Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 115

11401

My Lord Beloved Supreme,
Your Compassion-Eye I love,
Your Thunder-Feet I need.
Your Compassion-Eye teaches me
How to aspire, aspire for the Highest.
Your Thunder-Feet teach me
How to realise, realise the Absolute.

11402

I give God what I have:
A volcano of earth-complaints.
God gives me what He has:
His Heart’s infinite Compassion-Smiles.

11403

O my mind,
My heart is all ready
To help you clear
Your forest of thoughts.
Why do you not accept
My heart’s unconditional help?

11404

If your life studies
In the school of Eternity’s patience,
Then your heart will become
Infinity’s immortal pride.

11405

The logic of the seeker’s faith:
His life exists precisely because
His God exists.

11406

He is totally lost
Because his eye denies the truth
And his mind defies the truth.

11407

You must not allow
Your inspiration to decay
Because a life of aspiration
Is still a far cry.

11408

Do not accept
The nearness of death,
For God Himself
Wants you to enjoy
The fulness of life.

11409

A life of unconditional surrender
Is God’s matchless
Beauty-toy.

11410

Only a purity-heart
Is permitted to pray
In the soul’s silence-temple.

11411

If you live in your mind’s
Sleeping complacency,
How can God grant you His Heart’s
Perfection-Satisfaction-Home?

11412

Every day you have to study
At God’s Compassion-School
If you want to reach your life’s
Unhorizoned realisation-goal.

11413

I am absolutely certain
That your austerity-mind
Can never live
Near God’s Spontaneity-Heart.

11414

You fool!
Who told you that God
Will give you innumerable chances
To change your life’s direction-flow?
He may give you one or two
Or even three chances,
But never more!

11415

Your life’s secret affiliation
With your mind’s doubt
Has compelled your aspiration-heart-stream
To run dry and futile.

11416

God has given you inner freedom
More than necessary
To refuse the lure of temptation-night.
Just daily use your freedom-light
To illumine your earth-existence.

11417

Unconsciously you treasure
Your life’s imperfection-forest.
Therefore, God does not answer
Even one question
Out of your life’s teeming questions.

11418

The sweet company of a selfless God-lover
Will help you live far away
From the slightest shadow of expectation.

11419

If you think that you are
A retired truth-seeker,
That means you are already
A fired God-lover.

11420

Allow not your mind
To feed on untrue fantasy-produce.
Just help your heart
To drink in profusely
God-intoxicating elixir.

11421

To possess the world forcefully
Is man’s animal greed.
To love the world soulfully
Is man’s divine need.

11422

What is desire
If not a powerful curse
From an unknown world?

11423

If yours is a heart
That does not believe in
God’s Compassion-Heart,
Then yours will be a life
Of total failure.

11424

If you love God the Creator
Devotedly and soulfully,
Then how can you be accused of ignoring
God the creation?
Are they not one?

11425

The heart loves only one season,
And that is the season of
The soul’s unconditional oneness
With its Beloved God.

11426

My aspiration-heart
Loves only one place:
God’s dream-flooded Garden.

11427

God proudly loves
The fragrance-flower
Of the seeker’s aspiration-heart.

11428

Do not undervalue
The capacity of hope.
Hope can shake hands
With promise-fulfilment.

11429

What I have to do
Is to sow progress-seed.
Then God will play His part:
He will give me
His Heart’s Satisfaction-Fruit.

11430

A true seeker’s heart
Will, without fail,
Drink a large quantity of devotion-drink
Every day.

11431

Act not like a beggar!
Fly the banner
Of your oneness-divinity
With your Absolute Lord Supreme.

11432

The Golden Boat is sailing.
If you have not yet established
Your oneness-love with your Inner Pilot,
How can you be invited to be a passenger
In the Golden Boat?

11433

If you give up
Living inside your heart-world,
At every moment you have to bow
Either to your tricky mind
Or to your tyrant-vital.

11434

Follow not
Your blindness-mind;
Follow only
Your kindness-heart!

11435

Leave your ignorance-“I”!
Your bumper crop of realisation
Does not depend on your mind’s brilliance
But on your heart’s surrender-joy.

11436

For the betterment of this world
What have you done?
Have you ever said even one thing nice
About this earth?
Have you ever thought of pouring
Your concern-light
Into the heart of each and every human being?

