
60.
May my life'sDedication-branches
Every day try to reach
The longest length.
61.
May my outer lifeBelong
To Eternity's Tears.
62.
May my inner lifeBelong
To Immortality's Smiles.
63.
The desiring mindCompetes
With the world.
64.
The aspiring heartCompletes
The world.
65.
The desiring mindIs indeed
A possession-hunger.
66.
The aspiring heartIs indeed
A renunciation-meal.
67.
The desiring mindIs our life's
Backward march.
68.
The aspiring heartIs our life's
Forward run.
69.
The desiring mind says:"I want,
Even if God
Does not want me to have."
70.
The aspiring heart says:"I need
Only what God
Wants me to need."
71.
Sorrows and tearsTorture
The desiring mind.
72.
Smiles and cheersPromptly welcome
The aspiring heart.
73.
The desiring mindDoes not realise
That its search for satisfaction
Is useless.
74.
The aspiring heartCannot even imagine
That God has infinite Love, Peace
And Bliss
For the aspiring heart.
75.
The desiring mindIs the inevitable
Kiss of death.
76.
The aspiring heartIs the imperishable
Embrace of life.
77.
The desiring mindKills the true fragrance
Of our inner life.
78.
The aspiring heartCreates a new beauty
In our outer life.
79.
The desiring mindAnd Infinity
Are not destined to meet.
80.
The aspiring heartAnd Immortality
Are destined not only to meet,
But also to become
Inseparably one.
81.
When I go to God,God asks me:
"My child,
When will you
Come back again?"
82.
When God comes to me,I say to God:
"I never thought
That You would
Come back again!"
83.
When I go to God,God asks me:
"My child,
Do you not know
Who you really are?"
84.
When God comes to me,I ask God:
"My Lord,
Do You ever care to know
What I am suffering from?"
85.
When I go to God,I am astonished to see
God's unimaginable Hospitality.
86.
When God comes to me,He is shocked to see
My irresponsible unreceptivity.
87.
When I go to God,God surprisingly asks me:
"My child,
What has brought you
To Me today?"
88.
When God comes to me,I angrily ask Him:
"My Lord,
What has kept You away
For such a long time?"
89.
When I go to God,He reminds me
Of the fact
That I am at once
His partner and collaborator.
90.
When God comes to me,I tell Him that
My mind is His secret admirer,
My heart is His sleepless lover
And my life
Is His breathless worshipper.
91.
A peace-dreamer is heWho sows peace-seeds
Everywhere.
92.
A peace-lover is heWho grows bliss-truth
Everywhere.
93.
I am desperately tryingTo change
God's Mind.
94.
God is desperately tryingTo open
My mind's eye.
95.
I do not knowWhere the salvation-food
Is prepared —
Perhaps in Heaven.
96.
I definitely knowThat the realisation-meal
Is prepared
Here on earth.
97.
I pray to GodTo give me
All that He has and is.
98.
God prays to meTo give Him
All that I do not actually need.
99.
I pray to GodTo give me
His Beauty and Divinity.
100.
God prays to meTo give Him
My duty and responsibility.
101.
The doubting mindCannot preface
The aspiring heart,
But the aspiring heart
Easily can.
102.
The doubting mindCannot efface
The aspiring heart,
But the aspiring heart
Easily can.
103.
The doubting mindCannot chase
The aspiring heart,
But the aspiring heart
Easily can.
104.
The doubting mindCannot race with
The aspiring heart,
But the aspiring heart
Easily can.
105.
The doubting mindCannot face
The aspiring heart,
But the aspiring heart
Easily can.
106.
The doubting mindCannot trace
The aspiring heart,
But the aspiring heart
Easily can.
107.
The doubting mindCannot embrace
The aspiring heart,
But the aspiring heart
Easily, definitely
And lovingly can.
108.
The doubting mindCan obviously ignore
The aspiring heart,
But the aspiring heart
Cannot.
109.
The doubting mindCan obviously belittle
The aspiring heart,
But the aspiring heart
Cannot.
110.
The doubting mindCan obviously ridicule
The aspiring heart,
But the aspiring heart
Cannot.
111.
The doubting mindCan obviously falsify
The aspiring heart,
But the aspiring heart
Cannot.
112.
The doubting mindCan obviously berate
The aspiring heart,
But the aspiring heart
Cannot.
113.
The doubting mindCan obviously torture
The aspiring heart,
But the aspiring heart
Cannot.
114.
The doubting mindCan obviously bisect
The aspiring heart,
But the aspiring heart
Cannot.
115.
God does not understandThe most complicated prayers
Of the mind.
