Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 110

10901

O God-lover,
Every day you must enter
Into your heart-garden
To sow purity-seeds
And grow divinity-plants.

10902

At the end of his life’s journey
Each human being sees
That his life remains
An unfinished battle.

10903

A life of happiness
Does not cost anything.
Just give and give
And do not expect.
Lo, the universal happiness
Is all yours.

10904

I never think that a life of hope
Is an easy task.
To me, a hope-life
Is an arduous task.

10905

I am not asking you
To underestimate your mind’s capacities.
I am asking you
To take your mind into your heart
So that your mind can be flooded
With unlimited capacities.

10906

Each darkness-thought in your mind
Is either
A conscious or an unconscious disrespect
To God’s Compassion-Eye
And Forgiveness-Heart.

10907

Multiply daily
Your heart’s perfection-deeds
And never copy, even by mistake,
Your foolish mind-mistakes.

10908

If you think that God
Gets angry with you
When you do not listen to Him,
Then why do you make the same mistake
Again and again
By disobeying God?

10909

God will prove your importance
To the world
The day you can sincerely feel
That you are not indispensable
Either in this world or in any world.

10910

My mind calls him humanly brave,
But my Beloved Supreme tells me
To call him divinely beautiful.

10911

My success-life has taught me
How to remain brave.
My progress-life will teach me
How to become pure.

10912

What is great for you
May not be great for God,
But what is good for you
Is definitely good for God as well.

10913

You think that you know
All the answers.
Then tell me,
How can I become another God
Like you?

10914

God does not expect
My immediate perfection,
But He does expect
My heart’s immediate, plus lasting,
Satisfaction.

10915

If you are tired in your inner life,
Then knock at your mind’s
Inspiration-door
And appreciate the beauty of your heart’s
Aspiration-house.

10916

If you are human,
Then tolerate human mistakes.
If you are divine,
Then liberate human mistakes.

10917

There is only one way
To the ultimate Victory:
Every day, clear and sanctify
Your mind’s dense jungle.

10918

If you have a heart,
Then you have a heart-garden too.
If you have a heart-garden,
Then you have a heart-rose as well.
If you have a heart-rose,
Then God the Lover of beauty
Will definitely claim you as His very own.

10919

A life of discipline
Can bring in God’s Protection
To save your life
From outer and inner disaster.

10920

If you want to be
Far from the age of darkness,
Then crown your heart
With your soul’s silence-light.

10921

Who says
That your mind can never be
A beautiful flower?
Just start
Caring for soulfulness
In your sleepless life-breath.

10922

If you have the capacity
To have willingness
In your searching mind
And your loving heart,
Then you are bound to receive
God’s Sweetness and Fulness-Smile.

10923

The step from
Your heart’s excellence
To your soul’s super-excellence
Must begin slowly, steadily,
Convincingly and unerringly.

10924

Every day God inspires us
To start our journey
From our abysmal falsehood
To His perennial Truth.

10925

Forget and do not forget.
Forget your oneness-dance
With ignorance-night.
Do not forget your promise to God
To see Him smile
His Satisfaction-Smile.

10926

If you allow your mind
To remain
In your consciousness-basement,
Then how can you ever expect
God’s Ecstasy-Applause?

10927

Your face of perfection
You can see
Only after you have seen
God’s Eye of Compassion.

10928

Greatness competes with
Goodness.
Goodness competes with
Soulfulness.
Soulfulness competes with
Self-transcendence.
Self-transcendence does not compete
With anything or anyone.
It just tries to complete
God’s transcendental Dream
In His universal Existence-Life.

10929

To be one of God’s very best,
Always follow the heart-road
And always keep your soul
As your only guide.

10930

The fragrance of a pure heart
Always intensifies
Your life’s satisfaction-Delight.

10931

Do not try to win
The argument with ignorance.
It is not worthwhile!
Daily make friends with the wings
Of oneness-enlightenment-soul-bird.

10932

If you live in the darkness-depth
Of your mind-cave,
Then for you there is no clear choice
Between right and wrong.

10933

Who is the author
Of your heart’s joy
If not your life’s sleepless
And deathless
Surrender-seeker-soul?

