Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 145

14401

Our heart’s streaming tears
Know the secret entrance
To the world of Infinity’s Delight.

14402

Are you so stupid
That you have to stir up
Your mind’s confusion-dust
Every day?

14403

How can you say that you aspire,
My seeker-friend?
Can you not see
That your heart-door
Is completely sealed?

14404

Look at the rising sun.
Look at the setting sun.
Your mind’s inspiration
And your heart’s aspiration
Will immediately increase.

14405

My faith-flooded heart
Has accepted the challenge
Of curing my doubt-addicted mind.

14406

Plant gratitude-seeds
Inside your heart-garden.
Your life will be beautiful
And fruitful
With glowing deeds.

14407

You are spending all your time
Thinking of others’ successes
And failures.
When will you have time
To do something for yourself,
Or even for God?

14408

Step out
Of stark ignorance-shadow,
O my ill-fated mind,
If you want progress-satisfaction.

14409

The illumination-compass
Of my soul
Invariably points
Towards God-manifestation.

14410

Deep inside my heart’s
Ecstasy-lake,
My Lord Supreme sings
His Immortality’s Songs.

14411

If your inner weather report
Is good,
Then you are bound to make
Long progress-strides.

14412

A sleepless gratitude-heart
Knows the shortest and safest
Passageway
To God’s Satisfaction-Heart.

14413

Fortunate are those
Who have the capacity
To stay off
Their mind’s doubt-infested path.

14414

God needs from you
A thirsty mind
And
A hungry heart,
And
Nothing more!

14415

The life of spirituality
Not only invites possibility
But also transforms possibility
Into manifested reality.

14416

Your sweet Heaven-memories
Will enter into your mind
If you can awaken and preserve
The beauty of your purity-heart.

14417

Shatter, shatter
Your impossibility-fear
And your impossibility-challenges
Both in your inner life
And in your outer life!

14418

God is so sad
That your aspiration-candles
Have been extinguished
By your world-desire-life.

14419

If you can nurture
Your devotion-bud,
Your realisation-blossoms
Will be seen before long.

14420

Even God’s Compassion-Eye
Does not care to read
Your ceaseless
Daily ignorance-multiplying reports.

14421

My Lord,
Do give me the capacity
To turn my heart’s wish-power
Into my life’s will-power.

14422

Because you have lost
Your enthusiasm-heart,
Your life’s progress-tide
Is ebbing.

14423

A seeker has to start
His spiritual journey
With a ceaselessly dreaming
Oneness-heart.

14424

A self-giver
Does not have to pay anything
When he shops at God’s
Heart-Mart.

14425

Use your hungry God-hunger-heart.
You will easily be able to rescue
All your long-lost
God-manifestation-dreams.

14426

I am breathing today
New, soulful and powerful hopes
Into my old, decayed and fading dreams.

14427

Once you find yourself
In the mind’s worry-boat,
It is extremely difficult
To jump out of it.

14428

God does not care for you.
He cares for your heart,
Although it is as dry as dust.

14429

Just one pure celestial thought
Of your mind
Can satisfy God’s great Hunger.

14430

Only God’s unconditional Grace
Can completely turn down
Your mind’s doubt-volume
For good.

14431

Although your mind is coming
On a delayed doubt-flight,
It will definitely reach
Its frustration-airport.

14432

Our heart’s inner silence
At any moment
Can quiet the chattering mind’s
Stupidity-utterances.

14433

I am sick of enjoying
The fleeting flight of fame
In my life.

14434

Cancel as soon as possible
All your mind-appointments
With ignorance-students:
Anxiety,
Insecurity
And jealousy.

14435

Your purity-heart only
Can improve your life’s
Perfection-grade.

14436

God’s great fan
Is your heart.
God’s greater fan
Is your heart’s sleepless gratitude.
God’s greatest fan
Is your heart’s unconditional surrender.

14437

O my old and tired thoughts,
I must say farewell to you,
I must!

14438

My Lord Supreme,
Do once more make me
Your choice aspiration-athlete!

14439

Wisdom has dawned upon me.
I have completely withdrawn my support
For the doubt-cherishing mind-party.

14440

Self-conscious and pompous devotion
Is defective,
And it is almost incurable.

14441

God does not want you to understand
Your heart-language.
He wants you only to feel
And be proud of
Your heart-language.

14442

Today I am enjoying
New, illumining and fulfilling sweetness
Inside my silence-peace-heart.

14443

Although the beginning
Of my spiritual life
Was uncertain and precarious,
The ending of my spiritual life
Is supremely glorious.

14444

God is asking me
What keeps me from boarding
My life’s transformation-perfection-train.

14445

Your mind’s limitation-hallucinations
Are speedily and foolishly
Moving away from
Your heart’s illumination-satisfaction.

14446

A soulful smile
Is the new remedy
For humanity’s old ailment:
Doubt.

14447

Alas, what am I going to do
With my poor mind,
Which is afraid of light?
Alas, what am I going to do
With my poor heart,
Which is afraid of darkness?

14448

My mind’s teeming defects
Are unending.
Yet I shall never give up
My life’s perfection-dream.

14449

Because of your
Unconditional surrender-heart,
Your life’s delight-journey
Is dawning fast.

14450

With our aspiration-passport
We do not need any visa
To enter into
Humanity’s inner countries.

14451

Slowly and steadily,
Your heart-life will climb up
Divinity’s satisfaction-peak.

