Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 206

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20501

A million soulful dreams
Thrill my heart
When I do not allow my mind
To be encaged
By ruthless unhappiness-dragon.

20502

Each aspiration-opportunity
Must work side by side
With a dedication-smile.

20503

The stupidity of man compels him
To dash against
His own mind’s desire-rocks.

20504

When the heart-compass
Points only to God,
We can free ourselves
From the nightmares of the past.

20505

If you hold conversations
With frustration-despair-darkness,
Then your life will never grow into
A perfection-flower.

20506

Each time you allow doubt
To enter your mind,
Your heart’s aspiration-flame
Is bound to waver.

20507

When I do not pray
And do not meditate,
I unmistakably see my life
As an endless and fruitless
Desert-journey.

20508

You already have wasted
Many incarnations.
Why not this time
Lovingly, soulfully and fruitfully
Walk along the broad avenue
Of God’s smiling spirituality?

20509

There can be no security
In power.
There is all security
Only in
The heart’s oneness-love.

20510

If you become
A childlike heart,
Then nothing can cloud
Your heart’s enthusiasm-sky.

20511

God has definitely
Singled out certain souls
To take most significant parts
In His Cosmic Drama.

20512

The aggression of the mind
And the depression of the vital
Must agree to a cease-fire
Before they can make any progress
In the spiritual life.

20513

To cherish doubts
Is to clip
One’s own aspiration-heart-wings.

20514

The mind’s disobedience
Will, without fail, create
A purposeless and fruitless life.

20515

Neither time nor space
Can ever reduce or dull
The lustre of God-realisation.

20516

Your task
Is just to begin.
God, in His infinite Compassion,
Wants forever to continue.

20517

Two things are sadly absent
From this world:
A compassion-eye
And
A forgiveness-heart.

20518

God tells me that
My aspiration
Is my task
And my perfection
Is His Task.

20519

O my Lord Supreme,
I have come to realise that
Unless You become dictatorial
From now on in my life,
I shall make no abiding progress.

20520

You will drown
In the sea of tears
If you daily,
Consciously and deliberately
Disobey the illumination-whispers
Of your soul.

20521

O empire-conqueror,
Who needs you?
Who wants you?
Not me!
Not in the least.

O heart-conqueror,
Where are you?
Do come and live with me
In my sweet little heart-nest.

20522

The unwillingness-body,
The unwillingness-vital
And the unwillingness-mind
Will always be armed
With innumerable excuses.

20523

Wherever you go,
Just remember to do one thing:
Carry your heart’s
Morning joy with you.

20524

Alas, even God,
Who has infinite Compassion,
Finds it difficult to endure
The ceaseless chatter
Of my monkey-mind.

20525

Your life shall reach
Sublime heights of progress
If you do not remain
Inside your mind,
Or if your mind does not live
Inside the vital and the body.

20526

Who can be more stupid
Than you are?
How can you refuse to listen
To your soul’s
Illumination-injunctions?

20527

The worldwide shortage
Of God-surrender
Is the root cause
Of the world-failure.

20528

When God-disobedience
Is simply impossible for you,
God will be more than happy
To have you
Under His direct tutelage.

20529

Do not visit God
With empty hands.
Do not visit God
With an empty heart.
But do visit God
With an empty mind.

20530

Whoever lives
A genuinely spiritual life
Is bound to know
God’s Heart-Home address
And God’s Soul-phone number.

20531

Happiness and sorrow
Are flowing
Sleeplessly and breathlessly
To God’s Compassion-flooded destination.

20532

Today I am celebrating the birthday
Of my soul’s rainbow-dream.
Look who is here:
God Himself,
Compassionately and self-givingly,
To participate with His Compassion-Eye
And His Satisfaction-Heart.

20533

An unspiritual person
Thinks that God lives
Only in Heaven.

A spiritual person
Knows that God lives permanently
In his heart-home-garden.

20534

Insecurity
Shortens your life,
Strengthens your miseries
And
Frightens your hope and promise
At once.

20535

Long lost
Was my heart’s aspiration-flame.
But now that I have discovered it,
Sleeplessly I am enjoying
God’s secret and sacred Sunshine-Smile.

20536

O my God-searching mind,
My heart of love
Will definitely help you
In conquering
All your doubt-enemies.

20537

My Lord, do ignore me
If that is what pleases You.
But do give me the capacity
To love You more, infinitely more,
When You ignore me.

20538

Even if you meet God,
You will not recognise Him
If you do not have
A purity-heart
And
A surrender-life.

20539

O my Lord,
Do give my doubtful mind
An early death.

O my Lord,
Do give my prayerful heart
A longer than the longest life.

20540

If you do not want
To discipline your desire-life,
How do you dare to imagine
That you will be able to walk
Along the sunlit path?

20541

I do not know
About other excuses,
But God-disobedience-excuses
Will always remain inexcusable.

20542

God does not want
To shed any Light
On man’s
Insecurity-subject
And
Doubt-object.

20543

A frustration-fate will befall you
If you are nourishing the hope
Of expectation-fulfilment from God
Without pleasing Him.

20544

There is always
Plenty of room
To make continuous progress
In the seeker’s aspiration-heart
And dedication-life.

20545

God shakes my sleeping mind
To wake my mind up.
God touches my singing heart
To manifest His Victory-Light
On earth.

20546

God will definitely bless you
With His most powerful Smile
When you sing
Your heart-surrender-songs.

20547

An aspiring seeker’s love of God
And surrender to God
Must endure the world’s
Wild and hurtful mockery.

20548

God’s Grace is equally needed
To enable me to stop
My negative thoughts
And start
My positive thoughts.

