Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 99

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9801

Each time
A gratitude-heart sings,
God’s Satisfaction-Song
Increases the power
Of its smile.

9802

What you powerfully hold
In your thought-world
Will make you either
A street beggar
Or a great king.

9803

Not only is insecurity
Always late
But also it never reaches
The destined goal.

9804

Man’s eagerness
And God’s Fulness
Definitely want to live together
Forever.

9805

Sincerity
Is another name for strength.
With sincerity
A seeker’s hunger-heart
Can easily have God-Food:
Love.

9806

You are enjoying today
Your mind’s stiffness-unwillingness.
But tomorrow
God’s Compassion-Eye will show you
The beauty and joy of willingness.

9807

If you want to have a friend,
Delight,
Then make friends
With your heart’s aspiration-cry.

9808

Live not inside your success-cave.
God is all the time inviting you
To live inside your progress-palace.

9809

Information
Is what man wants
To offer man’s mind.

Illumination
Is what God wants
To grant man’s mind.

9810

Ignorance-tiger may deny God,
But it can never dare to defy
God’s Compassion-Power.

9811

Do not wait
To become supremely good.
It is already too late!
Wake up,
Run forward
And fly upward!

9812

You can succeed
Against all obstacles
If you believe in
Your own aspiration-heart
And surrender to
Your own illumination-soul.

9813

If you do not surrender
Your mind’s opinion
To God’s Compassion-Dominion,
You can never succeed
In the divine battlefield of life.

9814

A self-giving seeker
And a God-bestowing teacher
Are definitely meant for each other.

9815

Keep your heart open
To the power of love
If you want to be
In close contact with God.

9816

Now that you have set your feet
On the right path,
The path of love, devotion and surrender,
Your days and nights will be crowned
With God’s transcendental Glories.

9817

The perfection that is inside your heart
Is meant to be manifested
In your life,
Either in this lifetime
Or in future lives.

9818

The choice lies with you.
Either you take full responsibility
For your life
Or let God manifest Himself
In and through you
In His own Way.

9819

A human being
Is nothing but
A formless shape
Of uncertainty.

9820

He knows, he knows
That a rectified mistake
Is a new satisfaction-heart.

9821

Keep your determination-fire
Always burning
Inside your mind.
Then your mind will never
Be drenched with disappointment.

9822

God not only has
A listening Heart
But also He uses
His listening Heart
To welcome all our countless problems.

9823

Self-criticism is not the way
That leads to self-perfection;
Neither is self-flattery.
Through conscious self-awareness alone,
The seeker reaches his goal.

9824

Not difficult
To follow the truth-seeking life.
But difficult,
Extremely difficult,
To follow the heart-surrendering life.

9825

The mind cannot conceive of
God’s Goodness.
The heart not only conceives of
But also believes in
And finally achieves
God’s Goodness.

9826

A happy heart loves God
Because
God does not ask a happy heart
To study at the failure-school.

9827

You can face the world each day
If you pray and discuss with God
Your own life-problems
Early in the morning.

9828

Because of my stubborn nature
God had to go His Way,
And I had to go my own way.

9829

To uplift the earth-atmosphere,
Start from today
With the heart that gives
And the life that surrenders.

9830

You will be released
From the reasoning mind
Only after you have started wearing
The badge of silver faith.

9831

I have seen soulful tears
In your eyes.
That means God has definitely
Done something special for you
Inside your heart.

9832

I have nothing to do with
The mind-pendulum
That swings between
An imagination-smile
And a frustration-cry.
What I need is
An overnight transformation-mind.

9833

What is the mind,
If not a conscious fantasy
Of ridiculous and superfluous demands?

9834

He who wants to be
A God-lover and God-server
Can never be satisfied
With a limited supply of patience.

9835

Each day
Each human being
Either consciously or unconsciously
Renews his subscription
To the comfort-pleasure-life.

9836

Each undivine thought
Is a mischief-monarch
That mistreats the friends of the soul:
Love and joy.

9837

His heart is endowed
With hope-strength.
His life is filled
With frustration-blows.

9838

God’s Justice-Light
Finds it extremely difficult
To live inside your life.
But His Compassion-Height
Satisfactorily and mightily
Lives inside your heart.

9839

If you need inspiration,
Look at nature
And its beauty.

If you need aspiration,
Dive deep within
To cultivate more purity.

9840

Since you have made your life
A testament of truth,
God will write an introduction
To your life-story.

9841

With your dwarf-mind
You want to understand the world.
With your giant-heart
You are ignoring the world.

9842

Can you not see
That what I am telling you
Is true?
You have built a self-importance-image.
Therefore
God’s blessingful Life
Is not and cannot be
For you.

9843

Who can solve the ancient quarrel
Between your mind and your heart,
If not the soul-bird
Inside your aspiration-life?

9844

Your aspiration-life
Does not need permission
To enter into God’s Heart-Nest.
It always has a free access.

9845

Now that your heart
Is rich with receptivity,
God will give you back
Not only your profundity
But also His own Divinity.

9846

Alas,
The chief wish
Of the hopeful world
Is to see its own fulfilment
And not God’s Manifestation-Smile.

9847

Do not be caught
In expectation-net
If frustration is what
You never want.

9848

Once more you have stumbled
Into your mind’s stupidity-cave.
Therefore
How can you see the plenitude
Of God’s Compassion-Eye?

9849

Your mind
Is not going to decorate
Your life-room.

It is your heart
That will not only decorate
But also illumine
Your life-room.

