Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 235

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23401

Caring to know God’s Will
Is not enough.
We must be sincere and brave enough
To try to execute God’s Will.

23402

God is always in a hurry.
Why?
Because He has to be
Of immediate support
To His self-giving seekers.

23403

God does not need
Anybody’s advice.
Yet He asks His dearest child,
Peace,
To advise Him.

23404

On the mental plane,
Silence gives much information.
On the psychic plane,
Silence gives much illumination.

23405

The golden age of the remote past
Can at most inspire us,
But cannot illumine us.
Therefore,
Here and now we must aspire
To realise and grow into
The Highest.

23406

My obedience-life
Is not only
My perfection-life,
But also
God’s Satisfaction-Heart.

23407

My surrender-breath
And God’s Will supreme
Together breathe
At every moment.

23408

God wants each human being
To be His choicest hero-warrior supreme,
To fight against ignorance-night
And transform it into
His Eternity’s, Infinity’s and Immortality’s
Light and Delight.

23409

God tells the inner champion,
“In you I have found someone
Who will not be engulfed by darkness,
But will be the dependable torch-bearer
Of My Light and Delight.”

23410

God has many rooms,
But He prefers to speak to me
In His Silence-room.

23411

It is always advisable
To preach and practise
At the same time.
If not, quite often
We spend so much time in preaching
That we have no time to practise.

23412

Unlike human love,
Divine love
Never, never retreats.

23413

If a seeker does not have
A thunderbolt-determination,
Then his progress will be slower
Than the speed of a turtle.

23414

What is saving my life
At every moment?
It is God’s unconditional
Compassion-Eye.

23415

O seeker, have patience!
Your prayerless days and soulless nights
Will eventually disappear.
There shall come a time
When you will have
Prayerful days and soulful nights
To please God in His own Way.

23416

My Forgiveness-Lord,
My self-indulgence
And Your compassionate Indulgence
Always meet together.

23417

God does not believe in
Our philosophical and theoretical
Accomplishments.
He wants from us quite tangible
Divine manifestation-accomplishments.

23418

My heart’s hope
And my mind’s promise
Must always remain inseparable
For God-manifestation here on earth.

23419

My mind’s willingness
And my heart’s eagerness
Always run faster
Than the rest of the Heavenward runners.

23420

At every moment
You have to choose
Between light and darkness
If you really take your spiritual life
Seriously.

23421

O my sleepless heart,
Cry!
Cry breathlessly,
So that I can soar upward
Into my Lord’s unhorizoned
Bliss-Fountain-Sky.

23422

Although God’s Compassion
Is unconditional,
God’s Grace descends
Upon our aspiration-heart
And dedication-life
According to our receptivity.

23423

If it is a desire-life,
Then it must be lived
Behind a veil of tears.

23424

Today God has told me:
“From now on you have to prove
That you love Me, need Me and want Me
Infinitely, infinitely more
Than your ignorance-life.”

23425

Every day
You can either renew
Or reject
Your spirituality-choice.

23426

Today’s cheerful heart,
Not yesterday’s fearful mind,
Can help me run
Towards the Golden Shore.

23427

If we can develop the capacity
To laugh triumphantly,
Without the least hesitation,
At our sad failures,
Then we shall be given
Countless opportunities
By the Lord Supreme
To win the aspiration-race.

23428

My heart’s constant prayer
To my Lord Supreme is this:
O my Lord,
Do not allow my mind to enjoy
Its constant ruthless ambition.

23429

Continue, continue on the sunlit path!
One day your life will be flooded
With your own inner divinity-joy.

23430

Alas, today ignorance-temptation
Has come to me
In giant-titan form
To prove it can smash
My spirituality-pride.

23431

To be the possessor
Of an unconditional surrender-life
Is not a short-lived triumph
On our life’s journey,
But an abiding triumph
In our life divine.

23432

O my mind,
Although you are one,
In you I find endless dictators
To torture my entire being.

