Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 40

3901

My soul’s promise to my Lord Supreme
Is the longest and strongest bridge
Over my life’s abyss.

3902

My Beloved Supreme tells me
That my smiling dreams
Have to be transformed
Into my dancing realities.
Then only will I be able
To please Him
In His own Way.

3903

O my heart of aspiration,
Stay with me.
My soul of delight is coming
To take you and me
To Heaven’s Ecstasy-Palace.

3904

I shall not use any more
My common sense,
For my common sense
Is a common thing
Which everybody has.
From now on I shall use
Only one sense:
My surrender-sense,
Which lives only in God
And only for God.

3905

A useless seeker
Knows how to give
Constant advice.

A first-class seeker
Knows only how to abide by
God’s self-giving Advice.

3906

All my friends
Have come and gone.
Only one friend is left:
My hope-friend.
This hope-friend of mine
Will stay with me forever,
Since its Creator,
God the Dream,
Will always remain inside me
To grow into
God the Reality.

3907

Nothing remains
Save and except one thing:
My conscious need for God.

3908

Humanity’s dream is not a question
That has to be answered.
It is a reality
That wants to be manifested
In God’s Heart-Garden.

3909

You can meet with
Ordinary people
And enjoy their company.
But never forget
That you have to give
Something special to them.

3910

O doubter-mind,
Can you not stop doubting
Only once?
Can you not stop thinking
Only once?
Can you not start loving
And becoming a oneness-heart
Even for a fleeting hour?

3911

You are oblivious
To your soul’s compassion-light.
But your soul’s self-giving
Is always quite obvious
To God’s Vision-Light.

3912

Equanimity-balance within me
Is gone
Because I have asked my mind
To steer my life-boat.

3913

I ask God,
Is there any special reason
Why He tortures me?
God asks me,
Is there any special reason
Why I do not please Him
Cheerfully and unconditionally
All the time?
Is there any special reason?

3914

Frustration-clouds veil your face
Because your heart’s aspiration-flames
Do not desire to reach
Your soul’s illumination-sun.

3915

His hunger for possession
Never ends.
His thirst for renunciation
Never begins.
Therefore, God does not know
When to come and visit him.

3916

At long last
God is extremely proud of you
Because the disobedience
Of your vital-bull
Has completely surrendered
To the obedience
Of your heart-lamb.

3917

Do not cry, do not cry!
God lives also
In the heart of tomorrow.
I assure you,
Tomorrow’s heart
Of satisfaction-delight
Will be all yours.

3918

Before doubt strikes your mind,
Can you not grow faith-plant
Cheerfully and carefully
Inside your heart-garden?

3919

Do not ignore any warning!
Each warning is as fatal
As the final warning.

3920

When he joined the spiritual path,
He had a brief period
Of inner torture.
Now it is all over.
His heart is all confidence-light.

3921

There is only one thing on earth
That can justify life,
And that thing is
Man’s satisfaction-love,
Which grows inside man’s heart
And glows inside God’s heart.

3922

I tell you
With absolute certainty
That there is no special reward
For your self-styled struggles.

3923

The crying voice
Of every heart
Fulfils man’s
Heavenward choice.

3924

You need not long for anything else
As long as your heart has the capacity
To attract God’s Compassion-Attention.

3925

O my mind,
You think your deplorable misdeeds
Are quite adorable.
Is it not the height
Of your stupidity?

3926

Before Heaven accepts you,
Heaven sends one of its messengers
To go through your references.

3927

A strange twist of fate
Has compelled him to descend
From his aspiration-peak
Into his frustration-abyss.

3928

You want to board
The realisation-plane.
Show me first
Your aspiration-ticket!

3929

If you throw jealousy-stones
At this world,
The world of ecstasy
Will never welcome you.

3930

If you are ready to dream,
Then only will God the Supreme
Stand before you
As God the Satisfaction-Reality.

3931

God gave me one more chance
To transform my information-mind
Into an inspiration and aspiration-heart.

