Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 107

10601

The greatest gift I can give
To my Lord Supreme
Is that I shall always be available
At His Heart-Door.

10602

Each spiritual community
Is either a blessing
For humanity’s heart
Or a disgrace
To humanity’s life.

10603

The ancient way of meditation
Is to enjoy the fruits
Of renunciation.
The modern way of meditation
Is to multiply the flames
Of aspiration.

10604

Why are you not perfect
If you are not a slave
Of your strangling vital,
A slave of your suspecting mind
And a slave of your sleeping body?

10605

Competition for attention
Is as useless
As deception for perfection.

10606

Only a beautiful
Aspiration-tree
Can produce a powerful
Dedication-fruit.

10607

How can your heart have satisfaction
Under the grip
Of your mind’s suspicion?

10608

Without the heart’s
Aspiration-foundation,
How can you have
A dedication-fort?

10609

Unless and until you have unloaded
Your deception-truck,
How can you be a passenger
On God’s Golden Boat
And reach His Infinity’s
Immortality-Shore?

10610

The lowest fee
To visit God’s Heart-Garden
Is man’s fleeting
Gratitude-heart-smile.

10611

God’s Justice-Light quite often
Arrives late.
But His Compassion-Delight
Always and always
Arrives at the right time,
Punctual to the extreme!

10612

This morning my mind said to God:
“God, if You really love me,
Then liberate me
At this very moment.”
My heart said to God:
“My Lord, since You love me,
Will You not capture me
And keep me forever
In Your Heart-Beauty’s golden Cage?”

10613

O my clamour-mind,
Do you really love me?
Tell me, “Yes” or “No”.
“For God’s sake,
I do not love you!”
Says the mind to me.

O my glamour-vital,
Do I really need you?
Tell me, “Yes” or “No”.
“I tell you, no, no and no!”
Says the vital to me.

10614

Yesterday I was tired
Of my illusion-life.
Today I am tired
Of my confusion-life.
But from tomorrow on
I shall never be tired
Of my aspiration-dedication-
Illumination-life.

10615

An eagerness-heart
Does not want to be late.
An eagerness-life
Does not want to wait.

10616

How can I ever lose God
If I continue to love Him?
How can the world ever lose me
If it continues to need
My God-manifestation-service?

10617

My mind, do tell me,
Do you really have to carry
Your daily lethargy-luggage
From your vital to your body?

10618

If you have a problem,
Then go to the problem-taker:
God
And not to the problem-creating machine:
Man.

10619

If I have
A gratitude-heart-hunger,
Only then will I enjoy
God’s Forgiveness-Delight-Meal.

10620

God plays with everybody,
But His Heart plays only
With His purity-children.

10621

My soulful smile
And God’s invisible Hands
Enjoy their oneness-delight
In supreme secrecy.

10622

What else is there to learn
From every life-story
Except that
Everything human eventually fails
And
Everything divine ultimately succeeds.

10623

Three major realisation-requirements:
I must not think of myself.
I must only think of God.
I must speed through ignorance-night.

10624

A rich joy
Will touch your heart
When your heart is filled
With life-duty’s progress-promise.

10625

How can I allow my heart
Even to see
My stupid mind’s
Failure-peaks?

10626

For me, there is only one place
In God’s entire creation
To collect peace,
And that place
Is my own soul’s nest.

10627

No other manager
Can satisfy the doubting mind
As the impurity-manager does.

10628

You say that you have
A heart of faith.
If so, where is your soul’s
Confidence-lion?
How is it that I don’t see it?

10629

My soul-landlord is satisfied
Only when
On a daily basis
I pay my oneness-rent.

10630

God’s Compassion-competition
Is always won
By the seeker’s gratitude-heart.

10631

Every day I must hoist
My heart’s confidence-sails
To declare God’s Victory-Manifestation
In and through my dedication-life.

10632

If you do not terminate
Your doubt-attacks,
You will never be able
To swim in the waves
Of your cheerfulness-heart-sea.

