Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 121

12001

The fastest way to reach
One’s highest height
Is to discover one’s own
Sky-vast silence-heart.

12002

The more I increase
My expectation-hunger,
The sooner I die
From inescapable starvation.

12003

If you are
Your self-limiting belief,
How can God bless you
With His Satisfaction-Pride-Crown?

12004

I really do not know
How a human mind,
Fused with confusion-night,
Will ever be transformed
Into Divinity’s Perfection-Light.

12005

I know, I know,
Just a flicker of heart-faith
Is enough to surmount
A mountain-doubt-mind.

12006

Hope is my success-eye.
Hope is my progress-heart.
My Lord, I would rather die
Than see the collapse of my hope.

12007

He is his own hyperbole
Of self-worth.
Therefore, the inspiration-mind
And the aspiration-heart
Have left him for good.

12008

Although my life-river
Is flooded with failure,
My life-boat will eventually reach
The Golden Shore.

12009

Undercurrents of doubt-opposition
Can destroy
A progress-promise-life.

12010

Am I such a fool
That I cannot see through
Your flattery-flavoured sincerity?

12011

Alas, the ordinary human life
Is nothing but an endless stream
Of ruthless suffering
From birth to death.

12012

How beautiful, how powerful,
How fruitful,
The revival of self-confidence!

12013

Even the flood
Of your mind’s suspicion-night
Cannot ruin his heart’s
God-blessed purity-breath.

12014

God tells the soulful seeker
That his aspiration-heart
Is very near God’s Heaven-Home.

12015

What I need is not
An army of resolutions.
I need in myself
Only one aspiration-perfection-soldier.

12016

If you care only for
Your service-perfection,
Then God will soon care for
Your complete realisation-satisfaction.

12017

My heart does have the capacity
To lead my mind,
But my mind is either reluctant or afraid
To follow my wise heart.

12018

You do know how to forget
Your morning meditation.
But can you not do
The most difficult thing
And remember to practise
Your morning meditation,
Which is God’s first meal of the day?

12019

May the divine in us
Always lead us,
No matter how unwilling
The human in us is
To follow.

12020

God does not mind
The slow pace
Of my inner progress.
But He does mind
When I prefer my outer success
To my inner progress.

12021

My mind is a confusing
Ignorance-teacher.
My life is a confused
Ignorance-student.

12022

If you live not in the world
Of child-heart-fantasy-blossoms,
How can you ever enjoy God-ecstasy
From your aspiration-heart?

12023

What I need
Is only a slow, steady and unerring growth
Of my God-manifestation-life-tree.

12024

No matter when it is or
Where it is,
The danger-power of temptation
Is always tantalising.

12025

Only a heart of love
And a life of service
Can be the torch-bearers
Of inner progress.

12026

Since you are still enjoying
Your mind’s ignorance-dream,
How can God invite you to participate
In His Light-Manifestation-Plan
On earth?

12027

Lord, do give me the capacity
To escape
From my scheming mind
And my unloving heart.

12028

My Lord
Has infinitely more important things
To do
Than to care for my cleverness-mind.

12029

God’s Heart is God’s
Compassion-Flood.
Man’s mind is man’s
Frustration-desert.

12030

God is secretly feeding
My heart-angels,
In the hope that one day
I shall starve my mind-devils
To death.

12031

The self-interest
Of the mind
And the ego-nourishment
Of the vital
Are always inseparable.

12032

No more shall I permit myself
To be a faithful follower
Of my past stupidity-mistakes.

12033

Surrender your will to God’s Will.
You will see that
All your disappointments
Will turn into unimaginable strengths.

12034

Because you are a stark fool
You cherish your championship
Of your failure-past.

12035

It is almost an impossible task
To find an oasis
Of humility-heart
In the vast mind-desert.

12036

How can you make
Any inner progress
When you do not give up your mind,
Which enjoys nothing other than
Constant confusion-unrest?

12037

Do you not know
That your present failure-life
Is tied
To your impurity-past?

12038

Even in the worry-market
I do not suffer at all
Because I secretly and safely keep God
In my heart-pocket.

12039

Aspire to become supremely good,
And do not waste your time
Enjoying premature
Progress-delight-speculations.

12040

God wants
Each human being to be liberated
From the stingy ration
Of earth-bound time.

12041

Aspiration is the
Indispensable jewel
In the crown of stupendous achievements.

12042

Exploitation of God’s Compassion-Forgiveness
Is humanity’s incurable
Universal disease.

12043

His heart is all happiness
Because his life has had
A full season
Without the reason-mind.

12044

From today on
I shall cheerfully and devotedly
Remain under my Lord’s
Compassion-Umbrella.

12045

We must not live any more
In the dim morning of humanity.
We must now live
In the bright noon of divinity.

12046

Nobody forced you
To be tied to your life’s ignorance-tree.
Free yourself,
And start climbing God’s Fulness-Tree!

12047

Nobody’s life is destined
To remain unprotected
From ruthless inevitability-sufferings.

12048

You have such inflated self-pride
That even God does not dare
To come near you.

12049

Alas,
He is always frightened to death
By the blackness of his own
Vital-shadow.

12050

The constant fear
Of tomorrow’s unknown birth
Is at once destroying today’s man’s
Imagination-mind and aspiration-heart.

12051

Only purity-hallowed moments
Can awaken
The God-seeker’s heart-blossoms.

12052

My mind,
Be not a slave
To your small and doubtful self.
Be a friend
To your giant and powerful self.

12053

If you sleeplessly live
In your heart’s purity-country,
Sleeplessly you will be blessed
By God’s Compassion-Bounty.

