Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 263

26201

My heart-peace offers me
A glimpse
Of God’s own Heart-Garden.

26202

Peace-fragrance is charming,
Beautiful, fruitful
And perfect.

26203

The heart-peace
Is an armour
That remains forever
Unparalleled.

26204

My mind simply refuses
To accept the heart’s light,
No matter how many kind
And affectionate ways
The heart tries to offer it.

26205

God does not want to hear
The proud stories
Of my success-mind.

26206

God wants to hear
The haunting melodies
Of my progress-heart-songs.

26207

Life is not merely
A little one-act play.
Life has many acts
And many more scenes.

26208

My obedience-life has finally won
Not only blessingful appreciation
But also powerful admiration
From my Lord Supreme.

26209

Either in the immediacy of today
Or in the remote future,
We have to be acclimatised
To God’s Will.

26210

Disobedience definitely has
No sure foothold —
It must stumble or crawl.

26211

The happiest time of God and God’s Life
Is when I give to God everything that I have
And everything that I am
With not an iota of expectation.

26212

For the outer mind
To be grateful to God
Is something unexpectedly novel.

26213

May my heart every day
Open itself wide
For God’s Blessings
And Satisfaction
To come in.

26214

If we cherish our negativity,
Then we lengthen the distance
To our God-realisation.

26215

God is a cosmic Joker,
But He never jokes about
Our heart’s aspiration, life’s dedication
And mind’s gratitude.

26216

The Western ideal of superlatives
Will not be appreciated
By the members of the inner world.

26217

We have been finding fault
With God’s activities
And we want to continue
Our argument with God.
But poor God definitely does not want
To prolong our conversation,
Not to speak of argument.

26218

God’s Compassion and God’s Patience
Have not slept
For millions and billions of years.

26219

My Lord Supreme,
Do give me the capacity
To garland Your Eye and adorn Your Feet
With my life’s dedication-smiles.

26220

O seeker,
Do not allow waves of sorrow
To extinguish your aspiration-flames.

26221

Be regular, be punctual
And be all determination.
You are bound to succeed!

26222

O seeker, pay no attention
To the world’s savage criticism.
You are more than perfect
In God’s ever-blossoming Compassion-Eye.

26223

If you are enmeshed
In the net of human emotion,
How can you get divine satisfaction
From your life?

26224

Falsehood can either be
Truth in the making
Or truth in the process of breaking.

26225

What is wisdom?
Wisdom is something
That reconciles opposite truths.

26226

No matter how long or how much
Divine Love God squanders,
It always remains totally undiminished.

26227

A true God-lover
At once traverses time
With an eagerness-heart,
An eagerness-mind and eagerness-feet
To arrive at the Destination.

26228

Neither the North Pole nor the South Pole,
Nor any corner of the globe,
Can ever limit or diminish
The Beauty of God’s universal Dream
And transcendental Reality.

26229

God’s Will and my surrender-smile
Have been working together
Excellently.

26230

One of the most amazing
Of God’s Mysteries
Is my doubting mind’s God-acceptance
In its totality.

26231

Alas, how many people are here on earth
Who are trying to manifest God’s Light
Sleeplessly and breathlessly?

26232

Man’s silence-God-prayers
Reach God’s Ear
Sooner than the soonest.

26233

Do not allow
Your self-offering-heart-flower
Ever to be blighted.

26234

The mind-orator says:
“God has.”
The heart-audience says:
“God is.”

26235

I have been trying to protect
My aspiration-heart-plant.
I really must succeed!

26236

If you are a true seeker,
Then every day you must launder
Your filthy, dirty doubt-mind.

26237

Every day
I discard adamantly
The negativities of my mind.

26238

To have a soulful thought
Is infinitely more significant
Than to visit a God-worship-temple.

26239

My love of God
Will definitely play the role
Of my mind’s darkness-extinguisher.

26240

Realisation is something
That spontaneously reveals itself
To us.

26241

Punctuality-necessity
In our spiritual life
Will strengthen
Our aspiration-heart.

26242

If we feel we need not surrender
Our will to God’s Will,
We are bound to suffer
The nightmare of despair.

26243

O Heaven-train-passenger,
Are you carrying with you
Your heart’s gratitude-ticket?
If not, you will be forced
To leave the train.

26244

May the aspiring heart of humanity
Taste Nectar-Delight
From God’s Compassion-Eye.

26245

When I pray, I pray to God
For my success-smile.
When I meditate, I meditate on God
For my progress-dance.

26246

Who can put an end
To our mind’s suspicions,
If not God the Light?

26247

Who can stop
Our vital frustrations,
If not God the Compassion?

26248

We try to judge God.
Alas, if God wanted to judge us,
Where would we be?

26249

My Lord, allow me to tell You
Only one thing:
I love You in spite of
My ignorance-cherishing life.

26250

If we do not feel God’s Love
All-where,
Then our love of God
Remains imperfect.

26251

My anger cannot break my mind.
Only my heart’s tears
Can break my mind.

26252

When willingness and eagerness
Are running together
Towards God’s Compassion-Eye
And God’s Satisfaction-Heart,
Nothing, nobody can stand in their way!

