Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 246

24501

God tells me
That He does not want
To wait any longer for me.
Either I have to follow Him
Most devotedly,
Or I have to find my own way.

24502

When we do not follow
Our Inner Pilot,
An ocean of sorrow
Becomes our existence-reality.

24503

A self-giving life
At every moment
Flies Heavenward.

24504

O expectation,
I have many foes
In my spiritual life,
But you are the worst of all.

24505

God most lovingly and most sincerely
Appreciates
My feeble steps towards Him.

24506

My Lord Supreme,
May I become
The Perfection-Lustre
Of Your Compassion-Eye.

24507

My Lord,
To think of You
Is my only wish,
My only desire,
My only aspiration
And my only realisation.

24508

Each God-loving soul
Is, indeed, a charioteer
Of Infinity’s Immortality.

24509

Today I am determined
To count how many ways
I can make my Lord Supreme smile.

24510

Each moment
Unmistakably embodies
Many God-fulfilling opportunities.

24511

At every moment
My gratitude-heart
Eagerly listens
To my Lord’s Will supreme.

24512

My oneness with God
In itself
Is an invaluable inspiration-gift
To humanity.

24513

Poor mind,
There is not a single day
When you do not have to wrestle
With your own brooding questions.

24514

If we align ourselves
With God’s omnipotent Will,
There is nothing we cannot accomplish
Here on earth.

24515

Be not a slave to,
But be the master of
Your autocrat-mind!

24516

Doubt is something
That we have accumulated
Over the centuries —
Alas, willingly and proudly.

24517

Every morning
I pray to God
To come and stay with me,
And never to leave.

24518

Unwillingness-baggage
Is infinitely heavier
Than we can ever imagine!

24519

O my Pilot Supreme,
Every morning You bless me
With Your celestial Smiles
Before I embark
On a new daily adventure.

24520

Alas, why are we such fools?
Why do we think
The spirituality-mountain-zenith
Can be reached in one day?

24521

Perfection is not something
That can be borrowed.
It can only be acquired
Through the combination of
God’s descending Smiles
And man’s ascending cries.

24522

God secretly helps
My aspiration-heart
To dethrone
My ignorance-life’s king.

24523

Each time I meditate well,
I clearly see
That a golden flame from my heart
Is rising Heavenward.

24524

If you unfurl the banner
Of independence
In the spiritual life,
You are bound to fail.
You will succeed
Only if you become
A God-dependence-instrument.

24525

When I tell my Lord Supreme
That I am of His Compassion
And I am for His Satisfaction,
He immediately gives me
His choicest Blessing-Smile.

24526

It is I who have to acquire
The capacity to love my God
Every day
More, and ever more.

24527

My true aspiration-light
Is inseparable
From God’s Satisfaction-Delight.

24528

Nobody can quench
The ego’s thirst.
Only God can, but He will not.
Nobody can break
The ego’s crown.
Only God can, and He will.

24529

Be brave!
Embrace new challenges.
Your victory will be manifested
In your self-discovery.

24530

With my soul’s adamantine will-power
Every day I must safeguard
My happiness-life.

24531

May my earthly life become
Humbler than a blade of grass
So that the promised land
Of Heavenly bliss
I can claim as my own, very own.

24532

O earth-bound time,
It is simply impossible for me
To be one
Either with your pleasures
Or with your sufferings.

24533

Unless I can throw
All my pride to the wind,
I will not be able to enjoy
Heaven’s Heavenly touch.

24534

Our outer God-service
Reminds us
Of our inner God-promise.

24535

Every morning
I place my heart’s moonlit hours
At the Feet of my Lord Supreme.

24536

God rushes to welcome
My mind’s readiness,
My life’s willingness
And my heart’s eagerness.

24537

God can hardly believe His Ears
When I tell Him
That right from this very moment
I shall please Him in His own Way.

24538

I have the wisdom
To enter into
My heart’s gratitude-paradise,
And I have no desire
Ever to come out of it.

24539

I place my life’s happiness
In the Hands of God,
And I place my heart’s fulfilment
At the Feet of God.

24540

Although today I am
A God-aspiration-beggar,
Tomorrow I shall become
A God-manifestation-emperor.

24541

Anything sacred and self-giving
Is most valuable
In the spiritual life.

24542

God always
Eagerly preserves
My God-manifestation-dreams.

24543

I make my fastest progress
Only when I bathe in the Radiance
Of my Lord’s Compassion-Eye.

24544

I hunger
For God’s Compassion-Eye.
God hungers
For my satisfaction-heart.

24545

May my life climb
Towards my Lord’s Transcendental Light
Only
At every moment.

24546

My life’s humility-breath
Has covered my entire world.
Therefore, my Lord Supreme
Is crowning my progress-journey.

24547

God tells me that
My simplicity, sincerity and purity-life
Will not remain
Unnoticed and unmanifested.

24548

I have left my mind’s countless thoughts
Exposed
To my Lord’s Transformation-Touch.

24549

If your mind insists
That you understand God,
Then your life-road will lead
Only one way:
Constantly backward.

24550

Each gratitude-moment
Is nothing short of
A sunrise-paradise.

24551

Do not ignore self-limitation.
Self-limitation you have to fight
At every moment
If you want to be victorious
In your spiritual life.

24552

The moment I sincerely cry,
I fly
Into the cloudless dome of Heaven.

24553

Be careful with your affection-life.
Use it properly in a divine way.
Otherwise, your affection-cords
Can easily be tied into attachment-knots.

