Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 197

19601

He who has transcended
Humanity’s praise and scorn
Is, indeed,
A great instrument of God.

19602

If you are willing
To consciously join
Your soul’s endless journey,
Then you are bound to have
Dreams of Immortality.

19603

Each God-thought
Is the fragrance of God’s Dream
Inside our heart’s aspiration-cries.

19604

Do not look into the past
For solutions to your problems.
Do not look into the future
For solutions to your problems.
But look inside the aspiration-flames
Of your today’s heart.
All solutions are easily attainable.

19605

Do not compromise, do not compromise.
If you compromise all the time,
The truth-realities will eventually drown.

19606

If you cannot see
Beyond your mind’s horizon,
Then you will always remain
In the strangling confines
Of your own mind-made world.

19607

Each time we aspire,
We must try to feel
That our aspiration is invoking
The descent of the golden dawn
To illumine our mind
And feed our heart.

19608

There is no expectation-life
That is not flooded
With bitter disappointments.

19609

The tears of my heart
Purify me.
The tears of my soul
Bring God to me.

19610

If a good man
Does not survive,
Then I do not see how
This creation of ours
Will ever thrive.

19611

The reality has to be fragile
If it is founded upon
The doubts of the mind.

19612

I must realise
That my God-satisfaction
Is only a prayer away.
Therefore, let me embark
On my prayer-journey
Lovingly and confidently.

19613

Only a heart of peace
Can transform
The unrest of the mind.
Nothing else can do it.

19614

My heart’s aspiration-tears
Give birth to
My life’s illumination-sun.

19615

If you run the desire-race,
No matter which place you get,
Hopeless helplessness
Will ruthlessly chase you.

19616

As a dethroned king
Is still a king,
Even so, a failure-doomed seeker
Is still a chosen child of God.

19617

O my heart, be brave!
Face your destiny
With silence-fortitude.
Your victory-day
Will fast approach you.

19618

When I sing peace-songs,
God’s Breath smiles at me
And makes me a God-partner
In life.

19619

I still hope and feel
That my non-stop fault-finding mind
Will one day surrender
To my God-longing heart.

19620

When my life is a friend
Of eagerness,
My God-home does not remain
Far away.

19621

I do not want
To have my Lord for the asking.
I lovingly and devotedly want
To reverse the game.

19622

May my mind-forest
And my heart-garden
Equally cry
For the Compassion-Eye of God
To visit them.

19623

O self-centred thoughts,
Do not torture
My poor God-searching mind.

19624

There is no difference whatsoever
Between
Our idle hopes
And our vain expectations.

19625

God’s Trust in me
I must keep
Not only secret
But also sacred.

19626

It is true
That God’s indulgent Compassion
At times frowns at
His own iron Justice.

19627

Our divine qualities
Can easily decay
Due to our mind’s
Supremacy-pride.

19628

Very often
When we swim
In material wealth,
We sink
In spiritual tears.

19629

An aspiration-heart is not afraid
Of running uphill.
On the contrary,
It enjoys the run,
For it sees that the Goal itself
Is beckoning it.

19630

God never delays
In answering our aspiring heart’s
Prayerful and soulful meditations.

19631

A God-server must carry
God’s Heart in his heart
And God’s Feet in his head
While serving His God-hungry creation.

19632

If you can bravely exit
From your confusion-mind,
Then you will definitely be invited
By your God-feeding heart.

19633

My mind hungers
For newness.
My heart hungers
For oneness.
I hunger
For God-fulness.

19634

There are so many flowers
In my heart-garden,
But my Lord’s Compassion-Flower
Is not only the most beautiful,
But also the most fragrant.

19635

If you are a truly sincere seeker,
Then you must sign up
For God’s peace-manifestation
Here on earth.

19636

O my heart-sky,
I do not know when and how,
But I do know
That one day God will visit you
With His Vision-Rainbow-Smile.

19637

An insecurity-mind
And an impurity-life
Are mutually assisting,
Immediate neighbours.

