Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 106

10501

Just be conscious,
O my mind!
God is coming to see you.
Just be receptive,
O my heart!
God is coming to bless you.
Just be soulful,
O my life!
God is coming to fulfil you.

10502

Your life’s illusion-mask
Will soon be buried
In your sordid mind-clay .

10503

A surrender-life
Can sing the song
Of perfection-smile
And dance the dance
Of satisfaction-life.

10504

In the seeker’s pure heart-home
There can be no stranger,
No doubt-bewilderment.

10505

To lift the weight
Of your life,
You must forget
The stupid blindness
Of your mind.

10506

Man’s night job
Is to sleep and dream.
God’s night Job
Is to transform man’s
Unwillingness-mind
And illumine his
Soulfulness-heart.

10507

A seeker’s heart
Is his God-identity.
A seeker’s mind
Is his life-creativity.
A seeker’s life
Is God’s Dream-Divinity.

10508

A liberated soul tells the world
What God’s Forgiveness
Has done for him,
What God’s Compassion
Is doing for him
And what God’s Satisfaction
Will do for him.

10509

A doubting mind has the capacity
To diminish
The seeker’s dedication-life
And extinguish
The seeker’s aspiration-flames.

10510

O my Lord Supreme,
Do make me
A strict disciplinarian-physician
So that I can easily cure
My self-pity-disease.

10511

How can I expect happiness
From a lethargy-prone body?
How can I expect peace
From an insecurity-infested heart?

10512

The day your mind says good-bye
To its doubts,
God will place your mind
On His universal Delight-Throne.

10513

Man thinks
Manifestation is a task
That can never be completed.
God tells man
That manifestation is His
Birthless and deathless
Light-Revolution.

10514

O seeker,
No matter how many times
You have failed,
God will grant you always
Another chance,
Provided you care for
A little larger receptivity-heart.

10515

If you do not serve
When it is your turn to serve,
God will not love you
When it is His time to love.

10516

Self-discipline
Strengthens the human heart
Powerfully.
Self-discipline
Invokes the divine life
Consciously.

10517

How can God’s Compassion
Permanently reside inside your heart
When you do not want
Your mind’s indulgence-storm
To subside?

10518

If you do not prefer
Your heart’s purity
To your mind’s impurity,
Your failure-life will be
Eternity’s friend.

10519

There are so many things on earth
Which we can satisfactorily finish.
But the full manifestation of God-Light
Remains always unfinished.

10520

You have learnt perfectly
The art of complaining.
But God is not going to teach you
His Art of perfecting.

10521

The mind calls it
Frustration.
The heart calls it
Futile expectation.
But God calls it
Needed illumination.

10522

God gave me
A life of Eternity
For my improvement.
How is it
That I do not want to give myself
Even ten days
For my improvement?

10523

Because you are good,
You give yourself
Smilingly.
Because you want to be perfect,
You give yourself
Unconditionally.

10524

If your heart is faithful,
Definitely your life will be fruitful
In the world of aspiration.

10525

Your mind is shining
Because it has stopped doubting.
Your heart is dancing
Because it has stopped fearing.

10526

The mind teaches man
Not only how to doubt God
But also how to doubt himself.
The heart teaches man
Not only how to love God
But also how to love God’s creation,
Man.

10527

Not only one,
But all the heart-races
Are won
By the compassion-seeker-souls.

10528

Unless your ego-balloon bursts,
Your little heart’s oneness
With God’s giant Heart
Can never be established.

10529

If you reveal
Your aspiration-secrets
To mankind,
God will reveal
His Satisfaction-Secrets
To you.

10530

When are you going
To compel your mind
To make its farewell speech?

10531

Happiness-days
Can be followed
By sorrow nights.
Oneness-sun
Cannot be followed
By division-clouds.

10532

Your heart’s surrender-cry
Will soon be transformed
Into your life’s courage-smile.

10533

If you are afraid
Of the past
And if you are afraid
Of the future,
How can God grant you
His Perfection-Satisfaction-Smile?

