Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 255

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25401

My Lord Supreme,
Do give me the capacity
To live lovingly and self-givingly
In the family of oneness-hearts.

25402

Look into your heart.
You will see that your true Friend,
Your only Friend,
Is waiting.

25403

Your real progress can be measured
By your heart-cries
And your soul-smiles.

25404

The moment you find your path,
You must not hesitate
Even for a fleeting second.

25405

Do not have meditation-gardens
Here, there and everywhere.
Your meditation-garden has to be always
Inside the very depths of your heart.

25406

One solitary Smile-flash
From God’s Eye
Can transform the entire life
Of a God-lover.

25407

When the mind interferes
In the heart’s aspiration-activities,
It only leads to disaster.

25408

My heart’s new discovery
Is surrender unconditional.
My mind’s new discovery
Is gratitude.

25409

When we live in the aspiration-heart,
We get hundreds of opportunities
For the improvement and refinement
Of our life.

25410

In every nook and corner of your heart,
You must see aspiration-flames
And dedication-plants.

25411

In the small hours of the morning
Many inner alarms go off
For the seekers to welcome God.

25412

On principle, the suspicious mind
Is always expelled
From God’s Inner Circle.

25413

Your heart may not have ten ways
To please God,
But ask your heart at least to have one way
To please God in His own Way.

25414

Your mind may not have many reasons
To satisfy God,
But ask your mind at least to have
One reason
To satisfy God in His own Way.

25415

Everybody knows that when we enter
Into our mind-jungle,
We see no aspiration-cries
And no dedication-smiles.

25416

God feels extremely sorry
When I tell Him
That I do not want to fly with Him
In His Infinity’s Sky.
He says to me most compassionately,
“My child, do not worry.
I shall come back soon.”

25417

To correct my life’s inner flaws,
I must not mix with
My worry-anxiety-breath.

25418

Our problem-flooded life
Is definitely not in God’s
All-Illumination-Life.

25419

My mind needs
God-protection.
My heart needs
God-reassurance.

25420

Our life of aspiration-cries
Just feels that we are becoming better,
More illumining and more self-giving.

25421

When I do not meditate,
I see nothing in myself.
The world too sees nothing in me.
When I meditate,
Not only I myself but the whole world
Sees Heaven in my God-climbing eyes.

25422

I ask myself quite often one question:
“Is there any reason why Heaven
Has to wait?
Can we not fly and be in the heart of Heaven
Here and now?”

25423

An enthusiasm-mind
And an aspiration-heart
Can do the impossible
Whenever they want to.

25424

An eagerness-heart tells us
To be with God immediately
And live for God eternally.

25425

My Lord, may my aspiration-heart
And dedication-life
Fly and fly far above
The teeming doubt-clouds.

25426

God accepts my heart-tears
Happily.
God accepts my soul-smiles
Proudly.

25427

If you feel a sudden surge of joy
During your meditation,
That means you have reached
A higher plane of consciousness.

25428

Where does divine love
Come from?
It comes from
Our self-giving life.

25429

To keep your eyes clear
Is not enough,
But to keep your heart completely pure
Is more than enough
To receive God’s Blessings
In abundant measure.

25430

If you use your mind,
You will see how far you can go
From God’s Compassion-Eye.
If you use your heart,
You will see how close you can come
To God’s Compassion-Eye.

25431

My joy knows no bounds
When my heart sits at the foot
Of God-devotion-tree.

25432

It is always the right time
And the right place
To pray to God
And meditate on God.

25433

The moment you feel
That you are indispensable,
You have dug your grave.
Your spiritual life has come to an end!

25434

In one glance
How much your Master can give you
Will always remain
Far beyond your imagination.

25435

Be careful of your dark vital!
Your dark vital can easily blackmail
Your searching mind
And even your aspiring heart.

25436

Every day I pray to God
To make me a permanent resident
Of His Heart-Country.

25437

Every morning I prayerfully embrace
God’s Feet
To illumine my mind
And to perfect my life.

25438

It is so simple
To get up early in the morning
And pray and meditate.
Yet it is so difficult,
Unbelievably difficult!

25439

Unconditional surrender
Is only a few steps away
From self-discovery.

25440

Be careful of your mind!
If your mind once gets hold
Of your sweet dreams,
It will tarnish all their beauty
And fragrance.

25441

If you are too full of yourself,
You will never receive
A Love-Compassion-Blessing-Letter
From God.

25442

You have decided not to complain
Against anybody.
God has decided to entertain
Only you.

25443

I am praying to God
To bring me a pass
To come watch
His Infinity’s new creation-dance.

25444

Since mankind is nothing other than
A yawning vigilance,
The hostile forces have a free access
To mankind’s heart-temple.

25445

Your God-hunger must not be confined
Only to early in the morning
And the evening.
It has to be sleepless and breathless.
Then only God will claim you
As His own, very own,
And you will also be entitled
To claim God as your own, very own.

25446

No matter how sincerely I try,
Alas,
Every day I am stunned
By sudden self-doubt.

25447

Alas, the God-Hour has passed by
For me to offer my gratitude-heart
To God.
Therefore, I am now really doomed.

