Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 36

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3501

Give God a chance
To empty your mind.
Give God a chance
To fill your heart.

3502

The road to perfection-delight
Passes through
Dedication-village.

3503

Because you have closed
Your mind’s ignorance-shutters,
God is growing
His own Faith-Plants
Inside your heart.

3504

You cannot see
The face of oneness-world.
Do you know why?
Because self-importance
Is ruling your life.

3505

Nothing is permanent here on earth
Except one thing:
The immortal hope of my soul-bird
For full God-manifestation
On earth.

3506

Your mind is caught
By self-righteousness.
Your heart is caught
By indolence.
Therefore, your life
Can never remain wide awake
To God’s Vision-Call.

3507

God does not want to fail.
Therefore
He will not allow humanity
To disappoint Him.

3508

A seeker of the absolute Truth
Will every day be blessed
With a whisper-breath
From Heaven’s Fulness-Delight.

3509

If you allow
Your aspiration to sleep,
Your life will die
Even before you dream
Of its death.

3510

The only way
To amputate imperfection successfully
Is the sleepless surrender
Of your entire being
To God’s omniscient Will.

3511

Do not doubt Truth.
Truth loves you.
Do not fear Truth.
Truth will liberate you.

3512

You are indulging in temptation.
That means you are inviting
Destruction-sword.
Be careful!

3513

Only a soul
Liberated from
The meshes of ignorance
Can have a heart
Of God-Ecstasy.

3514

God’s Tennis Court
Is meant only for those
Who like to play all the time
Surrender-game.

3515

Audit your aspiration
With your life’s self-giving
Vision-light.

3516

My soul is extremely fond
Of the silence
In a seeker’s hermit-heart.

3517

You do not want to become
God’s Toy.
Therefore
Why should God
Employ you?

3518

He thinks
That he cannot become
Another God.
Therefore
He vilifies God,
He even denies God!

3519

My inner faith-doctor
Easily cures
My outer doubt-disease.

3520

My Beloved Supreme,
Your Eye told me
What to do,
And Your Heart
Is teaching me
How to do it.

3521

How can your inner life prosper
When you are out of tune
With your Master?

3522

Two seeker-hearts
May not look alike,
But they have
The selfsame goal.

3523

If you want to find yourself,
Then you definitely need
A Heavenward-soaring
Aspiration-heart.

3524

As the soul
Makes a non-stop journey
From God to man,
Even so,
The heart is needed
To make a non-stop journey
From man to God.

3525

God does not need your love,
Since your love for yourself
Is as important
As your love for God.

3526

Because you are determined
To hide,
Do not think that God
Is also determined
To search for you.

3527

If you take a detour
Around your mind,
God will lead you
Into His universal Heart-Home.

3528

God’s Compassion-Eye
Is always in command.
Therefore
My life is a happiness-song.

3529

What separates me
From God?
My self-styled unwillingness.

3530

I cannot believe
God’s Compassion-Eye
Is asking my surrender-life
To compete with It!

3531

I am not asking you
To run.
I am asking you
Just to walk,
Since you are a beginner.

3532

If you are discouraged
And disheartened,
Then God will definitely
Feel miserable.

3533

What a delight to know
That once upon a time
I was God’s conscious partner!

3534

Do not forget
That an iota of self-giving
Is still self-giving.

3535

Purity
Is a subject.
Doubt
Does not study
That subject.

3536

If you have a secret love
For your past failure,
How can you have any love
For your present success?

3537

Years from now
You will be happy
That I cared
For your heart’s cry
And that you cared
For my soul’s smile.

3538

Doubt
Doubts my belief,
But belief
Illumines my doubt.

3539

Lord,
You were so far away!
Therefore
I had to take shelter
In my mind’s austerity-cave.

3540

My ignorance-master
Has forbidden me
To possess liberation-wealth.

3541

Desire-wind
Powerfully blows
Only to put you
To death-sleep.

3542

The sweetness
Of his silence-prayer
Keeps him powerfully alive.

3543

My soul
Has made it a point
To come always
To my heart’s aid.

3544

He who cheerfully gives
Is a flowing river.
He who ungratefully receives
Is a stagnant pond.

3545

Alas,
What am I seeing?
I am seeing
Your setting divinity-sun!

3546

If you want to regret,
Then regret.
If you want to forget,
Then forget.
Only you must not remain
Imperfect.

3547

A twentieth-century seeker
Needs independence
Both inner and outer
To become
A perfect instrument of God.

3548

A heart of love
And
A soul of promise:
Definitely
A winning combination.

3549

God’s Compassion-Eye
Is all you need.
Everything else is useless,
Therefore unwanted.

3550

A turbulent trip
But not a dangerous crash
Marked his heart’s journey
In his aspiration-plane.

