Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 251

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25001

Everything that is beautiful,
Inspiring and aspiring
Can easily be found
Inside our heart-garden.

25002

It is not a wise thing
To reduce everything
To uniformity.

25003

God’s Compassion-Eye
Every day descends upon us
With an extremely sweet Smile.

25004

If one eye is in desire-life
And one is in aspiration-heart,
How can we successfully proceed
Towards our Destination?

25005

May my heart-room
Never have space
For my mind
And its millions of thoughts.

25006

A sleepless self-giver
Wins a free access
To God’s Peace-Kingdom.

25007

I do not want each moment
To contain a God-Secret.
I want each moment
To contain a God-Smile.

25008

All that I am
I owe only
To my Lord Beloved Supreme.

25009

Whenever I give
And to whomever I give,
I always give
With the simplicity, sincerity
And beauty of my heart,
And never with my hands.

25010

Not God’s Justice-Eye,
But His Compassion-Heart
Presides over
Our Heaven-climbing evolution.

25011

May each and every meditation
Of mine
Be a blossoming heart
Of my love for God.

25012

Each soulful thought
Has Heaven-climbing,
Soaring wings.

25013

In my deep meditation
I always breathe in
A flood of delight-fragrance.

25014

Each prayer from the heart
Is a self-offering-flame
To our Lord Beloved Supreme.

25015

I feed my heart
With the nectar-drops
Of my aspiration-heart-cries.

25016

My all-illumining soul tells me
That it is not an impossible task
For me to fight against
And conquer
My mind’s doubt-troops.

25017

The prayer-beauty
Of my searching mind
And the meditation-fragrance
Of my aspiring heart
Will forever remain unparalleled.

25018

An obedience-heart
Finds no difficulty
In following
Only God’s sunlit Path.

25019

May each moment
Of my life
Be the sweetness-fragrance
Of my heart-rose.

25020

Each deep meditation
Can reap
Happiness-fulness-harvest.

25021

If the mind has enthusiasm
And the heart has eagerness,
Then there is nothing
That can remain unaccomplished.

25022

The soul’s confidence-light
At God’s choice Hour
Uproots all the insecurities
Of our heart.

25023

My prayerful and soulful service-life
Is, indeed, the Satisfaction-Delight
Of my Lord Supreme.

25024

My self-giving life
Is the singing Heart
Of my Absolute Lord Supreme.

25025

If you have a gratitude-heart,
Then, without fail,
You will be able to take in
The breath of inner awakening.

25026

My God-gratitude-heart
Is my soul’s
Fountain-bliss-divinity.

25027

Our mind’s determination-wrestler,
Without fail, has to defeat
The temptation-wrestler of our vital.

25028

Nothing can be sweeter
Than the fragrance
Of our self-giving heart.

25029

My life’s pendulum
Swings from my heart’s hope
To my soul’s promise.

25030

Is God suffering because of me?
My sincerity-heart will answer
In the affirmative.
My insincerity-mind will answer
In the negative.

25031

My Lord Supreme,
If You do not break my head,
Then who will garland my heart?

25032

When I wonder how God still loves me,
God tells me
That His Hope for me
Will remain immortal.

25033

You can read a million books;
You may at most get God-inspiration,
But not God-realisation.
For God-realisation, you have to study
Only at your heart’s core.

25034

My Lord, I feel not only pure
But also perfect
When I place Your Feet
Upon my heart.

25035

My heart-tears and my soul-smiles
Always live together
Inside God’s Satisfaction-Heart.

25036

O my stupidity-mind,
Why do you always hide
From God’s all-illumining
And all-fulfilling Smile?

25037

I have sought shelter
Here, there, everywhere.
At long last,
I have found my only shelter
Inside the smiles of God’s Name.

25038

Our heart is meant
For oneness-love.
Our life is meant
For fulness-blossom.

25039

Self-giving sees always
The secret Guidance
Of our Lord Supreme.

25040

God is not going to embrace
Your aspiration-heart
If you do not escape the embrace
Of your pleasure-life.

25041

I am extremely proud
Of my Lord Supreme.
Why?
Because He can be
Utterly indifferent to me
To make my inner life
And outer life perfect.

25042

I know there shall come a time
When my desire-life will come to an end.
And now
My desire-life’s sincere plea to God:
“My Lord, do not give up on me!”

25043

My Lord, I pray to You
To bless me with a special Boon:
I would like to travel with You
Tirelessly and sleeplessly.

25044

My Lord, when I visit You
I become Your blessingful Smile.
My Lord, when You visit me
You become my prayerful cries.

25045

My Lord, why do I try to fathom
The depth of Your Compassion-Ocean?
Why?
My Lord, why do I try to measure
The length of Your Forgiveness-Sky?
Why?

25046

My Lord, do not avoid me,
Do not ignore me,
For this time, without fail,
I shall please You
In Your own Way.

25047

My Lord, once more
Appoint me compassionately.
This time
I shall prayerfully and self-givingly
Satisfy You.

25048

Self-indulgence I must shun
If I want to see the Rainbow-Smile
Of my Lord Supreme.

25049

My Lord, in countless ways
I have tried and I have failed
To keep You permanently
In the tears and smiles
Of my aspiration-heart.

25050

When you want to succeed,
Use your vital-dynamo.
When you want to proceed,
Use your heart-tears.

25051

God’s Vastness does not mind
Living inside my life’s smallness,
As long as God gets a sweet smile
From my heart every day.

