Two God-Amusement-Rivals: my Heart-Song-Beauty and my Life-Dance-Fragrance, part 6

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501.

My world-service-capacity
Springs from
My God-devotion-depths.

502.

God Himself
Gives His Heaven-Fruits
To my heart's soulfulness
And sweetness
To eat.

503.

My Lord, may my life have
Every day
The blossoming sweetness
Of a rose-heart.

504.

A self-giving life
Is indeed
A huge banyan tree
That shelters all God-seekers.

505.

My heart's Heaven-free aspiration
Is saving and illumining
My life.

506.

O my mind,
Why are you so stupid?
Why do you want to kill me
With your earth-bound limitation-life?

507.

O my unaspiring mind,
Because of you
At every place,
At every moment,
I am utterly helpless.

508.

God assures me
That my climbing devotion-aircraft
Will never stall
If I continue loving Him
In His own Way.

509.

I always study
In the self-giving-school,
And not
In the self-proclaiming-school.

510.

Do I call Him
My Father or my Friend?
I call Him both.
He is my Father
When I need something from Him.
He is my Friend
When I need to be with Him.

511.

Each aspiring soul
Is indeed
Heaven's God-revelation-fragrance.

512.

I get infinitely more joy
By looking at my Master's Feet
Than by looking at His Eye.

513.

O my aspiration-heart,
Dive deep within to discover
How beautiful you are,
How pure you are,
How sweet you are!

514.

The definition of spirituality is:
A constant Heaven-climbing heart
And God-surrendering life.

515.

I never thought that my Lord Supreme
Would make me a soul-singer
To love and please Him
In His own Way,
But lo, to my wide surprise,
He has done it!

516.

Who has ever
Conquered the world permanently
By using the mind?
Only by using the heart
Can we conquer not only the life
But also the heart
Of the entire world.

517.

May the patience-wings
Of my determination-bird
Never grow tired.

518.

There is not a single day
When I do not invite my Lord Supreme
To become part and parcel
Of my daily thoughts.

519.

The mind's happiness blossoms
Only to wither
In the twinkling of an eye.

520.

You create your own misfortune
By thinking that
You are always misunderstood.

521.

The Masters are calling
Through the ages,
But where are humanity's ears,
And where is humanity's heart
To respond?

522.

The mind loves independence.
The heart loves interdependence.
The soul loves dependence
On God alone.

523.

Morning itself
Is a clarion call
To all the world's spiritual seekers.

524.

Because the mind
Wants to maintain its supremacy,
It is impossible for the mind
To love God for God's sake.

525.

When our mind
Wanders aimlessly,
Our life
Helplessly follows.

526.

Alas, death scares
His unaspiring mind,
And Immortality scares
His unaspiring heart.

527.

God sits by His Heart-Window
And enjoys
The sincerity, beauty and purity
Of all pilgrim-seekers.

528.

A real God-expert
Is he who has mastered
The art of sleepless surrender.

529.

If you have a prayerful heart
And a soulful voice,
Then you can easily
Be a neighbour
Of God the Compassion.

530.

Nothing can carry me
To my Lord Supreme
As easily as my inner poise.

531.

I came into the world
To serve earth's crying heart
And Heaven's smiling Eye.

532.

God will be delighted
If you can enter His Kingdom
Even in your sleep.

533.

When I see God in my dreams,
He is so beautiful.
When I see God in my reality,
He is so powerful.

534.

God's Compassion
Is unbelievably fascinating
To both earth and Heaven.

535.

It seems that
God's Compassion-Eye
Will never be able to enjoy
Retirement.

536.

O my gratitude-heart,
In you God sees
My perfection;
In you God feels
His Satisfaction.

537.

The stupidity-mind races
Up to the steepest
Nothingness-edge.

538.

When my love of God
Is pure and sincere,
I fly into
God-Infinity's Peace.

539.

When I do not pray and meditate,
I feel myself alone,
Helpless, worthless and useless
Upon the shores of the world.

540.

God's Compassion-Victory
Over my stupidity-life
Is a frequently repeated episode
In God's Autobiography.

541.

The mind's constant reluctance
To receive God's Light
Is devastating to the heart.

542.

A heart of peace
Is always the best
Problem-solver.

543.

God's divine Pride knows no bounds
When He sees the endless horizon
Of an aspiration-heart.

544.

God-realisation is not
World-negation
But the world's total
Transformation.

545.

A heart of God-surrender
Can easily hear
The whisper of the remotest
World-illumination-galaxies.

546.

A desiring mind
Is destined to walk helplessly
Across life's barren deserts.

547.

Every seeker's motto
Must ultimately be:
God-realisation is for
God's sake.

548.

God has chosen you
To be His closest associate
Precisely because
Your surrender is complete
And unconditional.

549.

Peace was definitely present
At the world's birth,
But, alas, we do not know
Where it is helplessly
Roaming now.

550.

