Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 188

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18701

Be brave!
You will see that your heart’s
Soaring aspiration-flames
Cannot be bound by anything.

18702

Alas,
The mind is limited,
But its doubts are unlimited!

18703

The misconceptions
Of the unaspiring mind
Are not only dangerous
But also destructive.

18704

The outer action
Without the inner vision
Cannot be of any use
For God-manifestation.

18705

O suspicion-fed mind,
How can you ever
Make yourself truly happy?
For you, the real happiness
Will always remain a far cry.

18706

Today’s outer reality
Can easily be transcended
Tomorrow
By the inner potentiality.

18707

What you need
Is a blessingful and peaceful soul
To shatter the limits
And limitations
Of your unwilling mind.

18708

Each and every outer difficulty
In the spiritual life
Is bound to be surmounted,
For so is the Will
Of our Lord Beloved Supreme.

18709

An aspiring heart
Is indeed the beginning of
Our God-realisation,
God-revelation
And God-victory.

18710

The word “impossible”
Is found
Only in the dictionary
Of the unwilling
And the foolish.

18711

Concentration
Is the penetration
Of the soul
Into the heart
Of the hidden reality.

18712

My Lord,
May I remain always
A sincere, self-giving soul
To challenge the pride
Of uncertainty
And even of impossibility.

18713

If your life
Is based on earth-desires,
Then you will never be blessed
With Heaven-dreams.

18714

A seeker’s promise-life
Will definitely one day be found
Inside the smiling heart
Of paradise.

18715

A heart of God-surrender
Does not know
What frustration-life is.

18716

You can change the world
Only with the beauty
Of your prayers
And the fragrance
Of your meditation.

18717

An obedience-heart
Has a free access
To God’s Heart-Home.

18718

Inspiration I need
To see the world properly.
Aspiration I need
To love the world perfectly.

18719

Alas,
Every day we squander
The Nectar-Smiles
Of God’s Compassion-Eye.

18720

In the morning I pray to God
To illumine my mind.
In the evening I pray to God
To illumine my life.

18721

I must run forward
To the future-sun
With my back
To the past-clouds.

18722

Eventually
All our aspiration-flames
Will enter into
Our soul’s luminosity-sun.

18723

What I need
Is a spark of hope.
Then promise
Will come by itself.

18724

Today the mind is enjoying
Its refusal to listen to God.
Tomorrow the same mind will be bound
To obey and fulfil God.

18725

What God wants you to have
Is a life of introspection
And not a life of deprivation.

18726

The mind craves
Life-supremacy.
The heart longs for
God-intimacy.

18727

If your heart is the possessor
Of faith-blossoms,
Then your mind’s doubt-weeds
Will, without fail,
Have to surrender.

18728

There is no finish line
In the perfection-race.
Perfection is an eternal run.

18729

Alas, I need a mind
That is eager to unlearn,
And I need a heart
That is eager to love.

18730

The mind
That is eager to criticise
I had.
The heart
That is eager to sympathise
I now have.

18731

If you smile at temptation,
You will be the deplorable victim.
If you laugh at temptation,
You will be the formidable victor.

18732

My heart’s pressing necessity
Is God-realisation.
My soul’s pressing necessity
Is God-manifestation.

18733

If you do not have
A self-giving heart,
Your life will never be able
To radiate your divinity’s
Perfection-splendour.

18734

The difference between
The mind’s sermons
And the heart’s life
Is the difference between
The promise and its execution.

18735

Every day
A seeker must try
To cleanse his doubt-mind
With his heart’s devotion-tears.

18736

I want my heart’s
Willingness-bells
To ring sleeplessly.

18737

Where
Does each human being live?
Inside
His self-made expectation-prison.

18738

Compassion-height
You desperately need
If you want to escape
Justice-light.

18739

What does surrender look like?
It looks like the purity-smile
Of a child.

18740

Doubt
Knows no cure.
Faith
Knows no ailment.

18741

If you hesitate
When God beckons,
You are bound to remain
Forever enslaved
By your doubting mind.

18742

One aspiration,
One goal,
But many winners.

18743

A battle is going on
Sleeplessly
Between the heart’s compassion
And the mind’s deception.

18744

It is not human nature
To enjoy what we get
With no effort.

18745

If you do not take
Each and every thought
Seriously,
Your life will have no chance
To see the face of perfection.

18746

Alas, will there ever come a time
When I will seriously
And powerfully tell myself
That I am fed up
With my mind’s doubt
And my heart’s fear?

18747

I am so happy that I have
An obedience-blessed heart.
I am so unhappy that I do not have
A peace-blessed mind.

18748

Mine is not a mental hallucination.
I shall before long destroy
In my own life
Ignorance and ignorance-frown.

18749

When I am with my imagination,
I think of my heart’s success.
When I am with my heart’s aspiration,
I think of my life’s progress.

18750

I am sure someday
My God-loving soul
Will liberate me
From my self-indulgence-curse.

18751

If your mind is centred
Around earthly things,
How will you have time
To be in your heart
And meditate
On divinely essential things?

18752

Even a tiny divine hope
Can strengthen our mind
And brighten our heart.

18753

My heart’s silence-power
Can liberate my mind
From peace-starvation.