11437

You cannot get confidence-light
And competence-might
Unless you dare to compete
With your own Heavenward achievements.

11438

I shall not blame
Your curiosity-mind,
But you also must not criticise
My heart’s purity-plant.

11439

If you become
A humility-instrument-doll,
You are bound to hear
God’s clarion Call.

11440

God asked you not to compromise
With ignorance-night.
Alas, you have not only compromised
With ignorance-night,
But you have also established
Your oneness-heart
With the destruction-blows
Of ignorance-night.

11441

Because of your newly acquired
Purity-heart,
Your life’s transformation-gate
Is opening for you today.

11442

God is so proud of you
Because you are spreading
Ripples of cheerfulness
Inside His Heart-Garden.

11443

You show God what you have:
Your heart’s aspiration-fountain.
God will give you what He has:
His Heart’s Satisfaction-Mountain.

11444

What you have is nothing other than
An attention-seeking vital.
What God wants you to become is
A surrendered, fulfilling willingness.

11445

Let yesterday sleep,
And allow not frustration
To rule your mind.
Tomorrow’s satisfaction-sun
Will be all yours.
Just start seeing the rise
Of your surrender-heart-tide.

11446

If compassion
Is not in your aspiration-heart,
Then the smile of your concern-eye
Is a deliberate falsehood.

11447

There is nothing
That self-giving cannot conquer.
It can even conquer the very pride
Of Death-Monarch.

11448

God asks me
To enjoy the treasure
Of my heart-life
And not the pleasure
Of my mind-life.

11449

Are you not tired of living
Inside your mind-desert?
If so, then come and live
In your heart’s aspiration-oasis.

11450

I love the world
That needs my heart
More than the world
That admires my mind.

11451

Become your heart’s
Sympathy-contribution.
God will grant you His Heart’s
Satisfaction-Nest.

11452

It is good to know
That God loves me.
It is better to know
That God needs me.
It is best to know
That God does everything
Unconditionally for me.

11453

Gratitude is sweet
When others expect it from me.
Gratitude is sweeter
When I expect it from others.
Gratitude is sweetest
When the giver and the receiver
Soulfully and powerfully sing
Their oneness-song.

11454

If you are swimming
In your mind’s desire-river,
God will never want to be
His Heart’s Satisfaction-Giver.

11455

God does not want
To fulfil your desire
Precisely because
He wants to fulfil His own Desire.
What is God’s Desire?
His Desire is to make you
Exactly like Him: another God.

11456

Last night
I had two sweet visions:
From now on
I shall be able to love God
Unconditionally,
And God will proclaim my heart-victory
To the world at large.

11457

What has made my life strong?
Not
Doing anything for myself
Or for the rest of the world,
But
Touching God’s Haven-Feet
And smiling at God’s Compassion-Eye.

11458

This heartbroken world
Will have not only consolation
But also perfection
When it begs truth-light
To manifest itself in sleepless action.

11459

Since yours is a very promising heart,
God will grant you the capacity
To follow His fastest forward Stride.

11460

God cries
With His transcendental Satisfaction-Joy
When Immortality’s aspiration-cry
Struggles in and for
Mortality’s transformation-breath.

11461

Not true, not true!
You are uninspired
Not because you are tired.
You are uninspired
Because you do not value
The supreme satisfaction
Of reaching your destination.

11462

Two truth-seekers:
One truth-seeker thinks
That God lives for the seeker’s perfection.
The other feels
That the seeker lives for God’s Satisfaction.
I think God is proud of them equally.

11463

I do not know why
You are so deeply interested
In entering into your closed mind-room,
When your heart-room is wide open
And welcoming you cheerfully.

11464

A heart of purity
And a life of simplicity
Not only are fond of each other,
But also quite often live together.

11465

Because of your God-searching mind,
I admire you.
Because of your God-serving heart,
I love you.

11466

Was there any time
When there was no necessity,
Or will there be any time
When there will be no necessity
For the survival of humanity’s
Heaven-longing consciousness?

11467

I know you are busy.
At least, your mind has made you think so.
Even so, can you not find some time
To invite God, your Supreme Guest,
To bless you — your heart and your life —
With His all-illumining and all-fulfilling
Presence?

11468

If you want to live
In God’s Satisfaction-Palace,
Then you must always remain
In God’s Heart-Country:
Silence.