10633

Do not allow yourself
To be bitten by inferiority.
There is no such thing
As inferiority or superiority.
It is all universal oneness-reality.

10634

He is indeed a fool
Who underestimates his heart’s
Faith-foundation.
He is a greater fool
Who thinks that God never visits
His mind’s confusion-door
For its illumination.

10635

When purity enters,
The doubting mind starts to die
And the loving God descends
With His new Compassion-Eye.

10636

Every day your pilgrim-heart
Has to journey far, very far,
To establish a peace-oneness-world
In the heart of humanity.

10637

While you are playing with
Your mind’s desire-toys,
How can you have the power
Of God’s Satisfaction-Smile?

10638

What the world always needs
From you
Is an impressive flower-heart
And not an oppressive power-hand.

10639

What has blocked
Your progress-road?
You have extinguished
Your life’s dedication-flame.

10640

If your mind is nestled
In the heart of purity,
Then you will be able
To climb up to
The high receptivity-roof.

10641

You are not satisfying God
Any more
Because you have lost the taste
For your heart’s obedience-fruit.

10642

A step taken by me
In the right aspiration-direction
Gives God the delight
Of a true miracle.

10643

Every day you can be protected
From the hostile forces.
Just remember to use
Your brave obedience-shield.

10644

The doubtful mind
And the fearful vital
Are always on the danger list.

10645

A God-loving heart
And a self-giving life
Are always absolutely foolproof.

10646

I made a serious mistake
By ignoring the stillness
Of my silence-soul.

10647

The clear, small voice of faith
Will never fail to discover
And will never lose
The beauty of the unknowable.

10648

You can wait
For the moment of revelation.
But do not wait
For the moment of self-dedication.

10649

Every day
Collect the harvest of love
By keeping your Absolute Lord
Foremost within you
As an absolute priority.

10650

A great demonstration of strength
Cannot cover more than a few steps.
But the good revelation of oneness
Covers the length and breadth
Of the world.

10651

Where do I live?
I live in God’s
Expanding Forgiveness-Garden.

Where does God live?
He lives in my
Thickening mind-forest.

10652

Because you are a fool
You shake hands with
Expectation-frustration-destruction-enemies.

10653

When I show God my catalogue
Of Himalayan blunders,
He asks me to sit inside
The perfection-train
Of progress-delight.

10654

Everything has left me
Save and except
The lengthening shadows
Of expectation-futility.

10655

If you are lost
In temptation-trance,
Then you will be forced to swallow
The bitter pills of helpless defeats.

10656

Are you not sorry
That this morning
You purposely did not look
At God’s all-transforming
Compassion-Eye?

10657

He who hesitates,
Stops.
He who stops,
Fails.
He who fails,
Cries and sighs.
He who cries and sighs
Will be given another chance
By God Himself
At God’s choice Hour.

10658

You think you saw God
Just yesterday.
No, you are totally mistaken!
It was centuries earlier
Than you think.

10659

I do not want my mind
To be ruthlessly caught
In the revolving door
Of monkey-thoughts.

10660

When you are
Your heart-sincerity,
God will give you
His Fulness-Divinity.

10661

Your ruthless greed-giant mind
Will one day be forced
By God’s adamantine Will
To join the ignorance-death march.

10662

The empty hands of failure
Remain always unknown
To the quick-flying
Aspiration-heart-bird.

10663

Alas, why did I allow
My heart’s purity-life
To be buried
In the ugly and impure
Mind-mud?

10664

An aspiration-heart
May unconsciously attract
A God-lover.
A desire-mind
Can and does repel
A God-lover.

10665

God gave you
What you unconsciously wanted:
Temptation-frustration.
The same God is giving you
What you consciously need:
Perfection-satisfaction.

10666

Do not go anywhere!
Can you not see
That you are already inside
Your fulness-heart-home?

10667

He is praying.
What for?
For a quick recovery
From his aspiration-collapse.

