Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 185

18401

There is nothing more valuable
On earth or in Heaven
Than peace,
And this peace we get only
In our heart’s oneness-delight.

18402

Pray and meditate
And lead a divine life.
If that is too difficult,
At least lead a human life.
The other category,
Animal life,
Is out of the question.

18403

If we run only inwardly,
Then we are meant for
The Himalayan caves.
We have to run both inwardly
And outwardly
For balance-harmony-satisfaction
In our spiritual lives.

18404

At every moment
You have someone as your master,
Whether it is your soul or heart,
Mind, vital or even your body.
Therefore, why not make
The divine choice?

18405

On your spiritually historical journey,
Carry with you all the time
Your unconditional surrender
To the Will of your Beloved Supreme,
To sing your perfection-song
Inside your own heart-garden.

18406

My opportunity
Is nothing short of
An unconditional Boon
From my Beloved Supreme.

18407

Use your imagination-bird to fly
Higher than the highest,
Farther than the farthest.
You will be able to feel
God’s Pride in you
And Gratitude to you
Far beyond your imagination’s flight.

18408

What we have done for the Supreme
Is more than an achievement.
It is something that we eternally are:
Our birthless promise
And our deathless progress.

18409

God tells us,
“My sweet children,
A birthless promise you are,
A deathless progress you are.
Now this birthless promise
And deathless progress
You must offer to the world at large.”

18410

Only oneness-song
Will grant us
Supreme victory.
Again, in divine victory
There will always be
A oneness-song.

18411

Everything has been done,
Perfectly and completely.
By whom?
By the Supreme alone.
Just become His faithful, devoted
And unconditional instrument,
Him to please in His own Way,
And thus be perfectly
And completely fulfilled.

18412

My Lord, my Lord,
May I have from You
In writing
My life’s perfection-promise?

18413

O anxiety,
My heart’s peace-robber,
My Lord will give me
Another peace-flooded heart.

18414

The fast-approaching Footsteps
Of the Supreme
Frighten the unaspiring mind
But gladden the aspiring heart.

18415

My morning prayer
Wishes to become
The beauty
And the fragrance
Of a morning rose.

18416

My Lord Supreme,
Do help me grow into
My hope-immortalising dreams.

18417

Our God-thirst
Must climb
To God’s Satisfaction-Height.

18418

The sweetness of our soul
Illumines the breath
Of our life.

18419

I offer my gratitude-letters
To my Lord Supreme
Through my surrender-post.

18420

Each aspiration-flame
Brightens the heart
And enlightens the life.

18421

The doubtful mind
Is secretly afraid
Of a peaceful heart.

18422

What I need is
A sincerity-loving heart
And a simplicity-loving life.

18423

At last God is ready
To take birth
In the mind of man.

18424

The hope-train
And the promise-train
Must go side by side
To reach the destination.

18425

What is a human mind made of?
A human mind is made of
Centuries of dissatisfaction
And frustration.

18426

Doubt has nothing to do with
Our outer success,
And especially not with
Our inner progress.

18427

Every day man’s life
Becomes shorter,
But his hope
Grows deeper.

18428

O my deplorable mind,
I beg of you
To start your life
All over again.

18429

O my ignorance-life,
I have been with you
For a very, very long time.
It is now high time
For me to acquire a new friend:
Wisdom-light.

18430

Beautiful
Is
My heart-flower.

Fruitful
Is
My life-garden.

18431

Each time we miss
A Heaven-sent opportunity,
We automatically forget
The special road that leads
To God’s highest Heights.

18432

I pray
For God to grant me
The opportunity
To cover the length and breadth
Of the world
With His immense Fragrance-Name.

18433

O my mind,
For such a long time
You have been walking
Along the path of spirituality.
Can you not start running now?

18434

I am not going to be satisfied
By rebuilding my aspiration-bridge
To the Golden Shore.
I want to build a totally new bridge
With new aspiration-flames
And new dedication-flowers.

18435

O my mind,
Why do you forget
That your sole duty
Is to explore
And not to explode?

18436

What I need
Is a mind-expanding thought.
What I need
Is a self-giving heart,
And nothing less,
Nothing more.

18437

Alas, my heart
Can no longer stand
My Lord’s
Compassion-Arrival-suspense.

18438

The human mind carries
An unauthorised version
Of God’s Transcendental Vision.

18439

What I desperately need is
God-submissiveness
And not
God-possessiveness.

18440

No road is easy.
Therefore, we must walk and run
Along the road
That has already been accepted
By our heart.

18441

My heart’s cheerfulness-sunshine
Has at last illumined
My mind’s despair-night.

18442

God-news may travel slowly,
But it travels effectively,
Convincingly
And supremely.

18443

I have finally far transcended
The exorbitant strength
Of my commanding mind
And demanding vital.

18444

I do not know
Precisely what it is,
But there is something
Inside the Compassion-Eye
Of my Lord Supreme
That cheerfully and proudly
Claims me.

18445

If you want to be
A true citizen of the world,
Then you must not hesitate
To exhaust your life-energy
Cheerfully and self-givingly.

18446

My Lord Supreme,
Is it really necessary
That the human heart
Has to be broken time and again
For its ultimate purification?

18447

Yesterday
My rainbow-dreams
Cradled me.
Today
My rainbow-realities
Are enlightening me.

18448

A oneness-heart-smile
Is undoubtedly a safeguard
Against our insecurity-tears.

18449

Alas, each individual thinks
That he is an unmistakable authority
On others’ imperfection-lives.

18450

God’s Love-List
Has made my heart happy.
God’s Compassion-List
Has made my heart happier.
God’s Forgiveness-List
Has made me the happiest,
By far the happiest.

