Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 215

21401

My Lord Beloved Supreme,
May I offer You every day
From my very heartbeat
A gratitude-life-energy-plant.

21402

My heart cries
For humanity’s satisfaction.
Humanity cries
For my perfection.

21403

This morning I gave my Lord Supreme
My most prayerful message:
“My Lord,
As long as I remain on earth,
My heart’s gratitude-plant for You
Will every day grow tall,
Taller and tallest.”

21404

There is no human being on earth
Who cannot bring to the fore
His own soul,
Which is already inundated with peace,
And offer this peace
To the world at large.

21405

No other divine quality
Does God need
As much as He needs peace
For His full manifestation
Here on earth.

21406

It is through peace
That God offers Himself,
And it is through peace
That He transcends Himself.

21407

God the Giver
And God the Receiver
Come from the same source:
Peace.

21408

The human in us
Is the possessor of earth-cries.
The divine in us
Is the possessor of Heaven-smiles.

21409

With my heart I sing
The song of God-oneness.
With my soul I dance
The dance of God-fulness.

21410

Without God-manifestation,
The divine in us is not perfect.
Without God-aspiration,
The human in us is not perfect.

21411

I sing my God-songs
Both through my heart-cries
And through my soul-smiles.

21412

When God brings forward
A soul’s spiritual qualities,
The soul gets an immediate chance
To manifest these divine qualities
In and through the body, vital,
Mind and heart.

21413

First invoke, then embody,
Then reveal and then manifest.
So many steps to climb up,
But if you believe in the first step,
Then immediately start!

21414

How can you ever be happy
When you have allowed your mind
To be possessed
By the squalor of hatred?

21415

A single ego-bound action
Can destroy our heart’s satisfaction
Of decades.

21416

Cultivate patience every day.
You will see that
Your disappointment-walls
Will one day, without fail, crumble.

21417

If we sleeplessly pray and meditate,
The ruthless barriers
Of our mind
Will eventually be dissolved.

21418

One touch of inner silence
Can make us
A prince in the inner world.

21419

You want to know
Where I study.
I study at the university
Of God’s Forgiveness-Light.

21420

Each time we surrender
To God’s Will,
We feel that our life
Becomes an unending flow of bliss.

21421

When I knock
At God’s Forgiveness-Door,
I clearly see
That God’s Forgiveness-Heart
Has already forgiven
My confusion-mind.

21422

Happiness dances in my heart
When I feel that
My heart is of God
And my life is for God.

21423

Alas, when will I feel
That my life was born
Only to be
A supremely divine instrument
Of God,
To please Him always
In His own Way?

21424

Each aspiring thought
Must, without fail,
Mirror the illumining soul.

21425

Sweet is my ancient hope.
Powerful is my modern promise.
My ancient hope and my modern promise
Are inspiring me,
Illumining me
And fulfilling me.

21426

Do not allow
Your conscience to be guilty
If you really want to make progress
In your spiritual life.
Do the right thing
And be the right person
Always.

21427

I know for sure
That the mind’s supremacy
Over the heart
Is nothing but a temporary conquest.

21428

The victory of the undisciplined vital
Is either absolutely foolish
Or dangerously fatal.

21429

O my Lord Supreme,
I pray to You,
Do not allow my heart
To be a heart
Of sleepless and breathless sorrow.

21430

Mine was not a dream
But reality itself,
When I was flying high above
My life’s bondage-night.

21431

You do not have to forget
Many things.
Just forget one thing:
Forget your self-destruction-doubt-dagger.

21432

If you are not prepared
To wait indefinitely,
How can you dream
Of pleasing God
In His own Way eternally?

21433

Take a closer look at yourself.
God the Compassion loves you.
God the Perfection needs you.

21434

We can be truly victorious
Only through
Our God-surrender-breath.

21435

O my clever mind,
No matter how hard I try
To ignore your complexity,
I always sadly fail.

21436

The spiritual deaths
From God-disobedience-absurdity
Are so shocking
And, alas, so unnecessary.

