Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 18

1701

My Lord,
How can I offer You enough gratitude?
“My child,
You and I are singing
The song of oneness.
This oneness-song goes beyond
The necessity of gratitude.
When oneness reigns supreme,
Who will be grateful to whom?”

1702

You and your pride
Can live without God,
But God and God’s Compassion
Cannot live without you.

1703

If you are ready
To go with your Beloved Lord
Even to hell,
Then rest assured,
Your Lord will definitely turn hell
Into the highest Heaven.

1704

I am not imitating him.
He has achieved something before me,
But now God’s Hour
Has struck for me as well,
And I shall devotedly follow
In his footsteps.
What you call imitation,
I call oneness-sharing.

1705

Man misunderstands
God’s Justice-Light.
Man does not understand
God’s Compassion-Height.

1706

Let others call me a fanatic.
I will listen only
To my intuition-friend
Who tells me
When to run and sit
At my Lord’s Compassion-Feet.

1707

He who leads me to God
Is most precious,
For what else is he doing
If not playing the role
Of opportunity
For his faithful followers?

1708

A seeker’s winter of doubt
Is fleeting,
But his spring of faith
Can easily be lasting.

1709

Frustration-night can veil
Your face
If you do not sail
Your life-boat
Towards the Illumination-Shore.

1710

When your Master does anything
With serious and soulful concentration,
Do not miss the golden chance
To be with him.
Use every opportunity
To receive the utmost from him.

1711

He wanted to go to hell
And see what it looked like.
Teeming doubts came to him
And said,
“You do not have to take the trouble
Of going to hell.
We have brought hell to you.”

1712

O ex-God-lover,
The stark ignorance-axe
Is fast descending
On your head.

1713

God is older than anybody.
Again, what is God
If not an eternal Child
Playing in His infinite
Garden of Beauty?

1714

What is selfless service?
Some call it humility-service,
Others call it humiliation-service,
But I shall always call it
Illumination-service.

1715

Now that you have got
Freedom-confidence,
One by one, your forgotten hopes
Will reappear.

1716

A true God-ambassador-messenger
Is he who delivers
Divinity’s Smile
To humanity’s crying door.

1717

Be an eternal child.
Only an eternal child
Can appreciate
Divinity within and divinity without.
Only an eternal child
Can make inner and outer progress
To satisfy God in His own Way.

1718

Whether it needs rest or not,
You must compel your wandering mind
To rest,
And ask your still heart’s faith-flower
To blossom
Slowly, steadily and beautifully.

1719

Do not cry.
I love you.
Do not cry.
The world needs you.
Do not cry.
God is still dreaming
Inside you and for you.

1720

God should not have to
Plead with you.
Just do the right thing
Sooner than at once
And become His Eternity’s
Choice and fond instrument.

1721

Each truth-seeking cry
Will eventually become
A God-manifesting smile.

1722

A servant of the transcendental Truth
Can never be lost
In the backwoods of ignorance-night.

1723

Because of your
Disproportionate tongue-greed,
Your success-boat
Had to capsize and vanish.

1724

In his inner and outer life
He was shining.
His Lord Supreme made him
A messenger boy on earth.
Why?
Only to teach him
How to shine in humility.

1725

God’s selfless Service is found
Here, there, everywhere.
Whatever good things
He has been doing for His creation,
He is now asking you to do.

1726

Do not loiter
On your frustration-street!
God is inviting you
To come to His Street
And hoist His Satisfaction-Banner.

1727

In top silence,
Patience-light
Broadcasts its indomitable power.

1728

Through his selfless service-offering
He at once
Smashed his outer pride
And expedited his inner illumination.

1729

You want to make a noble sacrifice,
But first ask if it is God’s Will.
You must always go beyond morality
And allow Divinity
To make the decision for you.

1730

Be grateful to morality,
For it has established
Some harmony on earth.
But remember,
You are a truth-seeker.
For you spirituality
Must always come first.

1731

You are not only sitting
On the bondage-bench,
But you are enjoying
The boring sound of bragging.

1732

God wants you
To come and play with Him
And acquire
Divine name and fame.
But you must first
Throw off the blame-blanket
That you have put on humanity.

1733

If you serve
Faithfully, devotedly and punctually,
Although you have
Teeming problems and weaknesses,
Inwardly you will feel
Joy in boundless measure
From your selfless service-offering.

