Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 117

11601

My Lord, I am telling You
In all sincerity
That I have implicit faith in You.
“My child, I am telling you
With all My Compassion-Delight
That I shall be responsible
For everything that you do.”

11602

At every moment
Keep impurity-breath out
Of your God-loving aspiration-heart.

11603

If desire accompanies you,
Then the golden Door
Of God’s Compassion-Heart
Will be denied you.

11604

The mind knows only one thing.
It knows only how to magnify
Our difficulties and failures.

11605

How far can you go
With your mind’s unwillingness?
Farther than the farthest
Not only from man, but also
From God’s Compassion-Heart.

11606

Cherish hope!
This is the only way
That humanity can have the opportunity
To walk on Divinity’s
Progress-road.

11607

The heart takes vacation
In the countryside of God’s Heart.
The mind takes vacation
In the carnival of the vital.

11608

Although there is nobody
In the audience,
God the Lecturer
Every day delivers a lecture
On peace.

11609

If you skip
Your heart’s aspiration-course,
Then you will fail
In your life’s perfection-examination.

11610

The human mind
Not only likes, but also
Enormously enjoys,
Living inside darkness-doubt-caves.

11611

The mind that magnifies
Each and every difficulty
Can also minimise and weaken
The smile of opportunity.

11612

Look inside your heart!
You are bound to see faith-sun.
And to your utter astonishment
Your mind’s imperfection-sky
Will surrender to your heart’s faith-sun.

11613

If you want to enter
Into God’s Heart-Country,
Then every day you have to renew
Your life’s surrender-visa.

11614

If you are a student of perfection,
God the Teacher wants to be known
By you
As God the Satisfaction.

11615

My heart-temple welcomes
Only the seekers
Of earth’s newness
And the lovers
Of Heaven’s fulness.

11616

My Lord’s Compassion-Eye
And Forgiveness-Feet:
These are the only things I keep
Inside my heart’s gratitude-temple.

11617

There is nothing
And there can be nothing
Slower than the speed
Of an unwillingness-mind.

11618

To achieve victory
Over the vital,
Invoke your purity-heart’s
Oneness-delight.

11619

My mind is made of
A thousand promises.
My heart is made of
One single deed:
Sleepless love of God.

11620

The mind’s selfishness
And the heart’s ingratitude
Are sleeplessly inseparable.

11621

Before perfection dawns,
You have to disobey
All the commands
Of lethargy and anxiety.

11622

Now that you have withdrawn
Your expectation-application,
God is knocking at your perfection-door
With His Vision’s Satisfaction-Smile.

11623

If your mind is wise,
Then you will be able
To walk with God for a mile.

If your heart is wiser,
Then you will be allowed
To fly with God for ten miles.

If your soul is wisest,
Then you will be able to run and fly with God
At every moment.

11624

You and your undisciplined life
Have forced God to delay His Arrival
At your heart’s aspiration-gate.

11625

Since you have chosen self-adoration
As your only occupation,
Poor God is compelled to withdraw from you
Helplessly.

11626

Cheerfulness, unlike frustration,
Does not want to rule your life.
It only wants to awaken your dormant life,
Illumine your mind
And satisfy your heart.

11627

If your mind’s enthusiasm goes stale,
Then earthly pride
Will automatically find you
And Heavenly Compassion
Will not acknowledge you.

11628

Believe it or not,
God has given you another chance,
So give up your shameless infatuation
With ignorance-night!

11629

You are always safe,
My seeker-friend,
Inside your heart’s
Spontaneous surrender-smile.

11630

I showed God my heart’s temple.
God immediately blessed me
With His Compassion-Eye
And Satisfaction-Heart,
And asked me to install them
In my heart-temple.

11631

Can you not see
That you are boarding your mind’s
Unwillingness-flight?
You do not know it,
But before long yours will be
A fear-infested heart.

11632

When God entertains us,
The first thing He does
Is remove
Our mind’s thought-thorns.

11633

How can you be happy
If you have been living
On high ignorance-wages?

11634

When the mind’s temptation
Is destroyed,
God Himself opens
The illumination-door
For the seeker.

