Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 172

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17101

When I use my mind,
I become the prisoner
Of my choice.
When I use my heart,
I become the fulfiller
Of my inner voice.

17102

Every day God asks you
To debate your mind’s
Nothingness-confusion-conclusion.

17103

You must realise
That true devotion to God
Is absolutely honey-sweet.

17104

You fool!
How do you dare
To underestimate
The extent of God’s
Compassion-Victory?

17105

Each impure thought in the mind
Is undoubtedly detrimental
To our fastest God-speed.

17106

Let us all pray to God
Most soulfully and most devotedly
To grant us
A nectar-flooded new year.

17107

The heart’s inner cry
Is not only beautiful
But also extremely, extremely powerful.

17108

My heart’s obedience is not only
My mind’s solution in my outer life
But also my heart’s perfection
In my inner life.

17109

I know so many things.
But, alas, I do not know why
I do not know
One simple thing:
How can my mind
Have so much pride?

17110

My Lord Supreme tells me
That only His Forgiveness-Smiles
Can purify and illumine
My entire being.

17111

My life’s flower-devotion
Can blossom
Only when I feel that I need
Only one thing
Sleeplessly and breathlessly,
And that thing is my aspiration.

17112

Do not exert yourself,
But sleeplessly give yourself
To win God’s smiling Eye.

17113

If you want to be happy,
Then every day
You must consciously ignore
Your mind’s suspicion-hounds.

17114

My life’s
Aspiration-devotion-perfection
And my Lord’s
Oneness-Fondness-Embrace
Are inseparable.

17115

My Lord, do give me the capacity
To sincerely pray to You
For the removal
Of each and every drop
Of my ego-pride.

17116

How can you be
A perfect instrument of God
If you do not care
To attain the impossible:
The perfection of your nature?

17117

My Lord has already kept open
My heart’s door.
I do not know why
My heart is so foolishly hesitating
To come in.

17118

When your God-hunger becomes
Ceaseless and insatiable,
God will stand compassionately
Right in front of you —
And not before.

17119

Your mind may not know
What will make you happy,
But your heart does know
How to make you happy.
Listen to your heart.

17120

What my heart needs
Is aspiration-speed,
What my life needs
Is dedication-speed,
And what I need
Is surrender-speed.

17121

Only a constantly surrendered seeker
Can drink peace-nectar —
And nobody else.

17122

God tells me that
He always presides over
Our heart’s opening ceremonies.

17123

If you want to beat the drum
Of your success-life,
You can.
But your Lord Supreme will recognise
Only your progress-life.

17124

I am praying to God most soulfully
To ask His Forgiveness-Heart,
Or at least His Compassion-Eye,
To take the wheel of my life-boat.

17125

If you are afraid of
God’s Thunder-Feet,
How can your soul-bird
Smile in and through you?

17126

You have shown God many times
Your fearful eyes.
Can you not show God at least once
Your cheerful heart?

17127

What is aspiration?
It is our heart’s quest
For the perfect manifestation
Of God’s Fulness on earth.

17128

May my heart
Every day be blessed
With a sea-deep cry
To see Your blue
Compassion-Eye.

17129

Compromise with ignorance
Is not sweetness
But real bitterness
In utter disguise.

17130

Each time I think of God
Or pray to God,
I feel I am dancing
On God’s Freedom-Ground.

17131

Reality is not the head
But the heart
Of my God-fulfilling dreams.

17132

Do not parade
Your mind’s sincerity.
Do not parade
Your heart’s purity.
Do not parade
Your life’s divinity.
These are God’s Jobs.
Why do you have to take
His Jobs away?

17133

If you enjoy the mind’s
Futility-exercises,
How can you expect your heart
To be a happiness-fountain?

17134

Each time we think of God,
We must feel that we are becoming
A new prophet-vision
Of hope-light.

17135

Give what you have:
Sincerity.
Give what you are:
Purity.
Then God will supply you
With His infinite Smiles.

17136

Each time we think
Of desire-life,
We spoil God’s Perfection-Plan
In us.

17137

Insecurity,
Selfishness
And jealousy
Form an advancing army
Of futility-stupidity.

17138

Alas,
My Lord Supreme hides
Every day
In my heart’s hope-shelter.

17139

Self-giving capacity
Is endless.
God-fulfilling necessity
Is birthless and deathless.

17140

My perfection,
And not my salvation,
Is the complete story
In the Eye of my Beloved Supreme.

17141

Our mind’s relationship
With anything or anybody
Is always extremely fragile.

17142

You need not be doomed
To disappointment.
Dive deep within.
Then you will be able to see
Endless hopes
Rising and glowing
On your life’s horizon.

17143

I have opened my heart-door
Only to let in
God’s smiling Eyes.

17144

When we go away from
The faith of our heart,
We are unmistakably tormented
By fear-terrorists.

17145

My life’s progress is slain
Because I am playing
With my mind’s lethargy-chain.

17146

O seeker,
Open your heart-door!
God’s Compassion-Eye
Is extremely eager
To visit you.

17147

The heart never forgets
The golden dreams
That are going to transform
The seeker’s entire life.

17148

Now that my old friend frustration
Has gone,
I can have a totally new friend:
Hope,
Hope illumining and hope fulfilling.

17149

O my mind, be wise!
Never loosen your connection
With your heart-wisdom-light-teacher.

17150

The wall between
The body and the soul
Is not thick.
It is thin, plus transparent.

17151

I have the capacity
To make God sing and sigh.
When I say God is for me,
He sings.
When I say God is not for me,
He sighs.

