Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 142

14101

Your heart’s soaring aspiration-bird
Will before long
Fly to God, without fail.

14102

He who has
Life-transforming determination
Is already on his way
To victory supreme.

14103

O my soulful heart,
True, you are suffering
But I am sure before long
You will be washing the Compassion-Feet
Of our Lord Beloved Supreme.

14104

Now that my mind’s unwillingness-reluctance
Has reached its ultimate limit,
My heart and I together
Will cry for my Lord’s Victory-Smile.

14105

If you are sleeplessly loving
Either God or yourself,
How can you have time
To see the imperfections
Of the world?

14106

The desire-demon cannot devour
Your aspiration-hunger
And cannot slow down
Your deer-speed progress.

14107

O my heart,
Be not a fool!
Not only you, but no heart
Can be forsaken
By the Compassion-Lord Supreme.

14108

Every morning without fail
My body, vital and mind
Sing our heart’s aspiration-song.

14109

God does not care for
Your mind’s mystery.
He cares only for
Your life’s mastery.

14110

If you can live
In God’s Patience-Heart,
Then there is no distance
That you cannot travel in the inner world.

14111

Be vigilant, O seeker!
Before you realise what is happening,
Your mind may enter into
The abysmal abyss of ignorance-night.

14112

Alas, alas,
Can you not see
That your mind has powerfully
Slammed the door
On perpetual truth?

14113

O my mind,
I do not expect you
To be perfect,
But I do expect you
To be totally receptive
To new and inspiring ideas.

14114

Every day God blesses me
With love-blossoms
In my aspiration-heart.

14115

Your mind’s insincerity-smile
Is taking you away
Farther than the farthest
From God’s Compassion-Heart.

14116

Look, look at God’s
Compassion-flooded Sun-Eye!
It has illumined your mind’s
Teeming unworthiness-clouds.

14117

“A self-giving life
Under any circumstances”
Is my life’s sole motto.

14118

If you are not fearless
In your self-examination,
You will never arrive at
God’s Satisfaction-Heart-Door.

14119

I take each failure
As an insignificant event
In my life.
I take each experience
As a supreme blessing
In my life.

14120

I invite imagination every day
To fly in my mind’s sky.
I invite aspiration every day
To fly in my heart’s sky.
I invite perfection every day
To fly in my life’s sky.

14121

Each man’s life
Is a miracle-happening-experience
That he offers to God.

14122

We can repay God
Only through our sleepless
And unconditional happiness.

14123

Every day I must devotedly bow
To the rising sun
Of universal responsibility.

14124

Your own insecurity-life
Is capsizing
Your God-manifestation-boat.

14125

Not your power-mind
But your humility-heart
Will always be the world-winner.

14126

From now on I shall pay special attention
To developing my heart’s
Unused oneness-muscle.

14127

Alas, why do I allow
My poor mind to be dominated
By insincerity and impurity-giants?

14128

I know, I know
That the insecurity of my vital
Has massacred
My heart’s enthusiasm-life.

14129

My life’s transformation-road
Is unmistakably
Under divine construction.

14130

O my mind, do not lose heart!
God did not create you
To be captured and tortured
By confusion-turmoil.

14131

Whether it is a long-distance
Or short-distance call
From your destruction-mind,
Just hang up!

14132

Fear and doubt-knives
Every day make powerful efforts
To stab our aspiration-hearts.

14133

O my mind,
One day you will be caught
By my soul
While you are turning off
My heart’s aspiration-alarm clock.

14134

Where is the difference
Between an impurity-mind
And spiritual paralysis
In a human life?

14135

Is there any human being
Who has not received
Countless opportunities
Directly from Heaven
To surpass himself?

14136

Curiosity cannot make you feel
The heart of spirituality.
It can at best show you
The huge body of spirituality.

14137

Whatever you do,
You must do with unflinching faith
So that you can keep
The doubt-runner far behind you.

14138

A life without God-manifestation-dreams
Can never give a God-seeker
Satisfaction-delight.

14139

There are only two places
Where man and God can meet:
Man’s gratitude-heart
And God’s Compassion-Feet.

14140

Because I do not live
With yesterday any more,
I am ready to love
And be loved by tomorrow.

14141

Our heart’s immortal
Aspiration-cry
Needs no sleep
And wants no rest.

14142

What I call opportunity
Is nothing other than
God’s Compassion-Rain
On my devotion-life.

14143

A gratitude-heart
And an unconditional life
Are unmistakably the last two steps
Before you arrive at the Golden Shore.

14144

O seeker, be not afraid
Of the swarm of attacks
You face.
Before long,
To your wide surprise,
They will disappear.

14145

Insecurity and impurity
Come into our minds and hearts
Disguised as lifelong friends.

14146

If we can see
Through the eye of surrender
And feel
Through the heart of gratitude,
Then we can be perfect
Ignorance-fighters.

14147

The eye of the heart
Can see the God
Of sleepless earth-perfection-dreams.

14148

All problems can be surmounted
If we can cherish
The beauty and fragrance
Of a world-oneness-heart.

14149

God asks us to believe in
At least one thing:
That every night He comes to see us
If we are sleeping and dreaming divinely.

14150

Enjoy the infancy
Of your heart first.
Then only will you be able
To enjoy the intimacy
Of God’s Oneness-Heart-Home.

