Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 149

14801

One day I shall see God.
This hope is nothing other than
A Rainbow-Smile from God Himself.

14802

The human mind
Is always slow to awaken
To God’s earth-manifestation-Need.

14803

If God’s Satisfaction
Is not for God’s sake,
Then we shall never be worthy
Of our divinity’s loftiest height.

14804

God does not mind
If we limit Him.
God does not mind
If we criticise Him.
But He does mind
When we limit our own capacities
And indulge in self-criticism.

14805

To deliberately criticise
Another individual
May cause an indelible stain
On the critic.

14806

Is man in search of
A new self-discovery
Or a new self-interest?

14807

Do not underestimate
At any moment
Your heart’s God-commitment-capacities.

14808

When I look at him,
I immediately see
That he is nothing other than
A sheltering shield
Of humility-light.

14809

God does not want you
To suffer from thought-starvation.
He only wants you
To have thought-illumination.

14810

Since you have infinite capacity
To surprise the world in many ways,
Can you not surprise the world
Just by saying that you will
Never, never find fault with the world?

14811

Each time I do not fulfil
An inner promise of my heart,
I feel that my mind and vital
Are two completely smashed wings
Of my soul-bird.

14812

Who can be against me
When I take shelter
At God’s adamantine Feet?
Not even the world’s
Strongest and darkest foe!

14813

If God-invocation is in your heart,
Then you will never be doomed
To life-isolation.

14814

A heart of humility
Has always something special
To offer,
Anywhere in the world.

14815

The mind-education tells us
World-knowledge can be acquired.
The heart-education tells us
God-Wisdom can be inherited.

14816

The body does not possess the soul.
The soul not only possesses the body,
But also perfects, illumines and fulfils
The body.

14817

Alas,
The fate of human beings is deplorable!
Even when a human being has enough,
He feels the supreme necessity of more.

14818

Humanity’s freedom-hope
Can never be achieved
Unless and until humanity has won
Oneness-peace in the heart.

14819

O war-monger,
You are now a hero!
But are you going to become
A super-hero
By establishing peace
Before the fulfilment
Of your world-destruction-dream?

14820

You want to challenge the world.
Alas, this is an ancient story.
You have already done it.
You want to love, liberate and
Fulfil the world.
Ah, this is a new story.
Now you have to complete it.

14821

Suffering may purify the mind
And illumine the heart,
But suffering cannot liberate the mind
Or feed the heart with nectar-delight.

14822

Your curious mind
Wants to write God’s Biography.
But God has already appointed
Your self-giving heart
To write His Biography.

14823

How stupid of you
To allow your mind
To interfere
In your heart-activities.

14824

Strive!
Soulfully strive!
Aspire!
Sleeplessly aspire!
There is no other way
To see the Face of God
And to feel the Heart of God.

14825

Do not deviate
From God-devotion-road
If joy is the only thing
That you need in your life.

14826

Rest assured, if you are receptive,
God will without fail keep
His Life’s Peace-Satisfaction-Promise.

14827

A steady downpour of frustration
Has not left behind
Even an iota of enthusiasm
In my heart.

14828

God’s Compassion-Boat
Has saved my life
Time and again.
Therefore, I feel that I must do
A great favour to God
By manifesting Him in His own Way.

14829

Purity is undoubtedly
The best bridge
Between two human hearts.

14830

Lord, may I never forget
My promise to You,
Even in my wildest dreams.

14831

When tomorrow comes,
It will not come alone for once.
It will come with
A beautiful season of hope.

14832

My soul’s rainbow-qualities
Are saving my outer life
And serving my inner life.

14833

You are such a fool!
Do you not know
That it is almost an impossible task
To wear the crown
Of aspiration and dedication
Every day?

14834

May my life’s
Hope-breath
Never go out of season.

14835

The crown of importance
Everybody wants to wear.
But how many actually deserve it?

14836

When tomorrow comes,
I shall deliberately forget
My life-threatening insecurity-fever.

