Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 113

11201

I pray to God
To give me the beauty
Of an ever-steady mind.
I meditate on God
To give me the purity
Of an ever-ready heart.

11202

If your insight
Is pure,
Then your foresight will automatically
Be powerful.

11203

If you are ready
To accept God’s punishment
Soulfully and cheerfully,
Then rest assured
That God will grant you enlightenment
Sooner than otherwise.

11204

God and His faithful assistants,
His Compassion-Eye
And His Forgiveness-Heart,
Every day come to me
And clear my mind-jungle.

11205

Poor God and His Compassion
Every day suffer from
The surprisingly superficial words
And amazingly artificial hearts
Of this confusing and confused world.

11206

Two things
Are very difficult to preserve
For long:
The heart of gratitude
And the life of purity.

11207

Be not satisfied
With the mightiest possibilities.
Be satisfied
Only with already-performed
Purest inevitabilities.

11208

Each pure thought clearly shows us
That there is a new world
Of beauty, purity and divinity ahead
And also inspires the seeker in us
To pursue that new world.

11209

If you are good enough
To receive special blessings
From God the Creator,
Then you are also good enough
To love God the creation
In a very special way.

11210

Because your mind
Is unwilling to obey your soul,
You and your life
Will not see
The perfection and satisfaction
Of progress-delight.

11211

God the omnipresent Heart
Consoles me when I lose
On the battlefield of life.
God the transcendental Eye
Extols me when I win
On the battlefield of life.

11212

If your temple of worship
Is not made of your heart’s cries,
Then God the Smiler
Will never visit it.

11213

Allow not death
To be your breath-destroyer.
With your heart’s oneness-will
With God’s Immortality,
Allow death only to be Your
Eternity’s breath-follower.

11214

O my aspiration-heart,
Do come back to me.
You have enjoyed comfort-recess
For a long time!

11215

My mind’s doubt-friend
Comes to me openly.
My life’s frustration-friend
Comes to me secretly.

11216

God’s long disappearance
Will turn into
God’s immediate appearance
If you can uproot
Your life’s temptation-tree.

11217

If you think you are very busy
Praying to God
And meditating on God,
That means you are neither
Praying sincerely
Nor meditating on the real God.

11218

To sail my life’s danger-seas,
I invite my peace-friend
To help me in my boat.

11219

Quickly fly the years!
Yet one single moment
Can either increase humanity’s progress
Or destroy humanity’s success.

11220

When a God-seeker falls
Into the footsteps of desire,
His heart’s aspiration-flames
Can no longer continue
Climbing high.

11221

Surrender’s real test
Is when you discontinue
Your friendship
With your old friend,
Expectation-greed.

11222

Unlike human conquerors,
Peace, the divine liberator,
Can and will illumine the world.
The peace-emperor will never try
To conquer the world.

11223

Secretly
If you do not study
The catalogue of your weaknesses,
How are you going to know
How far away you are
From God’s omnipotent Power?

11224

You are fired by ambition
And not energised by aspiration.
Therefore
Your divine destination
Is a far cry.

11225

Try not to live
On unfounded hopes.
Try to live
Purely and powerfully
With manifested promises.

11226

If you offer your doubting mind
A compromise,
That will be the demise
Of your God-loving aspiration-heart.

11227

If you are willing
To approach God,
Then God will be unveiling
Not only your own divinity
But also His universal Divinity
To you.

11228

You cleverly enjoy
Your self-torture,
While God helplessly suffers
In you and for you.

11229

If you go to desire-city
During the day,
You are not allowed
To come back from that city
At night.
Once you go there consciously,
You are forced to stay there
Indefinitely.

11230

If your heart-temple
Is made of soulful prayers,
Then God will invite you to be
His Eternity’s oneness-player.

11231

You can win
God’s Satisfaction-Prize
Only when you have become
Your heart’s perfection-cry.

11232

A God-protected heart
Satisfies God on earth
With its dedication-smile
And in Heaven
With its aspiration-cry.

11233

When your wishing mind
Surrenders to your willing heart,
God grants your life
His all-fulfilling Smile.

11234

Unless and until
Each and every breath of yours
Is fully aware of your divinity-sun,
How can God entrust you and your life with
His earth-transformation-responsibility?

