Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 10

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901

Claim God’s Delight-Fountain
With your heart’s
Purity-flooded innocence-cry.
God has been waiting for you to do so
For a very, very long time.

902

A prayer-mountain:
This is what my mind urgently needs.
A meditation-fountain:
This is what my heart sleeplessly needs.

903

Even a segment of a sincerity-heart
And the firmament of a divinity-soul
Are extremely fond of each other.

904

Even if I remember God too late,
God will not hesitate
To give me a beautiful flower
From His Heart-Garden.

905

This moment my mind
Is a pathless forest.
Next moment my mind
Is my heart’s silence-devouring tiger.

906

When God’s Heart
Is my only choice,
God not only fulfils my prayers
But also grants me
His Rainbow-Voice.

907

A life that does not aspire
Is indeed a failure-life
That returns again and again
Through Eternity’s revolving door.

908

When I soulfully love God,
I consciously become
A God-taught student
Of God-Satisfaction.
When I do not love God
But only love myself,
I helplessly become
A self-taught student
Of deathless dissatisfaction.

909

Do you know what my mind
Has done?
It has tapped my heart’s
Telephone line to God.
Why?
It suspects that my heart
Is speaking ill of it secretly
And that God is powerfully encouraging,
Appreciating and loving my heart.

910

My mind becomes familiar
With the word “No”
When God speaks to my mind.

My heart becomes familiar
With the words “Yes” and “No”
When God speaks to my heart.

My soul remains familiar
With the word “Yes” — always “Yes” —
When God speaks to my soul.

911

O my mind’s stupid anger,
Can you not see what you have done?
You have chained me
To my worst enemy: doubt.

912

My mind, heart and soul
All work for my Lord Supreme.
My mind demands a high salary.
In order to keep peace,
My Lord grants my mind
A high salary.
My heart needs only a low salary.
God grants my heart a low salary
And thus satisfies my heart.
My soul does not want any salary.
It works for God for free
And is all gratitude to Him
For using it as His instrument.
God says to my soul,
“You are My Eternity’s Pride,
My Infinity’s Joy
And My Immortality’s Love.”

913

He does not hate God any more
Because he now wisely knows
That he depends on God.

He does not hate the world any more
Because the world finally realises
That it helplessly depends on him.

914

I have locked
Inside my body-prison
Two things:
God’s morning Smile
And
Man’s evening cry.

915

My heart tells me
That God the Lover
Is a sprinter.
My soul tells me
That God the Smiler
Is a middle-distance runner.
My body tells me
That God the Dreamer
Is a long-distance runner.

916

Your beauty-spreading life-flower
Is bound to fade
If you do not soulfully offer
Your heart-tears
To your Beloved Supreme.

917

My mind says to my Lord Supreme,
“Please do not fire me,
Although I am not working hard
For You.”
My heart says to my Lord Supreme,
“Please do not employ me
Until I can become a good instrument
Of Yours.”

918

When he searched within
He discovered two things:
A silver purity-sky
And a golden divinity-sun.

919

If you can play
On your heart’s gratitude-flute,
Then God will definitely grant you
His Vision’s unhorizoned Smile.

920

My Lord,
You have severely scolded me
Not because I love You
Less than before,
Not because You love me
Less than before,
But because I have started
Loving excessively
My frustration-generating desire-life.

921

As long as God is on my side,
I shall not care
Whether or not this world will ever be
On my side.

922

You know perfectly well
That what you have
Is a good-for-nothing mind.
Why, then, do you spend so much time
With your mind, in your mind
And for your mind?

You know perfectly well that yours
Is a good-for-everything heart.
How is it, then,
That you always act like a stranger
Towards your heart?

923

O my uncooperative mind,
What you need from my Lord
Is a powerful Kick
And not a blessingful Touch
For your illumination.

924

My Lord,
I shall no more give You
My mind’s despair-tears.
I shall give You only
My heart’s aspiration-smiles.

925

Your life has become
A difficulty-mountain
Because you feel that God is
Neither His Compassion-Eye
Nor His Forgiveness-Heart.

926

If you regularly fly
In your aspiration-plane,
God will definitely invite you to fly
In His Satisfaction-Plane.

927

When you fell from your pride-tree,
Did you not see God standing
On your heart’s oneness-lawn,
Looking at you with His Compassion-Eye?

928

My heart’s aspiration-road is paved
With God’s ever-blossoming Beauty.
My life’s dedication-road is paved
With God’s ever-illumining Duty.