10534

Your aspiration-cry
Must not fail you.
Your realisation-smile
Will not fail you.
Your oneness with your Supreme Pilot
Can never fail you.

10535

If your heart is true,
Who can weaken your heart
And frighten your life?

10536

A God-doubter’s path
Is unimaginably long
And unpardonably foolish.

10537

Control your
Destruction-poison-tongue!
God’s Compassion-Feet
Will be within your easy reach.

10538

If you are not prepared
For your surrender-present,
You will not be allowed
To be near God’s Satisfaction-Tower.

10539

With your luminosity-mind
You can sit at God’s Feet.
With your generosity-heart
You can live inside God’s Heart.

10540

May God the Compassion
Be the Owner of my heart.
May God the Justice
Be the Owner of my mind.

10541

Selflessness is suspected.
Fulness is suspected.
Anything that is new,
Illumining and fulfilling
Is suspected.
Alas, suspicion everywhere
reigns supreme.

10542

If you do not befriend
Your aspiration-heart,
Your life will be
A frustration-sigh.

10543

God’s fond Dream is
Man the flower.
Man’s fond dream is
God the Power.

10544

Your heart must first become
A hope-seed.
Then only will God transform it
Into a reality-tree.

10545

You must practise
Your patience-lesson
Every day.
Then only will you be able
To swim in a sea of peace
Every day.

10546

God’s Compassion-Eye
Is always willing
To teach you.
But is your aspiration-heart
Ready to learn?

10547

God wants you to try
To transform your life
In a new way:
The way of complete and
Unconditional surrender.

10548

Do not find new excuses!
They are as shameless
And as useless as ever.
This very moment cry
For God’s Satisfaction-Smile
In your aspiration-heart
And dedication-life.

10549

Tomorrow does not
Have to remain uncertain
If you dream of God
For God’s sake
And not for yours.

10550

Your slow progress
Must not dishearten you.
Anything that wants to be divine
And anything that wants to be perfect
Needs slow and steady progress.

10551

If you live in the mind,
You can at best survive.
But if you live in the heart,
You will definitely thrive.

10552

God does not tempt you
To be either good or bad.
He just helps you
In your upward attempts.

10553

You can never be
Any help to yourself.
God alone can be of help to you.
Therefore, soulfully and sleeplessly
Turn towards Him.

10554

Do not expect
Perfection-comments from man.
In man’s eyes
You are and you will always remain
Imperfect.

10555

Do not pretend!
Your surrender-life
Is not within your reach.
Do not pretend!
Your gratitude-heart
Is still a far cry.

10556

Your mind’s
Unwillingness-mountain-height
You have to scale.
Why should anybody else
Do it for you?

10557

God wants your mind
To build bridges.
Alas, it has built
Insurmountable barriers instead.

10558

You say you cannot do
Many things at a time.
Then do at least one thing
At a time:
Just follow faithfully
God’s Footsteps to Heaven.

10559

An aspiration-heart
Transcends the human mind.
A surrender-life
Transcends all earth-victories.

10560

God wants you to do
Something special for Him.
God wants you to participate
In His Peace March on earth.

10561

God’s Compassion-Eye
Is my heart
And I am His
Manifestation-hands.

10562

Nobody compelled your mind
And nobody can compel your mind
To become dizzy from running
In confusion-temptation-circles.

10563

The seeker’s gratitude-heart-prayers
Do not just fly.
They fly faster than the fastest
To Heaven’s loftiest height.

10564

The divine heart is always eager
To become a member
Of God’s Compassion-Society,
But the human mind is always unwilling.

10565

If you have a gratitude-heart
And a surrender-life,
Then you have nothing left to win
In the march of your life.

10566

God gave you the capacity
To be good.
Can you not use your tenacity
To make yourself perfect?

10567

If you are in the mind,
You have to grope.
If you are in the heart,
You have to seek.
If you are in the soul,
You are bound to reach
Your destination.

10568

Only a faithful, God-hungry heart
Is blessed
By God’s fruitful Satisfaction-Smile.

