Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 118

11701

There is only one way to Heaven:
My heart’s sleeplessly climbing
Aspiration-flame-cries.

11702

Never think
That at God’s choice Hour
God will give you
What you want.
No, never!
He will give you
At His choice Hour
What you need:
Perfection in your aspiration.

11703

I had a dream:
God was invisible.
I have a dream:
God is visible.
I will have a dream:
God will not only be visible
But also available.

11704

If you reject the mind’s dictates,
God Himself will teach you
How to fly
In His Heart’s Illumination-Sky.

11705

Life is not
A tragic accident-experiment.
Life is God’s
Magic Compassion-Experience.

11706

This morning
I offered a very special prayer
To my Lord Supreme:
“My Lord,
Save my heart-purity
From my mind-poison.”

11707

Your slow and steady
Life-dedication-train
Is bound for God’s Victory-Station.

11708

There is only
One disgrace:
I do not want to become
A perfect instrument
Of my Lord Supreme.

11709

What each aspiring life needs
Is an unparalleled
Spontaneity-smile.

11710

God invented my purity-heart.
When am I going to discover
My surrender-life?

11711

The beauty of my heart’s perfection-rainbow
Has given God
A complete Satisfaction-Meal.

11712

Try to explore
The limits of aspiration.
God will give you the power
Of His self-giving Smile.

11713

Nobody wants you to be
The victim of your mind-master.
You can easily become
The oneness-life of your heart-friend.

11714

If you have the desire
To cancel the past,
Then God will come to you
As a guest
Of your greatness-height
And goodness-light.

11715

If your mind stands on
The assembly line of thoughts,
You will be forced to remain estranged
From your God-blessed satisfaction-life.

11716

Your life-sea
Has become violently rough
Because you have allowed yourself
To be distracted
By powerful earth-bound desire-thoughts.

11717

Although I have told God repeatedly
That perfection is a far cry
In my life,
God has cheerfully sent me
A wide-open Heart-Invitation.

11718

I am lost,
My aspiration is shockingly lost
And my dedication is completely lost
In between
Heaven-silence and earth-violence.

11719

Your doubting mind
Is fully responsible
For your aspiring heart’s
Decaying and dying faith.

11720

Because of a new supply of sincerity
In your mind
And a new supply of purity
In your heart,
Fast, very fast, are fading away
Your old desire-problems.

11721

Most happily
God will announce your victory twice:
Once when you have conquered
Your impurity-mind
And once when you have offered
Your purity-heart to God.

11722

God is willing to work
With you and for you,
But you have to choose God
As your only Liberator-Champion-Supreme.

11723

What have I learnt
From my clever mind?
I have learnt how to possess
A deep-seated desire:
World-conquest.

11724

Because of your heart’s weak devotion,
You think that God will not bless you
With His Heart’s strong Compassion.
You are totally mistaken!

11725

God is not
A greedy businessman.
He is His Heart’s
Unconditionally self-giving Delight.

11726

My Lord Supreme,
I may know just a little
About Your Justice-Light,
But I shall never, never know enough
About Your infinite Compassion-Ocean.

11727

Because you are at the open door
Of Infinity,
The sunlit silence of Immortality
Is welcoming you.

11728

If you want to search breathlessly
For your Lord Supreme,
Then be always an inspiring and inspired
Front runner.

11729

You may be right when you say
That God does not love you,
But rest assured,
God’s Compassion can never forget you.

11730

Since you are lethargy incarnate,
The gates of death
Are lovingly welcoming you.

11731

You want to know
What I have been doing all this time.
I have been doing only one thing:
I have been longing for hope-dawn
In my sorrow-filled life.

11732

Because you have allowed
Your vital to choose,
You and your heart have lost everything —
Everything that longs for
Earth-perfection and God-Satisfaction.

11733

Now that you have become
A traveller of the Beyond,
God the Compassion
Will not miss you any more.

