Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 178

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17701

No soulful hope
To please God
In God’s own Way
Can ever be wasted.

17702

A man without aspiration-flames
Cannot be cherished
By God’s Satisfaction-Smiles.

17703

Never forget that your faith-friend
Has no parallel
In your aspiration-heart
And dedication-life.

17704

May each prayer and meditation
Of mine
Ring God’s Victory-Bell
From summit to summit.

17705

Each desire-fulfilment
Desperately requires
Sleepless prayers.

17706

When faith
Turns to doubt,
Ignorance-supremacy
Begins to shout.

17707

A self-giving life
Is itself
An unparalleled achievement
For a seeker.

17708

How beautiful it looks
When the mind swims
In the heart’s
Purity-flooded surrender-lake.

17709

Alas, I am totally lost
Between
The cry of ancient seekers
And
The frown of modern criticisers.

17710

God blesses
Each aspiration-heart
With Eternity’s purity-road.

17711

My breathless meditation
Is my heart’s
Ecstasy-trance.

17712

What each human being needs
Is a moment
Without desire-invasion.

17713

God-lovers look
Extremely beautiful and pure
When they talk about
Their beloved Forgiveness-God.

17714

To me,
Most beautiful
Is the smiling Eye of God
And most powerful
Are the streaming Tears of God.

17715

Yesterday’s ignorance made me
A temptation-maker.
Today’s illumination has made me
A temptation-breaker.

17716

Mine is the heart
That sleeplessly needs
A silence-feeding soul.

17717

A God-seeker’s child-heart
Is soulfully and charmingly
Beautiful.

17718

Peace wants to blossom
Inside your heart
And nowhere else.

17719

My Lord,
I do not need
A perfection-life.
I need only
Your Compassion-Eyes.

17720

How can I ever describe
The haunting qualities
Of my heart’s silence-songs?

17721

Eventually
Each and every seeker
Will run along the road
Of unconditional surrender.

17722

For Your Compassion-Sea,
My Lord,
I shall cry and cry,
But I need not sigh.

17723

From the mind we can at best
Learn how to proceed forward
With halting steps.

17724

There is only one way
To feed my Lord Supreme,
And that is with my heart’s
Mounting silence-flames.

17725

What is the use
Of having a heart
If it does not pulsate
With nectar-delight?

17726

O truth-seeker,
Be careful and tactful always.
Otherwise,
You can be very hurtful.

17727

I know that God is aware
Of my mind’s teeming agonies.
But I would like to be aware
Of His compassionate Concern
As well.

17728

If I am great,
Then it is due to
My heart’s gratitude-tears.
If I am good,
Then it is due to
My life’s surrender-smiles.

17729

My Lord Supreme,
I am crying for You.
Can You not see?
“My child,
I am beckoning you.
Can you not see?”

17730

Self-deception
Is bottomless and shameless.
Self-perfection
Is sleepless and endless.

17731

God wants you to be liberated
From your desire-life
And to cremate your desire-life.

17732

Each seeker will sooner or later
Come to realise
That God’s Compassion-Height
Is infinitely stronger
Than His Justice-Light.

17733

Prayer reduces
My mind-doubts.
Meditation reduces
My heart-insecurities.

17734

Mother Earth is always ready
To sympathise with our suffering
Because of our utter helplessness.

17735

My wisdom-heart
Never invites
The clever depression-guest.

17736

No matter how undivine we are,
We cannot go beyond the reach
Of God’s Compassion-Eye.

17737

On a daily basis
I hunt the doubt-animal
In my mind
To make myself supremely happy.

17738

My Lord Supreme
Is so happy
To be able to bless me
With my heart’s progress-crown.

17739

No matter what I do,
I fail to disperse
My mind’s heavy ignorance-clouds.

17740

God is telling me
That there is a oneness-bridge
Between
My soul’s rainbow-dreams
And
My heart’s fountain-realities.

17741

Every day
My Lord Beloved Supreme
Blesses my surrender-blossomed heart
With His Transcendental Pride.

Alas, alas, alas, every day
My Lord Supreme helplessly cries
When He looks at
My deliberately unsurrendered mind.

17742

A sleeplessly self-giving life
Is indeed
A breathlessly
Ecstasy-surcharged heart.

17743

God does not love me:
This is an old story.
God does not care for me:
This is an old story.
God does not need me:
This is an old story.

17744

I love God:
This is a new song.
I care for God:
This is a new song.
I need God:
This is a new song.

17745

God loves us unconditionally:
This is a new song.
God cares for us sleeplessly:
This is a new song.
God needs us desperately:
This is a new song.

17746

A simplicity-life,
A sincerity-heart
And a purity-breath
Can always please God
In His own Way.

17747

If you do not aspire,
Then you will be forced to live
In a lonely unreality-world.

17748

May my heart-cup
Be filled to the brim
With surrender-gratitude
To God.

17749

To me,
The heart that does not
Love other hearts
Is a criminal heart.
The heart that does not
Cheerfully expand
Is a failure-heart.

17750

A big zero-mind
Can easily have
A super hero-heart.

