Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 136

13501

The crystal Voice of my Inner Pilot
Is blessingfully granting my mind
A thought-free, perfect silence-dawn.

13502

My mind’s teeming doubts
Wanted to rival
My heart’s climbing aspiration.
But now my life’s realisation-tree
Has no rival.

13503

Every day,
Early in the morning,
We must sow the seeds of sincerity
In our mind-garden
And the seeds of purity
In our heart-garden.

13504

Now that you have
An open heart-surrender-policy,
You have automatically become
A supremely choice instrument of God.

13505

I do not think
That it will ever be possible
For you to illumine your entire life
With your on-and-off aspiration-switch.

13506

Spending a day in God’s company
Means drinking Nectar-Delight
For time unbounded.

13507

Man’s doubt-drenched mind
Destroys his life’s
Beauty-purity-heart.

13508

Where is the difference between
Your aspiration-evading mind
And your frustration-destruction-life?

13509

For many,
It is not merely difficult
But actually impossible
To bring back
Their gone-away aspiration-days.

13510

He who accepts each problem
As an opportunity
Is bound to become
The master of problems
Eventually.

13511

The mountain-top wisdom-light
Is never to be found
Inside the human mind.
It is found only
Inside the divine heart.

13512

There is no way
For you to do everything correctly
Unless and until
You beg your soul-captain
To be in full command of your life.

13513

Always try to swim
In the river of hope.
Once you give up swimming,
You will be found immediately
At the feet of the despair-dictator.

13514

Only kind-hearted souls
Can properly forgive
The weight of man’s indifference-eyes.

13515

God did not even require you
To have a desire-door.
God certainly did not ask you
To keep it open
All the time.

13516

Why do you not admit the facts:
That you did everything
Foolishly and proudly
At your own risk?

13517

If you want to be really happy
And fulfil tomorrow’s dreams,
Then you must bury
Your past frustration-days.

13518

God will definitely console you
And illumine you
If your God-centred heart
Is ever misunderstood.

13519

In your inner life
You are so blind
That you do not see
What you actually do:
You prefer unhappiness-thorns
To happiness-flowers.

13520

You do not have to roam
From crisis to crisis
If you are ready to choose
God the Compassion
As your sole Captain for life.

13521

I see, I see!
What do I see?
I see every day
That God’s Justice-Light
Bows to God’s Compassion-Height
In my aspiration-empty life.

13522

When disappointment comes your way,
Remember that God will give you
Another chance
To sit for your life-examination.

13523

You are bound to accomplish things
Far beyond your imagination —
Things divine, illumining and fulfilling —
If you just learn how
To disown your unruly thought-world.

13524

Each time I go to see God,
He asks me only one thing:
“My son, have you brought Me
Some good news
For a change?”

13525

When my life becomes one with
My obedience-heart,
God shares with me His
Infinity’s immortal Secrets.

13526

God’s Compassion-Eye
Grants a very long life
To my short-lived virtues.

13527

Frustration’s shackles bind us
When we climb down
From the aspiration-tree.

13528

Peace was
The first-born child of God.
Perfection will be
The last-born child of God.

13529

Perfection-mastery comes only
From the heart’s aspiration-cry
And the life’s dedication-smile.

13530

Your happiness-heart-flower
Will not fade
If you choose your soul-illumination
To guide you every day.

13531

Nothing succeeds as beautifully
And as powerfully
As our mountain-aspiration-cries
And our fountain-dedication-smiles.

13532

If you sleeplessly pray for the death
Of your mind’s ignorance-night,
Then God is bound to give you
His Heart’s everlasting Breath.

13533

A self-giving
And God-becoming heart
Is humanity’s peace-flooded home.

13534

God’s Compassion-Rain
And man’s aspiration-plants
Can together change the face and fate
Of fast-descending humanity.

13535

If your heart is flooded
With gratitude,
Then you can never fail to find
Your life’s perfection-summit-sun.

13536

The birth of ignorance-night
Nobody knows,
But the death of ignorance-night
Everybody is bound to know.

13537

My Lord, my Lord,
I humbly and soulfully pray to You
Not to stop
My life’s self-transcendence-pilgrimage.

13538

Every day
God enjoys reading
My heart’s aspiration-blossoming
Messages.

13539

No, not even the compassionate God,
Not to speak of human beings,
Will ever say a word
In defence of your heart’s insecurity!

13540

The sweetness
Of a purity-heart
Is immediately embraced
By the fondness
Of God’s Satisfaction-Eye.

13541

God does not see any urgency
In transforming your life.
Do you know why?
Just because you enjoy complacency
More than anything else in your life.

13542

No matter how undivine you are,
God wants you to look
Straight into His Eyes
So that His Compassion can enter into you
And transform your guilt-loaded life.

13543

To my wide surprise,
My heart is still in the lead
Although I have not fed my heart
For a long time.

13544

Do you know why
You are acting like a demon?
Because you daily enjoy listening
To your unlit mind’s
Wild sermons.

13545

My mind’s ignorance-imperfections
On earth
Can never blossom
Into a perfection-tree
In Heaven.

13546

The man of the past
Longed to tame ignorance.
The man of today
Overlooks ignorance.
The man of tomorrow
Shall powerfully dominate ignorance.

13547

Our oneness-surrender
To God’s Will
Is indeed a devastating blow
To impossibility.

13548

If you are eager to announce
The arrival of God
At your heart’s door,
Then denounce doubt
Once and for all
With your illumination-mind.

13549

No imperfection,
No matter how small it is,
Will forever remain hidden
From the eye of Time.

