Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 34

3301

A constant gratitude-heart
Is a way of loving God
In God’s own Way.

3302

God visits me twice
Every day.
He visits my mind-room
Only to say how unsatisfied
And dissatisfied He is.
When God visits my heart-room,
He tells me
My heart’s perfection
And His Life’s Satisfaction
Will play their oneness-game
For all Eternity.

3303

In the morning
God gave me
A lesson in His Beauty.

In the evening
God gave me
A lesson in His Silence.

3304

The heart that sleeplessly cries
For God’s Compassion-Light
Is made of God’s special
Fondness-Vision-Delight.

3305

The supreme Height of God’s Compassion
Can forgive humanity
But will never illumine humanity.
For the illumination of humanity,
The Supreme needs
Humanity’s conscious willingness.

3306

No matter how sublime my life is,
I will not be able to transform
Humanity’s confusion-clime.
But I will maintain my hope
That someday, somehow
My Lord Supreme will transform
Humanity’s mind-confusion-clime
Into Divinity’s Illumination-Kingdom.

3307

Two masters live in the same house:
The ignorance-prince
With his master, doubt,
And the wisdom-emperor
With his master, faith.

3308

There are two
Heart-illumining songs:
My purity’s obedience-heart,
My humility’s satisfaction-life.

3309

You want God to see you
Only through your heart-door,
But God wants to look at you
Through your narrow mind-door as well.

3310

His aspiration-campaign ended
In total failure
Because the members
Of his outer family
Did not support him at all.

3311

On the strength of his devotion,
His folded hands
Not only decreased
The animal strength in him
But also increased
The divine power in him.

3312

This life has only one project,
And that is
To inspire the outer world
And aspire for the inner world.

3313

Do not drag
Your despair-heart
And your doubt-mind!
Let them fall easily
Into the chasm of oblivion.

3314

If you believe
In the higher worlds
And do not help this world,
Then your confidence-life
Is nothing short of
A stupidity-mind.

3315

When the cosmic gods
Are on their way to church,
Christ comes to them
Running,
And asks them
To show him their temples
First.

3316

A surrender-life
Is a God-satisfied heart
In God’s perfection-dreaming creation.

3317

He desired all his thoughts
To be docked
In God’s Heart-Harbour,
And God has fulfilled
His snow-white desire.

3318

God refuses to ignore
Either my ignorance-mind
Or my unwillingness-life.

3319

Your mind hesitated.
Therefore
You missed the boat.

Your heart is hesitating.
Therefore
You will miss the Boatman.

3320

He has sent
A surrender-letter to God.
In return,
God has sent him
His Heart’s Satisfaction-Telegram.

3321

God has no pride;
Therefore
He can enter into your heart
Uninvited.
But once He has entered
Into your heart,
Will you be ready
To offer Him His due Throne?

3322

In silence
He shoots my inner troubles.
In silence
He announces my outer victory.

3323

His mind constantly lives
Between
Blind desire and dark hate.

3324

I do not want to live
On renewed hope.
I want to live
On the summit
Of my new aspiration-mountain.

3325

Who deserves
What God has given?
He who has made his life
Into an unconditional heart-flower.

3326

The song of excellence
Can be sung
Only by a seeker’s
Earth-illumining soul.

3327

If you really need God,
Then you do not have to
Wait in line.
You can go to God
Immediately.

3328

He wanted to earn
A doctorate in perfection.
God said to him:
“My child,
Be perfect in your devotion-life
First.
Then I shall grant you
A doctorate in perfection.”

3329

God values
Your surrender-life
Infinitely more than
Your aspiration-heart.

3330

You want God
To come to you first.
But I tell you,
If you go to God first,
Your heart’s ecstasy-experience
You will feel infinitely more.

3331

He is a divine disciplinarian.
Therefore
All those who are around him
Are receiving from him
Satisfaction-delight.

3332

There is always a better way
To offer one’s gratitude-heart
To God,
And that way is to feel
That God’s Compassion-Eye
Is available at every moment
For man’s heart to use.

3333

A mind of doubt
Is humanity’s old headache.
A life of self-offering
Is humanity’s old
And most effective medicine.