23433

You are mistaken, completely mistaken,
If you think you can simply wait around
For your teeming temptations to die.

23434

Each moment presents itself
As a supreme choice.
Pray and meditate,
Meditate and pray
To make the right choice!

23435

If the right choice is difficult
To carry out,
There will always be help available
From the Inner Pilot Supreme.
God will always be all for you.

23436

Although each right choice
May be just a tiny drop,
Inside that tiny drop
You will find the ocean
Of God’s Love, Joy and Pride.

23437

If you choose God’s Way,
God will do everything for you
To make you happy in His own Way.

23438

Who is sitting
Right next to my Beloved Supreme?
My heart of ever-climbing tears.

23439

Who leads and wins
The aspiration-race?
The seeker of constantly
Unconditional surrender.

23440

What I call
My obedience-life,
My Lord Supreme
Calls that very thing
His Perfection-Fragrance.

23441

Either in the near future
Or in the distant future,
A genuine heart-climber
Is bound to reach
God’s Summit-Satisfaction-Heights.

23442

My mind lives in the hope
Of meeting God
The Omnipotent Power.
My heart lives in the hope
Of meeting God
The Transcendental Height
And Universal Love.

23443

Who cries more:
God or I?
If I exercise my sincerity,
Then I am definitely bound to see
That God cries for me
Infinitely more
Than I cry for God.

23444

Do not try to understand
Divine obedience.
Divine obedience is not a thing
That one can understand.
It is something
That we can only grow into.

23445

You want to know
How to express your gratitude?
It is quite easy.
Just smile your soulful smile.
Your soulful smile
Embodies gratitude
In its purest fragrance.

23446

The mind regularly disappoints
The Master’s trust.
The heart at times disappoints
The Master’s trust.
But the soul never, never disappoints
The Master’s trust.

23447

O my Lord Supreme,
Do grant me the capacity
To remove, once and for all,
The dark curtain
Of my ignorance-night.

23448

Why do you think of those
Who are standing in your way?
Think only of the One
Who is your Friend,
Your Father,
Your Mother,
Your Everything
For all Eternity,
And that is the Supreme.

23449

Everyone else may change direction
And decide to take another course,
But you continue walking
Along Eternity’s Road
Until you stand at the Feet
Of the Absolute Lord Supreme.

23450

The mind is fluctuation.
The heart is aspiration.
The soul is realisation.
The life is manifestation.

23451

Everything real
In the inner life
Has to be a matter of
Step-by-step progress.

23452

The divine Grace
Is ready not only
To welcome us
But also to help us
At every moment.

23453

Man must not resort
To wild animal violence.
Indeed, this is one
Of God’s inviolable Laws.

23454

The mind advertises
Its knowledge-lake.
The heart treasures
Its wisdom-sea.

23455

The heart
Helplessly sheds tears
When the mind and the vital
Enjoy ruthless disputes.

23456

Countless people on earth
Remain fast asleep in ignorance-night.
But you are really fortunate,
For you see something divine in others
And something divine in yourself.

23457

Today I see that by God’s Grace
And my own sincerity,
I have already succeeded
In the inner world.
Now I only have to manifest it.

23458

I know
My sincere surrender-life
Will be of tremendous
And abiding significance
In God’s Satisfaction-Heart.

23459

No matter how many lifetimes elapse,
I shall try again and again
To become
A supremely choice instrument
Of God.

23460

Only the heart’s gratitude-tears
Can wash away most effectively
The mind’s doubt-dirt
And suspicion-filth.

23461

My inmost prayer is this:
May my life
Reach the pinnacle-heights
Of God-fulfilment-promise.

23462

What can poor Time do
If we aspiring humans
Do not use it
Properly and wisely?

23463

The mind feels
That the best thing for the mind
Is to fly away.
The heart knows
That the best thing for the heart
Is to dive within.

23464

Alas, I know,
But when shall I come to accept
That the knowledge of my mind
Is as insignificant as dust?

23465

The last two words
Of my aspiration-letter to God
Were surrender and gratitude.