3932

When a seeker fails
In his aspiration-life,
It must be taken as a great lesson
For all the other seekers.

3933

My life’s ecstasy-melody
I hear
When I do not cherish
My weakness-wheelchair.

3934

Please wait for me one more moment,
O my Lord Supreme.
Your Compassion-Telegram
I was afraid to open
For fear that I would not be ready
To follow You speedily
In Your own Way.

3935

I have consulted my expert heart.
It tells me that my mind-tiger
Will eventually turn into
My heart-lion,
The lion that roars for divine victory.

3936

You call it
Your inner silence-delight.
I call it
Your heart’s life-deafening sound.

3937

The heart is so compassionate
That it does not want the mind
To lag behind
In any walk of life.

3938

An unexpected visitor
Entered into his heart
To tell him that the Heavenly God
Does not mind if he fails
So long as he wants to try
Again and again.

3939

Doubt is undoubtedly a god,
But it is a false god.
Why do you have to obey
A false god?
Obey the real God:
Faith.

3940

You have tried.
You have not succeeded.
That does not mean
That you will not try any more.
Try once more!
You will not only succeed
In the life that becomes
But also proceed
In the life that eternally is.

3941

Do not be a fool!
You are supposed to pray and meditate
Right on the battlefield of life.
The Himalayan caves
Are totally out of date.

3942

The soul’s mother tongue
Is God-Beauty’s
Satisfaction-nourishing Heart.

3943

Do not allow yourself
To be devoured by past mistakes,
For God is expecting from your life
A profound inner transformation.

3944

Two visible hands
Have imprisoned you.
One invisible Hand
Is liberating you.

3945

The luxuries of your outer life
Are impoverishing
The beauty and purity
Of your inner life.

3946

You live in your mind’s
Stupidity-cave.
Therefore, you deny your soul’s
Divinity-palace.

3947

What counted
Was God’s Compassion.
What counts
Is God’s Forgiveness.
What will count
Is my gratitude.

3948

Do not settle for anything less
Than the complete transformation
Of your earth-bound ignorance-cry.

3949

Like his soul,
His heart also wants to become
A professional
In God’s Cosmic Game.

3950

He has been campaigning
For God the Justice,
But God the Compassion always wins
In his life.

3951

Do not be surprised
To discover a ray of delight
Inside your heart.
There shall come a time
When your heart will be inundated
With God’s Self-transcending Delight.

3952

If you deliberately ignore
Your heart of faith,
Then you are unmistakably
Opening your life
To accept the invitation
Of a terrible disaster.

3953

If you keep
Your sweet and illumining dream
Alive,
Then fulfilling realities
Cannot remain a far cry.

3954

There is no borderline
Between
The stupidity of the mind
And the impurity of the vital.

3955

If your mind has complaints,
Then those complaints
Your mind must discard.
Do not bring
Your mind’s complaints to God,
For He has
Infinitely more important things
To deal with.

3956

Each life has a few false starts.
But eventually each life
Will not only finish the race
But also win the race.

3957

If you do not offer
Your love-blossoms,
Then you will soon see
Hatred-thorns before you.

3958

To have a heart
Of selfless dedication
That is not supported
By a heart of aspiration
Is a stupidly unconventional way
To walk along God’s Road.

3959

You think
Truth is too painful.
But I assure you,
Truth will one day prove to you
That it is only bountiful.

3960

A mind of hesitation
And a vital of frustration
Are the two short circuits
In your aspiration-current.

3961

Those who do not know
How to share
Have to know
That God also does not know
How to care for them.

3962

It is simply not yet your turn
To realise God
And to play God’s Role
On earth.

3963

Do not chase anything.
But if you have to chase,
Then only chase away
Your temptation-tiger.

3964

You have made God so happy
By leaping over
Your high ego-hurdles.

3965

The mind has to become accustomed
To running side by side
With the heart and the soul.

3966

God wants man to discover
His Heavenly bloom.
Instead of doing that,
Man invents his own earthly doom.

