Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 207

20601

If you want to get
Inspiring, encouraging, fulfilling
And satisfying results,
Then everything you want to do,
Do with unremitting eagerness
And devotion.

20602

O seeker,
Self-giving you are.
At His choice Hour
God’s Compassion-Eye
Is bound to remunerate you.

20603

If your old mind
Resists change,
How can you have a new heart,
A new oneness
And a new fulness?

20604

As the illumining soul
And the aspiring heart
Enjoy their close propinquity,
Even so, the doubting mind
And the grasping vital
Enjoy their close propinquity.

20605

A mind of sincerity
Is a rare achievement.
A heart of purity
Is an invaluable achievement.

20606

When it is a spiritual matter,
God never wants us to summarise,
But wants from us everything
In full detail.

20607

It is absolutely necessary
To have a long self-giving life
For the full manifestation
Of our Beloved Lord Supreme.

20608

If you treasure an indolent life,
How can you expect God
To shower His choicest Blessings
Upon you?

20609

O my mind,
Resist temptation.
O my heart,
Invoke illumination.
O my life,
Shun insecurity.

20610

The soul and the heart
Are always benign.
It is the mind and the vital
That are strangers to compassion.
I shall always live in the soul,
With the soul
And for the soul.

20611

A day of outer blunders
And inner remorse
Can torture the seeker’s heart
Throughout the entire year.

20612

You cannot hate man
And love God
At the same time.
It is undoubtedly
An absurdity.

20613

God admires and loves
Your soul’s deep inner hunger
Infinitely more
Than you can ever imagine.

20614

May my life-boat ply
Between
My self-offering
And my God-contemplation.

20615

If you do not pray and meditate
Regularly,
How can you expect to have a mind
Without confusion-jungle?

20616

Jealousy always thinks of revenge,
Dreams of revenge
And cannot live without carrying
A hidden revenge-sword.

20617

God shows the sincere seeker
Which way to go,
How to go
And why to go
With His Compassion infinite.

20618

Peace will definitely
Take the place of war
If and when
Our hearts desperately need peace.

20619

O God’s Compassion-Eye,
Do see through my eye
And perfect me.
O God’s Forgiveness-Heart,
Do feel through my heart
And help me go far beyond
The domain of my little “I”.

20620

Every day
My soul-bird strives
For the high, higher, highest height.

20621

I shall no longer remain
In inner rebellion.
To You I shall offer
My surrender-promise
And my gratitude-heart.

20622

No matter how sincerely, how devotedly
And how self-givingly you try,
You cannot fully recognise
The Absolute Lord Supreme.

20623

If you indulge in self-doubt
Day in and day out,
Then you are a seeker
With a heart-frightening curse
On your head.

20624

I believe
There is a great day coming
When my God-suspicion-mind
Will leave me for good,
For I am of God
And I am of aspiration.
I am my soul’s earth-blossoming
And world-penetrating eye.

20625

May my heart and my heart’s faith
Fly together
From one summit-height
To another.

20626

Do not wait for a miracle
To change your life.
The transformation of life
Cannot be achieved by miracles,
But by self-inquiry.

20627

O my heart-friends,
My heart is eager
To introduce you to God.
O my mind-enemies,
My mind is eager
To speak ill of you to God.

20628

God the Father-Mind
Warns me timely.
God the Mother-Heart
Saves me compassionately.

20629

The mind thinks
That God will eventually
Change His Way
And listen to the mind.
The heart feels
That God’s Way is the only way
To make the entire being happy.

20630

Anger, the boss,
Will never be able
To derive fulfilment
From its assets.

20631

You are a stark fool
If you are waiting for a crisis
To change your way of life.
You may indefinitely wait,
But meanwhile
Your suffering will only increase
In boundless measure.

20632

O ignorance-world,
Nothing that you say or do
Will ever weaken my faith
In my Lord Beloved Supreme.

20633

No more, no more
Shall I permit my mind
To correspond with
Ignorance-monster.

