Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 100

9901

I am the beautiful and soulful cry
Of God’s yesterday.
God is the powerful and fruitful Smile
Of my tomorrow.

9902

I care for you
Not because you care for me,
Not because God cares for you,
But because your heart cares
Only for God.

9903

I came, I saw, I conquered.
What did I come here for?
I came for God-manifestation.
What did I see?
I saw universal ingratitude.
What did I conquer?
I conquered man’s unwillingness
To claim God as his very own.

9904

He who has made unconditional surrender
To the Will of his Beloved Supreme
Has already paved his inner path
With his heart’s soulful purity.

9905

Give what you have,
Not because God will give you
Infinitely more,
But because giving itself is
The unparalleled fulfilment-satisfaction.

9906

Your mind-teacher will teach you
How to sink with man
In ignorance-sea.

Your heart-teacher will teach you
How to swim with God
And for God
In God’s Delight-Ocean.

9907

Yours is a mind
That deliberately enters
Into suspicion-cave.
How can you then see
The sunlight-glow
Of God’s Perfection-Morning?

9908

God’s Satisfaction-Scale
Only weighs
Man’s aspiration-cry
And his perfection-smile.

9909

Your heart’s purity
Will help you
Reach the end of your mind’s
Impurity-life.

9910

Do not hide
Your imperfection-insects
Under your mind’s
Comfortable blanket.

9911

If you have a heart,
Then that heart
Has to be inspired and encouraged
To climb up devotion-mountain.

9912

Your heart’s burning tears
Are being treasured
By God’s earth-transforming Heart.

9913

You can walk along
God’s Perfection-Road
If your heart carries
All the time
A faith-map.

9914

An aspiring heart
Has the capacity
And is the capacity
To pick illumination-flowers
From God’s Sun-Garden.

9915

Your mind’s ambition-sword
Has unconsciously slain
Your heart’s aspiration-child.

9916

Every day make it a point
To keep your mind
Under strict supervision
If you want to participate
In God’s Perfection-Satisfaction-Race.

9917

Nourish your faith-plant.
Lo, your doubt-tree
Is dead!

9918

God’s true lovers only
Can prove that they are
The temptation-conquerors.

9919

Every day his aspiration-heart
Gets a blank Delight-Cheque
From God.

9920

Will You wait for me,
My Lord?
“Will you cry for Me,
My child?”

9921

God is unusually fond of me
Because I am giving away His top Secret.
I am telling the whole world,
From my own personal experience,
That right from the beginning
God has been loving and feeding
His creation
Unconditionally.

9922

When I aspire,
My life becomes
A purity-flower.

When I love,
My life becomes
A God-ordained duty-tree.

9923

He is having an unusual experience:
His heart is running even faster
Than his mind’s imagination!

9924

The God-lover’s aspiration-heart
Will always be accompanied
By the earth-loving Heaven-dwellers.

9925

Yesterday’s doubting mind
May become tired today,
But today’s loving heart,
Today’s aspiring heart,
Is not going to be tired tomorrow.
This is the conviction
I need from my soul.

9926

Do you want to follow God?
If you want to follow God,
Forget the human in you
And ask the divine in you
To possess you.

9927

If you are always satisfied
With your little self
And your life’s span is spent foolishly,
Blame not God
At the end of your journey’s close.

9928

The God-dreamer
And the God-lover
Together
Every day challenge
Doubt’s dominion on earth.

9929

Who told you
That you are unworthy?
It is absolutely untrue!
You are already in God’s Vision-Boat,
And He is piloting the Boat
Cheerfully and proudly.

9930

God created aspiration for you.
Can you not create determination
For yourself
So that your God-given aspiration
And your own determination
Can destroy your darkness-life forever?

9931

Since your heart has become
A perfect messenger of truth,
God will grant you a new vision
To watch His Immortality’s Victory-Dawn.

9932

Where does man end?
He ends in hesitation.
Who begins again
On man’s behalf?
God the Compassion.

