Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 87

8601

Are You there, God?
Would You mind coming over to me
With Your Compassion-Eye
And Your Forgiveness-Heart?

8602

Wisdom does want to live
In the house of ignorance,
But it is ignorance
That does not want wisdom.

8603

You do not have to give God
Either your best or your worst.
Just give Him
What you eternally are:
A Heaven-climbing cry.

8604

You can easily be
At the eternal gate
Of the immortal Self.
Just do not cling
To earth-shore.

8605

The gospel of love
Is meant to show
Neither what God has
Nor what God is,
But to tell the world
That God is all for you.

8606

Only a constantly self-giving
God-lover
Will be known as a God-giver.

8607

What the world has:
A giant mind of war.
What the world needs:
A tiny drop of oneness-peace.

8608

Because you have a soulless heart,
You are unable to obey
Your compassionate Inner Pilot.

8609

Why delay any longer
Since you know perfectly well
That you will be obliged
To manifest God on earth
In His own Way?

8610

There is no difference
Between a desire-bound life
And a futile funeral pyre.

8611

I love God
For what He has for me:
Infinity.
God loves me
For what I am to Him:
A constant necessity.

8612

Tell the world what you know
About God’s Compassion-Eye.
Your heart will be flooded
With delight.

8613

Alas,
God has not given me
The capacity to endure
Heaven’s incurable indifference.

8614

If you are not ready to run
With your Inner Pilot,
Then the lower worlds
Will force you to walk
With death.

8615

What I want
More than anything else
Is a heart
That will eventually become
God’s beautiful angel-messenger.

8616

I feel extremely sorry
For you,
For your self-discovery
Is extremely insufficient.

8617

Each small good thought
Is nothing other than
A miniature divinity.

8618

What he has
Is a world of peace
Inside the heart
Of a God-Smile.

8619

A chosen instrument of God
Is always a good starter
And winner
In the Godward race.

8620

Your sleepless aspiration
Is your most authentic passport
To enter into Immortality’s Land.

8621

In a limited human way
A seeker-heart can enjoy
The unlimited beauty
Of God the creation.

8622

Unless the body
Becomes a willing servitor
Of the soul,
One cannot manifest
One’s Inner Pilot
On earth.

8623

The doubting mind
Knows what night is.
The aspiring heart
Sees the moonlit night.

8624

He has made
His unconditional surrender
To his Lord Supreme.
This is the secret sweetness
That he has started breathing.

8625

You are of God,
You are for God.
If you can remember this
Sleeplessly,
Yours will be
A tremendous progress-jump.

8626

O true God-lovers,
Come and join together
And build a road
For God’s Peace-Descent.

8627

Alas,
His aspiration-heart lives
Between his audacious mind
And his ferocious vital!

8628

You have given up
Your aspiration-life.
That means
You no longer want to see
The Infinite
In the heart of the finite.

8629

If you linger,
You will lose God.
I tell you,
Definitely God does not want
To lose you!

8630

When ancient dreams invade you,
Be happy to be
In their sweet company.

8631

His heart’s deep yearning
Is the only thing
He sleeplessly and deathlessly
Enjoys.

8632

Increase your love of God
Every day.
Your great relish for worldliness
Will soon disappear.

8633

Every day
Your heart’s faith-bird
Must fly far above
Your mind’s teeming clouds.

8634

His heart’s oneness-cry
Left an everlasting mark
Here in the soil
Of aspiring earth.

8635

You and your life
Are under no obligation
To be mercilessly caught
By the web of your mind’s questions.

8636

He is beautiful
Within and without
By virtue of his silver faith
In his Inner Pilot.

8637

Each soul comes into being
To enjoy a pilgrimage
To the Unknowable.

8638

If you can catch
Even a glimpse of the Truth,
Yours will be a life
Of genuine satisfaction.

8639

O Vastness-Blue,
My mind tells me
You are unreachable,
But my heart tells me
You are not only reachable
But also available.

8640

Your mind knows more
Than it is supposed to know.
Your heart does not feel
What it is supposed to feel.

8641

Man’s aspiration
Is God’s own Progress
In and through man.

8642

God and God’s Consciousness
Enjoy their marathon
Satisfaction-Conversation
Every day.

8643

You have forgotten
To love God,
But God has not forgotten
To forgive you.

8644

I pray to God
To give me another chance.
God tells me
That it is all done,
But I shall have to wait
Another aeon
For my life’s perfection.

8645

The human mind is no better
Than a marketplace
Of uncomely thoughts.

8646

When the mind climbs,
It usually climbs
An unsafe stairway.

8647

Good thoughts
Must not be the inhabitants
Of the world’s eyeless abyss.

8648

What I want to see
And will always want to see
Is the dance
Of God-intoxicated souls.

