Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 205

20401

Enlightenment
Comes from commitment.
Commitment
Comes from eagerness.
Eagerness
Comes from soulfulness.
Soulfulness
Comes from purity.
Purity
Comes from sincerity.
Sincerity
Comes from necessity,
My God-necessity.

20402

My God-satisfaction-promise
I have not kept,
But once more I promise
That I shall fulfil
My God-satisfaction-promise.
This time I can and I shall!

20403

Who is waiting for me?
God Himself.
Whom am I waiting for?
I am waiting for
The God-doubt-lover in me.
Alas, alas!

20404

When I am happy,
I say to myself,
“So much I have done!
Just a little more to do.”

When I am unhappy,
I say to myself,
“Just a little I have done.
So much more to do!”

20405

Impossibility
Is my mind-thorn.
Possibility
Is my heart-rose.
I have made my choice
Once and for all.
I want my heart-rose.

20406

I must not destroy
My God-fulfilment-dream
With my self-doubt.
Reality is at God’s Feet.
Dream is inside my heart.
Let me place my heart
At God’s Feet,
Him to fulfil in His own Way
In and through me.

20407

So many God-dreamers
And God-lovers
Have realised God.
Today is my turn —
Today, here and now.

20408

This morning
My Lord Beloved Supreme
Is telling me
That before I dare to claim
His immortal Love, immortal Joy
And immortal Pride
As my own, very own,
My own faith-heart-garden-blossoms
Must infinitely increase
Their beauty and fragrance
Inside His Compassion-flooded Heart.

20409

Yesterday nothing was possible.
Today everything is possible.
Why?
Why?
Because yesterday my mind talked
For the admiration of the world.
Today my heart acts
For the liberation of the world.

20410

My Absolute Lord Supreme,
No more my face-lift!
From today on I shall pray to You
Only for my heart-lift —
High, higher, highest,
Self-givingly and unconditionally.

20411

My Beloved Supreme,
Do tell me
How I can please You most
In the New Year.
“My child, you will be able
To please Me most
If you just give Me two things
Once and for all:
Your mind’s ceaseless deception-night
And your heart’s sleepless aspiration-light.”

20412

The longer your mind refuses
To bow to your heart,
The further away you are
From true happiness.

20413

Insecurity-barriers
Can be surmounted
Only by tearful prayers
To the Lord Supreme.

20414

At every moment
We shall have to be careful
In our aspiration-life.
If not, we shall be swept away
Ruthlessly
By ignorance-current.

20415

When there is a tug-of-war
Between my desire-mind
And my aspiration-heart,
God always takes the side
Of my heart.

20416

My Lord,
As You need no audience
When You speak to me,
How is it
That I always long for an audience
When I am with You
And around You?

20417

My fame-fed ego
Has forced me
To be the possessor
Of constant unhappiness.

20418

If your heart and mind
Are schooled in patience,
Then there is nothing
That you cannot accomplish
Either in the world of aspiration
Or in the life of dedication.

20419

There is and there can be
No specific “right moment”
For God-adoration
And God-satisfaction
In God’s own Way.

20420

The mind’s jealousy-jungle
Does not have a long life.
Sooner or later,
It has to wither away.

20421

As ignorance does not want
To let me go,
Even so, I do not want
To let God go from me.

20422

My aspiring heart shuns
Everything that is detrimental
To my spiritual development.

20423

Plunge deep,
Spread wide
And rise high!
Lo, your heart becomes one
With God’s Smile-Blossom.

20424

If you have unwavering aspiration,
Then God will appear before you
With His Rainbow-Happiness.

20425

Each time a doubt
Attacks my mind,
My soul-bird suffers
In my heart-cage.

20426

Disobedience-destruction,
Disobedience-danger,
Disobedience-disaster
Is lowering the consciousness
Of the loving, aspiring, self-giving
And peace-dreaming humanity.