9933

Humanity’s unwillingness-newspaper
And divinity’s forgiveness-newspaper
Both have a universal circulation.
Alas, neither has a universal appeal!

9934

He is among the aspiration-elite
Because every morning and evening
He sings a special heart-song
And dedicates it to his Beloved Supreme.

9935

If you do not want to learn
The art of surrender,
Then sooner or later
You will be disqualified
From the inner race.

9936

An ingratitude-heart
Does not realise
That one day it will be expelled
By its own soul
From God’s Heart-Home.

9937

Earth has to make a choice
Whether to accept
The promise of Heaven
Or the doubts of hell.

9938

You can run faster than the speed of light
In your inner life
If you invite your illumination-soul
To teach you how to live
Inside your own heart-world.

9939

No matter how kindly
His soul instructs his vital
About how to free itself from depression,
His vital every day enjoys
Being caught in a depression-downpour.

9940

Have you not heard
That God and your soul
Have recently formed
A temptation-prevention committee?
Would you not like to be a member
Of this unprecedented committee?

9941

Are you ready to be at war
With unwillingness?
Then God is all ready to grant you
His Eternity’s Fulness.

9942

His is the ego-life
That is ending.
His is the oneness-life
That is progressing, illumining
And fulfilling.

9943

The possibility-room
Must be kept open
So that Divinity’s Grace
Can be victorious
In and through your life.

9944

Ask your mind to be
A child of illumination
And not
A merchant of confusion.

9945

Are you not ashamed
Of making half-hearted attempts?
And are you not ashamed
Of asking for success
From your half-hearted attempts?

9946

God does not have to
Be in a hurry
To come to you,
But you must always
Be in a hurry
To reach God’s Compassion-Feet.

9947

Pray that God
Will not only use your willingness
But also transform your haughtiness
Into selflessness.

9948

Are you not supremely happy
Now that you have cancelled
Your reservation
On ignorance-temptation-flight?

9949

The mind wants to live in jail,
Yet every day
God’s Compassion-Eye
Does not forget the mind.

9950

You will be forgiven
If you sincerely need God
In the inner world.

You will be forgotten
If you do not care for man
In the outer world.

9951

If God is first
On your life’s experience-list,
How can your
Earth-transformation-promise
Fade away?

9952

It is simply impossible
To satisfy the cry of the finite,
Even with the Smile of the Infinite!

9953

Who invented disobedience?
Not the divine in me,
No, not even the human in me,
But the animal in me,
Definitely!

9954

The mind does not mind
If it lives in the superstition-room.
The heart minds
When it is asked to live in any room
Other than the aspiration-room.

9955

An invincible army —
Simplicity, sincerity,
Purity and humility —
Precedes him while he marches
Towards the Golden Shore.

9956

God has come down
To please man.
Will man ever go up enough
Even to believe
In God’s Compassion-Descent?

9957

Renunciation, self-abnegation,
Self-mortification
Are the old-fashioned ways
Of running towards God.

9958

God has not run out of
Forgiveness.
God has not even run out of
Compassion.
It is we who have run out of
Patience.

9959

If the mind is all you want,
Then God will not ask
His choice instruments
To illumine your ignorance-night.

9960

Why do you allow doubt
To be your guest?
Why do you allow your mind
To offer doubt
Its beautiful nest?

9961

My heart’s consciousness-river
Every day is flowing
Towards my soul’s illumination-ocean.

9962

If you want to free yourself
From ignorance-obstacles,
Then breathlessly love the fragrance
Of your purity-heart.

9963

Who is fond of the earthly food,
Doubt?
The human in me.
Who is fond of the Heavenly food,
Delight?
The divine in me.
The human in me
Is an earth-bound doubter.
The divine in me
Is a Heaven-free God-lover.

9964

Today
Your mind is dreaming
Of purity-songs.
Tomorrow
Your mind will not only learn
Purity-songs from your soul
But also teach them
To your vital and body.

