Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 102

10101

A hopeful heart
Can easily study faith-lessons
At the happiness-school.

10102

Your Inner Pilot
Is infinitely more compassionate
Than you can ever imagine.
Therefore, He will not fulfil
Your vital’s dangerous demands.

10103

If you are brave,
Only then will God show you the road
From your mind-doubts
To your heart-certainty
Plus life-divinity.

10104

A life of dedication
And God’s Heart of Satisfaction
Can never be separated,
Never!

10105

Man’s latest discovery:
God is all Forgiveness.
God’s latest discovery:
Man can be satisfied.

10106

If your mind
And not your heart
Is your advocate,
Then you are bound to get
An unsatisfactory judgement
From God.

10107

Be brave, always brave,
And dauntlessly play
Inside your heart’s
Aspiration-garden.

10108

Time and again you may complain
Against the world.
But God is not going to explain
To you
How and why this world
Dives within and flies without.

10109

A pure heart
Is man’s life-changing
Secret smile
And sacred cry.

10110

Because you allowed your heart
To get lost,
Today your aspiration-life
Is buried
Inside a doubt-cave.

10111

Either you pray soulfully
And meditate calmly,
Or you and your age-old nothingness
Will be forced to live together
Forever.

10112

The world of aspiration-light
Is only sought by hero-swimmers
Who are ready to swim against
The strong currents of temptation-river.

10113

Are you so blind
That you do not see
Your life’s ingratitude-drop
Turning into
A dangerous sea?

10114

He who surrenders to God’s Will
At every moment
Receives from God every night
Life-illumining dreams.

10115

Alas, there are so many miles
Between what I deliberately
Do not want to know
And what I am supposed to know
In the inner world.

10116

If you do not offer
Your total commitment to God,
How do you expect God to grant
His full Enlightenment to you?

10117

God sings
His Silence-Songs of Delight
Only for the seekers
Who fulfil their inner and outer promises.

10118

The past is a country
Only for foreigners and strangers.
Be wise!
Do not visit that country.

10119

Where is the difference
Between your desire-thoughts
And your failure-life?
No difference!

10120

Today you are taking infant steps
Of progress.
Do not give up!
Continue!
Tomorrow you will be able to take
Giant strides
In your progress-life.

10121

One book I always want to read,
And that book is God-Eternity’s
God-Satisfaction-Book.

10122

Unless you don
Your soul’s purity-robe,
Your earth-life
Will not look beautiful.

10123

His Inner Pilot is pleased
With his insight.
The rest of the world is pleased
With his foresight.

10124

Sit down and listen
To your inner whispers.
Your outer life will no longer remain
A meaningless failure.

10125

Remember, remember
Your aspiration-nights
And dedication-days
And your self-giving life
To God’s Compassion-Eye.

10126

Where does love grow?
Love grows on the top
Of your heart’s aspiration-hill.

10127

This is the moment of choice!
Either accept the world of noise
Or accept God-Beauty’s Silence-Voice.

10128

Keep your aspiration-heart-door open
So God can come in at any moment
To grant you His Satisfaction-Award.

10129

Because you are a stark fool,
You think that God’s creation
Is humanity minus divinity.

10130

God’s Compassion-Eye
Pretends that it does not know
Humanity’s treacherous mind.

10131

If you refuse to serve,
Rest assured
You are worse than worthless
In God’s cosmic Vision-Light.

10132

When I think of God-discovery
And God-manifestation,
My heart tells me only one thing:
Nothing is too soon,
Nothing is too late!

10133

If you do not have time to pray,
Then do not blame God
If your life is nothing
But a lump of clay.

10134

Direct your devotion
Towards God’s Compassion-Eye.
He will inundate your entire life
With His Infinity’s Nectar-Blessings.

10135

You forgot to surrender.
Therefore, God came
Only to go!

10136

Make your heart
A soulful shrine
And make your life
A fountain of tears.
Then perfection will claim you
As its very own.

10137

Enjoy not deliberately
Your long
Ignorance-ingratitude-tradition,
For therein abides
Your slow death.

10138

Every day you must unlearn
Your mind’s doubt-song
Before you start learning
Your heart’s faith-dance.

10139

The moment God received
Your surrender-letter,
He became all Satisfaction
With both your inner life of aspiration
And your outer life of dedication.

10140

If you can identify yourself
With God’s Compassion-Light,
Then He will help your heartbeat throb
Inside His transcendental Smile.

10141

Provoke not anybody
And be not provoked,
For every discord in life
Meets with a destructive end.

10142

If you want to live
In the world of compromise,
You will not hear the voice
Of the Golden Age.

10143

The doubter
Within each aspiring human being
Is nothing but
A dangerous invader.

10144

His entire heart
Was most richly comforted
By the absence of desire’s
Possessive hunger.

10145

Each gratitude-heart
Is a magnet
That pulls in
God’s sacred Smiles.

10146

He is totally lost
Between
The imagination of his mind
And the indecision of his life.

10147

Stay not with your aspiration-plan,
But try to become
An aspiration-plant
Immediately.

10148

Now that your divine possibilities
Are coming to the fore,
You will not suffer any more
From your life’s human disabilities.

10149

Your heart’s deep-rooted faith
Must not care for
Your delinquent mind.

10150

Be not busy
With the task of ruthless doubting,
But be occupied
With the task of fruitful surrendering.

10151

A life of surrender
Is always a living blossom
Of celestial beauty.

10152

If you do not aspire,
Then you will not know
That human love is only
A shaky illusion and delusion-bridge.

