Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 210

20901

O seeker,
If you want to remain alive on earth,
Then every day make a solemn promise
To yourself
That you are going to remain alive
Only with your heart’s aspiration-cries.

20902

Dive deep within!
You are bound to discover
Your celestial virtues,
And these celestial virtues
You can offer to the world at large
At your sweet will.

20903

I do not want to swim helplessly
In the sea of good intentions.
I want to swim sleeplessly
In the ocean of selfless actions.

20904

God the Lover
Every day, every hour,
Every minute and every second
Uses His Compassion-Broom
To sweep away the dust
Of my dirty, dirtier and dirtiest
Life-mistakes.

20905

O seeker,
Every day pray to God
To bless you with a hope-home.
Only when you live
In your hope-home
Can you proceed
Far, farther, farthest.

20906

Our frustration-clouds
Will disperse
Only when we consciously feed
Our aspiration-flames.

20907

Each time I enter
Into my heart-garden,
I happily and proudly observe
A cluster of aspiration-trees.

20908

It is high time
For each and every human being
To excavate
His long-lost transcendental Self.

20909

Do not be afraid of offering
Your Lord Beloved Supreme
Your desire-shopping-list
Along with
Your aspiration-heart-cries.

20910

God never gives us
Pessimism-permission.
He only blesses us with
Optimism-illumination.

20911

If God answered
All your desire-prayers,
He would be none other than
Your worst possible enemy!

20912

Each truth-seeker and God-lover’s
Parting words to Mother Earth
Should be a prayerful
Gratitude-heart-flower.

20913

O seeker, do you not realise
That nothing is as powerful
And as cruel
In standing against
Your Heavenward journey
As disobedience that repeats itself
Every day in your life?

20914

Those who always think most highly
Of themselves
Are deliberately going away
Far, farther, farthest
From the Satisfaction-Smile
Of the Absolute Supreme.

20915

Each desire
Is to be praised
Not when it comes,
But when it goes away.

20916

If you do not want to expose
Some things in your life,
No harm.
But expose your disobedience
To your own inner life,
So that your outer life
Will be ashamed of what it does
And will be ready
To be a perfect instrument
Of your inner life.

20917

For whom is enough too little?
Only for those
Who want to be blessed
By God’s infinite Light
And Delight.

20918

If you want to prove
That you love God,
Then do not ask God
To satisfy your wants.
Ask God to satisfy your needs,
If so is His Will.

20919

You cannot claim God
As a true Friend
Who will come to your rescue
Whenever you need Him,
If you continue to live
In your same old way.

20920

God does not want you
To remain unchanged by time.
He wants you to be changed
Every day for the better.
He wants you to become
A choice and perfect instrument of His
By transforming your earth-life.

20921

You want to know where
My aspiration-flames were born?
My aspiration-flames were born
In my Lord’s ceaseless
Compassion-Smiles.

20922

I am safe
Only at one place
And that place is
God’s Fulfilment-Heart-Home.

20923

Nothing is as close
To the Heart of God
As my own soulfulness-heart.

20924

If my foot slips and I fall,
God is bound to come to save me
Only if I have the crying heart
Of a child.

20925

O my obedience-happiness-day,
I have long lost you.
Do come back.
Your reappearance and constant presence
In my life of aspiration
I sleeplessly need.

20926

Love, devotion, surrender —
These are not experiments
That my mind can make.
These are the real heart-experiences
That my life can treasure.

20927

Nothing divine,
Nothing illumining,
Nothing fulfilling
Can ever go away
From my gratitude-heart
And surrender-life.

20928

O my mind,
If you want to compromise
With the business-mind-world,
Then do it.
But rest assured,
My heart will make no compromise.
My heart will always be
In the Heart of my Lord Beloved Supreme,
Only for Him, only for Him.

20929

My heart needs only one thing:
My Lord’s Compassion-Smiles.
My heart will remain always
In my Lord Supreme,
With my Lord Supreme
And for my Lord Supreme.
My heart is always, eternally, breathlessly
On its way
To the Golden Shore.