11734

Because you have not listened
To the dictates of your Inner Pilot,
Today you have become
A victim of stark imperfection.

11735

If you can sleep without desire-thorns,
Your life-car will travel
Faster than the fastest
In the progress-lane.

11736

Each time I enjoy a pure thought,
I feel that I am living
In my own homemade Heaven.

11737

My Lord Supreme,
Do grant me the capacity
To sign a life-long contract
With obedience, surrender
And gratitude-company.

11738

How do you know
That your desire-licence
Will not expire?
I assure you, before long
God will replace your desire-licence
With an aspiration-licence
Even before your desire-licence expires.

11739

Because I live
In the land of soulfulness,
I am able to meet regularly
With my two best friends:
Aspiration and dedication.

11740

Your humility-mind
And your sincerity-heart
Will always be able to create
A climate of perfection-receptivity for you.

11741

My life’s outer opportunities
Cannot even knock at my Lord’s Door.
My life’s inner opportunities
Do not have to knock at my Lord’s Door.
My Lord keeps His Door wide open
For them.

11742

Your meditation-regularity-ride
Will definitely take you
Along your liberation-progress-highway.

11743

No matter how slow
Your selflessness-progress-feet are,
You will be able to reach your destination
Long before you can ever imagine.

11744

Your soul has been waiting
For thousands of years
To bring God to your heart-home
For God’s complete Satisfaction in you.

11745

God is searching for a new cry
In my heart-cave.
I am longing for a new Smile
In God’s Vision-Eye.

11746

Because of my life’s new surrender
To God,
God has given me
His Heart’s new address.

11747

Do you not know
That your soul has been waiting
For a thousand years
To become an unconditional God-lover?

11748

What has stolen your heart’s oneness
With God?
Your incapacity to dream of God
The infinite Compassion.

11749

God does not mind if you forget
To thank Him,
But He does mind if you do not have
A purity-heart.

11750

God will not allow you
To take Him home with you
If you do not sing for Him
A surrender-song
And dance for Him
A surrender-dance
In front of His Heart-Palace.

11751

Although we have discovered
And even accepted the right path,
We do not want to walk fast
Along the path.
We want only to enjoy rest,
Endless rest.

11752

God lost a most precious dream
The day my aspiring heart
Surrendered to my doubting mind.

11753

You may think I am a fool,
And I don’t deny it.
But I am a genuine Truth-loving fool.

11754

God knows that you have
Many responsibilities.
But do you not know
That each time you take on
A new responsibility,
God is ready to take
Another step forward towards you?

11755

If you start
With your heart’s aspiration-dawn,
Then you are bound to enjoy
Your soulful life’s progress-day.

11756

When your life is
A hesitation-story,
How can you have the eye to see
God’s Compassion-Glory?

11757

If your mind is unfaithful in thought,
Then you will be compelled to be
The possessor of untold miseries.

11758

If you are pursuing perfection,
Then patience has to be
Your only luminous companion.

11759

After centuries and centuries
Of ignorance-sleep,
Today his awakened life
Has met with an unfamiliar God:
The God of Justice-Light.

11760

Because you have abandoned
Your heart-citadel,
You are now forced to live
In the forest of darkness-fears.

11761

His soul has invited
A good many comrade-souls
To attend the funeral
Of his mind’s desire-life.

11762

If you can enjoy
Your heart’s soulful meditation
And your life’s fruitful action,
Then know and feel
That God is gloriously fulfilled
In and through you.

11763

One God-Call can awaken you
For the fulfilment of
God’s sacred Heart’s secret Promise.

11764

If your mind is intent
On your life’s transformation,
Then yours will be
A world-home of peace.

11765

Since your mind lives in doubt-territory,
How can you expect perfection-privileges
From God’s Compassion-Eye?

11766

You will remain the champion of failures
Unless your life-breath
Grows into sure-footed faith.

11767

The leftovers from another life
Must not be taken seriously,
For they cannot be of any real help to us
In our fast-awakening divinity.

