Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 25

2401

Your heart’s cheerful willingness
Is always
Your life’s absolutely perfect choice.

2402

Desire does not know
What true satisfaction is,
And God does not want
Desire to know.

Aspiration knows
What true satisfaction is
Because God wants
Aspiration to know.

2403

Heaven offers hospitality
Only to those
Who feel that Heaven
Is their only necessity
Before they can sleeplessly play
With God.

2404

God’s Compassion-Height
Changes your realisation-timetable,
Which was previously set
By God’s Justice-Light.

2405

The soul that challenges
The oblivion of its God-manifestation
Upon earth
Is indeed a most powerful soul.

2406

A life of unconditional surrender
Is undoubtedly the best extinguisher
Of desire-fire.

2407

Every day I play
On my gratitude-flute
And I beg only one Person
To listen to my playing,
And that Person is
My Inner Pilot.

2408

As long as God knows
Everything about me
And will do
Everything for me,
I do not have to worry
About anything.
This is the shortest road
To constant satisfaction.

2409

If you are an aspiration-sprinter,
God the Justice will show you
His Heart’s Diamond-Track
And God the Compassion will ask you
To run on the Track.

2410

My body wants so many things
From my soul,
But my soul wants only one thing
From my body: obedience.

2411

God’s Compassion-Giftshop
Has many, many beautiful gifts.
Seekers buy many, many things
From the Shop,
But they seldom buy one particular gift:
Gratitude.

2412

Each aspiration-breath
Has the capacity
And is the capacity
To destroy the blind power
Of death.

2413

Every day God writes
Forgiveness-Letters
To those who have failed
And given up,
And Compassion-Letters
To those who are willing
To sit for the examination once again.

2414

Until you deliberately throw away the key
To your doubting mind’s door,
You will not be given the key
To your aspiring heart’s door.

2415

God’s Justice-Scoldings
Have at once
Awakened his sleeping body
And illumined his doubting mind.

2416

You have to cut the cord
That has bound you to the world
Mercilessly
Before you can expect God to grant you
His Cord to bind Him
Eternally.

2417

Outwardly what you have
Is a chattering monkey-mind.
Inwardly what you are
Is a roaring lion-soul.

2418

How can you be happy
If you keep God’s Name
Only on your clever lips
And not inside your wise heart?

2419

If you want to own
Eternity’s Ecstasy,
Then you have to disown
The fantasies
Of your undisciplined
And desiring mind.

2420

Self-giving
Is the paradise of perfection
In a seeker’s aspiration-heart.

2421

You fool!
You are looking for
Death-currency
To exchange for
Your life-coin.

2422

Let my mind live
Where it wants to live.
My heart and I
Would like to live
Only in God’s Oneness-Vision.

2423

An aspiration-seeker carries God
Inside his heart
And carries the world
In his hands.
This is what God wants him
To do.

2424

Do not open your mind-door!
Doubt will grab you
And compel you to live with it.

2425

The human mind
Knows only one road,
And that road
Is its own eternally unlit
Confusion-road.

2426

Do not remain
In the grip of ingratitude
If you want to see
Your heart grow
Into a life of beatitude.

2427

You cannot enjoy the Fragrance
Of God’s Smile
If you are enjoying the foul smell
Of your desire-life.

2428

Even God cries
When you tell the world
That you will have absolutely nothing
To do with it.

2429

Your mind-tree
Will always disappoint you.
Your heart-flower
Will not only please you
But also claim you
As its very own.

2430

Every day make friends
Only with certainty,
And do not gamble
With possibility.

2431

Each soul is a smile.
Each smile
Is an ecstasy-experience
In God’s Perfection-Garden.

2432

The beauty of life’s purity
Always increases
The oneness of God’s creation.

2433

One life of self-control
Can and will save
Millions of other lives.

2434

His mind experiences
God’s Indifference-Frown.
His heart experiences
God’s Compassion-Beauty.

2435

Your heart is already
Under the surveillance
Of God’s Will,
And it is so happy.
Can you not ask your mind
To be also under the surveillance
Of God’s Will?

2436

He is his life’s
Stupidity-smile.
God in his heart
Is a futility-cry.

2437

If you sit near God,
You will be able to escape
The ruthless torture
Of earthly rumours.

2438

Obedience is self-giving.
Self-giving is the fulfilment
Of God’s Vision-Reality
In man.

2439

Since you will not be able
To escape God’s Radar,
Why not start climbing up
Your aspiration-ladder?

2440

Ego-elephant wants to live
Happily and proudly.
But what actually happens?
It lives lonely
And dies miserably.

2441

God is waiting
In His timeless Temple
To welcome you
And your heart-flames.

2442

A guiding soul
And a loving heart
Are God’s favourite ambassadors
Here on earth.

2443

His life of sleepless self-giving
Alternates between
God’s Vision-Eye
And God’s Satisfaction-Heart.

2444

My wise soul and my pure heart
Patronise only one
Divine enterprise,
And that enterprise
Is God’s Satisfaction-Enterprise.

2445

Tell me,
My fellow seeker,
How could you allow
Your aspiration-heart
To give up?

2446

God chose you to be
A very special person.
Your mind chose you to be
A friend of its frustration-life.

2447

If you take aspiration-vitamins,
Your heart will reach sooner
God’s Satisfaction-Home.

