Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 147

14601

My Lord, a tiny bird
Claims the vast sky.
Similarly, the finite in me
Longs to claim
Your Infinite Absolute.

14602

O my ego-life,
I have covered a very long distance
With you, all in vain.
Now I am returning to my journey’s start
For a new goal,
Definitely without you.

14603

At last my inner confidence-light
Has come to the fore
And is burning cheerfully
My long-treasured frustration-pyre.

14604

I need safety at every moment
In my life.
Therefore, I do not mind using
My bullock-cart speed
To Infinity’s Shore.

14605

The outer freedom
Has a short breath.
The inner freedom
Is at once birthless and deathless.

14606

My unwillingness-mind
Is still tormenting
My heart’s soulfulness-smile.

14607

O my mind,
I neither need nor deserve
Your destructive discouragement-arrows
While I am speeding towards
My Lord Supreme.

14608

My vital, do you really mean
What you say?
Do you really want to say “No”
To the Beloved Lord Supreme?

14609

If your self-confidence is genuine,
Then God’s supreme Pride in you,
You are bound to feel.

14610

Each soulful thought
Is a God-world
In its surrender-flooded light.

14611

How will you ever reach
Your destined goal, my friend,
When you are such an easy-going
Truth-seeker and God-lover?

14612

My soul’s divinity-torch
Has been illumining
My life’s Eternity-Road.

14613

God’s Oneness-Love
We see, feel
And one day shall become.
Therefore, we are not awestruck
By God’s transcendental Height.

14614

I feel miserable
That my inner being has been absent
For such a long time
From my earth-home.

14615

Every day I inject wisdom-light
Into my mind-night
So that it can bow devotedly
To my oneness-fulness-heart.

14616

Alas, can you not see
That your mind and vital
Have become only dying embers
Of your long-lost enthusiasm-fire?

14617

My mind gets joy
When it thinks
Of the unknown God.
My heart gets joy
When it tries to feel
The unknowable God.

14618

I breathe in purity’s nectar-breath
Only when I am at
The life-transformation-Feet
Of my Lord Supreme.

14619

Do not allow illusion
To blind your vision-eye.
Immediately invoke illumination
To feed and nourish your vision-eye.

14620

What does God do
Day in and day out?
He just defends
Your innocence-life.

14621

Today’s self-indulgence-journey
Will be followed by
Tomorrow’s imperishable guilt.

14622

God may not tell me,
But I do know
That God’s most dangerous enemy
Is my life’s shameless ingratitude.

14623

You want your life-journey
To be Heaven-bound.
But where is your Pilot?
Where is your life’s
Transformation-Guide?

14624

Only the dream-builders
Are fulfilment-distributors
On earth.

14625

The silence-smile
Of your heart’s love
Has conquered
Both God the Eternal
And God the Infinite.

14626

No hesitation,
No unwillingness!
Your progress-speed
Will immensely increase.

14627

If you are all the time
Addicted to praise,
How can you expect a raise
In your aspiration-life?

14628

My mind quarrels with my heart;
My heart remains silent.
My soul places the victory-garland
Around my heart.

14629

O my mind,
Will you ever learn
The supreme necessity
Of a moment’s peace?

14630

Every morning
I prayerfully and soulfully remember
To take my enthusiasm-medicine.

14631

God has given you
His universal Heart-Door-Key.
When will you give Him
Your personal heart-door-key?

14632

The heart is teachable.
Therefore, the soul is
Not only reachable
But also available.

14633

Do not imitate any human being.
It is indeed an act of stupidity.
But imitate God
As much as possible,
As often as possible,
For He loves your imitation-capacity
Like anything!

14634

The beauty of a purity-heart
Will always remain unchallenged
Here on earth.

14635

God loves all our prayers
No matter how stupid,
No matter how awkward,
No matter how insignificant.

14636

Every day my Lord Supreme
Comes to my mind-door
And compassionately unloads
My desire-truck.

14637

My faith-drops are learning
How to sing, play and dance
In God’s infinite Compassion-Rain.

14638

Alas, every day
My thought-train
Runs to the wrong destination,
And stops there!

14639

You must severely fine
Your mind
Every time it enjoys
An unhealthy thought.

14640

Dream, dream, dream!
Then you will have no time
To suffer from despair.

14641

Every morning my soulful hope
Shakes hands with
My life’s promise-fulfilment.

14642

Every day at least once
My soul shops inside my heart-market.
But it never goes out to shop
In my mind’s supermarket.

14643

My God-invoking prayers
Are breathlessly treasured
By my Lord Supreme.

14644

The silence-thunder
Of my Lord’s Eye
Shall shake your complacent life-tree.

14645

God does not mind
When He sees in us
Teeming imperfections.
But He does mind
When He sees in us
An iota of unwillingness.

14646

Because you love God unconditionally,
God wants to give you
A very long vacation
Inside His Heart’s
Gratitude-Pride-Satisfaction-Garden.

14647

I never thought
That my Lord Supreme
Would be a silent Boatman
Inside my prayerful and soulful life-boat.

14648

Humanity weeps
Not because it is neglected
And rejected.
Humanity weeps and has to weep
Because God’s Satisfaction with humanity
Is still a very far cry.

14649

My Lord Supreme,
I see Your Infinity’s blue sky,
But I see not the divinity
Of my soul-bird.
Alas, where is it?
Where is it?

14650

The meeting place
Of my searching mind
And my loving heart,
God the Compassion-Eye
And God the Satisfaction-Heart
Always choose.

14651

God will immediately increase
Your heart’s private beauty
If you offer more of your life-breath
To public duty.

14652

Two lives can shine bright:
The life that has aspiration-purity
And
The life that has dedication-beauty.

14653

Yesterday’s comfortable falsehood
Has become
Today’s most painful reality.