Therefore
He fails to answer.
116.
God easily understandsThe most simple prayers
Of the heart.
Therefore
He immediately answers.
117.
The real friendsAre those
Who unburden your life.
118.
The real friendsAre those
Who minimise your sorrows.
119.
The real friendsAre those
Who maximise your joys.
120.
The real friendsAre those
Who cannot brook
Insults and humiliation
Thrust upon you.
121.
The real friendsAre those
Who dine with your success
And progress.
122.
The real friendsAre those
Who brave your dire enemies
To save you.
123.
The real friendsAre those
Whose lives are made
Of sacrifice-delight.
124.
The real friendsAre those
Who unreservedly
And unconditionally
Help you
In secrecy supreme.
125.
The real friendsAre those
Who sincerely connive
At your mistakes.
126.
The real friendsAre those who take
Your Himalayan-tall blunders
As short as anthill foibles.
127.
God the invisibleBecomes visible
In the beautiful eyes
And powerful hands
Of the real friends.
128.
God the HeartLives most proudly
In the oneness-heart
Of the real friends.
129.
Self-glorificationDelays
Our Godward journey.
130.
Self-deprecationDelays
Our Godward journey.
131.
Self-affirmationDelays
Our Godward journey.
132.
Self-negationDelays
Our Godward journey.
133.
Self-mortificationDelays
Our Godward journey.
134.
Self-acceptance,Founded upon God-dependence,
Expedites
Our Godward journey.
135.
God asks me:"How are you?"
And not:
"Who are you?"
136.
I ask God:"Who are You?"
And:
"Why are You?"
137.
God asks meTo do Him
A big favour:
"Smile."
138.
My mind,On my behalf,
Answers and shares with God
Its philosophy,
Free of charge:
"Give not and take not."
139.
My mind wants to teachMy heart
Everything that it knows.
140.
My heart wants to teachMy mind
Whom to love: God.
141.
My mindIs
My morning God-queries.
142.
My heartIs
My evening God-answers.
143.
Now is the timeTo make ourselves
Perfect.
144.
Here is the placeFor us to fulfil
Our Lord Supreme.
145.
Determination is an awardThat my mind gives
To my heart.
146.
Satisfaction is an awardThat my heart gives
To my mind.
147.
God the EyeSecretly
Scolds me.
148.
God the HeartOpenly
Praises me.
149.
My joy is inMy heart's
Pulling my life upward.
150.
When I becomeA man of success,
Worries chase me.
151.
When I becomeA man of progress,
God Himself comes
And embraces me.
152.
My mind saddens me oftenWith its
Superiority-hunger.
153.
My heart always gladdens meWith its
God-Compassion-hunger.
154.
I am completeNot when others
Love me.
155.
I am completeWhen I love and need
Only God.
156.
When I am in my soul,I am
All illumination.
157.
When I am in my heart,I am
All aspiration.
158.
When I am in my mind,I am
All inspiration.
159.
When I am in my vital,I am
All determination.
160.
Alas,When I am in my body,
I am
All frustration.
161.
Try to please your own mind.You will have a new name:
Failure.
162.
Try to please your heart.You will have a new name:
God's Smile.
163.
My mind has to arriveAt God's
Perfection-Shore.
164.
My heart has to arriveAt God's
Satisfaction-Shore.
165.
I must arriveAt my
Self-transcendence-shore.
166.
In the morningGod gives my heart
His special Love.
167.
In the eveningGod gives my life
His special Peace.
168.
My heartSatisfies God
With its devotion-tears.
169.
GodSatisfies my heart
With His Compassion-Smiles.
170.
GodThe Compassion-Heart
Gives.
171.
ManThe confusion-mind
Refuses.
172.
When God speaks,The mind
Does not care to listen.
173.
When God speaks,The heart readily,
Willingly and eagerly
Cares to listen.
174.
My heartIs well-known
For its streaming tears.
175.
God's HeartIs well-known
For its Fountain-Forgiveness.
176.
God's EyeFrightens
The animal in us.
177.
God's HeartAwakens
The human in us.
178.
God's LifeFeeds and treasures
The divine in us.
179.
The aspiring heartThrows itself into
Each and every project
Of God.
180.
The doubting mindInterferes in
Each and every project
Of God.
181.
May our aspirationBe the hope
Of the present generation.
182.
May our realisationBe the promise
For the future generation.
183.
My mindShows my heart
The wrong way.
184.
My heartShows my mind
The right way.
185.
My Lord shows my mindAnd my heart
His Way:
"Come My children,
Come to My Heart-Home."
