Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 239

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23801

When I think of my Lord’s
Infinite Compassion,
I am compelled to dissolve
In my heart’s gratitude-tears.

23802

We do not have to go
To a particular exhibit
To see the supreme art.
Our aspiration-life itself
Is the supreme art.

23803

God is particularly pleased with
Our self-giving perseverance
For perfection.

23804

We will never find good answers
To solve the problems of our life
If we do not choose God first.

23805

The divine Grace functions
Most rapidly
Not through the great souls,
But through the self-giving souls.

23806

If you want to brighten
Your future life,
Then knock at your heart’s
Perfection-door.

23807

God says to the scientist:
“Multiply and multiply.
Copies are not so bad, after all.”

God speaks to Mother Earth:
“Do not repeat, do not copy.
Be singularly original.”

23808

If you are sleeplessly absorbed
In self-giving,
Then you will be found
In the galaxy of the cosmic gods.

23809

To our greatest joy
Our aspiring heart listens to
Both God-Whispers and God-Thunder.

23810

He is wise,
He is pure,
He is perfect
Who closely follows God
Along His Peace-Road.

23811

O my Lord Supreme,
Do ring my heart-bell
To awaken my unaspiring,
Sleeping mind.

23812

If you want to make progress
Faster than the fastest,
Then with your adamantine
Determination-will
Bury all your past futile experiences.

23813

Meditation liberates our mind
From the prison-cell
Of anxieties, worries, confusion
And untold fearful and hurtful experiences.

23814

The tears of the heart flow
Only when there is an increase
Of aspiration-intensity.

23815

Our heart’s gratitude-ecstasy
Shortens the road
To our God-realisation.

23816

Two of my long-lost companions
Have now come back:
My inner poise
And my outer courage.

23817

When you use your doubting mind
In your spiritual life,
You just place a dead and withered flower
On your heart-shrine.

23818

God has definitely come down
From His blue Infinity.
But where is my heart’s
Receptivity’s intensity?

23819

To brush aside wrong thoughts,
What we need
Is a mind flooded
With divine obedience.

23820

When our life becomes
A fully blossomed gratitude-heart,
God synchronizes His Infinity’s Breath
With our finite breath.

23821

What we need is a heart
That will always remain untouched
By fear and doubt-shadows
To arrive at our destination:
The Golden Shore of our Lord’s
Satisfaction-Smile.

23822

Meditate, meditate, meditate
Soulfully, sleeplessly and self-givingly,
For meditation is nothing other than
Our supreme ignorance-shattering vision.

23823

A man-made foundation
May eventually collapse.
But a God-blessed foundation
Will daily prosper
And fulfil humanity’s dire need.

23824

If you need the Breath
Of God’s living Presence,
Then pray and meditate.
While praying,
Cry like a child.
While meditating,
Smile like a child.

23825

Silence is always the best teacher.
It can take us safely
Deep into every heart.

23826

A single Whisper
From my Lord Supreme
Can easily keep my ego’s ceiling
Low, extremely low.

23827

O my mind,
When will you be hungry
For an iota of illumination?
When will you be thirsty
For an iota of perfection?

23828

Either we must imprison our desires
And keep them in prison forever,
Or we must transform
Our earth-binding desires
Into Heaven-free aspiration.

23829

Every morning,
Smilingly and self-givingly,
My soul helps me dive
Into my heart’s vision-sea.

23830

What we need is a freedom-breath
For a newness-eye
And a fulness-life
To be God’s choicest instruments.

23831

Your prayers will, without fail,
Be sanctioned
If you can develop moonbeam-eyes
Of purity
In your self-offering-life.

23832

My heart-bird soars
Into Infinity’s sky
When my mind is inundated
With enthusiasm
And my vital is surcharged
With dynamism.

23833

Yesterday
My mind deliberately enjoyed
Turbulent confusion.
Today
The same mind enjoys
Unreservedly opulent illumination.

