Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 116

11501

When you pray to God
For God-Satisfaction,
When you meditate on God
For God-Satisfaction,
When you serve God
For God-Satisfaction,
Rest assured that God feels
That His entire creation
Will before long
Be in your vastness-oneness-heart.

11502

Even when everything fails you,
Do not give up hope;
For tomorrow’s dawn
May illumine your inner life
And fulfil your outer life.

11503

Read only
Your heart-aspiration-book
At the library
Of your soul’s illumination.

11504

If you do not allow your inner life
To guide you,
Then rest assured that your outer life
Will govern you.

11505

There are countless ways
For man to show his concern
For God’s creation vast.
Alas, most human beings
Do not care for even a single way.

11506

You can eventually become
A meditation teacher
Only after you have studied
For a long time
In your own heart-school.

11507

Each sincere God-lover
Is the beauty of a new dream
In God’s Vision-Eye.

11508

You and your purity-heart,
And God and His Compassion-Eye,
Need no proof
To convince the world
That you are unconditionally surrendered
To God’s Will.

11509

Each purity-heart
At every moment
Can enjoy the love and promise
Of an angel-friend.

11510

Surrender your human will
To God’s omnipotent Will.
Automatically you will strengthen
Your own faint hope and promise-life.

11511

A powerful meditation
Is nothing other than
A mighty sword
That can destroy the mind’s
Uncomely thoughts.

11512

Nobody can force you to visit
Your mind’s doubt-room
Unless you yourself are tempted
To make that Himalayan blunder.

11513

Expectation-fulfilment-fountain
Is reserved for those
Who live only for the perfect transformation
Of their own aspiration-hearts
And dedication-lives.

11514

In the inner world
Try to be the beauty
Of a perfection-flower.
In the outer world
Try to be the roar
Of a satisfaction-lion.

11515

Every day try to climb up
Your faith-Himalayas,
So that every moment
God’s Vision-Eye and Satisfaction-Heart
Can claim you as their very own.

11516

Either I may or I may not
Respond to God’s clarion Call,
But I do feel and know
That the rest of the world
Sooner or later
Will respond to God’s clarion Call.

11517

If you have a determination-mind
And an aspiration-heart,
Your faith will help you climb
God’s sunlit Mountain-Height.

11518

Each human being who comes into the world
Embodies earth’s hope-seed,
Which eventually grows into
Heaven’s promise-tree.

11519

God’s Compassion-Eye
Is counting your aspiration-mileage
And granting you
His Heart’s Satisfaction-Prize.

11520

Insecurity and impurity
Do not warn human beings.
They just attack us
Whenever they want to,
At their sweet will.

11521

Not God’s Justice-Light
But His Compassion-Height
Evaluates
Humanity’s aspiration-cry-performance.

11522

A true God-seeker
Will definitely be spellbound
By the inner beauty
Of a selfless God-lover.

11523

Once I lost my mind’s doubt-night,
I never found it again.
Once I found my heart’s aspiration-day,
I never lost it again.

11524

If you really know
God the Transcendental,
Then you are bound to serve
God the Universal.

11525

If you play before God
Your ignorance-confession-game,
Then God will not only play before you
His Wisdom-Perfection-Game
But will also teach you
How to play it.

11526

I use my heart-eye
To see the Feet of God.
God uses His Soul-Eye
To see His own Perfection
Inside my mind.

11527

My express aspiration-plane
Is flying through the sky
To where ignorance-night
Will never be allowed
To take birth.

11528

There is only one joy
That is lasting and everlasting,
And that joy
Is my oneness-silence-heart
With my Pilot Supreme.

11529

God’s Compassion-Rain
Will shatter
My mind’s ignorance-chain
Only when I welcome
My heart’s sovereignty-reign.

11530

God may not look always the same
For the dividing mind,
But God is always the same
For the uniting heart.

11531

Tomorrow is a stranger to you
Because you have not made friends
With today’s self-giving heart-host.

11532

Your prayer-life can protect you
Only when your meditation-heart
Lives for God
To enjoy His Divinity’s Fragrance
Inside your body-fort.