24554

If you come to God
As a last resort,
You cannot expect to equal the speed
Of those who came to God
At God’s choice Hour.

24555

My self-giving
Is nothing other than
The Fragrance-Heart
Of my Lord Supreme.

24556

A spiritual Master is he
On whose camel-shoulders
The entire world
Heaps endless responsibilities.

24557

To prevent us from doing
The wrong thing,
Our souls, without fail,
Bless us
With early warning signals.

24558

It is you who have to recharge
Your prayer-meditation-batteries
Every morning —
You, and nobody else!

24559

Abandon all pretence!
Then God will bless you
With His Infinity’s Competence.

24560

He who is an aspiration-enthusiast
Will easily be able to please God
In His own Way.

24561

O seeker,
If you want to be
A choice instrument of God,
Then never allow your heart-shrine
To fall into disrepair.

24562

My mind of desire
I shall nullify.
My heart of aspiration
I shall intensify.
My life of division
I shall unify.

24563

I most sincerely admire the seekers
Whose souls are full of dreams,
Whose hearts are full of hopes
And whose lives are full of promises.

24564

Alas, what do I clearly see
Inside my heart?
I see inside my heart
The embers of my long-forgotten
Unaspiring life.

24565

Why am I not making any progress?
Why this sudden halt?
Because my life has become
A perfect stranger to self-discipline.

24566

Any undivine thought or idea
In our mind
Has a great many eager accomplices.

24567

My Lord,
May I have a mind
That knows no suspicion.
May I have a heart
That knows no insecurity.
May I have a life
That knows no impurity.

24568

There was a time
When my mind was all receptivity.
But alas,
Now my mind is enjoying
Negativity’s absurdity.

24569

Your heart is in distress
Just because your mind
Is afraid of the future
That is fast approaching.

24570

My God-disobedience
Will eventually make me feel
That God is deliberately
Avoiding me.

24571

What can my prayer-life do?
My prayer-life definitely can brighten
My Lord’s Universal Smile.

24572

What makes you think
You are a special truth-seeker
And God-lover
Just because God blesses you
With His Infinity’s Compassion, Love
And Light?
To be a special child of God,
You have to offer Him every day
What you have: sincerity
And what you are: eagerness.

24573

If you can ignore your world-glories,
Then your aspiration-heart-life
Will blossom.

24574

I have good news and bad news.
The good news is that I love God
With each and every breath of my heart.
The bad news is that I still care for
World-admiration and world-acclaim.

24575

There is a constant battle going on
Between my self-doubt and my God-faith,
But I am happy because I know
My God-faith is bound to win.

24576

When I think of my mind,
I immediately come down
To humanity’s pitiful standard.
When I think of my heart,
I immediately climb up
To Divinity’s blessingful, powerful
And fruitful standard.

24577

The unaspiring mind
Enjoys flying
Beneath the clouds of darkness-night.

24578

When I enjoy
My sense of superiority,
I completely destroy
God’s faith in me.

24579

Every day we must spread
Our God-dreams
The way we sow
Our earth-aspiration-seeds.

24580

My soul and my heart
Are opening new silence-horizons
To manifest God
In an unprecedented way.

24581

Nothing can be as sweet
As the fragrance
Of an awakened gratitude-heart.

24582

God does not mind
If I sleep for Eternity.
But my soul does mind,
Because my soul wants
My Lord Supreme
To be proud of me.

24583

My Lord,
Although now I am totally lost,
I do feel that one day
I shall see my way
With Your Vision-Eye.

24584

A real God-lover
Will be helped by God Himself
To come out of the whirlpool
Of frustration and irritation.

24585

Spiritually we are dying
Because we still cherish
The ashes of our past life.

24586

A spiritual Master is he
Who self-givingly tries to lead
Each and every human being
Towards God’s own Perfection-Dream.

24587

My genuine surrender
To my Lord Supreme
Has enabled me to travel swiftly
Along my life’s freedom-road.

24588

If you want to regain your faith
In yourself and in God,
Then come out of your mind-jungle
And run into your heart-garden.

24589

My Lord,
I pray to You to grant me
Every day
The fragrance of a newly awakened
Gratitude-heart.

24590

There is only one right hour,
And that is God’s choice Hour.
Every other hour is either too early
Or too late.

24591

Do not look back!
You are bound to become once more
The ugliness of your darkness-mind.
Look ahead!
The all-embracing divinity
Of the rising sun
Is blessingfully and proudly
Beckoning you.

24592

You are telling your friends
That your soul has left you an orphan.
But have you told how many times
You have deliberately and callously
Disobeyed your soul-polestar?

24593

We make progress
Not by crying for yesterday’s realities,
But by smiling at today’s dreams.

24594

When I climb up
To my soul’s command-summit,
I unimaginably enjoy
My obedience-breath.

24595

Every day God arrives
At your heart-door.
Every day greet Him
With new eagerness.

24596

Who does not need another chance?
But are we ready to use the new chance
In a new and God-fulfilling way?

24597

The saddest story in man’s life
Is his self-doubt.
The happiest song in man’s life
Is his God-faith.

24598

The more we love
God’s Heart,
The more God needs
Our life.

24599

I please God most satisfactorily
When I become the cry of the helpless.
Again, I please God most satisfactorily
When I become the smile of the grateful.

24600

This morning I prayed most soulfully.
Therefore, my Lord Supreme
Has come down to resume
Our heart-to-heart conversation.

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