Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 153

15201

Do you want
Free access to God
Any time, anywhere?
Then surrender your heart’s dream-boat
And your life’s reality-boat —
Surrender to Him immediately!

15202

Every day
The mind-cure-hospital
Inaugurates a new wing.

15203

Man treasures
God’s Compassion-flooded Eye.
God treasures
The tiny, climbing aspiration-hope
In man’s heart.

15204

Every day I visit
My mind’s mortality-cage
And my heart’s Immortality-palace.

15205

Each morning
Is God’s blessingful beginning
To transform humanity’s face
Into divinity’s heart.

15206

Earth does not want me,
Because I speak too highly
Of Heaven all the time.
Heaven does not want me,
For Heaven feels
That I need more sincerity
When I speak of Heaven’s love.

15207

When we feel humility
In the depths of our heart,
God asks us to come closer.
When we become devotion
In the depths of our heart,
God does not give us any time
To come to Him.
He Himself comes rushing towards us
To declare our perfection in life.

15208

I want the eyes
That move forward.
I love the eyes
That fly upward.
I need the eyes
That dive inward.

15209

This morning
A visit from my long-forgotten friend,
Faith,
Has given me a new wave of inspiration
And a new sea of aspiration.

15210

My soul is fond of planting
A new spirituality-seed
Every day
Inside my beautiful and rich
Heart-garden.

15211

We must take nature’s hostility
As an inner blessing,
For it lets us see
Our own outer hostility
Towards the unconditional Compassion-Rain
Of our Beloved Supreme.

15212

My Lord Supreme asks me
Only to be happy
In my inner life of aspiration
And my outer life of dedication.
He tells me
That I do not have to strive
To prove to Him
That I love Him and need Him.

15213

Only a stupid seeker
Will think of rationing
His aspiration-heart
And dedication-life.

15214

My mind’s new-found willingness
I use all the time
To befriend my aspiration-heart.

15215

O tennis ball-surrender,
Can you not be a constant friend
Of my heart and life?

15216

Attachment-hours
Lasted long, very long.
But to my extreme joy,
They have finally disappeared.

15217

If every human being
Runs the same race,
And at the same pace,
Then there will be no joy
In the human heart.

15218

The morning that I do not pray,
Do not meditate
And do not have a good thought,
Is declared a black morning
By my wisdom-soul.

15219

O my strangling vital,
My mind does not want
To wrestle with you any more.
My mind wants
To be a humble student
Of my aspiration-soul.

15220

Money-power
Has tremendous disadvantages.
It immediately loses
The world-loving
And world-conquering
Humility-heart.

15221

There is only one real evil force,
And this is the force that tells me
That I do not need God
And that God does not love me.

15222

If I do not depend
On God’s Compassion-Rainfall,
Then I will not be able
To come out of my mind-density-jungle.

15223

He forcefully compelled his ego
To leave the limelight
So that his Lord Supreme
Could bless him
With His Infinity’s Joy.

15224

O my mind,
Try in a different way,
I mean in a loving way,
To please God.
Definitely
Your God-satisfaction-failure
Is not inevitable.

15225

Only an explosion
Of self-giving activities
From each individual
Can save this precarious world
From threatening destruction-night.

15226

No God-manifestation-longing
Can ever be
Outside the possibility-boundary.

15227

Be not afraid of spirituality,
O my stupid mind!
Spiritual joy is real.
It can be found here on earth.
In no way
Is it a fairy-tale-falsehood.

15228

Ignorance-rope-strength
Came to an end
When God-realisation-smile
Dawned in his heart’s
Aspiration-cry.

15229

If you ever lose your longing
For perfection-thrill,
Then that is the final end
Of your spiritual life.

15230

My heart’s soulful smile
Every day makes a special attempt
To conquer my mind’s
God-rejection-pride.

15231

Do not forget
To count God’s Blessings
Frequently
Inside your gratitude-heart
So that you can sleeplessly remain happy.

15232

You fool!
Why do you listen
To your mind’s advice?
Your mind tells you
Not to think
Of God’s Compassion-Light
But only to think
Of its own desire-cry.

