Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 193

19201

God does not want you to remember
Your past desire-life.
He wants you to remember
Your present aspiration-life
And your future realisation-life.

19202

If you use your ego-captain
To steer your life-boat,
It will capsize long before it reaches
Its destination.

19203

Unless and until God asks you,
You must not tell the world
That God is sleeplessly knocking
On your heart-door.

19204

God wants you to know
That whether you choose Him or not
To be your life-boat-Pilot,
He has already chosen you
As a passenger
In His own Life-Boat.

19205

There is only one
Incurable disease:
The feeling that
God does not care for you.

19206

Guard your sincerity-joy
Inside your mind.
Guard your purity-joy
Inside your heart.
Guard your simplicity-joy
Inside your life.

19207

We are all destined to arrive
At the Illumination-Shore.
Therefore, why do we feel
That we are doomed to remain
At the disappointment-start?

19208

My Lord Supreme,
I do not ask Your Indulgence.
My Lord Supreme,
I do not ask Your Compassion.
My Lord Supreme,
I do ask Your Support.

19209

How can it be possible
To love God perfectly
Yet to fail to love humanity?

19210

When you can give equal value
To God’s Punishment
And God’s Embrace,
You will be chosen
To manifest Him.

19211

God lives
Whether I worship Him or not.
It is I who do not live
When I do not worship God.

19212

God’s Compassion loves us
Exactly in the way we need,
And no,
Never in the way we want.

19213

We accomplish much more
For Mother Earth
When we pursue God
In His earthly forms
And not in His Heavenly Form.

19214

It is the strength of love
That illumines
The heights of ego —
Not the other way around.

19215

Who is a child?
A child is he
Who is his heart’s
Prayer-beauty.

19216

God wants you to be wise.
From now on He wants you
To consciously march past
All your shortcomings.

19217

Sweet, sweeter, sweetest
And
Pure, purer, purest
Are
Gratitude-heart-tears.

19218

Only a genuine God-lover
Can feel that
His life is flooded with
God-pleasing opportunities.

19219

Everybody cherishes
Something of God.
I cherish
God’s Forgiveness-Fragrance.

19220

If you do not pray to God
Consciously
And meditate on God
Soulfully,
How can you ever be freed
From your self-imposed
Ignorance-life-sentence?

19221

God the Compassion
Is coming to you from afar.
Greet Him with
Your life’s gratitude-smiles
And your heart’s gratitude-tears.

19222

God just loves
My life’s enthusiasm-candle
And
My heart’s aspiration-flames.

19223

If you absorb yourself in trifles,
How can God grant you
His Eternity’s Crown
And His Infinity’s Throne?

19224

Silence
Is as old as God Himself.
Silence
Is as young as God Himself.

19225

May my life’s surrender-market
And my heart’s gratitude-market
Never close.

19226

O my seeker-mind,
Just drown all your thoughts
In your heart of joy.

19227

For God’s Compassion
I grew.
For God’s Love
I am growing.
For God’s Satisfaction
Sleeplessly and breathlessly
I shall grow.

19228

It is beyond my imagination,
And yet it is true
That God will come down
From His silence-bound Throne
To be with me.

19229

My prayer may at times
Be on my side,
But my meditation is always
On God’s side.

19230

When we embark
On a God-manifestation-project,
Our soulfulness
Is of paramount importance.

19231

My Lord,
You devour me
With Your Compassion-Eyes,
And I shall devour You
With my aspiration-heart.

19232

I am eventually bound
To watch the sunset
Of my success-life,
But I need never see the sunset
Of my progress-life.

19233

If you do not or cannot
Release yourself
From the shackles of self-doubt,
Who can and who will?

19234

O my mind,
Are you deaf?
God is asking you to be quiet —
At least for a short while.

19235

God does not want anybody
To count my life’s mistakes.
Therefore, why should I?

God just wants me and others
To count how many opportunities
He has given me
To please Him in His own Way.

19236

God enjoys everything
That I give Him,
But He enjoys most
My self-giving-feast.

19237

Nobody can overestimate
The beauty,
The power
And the delight
Of self-conquest.

19238

Service without expectation
Is possible
Only when I live
Only for God.

19239

O hope-flames,
Can you not all come
And keep my tiny heart-flames burning?

19240

Unless you surrender
Your own will to God’s Will,
You will never be able
To feel at home here on earth.

19241

I came not into the world
To see my mind-jungle.
I came into the world
To see my heart-garden.

19242

My immortality is composed of
My life’s self-giving
Here and now.

19243

There is no limit
To the increase of my heart’s
Soaring aspiration-flames.
God is asking me to believe that.

19244

I want to be God’s
Mind-power-partner.
But God wants me to be His
Heart-peace-partner.

19245

There is only one way
To self-perfection,
And that way is
Cheerful and unconditional
Self-dedication.

19246

Can you not make time
To catch God’s Peace-Dove
Which is so beautifully and self-givingly
Winging its way towards you?

19247

The heart-host
Knows no stranger.
The mind-host
Seldom has real friends.

19248

Your mind’s anxiety-clouds
You can remove
When your life becomes
A perfect stranger to idleness.

19249

“Nobody
Is too insignificant.
Nobody
Is too insufficient.”
So says my Lord Supreme.

19250

Alas, the human mind
Shamelessly enjoys itself
At the cost of another’s misery.

19251

Although I begged and begged God
To enter into my restless mind,
God simply refused.

