Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 104

10301

Surrender and surrender
All you have and all you are.
You are bound to step onto
The sunlit path
And reach Infinity’s Goal.

10302

What your soul wants from you
Is something very simple.
It wants you to see always
The way ahead,
Never the way behind.

10303

How can you reach the land of peace
When you cling to your old
Lethargy-armchair
And do not even want
To stand up and move?

10304

If you are tired of waiting,
How can the world of the unknown
Ever hire you
To do something momentous for God
On earth?

10305

You are using the wrong key:
Your mind-key.
Naturally it will not open
Your soul’s illumination-door.

10306

Walk along the road
Of surrender-light
From this very moment.
You will be able to play the music
Of Eternity’s infinite Freedom-Delight.

10307

Always maintain your closest connection
With your aspiration-heart.
You will be able to learn
The great secret of your soul,
The perfect representative
Of your Lord Supreme
On earth.

10308

Have more faith
In God’s omnipotent Compassion.
You will feel the fruitful touch
Of Immortality’s Silence Supreme.

10309

Now that you are no longer shaken
By emotional earthquakes,
Infinity’s Delight is fast approaching you.

10310

Doubt wanted to hire your mind
To be its partner
In its daily dance.
Alas, your mind accepted the offer.

10311

Because you have kept your distance
From disobedience,
God has removed from your mind
Once and for all
The volcano of confusion.

10312

If you do not remember
To feed your heart’s aspiration-flames,
You are bound to fall down
The God-oneness-staircase.

10313

He is a great truth-seeker
And a good God-lover
Who enjoys his morning heart-hunger
And his evening life-thirst.

10314

If your heart has the courage
To go one more step,
Then you will hear thunderous applause
From your Beloved Supreme.

10315

Be not complacent.
If you are complacent,
Your aspiration-life
Will come to an end
Before very long.

10316

You want to know when
Your mind will be able to smile.
I tell you,
Your searching mind will be able to smile
Only after your aspiring heart
Has soulfully cried.

10317

You want to know how
You can be truly happy.
You can be truly happy
If you can reawaken
Your heart’s sleeping God-dreams.

10318

Your heart’s morning God-hunger
And its evening God-thirst
Are the perfect Satisfaction-Smiles
Of your Beloved Supreme.

10319

In your life of aspiration
Every day and at every moment
Be supremely cautious.
Otherwise, your mind’s desire-storm
Will uproot your heart’s aspiration-tree.

10320

If you need God
For God’s Sake alone,
Then only will
His infinite Beauty’s Smiles
Dance in each and every thought of yours.

10321

Allow not the destruction-tiger
To roam around you.
Keep only the hope-deer
To play with you
All the time.

10322

Do not waste time
Explaining to others
Why you are weak.
Just explain to them
Why you badly need God.

10323

Your cold reception to doubt
Is not enough.
Your permanent rejection of doubt
Is your only salvation.

10324

God is ready to supervise
My mind-factory.
But do I ever request Him to do so?
Will I ever allow Him to do so?

10325

There is no aspiration-heart
That cannot smash
The strength of the desire-breath.

10326

The life of surrender
Is a skilful swimmer
In God’s Vision-manifesting
Consciousness-Ocean.

10327

When you assert yourself,
God feels
That is precisely the time
For Him to take leave of you.

10328

If your heart
Cannot melt God’s Heart,
How can God’s Heart
Mould your life?

10329

Gratitude-heart-plants
Are very rarely found
Either in the desire-life
Or in the aspiration-life.

10330

God has come
To clear your mind’s confusion-clouds.
What He wants from you now
Is a life of purity.

10331

Is there anything
Other than God’s Compassion-Light
To save humanity
From its age-old misery-melody:
Ignorance-night?

10332

The mind wants to assess God.
It fails.
The heart wants to possess God.
It fails.
The soul wants to dream of God
Sleeplessly,
And it succeeds immediately.

10333

If you want to know
What God’s Goodness is,
Then God will grant you
Not only His Goodness
But also His Greatness
In infinite measure.

10334

Without becoming
Your heart’s aspiration-dawn,
How can you see
Your life’s realisation-sun?

10335

The seeker’s intensity-heart
And God’s Immensity-Eye
Long to reveal each other.

10336

The world has denied you happiness.
God will grant you not only happiness,
But also His own Fulness.

10337

When the soul builds
A purity-nest for you,
You should at least try to live in it
If a flood of joy is what you want.

10338

There is no such thing
As desire-nectar.
It is all desire-poison.
Alas, this is what you want.

10339

If you do not recharge
Your heart’s aspiration-battery
Every day,
Your total illumination-life
Will remain a far cry.

10340

Vacuum your mind-room.
How long do you want to keep
Confusion-dirt inside you?

10341

Every day
Write a new surrender-page
In your life’s
Aspiration-book.

10342

If you really want to succeed
In your aspiration-life,
Then your life’s surrender-river
Must flow speedily.

10343

Do not carry attachment-load,
For it will slow down
Your Heavenward journey.

10344

Self-offering
Is the secret and sacred door
To God’s
Transcendental Satisfaction-Home.

10345

Be brave enough to come out of
Your desire-cave,
And
Be brave enough to live inside
Your aspiration-palace.

10346

A life of discipline
Is always blessed by
Divinity’s Ecstasy-Shower.

10347

A doubting mind
And a strangling vital
Can never enjoy
The delight of a loving heart.

10348

You must pray
In the small hours
Of the morning
For your heart’s love-seeds
To sprout.

10349

Even an iota
Of suspicious thought
Can successfully rob
The flames of your aspiration-heart.

10350

Every day you broadcast
From your mind-station.
Therefore
Nobody cares for you,
Not to speak of your confusion-mind.