14654

May my life be transformed
Into my heart’s purity-blossoms
To be placed on my soul-altar.

14655

If you are a sleepless God-lover,
Then only will you be able
To remain faithful to God
To your final breath.

14656

Although I am evading my soul
These days,
My soul maintains the same concern,
The same affection
And the same responsibility for me.

14657

A sincere, prayerful cry
Will help you swim
In your life’s receptivity-river.

14658

Alas, it is my fate
That everywhere I go
Frustration
Has to ruthlessly follow me!

14659

If your present is not fruitful,
Your future will taunt you
And your useless past
Will haunt you.

14660

In the spiritual life
To learn sincerity
Is like taking
Kindergarten lessons.

14661

Satisfaction has abandoned you
And it will always abandon you
Because your life has become
Nothing but lethargy-yawn.

14662

Play your role!
Make soulful efforts
To build your oneness-bridge
With God.
God will definitely and proudly
Use it.

14663

O my mind, if you allow doubt
To play with you,
Then your spiritual life will be
Like a helpless pilgrim with no path.

14664

You think by ignoring God
You can make yourself happy.
Just try!
When the time arrives
For you to adore God,
Your task will be
Infinitely more difficult.

14665

My heart is always
An extremist unparalleled
When it comes to hope-smile.

14666

Truth is not impermanent,
But the human mind
Quite often does not care for
The permanent truth.

14667

Alas, I do not know why
I so often shamelessly ignore
My Lord’s warning Whispers.

14668

My heart does not want to fight
Against impossibility.
My mind does not want to fight
Against impossibility.
But my soul tells both my mind and heart,
“If you want Infinity’s peace,
Then you must conquer
Impossibility’s life, body and breath.”

14669

Man’s final question:
“My Lord, do You really know
How to cry?”

“My child, I shall answer
Your final question,
But first do answer My question:
‘Will you ever learn how to smile?’”

14670

The blame for humanity’s mistakes,
Humanity does not want to take.
My Lord says once a mistake is made,
Somebody has to accept the blame.
Therefore, my Lord is all ready
To accept the blame
For humanity’s mistakes.

14671

Who says that you do not love God?
You do love God —
Unfortunately, not exactly in His Way.

14672

In my heart I see
That there is only one thing
Infinite,
And that infinite thing
Is the unconditional Compassion
Of my Lord Supreme.

14673

Just be positive
In everything that you say and do.
Your mind will escape the poison
Of self-created negativity.

14674

God tells human beings,
“Use your indomitable heart
When you speak to Me,
And use your tender heart
When you speak to humanity.”

14675

Intensify your aspiration.
Lo and behold, God has arrived
To magnify your aspiration!

14676

Real spirituality is undoubtedly
A matter of choice
And not a mere accident or incident.

14677

My peaceful heart
Is my mind’s only purity.
My prayerful mind
Is my life’s only serenity.

14678

The love that can only forgive
But not forget,
According to me,
Is not a perfect love.

14679

We can arrive at the summit-excellence
Only when we value
God’s Compassion-Eye
And surrender ourselves completely
To God’s unconditional Justice-Light.

14680

No matter how hard we try,
Consciously or unconsciously,
We cannot push God’s Patience
Beyond our life’s boundary.

14681

Unwillingness
Is a weary road.
Failure
Is its right destination.

14682

Who says that God does not forget?
God does forget
To use His Justice-Hammer
Even when I consciously do a wrong thing.

14683

If you do not sustain
New hope every day,
Then there can be no
New discovery.

14684

Each moment I am away from
My Lord’s Compassion-Vision-Eye,
I roam in the anxiety-worry-forest.

14685

My Lord, if You do not supervise my life,
Then I shall find myself
In the dark night of a dangerous cave.

14686

An uncomely thought
Has the power to sink
My heart’s aspiration-boat.

14687

Even before I do a wrong thing,
I feel myself vehemently engulfed
By a flood of helplessness
And hopelessness.

14688

The moment you think of your Master,
You, your aspiration-heart
And even your unwillingness-mind,
Must run towards Him.

14689

I hear God’s Whisper
Only when I take my mind
Beyond and far beyond
The loud sounds of life.

14690

O my mind, you will be punished
By God’s Justice-Light
If you all the time
Make a mockery
Of my heart’s devotion-cry.

14691

My human eyes see only one thing:
My Lord’s Compassion-Eye-Armour
Is protecting me.

14692

Your sweetness-heart-worship
Pleases God’s Eye and Heart
Far beyond your imagination.

14693

Your singular obedience
To your wrong master-mind
Will cost your aspiration-heart
Dearly!

14694

There are so many clever ways
To separate oneself
From world-suffering.
But there is only one way
To unite oneself
With world-suffering,
And that way is
To tell God the creation
That you love to be
A member of His family.

14695

My Lord,
I invoke Your Protection-Eye,
I invoke Your Perfection-Smile,
I invoke Your Self-Transcendence-
Whisper-Delight.

14696

With my soul-smiles
I satisfy God.
With my heart-tears
I satisfy God.
With my willingness
Multiplied by eagerness
I satisfy God.

14697

God, from now on,
I do want to make You feel
That I am a true friend of Yours.
Therefore, I have kept
A specially reserved place for You
In my heart-room.

14698

To foster your God-commitment,
Self-indulgence relinquish,
God-reliance invoke immediately!

14699

O my heart, delay not!
Sign up for the full aspiration-course.
O my life, delay not!
Sign up for the full dedication-course.
O my soul, delay not!
Sign up for the full
God-manifestation-course.

14700

My Lord Supreme,
I have touched Your Lotus-Feet
With the river of my heart-tears
Only to be claimed by Your Infinity’s
Closeness, fondness and fulness.

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