19638

The weakness of the mind
Never seems to miss arriving
On life’s clever temptation-shore.

19639

O my lethargy-body,
Be ready!
I am going to take you
To my soul’s flourishing dynamism-garden.

19640

Each and every aspiration-song
Of my heart
Is bound to please
God’s Illumination-Eyes
And Compassion-Heart.

19641

If there is no
Oneness-heart,
Then there can be no
World-peace-mind.

19642

Your mind’s supremacy
Will definitely compel
Your faith-life-heart
To decay.

19643

Not each and every person,
But only the heart-listeners
Will definitely hear
God’s perfection-encouraging Call.

19644

How can your heart ever be happy
If it does not value and embrace
World-peace-dreams?

19645

The vital, the mind and even the heart
Quite often fail
When they are put to temptation-test,
But never the soul.
The soul is far beyond
The temptation-snare.

19646

The desiring vital
And the suspecting mind
Simply do not want to be appeased
By the illumining advice
Of the soul.

19647

O my mind,
Whenever I try to make some improvement
In your life,
I invariably meet with your resistance
And your resentment!

19648

Alas, why do I allow
The outer world
To compel me to think
That God does not love me,
And why do I allow
The inner world
To compel me to feel
That God does not need me?
Why?
Why?

19649

When I meditate,
God’s Silence-Eye
Watches me.
When I pray,
God’s Sound-Mind
Questions me.

19650

My heart’s silence
Is my life’s eloquence.
This is the message
That sleeplessly I hear
From my Lord Supreme.

19651

My mind knows
How to make everything difficult.
My heart knows
How to make everything simple.
My soul knows
How to make everything perfect.
And I want to know
How everything I make
Can be self-giving.

19652

Only for one purpose
I live on earth:
I want to feel my life’s
Gratitude-breath
Inside my Lord’s
Heart-Smile.

19653

To You, my Lord, I offer
My purity-heart’s silver tears
So that You can make of me
Your perfection-manifestation-instrument
Here on earth.

19654

My Lord Supreme,
Do give me the capacity
To value my heart’s tears
And my life’s years
So that I can have
The fastest speed
While running towards You.

19655

My heart cries and cries
When my mind makes
Only slow and uncertain attempts
At self-improvement.

19656

From God’s point of view
There is nothing as important
In my life
As God-awareness and God-service
On earth.

19657

If your heart is not consumed
With aspiration-fire,
Then you will definitely have
A strong inclination to self-doubt.

19658

Only when I love God intensely
Am I able to feel
That God loves me sleeplessly.

19659

My heart
Is faithfully walking
Along the path of devotion.
My life
Is prayerfully walking
Along the path of surrender.
Lo, my Lord Supreme
Is beckoning me.

19660

There is nothing
That God will not do for you
If you do not allow your mind
To desert God
Consciously and deliberately.

19661

The mind does the wrong thing.
The heart gets the blame.
The poor soul finds it difficult
To correct the mind
And console the heart.

19662

Just because we do not know
God’s inner Reasons,
We cannot come to the conclusion
That God is indifferent to our life
And our activities.

19663

Gratitude is not a mere word.
Gratitude is not an idea.
Gratitude is not even an ideal.
Gratitude is our heart’s
God-satisfaction-promise
To God Himself.

19664

Do not stop
Inside the mind-jungle.
Go forward!
Delay not.
The heart-garden is inviting you.

19665

A relentless determination-mind
Is needed
To climb up the success-ladder
Of life.
A sleepless aspiration-heart
Is needed
To climb up the progress-ladder
Of life.

19666

Your heart’s God-obedience
Makes your soul infinitely happier
Than you can ever imagine.

19667

We shall fly
Not with the wings
Of our mind’s length
But with the wings
Of our heart’s strength
To reach the highest heights
Of God-realisation.

19668

My Lord,
I am so grateful to You
That my failure-life
Has not weakened my heart.
On the contrary,
My failure-life
Has awakened my heart.

19669

In front of God
You are trembling in fear.
Do you know why?
Just because you no longer have
Your heart’s purity-sword
And your life’s sincerity-shield.

