Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 83

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8201

I see my heart-river
Inside the sea
Of God’s Diamond-Hopes.

8202

Life’s contradictions
Culminate
In God’s Perfection-Confirmations.

8203

O my mind,
It is quite strange
That you do not want to escape
The tumults of this world!

8204

Your life’s ultimate victory
Depends on the surrender
Of your heart’s
Aspiration-flames.

8205

If you want to live
Once again
A divine life,
Then vigorously shake
Your conscience-tree.

8206

The strangling vital
Feels that all roads
Lead to unhappiness.

8207

To touch the hearts
Of nations,
Cast aside immediately
Your division-mind.

8208

Talk and act
Always
From the heart
Of your generosity.

8209

Not only does he know
How to run swiftly,
But he also knows how to run
Directly to God.

8210

I was delighted
To be with my old friends,
My self-giving
And God-manifesting friends,
In the inner world.

8211

His heart’s cries
And his life’s smiles
Are fresh from the Hands
Of his Lord Supreme.

8212

Nobody
Will be able to feed
Your hungry jealousy-greed.
No, not even God!

8213

You do not need
A mere heart.
What you need
Is an aspiration-heart,
Along with its flame.

8214

Every day try to jump
Into the running meditation-river
Which will carry you quickly
To the meditation-sea.

8215

You call it
Your selfless service.
I call it
God’s exhaustless Pride
In you.

8216

Your ceaseless stupidities
Have exhausted
Even God’s Hope for you.

8217

His human life
Wants to enjoy
The grandeur of vastness-power.

8218

From morn to eve
He collects in silence
Silent griefs.

8219

No aspiration
Clearly means
A life full of separation.

8220

His aspiration rides
In the first-class compartment
Of Eternity.

8221

The illumination
Of your life
Depends on the active faith
Of your heart.

8222

Do not allow
Your mind and your vital
To be entangled
In sad contradictions.

8223

Do not forget
That once upon a time
You had a very long contact
With the higher worlds.

8224

To have a task
From Above
Means to have a pleasing
Experience-reward.

8225

If you are longing
For a new life,
Tell death
You have cancelled
Your appointment.

8226

Because you are a fool,
You have abandoned the struggle.
No victory shall ever touch
Your life’s shore!

8227

By virtue
Of his self-giving life
He is leading the train
Of human progress.

8228

A heart of love
Has to be used
Always for a sacred purpose.

8229

Definitely
God does not want
To hear from you
That you are too old!

8230

The life of concern-light
Is the very beginning
Of spirituality’s childhood.

8231

Thought must fall from you
Before will
Will be willing
To dine with you.

8232

Choose not anything
From the hands
Of blind chance.
Never!

8233

Your heart may do
Anything for God,
But so far it has not done
Anything fruitful for God.

8234

My ego’s prophecy
Became the sad face
Of failure.

8235

His mind is not
The frown of darkness.
His mind embodies
The beauty of tomorrow’s dawn.

8236

God’s Compassion negates
His Cosmic Law
Cheerfully and regularly.

8237

Alas,
Unlike God,
I can neither hide
Nor reveal.
I am quite visible
Inside the sighs
Of nothingness.

8238

The world is full
Of God’s sadly unfulfilled
Hope-Dreams.

8239

The soul’s existence
Is not a dream.
The fool’s declaration
Is baseless.

8240

The mind wants to hide.
The heart wants to cry.
The soul wants to observe.
God wants to dream.

8241

Two forgotten lives:
A life of aspiration-fire
And a life of dedication-water.

8242

His volcano-will
Dares to change
The cosmic tragedy
And succeed in man.

8243

He does not live alone.
He lives with his soul’s
Unhorizoned reach.

8244

Only a heart
Of unconditional surrender
Can earn
An unlimited credit card
From God.

8245

Desire’s dance
Can be terminated
When aspiration-cries
Start rising.

8246

God seeks undemanding friends,
But it takes a very long time
For Him to get one.

8247

Slowly across time
He will sail
His soul’s dream-boat.

8248

Two shores:
The shore of aspiration
That soulfully cries,
The shore of transcendence
That powerfully smiles.

8249

The descent
Of the infinite Consciousness-Bliss
Is for the total transformation
Of the present hopeless world.

8250

I touch God’s Blessing-Feet
In my song-life’s
Purity-breath.

8251

When he came out of
His heart’s aspiration-room,
He was captured and taken away
By night’s giant arms.

