Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 120

11901

My Lord asks me to give Him
My life’s sacrifice-heart.
In return, He will give me
The Blessings of His crowning Joy.

11902

Every day without fail
God sends a Compassion-Letter
To all God-lovers and man-servers.

11903

If your aspiration-heart is strong,
Then you can easily fly and fly.
You will not be caught
In the revolving thought-door
Of your darkness-mind.

11904

If your heart is all willingness,
Then your life is bound to breathe in
Ecstasy-light.

11905

Do not allow
Insecurity-thought-ants
To enter into your beautiful and peaceful
Heart-nest.

11906

Doubts ancient or modern
Have the same capacity
To destroy the clarity of the mind.

11907

I do not go anywhere
Without my confidence-bodyguard,
Who keeps away the world’s insecurity-thief.

11908

Your heart’s purity means
The full awakening
Of your God-pleasing life.

11909

If an aspiration-heart is genuine,
Then it can never be afraid
Of the mind’s ignorance-attack.

11910

A desiring mind does not care for
Either a self-giving
Or a surrendering life.

11911

If your heart is discouraged,
Then your life is moving away
Farther than the farthest
From God’s Satisfaction-Eye.

11912

Your aspiration-heart is always safe
In the company of its three best friends:
Love, devotion and surrender.

11913

An unaspiring heart and an insecure mind
Quite often meet together.
An aspiring heart and a flying soul
Lovingly sit at God’s Satisfaction-Feet.

11914

If you have a oneness-heart,
Then who can deny you
Your all-fulfilling universal peace?

11915

The moment you show God
Your aspiration-heart and meditation-eye,
He gives you His Compassion-Eye
And Satisfaction-Soul.

11916

My mind’s inspiration brightens
My heart’s aspiration.
My heart’s aspiration enlightens
My life’s dedication.

11917

A soulful heart-prayer
Is the powerful beginning
Of a God-manifestation-life.

11918

If you do not plunge into
God’s Compassion-Heart-Sea,
How can you see the beauty
Of your life’s transformation-smile?

11919

Every day try to memorise
God’s unconditional and
Compassion-flooded Messages
If you want to claim the highest Satisfaction
As your own.

11920

If you do not increase
Your heart’s receptivity,
Your seeker-life will be forced
To remain in captivity
Indefinitely.

11921

God does not scold you,
Not because you are perfect,
Not because you are aiming at perfection,
But because the God-Hour has not struck
In your sleeping life.

11922

With my heart’s flying faith-bird
I am longing to reach
God’s transcendental Compassion-Feet.

11923

When your dedication-life
Drives only along purity’s road,
Your destination will beckon you
Sooner than the soonest.

11924

If you want salvation
From your selfishness-insecurities,
Then every day learn
A beautiful, self-giving heart-song.

11925

My inner world contains
Nothing but fulfilment-smiles
No matter what happens
In my outer world-possibilities.

11926

Every day you find a new excuse
Why you cannot pray to God
Early in the morning.
God is asking me to tell you
That soon His Compassion-Net
Will lovingly catch you
And transform you and your deception-mind.

11927

The role of forgiveness in a seeker’s life
Is as essential as
The silence of the sky
And the power of the sun.

11928

Self-seekers go down and down.
And what do they see?
They see the God-lovers going up and up.

11929

What I really like about God
Is not how much He loves me
And how much He needs me,
But that He still continues to have faith
In the ignorance-loving world.

11930

Your constant disobedience
Has not only left a permanent scar
On your aspiration-heart,
But also a permanent sadness
In God’s Compassion-Eye.

11931

The seeker’s self-doubt
Is the strongest barrier
Between him and his real self.

11932

When God comes to edit my mind-book,
God is astonished
At my mind’s false accounts.
When God comes to edit my heart-book,
God simply loves
Its faithful and faultless accounts.

11933

Once you accept the spiritual life sincerely,
You are bound to feel
That expectation is an extravagant
And useless expense.

11934

What can God the Compassion do for you,
Since you are quite content
With your utter helplessness?

