Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 73

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7201

How can you falter,
How can you fail,
When you know perfectly well
That God was, is
And forever will be
On your side?

7202

There are only two
Supreme words
That can save his outer life
And illumine his inner life:
Gratitude and surrender.

7203

Your heart can enjoy a holiday
Every day
If it gives its dedication-life
To earth
And its aspiration-life
To Heaven.

7204

Do you want to make
Your life sublime?
If so, then make
Your goal sublime first.

7205

Why do you have to die
Without hope?
Can you not live
With your soul’s indomitable courage?
Try!
You certainly can.

7206

Do not worry.
God will speak to you first
When you go to visit Him.
He will make the conversation
Extremely easy
And at the same time
Extremely fruitful.

7207

Since purity is your oneness-friend,
Why do you have to cry?
Why do you have to even worry?

7208

No matter how many times
I say good-bye
To my suspicion-mind,
Alas,
It never leaves me alone.

7209

His heart lives
In purity’s brightness-home.
His mind lives
In impurity’s darkness-cave.

7210

In the spiritual life
Constant trust
In one’s inner guidance
Is of paramount importance.

7211

A spiritual Master is he
Who is a tireless guide
To God-searching human beings.

7212

Perversity and adversity
Are always attracted
To each other.

7213

My perfection does not ascend
Alone.
God-Satisfaction
Ascends with my perfection.

7214

What can I do
With a God-defiance-mind?
What can I not do
With a God-reliance-heart?

7215

Alas,
He does not feel
Any inner urge
To declare his independence
From eternity’s ignorance-home.

7216

You can easily pay back
Your God-debts
Through your life’s
Service-smile.

7217

Even an emperor
Cannot claim
To equal the power
Of a tranquillity-flooded mind.

7218

My heart is employed
By God’s Compassion-Eye.
My soul is employed
By God’s Satisfaction-Heart.

7219

Your heart’s aspiration-river
Has to do only one thing:
It must flow and flow,
And never be allowed to ebb.

7220

God wants you to come to Him
Whenever you want to,
For your frequent coming
Is the only way you can establish
Your heart’s oneness with Him.

7221

Desire-thoughts are strangling you.
Every day can you not try
To free yourself
With the help of your soul’s
Adamantine will?

7222

God is nearer
Than you imagine.
Therefore, your mind of doubt
And your life of fear
Will before long be illumined
By God’s Compassion-Eye.

7223

Every day throw your doubt-javelin
As far as you can,
For that is the only way
You can derive happiness
From what you say
And what you are.

7224

You say that you do not see God.
I believe it.
But can you ever say
That you do not hear God’s Voice
Inside your heart every day?

7225

God has forgiven
Your ingratitude-crime.
Now He wants you
To do Him a big favour
By forgetting all about
Your ingratitude-crime.

7226

My Lord Supreme,
Do grant me a boon.
Do give me a life
That will long for only one thing:
God’s Satisfaction-Fulness
Inside my aspiration-heart.

7227

The easiest way to manifest God
And please God
Is to grow the devotion-plant
To satisfy the human in you
And the divine in God.

7228

God invites me every day
To join Him
In His Satisfaction-Dance.
Alas, why do I allow hesitation
To lord it over my mind?

7229

My Lord,
Do give me the capacity
To love You
Infinitely more than ignorance-night
Loves my entire being.

7230

God is going to forgive
Your impurity-mind.
But are you going to love
Your purity-heart only
From now on?

7231

The soul knows
How to wait.
The heart does not know
How to wait.
The mind does not want to know
How to wait.
God the Emperor
Does not wait.
God the Lover
Is always ready to wait.

7232

What each human being needs
Is the body
Of a universal man
And the heart
Of a universal soul.

7233

God is not going to move away
From your next-door apartment.
But if ever you move
Out of your apartment,
Rest assured, God will follow you
Without fail.

7234

Why exploit God’s
Universal Compassion?
Can you not exercise
Your God-serving and God-fulfilling will?
Can you not?
Just try!

7235

When words become swords,
What will you do?
You will immediately pray to God
For more Compassion
And more Forgiveness.

7236

My Lord,
What shall I do with my mind,
Especially when it makes me work
In its complaint-factory?

7237

Where does he live?
He lives
In the green hills of hope.

Where did he live?
He lived
In the grey hills of doubt.

Where will he live?
He will live
In the blue hills of satisfaction.

7238

Ask the right questions:
Does God need you?
Does God have anything special
For you to do?

7239

O my vital,
When are you going to stop
Your empty ego-talk?
Do you not see
That you have talked too much,
Senselessly?

7240

His heart’s surrender-lotus
Opened
The moment God’s Compassion
Touched it.

7241

I am so happy now
To see you every day
Walking along the road
Of aspiration-purity
And dedication-luminosity.

7242

I love the Beauty
Of my Lord’s Compassion-Eye.
My Lord loves the satisfaction
Of my surrender-heart.

7243

Already he has rented
An apartment in Heaven.
Therefore
His present life on earth
Is not giving him any joy.

7244

Everything in him has ended
Except one thing:
The ego-exhibit
Of his ever-hungry vital.

7245

You are trying to fly away
From God’s Love-Nest.
Is it possible?
Will it ever be possible,
You fool?

7246

Live inside the aspiration-cry
Of your heart.
You will see that God has reduced
His Compassion-Price
Unbelievably low.

7247

O Heaven, you are near,
But not as near
As God’s Compassion.

O earth, you are dear,
But not as dear
As God’s Life.

7248

I cannot expect you to finish
Your desire-life
All at once.
But I do expect you to diminish
Your desire-life
At the end of each day.

