Great Throughts Treasury

"Do not allow unhappiness To capture your heart. Do you not know that unhappiness Is the heart-cancer?"

"Today’s unhappiness Must not be kept for removal Until tomorrow. Tomorrow will be another day For me to either suffer new unhappiness Or enjoy a flood of delight. Today’s game I must play today Wisely and perfectly."

"Intense affection in the ordinary life may lead to disastrous attachment. In the spiritual life, intense affection is the mother of immense Compassion. I do not need admiration From Heaven. I do not need admiration From earth. What I need is affection From my Beloved Supreme."

"The need for affection is not bad, but the need for admiration creates problems. We all need affection from God, affection from our dear ones. It is the mutual giving of affection that keeps us alive. Without the mother’s affection, it is impossible for us to live. But without admiration, easily we can live. The absence of affection from our dear ones is simply death. But if somebody does not admire us, no harm. Affection is in the same category as love. But admiration is totally different. When we are admired, the ego can come to the fore and destroy us. But when we are shown affection and loved, at that time our divine qualities increase. So when you get affection and love, you don’t have to worry. But when you get admiration, you have to be careful."

"Invite your soul To enter into your mind-jungle To clear it up. Invite your soul To enter into your heart-insecurity To strengthen it. Invite your soul To encourage you in all that you do and say. Your soul will inspire you, Fulfil you And Immortalise you."

"O pilgrim soul, Divinity Is in your untiring feet. O pilgrim soul, Infinity Is in your unblinking eyes. O pilgrim soul Eternity Is in your unbending head. O pilgrim soul, Immortality Is in your unthinking heart."

"Each soul is not only an important page in the Book of Fate, but also essential to it, for without it the Book must needs be incomplete. Each soul is a representative and a presentation of the Supreme on earth. When the representative is recognised by its owner, the presentation fulfils itself in the Supreme. The soul comes into birth for experience. And its experience will be complete when it brings down all the perfection of the Divine into Matter."

"Death is natural. Nothing natural can be detrimental. Death is rest. Rest is strength in disguise for a further adventure. At the present state of human evolution, to conquer Death may be an impossibility. But to overcome the fear of death is not only practicability, but inevitability. Death is normally the sign that the soul, under the particular circumstances, has exhausted the possibilities of its progress in a particular body."

"I do not want happiness, name and fame. If I want them, I can get them. What is most difficult to get is Your Compassion. And for that I am crying, I am shedding bitter tears. I am not getting Your Compassion. The world is smiling and laughing at me. But I wish only to be enamoured of Your victory."

"Learn the art of forgiving, And apply it to yourself first. Then it becomes easy To forgive others. Forgive, You will have happiness. Forget, You will have satisfaction. Forgive and forget, You will have everlasting peace Within and without. To err is human. But be careful, Do not over do it. If to forgive is divine, Then rest assured, You can never over do it. On earth, forgiveness is a sweet experience, a necessary realisation. Forgiveness is the expansion of one’s reality-light and divinity-height. Forgive the world. The world will sit at your compassion-feet. Forgive yourself. God will be dancing inside your meditation-heart. His are the lips that do the best preaching. His is the life that does the worst deceiving. His is the body that does the longest sleeping. His is the vital that does the wildest ridiculing. His is the mind that does the meanest snobbing. His is the heart that does the filthiest defiling. His is the realisation that sempiternally shines Between Man’s hopeless inconscience And God’s endless forgiveness. God’s Forgiveness Does not mind When we blame God For our mistakes. But God’s Forgiveness Does mind When we blame Other human beings For our mistakes."

"Every heart-cry Awakens the sleeping world. Every soul-smile Nourishes the searching world."

"Cry within! Your heart will widen Toward the perfection-whole. I tell this from my own Experience-light And Realisation-height."

"Cry for name and fame; God will not allow you To participate in His cosmic Game. Cry for surrender-participation In His cosmic Game; God not only will allow you To play with Him, But also will share with you His infinite Delight."

"When I cry, I cry for the land Of unlimited hope-opportunities. When I smile, I smile at the sky Of unlimited achievement-realities."

"The psychic cry is the cry of the heart which always transcends not only its own limits, but also earth’s limits. The possessor of a psychic cry is the lover of God’s Smile and the fulfiller of God’s Dream."

"What you have Is a blundering mind. What you are Is a learning heart."

"Nourish learning, Cherish unlearning. Lo, your perfection-cry And your satisfaction-smile Are flourishing."

"I am learning the art of listening. I wish to be an eternal student. I am learning the art of believing. I wish to be an eternal believer. I am learning the art of serving. I wish to be an eternal servant. I am learning the art of becoming. I wish to be The father of my silver dreams. I wish to be The son of my golden realities."

"Learning is not enough. Becoming is not enough. Self-giving is enough More than enough."

"Kill and be happy. Indeed, This is the definition Of animal love. Possess and be happy, Indeed, This is the definition Of human love. Become one and be happy. Indeed, This is the definition Of divine love."