18754

Willingness-seekers
Are happiness-towers
In the inner world.

18755

I want my heart to be
An aspiration-discoverer.
I want my mind to be
A faith-inventor.

18756

O my mind,
How can you ever be satisfied
To live inside
A self-doubt-factory?

18757

Today’s aspiration-plant
Will grow into tomorrow’s
God-satisfaction-plant.

18758

Each heart needs
A prayerful access
To God’s Compassion.

18759

I do not need many things.
I need only one thing:
To be a lifelong expert
In God-manifestation-light.

18760

What I essentially need
Is beauty’s home
And duty’s promise.

18761

Contrary to current popular belief,
Each human soul is destined
To play a unique role
In God’s manifestation.

18762

O my soul’s nectar-delight,
Alas, I do not know when and how
I shall be able to drink you
To my heart’s content.

18763

My life does not need
A salvation-preacher.
My life needs
A perfection-tutor.

18764

Alas,
My expectation-mind
Does not allow my capacity-heart
To come to the fore
And win the victory.

18765

Alas,
I do not know why
The human mind cherishes
Teeming and thickening
Suspicion-clouds.

18766

Although I love many things,
I love my aspiration-heart’s
Rainbow-dawn
The best.

18767

O fear, O doubt,
How strange it is
That you have become
Our masters,
Rather than our slaves.

18768

Infinity likes to be clasped
By my aspiring heart
And never wants to be grasped
By my devouring mind.

18769

My heart and I will never live
With dead hopes.
We shall live only
With our soul’s
Living and illumining promises.

18770

My Lord’s smiling Eyes,
I shall forever remember you
And treasure you.

My heart’s streaming tears,
I shall forever remember you
And treasure you.

18771

The soul’s paradise-promise
Is only for those
Who want to conquer
Self-doubt and self-pity.

18772

I gave God a few
Of my heart’s faith-drops.
God gave me His entire
Satisfaction-Ocean
In return.

18773

Never allow
Your heart-gratitude-flower
To wither
If you want to see
The unimaginable Beauty
Of your Lord’s Eye.

18774

The madness of this world
Cannot be conquered
By the sadness or the power
Of the world,
But only by the oneness
Of the world-hearts.

18775

Aspiration is a deer
And not a lion.
What you need is the deer-speed
And not the lion-roar
To reach the Golden Shore.

18776

My self-giving heart-fragrance
God treasures
More than anything else.

18777

When my mind and I talk
About sincerity,
And when my heart and I talk
About purity,
We never want to end
Our illumining and fulfilling
Conversations.

18778

Light, more light, abundant light,
Infinite light
We need every day
To illumine our ignorance-sufferings.

18779

I see no difference
When the mind lives
Inside the suspicion-jungle
And when it lives
Inside the abysmal abyss.

18780

A silence-flooded mind I need
To receive the Compassion-Rain
Of my Lord Supreme.

18781

When it comes to deception,
My own mind deceives me
Infinitely more
Than anybody else does.

18782

The mind does not do anything
Without asking for a salary.
When the heart does something,
The heart simply expects a salary.
Even when the soul does everything,
The soul never, never thinks of a salary.

18783

Self-doubt
Is bound to increase
When we treasure
Our animal-anger.

18784

O mind-confused body,
Delay not in pleasing God,
For your earth-life is fleeting.

18785

I pray to God daily,
So that my life’s surrender
And my heart’s gratitude
Never go on strike.

18786

Alas,
It seems that the theoretical God
Is found everywhere,
But the practical God
Is so rarely to be found.

18787

Day in and day out
You must threaten insecurity.
Then it will be impossible
For insecurity
To blight your heart.

18788

When I pray,
I invoke God-Light.
When I meditate,
I distribute God-Delight.

18789

In the morning I see God
Inside His Beauty’s Dawn-Eye.
In the evening I see God
Inside His Compassion’s
Satisfaction-Heart.

18790

Each pure thought
Is indeed
Blessing-light
From Heaven.

18791

God’s Greatness
Puzzles the curiosity-mind.
God’s Goodness
Feeds the purity-heart.

18792

At the root
Of all our suffering
Is the lack
Of our inner God-obedience.

18793

To me there is nothing
In God’s entire creation
As valuable, as meaningful
And as fruitful
As my God-obedience.

18794

My God-obedience
In the inner world
And my God-obedience
In the outer world
Are equally important.

18795

Just because we know
That we are not perfect,
We follow a spiritual path
To try to become perfect.
Otherwise, there is no necessity
Of our following the spiritual life.

18796

A spiritual Master is indeed
A wise spiritual farmer.
He does not expect
Satisfaction-blossoms
From all his spiritual children.

18797

Some seekers start
With sincerity-purity,
While others gain it later on.
Without embodying sincerity-purity,
No seeker can reach
The ultimate Goal.

18798

There is a special kind of joy
In accomplishing something
Beautiful and good for God
That transcends the body’s tiredness
And the mind’s exhaustion.

18799

Do not confuse
The body’s genuine need for rest
With the body’s
Lethargy-pleasure.

18800

As long as you stay
In a room
Or even in a corner
Of God’s Compassion-Home,
There is no such thing
As failure.

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