Two God-Amusement-Rivals: my Heart-Song-Beauty and my Life-Dance-Fragrance, part 12

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1101.

God's Compassion
Every day descends
To water the blossoms
Of my heart-garden.

1102.

No matter what we think,
No matter what we say,
God enjoys watching
Our sincere attempts
To eradicate our ego.

1103.

O my mind,
You must know by this time
That God never appreciates
Your self-styled isolation
From world-society.

1104.

Life is not a heavy burden
Of unfulfilled desires,
But an ignorance-challenging promise
Of God-fulfilment.

1105.

When God and God's Smile
Open your aspiration-heart,
You can rest assured
Your complete God-satisfaction-day
Is fast approaching.

1106.

I enjoy my Mother-Earth's
Endless beauty
Infinitely more than I enjoy
My Father-Heaven's
Ceaseless power.

1107.

O my Lord Supreme,
Do make my heart an expert
At aspiration-multiplication.

1108.

An implicit obedience
To the dictates of the Inner Pilot
Is the first duty of a God-lover.

1109.

O my stupid mind,
It is high time for you to become
A world-peace-maker
Instead of remaining
A world-grudge-holder.

1110.

When I take my heart to God
For repairs,
He gives it His immediate Attention.

1111.

If you say that your surrender
Is a skill you have developed,
You are totally mistaken.
Your surrender is a Delight-Gift
From God Himself.

1112.

When God dictates,
My soul takes notes,
My heart watches,
My mind sleeps and snores.

1113.

No matter how hard I try
To obliterate my deplorable past,
My past remains
My present ghost-torture.

1114.

Shameless temptation
Beckoned my heart,
But my heart wisely
And immediately declined.

1115.

God always keeps
A watchful Eye
On my heart's mounting cries.

1116.

Where else is the abode of silence,
If not inside
My God-cherished and God-cherishing
Aspiration-heart?

1117.

The heart must eventually conquer
The constant distractions
Of the mind-market.

1118.

He who chooses
The imperfection-world
Eventually becomes
A Heaven-loser.

1119.

God's Compassion-Eye
Will always help my helpless body
To catch up with my guileless soul.

1120.

God is
His Sadness-Heart
When I am
My badness-mind.

1121.

God's unconditional Compassion
Is expanding my heart
With astounding rapidity.

1122.

A perfection-life
And a satisfaction-heart
Will always remain unparalleled
In this world of ignorance-night.

1123.

God's Compassion
Has equipped me well
For my Heavenward journey.

1124.

The shameless mind has circulated
A number of blatant lies
About poor God.

1125.

Does God like to play?
God not only likes to play
But also wants to remain
Eternally a Heart-Player.

1126.

For its fastest progress
In the spiritual life,
My heart loves only those
Who sleeplessly need only God
And who breathlessly love only God.

1127.

Between my Compassion-Lord
And my frustration-mind
I have already made the perfect choice
With my God-invocation-heart.

1128.

When I resist God's Compassion-Eye,
My life becomes a never-ending
Worthless and useless story.

1129.

Since my mind compelled me
To waste many years,
Let me now value the breath
Of every second.

1130.

My only business is to discover
Not what I need from God,
But what God wants from me.

1131.

My heart is desperately trying
To fill in
My mind-deficiency-gaps.

1132.

Those who study
God's Compassion-Course
Will be invited,
At His choice Hour,
To God's Satisfaction-Heart-Home.

1133.

Only a self-giving heart
Can be a faultless authority
On God's Life-Stories.

1134.

O my stupidity-mind,
Why do you indulge in trying
To explain the inexplicable:
God's Love for mankind?

1135.

Unless my heart, like my soul,
Is infatuated with God's every Breath,
How can I swim in the sea
Of God-Ecstasy?

1136.

I dearly love
My learning heart.
And I love
My unlearning mind
Equally.

1137.

The mind's impurity
And the heart's insecurity
Always sail in the same sinking boat.

1138.

The stupidity-mind fears
God's Compassion-Eye
Instead of treasuring
God's Compassion-Eye.

1139.

If you choose
The temptation-world,
Then you lose
The illumination-Heaven.

1140.

An unaspiring mind
Is doomed to be
A long-time resident
Of ignorance-island.

1141.

My Lord Supreme
Simply devours the pages
Of my heart-songbook.

1142.

God tells my surrender-life:
"My child, I shall always support you,
I shall always feed you,
I shall always illumine you,
For you are My own, very own."

1143.

When I silence my fantasy-mind,
God immediately teaches me
His Heart's Ecstasy-Song.

1144.

Even my God-doubting mind
Is deeply impressed
With my God-loving heart.

1145.

Nobody
Can ever deprive Truth
Of its ever-fragrant beauty.

1146.

My mind chooses greatness,
My heart chooses goodness,
And I choose oneness.

1147.

The human life
Is nothing other than a feeble attempt.
The divine life
Is indeed an enduring success.

1148.

My Lord Supreme shed bitter Tears
When He saw
The most deplorable condition
Of my spiritual health.

1149.

Childhood
Is a beautiful dream.
Youth
Is a powerful reality.
Age
Is a soulful surrender.