11533

Every day you must ask
Your realisation-Master
About the results
Of your aspiration-examination.

11534

Two supremely great competitors:
My surrender-life and my gratitude-heart.
Even God finds it difficult
To declare who the winner is.

11535

You do not have to discover
A new opportunity-road.
Every morning God comes to you
With at least ten different
Opportunity-roads.
What you have to do
Is to choose the one that you like best
And speedily run along that road
To reach your light-flooded destination.

11536

God for God’s sake:
This is the only thought
That can give you satisfaction
Right from your first breath
To your last breath.

11537

If your heart is
An unceasing prayer-cry,
Then God will allow you
To fly in His Ecstasy-Sky.

11538

How each human being cherishes
Ignorance-night!
I take it as the mystery
Of millennia.

11539

In the very near future
God’s Peace-Prediction
Is unmistakably going to come true.
Just wait and see
With a prayerful heart
And a soulful life.

11540

God will perfect
Your life-imperfections
If you can cheerfully sit at
God’s Compassion-flooded
Forgiveness-Feet.

11541

When the outer life
Enjoys its madness-freedom too much,
The inner life goes to sleep
And enjoys the beauty of silence unknown.

11542

No true inspiration can ever remain
Unexpressed,
Unrevealed
And unmanifested
In God’s vast creation.

11543

If you want to enjoy
A life-blossoming smile,
Then you must have a death-defying faith
Deep inside your heart.

11544

If your mind can have
A row of pure thoughts,
Then your heart will enjoy
God-ascendence-flight.

11545

I am still alive
Because my Lord Supreme has given me
His Eternity-deep Forgiveness-Sea.

11546

When is God’s Birthday?
God’s Birthday is when
Man completely becomes his surrender-life
And soulfully becomes his gratitude-heart.

11547

A world without man,
God does not want.
A world without God,
A truth-seeker can never imagine.

11548

It seems to me
That my aspiration-days
Are now nothing other than
My buried treasure.

11549

Do you want to increase
Your aspiration-capacity?
If so, then tirelessly look
At God’s Compassion-Eye.

11550

First you have to become
Your heart’s purity.
Then only will you be able to see
Your soul’s summit-divinity.

11551

If your heart does not want to work
On God’s Manifestation,
Then how can you expect God to work
On your aspiration?

11552

There is only one way to increase
Your heart’s love for God,
And that is to perform every day
Your life’s dedication-service.

11553

All selfish thoughts
And all anxiety-stricken frustrations
Disappear in God-Beauty’s Oneness-Garden.

11554

Slowly but effectively
God’s Justice demolishes
Man’s vital demand-walls.

11555

When your searching mind
Has replaced your doubting mind,
Then God will appear before you
With His Heart’s Satisfaction-Smile.

11556

Surrender to God’s Perfection-Will
Is the only inevitable way
To abiding happiness.

11557

You will always be attacked
By ruthless insecurity
If your heart fails to dream
Of a universal oneness-reality.

11558

Who is your enemy?
Not he who speaks ill of you,
But he who disturbs your heart’s purity-joy
And your life’s oneness-breath.

11559

How do you dare to enjoy
Your vital adventures?
Are you not aware of
Their all-destructive, imminent dangers?

11560

Do not look back!
Do not think of the past!
Do not waste your precious time!
If you are all for the past,
Then all the misfortunes of the past
Will chase you towards the all-devouring tiger
Of ignorance-night.

11561

Your aspiration-life
Has come to an abrupt halt
Because you are enjoying the indulgence
Of your over-valued self-image.

11562

How can you ever approach God
If you ignore the reproach of your soul
When you make Himalayan blunders?

11563

Ask your heart to run
Towards tomorrow’s dawn.
Joy abides in the fulness of newness
And not in the study of old chapters
Of your old life-book.

11564

Your depression-vital is already strong.
The more you cherish it,
The more you strengthen it
And the sooner you dig
Your own aspiration-grave.

11565

Every morning and every evening
My heart longs for only a few glimpses
Of my Lord’s perfection-revealed
Satisfaction-Face.