23466

God wants me to strike
His largest Victory-Gong
Inside my aspiration-heart-temple.

23467

The doubting mind
Focuses on ignorance-night.
The aspiring heart
Focuses on wisdom-delight.

23468

O my mind,
If you are excessively prone
To self-pity-indulgence,
Then you will never be able
To see my Lord Supreme smiling
His world-illumination-Smile.

23469

The human in us
Is always self-contradiction.
The divine in us
Is always self-perfection
And God-Satisfaction.

23470

God is omnipresent.
He is always inside you,
But He is watching to see
Whether you want Him
Or ignorance.

23471

You may feel that you are
In a thick forest of thorns,
But if you faithfully and carefully
Walk along the narrow passage of light,
You will definitely find your way
Out of the forest.

23472

Hard is it for the mind
To liberate itself
From self-limitation.
Hard is it for the vital
To liberate itself
From world-temptation.

23473

In order to make spiritual progress,
We must leave behind us
Many things,
Beginning with our self-doubt-mind.

23474

My life is not
My mind’s desire-forest.
My life is
My heart’s aspiration-garden.

23475

Sincere God-lovers
Remind us of one fact:
That it may be difficult,
But it is not impossible
To turn the mind
Constantly towards God.

23476

My body’s enthusiasm
Is nothing short of
My soul’s full satisfaction
With my spiritual life.

23477

A true Master
Will give his divine wealth
To his disciples
According to
Their aspiration-need,
Not according to
Their desire-greed.

23478

My Lord Supreme,
Do give me the capacity
Not to restrain
My gratitude-tears
At any moment.

23479

I love God,
But I want to love God
Infinitely more
With my gratitude-heart-tears.

23480

Heaven can be reached
Only by one vehicle,
And that vehicle is
My God-surrender-life.

23481

No doubting mind,
No suspicious mind
Will be able to occupy
The throne of peace
Permanently.

23482

May all the good qualities
Of my life
Together sit at the Feet
Of my Lord Supreme.

23483

God wants to have
My aspiration-heart
And not my exaggeration-mind
Or my extravagance-vital.

23484

There is not a single place on earth
Where God and God’s Forgiveness
Do not love to travel.

23485

I do not want my mind
To engage in
God-explanation.
I want my heart
To embody
God-supplication.

23486

If the human mind
Does not start aspiring,
It will eventually collapse
Under the heavy weight
Of ignorance-night.

23487

I rely infinitely more
On my Lord’s Compassion
Than on my own aspiration
To realise the Absolute.

23488

O my God-pleasing days,
Where are you?
Why have you been hiding
For such a long time?

23489

In the inner race,
Our wisdom competes
With our ignorance.
If our wisdom wins,
God will act in and through us
With utmost pride.

23490

My Lord,
You tell me that You love me.
If it is so,
Then You must place Your Blessing-Feet
Upon my crying heart.

23491

My heart and I
Are all eagerness
To embark on a pilgrimage
To my nature’s perfection-country.

23492

As water is for my thirst,
Even so,
My unconditional surrender
Is for God’s Hunger.

23493

My heart’s hope-buds
Every day need
My life’s faith-sun
To blossom.

23494

The happiest years
Of God’s Life
And my life
Were the years when I did everything
For God-manifestation
With no expectation whatsoever.

23495

My soul’s rainbow-birds
Carry my heart’s hope-dreams
To my Lord Supreme.

23496

Alas,
We live in the world
Of success-hunger
And not in the world
Of progress-meal.

23497

My God-surrender-smile
Is the mediator
Between my heart’s aspiration
And God’s Compassion.

23498

God Himself asks
The world-peace-dreamers
To take the fastest highway
To reach the God-Satisfaction-Palace.

23499

The barrier that exists
Between my heart’s cry
And my soul’s smile
Is no barrier at all.

23500

If you can prove to the world
That you can serve God wholeheartedly,
His Appreciation and Admiration for you
Will prove to be
Your life’s complete transformation.

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