10668

Why is God laughing?
Because He cannot keep His Eyes shut,
Whereas His earth-children
Cannot keep their eyes open.

10669

Something must be kept sacred:
Your gratitude-heart-conversation
With God’s Compassion-Eye.

10670

You do not know,
Perhaps you will never know,
That your own heart
Is God’s only fond possession.

10671

You are feeding your mind
Too much.
Therefore, all your tiny and feeble
Aspiration-flames
Are flickering.

10672

Somehow the human mind
Every day fails to answer
God’s long-distance
Compassion-Love-Calls.

10673

Every day God tells
His choice children
Only one thing:
“Do not desert
This perfection-thirsty
And satisfaction-hungry earth!”

10674

If you want your heart
To reach the Goal,
Do not allow your vital
To speak to anybody,
And do not allow your mind
To teach anybody.

10675

May my heart become
An inner long-distance
Running-hero
On God’s Perfection-flooded Road
To become the Heart
Of tomorrow’s God.

10676

Each great thought
Is a slow-moving success-train.
Each drop of goodwill
Is a fast-flying progress-plane.

10677

My Lord,
Do give me anything else
You want to,
But do not give me
A mind weighted down
With transformation-ignoring thoughts.

10678

Sooner or later
Almost all, if not all seekers
Are bitten
By the ugly doubt-dog.

10679

Inside your mind’s
Prevailing worry and anxiety,
You are trying to discover
Your heart’s silence-flooded
Himalayan security.

10680

Alas, in my mind’s
Shopping mall of confusion
I am trying to remember
My heart’s long-forgotten
Soul-illumination.

10681

Have you been to God’s Door
Recently?
It seems that of late
He is showing much interest
In spreading world peace
And a oneness-world-heart.

10682

One day, quite unexpectedly,
He was breathlessly shocked
To see insufficient funds
In his heart’s sincerity-bank.

10683

You want to find
God and God-Truth?
Then go beyond and beyond,
Far beyond the man-made
Confines of the mind.

10684

The human mind cleverly
Wants to know the facts.
The divine heart sleeplessly
Wants to discover the truths.

10685

Since the desire-devil
Is so dear to you,
How can God
Be near to you?

10686

My mind gave me information
About liberation.
My heart is giving me liberation itself,
The liberation that it has
Soulfully received from God Himself.

10687

The name-and-fame game
Is always tainted
By temptation’s touch.
This truth is known
By both the possessors
And the observers.

10688

On oneness-road
Only heart-travellers
Are chosen by God
To walk, march and run.

10689

If you have
Two willingness-eyes
And one obedience-heart,
Then you need nothing more.

10690

Her aspiration-heart
Has regained its faith-footing
And is bathing once again
In God’s Compassion-Tears.

10691

God appreciates and even admires
Your fight with self-doubts
And your victory over them.

10692

Take the path of God-obedience.
All your resistance-barriers
Will soon disappear.

10693

When I speak ill of God,
God tells me,
“My son,
I am not going to leave
Either My Heaven or My earth
Until I have changed your mind.”

10694

My mind’s cries tell me
That everything on earth
Is tragic.
My heart’s smiles tell me
That everything on earth
Is magic.

10695

Without God’s Compassion-Smiles,
Who can have heart-tears?
Without heart-tears,
Who can ever water
God’s Fondness-Aspiration-Garden?

10696

Unnoticed and unknown remain
Your heart’s pure
Aspiration-cries
And your soul’s sure
Perfection-smiles.

10697

God has made
His Transformation-Promise
Unconditional.
Can you not make
Your acceptance-promise
Genuine?

10698

God wears only the garland
Of your pure heart’s
Sincere gratitude-tears.

10699

The only way to surprise God
Is to tell Him,
“Beloved Lord,
I love You only
And I need You only,
Not for my sake
But for Your sake only.”

10700

Where is your heart’s
Rising sun?
Where else, if not in your Lord’s
Compassion-flooded Eye?

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