Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 59

5801

You may not know,
But it is absolutely true:
With each heartbeat
Your heart is calling: “God, God!”
You may not hear it,
But God Himself definitely hears
Your heart’s cry.

5802

My Lord,
I am as old
As my mind’s investigation.
Now, do make me as old
As my heart’s aspiration.

5803

You have weighed God
On your mind’s scale.
Therefore
God is too heavy for you,
And it is simply impossible
For your mind to carry God.

5804

If you are a genuine God-lover,
Then at every moment
Be prepared
For the coming God-Hour.

5805

I do not need many places
To live in.
I need only one place,
And that place is
My Lord’s Compassion-flooded Eye.

5806

The God-Hour has arrived.
Are you ready
With your obedience-power?

5807

A tiny tear can break
Not only a human heart
But also God’s Universal Heart.

5808

As a tree needs
All its countless branches,
Leaves and flowers,
Even so, the world needs
All its multifarious human capacities.
This is why God may give one thing
To one child of His,
But to another,
Something entirely different.

5809

In the hour of danger
Ignorance I shall challenge,
I shall,
And thus re-establish
My soul’s confidence-life in me.

5810

Whenever you hear soulful music,
Become inseparably one with it
And feel that your soul
Is playing that very music
Only for you:
For your heart, for your mind,
For your vital and for your body.

5811

O my heart,
When you assimilate the inner offering
Of spiritual music,
Which is beauty and divinity,
Do not forget to distribute everything
To my poor body, vital and mind.

5812

In silence-light
The soul is playing
Its own divine music
For the total transformation
Of the body, vital, mind and heart.

5813

Before entering
Into the world of sleep,
Listen to soulful music
Even for a few fleeting moments.
You definitely will be able
To go to the higher worlds
Without meditating.

5814

Opportunity is the force
That helps us live
With the mountaintop-vision.

5815

While listening to You sing,
Let me also do something, my Lord,
For You.
Let me start loving You more,
Infinitely more.

5816

You do not have to search
For many things.
Just search for only one thing:
Your missing aspiration-heart.

5817

What I need is not
A band of faithful souls.
What I need
Is a soulful cry from your heart.

5818

Alas,
The road that lies
Between my aspiration
And God’s Satisfaction
Is unimaginably long.

5819

Your doubtful mind must halt
Before it can think
Of loving the Unknown.

5820

I love the seeker in him
Deeply
Because his thirst
Is for the living God.

5821

You are ignorant
Of peace.
That means
You are ignorant
Of God’s Compassion.

5822

If You are really my Lord,
Then every day
Write down Your Laws
In my aspiration-heart.

5823

A gratitude-heart
Will unmistakably be invited
To God’s Immortality-Feast.

5824

Even to think of him
Is to have an inner glimpse
Of his unearthly beauty.

5825

It seems
That your aspiration-life
Will never attain
Maturity’s perfection-tree.

5826

What is the difference
Between your oneness
And God’s Fulness?
No difference!

5827

At long last
He has come to realise
That his life has become
A withering flower
Of his teeming dreams.

5828

You will not take a long time
To fill your heart
If you just empty your mind first.

5829

How to melt God’s Heart?
Just launder your life
With gratitude-soap.

5830

What is God’s favourite Game?
His favourite Game
Is His Satisfaction-Smile.

5831

Unless you do your inner work,
Your faithless mind-dog
Will ceaselessly bark at you.

5832

I run towards God.
My heart dives
Into God’s Heart-Sea.
My soul soars
Beyond the boundaries
Of despair-night.

5833

There is only one thing
That I see again and again
In my life,
And that is my Lord’s
Compassion-Forgiveness-Flood.

5834

If your heart is swimming
In the river of silver tears,
Then God-realisation cannot remain
A far cry.

5835

Beyond life and death
Is his soul’s
God-manifesting smile.

5836

Misunderstanding-pain
Is not for the true truth-seeker
And God-lover.

5837

I ask and ask and ask.
No answer
Is the only answer
I get from within.

5838

God does not like it
When you go to Him
With whirlwinds of unwanted suggestions.

5839

Each wrong thought
Is a new entrance
To destruction-death.

5840

Each new Heaven-promise
Is the birth
Of a new God.

5841

Each desire in itself
Is power.
Therefore, no desire
Is inconsequential.

5842

If your heart aches
For the inner heights,
Then you will, without fail,
Be divinely perfect.

5843

My heart has a special longing
For the aspiration-tree
Of silence-dream.

5844

Expect thunder-admiration
Only from yourself
And from nobody else.

5845

His heart was in love
With suffering.
Therefore
Even God’s Compassion
Could not illumine him.

5846

To love
Is to give soulfully.
To give
Is to become unmistakably.
To become
Is to please God in His own Way.

5847

I am always grateful to my heart,
For it has given to God
All its glorious possessions —
Love, service and surrender —
So that God will readily accept
My body, vital and mind.

5848

A seeker must know
That his faith
Is the treasure of treasures
That he must not lose.

5849

A soul of silence-light
Is indeed
Sovereign on earth.

