Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 41

4001

Secretly I placed my old life
At God’s Feet.
Openly, cheerfully and unconditionally
God handed me His own Life.

4002

God’s Compassion-Heart
Makes His Eternity’s long Story
Short,
And this Story He narrates
Only to those
Who are eager to become
Part and parcel
Of His Immortality’s Smile.

4003

The distance between
God and the God-lover
Is always measured
In the heart of oneness-time.

4004

God’s Forgiveness-Heart
Touched the very core
Of your remorseful tears
Long before you became conscious
Of your tears.

4005

My aspiration-heart
Is always a cheerful giver.
My suspicion-mind
Is not even a willing taker.

4006

For the first time in his life
He thinks and feels
That God is planning
His aspiration-training schedule.

4007

If you are beginning
To believe in God,
You will be able to see yourself
Coming out of expectation-ambush
And entering into satisfaction-garden.

4008

In the morning he becomes
A towering meditation-mountain.
In the evening he becomes
A flowering satisfaction-sky.

4009

O my mind,
You want many things,
But what you actually need
Is a long silence-sleep.

4010

Do you long to listen
To God?
If you are longing,
God will give you
Not only enthusiasm-waves,
But also success-sea.

4011

The universal Oneness-Heart
Wants you to cry.
The transcendental Oneness-Soul
Wants your life to fly.

4012

His heart has inherited
Forgiveness-Satisfaction
From God Himself.

4013

His ego-life ended
Only when his oneness-heart
He offered to mankind
For its outer and inner progress.

4014

Don’t worry, don’t worry!
Your heart will eventually win
In the battlefield of life
In spite of your mind.

4015

God’s Compassion can be seen
With man’s possession,
But man’s possession can never be seen
With God’s Satisfaction-Delight.

4016

The ups and downs of aspiration-kite
Are quite natural today.
But tomorrow the aspiration-kite
Must fly only high, higher, highest.

4017

The heart believes
In endless education.
Therefore
Its teacher, the soul,
Is always ready
With its ever-contributing
Illumination.

4018

For faith to mingle
With miracles
Is as easy
As God’s granting
A Perfection-Smile.

4019

I gazed and gazed
Upon the blue-white horizon
And watched a thought-free world
Entering into my heart’s aspiration-cry.

4020

What I want from God
Is a powerful Smile.
What God wants from me
Is a soulful cry.

4021

A childish dream I used to have.
I used to see God losing to me
In cleverness-contest.
Now a childlike dream every night I have.
God and I play hide-and-seek
In God’s Heart-Palace.

4022

With my soul’s adamantine certitude
I shall conquer
My life’s stupid nothingness-pride.

4023

Each aspiring heart
Is destined to sing
With tomorrow’s dawn
In the Heart-Garden
Of the Absolute Supreme.

4024

Undoubtedly
The mind is a road.
But while walking along
This road
There comes a time
When we realise
That this particular road
Goes nowhere.

4025

If God has examined you,
Then you are bound to pass,
For He knows that if you fail,
It will be His loss,
And also
It will be His added endeavour
To make you perfect.

4026

There is only one secret
In human life,
And that secret is:
God is not keeping
His Perfection-Satisfaction
All for Himself.
He is both secretly and openly
Giving away His Perfection-Satisfaction
To humanity.

4027

The expansion of a seeker’s heart
Is the Satisfaction of God
Not only here on earth
But also in Heaven.

4028

Each undivine intention
Of the human mind
Eventually will meet with perdition.

4029

The mind needs constant freshness,
The heart needs constant oneness,
The life needs constant newness.
Then only do we become
Conscious and helpful members
Of God’s Family.

4030

An innocence-life
Is always guided
By God’s Perfection-bestowing Height.

4031

God always treats you
As His dearest child.
But where is your heart
To feel it,
And where is your mind
To believe it?

4032

God’s Compassion-Eye
Has forgiven my life,
Saved my heart
And inspired my mind
To a new God-oriented life.

4033

A simplicity-life
Is the satisfaction-smile
Of God’s Beauty in man.

4034

You are not responsible
For your neighbour’s possessions,
But you are definitely responsible
For your neighbour’s aspiration-cry
And dedication-smile.

4035

My mind’s silver desire
Is to become
As powerful as God.