1150.

Action instigated by power
God never loves.
Action inspired by love
God not only loves
But also treasures.

1151.

Alas, in vain I look for God's Presence
In my mind's frustration-market
Instead of my heart's aspiration-garden.

1152.

Alas, I do not know
How my mind can be so convincing.
Alas, I do not know
How my heart can be eternally charming.

1153.

My Lord,
Do give me the capacity
To carry the fragrance
Of my heart-beauty
Wherever I go.

1154.

God desperately needs
Your heart's sincerity,
And not your life's severity.

1155.

To please God in God's own Way,
I need a learning life
And a yearning heart.

1156.

My Lord tells me compassionately
That every day is the right day
For my mind's spiritual check-up.

1157.

Rest assured,
Whatever is manufactured
By the doubting mind
Is venomous.

1158.

God will share His Divinity with you
If you are sincerely sick
Of your mind's stupidity.

1159.

Fortunately my heart
Still loves God,
And God's Heart
Still needs me.

1160.

When my mind starts
Analysing God,
It immediately paralyses
My heart.

1161.

May my life travel forward
Every day
At my heart's God-eagerness-speed.

1162.

A God-willingness-runner
Easily breaks
His own past inner records.

1163.

I am so delighted to see
My heart's aspiration-flames
Dancing
In my soul's illumination-eye.

1164.

The hesitation-mind
Is an unsuitable instrument
For God-manifestation on earth.

1165.

God does not want me
To remember my age.
He wants me only to remember
The fragrance of my gratitude-heart.

1166.

My life's self-giving
Is undoubtedly the home
Of all my virtues.

1167.

What is earthly fame?
It is nothing but a shallow inscription
On man's grave.

1168.

I came into the world
To seek
What is always pleasing to God.

1169.

Obedience to the Highest
Has a heart of gold.
Disobedience to the Highest
Has feet of clay.

1170.

Faith embraces
The heart of Truth.
Doubt embraces
The body of falsehood.

1171.

My heart's excellence
Is neither competitive
Nor comparative,
But God-affirmative.

1172.

The experience of the mind
Can and does often err.
The realisation of the heart
Can never, never err.

1173.

To participate consciously in God's Game,
I must embrace with all my heart
The motto of my soul:
God for God's sake.

1174.

An unaspiring heart
And an unsearching mind
Are indeed two colossal life-disasters.

1175.

I shall always reject
My mind's arrogance-flooded ignorance.
I shall always accept
My heart's illumining truth-light.

1176.

My Lord,
I give You at every moment
An ocean of sorrow
From my heart.
In return, can You not give me
A sky of Delight
From Your Heart?

1177.

My mounting aspiration-heart-flame
Is my immediate liberation
From my life's crippling fear.

1178.

My mind's hidden desires
Slowly but unmistakably
Want to poison
My heart's open aspirations.

1179.

Those long dead
And those yet unborn
All equally share
My God-aspiration-cries
And my God-manifestation-smiles.

1180.

Do not wait for the mind's perfect time
If your heart really wants to participate
In God's supreme manifestation
On earth.

1181.

When two minds
Talk to each other,
God is embarrassed to hear
Their conversation.

1182.

When two hearts
Talk to each other,
God and God's Pride deeply enjoy
Their conversation.

1183.

My heart prayerfully listens
To my soul's sermon.
Therefore, my wise heart
Is increasing in wisdom.

1184.

Do not follow
Your desire-deer.
You will never be able
To catch it.

1185.

A single glance
From God's Compassion-Eye
Has illumined my entire life
Forever.

1186.

My Lord Supreme
Is His constantly whispering
Compassion-Heart.

1187.

The human mind
Is a cheerfully willing prisoner
Of unhappiness.

1188.

God is His Compassion-Eye.
Therefore
We human beings
Can dare to hope and dream.

1189.

O my mind,
Let us sit down together
And amicably solve
All our untold problems.

1190.

Alas, I am doomed to disappointment
Because
Daily I seek a happiness-mind
And not a fulness-heart.

1191.

O my mind,
You must listen to my heart
Until you have fully understood
Its soulful wisdom.

1192.

My mind's hesitation
Suddenly changed into
My heart's eagerness
When God's all-illumining Hands
Beckoned me.

1193.

What did the ancients see
In mountain-high aspiration?
What do the moderns see
In ocean-deep frustration?

1194.

Only one flag
Flies above all the rest:
The flag of universal oneness.

1195.

My Lord tells me
That my frustration-world
Will not leave me alone
Unless and until I welcome
My soul-illumination-world.

1196.

Not by denouncing the world,
Not by renouncing the world,
But by accepting the world
And working for its divinity
Can we attain salvation.

1197.

What my heart has
Is a deathless cry.
What my soul is
Is a deathless smile.

1198.

My God-loving heart
Is never afraid of staying
In the lap of God's Thunder-Justice.

1199.

God was so pleased with me
When He heard that I had made
A solemn promise
To reform all my tomorrows.

1200.

To love God in God's own Way
Is to breathe the air
Of God-Immortality's Freedom.

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