Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 152

15101

My surrender-heart teaches me
How to live divinely.
God’s Compassion-Eye teaches me
How to grow, how to flow
And how to glow sleeplessly.

15102

Concentration-power I had
And I still have.
Meditation-heart I had
And I still have.
Contemplation-delight I had
And I still have.
God-manifestation-smile I didn’t have
And I still don’t have.

15103

When a dear friend becomes
A hostile enemy,
Extol him to the skies
To silence his mind
And shut his mouth.

15104

Every day
God likes to be invited
To watch humanity’s surrender-game.

15105

You intensify
Your God-hunger-cry.
God will amplify
Your victory-happiness.

15106

It takes only a minute
For depression to take birth.
But it takes a very long time
To catch it, kill it
And bury it.

15107

God, if I make You famous on earth,
What will You do for me?
“My child, I shall make you
Supremely precious
Both in Heaven and on earth.”

15108

My mind, do not worry.
God will give you
Many, many more chances,
Without fail,
To become a choice instrument of His.

15109

When man becomes
His heart-gratitude-cry,
God becomes
His frequent Surrender-Smile.

15110

God is not a tiny
Mind-plant,
But a huge
Heart-tree.

15111

My Lord,
You have given me everything
By giving me
A peace-oneness-heart-garden.

15112

I need both aspiration
And dedication-highways
To arrive at my homeland:
Heaven.

15113

Imagination-joy
My mind needs.
Aspiration-cry
My heart needs.
Realisation-perfection
My life needs.
God-manifestation-eagerness
I need.

15114

O my heart’s long-lost happiness,
Where are you today?
Please come to the fore
And visit me.

15115

Betrayal is the giant son
Of the mind.
Faithfulness is the fond child
Of the heart.

15116

Aspiration-cry
And dedication-smile
Are Eternity’s twin brothers.

15117

O ignorance-intruder of my mind,
God’s inexorable Justice-Light
Summons your express presence.

15118

Everything of mine
God cheerfully accepts,
Even my shameless ingratitude-heart.

15119

I deeply enjoy
My heart’s majestic sunrise
And my mind’s slow sunset.

15120

O my mind’s possession-obsession,
You have made my heart impure
And my life ugly.
Very soon you will have to pay
A severe penalty.

15121

I have forced my mind
To go to faith-start
And get ready to run
With my heart.

15122

O my mind,
Are you ready?
“I am ready.”
Then let us launch our hope-boat today
After such a long time!

15123

Every day I play
Love-fulfilment-game
With my heart
And surrender-fulfilment-game
With my life.

15124

A life built
On faith-foundation
Is humanity’s unparalleled friend.

15125

Expectation is so charming and tempting.
Alas, almost everybody likes to play
The expectation-temptation-game.

15126

O my peace-hungry heart,
Can you not see
That God is secretly helping us
Climb up to
His own transcendental Fulness-Height?

15127

Alas, I do not know why
My long-anticipated meeting
With my life-illumining soul
Has been cancelled by my clever mind.

15128

Do you want to know
What the mind can do?
The mind can easily muddle
The Supreme’s affection-flooded Message
To your heart.

15129

God definitely wants you
To be more than a mere spectator.
He wants you to take part
In His Cosmic Drama.

15130

Each pure thought
Is a conqueror
Of an impurity-enemy.

15131

God the Leader
Tells His manifestation-team:
“What you need
More than anything else
Is your heart’s genuine willingness.”

15132

Yesterday
He took his last ignorance-breath.
Today
He is either dead
Or becoming immortal.

15133

Inspiration-mind and aspiration-heart
Are two first-class runners.
They always defeat
The rest of the runners.

15134

My aspiration-heart
Is the connecting link
Between today’s hope-plant
And tomorrow’s promise-tree.

15135

If we do not avoid and ignore
The strangling attachment of our vital,
Then how can poor God bless us
With His Divinity’s Joy?

