Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 189

18801

To me
God’s loving Arms
Are more powerful
Than His omnipotent Eyes.

18802

Who brought death
Into the world?
Nobody else but humanity’s
Ignorance-fondness-hunger.

18803

If you disappoint
God’s Will,
God’s Will
Will disappoint you
At quite an unexpected hour.

18804

My Lord,
If You do not want to please me
By fulfilling my desires,
Do not.
But please do not show me
Your cruel Indifference-Eye.

18805

Although my desiring mind and I
Are not interested
In God’s activities,
God is always
Eagerly looking forward
To having news from us.

18806

The mind wants
To be pleased by God.
The heart wants
To please God.
Therefore, they follow
Different ways.

18807

Far beyond the controversies
Of the aggressive vital
And suspicious mind
Are the all-loving Eyes
Of our Lord Supreme.

18808

O higher worlds,
Do not undermine
My capacities!
O lower worlds,
Do not assail
My world-transformation-attempts!

18809

Remain not hard-headed.
Remain soft-hearted.
Lo, God will bless you
With satisfactions
Unexpected and overwhelming.

18810

Do not be sad
At your failures.
Each time you fail,
God is preparing you
For a higher goal.

18811

Our absolutely dangerous
Destruction-enemies
Are within,
Inside our thought-jungles
And thought-clouds,
And nowhere else.

18812

Earth’s illumination
By the soul
Will always remain
A never ending
God-ordained task.

18813

When there is a race
Between
My determination-mind
And my aspiration-heart,
My aspiration-heart always wins
Most easily and most gloriously.

18814

A God-seeker starts
With world-peace-possibility
And will only end
With world-oneness-reality.

18815

The beauty of my heart’s aspiration
And the fragrance of God-Satisfaction
Are inseparable.

18816

God has no time to read
My mind-pamphlets,
But he has all the time to read
My soul-bound heart-volumes.

18817

I do not know
What my greatness depends on.
But I do know
That my goodness depends entirely on
God’s Compassion-Fragrance-Smile.

18818

The future will inherit from us
Either the frustration and doom
Of our mind
Or the aspiration and bloom
Of our heart.

18819

O my mind,
Do not betray my heart.
If you betray my heart,
My heart may forgive you,
But God will not,
For He loves my heart infinitely more
Than you can ever imagine.

18820

Do not be afraid of
Your mind’s teeming
And thickening clouds.
The very purpose of your soul
Is to illumine them
With the help of
Your sleepless willingness.

18821

No matter how compassionately
And self-givingly
My heart speaks to my mind,
My proud mind
Never pays any attention,
Never!

18822

When the mind gains cleverness,
The heart is forced
To lose its soulfulness.

18823

My mind fears God
Because He is too powerful.
My heart fears man
Because he is too hurtful.
I fear myself
Because I am too unmindful.

18824

Alas, I am lost
In between
My mind-forest
And
My heart-desert!

18825

If you want to know
What practical God-life is,
Then learn the art
Of constant self-offering.

18826

May my life-boat
Be flooded
With silver moonlight.
May my heart-boat
Be flooded
With sun-bright day.

18827

You will never find God
Anywhere
If you are afraid of burying
Your insecurity-life.

18828

How can your heart be happy
When your life is reluctant
To serve God the creation?

18829

Often,
The body, the vital, the mind
And on rare occasions the heart
Go on strike against God.
But the soul,
Never, never!

18830

Each self-giving thought
Is indeed
A Heaven-blessed messenger
On earth.

18831

True, there was a time
When I was fond of
Only the temptation-thrill.
But now, no more!
I am now fond of
Only the illumination-fountain.

18832

Not the mind’s
Flickering aspiration
But the heart’s
Abiding aspiration
Is needed to achieve and maintain
God’s lasting Peace.

18833

Again and again
My heart reminds my mind
Of the truth:
No human being should be suspected;
All human beings must be liberated.

18834

God never invites
Self-pity-loving people
To come and see
His Heart-Garden.

18835

My mind’s silence-fragrance
And God’s Satisfaction-Smile
Are extremely fond
Of each other.

18836

O my mind!
I do not know
How I can ever cure you
Of your self-pity-enjoyment-life.

18837

O God’s beautiful Eye,
You I love!
O God’s powerful Hands,
You I love!
O God’s merciful Heart,
You not only do I love
But also I need!

18838

Unlike the outer wars,
The inner wars must be resolved
If one wants to make
Abiding progress
In the inner life.

18839

God does not mind
If your arrival is late.
But He does mind
If your arrival
Is riddled with curiosity.

18840

God, do teach me every day
Only one game:
The record-breaking obedience-game,
Which is played with
Two prayerful eyes
And a soulful heart.

18841

Each good thought
Is an open door
To the luminosity-world.

18842

Alas,
Each and every human being
Likes to live on hopes,
No matter how transient they are.

18843

I please God
Not with my mind’s greatness,
Not even with my heart’s goodness,
But with my life’s unconditional oneness.

18844

The insanity of the world
Is an old story,
Yet
We love to read it
Again and again.

18845

The heart’s excruciating pangs
For the world’s transformation
Have one friend:
Self-giving love.

18846

God-manifestation
Is my only dream.
I shall never allow
My dream to be shattered.

18847

When you have
The experience of your soul,
You will no longer care for
The world’s trivial
And insignificant achievements.

18848

The day you lose
Your sense of gratitude,
You actually become
A complete failure-seeker
In the world of aspiration.

18849

A humility-heart
Is God’s Self-expansion
In His immortal Perfection.

18850

Mistakes committed
Can easily be rectified
If you prayerfully and soulfully cry
For your inner illumination
To come to the fore.

