Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 126

12501

God’s secret Name
Is Forgiveness.
God’s sacred Name
Is Compassion.
God’s most satisfying Name
Is man’s perfection-fulfilment-dream.

12502

If humility nourishes
Your aspiration-heart and dedication-life,
Then you do not need anything else
To nourish your entire being.

12503

When humility knocks
At your heart’s aspiration-door,
Do not delay!
Immediately and cheerfully respond.

12504

Just one look
From his Master’s compassion-eye
Melted his mind’s iron resentment.

12505

Every day try to have
As many sessions as possible
With your silence-soul.

12506

My fully blossomed faith-heart
Has terminated permanently
My mind’s doubt-career.

12507

You have to force jealousy
To resign,
For jealousy never retires
On its own.

12508

An ingratitude-heart
Unconsciously drinks
Most dangerous death-poison.

12509

For the ignorance-mind
To spy and lie constantly
Is not at all
A difficult task.

12510

I love at once
Your ancient aspiration-heart
And your modern dedication-hands.

12511

I assure you
That not for long
Will doubt and fear-enemies
Be able to torture
My aspiration-heart.

12512

As each mind can produce
A loud sound,
Even so, each heart can produce
A most haunting melody.

12513

Between your journey’s start
And your arrival at the Golden Shore,
Do not allow doubt to roar.

12514

Temptation never deserves an interview
Either from your loving heart
Or from your searching mind.

12515

If the mind hesitates
To accept the divine light,
Then the aspiring heart
Is bound to stagnate.

12516

Without God’s boundless Compassion,
How can one cure
One’s fatal depression-disease?

12517

Can you not see
That your aspiration
Is extremely low?
How can you then keep
Your expectation so high?

12518

Each sincere seeker
Will, without fail,
Have a sunlit fragrance-flower
In his heart-garden.

12519

False devotion within,
True expectation without:
Alas, this is what most
Human beings are.

12520

Each time I learn
An obedience-song,
God lets me count
His supreme Blessings.

12521

You want to know
Where I prefer to live?
I always prefer to live
In the depths of my devotion-heart.

12522

Do not pay any attention
To your thoughtless mind.
Your thoughtless mind
Is a meaningless member
Of your spiritual family.

12523

God-loving aspiration alone
Can save us
From constant doubt-intrusion.

12524

You may not fulfil
Your promise to God,
But God is determined to fulfil
All His inner and outer Promises
To you.

12525

In my heart’s aspiration-dictionary
The word “failure”
Is never to be found.

12526

There is only one place
That gives me enormous joy:
That place is my heart’s
Devotion-intensity-room.

12527

A mind of impurity
And a heart of faithlessness
Can never live separately.

12528

The aspiration-heart
Always enjoys travelling
On a straight, swift road.

12529

The tears of the heart
Eventually reach
The highest Tower
Of God-Satisfaction-Delight.

12530

Is there any human mind
That has not suffered
The ruthless torture
Of ignorance-chaos?

12531

Only the true God-lovers
Are entitled to compose
God-Smile-songs.

12532

God’s future creation
Relies considerably
On His obedience-loving seekers.

12533

Although you have a brilliant mind,
That does not mean
You can escape
The blows of ignorance-giant.

12534

It is not an easy task
To erase satisfactorily
The doubting mind’s confusion-blackboard.

12535

Each soulful thought
Helps the heart soar
With newly blossomed joys.

12536

Meditation is by far
The best encouragement
For a beautiful and soulful thought.

12537

Not the forest-seeker
Of the mind,
But the garden-lover
Of one’s own heart
Can kindle one’s aspiration-flames.

12538

The soul is all the time
Inspiring and encouraging
The heart’s quick progress-march.

12539

A sleepless aspiration-heart
Is bound to collect
God’s Compassion-Harvest.

12540

At every moment
God is appreciating
Man’s earth-loving smiles.

12541

A seeker’s secret
And sacred treasure
Is his aspiration-dedication-
Heart-garden.

12542

My heart’s aspiration
Is always ready and eager
To carry my mind
Far beyond the domain
Of ignorance-frown.

12543

Genuine sincerity
Is bound to warn us
Of the meditation-negligence
Of our seeker-heart.

12544

Behold, behold!
My aspiration-heart
Is climbing up
My soul’s promise-tower.

12545

Behold, behold!
My soul’s joy is striking
Lovingly and powerfully
My heart’s determination-gong.

12546

If you are pleasing God
In God’s own Way,
Only then will you be entitled
To break the challenge
Of the mind’s doubt-thunder.

12547

Who told you
That I have nothing to enjoy?
My mind’s doubt-bankruptcy
Every day I enjoy.

12548

My mind studies
At the hesitation-school
While my heart studies
At the illumination-college.

12549

Whenever my heart
Is suffering from despair-pain,
I immediately bring delight-doctor
To cure the patient.

12550

The cry of my aspiration-heart
Is bound to be invited
By the smile of my illumination-soul.

12551

When I am my confidence-soul,
I can safely enter
Into doubt-fortress.

12552

No soul enjoys shopping
In the mind’s
Restless confusion-market.

12553

My heart’s aspiration-home
Is daily visited
By high-ranking Realisation-Masters.

12554

If your heart-boat sails
In the river of aspiration,
Then you are bound to reach
The realisation-destination.

12555

To make tangible progress
In any sphere of life
Can never be an easy task.

12556

God is blessing me
With something infinitely better
Than success,
And that thing is
A conscious and constant love of Him.