9965

You can easily conquer
The limits of your narrow faith
If you can conquer
Your mind’s doubt-territory.

9966

I wish to see you every day
In your heart’s sincerity-garden
And not in your mind’s
Insincerity-graveyard.

9967

I love my divinity’s heart-temple.
It is there that I never fear
The thunder of the doubt-war.

9968

What you are
Is a peaceful heart,
But what you have
Is a bewildered mind.

9969

There is a constant tug-of-war
Going on between
His aspiring heart’s soulfulness
And his doubting mind’s bitterness.

9970

Everything in him is dangerous,
Especially his disobedience-life
And his suspicion-mind.

9971

If it is beyond your capacity
To invite God directly,
Then you must try at least
To invite aspiration-meditation.

9972

This morning
When his soul came to please him
At God’s choice Hour,
He lost his heart
In breathless tears.

9973

Your immortal childlike heart
God will be proud of utilising
In the field
Of His Perfection-Manifestation.

9974

Unless you can recognise
The mind’s tricks,
You will not be able to offer
To the world at large
Your heart-revealing God-experiences.

9975

The mind-suppliers
Are available everywhere.
I am looking for
Only a heart-giver.

9976

Now that your mind
Is suffering from inferiority,
Your heart may have to face
More serious problems
With your mind.

9977

Do not depend on
Earthly applause.
Depend only on
God’s Compassion-Smile.

9978

You have broken your appointment
With temptation.
Therefore, God wants to appoint you
To stand at His Illumination-Gate.

9979

God is always waiting for you.
Can you not at least thank Him
Soulfully
For His Heart’s infinite Patience?

9980

His life-boat is tied
To the Heart-Ship of God
At Perfection-Satisfaction-Shore.

9981

Insecurity-thief
Secretly entered his heart.
Impurity-robber
Bravely entered his mind.
Divinity-informant
Compassionately entered his life.

9982

I cannot tell about others,
But I do know
That God will be there
To cheer for you
When you love His creation
Unconditionally.

9983

My heart is crying
Not because you are failing,
Not because you are not trying,
But because you are all the time
Loving the wrong person:
Ignorance-prince.

9984

May my life
Only be
My heart’s God-surrender-smile.

9985

Transformation and perfection
Are two souvenirs he brought
From his visit to Heaven.

9986

How long will you ask God
To wait
For a permanent love-contract
With you?

9987

Perfection-power has the capacity
And is the capacity
To build satisfaction-tower.

9988

Your delinquent vital
Is destroying you.
Long before you are totally destroyed,
Try to rehabilitate your life.

9989

His soul has given
His heart today
The secret pass that it needs
To enter into
God’s sacred Celestial Abode.

9990

O my heart,
Sing no sad songs any more.
Sing only the delight-songs
Of God’s new Blessing-Dawn.

9991

Each time you meditate soulfully,
You can notice
A new wave of divine beauty
Treasured by your soul’s divinity-sea.

9992

Since I am a Dream of God,
Is it not my bounden duty
To help God transform me
Into His own God-Reality?

9993

Unconditional surrender
Is the immortal birth
Of a genuine God-lover.

9994

With your greedy mind of ambition
How can you ever dare
To enter the cheerfulness-zone?

9995

God does not want you to repay Him.
He just wants you to remain
A happiness-prince on earth.

9996

Only sincere seekers
Can apply for self-examination
In God’s Life-Transformation-School.

9997

When your heart is ready to love,
When your life is ready to serve,
God will give the start
And you will win the ultimate race:
God-manifestation on earth.

9998

My heart seizes
Each and every opportunity
At every moment
To please my Beloved Supreme.

9999

He may not know
God’s Compassion.
He may not even know
God’s Forgiveness.
But he does know
That he is for God.

10000

If you keep your heart’s devotion-magnet
Always ready
To attract God’s transcendental Light,
God will claim you
As His unparalleled successor.

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