20634

O my disobedience-mind,
You will never be allowed
To enter into
My obedience-heart-happiness.

20635

Alas, dead aspiration
Is now the spiritual life
Of humanity.

20636

My Lord Supreme,
Do give me a sleepless heart
To cry
For Your endless Delight.

20637

When I lived for myself,
I found absolutely nothing
Worth treasuring.
Now that I live for God,
Everything is not only beautiful
But also invaluable.

20638

Alas, I do not know
If there will ever come a time
When my sadness-burden
Will be taken away
By God the Compassion infinite.

20639

Let my mind live with doubt
And live in doubt.
I shall no longer try to bring God
Into my mind.
I have already brought God
Into my heart-nest,
Where I shall preserve Him
And treasure Him,
Treasure Him and preserve Him.

20640

As my self-acceptance
Gladdens God’s Heart,
Even so, my self-denial
Saddens God’s entire creation.

20641

To love God sleeplessly
Is to defeat and destroy
Disobedience totally.

20642

I do hope
That your aspiration-bird
Will once more fly
In God’s Compassion-Satisfaction-Sky.

20643

If you dare to say
That you are God’s chosen child,
Then you must also struggle and struggle
As God sleeplessly struggles.

20644

Alas, my disobedience-mind
And my ingratitude-heart
Are in collusion
To rob me of my inner silence,
Inner peace and inner delight.

20645

God’s Forgiveness-Train
Travels sleeplessly.
We just have to enter into the train
Prayerfully and self-givingly.

20646

When I am in my soul,
I adore God’s transcendental Beauty.
When I am in my heart,
I implore God’s universal Compassion.
When I am in my mind,
I ignore God’s immortal Forgiveness.

20647

My Lord,
Do blessingfully give me the capacity
To befriend You
And not to defend myself against You
At any time.

20648

My Lord,
I am so grateful to You
That You have sent Your Peace
To live permanently
In my mind.

20649

Unconditional surrender
Is an indispensable necessity
For a God-lover
Who wants to please God
Always
In His own Way.

20650

The human in me
Proudly loves self-reliance.
The divine in me
Self-givingly loves soul-reliance.

20651

We deceive our hearts,
But our hearts do not
Give up on us.
They feel that one day
Our deceptions will be
Transformed and illumined.

20652

It is infinitely easier
For me to see and feel
God’s Faith in me
Than for me to have
Faith in God.

20653

Nothing is as fleeting
As the mind’s
God-acceptance
And God-rejection.

20654

O my mind,
Do not interfere
With hope,
Do not interfere
With promise,
Do not interfere
With the soul’s activities
In and through you.

20655

My mind looks forward
Restlessly.
My heart looks inward
Steadily.
My soul looks on
Compassionately.

20656

God’s Peace-flooded Eye
Has given my mind a new hope,
My heart a new promise
And my life a new direction.

20657

God’s Forgiveness-Eye
And my gratitude-heart
Together
Live and sing.

20658

O my Lord Supreme,
Do not ever allow my heart’s
Breathless willingness and eagerness
To falter.

20659

God tells my mind
That He does not expect it
To understand anything.
He only expects my mind
To be an attentive
And self-searching student.

20660

When I am in my mind,
I blame God.
When I am in my heart,
I serve God.
When I am in my soul,
I claim God.

20661

Every morning
God, out of His infinite Bounty,
Helps me inject my life
With the beauty of enthusiasm
And the fragrance of eagerness.

20662

The secret God
Keeps everything sacred
And blesses us with the blossoming
Of outer beauty and inner fragrance.

20663

Inner disobedience
And outer unhappiness
Are always found together.

20664

God does not believe in compromise.
To reach the Golden Shore,
We also must not make
Any compromise
With ignorance-mind.

20665

God’s Heart does not believe
In the insignificance
Of any of His creations.
To Him,
They are all significant.

20666

Would You tell me, my Lord,
Once more,
That I do have the capacity
To please You in Your own Way?

