Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 208

20701

When I live in the purity-heart
I get confidence-light,
For my soul frequently visits me.

20702

Leave far behind
Your own way
Of living, thinking
And even imagining.

20703

The acceptance
Of responsibility
Is not the acceptance
Of a burden
But the multiplication
Of opportunity.

20704

Every day God lavishes upon you
His Compassion-Smiles.
Can you not decorate His Feet
With your aspiration-heart-flowers?

20705

My soul
At every moment advises me
To be prayerfully on the watch
So that I do not displease God
At any moment.

20706

The time that is allotted to us
May not be infinite,
But the opportunities that are given to us
To become perfect instruments of God
Are infinitely more than we need.

20707

Sincerity,
I appreciate your beauty.
Purity,
I admire your power.
Divinity,
I love your oneness.

20708

Your soul wants to know from you
To whom you prayed,
When you prayed,
Where you prayed
And how you prayed.
Answer the questions adequately!

20709

When God’s Eye sees
That your aspiration is absolutely reliable,
God smilingly and self-givingly
Makes Himself available.

20710

A life without goals
Is a helpless passenger
In a sinking boat
Without a boatman.

20711

The obedience of the mind
Is found between
Hesitation and frustration.
The obedience of the heart
Is found between
Eagerness and happiness.

20712

If you want to count,
Then do count your heart’s
Aspiration-moments
And not your mind’s
Desire-days.

20713

I shall one day surely see
What God has already seen
In me and for Him.

20714

Your aspiration-heart
Definitely has the capacity
To release you
From your doubt-prison.

20715

Do not be afraid
Of your yesterday’s nightmare.
Nightmares
Have very short lives!

20716

God does not enjoy
My devotion-exhibition.
He only enjoys
My devotion-purification.

20717

Pray and meditate
Soulfully and regularly.
You will be able to watch and enjoy
Your own step-by-step progress-march.

20718

Your action
Founded upon your aspiration
Is bound to give
Your mind illumination,
Your heart salvation
And your life liberation.

20719

Those who study
At self-doubt-school
Are shockingly miserable.

20720

Can you not see that
God’s Heart-Letter to you
You have left unopened
For such a long time!

20721

An impure mind
Is the source
Of all your thought-storms.

20722

God the Singer
Is exceptionally happy
When the seekers’ aspiration-hearts
Join Him in singing.

20723

The glorification
Of desire-fulfilment
Is nothing other than
The helpless starvation
Of aspiration.

20724

My Lord,
If Your Compassion-Eye
Does not teach me,
How can I ever succeed
In the outer life?
My Lord,
If Your Satisfaction-Heart
Does not teach me,
How can I ever proceed
In the inner life?

20725

God comes every day
On Compassion-tiptoe.
But alas,
My aspiration-heart-eye
Always remains fast asleep.

20726

Man’s imagination reaches
The highest height of hallucination
When he thinks
That God is indifferent to him.

20727

God has provided us
With millions of ways
To catch and throw away
Our impure thoughts.

20728

O my life, wake up!
When are you going to be tired
Of your ruthless mind-slavery?

20729

Faith is the heart’s
Sacred discovery
And not the mind’s
Secret invention.

20730

Another name for the mind-cancer
Is suspicion.
Another name for the heart-cancer
Is ingratitude.

20731

My mind thinks that my God-service
Is an obligation.
My heart feels that my God-service
Is an illumination.

20732

According to me,
I am God’s frustration.
According to God,
I am still in preparation.

20733

What my inert mind needs
Is enthusiasm-lightning-speed
To make the fastest progress
In the spiritual life.

20734

O my stupid mind,
Can you not see
That all your satisfactions
Are superficial and artificial?

20735

No matter how hard we try
To conquer
Our voracious tiger-thoughts,
We simply fail.

20736

When will my mind become
A God-obedience-qualifier
And my heart
A God-gratitude-qualifier?

20737

O seeker,
God is not asking you
To prove His existence on earth.
He is asking you only to be
His constantly self-giving instrument.

20738

O my mind, O my heart,
I am so proud of you two,
For today God Himself
Will be proudly present
At your obedience-gratitude-graduation.

20739

If you magnify your self-importance,
Then you are bound to lose
Your Lord’s Satisfaction-Smiles.

20740

Nobody can expect anything
Great or good
From his moody mind
And bloody vital.

20741

Nobody can deny that at times
His aspiration-life and dedication-life
Are strewn with upheavals.

20742

Idleness
Is always nourished
By hundreds of excuses.

20743

A God-attention-monopoliser
Can never be
A true God-lover.

20744

A world-saviour
Who is not first and foremost
A God-worshipper
Is indeed an off-key note.

20745

The silence-eye-advice
Is infinitely more fruitful
Than the sound-drum-advice.

20746

If you are a disbeliever,
You will not be exiled by God,
But you will not
Be needed by God, either.

20747

My Lord says to me,
“My child,
Just give Me your small mind.
I shall immediately give you
My big Heart.”

20748

O seeker,
Never allow frustration
To clip your aspiration-heart-wings.

20749

A man of compromise
Will never realise
The beauty, purity and divinity
Of Truth.

20750

When you love God unconditionally,
God expedites
His own Arrival time.

