Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 180
17901
Every dayI must steer my life-boat
With my eagerness-heart
And my enthusiasm-mind.
17902
If you want to succeedIn anything in life,
Then you must use
Your soul’s dauntless lion-power.
17903
Not only individual and collectiveBut also universal
Is the tendency to deliberately ignore
The dictates of the Inner Pilot.
17904
With your heart’s streaming tearsAnd not with your unshed tears
You can erase your dark past.
17905
Today’sSelf-indulgence-blessing
Inevitably becomes
Tomorrow’s
Life-destruction-curse.
17906
Nobody cares to knowWhat I am doing.
Alas, why do I care
To bare my secret thoughts?
17907
A man of sincerityIs dismayed
By his own mind’s
Bold shout-power.
17908
Each and every flameOf the aspiring heart
Is fed
By the blessingful and fruitful
Opportunity-sun.
17909
Unless all the aspirationAnd dedication-troops
Of the world
Are mobilised,
The peace-manifestation-dream
Of earth
Will remain a far cry.
17910
O my mind,My life is already
Too complex.
For God’s sake
Do not complicate it more
With your contagious doubts!
17911
The human mindLikes to prophesy unhappiness
And not happiness
Day in and day out.
17912
The happinessOf an ego-bloated mind
Is as enduring
As a mound of sand.
17913
If the mind’s sincerityAnd the heart’s purity
Walk together,
Then every obstacle
On the way
Will definitely crumble.
17914
A self-giving thoughtIs indeed
Time well-spent.
17915
A God-loving heartTakes the doubting mind
As an unwelcome intruder.
17916
Quite oftenOur expectations go downhill
Faster
Than our own imagination.
17917
I may not always knowWhat God’s Will is,
But I do know
What a good thought is.
Why do I not invite
The presence of a good thought
To lift me and my surroundings up?
17918
The beauty of the morningInspires us.
The beauty of the evening
Purifies us.
17919
May each morning come to meWith an inspiration-message-light.
May each evening come to me
With a gratitude-message-light.
17920
Be braveTo see the face of newness
And feel the heart of newness
If you want to start
Your life’s Godward journey.
17921
Each man has qualitiesGood and bad.
God wants me to look
Only at man’s good qualities.
To correct his bad qualities
Is God’s Task.
I must not interfere
In God’s cherished activities.
17922
My Lord SupremeDearly treasures
My life’s progress-report.
17923
Nothing can beMore valuable and fruitful
Than to cherish
Each gratitude-breath
Of our heart.
17924
He is so sadThat his life-car
Is helplessly stalled
By doubt-giant.
17925
Life is nothingOther than
An opportunity-fountain-smile.
17926
Desire-lifeAlways brings in
Ruthless frustration-night.
17927
Can you not seeThat God is crying and weeping
For you to join Him in His Boat
To reach the Shore
Of the ever-transcending Beyond?
17928
If your mind is brave,Then challenge thought!
If your heart is pure,
Then transcend thought!
17929
Love God unconditionally!You will not be chained
By earth-bound time.
17930
The mind’s willingnessIs always treasured
By the heart’s openness.
17931
It takes a man of courageTo enjoy
Earth-adventure-journey.
17932
In the morningI pray
To God’s Compassion-Eye.
In the evening
I meditate
On God’s Forgiveness-Heart.
17933
This world of oursHas only two realities:
Sadness
And
Madness.
17934
Alas, I do not knowIf the need for peace
Will ever be on the increase
In the human mind.
17935
O my mind,When will you stop
Allowing your kingdom
To be ruled
By ruthless ignorance-night?
17936
The golden smileOf Heaven
And the silver gratitude
Of earth
Are extremely fond of each other.
17937
Alas, each human lifeIs either consciously
Or unconsciously bound
By unlimited expectation-chains.
17938
A surrender-lifeAscends.
A gratitude-heart
Expands.
17939
A heart of faithSees
No mind of doubt
Anywhere!
17940
Temptation and attachmentAre two members
Of life’s insecurity-team.
17941
True, a mind of sincerityIs rare.
But rarer still
Is a heart of purity.
17942
I do not want to part with either ofMy most precious possessions:
Two helpless eyes
And one hopeless heart.
17943
Where do I live?I live in my sweet hope-home
And nowhere else.
17944
Each thought is uncertain,Each action is uncertain,
Life itself is uncertain.
Alas, everything on earth
Is doomed to be uncertain.
17945
My Lord,May my heart be flooded
With compassion-oneness-capacity.
17946
Ego meansSleepless attention-necessity
And nothing else.
17947
Self-imposed obligationStupidly pleases
The undivine in me.
Self-forgetful sacrifice
Supremely pleases
The divine in me.
17948
Neither self-doubtNor self-aggrandisement
Can change the real reality
In us.
17949
Each good thoughtIs a beautiful
Heart-flower.
17950
Unbelievable, but true:My suspicion-mind,
My Lord’s Compassion-Eye
And my Lord’s Forgiveness-Heart
Together live.
17951
My morning meditation-beautyIs my self-perfection.
My evening meditation-fragrance
Is my Lord’s Satisfaction.
