Two God-Amusement-Rivals: my Heart-Song-Beauty and my Life-Dance-Fragrance, part 2

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101.

A self-giving thought
Beautifies our heart immensely,
Plus immediately.

102.

The aspiring heart's
Silence-sea
Can easily calm
The mind's turbulence.

103.

Infinity's Delight sprouts from
Sleepless and breathless
Gratitude-heart-seeds.

104.

When my mind's willingness
And my heart's eagerness
Converse together,
I swim in the sea of ecstasy.

105.

I love observing
My Lord's and my soul's
Morning colloquies
Infinitely more than I love
Anything else.

106.

Our insincerity-minds
And our impurity-hearts
Are the world's age-long,
Ever-thickening,
Ever-increasing
Darkness.

107.

A true hero-champion
Is not he who says,
"I can do it,"
But he who says,
"I have already done it.
I have already sat
At the Feet of my Lord Supreme."

108.

Your mind may offer
An endless stream of excuses to God,
But God will never accept
Even one excuse from you
For not loving and needing Him.

109.

What I need
Is a God-hunger-torn heart
To sleeplessly weep for God.

110.

Every time I tell God
That I love Him only
And need Him only,
He blesses me
With His Pride-Satisfaction-Sun-Smile.

111.

Run, run, with your soul's
Dynamism-river-flow.
You are bound to succeed
In everything
That you want to do
And everything
That you want to become.

112.

I went to life's market
To buy beauty and happiness.
Alas, I bought unhappiness
And ugliness instead.

113.

Cry like a child;
Smile like a child.
You will be able to arrive
At perfection's pinnacle
Speedily and unmistakably.

114.

If you play
Your mind-disobedience-game,
Happiness will always remain
A far cry for you.

115.

You reveal your heart,
But conceal your mind.
This is not the way
To arrive at your destination.
Reveal your mind
The way you reveal your heart.
Lo, this is the safest and bravest way
To arrive at your destination.

116.

Without concentration and commitment
There can be
No permanent and real victory
In life.

117.

If you are a real God-seeker,
Then you must have
A sense of humour,
For God is the Supreme Humorist.

118.

I have at last revived
My old belief,
That I can love God
For God's sake.

119.

When I offer my Lord
My purity-heart,
He surrounds my life
With His Divinity's
And Immortality's halo.

120.

God and I believe in each other
Completely
When we say we shall fulfil
Each other.

121.

My mind itself is not appalling,
But my mind's greedy desires
Are always appalling.

122.

There was a time when I loved
My story-teller-mind,
But now I love and need
Only my God-singer-heart.

123.

Nothing perfect,
Nothing permanent
Can ever be accomplished
By sheer luck.

124.

My soul wants me to need
Only one thing:
God's constant Nectar-Affection.

125.

Your belief in the manifestation
Of the Light of the Beyond
Has taken you a very long distance
In your spiritual life.

126.

O my mind,
If you do not start
Loving God unconditionally,
You are bound to remain
Enslaved, tortured
And humiliated.

127.

Only courage
Born of faith
Can save this world.

128.

I thought God's Justice
Would do all the talking
In my life,
But to my wide surprise,
God's Compassion and Forgiveness
Have done all the talking.

129.

A self-giving life
Is indeed
The gateway to Heaven.

130.

We can be shattered in body,
But we can never be shattered
In spirit
While loving God.

131.

The doubt-monster
Does not want to share
Its sovereignty
With anybody else.

132.

In order to keep
Failure at a distance,
Live an obedience-life
All the time.

133.

Breathe the fragrance
Of your aspiration-gratitude-heart,
And you will always be
Spiritually triumphant.

134.

The mind chooses
Its own path.
God chooses the path
For the heart.

135.

With whom does God
Lovingly commune?
No, never with my mind,
But ever with my heart.

136.

Every day
A seeker must marshal
Sufficient enthusiasm
To achieve victory for God
Here on earth.

137.

If you want to become
A choice instrument of God,
A sleepless God-surrender
Is at once invaluable
And indispensable.

138.

You can at times be independent
Of the outer sun,
But you cannot be independent,
Even for a fleeting second,
Of your all-illumining
Inner sun.

139.

Let us go forward
Into the heart of the future
Bravely and self-givingly.
Lo, the Golden Destination-Shore
Is beckoning us.

140.

We can never be happy
If we close our eyes
To life's difficulties.
We can only be happy
By challenging and conquering
The pride of difficulties.

141.

Who said that we do not know
What precious blessings we possess?
We do know that our God-hunger
Is the most precious blessing
In our life.

142.

No matter how strong
Our weaknesses are,
We must conquer them,
Or we shall never be able to arrive
At our God-Destination.

143.

When we live in the cruelty-mind,
We definitely live
In a state of deplorable barbarism.

144.

Not because God is indifferent to us,
But because He is dreaming
A very special dream
In and through us,
We frequently meet with
Calamities and misfortunes.

145.

My heart begs God for news.
God's Heart begs me
Not just for news,
But for good news.

146.

When next God and I meet together,
I shall tell God
That I am all ready to become
A God-Dream-server-heart.

147.

My soul is God's assistant.
It spends all its time
Opening and locking God-Gate
For humanity's upward and inward progress.

