Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 217

21601

The caged bird
Is crying for freedom.
The uncaged bird
Is striving for peace.

21602

Every day
I want my hope-life to go
At least one step farther
To help me reach
My ultimate destination.

21603

I am fated to stumble,
But I shall not allow myself
To be doomed to sink.

21604

You can go on denying and denying
The existence of your soul,
But there shall come a time
When you will realise
That in your life
There is only one reality:
The soul.

21605

Disobedience
Is neither thrilling
Nor fulfilling.
It is nothing other than
A wrong way of life.

21606

Each time I cherish
A doubt,
I see the escalation
Of world-hostility.

21607

When I am in
My doubtful mind,
Nothing motivates me;
Everything dominates me.

21608

How do I remove
My ego’s mask?
Just by offering
My obedience-heart
Constantly to my Lord Supreme.

21609

When I do not live
In my anxiety-world,
What do I do?
I carry my life
From foolishness to soulfulness.

21610

Each time I cherish
A good thought,
I throw a powerful light
On everything that I see.

21611

Impurity and insecurity
Can and will
Cause any aspiring heart
To fail.

21612

Alas, a mind of darkness
And a life of ignorance
Are still very much with us.

21613

Keep on praying and meditating.
Your mind’s God-doubting thoughts
Will gradually fade away
Into nothingness.

21614

O Heaven,
Be not cruel to me.
Do not tell me
All my faults
To my face.

21615

Alas, I simply have no idea
How sweet will be the fruits
Of my patience and perseverance.

21616

Two things
I have to choose carefully:
A mind of discrimination
And a life of dedication.

21617

When I quote my Lord
With joy, love and pride,
My Lord sings
His Victory-Song for me.

21618

My heart’s obedience
Will rise again,
Illumining my teeming
Darkness-mind.

21619

Each unconditionally surrendered soul
Lives
On God’s deathless Breath.

21620

God has sung many songs
In my life.
Alas, I do not know when
He will sing His Song
Of complete Satisfaction.

21621

God is saddened to discover
That every day
I am happily and proudly feeding
My God-questioning mind.

21622

God is gladdened to discover
That every day
My heart is increasing its disgust
For God-disobedience.

21623

Each self-giving thought
Lives in the home of
The God-fulfilling immortals.

21624

My hope is young.
My faith is strong.
Therefore, I shall be able
To cover the longest distance
In my spiritual life.

21625

Man’s life may be less than
One hundred fleeting years,
But he can achieve
Unending good things
For God-fulfilment
On earth.

21626

When my soul-bird flies off
For good,
I hope it flies
With tremendous happiness
And fulness.

21627

My heart needs
Only the aspiration
That will never be tired
Of rising high, higher, highest.

21628

O my Lord,
Do give me a heart
That will never be tired
Of singing
Your Eternity’s Victory-Songs.

21629

O my Lord,
Do give me a life
That will never be tired
Of expressing
Its prayerful and soulful gratitude
To You.

21630

Each time I pray
I clearly feel
The supreme necessity
Of enhancing my God-need.

21631

However far I may stray
From God’s Light,
I am sure God’s Compassion
And Forgiveness
Will definitely bring me back
To His Feet.

21632

Why is my mind so ugly?
My mind is so ugly
Because it likes to bind and blind
Everything that it sees around it.

21633

To my extreme joy
My obedience-heart
Has won all the medals
From God.

21634

O my doubting mind,
Be careful!
I tell you,
Destruction is right in front of you!

21635

The Smile
Of God’s Compassion-Eye
Escapes
My mind’s very limited grasp.

21636

There is no shame
In confusion.
Confusion does have the capacity
To expedite
The arrival of illumination.

21637

O world,
I do not blame you
For not reading
My mind-book.
But I do blame you
For not listening to
My heart-song.

21638

A seeker’s eyes
Become astonishingly bright
With the triumph
Of his God-Satisfaction.

21639

God tells me
That my ignorance-pleasure-life
Has gone far enough —
Farther than He ever imagined!

21640

I am so happy
That my sleepless need
For God-Forgiveness
Has finally pleased God.

21641

At the end of my spiritual journey
I am sure
No life-riddle
Will remain unsolved.

21642

My mind wonders
If any seeker has noticed
That it is not meditating
Sincerely and soulfully.

21643

My Lord of Compassion
Listens intently
To hear my heart’s
Feeble cries.

21644

To bring down a higher truth
To earth,
God does not hesitate
Even to contradict Himself.

21645

Alas, how is it
That I do not see
That my desire-bound life
Has made God miserably unhappy?

21646

When I am sincere,
I do not blame God
For being utterly displeased
With me.

21647

Alas, I can clearly see
That my Lord’s Patience
Is running short.

21648

God’s Compassion and Forgiveness
Are cheerfully paying
My life’s
God-Destination-plane fare.

21649

What do I see?
I see that my mind
Is completely lost
In uselessness.
What else do I see?
I see that my heart
Is blossoming at every moment
In usefulness.

21650

Not only do we not value it,
But we simply do not
Want to value it
When we achieve the thing we want
Easily.

21651

The little things,
More often than the big things,
Are helping us considerably
Towards our perfection.

21652

The mind is so clever!
It tries to convince me
That my weakness
Is nothing other than
My hidden strength.

21653

We make the fastest progress
When we make our mind cry
For God’s Compassion-flooded Heart.

21654

When a seeker succeeds
In his spiritual life,
God magnifies and multiplies
His God-fulfilling achievements.

