Two God-Amusement-Rivals: my Heart-Song-Beauty and my Life-Dance-Fragrance, part 11

1001.

My Lord Supreme,
May my aspiration-heart
Never be an empty promise to You.

1002.

My Lord, I keep You inside
My mind's huge bag.
Where do You keep me?
"My child, I keep you inside
My Heart's most charming Pocket."

1003.

When I offer my Lord Supreme
My life's unconditional breath,
His entire Being brims with
His transcendental Pride for me.

1004.

I have not come into the world
To derail ignorance-train,
But to transform ignorance-train
Into God-Satisfaction-Perfection-Plane.

1005.

When I was an ancient seeker,
I served God while loving.
Now that I am a modern Avatar,
I love God while serving.

1006.

A heart redolent with gratitude
Is a highly valued
God-treasure.

1007.

Not laughing at world-imperfections,
But spreading our compassion
All around
Is the right way to please our Lord Supreme.

1008.

God the Perfection-Specialist
Every day offers Himself
To save the imperfection-finalist.

1009.

My Lord,
Do give me the soulful capacity
To enjoy the fragrance
Of Your Heart-Home-Garden.

1010.

If you are nothing but
Self-giving love,
How can you have any room
For a suspicious mind?

1011.

My Lord, I want to be caught
Every day, every hour and every minute
In the sweetness of my devotion-current.

1012.

My Lord,
You have taught my heart
How to love You.
You have taught my life
How to serve You.
Can you not now teach my breath
How to fulfil You?

1013.

No matter how I cry,
No matter how I smile,
No matter how I try,
I can never receive enough
Of the Beauty
Of my Lord's Compassion-Eye.

1014.

May my aspiration-heart
Be found on the fastest flight,
On the very wings of angels,
To arrive at God's Heart-Kingdom.

1015.

A heart-illumining thrill
Of divine expectation
Does expedite God's
Compassion-flooded Arrival.

1016.

My Lord, do tell me frankly
What You and Your Compassion-Eye
Were doing while my aspiring heart
Was deeply enjoying ignorance-sleep?

1017.

O my heart,
Although the inner weather
Is often inclement
And the outer waters
Are extremely rough,
On you must sail
To arrive at your God-Destination.

1018.

What is intellectual prosperity
If not a total
Spirituality-bankruptcy?

1019.

My Lord, I breathlessly cherish
Every little thing You do for me,
But I sadly fail to cherish
Every big thing You ask of me.

1020.

O my Lord Supreme,
Do bless my heart
With a free and easy access
To Your Compassion-Eye
And Your Protection-Feet.

1021.

O my haughty ignorance-mind,
Either you stop your empty boasting
Or I shall imprison you immediately —
Here and now.

1022.

My Lord, my heart's aspiration
Will never be able to breathe
Even for a single day
Without Your Compassion-Oxygen.

1023.

My Lord Supreme,
Why do You hide from me
All the time?
"My child,
What else can I do
When I see your sleeplessly
Ignorance-cherishing mind?"

1024.

A God-doubting mind
Is in serious danger
At every moment.

1025.

If we sleeplessly enjoy expectation,
How can we ever escape
From inevitable frustration?

1026.

My life is satisfied only when
It is lovingly and affectionately touched
By the smile of my heart.

1027.

My Lord Supreme does not want
My aspiration-empty mind
To be more than
A world-stage-spectator.

1028.

O seeker,
When your heart is empty of aspiration,
You will never be able to succeed
In the inner world.

1029.

There is no man-made religion
In Heaven.
There is only God-made illumination
In Heaven.

1030.

My mind does not care for directions
To Heaven.
My heart needs directions,
And my soul gives directions
Immediately, lovingly and proudly
To my heart.

1031.

What I need
Is a heart that has the capacity
For an instant aspiration-ascent
To God's Compassion-flooded Feet.

1032.

Every moment can hold
The blessings of Eternity
If we can live in the heart
Of God's Luminosity-Infinity.

1033.

If we can conquer
The proud forces of ignorance-night,
Then God will address us
As His Olympic heroes.

1034.

You can be a choice instrument of God
If your heart's sleepless and breathless choice
Is God's Compassion-Eye.

1035.

My heart's silence-language
Is the only language
That God perfectly understands.

1036.

O my heart,
Sit for perfection-examination.
I am sure you will pass
Without any difficulty.

1037.

My heart's inner happiness
Can easily dispel the heaviness
Of my life's outer burdens.

1038.

No matter how hard you try,
You can never tame the restless mind
Without the help of
Your silence-peace-heart.

1039.

A God-curiosity-seeker
Is undoubtedly
An ignorance-misguided life.

1040.

Today's
Secretly cherished desires
Tomorrow
Will openly disappoint you.

1041.

Mother-Earth secretly begs us
To live together peacefully.
Father-Heaven openly commands us
To live together peacefully, lovingly
And soulfully.

1042.

I know
Each aspiration-breath
Is a God-manifestation-promise
On earth.

1043.

A God-searching mind
Is meant to bloom.
A God-aspiring heart
Is meant to blossom.

1044.

My heart's aspiration-cries
Are always guarded and cherished
By my illumination-soul.

1045.

God always assures us
That we are definitely equal
To our God-manifestation-responsibilities.

1046.

The speed of my Lord's
Compassion-Eye
Is infinitely faster than
The speed of light.

1047.

Aspiration-alarm rings
Not to frighten my mind,
But to awaken my mind.

1048.

Cast aside your mind's
Binding and blinding preconception
Of God-satisfaction.

1049.

O my Lord Supreme,
Do stay a little longer in my heart-home
So that I can cherish
The Dust of Your Feet
And the Smile of Your Eye.

1050.

