Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 38

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3701

I have told God
My only secret and sacred truth:
“My Lord, I love You only.”

3702

The stars in the sky
Are desperately trying to hide
From the stars in his heart.

3703

In honour of God’s Birthday
I am definitely going to multiply
My heart-love
By my life-devotion.

3704

The random use
Of the reasoning mind
Has turned his life
Into a deplorable failure.

3705

God does not think of you:
Indeed, this idea
Is your mind’s
Visible absurdity.

3706

Prayer
Is for the salvation
Of truth-seekers.

Meditation
Is for the liberation
Of God-lovers.

3707

Do not allow
Your mind’s fear
To persecute
Your heart’s poise.

3708

His aspiration-heart
Is at last happy,
Because the ego-elephant
Of his vital
Is very severely wounded.

3709

Your helpless pretension
Will soon turn your life
Into a hopeless perdition.

3710

Because your mind
Is laughing too loudly,
Your heart
Is crying too pitifully.

3711

To have faith in others
Is to multiply
One’s own inner strength.

3712

An unconditional surrender-head
Wears the crown
Of God-Delight.

3713

The heart of purity
Is powerful.
The face of sincerity
Is beautiful.

3714

You do not have to appreciate
God’s Heart.
Just imitate
God’s Eye.

3715

A truth-seeker
Does not misunderstand.
A God-lover
Does not misrepresent.

3716

You love
Your powerful insecurity-heart.
God loves
His blessingful Compassion-Eye.

3717

God does want to be caught
While walking
Inside your heart-garden.

3718

Alas,
His soul’s determination
Is challenged
By his mind’s hesitation.

3719

The best protection
Against self-doubt
Is man’s conscious cry
For perfection-hunger.

3720

I can become
Another God.
This is the only Message-Light
That God gives me
Every day.

3721

Long before true happiness
Could approach you,
Your impure self-indulgence
Has killed you.

3722

Do you not know
What your insecurity is?
It is your old and incurable
Heartache.

3723

When death calls him,
His soul helps him
Remain unavailable.

3724

Be a champion
In self-discovery
Instead of man-flattery.

3725

He becomes his meditation-heart.
This is his special way
Of thanking God.

3726

Because you love
God’s Compassion-Eye,
God also loves
Your gratitude-heart.

3727

Willingly He descended
To save the world.
Wilfully His Compassion-Eye
Is challenged
By the mind of the world.

3728

Your desire-life is not fulfilled.
Therefore
You are not on speaking terms
With God.
But God really wants you
To speak to Him.
Therefore
He is unconditionally blessing you
With an aspiration-heart.

3729

How do I occupy my time?
I teach my heart
How to write surrender-letters
With love-pen
To my Beloved Supreme.

3730

Nothingness
Alarms my mind.
Nothingness
Awakens my life.
Nothingness
Prepares my heart.

3731

When I say I have nothing,
It gladdens humanity’s
Division-unreality.

When I say I am nothing,
It pains divinity’s
Oneness-reality.

3732

Leave your inner life
And outer life
Only at God’s Heart-Door
And nowhere else.

3733

A spiritual seeker
Does not have to travel
On many roads.
He only has to run
On one road:
The road of surrender.

3734

God’s bountiful Smile
Always runs infinitely faster
Than man’s fearful cry.
Therefore man is able to remain
Standing on the safety-shore.

3735

Soon to be announced:
My vital has cheerfully
And unconditionally surrendered
To God’s all-loving Heart
And all-illumining Eye.

3736

Satisfaction-pension
Will always be there
For those who have offered
Their aspiration-services
Soulfully and unreservedly
To God,
Their beloved Employer.

3737

My mind wants to investigate
Even God’s Heart-Room.
My heart wants only to adore
God’s Forgiveness-Feet.

3738

More and more you resemble God.
Do you know why?
Because
You expect nothing from yourself
For yourself,
But
You expect everything from yourself
For God.

3739

His heart is happy
Because his mind does not contain
Superficial thoughts
And artificial ideas.

3740

Every day I launch
My hope-ship.
I am sure one day I shall reach
My heart’s satisfaction-shore.

3741

God is not a fool like you.
He always takes notes
On what you say to Him
In silence-secrecy.

3742

I call it
My meditation,
But my Lord calls it
The flowering of His Compassion-Eye.

3743

My loving heart
Has a message for me:
God is always for me.

My serving life
Has a message for me:
I am always for God.

3744

My life is now
Dead to weakness
And born to God’s
Confidence-Delight.

3745

God is now setting
Not only new
But also high standards
For those who want to love Him
And serve Him
In His own Way.

3746

I am ready
To be the last seeker
To reach God,
Provided God Himself
Does not mind.

3747

Do not lose your aspiration-heart!
If you lose your aspiration-heart,
Your frustration-mind
Will become larger than the largest.

3748

If you hurl jealousy-arrows
At the world,
The world may eventually forgive you.
But your universal oneness-soul
Will never forgive you.

3749

You simply cannot imagine
How beautiful you will look
If you just once
Remove your ego-mask.

3750

Your smart mind knows nothing,
Yet it does not want to learn
Anything more.

Your expert heart knows everything,
Yet it wants to learn every day
Something more.

3751

O earth,
Do give me one more chance.
I shall definitely be able
To prove to you
That I can be a compassion-sky.

O Heaven,
Do give me one more chance.
I shall unmistakably
Prove to you
That I can become a perfection-sun.

3752

His life stands between
His mind’s fantasy-stories
And his heart’s ecstasy-songs.

3753

My inspiration-bird wants to sing
Only at one place:
Inside my dreaming heart-garden.