1734

God’s Vision-Island
Is waiting for you.
Can you not quickly embark
In your heart’s swiftest progress-plane?

1735

Keep swinging on
Your heart’s gratitude-gate.
God will before long
Transform your earth-bound fate
Into a Heaven-free smile.

1736

When your Master asks you
To obey the Divine in him,
You have to know
That he himself
Always obeys Someone —
His Eternity’s Pilot Supreme.

1737

What do I want?
I want to see my mind’s
Falling desire-star.
What do I want?
I want to see my heart’s
Rising aspiration-sun.

1738

If you have made
Your ego-life a big eater,
How is it you cannot make
Your surrender-life a great God-dancer?

1739

If you do not take
Your Lord Supreme’s Gifts
With a gratitude-heart,
Who will be the real loser?

1740

When he soulfully offered to others
What his Beloved Supreme had given him,
He immediately increased
His own devotion-delight.

1741

God asks me to show Him
What I gave Him yesterday —
Proper enthusiasm.
If I can show proper enthusiasm
To Him today,
Then He will give me
What He truly is — Love.

1742

If you do not perfect
Your determination-exercise,
God will not invite you to see
His Satisfaction-Dance.

1743

The disciple offers the Master
His soulful receptivity.
The Master offers the disciple
His heart’s sweetest gratitude
And his soul’s highest blessings.

1744

In the life of a true seeker
Receptivity is not a mere word
Found in the dictionary,
But a living reality
That touches the very Depth
Of God’s Heart.

1745

You are asking me,
What has God’s Compassion-Smile
Done for me?
God’s Compassion-Smile
Has demobilised my doubt-army
For good.

1746

You are longing for
Your desires’ death.
How can you kill your desires
Unless you are badly in need of
God’s Breath?

1747

Whenever you sincerely
And soulfully meditate —
No matter when, no matter where —
Your Master’s inner sun
Will respond without fail.

1748

When you are meditating
In your Master’s absence,
Your imagination-power
Can either bring your Master
Right in front of your mental vision,
Or it can send
Your meditation-consciousness
To your Master.

1749

You must defend
Your life’s manifestation-power
With your heart’s aspiration-tower.

1750

Your faith-tree has dropped dead
And now what I still hear
Is a deafening sound.

1751

The Lord Supreme
Needs only those
Who are eternally faithful,
Sleeplessly cheerful
And ready to follow Him
At all times.

1752

You are perfectly surrendered
To your mind.
You have become
Your mind’s best instrument.
You think that you know everything
Better than God.
Alas, what can poor God do for you?

1753

God’s Hour had struck for him.
But when he deliberately
Neglected his meditation,
The inner divine forces
Kicked him
Infinitely harder
Than he would ever have imagined.

1754

When opportunity knocks at your door,
Pay attention!
If you ignore your opportunities,
The retribution will be unimaginable.

1755

Unless you take your mind-student
To your heart’s illumination-palace
Every day,
It will die to keep company
With confusion-crowd.

1756

God has already given you
What He has for you —
His transcendental Smiles.
When are you going to give Him
What you have for Him —
Your heart’s gratitude-tears?

1757

The Hour has struck for you.
Proceed
According to your own capacity.
Why wait
For those who are not ready
To fly high, higher, highest?

1758

What is transcendence,
If not a minor alteration
Of my earth-aspiration-cry?

1759

Don’t hide your doubt-drums.
Strike hard!
And let them burst into pieces
Immediately.

1760

There should be no difference
Between your everyday heart-aspiration
And your life-newness.
There should be no difference
Between your everyday heart-soulfulness
And your life-fulness.

1761

God is not interested
In the eagerness of your vital
To defeat others.
God is only interested
In the eagerness of your heart
To achieve perfection
In your own life.

1762

Just think of
Your life’s transformation.
God will then definitely love you
Infinitely more.

1763

False light will tell you
What you can never do.
Real light will tell you
Not only what you can unmistakably do
But also
What you have perfectly done already
To please your Beloved Supreme.

1764

To appreciate the beauty
Of a flower
Is not a difficult task.
But to become the flower itself
Is indeed a difficult task.

1765

Cry and cry sleeplessly
If you want to change the world.
Love and love constantly
If you want to change yourself.

1766

Self-deception:
This is what the human nature knows.
Self-perfection:
This is what the divine nature knows.
Self-transcendence:
This is what the supreme nature knows.

