Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 264

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26301

O seeker, be alert,
Be ready at every moment
To abide by God’s Command.

26302

For God’s Victory,
O my body, vital, mind and heart,
Let us create
An ever-inspiring symphony.

26303

May the compass of God-love
At every moment
Guide each step of mine.

26304

Earthly age encourages
Complacency.
Heavenly age inspires
Ceaseless God-manifestation.

26305

A stress-free spiritual life
Is not only possible
But inevitable.

26306

The most dangerous place
For a truth-seeker
And God-lover
Is his mind-built prison.

26307

O my mind, never ride
With your
Self-indulgence-reins.

26308

The whispers of temptation
I received.
Now the whispers of illumination
Are here.

26309

How can I make any progress at all
If I allow my mind
To be a hurricane of self-doubts?

26310

Take down, take down
The sails of your confusion-mind
If you want your Inner Pilot
To steer your life-boat
Faster than the fastest.

26311

By blaming your unwillingness-mind,
What will you accomplish?
Start taming your unwillingness-mind.
You will accomplish everything.

26312

God is tired of hearing
Every day, every hour
Firecracker-complaints
From all the human minds.

26313

O my mind,
Stop wearing
Your God-unwillingness-armour.

26314

Anger, do not try to break me.
I shall break you!
I shall swim in the sea
Of peace.

26315

When happiness and willingness
Go together,
Man’s inner progress and outer success
Also go together.

26316

I prayed
To the goddess of success.
I was at times successful and at times not.
Now I am praying
To the goddess of progress.
My very prayer gives me utmost satisfaction.

26317

My Lord, allow me to tell You
That although I am failing again and again
To please You,
I shall continue.
I shall continue.

26318

God is always ready to give you
His Heart of Joy, Heart of Love
And Heart of Pride.
It is you who are not ready
To embrace Him.

26319

The human mind
Simply refuses to listen
To the aspiring heart’s messages.

26320

My earthly tears
Shall precede
My God-longing prayers.

26321

My Lord does not force me
To believe in Him.
It is I who have to force myself
To believe in Him
For my perfection.

26322

God’s biggest frustration
Has always been
My unwillingness-mind.

26323

Each day, each hour, each minute
Is a golden opportunity
For our God-manifestation-service.

26324

How can I serve You, my Lord?
“My child, you can serve Me
Lovingly, soulfully, self-givingly
And finally,
Unconditionally.”

26325

Every morning
I purify my mind
With self-giving thoughts.

26326

My heart’s ecstasy-smiles
Expedite
My Lord’s Arrival.

26327

God allows the heart’s happiness
To visit regularly
His Perfection-Satisfaction-Palace.

26328

If you do not put your life
In God’s Compassion-Hands,
Then your life will never become
His Satisfaction.

26329

If you trust God implicitly,
Then there is nothing that God
Will not proudly do for you.

26330

When I start my day
With a surrender-smile,
Everything sings and dances
Before me.

26331

Do not run with your thoughts.
Let them run astray.
Stay in your heart.

26332

Rest assured,
God does not have any patience
For your incessant complaints
Against humanity.

26333

Your mind and heart
God will widen,
If you are happy with each and every
New responsibility.

26334

If I disobey God deliberately,
How can I have
God-Beauty’s ever-brightening
And ever-illumining Smile?

26335

What I need
And what I must give:
A rainbow-smile of delight.

26336

My Lord,
Every day I pray to You
To bless me
With a forgiveness-fountain
And a gratitude-fountain.

26337

O seeker,
Do not allow your life
To be blown away
By your desire-mind.

26338

I do not want to catch God’s Attention.
I want only God’s Compassion
At every moment
In my inner life and in my outer life
As well.

26339

Abandon the thoughts that tell you
You are not meant for the spiritual life,
You are not meant for God-satisfaction,
You are not meant for life-perfection.

26340

The bright side of man
Is man’s need for God.
The dark side of man
Is man’s self-sufficient attitude.

26341

The immediacy
Of God-realisation-tears
Must brook no delay.

26342

Each seeker must have the courage
Not only to accept God
And fulfil God,
But also to defend God.

26343

I eagerly wait for the death
Of my mind’s
Decision and indecision.

26344

Definitely, sooner or later,
The heart’s tears
Will be transformed into
The life’s smiles.

26345

Believe in the beauty
Of your imagination.
It is true, all true!
It is not your mental hallucination.

26346

My Lord, do make my heart
The living breath
Of unconditional surrender.

26347

There is an unseen Hand.
I may not see it,
But it definitely is there
To guide my life.

26348

To play on the world-stage,
We need inner courage
And outer smiles.

26349

It seems that the golden days
Do not last forever.
They are always very brief.

26350

How can you illumine
Your mind’s darkness?
Get your soul’s light
To be a permanent guest
Inside your mind.

26351

O my mind,
Is it your sincere receptivity
Or your sincere curiosity
That you truly enjoy?

26352

O brooding doubts,
True, I cannot outrun you
When you chase me,
But in Heaven you will be nowhere
To chase me.

26353

An unconditional surrender
Is the culmination
Of all sincere self-giving efforts.

26354

My Lord,
I beg for Your Compassion.
I beg for Your Forgiveness.
Then only satisfaction will dawn on me.