15136

Inside
The doubtful mind-supermarket,
Sincerity
Is often unavailable.

15137

Do not publicise your selfless service.
That is God’s job.
Let Him do it most satisfactorily
In His own Way.

15138

If you do not dare to harness
Your wild thoughts,
Then God will force you to
When His Justice-Hour strikes.

15139

When the dark ignorance-prince
Calls you,
You are under no obligation
To respond,
Either inwardly or outwardly.

15140

Your old, bold ego
Will soon be a victim
To destruction-volcano.

15141

Innocence is man’s
God-given possession.
Arrogance is man’s
Self-styled possession.

15142

A sincere seeker every day hears
During his soulful meditation
The sweet Flute-Call
Of his Lord Supreme.

15143

He has a human face;
Therefore, you have made him
An object of your criticism.
He has a divine heart;
Therefore, you unmistakably feel
That he is far beyond your reach.

15144

Yesterday you enjoyed self-centredness.
Therefore, today God’s Justice-Light
Wants you to enjoy something else:
Hopeless helplessness.

15145

My Lord Supreme,
May my earthly existence
Be flooded with
Your glory-fulfilled Victories!

15146

God tells me that He will teach me
His own Heart-Language,
Which is most secret and most sacred,
Only when my life becomes
The unconditional surrender
Of a gratitude-heart.

15147

Alas, I have nothing
But fast-receding, faint memories
Of my aspiration-heart
And dedication-life.

15148

My Lord, do bless me
With a new and powerful wave
Of self-giving capacity
To please You in Your own Way.

15149

When God’s blessingful Eye
Watches and guides me,
I see the blossoming of perfect perfection
In my life.

15150

Once you enter into the spiritual life,
Every day you are obliged
To wash off carefully and smilingly
Your mind’s doubt-dirt.

15151

Alas, why is it
That my mind and I cannot skip
Our darkness-ignorance-meal
Even once a week?

15152

When there is a fight
Between my intuition-eye
And my intelligence-mind,
My intuition-eye easily and invariably wins.

15153

A desire-life is nothing short of
Inescapable, fruitless
Ignorance-thought-accumulation.

15154

There are many problems,
As we all know.
Only a universal peace-oneness
Is the solution.

15155

My Lord,
Please bless me
With a piece of good news today.
“My child,
Your ruthless worry-mind-days
Are numbered.”

15156

Do you want to see the world
Through your smaller-than-the-smallest eyes,
Or do you want to feel the world
With God’s larger-than-the-largest Heart?
God wants you to make the choice
Immediately!

15157

Each self-giving feeling
In our heart
Is the celestial radiance
Of our soul-beauty.

15158

The gratitude-heart
Of a prayerful seeker
Can always be seen
In his soulful eyes.

15159

So many times a day
My Lord Supreme,
Out of His infinite Compassion-Affection,
Comes to me and amplifies
My heart-speaker.

15160

Once a human being
Enters into the spiritual life,
His perfect God-union is guaranteed.
It is only a matter of time.

15161

When I think of my mind,
I see it indulging in self-expression.
When I think of my heart,
I see it enjoying devotedly and soulfully
God-experience.

15162

God loves a simple meal
Made of small quantities of
Mind’s love, heart’s devotion
And life’s surrender.
He never cares for an elaborate meal.

15163

O earth-bound time,
Do not be afraid of me.
I shall not break you asunder.
I shall only turn you into
Endless Heaven-free time
With my aspiration-heart
And dedication-life.

15164

Just a soft and gentle push
From Above
Has brought me and my mind
To my heart’s illumination-door.

15165

My yesterday’s fame-fed life
Is starving for
Today’s life-giving joy.

15166

Each time
I consciously and deliberately enjoy
The power of my doubting mind,
I see myself entering
The precincts of inner death.

15167

Do not be afraid
Of your torture-troubles.
Have faith in your own self-giving life.
All your troubles will be dwarfed
To fruitless inconsequence.