11935

A seeker is a climbing aspiration.
A seeker is a diving meditation.
A seeker is a spreading dedication.
A seeker is a gladdening perfection.

11936

Your life will emerge
Like the smile of the golden dawn
If you bid farewell
To your heart’s deep-rooted insecurity.

11937

Each pure and self-giving thought
Is an immediate open door
To formidable inner strength.

11938

The soulful cry of a single prayer
Can garner sweet dream-fulfilment
Heart-flowers.

11939

Because of your purity-flooded heart
And sincerity-flooded mind,
God does not mind working overtime
To perfect you.

11940

What your mind needs
Is an imagination-car.
What your heart needs
Is an aspiration-plane.
What your life needs
Is the only Satisfaction-God.

11941

I do not underestimate myself.
At least I do not have
This particular fault,
Like many of my seeker-friends.

11942

What is courage
If not constant awareness of God?
What is awareness
If not the cheerful acceptance
Of God’s Will as your own, very own?

11943

My Lord, I am not crying
For Your smiling Face
But I am waiting
For Your Command supreme.

11944

The bloom of your spiritual life
Will soon be withered
Because you are spending
A great deal of time
With your faithless mind.

11945

The oneness-heart-land
Is the place where
The unparalleled soul-beauty
Never, never fades.

11946

Before my heart grew into
An aspiration-tree,
I never realised that God’s Forgiveness
Was always free.

11947

When are you going to give up
Resisting God’s Will?
When are you going to believe
That your blind unbelief
Is bound to fail?

11948

God always prefers
My heart’s beaming joy
To my eyes’ streaming tears.

11949

Your heart’s sweetness-oneness-love
Can never disappoint
Either God or man.

11950

When God speaks
My mind may neglect,
But my heart always takes note
Cheerfully, soulfully, plus perfectly.

11951

A self-giving life
Is always at the heart
Of each and every
Fruitful progress.

11952

Do not doubt your heart.
Do not doubt your soul.
If you doubt them,
You will soon suffer from
The collapse of all your hopes.

11953

If you take any course
At your soul’s school,
Your life will be able to enjoy
Your soul’s illumination-freedom-sky.

11954

Be sincere, be pure, be self-giving!
Otherwise, your accomplishments
Will never bring true fulfilment to your life.

11955

Every day without fail
You must ignore your mind’s
Frustration-messages
If you want to be blessed
With God’s Beauty-flooded Nectar-Vision.

11956

If you are an unconditional God-lover,
Then you are undoubtedly
A pioneer on the impossibility-frontier.

11957

If you want to be a God-pleasing seeker
All the time,
Then you must accommodate
The birth of new ideas, new ideals,
New adventures and new promises.

11958

If you are
Your mind’s cheerfulness,
That means you are
Your heart’s God-fulfilling fulness.

11959

My love letters to God
And God’s Compassion-Letters to me
Not only liberate my human life
But also fulfil my divine heart.

11960

There shall come a day
When my heart’s peace-light
Will devour my mind’s empty anxiety.

11961

Alas, your demanding vital
Every day
Foolishly removes God’s “Welcome” sign.

11962

If there are any ill feelings
Between your aspiring heart
And your searching mind,
Then help them cement their friendship
Immediately.

11963

Each time I have an aspiration-cry,
God grants me a very special
And very fruitful boon.

11964

If you are eager to visit
Your soul’s homeland,
Then you must never disregard the power
Of your life’s precious time.

11965

Your unaspiring mind
Is responsible
For your unwanted thoughts.

Your undisciplined vital
Is responsible
For your repeated failures
In the battlefield of your life.

11966

Do not feed your ego-monster,
For it is always ready
To devour your heart’s
Beautiful aspiration-cries.

11967

If you want your mind to succeed powerfully
And your heart to proceed speedily,
Then your aspiration-life must start
At the ground level of self-offering.

11968

You must destroy your mind’s
Attachment-bonds
If you want to visit
Your heart-beauty’s satisfaction-garden.

11969

Your heart’s inner ties with God
Will definitely increase
God’s Affection-Light and
Fondness-Delight for you.

