Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 219
21801
If you are bornIn the sea of hope,
You can fly
In the sky of promise.
21802
How sweet is the breathOf the flower.
How illumining is the sacrifice
Of the fragrance.
21803
When we liveIn the doubting mind,
Our vision cannot go beyond
Vast stretches of nothingness.
21804
Alas, I do not knowHow I can be of any service
To my suffering heart
And sacrificing soul.
21805
I really do not wantTo sleep any more
In my dark and impure
Mind-cave.
21806
I equally enjoyBoth the thundering
Of my mind-seas
And the lightning
Of my heart-sky.
21807
Just increaseYour heart’s faith in God.
You will be able to say farewell
To your mind’s deception.
21808
To please God,Our God-willingness-smile
Has to be both effortless
And breathless.
21809
God tells meThat my flower-pure surrender
Has pleased Him
Far beyond what I can ever imagine.
21810
My Lord,The blessingful touch
Of Your Smile
Has given my heart
A new hope
And my life
A new promise.
21811
You can buryAnything you want to
To give you joy,
But do not bury
Your hope-treasures,
For in your hope-treasures
You become tomorrow’s God.
21812
Alas,Perfection has no entry visa
To this world of chaos.
21813
O my soul, stop hiding!It is high time
For you to come to the fore
To illumine once and for all
The world around you.
21814
My Lord SupremeDoes not want me to have
An intermission
In my God-aspiration, God-dedication
And God-manifestation-play.
21815
God is always available,But alas,
Will you ever have time
To visit Him?
21816
God’s Himalayan Compassion-HeightsWill one day, without fail,
Illumine
My darkness-flooded mind.
21817
My mind,God has been so eagerly waiting
To hear from you.
Where have you been all along?
21818
Human loveIs a meaningless story
From the beginning to the end.
Divine love
Is a sweet poem
With a divine beginning
And an ever-transcending end.
21819
One of the finestAnd rarest qualities
Of a human being
Is his spontaneous faith
In his own higher self.
21820
God does not want youTo tell Him all about
Your darkness of the past.
He wants you to sing
Tomorrow’s light-songs
In today’s aspiring hearts.
21821
I am progressingFast, faster, fastest,
Only because I pray and sing
Inside the God-obedience-temple.
21822
No honest God-serviceWill ever cause a deplorable loss
In the life of a seeker.
21823
Each Forgiveness-Act of God’sSends a thrill of joy and pride
Through all God-lovers.
21824
Our soul has the capacityTo prove itself flawless
In all its activities,
But it is under no obligation
To do so.
21825
When our surrender is complete,We will be able to breathe
In and out
God’s Golden Breath.
21826
Try to keep away fromThe atmosphere of expectation.
Every moment of yours
Will be meaningful and fruitful.
21827
When we have peace of mindWe diminish the power
Of destruction-danger.
21828
The religion of the mindLoves complexity
More than anything else.
21829
O seeker, be careful.As your present life
Is failing God,
Your future life
Can also do the same.
Therefore, right from here and now,
Try to be careful!
21830
O God-obedience-heart of man,Do spread your satisfaction-wings
All-where.
21831
The mind’s nightmare of nonsenseCan come to an end
Only when God the Beloved becomes
Our sleepless and breathless Coach.
21832
Never trust lethargy.It always tells us:
Just a few more moments.
Alas, those few more moments
Have an everlasting life.
21833
My mind-bookNobody wants to read.
I do not blame them,
For I know how worthless
And useless
My mind-book is.
21834
It is instantly and universally believedThat God the Peace
Is infinitely more important
Than God the Power.
21835
For the evolution of mankindIf God does not contradict Himself
At times,
Then who can and who will?
21836
My faith in GodReceives nourishment directly,
Not from anybody else,
But from God Himself.
21837
O my vital,I do not like competition.
O my mind,
I do not like comparison.
O my heart,
I love your way —
The way of oneness-joy.
21838
If you doubtYour own love of God,
Then you will remain
Spiritually homeless
All the time.
21839
My disobedience does not haveA heart.
My disobedience does not have
Even a mind.
My disobedience has only
A ruthless and useless
Vital.
21840
May every second of my aspirationHold a place of special importance
In my own God-loving inner life.
21841
What I need isA gigantic courage
To avoid all stumbles
In my aspiration-life.
21842
When the soul-bird flies off,Its happiness adorns
The beauty of Heaven.
21843
My hope is fedBy my faith in God.
My faith is fed
By God’s Compassion.
21844
If you have genuine aspiration,Rest assured,
It will never be tired
Of climbing
To high, higher, highest heights.
21845
O my ignorance-life,You have been living with me
For such a long time.
Now do let me live alone
To enjoy the happiness
Of freedom from you.
21846
Right from the beginningOf my God-studies
I clearly felt
That I would be able
To fulfil and please God
In His own Way.
21847
He who fails to fathomThe significance of God-obedience
Will never be truly happy.
21848
O my mind,I do not want you to be
My advocate.
I do not want you to be
The defender
Of my million excuses
Why I do not and cannot
Please God in His own Way.
21849
Alas, will I ever be ableTo liberate myself
From the old familiar faces
Of fear and doubt?
21850
O constantly complaining mind,You will never have the capacity
To knock
At God’s Illumination-Door!
21851
Each time my meditation is deep,God blesses me
With a full harvest
Of God-manifestation-opportunities.
21852
My soul’s minimum requirementFrom me
Is a prayerful heart,
And its maximum requirement
Is a twenty-four-hour heart-cry
For God.
