Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 190

18901

You have an invisible Friend
Who is always eager to help you.
You may not see Him
With your human eyes,
But you can feel
His compassionate Presence
Inside your aspiring heart.

18902

My Lord Supreme,
Do meditate on my heart
With all Your Compassion-Love,
And do accept
My gratitude-flower-heart.

18903

Our inalienable birthright
Is to claim God.
Our only goal is to become
His choicest and most perfect instrument
To love Him and serve Him
In His own Way.

18904

God celebrates
His creation’s birthday
On earth
With His Vision’s
Blessingful Joy and Pride.

18905

Inspiration-lion will come
And energise you
If you can bring your inner joy
To the fore
On the strength of your prayer-life.

18906

My heart of silence
Is not only God’s Answer
To my life’s teeming questions
But also His divine Pride in me.

18907

Abandon the dying realities
Of the past!
Welcome the smiling dreams
Of the future!

18908

I really do not want
To remain lost any more
Between
My mind’s hesitation
And my heart’s fear.

18909

An inspired action
Is a confidence-step forward
To arrive at the perfection-goal.

18910

The shortage of faith
Immediately hastens the birth
Of destruction-crisis.

18911

What I always need
Is a God-hungry heart
And not
A man-nourished mind.

18912

Each self-giving thought
Descends
From a higher world
Of illumination-delight.

18913

Alas,
Many human beings
Have fragile and fleeting
Gratitude-hearts.

18914

O my confusion-mind,
Do you think my heart’s light
Will allow you to remain
Forever unchallenged?

18915

What I need
At every moment
Is a God-seeker’s mind
And a God-lover’s heart.

18916

Without God’s Compassion-Eye
And Forgiveness-Heart,
My heart is homeless.

18917

I want my mind’s freedom
To be founded upon
My gratitude-heart
To God.

18918

The heart’s willingness
And cheerfulness
Are needed
To extinguish the mind’s
Desire-flames.

18919

I love myself
Only when
I think of my Lord’s
Compassion-flooded Feet.

18920

Never falter
When you are marching
With your soul’s ecstasy
Towards the Ultimate Goal!

18921

What the doubting mind needs
Is not retribution
But illumination.

18922

What my mind needs
Is not a colourful imagination
But a prayerful inspiration.

18923

Before I entered into the spiritual life,
I was a division-loving mind.
Now that I am in the spiritual life,
I am a oneness-manifesting heart.

18924

My Lord Supreme,
Do make my heart and life worthy
Of Your tomorrow’s fast-approaching,
Abundant Compassion-Light.

18925

There is nothing wrong
If we start our journey
With a question mark-mind.
But eventually we must discontinue
That friendship
And establish a new
And permanent friendship
With our God-seeking heart.

18926

The new hope of my eyes
And the new promise of my heart
Have brought me ecstasy’s flood.

18927

Only from the realisation-summit
Does this world of ours look
Meaningful and purposeful.

18928

Success-certainty
Is not given to those
Who have surrendered
To the restlessness-mind.

18929

A God-loving life
And a God-dreaming heart
Are fond children of God.

18930

My heart’s
Aspiration-companion
Is my soul’s
Benediction-smile.

18931

The angels are always comfortable
In the company
Of God-lovers and God-servers.

18932

The doubting and unaspiring mind
Dances happily
When it sees the long-sought demise
Of the aspiration-heart.

18933

All my life I have been longing
Only for one thing:
A compassion-flooded heart
That sees no wrong in others.

18934

Alas, every day
God has serious problems
With His peace-manifestation staff.

18935

My Lord, I desperately need
To be a member
Of Your Vision-fulfilment Committee.

18936

Each good thought
Is indeed
A forward march,
An upward flight
And an inward dive.

18937

It is not for the mind’s
Narrow vision
To grasp the future total perfection
Of mankind.

18938

A man of aspiration
Is a flaming tower
Of God-fulfilling hope.

18939

May my life
Be in between
God’s Vastness-Compassion-Eye
And God’s Oneness-Fulness-Heart.

18940

The thought-bound seeker
Can never succeed and proceed
In the inner world.

18941

Each newness-moment
Fulfils itself
When it grows into
Fulness-satisfaction-hours.

18942

Frustration-night
Unmistakably follows
Impatience-day.

18943

Each step away
From responsibility
Is a step nearer
To life’s futility.

18944

A self-giving heart
Has a free access
To the soul’s higher worlds.

18945

The soul may be invisible,
But the soul’s wisdom-light
Is not only visible
But also usable.

18946

My mind’s simple thoughts
God loves.
My heart’s simple feelings
God loves.
My life’s simple faith
God loves.

18947

My Lord,
Do never allow me
To be dumbfounded
By my mind’s doubt-strength
And suspicion-power.

18948

My Lord,
May I thrive on
My heart’s soulful hope-plant
And my life’s fruitful promise-tree.

18949

His overcalculating mind
Is utterly responsible
For his life’s despair-day
And his heart’s despair-night.

18950

O humanity-inspiring heart,
Where are you, where?
I sleeplessly need you!
O Divinity-serving life,
Where are you, where?
I breathlessly need you!

18951

My Lord,
May I be sleeplessly enslaved
By Your Compassion-Eye
And Forgiveness-Heart.

18952

My Lord,
May my heart be
A newborn champion
Of hope-light
And promise-delight.

18953

May my aspiration-life
Eventually become God’s own
Cosmic Vision-Fulfilment-Delight.

18954

Who wants
A life that shuttles
Between “maybe” and “certainly”?
Not me!

18955

Thought-bridge
I wanted.
Will-bridge
I want.
Oneness-bridge
I need.