3551

Even if you take a slow start,
There shall come a time
When you will be able to achieve
The rocket-speed
On your way to the destination.

3552

An iota of insecurity
Has the power of ten elephants,
Not only to destroy your life
But also to destroy
All your inner potentialities
And outer possibilities.

3553

I fold my devotion-hands
So that God’s Compassion-Eye
Can play the role
Of the strongest magnet.

3554

If you are an unhappy seeker,
And if you are in the habit
Of grumbling,
You will soon be forced
To live a counterfeit life
Of spirituality.

3555

If you live
In the land of desires,
Your mind is bound
To be helpless
And your heart is bound
To be homeless.

3556

He has absconded
From the city of imperfection.
Therefore
He is now befriended
By satisfaction.

3557

Do not live
In the vital-village any more.
It is high time for you to live
In your soul’s universal country.

3558

One doubtful mind
Has instigated another doubtful mind.
This is why the world
Is on the verge of destruction.

3559

Frustration-floor
Has to be washed every day
So that perfection-beauty
Can blossom
In our aspiration-life.

3560

An insecure seeker
Cannot be a great sprinter
In the aspiration-world.

3561

O my poor soul,
To me you are nothing
But a shipwrecked navigator.

3562

You have lost
Your aspiration-heart.
That means
I shall not see
Your dedication-life
Any more.

3563

Brighten your heart’s
Aspiration-flames.
God will enlighten
Your God-approaching life.

3564

An illumination-heart:
This is what you are.
A confusion-mind:
This is what you have.

3565

God has given man’s faith
The capacity to shorten
God’s Justice-Hour.

3566

Where is the difference
Between your hesitation-heart
And your confusion-mind?
Where?

3567

What makes you think
You are a total failure?
I tell you,
In God’s Eye,
You have never failed
And you never will.

3568

The soul compassionately
Waits and waits
For the mind to be ready
To receive God
And His infinite Compassion-Light.

3569

Every day
Sincerity and humility
Go to God to see
If they can do something
For Him.

3570

God’s Compassion-Sun
And my aspiration-flame
Have decided on a merger.

3571

To reach
The dream-flooded heights,
I need a soulful cry
And not
A hurtful despair.

3572

Do not be exasperated
With yourself.
Go and present yourself
At God’s special Heart-Room.
He is all ready to receive you.

3573

He likes to keep his life
Always
Under the special Heart-Canopy
Of God.

3574

Your determination
And God’s Compassion
Enjoy seeing your life
Under perpetual construction.

3575

Somehow God and I
Have become two compatriots
And derive much satisfaction
From each other.

3576

Where were you
When God looked for you
So desperately
Inside your heart-room?

3577

Excellence-edifice
Cannot be founded on
The stale achievements
Of the past.

3578

Humanity
And its overcrowded worry-rooms
Surprisingly remain together.

3579

By singing his life’s
Surrender-songs
He has remarkably improved
The beauty of his heart’s
Aspiration-cry.

3580

My heart is teaching me
How to be pure.
My soul is teaching me
How to be happy.

3581

Your impurity-mind
Proves
Your unillumined life.

3582

It is a painful task
For me
To befriend stark fools.

It is an impossible task
For me
To be of any real help to them.

3583

Humility-host
Has the rare capacity
To richly enjoy the company
Of any guest.

3584

His ambiguous mind’s freedom
From doubt-hallucination
Did not last long.

3585

His over-fed ego
Cannot believe
That he has
An equality-heart.

3586

His mind has retired.
Unfortunately
It is now reduced
To inactivity-ashes.

3587

Whenever you are ready,
God will examine you.
There is no deadline.

3588

He does not believe
Even in a temporary
Discipline-life.
He only believes
In his luxury-life.

3589

At any time
You can visit God.
He has a twenty-four-hour
Receiving service.

3590

He is so undivine
That even the hostile forces
Do not mind
If he remains untouched.

3591

My love of God
And God’s Love of me
Enjoy giving mutual shelter.

3592

Unwanted third-class seekers
Are everywhere available.
But you are not expected
To be one of those.

3593

Since your heart
Is a fast starter,
Your life can be
A fast finisher.

3594

Dissatisfaction-tiger
Is devouring you
Because you have crossed
The disobedience-border.

3595

Because you are
Your lukewarm aspiration,
Heaven is
Its cool indifference.

3596

He is all ready
To burn
His unhappy heart-boat.

3597

His soulful heart
And his powerful eyes
Together
Take God-manifesting exercises
Every day.

3598

Each life
Is a love-lit lamp
To illumine
Humanity’s sorrows.

3599

When the seeker disobeys
His Master,
It is the beginning
Of his spiritual death.
When the Master withdraws
From the seeker,
It is the completion
Of his spiritual death.

3600

My life came
Out of God’s Eye
And is now returning
Into God’s Heart.

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