3967

If you walk
Only on hope-clouds,
You will miss
Reality’s satisfaction-feast.

3968

He is totally lost
Between his mind’s
Brooding doubts
And his heart’s
Increasing faith.

3969

Do come to me
To learn a little meditation.
Do come to me
To give me a little
Of your dedication.

3970

He talks
Of only one thing:
His heart’s deathless sorrows.

3971

He does not want God,
He does not need God.
He is swelling
With his own self-importance.

3972

Sadness weighs upon your heart
Because you have not
Freed your mind
From its suspicion-madness.

3973

You have to carry
Your deplorable fate
Since your heart is not willing
To accept God’s Will
As your only Saviour.

3974

God does not want
To catch your consciousness
Off guard.

He wants you
Only to keep your consciousness
Always high.

3975

Consciously
You may think you need life
And not death.
But
Unconsciously
You choose ignorance-death
Over life.

3976

You cannot get along
Even with God’s Compassion-Heart.
How can you ever hope
To get along
With man’s deception-mind?

3977

Every day
God gives you
A faith-transfusion.
But even then every day
You take doubt-poison!

3978

A true and sincere God-lover
Does not and cannot live
On a meagre aspiration-income.

3979

Simplify your life,
Purify your heart,
Multiply your God-love.
Lo, God is claiming you
As His very own.

3980

You do not have the patience
To wait for God’s Hour,
But you think that the world
Has time to wait with patience
For your transformation-hour.

3981

You do not have the patience
To wait for God’s Hour.
How do you then expect God
To grant you His Eternity’s
Satisfaction-Tower?

3982

Do not think
That it is an impossible task
For you to liberate your mind
From suspicion-swing.

3983

If you want to spend all your life
Observing others,
God is not going to prevent you.
God will just start observing those
Who have no one else to observe
But Him.

3984

A heart of fear
And a mind of doubt
Are the two great extinguishers
Of my inner life.

3985

God wants to keep
His Love-Length and His Divinity-Depth
Always unmeasured,
And I want them to be
Sleeplessly treasured
By my aspiration-heart.

3986

Even when his inner road
Becomes dangerous,
He does not surrender
To the comfort-loving
And comfort-spreading
Outer road.

3987

Whom do I love most?
I love most
God the Dreamer.
Why?
Because God the Dreamer
Never fails me.

3988

If you try a little harder,
I assure you,
You will be able to liberate yourself
From your dingy mind-slum.

3989

If you allow your ego to pretend,
Your ego will not only bend
Your life-tree
But also uproot
The whole tree.

3990

There is a continuous battle
Between my earthly greed
And my Heavenly need.
Needless to say,
My earthly greed always wins,
Only to lose miserably.

3991

The human vital knows how to resist.
The human mind knows how to insist.
Alas, there is nothing divine in me
That will teach me how to desist
From doing the wrong things.

3992

The Inner Pilot tells him
That he excels in everything
Because he is of His Ancient Source.

3993

Do not try to escape
From His all-seeing Eye.
His all-seeing Eye
Is not going to torture you.
Its very purpose is
To illumine you.

3994

If you wait for the approval
Of your friends
In everything that you do,
You are not going to succeed
At all
In this lifetime
In anything.

3995

Earthly ears are useless.
Only with your Heavenly ears
Will you be able to hear sleeplessly
God’s Silence-Cheers.

3996

I am not going to be tortured
Any more
By my long-lost forgotten hopes.
I am going to revive them and fulfil them
Once and for all.

3997

He sails his life’s
Failure-boat
Endlessly
In the frustration-sea.

3998

At last my life-boat
Is returning
To its Golden Shore,
Sailing away from
A thick and blinding mist.

3999

All he believes
Is his doubtful mind.
All he needs
Is his destruction-vital.

4000

Blame not the stars,
Blame not the sky,
Blame not the sun.
Blame only yourself
For not being willing
To accept God’s Will as your own
When He asks you to become
As beautiful as the stars,
As vast as the sky
And as powerful as the sun.

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