Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 77

7601

A new song I have learnt:
My life shall become
A perfect achievement
Of my heart.

7602

Mind,
Someday you will understand
Why I am not allowing you
To doubt humanity.

7603

God does not know
At least one thing.
He does not know
How to hate Himself,
The thing all human beings
So perfectly know.

7604

Division-desire
Versus
Oneness-aspiration.
The human in me
Always chooses the wrong one:
Division-desire.

7605

Be a heart of patience
And a life of dynamism.
God will love you more.

7606

No entrance fee is needed
To enter into
God’s Compassion-Heart.

7607

My heart,
I am mourning
The unexpected demise
Of your aspiration-life.

7608

The heart-interpreter
Is excellent in interpreting
God’s God-thoughts
To the human mind.

7609

Aspiration
Must listen
To realisation.

7610

Desire-tree
Has all destruction-branches.
Aspiration-tree
Has four branches:
Love,
Devotion,
Surrender
And perfection.

7611

Why do you gamble away
Your shockingly limited
Life-energy?

7612

The fulfilment
Of your desire-life
Is outside the sphere
Of spirituality.

7613

The more you eat
Faith-food,
The closer you are
To God.

7614

I do not want to see
Your familiar face
Of frustration.
I want to see
Your heart of aspiration.

7615

Your soul hates you
Because you argue
With your heart.

7616

Responsibility
Has lengthened his life
And strengthened his heart.

7617

Each temptation-seed
Becomes a frustration-tree
And a destruction-fruit.

7618

He always turns
A deaf ear
To the conversation
Of his mind’s desires.

7619

My mind,
Because of you
I am in constant
Failure-trouble.

7620

Your concentration-arrow only
Can silence
Your noisy mind.

7621

A heart of aspiration
Is a free pass
To the perfection
Of Heaven.

7622

No gulf
Between his heart’s
Aspiration-cry
And his life’s
Dedication-smile.

7623

You also can do!
You also can become!
It is absolutely unnecessary
To pretend.

7624

You used to think
That you knew nothing
About divinity.
Now you are nothing other than
Divinity itself.

7625

There was a time
When you were afraid
Of falsehood.
Now falsehood is afraid
Of your aspiration.

7626

You are supremely good.
You do not have to appear
Exceptionally great.

7627

Do not avoid
But transform
The things that need
Transformation.

7628

Before you speak
To man,
God wants you to speak
To God first.

7629

Your doubting mind
May not change,
But you can change.
You can tell your mind
That you will have nothing
To do with it.

7630

Self-glory annihilates.
Self-discovery liberates.
Now make your wise choice!

7631

Be true to yourself.
The world will receive
Immeasurable help from you.

7632

First be pure
And then be sure.
Rest assured,
Both God and man
Will forever be yours.

7633

Reality sees nothing else
But Eternity’s equality,
Infinity’s equality
And Immortality’s equality.

7634

The divine in you
Not only warns you
Against the undivine
But also shows you
How to free yourself
From the undivine.

7635

A brick wall
Has no receptivity.
An unwilling mind
Is infinitely worse.

7636

Who told you
That you are better
Than you think?
Who told you
That you are worse
Than you feel?

7637

It is beneath the dignity
Of your God-given inner courage
To criticise
The weak outer world.

7638

Stand not alone!
You will not be able to meet
The teeming demands
Even of your own life.

7639

You think you are independent.
Then why should you expect the world
To be dependent on you?

7640

God is all ready
With His divine Meal.
Do you think you can
Shortly be ready
With your hunger?

7641

As you and your weakness
Love each other,
Even so, your strength and God
Love each other.

7642

God is not only approachable
But also adorable.
Why do you then refuse
To approach Him?

7643

To a gratitude-heart
And a purity-life
Truth can appear
In a flash of sudden revelation.

7644

Can you not
Once and for all
Light your Olympic aspiration-torch
To feel and become
God-Infinity’s Delight?

7645

Your inner urge for self-transcendence
Is your safeguard
To save you from your life’s
Spiritual disintegration.

7646

Compel your desire-life
As soon as possible
To shrivel into lifelessness
And nothingness.

7647

Alas,
How can God act for me
When I do not ask Him
To make my schedules?

7648

Pray
To see the beauty of man
In his heart.

Meditate
To see the divinity of man
In his life.

7649

Readily forgive yourself.
Then you will escape
The ache of disappointment.

7650

If you are not simple,
If you are not childlike,
How can you expect
God the Supreme Player
To play with you?

