Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 124

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12301

Every day
Become your heart’s purity-cry
To fly into the Heaven-ascending glow
Of your God-Satisfaction-Delight.

12302

My poor God is utterly embarrassed
To show me
His daily disappointment-list.
Alas, I too am included on it.

12303

How can a desire-bound life
Ever be released
From the deathless spell
Of insecurity?

12304

An undisciplined life
Loves only one thing:
Excursions into a madness-wilderness.

12305

When my heart’s inner cry
Is soulfully increasing,
It means my life’s perfection-smile
Is definitely progressing.

12306

To my seeker-heart’s great joy,
All the activities in my mind’s
Doubt-department
Are amazingly slowing down.

12307

My heart, cry!
Cry only for God’s Love
So that your earthly years
Will not be filled
With insecurity-tears.

12308

There can be no perfection
In your life
If you are not unshakeable
In your aspiration-devotion
To God.

12309

Because you do not have
A purity-oneness-heart,
You and your mind live
In yesterday’s scepticism
And today’s suspicion.

12310

Three things of mine
I daily treasure:
My obedience-mind,
My gratitude-heart
And my surrender-life.

12311

Each and every doubt-challenge
Of my mind
Will eventually surrender
To my heart’s faith,
I know, I know.

12312

In your soul I see
Your mind’s sincerity-cry.
In your soul I see
Your heart’s enthusiasm-smile.
In your soul I see
God the Universal Life-Transformer.

12313

Victory is assured
Only when my life’s
Surrender-action is completed.

12314

Because you are no longer
A God-lover,
You will soon fall victim
To the torrential tide
Of frustration.

12315

My Lord is always
Ready and eager to grant me
An amazing capacity to aspire.
But, alas, where is my willingness
To receive?

12316

If you can live
In your heart-garden,
Then you are bound to enjoy
The sweet silence of your soul-bird.

12317

My Lord Supreme
Is begging me
To do Him a big favour.
He is begging me not to think
Of my misspent
Ignorance-darkness-life.

12318

If your heart’s
Soulful cheerfulness prevails,
Then no human being on earth
Will dare to say that
Your life is of no avail.

12319

The tranquillity of his heart-sea
Gladly welcomes and embraces
The roaring of his vital-river.

12320

I do not know
How your heart-flower can ever blossom
If you indefinitely postpone
The God-Hour.

12321

Right before me
Is my mind’s ego-elephant.
Deep within me
Is my heart’s oneness-ant.

12322

Yesterday I was
My problem-maker-mind.
Today I am
My problem-solver-heart.
Tomorrow I shall become
My God-fulfiller-soul.

12323

An historic pact
Between Heaven and earth:
Earth will soulfully think
Of Heaven every day.
Heaven will no longer be
Indifferent to earth.

12324

A summit meeting of God-loving
And God-serving souls
God’s Vision-Eye
And Compassion-Heart
Will lovingly and secretly watch.

12325

Alas,
Why do I cleverly forget
That I embody
Decades of disappointment
For my God-manifesting soul?

12326

Do you really want to be happy?
If so, then throw away
Your mind’s poison-reason.

12327

No more compassion-light!
No more forgiveness-height!
His soul is now threatening
To banish his doubting mind.

12328

At least three times a day
I make a pilgrimage
To my hallowed heart-temple
To be compassionately
And powerfully blessed
By my Inner Pilot Supreme.

12329

Do you not know
That your desire-urge
Has guided you into
The bottomless despair-abyss?

12330

Each oneness-love-flame
Is a transcendental Gift
From the Absolute Supreme.

12331

The human heart has much training
In anticipation-sweetness,
And the human mind has much training
In complaint-bitterness.

12332

You enjoy your mind’s
Bombardment by dark doubts.
Yet you expect your mind
To be a sea of silence-joy.

12333

A victim of spiritual starvation
You have become
Just because you do not invoke
God’s all-nourishing Compassion-Heart.

12334

With hope-stars I shall illumine
My dark and unlit mind-sky.
Indeed, this has been
My only long-cherished dream.

12335

Escape from the nightmare
Of negativity.
You will see
Your mind of purity,
And you will become
Your heart of divinity.

12336

The wild arrogance
Of a self-styled seeker
I can never forgive
Even when I want to.

12337

I do not remember anything
About God’s Promise to me.
But I do remember
That I promised God
To become an unwavering faith-flame
In Him.

12338

Offer your gratitude-heart
To God.
You are bound to get
Unexpected benefit-boons.

12339

God will grant you
Your fulness-satisfaction-wish
If you give God
Your oneness-dedication-heart.

12340

Wake up, my mind!
Delay not!
Sign up with God’s
Perfection-Oneness-Troop.

12341

The first question
On your God-realisation-examination:
How far do you think you are
Away from God?

12342

There will be an investigation
By God’s Secret Service
To see if you really have made
Your aspiration-comeback.

12343

Ego-elephant
And dedication-ant:
This is what you have been
For a long time!

12344

God is giving you a sacred tour
Of His Heart-Garden
Because today is your heart’s
Gratitude-anniversary.

12345

God’s private forecast
For man’s evolution:
A slow progress,
A slower perfection
And the slowest, slowest
Satisfaction.

12346

My faith-heart will eventually
Outrun my doubt-mind
Because I was born
Under God’s Compassion-Star.

12347

His life is caught
In a failure-chain
Because his heart owns only
A frail and fragile faith.

12348

Paralysed by hesitation,
How can you become
A member of God’s Happiness-Home?

12349

By sheer force of will-power
You can easily escape
From your ego-boundaries.