9850

Since past lives
Can create present problems,
Be careful what you are doing now
Or no one will be able to save you
From your future problems.

9851

America’s sacred destiny
Is to show the world
That power can be used
For the constant distribution
Of earth-perfection.

9852

Every day
God does one thing for you:
He takes your enthusiasm-pulse
Carefully and smilingly.

9853

What you need every day
Early in the morning
Is a few quiet and self-giving moments
With God.

9854

The rainbow of delight
Is visible nowhere else
Except
In your heart-sky.

9855

O doubt!
Unreasonable is your existence-reality.
What is worse,
You have stayed with my mind
Far beyond my imagination.

9856

If you look around for sympathy,
You may not find it
Anywhere in the world.
But if you look around
For God’s universal Compassion-Eye,
You will find it everywhere.

9857

Your strong reliance
Upon your own capacities
Will be the downfall
Of your spiritual life.

9858

You can dream of the horizon.
You can build a new world.
But do not forget,
The heart of Mother Earth
Gave you the inspiration-light
And aspiration-delight.

9859

To practise spirituality
In its pure sense
Is to revive one’s own
Divine dignity.

9860

You cannot transcend yourself
By book studies.
But you can definitely transcend yourself
By paying attention
To the inner dictates of your soul.

9861

Do not question and doubt
The sorrows of the world.
Question the sincerity
Of your self-investigation.

9862

As long as your heart
Feels the dew of hope,
God will appear before you
With His saving Gaze.

9863

Do not fear!
You will definitely be able
To return home.
Practise cheerfulness.
Yours will be the ultimate victory.

9864

Each aspiration-life
And dedication-life
Is auditioning
For God’s successful Play
On earth.

9865

The ability to smile powerfully
And cry soulfully
Is an ancient gift to mankind.

9866

Go beyond, farther beyond!
Do not limit yourself
By comparing yourself with others,
Or even with your own self.

9867

Each time you stumble,
Get up!
Then smile and walk
Slowly, steadily and unerringly
Along the aspiration-road.

9868

I am telling you,
My seeker-friend,
That even a frustration long dead
Can torture you
Far beyond your imagination.

9869

God wants you to be fed
By His Illumination
And not to feed
Your mind’s illusion.

9870

Each soulful meditation
Is a dire challenge
To the crashing waves
Of man’s insecurity-ocean.

9871

Your name has been cancelled
From God’s blessingful Guest List.
Do you know why?
Because God saw you
Moving around with doubt.

9872

If you do not aspire,
Eventually yours will be
The desire-multiplied life
Of total failure.

9873

God’s Compassion-Sea
Has satisfied
Not only God the Giver
But also man the receiver.

9874

Unless you are always
Spiritually cautious,
You are bound to be washed away
By a flash flood of desire.

9875

The time has not yet come
For you to feel
God’s Compassion-Sea.
But now is the time
For you to be fully prepared,
Before the God-Hour dawns.

9876

Your life-achievements
Amount to nothing
Because God’s Satisfaction-Eye
Is not smiling at you.

9877

Earth is my soul’s
Adventure-land.
Heaven is my heart’s
Rapture-land.

9878

His existence-reality
Is always available
In his mind’s
Secluded silence-woods.

9879

Pray and meditate daily.
Otherwise
Your mind’s misfortune-clouds
Will astonishingly eclipse
Your heart’s illumining sun.

9880

Day and night
He does only one thing:
He plays the melody of world-separation
On his self-interest-guitar.

9881

My prayer-life sponsors
My clarity-mind.
My meditation-life sponsors
My purity-heart.

9882

To increase
My inner progress-delight,
I have renewed my attention
To the self-discipline-life.

9883

Do you know what he makes
In his mind-factory?
He makes indifference-frowns.

9884

My Lord,
Do give me
The capacity to aspire
Only for Your Satisfaction,
And thus let me not remain
An immature aspiration-seeker.

9885

If your mind is prepared
And your heart is ready,
Your Master will help you claim him
As your own, very own.

9886

For the benefit of all,
Never give up playing
God’s earth-transformation-game!

9887

Unless you master your shortcomings,
Your life-history will be full
Of meaningless incidents.

9888

Before your mind
Changes your thought,
You can send your thought
To change the world.

9889

You have been wasting your time
In self-pity.
Can you not now spend your time
In adoring God’s all-loving
Universality?

9890

Have faith
In what your heart has
For you.

Have faith
In what you have
For your life.

9891

Why do you allow doubt
To spoil the perfection
Of your mind?

Why do you allow fear
To spoil the perfection
Of your heart?

Why do you allow anxiety
To spoil the perfection
Of your life?

9892

What has caused your failures?
Not your doubt,
Not your insecurity,
But your unwillingness.

9893

As God does not have to prove
That He is God,
Even so, you do not have to prove
That you are a good seeker.
Just become one,
And God will declare you
To the world at large.

9894

When you ask the world for something,
Ask in God’s Name.
That way God can also participate
In your self-fulfilment-game.

9895

When are you going to accept
God’s Gifts —
Sincerity’s beauty
And purity’s divinity?

9896

I do not deny
That you have receptivity-power,
But I do know that your heart
Does not have enough gratitude-power.

9897

Unless you put God first
In everything you do and say,
Your aspiring life
Will wither away to nothingness.

9898

Unlike a desire-man,
A God-seeker knows
That all God has
Is also for him.

9899

The absence of aspiration
Has taken all the joy
Away from his life.

9900

O my heart’s gratitude-tears,
Inside you I want to have
My permanent home.

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