14452

Today my Lord Supreme
Has passed a law
Against humanity’s
Doubt-enjoyment.

14453

Use your heart’s cry!
You will feel God at any time.
Use your life’s surrender!
You will see God in any place.

14454

God’s Justice-Light
Is only an inch away
From God’s Compassion-Height.
Therefore, you can easily expect
Almost anything you want
From God’s Justice-Light.

14455

Step forward,
No matter how slowly,
How carefully.
But do not step backward,
Even unconsciously!

14456

True,
The heart-purification-process
Is slow.
But do not give up
If you want to be the owner
Of your Lord’s Victory-Smile.

14457

If your dedication is not nourished
By faith every day,
Doubt may at any moment
Derail your dedication-train.

14458

Your heart’s gratitude-fragrance
Has the capacity
To respond immediately
To God’s clarion Call.

14459

God-loving hearts
Are both completely calm
And unmistakably certain.

14460

A soulful meditation
Can easily lengthen
The mind’s compassion,
Tolerance and sympathy-limits.

14461

My life is a little boat;
It is a feeble cry.
But my soul is a representative
Of the omnipotent,
Omnipresent and omniscient God.

14462

Humanity’s orphan-cry
Will definitely
One day be transformed
Into Divinity’s Infinity-Smile.

14463

My early morning peace
I receive from
My aspiration-heart-flames
And my dedication-life-plants.

14464

May every human being
Be blessed with
A celestial angel-music-dawn.

14465

God Himself garlands and crowns
His hero-server
When he arrives
At God’s Golden Shore.

14466

It is not enough to decrease —
You have to totally diminish
Your contact with
Your mind-doubt-agent.

14467

Gratitude is a divine gift
That we get from the inner world.
Alas, it is undoubtedly
An under-used gift.

14468

When we summarise
Humanity’s deplorable situation,
We realise that humanity
Does not really know
What it actually wants.

14469

The difference between
A doer and a watcher
Is that the doer is on
His safe and certain highway
To God’s Infinity,
Whereas the watcher can be
Either tomorrow’s starter
Or tomorrow’s sleeper.

14470

A first-class God-lover
And God-server
Says to God at every moment:
“My Lord, do tell me
What else I can do for You
To please You in Your own Way.”

14471

Ambition-body-mind
I am.
Aspiration-heart-soul
I long to be.

14472

God feels extremely sad
That you feed your self-doubt-mind,
Even while your heart
Is conversing with God.

14473

Humanity’s dissatisfaction-disease
Is not only widespread
But also impossibly incurable.

14474

An ingratitude-heart
Is bound to enter
Eventually
Into an unknown territory
Of self-peril.

14475

Alas, alas, I still do not know
When my nonsense-mind
Will be replaced by
My aspiration-heart.

14476

The human mind enjoys
Great export-success.
The divine heart enjoys
Good import-progress.

14477

A freedom-cry
Is not a product of the finite
But a blessingful boon
From Above.

14478

O my Lord Supreme,
What I need is
A heart-willingness-cottage
And never
A mind-unwillingness-edifice.

14479

A purity-dream and
A certainty-reality
Are connected by
Divinity’s golden Dream.

14480

Rich God knows
How to forgive
And how to forget.
Poor human beings
Know neither.

14481

Aspiration must be
Our very first choice,
And never an afterthought.

14482

The intellectual giants
Cannot open the heart’s
Sweetness-fondness-room.

14483

My present name is
Man-frustration.
My future name will be
God-satisfaction.

14484

The human mind
Cleverly looks for
Divinity-exit-door.
The divine heart
Wisely looks for
Divinity-entrance-door.

14485

Your mind’s master plans
Will eventually die unnourished
And unsupported.

14486

God says to God-realised souls:
“You can claim Me now,
But I shall claim you
Only after you have manifested Me.”

14487

God’s Heart-Palace
Is the place for truth-seekers
And God-lovers
To play, sing and dance.

14488

No seeker
Can permanently stay on the path
If God withdraws
His Compassion-Protection-Eye.

14489

My life’s austerity
Is forced to live inside
My mind’s godless captivity.

14490

If you do anything soulfully
And do not succeed,
Do not feel sad.
Rest assured,
God will take the blame.

14491

To lighten God’s heavy burden,
Think of God ceaselessly.
To enlighten your mind,
Pray to God breathlessly.

14492

God smilingly and proudly
Breathes in
Our heart’s flower-fragrance.

14493

God tells me that He loves
My soulfulness-mind.
God tells me that He needs
My fulness-heart.

14494

Before my God-realisation,
I loved God
For His Greatness and Goodness.
After my God-realisation,
I have been loving God
For His Sweetness and Fondness.

14495

Each surrender-prayer
Of my heart
Will be garlanded and crowned
By my inner divinity’s Lord Supreme.

14496

Expand, expand
Your willingness-heart
Sleeplessly and breathlessly
Into the vastness-universe.

14497

With my prayerful heart
I start my Eternity’s journey.
With my soulful life
I continue.

14498

An unwillingness-vital
And a hesitation-mind
Can destroy the beauty and purity
Of an aspiration-heart.

14499

When I sing before God
My heart’s love-song,
His blessingful Comment is:
“Excellent, My child!”
When I sing before God
My heart’s devotion-song,
His powerful Comment is:
“Perfect, My child!”

14500

When I multiply
My devotion-heart-flames,
My Lord Supreme tells me:
“My child, I have arrived!”

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