11768

For those who give up,
There can be no inner universe
Of peace and bliss.

11769

My soulful heart
Always illumines me
With its purity-sweetness-charms.

11770

If you give up playing
The inner game,
How will your Lord’s Dream
Ever come true?

11771

A soulful dedication is the beginning of
A newness and fulness-peace
In God’s Perfection-Manifestation.

11772

If you live in your unaspiring mind,
How can you avoid
The mind-struggles?
If you live in your aspiring heart,
How can you not enjoy
Your heart-play?

11773

You know that your desiring mind
Is the inventor of sorrow.
Why do you not go to your aspiring heart
To meet the discoverer of world-Delight?

11774

God promises complete satisfaction
Only after man offers
His long-cherished perfection-promise.

11775

If you do not create more receptivity,
Your heart’s aspiration-flower
May wilt,
And your life’s service-tree
May collapse.

11776

God sadly asks me,
“My poor child,
When My Heart invites you
Lovingly, compassionately and unconditionally,
How is it that your answer
Is always ‘no’?”

11777

A giant will-power-mind
Can lead, guide and illumine
Thousands and thousands
Of stray and uncomely thoughts.

11778

Every day you must skip
At least one desire-meal
And completely enjoy
One aspiration-feast.

11779

There is only one way
To enter into your confidence-heart,
And that way is to invite your hope-smile
To accompany you.

11780

What you need is
A death-defying faith
To climb up your heart’s aspiration-mountain
And declare your and God’s
Supreme Victory.

11781

You are corrupted by prosperity.
If you want to make any progress,
Then accept a humble
Simplicity-surrender-life.

11782

Keep anxiety out of your mind’s
God-invitation-room.
Yours will be a life
Of supremely blessed sky-vast peace.

11783

Because you have
An endless row of pure thoughts,
You will be able to take
Immortality-dictation
From God.

11784

Now that you have exhausted the vision
Of your curiosity-eye,
You will be able to enjoy
A speedy and confident forward-march
Towards your summit-goal.

11785

He does only one thing:
He lives in the shadow
Of his stupid ego.

11786

Because he crossed swords
With suspicion-night,
He is now enjoying
His life’s liberation-day.

11787

God wants us to obey Him,
But what we do
Is just offer Him
Our wavering willingness.

11788

Do not be perturbed
By man’s suspicion-hurricane
If you want your own life to live
In God’s Liberation-Sea.

11789

Real aspiration
Does not need public attention.
Real aspiration
Gets what it needs
To reach its ultimate destination
From God’s infinite Compassion.

11790

God has not hidden
Your Heaven-treasures:
Love, joy and peace.
It is you who have hidden them
In order to enjoy your earthly game
In a peculiar way.

11791

You do not have to stand
Before God’s Judgement-Seat
If you sleeplessly want
God’s Compassion
To rule your life.

11792

This world has not given us
The opportunity and capacity
To speak about it freely.
But God has given us
Unmistakably and unconditionally
Both the opportunity and the capacity
To speak about Him freely.

11793

The unaspiring mind thinks
That meditation is a waste of time.
The aspiring heart feels and knows
That meditation is
The secret and sacred blossoming
Of one’s Heaven-ascending life.

11794

My heart strongly feels
That the new generation will claim
The aspiration-flames of the inner world
As its birthright.

11795

A man without a goal
Is a restless sleep
Without a sweet dream.

11796

God is supremely surprised
When He sees
That man thinks
God can live without him.

11797

Can you not see
What you are doing
To your soul?
Either cleverly or foolishly
You are hiding your soul
In your mind’s dark cave.

11798

If you do not show
Your surrender-identification card
At God’s Heart-Door,
How will you be admitted
Through God’s Vision-Entrance?

11799

What is desire
If not a greedy possession
Of man’s ignorance-mind?

11800

If you want to be a perfection-runner,
Then start at the aspiration-start
And run along the progress-road
To the realisation-finish.

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