7249

Alas, alas, he never thought
That his dream-bridge
Would one day collapse
Right in front of
His hope-heart.

7250

It is quite possible for you
To knock down your ego-mind
So it will never rise again.
But do it
With your soul’s determination-blow!

7251

O mind,
Why have you allowed yourself
To be invaded by suspicion-thoughts?

O vital,
Why have you allowed yourself
To be invaded by vanity-thoughts?

O heart,
Why have you allowed yourself
To be invaded by impurity-thoughts?

7252

Although He lives inside my heart
All the time,
His Compassion remains always
Beyond my comprehension.

7253

When your intuition-eye opens,
God gives you the ticket
To ride in His Heart’s
Perfection-Train.

7254

Self-transcendence is possible
Only through
Aspiration-ascendence.

7255

My mind begs God
To grant it prominence.
My heart begs God
To grant it His bountiful Presence.

7256

Aspire!
Aspire!
This is the only way
You can shatter the walls
Of imperfection-mind
And frustration-vital.

7257

Indeed, this is a strange world!
Cleverly and secretly
It takes shelter
Under the God-seeker’s aspiration-tree.

7258

God does not want to escort
Your lonely mind.
But He definitely wants to escort
Your loving heart.

7259

Be happy, be happy, be happy!
Allow not your doubting mind
To torture you
With untold miseries.

7260

The sound-sermon
Is for man’s tongue
To appreciate.

The silence-sermon
Is for God’s Heart
To love.

7261

A sudden purity-shower
From Above
Has completely changed
Not only his mind
But also his entire being.

7262

A peace-receptivity-mind
Can easily strengthen
All insecurity-nerves.

7263

His present hope
Always enjoys interviews
With his future determination.

7264

Ignore the warnings of hesitation
If you want to succeed
In the battlefield of life.

7265

Every day he walks
Along the road of misinformation
That endlessly stretches
Into nothingness.

7266

The mind’s suspicion-attacks
Can easily be destroyed
By the heart’s aspiration-sword.

7267

At long last
He is able to transfer
His mind’s frustration-funds
To his soul’s
Illumination-savings bank.

7268

Either you have to enjoy
Your heart’s oneness
With Immortality
Or live in your mind’s
God-oblivion-chasm.

7269

When aspiration-plants
Start growing,
Frustration-trees
Start dying.

7270

Do not delay, do not delay!
Your soul is asking you
Every day
To kidnap your life’s
Ignorance-criminal.

7271

I really do not have
Anything to say
Against God.
I wish only to love Him
The way He loves me:
Sleeplessly and unconditionally.

7272

A hero-soul is he
Who is always eager to lighten
God’s universal Burden.

7273

God’s Heart-Clock
Is neither slow nor fast.
It goes at precisely the right speed
To give God the opportunity
To grow inside my mind
And to glow inside my heart.

7274

Your unaspiring life
Will not allow you
To walk along the road of truth.
You will falter,
Your life will falter,
Your entire being will falter
While walking
Along the road of truth.

7275

God the Compassion-Producer
Is the only Owner
Of my life.

7276

I have been meaning to tell God
That I am truly fed up
With my desire-life,
And I am all ready
To please Him
Even beyond His Imagination.

7277

Alas, he has not read correctly
The God-posted signs.
Therefore, he is now misled
By the world’s lower nature.

7278

My Lord,
You have the time
To break my life.
Do give me not only the time
But also the capacity
To remake my life.

7279

God sang before him
When he climbed up
The outer Himalayas.
Now that he has climbed up
The inner Himalayas,
God is asking him
To dance with Him.

7280

Alas,
He is simply frightened to death.
The crowning glories of his outer life
Are too much for him.

7281

God ignores me when I go to Him
As a beggar.
God treasures me when I go to Him
As a lover.

7282

There is no difference between
My life’s blossoming progress
And my heart’s lasting satisfaction.

7283

God has listened to me.
He has forgiven my failures.
But alas,
I am not listening to God!
In vain He has been asking me
To forget my failures.

7284

When you realise that you are
Your soul’s divinity,
You will be able to free yourself
From your mind’s ego-stupidity.

7285

Since you are a sincere candidate
For your life’s total transformation,
God’s powerful Satisfaction
Shall be all yours.

7286

Your heart’s boundless love
And your life’s fathomless peace
Shall always live together
In God’s stupendous Vision-Reality.

7287

Do not give up!
You are brave.
You must continue
Your yesterday’s pilgrimage.

7288

If you lead the desire-life,
Then you are bound
To be haunted
By hopelessness-ghost.

7289

When the doubt-storm
Disappears,
Perfection-delight
Nears.

7290

Each silence-moment
Is a supremely glorious
Aspiration-ascent.

7291

Can you not ask your mind
To do you a big favour
And exile all impurities?

7292

Look what your stark stupidity
Has done!
It has overthrown
Your Lord’s Compassion-Eye.

7293

Your prayerful life
And your soulful heart
Do have the capacity
To tame the temptation-tiger
For you.

7294

The life-boat
Of a gratitude-heart
Is always tied
To God’s supreme Satisfaction-Ship.

7295

Ask your purity-heart
To feed your faith.
Ask your clarity-mind
To starve your fear.

7296

Every day
My mind goes to the hospital
To visit with the sinners.
Every day
My heart goes to school
To study with the God-lovers.

7297

Can you not see
That your wild desire-life
Has led you
To a dark frustration-destruction?

7298

Alas, every day
My mind is engulfed
In a shoreless sea
Of complaints!

7299

You are right.
God loves you dearly.
You are perfect.
God needs you daily.

7300

God’s Heart-Door
Is always wide open
For you to come and go.
But if you are wise,
You will come only to stay.

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