Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 134

13301

May my aspiration-heart
And the music of my soul’s God-life
Always abide together.

13302

You do not have to restore
Your mind’s lost glory.
The mind’s glory will not help you
Approach your ultimate destination.
What you need is your heart’s
Self-giving delight
To arrive at your transcendental Goal.

13303

Simplicity, sincerity and purity:
These are the most precious resources
Of your heart.
You sleeplessly need them.
Therefore, value them
And admire their worth.

13304

He who does not surrender
To impossibility
Inherits the prosperity
Of divinity.

13305

You do not have to count
Your mind’s mountain-worries.
Just count your heart’s
Climbing faith-stairs.

13306

If you are a truly surrendered soul,
Then how can you have any time
To harbour your life’s giant sorrows?

13307

The doubting mind and the aggressive vital
Are doomed to remain
Wrongdoers and failures.

13308

If God ever asked me
What I would like to do
To be the happiest man on earth,
I would just tell Him
That I would like to do
Only one thing:
Run errands for Him
Day in and day out.

13309

To pick up speed
On his aspiration-heart-journey,
What the seeker needs
Is to make his life
A growing gratitude-plant.

13310

Your God-realisation-hope
Will never be fulfilled
If you live in your mind’s doubt-forest.

13311

How can God’s Satisfaction-Smile
Flower in your heart
If your mind leads a parade
Of uncomely thoughts?

13312

God does not want you
To be a flammable frustration-mind,
But He wants you to be
An available self-giving heart.

13313

Instead of asking your mind
To be a doubt-distributor,
You must ask your heart
To be a oneness-collector.

13314

I am sure that there is a better place
For you to live
Than your mind’s impurity-jungle.

13315

Now that you have severed
Your long-standing ties
With temptation-night,
Your life’s full illumination-day
Is fast approaching.

13316

What can destroy
Your heart’s faith-tree
If not your mind’s
Giant axe?

13317

If you want to have peace of mind,
Then every morning and every evening
You must enter into
Your fragrance-heart-garden.

13318

Do not allow your mind to foil
Your life’s dedication-plans
If you want to be a choice instrument
Of both God and man.

13319

All my hopes are badly damaged
By my life’s
Aspiration-bankruptcy.

13320

Alas, will there ever be a day
When I will be able to free myself
From expectation-burden?

13321

Nobody on earth can prevent me
From doing one particular thing:
Celebrating my lofty dreams.

13322

Surrender, surrender,
Constantly surrender
To God’s Will.
You will then have
Zooming self-confidence.

13323

Why do I need a heart
That is always absent
From God’s Compassion-School?

13324

Because of his oneness-love for God,
A genuine seeker knows
That there is no such thing as overtime work
In God’s Love-Manifestation-Office.

13325

Your heart’s promise-light will be able
To scale God-Heights
And here on earth you will be able
To enjoy a Heavenly harvest.

13326

Do not allow the insecurity-serpent
To bite you.
It carries slow but deadly poison.

13327

God immensely enjoys
Reading my aspiration-heart’s
Dream-diary.

13328

You have been banished
From God’s Pinnacle-Dream-Castle
Because you have completely lost
Your heart’s sweetness-innocence.

13329

If you do not revive
Your heart’s aspiration-life,
Then your life will become before long
A sad and withered death-flower.

13330

Just because you have escaped
The expectation-net,
God is inviting you to come and live
In His Heart’s Satisfaction-Palace.

13331

Your heart’s mounting aspiration-flames
Mark the glorious beginning
Of your fruitful surrender
To God’s Vision-Light.

13332

Beautiful
Is the prayer-river
Of man’s mind.
Fruitful
Is the aspiration-ocean
Of man’s heart.

13333

May my aspiration-heart
Eventually grow into
My divinity’s angel-song.

13334

When I pray most devotedly
And meditate unconditionally,
I hear instantly
A chorus of cheers in Heaven.

13335

God has no time to convince you
That your doubtful mind will be
The cause of your utter failure,
But He has endless time to help you
Keep your heart’s aspiration-flames burning.

13336

Do not say
That you do not like human beings.
Do not say
That all human beings are rogues.
Do not say
That human beings are not meant for
Spiritual life.
God does not want to hear it!

13337

Every day I pray to God
For His Compassion-Message-Light
To echo and re-echo
In my aspiration-heart-room.

13338

My heart’s aspiration-cry
And my Lord’s Satisfaction-Smile
Are always extremely fond of each other.

13339

In the morning
I place my aspiration-heart
At my Lord’s Compassion-Feet.
In the evening
I place my aspiration-heart
Inside my Lord’s Protection-Heart.

13340

My Lord tells me
That His Eyes are glowing
Precisely because
My heart is growing.

13341

There is no such thing
As an unforgiving
God-Heart.

13342

What actually challenges
The pride of ignorance-night?
Faith, our implicit faith in God!

13343

His heart’s manifestation-flute
Has too many holes in it —
Abundantly more than usual!
Therefore, it fails to produce
Any soulful melody.

13344

God wants your mind to aspire
Daily and faithfully.
If your mind fails to do that,
Then it will be found inside
Its own doubt-volcano.

13345

Cry and cry within!
God will remove
The bondage-ignorance-wall
Between you and Him.

13346

My Lord Supreme,
Is there anything that You
Do not want to know?
“Yes, My child, only one thing:
I do not want to know
That you do not love Me.”

13347

Patience, patience!
This is what I need for my mind
From God.

Patience, patience!
This is what God wants me to have
From Him.

13348

Selflessness purifies my mind.
Oneness strengthens my heart.
Fulness satisfies both me
And God in me.

13349

My mind, are you not tired
Of living inside a tiny
And unhealthy thought-room?