14837

Alas, why do we blame God
For the decisions that we make
According to our own necessity
And capacity?

14838

I always feel
That my expectation-life
Has a shorter-than-the-shortest
Breath.

14839

When I give God a hard time,
He smiles with His Vision-Eye
And cries with His Silence-Heart.

14840

I got the shock of my life
When my long-cherished confidence-heart
All of a sudden deserted me.
Why did it desert me?
Because I made a special friendship
With my doubting mind.

14841

God’s Compassion-Eye
And my gratitude-heart
Meet together
In God’s secret and sacred Heart-Garden.

14842

If you do not have aspiration-movement
In your life’s dedication-boat,
How can you ever reach
The God-realisation-manifestation-shore?

14843

Surrender is always beautiful;
Gratitude is always powerful:
This is what my Beloved Supreme
Most compassionately teaches me
In the inner school.

14844

God does not mind
If you do not read His Suggestion List.
But your soul does mind,
And your soul will force you
To read God’s Suggestion List,
For inside God’s Suggestion List
Is the brightest beginning of your life.

14845

Most of humanity’s mental diseases
Can be cured by the soul’s
Willingness-eagerness-enthusiasm.

14846

We are not the forgotten children
Of our Beloved Supreme.
He thinks of us,
He fulfils us
In His own divine Way.

14847

My Lord Supreme,
Why do You allow misunderstanding
To create measureless suffering
For each human being?
“My child,
I do not want misunderstanding
To rule human life,
But your supremacy-hankering mind
Either consciously or unconsciously
Creates untold misunderstanding-suffering.”

14848

To live in fear
Is to make oneself feel
That God is not within earshot.

14849

Your God-realisation-hunger
Itself manifests God
In a very special way.

14850

Not earth-bound desire-hopes
But Heaven-free aspiration-hopes
Can give me Infinity’s peace.

14851

God’s Family Secret:
Only the interdependent souls
Are the harbingers
Of perfect satisfaction.

14852

Perfection,
Where do you live?
On Eternity’s
Self-transcendence-road!

14853

Does God need ignorance?
God does not need ignorance for Himself,
But He acts in and through our ignorance
For our liberation and perfection.

14854

Yesterday’s God-lovers
Did not care for God-manifestation.
Today’s God-lovers
Care for God-manifestation,
But alas,
Their success is still a far cry.

14855

My heart’s faith is never afraid
Of establishing a friendship
With my mind.
But the doubting mind does not want
That friendship.

14856

God and mankind together
Are enjoying today
A new, life-satisfying hope-festival.

14857

Do not bank on the mind’s
Celestial wisdom,
For all the mind has
Is clever trickery.

14858

Both rich and poor,
Strong and weak,
Can knock at God’s Door.
But God’s Compassion
Embraces only those
Who are totally pure in heart.

14859

If your outer life has a problem,
Then the inner life will definitely
Be ready to help you out
By solving the problem.

14860

When the mind gives purity-sermons,
I laugh only to cry
And I cry only to laugh.

14861

Do not worry if you have lost
Your passport to paradise.
God will bless you with a new one.
Just offer Him one sincere gratitude-tear
From your heart.

14862

Just imagine, just imagine
That you are not responsible
For your confusion-mind!
You are responsible
Only for your illumination-heart.

14863

Each step
Along my God-surrender-road
Is my life’s tremendous progress.

14864

I shall enjoy God’s Command
Infinitely more
Than His standing Ovation.

14865

God the Teacher does not suspend
The disobedient student.
He just spends His precious Time
Only on
The willingness-obedience-student.

14866

If you do not soulfully persist
In your aspiration-dedication-life,
At any moment you can enter into
Your mind’s abysmal abyss.

14867

God’s Compassion-Song
And my heart-thrill
Live together permanently
And satisfactorily.

14868

God does not care if you win
Your Heavenward race.
But He does mind if you do not
Participate in the race.

14869

The meeting place of my heart’s tears
And my soul’s smiles
Invites me to celebrate
Their oneness-victory.

