Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 256

25501

My Lord Supreme,
Do bless me every day
With special Blessings
So that my entire being
Can beam with the light
Of tranquillity.

25502

My Lord,
Your powerful Smile
Is the peerless fortune
Of my life.

25503

To become fully acquainted
With your soul,
You must lovingly, devotedly
And unreservedly
Believe in your Master.

25504

A mind of worry
Is simply
A wasted life.

25505

When gratitude survives
All disappointments,
Then it is real gratitude.

25506

Do not waste away
Today’s golden opportunity.
It will never come back!

25507

Each purity-thought in the mind
Will definitely help the seeker
In accelerating his inner progress.

25508

When divine necessity demands,
If you are not ready to bend,
Then you will not be able to rise
Higher than the highest.

25509

A God-readiness-mind,
A God-willingness-life
And a God-eagerness-heart
Every day make special contributions
Towards God-manifestation on earth.

25510

Alas, when my life takes a wrong turn,
I do not know how deeply
My Lord’s Heart suffers.

25511

If you want to follow the spiritual life
In the strict sense of the term,
Then keep your heart-compass
Always in good condition.

25512

What the aspiring heart knows,
Feels and does
Will always remain far beyond
The comprehension of the mind.

25513

When we do not awake
To our Divinity’s Call,
Humanity may not feel
That it is a great loss,
But Divinity does.

25514

If I do not conquer my ego-foe
In my inner life,
Then in my outer life
My ego-foe will just destroy me.

25515

Human action loves
The power of achievement.
Divine action loves
The beauty and fragrance
Of aspiration.

25516

Unconditional surrender
Is an indispensable course
In the life-school of a seeker.

25517

The beauty that embodies a dream
Has also the power
To fully manifest a reality.

25518

Where to begin?
With a readiness-mind,
With a willingness-life
And
With an eagerness-heart.

Where to end?
Nowhere,
Nowhere,
Nowhere!

25519

Aspiration is the only bridge
Between our today’s heart-bloom
And our tomorrow’s life-blossoms.

25520

How to nourish your eagerness?
To nourish your eagerness,
Daily feed your selflessness.

25521

The suspecting mind,
The doubting mind
And even the searching mind
Do not care for the beauty, purity
And divinity of solitude.

25522

The destination of the desire-mind
Is frustration-thorns.
The destination of the aspiration-heart
Is perfection-roses.

25523

My God-realisation
Is not humanity’s gift
But Divinity’s Boon.

25524

The heart-experience
And the mind-experiment
Are absolutely essential
In our spiritual life.

25525

The inner ascent
Is infinitely steeper
Than the outer ascent.

25526

If you do not shake your fist
At your doubting mind,
Your doubting mind
Will never change.

25527

Give up your old, crystallized
Mind-vital-comforts
If you want to make a sincere effort
At God-discovery.

25528

Science thinks that it can live
Without God.
Spirituality knows and feels
That its very breath
Is God Himself.

25529

Science, like a dying man,
Secretly believes in God
And needs God.

25530

When science and spirituality
Receive an invitation-letter from God,
Spirituality immediately accepts it
With love, devotion and surrender,
But science does not even take the trouble
Of reading the invitation.
Science just discards it!

25531

An unaspiring man
Needs hope to live.
An aspiring seeker
Needs promises to make.

25532

Each divine moment of a seeker
Has the capacity
To capture his soul-essence.

25533

My soul every day
Invites my body, vital, mind and heart
To come and converse with it,
But they all avoid the soul
Out of fear.

25534

If we have surrendered
Consciously, constantly and sleeplessly,
Then we can outdistance everybody
And everything
In the God-satisfaction-race.

25535

I do not have to be first
In my outer race,
As long as I can do extremely well
In my inner race
Against doubt, worries and anxieties.

25536

The secret and sacred code
Of all truth-seekers and God-lovers
Is surrender to God’s Will.

25537

Love, love, love, love!
This is the source
Of inspiration-light
And aspiration-delight.

25538

The autocrat-mind’s triumph
Over the heart
Can never be abiding.
It is brief, very brief.

25539

O my mind, O my vital,
I cannot imagine how you two
Are not ashamed of your disloyalty
To our Lord Beloved Supreme.

25540

Only the soul can make
God’s Victory-predictions
Correctly and perfectly.

25541

Your arid mind has reached
The height of stupidity:
It consciously avoids
God’s Compassion-Abundance.

25542

Our heart’s devotion must reach
Himalayan purity-heights every day,
Without fail.

25543

Faith is the blooming present
Of our life.
Surrender is the blossoming future
Of our life.

25544

A soulful smile-song
Can easily expedite
Our Godward journey.

25545

Every morning the aspiring heart
Composes many oneness-songs
To please our Lord Supreme
In His own Way.

25546

The searching mind is stunned
When it is attacked
By brooding doubts.

25547

May my heart’s dedication-car
And my life’s service-engine
Every day run fast, faster, fastest.

25548

My Lord Supreme
Accepts my life’s humble service
Not only readily,
But also happily and proudly.

25549

My Lord, I know well
That I deserve Your Scoldings
Infinitely more than I deserve Your Smiles.
Therefore, I do not know why and how
You smile at me
Infinitely more than You scold me.

25550

What is not a meditation?
Anything that tells me
That God is not for me,
For my blunders,
But that God is for others.

25551

When I am in the physical presence
Of my Master,
I try to hide my weaknesses.
But alas, he repeatedly tells me
That my weaknesses are his
And it is his bounden duty
To illumine my ignorance
With his own divine light.