11635

If you want to enjoy
A soul-deep silence-sweetness,
Then pray to God to grant you
His own Perfection-Dreams.

11636

The day the seeker does not meditate
Early in the morning,
He has to face a mind
That is nothing short of
A problem-manufacturer.

11637

Do not return
God’s Compassion-Light-Gifts
Unused!

11638

Since yours is a face
Full of false devotion,
You cannot expect God to have you
As His supremely chosen instrument.

11639

I suffer unending uncertainty-assaults
When I do not enjoy my divine friendship
With my heart’s aspiration-flames.

11640

Where
Does the unaspiring mind work?
It works
In its usual complaint department.

11641

If you are the possessor
Of permanent devotion,
Then your eagerness-speed
Will remain undiminished by time.

11642

I know that there are
Millions of ways to aspire,
But I have chosen
The sleepless surrender-gratitude way.

11643

His willing jump to the light
Saved him from seeing
The familiar face of failure.

11644

How can your heart
Be truly happy
Since your life itself has become
A pretence of detachment?

11645

If you are accustomed
To attachment,
Who can help you live
In the house of infinite Light?

11646

A promise-plant
And a hope-tree:
These are precisely what
Each seeker needs.

11647

Alas, his mind has been suffocated
By selfishness-darkness.
He can no longer enjoy
The silent voyage to perfection.

11648

My heart, my heart,
Since the day I started obeying you,
In myself I see
A paradise of progress-delight.

11649

If your heart is dependent
On God’s Compassion-Light,
Then God will help you become
His peace-singer.

11650

My aspiring life
Has at last become
The dispeller
Of my desire-nightmares.

11651

Do not trust the vital.
It always enjoys telling
World-temptation-stories.

11652

If you are accustomed to attachment,
How can God grant you
A free passage
To His transcendental Skies?

11653

What a seeker always needs
Is an innocent beginning
And not a complacent beginning
To reach safely
His clear destination.

11654

When I look at your expectation-face,
You look ugly to me.
When I look at your expectation-heart,
I see in you a failure-beggar.

11655

When God Himself
Compassionately makes a peace appeal,
Can you not abide by His Request
Just for a day?

11656

Although you fail every day,
Every hour, even every minute,
Your soul’s compassion-flooded
Encouragement
Never leaves you.

11657

As the call of desire
Is undeniable,
Even so, the fulfilment of aspiration
Is inevitable.

11658

God is always ready
With His Vision’s radiant Smile
To greet you
And bless your purity-heart.

11659

When I write a heart-letter
To my Lord Supreme,
He tells me now is the time
To be a supremely perfect instrument
Of His.

11660

If you can make friends
With an aspiration-expert,
Then your life will not be tormented
By ignorance-dart.

11661

If you pray and meditate
In your heart’s silence-core,
God’s Compassion-Eye will monopolise
The willingness of your dedication-life.

11662

The only role of a God-singing soul
Is to tell the world
That today’s man-perfection-possibility
Will be transformed into
Tomorrow’s God-satisfaction-reality.

11663

You may not know
Or you may not even want to know,
But God’s Compassion-Light
Can easily see through
Your self-aggrandisement-crown.

11664

What is a greater irony of fate?
You came into the world
To be a God-lover,
But now you have become
A self-lover instead.

11665

When your life suffers
From happiness-shortage,
Just do two things:
Assist God’s Justice-Light
And do not resist
God’s Compassion-Height.

11666

Do you know
What God is asking you to do?
God is asking you to take
Your heart’s impurity-breath
To your imagination’s farthest end.
What for?
Just to bury it.

11667

Alas, my surrender-life
And my gratitude-heart
For a long time have forgotten
To sit at God’s
Compassion-Fulfilment-Feet.

11668

God’s Seeds always bear fruits
If you become
Your mind’s humility-surrender
And your heart’s gratitude-smile.

11669

Your countless problems of the past
Will fade away fast
If you can dare to have
A few glimpses of the infinite Light
That is unconditionally beckoning you.

11670

God has announced your arrival
At His Heart-Door.
When are you going to announce God’s Arrival
At your mind-door?

