Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 171

17001

My Lord Supreme,
Do give me the capacity
To sleeplessly long for
Your Fragrance-Presence
In my heart’s aspiration-life.

17002

In my outer life,
How I wish I could be loved
By God the Perfection.
In my inner life,
How I wish I could be conquered
By God the Satisfaction.

17003

The aspiring heart’s
Perfection-silence
Cannot remain invisible
For a long time.

17004

O my mind,
There can be no specific reason,
Nay, no reason whatsoever,
For you to be heavy
With unwelcome thoughts.

17005

God the Compassion
Does not remain a stranger
Even to the desire-mind.

17006

A moment’s forgetfulness
Can throw us into the cave
Of most destructive disaster-night.

17007

Each self-giving God-lover
Is entitled to have
A foretaste of highest Heaven
Here on earth.

17008

A self-important person
Is an activity-flooded mind
And a sleeping and fruitless heart.

17009

God affectionately and proudly depends
On my readiness-mind
And my willingness-heart.

17010

God is not displeased with you,
Although your mind is enjoying
A silent revolt against Him.
God’s Forgiveness-Heart
Will do its duty.

17011

Do not indulge
Your teeming faults.
Do not enjoy
Your lame hesitation.
Do not overlook
Your blind imperfections.

17012

No genuine seeker
Will ever be found
In the land of fruitless and useless
Temptation-promises.

17013

Alas,
Is there any human being
Who is not eager
For continuous miracles
To happen in his life?

17014

O infinite power of faith,
Where are you?
May I have just a glimpse
Of your compassion-light?

17015

Alas,
How desperately I am trying
To throw myself open
To my Lord’s unconditional
Descending Compassion!

17016

A desire can be simple;
Nevertheless,
It can be overwhelmingly
And unbelievably powerful.

17017

The heart knows
How hard it is to have peace.
The mind knows
How hard it is to keep it.

17018

My Lord,
Do bless me
With only two dreams:
Humanity’s perfection
And Divinity’s Satisfaction.

17019

May each thought of my mind
Come from
My soul’s adamantine will-power.

17020

In which way
Is a desire-mind better
Than a turbulent confusion-ocean?

17021

If your heart
Does not make any progress,
Then true happiness
Will always remain
Beyond your reach.

17022

There was a time when I enjoyed
My mind’s disbelief-storms.
But now I am enjoying
My heart’s belief-dawn,
Belief-morning
And belief-day.

17023

What my eyes need
Is all-pervasive vision.
What my heart needs
Is all-pervasive compassion.
What my life needs
Is all-pervasive perfection.

17024

Enthusiasm can easily increase
The truth-seeker’s
And God-lover’s
Aspiration-speed.

17025

A true aspiring heart
Does have the capacity
To run infinitely faster
Than ignorance-chasers.

17026

God does not need
Your huge ornamentation-temple.
He only needs
Your small and pure
Devotion-shrine.

17027

Alas,
So many times in my life
I have had the chance
To surrender to God’s Will.
But I have just squandered
All my chances.

17028

My Lord Supreme,
I have three sweet desires.
Please, please do fulfil them!
I want to think of You
Before You think of me.
I want to love You
Before You love me.
I want to satisfy You
Before You satisfy me.

17029

If you can please your heart,
Then God will liberate you
From your mind-prison.

17030

A desire-life
Is a constant and useless life
Of contradiction.

17031

We all must establish
Our oneness
For the manifestation
Of God’s Hunger-Fulfilment
On earth.

17032

The clearer the mind
And the deeper the heart,
The easier is
God-manifestation on earth.

17033

Look ahead.
God has already forgiven you.
Look within
To forgive yourself.

17034

Each new generation
Is a new and illumining
Promise-Smile of God.

17035

Each time
I experience sorrow,
I feel that I am becoming
A permanent member
Of God’s Compassion-Family.

17036

Possibility lies
In the searching mind.
Inevitability lies
In the self-giving heart.

17037

Each self-giving thought
Of mine
Eventually grows into
A Satisfaction-Smile
Of my Lord Supreme.

17038

The spirituality of the Western mind
Need not and cannot be
A doubtful reality.

17039

Each moment is sacred.
Secretly use it
Only for God’s Satisfaction-Delight
On earth.

17040

It is not ceaseless action
But a flowering selfless action
That will be able to please God
In His own Way.

17041

Most human beings
Are totally lost
Between the suffering mind
And the unaspiring heart.

17042

I must ask my mind
To master hesitation.
I must ask my heart
To master aspiration.

17043

God wants
My service-contribution
And not
My victory-glorification.

17044

Who says that I do not pray?
I pray for the death
Of my desire-life.

17045

Who says that I do not meditate?
I meditate on my higher self
For my mind’s illumination.

17046

The Compassion-Height
Of my Lord Supreme
Is only one size,
But it fits all.

The Justice-Light
Of my Lord Supreme
Is only one size,
But it fits all.

17047

Alas,
Consciously and deliberately
Not only do we undermine
And underestimate,
But we also betray
Our higher self
Totally.

17048

Alas,
I am totally lost
Between my mind’s oppression
And my heart’s depression.

17049

Not God the Justice
But God the Compassion
Earns our heart’s teardrops.

17050

A moment’s undeniable miracle
Comes into existence
From unimaginable hard work.

17051

Alas,
I do not know
When my life-boat will arrive
At my soul’s silence-shore.