15233

God always keeps His Heart-Line open.
But alas, we forget the numbers:
Surrender, gratitude and satisfaction.

15234

The hope of the mind
Is as poor as a street beggar
And as fragile as a rope of sand.

15235

Every morning God wants me
To feed His Compassion-Eye
With good news.
And I am so happy
That I can do it
With no difficulty at all.

15236

My heart was the first
To see the sudden appearance
Of God the Compassion-Height.
My mind was the first
To see the sudden disappearance
Of God the Justice-Light.

15237

If your mind is vague
And your heart is unprepared,
Then how do you expect God
To come and lead you
To your destined goal?

15238

My aspiration-heart
And my dedication-life
Today are staging a revolution
Against my mind’s ignorance-tyranny.

15239

O hope of my mind,
O love of my heart,
Never give way
Either to fear or to doubt.

15240

When we worship false gods,
The real God does not mind.
He enjoys rest,
Which He so richly deserves.

15241

Only when our heart
Prays and meditates
Soulfully and self-givingly
Can we see God’s Footprints
In our awakened life.

15242

The human mind enjoys
The fault-finding records
Of the world.

The divine heart enjoys
The fault-hiding records
Of the world.

15243

If you are not a divine acrobat,
God will not be able
To shape you and mould you
In His choice Way.

15244

O selfless service-escapist,
Rest assured,
God’s infinite Joy
Will be denied you.

15245

My Lord’s Compassion-Eye
Is teaching me how to speak
The language of world-satisfaction.

15246

O ruthless unwillingness,
Do you not see
That deliberately you have become
My mind’s absurdity-protector?

15247

Only an inspiring mind
And an aspiring heart
Are permitted to inhabit
My soul-realm.

15248

If you do not want to go
Beyond your life’s pleasure-zone,
You will never be able to see
And
You will never be able to claim
Your own Infinity’s immortal treasure.

15249

Is there anything
From which my aspiration-heart
Cannot protect my undisciplined vital?
Inviting temptation-intruder!

15250

My Lord Supreme,
A fleeting smile from Your Eye
Feeds my hungry heart
Most convincingly and most perfectly.

15251

O my mind,
Do not cherish the idea
That the spiritual life,
In your case,
Is out of the question.
No, no!
Make a solemn attempt.
You will see
That you will also be able
To equal my heart
In leading a spiritual life.

15252

Frankness I never expect
From the world-mind.
Fairness I never expect
From the world-eye.
But I do expect sweetness
From the world-heart.

15253

When I became a close friend
Of my doubting mind,
I was expelled
From God’s Heart-Paradise.

15254

God does read
Our confidential letters,
But He feels
That His Silence-Answers
Are infinitely more effective
Than any outer answer.

15255

When I listen
To my Lord’s Silence-Sermons,
I sing and dance
With my heart’s multiplied
Aspiration-flames.

15256

Who says that ignorance never quits?
Ignorance does quit
When we study in the school
Of our all-illumining soul.

15257

God soulfully and peacefully dances
When two human hearts
Speak in His Silence-Light-Language.

15258

The road that leads to God’s Heart
Can easily be shortened
If we dare to challenge
All temptation-attacks.

15259

Why waste your time
By reasoning
With your darkness-mind?
Can you not spend your time
In a most effective way
By loving and utilising your heart
More, ever more?

15260

A concentration-arrow,
A meditation-smile
And a contemplation-dance
Pave the way
To our perpetual progress-delight.

15261

The centuries of your mind’s
Accumulated ignorance-night
Can be illumined only by increasing
Your heart’s God-Compassion-receptivity.

15262

I never thought
That I would not shed
Even one teardrop
When I participated in the procession
At my mind’s doubt-funeral.

15263

A self-giving aspirant
Spreads his good thoughts
Sleeplessly
All over the world.

15264

Your gratitude-heart’s fragrance-dream
Will one day illumine
The length and breadth of the world.

15265

If you never do
Your life’s spiritual workout,
How can God make your heart ready
For His Satisfaction-Smile?