25052

My Lord, my desire-life
Pains You badly.
Yet I do not know why
I do not give up my desire-life
And embark on my aspiration-life.

25053

God does not need
My heart-temple.
He needs only
My aspiration-breath-shrine.

25054

My Lord Supreme
Not only tells me when to fight,
But also tells me how to fight
Against my inner enemies:
Doubt, insecurity, impurity
And unwillingness.

25055

O seeker,
If you do not want to leave behind
Your unaspiring mind,
Then beg your aspiring heart
To bring God’s Compassion-Presence
Inside your unaspiring mind.

25056

When my heart becomes
A sleepless God-hunger,
God the Compassion feeds me
With His entire universal Existence.

25057

My Lord, may my outer life become
The Beauty of Your Eye,
And may my inner life become
The Fragrance of Your Heart.

25058

My Lord, when I tell You
That I do not need You,
Please do not take me seriously,
Even for a fleeting second.

25059

My Lord, when You tell me
That You do not need me,
Please give me the capacity
To believe You immediately.

25060

My Lord, do show me the way
To please You
So that I can devotedly
And self-givingly be worthy
Of Your Compassion-flooded
Love and Need.

25061

My Lord Supreme,
Do give me the capacity
To open my heart
As often as I open my hands.

25062

God’s Eye
Can and shall cradle
Always
My self-giving oneness-heart.

25063

May my heart
Every day become
A sacred and portable
God-shrine.

25064

My heart, cry and cry,
For this is the only way
To drink deeply
From God’s Nectar-Fountain-Heart.

25065

Life becomes an all-fulfilling song
When God invites us
To powerfully strike His Heart-Gong.

25066

A most powerful meditation begins
Only after God has touched
Our aspiration-heart.

25067

My heart is afraid of God’s Face
Only when
My mind ruthlessly disregards
My Lord’s Grace.

25068

Let us immediately respond
To God’s Call,
For His Call is only to divinise our mind
And immortalise our heart.

25069

If we really love God
And if we really need God,
Then we must never hide
Behind the mask
Of our human weaknesses.

25070

A new life is crying in me.
A new life is crying for me.
A new life is pushing me forward
Towards God’s Lotus-Feet.

25071

If anything stops
My heart’s aspiration-flames,
Then how can I expect
God’s celestial Smile?

25072

My Lord, do give me the capacity
To drive my heart-car
On the fastest lane
Of my surrender-life-highway.

25073

Newness is not enough.
Inside newness we must feel holiness.
Holiness is not enough.
Inside holiness we must see and feel
God’s Compassion-flooded Fulness.

25074

Not even for a fleeting second
We must remain inside our mind-desert
If we want to grow faith-seeds.
Faith-seeds grow
Only inside our heart-garden.

25075

I have covered a very long distance
From my mind-thorns
To my heart-blossoms.

25076

Desire-life is the emptiness
Of nothingness —
Nothing more and nothing less.

25077

My heart-yearning
Is flying towards Heaven.
How and why?
Because my God-Hour has struck!

25078

My aspiration-heart
Is always homesick
To be with God
And to place itself
At the Feet of God.

25079

My Lord, where are You?
“My child, I am at three different places
At the same time.
I am inside your silence-mind.
I am inside your silence-heart.
I am inside your silence-life.”

25080

My Lord tells me
That as long as I have
A doubting mind,
He will not be able to free me
From my mind’s darkest bondage-night.

25081

I feed my Lord’s big Eye
With the tears
Of my small heart.

25082

My Lord feeds my small heart
With the Smiles
Of His big Eye.

25083

I do not know
How I can ever show my face
To my Master
If I deliberately absent myself
From his grace.

25084

It is, indeed, utter stupidity
When we think that God
Has turned a deaf ear
To the helplessness of our
Prayer-cries.

25085

Every day God shows us the way
To be an exact prototype of Himself,
But we pay no heed to Him.

25086

Alas, for centuries
I have forced my Lord Supreme
To remain fast asleep
Inside my darkness-mind-room.

25087

My Lord Supreme,
Excellence I do not long for.
Existence in You only
I long for.

25088

My Lord, You have performed
A supreme miracle for me:
To house Yourself inside my puny heart,
You have transformed Your Vastness
Into the smallest atoms.

25089

My Lord, give me the capacity
To claim You devotedly
The way You claim me
Proudly.

25090

My Beloved Supreme tells me
That I shall never be able
To exhaust His Patience,
But He can and He shall
Exhaust my ignorance.

25091

O my doubting mind,
Be wise, be wise!
Just allow once and for all
My aspiring heart to step in.

25092

If we indulge
In our insecurity and jealousy,
Our inner life will always remain
Impoverished.

25093

Every evening my soul invites
My body, vital, mind and heart
To dine.
Only my heart devotedly accepts
The invitation.

25094

As there is no right time
For God-Forgiveness,
Even so, there is no right time
For God-Compassion.
They are always readily available.

25095

A good life means
An aspiring and dedicated life.
It does not mean a life of indulgence
In any way.

25096

There is no such thing
As an ordinary day.
Any day can be successfully transformed
Into an aspiration-day.

25097

Solitude can either be
An escape from reality
Or a genuine God-longing cry.

25098

God tells me that
It is never too late
To love Him,
Need Him, fulfil Him
And please Him.

25099

Earthly heart-breaking sorrows
Lead us more quickly to God
Than do earthly shallow joys.

25100

The smiles of our heart
And the dances of our life
Are the real Heaven-currencies.

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