My heart’s golden desire
Is to become
An unconditionally surrendered breath
Of God’s Satisfaction-Will.

4036

Frustration-life
Is only a few feet ahead
Of disaster-tiger!

4037

God is always eager and anxious
To trade His Compassion-Sun
For a prayer-flame of mine.

4038

If you want to be
A choice instrument of God,
Then live always
In the prosperous vicinity of faith
And never
In the dangerous vicinity of doubt.

4039

You are desiring
The heart of satisfaction.
Can you not see
That your body is already lost
Totally
In the temptation-valley?

4040

God’s Satisfaction-Home
May be far away from you.
Again, do you not realise
That your perfection-heart
Is also far away from God?

4041

Either you become
God’s alone,
Or you have to become
All yours.
There is no other alternative.

4042

Yesterday I fought
With my doubtful and confusing mind.
Today I am fighting
With my imperfection-self.
Tomorrow God and I together
Shall celebrate my victory-life.

4043

If you are boarding
Your self-transcendence-plane,
Then rest assured,
God’s transcendental Heights
Will never be denied to you.

4044

Your soul will never allow God
To lower the price
Of your life’s divine satisfaction.

4045

No human power
Can tie the soul,
For it wants only to be tied
By the divine power,
Love.

4046

God right now does not want
A reality-partner.
He wants to be satisfied
Only with a dream-partner.

4047

Who can resist
His heart’s enthusiasm
To transform humanity’s face
And perform divinity’s dance
On earth-stage?

4048

Insecurity,
You are not appreciated.
Impurity,
You are not appreciated.
Faith,
You are not only appreciated
But also admired.
Surrender,
You are not only appreciated
And admired,
But also adored.
Gratitude,
You are not only appreciated,
Admired and adored,
But also loved.

4049

My conscious and constant
Need of God
Is a supreme secret.
This supreme secret neither God nor I
Want to share with anybody else.

4050

God the Compassion
Does not believe in calculation.
Therefore
He does not want
His Calculator to work
At any time.

4051

If you hold God
In your daily thoughts,
God will travel with you
All the time,
Not only physically
But also mentally.
He will travel with you physically
To strengthen you.
He will travel with you mentally
To illumine you.

4052

Everything of God
I love deeply,
But His earth-visiting
Forgiveness-Feet
I love most.

4053

To live a simple life
Is to live in wisdom-light.
To live a soulful life
Is to be inseparably one
With God’s infinite Delight.

4054

A mind of doubt
Is the fatal beginning
Of the seeker’s self-destruction.

4055

O my mind,
Do not be afraid
Of your soul’s silence!
Your soul’s silence-light
Is going to illumine
The undivine in you
And manifest
The divine in you.

4056

God has given my heart
An eternal name:
Aspiration.
God has given me
An eternal name:
Surrender.

4057

What is disobedience
If not a catastrophic experience
In a seeker’s aspiration-life?

4058

Ecstasy-explorers
Must climb up perfection-peaks
To become one with God’s
Self-Transcendence-Satisfaction.

4059

If you can cut down
Your mind’s ingratitude-tree,
Then God will grant you
His Heart’s Vastness-Property.

4060

My Lord asks me to show Him
Only one soulful thing.
And what do I do?
In return I ask Him to give me
A good many fruitful things.

4061

Two changes
Will make your vital better:
Ask your vital
To be more pure.
Ask your vital
To be less demanding.

4062

Since your mind is always busy,
Can you not ask your heart
To be of help to you
In receiving God’s infinite
Compassion-Light?

4063

My mind’s employer
Is doubt, the unknown.
My heart’s employer
Is Delight, the Unknowable.

4064

When God knocks
At my heart’s door,
I immediately become faithful
To my heart’s life.

4065

These are the two messages
Of Heaven:
God is always for you.
You will eventually become
Another God.

4066

My heart is not smart,
But my heart is always expert
In following God’s Compassion-Eye
And God’s Forgiveness-Heart.

4067

Doubt has the audacity
To declare everything wrong
In God’s entire creation.

4068

The human in us
Does not love a loser.
The divine in us
Sympathises with a loser.
The Supreme in us
Is undoubtedly both the Winner
And the Loser.

4069

His folded hands of humility
Are given the right
To take a short-cut
While running towards
Tomorrow’s destination.