929

Your vital is on strike!
But alas, your vital is not suffering
From the strike.
It is your heart that is suffering
Endlessly.

930

If you live in the cramped room of fear,
How can you ever be
A choice instrument of God?

931

Between my present happiness
And my future happiness,
Two divine things exist:
My promise-divinity
And
My faith-beauty.

932

He who thinks
That he does not know
What truth is in the inner world
Is an illegal alien there.

933

Long before my heart’s
Little light grows dim,
I must capture the vast Light
Of my Lord’s infinite Heart.

934

In the outer world
I have buried
My inferiority complex
To become great.

In the inner world
I have buried
My superiority complex
To become perfect.

935

Your stupid and ungrateful mind
Is not ready to pay
Even a courtesy call on God,
Whereas your heart every day pays
A devoted and surrendered visit to God.

936

The mind that does not want
To change
And the life that does not want
To grow
Have already contracted a deadly disease:
Suspicion.

937

In your spiritual life
Drive forward fast, very fast.
If you cannot do that,
At least drive forward slowly.
But never, never
Drive in reverse!

938

If you live a life
Of loveless duty,
How can you experience
The divinity of a day
Freed from endless ordeals?

939

My Lord,
I cannot separate
Your Heart of Tears
From Your Eye of Scoldings.
To me they are absolutely the same.

940

When you are your heart’s
Diamond calmness,
God becomes His thousand Smiles
And million Dances.

941

His newly illumined life-boat
Plies between his mind’s silver trance
And his heart’s golden dance.

942

Unless you challenge
The age-old victory of ignorance,
Your life is doomed to remain
A failure-sigh.

943

My Lord gave me
His magical Vision-Eye
And now I am giving Him
My radical reality-life.

944

Yesterday’s stupidity-life
I gave up.
Today’s insecurity-life
I am giving up.
Soon I shall start enjoying
Tomorrow’s practical God-life.

945

My mind is satisfied
Being God’s tortoise.
My heart is satisfied
Being God’s deer.
My soul is satisfied
Being God’s lion.
And I am satisfied,
Completely satisfied,
Being God’s lamb.

946

Each hope-blossom
Is a God-sent messenger
From Heaven’s God-distributing
Delight.

947

Your division-mind
Is a sea of fears.
Therefore, your oneness-heart
Has become a flood of tears.

948

His is the heart
That is as young
As a morning promise.

His is the life
That is as old
As an evening hope.

949

I know where I stand.
I stand between
The nothingness-desert
Of my mind
And the fulness-sea
Of my heart.

950

The beauty that feeds
The greedy eyes
Is no beauty at all.
The beauty that is hungry
For God’s Eye
Is the only real beauty.

951

The slow decline of his progress
Began the day he lost touch
With his heart’s faith.

952

Do you think
God’s omniscient Eye
Cannot see
Your transient cry?
How can you expect
With this transient cry
To win God’s ever-effervescent Smile?

953

You cannot live in
Desire’s bondage-cave
And aspiration’s freedom-sky
At the same time.

954

God never wants from you
Your mind’s fearful prayers.
He wants from you
Only your heart’s prayerful meditations.

955

Your mind may be chained
To doubt,
But your heart is always hoisting
Faith’s victory-banner.

956

Although your life overslept,
You are not doomed
To utter disappointment.
Now that you are up,
Start walking and running
Along Eternity’s Road
And begin to enjoy
Your endless journey.

957

God’s Heart
Is my lover within,
And God’s Eye
Is my supplier without.

958

When we live inside the body-room,
We see God the Stranger.
When we live inside the heart-room,
We see God the Lover.
When we live inside the soul-room,
We see God the Dreamer.

959

The East is like a tree
Without branches, leaves,
Flowers or fruits.
The West is like a tree
Poorly nourished,
With dying roots.
Who can appreciate either tree?

960

You are running forward,
Asking, “Where is the goal?”
I tell you,
If you have no sense of speed,
How can there ever
Be a goal for you?

961

Not one but all my limbs
I broke
As I was speedily climbing down
Ingratitude-hill.

962

A man of suspicion
Undoubtedly lives
A lonely insecurity-life.

963

Every day you must aspire
If you want to remain
An active player
In God’s life-transforming
Cosmic Game.

964

The Guru is both vision and reality.
Through meditation we realise
The vision of the Guru.
Through dedication we manifest
The reality of the Guru.

965

If you want to wage a successful war
Against despair,
Then once and for all fortify
Your aspiring heart
And searching life.

966

If you feel that
To work for mankind
Is beneath your dignity,
Then you are, indeed,
An unfortunate God-seeker.