23834

O my mind,
You desperately need something
Radically different
From what you have now.
You need to enter into the life
Of self-offering and God-becoming.

23835

God’s Compassion-Will
Has prepared the way.
Now we need our own aspiration-intensity
To accompany us
If we want to reach the ultimate Destination
Sooner than the soonest.

23836

The Smile of God’s Eye
And the Embrace of God’s Heart
Are meant only for those
Who sleeplessly and breathlessly cry
For God’s Satisfaction in God’s own Way.

23837

I want my body, my vital,
My mind and my heart
To enjoy every day
A gratitude-festival.

23838

You may know how to climb,
You may know how to cling,
But as long as you do not know
How to offer yourself unconditionally,
Your God remains a distant goal.

23839

The effacement of the mind
And the enlightenment of the heart
Can definitely carry us
To the Shores of the furthest Beyond.

23840

When we take pride
In our doubting mind,
In sinking tragedies
Our lives we find.

23841

My climbing aspiration
Is the fulfilment
Of my Lord’s all-illumining Dream.

23842

Without an Olympian courage
We cannot dive deep within
To swim in the sea of ecstasy.

23843

Only one thing
Can satisfy my soul,
And that thing is
My mind’s unconditional surrender
To my heart’s ever-blossoming beauty
And ever-enduring fragrance.

23844

Success is our mind’s
Non-stop journey.
Progress is our heart’s
Ever-illumining destination.

23845

Meditate, meditate, meditate
Only on gratitude.
There shall come a time
When you are bound to feel and become
God’s own Infinitude.

23846

When my heart hoists my life’s
Hope-banner,
My soul hoists my Lord’s
Promise-Fulfilment-Banner.

23847

Every day
I need a blossoming faith
So that I can expedite
My God-discovery-journey.

23848

I can escape from everything
Save and except one thing:
God’s Compassion-Eye.

23849

A true seeker
Can never bid farewell
To God’s Hope and Promise.

23850

If we cannot silence
Our own mind,
Then peace will never be
Within our reach.

23851

God’s proudest Smile
Is not for a self-sufficient man,
But for a God-supplicant heart.

23852

Those who play
The inferiority-superiority-game
Are not yet ready to enter into
The spirituality-boat.

23853

Concern is good.
Non-attachment is better.
But what we actually need
Is the fulfilment of God’s Will
In God’s own Way.

23854

My Lord Supreme,
May my heart and I
At every moment
Be eager to be absorbed
In gratitude-tears.

23855

An aspiring life
Knows no end
Of the spirituality-journey.

23856

Doubt is the first barrier
In our spiritual life.
Unwillingness is the last barrier
In our spiritual life.

23857

Alas,
When I look within
I see a doubt-monster.
When I look without
I see a fear-ghost.

23858

If we walk through
God’s Dream-Garden,
Then we shall find all the answers
To our spiritual questions.

23859

We feel we are tired
At every moment.
But alas,
We are never tired enough
To close our mind-door.

23860

Unconditional surrender
Will always remain
The champion of champions
In the transformation-contest.

23861

His mind’s whirlpool of desire
Compelled his aspiration-boat
To sink.

23862

Unless and until
We have a genuine cry in our heart
For the illumination of our mind,
We will never be able to transport ourselves
From this world of chaos.

23863

A cheerful surrender
Is the only way
To see our imperfection
On its death-bed.

23864

Man’s gratitude-heart
And God’s Compassion-Eye
Prepare the way for man to realise
The Transcendental Truth.

23865

O my mind,
Apart from your curiosity,
Something radically different you need
To have even an iota of peace.

23866

Once we surrender permanently
To God’s Will,
It is only a matter of time
Before we can enter into and conquer
The domain of falsehood.

23867

Every day
My heart-bird soars into blue Infinity
To sing the song
Of God’s supreme Glory.

23868

If our love
Is only for God,
If our devotion
Is only for God,
If our surrender
Is only for God,
Then each breath of ours
Is a miracle-fulfilled life.

