Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 71

7001

If you can climb up
Your heart’s purity-ladder,
Then easily you will be able
To reach the highest floor
Of your soul’s palace.

7002

Alas, how long
Can my earth-existence live
Between my heart’s hope
And my mind’s despair?

7003

A life of aspiration
Is not a parade
Of possibilities
But a concert
Of inevitabilities.

7004

To uproot
Your mind’s teeming fears,
Every day you have to wake up
At God’s Hour
And love God infinitely more
Than you love your mind.

7005

In your life
Everything is counterfeit —
Even your love for yourself.

7006

You cannot expect much from him,
For he has just started studying
In his heart’s aspiration-school.

7007

God’s main complaint against me
Is this:
I want complete satisfaction from Him
Before I have given Him
My aspiration-heart.

7008

If you are a true God-lover,
Then at times you are bound to break
Your old traditions
For the new transformation
Of this earth-planet.

7009

Your mind ignores your heart.
That is not news.
But if ever your heart
Ignores your mind,
That will be unforgettable news.

7010

If you cannot steal God,
Try at least to steal
God’s Compassion-Heart.
God will be extremely proud of you.

7011

There is only one way
For you to repay your Master,
And that is through
Your continuous progress-life.

7012

The war-gods are always desired
By the human mind.
The peace-gods are always needed
By the divine heart.

7013

Your aspiration-life
Will definitely be blessed
With God-intoxication.
It is only a matter
Of fleeting time!

7014

Unless you every day
Double your aspiration,
There is every possibility
That you will lose all your interest
In God-realisation.

7015

Your heart must take
A solid step in Heaven.
Then only
Your life can take
A solid step on earth.

7016

A heart of inner purity
Is bound to have
A life of outer beauty.

7017

Nobody can force you
To stumble on ignorance-stone.
Again, nobody can teach you
To dance with angels
Unless you develop
The willingness and eagerness
To do so.

7018

God grants very special Love
And very special Blessings
To him who is on his way to becoming
An unconditionally surrendered seeker.

7019

Man sees everything
Except one thing:
He does not see his life
Flooded with divine opportunity.

7020

God is giving you
His last warning:
Either love Him for His sake
Or live your earth-bound ego-life.

7021

Not only your heart
But even your mind
Has the capacity to uproot
Cheerfully and selflessly
The jealousy-tree.

7022

You must realise
That God the Compassion
Is always ready
To stop your heart’s
Spiritual disaster:
Your lack of faith
In your own aspiration-life.

7023

It is not an uncommon thing
For the doubting mind
To prefer man-made destruction
To God-made Salvation.

7024

Lovingly and blessingfully
Eternity whispered to me:
“My child,
Your heart’s peaceful breath
Has nothing to do with
Your mind’s powerful desire-life.”

7025

What separates you
From God?
Your mind’s lack
Of necessity
And your heart’s lack
Of urgency.

7026

It was you who wanted to be
An ignorance-puppet.
It is you who now have to pay
The penalty!

7027

If you have nothing else to do,
Then bravely uproot
Your mind’s jealousy-tree.

7028

Station yourself beyond your mind.
Then you will realise
That the world needs you
Infinitely more
Than you can ever imagine.

7029

You must learn how to swim
Every day
Against your mind’s
Age-old thought-current
To satisfy the divine in you.

7030

Unless one can cross
The river of time,
One will not be allowed
To see the face
Of aspiration-soldier.

7031

You can uproot
Your mind’s meanness-tree
If you daily nourish
Your heart’s oneness-plant.

7032

His heart teaches him
In his life’s new university.
His mind teaches him
In his life’s old school.

7033

Do not feed a secret mind,
But feed a sacred heart,
For this is the only way
You can reach the highest height
Of God-Satisfaction-Power.

7034

His mind has finally become
The unmistakable reality-existence
Of shattered thoughts.

7035

Protect your life every day
From the disaster-miseries
Engendered by your unruly vital.

7036

The unaspiring mind
Has countless questions.
The aspiring heart
Has run out of
Convincing and illumining answers.

7037

O my doubting mind,
Once and for all I am telling you
That I have no objection at all
To your immediate departure
From my God-hungry life!

7038

To delay
Is to maintain
Your old friendship
With your frustration-vital.

7039

No one,
No, not even God,
Can tell me
How to become perfect
Without aspiration-practice
Every day.

7040

Sincerity is always
A meaningful beginning.
Determination is always
An illumining continuation.

7041

I have been trying to do
Only one thing.
Alas, I do not know
When I shall succeed.
I really am trying not to be
Any more my own.

7042

I am transforming my mind
So that it does not remain
Always a beginner
In the spiritual life.

7043

If I had sufficient time,
I would love my aspiration-heart
And dedication-life
More than ever.

7044

Yesterday
I prayed to God
For my mind’s transformation.
Today
I am praying to God
For my life’s transcendence.

7045

Our minds are the professors
Of imperfection-night,
And our hearts are the students
Of perfection-light.

7046

If you can become a stranger
To your mind’s unwillingness,
Then God will come to you
With His Heart’s Fulness.

7047

If you are
Your mind’s disobedience,
How can you feel God
And His Heart’s Presence
Inside your own heart?

7048

If you have
A short-lived dream,
How can you have
A life-transforming reality?

7049

Because you have trampled
Your worldly thoughts,
God is granting you
His own adamantine Will.