18851

The help of the Inner Pilot
May not be seen
In the outer world,
But the inner world knows
That the Inner Pilot
Is nothing other than
His unconditional self-giving.

18852

Impossibility surrenders
To our mind’s
Self-controlled determination
And our heart’s
God-governed aspiration.

18853

My heart wants to be
A permanent candidate
For God’s
Compassion-Light-manifestation
On earth.

18854

How long can God wait?
Not long,
Without fulfilling
Your life-perfection-dream.

18855

Man knows what to say:
“I am miserable.”
God wants man to know:
“I am in all your miseries.”

18856

Each man is as yet
An unrecognised potentiality
And an unfulfilled dream
Of God.

18857

This world of ours
Will collapse one day
If it continues to remain
The possessor of power
Without the oneness-purity
Of the heart.

18858

Purity is the beauty
Of the life’s fountain.
Divinity is the majesty
Of the heart’s mountain.

18859

If the eagerness of the heart
Is not put into action,
Then eagerness may be lost
In the mind’s wilderness.

18860

O my heart,
How long do you want to remain
As a completely lost
Vision of truth?

18861

The science of the mind
May be hurtful.
The prayer of the heart
Is always fruitful.

18862

The sole purpose of life
Is not merely
To see God’s Eye
And sit at God’s Feet,
But to become God’s Heart.

18863

The promise
Of the inner life
Is the giver.
The hope
Of the outer life
Is the taker.

18864

The mind
Worships science
Because it is powerful.
The heart
Worships nature
Because it is God-full.

18865

If you want to win
The divine race,
You can blame only
Your own stupidity-indulgence-life
For standing far behind
The inner starting line.

18866

Let the whole world
Go ahead of me.
I will not give up,
For I am competing
Only with myself,
And transcending
My own progress-life.

18867

To do someone
An unconditional favour
Is to make one’s soul
Triumphantly and absolutely happy.

18868

Regularity and punctuality
Are of paramount importance
If fast progress in your inner life
Is what you really want.

18869

Your soul knows
What the Supreme in your Master
Is doing for you.
Your mind does not know,
And does not even want to know.

18870

No seeker can arrive
At the final destination
Without fulfilling the supreme task:
God-satisfaction in God’s own Way.

18871

Obedience is everything,
Both in the inner world
And in the outer world.
Our God-obedience
Is our life-perfection
And God’s true Heart-Satisfaction.

18872

While invoking peace
In your meditation,
Do not enter into
Absurdity-pleasure-sleep.

18873

The purer we are
In our mind,
The higher we will be able to fly
In our heart-sky.

18874

An impure mind
And an insecure heart
Are quite often found together
Since they so perfectly
Complement each other.

18875

Spirituality is not
An outer tug-of-war.
It is an inner dive
To enter into the all-pervading Source.

18876

Eagerness is always good.
But when we are over-eager,
Over-zealous,
We unconsciously invite
The undivine forces.
And what do they do?
They show and even use,
If they can,
Their tremendous, tremendous
Destruction-power.

18877

Gratitude is indeed always necessary.
But something else is more necessary.
What is it?
Unconditional and cheerful surrender,
Which embodies the life, heart and breath
Of gratitude.

18878

There is a special joy in waiting
For God’s Arrival.
There is no end to its blessings.
Therefore, my Lord,
I shall not grudge
If my waiting for You
Has no end.

18879

When nothing else works,
Try your soul’s silence-power.
It will definitely help you
And save you from your inner crisis.

18880

Each man is a problem
Unto himself.
He may solve other problems
But he as a problem
Remains always unsolved
Until a higher Light descends.

18881

God’s Compassion wanted me to be
A member of
The family of achievers.
Now God’s Satisfaction wants me to be
A member of
The family of givers.

18882

I am happy
When I pray to the secret God.
I am happier
When I pray to the sacred God.
I am happiest
When I pray to the compassionate God.

18883

As the corruption of the mind
Thrives,
Even so, the aspiration of the heart
Can easily thrive.

18884

Only if you have
A God-surrender-flooded life
Can you easily coast
To your victory.

18885

Give what you once gave:
Love.
Become what you once were:
God’s satisfaction-child.

18886

The mind’s anxiety-clouds
Can be removed
Only by the heart’s
Life-illumining sun.

18887

Nothing else
Commands the world
As powerfully
As man’s frustration.

18888

Eagerness and enthusiasm
Can and do arrive at and claim
The farthest Golden Shore.

18889

The clouds of the mind
See everything and everyone
As a stranger.
The sun of the heart
Knows no stranger,
For the heart-sun is the source
Of the universal oneness-family.

18890

Our heart’s genuine sincerity
Helps us escape from
Our mind’s uncomeliness.

18891

The unaspiring mind
At any moment
Is fully capable of
Destruction-malice.

18892

It is not the world-possessing question
But the self-giving answer
That can and will fulfil us.

18893

What I need is a fresh wave
Of life-acceptance
To make me happy and fulfilled.

18894

Our mind misleads
Our hope
While it is on its way
To the heart.

18895

This world of ours is suffering
Not only
From aspiration-shortage
But also from dedication-paralysis.

18896

To make even a little headway
Against ignorance
Is indeed a supreme reward
From God.

18897

A truth-seeker
Appreciates, admires, adores and loves
His heart’s
Aspiration-illumination-rainbow.

18898

My mind does not care
For gratitude-foundation.
My life does not care
For surrender-foundation.
Alas, alas!

18899

The mind’s constant superiority
Will eventually collapse
Without fail.

18900

If we adopt the new attitude
“God for God’s sake”,
Then this world of ours
Will be a garden of paradise.

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