20427

O my compassion-heart-eye,
My mind needs you
For its purification and perfection.

20428

God has blessed us
With not one,
But a thousand exits
If we want to escape
From our mind’s doubt-prison.

20429

The mind-cancer
Is doubt.
The heart-cancer
Is insecurity.
The life-cancer
Is fear.

20430

Companionship
I try to enjoy.
But solitude
I do cherish.

20431

Since you have not made
A life-long commitment to God,
How do you expect God
To bless you with enlightenment?

20432

At every moment a desiring man
Is assaulted
By the forces of chaos.

20433

A genuine seeker
Orbits only around
His Lord Beloved Supreme.

20434

Take all activities
Not as obligations,
But as opportunities
To arrive at the destined shore.

20435

Alas, when we descend considerably
In our spiritual life,
How difficult it becomes for us
To mend God’s broken Heart!

20436

A hostile force can easily,
Ruthlessly and effectively
Pounce on our life
Without any warning.

20437

My mind wants
God’s Arms.
My heart wants
God’s Feet.
I cry for
God’s Heart.

20438

I am safe only when
My surrender-heart
Is functioning well.

20439

Since God has done you
A great favour
By forgiving you,
Can you not do God the favour
Of expressing your gratitude to Him?

20440

If you want to make
A world-evolution-contribution,
Do not question the world.
Just love the heart of the world
And serve the life of the world.

20441

When your mind continues
To question God,
Embarrassment becomes your soul’s name.

20442

O my innocent heart,
I simply do not know
Why and how
You can always be deceived
By the shamelessly clever mind.

20443

O world,
Do call me by my true name:
God’s Compassion-Success-Life.

20444

When I stand
Side by side with God,
God teaches me how to smile
Sweetness-fragrance-smile.

20445

We must prayerfully accomplish
Everything
That we are supposed to accomplish
As soon as possible,
For we are endowed
Only with brief and flickering
Life-flames.

20446

The mind does not come
When it is called.
It comes only
When it is chosen.

20447

If you do not water
Your heart’s faith-plant
Every day,
Your mind’s doubt-dragon
Will before long devour you.

20448

A sleeplessly God-loving heart
Can make no mistake
Along the God-Realisation-Road.

20449

Self-giving
Is always a two-way street.
It reaches God’s Home
And comes back
To adorn its own home.

20450

God’s Compassion-Eye-Road
Is the oldest road
That the seekers walk along.

20451

God sadly accepts
My daily late attendance
At His Heart-School.

20452

The pleasure-mountain-peak
Will definitely crumble
Beneath you
Sooner or later.

20453

Not by begging,
But by threatening
Your ego
Can you conquer
The pride of ego.

20454

God expects a seeker
To do his aspiration-heart-homework
First,
Before he becomes anxious
To approach God.

20455

Lethargy is always unhappy
When it sees
Readiness and eagerness
All around.

20456

One life for each to give —
Therefore,
Each can smilingly choose
To give his own life to God.

20457

In vain
My aspiration-heart tries
To offer God-advice
To my restless vital
And my soulless mind.

20458

Disobedience
Has had many warnings.
Therefore,
It does not deserve
One more last warning.

20459

The very nature
Of powerful meditation
Is to expand
The aspiring heart’s
Silence-fragrance-room.

20460

What I need is
Sleepless receptivity
To throw open
All my heart-doors.

20461

Impurity-thoughts
Immediately weaken the mind.
Purity-thoughts
Immediately sweeten the heart.

20462

My surrender-life
God declares
As His own stupendous success.

20463

The invitation of eagerness
God always
Delightedly accepts.

20464

There really are no short-cuts
To reach
God’s Perfection-Satisfaction-Shore.

20465

O seeker,
You must never violate
The rules
Of your aspiration-heart-temple.

20466

Those who yield to threats,
Although they eventually surrender,
Will never become the friends
Of their tormentor.

