Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 162

16101

First things first!
Don’t delay any more.
Go and invite God
To participate in
Your surrender-oneness-game.

16102

God Himself
Has given me the capacity
To declare war against
My doubting mind,
Dethrone it and replace it
With my soulful heart.

16103

God needs everything
From human beings.
Therefore, let us start
With our small heart-contribution.

16104

When ignorance tries
To snatch us away
From God’s Oneness-Love
And we surrender to ignorance,
God sheds helpless tears.

16105

God does not need
Your explanation,
No, never!
He needs only
Your soulful dedication
And prayerful aspiration.

16106

If you want illumination
In your life,
Then immediately discard
All your barren mental speculations.

16107

If you do not live
In the Heart of God
For the Smile of God,
Then your life-boat
Will definitely sink.

16108

If you want to reach
The pinnacle-heights
Of ecstasy,
Then turn your life
Into a self-giving surrender-breath.

16109

To please God, my Lord Supreme,
In His own Way
Right from the morning
Until I go to sleep at night
Is my fondest aspiration-dream.

16110

The mind’s emptiness
Is needed
Before God’s Fulness can enter
Into the mind.

16111

If your life is God-oriented,
Then definitely God will reveal
His Oneness-Life
In and through you.

16112

Do you want to claim
God’s Affection and Intimacy?
Then immediately kindle
Your aspiration-heart’s gratitude-flames.

16113

Your mind does not need
Fear, doubt, anxiety,
Inferiority and insecurity,
For it already has these things.
Your mind
Needs only love,
Affection, concern and compassion
From its sister-heart.

16114

O my mind,
Are you not embarrassed
That every time
God comes to your door,
You do not open the door
Through sheer unwillingness and obstinacy?

16115

Each human being may be today
An unfinished portrait
Of the Absolute Supreme.
But there shall come a time
When each human being will be
A supremely perfect portrait
Of his Beloved Supreme.

16116

There is no harm
In dreaming of,
There is no harm
In looking for
A God-sanctified day.

16117

The spark that will awaken
Man’s ignorance-mind
Is already there
In his own aspiration-heart.

16118

Nobody remains forever
An unheralded messenger-light of God,
For God wants His messenger
To be known
At His choice Hour.

16119

How can we desert
Ignorance-army
Unless we take shelter
At God’s omnipotent Feet?

16120

Aspiration awakens us.
Dedication energises us.
Realisation fulfils us.

16121

O my mind,
Is it not too late
For you to say a final good-bye
To your desire-friend?
But do it anyway!
You must do it.
Better late than never!

16122

A constant swing
Between desire-life and aspiration-life:
This is what human life is.
The constant increase
Of aspiration-life:
This is what the divine life will be.

16123

Each aspiration-effort
Either today or tomorrow
Will bear fruit,
For our aspiration comes directly
From God’s Compassion-Eye.

16124

The world criticises you,
My seeker-friend.
I see your heart is full
Of the world’s criticism-scars.
But God’s Compassion-Eye
Will liberate you
From the world’s wild criticism.
Just work for God,
And God alone will please you
And fulfil you.

16125

My Lord Supreme,
Am I destined to see
Only Your Tear-flooded Eyes
And not Your Smile-flooded Face?

16126

Without determination-fire
There can be no
Progress-satisfaction-smile.

16127

O my mind,
When will you be tired
Of your ego-life’s
Self-styled arrogance-dance?

16128

If any morning
I forget to feed
My heart of devotion-light,
Then the entire day
Misery ruthlessly haunts me.

16129

Within
I see nothing
But my Lord’s
Bliss-Compassion-Eye.
Without
I see nothing
But ignorance and its army.

16130

There are many gods
To arouse curiosity
In my mind.
But there is only one God
To awaken divinity
In my heart.

16131

My Lord’s Heart
And my Lord’s Satisfaction
Are infinitely more important
Than my perfection-hunger-aspiration.

16132

Wisdom-light
Is free of charge in Heaven.
Alas, on earth
Its absence is deplorable.

16133

I do not mind
If my outer smiles
Come only to go.
But I shall die
If my inner cries
Do not forever stay.

16134

Can you not see that
Your possession-hunger-mind
Has ruthlessly possessed
Your renunciation-hunger-heart?

16135

Your soul’s strength
And your heart’s length
Are God’s blessingful Smiles.

16136

God is telling me
That if I need Him
As my true Friend,
Then He will not allow me
To be with my false friends,
Fear and doubt.

16137

My inner being
Shall dance and dance
If ever my outer life
Becomes a blade of humility-grass.

16138

God does not know
How to complain.
He only knows sleeplessly
How to entertain.

16139

My Lord Supreme,
Do give me the strength
To wrestle with my titan-fate!

16140

Your life is not
Your mind-thorn.
Your life is
Your heart-blossom.

16141

O my mind-fool,
You think you can pluck
Satisfaction-fruits
From desire-tree!

16142

God does not want me to sing,
Not because I am a bad singer
But because He wants and needs
Only a good listener.

16143

Nobody will value
Your heart’s sacred secrets.
Share your sacred secrets
Only with your Inner Pilot,
For He will not only value them
But also treasure them.

16144

Not for only the selected few,
But for all and sundry
My heart-garden-entrance
Is free.

16145

My Lord,
Will You teach me
How to surrender unconditionally?
“My child,
I shall teach you
Only after
You have completely stopped dancing
With your self-doubts.”

16146

Without aspiration,
The hope for satisfaction
Is a hopeless dream.

16147

Do you want to know
What God actually wants
From you?
God wants only one thing:
A heart of sincere
Satisfaction-peace.

16148

Is there any human being
Who has never been a producer
Of measureless ignorance-grain?

