Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 244

24301

As my Lord Supreme works very hard
On His new Dreams
Of humanity’s transformation,
Even so, I shall work very hard
On my new dreams
Of my own self-realisation.

24302

I have decided once and for all
That I shall shed tears
Only for God-realisation
And not for anything else.

24303

Each prayer of mine
Must climb up
From the deepest depths
To the highest heights.

24304

He who has hope
Along with determination
Will one day see his life
Fully blossomed.

24305

Only the hope-book
That is within our heart
Is worth reading every day.

24306

No human being
Can ever finish reading
God’s inexhaustible Peace-Book.

24307

A man who has
A closed heart
Lives in his mind-prison.

24308

Each time I think
Of my Master’s compassion-heart,
I become a fountain of ecstasy.

24309

Yesterday I thoroughly examined
My world.
I found nothing worth having.
Today I am just looking casually
At my world.
I find everything I need is there.

24310

O my searching mind,
Never grieve!
O my crying heart,
Never look back!

24311

A heart of humility
Is a solid foundation
For the manifestation
Of God’s Divinity.

24312

When the ego finally dies,
The divine virtues of a seeker
Gloriously blossom.

24313

My Lord Supreme,
Every day
Do bless me with the capacity
To make my mind
As humble as dust and ashes.

24314

It is quite shocking to see
How many times
Each seeker forgets
To quench his God-thirst.

24315

The kingdom of divine love
Every day dances
On our heart-stage.
But alas,
The God-unfulfilling mind
Never attends.

24316

A purity-shrine
Flooded with humility
Is always God’s first choice.

24317

No seeker has to stand against
Uncertain faith
If he can make his mind
A tranquillity-sea.

24318

Time does not stop
For the common run.
It stops only for
The supremely chosen few.

24319

My aspiration-heart
Precedes everything else in my life
In invoking a peaceful life
For the world.

24320

He who aspires
Sleeplessly, breathlessly and self-givingly
Eventually becomes
A perfect messenger of timelessness
Here on earth.

24321

It thrills God’s Heart
To the core
That I do not speak ill of anybody
At any time.

24322

My obedience-mind
And my gratitude-heart
Have abundant power
To please God
In God’s own Way.

24323

God wants me to be
Extremely serious and sincere
About my spiritual life.
It seems that He will not wait
Another day!

24324

Definitely
The ever-transcending Beyond
Belongs to us all.
We just have to claim it
As our birthright.

24325

God volunteers all His Time
To help me
When I am ready to please Him
Prayerfully, soulfully and self-givingly.

24326

We make no progress
Because most of the time
We are unthinkably blind
To our shortcomings.

24327

Alas,
I am wasting all my precious time
By mixing with
My self-contradicting mind.

24328

To be nourished and guided
By faith,
I must banish
My life-challenging doubts.

24329

The moment God allowed me
To sit at His Feet,
I became a happiness-flower-heart.

24330

My Lord,
You have taken me
As Your own, very own.
But when will I
Be able to do the same?
When will I be able —
Consciously and constantly —
To take You as my very own?

24331

I can touch God’s Heart
Either with my own heart’s
Painful tears
Or with my own soul’s
Powerful smiles.

24332

Prayer and meditation,
Aspiration and dedication
Are their own immediate rewards.

24333

No more shall I allow myself
To be stopped
By my mind’s doubt-walls.

24334

A most exquisite sweetness
I feel and become
When I think of my own
High, higher and highest experiences.

24335

What makes a God-winner?
A breathless
Surrender-song!

24336

Do not try to escape.
You will always fail!
But try to adapt yourself.
You will succeed!

24337

Whoever lives a self-offering life
Lives triumphantly
In God’s Heart-Garden.

24338

Without loving the world,
We shall never be able
To free ourselves
From the sadness and sorrow
Of the world.

24339

One day I shall just turn around
And, to my wide surprise,
I shall see my Lord Beloved Supreme
Right beside me.

24340

Aspiration is the inner spring
Of a seeker.
This spring can forever flow
Inside our aspiration-heart.

24341

Casting aside its usual indifference,
If Heaven sleeplessly weeps
For humanity’s acceptance
Of God’s Will,
Only then will humanity’s tears
Be transformed into
Divinity’s Smiles.

24342

If we altogether dismiss
Doubt-thoughts,
Only then can we grow
Faith-plants
In our aspiration-life.

24343

All the answers will come from within.
But to get the answers from within,
We must every day increase
Our love, devotion and surrender-necessity
Plus intensity.

24344

God’s astounding manifestation-life
On earth
Depends solely
On man’s God-manifestation-thirst
And hunger.

24345

My Lord, help me!
I am falling.
“My child,
You are not falling.
You are just leaving Me aside.”

24346

God and God’s Compassion-Net
Always
Most lovingly protect
My heart-shrine.

24347

God wants you to become
Mankind’s lighthouse
On the strength of your sleepless
And breathless self-offering.
And what will God do then?
God will give you a standing ovation.

24348

There are many things we cannot do,
But there is one thing
We should and must do:
We must safeguard
God’s Heart-Photograph
Inside our own aspiration-heart.

24349

If our life does not become
A world-endurance-camel,
How can we ever hope to succeed
In the battlefield of our life?

24350

Every morning
God’s Compassion-Smile
Tunes my heart-strings.

