Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 111

11001

My Lord,
Do make my life a heart
Of ceaseless, selfless prayer.

My Lord,
Do make my life the victory
Of Your Vision-Manifestation on earth.

11002

For speedy God-realisation,
The seeker needs the sleepless throbbings
Of a gratitude-heart.

11003

Every day God visits me
And invites me to ride
His Illumination-Train
To His Perfection-Kingdom.

11004

If you want to expedite
Your God-appointment-hour,
Then wear the armour
Of world-detachment.

11005

The mind feasts on
Uncertainty-nothingness.
The heart feasts on
God’s Satisfaction-Manifestation-Delight.

11006

Silence, you are
My unparalleled friend.
You are
My God-blossoming heart-garden.

11007

To your Beloved Supreme
Offer a monument
Of your heart’s gratitude.
Lo, transcendence-bliss
Is beckoning you!

11008

Bid farewell to frustration-clouds.
God will be truly happy.
Declare war on your unwillingness.
God will immediately embrace you.

11009

Each gratitude-teardrop
Of my heart
Will eventually be transformed
Into my soul-beauty’s
Satisfaction-smile.

11010

Am I a fool,
That I continually force myself
To carry the mountain-heavy weight
Of expectation?

11011

In man’s body-family,
His mind and its well-fed doubts
Are his strongest foes.

11012

What I need every day
To please my Lord Supreme
Is a whisper-sweet prayer-cry.

11013

How can you see
God’s smiling Face
If your enthusiasm-mind
Is poverty-stricken?

11014

My obedience-mind,
My surrender-heart,
You two are my dedication-life’s
Quick-spreading fulfilment-joy.

11015

My heart’s gratitude-cries
Have astonishingly widened
My life’s Heaven-manifesting smiles
On earth.

11016

Because of my mind’s
Teeming doubts,
My heart is in
Imminent danger.

11017

Enjoy roaring laughter
If you want to free yourself
From attachment-forest.

11018

Inspire your mind to learn
Beauty’s oneness-song.
Then it will escape
Its jealousy-insecurity-storms.

11019

The breath of my meditation-silence
Shall be the lifelong companion
Of my gratitude-heart-smile.

11020

Because you never say farewell
To your undisciplined mind,
You have become a critical complainer
About your life.

11021

If you cheerfully accept
All challenges, big and small,
Then God will claim you
As His miracle unparalleled.

11022

Your success starts
When you become a determination-mind.
Your progress begins
When you become a oneness-heart.

11023

When I make the quantity-choice,
The human in me is excited.
When I make the quality-choice,
The divine in me is delighted.

11024

I refuse to see yesterday’s
Ignorance-insect-infested life.
I dauntlessly and sleeplessly refuse!

11025

What is my final goal?
My final goal is to become
The God-Heart’s quality-tree,
The God-Life’s quantity-leaves.

11026

When I offer God
My heart-gratitude-breath,
He immediately leads me
To my fastest progress-elevator.

11027

What is my soulful obedience?
My soulful obedience
Is my Lord’s cherished Fragrance.

11028

No happiness can be seen,
No happiness can be felt,
Without the heart’s
Peace-smile.

11029

Each aspiring man
Is a hope-seed and a promise-tree
Of God the Absolute Supreme.

11030

Alas, I know not how
I can help my mind escape
From its constantly biting
Thought-monkeys.

11031

My heart of faith
Every day receives
Special love-attention
From the Heart of my Lord Supreme.

11032

An insecurity-heart
Tries to hide
Even from God’s
Compassion-flooded Smile.

11033

Your life’s liberation-bell will ring
Only inside your heart’s
Oneness-aspiration-cry.

11034

Because I love God
Unconditionally,
God has given me His golden Boat.

Because I serve man
Unconditionally,
God has given me His silver Sails.

11035

An aspiration-heart
Smiles
Even at the frowns
Of a doubting mind.

11036

With your mind’s impurity-ink
You can write
Only doubt-letters to God.

