Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 49

4801

Every morning I must realise
That I have the golden opportunity
Of an unused day before me
To use in a divine way.

4802

God compassionately gave me
My eternal name:
Aspiration.

I unconditionally gave my Lord
His eternal Name:
Compassion.

4803

On my heart’s stage
I have had quite a few performers.
Nobody has satisfied me.
Therefore, I have invited
A totally new Performer:
My Beloved Supreme.

4804

Do not fool yourself!
Do not try to convert falsehood
Into truth.
It is a thankless and useless task.
You simply cannot do it!

4805

Man’s Heaven-visiting hours
Depend on man’s
Surrender-delight.

God’s earth-visiting hours
Depend on God’s
Unconditional Compassion.

4806

In vain
God has been looking
For millennia
For His Vision-partner.

4807

At long last
My life is able to board
My Lord’s Forgiveness-Plane.

4808

Insincerity,
You are not admired.
Impurity,
You are despised.
Ingratitude,
You should be hanged!

4809

Yesterday I fought with God
With my impurity-breath.
Today I am dancing with God
With my purity-heart.

4810

If you do not think much
Of God,
How do you expect
A Satisfaction-Letter
From God?

4811

Now that I have cut down
My heart’s ingratitude-tree,
God is opening His Heart-Door
Unconditionally
And will leave it open
Eternally.

4812

Two changes
Will make your mind perfect:
Do not allow your mind
To be your teacher.
Do not allow your mind
To doubt you, your sincerity.

4813

If you can be eager to receive
Blessings from God,
Then rest assured that God
Will be fond of granting you
His blessingful Favour.

4814

God is really sad
When He sees that He is
Your second-best friend.

God is not happy
When He sees that He happens to be
Only your best friend.

God will be happy and proud
Of Himself and of you
Only when you consider Him to be
Your only Friend.

4815

My grief and my sorrows
Flew away
When I received a Forgiveness-Letter
From my Beloved Supreme.

4816

You have simply no idea
How selective God can be at times.
Therefore, I urge you to be
Perfect at every moment
In every way
Both in your outer life
And in your inner life.

4817

If you cheerfully admit
Your teeming follies,
Then God the Compassion
And God the Satisfaction
Will not remain strangers to you.

4818

If you demand instant realisation,
Then you will be compelled
To suffer the greatest defeat,
Both unimaginable and laughable,
If not unpardonable.

4819

My mind often feels lost
When it sees
The purity, beauty and divinity
Of my heart.

4820

You will never be able to climb
Perfection-peaks
Because of the catastrophic disobedience
Of your vital
In your aspiration-life.

4821

Everybody needs an invitation
From God.
But impurity and insecurity
Do not care for
His formal Invitation.

4822

Invite purity’s life
On the strength of your sincerity.
Invite divinity’s breath
On the strength of your purity-life.

4823

You fool,
When are you going to unburden
Your stupid mind-donkey?

4824

Wisdom-light is infinitely better
Than weak pride.
This is the unmistakable experience
Of all truth-seekers and God-lovers.

4825

God wants to perfect your dream-life.
Can you not sit for a moment
Under His
Compassion-Protection-Illumination-Tree?

4826

Poor anxiety
Has to live unwillingly
In the dangerous vicinity
Of doubt!

4827

He was extremely happy
To trade his proud intelligence
For a soulful prayer.

4828

God’s Calculator
Is unlike ours.
It does not know
How to subtract.
It only adds and multiplies.
For whom?
For mankind.

4829

Learn every day
A new way of living,
For that is the only way
You can please your Beloved Supreme
Most satisfactorily.

4830

God’s Satisfaction-Home
Is still quite far,
But it does definitely exist.

4831

When he gave up
His aspiration-life,
He never thought
He would be totally lost
In the temptation-valley.

4832

Why do you not trust God,
Only God,
When there are many people around you
Who can easily deceive you?