24351

I want to be a child
Of the next century,
When I will be a genuine self-giver
For the full manifestation
Of my Lord Beloved Supreme.

24352

Both my heart and my mind
Are God’s children.
How I wish my mind to be
As God-dependent as my heart!

24353

An infinite series
Of God’s Name-repetitions
Can make us realise God.

24354

Unconditional surrender
To God’s Will
Is the best of all meditations.

24355

The simplicity and beauty
Of our heart-flower opening
Pleases God
Far beyond our imagination.

24356

My acceptance of the spiritual life
Is, indeed, a miracle
Performed by my Lord Himself.

24357

Ignorance-arrow
Cannot pierce our hearts
If we consciously take shelter
At the Feet of our Lord Supreme.

24358

The tears of our eyes
And the cries of our hearts
Must not remain invisible
If we want to realise
Our own highest reality.

24359

O seeker,
Beware of neutrality!
Be always one hundred per cent
On God’s side.
When you are neutral,
You may get brutal experiences
From deep within.

24360

To repeat what God has said to me
Is the only way
I can transform my desire-life
Into aspiration-life.

24361

I have forgotten to ask God one thing:
Will He wait for me indefinitely
Even though right now I do not have
A conscious need for Him?

24362

The strongest of God’s Hopes
Is for my instant and constant
God-surrender-life.

24363

Whether we hasten or delay
Is up to us.
But at God’s choice Hour,
We must wake up
And begin to please Him
In His own Way.

24364

Every morning my Lord Supreme
Visits my heart-garden
And helps my aspiration-plants
To thrive and multiply.

24365

God never likes our sad loneliness.
He likes our heart’s and mind’s
Cheerfulness
More than anything else.

24366

No beauty is as divine
As God-devotion.
No fragrance is as perfect
As God-surrender.

24367

If we all do not pray and meditate
Soulfully and self-givingly,
Then who is going to save God’s universe
From joy-annihilation?

24368

We must establish
A stupendous self-giving love
Between God’s Will
And our eagerness-heart.

24369

God’s Heart is full of hope
Because of our heart’s
Genuine love of God.

24370

O my mind,
Do not wait any more
In the sleep of Eternity.
Wake up!
Pray and meditate
So that God can claim you
As His very own.

24371

There shall come a time
When the negativity-mind
Of the whole world
Will disappear
Into an abysmal abyss.

24372

My Lord,
I wish to do each and every thing
With Your blessingful
And direct Permission.

24373

God is all surprise
When He sees
A gratitude-mind is welcoming Him.

24374

My Lord Supreme,
Do grant me the aspiration-dynamism
To conquer my unwillingness-mind
And crown my willingness-heart.

24375

My joy knows no bounds
When I see every day
My heart-flower blooming
At the Feet
Of my Beloved Lord Supreme.

24376

We love God
Only when we need Him.
God loves us
Even when He does not need us
At all.

24377

The mind
Is apt to use
Counterfeit love-coins.

24378

The streaming tears
Of the aspiration-heart
Run faster than the fastest
Towards the Goal.

24379

The smile
Of a gratitude-heart
Has no equal.

24380

The effort needed for God-realisation
Is a constant effort,
Not a sudden stupendous effort.

24381

How can the sunlit path
Have darkness-difficulties?
No, the sunlit path always remains sunlit.
But the seeker must be ready,
Willing and eager
To walk only on the sunlit path.

24382

He who does not use
His argumentative mind
Is definitely a choice instrument
Of God.

24383

There are many sad stories
In human life.
The saddest one
Is man’s continuous self-doubt.

24384

Who does not need another chance?
Even God needs chance after chance
To transform humanity.

24385

God will really reward you
If you are always prepared
To keep God as the only Goal
In your life.

24386

The beauty
Of a totally surrendered soul
Is far beyond
The beauty of a sunrise.

24387

The river of time is welcoming
All God-lovers to join it
While it is sleeplessly running
Towards the infinite ocean
Of Light and Delight,
The infinite sea of Peace and Bliss.

24388

Ask your heart!
It will tell you
What God wants you to do.

24389

You cannot cultivate
Your aspiration-field
Unless you have
Ceaseless heart-tears.

24390

No matter how many times
I ask my mind
To stop intercepting
My Lord’s Messages,
It just will not listen to me.

24391

If you allow
Your heart’s devotion-flower
To wither,
Then your spiritual journey
Is bound to be slower than the slowest.

24392

If you are trying to disguise your desire-life
As your aspiration-heart,
Then you are definitely doomed
To most ruthless suffering.

24393

Alas, most human beings
Have forgotten that they have
A purity-heart-kingdom.

24394

The breath that breathes
God-aspiration-life
Is the choicest instrument of God.

24395

May my gratitude-heart-flower blossom
Not only inside my heart
But also everywhere.

24396

Because he repeatedly and consciously
Disobeyed his soul,
His soul has now left him an orphan.

24397

Not by grieving,
But by surrendering to God’s Will,
We make progress.

24398

My Lord Beloved Supreme,
Do give me the capacity
To sleeplessly spread
All my divinity-flooded dreams
Like seeds.

24399

Those who do not want to share
Their aspiration-cries and dedication-smiles
Will have a very, very long wait
To reach the Destination.

24400

Only the seeker who sees everything
As God-revelation
Can lead humanity
Towards happy, illumining
And fulfilling dreams.

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