17751

My Lord,
May I see You smiling at me
For a change?
“My child,
May I see you surrendering
Your mind’s bondage-life
For a change?”

17752

My Lord,
My blundering life every day needs
Your thundering Footsteps
And nothing else
To perfect my ignorance-flooded life.

17753

The presence of sincerity
In the aspiring heart
Is needed
For a healthy and lasting
Happiness.

17754

My aspiring heart
Every day struggles hard
To escape my mind’s
Darkness-ignorance-forest.

17755

O my doubting mind,
Are you not ashamed
Of inventing every day
New problems
For my aspiring heart to solve?

17756

Oh how I wish
I could make friends
With the silence
Of the evening stars!

17757

Oh how I wish
I could know
My tomorrow’s life
With my today’s heart!

17758

I must eventually realise
That the mind-thirst
Of my desire-life
Can never be quenched.

17759

The blossoming smiles
Of my heart
Are my divinity’s God-dreams.

17760

We are such fools
That we are seeking
Permanence-joy
In a fleeting world.

17761

How can I make spiritual progress
Without
The aspiration from within
And the inspiration from without?

17762

Alas, the desire-mind
Will never have the capacity
To transform its own nature.

17763

My Lord, do give me the capacity
To pray to You every day
For my aspiration-heart’s
Lightning-oneness-speed.

17764

My Lord, do not fulfil
My mind’s freedom-desires,
But do fulfil
My heart’s surrender-desires.

17765

A special Grace is needed
From Above
For the mind to escape from
Anxiety-worry-prison.

17766

Aspiration
Is sweetness.
Dedication
Is fulness.
Surrender
Is sweetness-fulness-fragrance.

17767

What I need is not
A God-questioning mind
But a God-crying heart.

17768

Each time we pray and meditate
God helps us expand
Our heart’s oneness-realm.

17769

How can we ever expect to find
Protection-security
Inside our division-barrier-mind?

17770

What is a human mind
If not a conscious and constant
Comfort-search-attempt?

17771

When I soulfully pray,
I fly with the flames
Of my wisdom-radiance-sun.

17772

Every morning
I cry for God’s Smile
To clear away
My yesterday’s problem-clouds.

17773

I am afraid of many things,
But I am mostly afraid
Of my mind’s
Binding and blinding thoughts.

17774

Each good thought of mine
I see
As a star of my heart
In my soul’s Infinity-sky.

17775

There is no end
To our heart’s
Newness, eagerness and willingness-
Capacities.

17776

If you are wise,
Then do not wait
For the Christ to return.
You can go and see him
In Heaven
With your aspiration-heart
And surrender-life.

17777

As the mind invented sin,
Even so,
The heart has discovered forgiveness.

17778

The mind
And its calamity-confusion
Are an old story.
The heart
And its poise-illumination
Are a new story.

17779

An unaspiring mind
Is always afraid
Of newness-adventure.
An aspiring heart
Not only loves
But also grows into
The life of newness-adventure.

17780

Because of our earth-bound
Ignorance-mind
We always try to separate
The sound of life
From the silence of death.

17781

Each time I offer something
To Mother Earth
To make her happy,
She immediately blesses me
With her endless cosmic energy.

17782

As you cannot separate
Fragrance from flower,
Even so, you cannot separate
Life from death.

17783

Each effort towards self-discovery
Is indeed the divine pride
Of the world of progress-manifestation.

17784

The desire-fulfilment-dance
Is so fleeting
That it is hard to know
When it starts
And when it ends.

17785

Alas, most human beings
Live in the world
Of unfulfilled personality.

17786

My God-surrender
Helps me enjoy
The delight of my soul’s
Dream-expanding horizons.

17787

What does my life need?
My life needs only
A few flames
From my Lord’s Compassion-flooded Sun.

17788

Even to accept the fact
That God is in all human beings,
Not to speak of loving God
In all human beings,
Is a difficult task for us.

17789

The difference between
Dream and Reality
Is this:
Dream awakens us
And Reality fulfils us.

17790

Alas, ours is the mind’s
Comfort-search
And not the heart’s
Enlightenment-discovery.

17791

My mind lives either
In the world of nothingness
Or in the world of unevenness.

17792

My prayer-life tells me
How far I can go.
My meditation-life tells me
Where I eternally am.

17793

My meditation does not
Have to go anywhere
To see anyone
Or to bring anyone to me.
My meditation is my magnet-heart.

17794

Each good thought
Is indeed a powerful protest
Against our life’s
Ignorance-king.

17795

May my eagerness-heart
Tirelessly swim
In the heart of selflessness-sea.

17796

Mine is the morning prayer-song
That cries for the descent
Of God’s Existence-Consciousness-Bliss.

17797

Only into the heart of faith
Does God enter
With His Forgiveness-Miracles.

17798

Yesterday I called them
My aspiration-heart-seeds.
Today I call them
My dedication-life-blossoms.

17799

My life is composed of
My inner world’s prosperity
And my outer world’s poverty.

17800

What we need is courage,
Not hope,
To live in God’s
Compassion-Protection-Hands.

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