26355

Although God works sleeplessly,
He never takes a break.
Being His choice children,
Can we not do the same?

26356

My Lord Supreme,
Please bless me
With a purity-flooded heart-life
To touch and be at Your Feet.

26357

Every day my Lord Supreme
Is extremely eager
To take me to a new destination.
Alas, how often I am not willing —
Not even ready.

26358

When I look back,
I see and become
My old destructive vital.
When I look forward,
I see and become
My deer-speed.

26359

My inner urge has brought me
To the Compassion-Feet
Of my Lord Supreme.
Nothing else could
And nothing else will.

26360

When I love my Lord Supreme
As a drowning man or as a starving man,
I please myself.
But when I love my Lord Supreme
As a self-giving man,
I please my Lord Supreme.

26361

My Lord, for years I have asked You
To please me in my own way.
Now may I be blessed,
Even for a few minutes,
To please You in Your own Way?

26362

When my confidence is founded
Upon my faith in my Lord Supreme,
Then only
My confidence is safe and perfect.

26363

Does God ever make mistakes?
He pretends to make mistakes
So that I do not feel miserable
When I make mistakes.

26364

No obstacle can thwart
My fastest progress,
Unless and until
In one way or another
I consent.

26365

When I am a self-giver,
I become a perfect God-lover,
And not before.

26366

My only goal is to sit
At the Compassion-Forgiveness-Feet
Of my Lord Supreme
And not to admire the Beauty
Of His Eye.

26367

If we do not take love of God
As our only duty, sleepless and breathless,
How can we ever dream
Of making the fastest progress?

26368

May my mind finally bloom
And my heart fully blossom
At Your Lotus-Feet,
My Lord Supreme.

26369

My Lord tells me:
“Do not worry, My child.
Use what you have now.
Use your divine instinct,
And before long I shall give you
The divine intuition.”

26370

By feeling that you are a hopeless case,
You are not helping God in any way.
Remember, you are giving more problems
To Him.

26371

There is only one power
That can mend my broken heart,
And that power
Is God’s Compassion-Eye.

26372

My Lord says to me:
“My child, I care for you
Not because your case is hopeless.
I care for you
Because My Hope-Bridge in you
I must keep strong, stronger, strongest.”

26373

My Lord,
Although I recognise Your Height,
How is it that I am not inspired
To allow You to pilot my life-boat?

26374

My Lord,
Have You come to me
Or have I come to You?

“My child, both.
You have come to Me
With your heart-cries,
And I have come to you
With My Heart-Smiles.”

26375

When I look at my Lord’s Eye,
I start trembling.
My Lord tells me:
“My child, do not tremble.
Just marvel at My Eye.”

26376

My Lord,
What do I need most
From You?
Please let me know.

“My child,
Only one thing
You need from Me:
Advice, constant advice.
And you must obey My Advice!”

26377

My Lord,
When everything fails,
What shall I do?

“My child,
When all else fails,
Just come and sit at My Feet
And never go away.”

26378

My Lord tells me:
“My child, strike your aspiration-bell
Hard, harder, hardest!”

26379

God is more than eager
To break the ignorance-chain
Of your mind.
Alas, when will you be ready?

26380

As soon as I receive Blessings
From my Lord Supreme,
I deposit them in my heart-safe.

26381

Alas, how I wish I could be
In the perfect assembly
Of God’s peace-lovers.

26382

Only our heart’s prayerful tears
Will ever be able to cut
The knot of entanglements.

26383

I have taken it
As my bounden duty
To clear the path
For peace-pilgrims.

26384

God gives us the capacity,
More than we need,
To dismantle the house
Of undivine thoughts.

26385

Only when I look at my heart
Do I see a stream of good deeds flowing
With no obstructions.

26386

We shall be fulfilled
Only when we see
The invisible inside the visible.

26387

My Lord Supreme
Heaved a sigh of relief
At long last
When I told Him
That my inner existence
And my outer existence
Would be only for Him.

26388

My Lord, I do not know
When things will get easier
And better in my life,
But I pray to You to give me
The power of patience
And the light of tolerance.

26389

When I pray to the Supreme
To make me a perfect slave of His,
He tells me that He wants me to be
His perfect playmate.

26390

As long as we have a mind
That loves to fuss and kick,
We will never have satisfaction
In our life.

26391

The beauty and fragrance
Of gratitude
Illumine us in every aspect
Of our lives.

26392

My Lord,
I have pleased myself
For centuries.
Will You not give me the capacity
To please You even for a day?

26393

What is human pride?
Human pride is something
That cannot see itself
In wrong action.

26394

Decrease the number
Of your complaints.
Increase the power
Of your gratitude.

26395

God will teach you
His most favourite tune.
Just lend Him your ear.

26396

The sweet sound
Of a devotional song
Is bound to expedite the journey
Of a spiritual seeker.

26397

God is already up
And is knocking at your heart-door.
Have you any idea
When you are going to be ready?

26398

God always loves those souls most
Who are genuine lovers of light
And who are genuine self-givers.

26399

If we pray and meditate regularly,
Then, without fail, our hearts shall radiate
God-Bliss, God-Light
And everything that God has and God is.

26400

O Absolute Lord of my heartbeat,
May I always be in cadence
With Your Heart-Dance.

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