10934

When my dream-life dances
In supreme ecstasy,
I go far beyond my mind’s
Hurtful doubt-domain.

10935

Do not give in!
Do not give up!
Temptation-snares are everywhere;
Do not give in!
Illumination-peak is just above
Your confusion-mind;
Do not give up!

10936

Everything
Will eventually be pleased
Except one thing,
And that is man’s desire-life.

10937

I accept my own faults
To purify my mind.
I accept others’ faults
To perfect my heart.

10938

O hope-tears,
Where are you?
O hope-smiles,
Where are you?
O hope-realisation-truth,
Where are you?
O hope-perfection-God,
Where are you?

10939

For a long time
My Lord Supreme has been asking me
To apply for my
Aspiration-dedication-permit
And to stop my
Aspiration-dedication-demonstration.

10940

Your question is:
How far can faith take you?
My answer is:
As far as you want,
To see God-Eternity’s
Infinity-Smile.

10941

Do not linger
In lethargy-land.
Otherwise, God will stop considering you
As His friend.

10942

The key to God’s Heart-Kingdom
Can be found
Inside your heart’s
Rose-purity-garden.

10943

If you do not banish
Your mind and its brooding doubts,
God and His Compassion
Will before long vanish
From your life-breath.

10944

God does not want you to be a victim
Of teeming expectations.
He wants you to be a lover
Of your own rising aspiration.

10945

Each soul suffers
When its other family members —
Heart, mind, vital and body —
Live with broken promises
To God.

10946

Can you not ask your heart
Once more
Not to wander,
But to return
To its God-Beauty-furnished home?

10947

If I do not put peace
Into my daily actions,
Then my mind will throw me into
The thickness of its
Life-frightening jungle.

10948

If your mind is restless,
If your heart is helpless,
God will not blame you.
God will blame you only if
You do not want to see
God’s Vision-Eye
And His Perfection-Heart
Right in front of you.

10949

Are you a giver or a taker?
If you are a giver,
Then give to your beggar-mind
Satisfaction.
If you are a taker,
Then take from God
What He has for you:
Perfection.

10950

Every day God invites me
To His Compassion-Dinner.
But my doubting mind
And my trembling heart
Forbid me to accept
His Compassion-flooded invitation.

10951

Man wants only one thing
In life and from life:
A comfortable complacency-life.
God wants from man only one thing:
He wants man to learn every day
A new song of self-transcendence
From Him.

10952

I shall build my life
On my mind’s determination-rock.
I shall build my life
On my heart’s aspiration-mountain.
I shall build my life
In the heart of God’s Compassion-Sea.

10953

God loves you.
How can you ever expect
To receive from Him
Your self-destructive ego-rewards?

10954

Again and again I ask myself
Why I do not cry for
Perfection in my life
And why I do not ask for
God’s Satisfaction in my heart.
This is a daily problem in my life,
With no solution!

10955

God’s Blessing-Compassion
I need
To cure my mind’s long-lingering
Doubt-damage.

10956

If I can start my life
All over again,
I shall not forget
To see the beauty
Of my searching mind
And to feel the purity
Of my aspiring heart.

10957

Each man starts his journey
With a well-meaning intention.
Alas, he does not end it
With a well-doing action.

10958

Every day you must survey
Your mind’s doubt-territory
And try to transform it
With your heart’s faith-plants.

10959

Soulfulness never grows old.
Soulfulness can never decay.
Soulfulness shines
In each and every clime.

10960

Each disobedience-drop
Eventually becomes
As powerful as the ocean itself
To destroy its possessor himself.

10961

My heart arrives at the destination
Without quarrelling.
My soul arrives at the destination
Without travelling.
And I shall arrive at the destination
Smiling.

10962

Because your mind, too,
Is a creation of God,
Rest assured that there shall come a time
When even your mind
Will be amazingly illumined
By your Lord’s God-Touch.

10963

Already you have surrendered
To many things.
Do not surrender
At least to this thing:
Your mind’s carelessness-stupidity.

10964

Alas, where can I find
A self-controlled mind?
Alas, where can I find
A self-dedicated heart?
Alas, where can I find
A self-awakened life?