967

If you care only for manifestation
And not for realisation,
There will be no true
Spirit of God-oneness
In your actions.

968

Salvation-light:
This is the message of the West.
Liberation-height:
This is the message of the East.
Perfection-Delight:
This is the Message
Of my Beloved Supreme.

969

Doctors call it
An emergency room.
I call it
God’s Compassion-Exercise Room.

970

Why do you want to remain
Always seated with folded hands?
Come out into the world.
Manifest God in a new way:
Through your life of self-giving.

971

For centuries
I travelled alone in paradise
With my silence-eye.
Finally, whom did I see?
My Eternity’s dear fellow-enjoyer,
My soul.

972

Do you not see the difference
Between your past power-life
And your present light-life?
With power you became a hero-warrior.
With light you are earth’s life-transformer.

973

True, sleep covers all human doubts
And all human thoughts.
But since it does not transform
Doubt into faith and thought into will,
It is as useless
As a deplorably unmanifested man.

974

The message of Heaven is brief
But most powerful:
God loves me unconditionally.

The message of earth is long, uncertain
And most painful:
Earth does not need me.

975

O my mind,
Do not hide in
Your own darkness-night.

O my heart,
Wake up before
Ignorance-prince steps in.

O my soul,
Do spread your oneness-smile
Within and without my life.

976

If you have an aspiration-heart,
Then allow it to enjoy
The soaring eagle-flight
Of your progress-smile.

977

If you remain inside God’s Consciousness,
You will see God
As your Father and Mother,
Your Sister and Brother,
Your Friend, Your All.

978

My Lord Supreme,
I am tired of playing hide-and-seek
With You.
“My child, I am also tired
Of playing this ancient game.
Let us now start playing a new game,
A totally new game: oneness-fulness.”

979

Capacity is
His life’s shrine.
Willingness is
His heart’s deity.

980

God the Sprinter feels sorry
For my body’s incapacity.
God the Lover feels sorry
For my heart’s incapacity.
God the Dreamer feels sorry
For my life’s incapacity.

981

My earth-born thought
Can never do the work of love.
My Heaven-born thought
Will do not only the work of love
But also the Work of God.

982

No wonder you are a stranger
To your Heaven-shining skies.
You are not at all receptive
To Heaven’s God-descending light.

983

My heart’s crying
Is my life’s sacred hunger.
My soul’s soaring
Is my Lord’s secret Meal.

984

You want to know where I live
Most of the time.
I live most of the time
In the silence-garden of my soul’s music
Where no disharmony can ever eclipse
The sovereignty of my soul.

985

His heart is studying
The technology of tears
So that his life can become
A factory of God-Smiles.

986

How can God give you
A taste of His universal Delight
If you are not willing
To forget totally
The taste of your personal fears?

987

Your life-plant is growing
Within the shadow of your suspicion-mind.
How then can you expect to see
The flowering of your oneness-smile?

988

Every day you allow the temptation-bird
To sing inside your vital.
How can you then live
In Eternity’s sunrise?

989

Every morning my Beloved Supreme
Begs me to touch His Smiles.
Every evening my Lord Supreme
Commands me to wipe His Tears.

990

If you want to become
A world-class seeker,
Then you must take a course
At God’s Compassion-University.

991

With his national mind
He began
His life’s earthly journey.

With his international heart
He completed
His life’s Heavenly journey.

992

My Beloved Supreme
Leads my aspiration-heart,
And I follow His Vision-Eye.

993

O my mind,
I do not mind if you are old,
But I do mind if you fail to tell me
A new, inspiring and illumining earth-story.

994

God the Vision
Was in the beginning.
God the Satisfaction
Will be at the end.
God the Dedication
Is in between.

995

A constant, prayerful, cheerful
And soulful obedience
Is unmistakably a record-breaking
Inner achievement-event.

996

You want to know
Whether you should live or love.
If you love your body alone,
Then you should only live.
If you love your heart alone,
Then you should only love.
If you love God alone and nothing else,
Then you must at once live and love.

997

There was a time when your mind
Won the world over
To division-night.
Now your heart
Is winning the world over
To oneness-day.

998

A superlative God-lover
Is he who never loses his grip
On God’s Compassion-Divinity.

999

What you have done
May not have pleased God,
But what you have not done
Has certainly pleased God.
What have you not done?
You have not accepted
The daily invitation
From ignorance-prince.

1000

I do not have to know
What the truth is.
All that I have to know
Is that God is the only Truth.

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