20751

Your soul will love you infinitely more
If you give credit to God
For all your aspiration-dedication-capacities.

20752

I may not know where God is,
I may never know who God is,
But I shall always keep
A God-gratitude-heart.

20753

How can a mind be happy
If it does not look forward?
How can a heart be happy
If it does not dive inward?
How can a life be happy
If it does not fly upward?

20754

The Beauty of God’s Eyes
Is all-pervading.
The Fragrance of God’s Heart
Is all-transcending.

20755

The mind’s willingness
And the heart’s eagerness
Can definitely do the impossible.

20756

God closes His Eyes
To examine me.
God opens His Eyes
To forgive me.

20757

What is keeping me still alive
On earth?
My Master’s faith in me,
And nothing else!

20758

Even
My unwillingness-face
Can see
God’s displeasure-Eye.

20759

The home of power
Is peace.
The home of peace
Is oneness.
The home of oneness
Is God’s Vision-Reality.

20760

In the spiritual life
Obedience-wisdom-delight
Far surpasses
All other wisdom.

20761

My Lord,
I am not praying to Your Heart
To love me.
I am praying to Your Eye
Not to leave me.

20762

Since my aspiration-life
Is God’s creation-object,
I must have God’s Life
As my manifestation-project.

20763

God’s Heart carries me,
God’s Eye protects me,
God’s Breath feeds me
Along Eternity’s Road.

20764

Where am I?
Alas, I am in between
My cheerless heart
And
My godless mind.

20765

My outer silence
Definitely helps mankind.
My inner silence
Unconditionally serves
My Lord Supreme.

20766

Pray to God
With the rising sun,
Meditate on God
With the blossoming moon,
When your life is riddled
With self-doubt.

20767

A sleeplessly self-giving heart
Is unparalleled
In God’s beauty-creation.

20768

God’s Satisfaction-Pride
In the soul’s smile
Can easily challenge
The pride of death.

20769

Although God’s manifestation
Is taking place
By very small degrees
And not by leaps and bounds,
God is extremely satisfied.

20770

God is not discouraged,
God is not disheartened,
But God is confused
About why the mind
Is so constantly unwilling
To aspire.

20771

Only a silence-mind
Can remain unperturbed
By thought-threats.

20772

Make a conscious and constant effort,
O seeker,
To end your unhappiness-indulgence.

20773

The freedom of the desire-mind
Is either absolutely shallow
Or completely empty.

20774

A God-searching mind
And a God-loving heart
Are the dependable deputies
Of the soul.

20775

O my mind,
Do not retire!
Continue inspiring the world.
O my heart,
Do not retire!
Continue praying for the world.

20776

Do not keep your God
Inside your hallucination-mind,
Frustration-vital
And perdition-body.

20777

A true spiritual life
Is fully nourished
Only by God-love,
God-service
And God-loyalty.

20778

God will sing
His Compassion-Satisfaction-Songs
When He sees
Even a single ray of faith
Inside your mind.

20779

First give God
What you have and what you are.
God will definitely come to you
With His Nectar-bestowing Hands.

20780

What is the mark
Of real enlightenment?
The mark of real enlightenment
Is ceaseless and sleepless
Contentment.

20781

May I be found meditating
At the Feet
Of my Lord Supreme
Or dreaming
Inside the Heart
Of my Lord Supreme.

20782

The human ego
Does not believe in
Others’ leadership
Or even friendship.

20783

We should be equally careful
Of our jealousy-minds
And our insecurity-hearts.

20784

God is tired
Of only one thing:
My ego-exhibit.

20785

Be a sweetness-flute
When you deal with the world.
But be a thunderbolt
When you deal with yourself.

20786

Is there any difference
Between a gratitude-heart
And a happiness-life?
The gratitude-heart is the nest.
The happiness-life is the tree.

20787

God wants your mind
To serve His creation,
Not to teach His creation.

20788

When willingness and eagerness
Are present,
The road that leads to God-destination
Automatically becomes sunlit.

20789

The soul-instructor
Lovingly and proudly
Gives obedience-lessons
To the heart, mind, vital and body,
Always free of charge.

20790

God’s Heart
We can most satisfactorily feed
Only with our own heart’s
Silence-meditation-flames.

20791

The desire-train-ride
Is always unpleasant,
Uncomfortable and unfulfilling.

20792

Heaven blesses us
With stupendous oneness-cheers.
The world blesses us
With fear-torture and doubt-torture.

20793

In the spiritual life
Love-devotion-surrender-shortage
Is not an uncommon experience.

20794

We are so fortunate
That there is no cut-off time
In our Eternity’s aspiration-run.

20795

Alas, I do know
That God does not expect
Anything special
From my short-lived surrender-life.

20796

O my mind,
I really want to discourage you
In your book learning
And encourage you
In your heart-opening.

20797

Silence-determination
Expedites
Our aspiration-heart-journey.

20798

The inner sun
Sleeplessly and compassionately shines
In our aspiration-heart-garden.

20799

There can be no fulfilment
If we do not open up
Our aspiration-lives
To unexplored horizons.

20800

When you are your mind’s
Childlike readiness,
When you are your heart’s
Childlike willingness,
When you are your life’s
Childlike self-offering,
The arrival of God the Grace
Cannot be delayed.

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