20549

Your half-hearted attempts
Are not only delaying you
But also robbing you
Of your own inner strength.

20550

God has no time to read
Your mind’s world-criticising letters,
But He has all the time to listen to
Your heart’s world-elevating songs.

20551

Hope does not surrender to
Old age.
Hope is always ready
To inspire and energise human beings
Irrespective of age.

20552

O seeker,
God will be displeased with you
If you lose faith in your own soul,
Even if you maintain your faith
In God’s Compassion-Sea.

20553

My mind’s sincerity
Helps me bloom.
My heart’s purity
Helps me blossom.

20554

Death has to find
God-surrender-seekers
Smiling and dancing
When it locks their life-doors.

20555

Whenever you surrender
To ignorance-compromise,
You are bound to be disappointed
Ruthlessly
In the long run.

20556

O my mind,
Be brave!
Stand dauntlessly
And challenge
The elephant-doubts
Inside you.

20557

When God blessingfully grants you
An interview,
Prayerfully ask Him
How you can be
A perfect swimmer
In realisation-sea.

20558

The mind foolishly thinks
Of separating itself
From the heart of love.

The heart prayerfully links
Everything with
God’s Compassion-Eye
And God’s Forgiveness-Heart.

20559

Now that you have squandered
Your golden opportunities,
How can you expect to march
Behind the Banner
Of our Lord Supreme?

20560

Power can never
Grant us security.
It is our heart’s oneness-dream
And life’s oneness-reality
That can and will
Give us security.

20561

God is ready to forgive
Our self-deception
But not
Our self-deprecation.

20562

The seeker’s heart-devotion
Is bound to expedite
God’s Breath-manifestation
On earth.

20563

The mind wants
To be the king.
The heart wants
To be the subject,
Not of the mind
But of the soul.

20564

Since my eyes
Contain no tears,
How can I
Claim God’s Smiles?

20565

I do not allow
And will never allow
Intolerance
To invade my heart-shore.

20566

Soulfully
If we can live,
Then compassionately
We will be able to see.

20567

Secret is my mind’s
Success-futility.
Sacred is my heart’s
Progress-infallibility.

20568

The mind thinks
The heart is a beggar.
The heart feels
The mind is an intruder.

20569

No more my mind’s readiness
Will remain fettered.
No more my heart’s eagerness
Will remain fettered.
No more my life’s willingness
Will remain fettered.

20570

You will definitely
Go far and fast
If you walk along
The surrender-path.

20571

God loves you.
But He will love you
Infinitely more
If you fly
With your God-longing wings.

20572

If you underestimate the importance
Of God’s blessingful Arrival,
Then it is you
And not God
Who will miserably suffer
In the long run.

20573

O doubt,
You are the destroyer
Of my hopes.
You are the destroyer
Of my promises.
You are the destroyer
Even of my God-Compassion-Rain.

20574

Impurity,
Leave me alone!
Go wherever you want to!
And I definitely do not want from you
Your forwarding address.

20575

There is only one way
To cure the mind’s doubt-cancer,
And that way is the heart’s
Conscious and constant expansion.

20576

The realised souls do not parade,
Because they do not need to.
The unrealised seekers are quite often
Victims of self-exhibition-parade.

20577

O my obedience-heart-garland-fragrance,
Because of you
I am a member
Of God’s inner circle.

20578

If you multiply your opportunities,
Then God will supply you
With endless achievements.

20579

If you do not cry,
God will not blame you.
If you do not smile,
God will not blame you.
If you do not sing God-songs,
God will not blame you.
But God will blame you
If you try to end your earth-life
Untimely.

20580

If you want to be
A reformed character,
Then every day
Keep your heart-lotus
Fresh, beautiful,
Prayerful and soulful.

20581

God is not
An empire-mind-builder.
But He is
A cottage-heart-lover.

20582

What language
Does God speak?
God speaks only
Self-giving language.

20583

O my heart’s hope-shrine,
You are my life’s
Oneness-sunshine.

20584

Do not allow unhappiness
To capture your heart.
Do you not know that unhappiness
Is the heart-cancer?

20585

My idle life
And my impure mind
Talk and talk incessantly.

20586

To my widest surprise,
The farthest reach
Of the mind
Is unimaginably short!

20587

O my mind, from now on
You can be a self-ruler.
But I shall not allow you
Any longer to rule my heart.

20588

I want to master
Mind-discipline
And not
Mind-freedom.

20589

How can you expect
Your soul to sing for you
Its celestial songs,
When you have betrayed
Your God-hunger-life?

20590

God sings God-Songs
Only to a sleeplessly
God-grateful life.

20591

God’s final advice to me:
“My child, my child,
Smile at Me, smile at Me.”

20592

Happiness is
A Heaven-sent boon,
Not an earth-born gift.

20593

Your heart will be
Supremely happy
If you can accept and transcend
All your mind-barriers.

20594

O my mind’s turbulence,
You cannot frighten me
Any more.
My illumination-soul
Has come to my rescue.

20595

O seeker,
Keep your faith-sword
Always sharp.
Do not allow yourself
To be assaulted
By self-doubts.

20596

O truth-seeker and God-lover,
It is already very late,
But it is never too late
For you to depart
From ignorance-confusion-mind-market.

20597

O my Lord Supreme,
Do liberate me
From the fragments
Of my battered faith in You.

20598

Each positive thought
Is a Heaven-flower.
Each negative thought
Is an earth-thorn.

20599

God will be
Extremely proud of you
If you can outshine
Your yesterday’s knowledge-sun.

20600

O seeker,
If your mind is really sincere
And your heart is really pure,
Then you can be a true member
Of the true God’s
True inner circle.

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