11671

O my mind,
Cherish not the flow of thought-river!
If you cherish it,
It will carry you to the ocean
Of imperfection and destruction.

11672

You are tempted
To capture God the creation
Instead of being inspired
To see God the Creator.

11673

When my aspiration-flames climb up
To my soul’s zenith-height,
I enthrone my Lord Supreme
With my heart’s sleepless ecstasy.

11674

My dear friend,
You are not sure if God exists.
I wish to tell you that
God not only exists
But also is suffering badly
From the shortage of God-lovers.

11675

You are in your mind’s
Imprisoned desire,
But God wants you to be in your heart’s
Liberated aspiration.

11676

When we pray and meditate soulfully,
God allows us to paint
Our prayer and meditation
Inside His Heart.

When we pray and meditate
Soulfully and unconditionally,
God Himself paints His Infinity’s Beauty
Inside our hearts.

11677

The place to be happy
God has chosen for me
With His infinite Compassion.
The time to be happy
I have to choose for myself.
God has chosen the place:
Here!
I must choose the time:
Now!

11678

There is and there can be
No real excuse
Why I cannot be more sincere,
More devoted
And more perfect
In my daily aspiration-life.

11679

You are sinking and sinking
In the mire of suffering-night
Because you are deliberately
Ignoring the Call
Of God’s Compassion-flooded Heart.

11680

How can the doubting mind
And the loving heart
Ever have a beautiful and peaceful
Coexistence-delight?

11681

If you can sincerely and soulfully
Praise God’s Ways,
Then God will grant you
His Bliss-flooded eternal Day.

11682

I am never alone.
Previously I enjoyed the company
Of my reluctance-mind.
Now I am enjoying the company
Of my hesitation-heart.
Alas, alas!

11683

How can God keep track
Of His infinite children?
Exactly the way we keep track
Of our surrender-life
And gratitude-breath.

11684

Because you do not value
Your faith in God,
Before long you will have
A severe suffering-punishment.

11685

If you think
That you are not ready for God,
Then that is your way of thinking.
But God is telling me
That you are more than ready,
And He is also telling me
That I must start serving Him in you
Immediately.

11686

If your mind is on constant parade,
God’s compassionate Heart-Gate
Will always remain invisible.

11687

Every day
Try to learn more and more
About the aspiration-language
And the dedication-book.

11688

Three inventions of the idle mind:
God does not care for His creation.
Man is hopeless.
Heaven and earth are not on speaking terms.

11689

Sleep your ignorance-sleep if you want to,
But do not blame God
If He comes to you
And catches you asleep.

11690

Your poor aspiration-heart
At every moment is afraid
Of your desire-destruction-furnace.

11691

Morning shows the day.
Therefore, if you want your day
To be flooded with joy,
Then set your mind-frightening
And heart-awakening alarm
Every morning.

11692

Your purity-heart’s soulful cries
Can carry you far beyond
Your mind’s darkest imperfection-summit.

11693

Every day God invites you to swim
In His Heart’s Compassion-Sea.
You do not accept His Invitation,
For you have an aptitude for self-indulgence.

11694

If you have consciously chosen
A surrender-life and a gratitude-heart,
Then God will before long grant you
Cheerfully
Immortality’s satisfaction-delight.

11695

Can you not see
That you are completely suffocated
By your untiring selfishness?
Can you not see
That jealousy-weeds
Have powerfully invaded
Your soul-beauty’s heart-garden?

11696

The confusion of your mind
Is already thickening
And is ready to strangle you.
How is it that even now
You do not care for
Your soul’s satisfaction?

11697

The sincere heart-cry of my life
And the Protection-Presence
Of my Lord’s Compassion-Feet
Love to live together.

11698

Your life of chaos and confusion
Is all due to one thing:
You have allowed yourself unconsciously,
If not consciously,
To be captured by
Temptation-ignorance-night.

11699

Your life is an orphan
Because you have allowed insecurity
To devour your heart.

11700

My Lord Supreme,
I may not carry Your Justice-Light
With me,
I may not carry Your Compassion-Heart
With me,
But I do carry with me
Your Forgiveness-Delight
Wherever I go.

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