"Love is not a thing to understand. Love is not a thing to feel. Love is not a thing to give and receive. Love is a thing only to become And eternally be."

"I shall love the whole world, But I shall control Only myself."

"I must love God more and more Instead of imagining how much love God has for me."

"To love God, Unconditionally and self-givingly, Is a golden lifetime-opportunity."

"My Lord, Do teach me only one thing: How to love the world The way You love me."

"Meditation tells us only one thing: God is. Meditation reveals to us only one truth: Ours is the vision of God."

"Sometimes I must be silent, For that is the only way To know a little better, To think a little wiser, To become a little more perfect, To claim God a little sooner."

"God wants from me A very special favour: He wants me to teach my mind How to smile all the time."

"Every day God expects us to keep our minds Full of God-loving thoughts."

"Love is not a thing to understand. Love is not a thing to feel. Love is not a thing to give and receive. Love is a thing only to become And eternally be."

"Those who can live without love Are not ready For the world of aspiration. The most effective medicine Here on earth Is love unconditional."

"The hands of Power Are often destructive. The hands of Love Are always creative. Love the world With your heart’s dreams. Serve the world With your life’s promises. No remedy for black hate? Who says? Just love And love more, That’s all. No remedy for helpless fear? Who says? Just love And love more, That’s all. No remedy for blind darkness? Who says? Just love And love more, That’s all. No remedy for lengthy bondage? Who says? Just love And love more, That’s all."

"Love is the inner bond, the inner connection, the inner link between man and God, between the finite and the infinite. We always have to approach God through love. Without love, we cannot become one with God. If we go through our journey with absolute love, we can never fail to reach God or fulfil Him, either in our own lives or in humanity."

"Love is the secret key that allows a human being to open the Door of God. Where there is love, pure love, divine love, there is fulfilment. Where there is no love, it is all misery, frustration and death. The first step in our journey is love, the second step is devotion and the third step is surrender. First we have to love God. Then we have to devote ourselves to Him alone and finally we have to be at His Feet and fulfil ourselves."

"What is love? If love means possessing someone or something then that is not real love; that is not pure love. If love means giving and becoming one with everything, with humanity and divinity, then that is real love. Real love is our total oneness with the object loved and with the possessor of love. Who is the possessor of love? God."

"Love the world With your heart’s dreams. Serve the world With your life’s promises."

"Power does not know What it is doing And Why it is doing. Love knows What it is doing And Why it is doing."

"The hands of Power Are often destructive. The hands of Love Are always creative."

"A sin against man I commit When I love myself alone. A crime against God I commit When I love only mankind. A sin and a crime Against myself I commit When I forget what I was, Truth, And what I am, Love."

"No remedy for black hate? Who says? Just love And love more, That’s all. No remedy for helpless fear? Who says? Just love And love more, That’s all. No remedy for blind darkness? Who says? Just love And love more, That’s all. No remedy for lengthy bondage? Who says? Just love And love more, That’s all."

"Secretly I live for him Who loves God. Bravely I die for him Who loves God. Happily I live for him Who knows not how to love. Unconditionally I die for him Who knows not how to love."

"The pain of the body is often bearable. Not so is the pain of the heart."

"The pain of your heart And the pain of your mind Can never be the same. Your mind’s indifference to pain Is the real proof. Your heart’s acceptance of pain Is the real proof. The difference between heart-pain And mind-pain is this: Mind-pain escapes from the body’s cage, Heart-pain lingers in reality’s life."

"Sincerity is a strong Pain-killing drug. Humility is a stronger Pain-killing drug. Self-offering is the strongest Pain-killing drug."

"If you have physical pain, disdain! If you have vital pain, disdain! If you have mental pain, disdain! But if you have psychic pain, Then try to gain As much as possible from it. Every day Either I vehemently refuse pain Or I long for a refuge From pain."

"Beloved Lord Supreme, Do You approve of My self-transcendence song? My son, not only do I approve But it is I who will Sing in you, Sing through you My Eternity’s Vision-Reality Song."

"Do not ride the mighty waves Of dark despair If you want to sit on the unparalleled throne Of self-transcendence."

"A self-transcendence-mind Has peace. A oneness-heart Is peace."

"O God-seeker, Be not complacent With what you have and are! Develop an ever-increasing hunger, For even God Himself is obeying His own Self-Transcendence Message."

"Self-transcendence And God-transcendence Are the Self-form Of the same transcendental Reality. When I endeavour to fathom My self-transcendence With my human comatose eyes, I see the radical transformation Of the devouring tiger in me Into the fast-running, sure-winning deer. And when I plead with the Supreme To elucidate the signification Of transcendence, He just smiles And declares: “Yours is the transcendence-task To touch the feet of My creation For its fire-pure transformation. Yours is the transcendence-goal Where the comity of souls have discovered Their only haven.""