Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 259

25801

The closeness
Of my Lord Beloved Supreme
Is the only dream-reality
That quenches
My heart’s aspiration-thirst.

25802

If we want to be perfect
In our spiritual life,
Then we must bravely march
Inside our heart-territory.

25803

God’s infinite Compassion
Every day flows towards us
Through His Forgiveness-Heart-River.

25804

I wanted to offer
My undivine thoughts to God
Every hour,
But my Lord wants me to offer Him
My undivine thoughts
At every second.

25805

When I feel my need
Is God’s Need,
I dance with absurdity.
But when I feel God’s Need
Is my need,
I enjoy the full blossoming
Of Divinity’s Reality.

25806

The road of the intellect
At times can be very gloomy, dark
And even dangerous.

25807

Each undivine, uninspiring thought
Is, indeed, a curse
To my spiritual life.

25808

Our heart’s genuine aspiration-cries
Keep us away from
Our mind’s confusion-prison.

25809

Is there anybody
Who does not want to enjoy
The sweetest flavour
Of blooming hopes?

25810

Our jungle-mind-decisions
Lead us to immediate
Frustration-doom.

25811

Smile, smile at your failure,
If you want to continue
And be perfect
In God’s Cosmic Game.

25812

Once you enter into the spiritual life,
Do not waver, do not hesitate.
Do not allow yourself to be diverted
From your God-realisation-journey.

25813

If we want to succeed and proceed
In our spiritual life,
We must bravely confront
All the pains of our life.

25814

Shine, shine,
O my inner heart-sun!
Shine, shine —
At every moment shine!

25815

God readily, eagerly
And proudly
Blesses my heart’s gratitude-tears.

25816

What is disobedience,
If not the ignorance-pride
Of my mind?

25817

Obedience means something
Infinitely more
Than I ever thought.

25818

God does not ask me to observe
The sorrows of the world,
But He asks me to become one
With all the sorrows of the world.

25819

My Lord Supreme,
Never cease to command me
At Your sweet Will.

25820

I must treasure my constant need
Of God-obedience
And ignorance-repentance.

25821

Because of my constant disobedience,
My aspiration-life
Has gone away from me.

25822

I must always escape
From the mind that parades itself
And the vital that exhibits itself.

25823

When I enter into my mind-jungle,
I immediately find
That I am infinitely less important
Than I thought.

25824

When I stand in front of
My Lord Supreme,
I find myself to be
Infinitely more important
Than I ever thought.

25825

May every day come to me
With a fresh supply of faith
And surrender-breath.

25826

Experience-dreams
Are, indeed, good.
Realisation-reality
Is infinitely better.

25827

Each new God-surrender-breath
Of my heart
Tastes sweeter than the previous one.

25828

My gratitude-heart-days always come
With equal inspiration, aspiration,
Dedication and bliss.

25829

When I do anything good or divine
For my Lord Supreme,
My blessingful reward
Is always certain.

25830

When I am in my mind,
I experience life as an illusion.
When I am in my heart,
I realise life as a divine reality.

25831

My obedience-heart
Not only sweetens
But enlightens
Every moment of my life.

25832

At long last
I am seeing my heart’s
Peace-freedom-oneness-horizon.

25833

When I am in my mind,
I am involved in a useless
Transformation-battle.

25834

With the loss of sincerity,
My heart is now empty
Of beauty.

25835

A heart of sincerity and eagerness
Is of paramount importance
For God-manifestation here on earth.

25836

My Lord, do come into my heart
Every day
With the beauty and fragrance
Of a new dream.

25837

Lovingly and proudly
I equally value
All my mind’s exits
And all my heart’s entrances.

25838

My Lord, if You do not give me
Yet another chance
To love You and serve You,
I shall surely end my life!

25839

Every blooming mind
And every blossoming heart
Is, indeed,
A tremendous God-satisfaction.

25840

O my aspiration-flames,
How lovingly you bring to me
My aspiration-heart, my illumination-sun
And my realisation-God-divinity.

25841

I displease God
More than I can ever imagine
When I allow myself
To withdraw unnoticed.

25842

May my aspiration-heart
Be as beautiful as the dawn,
As powerful as the sun
And as vast as the sky.

25843

O my disobedience-mind,
Do you know how ruthlessly
You are torturing me at every moment?

25844

The friendship
That is founded upon self-giving
Even death cannot sever.

25845

The contest
Between the unaspiring mind
And the aspiring heart
Can never be equal,
For God always takes the side
Of the aspiring heart.

25846

When I deliberately do not listen
To my soul,
I feel that I am helplessly stranded
In the vastness-territory of the unknown.

25847

What is my poor Lord doing?
He is waiting and waiting
For my prompt arrival.

25848

If you are afraid
Of your disagreeable God-duties,
Then God Himself will make you exit
From His Heart-Home.

25849

Alas, every day
How much time we waste
Being prompted by idle
And useless curiosity!

25850

If you allow your mind
To be skeptical,
Then your aspiration-heart
Will be empty of delight.

25851

Each undivine thought
Secretly wants to demolish
Your heart’s God-love-building.

25852

I have decided
That I shall never mingle
With my mind’s bitterness.
I shall always mingle
With my heart’s sweetness.