7651

Stagnation:
This is what aspiration
Does not know
And does not want to know.

7652

His heart manifests God
In silence.
His life manifests God
Through service.

7653

Your heart will succeed!
This is the unfailing assurance
From your soul.

7654

Obey,
If you want your mind
To be great.

Obey,
If you want your heart
To be good.

Obey,
If you want your life
To be perfect.

7655

O my doubting mind,
I do not hate you,
But I do not want you
And I shall never need you.

7656

How can your heart enjoy rest
If you allow the ignorance-prince
To shake hands with you every day?

7657

If you take the trouble
Of calling God,
Then He will also take the trouble
Of talking to you.

7658

Do not blame God!
He has warned you
Both inwardly and outwardly.

7659

True, God is with you,
But you have not asked
His Compassion
To show you the way.

7660

You are telling me
That you are an instrument,
And I am asking you
To be on active service.

7661

Aspiration,
Not glorification,
Has to be
On life’s mountain peak.

7662

A purity-heart
And a luminosity-soul
Speak the same dialect.

7663

Since certainty
Is your life’s ultimate goal,
Do not enjoy
Your mind’s little push
Into uncertainty.

7664

God has discovered
Not just a crown
But His Crown
Inside your heart.

7665

Your soul’s supreme task
Is to bring
Your life’s progress report to God
Every night.

7666

His soulful dedication
Has tremendously increased
His manifestation-mileage.

7667

It is quite unfair
On your part
To make God invite you
Again.

7668

A mind of constant suspicion
Paves the way
To man’s inevitable destruction.

7669

Ring God’s Doorbell
Gently and soulfully.
He will immediately come
And open the door
And blessingfully let you in.

7670

A moment of despair
Is nothing but
A hopeless waste
Of life-energy.

7671

When aspiration descends,
The seeker becomes available
To ignorance-dictator.

7672

Be always a candidate
For God’s
Satisfaction-Smile.

7673

Ego-gratification
Is always
An unprofitable business.

7674

What I need
Is a smiling heart
To dance
Between my love of God
And God’s Love of me.

7675

Self-deception is dangerous.
This is what God tells us.
The heart believes.
The mind does not.

7676

Confront your mind
Vehemently.
Life’s contradictions will diminish
Amazingly.

7677

If you make your own decisions,
God does not mind.
But if you make wrong decisions,
Then He does mind.

7678

The doubting mind
Tortures everyone.
You fool!
You think you are an exception.

7679

Let your heart
Speak to God first
Before you allow your mind
To speak to you.

7680

Be not afraid
Of your teeming imperfections.
Weep not bitterly,
For the hero divine
Will soon come to the fore
In you.

7681

Perfection you want?
Then concentration you need
To shield you from the world
Of illusion and temptation.

7682

Because you need God,
Only God,
I am willing to become
A cheerful slave of yours.

7683

The mind wants to talk to God
When it is restless.
The heart wants to talk to God
When it is helpless.

7684

Ignorance you have conquered.
You must not feel
Even the slightest pity
For the vanquished.

7685

My Lord Supreme,
Do transform my pleasure-filled days
Into service-filled days.

7686

A purity-heart
Conquers the mind,
Not to torture
But to illumine.

7687

Alas,
Why do I not listen to God
When He invites me
To spend Eternity with Him?

7688

Every day
Why do you surrender
To God-denial
And not
To God-manifestation?

7689

Reason and argument
Will be
Your terrible disillusionments.

7690

I thought the peaks
Of satisfaction
Were unscalable,
But now I see they are not.
Look where I now stand!

7691

If you go on your selfless way
Slowly and steadily,
God will soon quietly lead you.

7692

Obstacles are meant
To be surmounted.
Shun self-doubts
And be victorious.

7693

When God speaks,
He always welcomes
The interrogations of your heart.

7694

You do not have to live
In the unknown future.
You can live
In the eternally known present.

7695

God’s Commands
For the outer desire-life
Will not be His Commands
For the inner aspiration-life.

7696

A life of doubt
Lives between
Slavery and mockery.

7697

Beneath
Your thought-debris
I watch
The futile dance
Of your nothingness-night.

7698

God will not forget you
Even while you are walking
Along your mind’s road,
The narrow road.

7699

His aspiration-life has collapsed,
Not because
His heart is insecure,
But because
His mind is impure.

7700

What kind of harm
Can ever befall you
When you know that you belong
To God alone?

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