Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 103

10201

Obedience is the sacred beauty
Of God’s Oneness-Manifestation
In His seeker-lovers.

10202

Before you master the art
Of heart-offering,
You must learn the art
Of purity-becoming.

10203

Your life has suffered
Not because the evil forces
Have captured your heart,
But because you have asked your mind
To be your Lord Supreme.

10204

Meditate on your soul
To steel your senses,
And not on your mind
To kill your senses.

10205

If your heart does not listen
With love,
Your mind will never become
The fragrance-delight of perfection.

10206

The beauty of self-giving
And the duty of earth-loving
Can never be insignificant
In the seeker’s God-realising
And God-manifesting life.

10207

Do not think that God the Justice
Loves you less
Than God the Compassion.
God the Justice wants to see you
Victorious in the battlefield of life.
His Compassion-Heart and his Justice-Eye
Expect only one thing from you:
Perfection.

10208

Remember the thing
You have deplorably forgotten:
Your life is your soul’s
Unhorizoned strength.

10209

If you do not closely examine
Your mind’s secret motives,
You can never demolish
Your life’s ignorance-tree.

10210

If you are planning
To satisfy God,
Your life will always remain
In the planning stage.
But if you have the confidence
That you can please God,
Then you are already on the fair road
To pleasing God.

10211

O seeker, I am telling you
Once and for all:
Your soul will not value
Your undeserved success
In your outer life
And your undeserved progress
In your inner life.
And something more:
It does not appreciate an easy victory!

10212

If you are a great soul,
That means you have a great mind.

If you are a good soul,
That means you have a good heart.

If you are a perfect soul,
That means you are
A sleeplessly surrendered life.

10213

If delight is your heart’s choice,
Then sleeplessly keep ignorance
Out of your life’s boundary.

10214

The short, slow steps of unwillingness
Are the beginning
Of fast destruction-night.

10215

He has proved his greatness and goodness
By his successful experiment
In non-expectation.

10216

The mind’s perpetual doubt-journey
Can never reach
The golden shore of the heart’s delight.

10217

You must not choose!
Let your heart choose for you.
Your self-giving and God-loving heart
Can never make a wrong choice.

10218

If your breath is chained
To expectation,
Then your life is doomed
To frustration.

10219

His heart is ashamed
Of his mind’s deliberate unwillingness
To be at God’s Compassion-Door.

10220

You are shattered by sorrow.
Do you know why?
Because you cheerfully invited
The temptation-tyrant.

10221

If you see with your heart,
God will not be able to play
Hide-and-seek with you.

10222

What is human life
If not a birthless and deathless procession
Of unillumining thoughts?

10223

If you taste from desire-dish every day,
How can God serve you
With His Vision’s aspiration-dish?

10224

You must know
That you have a peace-corner
Inside your heart.
Every day try to park your mind’s
Uncomely thoughts
In that corner.

10225

God is always for you,
But are you for God always?
If so, you cannot be a victim
To your outer life’s false joys!

10226

He is the sweetness
Of his heart’s selflessness.
He is the newness
Of his Lord’s Fruitfulness.

10227

God secretly and compassionately
Watches you every day
While you pass through
Your heart’s surrender-gates.

10228

The mind’s profession is doubting.
The heart’s profession is loving.
The soul’s profession is illumining.
God’s Profession is witnessing.

10229

Nobody can compel you to get lost
In your mind’s desire-storm.
Again, nobody can liberate you
From your mind’s desire-storm.
You are your heart’s inspirer.
You are your life’s liberator.
You are your God’s Vision-fulfiller.

10230

A man of promise
Definitely knows
That God does not make
Dangerous demands.

10231

You can conquer
The breath of death
If you can daily sing
Your soul’s silence-song.

10232

To bring your dream to life,
You and your life
Must start your faith-train
Immediately.

10233

You have forgotten to surrender.
That does not mean
God will forget to remember
Your oneness-heart
Of the hoary past.