The Hand of Heaven
Is always ready to be involved
When you soulfully cry
For Heaven's help.

551.

O my aspiration-heart,
Be patient.
The time is fast approaching
When God will definitely decree
The final departure
Of your ignorance-night.

552.

I am more than eager
To confront
Humanity's unaspiring future.

553.

In my surrender-heart to God's Will,
I become
God's full Manifestation-Promise
On earth.

554.

A mind clothed in fantasy
Can never enjoy
God-ecstasy.

555.

In this lifetime
God wants me to be involved
Seriously
In my self-mastery
And God-discovery.

556.

There is only one way
To capture God
And God's Peace,
And that is the way
Of constant surrender.

557.

Anything good that comes
From the realm of imagination
Will eventually blossom
Into reality-realisation.

558.

The endless torture
Of ignorance-night
Can easily be changed
And need not be endured.

559.

A peaceful world
Is an immediate, utter and absolute
Necessity.

560.

My life's hope-horse
Gallops towards
My golden future.

561.

God is unmistakably present
In all our actions,
But He prefers to remain
Invisible.

562.

The gratitude of the heart
Can never be limited
By any mind-made boundaries.

563.

In vain
My doubting and suspecting mind
Tortures my heart.
In vain
It tries to imprison my heart,
In vain!

564.

As birds need no passport
To fly in the firmament,
Even so, my aspiration-heart
Needs no passport
To visit God's Heart-Kingdom.

565.

Each heart
Has to be brave
To cross the scorching desert
Of the mind.

566.

The mind is always noisy
With desires.
The heart is always busy
With aspiration.

567.

O my mind,
Do not frighten your body.
Enlighten your body!
For you desperately need
Your body's assistance
To achieve anything
Worthwhile.

568.

God's Forgiveness
And God's Compassion
Are my everyday essentials.

569.

To my extreme surprise,
Unconditionally
My heart is rooted and solid
In my love of God.

570.

If the choice is offered to me
Either to learn from
Or to teach the world,
I shall definitely take
The opportunity to learn.

571.

Unlike my mind,
My heart is always willing
To be a beginner
In every aspect of life.

572.

If you do not have
A mountain-heart-cry,
Then definitely
You are not going to reach
The Golden Shore.

573.

The mind that does not search
For God's Light
Eventually is left with only the debris
Of scattered thoughts.

574.

May my aspiration
Always follow
A one-way street.

575.

God-obedience always wins
God's brightest Crown.
God-surrender always wins
God's highest Throne.

576.

May I always find
My Lord Beloved Supreme
Either inside my life's surrender
Or inside my heart's gratitude.

577.

Hear the heartbeat of the earth!
It is unbelievably painful.
Hear the heartbeat of Heaven!
It is unimaginably delightful.

578.

Train and perfect your sight
By constantly looking outward.
Train and perfect your God-vision
By constantly looking inward.

579.

It is obligatory
For my mind's desire
To take a back seat
To my heart's aspiration.

580.

Alas, I am doomed!
My self-giving heart
Is now totally out of practice.

581.

My prayer
Is my life's anchor.
My meditation
Is my life's compass.

582.

Each day
I faithfully anchor my life-boat
To my Lord Supreme's Will.

583.

God-dreamers are many,
But God-lovers and God-servers
Are few and far between.

584.

O my heart,
The entire universe
Has invested in you
Its hopes and promises.
Do not disappoint
The universe!

585.

Each God-realised soul
Is indeed
A world-peace-freedom-beacon.

586.

My Lord Supreme does not want me
To keep any souvenirs
Of my past ignorance-life.

587.

The powerful eagerness
Of my heart
Is at last awakening
My mind.

588.

Each heart
Is a unique Dream
Of God's
Ever-blossoming Vision.

589.

O my mind,
Can you not see
That some individuals on earth
Are happy?
You can also be one of those.
Why not?

590.

Your unsearching mind
And your unaspiring heart
Will definitely take you
To the marketplace of sorrow.

591.

A sleeplessly self-offering heart
Is always the greatest masterpiece
Of all time.

592.

We all must learn
To cure world-problems
And not to obscure world-problems.

593.

O my pioneer-dreamer-heart,
My mind, my vital and my body
Love you, treasure you and need you
Sleeplessly.

594.

No fool can bluff his way
Into Heaven!
He who wants to go to Heaven
Must needs have an inspiration-heart
And a dedication-life.

595.

What I need is a God-loving,
God-serving surrender-smile
And not a God-winning smile.

596.

You have cultivated
A callous mind.
How can you value
Your precious heart?

597.

Each human life
Is nothing but
An unconscious display
Of weaknesses.

598.

Imagination spreads its wings
Everywhere
And announces the arrival
Of reality.

599.

Only our inner vision
Can see the Truth,
Feel the Truth
And become the Truth itself.

600.

In the morning,
God's Compassion-Eye beckons me.
In the evening,
God's Forgiveness-Heart beckons me.

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