20930

The mind-doubters
Can be silenced
Only by the silence
Of the soul.

20931

He who thrives on challenges
Can accomplish extraordinary things
In life.

20932

To withstand life’s turbulence,
What you need
Is the confidence-poise
Of the soul.

20933

Hesitation looms large
Only when
God-fulfilment-commitments
Are fast asleep.

20934

God loves you,
God treasures you
Precisely because
You are His sleepless ignorance-fighter.

20935

If you are obedient
To your Inner Pilot,
Then without fail
You will walk, run and sprint
Along the path
Of perpetual sunshine-bliss.

20936

I like to cherish
My Lord’s Immensity-Pride
And not my mind’s petty pride
Or my heart’s haughty pride.

20937

Temptation, you may need me,
But that does not mean
I have to need you.
What I need is illumination.
I am awaiting the express arrival
Of illumination.

20938

If you can only feel
What God thinks of you,
Then your mind’s failure-thoughts
Will immediately vanish.

20939

Nobody is compelled by God
To participate
In life’s misery-flooded
Desire-drama.

20940

Man the dreamer
And God the Lover
Are always searching
For each other.

20941

I wish to be found always
In between
My mind’s Infinity-dreams
And my heart’s Immortality-realities.

20942

A heart of God-surrender
And a life of God-gratitude
Are chosen by God Himself
To fly in His own Ecstasy-Sky.

20943

God definitely wanted you
To be His prince,
But you chose to remain
A street-beggar.

20944

Life itself
Is not a disappointment,
But what you expect from life
Often leads to
A series of disappointments.

20945

If you value
The opinion of the world
More than God’s opinion of you,
You will be lost
In the world of nowhere.

20946

Patience in the presence of obstacles
Is indeed
A God-illumined, divine capacity
In a human being.

20947

When you belittle
The great achievements of others,
You break down the bridge
Of oneness-delight.

20948

The suspicious mind is indeed
A ferocious resistance
To perfection-manifestation-life
On earth.

20949

Temptation-confusion befriends you
When you deliberately disobey
The dictates of your Inner Pilot.

20950

Alas, I am being destroyed
By my ingratitude-heart
And my self-indulgence-life.

20951

God definitely will help you
To climb the mountain of silence
If you offer Him prayerfully
Your heart-fragrance.

20952

Try to remember
Who you truly are.
You are God’s
Dream-blossoming child.

20953

Expectation is nothing short of
Self-chosen poison
To destroy one’s satisfaction-life.

20954

Our heart’s ingratitude
And our life’s darkness
Are always trying to invade
Our God-dreams.

20955

As my soul cannot stop playing
With God’s Light,
Even so, my mind cannot stop playing
With Satan’s darkness.

20956

O my heart’s hope,
O my heart’s hope-lamp,
O my heart’s hope-lamp-illumination,
Where are you?
My heart longs for you.

20957

May my heart-dreams fly
At every moment
In the sky of God-ecstasy.

20958

Heaven sings in your heart every day —
Believe it or not.
Your soul dances in your heart every day —
Believe it or not.
Your God promises new realities every day —
Believe it or not.

20959

Heaven cries and sighs
Inside your heart.
Your soul cries and sighs
Inside your heart.
O seeker, why are you silent?
Why are you deaf?

20960

God has every right
To reveal and manifest
What He eternally embodies.

20961

Human life is not a collection
Of mere anecdotes.
It is the revelation and manifestation
Of one’s inner capacities.

20962

Among all the human
Weakness-experiences,
Self-doubt is undoubtedly
The worst possible
Weakness-experience.

20963

Truth is self-evident.
God tells us that there can be
No more important necessity
Than asserting the truth.

20964

Self-giving for a noble cause
Is in itself
The most illustrious reward.

20965

Greatness tells me
How far
I can eventually go forward.
Goodness tells me
How deep
I can sleeplessly grow and glow
In God’s own Way.