Although God unconditionally
Grants my mind sanctuary
At His Feet,
My mind vehemently rejects
His Invitation.

1051.

My mind is
An expectation-frustration-factory —
Nothing less, nothing more.

1052.

God asks me always to be careful
With my promises,
But not with my hopes.

1053.

My soul's fulness
Longs to bring my goal
To my heart's cries.

1054.

Surrender is always
Spiritually superior
To love and devotion.

1055.

How can I expect to find the beauty
Of my heart's rose
In my ever-thickening jungle-mind?

1056.

The Heart of God the Compassion
Has enabled my life
To be equal to its God-responsibilities
Here on earth.

1057.

O my mind,
It is high time for you
To obey God's all-illumining
And all-fulfilling Decrees.

1058.

I need only
My soul-association
For my life-improvement.

1059.

O unaspiring mind,
How can you ever be happy?
O ungiving heart,
How can you ever be perfect?

1060.

May my outer life
Be fearless.
May my inner life
Be guileless.

1061.

When I love my Lord Supreme
In His own Way,
I see a million hearts soaring
With my heart.

1062.

You must not reject
The physical world
If you want to feed
The spiritual world.

1063.

A mighty wave of joy
Caught my heart
When I turned my life
Into an unconditional surrender-song.

1064.

When God takes His morning Walk,
I feast upon the Beauty of His Eyes
And the Purity of His Feet.

1065.

O truth-seeker,
Show God your happiness-face.
He will immediately bless you
With His Fulness-Heart.

1066.

It is a heart
Of unimaginable beauty
That lives to love
Only God's Compassion-Eye.

1067.

The human in us wants God
To stop transcending
So that it can capture
God's Forgiveness-Feet
Permanently.

1068.

A single Smile
From my Lord's Eye
Is enough for me to recapture
The beauty and fragrance
Of my aspiration-past.

1069.

No human being
Can evade the power
Of God's Justice-Hour —
None!

1070.

My Lord Beloved Supreme,
Please do me a big favour.
Just devour, as soon as possible,
My heart's sweetness-devotion-smiles.

1071.

Nobody needs God more
Than a sleepless aspiration-heart
And a breathless dedication-life.

1072.

My Lord commands me
Not to listen to my body's
Unfounded and ceaseless complaints.

1073.

Alas, I do not remember
When and where
I ever pleased God
In God's own Way.

1074.

God never listens
To my desire-mind.
I must never listen
To my desire-mind either.

1075.

He places his heart
In his prayerful eyes
And on his soulful face.

1076.

My earth-life will satisfy God
Only when
I can bring down God's Glory
Inside my heart-cries.

1077.

If we can become
Our heart's mounting cry,
Then we shall not remain
In age-long ignorance-slumber.

1078.

If we do not love God the Creator
And serve God the creation,
Then we shall always remain
Infant and orphan cries
In the bosom of ignorance-night.

1079.

To revive our mind's lost inspiration
And our heart's lost aspiration,
We must approach God's Compassion-Eye
With the blossoming heart-smile
Of a child.

1080.

God is always ready and eager
To obliterate our teeming disappointments,
But are we ready in any way
To allow Him to do
What He wants to do
In and through us?

1081.

No heart can ever be
A stranger to peace.
It is the mind that was and still is
A perfect stranger to peace.

1082.

How can I please God
In God's own Way?
Indeed, this is the question
That is uppermost
In my God-searching mind
And God-crying heart.

1083.

I do not have to know
How I can gain entrance
To God's Heart-Abode.
God's Compassion-flooded Eye
Will do the needful
When I become my heart's
Ceaseless and helpless cries.

1084.

O my mind,
Be ever watchful.
O my mind,
Be ever prayerful.
O my mind,
Be ever soulful.
Lo, God's Pride is all yours.

1085.

Who is God?
He is God
Who has unsolicited Compassion
For the future redemption of mankind.

1086.

I must become a conscious receptacle
Of God's Compassion.
If not, how can God ever fulfil Himself
In and through my life?

1087.

The mind, which is stupidity incarnate,
Is always anxious and eager
To dismantle the heart's peace-bridge,
Which leads to God's
Nectar-flooded Kingdom.

1088.

When I become
My morning heart-cry,
God becomes
The fastest Sprinter
To approach me.

1089.

I feed and treasure
My desire-mind.
God loves and fulfils
My aspiration-heart.

1090.

A self-giving life is always inspired,
Not only divinely but also perfectly,
By God Himself
To manifest God amazingly
On earth.

1091.

My Lord,
Why are You so unkind to me?
Can You not see
That I am trying so hard
To rebuild my long-lost friendship
With You?

1092.

The wall that separates
The heart from the mind
Is the wall of ruthless misunderstanding.

1093.

O my mind,
You think you are
A messenger of light.
If so, why are you not
Fearless and spotless?

1094.

My mind's self-indulgent thoughts
Were abruptly interrupted
By God's Thunder-Feet.

1095.

O my Lord Supreme,
Do give my heart love-lessons
So that my heart can remain
Ever young, ever cheerful
And ever self-giving.

1096.

Nobody can prevent
The inevitable collision
Between the inner aspiration-world
And the outer desire-world.

1097.

The smiles of Mother-Earth
Are always blossoming,
But only the oneness-heart can see them,
Admire them, adore them and cherish them.

1098.

The arrogance of the mind
Totally destroys
The tranquillity of the heart.
But the same arrogance-mind
Helplessly trembles
At God's distant Thunder-Voice.

1099.

When I love the world,
God asks me to come to Him.
When I serve the world,
God Himself comes to me.

1100.

With His Compassion-Eye,
God speaks to me.
With my aspiration-heart,
I speak to God.

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