11037

Your heart’s fearful breath
Will never be able to see
God’s blessingful Compassion-Smile.

11038

An impure mind and a fearful heart
Are two deplorable
Oneness-friends.

11039

One uncomely thought
Can easily shatter
The seeker’s hard-earned mind-poise.

11040

Divinity’s heart-illumination
Or humanity’s mind-confusion:
O seeker, it is you
Who have to make the choice
Here and now!

11041

He is his life’s deplorable fate!
The outer world hates
His powerful vital,
And the inner world does not care for
His fearful heart.

11042

O my mind,
Transcend, transcend
The confines of attachments
And arrive at freedom’s
Illumination-shore.

11043

False concern-ears
Are available everywhere.
True compassion-hearts
Are almost nowhere to be found.

11044

Each unaspiring life
Is an uncompromising decision
Made by an ignorance-nourished mind.

11045

Keep your mind under arrest.
You will be happy.
Keep your vital under arrest.
You will be peaceful.

11046

My heart’s purity-smile
Has finally illumined
My mind’s doubt-cave.

11047

Although humanity is tearful,
Humanity does not want to read
God’s blessingful and fruitful Letters.

11048

My heart invokes God’s Love
Because my heart feels
That God’s Love is its very own.
But my mind wants to preserve
Its supremacy as its own,
Very own.

11049

If you do not intensify
Your heart’s aspiration-cry,
How can God pacify
Your mind’s frustration-unrest?

11050

Alas,
When will my mind-train
Stop?
When will my heart-plane
Fly?

11051

You just sail
Your aspiration-boat.
God will broadcast
Your supreme adventure-glories.

11052

Each gratitude-smile of mine
Immediately draws in
God’s Perfection-Breath.

11053

Mind, my mind,
Allow not yourself to become
A waning moon.

Heart, my heart,
Allow not yourself to become
A setting sun.

11054

Do not allow your aspiration-boat
To sink.
Do not allow your realisation-shore
To recede.

11055

Alas,
Just because I stepped
On ignorance-thorn,
I cannot see my heart-beauty’s
Wisdom-flooded dawn.

11056

Wild criticism-arrows
Cannot torture you
If you study regularly
At your heart’s dedication-school.

11057

Definitely each heart is bound to enjoy
Its aspiration-voyage.
Ultimately each life is bound to enjoy
Its realisation-shore.

11058

Each time I offer my heart’s
Gratitude-breath to God,
I amazingly shorten the distance
Of my destination-journey.

11059

Be careful!
At any moment
Your cruel doubt-mind-frost
Can destroy your heart’s
Infant-plant-poise.

11060

Only your heart-smiles
Can and will
Lift your life’s
Heavy frustration-weights.

11061

My Lord Beloved Supreme,
Out of His infinite Bounty,
Has hired my completely fallen
Seeker-heart.

11062

God’s Museum welcomes
Only the devoted
Aspiration-heart-visitors.

11063

Since Divinity has compassionately
Accepted humanity’s life,
My life-train is bound to reach
Its destination: Perfection.

11064

Confidence-light,
Where are you?
Can you not illumine
My fear-infested forest-life?

11065

The soul-touch shall conquer the world
To prove that God’s Compassion-Eye
Sleeplessly loves
The heart of the world
And unconditionally cares for
The life of the world.

11066

Every day
The truth-seeker and God-lover
Must faithfully and soulfully sing
One song:
The song of his surrendered life’s
Progress-light.

11067

If you do not empty
Your heart-vessel every day,
How can God pour in
More illumining Light
And more fulfilling Peace
To make you a choice instrument
Of His transcendental Vision?

11068

God’s Compassion-Light
Is never discouraged
No matter how bad I was yesterday,
No matter how useless I am today,
For it knows that I embody
His cosmic Vision’s
Perfection-manifestation-promise.

11069

I may not know much
About the cosmic gods,
But I do know much
About the Supreme Being,
Who is the only Source-Light
Of the cosmic gods.