19670

When God smiles,
Man wants to know why.
When man smiles,
God wants to know how.

19671

Although you claim your God-oneness
Quite often,
Unconsciously you cherish
Your God-separation.

19672

The Ocean of Bliss awaits you,
O seeker-drop.
I do not know
What delays you!

19673

Eternity’s Vastness-Eye
Is guiding my heart’s
Heavenward flight.
How can I ever fail?
My victory is destined.

19674

Alas, the Oneness-God
Of my heart
Has been utterly disappointed
By the division-god
Of my mind.

19675

Just go beyond
Your deception-mind.
You will become the ecstasy
Of your satisfaction-heart.

19676

Alas,
How is it that so often
I allow myself to stumble
Inside my doubt-mind-forest?

19677

The more you chant God’s Name,
The sooner God will invite you
To play with Him
His Eternity’s Oneness-Game.

19678

Once your inner eye is open,
You can easily surpass
Your own previous achievements.

19679

The outer renunciation
Means taking ten steps
Towards the destination.
The inner renunciation
Means being very near
The destination itself.

19680

Just ignore your desire-breath.
Lo, you become the owner and possessor
Of Universal Delight.

19681

The inner purity embodies
The radiance of the soul,
Which shines
Through each and every limb
Of the body.

19682

My willingness
Is the strength of my heart
And my challenge-power
Against my mind’s ignorance-night.

19683

My gratitude-heart
Is every day helping me
Raise my heart-ocean’s
God-hunger-waves.

19684

Doubt-question-strangers
Are not allowed to enter
Into the aspiration-heart-home.

19685

When you please God
In God’s own Way,
God definitely satisfies
Your inner life and outer life
Far beyond your imagination.

19686

We can be truly proud of ourselves
Only when we have
The mind’s readiness,
The heart’s eagerness
And the life’s necessity
To please God in His own Way.

19687

Unless I become
A sleepless self-giver,
How can God welcome me
To His Heart’s Love-Garden?

19688

Our aspiration-heart
Is not our little mortal nest.
Our aspiration-heart
Is God’s Immortality-embodied Palace.

19689

If we do not regularly
Pray and meditate,
How can we escape
Eventual aspiration-heart attacks?

19690

If I do not make God happy
In His own Way,
Then no matter what I achieve,
It will not give me joy,
For the indifferent Heaven
And the ruthless earth
Will torture my heart.

19691

Ignorance and I are such good friends.
Although I know perfectly well
That my relationship with ignorance
Will eventually end,
I still have tremendous fondness
For the temptation-flooded ignorance-life.

19692

If we do the right thing
At the right moment
For the right person, God,
Then we do not have to wait for Eternity
For His Eternity’s Satisfaction-Smile.

19693

If you are a genuine seeker,
You will not feel that
You are crippled
By fruitless hopes.
On the contrary,
Your aspiration-life
Will be tripled
By your heart’s satisfaction-smile.

19694

You say that you want to enjoy
The discovery of your inner faith.
How can you then
Give so much importance
To your self-doubt-mind?

19695

To go beyond our present limits
Is always a divine achievement
And supreme fulfilment
In the Heart-Garden
Of our Eternity’s Lord Supreme.

19696

The timeless hope is:
I shall be a better world-citizen.
The timeless promise is:
I shall manifest and fulfil God
In His own Way.

19697

You and your mind
Every day must try
To love God infinitely more
Than your mind wants you to.

19698

O my mind,
You are wandering everywhere.
You have made yourself
A perfect stranger to your reality-life.
When will you return to your true self
To enjoy your inner sea of peace?

19699

O my heart,
Just cry one more time
For God’s Compassion-Sun to descend
And transform your breath.
Just try!
This time you are bound to succeed.

19700

God does not mind
If you do not learn
His Compassion-Enlightenment-Song,
Which is immeasurably long.
But He does mind
When you do not learn
His shorter-than-the-shortest
Gratitude-Song.

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