1767

He mistakenly feels
That what others have to offer him
Is of no value.
In the name of self-sufficiency
He is just riding his own ego-horse.

1768

If your Lord Supreme requests you
To do something,
Rest assured,
He has already given you the capacity —
Even more than necessary —
Long before you actually need it.

1769

When I think of God,
I think of God’s Quantity-Life.
When God thinks of me,
He only thinks of my quality-heart.

1770

Mine is purity’s
Attraction-heart.
Mine is impurity’s
Repulsion-mind.
In between the two
I am totally lost.

1771

When you walk
With your fellow travellers
Along Eternity’s Road,
Like a magnet
You should try to draw
Inspiration and aspiration from them.

1772

Just because God
Thinks of your enemy too,
Do you think
He loves you less?

1773

Insincerity is dangerous.
Sincerity is adventurous.
Purity is prosperous.
Divinity is precious.

1774

You do not have to
Give up anything.
Just value your spiritual life
And automatically you will feel
That this new life of yours
Comes first.

1775

By accepting the spiritual life
You are telling me
That God comes first in your life.
Now do everything soulfully
To bring yourself closer to Him,
And also try to feel
That He, only He, is your Eternity’s All.

1776

Two things of yours
Always astonish me:
Your mind’s confusion-forest
And your heart’s perfection-garden.

1777

Opinion:
This is what my mind wants.
Perfection:
This is what my heart wants.
Liberation:
This is what my life wants.
God-Satisfaction:
This is what I want.

1778

During the day
Use your imagination-power
To remember your soulful and powerful
Morning meditation.
Imagination is a world of its own,
And this imagination-power
Can save you, illumine you and fulfil you.

1779

Soulfully ask God
How to use the spiritual energy
You receive in your meditation.
Then it will never be wasted.

1780

Indecision
Tells me two things perfectly:
What death looks like
And
Where death is.

1781

God is not asking you
To desert your mind
Immediately.
He is only asking you
To illumine your mind
Completely.

1782

God asks you to come Home.
He does not ask you
What you will do
When you come Home.

1783

Yesterday
You allowed your mind
To be overcrowded with thoughts.
Today
You are allowing your mind
To be overcrowded with doubts.
Yet you want to have
A peaceful mind and a fruitful life!

1784

Your heart’s love-quality
Is quite poor.
How do you then expect
To awaken the sleeping human beings?
Your wishful thinking
Will eventually end
In a powerful frustration.

1785

You want to be first in everything.
Now make up your mind
Once and for all
Whether you want to be first
In the world-illumination-race
Or in the world-possession-race.

1786

Alas, you cannot explain
God the Great.
Alas, you cannot feel
God the Good.
Alas, you cannot imagine
God the Perfect.

1787

What is your primary concern —
To love God
Or to serve God?
If you want to love God,
Pray for inner purity.
If you want to serve God,
Pray for inner certainty.

1788

A talker may only
Talk on perfection,
But a listener can definitely
Grow into perfection.

1789

God definitely wants you
To succeed in life.
But it is you
Who have to do always
The best thing.

1790

The heart’s silence-sunrise
Is the harbinger
Of the life’s sound-joy.

1791

You must implore
God’s Compassion-Light
Before you dare to explore
The beauty and divinity
Of the inner world.

1792

Be not afraid
Of revealing the truth.
Be only afraid
Of concealing falsehood.

1793

Everything comes and goes,
But oneness-love remains,
And it remains so permanently.

1794

Whether your mind
Is running after desire
Or desire is running after
Your mind
Is quite unimportant.
Both your mind and desire
Are quite harmful.
Therefore, watch out!

1795

God has already built
A road for you.
Can you not at least
Walk on it
And see if it is satisfactory?

1796

Ask your heart to give
The right kind of advice
To the world.
Ask your mind to receive
The right kind of advice
From the world.

1797

God wants you to entertain Him.
Alas,
Instead of entertaining Him richly,
You have enchained Him mercilessly.

1798

God has a question for you.
Answer it immediately:
Do you want Him
To save you from yourself
Or to save you from the world?

1799

God does not mind
If your road is different
From His road.
But He will definitely mind
If both of you
Finally do not arrive
At the same destination.

1800

Realisation is not
The end of the road.
It is only a challenge
On the way to God’s
Perfect Manifestation on earth.

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