11070

Keep knocking at God’s Heart-Door,
Even though you do not hear any reply.
Your knocking cannot and will not
Remain unheard
Indefinitely.

11071

Invite your soul to watch
When your mind searches for truth,
When your heart longs for God
And when your life offers gratitude
For God’s Compassion.

11072

You may forget anything you want to,
But never forget the sunlit path
That leads to your heart-temple.

11073

If you can love God
And manifest God
All the time in His own Way,
Then God Himself will grant you
His own impenetrable
Peace-Delight-Armour.

11074

My Lord Supreme,
I may not see the Presence
Of Your entire Being,
But I do see the Beauty
And Divinity
Of Your Compassion-Eye,
Which has surrounded my life.

11075

When we desire freedom
For ourselves,
We do not realise
That we enter into
A dark and dangerous desire-cave.

11076

Alas,
Where is my searching mind’s
Lost purity-flower?

Alas,
Where is my aspiring heart’s
Lost divinity-garden?

11077

The only answer
To my earth-existence-question is:
God and I can appreciate
Our mutual beauty’s heart
And admire our mutual duty’s life.

11078

To become a perfect instrument of God,
The seeker has to feel
That his aspiration-life
Is the ticking of God’s Eternity-Clock.

11079

To have a good meditation means
To climb up high
In the sunlit summit-silence-light
And converse with God’s
God-Manifestation-Peace on earth.

11080

A God-lover
Is he whose aspiration-heart
Has made friends with
The beauty of the dreaming night
And the duty of the singing day.

11081

Have you decided
To return to your heart-home
Once again
To dine with your
Eternity’s best friend:
Soul?

11082

When the mind
Sincerely prays and meditates,
It sees it has the capacity
To journey into another part
Of its existence-reality,
A part that is always
Flooded with peace.

11083

Your future may not be visible,
But your present is visible.
Now pray to God to carry you
To your highest destination
Through the invisible ignorance-night.

11084

The God of Compassion
Will not be able to use your love
If your love does not have in it
Your heart’s purity-gratitude.

11085

God is ready to spring a surprise
Every day in my aspiration-life
If I renounce my expectation-mind
Once and for all.

11086

Only a God-focused mind
Can challenge all doubt-storms
And all jealousy-trains.

11087

Confidence can flow
From your heart-river
Only when your mind receives
Compassion-Light from Above.

11088

If yours is a God-forsaken mind,
Then your heart will know the despair
Of truth-broken promises.

11089

If your life swings
On your heart’s surrender-swing,
Then God will make you
Another God-King.

11090

Even if you do not believe in God now,
God is determined to prove
To Himself and to you
That one day He will turn you into
Another God.

11091

How can man’s perfection
Remain a far cry
If it does not reject
The ceaseless flow
From God’s Compassion-Eye?

11092

Do you think
That God will not care for
Your perfection-life
Just because you do not believe in
His Compassion-Heart?

11093

If your mind is shopping
Every day in desire-store,
How can you carry
Your life’s perfection-beauty
To God’s Golden Shore?

11094

If you are too busy
With your excuse-presence,
God will also be too busy
With His Withdrawal-Absence.

11095

May my purity-heart-room
Invite both
God the Compassion-Eye
And man the dedication-life.

11096

Who can build his life’s
Dedication-temple
Without his heart’s
Aspiration-foundation?

11097

O Heaven,
I shall not imitate you.
O earth,
I shall not duplicate you.
I shall only liberate myself
From Heaven-expectations
And earth-procrastinations.

11098

Forget the computer.
It may help you.
Again, it may confuse you.
Think of the Liberator.
He will only love you
And liberate you.

11099

Alas, why do I still love my mind,
The phenomenal fault-finder,
And not love only my heart,
The universal God-lover?

11100

Soul, my soul,
Do teach me how to fly
Into tomorrow’s
Newness-vastness-fulness-sky.

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