10965

When I do not aspire,
I clearly see that my body houses
Only nerves, bones and muscles.
When I do aspire,
I clearly see and feel
That my body is the embodiment
Of God’s transcendental Silence
And His universal Sound.

10966

There is a higher home,
And that home is inside
Your illumination-soul.
There is a brighter room,
And that room is inside
Your aspiration-body.

10967

God will powerfully
Shake hands with you,
If you can soulfully accept
Your heart’s inner confidence
As your best friend.

10968

Little by little
Your divinity will be revealed
By God Himself.
Little by little
Your human foibles
Will be exposed
By the forces of ignorance-night.

10969

The dark power of inconscience-night
In your life
Will be chased away
By God’s Light
If you leave the past far behind.

10970

Nobody knows
When, where and how
The desire-flower will wither and fall
From its life-tree.

10971

Since you have a heart,
Can you not make it
As bright as the moon?
Since you have a mind,
Can you not make it
As powerful as the sun?

10972

You cannot give God
What you do not have:
A heart of gratitude.

You cannot give man
What you do not have:
A thought of goodness.

10973

All roads lead to something.
That something can be either
Your life’s destruction-cry
Or your heart’s perfection-smile.

10974

Freedom is not free
In the outer world.
Peace is not free
In the inner world.
God and His Satisfaction are not free
In any world.

10975

Do not ridicule
The sad failures of others.
Who knows,
You too may be sailing
In the same boat before long!

10976

If you live in the desire-forest,
The doubt-tiger will unmistakably
Devour you and your beauty’s heart.

10977

From now on keep a diary
Of your heart-dreams.
This world, with its hurtful attacks,
Will be a stranger to you.

10978

Accept the outer world in peace.
The inner world will give you
Not only God, but also
His infinite Satisfaction-Delight.

10979

God will recruit you
If you dare to dream
Beyond your easy reach.

10980

If you place your heart
In your Lord’s Hands,
How will you ever suffer
From aspiration-shortage?

10981

More and more I shall feed
My aspiration-flames
To win my life’s
Challenging games.

10982

I see myself
As I am.
God sees me
As what I can ultimately become.

10983

If you fly the gratitude-plane,
God will meet you
At His Satisfaction-Airport.

10984

If you need any advice
In your spiritual life,
Then call on God
At His Compassion-Apartment.

10985

Who can ever rescue me
From my sinking life-boat
If not God the Dreamer
In my life
And God the Lover
In my heart?

10986

If you do not reject
Your temptation-life,
How can you see your soul,
Your life’s satisfaction-source?

10987

God the Eye may not be
Just a step ahead of you,
But God the Heart is always
A step ahead of you.

10988

The motto of the mind:
I may not be as great as God,
But I can think as big as God.

10989

If you aim at
Your mind’s nothingness,
How will your life ever achieve
Your heart’s fulness?

10990

His life is a step-by-step surrender
To God’s Will.
Therefore, in the inner world
He has become an aspiration-giant.

10991

If you turn your sad failure-life
To God,
God will lend you His Compassion-Eye
Free of charge.

10992

If you take a stand
Only for God-Satisfaction
In God’s own Way,
Then you are bound to see
That God is just
A heartbeat away.

10993

Two words can never be found
In your mind’s desire-dictionary:
Perfection and satisfaction.

10994

God will supervise your life
When you can prove to Him
That you are sincerely happy,
Soulfully happy
And unconditionally happy.

10995

When I say, “I want,”
God frowns at me.
When I say “I need,”
God smiles at me.
When I say “I have,”
God shakes hands with me.
When I say “I am,”
God embraces me.

10996

You are only deceiving the real in you
If you are unwilling to bathe
In God’s Nectar-Compassion-Ocean.

10997

The distance between
Your dream and your reality
Is the distance between
Your powerful smile and your sorrowful cry.

10998

What kind of goodness is it
If you keep it always on guard?
What kind of forgiveness is it
If you keep it always unused?

10999

Your dream of God-realisation
Came directly from the heart
Of God’s Compassion-Sun,
And is not your mind’s
Unfounded hallucination.

11000

My heart’s aspiration-cry
And my soul’s illumination-smile
Eventually will shine
Far beyond the transience of time.

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