4070

With your mind’s dimly lit
Inspiration-lamp,
How can you hope to awaken
The aspiration-life of mankind?

4071

Deep inside humanity’s heart
I wish to see, admire, adore
And finally love
Only the silence-seekers.

4072

Your absent-minded meditation
Can easily say “No”
To God’s Compassion-Eye.

4073

Alas,
His life is firmly seated
In failure,
Because he made friends
With disobedience-night.

4074

O stupid ignorance,
Would you tell me,
Since when have you become
My boss?
My Boss, my only Boss,
Is my Beloved Supreme.

4075

His mind has opened
A disobedience-school.
In that school
Everybody is getting
The chaos-diploma.

4076

Look ahead.
What do you see?
Frustration!

Look behind.
What do you see?
Destruction!

Alas, you are in between
A frustration-bull
And a destruction-panther.

4077

When disappointment strikes you
Powerfully,
There is only one way to escape,
And that way is to remember
How many times
And in how many ways
You have pleased your Beloved Supreme.

4078

A swimmer in ignorance-sea
Will eventually become
A God-lover,
For no ignorance-sea-swimmer
Will have the capacity
To dislike God forever.

4079

To be a conscious partner of God
Is not a difficult task,
For God’s Vision-Eye
Every day
Inspires each human being
To be His closest partner.

4080

If you have a brave heart,
Then you can have a new life.
If you have a new life,
Then you are bound
To feel the Heart and see the Face
Of a new God.
Who is that new God?
Your own transformed reality.

4081

The music of the heart
Is the sweetness
That has a free access
To the all-embracing Oneness-Heart
Of God.

4082

My old inner prayer was:
“God, give me the power to become great.”
My new inner prayer is:
“My Lord, give me the power
To become an unconditional instrument
Of Yours.”

4083

Your heart-eye is the only eye
That can see
The perfection-beauty of Heaven
And the satisfaction-heart
Of the cosmic gods.

4084

Every day God’s God-Hour can strike.
But where is your conscious
And soulful willingness
To anchor your life-boat
In God’s Delight-Harbour?

4085

Don’t worry about your heart-room!
Your daily meditation most gladly
And most satisfactorily
Will take care of it.

4086

Even your mind’s closed door
Will open up
As soon as it hears
God-Heart’s Compassion-Knock.

4087

Two enemies,
Life and death,
Both pray to God
For the same boon:
Immortality.

4088

If your life lives
In a dark corner
Of your mind-room,
Then I can easily see
Your spiritual death
Right in your face.

4089

From humanity,
When I expect anything,
My expectation is nothing but
A life-devouring experience.

From divinity,
When I expect anything,
My expectation is nothing other than
A life-illumining realisation.

4090

When you are dealing with your mind,
You must be a sincere inspector.
When you are dealing with your heart,
You must be a sincere lover.

4091

In your life of aspiration
You never need a tremendous mind.
What you need is a spacious heart.

4092

Because of my self-styled guidance,
I am unable to arrive
At God’s Golden Gate.

4093

Because you hesitated
To call on God yesterday,
Today you are pitifully crying.
And if you hesitate
To call on God today,
Tomorrow you will unmistakably die!

4094

There are two ways
To win forgiveness:
One way is to tell God,
“My Lord,
I shall not do it again!”
The other way is to ask God,
“My Lord,
Please show me the way
To live consciously in You
And for You.”

4095

Unless you ignore life’s endless demands,
Your soul will not be able to make
A glorious beginning
In your God-manifestation-journey.

4096

God’s Compassion-Eye on me
Is for God’s Satisfaction-Heart.
Indeed, today I am blessed
With this new vision-dawn
In my life of dedication.

4097

Today my life
Is a winding experience-path
And my heart
Is a binding experience-path.
But I know tomorrow
My life shall be
A liberating realisation-journey
And my heart shall be
An immortalising realisation-journey.

4098

Slowly and steadily
Your inner sun is rising.
That means God is blessingfully binding
Your entire existence
In a new way.

4099

If you do not use
Your aspiration-wings
Daily,
You will not only displease God,
But also increase
Your destruction-flowing doubts
And fears.

4100

My Lord,
I thank You deeply
For three daily miracles:
I love You only,
I need You only,
And I belong to You only.

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