18956

Is there any human being
Who is not expert
In the ego-collision-game?

18957

Alas, why do I remain
All the time
A dormant God-gratitude-seed?

18958

It is not an easy task,
But we must try to succeed
In liberating ourselves
From earth-frustration
While living on earth.

18959

Long
Is the life of love.
Longer
Is the life of oneness.
Longest
Is the life of fulness.

18960

Because I am pleasing God
In God’s own Way,
My mind’s insincerity,
My heart’s insecurity
And my life’s impurity
Have left me for good.

18961

A dividing mind
Will always be a victim
To fear, doubt and anxiety.

18962

The God in my friends tells me:
“Go forward, go forward!
Life is nothing but progress.”
The God in my enemies tells me:
“Are you sure that you are sincere?
Are you sure that you are pure?
Are you sure that you are perfect?
Be careful
While you are proceeding forward!”

18963

A purity-mind
Will definitely be protected
From the web
Of complexity-world.

18964

The pinnacle
Of the mind’s achievement
Is a song
Of universal oneness-smile.

18965

Divine love, divine compassion
And divine forgiveness
Are themselves their own
Infallible delight.

18966

There is no mind
That has never suffered
From unwillingness.
There is no heart
That has never suffered
From insecurity.
There is no life
That has never suffered
From failure.

18967

O desire-temptation,
I do not need you any more.
O aspiration-illumination,
I need you ever more.

18968

When you do not want to play with God
Lovingly, devotedly and soulfully,
You make God suffer infinitely more
Than you can ever imagine.

18969

The surrender of one’s individuality
To God
Is embraced by the Satisfaction-Universality
Of God.

18970

The freedom to believe in
The unseen divinity in others
Is the freedom that longs for
A heart of oneness-world.

18971

The pride of ignorance
Does not have a fleeting moment.
It has an abiding life.

18972

The vastness of the mind
And the hallowedness of the heart
Are the seeker’s invaluable
Inner wealth.

18973

The mind’s desire-storms
Are helpless
Inside the vastness
Of aspiration-ocean.

18974

The daily collection
Of earth’s streaming and unending tears
Is the favourite task
Of my Lord Beloved Supreme.

18975

O my mind,
I assure you
That there shall come a time
When you will be embarrassed
At your own too-frequent
Ego-performances.

18976

If you laugh
At the world’s stupidity-mind,
The world will laugh
At your insecurity-heart.

18977

Alas, how stupid
A human being is!
He asks his mind-thief
To guard his heart-room.

18978

My Lord,
I am sure I will be able
To protect myself from others.
But I beg of You
To protect me
From my ever-incorrigible,
Ever-shameless
And ever-destructive self.

18979

Only the aspiring heart
Can be aware of
The unaspiring mind’s
Clever and ruthless hostility.

18980

O my mind’s humility-footsteps,
Where are you?
I have not seen you
For a long, long time.

18981

Each good thought
Is a product
Of our heart’s
Sweetness-fragrance-fulness.

18982

I am sure that someday
My heart’s hope-road
Will lead my life
To my soul’s promise-destination.

18983

O my heart,
Never, never allow
Your eagerness-enthusiasm
To sleep,
Or even to go
On vacation.

18984

I wish to make friends
Only with my heart’s
God-loving tears,
And with nobody else.

18985

May my God-hungry heart
Become a self-giving
Fountain-heart-song.

18986

God’s Beauty in my body
Fades at God’s choice Hour.
God’s Beauty in my heart
Remains permanent.
God’s Beauty in my soul
At every moment increases
At a very high speed.

18987

Nobody will be
Left aside permanently
From God’s
Earth-transformation-team.

18988

Do not try to understand
The purpose of God’s Existence,
But try to claim
The Fragrance-Breath of God
As your own, very own.

18989

The vital and the mind
Are always the possessors
Of a very small
Forgiveness-supply.

18990

If we have implicit faith
In our Lord Supreme,
Then we are bound to see
That this world will have
A new, all-illumining dawn,
Not when we want,
But at His choice Hour.

18991

There is no human being on earth
Who does not have the capacity
To offer the message of peace
To the world at large.
But what is needed now
Is the soulful willingness.

18992

Peace does not mean only silence.
Peace is also something
Soothing, thrilling, enchanting,
Illumining and fulfilling.

18993

What is the source
Of our Heavenly achievements:
Peace, bliss and perfection?
Spirituality is the source.
What is spirituality?
A sincere inner hunger for God.

18994

The only Blessing-Boon
I need from You,
My Lord Beloved Supreme,
Is this:
If it is Your Will,
I want to succeed,
And if it is not Your Will,
Then I do not want to succeed.
This is my life of surrender-light
Which I offer to You
At every moment.

18995

There is no such thing as a miracle.
When I throw myself
Into God’s Compassion-Sea,
My life becomes
A natural God-serving experience-delight.

18996

Everything I am doing
Is aimed at one goal:
A prayerful and soulful awareness
Of a universal oneness-family
Founded upon peace.

18997

If we feel secure
In the depths of our heart,
We shall not challenge anybody,
For inner confidence
Is nothing short of complete satisfaction.

18998

What can prayer
And meditation do for us?
Prayer and meditation
Give us inner strength,
And this inner strength
Can lead to a lofty peace
And a world-oneness-family.

18999

I want to live on earth
Not by means of material food,
But by means of my heart-to-heart talks
With my Lord Beloved Supreme.

19000

Not because I am a poet,
Not because I am a philosopher,
But because I am a God-lover,
I see my Beloved Supreme
In each and every human being.
All human beings
Are my heart’s brothers and sisters,
And the whole world
Is my oneness-home.

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