12054

No high victory,
No real satisfaction,
For a desire-life!

12055

Since you are among the chosen few,
God will finish
Your Heavenward race.
You just have to start.

12056

God
The Compassion-Giver
Needs man
The aspiration-tree.

12057

Because you are a feeble seeker
You are forced to ply your little boat
Between your mind’s suspicion-shore
And your life’s destruction-shore.

12058

Just ask yourself
Once and for all, in all sincerity,
Whether you are a tenth-class God-seeker
Or a first-class status-climber.

12059

My everyday gift to God:
A gratitude-breath.
God’s everyday Boon to me:
A Satisfaction-Smile.

12060

I am convinced that in the near future
My heart, my mind, my vital and my body,
Like my soul,
Will win the man-oneness-race
And the God-fulness-trophy.

12061

My most precious heart,
I simply cannot understand how and why
You have let yourself be confined
For so long
By your blind mind-limits.

12062

My mind is thirsty for attention,
My heart is thirsty for affection,
But I am trying to be thirsty
For perfection.

12063

Just try to love God unconditionally.
You will soon see how beautifully
Your life’s aspiration-transcendence-tree
Is flowering.

12064

If you are a genuine God-lover,
Then God will definitely make you feel
The weight of His disapproval
When you speak ill of His creation,
The human race.

12065

Even one soulful prayer
Early every morning
Can cure your spiritual malnutrition.

12066

Alas, because my aspiration-heart
Is not strong,
Its friendship with my doubting mind
Has turned it into a battered faith-flower.

12067

In the morning
I pray for the seeds of hope.
In the evening
I meditate on the fruits of fulfilment.

12068

Your Himalayan realisation
Can easily become
A temptation-chaser
For all God-lovers around you.

12069

Everybody will see
Teeming destruction-mines
If they walk along the doubt-road.
No exception!

12070

Delay not!
Soulfully invoke God the Compassion
To burst your mind’s
Over-inflated ego-balloon.

12071

Kick hard
Your body’s lethargy
If you want to grow into
Your soul’s ecstasy.

12072

God is His own God-Heart’s
Compassion-Service.
Man is his own man-mind’s
Ingratitude-practice.

12073

Alas, my mind enjoys
Doubt’s dubious future;
My body enjoys
Its excess lethargy-weight.
How will I enjoy
My divinity’s goal,
Or do I even have a goal?

12074

My surrender-life
Is the straightest line
To God’s blue-gold Fulfilment-Palace.

12075

Humanity is
Humanity’s corruption-bound vital.
Divinity is
Divinity’s Transcendence-Fount-Source.

12076

My poor mind,
Since when have you become
A willing victim
Of the doubt-monster?

12077

Peace-promises everybody makes
Every day.
Alas, peace-existence-life
Is still a far cry!

12078

For one Smile from God
Sleeplessly his heart cries,
Dauntlessly his mind fights —
Fights against his own ignorance-sea.

12079

You are telling me that from now on
God alone is your Eternity’s All.
I am telling you that from now on
You and your life will no more fall —
Never!

12080

What kind of aspiration
Do you and your heart have,
What kind of dedication
Do you and your life have,
If the test of time frightens you?

12081

God leaves aside everything
And runs towards me
When I live in my heart’s
Silence-tears.

12082

How can God’s powerful appreciation
Last for long
If your life’s aspiration-edition
Is very limited?

12083

Only a spontaneous burst
Of your life’s surrender
Can meet with God-Divinity’s
God-Splendour.

12084

Yours is a temptation-vital-failure.
Yours is a frustration-mind-disaster.
Therefore, happiness cannot be
Your possession-light.

12085

You want to know
If God is doing something special today.
Yes, He is doing something
Very special today.
He is celebrating the magical return
Of my long-lost faith in myself.

12086

Because of your heart’s
Ceaseless insecurity-cries,
God does not want to depend any longer
On your life’s perfection-promises.

12087

Now more than ever
I need the perfect perfection
Of my surrender-life!

12088

A true God-lover knows
That his gratitude-surrender-life
Is a one-way road to God.

12089

When do you have the time
To think of the world’s
Suspicion-mind
If you are living inside your own
Aspiration-heart-world?

12090

God is always ready
With His Compassion-Train.
When will you regain
Your aspiration-reign?

12091

The life of an aspiration-lover
Never suffers from desire-cancer.
Every day his life enjoys
God’s Satisfaction-Delight.

12092

Your mind’s illumination-perfection
Is not a far cry
Because your life is steadily heading
In the right dedication-direction.

12093

One dark desire is bold enough
To eclipse your heart’s aspiration-sun
For a longer than the longest time.

12094

Just because my mind
Is refusing to accept truth,
Do you think my heart will stop
Choosing truth — the only right thing?

12095

Satisfaction is no luxury.
It is God’s absolute necessity
In man’s life
And man’s absolute necessity
For God’s Heart.

12096

Because you are your heart’s
Genuine aspiration-cry,
God does not want you
To allow your mind
Near the revolving temptation-door
Of confusion.

12097

If you do not protect your purity-heart
With your security-mind,
Your life’s satisfaction-boat
Will never start sailing.

12098

Your life is doomed
To an insignificant end
Because even in your dreams
You do not care to satisfy
God the Compassion.

12099

With your heart’s silence-prayers
When you arrive at God’s Door,
He immediately opens it
And happily and proudly
Asks His Eye and Heart
To dance for you.

12100

Lord, do tell me just once more
That soon I shall be able
To please You
In Your own Way.

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