Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 26

2501

Since I started seeing
With my heart,
I see there is nothing
Beyond my life’s soulful reach.

2502

You can have access to God
By longing for your heart’s
Perfection-song.

2503

To establish oneness
With the world within
And the world without
Is the best way for those
Who want to realise God
And satisfy God in His own Way.

2504

Before temptation knocks
At your door,
Fence your life around
With purity’s divine smile.

2505

God will not show you
His Heart’s Treasury
If you fail to show Him
Your own heart’s oneness-coin.

2506

A Tear from God’s Eye
Is humanity’s beautiful aspiration.
A Smile from God’s Eye
Is humanity’s powerful realisation.

2507

If self-offering
Does not apply to you,
How can God-becoming
Ever apply to you?

2508

The secrets of the inner heights
Dwell far beyond
The territories of the mind.

2509

If you are really wise,
Then you will solve
Not only today’s fleeting problems
But also tomorrow’s teeming problems.

2510

Your mind’s flattery-gift
God will never accept.
He will accept only
Your heart’s ecstasy-gift.

2511

In exchange for
Your heart’s purity-gift
God will grant you
His Soul’s Divinity-Crown.

2512

My soul’s adamantine will
Can easily shake
The impossibility-tree
At any time.

2513

The modern world thinks,
“God has to be demonstrated.”
The ancient world thought,
“God has to be realised.”

2514

God tells me
That there is nothing
I cannot repay Him for
With my heart’s unconditional surrender.

2515

If you are waiting
For the mental clouds to part,
Then even Eternity’s patience
Will laugh at your stupidity.

2516

You have desecrated
Many soulful and valuable things
In your life,
But do not desecrate
The purity-breath
Of your heart-shrine.

2517

If your Master’s words
Go unheeded,
Then your heart’s happiness-flower
Will never blossom.

2518

Even God does not believe
That the human mind
Will acquire receptivity from God
To receive His Compassion-Light
And Satisfaction-Delight.

2519

You invite
Attention.
Frustration comes
Uninvited.

2520

You lived your life
Intensely.
That does not mean
That God loved your heart
Immensely.

2521

The best defence
Against doubt-danger:
Your heart’s silence-meditation.

2522

As your mind cries
For the outer world,
Even so, your heart can easily cry
For the inner world,
Which is constantly favoured
By those who make a comparison
Between the two worlds.

2523

For the human mind to think
That it is as powerful as God
Is not an uncommon experience.

2524

God definitely wants
The human fraternity
To last for Eternity.

2525

A life of patience
Is for a stoic soul.
A life of forgiveness
Is for a liberated soul.

2526

A sleep-talking mind
And a life-fulfilling heart
Cannot live in the same boat.

2527

You will hear the God-songs
Of the hoary past
If you pray to God
To appear in your dreams
Every night.

2528

Now that you have given up
Your self-imposed illusion-life,
Your heart will be able to enjoy
The sunburst of God’s Day.

2529

Live in the heart.
The sea-secrets and the mountain-secrets
Of God’s Life
Will reveal themselves to you.

2530

There is no such thing
As a thankless task.
It is all beautiful Blessings
From our Beloved Supreme.

2531

I want everything in my life
To be changeable
Except my love of God.
I want my love of God
To remain totally unchangeable.

2532

On earth
Humanity’s incurable cry
Is my home.

In Heaven
Divinity’s imponderable joy
Is my home.

2533

At the beginning
God never expects
Unconditional attention,
But He does expect
Undivided attention.

2534

Alas, why have I chosen
A blind mind and a wild vital?
Why, why,
In this short span of life?

2535

The scientists
Are secretly admiring
The seekers
But openly ridiculing
The seekers.

2536

Yesterday
I was God’s faithful dog.
Today
I am His beautiful lamb.
Tomorrow
I shall be His powerful lion.

2537

I do not have the courage
To tell earth
That its life is all impurity.

I do not have the courage
To tell Heaven
That its soul is all indifference.

2538

As your mind’s intellectual life
Has narrowed your vision,
Even so, your soul’s intuitive light
Has widened your heart.

2539

No great soul
Is allowed to go off duty
Once it enters into the world-arena
For God-manifestation.

2540

To a desire-bound life
A few tiny flames
Of aspiration-free breath
Are more than enough.

2541

Your Heaven-world-preparation
Is destroying
Your yesterday’s frustration
And creating
Your tomorrow’s illumination.

2542

Heart-mountain-happiness
Is the chosen instrument of God
For His constant manifestation
On earth.

2543

Never allow despair
To hover over
Your heart and soul.

2544

God is ready to wait for you
Indefinitely.
But the question is
If you will ever go
To see Him
In His Palace.

2545

If you are before God,
Pray to Him to grant you
His Eternity’s quenchless
Aspiration-thirst.

2546

If you change your life,
God will allow you
To arrange a meeting
Between Him and humanity.

2547

Now that I am no longer
In my aspiration-heart,
My life has become
A rudderless boat.

2548

The Beauty-Eye of Heaven
Holds Eternity’s
Perfection-Truth.

2549

Each human being can become perfect
Provided he thinks
That his heart’s kingdom
Is not just imagination.

2550

You are your own incurable illusion.
Therefore
Who is going to save you
From the abyss of self-oblivion?

2551

You and your heart must attend
Your ego’s funeral
So that God will allow you
To return to your soul’s
Original homeland.