11235

When your aspiration-dedication-life
Is on earth
Only for the fulfilment of God’s Will,
Then you are bound to feel
That your success-life
And progress-heart
Are nothing other than
An effortless effort.

11236

God has not forgotten you
In His forthcoming
Manifestation-programme,
But you must not delay
In bringing to Him
Your realisation-certificate.

11237

Opportunity knocks
At our heart-door
At every moment,
But we have to transform
Our opportunity-dreams
Into reality-manifestations.

11238

If you are carrying
Your surrender-bell
Wherever you go,
Then ring God’s Victory-Song
Perfectly, sleeplessly and unconditionally.

11239

What can you do
If your mind, vital and body
Do not want to be introduced
By you to God?
You should be happy
That at least you are able
To introduce your heart,
And its cries and smiles,
To God.

11240

Do not accept
An interview with ignorance-king.
If you do so,
You are bound to lose
Your long-treasured divinity-life.

11241

What are you doing?
Why do you have an underfed heart
And an overfed mind
And a shattered God-manifestation-promise?

11242

If your aspiration is genuine,
Then it will save you
At every moment
From world-complaints.

11243

If you daily follow
Your heart’s meditation-dictates,
Then yours will be
A liberated mind
And an immortalised heart.

11244

Do not be afraid of climbing
With your soul-bird.
Your soul-bird will definitely
Be able to take you
To the highest heights,
For it has already been there
Numberless times.

11245

If a consciousness-catastrophe
Has taken place in your life,
Then pray to God
For His extra Compassion-Light
And His extra Forgiveness-Power.

11246

Your new surrender-life
Will before long be
Your God-promise-fulfiller
Here on earth.

11247

God has saved you
From your teeming success-pride-life.
Therefore, He expects you —
Your heart and your life —
To show Him a progress-smile.

11248

God wants me to visit
His Heart’s Peace-Fulness-Garden
Free of aspiration-charge,
But lovingly.

11249

This world of ours
Is full of sharp criticism-arrows.
These arrows cannot hurt
The peace-illumined mind
And God-intoxicated heart.

11250

Be brave!
You must control
Your restless mind.
Be wise!
You must guide
Your insecure heart.
Be pure!
You must see God
Face-to-face.

11251

When I stay
In my mind’s doubt-room,
I doubt even God the Lover
And God the Liberator.

11252

The ingratitude-knife
Of each human being
In vain tries to hurt
God’s Compassion-Heart.

11253

While you are on earth,
If you can become
A self-giving life,
Then you become automatically
An honorary citizen of Heaven.

11254

When I aspire,
I am not a burden to anybody.
But when I do not aspire,
I am everybody’s burden,
Plus my own burden,
Plus the burden
Of my all-loving Lord Supreme.

11255

Because he has
A divinely first-class heart,
He does not mind
Playing and singing
With a humanly third-class mind.

11256

Do not meditate
On your hope-life any more.
Just start meditating
On God’s Promise-Life.

11257

To pass your life’s
Ultimate examination,
Keep beauty’s smile
In your thoughts
And purity’s power
In your mind.

11258

You want to know
Who is that special Person
Looking for you?
He is your Eternity’s
Love-Emperor-Beggar.

11259

If your life takes a wrong turn,
Your heart’s aspiration-cry
And your life’s dedication-smile
Will definitely remain incomplete.

11260

The only task of humanity
Is to unburden its mind-problems
That prefer to live
Inside a dangerous cave
Rather than a spacious palace.

11261

If you need the wisdom-message
From God,
Then search for Him
Not inside your mind-room
But inside your heart-home.

11262

You want to run the world,
But you do not want to climb
The highest peak
Of consciousness-flight.

11263

A purity-life
Permanently pleases God’s Heart
And fulfils God’s Oneness-Vision.

11264

God’s Heart is silent
Because your mind is enjoying
Disobedience-restlessness
To the extreme.

11265

The saddest story told about me
Is when my heart and I
Are accused of being insecurity-ants.

11266

A doubting mind
Is a shameless threat
To your heart’s cherished tranquillity.

11267

You do not have to learn
Many songs.
Just learn two songs:
The patience-song of earth
And the promise-song of Heaven.