25448

We offer our feeble hopes
To God.
God offers us His solemn Promise.

25449

If our heart can commune
With the Unknowable,
Then our life can cross beyond
The snares of death.

25450

Alas, the mind of each human being
Is unnecessarily burdened
With endless questions.

25451

A genuine God-lover does not live
Either in his blighted dreams
Or in his dashed hopes.

25452

Alas, we do not care for
The God-blessed crown within us!
We crave only the man-made crown.

25453

When we unnecessarily criticise
God the creation,
We do not realise
That we are making a blunder
Of Himalayan proportions.

25454

Smile within and smile without
If you want to free yourself
From the weight of futile frustrations.

25455

No desire-prompted action
Will ever be able to give us
Even an iota of satisfaction.

25456

Alas, my heart-home is empty
Of God’s Compassion-Eye
And His Forgiveness-Feet!

25457

When our soul-bird sings
Inside our mind-jungle,
Even our mind-jungle begins to inspire
And aspire for
The whole world.

25458

The ultimate Goal
Is not something to understand.
It is something to grow into.

25459

Be careful of your desire-life.
You may be trampled
By its treasured pride.

25460

Surrender, surrender
Sleeplessly and breathlessly
Your life to God,
If you want God to approve of your life
And all its activities.

25461

My blossoming faith in God
Is an instant problem-shooter
In my life.

25462

I am a server and not a supporter
Of God’s Peace-Foundation
On earth.

25463

If we do not consciously long for
God-realisation,
Then we may become eventually
Kings and queens of self-deception.

25464

Alas,
My frustration-mind
Is something that never changes!

25465

If we do not try to please God
With our heart’s prayerful songs,
Then our soul will be forced to repent
With bitter tears.

25466

My Lord Beloved Supreme,
Do save my life
From my self-styled, mournful
Load of despair.

25467

O my mind,
Do not return to bygone days!
There is nothing worth seeing.

25468

If you really love God,
Then openly tell the world
That you prefer God to anything else
In the world.

25469

Do not foist your ideas on others.
Each one has to grow in his own way,
If not in God’s own Way.

25470

The mind is always eager
To shatter the silence-life
Of the aspiration-heart.

25471

At every moment
You must, without fail,
Fortify your mind
With positive thoughts.

25472

I turn to God
Not only in my hour of sorrow,
But also in my hour of unimaginable joy.

25473

My inner remembrance
Of God’s Touch
Is feeding my aspiration-heart
Sumptuously.

25474

My doubting mind
And my strangling vital
Are in an increasingly bitter battle
For supremacy.

25475

To restore God’s confidence in you,
Cry like a motherless
And fatherless child.

25476

God does not believe in
Your plethora of excuses
As to why you fail
Time and again
To please Him.

25477

What is life,
If not absolutely short-term
Name and fame?

25478

We must follow our Lord’s Footsteps
Wherever He wants to lead us
For our perfection-life.

25479

The oneness-song
Pure hearts
Never stop singing.

25480

If it is real love,
Then it must ultimately surrender
Happily and cheerfully
To God’s Will.

25481

Nobody has the capacity
To choose God.
It is God Himself
Who chooses us all.

25482

At every moment
A God-orbit
Is of supreme necessity.

25483

God’s Compassion-Eye
And God’s Forgiveness-Heart
Always remain absolutely perfect,
No matter from where you look.

25484

Every day I pray to God
To give me the capacity
To fly in
My love, devotion and surrender-skies.

25485

When I sympathise with someone,
I create the beauty and smile
Of a new God.

25486

Alas, I do not know
When I shall be able to discover
The golden pathway
Of my aspiration-heart.

25487

Each good thought
Is a living shrine
In the Heart of the Supreme.

25488

When I look at my heart-eye,
I become the energy
Of the whole cosmos.

25489

God wants to intensify
Our mind’s search for Him
And amplify
Our heart’s inseparable oneness
With Him.

25490

Where is God’s Compassion-Eye?
It is just a prayer-breath away
From my heart, from my life!

25491

If you do not begin
Your life-project today,
Then there is no assurance
That you will ever be able
To begin your life-project.

25492

Every day I desperately try
To experience the exquisite beauty
Of my surrender-life.

25493

If each morning you really want
To wake up
And try to pray and meditate,
Then God will supply you
With more and more inner alarms
So you can be punctual.

25494

God waited and waited for a long time
For my mind’s acceptance of His Divinity.
Alas, God has now expelled
My doubting mind
From His Inner Circle!

25495

May my everyday life
Grow into a dynamo
Of birthless and deathless energy.

25496

Switch on
The aspiration-light,
And switch off
Ignorance-night.

25497

In the long run,
We come to realise
That our surrender-life
Is God’s supreme Satisfaction.

25498

I am determined to become
What God’s Dream
Wants me to become.

25499

His very life-breath quivers with delight
At the very sight of
His Master’s compassion-flooded eye.

25500

If you can make
Your unconditional surrender perfect,
Then you will not need
Even one more day
To reach your Goal Supreme.

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