3334

If you want to visit Heaven,
Then learn God’s familiar song first —
The song of your heart’s
Perfection-surrender.

3335

If you want God
To sit beside you
At every moment,
Then immediately join
The God-loving army.

3336

He is a scoundrel.
He wants to be a saint.
What he needs every day
Is the reassurance
Of his love for God.

3337

If you are going to be
A perfect instrument of God,
Then you cannot afford
The doubt-risk in your life
At any time.

3338

His mind enjoys
Collision with truth.
His heart enjoys
Collision with doubt.
His soul does not enjoy
Any collision.
It only wants to be
With God-believers
And God-lovers.

3339

You fool!
Your earthly credentials
Will not change
Heaven’s opinion of you.
For Heaven to appreciate
And admire you,
You need only one
Heavenly credential,
And that is your sleepless
Self-offering.

3340

If you want to build
A better tomorrow,
Then invite humanity’s cry
And divinity’s smile
To help you together
In your project.

3341

When he gave serious thought
To God,
God in secret taught him
His Vision’s Silence-Song.

3342

If you do not obey God promptly,
Your heart’s sincerity-remorse
Will mercilessly torture you.

3343

My heart’s purity
Is my life-illumining song.
My soul’s divinity
Is my Lord’s God-revealing Dance.

3344

How can the heart of oneness-love
Be satisfied
When the unsatisfied vital
And the unsatisfied mind
Ruthlessly and shamelessly argue?

3345

The higher worlds forgot to tell me
Two things:
God loves me infinitely more
Than I love Him,
God treasures my heart’s
Companionship.

3346

A heart of selfless self-giving
Is the brightest part
Of my inner being.

3347

The God-hungry heart
Is the only heart
That can be inwardly genuine
And outwardly generous.

3348

The best news today!
God has found a vacancy
For my heart to fill.

3349

Run after opportunity
If opportunity does not run
After you,
For opportunity is the beginning
Of your God-blossoming divinity.

3350

He speaks of nothing,
Not because he has nothing,
But because the power
Of nothingness
Silences him.

3351

God’s Hour will come back
Again and again.
But will your God-receiving hour
Meet with God’s
Earth-illumining Hour?

3352

Your heart-alarm
Rings and rings.
But alas, your ignorance-mind
Continues to sleep.

3353

A heart of sleepless cry
Is the highway
To the transcendence
Of the Beyond.

3354

God does not sell expensive things
In His Love-Store.
He only sells expansive things.

3355

The higher world
Thinks that it does not need humanity.
The lower world
Ridicules humanity.
Only God’s World
Understands and values humanity.

3356

What God wants immediately
From you
Is a soulful cry
For humanity’s progress-height.

3357

I admire him
Not because he is great,
Not because he is good,
But because God has confidence
In him.

3358

Every morning God comes to him
And affectionately tells him:
“My child,
Renew your meditation-permit.”

3359

His soul carries inspiration-messages
From Heaven to earth
And his heart carries aspiration-messages
From earth to Heaven.
Therefore, God blesses his beauty’s soul
And God blesses his purity’s heart.

3360

When insecurity-insect bites you,
You have to know
That God has left you
To enjoy His Vacation
Elsewhere.

3361

If you are planning
To go to God,
Then God is asking you
To go to Him
With your dancing heart,
Not with your trembling life,
And certainly not
With your doubting mind.

3362

There is only one stupid question
On earth:
When shall I realise God?

3363

At night
He dreams only God-dreams,
And during the day
His life becomes a sleepless wave
Of gratitude.

3364

When temptation invites you,
You can accept this invitation
As destruction
Or as another opportunity
To strengthen your mind’s power
And increase your heart’s cry.

3365

If you do not laugh
At your own stupidity,
God will not open for you
Your closed divinity-door.

3366

If you can look
Beyond today’s torture,
Then tomorrow’s satisfaction-splendour
Will make you its choice friend.

3367

Since God has given you
His Oneness-Heart,
Can you not give Him
Your life’s newness-eye?

3368

Because of your self-deception
You are still a human being.
Because of your God-deception
God thinks you are a strange being.