5850

My heart’s divine duty
Is to obey.
My life’s supreme duty
Is to surrender.

5851

Practise
The enlightenment-principle
And not
The excitement-principle.

5852

Alas,
Why do I always think
That the world
Owes me something?
Why am I such a fool?

5853

To reach your own mountain-top,
Quicken your heart’s
Silver faith.

5854

If you are a genuine seeker
Of the infinite Truth,
Then do not ask God to indulge
Even your so-called
Snow-white innocent desires.

5855

My heart’s love-boat
Has room even for those
Who are suffering
From jealousy-monster.

5856

Be brave!
Make another bold attempt.
Do not allow yourself to be caught
By the hot tears
Of stark disappointment.

5857

His heart’s aspiration-cry
Can at any moment
Fling open the door
Of silence-light.

5858

For a true seeker
There is only one way
To be happy:
By pleasing God,
His Beloved Supreme.

5859

God has already
Cheerfully claimed and possessed
The strength of my inner love.

5860

My heart of inner silence
Has destroyed
The strength of my outer violence.

5861

When God was looking for him,
He was found in the ignorance-crowd
Of the mind.

5862

How do you dare to drift
Outside the domain
Of your heart’s
Beautiful and fruitful garden?

5863

My purity-heart always reveals
My soul’s hidden promise
To my life.

5864

My faith
Is my beauty’s strength
And my purity’s length.

5865

Stamp your heart
With a gratitude-smile.
You will really be perfect!

5866

Alas, why do I allow
My mind-sorrows
To float on the tide
Of my heart’s joy?

5867

Every day, without fail,
God grants him
A silence-illumined appointment.

5868

Because of your tremendous
Aspiration,
God has asked you to take possession
Of His Infinity.

5869

You are perfect
Because you are selfless
In your prayerful heart
And soulful life.

5870

Do not forget
That the road of the past
Is not only obscure
But also useless.

5871

His heart is crying
To hear
The voice of silence-light.

His soul is crying
To become
God’s Satisfaction-Delight.

5872

You must realise
That there can be nothing
Whatsoever
Beyond the reach of your aspiration.

5873

God definitely
Does not want you
To help the unworthy
To please Him.

5874

A selfish life
Is forced to learn
What a desolate heart is.

5875

The penalty
For disobedience
Is God’s unavoidable
Withdrawal.

5876

He who one-pointedly believes
Has already been chosen
To be supremely victorious.

5877

Between the soul’s illumination
And the heart’s aspiration
Satisfaction shall always reign.

5878

Are you willing to change?
If so,
God will come to you
Before long
With His Perfection-Eye
And His Satisfaction-Heart.

5879

If your heart longs for
The purity-sky,
Then God will definitely
Appear before you
With His Divinity’s Vision-Eye.

5880

To lessen world tension
Each seeker-heart must feed
The peace-starving humanity.

5881

God’s Satisfaction-Eye
He wanted to find
In his ascetic cave.
Indeed, an impossible task!

5882

A sincere seeker-heart
Knows perfectly well
That the human vital
Is most deplorable.

5883

I sincerely feel sorry for him,
For he himself is afraid
Of walking along the track
Of his own mind-forest.

5884

Alas,
Faith-medicine is not always available
To cure the mind’s
Fatal doubt-disease.

5885

How to be
A consistent peace-lover?
Just try the spiritual life,
Which has and is God,
The all-nourishing Peace.

5886

I do not know
Who God is.
I do not want to know
What ignorance is.
I do not need to know
If I am a choice instrument
Of God.

5887

If you do not want to fail
In your life-examination,
Then curtail your mind’s
Conscious and unconscious
Proud wanderings.

5888

If you do not limit
Your service-life,
God will not stop
His Manifestation-March
In you.

5889

Do you not see
That your head is too high
For God’s Compassion-Eye
To crown?

5890

If you do not use
Your desire-fire-extinguisher,
You will always fail
In life’s fulfilment-races.

5891

He has sealed
The envelope of the past.
Therefore, in his heart-garden
The eternal love-flower
Is blossoming.

5892

Why do you have to come
To a spiritual Master?
Because your aspiration-life
Always needs encouragement,
And this is the boon
That you can get
From a spiritual Master.

5893

Do not take
Spiritual vacations
If you do not want
To be exiled
From ecstasy-kingdom.

5894

Do you want to please God
Or do you want to please yourself?
If you claim to be a true seeker,
How can you be supremely happy
If the Person who created you
Is not happy?

5895

Unless you are prepared
To cheerfully accept
God’s Justice-Light,
How can you please God?

5896

Only a heart of peace
Can enjoy
The supreme Friendship of God.

5897

Purity’s oneness-life
Is the world’s
Transcendental hope.

5898

He was faithful
To God’s Compassion-Light.
Therefore
God made his life
Supremely beautiful.

5899

Two promises of my life’s morning:
Aspiration transcendental
And
Dedication universal.

5900

O Lord, I do not wish
To keep anything for myself.
My entire being
I am offering at Your Feet.
You gave me
What You wanted to give.
I am giving You
What I now have become.

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