13550

My self-promotion
And God’s Love-Satisfaction
Are never to be found together.

13551

Insecurity, world-doubt,
Self-doubt and God-doubt
Live together
In the same unlit mind-cave.

13552

There is something most valuable
Missing from my aspiration-heart,
And that is my gratitude-joy.

13553

Now that I have escaped
From my mind’s captivity,
I am soulfully, spiritually,
Divinely and supremely awakened
To God-heights.

13554

The soul’s magnanimity
And the heart’s generosity
At every moment understand
The sufferings of humanity.

13555

Do not allow doubt
To challenge
The soulful utterances
Of your inner conviction.

13556

Your gratitude-heart
Will grant you enthusiasm
Either to illumine
Or to tame the mind.

13557

O my doubting mind,
A confusion-grave
Is awaiting
Your certain arrival.

13558

Each soulful thought
Is a rainbow-joy
That tries to transform
My suffering life.

13559

May my heart be
My daily aspiration-practice.
May my life be
My daily perfection-practice.

13560

Meditate, meditate!
You will see how easy it is
To swim against temptation-stream.

13561

My powerful concentration-eye
Is my ignorance-tiger-piercing spear.
My soulful meditation-heart
Is my world-transforming fragrance-garden.

13562

Oneness-heart-love
Can only be treasured
And can never be measured.

13563

If you do not improve yourself,
Who will take the trouble
Of transforming your life?
No, not even God!

13564

God will smilingly transform us
If we willingly tell God
That His Way is our way,
Our only way.

13565

If you live only in the mind
And never go beyond the mind,
Then you are bound to collide
With confusion-night.

13566

God has told me
That if I can be responsible
For my soulful heart,
Then He will be responsible
For my uncertain life.

13567

I prayed intensely
To change God’s Mind.
God meditated self-givingly
To change my heart.

13568

We doubt God precisely because
We have befriended our mind the doubter.
We believe in God precisely because
We see eye to eye with our heart the lover.

13569

O my hope-bird,
Although you are carrying me
Into the heart of the Unknown,
I love you and I treasure you.

13570

Man’s perfection
And God’s Satisfaction
Will someday, somehow, somewhere
Take place.

13571

You know the right way.
You are standing on the right road.
You are facing the right direction.
What can possibly be delaying
Your journey’s progress-march?

13572

My imperfections
Do not make you perfect.
Therefore, you have no reason to ridicule
My imperfections.

13573

My Lord, I do not want
To remain any more
An idler.

“In that case, My child,
I am making you
My Satisfaction-worker.”

13574

Without faith,
In both God and oneself,
How can one pass through
The black and starless ignorance-night?

13575

Confidence comes not from self-denial.
Confidence comes not from self-assertion.
Confidence comes from self-sacrifice
And self-perfection.

13576

How many human beings can take
God-Elevator to God-Height?
None, unless God’s Grace
Does the miracle of miracles.

13577

There are so many fragile things
Here on earth.
Hope is fragile,
Faith is fragile,
Gratitude is fragile,
To name a few.

13578

My heart’s morning dream
For God’s Happiness
Is unconditionally entering
Into my life.

13579

What can poor God do for you
If you choose every day
To knock at despair-door?

13580

There can be no time
Better than now
To please God
And be His choice instrument.

13581

You can surprise God
Not with your mind’s dissatisfaction
But with your heart’s satisfaction.

13582

What is human life, after all,
If not a constantly hopeless
And helpless effort
To climb the Everest-heights?

13583

If you are your mind’s
Careless God-search,
How can you be your heart’s
Breathless God-Satisfaction?

13584

When your heart is touched
By bitterness,
You are bound to miss
God’s Nearness.

13585

A high meditation is
A soulful, peaceful and natural
God-Beauty’s Heaven-Smile
In a seeker’s aspiration-heart.

13586

A sleepless devotion to God
Can give us a deathless heart-smile
To transform our unlit human mind.

13587

What can meditation do?
Meditation can do many things.
In your case, your meditation
Is determined to stop your vital
From resurrecting its long-dead frustrations.

13588

God-obedience
Is nothing other than happiness.
Happiness
Is nothing other than our inner progress.
Our inner progress
God not only appreciates but also treasures.

13589

If you will regularly use
Your surrender-prayers,
Then God will turn your life
Into His Satisfaction-Tower.

13590

God-realisation is not a race.
It is a spontaneous revelation
Of the inner face.

13591

O my heart’s insecurity,
When will you realise
That you are my life’s
Worst possible troublemaker?

13592

To be a lifelong citizen of Heaven,
I must be my heart’s
Oneness-joy and fulness-satisfaction.

13593

O my stupidity-mind,
Can you not see
That your manufactured illusion-world
Is crumbling day by day?

13594

God is counting on
My mind-progress,
For therein plays
His own Victory-Trumpet.

13595

Cultivate, cultivate
Your heart’s oneness-peace-garden.
Lo, God Himself is announcing
Your victory over world-division.

13596

If you hesitate,
Your heart’s God-realisation-promise
And your life’s God-manifestation-promise
Will never reach
God’s Dream-fulfilled Perfection-Palace.

13597

When your heart grows into
A glowing lamp,
It will illumine your mind’s
Cloudy road.

13598

If you are afraid of climbing up
Your inner Himalayan heights,
You cannot be a member
Of God’s ever-expanding love-society.

13599

What humanity needs at every moment
Is the pure breath
Of an illumining and fulfilling
Forgiveness-heart.

13600

My heart’s prayer-whisper to God:
“My Lord, do increase the fragrance
Of my purity-heart-flower
Every day, every hour,
Every minute, every second.”

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