20467

If you can happily surrender
Your earth-existence to God,
Then no hope of yours
Will ever be able to desert you.

20468

In your spiritual life,
If your heart-flames are not mounting,
Then there may come a time
When you will be buried
By your own doubt-avalanche.

20469

Hard is it
For any human being
To go beyond
His desire-reach
To arrive
At his destination.

20470

Now that your heart
Is free of ignorance-night,
Your heart-love-blossoms
Will have no thorns.

20471

Educate at and graduate from
The soul-university
To be a perfect human being.

20472

God surprised me
By coming into my life
Quite unexpectedly.
I am surprising God
By staying inside His Heart-Garden
Permanently.

20473

Only our surrender-joy
Has the capacity
To climb up to
God’s Transcendental Height.

20474

Dream of the future’s sweetness
By casting aside
The bitterness of the past.

20475

Every day, at every moment,
God treasures
Our heart’s gratitude-fountain
And our life’s surrender-fountain.

20476

Indeed, today’s life
Is a painful experience.
But this painful experience
We can transform into
Our Godful realisation.

20477

By expecting nothing
From this world
We can definitely gain
God-fulfilment-experiences.

20478

In our aspiration-life,
Simplicity is beautiful,
Sincerity is powerful,
Purity is fruitful.

20479

The day God showered detachment
Upon my life,
I became the possessor
Of joy infinite.

20480

Today’s hope-dreamer
Will definitely be
Tomorrow’s reality-possessor.

20481

My Lord,
When will You come to see me?
“I shall come to see you,
My child,
Only when you take
My tearful Eyes seriously.”

20482

Wait for God’s choice Hour.
Do not pressure Him.
Nothing good
Can ever come into existence,
Nothing good
Can ever be achieved
By pressure.

20483

I want to discover myself
In the depths
Of my tearful heart
And in the heights
Of my delightful soul.

20484

Now that God Himself
Is giving me surrender-lessons
Once more,
I am truly happy.

20485

God keeps calling my mind
Incessantly.
Alas, my mind does not believe
In answering.

20486

When the heart-lotus blossoms,
The mind becomes
A God-dreamer
And the life becomes
A God-lover.

20487

God, will You leave me
If I speak ill of you?
“No, My child, I will not.”
When will You leave me then?
“I shall leave you
Only when you underestimate yourself.”

20488

The philosophy of the mind
Is good.
The poetry of the heart
Is better.
The song of the soul
Is by far the best.

20489

God does not want to know me
By my mind’s thought-jugglery.
He wants to know me
By my heart’s fountain-deeds.

20490

To think of
God’s infinite Breath
Is to live in
God’s immortal Life.

20491

Ignorance-foundation
Has to be broken
If we want to awaken
The dormant perfection in us.

20492

An unhappiness-free life
Sees the beauty of Light
Even inside
The ugliness of darkness.

20493

If you invoke God
With your heart’s gratitude-tears,
Then God will expand and expand
Your dream-flooded-horizons.

20494

In the morning
I directly receive
Inspiration from God’s Smile,
Aspiration from God’s Heart
And dedication from God’s Life,
And from nobody else.

20495

Alas, when will my unhappy mind
Ever know
What my heart’s happiness embodies?

20496

I believe in You, O my soul.
But, unfortunately,
I am unwilling
To walk with you,
Listen to you
And follow you.

20497

My mind’s mind-philosophy
Confuses God.
My heart’s heart-song
Amuses God.
My soul’s soul-silence
Fulfils God.

20498

Before long,
God’s Infinity-Peace
Will prevail in my life
Because my mind has become
A vast silence-sea.

20499

God’s Justice
Does not silence man’s ignorance,
But illumines man’s ignorance.

20500

My Absolute Lord Supreme,
May my mind today and every day
Think of You only.
May my heart today and every day
Love You only.
May my life today and every day
Serve You only.
May I today and every day
Place my success-joy and my progress-peace
At Your Compassion-Feet.

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