25853

What do you want?
Decide here and now:
God-forgetfulness-pleasure
Or
God-remembrance-delight-treasure.

25854

When I surrender my life
To my soul,
I am allowed to study
The God-satisfaction-book
In my Lord’s Heaven-Library.

25855

You can easily reach
The summit-height of the saints
If you pay special attention
To your mind’s sincerity
And your heart’s purity.

25856

When I am in my mind’s poorhouse,
I see doubt-donations
Pouring in fast, very fast.

25857

If you can truly surrender,
Then God will be able to fulfil
In and through you
A great many of His inspiring
And illumining Dreams.

25858

Be careful!
One day you will have to introduce yourself
To your illumining soul.

25859

If you are true to your own heart,
Then there will be nobody on earth
Unreal to your life.

25860

Like God,
I must give everything away.
Like God,
I must not believe in conserving anything.

25861

My Lord Supreme has no time
To watch my mind’s
Proud success-march.

25862

My Lord Supreme has all the time
In the world
To listen to my heart’s
Progress-song.

25863

Every day God tells me
To do one thing for Him:
He asks me to bring to Him
My mind-worries and empty them.

25864

My enthusiasm-mind
And my dynamism-vital
Can easily bring me
Extremely close
To my Lord Supreme.

25865

Alas, will I ever have
A bouquet of spiritual achievements
To offer to my Lord Supreme?

25866

If we can love God
For God’s sake,
Then God will return
Our long-vanished aspiration-moments.

25867

The beauty of peace
Is being buried every day,
And every day
It has to be resurrected.

25868

Wake up, look around
And see the blossoming
Of a totally new world.

25869

My Lord,
May my aspiration-heart
Be made of
Your Compassion-Eye-Songs.

25870

Every heart,
Either secretly or openly,
Offers gratitude-beauty-fragrance
To its Lord Supreme.

25871

Each time I think of offering
My unconditional surrender to God,
I move forward
One step nearer to God.

25872

Your God-realisation may now seem
A remote possibility,
But one day it will seem inevitable.

25873

Do not blame God!
Your half-hearted attempt
At God-realisation
Is fully responsible
For your failure-life.

25874

God Himself
Wants to be enslaved
By our heart’s snow-white prayers.

25875

Challenge
All your insurmountable obstacles.
You are bound to succeed!

25876

The mind is a bundle
Of self-contradictions.
It never arrives
At the satisfaction-goal.

25877

It is better to take
Desire-prompted action
Than to become a victim
To total inactivity.

25878

Long before the heavy weight
Of futile frustration captures us,
We must have
An ever-climbing flame of aspiration-heart.

25879

Try to receive from God
The prize unparalleled:
His Infinity’s Smile.

25880

No matter what problems
You encounter on the path,
If once you have been
A supremely great seeker,
And now you want to leave the path,
You are committing a blunder
Of Himalayan proportions.

25881

We make a deplorable mistake
When we try to run the inner race
Unaided.

25882

We all know
How to starve our soul,
But do we know how to starve
Our God-doubting mind?

25883

Spiritually advanced seekers
Suffer most severely
From their unfulfilled
God-manifestation-promises.

25884

Every day God shows us how to walk
With His new Will
And how to collaborate
With His new Vision.

25885

Even when I am doomed
To disappointment,
I am ready to go with God
Wherever He goes,
Even to the lower than the lowest hell.

25886

If you do not have the time
To thank God
For all the good things
That He has done for you,
God will not mind.
It is your soul
That will severely reprimand you.

25887

My mind-jungle
Has fully surrendered
To my heart-garden.
To me,
It is not a small miracle —
It is the miracle of miracles!

25888

Like my Lord Supreme,
I do not believe in
The breadth, depth and height
Of impossibility.

25889

If you want to increase
Your God-manifestation-capacity,
Then do it slowly, steadily
And unerringly.

25890

Wisdom of the ancients:
Give up everything
For the sake of God.
Wisdom of the moderns:
Since God has everything
At His disposal,
Let me have a few minor things
From Him.

25891

If you can entertain
Even one good thought
In your mind,
Then definitely you and your mind
Will become God’s favourites.

25892

Right from our childhood,
Our parents should help us learn
That our mind can be trained
Only by God’s Compassion-Eye.

25893

To want to know what is destined
Out of curiosity
Is nothing short of utter stupidity.
But to want to know what is destined
In order to work for
The radical transformation
Of an individual or the whole world
Is quite advisable.

25894

We are doomed to disappointment
When we see someone
Has equalled us,
But in God’s case,
He gets Infinity’s Joy
And Immortality’s Delight
When we just make an attempt
To equal Him.

25895

Is our gratitude-heart ready
To welcome
God’s Compassion-Eye
And His Forgiveness-Heart?

25896

Our insecurity-heart and impurity-mind
Somehow become friends,
And together they run away
From God’s all-illumining Compassion-Eye.

25897

Self-doubt
Is the very beginning
Of self-destruction.

25898

My Lord, Your Compassion-Eye
Is the only reality-blossom-treasure
In my spiritual life.

25899

The fulfilment
Of God’s Compassion-Eye
Is my heart’s
Only dream.

25900

When my mind is simple,
When my heart is sincere,
When my life is pure,
God comes down
And teaches my mind, heart and life
The song of Eternity and Infinity.

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