8252

The silence-souls have thronged
To applaud the victory
Of the unconditional God-servers
On earth.

8253

Earth’s helplessness
Will one day meet
With the power
Of Heaven’s fullness.

8254

We claim
Freedom-sun
While treasuring
Bondage-night.

8255

He who loves God
Unconditionally
Receives God’s transcendental Crown
From God Himself.

8256

Terror’s triumph
Does not last,
Cannot last.
This is a fact
Permanently undeniable.

8257

O earth’s
Dissatisfaction-grumble-life,
Can you not rest a little?
You deserve it so richly!

8258

I am thanking all those
Who have strengthened my aspiration
By pointing out
All my weaknesses.

8259

O deceased night of tears,
Sleep
And never wake up!

8260

You came down from Above
In a Golden Boat
With a blessingful Smile.
Alas,
Nobody is recognising You.

8261

Your service will be amply rewarded.
Just do it soulfully
And selflessly.

8262

God sees in me
His own Satisfaction-Smile.
I see in me
A breathless and deathless sigh.

8263

Sadness:
Eternity’s heart.
Satisfaction:
Humanity’s hope.

8264

The mind-forest
Does not know
That there is Someone
Called Silence-Pilot.

8265

Every day
I do one thing:
I long for the blossoming dawn
Of the ever-transcending Beyond.

8266

Your heart-plants
Need only light and delight
For their rapid growth.

8267

Ignorance,
I am telling you who you are:
Nothing!

Wisdom,
I am telling you who I am:
A budding God-lover!

8268

No matter where I look
For my mind’s happiness-smiles,
I am denied.

8269

Since God’s Feasts
Are limitless,
Can you not make
Your heart’s hunger-cry
Ceaseless?

8270

Man’s free will
Is nothing other than
A wishful paradise.

8271

Man’s longing
For God’s Victory
Always blossoms into
His own victory-smile.

8272

To complete
The golden dream of peace,
Selflessly serve
And unconditionally love.

8273

Helpless,
His heart journeys
With the tired wings
Of night.

8274

This fragile world of ours
Is shockingly blind
And deliberately deaf.

8275

With his usual soul-poise
He tells the world
That he is for
Its bleeding life.

8276

What God’s Hand has made,
How can you and I
Even both together
Ever undo?

8277

He wanted to become
A mental giant,
But all he has achieved
Is his mind’s frustration-night.

8278

You wallow in your self-created
Imperfection.
Yet you think perfection
Is within your easy reach.

8279

The God-lover feels
That it is his bounden duty
To return to the world
Again and again
And serve God unconditionally.

8280

Do not orbit
The false sun.
Your tiny inner flame
It will extinguish.

8281

Powerfully fruitful
Shall become
Our today’s weak
And sorrowful world.

8282

Amid the debris
Of his mind’s hallucinations
His clarity-heart is advancing.

8283

Desire-life is where
My mind’s frustration began.
Aspiration-life is where
My frustration is going to end.

8284

He accepts suffering
When suffering is thrust upon him
So that he can serve the world
Infinitely better.

8285

Suffering must come,
For this is the only way,
We long ago decided,
To grow.

8286

The Freedom-Will of God
Was born the day
The desire-bound thought of man
Died.

8287

We have come to sing
The songs of joy
In this suffering world.

8288

The dreamer of God-dreams
Is still holding
The entire world.

8289

Unmistakably
There are zenith-heights
Beyond our vision-reach.

8290

Earth’s silent suffering
Is totally helpless
But not useless.

8291

Come out of your mind.
Let your heart love you
And claim you.
You will then feel
What true happiness is.

8292

Allow not your active vital
To fly with the winds
And dance with the waves
Of emotion.

8293

Today’s helpless child
Is destined
For tomorrow’s stupendous
God-responsibility.

8294

Your consciousness-sleep
Has to be awakened
If you want to be
A choice instrument of God.

8295

Remember,
Every divine thought
Is precious!

Remember,
Every day the Lord Supreme
Is gracious!

8296

A longing heart
Looks upward
To see God’s Compassion-Feet.

8297

I am not a giant,
But my mind’s stumblings
Are gigantic.

8298

Man’s secret mind-thoughts
May not have even an iota
Of sacred breath.

8299

See for yourself
Who is the stronger of the two:
Your doubting mind
Or
Your aspiring heart.

8300

You follow
Your heart’s love.
Your life’s happiness
Will follow you.

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