3754

Please wait a minute!
My Lord Supreme has just arrived
To teach me how to love you,
How to illumine you
And how to please you.

3755

Every day
Before he prays,
God teaches him
A new purity-song.

Every day
After he is done
With his prayer,
God teaches him
A new divinity-dance.

3756

Negativity-chain
Is pulling your mind.
Do you know why?
Because
Positivity-train
Your heart has missed.

3757

Do not keep anything
Between your life’s new dawn
And your soul’s ancient promise.

3758

Do only the thing
That makes God happy
And at the same time
Keeps you busy.

3759

Why do you suffer?
God has given you ample opportunity
And enough capacity
To climb over the mountain of sorrows.

3760

While dancing the dance
Of oneness-life,
The smile of sacrifice
Is nothing but an illusion.

3761

God has already coloured
Your aspiration-heart
With soulfulness.
Can you not colour
Your inspiration-mind
With newness?

3762

Every night
Lethargy-thief comes
To steal away your life-energy
Completely,
And it is successful
To a degree.
Can you not be wakeful and watchful,
And catch the lethargy-thief
Red-handed?

3763

I have forgiven all your crimes
Except one,
And that crime is your incessant
World-criticism-cry.

3764

God loves and treasures
The crying heart of every soul
More than He loves and treasures
Anything else
Either on earth or in Heaven.

3765

I wish to get an invitation
From your soul’s dream-boat,
And not an express command
From your demanding vital.

3766

You came to me
To learn a little about meditation.
I am all ready to teach you.
Alas, why are you then playing
Your life’s self-deception-game
Instead of your life’s illumination-game?

3767

Aspiration,
Liberation
And satisfaction
Are not at a remote place.
They are just around
The heart-corner.

3768

When doubt came
To shake hands with his mind,
To its wide surprise
It saw that faith
Had already embraced his heart.

3769

Man is unhappy
When he sees that what he has inside
Is all nothingness.

God is happy
For He knows that He is nothing
But Nothingness itself.

3770

Do not enter
Into your mind’s stupidity-market
To buy futility-goods.

3771

You do not have to broadcast
The beauty and purity of your heart.
Your face can and will
Do it for you.

3772

To choose a division-mind
Over a union-heart
Is to choose immediate death
Over a beautiful life.

3773

My heart’s hunger-cry
And my Lord’s Feast-Smile
Are soon going to meet.
This meeting is ordained
By Heaven’s flower-beauty.

3774

If you really want
To make your desire-story short,
Then start singing immediately
A long aspiration-song.

3775

Earth’s ignorance-sea
Every day devours
Its own lifeguards:
Beauty and purity.

3776

Today both Heaven and earth
Are celebrating your greatest victory.
How is it
That you are not aware of it?
Can you not see
The total disappearance
Of your emperor-ego?

3777

Why do you dig in your mind-desert?
There is nothing
And there can be nothing
Beautiful and fruitful there.
It is a useless task.

3778

God’s Compassion-Fund
Is always ready
To accept your teeming doubts
And darkening worries.
But will you ever be ready
To give God
What you so deplorably have?

3779

You have been thinking
Of others,
But you never think
Of their satisfaction-lives.
How then can you expect them
To give you
Their smiling oneness-hearts?

3780

When the beggar in me says
That he has nothing,
I suspect him.
When the emperor in me says
That he is nothing,
I know that he is telling
The absolute truth.

3781

A self-giving heart-soldier
Is gladly recruited
By God’s Satisfaction-Heart
For God’s Army.

3782

My heart of tears
Safely steers my life-boat
To my soul’s illumination-shore.

3783

If your carelessness
Has the capacity to kill you,
Then God’s unconditional Fondness
For you
Feels the necessity to revive you.

3784

My mind
Has a lot to unlearn.
My heart
Has a lot to learn.
My soul
Has a lot to contribute.

3785

To look
Into your Master’s eye
Is to enter
Into your own unexplored universe.

3786

Your life of rumour
Is responsible for the tumour
In your aspiration-heart.

3787

A climbing prayer-heart
And a drowning seeker-life
Never meet together.

3788

If He is a real God,
Then He will definitely
Leave His Calling Card
Everywhere.

3789

God may delay
In examining your mind’s
Success-reports,
But He will never delay
In examining your heart’s
Progress-reports.

3790

Think of each minute
As either the choice minute
Or the last minute
To realise God.

3791

My perfection-life
And my satisfaction-heart
Are the two glorious Dreams
Of the Supreme.

3792

Dear God,
Do give me the time
To prepare myself
So that I do not fail You
When You invite me
To dine with You
In Heaven.

3793

Within I worship
My insecurity.
Without I worship
My sincerity.

3794

My heart
Does not have to stay alone.
Do you know why?
Because it cheerfully follows
God’s Timetable.

3795

If you can take
Large doses of faith,
You will soon see
Beautiful satisfaction-roses
Inside your heart-garden.

3796

Before God-realisation,
Each human being
May be attacked mercilessly
By ferocious human tigers.

3797

God does not understand
Why any human being ever suffers
From the strong winds
Of insecurity-hurricane.

3798

The mind’s dark
Doubt-adventure
Never ends.

The heart’s pure
Faith-pilgrimage
Never ends.

3799

Because of his
Divinity-flooded life,
For him to nurse
A mind-grievance
Is an unthinkable crime.

3800

At the end of each earthly pilgrimage
The obedient God-lovers,
The obedient truth-fighters
And the obedient peace-distributors
Will be garlanded and crowned
By the Absolute Supreme Himself
In His own transcendental Palace
Of Love and Satisfaction.

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