10153

If you allow your heart
To be flooded with dedication-dreams,
Then yours will be
The golden days without shadow.

10154

If you are not ready
For your aspiration-life,
How will you be ready
For your perfection-smile?

10155

Because of his soulful surrender-life,
Every day he receives
A special invitation
To the Heaven-festival.

10156

Misery knocks at your life’s door
Because you allow doubt
And your dark desire-life
To follow you.

10157

You can escape
The chasm of ignorance-night
If you study the secrets
Dropped by Cosmic Time.

10158

The path before you is closed,
Not because yours is a useless life
But because yours is an unattempted heart.

10159

The main purpose of a God-lover
Is to inspire his fellow travellers
To surpass themselves.

10160

Be soulfully happy all the time.
Otherwise, you will be totally lost
While travelling
Between summit and abyss.

10161

God does not want you
To worship Him under pressure.
God wants you to worship Him
As a self-giving pleasure.

10162

Joy has drifted away from his heart
Because he sees that the world around him
Is enjoying the deepest ignorance-sleep.

10163

If you are a wanderer
In your own heart,
How will you become a voyager
To your immortal Home?

10164

Can you not see
That your life-bud is blossoming?
Can you not see
That your hungry hopes
Are about to be satisfied?

10165

Because you have kept
Your heart-door shut,
God’s daily morning message
You cannot hear.

10166

Who is awake within me?
Not God the Ruler,
But God the Lover.

10167

Since you have given God
Your days and nights,
God will grant you
His Heart’s immortal Smile.

10168

If you nourish your depression,
That means you are squandering
God’s Compassion.

10169

I did what I was not supposed to do:
I complained.
God did what He was supposed to do:
He sighed.

10170

As your heart is embracing
Tomorrow’s dawn,
Even so, your mind is approaching
Its immediate death.

10171

At every moment
Inner peace spreads its opulence:
Satisfaction-heart.

10172

True, truth can grow anywhere,
In any human being.
But it prefers to grow always
In silence-heart.

10173

From the soul’s world
The great Masters plough
The same kind of fertile fields
That they ploughed on earth,
And good seekers in Heaven
Will eventually grow into
Great banyan trees on earth.

10174

Another year is ending.
Alas!
God knows what I have done
And what I have not done
For Him.

10175

Be careful!
One day the Golden Boat of the Supreme
May not have room to keep you
If you prove again and again
To be an undeserving passenger.

10176

Although there are
Countless people on earth,
You are definitely one of those
Chosen to be in God’s Boat
And to do something good
For the earth-consciousness.

10177

True, God-realisation
Is the most important goal in life,
But never call the experiences
We go through to prepare ourselves
For our highest Goal
Unimportant!

10178

Yogis are like waves,
Avatars are like the sea.
If you have the capacity
To be a wave again and again,
One day you can also become
The sea itself.

10179

What kind of help does he get
From his Master?
Not merely outer help
But inner help as well,
For he carries his Master
Inside his aspiring heart
With utmost love, devotion and surrender.

10180

God has His own choice Hour
For each of us.
But God’s Hour we can expedite
Through constant obedience and gratitude.

10181

The first and foremost thing
Is constant cheerfulness in the heart.
Then anything divine that you want
Is bound to come.

10182

His eye of vision
Was not only unknown
But also unknowable,
For the Unknowable was what he was
And what he represented.

10183

Serve God and humanity
In a cheerful and meditative consciousness.
Lo, you will make the fastest progress!

10184

Never will I try to bind my Lord.
I only want to enter into Him —
To be infinite like Him,
To be divine, to be immortal,
To be perfect in every way.

10185

The spiritual life
Is for the wise —
Those who feel they need
God’s Love, Light and Delight.

10186

God sees many souls crying,
But He must wait
For their outer receptivity.

10187

Only when I look
Inside others’ hearts
Do I see my own perfection
And the perfection that I want
To see in them.

10188

Each time he says
He is going to obey God,
What happens?
When the obedience-moment comes,
He proves that his hour
Has not yet struck.

10189

Today you may not be aspiring,
But if you can remember and value
Your own highest consciousness,
Then special Grace may descend from Above
To rekindle your aspiration-flame.

10190

How to make your inner life strong?
Through selfless service.
If you can help others,
This will expedite the reawakening
Of your own highest consciousness.

10191

He is happy
Because he has confidence in his Master
As the bridge that will take him
To his Beloved Supreme.

10192

Your heart’s aspiration-cry
Can never be old.
It always remains
Soulfully and powerfully young.

10193

When two minds meet,
You must know that they are
Knowingly or unknowingly
But quickly
Growing confusion-plants.

10194

How can you hide
The beauty of your aspiration-heart,
And how can you hide
The impurity of your doubt-mind?

10195

If your life lives
In your heart’s aspiration-boat,
Then the desire-storm of the outer world
Cannot frighten you.

10196

If your heart is
An aspiration-lover,
Then your life must be
A dedication-fulfiller.

10197

Meditate and meditate.
God will grant you
His Heart’s Divinity-Depths.
Pray and pray.
God will nullify
Your mind’s humanity-debts.

10198

Humanity’s God-realisation-list
God has already posted
So everybody can see and know.
But humanity’s God-manifestation-list
God has not yet posted,
And nobody knows when and where.

10199

Your man-given outer strength
Cannot sustain you.
But your God-given inner strength
Will never fail you.

10200

My invocation of the Supreme
Is the breath of my vision
And the life of my realisation.

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