2552

If you want to resemble God,
Then do not remain
Inside your ignorance-fettered
Mind-cave.

2553

A seeker does not know
What luxury is.
He only knows one thing:
His necessity for God.

2554

If man accepts
What God proposes,
Then God will give him
His Heart’s celestial Treatment.

2555

If your sincerity-song
Has no end,
Then God’s Satisfaction-Smile also
Will never come to an end.

2556

My Lord, unless You force me
To be good,
You will see no satisfaction
Either in my life
Or around my life.

2557

Pray to God the Time
To grant you a friendship
That will give you
An inspiration-sky,
An aspiration-moon
And a realisation-sun.

2558

A God-server needs
No other qualification.
His God-service pleases
Not only God the Compassion
But also God the Justice
Equally.

2559

The soul is a treasure
That we have not yet seen.
The heart is a treasure
That we have seen but lost.

2560

The unknowable future
You must shut out
If you want to give God a chance
To perfect you
And satisfy you.

2561

An impurity-force
Has pulled you down.
A purity-force
Can easily pull you up.
A divinity-force
Every day can teach you
A new self-transcendence-song.

2562

The mind’s impurity-cave
Is the only place
Where divinity-light
Does not want to shine.

2563

A serenity-mind
And a purity-heart
Are God’s private detectives
In the seeker’s inner world.

2564

Who possesses the Possessor?
He who thinks that the Possessor
Is the Liberator
And he who knows that the Possessor
Is the Self-giver.

2565

Mine is an empty heart-cage
That every day longs for
Its soul-bird
To fly into it.

2566

Silence consoles
The suffering human in us.
Silence extols
The smiling divine in us.

2567

Do not keep
Your fear-door open.
Destruction-missiles
Are right in front of the door.

2568

A seeker of peace
And a lover of God
Are every day blessed and garlanded
By the Supreme Himself
In His supreme Palace.

2569

I call it
My heart’s obedience-plant.
God calls it
His Life’s Satisfaction-Tree.

2570

If you soulfully try
To imitate God,
Then God will bountifully make you
A most intimate instrument of His.

2571

O world of sound,
Do not try to fool me.
I definitely know the Sound
Of my Lord’s Footsteps.

2572

This morning my Lord told me
That if I can tame my wild life,
He will give me a free ride
To Heaven.

2573

Always cloudy:
Man’s possession-sky.
Always sunny:
Man’s renunciation-sky.

2574

My Lord does not mind
If I grow slowly
In my spiritual life.
But He will definitely mind
If I do not become
Spiritually strong
And completely perfect.

2575

Unless you get from God
Your heart’s permanent possession,
Love,
How will you measure
Your own life’s divinity?

2576

If you have sleepless aspiration,
Then eventually you will be able
To meet the gods
That are standing
Behind Heaven’s closed doors.

2577

Never fear!
Never surrender!
Your heart’s faith
Will persevere and succeed.

2578

Each morning prayer
Should be a sweet, whispering breath
From God’s Fulness-Vision.

2579

He is now rising
From his mind’s oblivion-sleep.
Therefore, he is quite close
To God’s Compassion-Signal.

2580

How can your dedication-life
Surrender to your temptation-vital?
I can’t believe it,
And I don’t want to believe it.

2581

There is no such thing
As an innocent desire.
Therefore
You cannot safely indulge
Any desire.

2582

His life-maker
Is his love of God.
His heart-breaker
Is his doubt of man.

2583

God faithfully watches
His gratitude-son
And His surrender-daughter
Playing the game
Of His Satisfaction-Dream.

2584

I am waiting
For God’s Satisfaction-Sun
And God is waiting
For my heart’s dawn.

2585

As long as I have a closed mind
And a closed heart,
God thinks it is useless
To keep close watch
Over my life.

2586

The remembrance of happy days
Can easily help you escape
From today’s frustration-night.

2587

A desire-bound impurity-breath
Is nothing other
Than slow suicide.

2588

Your lazy mind will tell you
That it is not worth seeing God.
Your lazy life will tell you
That God will definitely
Wait for you.

2589

To be one of the lucky few
Is to cure yourself
From the contagious doubt-disease.

2590

What I have done to God
Is something I would like
To forget every day.

2591

If you have a heart,
That means
You have faith-bullets, too.
Fire immediately
Your faith-bullets
At your ignorance-night!

2592

Ignorance-weight-loss
Can be guaranteed
Only when the soul’s wisdom-light
Illumines the mind-night.

2593

A tiny temptation-flame
Has burnt
His life’s aspiration-shrine.

2594

A new faith-flower
Is blossoming
Beautifully and charmingly
From his heart-flames.

2595

It is always dangerous
To drive on the desire-highway.
But it is never, never dangerous
To drive on the aspiration-highway,
For God is a sacred Inspirer
And secret Driver there.

2596

It is up to you
To become an aspiration-plant
Or not.
But never invoke the hostile forces
To destroy
The tender aspiration-plants
That are growing so beautifully
Around you.

2597

His soulful heart
Has marvellously qualified
As an excellent student
In self-giving school.

2598

A deep breath of determination
Is the precursor
Of a new realisation
And a new perfection
In life.

2599

Transfer your life
From your desire-impermanence-train
To your aspiration-transcendence-train.

2600

The beauty of my silence-soul
Has now become
The divinity of my gratitude-heart.

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