15266

If you are an early riser,
Then God will teach you
How to remove
Your aspiration-flames
From your desire-smoke.

15267

Have everything in readiness!
Your heart’s purity,
Your mind’s clarity,
Your life’s willingness:
Have them in readiness!
Your Lord Supreme
May at any moment arrive.

15268

My Lord’s Sweetness-Fondness-Presence
Has saved my life
Many, many times
Quite unexpectedly.

15269

He was killed
By nobody else,
But by the impure mind-thoughts
In his own spiritual life.

15270

Each detail of your self-giving life
Is most pleasing
To your Beloved Lord Supreme.

15271

There should always be
A strong partition
Between the aspiration-life
And the desire-life
Unless and until
The desire-life surrenders
To the beauty, purity and divinity
Of the aspiration-life.

15272

The grandiose dream
Of your mind
Is composed of
False and discouraging courage.

15273

O my God-manifestation-mind,
You have not yet started your journey.
How is it that you are telling me
That you are extremely tired
And that you need immediate rest?

15274

A God-Forgiveness-Smile
Is enough to help me stand against
My past teeming mistakes.

15275

I have secured my future
With my heart’s surrender-light
And my life’s gratitude-height.

15276

O my mind,
Never let doubt
Dominate you.

O my heart,
Never let impatience
Dominate you.

O my life,
Never let ingratitude
Dominate you.

15277

The doubtful mind
Is always afraid
Of being welcomed by anybody.

15278

A loving heart
Every day receives an invitation
From the entire world
To participate
In its joys and sorrows.

15279

If we study
At our heart’s school,
Then our future
Is not a sealed
But an open book.

15280

I assure you, my seeker-friend,
That your willingness-heart
Will never be the loser
In any divine adventure you undertake.

15281

From imagination to inspiration
Is a very short step.
From inspiration to aspiration
Is a long step.
From aspiration to realisation
Is a larger-than-the-largest step.
From realisation to God-manifestation
Is a birthless and deathless step.

15282

You are supposed
To be aware of everything,
But not to be involved in everything,
That you encounter in your life.

15283

When you separate
The lower self of a human being
From his higher self,
The lower self
Remains untransformed,
And the higher self
Is not totally satisfied,
For it does not have anyone
To play with at its own level.

15284

If you practise the art
Of compassion-light-distribution,
God will teach you the art
Of His Perfection-Satisfaction-distribution.

15285

My Lord Supreme,
I need only two Boons from You:
The illumination of my division-mind
And the expansion of my oneness-heart.

15286

Every day I send
My encouragement-champion-heart
To my despondency-failure-mind.

15287

After a deep soul-searching,
He has come to realise
That today’s self-discovery
And tomorrow’s world-mastery
Are both well-planned
By God’s Compassion-flooded Vision-Eye.

15288

The human mind is, by nature,
Afraid of riding
The fast transformation-train.

15289

A surrender-heart
Gets everything free of charge
From God’s world-satisfaction-market.

15290

For a searching mind,
For a crying heart
And for a smiling life,
There is no dead end.

15291

My seeker-friends,
If you really want
Most satisfactory progress
In your spiritual life,
Then you badly need
A very long vacation
From your doubting mind.

15292

When I hide something that I know
From God,
God cries —
Not because I am a clever man,
But because I do not love Him enough.

15293

God’s Compassion-Eye-School
Teaches us only one subject:
Forgiveness-delight.

15294

God allows me to read
His personal, confidential Diary
Only inside my heart-temple.

15295

God will not dispense with your services
If you do not please Him.
But neither will He give you
The highest salary —
His Satisfaction-Smile.

15296

It was too late
When I longed for perfection.
It was too soon
When I longed for satisfaction.

15297

In God’s Oneness-Hotel,
His Heart-Rooms
Can always
Take more guests.

15298

My seeker-friend,
You must never forget
To transform your mental clouds
Into your psychic radiance.

15299

God does not mind
If I am worthy or unworthy
Before my heart reaches out
For the illumination-stars.

15300

To me,
A watcher is great,
A doer is good,
But a oneness-lover
Is by far the greatest
And by far the best.

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