2448

Now that you have resumed
Your aspiration-career,
God’s Satisfaction-Trophy
Will not remain a far cry.

2449

If God is
Your number-one candidate,
Then nobody will ever dare
To intimidate you.

2450

Cherish not the miseries
Of your past disobedience-life.
Cherish only the fragrance
Of your present obedience-life.

2451

What your mind knows
And treasures
Is a torrential downpour
Of doubt.

2452

God has cheerfully and proudly
Placed your heart-tapestry
On His Victory-Platform.

2453

A watchful mind
And a wakeful heart
Expedite the Godward journey.

2454

Your heart has scaled
The Himalayan heights.
Yet it is not happy,
For it every day wants to sing
The song of self-transcendence.
Your mind has scaled
Only pygmy-heights.
Yet its happiness knows no bounds.

2455

There was a time
When I used to only think of God.
Now God is asking me
Also to fight for Him.

2456

God has made him the owner
Of God-pleasing cries
And man-pleasing smiles.

2457

Each heart
Is God’s Hope-Plant.
Each life
Is God’s Promise-Tree.

2458

If your mind is mourning
The death of your old life,
Ask your mind
Why is it not buying a coffin
For its own death.

2459

If God can love
Even your useless life,
Can you not love
God’s useful Heart?

2460

In the spiritual life
To hunger for a high rank wilfully
Is indeed a useless effort.

2461

Life is nothing but an illusion
When you have a downhill experience
In your aspiration-journey.

2462

A life of perfection
Never stops.
It only moves forward,
Upward and inward.

2463

There are very few seekers
Who are cheerfully willing
To take exercise
In God’s Gymnasium.

2464

Someday the world
Will appreciate my heart —
Perhaps once my mind
Starts appreciating my heart.

2465

In the spiritual life
The worst misfortune
Is the seeker’s
Hesitation-journey.

2466

God will be happy to answer
Every day
If you write Him
A tearful aspiration-letter.

2467

A life
Of surrender-perfection
Is a daily
Full-time job.

2468

His aspiration-breath
And God’s Satisfaction-Heart
Are always to be found together.

2469

God knows how to speak
Only His Silence-Language.
Therefore, if you want
To understand Him,
Then you must learn
His Silence-Language.

2470

If you can preserve purity,
You will be able to deserve
Everything —
Even God’s highest Height.

2471

Your life’s full moon
Will rise
If you can sing
Every evening
Soulfully
A surrender-song.

2472

A crown of doubt
And the throne of faith
Are always reluctant
To be seen together.

2473

If your life has become
A life of surrender,
Then God will gradually replace
Your fleeting time
With His eternal Time.

2474

Unless you make
A point-blank assault
On your self-doubt,
God will not grant you
His own God-Confidence

2475

If you come into the world
Armed with your realisation-light,
Earth will definitely surrender
Its ignorance-night to you.

2476

There is only one thing to do,
And that thing is
To conquer the noise
Of your outer life
With the silence
Of your inner life.

2477

My simplification-life expedites
My God-journey.
My aspiration-life eventually becomes
My God-destination.

2478

Since God gave you your life,
Can you not be good enough
To allow Him
To live in your life?

2479

I do not need world-recognition.
Therefore
I keep my humility-mind
And my purity-heart
To protect me
From desiring world-recognition.

2480

Since you do not need
This life of yours,
Why not offer it to God
As soon as possible
And see if He can use it
In a new way?

2481

God does not allow anybody
To sponsor His aspiration-athletes.
He always wants to remain the Sponsor
Of His aspiration-athletes,
For these aspiration-athletes
Are His Eternity’s Pride.

2482

Realisation dawns
When the illusion
Of self-importance
Is totally gone.

2483

If you are a genuine seeker,
Then you cannot allow self-doubt
To slow down
God’s Vision-Plan.

2484

Every soul carries
The Banner of God’s Faith
In mankind.

2485

If your life is encircled
By the fence of fear,
Then your heart will be encircled
By the Fence of God’s Tears.

2486

I call it
My secret soulfulness.
God calls it
His sacred Fulness.

2487

His daily rebirth
In the spiritual life
Is not his mental delusion
But his psychic realisation.

2488

A true God-lover
Does not know
What self-service is.
He knows
Only selfless service.

2489

The mind’s intelligence-lamp
Eventually has to surrender
To the heart’s wisdom-sun.

2490

How do you expect
Your God-given faith-heart
To sail your mind-boat
With its heavy doubt-load?

2491

Because you do not care
For His Compassion-Heart,
God’s Justice-Voice
Will soon thunder.

2492

An obedience-seed
Is the most powerful source
Of the confidence-tree.

2493

A doubting mind
Will ultimately lose its wager
With a flaming heart.

2494

The game of world-comparison
Ends on the road
Of self-perfection.

2495

Today’s
Aspiration-life of yours
And tomorrow’s
Realisation-life of yours
Are unmistakably
Very close relatives.

2496

The world knows
Your open acceptance of God.
But God knows
Your secret denial of Him.

2497

God tells him
That he can talk to God
Only if
He walks with man.

2498

Your aspiration will be known
Both as your hunger-cry
And as God’s Feast-Smile.

2499

You may disguise
The ugliness of your mind,
But you can never disguise
The poison in your doubt.

2500

Infinite inspiration-flowers
God carries from Heaven to earth
Every day.
Infinite aspiration-plants
God carries from earth to Heaven
Every day.

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