19252

If you do not pray to God
And meditate on God,
Why should God not withdraw
His Shelter-Concern?

19253

Alas, I am unwilling to lose
Even a moment
In making friends
With frustration and despair!

19254

God the Confidence
And God the Pride
Enter into my heart
When gratitude is available.

19255

I have been looking all my life
For one thing:
God’s complete reliance on man.

19256

A true man of renunciation
Is a perfect stranger
Both to earthly ambitions
And to Heavenly praises.

19257

The most valuable lesson
To learn in life
Is that no human being
Is indispensable.

19258

Let us accept,
Transform and illumine
Human life
To make it worthy of
Divinity’s satisfaction-breath.

19259

What my mind actually wants
From God
Is not only unknowable
But also inconceivable.

19260

Out of enthusiasm?
Then success, progress
And satisfaction
Will always remain a far cry.

19261

Each time a new faith-blossom
I see inside my heart,
I feel that I have destroyed
An old doubt-barrier.

19262

Alas, the desire-life
Has abundant capacity
To eclipse the moon-beauty
Of the inner sky.

19263

If your mind lives
In constant God-forgetfulness,
How can you ever accomplish anything
That will inspire the world?

19264

It seems that many seekers
Listen to God
Only when He is silent
And not when He speaks!

19265

Open your heart’s eye.
You will see that God
Is all the time
Crying for your heart
And smiling for your soul.

19266

The first time I dreamt of God,
I felt that God was all Power.
Nowadays when I dream of God,
I always see and feel
That God is all Compassion.

19267

O my ego-mind,
I tell you once and for all,
No, not even one soul
Will attend
Your earth-departure-finale!

19268

Not everybody can swallow
Humiliation,
But he who can swallow
Humiliation
Will be able to cover
A very long distance
In the realm of spirituality.

19269

This morning I was so fortunate
To hear the soul-stirring whisper
Of my God-devoted faith.

19270

O my mind,
May sincerity be
Your greatest speciality.
O my heart,
May purity be
Your best speciality.
O my life,
May surrender be
Your unparalleled speciality.

19271

There is only one way
To arrive at wisdom-home,
And that is through
Experience-gate.

19272

O my mind,
I caution you!
Desire-danger,
Desire-crisis,
Desire-destruction
Are all near, very near you.

19273

If you are unable or unwilling
To appreciate God’s
All-loving Grace,
Then you will never be able
To come out of
Your mind-imprisonment.

19274

To all the sincere seekers
In the world,
I wish to say that
God will eventually please you
Infinitely more than
You can ever imagine.

19275

On behalf of all the sincere seekers
Everywhere,
I wish to say that
God-friendship is the only friendship
That we all need.

19276

Each time we entertain self-doubts,
We destroy more and more
God’s Pride in us.

19277

What does the mind teach us?
The mind teaches us
How to acquire
Power and authority.

What does the heart teach us?
The heart teaches us
How to acquire
Compassion and forgiveness.

19278

I can assure you
That no human being
Can have abiding happiness
Without having sleepless obedience
To God.

19279

The love-lit path to Heaven
Is paved with the heart’s purity
And the mind’s sincerity.

19280

The difference between
The mind and the heart
Is this:
The heart is a self-giver;
The mind is a self-seeker.

19281

My cheerfulness-heart produces
Smile after Smile
In God’s Satisfaction-Eyes.

19282

My first, my last
And my only obligation
Is to love God the Creator’s Heart
And serve God the creation’s eye.

19283

My mind cannot imagine
How deeply God loves
The beauty of my heart’s willingness.

19284

Only a heart of gratitude to God
Can be blessed with the fragrance
Of peace-life.

19285

It is indeed a difficult task
For a truth-seeker and God-lover
To forgive himself
When he makes Himalayan blunders.

19286

O my mind,
Will you ever have the determination
To cheerfully surrender
Your very existence
To God’s all-illumining Will?

19287

Each time I have
A pure thought in my mind,
I see my inner victory’s
Sunrise-smile.

19288

The tragedy of God-denial
Cannot be ignored
In the life of a God-lover
And God-server.

19289

O my mind,
When will you start praying again?
O my heart,
When will you start meditating again?
O my life,
When will you start serving again?
When, when, when?

19290

My Lord, for so many things
I am grateful to You,
But I am most grateful to You
Every day
For saving me by not fulfilling
My earthbound desires.

19291

Hopelessness and helplessness
Inexplicable
Will haunt us
If we deliberately ignore
God’s blessingful Commands.

19292

To silence the unwillingness-mind,
What we need is
The immediate willingness-joy
Of the heart.

19293

I chose God
To make me stupendously great.
God chose me
To be sleeplessly good.

19294

God is proud of us
Only when we do not give up
The hope of becoming
Good citizens of the world.

19295

God has given the key to everyone
To open Heaven’s Door.
Some are interested in trying,
While others are not.
Fortunately,
I belong to the first category.

19296

Each day is the day
To become
A new self-giver,
To become
A new God-fulfiller.

19297

The Pilot Supreme does not want you
To deceive yourself.
He wants you to receive from Above
And achieve from within.

19298

The heart’s happiness-bird
Just flies away
From the mind’s doubt-prison.

19299

My Lord, do give me the capacity
To weave every day
A gratitude-fragrance-garland
For You.

19300

God does not need
To be worshipped.
He wants you only to love Him,
Love Him
And love Him,
At any cost.

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