Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 218

21701

God’s Nectar-Voice I hear
Only when I make His Feet
My only choice.

21702

If you want happiness,
Then immediately hand over
Your doubtful mind
To the Lord Supreme.

21703

Your life is out of focus
Precisely because you have kept God
Infinitely, infinitely farther away
Than you can ever imagine.

21704

Unless you become
A God-lover-heart,
How can you be
A God-fighter-life?

21705

Your meditation is sublime
When you feel
That meditation is nothing short of
Your best vacation.

21706

God cannot hide from you
If your life
Is your purity-heart.

21707

When I touch my Lord’s Feet
With my tearful heart,
He reduces my one hundred
Heart-breaking misfortunes
To one misfortune.

21708

If you are living
In your doubting mind,
Then do not allow yourself
To assert your authenticity.

21709

Try to plant
Your gratitude-heart-seeds
Here, there, everywhere.

21710

It is not a sign of wisdom-light
When you open your heart
Indiscriminately to all.

21711

Alas, God’s Compassion-Light
Does not surprise us
As much as His Justice-Might.

21712

My Lord,
I do not want greatness from You
For my mind.
I want only goodness from You
For my heart.

21713

Commanding and intimidating
Are not God’s usual ways
Of dealing with aspirants.

21714

God has no time
To listen to my mind-stories,
But He has eternal time
To listen to my heart-songs.

21715

Whenever
God hears or reads something
About a self-giving seeker,
He gets a tremendous sense of satisfaction.

21716

One of mankind’s
Great misfortunes
Is that man consciously carries
His unaspiring past.

21717

Not the freedom of the mind
But the peace of the heart
Will have the last word
In establishing the Kingdom of God
On earth.

21718

When our gratitude-heart-plant
Slowly and steadily grows,
We feel that
We are unmistakably reaching
Our God-destination.

21719

A soulful and powerful meditation
Is the only way
To clear the mind’s
World-misunderstanding-clouds.

21720

We make the fastest progress
In our spiritual life
Only when our mind is endowed
With imperishable purity.

21721

A suspicious mind
Is its own
Most dangerous catastrophe.

21722

Even an iota of self-doubt
Can extinguish our heart’s
Heaven-climbing aspiration-flames.

21723

My Lord Supreme,
I am praying to You
Not only for
A long obedience-life
But also for
An everlasting obedience-heart-breath.

21724

Those who try to justify
Their likes and dislikes
Will neither please others
Nor be pleased by others.

21725

God’s unconditional Compassion
Helps us merit
God’s all-illumining Attention.

21726

Every day
We must strengthen our heart of faith.
If not, our mind will suffer
From untold doubt-calamities.

21727

Confidently I tell God
That He is wrong.
God not only compassionately
But also forgivingly tells me
That I am wrong.

21728

Is there any day
When my life’s misdeeds
Do not compel God’s Heart
To bleed?

21729

When we climb up
The truth-mountain,
We see that this world
Is made of
God’s infinite Compassion-Light.

21730

My spirituality will sink
If my mind does not
Start thinking of God
And my heart does not
Start loving God.

21731

Only a self-giving heart
Can have uninterrupted zeal
For pleasing the Absolute Lord Supreme.

21732

My mind-knowledge
Is always
Wisdom-poverty-stricken.

21733

For me
The most difficult question to answer
Is this:
Will I ever be able to love God
In God’s own Way?

21734

A God-disobedience-mind
And a heart-agony-experience
Are inseparable.

21735

I do not want to succeed
In anything
Without my Lord’s blessingful Consent
And powerful Co-operation.

21736

A fruitful meditation
Is nothing other than
Diving into the sea of silence.

21737

The best way
To lose doubt-weight
Is to sing, play and dance
Inside your own
Fragrance-heart-garden.

21738

If you want to be happy,
Then breathe in
Compassion and endurance,
And breathe out
Frustration and anger.

21739

Do not ask the same old question
Again and again:
What can God do for you?
Ask a totally new question:
What can you do for God?

21740

O my seeker-friend,
If you want to ascend
The stairway of ecstasy,
Then discard immediately
Your mind’s long-cherished
Frustration-chains.

21741

My loving surrender
To God’s Will
Is, indeed, my life’s
Future dawn-harbinger.

21742

Alas,
Slow, slower and slowest
Will always be
Humanity’s upward climb.

21743

Alas,
Man’s mind is surrounded
By useless thoughts,
And man’s heart is surrounded
By godless feelings.

21744

My Lord,
I have come to realise
That my lifestyle will change
Only if You mete out
Your Thunder-Justice.

21745

He who sincerely aspires
Will never be imprisoned
By earthly possession-fantasies.

21746

We are so fortunate
That God the Compassion
Never loses patience
With our slowest progress-pace.

21747

What I need
Is a dynamic vital
That will always strive
For God-manifestation.
What I need
Is a sympathetic heart
That will always endure sufferings
For the cause of God-manifestation.

21748

Today I am peaceful
Because I know that tomorrow
My dividing and doubting mind
Will definitely die.

21749

Today I am peaceful
Because I know that tomorrow
My aspiring heart
Will fly and fly.

21750

Today I am peaceful
Because yesterday I made others
Unconditionally happy.

21751

Peace has come to me
Not because I have vehemently
Rejected the world
But because I have soulfully
Accepted the world.

21752

All human beings are roses
Inside my heart-garden.
Their sweetness-fragrance
Is my oneness-satisfaction-peace.

21753

I gave the world
My forgiveness-light.
The world gave me
Its peace-delight in return.