17052

To find a mind of sophistication
Is not a difficult task.
But to find a life
Of sleepless dedication
Is almost an impossible task.

17053

My heart is very happy
That my mind’s doubt-popularity
Is waning.

17054

My soul is telling me:
“Be careful of unhappy people,
For unhappiness is not only contagious
But also dangerous.”

17055

Life’s perfection-shore
Can be found only inside
The heart’s aspiration-temple.

17056

My soul’s progress-report to God
About my mind
Has completely shattered its pride.

My soul’s progress-report to God
About my heart
Has thrown my heart
Into a sea of ecstasy.

17057

God’s Compassion-Eye cries
When His faithful ones
Blunder and flounder
On their way to their destination.

17058

This time my heart of devotion
Is determined to conquer
Once and for all
My mind of temptation
And frustration.

17059

Since the beginning of creation
There has always been
A most deplorable shortage
Of unconditional seekers
And self-givers.

17060

God tells me that
Only a perfection-heart-voice
Is entitled to
A satisfaction-happiness-choice.

17061

My soul’s illumination-light
And my life’s realisation-delight
Have become inseparable friends.

17062

What kind of God-obedience is it
If it has to satisfy
The understanding of the mind?

17063

Every day I pray
To God the Creator
To grant me the capacity
To offer my gratitude-heart-fragrance
To God the creation.

17064

I have decided to make friends
With my heart’s old friend —
Patience —
And not with my mind’s old friend —
Intolerance.

17065

Hard is it
For the doubt of the mind
And the doom of life
To remain separate.

17066

Alas,
Spirituality-practitioners
And spirituality-pretenders
Are immediate neighbours.

17067

My mind loves the new God:
The God who
Does not demand my perfection.

17068

My heart loves the old God:
The God who
Expects my perfect perfection.

17069

My soul loves the eternal God:
The God who
Just gives and gives everything
Unconditionally.

17070

If peace of mind
Is not your top priority,
Then no matter what you achieve,
Satisfaction will remain
An unattainable goal.

17071

This world of ours
Has become destruction itself
Precisely because
Every day it enjoys playing
The suspicion-game.

17072

I simply do not want to admire
My mind’s famous hero.
I just need to adore
My heart’s precious God.

17073

Between the mind’s willingness
And the life’s fulness,
The distance is extremely short.

17074

A sleeplessly self-giving life
Does not walk,
Does not march,
Does not run.
It just sprints
To God the Satisfaction-Destination.

17075

I am not going to give up
No matter how many times I fail
In my life-perfection-promise.

17076

A doubtful mind I was.
A faithful heart I am.
A fruitful life
I shall before long be.

17077

The mind’s hesitation I was.
The heart’s aspiration I am.
The life’s transformation
I shall before long be.

17078

God never holds you
To your countless promises.
Alas, why do you hold God
To each and every Promise of His?

17079

My Lord’s smiling Eye
Is undoubtedly
My heart’s measureless bliss.

17080

I must not reject the summit Proposal
Of my Lord Supreme:
He wants me to satisfy Him
Every day and every hour
In His own Way.

17081

Who else is beautiful
If not you,
As long as you remain near
Your own fragrance-heart-flower?

17082

As long as our surrender
Remains incomplete,
God will not be able to give us
His complete Satisfaction-Eye.

17083

O my heart’s hope-garden,
Where are you?
O my mind’s frustration-forest,
Where are you not?

17084

As God’s Forgiveness-Height
Thrills me,
Even so, my progress-light
Thrills God.

17085

Since God wants to see in me
At least a good world-citizen,
I must have a purity-heart,
A sincerity-mind
And a simplicity-life.

17086

God loves many things of mine,
But He loves most
My surrender-gratitude-heart.

17087

If your mind is hungry
To run farther,
And if your heart is hungry
To run faster,
Then God cannot and will not
Remain invisible.

17088

O suspicion-mind,
I do not need you.
O inspection-mind,
I do not need you.
O interrogation-mind,
I do not need you.
O illumination-mind,
I need you,
I have always needed you
And I shall always need you.

17089

What makes my heart so special?
My heart loves God
In God’s own Way.
My heart loves
Even my constantly doubtful mind.

17090

Each time
I take a silence-step,
I become
A more powerful desire-extinguisher.

17091

A desire-man
Has God the Power
On his lips.

An aspiration-man
Has God the Lover
In his heart.

17092

Faith
Silences fear.
Truth
Silences doubt.
Aspiration
Silences confusion.

17093

The mind
Knows how to scream.
The heart
Knows how to dream.
The soul
Knows how to please the Supreme.

17094

In the morning
God shares His Breath
With me.

In the evening
I share my dreams
With God.

17095

Each surrendering life-breath
Will be blessed
With a new, hopeful, illumining
And fulfilling dawn.

17096

To know the truth,
Listen to the heart’s tiny voice,
Not to the mind’s loud noise.

17097

He who believes in
The mind’s sincerity
And the heart’s purity
Is definitely
A peace-loving
And peace-manifesting
Instrument of God.

17098

Poor God!
Every day in vain
He wants to be fed by us
With aspiration
And not frustration.

17099

My Lord,
May I be at once
A forward-marching life
And an upward-climbing heart.

17100

My Lord Supreme,
Do give me only one thing:
A tear-flooded gratitude-heart.

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