14870

My soul does not care for its supremacy.
It cares only for its intimacy
With my purity-heart
And my dedication-life.

14871

My self-offering
Is the after-effect
Of my Lord’s unconditional Smile.

14872

God wants me to lead
A hallowed life.
He also wants me to have
A secret and illumining place
Where He and I can play
Hide-and-seek.

14873

Beyond the sound-life
Is the breath of silence,
And beyond the breath of silence
Is God’s Victory-Trumpet.

14874

God wants us to aspire.
God wants us to serve.
Only one thing He does not want:
To remain even for a second
Unclaimed by us.

14875

My Lord,
May I be allowed today
To enjoy
An inspiration-flight-thrill?

14876

My Lord,
Please do not allow me
To enter into the doubt-danger-zone,
At least for a day.

14877

My Lord,
I do not want
To shape my own history.
I would like Your Compassion-Eye
To do it for me.

14878

My Lord,
How I wish You could give me
The capacity to become
A real native of Infinity’s Shore.

14879

The brave ascent of humanity
Entirely depends upon
The compassionate descent of Divinity.

14880

My Lord Supreme tells me
That if I do not have
Aspiration-heart-flames,
Then He will not give me
Dedication-plenitude-seeds.

14881

Unmask your mind
If you want to see
The Golden Face of Truth
And become
The Diamond-Heart of God.

14882

No, not even the worst rogue
On earth
Can ever escape
God’s Compassion-flooded Eye.

14883

At last my heart
Heaves a sigh of great relief
Because my mind will not enjoy
Any more
The close company of doubt.

14884

On earth
God enjoys most
The beauty and purity
Of a seeker’s heart-smile.

14885

The first human cry
Was for the perfection of life.
The last human smile
Will be for the complete satisfaction
Of God.

14886

God does not need our human applause.
What He needs from us
Is an ever-ready willingness
To be a real partner
In His Divinity-Manifestation-Game.

14887

Indeed, extremely hard it is
To forget the powerful sound
Of my lost ignorance-drum.

14888

My Lord Supreme,
How and why do You allow
Ignorance-eyes, ignorance-ears,
Plus ignorance-mind
To follow human beings
Wherever they go?

14889

O my false desire-friend,
How many times do I have to say
Good-bye to you?
Can you not see
That my real aspiration-friend
Has already arrived
At my heart’s self-giving invitation?

14890

Positive thoughts lovingly tell me
I am on the way
To my long-dreamt-of
God-realisation-palace.
Negative thoughts vehemently tell me
I am not even worthy
Of a tinier-than-the-tiniest
Ignorance-cave.

14891

Who can run the fastest?
Only he who has lost everything
And yet needs nothing
From this confusion-cherishing world.

14892

God may not allow anybody
To carry His Wisdom-Head
Here, there and everywhere.
But He will allow everybody
To carry His Compassion-Feet
Wherever they want.

14893

O my self-created
Sadness-mind-enemy,
I am determined to transform you
Into my happiness-heart-friend.

14894

My seeker-friend,
Before it is too late,
Tell God that you will love Him
Only with what your mind has
And what your heart is!

14895

All problems begin inside
The doubting and suspecting mind-jungle,
And they end inside
The loving and caring heart-garden.

14896

Simplicity, sincerity and purity
Are not enough
To please God totally.
Only a sleeplessly self-giving heart
Can become the choicest instrument of God
Inside the depths of Mother Earth
Or inside the vastness of Father Heaven.

14897

My Lord,
Do tell me what tempts me
To stand against You?
“My child,
It is your ignorance-feeding willingness
That compels you to stand against Me.”

14898

My Lord,
Today I shall only pray to You
To grant me the capacity
To climb up to my own highest height
And bring it down to place inside
Your Compassion-flooded Heart.

14899

I do want to see a seeker
Who can prove to me
That he is not handicapped
By his self-doubt.

14900

Between my heart-tears
And my soul-smiles
There is a secret and sacred place
Where I always sing and fly,
And that place is my soul’s
Promise-fulfilment-delight.

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