10569

No matter what the heart does,
No matter how much the heart achieves,
The mind is always apt to belittle
The heart’s achievement-glories.

10570

If you cannot keep
Your heart’s door open
To tomorrow’s dawn,
How can you expect God to favour you
With His supreme Blessing-Boons?

10571

You want to take only a day
To perfect your life.
But God wants to give you
As much time as you need.
Don’t be in a hurry!
God wants your perfection-light
And not your imagination-speed.

10572

Your mind thinks
It has to be enormous
In order to house God.
Your heart feels and knows
That what it needs
Is a tiny faith-cage
In order to welcome God.

10573

A heart of sincerity
Prays, meditates and serves.
A mind of cleverness
Loves to take a substantial salary.

10574

May my life-music
Be in perfect tune
With the God-Blessings
That are fast approaching my heart.

10575

If your determination-heart
Can push you from behind,
Then God’s Compassion-Eye
Will definitely pull you from ahead.

10576

The longer we live the spiritual life,
The clearer it becomes to us
That God’s Compassion-Eye
Is leading us
And His Forgiveness-Heart
Is following us.

10577

When God stops giving us
His Blessings,
We cry.
When God starts withdrawing
His Compassion,
We unmistakably die.

10578

If you cannot be
A Heaven-dreamer first,
Then you cannot be
An earth-winner finally.

10579

O my mind,
You can do better
Than to have
And constantly cherish
A reluctance-frown.

10580

Do not climb up
The mistake-mountain
If you want to visit
God’s Perfection and
Satisfaction-Fountain.

10581

If you are cherishing
Your mind’s depression openly,
That means you are cherishing
Your heart’s ingratitude secretly
As well.

10582

Either you must have
Fear of God’s Power
Or you must have
Faith in God’s Love
To succeed
In your life’s outer journey
And proceed
In your life’s inner journey.

10583

Each earth-bound desire
Shows an unconscious disrespect
For God’s conscious, unconditional,
Universal Self-Offering.

10584

Your preference
For a purity-heart
Is illumining
Your unlit doubt-mind.

10585

To have a heart of immense gratitude
Is to envision
A glowing perfection-dawn
In the near future.

10586

Now that you have stopped reading
Your mind’s doubt-book,
God will invite you to read
His Heart’s Illumination-Book.

10587

“Stop wanting!”
Give this message to your mind.
“Start longing!”
Give this message to your heart.
“Continue serving!”
Give this message to your life.

10588

If the mind does not care for
The heart’s prayer-life,
Why should the heart care for
The mind’s desire-hunger?

10589

Allow not your mind
To be paralysed by doubt.
Allow not your heart
To be attacked by unwillingness.
Allow not your life
To be deceived by fear.

10590

If your heart has obedience-light,
Then your heart will not allow
Your mind
To cherish oblivion-night.

10591

What you call
Negligible indulgence,
God calls
Your life’s slow but eventual
Suicide.

10592

Your eye of endless expectation
Will soon meet with
Your heart of fruitless frustration.

10593

“I shall not pray to God any more,
For He has not fulfilled my prayers!”
Indeed, this is a most deplorable
And unforgivable decision.

10594

If your heart is great with gratitude,
The limitless Joy of God’s Heart
Will blessingfully befriend your heart
Without fail.

10595

Now that your heart
Has started its surrender-journey,
Heaven’s delight-shore
Will not remain a far cry.

10596

If purity
Stands in front of your heart
And guards your heart,
How can jealousy-thief
Rob your heart?

10597

It is you and nobody else,
Not even God,
Who have to set the deadline
To end your desire-life.

10598

There is no such thing
As an impossible promise.
Each God-promise
Will be helped by God Himself
In and through the God-seeker.

10599

It is you
Who have to always value
The aspiration-flames
Of your heart-cries.
Expect not others
To do it for you.

10600

The mind’s enthusiasm,
The heart’s aspiration,
The life’s dedication:
These three divine flowers
A God-seeker must place
On his God-worship-shrine
Every day.

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