12350

The greatest scandal of the age:
Each human being is swimming
Cheerfully and speedily
With the ignorance-tide.

12351

What can you expect
From the worry-factory
Since the suspicion-mind
Has always been its boss?

12352

How to go beyond
Doubt-boundaries?
Just ride your heart’s
Indomitable aspiration-chariot!

12353

God commands earth’s
Aspiration-troops
To brave the old and unwilling
Lethargy-world.

12354

No exchange rate
For doubt-currency
In the heart’s
Aspiration-country.

12355

He who declares,
“Here and now!”
Is God’s favourite
In the self-realisation-race.

12356

Alas, when will the mind
Beg the heart for advice?
Alas, when will the heart
Have infinite patience
For the mind?

12357

O my seeker-friend,
For maximum heart-satisfaction
Use minimum mind-confusion.

12358

In his case
Not even sixty seconds
Is the average life span
Of an inspiring thought.

12359

A quick course in self-control
Will grant you
An abiding satisfaction-heart.

12360

To maintain
Your hard-earned poise
Never enjoy
Aspiration-vacation.

12361

God asks you to do
Only one thing:
Not to allow doubt the hijacker
To board your heart’s
Aspiration-flight.

12362

You are your mind’s
Sporadic attempts
At self-discipline.
How can you then expect
Perfection in your life?

12363

Do not slip backwards
Into the darkness-night
If you want your life to be
Bright with promise-stars.

12364

Heart’s music and life’s songs
Will mingle
Only when you fly
With your aspiration-dedication-wings.

12365

I am now all ready
To wing my mystic flight
To the future worlds
Of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss
Infinite.

12366

If you sever
Your long-distance line to God
Once more,
You will be permanently found
In your life’s lethargy-lounge.

12367

A constant battle
Between the heart’s faith
And the mind’s doubt:
Alas, this is what
Poor human life is.

12368

If you do not break out
Of your ego-boundaries,
Then you will soon grow into
Your own pyramid of catastrophes.

12369

Once you lost your simplicity-mind,
You never found it again.
Once you lost your purity-heart,
You never found it again.
Once you lost your oneness-life,
You never found it again.
Once you found God’s
Unconditional Compassion-Eye,
You never lost it again.

12370

I do not need a mind
Of balloon-thoughts.
What I need is a life
Of Himalayan ideals.

12371

God has made you
A fruitful knower of His Heart
Because you are
A soulful server of man.

12372

When you are your life’s
Ignorance-confession,
God becomes His Heart’s
Forgiveness-Benediction.

12373

Because of your present strong attachment
To ignorance-life,
Your past aspiration-heart
Is now a battered rainbow-dream.

12374

Move out of suspicion-slums
If you want to enjoy
The breath of nectar-air-energy.

12375

You have liberated yourself
From the desire-life.
Therefore, God has cast His complete
Satisfaction-Eye on you.

12376

God’s request:
“My child, please please Me.”
Man’s request:
“God, please please me first!”

12377

Be always good
To all those you love.
That unquestionably
Includes God.

12378

If you are befriended
By aspiration-heart
And dedication-life,
Then God will grant you
Your happiness-harvest.

12379

O my mind,
I shall no longer house you
With your useless
Amplified worries.

12380

My only prayer
To my Lord Supreme
Is to help me stop playing
The endless soundtrack
Of thoughts.

12381

My joy knows no bounds today,
For my heart’s aspiration-cry
Is chasing my mind’s
Confusion-chaos.

12382

Because my Lord
Is His Compassion-Satisfaction-Eye,
I am my heart’s
Aspiration-mounting cry.

12383

My frustrations tell God,
“Lord, why have You deserted me?”
God tells my frustrations,
“Your false accusations
Are not acceptable!
When did you need Me?
When did you invoke Me?”

12384

My mind enjoys the revolving door
Of self-enlargement.
My heart adores the revolving door
Of God-enjoyment.

12385

I am a sleepless faith-lover.
Therefore,
I shall, without fail,
Leave the doubt-followers
Behind.

12386

Whenever I love my desire-mind,
I am immediately forced to participate
In the round-robin tournament
Of ruthless self-torture.

12387

Heaven-soaring hearts
Are always
God’s blessingful and fruitful
Smiles.

12388

If you want to resist some things,
Resist by all means.
But do not resist
Your aspiration-life’s
Dedication-beauty.

12389

You call it
Your attachment.
I call it
Your imprisonment.
God calls it
Your forced enlightenment.

12390

Hide anything you want to,
Save and except
Your heart’s beauty,
Your life’s duty
And your perfection-hungry divinity.

12391

You can enjoy
The fruits of faith
If your mind’s humility dawns.

12392

If you can lift your life
Out of selfishness-night,
God is bound to grant you
His powerful Heart’s
Satisfaction-Light.

12393

My soul’s silence-delight
Every day multiplies
My heart’s God-service-faith.

12394

My aspiration-boat
Has never used
The dark black doubt-sails.

12395

He who does not daily aspire
Often holds a powerful grudge
Against the merciful God.

12396

For you
There can be no doom
Because every day
Your heart’s purity-smile blooms.

12397

You are your mind’s uncertainty.
Therefore
Your mind’s connection with God
Is as fragile as an eggshell.

12398

Nobody can dare
Prevent you from feasting
Either on self-pity
Or on God-Satisfaction.

12399

Your life is enjoying
Perfection-satisfaction
Precisely because your mind
Is a stranger to expectation.

12400

May each prayer-breath
Of my life
Be a whisper of gratitude
To my Absolute Lord Supreme.

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