10351

If you are truly pinched
With God-hunger,
Then humanity’s ignorance-greed-meal
Can never satisfy you.

10352

When God’s choice Hour approaches,
Your life’s insecurity-insect
Will disappear,
And your soul’s confidence-mountain
Will appear.

10353

Do what God has asked you to do.
He has asked you to fight
For Truth,
Rather than to fight
Against anything.

10354

Your mind can cover the Truth.
It may even deny the Truth.
But it can never affect
The existence-reality
Of Truth.

10355

You are not your mind’s
Illusion-dreams;
You are your heart’s
God-Satisfaction-visions.

10356

If you pray to the right Person —
God the Compassion —
And not to God the Justice,
You will certainly not give up
Your heart’s Heaven-climbing
Aspiration-cry.

10357

If your heart-eye can see
Into the far Beyond,
God will ask you to claim
His Infinity’s Treasure-House.

10358

You are a useless seeker
If you are all the time crying to remember
The beginning of your aspiration-life,
And merely curious to know
The end of your dedication-life.

10359

A divine heart
Enjoying supreme repose
Is indeed the reward
Of your sublime meditation.

10360

God grants
Only a purity-heart
His own Peace-flooded Life.

10361

Yours is an unhorizoned aspiration.
Therefore, yours will be
The beckoning eye
To illumine humanity’s dark night.

10362

One more appeal
To unbelievers and disbelievers:
At least be ready to receive
God’s unconditional Love!

10363

His mind at last fell off
The doubt-ladder
And completely lost
Its destruction-authority.

10364

Do not spin
The wheels of desire,
Or frustration-flooded nights
Will all be yours.

10365

If you offer a special prayer
Of surrender and gratitude
To God,
Then God will grant you
An altogether new world
Of His Love.

10366

Every day the vital of jealousy
Enjoys only one thing:
A gossip-feast.

10367

His heart was standing
At the golden gate of gratitude.
Therefore, God’s Satisfaction-Life
Proudly greeted him.

10368

His aspiration-heart
Did not care for his desire-life.
Therefore, his desire-life
Died of neglect.

10369

God-doubters do not know
Where God is.
God-lovers do not know
Where God is not.

10370

Consciously and deliberately
You are craving for
Desire’s smile.
Therefore, depression
And depression’s shadow
Do not leave you.

10371

Be confident
In your aspiration-life.
You will be able to live
In the presence of a living God.

10372

Your ingratitude-heart is taking you back
To your first animal incarnation.
Can you not free yourself
From your ingratitude-heart?

10373

God’s divine Circus
Has run short of clowns.
Therefore
Today I am asking my mind
To go and accept the job.

10374

God’s Compassion-Cry
And His Satisfaction-Smile
Are the meeting place
Of winners and losers.

10375

A desire-life
Is a disobedience-life.
A disobedience-life
Is the beginning of death.

10376

Good news lies ahead!
You will be able to run
Far beyond your imagination.
You will become another God
Even if you do not want to.

10377

One great mistake
Is enough to make you accept
The life of total failure
And the breath of a permanent sigh.

10378

You are stumbling
On turmoil-soil
Because every day
You go out shopping
In the desire-market.

10379

Yours is a life-structure
Built on gratitude-foundation.
Therefore
God will teach you
His ecstasy-flooded
Universal Oneness-Music.

10380

Your mind has descended
Into the deepest abyss.
As a real compensation
Can you not help your heart ascend
To the highest peak?

10381

There will be a few major changes
In tomorrow’s schools.
They will stop teaching
War-subjects.

10382

If you desire the presence of a miracle
For the transformation of your life,
Then throw yourself into
Your life’s dedication-days.

10383

Be meditation-minded
If you want God
To change your life
Or if you want to change your life
Yourself.

10384

You are longing for
A oneness-friend.
No one can be a better friend
Than your own heart’s
Sincerity-song.

10385

If you wander
In forgetfulness-forest,
You will become a victim
To your own bondage-life.

10386

Doubt has to diminish
Eventually.
Faith has to increase
Immediately
Plus sleeplessly.

10387

Deliberately
You are holding the hand
Of darkness-night.
Therefore, there is a huge blight
On your aspiration-tree.

10388

Abandon your old excuses.
Your failure-life will become
A forgotten story.

10389

Give up giving up!
Study regularly and devotedly
The divine course that is offered
By your heart’s soul-light.

10390

Your aspiration is accelerating.
This is the time for you to steer
Your life’s dedication-boat.
Delay not!
This is the time!

10391

How far can you go
With your feeble aspiration?
Aspire more soulfully
And do not allow yourself
To be exploited by expectations.

10392

Now that you are sincerely sick
Of eating doubt-meals,
God will grant you
His Heart’s Nectar-Silence-Smile.

10393

His whole life
Is an acute case
Of expectation.
Weaker than the weakest
Are his aspiration-heart
And dedication-life!

10394

Do not set limitations
On your heart.
At God’s choice Hour
It will help you swim
In the sea of delight.

10395

It is you who have to choose
Between your mind’s desire
And your heart’s devotion
To make yourself supremely happy.

10396

Reason seems to be real
Only to those who do not dare
To go beyond the confines of reason.

10397

If you do not pass
God’s purity-test,
How can He ever grant you
His Heart’s Satisfaction-Nest?

10398

Each time the ego loses,
That is the Supreme’s Victory
In utter disguise.

10399

Time and again if you fall into
The mind’s depression-pool,
How can you be a choice student
In God’s Life-Transformation-School?

10400

Life is a mighty struggle
With ignorance.
But if you persevere,
Your victory and God’s Satisfaction
Are destined.

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