16149

You do not know
What you are supposed to be.
You are supposed to be
Only one thing:
A God-Compassion-thirsty heart.

16150

O my mind,
Are you not ashamed
Of your obscurity, insincerity
And impurity-mutterings?

16151

Transform
Your pitiful sighs
Into your powerful
Laughter.

16152

O my seeker-friend,
I am deeply interested
In your soul-inspired
God-manifestation,
And in nothing else.

16153

A heart of ingratitude
Is undoubtedly
A barren desert-land.

16154

Between my mind’s divinity
And my heart’s purity,
The connecting thread
Is my soulful willingness.

16155

In my own life
I shall vote only for
The unconditional surrender
Of a God-lover.

16156

If you long for
God’s Oneness-Ecstasy,
Then demolish immediately
Your mind’s resistance-walls.

16157

Not the absence of the mind
But the tranquillity of the mind
Is what we need
To go far beyond
The domain of the mind.

16158

Before the soul’s satisfaction-sunrise
Is nothing but
The unseen and unnoticed sunrise
Of God’s Compassion-Eye.

16159

Alas,
I have seen with my own eyes
Every day
The world-aspiration-flights
Leaving for Heaven’s summit-heights.
Will I ever be a passenger?

16160

Intensify your mind’s
Concentration-power
If you are longing for God’s
Compassion-Shower.

16161

My heart is always eager
To treasure
The divinity-fragrance
Of my soul.

16162

You have lost your enthusiasm.
Indeed, it is a sad experience.
But do not allow it to continue.
Restore your enthusiasm
As soon as possible!

16163

To go beyond
Earth-bound time,
We need our soul’s
Adamantine determination-fire.

16164

If it is an aspiration-heart,
Then it will definitely
Take flight
On God’s Compassion-Airline.

16165

The mind-boat
Of an unaspiring human being
Is bound to rock
With stark doubts.

16166

Only an unconditional surrender-heart
Can become a sleepless
God-satisfaction-instrument.

16167

No genuine seeker
Can ever forget
The Satisfaction-Smile of God
Inside his heart-garden.

16168

There is only one spirituality-road,
And that road
Is the road of the heart’s
Intensity-cry
For God’s Immensity-Smile.

16169

My heart’s confidence-light
Does not want to conquer
My mind’s night,
But wants to illumine it
And transform it into courage-day.

16170

His inner life
And outer life
Are thriving
On his sleepless heart-dreams.

16171

In vain
The mind tries and tries
To destroy the beauty,
Purity and divinity
Of the heart of sweetness.

16172

Do not blame God!
He is all eagerness
To help you climb to the top
Of your aspiration-summit.

16173

With the purity
Of their gratitude-hearts,
The God-lovers can and will
Save the imperfection-flooded world.

16174

I call it
My self-giving.
God calls it
My recognition of
Oneness-living.

16175

Each aspiration-day
Is flooded
With the sweetness and fulness
Of God-memories.

16176

If you do not overlook
Others’ so-called injustices,
How can you expect to be forgiven
For your own conscious
And unconscious blunders?

16177

My home
Is His Compassion-Head.
My home
Is His Protection-Feet.
My home
Is His Satisfaction-Heart.

16178

All freedom-lovers
Are invited to be members
Of perfection-satisfaction-family.

16179

Each soul
Comes into the world
With a special, peace-loving message
From the Absolute Supreme.

16180

If you are not at ease
In the Presence
Of God’s Compassion-Eye,
How will you be at ease
In the Presence
Of God’s Justice-Hand?

16181

The mind
Loves to collect
Baseless worries and anxieties
Either foolishly
Or consciously.

16182

Every day
I enjoy my peace-voyage
In my God-Oneness-
Ecstasy-Peace-Heart-Boat.

16183

Do not be the possessor
Of a perishable aspiration-cry.
Do not be the possessor
Of a perishable dedication-life.

16184

Your compassion-heart
Is always being protected
By God’s Oneness-Joy.

16185

Your gratitude-heart
Gives you
A satisfaction-permeated life.

16186

If you do not remain
Perfectly in tune with
Your Lord’s Message supreme,
Then undoubtedly
Yours will be
An utter failure-life.

16187

The ordinary way of life
Can easily be overcome
By the new way
Of surrender-delight.

16188

O my mind,
How can I ever
Be proud of you?
You treasure constantly
Contradiction-night.

16189

In his human progress-march,
He did not forget
To carry the unaspiring mind
Into his aspiration-dedication-life.

16190

Because of God’s
Unconditional Compassion-Magnet,
This world of ours
Can dare to hope.

16191

Your life is not meant to be
An austerity-candle.
Your life is meant to be
A God-prosperity-sun.

16192

A purity-heart
Is
A truth-manifestation-life.

16193

I am always
In perfect harmony
With the supreme Command
Of my Absolute Supreme.

16194

Your mind’s humility
And your heart’s purity
Have become
A tremendous source of inspiration
To the whole world.

16195

Each gratitude-heart
Has received from God
His own Satisfaction-Pride.

16196

O my mind,
I cannot nourish you,
I cannot treasure you,
For you are deliberately not trying
To free yourself
From ignorance-madness.

16197

Earth’s sadness-heart
And Heaven’s greatness-soul:
I am caught between you two.

16198

The spiritual life teaches us
How to transform
Infinite possibilities
Into supremely perfect realities.

16199

Be calm and quiet!
Your tomorrow’s
God-manifestation-joy
Is fast approaching you.

16200

Man’s universal question:
“Is God really for me?”
God’s universal Answer:
“If I am not for you,
Then for whom?
My child, I am only for you,
Your heart of cries
And your soul of smiles.
I am only for you.”

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