13350

Man’s outer world
And his mind’s fame-fantasies
Love to live together.

13351

Unless we break down
Our barriers of suspicion and mistrust,
A mind of peace will always remain
A far cry for us.

13352

Confidence, and not overconfidence,
We need!
Overconfidence is the beginning
Of our speedy doom.

13353

God tells each and every human being
That He will not accept
Their earth-rejection-letters
Unless and until they have finished
Their earth-transformation-tasks.

13354

Our insecurity-heart, alas,
Fails to see
God’s powerful Satisfaction-Eye.

13355

No matter how many times I tell myself
That I am a complete failure,
My Lord just laughs and laughs
At my utter stupidity.

13356

Each time I climb up
My mind-mountain
God fills my heart
With His Heart’s Fountain-Delight.

13357

Each undivine thought
Is nothing other than a storm-cloud
That threatens and frightens
Our aspiration-heart.

13358

My Lord Supreme,
I am making a solemn promise to You
That You will never see
My life’s footprints
In my mind’s desire-desert.

13359

May my life be found in between
My self-searching mind
And my self-discovering heart.

13360

Smile, smile,
Soulfully smile and powerfully smile!
You are bound to get back
Your long-lost freedom-days.

13361

Unless you desperately need God,
Your old frustration-life
You will never be able to reverse.

13362

God wants me to be always happy.
Therefore, He always shelters my heart
With His own Rainbow-Dreams.

13363

God definitely wants you to have
A confidence-start
So that your life’s insecurity-shadow
Cannot chase you.

13364

Your God-loving heart’s
Streaming tears
Will grant you a soulfulness-journey
To a fulness-goal.

13365

The God-seekers’ dedication-lives
Are God’s
Joy-blossomed Dreams.

13366

God will not allow you to sit
For your life’s perfection-examination
Until you have crossed far beyond
Your mind’s thought-boundaries.

13367

I keep my aspiration-heart
Teachable.
Therefore, my Lord keeps
His Satisfaction-Heart
Reachable.

13368

A desiring mind
Is very rich.
Every day it dons
A new frustration-garment.

13369

God never forgets to perform
His daily earth-Concern-Duty
To make human beings happy
In His own divine Way.

13370

My Lord, I need a new heart
Which will be filled
With nothing but gratitude-tears.

13371

How can you be happy
When you have allowed yourself
To be mesmerised
By your suspicion-mind?

13372

If you want to make progress
To your satisfaction,
Then never allow yourself
To be at the mercy
Of your demanding vital.

13373

Where is the difference between
An unfulfilled desire-life-blunder
And an earth-shaking thunderbolt?

13374

O my aspiration-heart,
Your most amazing ability is
Your constant sincerity-availability.

13375

Only an unconditionally surrendered seeker
Can place a person-to-person call
To God the Absolute Supreme.

13376

Nobody will help you
And nobody can help you
If you want to live and enjoy
Your self-doubt-prison-life.

13377

My Lord tells me
That I do absolutely the right thing
Only when I pay all attention
To the little inner voice within.

13378

All evil thoughts unmistakably,
Unceremoniously, plus unavoidably
Come back to the ill-fated sender.

13379

Each human life has two neighbours:
An ego-mind to humiliate the world
And a humility-heart to illumine the world.

13380

In the morning
My friend unparalleled
Is the sunrise-love-sky.
In the evening
My friend unparalleled
Is the sunset-peace-sky.

13381

Alas, where am I?
I am lost in between
My heart’s battered hopes
And my life’s shattered dreams.

13382

A lethargy-body-cart
Is not allowed to travel
On the heart-speed-road.

13383

A hesitation-mind
And a determination-heart
Are perfect strangers
To each other.

13384

My Lord, I do not know
If my life is changing
For better or worse,
But I do know
That my heart of love for You
Will forever remain changeless.

13385

If you are a true seeker,
Then every day you must
Increase your aspiration-strides
And decrease your frustration-strides.

13386

How can I ever be happy
Unless I grow into a lovely mind
And a lively heart?

13387

My Lord Supreme cries and cries
When I allow myself to be enslaved
By self-doubt.

13388

Alas, will I ever know
How hard my Beloved Supreme works
To see a soulful smile in my eyes?

13389

We human beings do not have to worry
As long as God’s Compassion-Height
Is stronger than His Justice-Light.

13390

My Lord Supreme,
I feel that the day
You do not scold me,
You do not care to mould my life
Into perfect perfection.

13391

The nearest and dearest is he
Who has pleased God in God’s own Way.
The farthest is
And will forever remain he
Who wants God to please him,
Especially his vital.

13392

It came to me in a flash
That God and God’s Compassion-Eye
Have been waiting for
My transformation-life
Since long before I consciously
Cared for transformation.

13393

When earth is ready
To introduce me to God,
God will ask Heaven to receive me
And accept my aspiration, dedication
And gratitude-flames.

13394

A neutral friend
Is not only a useless friend
But can easily be
The worst foe in disguise.

13395

Before my life-watch permanently stops
I must do something great
For Mother Earth
And something good
For Father Heaven.

13396

God does not mind
When you dare to defy Him,
But He does mind
When you do not care to edify yourself,
For you are part and parcel
Of His Oneness-Heart.

13397

God forgives me
Not because I am repentant
But because He wants me
To be competent
In the near future.

13398

My Lord Supreme,
Do not waste Your precious time
Trying to make me happy.
You have many things
Infinitely more important to do.

13399

I thank God that I have only
A stupid mind
And not an impure heart.

13400

My Lord, what kind of oneness
Do we actually enjoy?
“We share each others’
Life-breath and heartbeat.”

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