20667

Patience believes in
Humanity’s transformation.
Patience believes in
Divinity’s Satisfaction.

20668

The mind-monkey climbs up
To frighten us.
The soul-dove flies down
To enlighten us.

20669

My Lord Supreme,
What can I do for You?
“Transcend yourself
To strengthen your oneness with Me.”

20670

To talk to humanity,
I badly need a microphone.
To talk to my Lord Beloved Supreme,
I don’t need even a telephone.

20671

It took him many years
To celebrate the occasion
Of his suspicious mind’s surrender
To his auspicious heart.

20672

My Lord says to me,
“My child,
Give Me the beauty
Of your heart-cry.
I shall give you the Fragrance
Of My Breath-Smile.”

20673

God does not mind showing us
The Beauty of His Eye
When we long for it.
But usually He hides from us
The Power of His Eye.

20674

While looking at God’s Eye,
I sing my first soulful song.
While placing myself at God’s Feet,
I sing my second soulful song.
While entering into God’s Heart-Garden,
I sing my third soulful song.

20675

The journey is too long
When we take the mind-guide
To help us reach the destination.
The journey is shorter than the shortest
When we take the heart-guide
To help us arrive at the destination.

20676

Why are you so afraid of God’s Eye?
Do you not know that His Eye
Is made of Compassion-Moon
And not of Justice-Sun?

20677

God does not mind
When I overestimate
My divinity,
But He does mind
When I underestimate
My spirituality.

20678

The mind’s hallucination-night
Can be replaced only by
The heart’s aspiration-light.

20679

Impurity and insincerity
Frown through the mind.
Purity and sincerity
Smile through the heart.

20680

A genius mind
And a stupid life
Quite often are found
Together.

20681

My promise-teacher teaches my mind
How to be brave.
My hope-teacher teaches my heart
How to be sweet.

20682

To cure
All my mental ills,
I grow into
My God-faith-thrill.

20683

When it is a matter of
Simplicity’s life and purity’s heart,
I choose both.
When it is a matter of
Insincerity’s mind and impurity’s vital,
I choose neither.

20684

Whenever anyone wants to visit me,
I wish to always be found
Either inside my humility-life
Or inside my purity-heart.

20685

Invisibility gladly becomes
Visible on its own
To serve the vision of
The inner eye.

20686

Hard is it to separate
The confusion of the mind
From the frustration of the heart.

20687

The more we enjoy
Our desire-life,
The sooner we lose
Our divinity’s birthright.

20688

In the morning
God and I meet together
To exchange
Our Compassion and aspiration.

In the evening
God and I meet together
To exchange
Our Forgiveness and gratitude.

20689

O my heart’s sweet dreams,
Where are you?
Without your rainbow-smiles
My life is totally lost.

20690

Yesterday,
My mind’s highest height
Fascinated me.

Today,
My heart’s deepest depth
Has liberated me.

20691

Although life is brief,
God blesses us
With numerous opportunities
To become His choice instrument
And please Him in His own Way.

20692

My surrender-life
And my gratitude-heart
Are being protected
Inside the heart
Of God’s own Immortality.

20693

God wants to multiply
By millions of solar years
The beauty and fragrance
Of my aspiration-heart.

20694

My human friendships
Entirely depend
On my self-giving life.

My divine friendships
Sleeplessly depend
On my God-longing breath.

20695

O my heart-gardener,
With your blessingful help
I wish to long only for
God’s Compassion-Eye!

20696

When I implore
My adorable God,
No problem can ever be
Insurmountable.

20697

The more we desire
Our desire-fulfilment,
The sooner we arrive
At our life’s dead-end road.

20698

I get immense joy
Only when I keep
My aspiration-life
Inside my heart’s
Secret and sacred silence-room.

20699

Every moment is an open door
To invite either
Aspiring and illumining thoughts
Or desiring and binding thoughts.

20700

May I repeat
My Lord Beloved Supreme’s Name
Over and over again
Without an end,
Ceaselessly,
Breathlessly
And self-givingly.

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