21655

I am so happy
That my mind believes
What my heart imagines.

21656

I have come to realise
That My Lord has given me
A heart
That remains always pure,
To expedite
My God-manifestation-journey.

21657

Alas, I do not know
Why and how
My mind has taken control
Of nearly everything
In my life.

21658

Alas, I do not know
Who will help me to kindle
My mind-candle.

21659

When the doubting mind speaks
Of God’s Compassion,
It is nothing short of
A nightmare of nonsense.

21660

I shall please my Lord Supreme
With my heart’s solid certainty,
And not with my mind’s
Weak confidence.

21661

Let us not stop.
Let us continue and continue.
If we have an iota of peace,
Then we have to get more peace,
Abundant peace, boundless peace.
This is our way
Of transcending and becoming,
Becoming and transcending.

21662

There shall come a time
When each individual
Will pray and meditate soulfully
And unconditionally
To become God’s choice instrument,
For that is the Will
Of the Absolute Supreme.

21663

God will not be satisfied
With individual success or progress.
He wants His entire creation
To be absolutely perfect.
It is just a matter of time.

21664

God is all Compassion.
Justice itself
Is a form of Compassion,
To perfect our human nature
And expedite our spiritual journey.

21665

We will never limit ourselves
If we can feel
That there is Somebody deep within us
To inspire us, to guide us,
To mould us, to shape us
And to take us
On an endless journey
To an ever-transcending Reality.

21666

We think of ourselves
As ignorance incarnate,
But God thinks of us
As another God
In the process of blossoming,
And thus illumining and fulfilling
His cosmic Vision.

21667

When each human being becomes
A choice instrument of God,
Then the world-oneness-home
Cannot and will not remain
A far cry.

21668

Without the heart’s aspiration-cry
No seeker can run the fastest
Along the path of spirituality.

21669

I do not want to know
What they do in Heaven.
I do not even want to know
What others do on earth.
I just want to do the things
That will keep my Lord Supreme smiling.

21670

Our present world-experiences
Are disheartening and heartbreaking,
But I do believe that our hope
Of world-transformation
Will eventually be fulfilled.

21671

If there is a hell on earth,
Then I am absolutely sure
That that hell
Is our suspicion-mind.

21672

There was a time
When I happily allowed lethargy
To bind me.
But now I am so happy
That self-discipline is guiding
And illumining my life,
And lethargy I have buried in Heaven.

21673

How long can injustice-night
Torture the God-loving seekers?
The God-loving seekers
Will definitely be victorious
Before long.

21674

We are starving
Our future hopes
By constantly thinking of
Our past failures.

21675

A heart of God-gratitude
And a life of God-surrender
Will always represent mankind
At its best.

21676

Self-offering
Is the hardest of all virtues.
To practise this virtue
We desperately need
God’s unconditional Compassion-Eye.

21677

If I fail to discard my old thoughts,
How can I ever welcome and absorb
My new and illumining thoughts?

21678

The more sincerity we have
In our prayer-life,
The sooner we will be able
Not only to oppose
But also to conquer
The ignorance-forces
Before us and around us.

21679

Each undivine thought
Is an immediate danger
To my heart’s peace
And my life’s safety.

21680

My heart’s hope
And my soul’s promise
Are pushed aside, alas,
By my mind’s
Constant God-disobedience.

21681

No hope-candle-flame
Can ever die
If we cherish our hope-flower-heart
Every day.

21682

God’s Home on earth is as beautiful
As His Home in Heaven.
Therefore, we must not feed our stupidity
By crying for God’s Home in Heaven.
His Home on earth definitely can give us
What we need: satisfaction.

21683

A heart of purity
And a mind of sincerity
Lovingly appreciate each other
To fulfil God on earth.

21684

When the mind chooses to live
In the Infinite,
The heart feels
Infinity’s Delight.

21685

When the mind confesses
Its failures,
That is the very beginning
Of the mind’s lofty progress.

21686

Do not try to discover
Others’ deficiencies
If you really want to expedite and increase
Your own efficiencies.

21687

As critics are ready-made,
Even so,
God-lovers are God-made.

21688

I know I shall never fail
Because God’s Hope-Monument
Is still shining inside my heart.

21689

Alas, nothing else
Is as uncertain and unpredictable
As my peace of mind.

21690

O God-lover,
If you are genuine,
There can be no justifiable way
For you to find fault with God.

21691

If we cherish the dry intellect
Of our mind,
We shall never be able
To give joy or to receive joy
From the world.

21692

If you have the courage
To die for God’s Cause gallantly,
Then how is it
That you do not have the courage
To live for God on earth
Unconditionally?

21693

It is the weakness of the mind
That neglects God,
Not the strength of the mind.
The strength of the mind
Always invites God
To fulfil Him in His own Way.

21694

In the outer world, the mind says
That it wants perfection.
But in the inner world, the mind craves
Only satisfaction.

21695

Each wrong deed
Will definitely be accompanied
By fear.

21696

Man is worse than an animal
When he greedily eats
At jealousy-table.

21697

To please God in His own Way
Is to enjoy oneself
Most lovingly and most effectively.

21698

A sleeplessly self-giving heart
Has already travelled
Halfway to Heaven.

21699

If I do not surrender
My mind’s greatness
To my heart’s goodness,
How can I ever have
God’s Fulness in my life?

21700

A day will come
When this world of ours
Will be liberated from misunderstandings,
Limitations and weaknesses.
It will be a happy, illumining
And fulfilling oneness-family.

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