Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 199

19801

When I am in my doubting mind,
Alas, unconsciously, if not consciously,
I vote against God’s Party.
But when I am in my aspiring heart,
I not only vote for God’s Party
But also do everything
Devotedly and self-givingly
For God’s Party.

19802

God most compassionately tells me:
“My child, how I wish someday
I will be able to bless you
With a summit-wisdom-diploma.”

19803

Be not afraid of adversity.
Be careful of complacency.
You are bound to arrive
At your destination.

19804

Alas, I was totally blind
When God waved the aspiration-flag
At my seeker-journey’s start.

19805

O my mind,
At your funeral
I do not want anybody to come,
Not even God the Compassion-Heart.

19806

The mind that is unhampered
By thought-billows
Will always have the capacity
To run the fastest
Towards the silence-flooded goal.

19807

Never turn your back
On your simplicity-mind,
Sincerity-heart
And humility-life.

19808

May my aspiration-heart
At every moment
Burst with gratitude-songs
To my Lord Supreme.

19809

If you do not illumine your mind
With the purity of your heart,
Then your heart will definitely
Be attacked and wounded
By hostile thoughts.

19810

May my soul-luminosity
Every day speak
To my heart-purity.

19811

He who is a God-lover
Will cheerfully and immediately
Accept challenges
From the inner world
And the outer world.

19812

My joy knows no bounds
When I see my tearful heart-sky
Welcoming the excruciating pangs
Of the entire world.

19813

I am torn between two teachers.
One teacher says
I have the heart-capacity
And I am the soul-capacity
To fight against ignorance-night.
The other says
No capacity whatsoever
Will ever be at my disposal.

19814

The easiest way to touch God’s Feet
Is through devotion-cries.
The easiest way to feel God’s Heart
Is through surrender-smiles.

19815

Mine is the heart
That will always remain
A perfect stranger
To the sad loser’s lamentations.

19816

When the mind speaks,
The heart is always available
To listen.
When the heart speaks,
The mind is nowhere to be found.

19817

Although most of us
Do not satisfy God,
God blessingfully invites us
To play anytime we want to
In His vast manifestation-field.

19818

Nothing is and nothing can ever be
As impossible and ruthless
As one’s own self-doubt.

19819

I want to love the God
Whom I do not and cannot see.
I want to need the God
Who will beckon me to sit
At His Compassion-Protection-Feet.

19820

Be not afraid
Of your mind’s desire-shadows.
Just beg your heart-light
To come to the fore
And illumine them.

19821

May my gratitude-heart-flower
Every day blossom
Inside God’s Heart-Garden.

19822

If you do not find peace
Inside your own heart,
Then you will not find it
Anywhere else on earth.

19823

Each aspiration-heart
Is God the Creator’s
Satisfaction-Promise
To God the creation.

19824

Do not expect God
To please you at every moment.
Poor God also needs a little break!

19825

No, nobody has
An insignificant place
In God’s infinite Compassion-Heart.

19826

God has bad days, too,
Especially when I feed
My mind with doubt,
My vital with aggression
And my body with lethargy.

19827

Jealousy and meanness
Are nothing other than
The outer expression
Of inner ugliness.

19828

Only God’s Compassion
Has the capacity to stop us
From repeating the same mistakes
Endlessly.

19829

A real God-seeker
Must try to see all obstacles
Neither in his head
Nor on his shoulders,
But at his thunder-feet.

19830

God-longing you will understand
Only the day your faith in God
Reaches its summit-heights.

19831

O my mind,
When I search for you,
Why do I invariably find you
In a doubt-jungle
And not in a faith-garden?

19832

How can we expect
The wisdom of the vastness-heart
To stay inside
A tiny little mind?

19833

God swiftly comes
To rescue me
Whenever I am about to drown
In despair-sea.

19834

Aspiration itself is wisdom.
Therefore, we cannot expect it
To surrender to stupidity.

19835

O truth-seeker and God-lover,
Never think that your heart
Is made of fruitless hopes!

19836

God the creation
Tells my mind
To shut up.
God the Creator
Tells my heart
To wake up.

19837

Those who have crossed through
Desire-market
Will definitely arrive
At beauty’s aspiration-garden.

19838

My doubtful mind
Is deeply indebted
To my forgiveness-heart
For its transformation.

19839

God’s Pride knows no bounds
When my heart sings
A fountain-sweetness-song.

19840

The insecurity of the vital
And the fear of the mind
Always compel my heart-deer
To slow down its aspiration-speed.

19841

Only a heart of peace
Can rightfully enjoy
The birth of freedom.

19842

My heart needs
Only the aspiration-flames
That will ceaselessly mount.
It does not need
The aspiration-flames
That do not or cannot climb up
To the summit-heights.

19843

God sings for me
Many, many songs,
But He enjoys
Compassion-Songs the most.

19844

Yesterday’s mind-questions
Can easily be illumined
By today’s heart-answers.

19845

My soul-tree teaches me
How to climb up
From one heart-branch
To another
To reach my perfection-life.

19846

I must learn the art
Of appreciating greatness-minds.
I must learn the art
Of admiring goodness-hearts.

19847

May my child-heart
Every day take its first breath
From the beauty, purity and divinity
Of the blossoming dawn.

19848

I need a mind
That does not protest
The wisdom-advice
Of my soul.