11268

Promise-seeds of God
Will sprout in your heart
If you can put your restlessness-mind
Permanently to sleep.

11269

Your incapacity does not make God sad,
But your unwillingness
Not only makes Him sad
But also gives Him
A severe headache!

11270

An unconditionally surrendered soul
Is undoubtedly
God’s perfect champion-messenger
On earth.

11271

Pray to God
Day in and day out
To unburden
Impossible expectation-frustration
From your mind.

11272

If you do not have the sense
Of a true God-server
And if you do not have the heart
Of a true God-lover,
How can you expect to be
God’s peace-ambassador
And peace-distributor
To His creation?

11273

Say to ignorance-night,
“I do not want to drink any more
With you, in you or for you.
Never!”

11274

For my Heavenward journey,
My purity-heart joined me
Long before anybody else.

11275

There is not a single day
When your mind will not try
To play tricks on you.
Try to befriend your soul.
It will save you,
Fortify you
And finally illumine you.

11276

At the end of temptation-tunnel,
The destruction-wolf
Greedily awaits your arrival.

11277

There is only one place
To find comfort-joy
And that is inside
God’s all-forgiving Compassion-Eye.

11278

Are you swimming
In ignorance-night-sea?
If so, be pure and brave.
Are you swimming
In wisdom-light-ocean?
If so, be self-giving and unconditional.

11279

If your oneness-heart is missing,
How can you have a fulness-life
To satisfy you?

11280

Someday you will be able
To escape your frustration-net.
But you will never be able
To escape God’s Liberation-Ocean.

11281

Beautiful are the wings
Of your heart’s dawn.
They will transform your life
Into God’s everlasting Day.

11282

Are you in
A self-giving consciousness-light?
Then God has come to you
And will be blessing you
With His Heart’s infinite Delight.

11283

Surrender your thought-world
To God’s Will.
Your life will be
God’s universal Heart-Delight.

11284

Why do you allow your mind
To enjoy its isolation?
Teach your mind
To enjoy the fulness
Of oneness-satisfaction.

11285

God is sad
That your faith-flame
Is wavering.
God is disappointed
That your confidence-heart
Is starving.

11286

Have patience in your mind.
Have poise in your vital.
Lo, a garden of peace
Is smiling inside your heart.

11287

What everybody wants now
Is an immediate satisfaction-goal.
What everybody needs now
Is his journey’s sleepless aspiration-soul.

11288

An ingratitude-life
God definitely forgives.
But this life
Is nothing other than
A barren desert-failure.

11289

You must love
Your daily discipline-life.
Then only will God grant you
The keys to His Heart’s Fulness-Door.

11290

When we have faith in God,
God proudly tells us
That we are His perfect instruments.
When God has faith in us,
We dare to tell God
That He is our own, very own.

11291

The only free man in the universe
Is he who consciously invites God
To be his immortal Guest
And live in his heart-room
Smilingly and blessingfully.

11292

If consciousness-light is your choice,
That means God is preparing Himself
In and through you
For your new mutual victory.

11293

Can you not see
That your doubting mind
Is enjoying nothing but
A stagnant complacency?
Are you so blind
That you cannot see
That your heart is enjoying
The preparation for God’s arrival-regency?

11294

The river of life
Teaches each man
That he has to learn
Either willingly or unwillingly
The oneness-song of the vastness-sea.

11295

He who has learnt
A long lesson in humility
Will before long enjoy
The Beauty of God’s own Divinity.

11296

A soulful smile
Is the nourishing food
Of love.
A fruitful cry
Is the fulfilling food
Of oneness.

11297

The way to human glory
Demands hard work.
The way to divine glory
Needs only one song to learn,
And that song is
The surrender-song
Of the seeker’s entire being.

11298

When a golden dream
Dances in your aspiration-heart,
Rest assured that God
And God’s Satisfaction-Heart
Are fast approaching you.

11299

How can you see
The beauty of God’s creation-life
If your own heart does not ignore
The impurity of your mind-doubts?

11300

If you are obedient,
God will tell you
What He is going to give you
Immediately.
If you are surrendered,
God will immediately give you
Unconditionally
Infinitely more than you can ever imagine.

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