21853
What I really love about God is this:He not only loves me
But also claims me,
Even with my ever-increasing blunders.
21854
The moment I lose faith in GodI ruthlessly hurl myself
To my own destruction.
21855
ExperienceIs my aspiring life’s
Very just, yet kind
Banker.
21856
If you do not havePeace of mind,
Then the agonies of your heart
You cannot avoid.
21857
My God-loving day beginsWith my soul’s brightest smile
And my heart’s deepest cry.
21858
Never stop loving your life,But love your life
The way God wants you to love it.
God Himself loves your life
In order to teach,
And not to examine.
21859
When I use my aspiring heart,I better my life.
When I use my doubting mind,
I fetter my life.
21860
O my doubtful experience-life,I do not want
To waste my time any more
With you,
For my soul’s God-realisation
Is beckoning me.
21861
When I see myselfThrough my own eyes,
I see and feel
That my life is not an inch better
Than the life of a beast.
When I see myself
Through God’s Eye,
I see and feel
That I am on the fair road
To Godhood.
21862
When I belong to my heart’s cry,I see God right in front of me.
When I belong to God’s Smile,
I feel my inseparable oneness
With my Lord Beloved Supreme.
21863
God tells meNot to be disappointed
When I see I must lower myself
In order to rise high, higher, highest.
21864
The farthest reachOf my inner faith
Is not my God-realisation
Or God-revelation,
But my God-manifestation.
21865
O ignorance-night,Are you not ashamed
Of harassing me and my life
Constantly?
21866
Do not squander time,For time is the breath
Of your prayer-mind
And aspiration-heart.
21867
God is always readyWith His Praise for you.
When will you be ready
With your divine receptivity?
21868
Love, devotion, surrender:These three words
Are absolutely foreign
To a doubting mind
And strangling vital.
21869
When we are constantIn our humility,
God’s Divinity
On its own
Comes down and befriends us.
21870
My very desireTo make progress
Is the first step
Of my progress.
21871
Since somebody has to haveThe last word,
I have decided my soul
Should perform that task
In my life.
21872
Let us restoreOur ancient aspiration-land
Inside our own hearts.
21873
I have been to God many timesEmpty-handed,
But this time I have decided
That I shall give Him
What I truly consider my own:
My little “I”.
21874
God is under no obligationTo accept me as His consultant
For everything that He does.
21875
EagernessGives us the wings
To fly
In the sky of freedom.
21876
If I do not truly treasureThe few moments I spend with God,
Why should God bless me
With hours to spend with Him?
21877
God was dumbfoundedWhen He saw my heart
Of endless ingratitude.
21878
What does detachment mean?Detachment means
An indomitable protection-shield.
21879
If a surrender-seedGrows only in one season,
And does not grow all the time,
Then it is not
A real surrender-seed at all.
21880
A God-lover is heWho wants to come out of
His pride-prison-life.
21881
My gratitude-heartIs precisely the place
Where angels dwell.
21882
My mind’s supermarket thinksThat it is as good as,
If not better than,
My heart-temple.
21883
O seeker,Once upon a time
You definitely had
A life of surrender
And a heart of gratitude.
Dive deep within.
You will discover
Your own lost treasure.
21884
Like my heart,I want my mind
To be always optimistic.
21885
I do not know whetherMy mind’s sun is rising or setting,
But I do know that
My heart’s aspiration-life
Will never cease to exist.
21886
God gives us opportunitiesA great many times
To disappoint our attachments
Long before our attachments
Dare to disappoint us.
21887
Only a lifeOf God-surrender
Has an ecstasy-melody-heart.
21888
God answers my prayersOnly when He sees
That I shall not misuse
His Answer.
21889
God’s CompassionDoes not hide from me.
It is my expectation
That is taking me away
From God’s Compassion-Eye.
21890
In the inner worldThere is a secret name
For expectation,
And that secret name is
Demand.
21891
The vital possessionsHave the capacity to destroy
The physical possessions.
The mental possessions
Have the capacity to destroy
The vital possessions.
The psychic possessions
Have the capacity to destroy
The mental possessions,
But the psychic possessions
Illumine the mental possessions
Instead.
21892
My mind cravesFor the freedom of voice,
Binding and blinding.
My heart longs
For the freedom of choice,
Self-giving and all-illumining.
21893
My heart consciously likesTo be a purity-distributor
Every day.
My mind unconsciously
If not consciously likes
To become an impurity-collector.
21894
A God-oneness-heartCan never be deceived.
It can only be amused.
21895
Every morning God invites meTo visit His Compassion-Home.
But I cherish
My own frustration-home;
Therefore I do not accept
His Invitation.
21896
God’s WayWill remain misunderstood by humanity
Unless and until
Humanity perfects its life-breath
In God-surrender.
21897
God’s Sound-MessengerHas not satisfied me.
God’s Silence-Messenger
Has not satisfied me.
Only God’s Forgiveness-Messenger
Can and will satisfy me.
21898
God receives me only whenMy mind’s simplicity and sincerity
And my heart’s humility and purity
Accompany me to His Palace.
21899
Do not invoke eitherThe tears or the smiles
Of tomorrow.
Just try to transcend
Tomorrow’s tears and smiles
To live in the Satisfaction-Heart-Nest
Of your Lord Supreme.
21900
I ask GodHow I can make Him happy.
God tells me
There is only one way
To make Him happy,
And that is through
The happiness of my entire being.