Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 129

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12801

Not tomorrow, but now,
At this very moment,
Pick a pure heart-rose
From God’s Vision-Manifestation-Garden.

12802

Your utterly insincere mind
Is fully responsible
For your false start
In your self-transcending
Aspiration-race.

12803

What I desperately need
Is not an old mind
But a gold heart.

12804

Not my self-styled competence
But my helplessness-heart
Will be a candidate
For God’s Compassion-Light.

12805

With your mind you can at best
Journey into fantasy,
But with your heart you can definitely
Journey into ecstasy.

12806

If you are a seeker
And yet do not care
For a simplicity-mind
And a purity-heart,
Then you will be forced to live
Inside frustration-nightmare.

12807

An endless desire-mind
Is nothing short of
A sad chapter in life.

12808

The mind-leadership makes me feel
That I am exceptionally great.
The heart-leadership makes me feel
That God is supremely proud of me.

12809

My Lord, my Lord,
Save me from ignorance-assaults.
Be not Your parched Indifference-Eye!

12810

My heart of hope
May be fragile,
But my eye of promise
Is invincible.

12811

Have a powerful meditation first,
And then try to see
Your aura’s God-blossoming beauty.

12812

To me, each uncomely thought
Is nothing other than
A time-stealing experience.

12813

Never too late!
Start illumining and perfecting
Your pleasure-prone vital.

12814

God wants to see us
Wearing the garland
Of our self-giving
Experience-light.

12815

With a tireless self-giving,
We can see the arrival
Of our Beloved Supreme
At our heart’s aspiration-door.

12816

Truth confidently marches
Along Eternity’s Road.
Falsehood timidly runs
Along darkness-thickening lane.

12817

Your own unhorizoned greatness
Will help you appreciate
The freedom of the birds.
Your own infinite goodness
Will help you enjoy
The flight of the birds.

12818

The more you observe
What the mind has done for you,
The more you will appreciate
What the heart has not done for you.

12819

I may not know
Where my mind of simplicity is,
But I do know
Where my heart of sincerity eternally is.
It is inside the Compassion-Eye
Of my Lord Supreme.

12820

The mind thinks
That the heart is stupid.
The heart feels
That the mind can be made better.

12821

A mind without doubt
Is indeed
A colossal surprise.

12822

A soulful heart
Sleeplessly radiates
Its beauty-smiles.

12823

Lethargy loves
To live permanently
In the body-room.

12824

Selflessness
Is a seeker’s greatest capacity
For keeping the peace-torch illumined.

12825

My heart’s peace-temple
Is always open
To all.

12826

Swim, swim, swim
Across the mind’s
Wide ignorance-channel!

12827

Gratitude
Is by far the best virtue
For nourishing aspiration-plants.

12828

Temptation is never invited
To purity’s
Illumination-convention.

12829

My heart sleeplessly cries
To be in the company
Of self-giving God-seekers.

12830

One God in the heart
Is infinitely more important
Than an infinite number of gods
In the mind.

12831

I have done it,
I have finally done it!
I have silenced the nightmare
Of the ruthless past.

12832

Because you are
A true God-lover,
You can easily leap
Over the future’s fence.

12833

You can escape from me,
But you cannot escape
My heart’s fragrance-smile.

12834

When will you be ready?
God has been waiting and waiting for you
With His unconditional Blessing-Light!

12835

You will not be able
To do anything great
Either for yourself
Or for mankind
If you keep depression and frustration
As your bodyguards.

12836

I want to remain
For the rest of my life
In the world of self-offering.
Therefore, I have applied
For a permanent visa
From the world Above.

12837

If you fail to weed
Your mind’s impurity-garden daily,
How can you ever be truly happy?

12838

Be brave!
Do not allow your mind
To collapse
Under heavy depression-thought-weight.

12839

Sooner or later
Every human being
Has to graduate
From God’s Heart-Academy.

12840

Temptation:
A quick, cruel and inescapable
Destruction-dance.

12841

To outsmart your ignorance-opponent,
You need a permanent friendship
With God’s Compassion-Eye.

12842

What I constantly need
Is a doubt-free faith-mind.
What I sleeplessly need
Is a fear-free happiness-heart.

12843

Every day without fail
You must press charges
Against the temptation-culprit.

12844

Think whatever you want to think.
Do whatever you want to do.
Say whatever you want to say.
But do not divulge poor God’s
Sacred Whisper-Secrets.

12845

Each ennobling thought
Marks humanity’s
Evolution-progress.

12846

The heart
Always tolerates the mind,
Even its ruthless denials of truth.

12847

An aspiration-heart always lives
In God’s Rose-Fragrance-Garden
Of Compassion-Light.

12848

Heart, my heart,
Be not assailed by insecurity.
Mind, my mind,
Be not assailed by doubt.
Vital, my vital,
Be not assailed by depression.
Body, my body,
Be not assailed by sloth.

12849

Reality is ruthless:
So says my mind.
Reality is spotless:
So says my heart.

12850

Every morning
My Lord Supreme enters
Into my heart-nest
Smiling and dancing,
With a lotus in His Hand.

12851

On my way to God,
Do you want to know what happened?
My mind was crippled
By destruction-fears
And my heart was embraced
By ecstasy-tears.