17952
The God-satisfaction-seekers listHas always been
Shorter than the shortest
Since the beginning of human aspiration.
17953
If God has the timeTo smile at you powerfully,
How is it
That you do not have time
To cry for God soulfully?
17954
What I needIs the beauty of hope
And the duty of patience
To make enormous progress
In my inner life.
17955
To my great surprise,Every day I get
Quite unexpected Blessing-Gifts
From my Lord Supreme.
17956
The heart’s aspiration-criesMust never be neglected
For the ruthlessly doubting mind.
17957
Sweeping changes in my inner lifeHave strengthened me
To pray and meditate once more,
Sincerely, soulfully and self-givingly.
17958
Every day I do two things:I make a hope-garden
Inside my heart,
And I create a promise-mountain
Inside my mind.
17959
If you are rootedTo a comfort-life,
Then God’s Satisfaction-Heart
Can never be claimed by you.
17960
I am really happy nowPrecisely because
I have realised the futility
Of my expectation-mind.
17961
Can there be a greater foolThan you are
If you postpone
Your self-improvement-life?
17962
The path of the heart’s insecurityCan never lead us
To our divinity’s
Transcendental Reality.
17963
An uncommitted heartIs indeed
A most deplorable failure
In our aspiration-life.
17964
You must do something betterThan just sounding
Your aspiration-dedication-drums
At every moment.
17965
Is there any dayWhen little deaths
Do not visit human beings?
17966
The armour of fearIs reigning supreme
On earthly soil.
17967
I have twoMost significant friends:
My soul
And my soul’s unfinished task.
17968
There shall come a timeWhen this world of ours
Will have a new, all-loving
And all-fulfilling Master:
Peace.
17969
A self-giving thoughtIs a step forward
Towards humanity’s
Perfection-life.
17970
O insecurity,For years I considered you
My best friend.
But from now on,
I shall take you as
My worst foe!
17971
Darkness has the capacityTo choose you
Only when you do not turn
Towards the life-illumining light.
17972
May I treasureOnly those prayers
That stand as champions
Of universal harmony.
17973
The higher worlds fondly treasureHumanity’s hope-birds
And promise-sky.
17974
O excruciating suffering,You are so powerful!
I do hope that someday
You will prove to me
That you are meaningful
And fruitful as well.
17975
O sadness,I do not know why
You came to me.
Is it because I deserve
Your ruthless presence?
Or is it because you are helpless
And it is predestined that you give me
A God-ordained experience?
17976
Where do I live?I live in between
God’s human tears
And God’s divine Smiles.
17977
Each self-giving lifeHas a permanent passport
To enter and live in
God’s Consciousness-Light-Bliss-Realm.
17978
O my sound-mind,How can I live
With your destruction-frown?
O my silence-heart,
How can I live
Without your fulness-love?
17979
A self-giving lifeIs far beyond
The temptation-desire-snare.
17980
God needs from youYour soul’s childlike smile
And your heart’s childlike cry
Before He allows you
To breathe in
His universal Breath.
17981
The Lord Supreme tellsEach and every human being
That the strength of sincerity
Knows no finite boundary.
17982
O my stupid mind,I am urging you
To pay all attention
To your soul’s invaluable,
Step-by-step
Nectar-instructions.
17983
Only the heartOf a genuine God-lover
Can house
God’s infinite Vision-Smile.
17984
Each unaspiring human beingIs hopelessly and helplessly lost
Inside his mind’s darkness-cave
And his heart’s ignorance-breath.
17985
The failures of the pastWant to be your boss.
The frustrations of the present
Want to be your boss.
The visions of the future
Want to be your boss.
The Compassion-Eye of God
Wants to be your boss.
It is you who have to make the choice.
I hope that you make
The right and infallible choice.
17986
Before he entered intoThe life of aspiration,
What he had and what he was:
A thunder-mind.
And now,
What he has and what he is:
A flower-heart.
17987
What weighs infinitely moreThan anything in this world?
The frustrations
Of each human being.
17988
God invites onlyThe sleepless gratitude-souls
To participate in
His Victory-Procession through Heaven.
17989
Each morning and each eveningMay I become my heart’s
Rainbow-melody-flute.
17990
God has challenged HimselfTo see perfection
In each human being.
17991
I am determined to climb overEach and every mountain-obstacle
I encounter in my life.
17992
It seems thatAll human beings suffer
From earth’s attachment-life
And Heaven’s detachment-soul.
17993
The doubting mindAlways finds mistakes
Not only
In God the creation
But also
In God the Creator.
17994
What can save us?Our quenchless thirst
For the ever-loving
And ever-transcending Beyond.
17995
No sleepless determinationCan remain unsuccessful
And unfruitful.
17996
I can never be happyUnless I can return my heart
To its Source:
God the infinite Compassion-Light.
17997
God-seeking eyesI needed.
A God-loving heart
I now need,
And I shall forever need.
17998
A single Compassion-Smile from GodLifts me up
To my summit-self-transcendence-height.
17999
My soul’s purity-fragrance-breathDoes have the capacity
To smash my mind’s attachment-chains.
18000
My Lord SupremeBuilds a peace-temple
Inside each purity-thought
Of my mind
And each aspiration-cry
Of my heart.