11566

Only a God-oneness-heart
Does not roam
From destruction to satisfaction.
It always breathes in satisfaction-Delight.

11567

If you do not claim God
As your own, very own,
God is not going to perfect your life
So you can enjoy satisfaction-delight.

11568

May my heart’s devotion-intensity
Open my heart-door
The moment God knocks.

11569

Once more God is asking you
To make an immediate choice
Between your mind’s imperfection-night
And your heart’s perfection-sun.

11570

God cries
When I tell Him a lie.
God smiles and smiles
When I deliberately try
To fool Him.

11571

Because you have left
God’s Protection-Feet,
You now have become
Your mind’s destruction-debris.

11572

Peace at all costs!
Indeed,
This is my soul’s sacred promise
And my heart’s secret promise.

11573

God’s Forgiveness-Task
God has already performed.
My gratitude-task
I have not even started.
Alas, will I ever begin?

11574

My Lord tells me to feed Him
Not with my heart’s false promise-cries
But with my soul’s true promise-dreams.

11575

May my heart grow into
An endless aspiration-flight
So that I can battle against
All earth-temptation-
Imperfection-disaster-problems.

11576

You are thousands of miles short
Of your surrender-life.
How, then, can you expect God’s
Infinite Ocean-Delight?

11577

If you are a student
In the aspiration-school,
Then you cannot be found playing
In the self-interest-playground.

11578

Your incurable stupidity
Will be responsible for
Your fruitless future frustration-life.

11579

A life of uncertainty
Is bound to collide
With tomorrow’s God-blossoming hour.

11580

All his possibilities are locked up
Inside his hesitation-mind
Because his vital is a spiral
Of dark chaos.

11581

Unless I give my Lord Supreme
Complete freedom to mould my life
In His own Way,
How can I dare to expect
A perfection-life for myself?

11582

The mind’s huge division-walls
Can be torn down
Only with the heart’s soulful cries
And the life’s powerful smiles.

11583

I shall never walk
Along the road of ingratitude,
For that is the road
From which I will not be able to return
To my heart’s satisfaction-home.

11584

Is there any desire-life
That has not been stolen
From ignorance-king?
Again, is there any aspiration-life
That has not dethroned
Ignorance-king?

11585

Because you have
Vast patience-reserves,
Your inner pilot is happy with you
And fulfilled in you.

11586

Your soulful gratitude-days
Are long ago gone.
That means God has powerfully withdrawn
His Satisfaction-Sun
From your heart-cave.

11587

Do you want to have
An interview with God?
If so, send your cheerful love-valentines
To God’s Heaven-Home.

11588

You can utilise your Heaven-opportunities
Only by cultivating
One supreme necessity:
Your sleepless hunger-cry for God.

11589

Why have you allowed
Your dedication-life-light
To grow dim?
Is it because
You cannot separate yourself
From binding expectation-shackles?

11590

God wants us to see Him
As frequently as possible —
Even if it is not possible
During the day,
Then at least during
Our sleep-flooded dreams.

11591

When I become my heart-gratitude,
My Lord Supreme immediately becomes
His Forgiveness-Smile.

11592

There shall come a time
When my mind’s doubt
Will walk along the beautiful road
Of my aspiration-heart.
There shall definitely come a time.

11593

Every day I am praying
For a heart that will have poise-dynamo
To shatter my anxiety-mind.

11594

My heart’s sweetness
Is bound to conquer
My mind’s age-old bitterness.

11595

God’s Oneness-Love
You can neither buy nor sell,
You can only achieve.

11596

God asks you for
Your sleepless co-operation.
He does not demand
Your immediate perfection.

11597

First show God
Your mind’s peace-pond.
Only then will God grant you
His Heart-Ocean.

11598

Develop every day
Your endurance-capacity.
Then God will bless you
With His Assurance-Quality.

11599

No human mind is a stranger
To anxiety-calamity.
No divine heart is a stranger
To silence-profundity.

11600

My Lord, I am asking You
The hardest question:
When will I realise You?
“My child, I am giving you
The immediate answer:
The day your outer life becomes
A sky-vast surrender
And your inner life becomes
A sea-deep gratitude.”

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