10234

The road from darkness
To certainty
Not only illumines
The human in us
But also manifests
The divine in us.

10235

God is never too busy!
Just make an iota of inner progress.
Lo, He is always ready to be
Your immediate Help.

10236

Nobody can steal away
Your time —
Nobody —
If your full-time job
Is God-satisfaction.

10237

God will give each one
A different answer
Because
Each one gets tremendous
Satisfaction-pleasure
From his particular answer.

10238

Once God becomes real to you,
Yours should be every day
A God-preoccupied heart.

10239

Yesterday’s cheerful heart
Is tomorrow’s confidence-life.
This is the message
From the Delight-Height of God.

10240

Your soul is dying
For God’s Manifestation-Delight
Inside the purity-heart
Of your aspiration-world.

10241

God can feed
Your hungry heart
If you can become a stranger
To your worry-anxiety-life.

10242

To breathe in purity’s breath
Is a very good start
In your long-forgotten
Aspiration-life.

10243

If you cannot direct
Your devotion to God,
You can at least think of God.

If you cannot
Even think of God,
You can at least believe
That God’s Compassion-Light
Will never desert you.

10244

My soul feels sorry
When it sees
The modern distribution
Of ultra-modern truth.

10245

A willing heart’s capacity
Can easily make friends with
God’s Infinity-Heart.

10246

Who has time?
Not he who wastes time!
Who loves God?
Not he who dares to imagine
That God is for somebody else!

10247

If you are your heart’s commitment
To God’s Will,
Then you can never remain short
In your inner height.

10248

You may not be inspired
To speak to God.
That does not mean
God is also supposed to play
The same game.
He easily plays a totally different game
With you, in you and for you.

10249

Your aspiration-life is in ruins
Because
Your unaspiring mind is torturing
Your helpless, unawakened life-bird.

10250

If you know you have
An unready mind,
That means you also have
An unreliable heart.

10251

If you do not have
A doubting mind,
That means at least one nightmare
Is gone forever!

10252

Every day your soul
Brings a message from God to you.
Can you not one day
Take your soul’s message to mankind?

10253

My desire-life was bitter
And it was not complete.
My aspiration-life is sweet,
And how I wish to complete it!

10254

What have you done for God
That you want and deserve
A great reception in Heaven?

10255

Aspiration is not
A small, temporary relief
From human suffering.
It is the only way
To enter into the sea
Of Eternity’s Bliss.

10256

When doubt assails your mind,
Immediately appeal to the higher power:
Your inner faith.

10257

If you are your mind’s pretence,
God is not going to persuade you
To enjoy your heart’s
Oneness-relationship with Him.

10258

There is always something more
To the story of man’s transformation
And God’s Manifestation.
This is a story that is at once
Beginningless and endless.

10259

Aspiration
Is the dream-seed.
Realisation
Is the reality-tree.
Manifestation
Is the perfection-fruit.

10260

Each time God the Compassion
Lights my heart-candle,
I see a supreme glow
Inside my heart’s purity-nest.

10261

Each God-seeking life
Is definitely a freedom-experience
Of God’s universal Vision,
Light and Delight.

10262

If you do not remember
Your aspiration-treasure,
Who can and who will show you
The beauty of realisation
And the joy of perfection?

10263

If and when
A mind is freed from doubt,
Then that mind becomes
An island of light in the darkness-sea.

10264

If the mind wants to dominate you,
That is the business of the mind.
But you have the capacity
To eliminate the mind
From your life’s heart-chamber.

10265

God’s Compassion-Soap
Every day washes
Man’s ingratitude-heart
And disobedience-life.

10266

Even a faint complaint
Against God
Can easily change your life
For Eternity.

10267

A constant oneness-heart
With the Inner Pilot
Is the seeker’s life-changing challenge.

10268

Every day you attend
Your ego-exhibits.
Can you not today,
Even for a short time,
Attend your soul’s
God-revelation-exhibits?