21437

If you want to make abiding progress,
Then every day you have to see,
Appreciate and admire
Your own heart’s inner sunrise.

21438

O disobedience,
What you need and deserve
Is death-silence
And not life-sound.

21439

O seeker,
Your spiritual death is not permanent.
You can be revived.
Just apply your sincerity-mind
And purity-heart.
Success will be yours before long.

21440

O disobedience,
How can I ever be your friend,
Since you can never dare
To have a heart?

21441

Who needs a mind
That wants to stay unchanged
Forever and forever?
No, not a truth-seeker
And not a God-lover — never!

21442

Of all the places
That God has visited,
My gratitude-heart-shrine
Has given Him infinitely more joy
Than the rest.

21443

Who has bound me,
If not my own
Mind-possession-fantasy?

21444

Not just this year
But each and every year,
God’s unconditional Compassion
Is keeping me spiritually alive.

21445

My Lord, do bless me
With an extra supply of aspiration
So that I can remarkably increase
My progress-speed in my inner life.

21446

Only a true seeker admits
That he himself is the author
Of his anxieties and miseries.

21447

Beautiful,
Unimaginably beautiful,
Is my tear-flooded
Gratitude-heart.

21448

O seeker,
Can you not see
That your own doubting mind
Is robbing
Your heart-progress-account?

21449

The devotion-compass
Helps us steer
Our aspiration-life-boat
To the Golden Shore.

21450

O my heart,
You must never be tempted
To tour my mind’s
Doubt-suspicion-cities.

21451

To feel that at long last
God will fulfil you
In your own way
Is the unhorizoned height
Of your stupidity.

21452

Unconditionally
God has stepped on your doorstep.
Delay not, O my heart!
Open yourself unreservedly
And unconditionally.

21453

What is a negative mind?
A negative mind is a mind
That has deliberately swerved
From the path
Of God’s Love, God’s Compassion
And God’s Concern.

21454

God does not want me
To send my mind into forest-exile.
He wants my mind to live
Inside my heart-kingdom.

21455

O seeker,
If your purity-heart-plant
Is damaged,
Then your progress-life
Will not be enough
To make your soul happy
And fulfilled.

21456

Love
Keeps the devotion-door open.
Devotion
Keeps the surrender-door open.
Surrender
Keeps the gratitude-door open.
Gratitude
Keeps the transformation-door open.
Transformation
Keeps the perfection-door open.

21457

Disobedience
Grows up quickly.
Disobedience
Spreads out overwhelmingly.
Disobedience
Does not want to die.
Disobedience
Wants to live everlastingly.

21458

Unwillingness,
You are not only deaf but also blind.
Mental sickness is your inner name.
Vital ruthlessness is your outer name.

21459

My soul is beautiful.
My soul is powerful.
My soul is perfect.
Alas, why and how
Can I be so blind to the obvious?

21460

If we are not surrounded
By God’s Compassion-Smiles,
Then we are bound to be bombarded
By world-worries and anxieties.

21461

We do not please God
With our mind’s fastest speed.
We please God
With our life’s brightest perfection.

21462

My heart is a regular
God-dream-lover.
My mind is a constant
God-dream-chaser.

21463

I need a soul
That is eager to love.
I need a heart
That is eager to aspire.
I need a life
That is eager to sacrifice.

21464

Is there any day
That I do not read
My life’s progress-bulletin?
Again, is there any day
That I am not
Sorely disappointed by it?

21465

Only an unconditionally surrendered
God-lover
Can and will win
The self-perfection-race.

21466

When I am inside my aspiring heart,
I clearly notice the ascent
Of my own divinity.

When I am inside my doubting mind,
I invariably notice the descent
Of my own divinity.

21467

Try to be a peace-distributor.
If you cannot be a peace-distributor,
Then try to be a peace-lover.
If you cannot be a peace-lover,
Then try to be a peace-dreamer.
If you cannot be a peace-dreamer,
Then at least try to be a peace-thinker.

21468

Only a gratitude-heart
And a surrender-life
Are entitled to walk along
The clear road to Heaven.