12852

No time?
You mean, no readiness-mind.
No time?
You mean, no willingness-heart.

12853

Expectation means
The frustration-invitation
Of the limitation-mind.

12854

Who am I?
I am my Master’s
Sorrowful sigh.
What shall I become?
I shall become my Master’s
Satisfaction-child
Before I die.

12855

From God’s point of view,
No failure-heart,
No failure-life
And no failure-human being!

12856

Because your life lives always
In the rainbow-smile of hope,
Depression does not dare to try
To have a free access to you.

12857

For God,
It is not an uncommon experience
To see His blessingfully
Wisdom-flooded Lectures
Unattended.

12858

O my eyes,
Do not oversleep
Every aspiration-day.
O my mouth,
Do not overemphasise
Every dedication-day.

12859

May my progress-heart
Be a one-way street,
With no U-turn permitted!

12860

For God,
You can definitely
Do something infinitely better
Than give Him yesterday’s
Second-hand, fading smile.

12861

Even though from God
I turn away,
He invites me again and again
With Him to play.

12862

Because my aspiration-heart
Cannot go astray,
Because my dedication-life
Cannot go away,
Every day my Lord announces
Our mutual victory-day.

12863

My Lord Supreme painfully sighed
When I told Him
That I tried very hard
To please Him.

12864

My Lord,
Do make my mind divinely brave
And my heart supremely brave,
So that I do not feel sad
When the world eagerly watches
The disintegration of my success-life.

12865

I unconsciously want God
To be my slave.
God consciously, compassionately
And self-givingly wants me
To be His friend.

12866

What your mind needs
Is intensive light-surgery.
What your heart needs
Is progressive delight-discovery.

12867

My Lord becomes
His Compassion-Heart
To cushion
My imperfection-fall.

12868

My Lord Supreme, in those days
I really loved You.
But alas, what is wrong with me now?
My Lord Supreme, in those days
I sleeplessly needed You.
But alas, what is wrong with me now?

12869

Give, give,
Soulfully give yourself away!
Your name will be
Prosperity’s sky.

12870

I love my Lord’s
Compassion-Perfection-Eye.
God loves my life’s
Aspiration-purity-heart.

12871

Be kind, be all sympathy,
For each and every human being
Is forced to fight against himself.

12872

I love the God-Giant
Inside my heart
Infinitely more than
I love the God-Dwarf
Inside my mind.

12873

Hello hope,
Hello promise,
Hello!
Good-bye doubt,
Good-bye hesitation,
Good-bye!

12874

You do not have to mourn
Your misspent life.
Be pure in heart.
God will give you another chance.

12875

Doubt-prince,
I must dethrone you.
Faith-friend,
I must never mistreat you.

12876

If you undernourish
Your faith-heart,
You will be doomed
To a pain-flooded future.

12877

An expectation-heart
Cut to pieces
Is called a human life.

12878

An aspiration-dedication-morning
Is indeed
A fear-diminished day.

12879

Smile within, smile without.
God will liberate you
From your insecurity-haunted life.

12880

When it comes to service
And sacrifice,
The human is usually
An escape-champion.

12881

Count your blessings.
God will take care of
Your surroundings.

12882

When I do not pray,
When I do not meditate,
My mind becomes
The supreme authority
On stupidity.

12883

Be not one
With your mind’s opposition.
Be sleeplessly one
With your heart’s consecration.

12884

O my worry-encumbered mind,
I shall before long transform you
Into my resident peace-dove.

12885

I keep asking myself
Only one question:
Does God really need me,
Ever?

12886

Adamantine determination
Means the rediscovery
Of lost and forgotten faith.

12887

I really do not know
And do not want to know
Why God always loves me
Unconditionally.

12888

Your wise heart
Is telling me one thing.
Your clever eyes
Are telling me something else.
Needless to say,
I am all for your heart.

12889

Learn the art of forgiving,
And apply it to yourself first.
Then it becomes easy
To forgive others.

12890

The mind can specialise
In doubting others easily.
The heart can and does specialise
In loving others easily,
Plus permanently.

12891

God’s Compassion-Heart
Always accepts
My mind’s frustration-collect calls.

12892

The mind’s impossibility
Is only for the mind.
The heart’s possibility,
Nay, inevitability,
Is definitely for the life.

12893

Heart, my heart,
What are you doing?
Wake up!
Wake up immediately,
And stand bravely against
My mind’s doubt-impurity-invasion.

12894

Alas, why do I love my life’s
Fragile impermanence-success
So much?
Why?

12895

Tell your heart
Never to give up its faith-studies.
If ever it gives them up,
Then immediately your mind
Will resume its doubt-suspicion-studies.

12896

O ignorance-world,
You can at best stop me
From manifesting God on earth.
But you can never prevent me
From loving my Lord Beloved Supreme.

12897

There shall come a time
When each and every human being
Will enjoy the bright burst
Of oneness-delight.

12898

Every morning if you cannot
Have your life fuelled with joy,
How will you work devotedly
For your Inner Pilot?

12899

If you can sincerely feel
That you are the owner of nothing,
Then to God you will be everything.

12900

What will happen, my Lord,
If I make my mind prayerful?
“I shall love you more.”

What will happen, my Lord,
If I make my heart soulful?
“I shall need you more.”

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