148.

There is not a single day
When God does not visit
My ignorance-mind-prison
With His Compassion-Heart-Eye.

149.

When I do not pray and meditate
Beautifully and soulfully,
I see my entire life
Wrapped in a haze of uncertainty.

150.

My Lord Beloved Supreme
Is sure that I will not object
To His early Arrival on earth.

151.

Alas, why do I meddle
In God's Affairs,
Since I do not have the capacity
To create a perfect solution?

152.

Not only the light of your future,
But also the light of your present
Will shine all-where
If you have a God-surrendered heart.

153.

I am so proud of my heart
That it is always eagerly willing
To offer what it has and what it is
To my Beloved Supreme.

154.

The mistakes of yesterday
Make us feel we are useless,
Although we are not.
The perfection of tomorrow
Is beckoning us at this very moment.

155.

Do not lose faith,
Either in God or in yourself,
If you want to succeed in life
With absolute certainty.

156.

The lower you look,
The farther backward
You go.

157.

The spiritual inheritance
That we have received from the past
Is never and can never be adequate
For our God-realisation.

158.

A true God-lover's life
Is a constant
God-Victory-Song.

159.

Just by ceaselessly repeating,
"I am of God and I am for God,"
I am marching fast, very fast
Towards my golden future.

160.

I fail
Each and every time,
When I allow myself to be guided
Only by my mind's stupid logic.

161.

An unconditionally surrendered heart
Is the most precious gift
That God can bequeath
To a God-lover.

162.

My heart's gratitude-smile
Occupies the centre
Of my Lord's Attention.

163.

A life with no aspiration
Is indeed
A life of constant and ruthless
Frustration.

164.

Not humanity's desire-life,
But humanity's aspiration-heart
Is bravely and successfully
Leading humanity to a higher goal.

165.

What I need
Is an insatiable hunger
Only for my Lord Beloved Supreme.

166.

I always give God the very best
Of my heart's love,
And that very best is gratitude.

167.

I always tell my heart
That it must challenge
My mind's doubts
And defeat them once and for all.

168.

In the heart of each flower
There is only one thing I notice:
God's Beauty-Fragrance.

169.

O my heart,
Even for a fleeting second,
Do not allow disobedience
To immobilise you,
For you know that God
Sleeplessly loves you.

170.

To deny
God's unconditional Compassion
Is to deny
God Himself.

171.

Although we do not care for peace,
Peace is desperately trying to enter
Into our heart-home.

172.

O Lord, O Lord,
Do ask Your Peace
To penetrate
My mind's thick forest.

173.

O my mind,
Love God sincerely
While there is yet time.
O my heart,
Love God unconditionally
While there is yet time.

174.

God's unconditional Compassion
Cares abundantly more
For man's satisfaction
Than for his perfection.

175.

My mind's hope
And my heart's promise,
Alas,
Have become unaspiring
World-travellers.

176.

My Lord and His ever-descending
Torrent of Forgiveness
Are inseparable.

177.

At every moment
Our hope turns its eyes
Prayerfully and soulfully
To Heaven.

178.

Peace
Is God's only Ambassador
To instruct the human mind.

179.

May my heart's
Sleeplessly eager willingness
To love and serve my Lord Supreme
Speed like the wind.

180.

God has not yet made up His Mind
Whether He will give my mind
Another chance
To pass the examination
Of doubt-liberation.

181.

The mind's negativity
Is destined to vanish
When the heart's purity and divinity
Together shine.

182.

The mind will never be able to offer
An adequate answer to God
As to why it does not need God.

183.

God measures and treasures
Not what I have said about Him,
But what I have done for His creation.

184.

God has uttered
One more surprising prophecy:
I shall be an unconditional God-lover.

185.

Only when we have purity in our mind
Can we enjoy our heart-excursions
Into the depth of peace.

186.

Our mind's hope-flower
And our heart's promise-fruit
Will always remain
Our common yet unique ancestors.

187.

Cheerfulness and oneness
Are not only religious
In the pure sense of the term,
But also contagious to the extreme.

188.

Every morning
I bathe in the stream of hope
To become an unconditional
God-lover and server.

189.

To touch the peace-shore I need
A new God-searching mind,
A new God-loving heart
And a new God-offering life.

190.

No negativity of my mind
Will ever be able
To drown my heart
In ignorance-sea.

191.

My gratitude is always ready
To light the lamp
Of my God-realisation-hope.

192.

As God walks along my life-shore,
I become at once
My heart's beauty
And my soul's fragrance.

193.

Do not seek to embrace
The outer world
Unless you are graced
By the inner world.

194.

God tastes my gratitude-heart
And my surrender-life
And finds them extremely good.

195.

God's Heart has been aching
For such a long time.
Alas,
How is it that my mind
Is still fast asleep?

196.

To ease a little of God's excruciating pangs,
I have decided to increase
My aspiration-hours and dedication-hours.

197.

What is self-offering?
It is something that
The more you give,
The sweeter you become.

198.

Man's hope-birds are crying.
God's Promise-Birds
Are not only consoling
But also illumining.

199.

Like God,
God's Forgiveness
Also never goes to sleep.

200.

Every evening
God garlands my gratitude-heart
With boundless Delight.

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