14151

If you cannot dare
To follow,
God will not hire you
To lead.

14152

There is no such thing
As a little effort.
In God’s Eye, everything that we do
Is meaningful and purposeful.
Therefore,
Each and every effort-incident in life
Is supremely significant.

14153

Today my mind,
The trouble-maker,
Has unconditionally bowed
To my heart,
The trouble-shooter.

14154

My soul has
Only one piece of advice
For my mind:
Become humility’s fragrance-breath.

14155

The world is definitely
Progressing
Since world-destruction-dreams
Are regressing.

14156

Your surrender-life
And gratitude-heart
Will always help you
To climb up the aspiration-mountain.

14157

Self-praise is almost as bad
As surrender
To ignorance-temptation-night.

14158

I do not need
A God-expert-mind.
What I need
Is a God-surrender-heart.

14159

Because of your surrender-life
And your receptivity-heart,
God is eagerly waiting for you
To claim Him as your very own.

14160

The sooner you can reach
Your Himalayan heart-home,
The quicker you will become
A member of God’s inner circle.

14161

Countless times God has listened
To your disaster-slogans.
Now He wants you to step onto
His Compassion-Road.

14162

What I always need
Is a self-giving universal heart
To conquer my mind’s
Ignorance-army.

14163

Sincerity
Tells me where God is.
Purity
Tells me how to reach God.
Surrender
Leads me to God.

14164

My cheerful mind
Can elevate and even transform
Others’ lives.

14165

No matter where I am,
I always seem to long for
My heart’s shelter-sky.

14166

Silence sleeplessly
And perpetually sings
Unnoticed and undiscovered.

14167

My Lord,
Your Forgiveness-Blessing
Illumines my aspiration-heart-tears.

14168

A heart of patience
Can help me discover
My earth-dream-fulfilment-journey.

14169

My mind’s God-rejection-choice
And my heart’s God-invocation-voice
Are always at war with each other.

14170

At last the world
Is planning to surrender to God’s Will.
It is getting ready
To banish doubt for good.

14171

When the God-Hour strikes,
Only peace-lovers
And oneness-warriors
Will be flooded
With Infinity’s peace.

14172

If each moment of your life
Is for God-manifestation,
Then your perfection-life
Cannot remain a far cry.

14173

For a genuine God-lover
There is no such thing
As impossibility.
At God’s choice Hour
God can radically change
Everything.

14174

When God’s Compassion-Eye
Blesses me,
I easily leap over
My fear-hurdles.

14175

Alas, I am always a prisoner —
Either a prisoner
Of shameless inertia
Or a prisoner
Of thoughtless restlessness.

14176

You are bound to be haunted
By the shadows of the past
If you do not create
Sleepless self-giving joy
In your heart of aspiration-cries
And your life of dedication-smiles.

14177

If you accept responsibility’s
Challenges,
Then your life-transformation
Will be God’s top priority.

14178

If you do not break away
From your self-doubt-tradition,
God-dissatisfaction
Will be your heart-dweller.

14179

God is ready to tolerate you
And all your imperfections
Except one,
And that imperfection is
Your ignorance-arrogance.

14180

Your desire-infected mind
Has compelled your life
To be an unwillingness-wasteland.

14181

Three ruthless God-offenders:
Haughtiness, callousness
And unwillingness.

14182

Alas, the human life
Helplessly trembles
Between inner faith
And outer fear.

14183

Do you want to enlarge
Your receptivity-heart?
Then do not give in to
Your powerful desire-demands.

14184

Daily soulfully develop
Obedience-joy
To see God’s Satisfaction-Smile.

14185

You are earth-bound
Because of your mind-attachment.
You can be Heaven-free
Because of your heart-enlightenment.

14186

You have closed your heart-door
Today.
Therefore, God and God’s Guidance
Have left you.

14187

When doubt crowds your mind,
Vehemently tell doubt,
“Doubt, leave me alone!
Faith is fast approaching me.”

14188

The simple truth:
God loves me.
The simpler truth:
God needs me.
The simplest truth:
God and I
Love each other’s heart
And need each other’s life.

14189

If you want total liberation
From depression,
Then go beyond
Stark desire-frustration.

14190

If you do not want to be assaulted
By disguised temptation,
Then day and night
Sing renunciation-life-song.

14191

Your heart is indeed
Allowed to fly
In your soul’s unhorizoned
Vision-sky.

14192

When you go beyond the confines
Of the suffering earth-planet,
You will receive Infinity’s
Blessings, love and joy.

14193

O my mind, can you not see
That your counterfeit compassion
Is misleading you and taking you away
From God’s real Compassion-Light?

14194

Unless you close the door
On yesterday’s failures and mistakes,
You are bound to remain inside
Your mind-built prison.

14195

At God’s Heart-Door
There is only one sign:
“Willingness-seekers are welcome”.

14196

A selfless prayer
Is our life’s flower-fragrance,
Treasured by God’s Fulness-Heart.

14197

The inner vision
And the outer courage
Must go together
For a fruitful journey
Far beyond all ignorance-boundaries.

14198

When our hearts long to be
God’s torch-bearers,
God blesses us with
An unhorizoned vision-sky.

14199

When wisdom dawns,
We clearly see
That a desire-possessed life
Cannot escape from
Ignorance-shackles.

14200

Two diamond thoughts:
God and I love each other;
God and I shall please each other.

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