15168

It is you
Who will eventually suffer more
When you decline
God’s Invitation to dine with Him.

15169

O my mind-doubts,
One by one all my outer friends
Will withdraw their support from you.
You will die a most ignoble death!

15170

When he felt sincerely guilty
For his self-praise,
God’s Forgiveness-Heart
Gave him a very high raise
In his spiritual life.

15171

Depression-mind is a subject
I have studied for years.
I shall now discontinue it.
From now on I shall study
Determination-heart.

15172

O my mind,
Do not doubt your heart.
Your heart is your real friend.
Give your heart a chance
To erase your failure-fear.
It will succeed,
And real happiness
Will fast approach you.

15173

Every morning when I do not
Pray soulfully and meditate powerfully,
I feel an irreparable sense
Of inner loss.

15174

When I threw away insecurity
From my aspiration-heart,
A most powerful relief
Flashed through my life.

15175

God will not only
Stand right in front of you,
But also bless you
With tremendous Joy and Pride,
When He sees your life
As a single-minded resolve
To please Him in His own Way.

15176

When you offer your softness,
Tenderness, sweetness and sympathy
To the suffering world,
God immediately unlocks
His Heart-Door
For your happy and proud entrance.

15177

May my heart’s gratitude-river
Be blessed with
A stronger-than-the-strongest
Energy-current.

15178

Look at your stupidity,
O my poor mind!
At your own invitation
Ignorance-animal has come
And is pouncing on you.

15179

My mind’s shaping criticism
I sincerely cherish.
My heart’s elevating encouragement
I dearly treasure.

15180

Do you love God enough
To admit
That God has never created
A bad day for you?

15181

God-supporters are those
Who live on heart’s soulfulness
And life’s faithfulness.

15182

Some men
Do not know their limitations,
While others
Do not want to know their limitations.
Still others, alas,
Enjoy their limitations.

15183

A true God-seeker does not pray to God
For God’s Vastness,
But for His Heart’s Closeness
And Life’s Oneness.

15184

I am fully justified
In ignoring you
Because of your stark disbelief
In God.

15185

The mind is proud
Of its brilliant ideas.
The heart is proud
Of its soaring ideals.

15186

When I am really fulfilled,
Neither my sorrow nor my joy
Needs to remain concealed.

15187

When I see a group
Of sincere seekers,
I take them as a galaxy
Of new-dawn pioneers.

15188

When my heart hungers for God,
When my eyes cry for God,
I feel that my soul-satisfaction
Knows no bounds.

15189

When I secretly, and not openly,
Side with the aspiration of mankind,
God helplessly cries
For my deplorable weakness.

15190

Even long before I see God
At a distance,
I can touch His Feet
And start living in a world
Of unknowable ecstasy.

15191

How can fear and doubt trap you
If you have already made acquaintance
With your heart’s faith
And your soul’s joy?

15192

You are your daring disobedience-mind.
Alas, even now
God is His caring Compassion-Heart.

15193

When I think of my heart,
I see how sweetly persuasive it is.
When I think of my mind,
I see how cleverly evasive it is.

15194

Who would have thought
That his giant doubt-mind
Would debilitate his long-cherished
Spirituality-life!

15195

When I watch the dance
Of purity-light inside my heart,
My life grows into
The beauty of an angel.

15196

My Lord,
May I join my soul in climbing
The transcendental height
Of Your illumining
And fulfilling Stairs?

15197

When I am in the mind-hospital,
I am forced to encounter
The useless debris
Of my collapsed heart-building.

15198

Do you think that you are wise?
Then prove it to me
By starting your spiritual life
Right now, immediately,
Without waiting for tomorrow’s arrival!

15199

Who is responsible?
It is you who allowed the doubt-storm
To approach your mind
And batter your life.

15200

My Lord,
May my life always live
Inside my gratitude-heart-nest,
Sheltered and protected
By Your Compassion-flooded Eye.

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