26253

My mind says to God:
“God, tell me how I can help You.”
My heart says to God:
“My Lord, do tell me how
I can ever be of service to You.”

26254

To know and feel
The mission of my soul
Here on earth,
I must keep my desire-life
Far, far away from me.

26255

Stop immediately
Criticising your divinity.
If not, it is you who will be
Eternity’s beggar,
Both in your inner life
And your outer life.

26256

The seekers of truth
And the lovers of light
Always have a very special place
In God’s Satisfaction-Heart.

26257

O my mind,
Pray for just one moment
For God to release you
From your self-chosen prison.

26258

What is life,
If not a God-given opportunity
For God-manifestation?

26259

Alas, God’s Compassion-Eye
Is a foreigner
In our mind-territories.

26260

My Lord forces my mind
To believe in His Greatness.
My Lord does not tell my heart
How great He is.
My heart knows not only how great He is,
But also how good He is.

26261

No matter how the mind tries,
It only revolves again and again
Through the unaspiring thought-door.

26262

My morning surrender-meditation
Is infinitely more beautiful,
Powerful and fruitful
Than I can ever disclose.

26263

I was once a student of self-deception.
Now I have become
A student of self-correction,
Plus God-satisfaction.

26264

We can be happy
And we can be confident
Only when we place ourselves
In the Elysian lap of Mother Earth.

26265

O Lord,
You decide whether I should be
At the foot of my aspiration-mountain
Or on top of my aspiration-mountain.
My surrender is my goal.

26266

May my aspiration-heart
And my dedication-life
Proclaim my readiness, willingness
And eagerness
To manifest God every day.

26267

My little faith-blossom-plant,
I love you.
I appreciate your beauty.
I admire your fragrance.

26268

There is no such thing
As a minor paradise.
Paradise is always major, sublime
And perfect.

26269

O my mind, O my vital,
Nobody forces you to embrace
Frustration-blindness,
Nobody!

26270

My Lord,
One Compassion-flooded word
From You
Clears my path ahead.

26271

My Lord, the Smile-Beauty
Of Your Eye
I see not only inside my heart
But also inside every limb of mine.

26272

O my mind, do not forget
That you are also assigned
To manifest God’s Dream
On earth.

26273

My heart has caught a rainbow
To decorate
My heart-shrine.

26274

How can you succeed in your inner life
If you allow your mind to be puffed up
By constant outer success?

26275

Alas, I came to my Lord Supreme
Too late!
Alas, I came to my Lord Supreme
With too little!

26276

The ambition-driven mind
Will never succeed in the outer life
And will never proceed in the inner life.

26277

Be careful, be cautious,
O my mind.
You can fall asleep at any moment
At the wheel of your life’s progress.

26278

Every day, every hour
My Lord is desperately trying
To liberate me
From my mind’s self-created hell.

26279

You will pass the examination
Of your life
When your very breath
Is a God-Satisfaction-quest.

26280

Talented God-deceivers
Are everywhere.
Self-giving, talented God-lovers
Are hardly available.

26281

There is no such thing
As an abbreviated spiritual course
In God’s entire creation.

26282

Finally I have reduced my singing
Of my life’s and my heart’s
All-insecurity-songs.

26283

My heart was born
To win God’s Compassion-Eye
And God’s Forgiveness-Heart.

26284

I need a simple heart
That gives constant joy
To others.

26285

O seeker, take care of yourself.
Be not distressed by others’ disobedience.
Your own progress-life
Is your only responsibility.

26286

If God-belief
Is nothing but your mind-philosophy,
Then God-discovery
Will never be within your reach.

26287

My Lord has blessed me
With a self-giving purity-heart
That will never deny Him.

26288

Every day I see
A new Compassion-Eye of God
Blessing His creation
With infinite Ecstasy.

26289

I keep no account
Of my
Frustration-lamentation-vital.

26290

My God-aspiration
Pulls me upward.
My God-dedication
Pulls me forward.

26291

Of all the virtues that I have,
My God-faith is by far
The greatest and best.

26292

I am definitely a member
Of my Lord’s
Heart-Home.

26293

O my mind,
You must not and must not object
To my God-manifestation-
Determination-hunger.

26294

Inside Mother Earth’s heartbeat,
Divinity’s Immortality-Vision
Grows and glows.

26295

Have you seen my Lord lately?
“Yes, I have seen Him.
He is searching for you.
He is in desperate need of you!”

26296

Frustration-dance
Will forever remain
Foreign to my heart.

26297

O my mind,
Come out, come out
Of your ignorance-fog.
Look!
A rainbow is dancing
Over your head.

26298

If you live in the heart,
Then you can easily see
How it radiates God’s Compassion,
God’s Affection, God’s Love
And God’s Grace.

26299

My Lord,
One little Smile
From Your Compassion-Eye
Is the Protector of my entire world.

26300

When I prayerfully look at my Lord’s Face,
He embraces my eyes.
When I prayerfully look at my Lord’s Feet,
He blessingfully and proudly
Blesses my head with His Feet.

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