25552

So many times I ask myself:
“Is there anything that I really need
From humanity?”
In my deepest meditation
I get the answer:
“No, there is not, as long as
God is with me and for me!”

25553

When I spontaneously surrender
To God’s Will,
God sheds immediately Tears
Of Joy, Love and Pride.

25554

The doubting mind
And the aggressive vital
Will never know
Where the all-illumining soul lives.

25555

The face of surrender
Is beautiful to the extreme,
And perfect perfection.

25556

Alas, I do not know why I cry
When my Lord smiles at me
And, again, why I smile
When my Lord cries for me.
Why?
Why?
I must reciprocate His Smiles.
I must reciprocate His Cries.

25557

My Lord tells me
That yesterday’s gratitude-flower
Pleased Him yesterday,
But today’s gratitude-flower
I must give Him today
To please Him.

25558

Our self-assertion
God never takes as a source of inspiration.
Our God-affirmation
For our fastest inner progress
Is God’s only source of delight.

25559

My Lord, I am eagerly waiting,
Waiting in my heart-garden for You.
Where is Your Compassion-Eye, where?
Where is Your Forgiveness-Heart, where,
My Lord Beloved Supreme?

25560

Your soul is always ready
To tell you everything about God,
But do you believe in your soul?
No, never!

25561

My Lord,
I am praying for that magic moment
When I shall be able
To sincerely claim You as my own,
Very own.

25562

What is the difference
Between my soul and my mind?
My soul is a supreme authority
On faith,
And my mind is a supreme authority
On doubt.

25563

When we pray to God for God’s Victory,
God invites us to live
Inside His own Heart-Garden
Of Beauty and Fragrance.

25564

My Lord Beloved Supreme tells me:
“My child, My child, come quickly,
Come quickly!
I am all ready.
I am all ready
To barter My Compassion
For your ignorance.”

25565

My vital and my mind
Are finally ready
To see the Light of God
Through the aspiration
Of my heart.

25566

Sweet thoughts
Can definitely revive
Your mind
From its shameful death.

25567

Now it is my heart’s turn
To speak about God
And manifest God here on earth.

25568

Whenever I speak from my faith-heart,
My Lord comes
Closer than the closest to me
And blesses me with all His Pride.

25569

My Lord, my Lord, my Lord,
Only one prayer:
Do awaken my heart,
My Lord, my Lord!

25570

Alas, for so many years
I have been studying
The heart-language,
Yet I have not acquired any mastery.

25571

I am finally ready to keep
Only my heart’s sweet
And inspiring memories.

25572

If you speak from your faith-heart,
Then both humanity and Divinity
Will eventually trust you
And fulfil you.

25573

What do we see in God’s Heart-Garden?
We see two most important
Dream-realities:
God-Beauty and God-Fragrance.

25574

The realisation of the ancients
We do not long for, alas!
The perfection of Heaven
We do not long for either, alas!

25575

Do not boast of your mind’s
Supremacy-freedom.
If you want to boast,
Then boast of your soul’s
God-oneness-freedom.

25576

O my aspiration-heart,
Do not wait!
Attack the undivine, hostile bandit-forces
Before they get any chance to attack you.

25577

If you use your heart for everything,
Then only you shall be able to arrive
At God’s Satisfaction-Station-Stop.

25578

Because you have
A longing heart of hope,
You will be able to arrive
At your Golden Shore.

25579

God needs seekers not to win
In the battlefield of life,
But to surrender to Him the results
In the battlefield of life.

25580

A sincere God-lover
Will never ask God to reconsider
His divine Intention.

25581

The mind’s promises
Are infinitely easier to keep
Than the heart’s
God-fulfilment-promise.

25582

My aspiration-life, to my greatest joy,
Is cradled by God Himself
Inside His
Compassion-Concern-Heart-Garden.

25583

Like us,
God also needs every day
Good news
To smile at His creation.

25584

God not only sees, knows and feels
But also takes all our problems
As His own, very own.

25585

An enforced obedience is worse
Than the worst possible obedience
For a God-seeker.

25586

Not only our heart,
But also our mind, vital, body —
Everything that we have
Is God’s own Handiwork.

25587

Quite often our minds are dry.
Our hearts are at times dry.
But our souls are always happy
And cheerful.
They are never dry.

25588

If you accompany truth-seekers
And God-lovers repeatedly,
Yours will be very fast spiritual progress.

25589

There are no such things
As love-excess, devotion-excess
And surrender-excess.
No!

25590

God never asks us to whisper
In His Presence.
He asks our mind, heart and life
To speak as loudly as possible,
Provided they are soulful.

25591

If you allow irritation
To enter into your mind
And frustration to enter into your vital,
How can you expect to make real progress
In your spiritual life?

25592

You need rich smiles
And helpless tears
To conquer the Heart of God.

25593

Spirituality is not meant
For those who enjoy deliberately
A mist-enshrouded mind.

25594

Be strong both inwardly and outwardly
To transfer your love
From your body, vital and mind
To God.

25595

Do not be absorbed in your troubles.
Dive deep within to bring to the fore
Your adamantine will.

25596

You have to invoke peace
Every day in your life,
Not only when
You are worry and anxiety-stricken.

25597

Every day pray to God
To bless you with new enthusiasm.
Otherwise your old enthusiasm
May at any time evaporate.

25598

My Lord Supreme,
Do whatever You want to do
With this insignificant life of mine.
My life and I are all ready
To make You happy in Your own Way.

25599

The sole purpose of my life
Is to go back once more
To my peace-home-heart.

25600

The singing and dancing flames
Of our aspiration-heart
And dedication-life
Shall, without fail, reach
The highest Heaven of Delight.

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