10269

Love is not always enough.
Devotion is not always enough.
Only oneness-surrender-satisfaction
Is always enough.

10270

If you have not taken
A self-study course,
Then take one.
You will value God’s supreme Vision
In you and for you.

10271

If you want to see,
Then see beyond your little self.
If you want to become,
Then become the fountain-heart
Of satisfaction
In God’s Self-Transcendence-Vision.

10272

You think what you have
Is a doubting mind.
But I wish you to feel
That what you are
Is a heart,
And this heart is the herald
Of a new age.

10273

God has granted you
A real heart-altar.
Do not put
Any artificial flowers on it.

10274

Do not allow
Your heart’s beauty-flowers to dry.
These flowers will grant you
Divinity’s liberation-breath.

10275

My self-giving
Is nothing other than
My Lord’s
Perfection-Oneness-Manifestation
Made visible.

10276

You will specialise
In doing the impossible
If you compel your mind to be fed
By your faith-preparation.

10277

If you refuse to serve,
Yours will be a life
Worse than useless,
Even in God’s
All-forgiving Compassion-Eye.

10278

Do not give up, do not give up!
Your soul has endless patience.
Listen to your soul’s compassion-whispers.
You will eventually succeed.
Do not give up!

10279

If you remain in the destruction-vital,
Even when God the Compassion
Arrives at your door,
You will take Him
As a complete stranger.

10280

No, not in the man-made churches
But in the God-made heart-temples,
God will grant you
A long interview.

10281

Join the God-lovers’ society.
God will one day share with you
His Eternity’s Infinity.

10282

If you take shelter
In your mind’s impurity-house,
How can God reveal to you
His Heart’s Delight-Treasures?

10283

Heart’s gratitude
Can never take birth
In the mind’s unwillingness-home.

10284

Faith is not only
The true God-lover in you
But also the brave ignorance-destroyer
For you.

10285

Even for a second
Daily try to live
In your soul’s enchanting and illumining
Heart-depths.

10286

The silence-greeting of your soul
Can easily liberate you
From your mind’s all-devouring pride.

10287

In his case
The past is not dust.
The past is all golden and diamond!
In his case, alas,
The future is the problem.
He is unable to shape it
In God’s own Way.

10288

The human mind
Is a hallucination-dream
That lives in the abysmal abyss
Of the doubt-land.

10289

When God grants you
A new, inspiring, encouraging
And illumining faith-certificate,
Accept it immediately
And preserve it
With your sleepless gratitude.

10290

God’s first Achievement:
His Vision in His
Satisfaction-Smile.

Man’s last achievement:
God for God’s sake.

10291

If you cry and cry to be purified,
God will stand right before you
And listen to your heart’s
Orphan-songs.

10292

No, the years blessed by the Inner Pilot
Are not gone!
They are still within us.
They have to be brought to the fore
Every day
Consciously and sleeplessly.

10293

Alas,
The unaspiring lectures
Of the mind-professor
Are not only guiding today’s old world
But perhaps will also feed
Tomorrow’s new world.

10294

If you do not use
Your heart’s discrimination-light,
You will not be able to see
Beyond the unlit cave of your mind.

10295

Your mind’s desire-list
Is indeed a long list,
Helpless and useless.

Your heart’s aspiration-list
Is indeed a short list,
Powerful and fruitful.

10296

Purity is long dead
In your life.
Therefore
You are a perfect stranger
To your heart’s aspiration-light.

10297

Humanity minus divinity:
A God-missing experience.
Do not commit yourself to an experience
Worse than the worst.

10298

Nobody wanted you
To be caught in the net
Of your binding mind,
Your strangling vital
And your sleeping body.

10299

I feel sorry
For only one thing:
I feel really sorry
When I look at my heart’s
Encaged divinity-bird.

10300

May my life become
The garden of my heart.
May my heart become
The flower of my soul.
May my soul become
The fragrance of my Lord Supreme.

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