Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 63

6201

If you can open your heart
As a flower to the sun,
God will enfold you,
Your entire being,
In His universal Peace.

6202

There are many things
A human being does
That surprise God,
But one thing amazes Him most:
When man ignores God,
His only Friend.

6203

I see in you
A sorry-faced seeker
Because every day
You forget to fly
Your aspiration-kite.

6204

If you deceive yourself
Every day,
Then God-discovery is indeed
A useless search.

6205

God does not expect from you
At the very beginning
Mastery in anything,
But He does expect from you
In everything
Your soulful willingness.

6206

Do you want to shine?
You can easily shine
Like the sun
In your self-offering
To God in man.

6207

Hope and fear torture me
Most powerfully
While I am waiting
For God’s Compassion-Call.

6208

Your desire-dynamite
Will not only explode your life
But also destroy
Earth’s strongest hope for you.

6209

If you miss your flight
To Heaven,
You can never acquire
The supreme taste
For God’s transcendental Truth.

6210

Every day
Early in the morning
His soul’s golden dream-secrets
Touch his slumbering eyes
And awaken them.

6211

God’s Protection-Boat
Always wants to stay near you.
Why do you swim away
To satisfy your stupid temptation-vital?

6212

I never thought that God
Would have such a high opinion of me
While this world
Has such a low opinion of me.

6213

Nobody compels you and your mind
To be caught in the teeming snares
Of tormenting doubts.
Nobody!

6214

Unless you keep
Your consciousness-light-guard
On the alert,
Yours will be a life of failure,
Undoubtedly.

6215

When will you ever realise
That shameless fear
Is hiding your beauty’s face?

6216

My heart’s sweet surrender-smile
God always treasures
Far beyond my imagination’s flight.

6217

My Lord Supreme,
Your Peace leads me
And Your Satisfaction
Guides me.

6218

If I place my fate
At Your Blessing-Feet,
I know I shall win
Your guiding Eye.

6219

You do not have to write
Your heart’s aspiration-epic.
God will do it.
You just become
Your life’s surrender-plant.

6220

You are sleeping.
Perhaps you will forever sleep.
Therefore
For you there is no need
To free yourself
From your mind’s slavery.

6221

If you exit
From your soul’s land,
Then your heart will always remain
Away from the equanimity
Of God’s Heart.

6222

Now that all your ignorance-life
Is in the past tense,
God is granting you
His Infinity’s Rainbow-Beauty.

6223

Every day
Your God-love is accelerating.
That means
Every day God is making
An infinitely more significant Promise
In and through you
To mankind.

6224

God’s Compassion-Height
Saves me.
God’s Justice-Light
Illumines me.

6225

Time’s tallest figure is he
Whose heart cries
For humanity’s progress
And whose soul smiles
At Divinity’s success.

6226

One ancient question:
How can man free himself
From his expectation-snare?

6227

Discard your list of grievances
Against yourself.
God wants you to live
In tomorrow’s satisfaction-delight.

6228

Even a beginner-seeker knows
That surrender
Is the ultimate approach
To God-Satisfaction.

6229

You can try to have confidence
In your untried friends —
Especially your loving heart
And your illumining soul.

6230

Every day breathe
A soulful prayer to God.
Then you can become
Sleeplessly faithful
To God’s Vision-Light.

6231

His mind is an expert
In evil thoughts.
Alas,
How can I tell this terrible secret
Even to his own heart?

6232

The possessions of the soul
Are extremely powerful.
These possessions are:
Promise, confidence, perfection
And satisfaction.

6233

You are always playing
With temptation-fire,
Yet you do not want to know
What danger truly is.

6234

My Lord Supreme,
I have come to You
With my life’s shattered hope-pieces.
I do not know when or why or how
My aspiration-cry
Has fallen fast asleep.

6235

God will remain
A concealed Creator
If you do not look for Him
In His revealed creation.

6236

Each human being
Is an unfortunate traveller
Chained by a desire-link
To the past.

6237

You will be sorry
If you do not wake up
At God’s choice Hour
To play
With God’s Compassion-Eye.

6238

The universal life of the soul
Begins in Heaven.
The transcendental life of the heart
Begins on earth.

6239

If you refuse
To become a soulful seeker,
That means
You are ruining a lifetime
Of golden opportunities
To become another God.

6240

If I had waited another day,
I am sure I would have seen
The transformation of man’s face
Into the Perfection of God’s Heart.

6241

When God’s Eye
Reaches into your heart,
Welcome it soulfully
And immediately.

6242

Alas,
Nobody wants to recognise in me
My desperate need
For universal oneness.

6243

If you take with thankfulness
What God gives you,
Then one day God will entrust you
With His Infinity’s Fulness.

6244

You are knocking
At the door of your heart.
That means
You have already achieved
A wonderful triumph
In your aspiration-life.

6245

Dark shadows
That pass through our lives
Quite often unconsciously help us
To aspire for a luminous tomorrow.

6246

I definitely did not even imagine
That my life would ever be special,
Either in God’s Heart
Or in man’s mind.

6247

You need no special talents
To love God.
What you need is
A soulful heart-cry.

6248

If you do not stay
Within God’s calling distance,
How will God lead you
To His Mountain-Summit?

6249

If you are willing
To slow down your greed-speed,
Then God will feed
Your entire being,
Within and without.

6250

He was waiting
In all sincerity
For the arrival of inspiration.
Alas,
Inspiration has now
Turned into utter frustration!

6251

Aspiration gradually ascends,
But if you value your aspiration,
Then needless to say
It swiftly ascends.