8649

So frequently I am lost
Between my mind’s abyss
And my heart’s summit!

8650

My soul’s smile
And time’s cry
Were together born.

8651

If you are a God-lover,
How can you live
Inside the sea
Of your mind’s doubt-incertitude?

8652

The soul’s silence-life
Has become
His mind’s real name.

8653

No difference
Between your aspiration-heart’s
Streaming tears
And your dedication-life’s
Gleaming cheers.

8654

Only a purity-heart
Knows how to cry
The cry of God’s
Victory-Delight.

8655

O song-river,
Do make my heart
Your Eternity’s compassion-comrade.

8656

Smilingly
My mind shall run
Towards God.

Directly
My heart shall run
Towards God.

Sleeplessly
My life shall run
Towards God.

8657

If God does not win His Victory
In and through me,
Then God will, like me,
Be another failure.

8658

Once you start singing
Your heart’s surrender-song,
Do not stop!

8659

Do not delay!
Use your soul’s
Indomitable will-power
To destroy your mind’s
Mountain-problems.

8660

I serve God
Not because God loves me.
I serve God
Not because God needs me.
I serve God
Because my existence
Has no existence
Without God’s Existence in it.

8661

A life that has no life-energy
Daily meets serious tragedies.
A life that has life-energy
Is the complete song
Of God’s Satisfaction-Ecstasy.

8662

Delight
Is God-Eternity’s
Infinity-Fulfilment.

8663

If you are your soul-power,
God Himself will build
Your victory-tower.

8664

God loves to play
His Beauty’s Game
In earth-clay,
For earth-clay.

8665

An innocence-heart
Is blessed
With God’s Satisfaction-Smile
On earth.

8666

The rising of the sun
Tells me where to go.
The setting of the sun
Tells me where I eternally am.

8667

The secret heart
Of Heaven
Is the sacred life
Of earth.

8668

His eyes of smile
Reveal the heart-love
Of all the ages.

8669

Advance, advance
To the inmost core
Of your soul’s radiance!

8670

God grants a true God-lover
The rare right
To eternal peace.

8671

Allow not your vital-horse
To frighten
Your heart-bird.

8672

God has given you
The chance to choose
The outer power
Or the inner peace.

8673

What I want to know from you
Is this:
Are you still interested
In God-realisation?

8674

He cannot separate
His mind
From its frustration-desert.

8675

Are you so deaf
That you cannot hear
God’s compassionate
Inner Thunder?

8676

To touch the world-heart,
Give your life
To God’s all-seeing Will.

8677

Just love the higher life more.
The lower life
Will automatically shun you.

8678

A self-giving heart
Is a giant step
To life-perfection.

8679

God the Oneness-Producer
Commutes every day
Between
My dry mind
And
My fertile heart.

8680

In God’s cosmic Waiting Room
An unaspiring man
Endlessly and fruitlessly stays.

8681

His mind’s purity-thoughts
Have built a fortress
For his aspiration-heart.

8682

Climb to a higher life!
You are not
Your helpless heart.
You are not
Your useless mind.

8683

Since you have outgrown
Your need for God,
God is going to rely on others
From now on.

8684

Like other things,
Discard your list
Of grievances.
Discard your self-styled
Importance.

8685

If you are unfaithful
In thought,
How can your life be fruitful
In God?

8686

Every day
He enjoys the divine majesty
Of meditation,
And every day
He enjoys the funeral
Of his desire-life.

8687

Every day your aspiration-heart
Can be a new morning
In God’s self-unfolding new world.

8688

Every day
His mind is ruthlessly imprisoned
By the strong desire
For constant change.

8689

In pursuit of perfection,
He turned his entire life
Into a willing and self-giving service.

8690

Consciously
You are prolonging the human life.
Unconsciously
You are delaying the divine life.

8691

If I had waited another day
For my spiritual life,
I would have been devoured
By this time
By the ferocious ignorance-tiger.

8692

Do not try to fool God.
No good seeker will do that.
Do not try to fool God.
He can easily silence
Your clever tongue.

8693

When the world laughs at me,
God sings not only in me
But also for me.

8694

A suspicion-mind
Knows well
The art of continuation.

8695

In the inner world
Peace-bell has been ringing
In every nation-heart
From time immemorial.

8696

With God’s Grace
We begin.
With God’s Encouragement
We continue.

8697

Yours is the service-path
That leads to
Purity’s oneness-heart.

8698

Each truth-seeker and God-lover
Will be put to
The obedience-test.

8699

To see God’s Forgiveness-Heart,
His heart of aspiration climbed
To a measureless and breathless
Summit.

8700

He who lives within my heart
Does not have to remain unseen.
He can be seen,
He can be revealed,
He can be manifested
In perfect bliss.

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