19849

I hope that my mind’s
Self-contempt
Will sooner or later be transformed
Into self-admiration.

19850

The very heart
Of silence-meditation
Is the beauty
Of the soul’s sunrise.

19851

O my mind,
Do not give up!
One day you will definitely
Be able to enter into
My heart’s peace-room.

19852

There is not a single hope-bird
That does not want to fly
In the sky of freedom.

19853

When I soulfully meditate,
I see a golden lake
Of God’s Love-Beauty
Inside my heart.

19854

There is a great distance
Between
My mind’s prayer-cry
And my heart’s meditation-smile.

19855

Is there any mind
That can liberate itself
From endless doubt-questions?

19856

O my mind,
You have many important things
To do on earth.
Do not waste time
In needless anxieties and worries.

19857

You will soon see
The inner collapse of aspiration
When the heart mixes
With the dry mind.

19858

Every self-centred activity
Is indeed an ultimate failure.
Every God-centred activity
Is indeed an immediate inner victory.

19859

The unaspiring mind
Can neither prosper nor prevail.
It only grows
Into helpless worries.

19860

The aspiration-stairways
Are meant only for
The self-giving confidence-hearts.

19861

What is my mind?
I wish I never knew.
What is my heart?
I wish to immediately know.

19862

To perpetuate
Our aspiration and dedication,
We need two things:
A purity-heart
And
A sincerity-mind.

19863

We cannot conquer God’s Heart
With our mind’s smartness.
We can conquer God’s Heart
Only with our heart’s soulfulness.

19864

I can, at best,
Think of God fondly.
But God can easily
Think of me self-givingly.

19865

Today’s wisdom can erase
Yesterday’s follies,
Provided we value
Our higher-than-the-highest Goal.

19866

O my heart’s sweetness,
You do have the capacity
To save my mind and its dryness
With your compassion-light.

19867

God blessed me
With His Compassion-Fortune.
Alas, my stupid mind
Has squandered it.

19868

God never comes to visit
My mind-palace,
But He frequently comes to visit
My heart-cottage.

19869

O my insincere mind,
Your spirituality-practice
Not only amuses me
But also embarrasses me.

19870

O my endless desire-mind,
Are you not afraid
Of your forthcoming
Desire-death sentence?

19871

God smiles and smiles
When I entertain Him.
God cries and cries
When I try to ascertain
The extent of
His Compassion for me.

19872

If aspiration
Is not available,
How can realisation
Be available?

19873

Before, God and I
Were very close to each other.
Now that I have withdrawn my love,
Poor God finds it impossible
To be close to my heart.

19874

I prefer
God’s Justice-Hand
To man’s compassion-eye.

19875

Do you love God,
Or do you love yourself?
If you love God,
Then both my heart and my mind
Will be for you.
But if you love yourself,
Not even my mind,
Not to speak of my heart,
Will be for you.

19876

Believe me,
Sincerity saves our mind,
Purity saves our heart,
Simplicity saves our life.

19877

May my life-pendulum swing
Between
God’s Compassion-Eye
And God’s Forgiveness-Hand.

19878

You do yourself a great disservice
When you do not allow God
To speak to the world
On your behalf.

19879

Human love
Blooms with a thorn.
Divine love
Blossoms with
An ever-brightening dawn.

19880

The mind’s complacency
Has to be replaced
By the heart’s
Action-perfection-adequacy.

19881

When I ask God
If He loves me unconditionally,
He blesses me
With an unquestionable “Yes!”

19882

O my heart,
Why do you so often allow
Your helplessness and hopelessness
To torture my life?

19883

Now that you are free
Of your ignorance-mind,
Can you not love all the time
With your wisdom-soul?

19884

The mind,
Even while looking,
Sees nothing.

The heart,
Even without looking,
Sees everything.

19885

O my Lord,
When I doubt You,
Do turn my life into
A voiceless victim of fear.

19886

Each day
May a thousand God-dreams
Energise my mind
And thrill my heart.

19887

At last
My mind is set free
By God’s
Compassion-Miracle-Eye.

19888

No mental illusion
Can ever be shattered
Without God’s
Compassion-flooded Smile.

19889

The mind is fond of scattering
Thousands of meaningless
And useless fantasies.

19890

May my noise-tired heart
Be found inside
God’s Silence-Fountain-Heart.

19891

There can be no abiding happiness
Unless and until we hew down
Our uncomely thought-enemy-trees.

19892

My soul and my Lord Supreme
Never need an appointment
When they want to meet together
And give each other joy.

19893

Falsehood
Prospers for a day.
Truth
Prevails forever.

19894

No human being,
But God alone, may be found
For an immediate supply
Of Compassion-Consolation.

19895

If you sit
In the doubter’s seat,
Believers will immediately
Disappear from your sight.

19896

My mind-leader
Is devoid of vision.
My heart-leader
Is devoid of aspiration.
My life-leader
Is devoid of dedication.
Alas, all my leaders
Have failed me!

19897

Each time
I cherish a good thought,
I create
Universal oneness-bliss.

19898

A doer
I love.
A listener
I like.
A talker
I hate.

19899

Each man is a desert-mind.
How difficult it is
For the heart-traveller
To cross that mind-desert!

19900

The hearts of all men and women
Will beat together
To offer their gratitude-fragrance
When God’s Compassion-Hour strikes.

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