21754

It is stupid to think
That my enemies are always thinking of me.
They have more important things to do
Than to think of me all the time.
Such being the case,
Why should I lose my own peace
By thinking of them?

21755

O world,
You have given me
What you have:
Frustration.
But I shall give you
What I am:
Oneness-peace-hunger.

21756

Real peace does not come
From the piercing mind,
The wrestling vital
Or the sleeping body,
But from the crying heart
And the smiling soul.

21757

Peace loves me
And has become
Part and parcel of my life
Because I do not have the word
“Comparison”
In my heart-dictionary.

21758

I devotedly offer
My life’s progress-song to God.
God blessingfully gives me
His Heart’s Peace-Sky.

21759

God has made me happy
By telling me
What I should do.
I have made God happy
By showing Him
That whatever I do,
I do peacefully
And in no other way.

21760

God is proud of me
Because even in my dreams
I serve Him not only powerfully
But also peacefully.

21761

My happy heart tells me
That what I have
Is the entire universe.
My peaceful mind tells me
Who I am:
Another God.

21762

Keep your God-appointments.
Peace-accomplishments
Will be yours.

21763

Life is too short.
Therefore, I have decided
To be better and not to remain bitter.
And I have also decided
To see inside my heart
A wisdom-sun and a sea of peace.

21764

We need a truth-volcano
To destroy
Our impurity-mind-land.

21765

Because you do not believe
That the soul has come into the world
To speak on God’s behalf,
You will never succeed
In your spiritual life.

21766

What are the credentials
Of a genuine seeker?
The credentials of a sincere seeker
Are a purity-heart
And a sacrifice-life.

21767

May my Lord’s Compassion-Eye
Eternally be
My only heart-home.

21768

He who cannot be satisfied
With the philosophy
Of “live and let live”
Will always find his life intolerable.

21769

My Lord,
I desperately need
Some assurance from You
That in this lifetime
I will be able to become
Your unconditionally surrendered child.

21770

You can lighten
God’s burden
Only by enlightening
Your own mind.

21771

Can you not see
That your aspiration-heart-sun
Is completely eclipsed
By your suspicion-mind-night?

21772

Silence
Your disobedience-mind!
God’s Happiness
Will be all yours.

21773

O suspicion-mind,
Is there anything
Or can there be anything
As ugly as you are?

21774

O oneness-heart-smile,
Is there anything
Or can there be anything
As beautiful as you are?

21775

O my mind’s disobedience,
You have stolen
My heart’s God-obedience-joy.

21776

O human mind,
You are so deplorably weak
That at any moment
Anything can tempt you
To your own peril.

21777

When a sweet, kind
And self-giving thought
Grows within you,
You are definitely making very fast progress
In your inner life.

21778

O my ignorance-mind,
Your reign will not forever last.
My wisdom-heart will find its time
And its way;
And then my wisdom-heart
Will guide, shape and mould my life.

21779

O my Lord Supreme,
I pray to You
Never to give me the capacity
To fulfil my desire-life.

21780

Alas, we are living
In two worlds.
The outer world
Is all bitterness.
The inner world
Is all blindness.

21781

A self-giving seeker
Is a perfect
God-fulfilling promise
On earth.

21782

Every day I place
My sweet dream-flower-heart
At my Lord’s Feet,
And thus I fulfil Him
In His own Way.

21783

O my disobedience-mind,
Can you not see?
Your final departure-hour
Has struck.

21784

O my obedience-heart,
Listen, listen!
The hour has finally struck
For your arrival.

21785

On earth
There is only one miracle:
A oneness-love-peace-heart.

21786

My dream-awakened life
Happily sees
That God’s Eye
Is made of
God’s Heart.

21787

A temptation-thought
Has abundant capacity
To extinguish my heart’s
Aspiration-cry-flames.

21788

Love the world,
But do not let the world know
What your plans are
For world-transformation.
If the world knows
What you are going to do,
It will in countless ways
Take away your inspiration-joy.
Without fail, you will not succeed.

21789

How painful it is to see
That each time a God-representative
Comes into the world
To raise the consciousness
Of humanity,
He is not only misunderstood
But also reviled
By those whom he came to liberate
From the meshes of ignorance.

21790

The desire-life
Cannot live
Without untold
Imaginary necessities.

21791

The first battle is over:
I definitely love God.
The last battle will be over one day:
I shall manifest God
To please Him in His own Way.

21792

O seeker,
Look forward, go ahead!
When do you have time
To allow yourself to be shackled
By yesterday’s sad and destructive failures?

21793

Alas, we do not know how heavy
Ignorance-weight is,
And that it is killing our inspiration-joy
And God-oneness.

21794

The absence of my self-offering
Is compelling my aspiration-heart
To starve indefinitely.

21795

The mind longs for
God’s Greatness.
The heart longs for
God’s Goodness.
The soul longs for
God’s constant Satisfaction-Fulness.

21796

Train your mind to be satisfied
With humble positions.
Train your life to be satisfied
With simple possessions.
You will be happy
Far beyond your imagination.

21797

When the mind visits the soul,
It comes with nothing but commotion.
When the soul visits the mind,
It comes with a lighthouse of compassion.

21798

If you cannot stay in the vicinity
Of your soul’s divinity,
Try to stay at least inside
Your aspiration-heart-purity.

21799

My sincerity-mind
And my determination-eyes
Can mark the end
Of all my earthly miseries.

21800

Do you want to know
Who loves you most?
No, not God the Compassion,
No, not God the Forgiveness
But God the sleepless and breathless Love.

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