7050

Are you so blind
That you cannot see
God’s compassionate arrival
At your heart’s door?

7051

Each prayer
Is a heart-climbing ladder
To God.

Each meditation
Is a God-descending ladder
To earth.

7052

Unless you brave
The uncertainty of the future,
You cannot proceed fast
In your present-day life.

7053

God smiles twice:
Once when I say,
“Even God cannot do it!”
And once when I say,
“I do not need
Anything from this world!”

7054

Two invisible giants,
Doubt and jealousy,
Torture almost every human mind
And every human heart.

7055

Run towards the perfection-light.
If not,
The shadows of dark imperfection
Will haunt you.

7056

A divine God-believer
And a supreme man-lover
Are not
Two different persons.

7057

If you want to surprise everybody,
Then be absorbed
In your soul-searching studies.

7058

Every day
If you stand in rebellion
Against your lower self,
Your higher self
Will give you what it is:
Satisfaction-sun.

7059

You do not have to ignore
Your mind.
Just ignore your cherished possession:
Ego.

7060

An unaspiring man
Is a slave of his passions.
An aspiring seeker
Is a child of God’s Compassion-Eye.

7061

How can you expect divinity-flower
To blossom here on earth,
Where unprecedented materialism
Is reigning supreme?

7062

No, it is not
An impossible task
To come bravely out
Of anxiety-prison!

7063

To destroy the frown
Of ignorance-night,
I need only
One oneness-smile.

7064

The hour of willingness
Does not know
What the power of obligation is.

7065

To me
God’s Justice-Might
Is not indispensable.
To me
God’s Compassion-Light
Is not indispensable.
To me
Only God’s Forgiveness-Delight
At every moment
Is indispensable.

7066

Even though
You have made the right choice
Only at the eleventh hour,
God’s Satisfaction-Delight
Shall be all for you.

7067

Has God given you the authority
To dare to criticise
His Compassion-flooded creation?

7068

One soulful service
Can grant your aspiration-life
The genuine peace
Of the Beyond.

7069

I have heard of satisfaction-delight
Many times from many people,
But I simply cannot understand
What it actually means.

7070

No, it is not true!
It is not the intention of earth
To make you perfect by blessing you
With ceaseless sorrows.

7071

His heart has the thing
That you need:
Compassion-sky.

His mind has the thing
That you deserve:
A life of discipline.

7072

Because your mind today
Is exceptionally pure,
God has decided to grant your mind
A supremely beautiful sunrise.

7073

He has many qualities that amaze me,
But the one that amazes me most
Is his perfect oneness
With his untiring adversaries.

7074

Be prepared!
Your soul is going to teach you
How to ignore earth-bound time.

Be prepared!
Your Lord is going to teach you
How to embrace the Silence-Peace
Of Eternity.

7075

Dethrone the desire-fulfilling
And desire-filled heroes
Of your mind
All at once!

7076

On the eve of your God-realisation
You will discover
That yours is not
An all-exclusive mind,
But yours is
An all-inclusive heart.

7077

My heart knows
That perfect perfection can abide
Only in my life’s conscious
God-reflection.

7078

The human mind
Is always a cloudy sky.
Alas,
It does not know
That there exists an illumination-sun
Inside the heart-sky.

7079

The language of silence
Is only spoken
Inside my God-longing
Aspiration-heart.

7080

Can you not see
That your life’s temptation
Has ruined your vital
Beyond repair?

7081

Life is not a wave
Of man’s wishful thinking.
Life is the ocean
Of God’s Manifestation-Smile.

7082

If you spread
Your aspiration-arms wide,
You will see that insecurity
Cannot last for long.

7083

Your mind can easily have
The capacity
To acquire an infallible
Faith-future.

7084

A throng of inspired souls
Has the capacity
To illumine the blindness
Of this deplorable world.

7085

His heart is enjoying today
The last breath
Of his mind’s dying doubt.

7086

Self-discipline
Unmistakably and cheerfully
Sides with the Beloved Supreme.

7087

Possibility
Feeds my heart.
Impossibility
Challenges my mind.
Divinity
Embodies my life.

7088

Be wise at every moment.
The power in struggle
And the joy of victory
Are inseparable.

7089

I have stored my last message
In the depths of my heart:
God is always first,
And God for God’s sake.

7090

Uncertainty is nothing other than
A hidden veil.
You can easily pierce
The veil of uncertainty
On the strength of your life’s
Cheerful willingness.

7091

God never walks alone.
He always walks with
His Vision-Eye
And His all-illumining
Compassion-Smile.

7092

Every day
Either consciously or unconsciously
We rehearse
Our self-styled authority-act.

7093

God will definitely grant you
Another chance.
But are you soulfully ready
To devotedly accept it?

7094

To keep your heart young
All the time,
Always keep your heart
A soulful truth-seeker
And God-lover.

7095

Sacrifice does not speak.
It only acts.
Its action is infinitely louder
Than a thunderbolt.

7096

My Lord Supreme,
Do not abandon me
To my questioning mind,
Trembling heart
And dying life.

7097

If you love the heart of the world
And serve the body of the world
Non-stop,
Then you can easily come out of
The confines of earth-bound time.

7098

It seems that man is having
A universal experience
Everywhere:
His self-imposed death sentence.

7099

If you cannot stay
With your oneness-heart,
Stay at least in the neighbourhood
Of your newness-mind.

7100

My mind and I
May not know God,
But my heart and I
Do love God.

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