Why do you not trust yourself
When nobody is around you
And nobody is for you?

4833

Alas, alas,
He is deliberately feeding
His aspiration-devouring doubt.

4834

His heart’s illumination-sun
Has at last put an end
To his close encounters
With his confusion-mind.

4835

Your life of receptivity
Entirely depends on
Your heart’s prayerful spontaneity.

4836

You are such a fool!
Why did you allow your stupid mind
To be accepted into
The eyeless frustration-fraternity?

4837

Yesterday
God selected him
To be man’s most faithful servant.

Today
God is selecting him
To be His absolutely perfect
Representative on earth.

4838

You can be my friend
Only if you want to become
An unconditional volunteer
To voice God’s Victory
Sleeplessly.

4839

Why do you want me to look
At your hesitation-mind
And frustration-vital?
Do you think I have nothing better to do?

4840

You are such a fool!
Do you not see
That you are increasing
Your incarnations
By mixing with your stupid friends:
Desires!

4841

Your leave of absence
From aspiration-school
Has turned your mind
Into a monkey
And your heart
Into a donkey.

4842

Expectation-seeds grow into
Not only severe
But also chronic headaches.

4843

Frustration-traveller
Is not allowed to walk alone.
He is forced to carry
Right on his shoulder
A grief-bag.

4844

Heaven is always ready
To welcome hell into its house.
But hell, in its blind pride,
Finds it beneath its dignity
To accept Heaven’s invitation.

4845

He is at once chosen
By God’s Satisfaction
And rejected
By humanity’s hesitation.

4846

He does not remember
That he unconsciously hid
A temptation-time-bomb
Inside his vital-closet.

4847

The heart’s willingness
Is always ready
To enjoy the company
Of cheerful lives.

4848

Obedience knows
Many divine things.
Disobedience knows
Only one unpardonable thing:
God-denial.

4849

Do not allow
Your mind’s clouds
To hover over
Your heart’s aspiration-tree.

4850

Because you are so stupid,
You are cautiously approaching
Your own aspiration-heart.

4851

His is the vastly untidy life
That is always engrossed
In confusing life-projects.

4852

A seeker’s heart-cry
And a seeker’s life-smile
Are the two most delicious fruits
That his Beloved Supreme
Enjoys most.

4853

O my mind,
Why didn’t you tell me
That insecurity was desperately trying
To strangle you?
I could have prayed to my soul
To come to your rescue.

4854

Each night
His aspiration-heart
Elopes
With God’s Satisfaction-Heart.

4855

Do not add more imperfection
To your mind:
Do not convince your mind
To belittle your heart’s aspiration.

4856

God is giving man
New work to do.
He does not want man
To mourn his fleeting breath
Any more.

4857

Just because he allowed dimness
To cloud his mind yesterday,
Today darkness
Is enveloping his heart.

4858

I am not the only one.
God, too, feels sad
To see the decay
Of your aspiring heart.

4859

Because your faith is false,
You are failing
In your inner life
And you are imprisoning
Your outer life.

4860

Do not refuse
God’s three most significant Gifts:
His Compassion-Eye,
His Satisfaction-Heart,
His Oneness-Life.

4861

Perhaps you have not
The slightest idea
What you have done:
You have damaged
God’s Compassion-Crown.

4862

Because of your heart’s
Inner beauty,
Your life is able to claim God
As its very own.

4863

God wants us to celebrate
The dying life of ignorance
And not to parade
The tortures of living death.

4864

Insecurity has betrayed you.
This time guard yourself
With your universal oneness-heart.

4865

Your mind may relax
On the clouds of illusion.
Your heart can relax
Only inside the heart
Of illumination-sun.

4866

Every day God changes
His Fishing Rod,
For every day He has to catch
Ultramodern God-longing fish.

4867

Because you have allowed your mind
To be encaged by insecurity,
Yours is a life of colossal failure.