3369

I could not live with God,
Not because
He really did not care for me,
But because
I wanted to replace Him.

3370

Even the slowest
And the smallest
Aspiration-steps
Will unmistakably take you
To the highest floor
Of God’s Mansion.

3371

He has lost his old world
Only to find his own new world,
The world that God Himself
Chose for him
For His Manifestation.

3372

O my Lord Supreme,
What I have for You
Is only a tiny heart of gratitude.
Therefore
Do not expect much from me.
If You expect more from me,
I shall certainly fail You,
And I know You do not deserve that.

3373

If you want to see
The garden of my heart’s delight,
Then you must make friends
With my Eternity’s only Friend,
God the unconditional Lover.

3374

God never manufactures hardships
To help us reach Him.
It is we who unconsciously or consciously
Fracture our limbs
In order to draw His compassion.

3375

Unless I sleeplessly increase
My love-light for God,
He will not grant me
His Infinity’s Nectar-Delight.

3376

A true seeker
Stands between humanity’s
Utter dissatisfaction
And divinity’s
Shadowless satisfaction.

3377

If you are afraid
Of the billows of your mind-sea,
God will not grant you
The pillars of His transcendental Palace.

3378

A true God-lover,
In the beginning of his life,
Realises that what God is
Is Vision.
And then,
When his journey is far advanced,
He realises that what God is
Is Illumination.

3379

A careless mind
And a fearless heart,
Although immediate neighbours,
Never see eye-to-eye
With each other
On any subject.

3380

My Lord, do give me
Purity’s moon-heart.
My Lord, do give me
Divinity’s sun-life.

3381

A prayerful seeker,
A hopeful seeker
And a God-fulfiller
Sail always in the same boat.

3382

Unless and until
The sovereignty of humanity’s head
Touches the dust
Of divinity’s protection-feet,
Humanity’s pride will remain
As destructive
As a mad, wild elephant.

3383

The day I realised God’s Compassion
I also realised something else:
My perfection-light
Will never remain a far cry.

3384

When I concentrate,
God gives me His Power.
When I meditate,
God gives me His Light.
When I contemplate,
God gives me His Oneness-Delight.

3385

Unless man discovers
The stupidity of his mind,
God is not going to invent
A new illumination-mind for him.

3386

Your desire-life tells you
What you can do for yourself.
Your aspiration-life tells you
What God is always going to do for you.

3387

If your soul is endowed
With God’s Vision-Light,
Then your life’s mission
Cannot forever lag behind.

3388

Ignorance-wildfire surrenders
Only when God unconditionally threatens
The ignorance-fire
Of man’s bygone centuries.

3389

Since God is utterly sick
Of your old mind,
Can you not show God
The other thing that you have:
A new heart?

3390

My heart’s satisfaction
Is founded upon
God’s Compassion-Eye.

God’s Compassion-Eye
Is founded upon
The knowable God’s Love
For the unknowable God.

3391

He who has become
His heart’s obedience-life
Has become the choicest instrument
Of His Beloved Supreme.

3392

A seeker’s heart
May be helpless today.
But tomorrow
His heart will not only be powerful
But also shadowless.

3393

Discrimination, discrimination —
This is absolutely necessary
For the evolution
Of the morality-bound life.
But acceptance of everything
In God’s Life
And transformation of everything
In God’s own Way
Is the transcendental Message
Of God’s Absolute Vision.

3394

His doubting mind
Was wonderstruck
When it saw his heart’s
Devotion-elevator
Reaching the highest height.

3395

If you are devoted
Only to yourself,
You will definitely become
The champion
Of ignorance-discovery.

3396

I show my Lord
My face,
And
My Lord shows me
His Tears
On my face.

3397

The day you allowed
Your gratitude-heart
To be destroyed
Was the day when Heaven
Shed a few silence-tears.

3398

Success
Does not solve
Any human problem.
Progress
Always does it.

3399

O my mind,
It is you who overfed my ego.
Why do you not accept the complaints
Against my poor ego?

3400

In my letter to God
I sent only one short message:
“My Lord, I love You only.”
God immediately sent me
An express telegram:
“I am coming.
I need you badly.”

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