6252

You can shorten the road
To Eternity,
If you can take everything
As divine
And every man
As a truth-seeker
And a God-lover.

6253

Sleeplessly you should be careful
Of two thieves:
A fearful heart
And a doubting mind.

6254

In the name of necessity,
Man enjoys a great friendship
With his desire-life.

6255

How to shorten
The long road to Eternity?
Make friends with hope
And fly the banner of promise.

6256

It is not your capacity
That has won the race
But the Grace of your Inner Pilot
That has won the race
All for you.

6257

Unless God prunes
My life’s aspiration-tree,
I do not see how
I will ever acquire
Realisation-fruit.

6258

Fear and doubt,
Anxiety and frustration
Have always been strangers
In his heart-room.

6259

Why are you crying?
Have you failed?
Why are you crying?
Is God displeased with you?
Why are you crying?
Does the world not need you?

6260

Why are you smiling?
Have you passed
Your life-examination?

Why are you smiling?
Are you on the verge
Of God-realisation?

6261

Although jealousy has crippled your mind,
Still there is time
For you to be cured.
Just try to respond
To your heart’s Heaven-climbing cry.

6262

My heart was extremely delighted
To see the last, dying desire-flame
Of my mind.

6263

God tells me
That He will definitely
Be successful with me.
Therefore
He has been extending and extending
My life’s transformation-deadline.

6264

At the last moment
I had courage and wisdom enough
To cancel my reservation
On ignorance-plane.

6265

Each concealed hope-bird
Must be transformed into
A revealed heart-flower.

6266

When I cherish
My desire-life,
Hell celebrates
My utter stupidity.

6267

Your self-importance
Is as fleeting
As a hopeless thought.

6268

To hope for this world
Is nothing short of
A vanishing breath,
A hopeless pursuit.

6269

Every day
I go to visit my body
In my mind’s prison.

Every day
I go to visit my heart
In my soul’s palace.

6270

God is not answering
His inner Phone
Because you are cherishing
The conversations you have had
With your doubtful mind.

6271

Your notorious mind tells you
That you do not need God.
Your uproarious vital tells you
That you are already another God.

6272

Just because
Your heart-bird has flown
High above your mind’s clouds,
God is granting you
The Silence, Beauty and Divinity
Of Eternity.

6273

My Lord Supreme,
I am complete
Not even in Your Compassion-Eye,
But only in Your Forgiveness-Heart.

6274

Do not abandon
Your golden hope-heart
If you really want to see
God’s stupendous Pride in you.

6275

A confusion-mind
And an imperfection-heart
Can never be separated.

6276

If Heaven loves you,
Then Heaven will definitely
Grant you the capacity
To be its perfect slave.

6277

If you are a true God-lover,
Then never will you dare to imagine
That you can ever outgrow your need
For God’s Compassion-Light
And Forgiveness-Delight.

6278

To conquer doubt
Is to conquer
The final, insurmountable
Mountain-obstacle.

6279

If you do not
Put your meditation into action,
Then you will be running
With only one leg.

6280

He who procrastinates
Cannot be a true member
Of God’s God-Satisfaction-Family.

6281

Why return
To your old earth-bound desire-home?
Can you not see
That your Heaven-free aspiration-home
Is awaiting your arrival?

6282

If you do not veto
Your wild mind’s constant resistance,
You will never be able to conquer
Time and death.

6283

You do not need eyes
To see God’s Compassion-Eye.
What you need is a loving heart
To sing the glory
Of God’s Compassion-Eye.

6284

You have got what you wanted:
The fulfilment of your desire-life.
But you have not got what you need:
The convincing and fulfilling delight
Of satisfaction.

6285

Do not think
That God will ever give up on you.
He will wait for you
Throughout Eternity
Until He changes your doubting mind.

6286

Forgive me, my Lord Supreme.
I have forgotten to thank You
For the interview.
“My child,
I am sorry that I have forgotten
To express My Satisfaction
In your acceptance of My Light.”

6287

If you are already
A good God-lover,
Then I do not have to tell you
To shut ignorance out of your life.

6288

Your mind’s climbing prayer
And your heart’s glowing meditation
Can easily save you.
Your life need not remain
Forever paralysed
By helpless hopelessness.

6289

If security is something
That you can easily unfold,
Insecurity is something
That you can bravely put away.

6290

When I see the darkness
Of the human mind,
My silence-heart and I
Helplessly cry and cry.

6291

Alas,
It seems that
A never-to-disappear depression
Has attacked your vital.

6292

If a negative thought
Claims you as its victim,
Can you not immediately take shelter
In the embrace
Of a positive thought?

6293

A stunning message from God:
“Man, take care of yourself
From now on!”

6294

You fool!
Nobody has compelled you
To build your heart-nest
In the swamp of despair-night.

6295

It is you who have allowed your mind
To be over-populated with worries.
Therefore, your faith in yourself
Every day is dwindling.

6296

Alas,
I know where I am staying,
But I can’t help staying
In the lifeless home of ignorance.

6297

God is asking me
To do the right thing:
Instead of barking at His creation,
To love His creation.

6298

No more ignorance-thoughts
Within and without!
God-thoughts have covered
The purity of my inner world
And the beauty of my outer world.

6299

A longing heart
Unmistakably deserves satisfaction.
A self-giving life
Unquestionably deserves fulfilment.

6300

God’s Forgiveness-Feet,
No matter how high They are,
Always remain within easy reach
Of man’s heart-prayers.

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