11469

Your heart will definitely feel
Ecstasy’s electric current
If you sleeplessly keep God
In full command of your aspiration-life.

11470

Do not be afraid of talking
To God’s Compassion-Eye.
It is all Concern.
Do not be afraid of thinking
Of God’s Forgiveness-Heart.
It is all Love.

11471

Every day, at every moment,
Be strict with your mind-mosquitoes!
Unnecessarily and shamelessly
They are biting your aspiring purity-heart.

11472

If you give up studying
At your heart’s inner school,
You are definitely going to betray
God the Transcendental Judge
And man the universal player.

11473

If you sleeplessly cry
For God the Compassion,
How can your faith-foundation,
Either in God or in yourself,
Be shaken?

11474

God and God’s Assurance-Voice
Are only for those
Who have taken God
As their only choice.

11475

If you do not participate
In the earth-transformation-game,
The soul of this earth
Will look neither beautiful nor fruitful
To you.

11476

Do not worry!
Do not worry!
Even your mind’s audacity
Will one day surrender
To God’s unconditional Illumination-Reality.

11477

When I walk alone in the mind-forest,
Fear tries to befriend my heart
And doubt blinds my sight.

11478

My Lord Beloved Supreme,
How can I be truly happy
Unless I sit
At Your Compassion-Protection-Feet?

11479

If you study
In God’s obedience-training school,
Then you can become
Man’s perfection-teaching professor.

11480

Precious are my heart’s
Silence-tears.
Infinitely more precious is my Lord’s
Silence-flooded Eye.

11481

My Lord Supreme,
I am offering You
My life’s emotion-waves.
Will You not grant me
Your Heart’s Liberation-Ocean?

11482

God is triumphantly proud
Only of those who love and treasure
Their God-ordained God-responsibilities.

11483

My Lord Supreme compassionately tells me
Not to be afraid
Of the temptation-test
Of devouring time.

11484

My temptation-enemies are telling me
That God does not love my heart
And that God does not need my life.
My aspiration-friends are telling me
That God is crying for my love
And that God is eagerly waiting for
My life’s arrival.

11485

The clever mind
Will never be able to know
The wise heart’s oneness
With God’s Fulness.

11486

I cannot think
Of God the creation
Without thinking
Of God the Creator.
I cannot think
Of God’s Compassion-Eye
Without thinking
Of God’s Manifestation-Hands.
I cannot think
Of God’s transcendental Love
Without thinking
Of God’s universal Peace.

11487

How can I have peace?
Not by talking about peace,
But by walking
Along the road of peace.

11488

You are wrong!
Nobody’s purity-heart can enjoy friendship
With his mind’s suspicion-night.

11489

Infinity’s joy is crowning you
Because you have won today
Your heart’s surrender-gratitude-race.

11490

Do not live inside your mind’s
Multiplicity-room.
Live inside your heart’s
Unity-home.

11491

If you live
In your unlit mind,
How can you see the beauty
Of your sunlit heart?

11492

A silence-mind can challenge
The pride of ignorance-night.
Again, it is the silence-mind
That has the capacity
To invite and welcome God.

11493

Give your purity-heart a chance.
It will definitely take you
To God’s Heart-Garden-Beauty.

11494

My Lord Beloved Supreme,
How can I be absolutely perfect
Unless I sleeplessly beg You
To use Your Justice-Light
Whenever it is needed?

11495

My Lord Beloved Supreme,
Although Your Feet are infinitely stronger
Than my heart,
When Your Thunder-Feet kick me
Either playfully or seriously,
I get tremendous joy.

11496

If you are locked
In your mind’s ignorance-room,
Then rest assured
That God’s Justice Department
Is not going to release you.

11497

Who can separate your future
From your present
Unless you become a gratitude-heart
In God’s Nectar-Compassion-Eye?

11498

A purity-heart
Is a lifetime member
Of God’s universal
Consciousness-blossoming committee.

11499

God does not want to waste
Your time or His time.
Therefore
With His blessingful Silence-Light
He asks you also not to waste
Either His or your
Mutually precious time.

11500

The mind’s perpetual message to God:
“O God, if You exist, then prove it
With Your infinite Power.”
The heart’s habitual message to God:
“O God, I do not want to know
Whether You exist or not.
I just love You,
And shall forever do so.”

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