12557

Self-doubt is slow death,
And God-doubt is the quickest death
In the seeker’s inner world.

12558

At long last my human mind
Is no longer in collusion
With darkness-ignorance-thief.

12559

God can only cry for you,
But He cannot smile at you
When He sees
That you have deliberately become
A dying aspiration-flame.

12560

To unload the heavy burden
Of the past,
Invoke the flying banner
Of the God-loving and God-manifesting future.

12561

Unless you show God
Your heart’s meditation-wings,
How can God allow you
To walk hand-in-hand with Him?

12562

Man’s heart-cry is the beginning
Of his perfection-light.
God’s Heart-Smile is the beginning
Of His Satisfaction-Delight.

12563

Make up your mind!
When God appears before you,
Will you ask Him
For your own God-realisation
Or will you pray to Him
For His own Satisfaction?

12564

You have not thought of God
For a very long time.
Today God will send you
A compassionate reminder.
Needless to say,
God will not be the worst loser
If you do not pray and meditate any more
In this incarnation.

12565

Each new day
God starts in and through me
With a gentle persuasion
To become a better instrument of His.

12566

Each hesitation-moment
Can and will be devoured
By the frustration-wolf.

12567

Even one act
Of disobedience
Will make you eventually
The great author of failure.

12568

Alas, there is no dearth
Of doubt-dwellers,
But there is definitely a dearth
Of faith-lovers.

12569

Oneness-road is never lonely
Either in the world of aspiration
Or in the world of dedication.

12570

The misunderstanding of the human mind
Cannot be fathomed
By the wisdom-light of the God-lovers.

12571

If you offer your gratitude-heart
To God the creation,
Then you are bound to get
A foretaste of Heaven’s Delight.

12572

In the inner world
His Inner Pilot is a teacher
Of the unknowable.
In the outer world
He enjoys being a student
Of the unknown.

12573

O my mind,
How long will you remain
An absolute stranger
To my truth-loving consciousness-light?

12574

For a long time
I have been longing
To free myself
From the monotonous mind’s
Inquisitive detective stories.

12575

Is there any human being on earth
Who has never faltered
Under the weight
Of ruthless and ceaseless problems?

12576

There is no human mind
That cannot be successfully bound
By a thought-rope.

12577

To conquer your mind’s
Volcano-anxiety-thoughts,
Your heart needs
The patience of a tree
And your life needs
An intensity-arrow.

12578

The soul-king has two ministers:
The mind-minister and the heart-minister.
The heart-minister always
Cheerfully obeys the king.
The mind-minister often
Deliberately disobeys the king.
But the soul-king has surrendered himself
To his forgiveness-light.

12579

Everything God does very easily,
Except one thing:
He finds it extremely difficult
To revoke His Compassion-Credit Card.

12580

Man’s life is in between
His heart’s purity-roses
And his mind’s impurity-thorns.

12581

Every day my Lord Supreme
Unconditionally feeds
My mind’s concentration-bird
And energises
My life’s determination-wings.

12582

Be careful, O my doubting mind!
True, God’s Compassion-Height
Has forgiven you;
True, God’s Justice-Light
Will forgive you.
But I assure you,
Your soul-captain
Will never forgive you
For your deliberate misdeeds.

12583

Although you have miserably failed,
God has not yet decided
To stop using you.
Who knows, He may grant you
Another golden chance.

12584

I am so happy
That my heart never suffers
From hope-scarcity.

12585

You do not need a ferocious tiger
To devour you.
Your atrocious jealousy can easily
Devour you alive!

12586

Alas, alas!
My insecurity has enormous
Ignorance-receptivity-capacity.

12587

Every morning and every evening
My soul flies its hope-kite
In my aspiration-heart-sky.

12588

Every day I pray
To my Lord Supreme
To break asunder
My mind’s unwillingness-shackles.

12589

What do you actually get
From your unwillingness,
Save and except
Your deplorable unworthiness?

12590

O my mind, don’t be a fool!
Tell me if you will ever see
A desire-balloon
That will not burst eventually.

12591

Man unconsciously deposits his love
In God’s Heart-Bank
But consciously and cleverly overdraws.
And what does God do?
He plays His Forgiveness-Role
Most satisfactorily.

12592

If you cannot bring your sincerity
To the fore,
Then stay with your life’s
Impossibility-inferiority-stupidity-friends!

12593

If I sincerely believe
That I am my life’s
Constant unworthiness,
Then I am sure
That God’s Compassion-Eye
Will help me and guide me.

12594

Yesterday God came to me
As a healing Heart.
Today God has come to me
As a smiling Eye.
Tomorrow God will come to me
As a helping Hand.

12595

Do you ever ask yourself
The question of questions:
What will happen to you
If God ever decides
To withdraw from you
For your utterly shameless
Disobedience-mind?

12596

Do not overlook
The God-Height.
Do not overeat
Ignorance-night.
Do not oversleep
Your meditation-light.

12597

O stupidity-incarnate seeker,
Only God has the Heart
To enjoy seeing
His miraculous Eye
And your ridiculous life
Living together.

12598

God does not believe
In your promise-tower.
He believes only
In your aspiration-hour.

12599

Who told you that God-Satisfaction
Will not remain a far cry
If your aspiration-heart is not expanded?

12600

Mine is the heart that enjoys
Eternity’s aspiration-dreams.
Mine is the soul that enjoys
Immortality’s realisation-realities.

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