17152

I am not afraid
Of God’s Omnipotence-Hands.
But I am afraid
Of God’s Omnipresence-Tears.

17153

The denial of life is so easy.
The full acceptance of life
For the manifestation of God
Is a task infinitely more difficult
Than you can ever imagine.

17154

May my gratitude-heart
Be based on my purity-life
To please my Lord Supreme
Always in His own Way.

17155

Forgive the tormenting past.
You will be happy.
Forget the tormenting past.
You will have every chance
To be a perfect instrument of God.

17156

Be not bound
By your mind’s
Feeble beliefs.
Be bound
By your heart’s
Strong convictions.

17157

God always loves
Our prayers,
Even our mind’s
Feeble prayers.

17158

How can a man ascend
To his perfect perfection-height
If he does not have the courage
To stand all by himself
When the occasion demands?

17159

The mind is proud of itself
When it is filled with facts.
God is proud of the mind
When it is empty of thoughts.

17160

Alas,
I am lost between
The endless questions
Of my mind
And the streaming tears
Of my heart.

17161

Two songs are most melodious:
Life’s surrender-song
And heart’s gratitude-song.

17162

Just a tiny aspiration-flame
Has the capacity to illumine
The mind’s dark abyss.

17163

My Lord,
I wish to go far beyond the domains
Of my life’s tragedy
And my heart’s rhapsody.

17164

If you do not cling to your mind’s
Hallucination-cave,
God will invite you to come and visit
His Heart’s Illumination-Palace.

17165

My surrender-sweetness
Perfectly paves the way
To God’s infinite Delight.

17166

When adversity challenges you,
Be brave.
Inspire and energise yourself
To go beyond the reach
Of adversity.

17167

God never encouraged me
To learn the world-denial-song.
On the contrary,
He inspired, encouraged
And blessed me
To sing the world-acceptance-song
And dance the world-transformation-dance.

17168

My heart’s progress-train
Is bound to slow down
If I do not have my soul
Inside the train as the conductor.

17169

Now that I have
Brought to the fore
My indomitable faith-capacity,
My old doubt-popularity cannot last.

17170

When I live inside my heart,
I see that my life has become
A source of inspiration
To all human beings.
When I live inside my mind,
I see that my life has become
Nothing but confrontation-desert
And confusion-jungle.

17171

Since the pride-problem
Is universal,
Can we not try to place this problem
At the Feet of
The Transcendental Lord Supreme?

17172

To avoid danger
Is indeed a difficult task.
But to make friends
With safety continuously
Is indeed an impossible task.

17173

I lose my heart’s
Flower-fragrance
When I allow myself
To be owned by anger.

17174

Since a new hope-dawn
Is blossoming inside your heart,
Say good-bye to your mind’s
Deathless confusion-night.

17175

A constantly cheerful mind
Can make my life’s despair-night
Obsolete.

17176

The mind’s old conflicts
Can be conquered
Only by the heart’s
New solutions.

17177

The simplicity of the mind,
The purity of the heart
And the divinity of the vital
Are abiding realities.

17178

My Lord Supreme,
Do give me a little rest
From my self-made,
Torturing miseries.

17179

What is the difference
Between self-aggrandising thought
And breath-suffocating thought?
None!

17180

God’s Compassion-Eye
Embraces even
Our endless unkindness
And useless sentiments.

17181

Expectation is not
Self-deception.
But expectation can be
Fatal life-frustration.

17182

It is so difficult for our mind
To sing silence-song.
It is so difficult for our heart
To sing gratitude-song.

17183

God’s Compassion-Heart-Temple
Is for all and sundry
To sing, pray and dance in.

17184

The difference between
Your path and my path
Is this:
Your path thinks
That one has to do everything good
To please God;
My path thinks
That nobody can please God
Unless God wants to please Himself
In and through us.

17185

Each time a human being
Doubts his own divinity,
He loses
His oneness-world-citizenship.

17186

I see God
Inside the smile
Of His oneness-fulness-creation.

17187

What I need
Is Infinity’s Peace
In Divinity’s Space.

17188

If you want your mind
To fly freely in God’s own Sky,
Then make friends with your heart
Immediately.

17189

Nobody has asked you
To believe in the Unknowable.
Just try to believe
That a higher Source
Is guiding your earthly journey.

17190

If there is no devotion
Inside the heart,
Then the heart-song
Can never reach satisfaction-delight.

17191

O technology,
Can you not see
That you have mutilated
The beauty, the fragrance and the smile
Of my heart?

17192

God-Satisfaction-Smile
You can receive
Not from your self-limiting cry
But from your self-giving smile.

17193

Spirituality
Transcends nationality
To reveal its soul-form:
Universality.

17194

Doubt
Claims my mind.
Faith
Claims my heart.
God
Claims both my life’s nothingness
And my soul’s fulness.

17195

God wants my mind to be
A reliable receiver,
My heart to be
A reliable giver
And my soul to be
A reliable forgiver.

17196

Each soulful thought
In our heart
Descends
From a flower-flooded garden
Of the sky.

17197

Alas,
A sincere gratitude-heart
Is very rarely visible
In human beings.

17198

The heart is telling the mind
That it does not have to do anything difficult
To be happy.
It just has to watch
The heart’s horizon expand.

17199

If you want to be perfect,
Then you must climb up
And reach perfection
At its own height.

17200

The mind’s newness
Cannot save the world.
But the heart’s oneness
Can and should save the world.

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