20966

O my ever-ready speech-mind,
I am renouncing you
Once and for all.
O my ever-soulful silence-heart,
I am welcoming you
To speak and listen
On my behalf.

20967

There is no such thing
As compromise
With impossibility’s
Commands and demands.

20968

If you can love
The smiles of your soul
And the cries of your heart,
Then God will definitely carry you
Lovingly and proudly
To your ultimate destination.

20969

Life is to be judged
Not by conversation.
Life is to be judged
By soulful action.

20970

You can say
What you want to say.
God-realisation in this life
Is an indisputable necessity
For me.

20971

No matter where you apply
Your oneness,
You feel safe
And you feel at home.

20972

Each time I soulfully pray
And self-givingly meditate,
I see my Lord Supreme blossoming
Beautifully and radiantly
Inside my heart.

20973

O my doubtful division-mind,
It is high time for me
To accuse you and prosecute you.

20974

God-realisation
Does not believe in
The mind-explanation.
It believes only in
The heart-satisfaction.

20975

Each peace-song
Is a universal experience.
It needs no translation-communication.

20976

O mind, if you think
That you are not obliged
To tell the truth,
Then God is also not obliged
To grant you His Blessings,
His Love, His Joy and His Pride.

20977

A heart of gratitude
And a life of surrender
Champion the aspiration
Of God-lovers.

20978

Each teardrop of my heart
Receives a very special Blessing
And Concern
From my Lord Beloved Supreme.

20979

Hesitation and suspicion
Are almost
Daily experiences
Of the unaspiring mind.

20980

Many times over the years,
O seeker,
You have lost
Your mind’s tranquillity.
This time be determined
Never to lose
This most precious gift from Above!

20981

Stubbornness,
Narrowness
And inflexibility —
These are the common diseases
Of the desire-mind.

20982

When love and force
Fail,
Try ceaseless patience.
You may be successful.

20983

In the world of aspiration,
God-Will-disobedience
Is the worst possible crime.

20984

Alas, your stupid mind
Does not want to disown,
Even for a short time,
Its confusion-jungle.

20985

O my poor mind,
Every day
You are thought-plagued.
I do not know
How you will achieve
Even an iota of peace!

20986

A heart-climber
Definitely will arrive
Sooner or later
At the bliss-summit.

20987

At least in my case,
I am absolutely certain
That my heart’s confidence-light
Comes from my soul’s assurance-delight.

20988

A fountain-purity-heart
Can easily wash
A mountain-impurity-mind.

20989

When I pray,
I feel that it is a workout
For my restless mind.
When I meditate,
I feel that it is a workout
For my guileless heart.

20990

God is near
When I live inside
My sweetness-heart.
God is nearer
When I live inside
My eagerness-heart.
God is nearest
When I live inside
My selflessness-heart.

20991

Every day
My soul-bird inspires me
To go and visit
My Lord’s Forgiveness-Heart-Nest.

20992

My heart’s gratitude-flames
Were born
The day I felt
God does everything for me
Unconditionally.

20993

Since my heart loves God
Sleeplessly and breathlessly,
My heart summarises everything
And then offers my Lord Supreme
A concise report
On my aspiration-life.

20994

What is great
Can indeed be
Meaningful and powerful.
What is good
Is indeed
Most perfect and most satisfactory.

20995

What a seeker needs
Is a ceaseless blossoming
Of his God-satisfaction-heart.

20996

God calls it
The height of absurdity
When I tell Him
That He does not need me
For anything.

20997

My soul
Has taken full responsibility
For my heart,
Which is studying
At the universality-university.

20998

You will be spiritually dead
If you ever allow
Your mind’s darkness-night
To doubt
Your heart’s conviction-authenticity.

20999

O seeker,
Defy your body’s inertia
To enjoy
Your soul’s God-blessed ambrosia.

21000

O seeker,
Do not be afraid
Of your life’s tragic stories.
In the course of time
These tragic stories
Will purify your mind
Completely
And strengthen your heart
Limitlessly.

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