21469

A heart of silence does not hide,
But reveals
The nectar-delight of peace.

21470

Lethargy attacks my body
Secretly.
Enthusiasm inspires my heart
Lovingly and dynamically.

21471

Renounce everything else
Save and except
Your heart’s streaming tears
And your soul’s all-illumining smiles.

21472

My morning meditation is indeed
Heaven’s Boon to me.
My evening meditation is indeed
My gift to Heaven.

21473

O seeker,
Once and for all decide
Whether you are going to rule your life
With your heart’s faith in God
Or with your mind’s doubt of God.

21474

God will love you
If you need Him desperately.
God will need you
If you accept Him breathlessly.

21475

My heart’s aspiration
Thrives
Only when my life’s dedication
Multiplies.

21476

O my mind,
Aspire, aspire!
If not, you will be buried
In the dust of despair.

21477

The power of love
Is extremely beautiful and fruitful.
The love of power
Is extremely dangerous and contagious.

21478

Once you enter
Into the spiritual life,
Do not allow imaginary fears
To threaten and frighten you.

21479

The animal in me teaches me
How to ignore God.
The human in me teaches me
How to doubt God.
The divine in me teaches me
How to adore God.

21480

My soul teaches me
How to have
Mountain-high aspiration.

My heart teaches me
How to have
Fountain-beautiful dedication.

21481

Alas, when shall I realise
That I am still in bondage-chains
Because I believe
That my capacity
And not God’s Compassion
Can liberate me?

21482

Mine is the soul
Made of God’s golden Dreams.
Mine is the heart
Made of my broken dreams.

21483

An unfaithful God-seeker
Without fail has to walk
Along the mind’s calamity-avenue
Or the vital’s destruction-lane.

21484

Each time I do not accept God’s Will
As my own, very own,
I am doomed to an unavoidable,
Inescapable and unbearable failure.

21485

I owe my earth-existence
And my Heaven-existence
To my inner bodyguard:
God’s Compassion-Heart
And to my outer bodyguard:
God’s Protection-Eye.

21486

My Lord, I long to take from You
Many lessons.
May my first lesson be in losing
My heavy ignorance-weight.

21487

Alas, will I ever be able
To receive from God
His world-tolerance-award?

21488

I am blessed with a shower
Of peace-petals from Above
Only when my meditation
Is smilingly, soulfully
And self-givingly deep.

21489

I am utterly ashamed
Of my doubt,
For it doubts even my heart’s
Faith-life.

21490

My Immortality-soul
Longs to love God, only God,
In God’s own Way.
My mortality-heart
Pines to be loved by God, only God,
In its own way.

21491

My God-obedience-mind
And my God-gratitude-heart
Aspire to live together
Gloriously and peacefully.

My God-disobedience-vital
And my man-destruction-life
Conspire to live together
Shamelessly and dauntlessly.

21492

If you want to cure
Your heart’s headache,
Then try to have your soul
As your only friend.

21493

God’s new address
Is God’s old address
Plus my heart-flower.
God’s new address
Is God’s old address
Plus my soul-fragrance.

21494

O seeker,
If you want to make fast,
Faster, fastest progress,
Never sleep
On your lethargy-pillow.

21495

If our life is not consecrated
Constantly and consciously
To the Will of God,
Then we are bound to have
Insufficient funds in our heart-bank.

21496

My Lord Supreme,
Even for a fleeting second
Do not allow me to suffer
From devotion-shortage.

21497

My Lord Supreme,
I shall be happy only when
Each and every heartbeat of mine
I offer to you to claim
As Your Compassion-Possession.

21498

What is happiness?
Happiness is the producer
Of ceaseless energy.
It is our heart’s willingness
That has the capacity to help us fly
To our highest happiness-heights.

21499

What is real love?
Real love is the manifestation
Of the heart
That has already surrendered
Completely to the Will of God.

21500

My Lord Supreme,
Is there anything I can do
To give You a few seconds of rest a day?
“Definitely, My child.
You can help Me if you try every day
To love your human brothers and sisters
Infinitely more than you do now.”

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