4868

Faith-flame I do not see
Inside him any more.
What I see in him
Is only doubt-smoke,
And this smoke
Is suffocating his aspiration-life.

4869

If you do not live up to
Your spiritual standard,
Which is absolutely necessary,
Then do not blame God.
Blame your ill-fated life.

4870

God could not understand
When he asked God
For a personal loan.
God said to him,
“The term ‘loan’ is not available
In My Heart-Dictionary.
Self-giving is the correct word
To be found in My Heart-Dictionary.”

4871

When your heart thinks for you,
You are safe,
For God is always pleased
With your purity-heart.

4872

An unexpected inner cry
Has turned his life’s frustration
Into a most powerful
Aspiration-delight.

4873

A forced surrender
Is no surrender.
Eventually it will end
In a catastrophic revolt.

4874

Your mind lives
In only one world,
But your heart can live
And does live
In many worlds at the same time
On the strength
Of its vast oneness-capacity.

4875

My seeker-friend,
Do not lose heart.
There was a time
When I too was helplessly lost
In my mind’s desire-life.

4876

A purity-heart
Is his newly acquired
Inner treasure.

4877

Man’s ingratitude
And his failure
In the inner world
Are two inseparable friends.

4878

Delay not, delay not!
You must replace
Your mind’s old impurity-life
With your heart’s new purity-life.

4879

Desire-ship
Ultimately is bound to dock
At failure-landing.

4880

You want to know where I live?
I tell you,
I lived, I live and I will forever live
In the powerful clasp of hope.

4881

If you sing
With your dedication-life,
Then God will teach you
How to dance
With His Satisfaction-Heart.

4882

If you are crying
Because of the loss
Of your imagination
And the unwanted appearance
Of frustration,
Then you are doing
Two absolutely perfect things.

4883

When God was alone,
He definitely needed me
To be with Him.
Alas, why was I such a fool
That I would not be
His Vision-Reality-partner?

4884

Death is forced to retire
When humanity aspires
For its inseparable oneness
With Immortality.

4885

You have increased your hope-seeds.
That means eventually
You are going to collect
Countless satisfaction-fruits.

4886

Do you want to be happy?
Then look at God’s Compassion-Eye.
Do you want God to be happy?
Then feel God’s Oneness-Heart.

4887

Do you know that my future
Is the Eternal Now
And that my Eternal Now
Is God-Immortality’s Satisfaction-Smile?

4888

If you are shopping
For satisfaction-doll,
Then you must go
To aspiration-mall.

4889

If you do not join
The faith-committee,
Then your self-doubt-demons
Will devour you.

4890

His heart’s
Flowering new enthusiasm
Has brought down God
The complete Satisfaction-Heart.

4891

Beyond my hopes,
Beyond my dreams,
Alas, alas,
Is my Lord’s Satisfaction-Smile.

4892

I am ready to weep
A fountain of gratitude-tears
If you can convince my mind
To come out of its doubt-prison.

4893

His inner storm has cleared,
And now he is hearing
The song of perfection-life.

4894

He is ready to tolerate
Everything undivine in himself
Except one thing:
His mind’s devouring doubts.

4895

Why are you moving
From one country to another
To find peace?
The sea of peace
Is just inside
Your mind’s silence-sky.

4896

You talk
To prove that you are right.
He talks
To prove that he exists.
I talk
To prove that I belong to God,
Only God.

4897

I travelled with God.
He loved me
Not because
I am a man of capacity,
But because
I have a heart of enthusiasm.

4898

Nothing can bind the soul.
And also,
Nothing can prevent the soul
From illumining the lower worlds
At God’s choice Hour.

4899

I begged God to lower the price
Of my God-realisation.
Believe it or not,
He immediately agreed.
What is more, He lowered it
Far beyond my imagination!

4900

My mind’s silver dream
Is to be as great as God.
My heart’s golden dream
Is to become an aspiration-flame
Of God’s transcendental Sun.

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