18451

A God-realised soul
Is absolutely certain
As to when the ignorance-mind
Will end its hesitation, suspicion
And imperfection-role.

18452

My heart’s perfection
And
My life’s transformation-roles
I have taken
As my soul’s top priorities.

18453

Hesitation, doubt, suspicion
And utter failure
Always live together.

18454

Our mind is definitely
Going to bow down
To the illumining oneness-pressure
Of the heart.

18455

Each time I pray
I see inside my heart
A peace-tree growing.
Each time I pray
I see inside my heart
A peace-flower blossoming.

18456

Alas,
I thought insecurity
Was an insect bite.
But to my wide surprise
Now I see insecurity
Is indeed
An elephant-kick.

18457

O my mind,
How can my heart
Solve your problems
If you do not dare
To surrender them
To my heart?

18458

If you cannot
Altogether delay
Your desire-fulfilment-hour,
Try at least to delay it
Indefinitely.

18459

Impurity
Has a powerful
And destructive friend:
Arrogance.

18460

O my simplicity-heart!
Where are you?
O my publicity-mind!
Where are you not?

18461

God does not cry for
Your life’s adoration-garland.
He cries only for
Your heart’s aspiration-flame.

18462

Not secretly,
But prayerfully and breathlessly,
You are supposed to watch
How and why
Your Inner Pilot does everything.

18463

If you become
An unconditional God-lover
And God-server,
Then you will become
The flower of God’s Life,
The beauty of God’s Heart,
The fragrance of God’s Breath.

18464

A heart of peace
Is the dearest member
Of the oneness-family.

18465

O my mind,
Why are you afraid
Of realising God?
O my mind,
Why do you not have
Anything nice to say
About mankind?
O my mind,
Can you not see
That the inner world wants you
To keep your mouth shut?

18466

My Lord,
A fearful mind
I had.
A loving heart
I have.
A surrendering life
I shall be.

18467

My instant obedience
And God’s complete Satisfaction
Are two perfect friends.

18468

My gratitude-heart
Is the master key
To open up all the rooms
Of God’s Heart-Palace.

18469

Alas, your mind
Is a closed room.
Even God the Compassion
Cannot open it.

18470

The aspiration of the heart
And the dedication of life
Must be dynamic
So that every day
You can move fast, faster and fastest
Towards your destined goal.

18471

God’s Love
Does not choose.
Therefore, God’s Love
Does not lose either.

18472

Yesterday
I was an inspiration-seed.
Today
I am an aspiration-plant.
The day after tomorrow
I shall grow into a dedication-tree.

18473

Be not afraid
Of your heart’s new hopes!
But do be afraid
Of the old frustrations
Of your mind.

18474

Where do I live?
I live between
My mind-library
And my heart-librarian.

18475

Success is measured
By the outer joy.
Progress is measured
By the inner peace.

18476

You must at least
Think of God
As an old acquaintance of yours,
If you find it difficult
To think of God
As an old friend of yours.

18477

Temptation will not dare
To chase you,
If you run towards
God’s Heart-Home.

18478

Even to think of
Giving up hope
Is to lose the strength
Of your precious life-energy.

18479

Believe it or not,
God likes to hear from me
My imagination-stories
And not my reality-stories.

18480

I know
God has been asking for me.
Alas,
I get tremendous pleasure
In avoiding Him.

18481

My unwillingness-mind
Was yesterday’s king.
My willingness-heart
Is today’s king.

18482

If you can appreciate
The beauty of your heart-flower,
Then God will remove
Some of the piercing thorns
Of your mind.

18483

God’s Greatness
My mind admiringly desires.
God’s Goodness
My life devotedly desires.
God’s Oneness
My heart self-givingly desires.

18484

God’s Forgiveness
Does not choose.
God’s Compassion
Does not choose.
I do choose.
I choose God’s Forgiveness-Heart
And God’s Compassion-Eye.

18485

The mind’s self-doubt
Can be conquered
Only by the heart’s
Determination-fire.

18486

Every day
I want to be a student
Of my mind’s transformation
And my life’s perfection.

18487

Every seeker
Eventually becomes
A perfect explorer
Of self-illumination.

18488

The heart’s insecurity
And the mind’s impurity
Must not be allowed to chase you
On your God-aspiration-journey.

18489

I wish to live every day
Between my heart’s gratitude-tears
And my life’s perfection-promise-smiles.

18490

The heart that is all aglow
With willingness
Will one day be blessed
By God’s complete Satisfaction-Smile.

18491

Each inspiring dream
Is an illumining fragrance
Of the soul.

18492

Music is not in banging.
Music is in soothing.
Music is in self-giving.
Music is in earth-planet-fulfilling.

18493

Far beyond the borders
Of ignorance
Is the life-illumining
Satisfaction-torch.

18494

Nobody can escape
Expectation-disaster.
Unconditional self-giving
Is indeed the beginning
Of God-becoming.

18495

The act of surrendering
In the beginning
Is indeed a difficult task,
But eventually
Even unconditional surrender
Becomes an effortless effort.

18496

Do you want
To make God really happy?
Then never give up your hope
Of becoming absolutely perfect.

18497

To achieve success
At times may not be
A difficult task,
But to make progress
Is always
A difficult task.

18498

God tells me
That I am not
My mind’s mistake-clouds,
But I am
My heart’s slow and steady
Perfection-blossoming sun.

18499

Self-giving
Is always
The sunlit path
To all the higher worlds.

18500

Every day
We must discover
An entirely new approach
To see God, serve God
And become
Choice instruments of God.

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