11970

God may not accompany me
Wherever I go,
But God’s Forgiveness-Light
Sleeplessly and invariably accompanies me
No matter where I go.

11971

Do not say “No” when God asks you,
Out of His infinite Compassion,
To serve Him
So that you can eventually become
A choice instrument of His.

11972

Meditation is the only thing
That can most gloriously replace
Your failure-past
With your fulfilment-future.

11973

God may break all His other Promises,
But He never breaks one special Promise,
And that special Promise is
His Heart’s immortal Forgiveness-Promise.

11974

Since human life is fleeting,
Each human being must offer
Something fruitful and abiding
To the ever-compassionate Mother Earth.

11975

Do you want to know what I am doing?
I am developing fast, very fast,
An aspiration-heart, soulfulness-eyes
And a self-giving life.

11976

I guard my mind
So that no uncomely thoughts
Can enter into it.
My heart guides my life
So that my life can
Cheerfully, soulfully and devotedly
Play with God.

11977

An open mind is needed
To see the flying inspiration-birds.
An open heart is needed
To see the climbing aspiration-flames.

11978

Without a devotion-heart,
To make the fastest progress
In the spiritual life
Is almost an impossibility.

11979

To be tense in your mind
Can never be the way
To solve any problem.
But to be intense in your heart
Is the surest way
To solve your life’s teeming problems.

11980

If your heart has the capacity to dream,
Then definitely, sooner or later,
Your life will be able to soar.

11981

Do not cherish frustration.
To cherish frustration
Is to roam along serpentine roads
That ultimately lead nowhere.

11982

You call it
Your loyal obedience.
God calls it
His Victory’s flying Banner.

11983

My Lord, when I make a mistake
Do strike me hard, very hard.
But do not crush me
With Your Indifference-Eye.

11984

Not killing others ruthlessly
But loving others affectionately
Is the real courage
In the battlefield of life.

11985

A soulful gratitude-heart
Is the fountain-spring
Of a genuine seeker’s aspiration-life.

11986

Even unconscious insincerity
Will steal away
Your God-given dignity-light.

11987

My Lord Supreme tells me
That a gratitude-heart
Is indeed a powerful crown
From the treasure-house
Of Divinity’s Perfection-Truth.

11988

Give God even a smaller-than-the-smallest
Devotion-plant.
God will grant you in return
The sweetest fruits
From His Vision’s Satisfaction-Tree.

11989

Consciously and bravely destroy
The confusion-night
Of your God-searching mind.
God will grant you the capacity
To welcome His blessingful Heart
And powerful Eye.

11990

Listen to the silence-height.
You will be transported to the peak
Of God-Satisfaction-Mountain.

11991

If you claim to be a genuine seeker,
And yet have not chosen the aspiration-life
Seriously, soulfully and devotedly,
Then yours will be a life
Of complete failure.

11992

The longing for quality
In your aspiration-life
Is absolutely necessary
If you ever want to satisfy God
In God’s own Way.

11993

Pray that you never give up.
Pray that you never surrender
To failure-life.
Pray that you can become
The Supreme Lord’s
Dream-fulfilling life-tree.

11994

Gratitude is an inner feeling
That we must never be afraid
Of expressing and revealing.

11995

If you have not learnt anything
From the experience of your mind’s mistakes,
How will you ever be able to grow into
Your life’s fully blossomed satisfaction-tree?

11996

To lose enthusiasm
Is to lose the beauty
Of the mind.
To lose purity
Is to lose the breath
Of the heart.

11997

If you are your heart’s
Never-failing faith,
God is His Heart’s
Ever-multiplying Satisfaction.

11998

Peace is ready to descend
Endlessly.
Ask yourself if you are ready
To receive it sleeplessly.

11999

To God you are beautiful
Only when you can show Him
Your aspiration-eyes.
To God you are fruitful
Only when you can offer Him
Your heart’s gratitude-tears.

12000

God will choose your life
Blessingfully and proudly,
If you just choose your soul
Cheerfully and unmistakably.

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