23869

Our heart’s gratitude
Produces a sleepless energy
Which helps us bring about success
In each and every aspect of our life.

23870

When the pulling of the mind
And the pushing of the vital cease,
We become
The crying of the heart.

23871

The mind’s insecurity
And the vital’s jealousy
Are two impossible fools
Living within us.

23872

If the reasoning mind
Is extremely active,
Then divinity’s wisdom
Will remain far away.

23873

The happiest time in God’s Life
Is when I tell God
That my heart is unconditionally
Inside His Heart
And my life is unconditionally
At His Feet.

23874

There is only one most efficient
Trouble-shooter
For all the problems of human life,
And that trouble-shooter is
God’s birthless and deathless
Compassion-Eye.

23875

Before I accepted the spiritual life,
Below the lowest I was.
Now that I am following the spiritual path,
The Highest Above is beckoning me.

23876

Disobedience secretly steals
And runs away with
Our heart’s oneness-richness-God-smiles.

23877

God-realisation is something
That has to be eventually attempted
And unmistakably accomplished.

23878

When I am ready to please God
In God’s own Way,
I become the sunlit eye
Of my soul.

23879

To conquer the waves of fear,
I must immediately leave
The playground of the mind.

23880

A soulful and self-giving smile
Is the immensity
Of God’s Power-Light.

23881

Hopelessness
Comes into existence
In a God-seeker’s God-fulfilment-quest
Only when the seeker cannot maintain
His love of God
Unconditionally.

23882

As it is a most difficult task
For a human being to act
Like a divine being,
Even so, for a divine being
It is not an easy thing
To act and behave
Like an ordinary human being.

23883

If it is God’s Will
To manifest His Victory
In and through a seeker’s life,
Then nothing can prevent
God’s ultimate Victory there.

23884

The morning light in a seeker’s eye
Is beautiful.
But the blazing sun inside a seeker’s heart
Is not only infinitely more beautiful
But also infinitely more powerful.

23885

Alas,
There are so many human beings
Who are ready to suffer proudly
But unnecessarily
In the name of pleasing their souls.

23886

We can sweeten
The bitter taste of reality
Only when we dare to perfect
Our love, devotion and surrender
To God’s Will.

23887

Let each and every human being
Take a forgiveness-step forward.
Then today’s world will be able to give
The brightest and mightiest smile.

23888

When a dream is formed
Inside the mind,
It may never be manifested.
But when a dream is blossomed
Inside the heart,
It is bound to be manifested
Either today, or in the near future.

23889

An incessant pursuit
Of nature’s perfection
Is of paramount importance
For those who aspire to become
A choice instrument
Of our Lord Beloved Supreme.

23890

When we dive deep within,
There comes a time
When we unmistakably realise
That the ultimate choice
Is not ours.

23891

Happiness, happiness, happiness —
Only happiness within
And happiness without
Can free the bondage-chained life
Of humanity.

23892

If you have a self-giving heart
To the Will of your Lord Beloved Supreme,
Then there can be no darkness-doubt
Inside your aspiration-life.

23893

Our souls have only one dream,
And that dream is to reach the end
Of all earth-sufferings.

23894

O human mind,
Why do you constantly interfere
In the activities of our divine heart?

23895

A doubting mind can feed only
An unaspiring heart.
A light-searching mind can assist
A self-giving heart.

23896

If we aspire early in the morning,
We become the breath
Of ecstasy’s dawn.

23897

My Lord Supreme,
I do not want to be independent.
I want to be always dependent,
Dependent on Your Will
And on Your Heart’s Choice for me.

23898

Only a weak soul
Allows his heart’s aspiration-cry
To be postponed by the mind’s
Constant doubt-nightmare-attacks.

23899

When I am my heart’s gratitude-tears,
Not only do I see God face to face,
But also I become
God’s perfection-messenger
Here on earth.

23900

O my Master,
You do not have to physically lead me.
Just give me your smiling face
In my dream.
That dream will lead me
To my divine destination.

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