Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 224

22301

By nature,
The Inner Pilot of our life-boat
Is unconditional.

22302

A self-giving life
Feels no need
For self-expression.

22303

God’s Compassion
And my gratitude
Eventually turn into
My perfect Perfection.

22304

My Lord,
Why do I not love this world?
Why does this world not love me?
Why am I compelled to swim
In the sea of torture?

22305

We may bow
To death’s injunction,
But death always bows
To God’s Silence-Eye.

22306

The inner fragrance of life
Can manifest itself
Only when surrender is complete.

22307

My Lord does not ask me
How great I am.
He does not ask me
Even how good I am.
He just asks me
How I truly am.

22308

Once you make up your mind,
Keep your heart always pure,
Sweet, fragrant and self-giving.

22309

Each man has to win
In the struggle between
God-ordained truth
And self-imposed falsehood.

22310

If you always play the defensive game
With your Inner Pilot,
Do you think you will ever
Be able to arrive
At the destination?

22311

To expand your heart,
And not to disband your heart,
You came into this world.

22312

Excruciating pangs have taught me
That God must be
My only inner Tutor
And outer Teacher.

22313

An impure mind will tell you
That there is no place
For you to turn.
A pure heart will tell you
That everywhere you turn
You can see the Face of God.

22314

If we do not love God
In God’s own Way,
Then each of us is
An unparalleled authority
On stupidity-futility-life.

22315

I can have no fulfilling relationship
With the Supreme
Unless I am sleeplessly
All for Him.

22316

I do not call it a heart
If it is not
An all-loving and all-serving
Fulfilment-promise to God.

22317

My heart’s purest
And sweetest secret is:
I need God, only God,
Only God’s Compassion-Eye
And only God’s Forgiveness-Feet.

22318

When I live peacefully
In my heart-cottage,
I see no stranger —
No, not even one.

22319

Divinity’s love blossoms
Only in an expected place:
A gratitude-heart.

22320

When I suspect the world,
I actually hurt the trust
Of this blameless world.

22321

God’s Heart is waiting.
God’s Heart is calling.
Are you blind?
Are you deaf?

22322

You can fly
At faster than the fastest speed
If you can learn the art
Of silencing your mind.

22323

Today I am planting
A God-loving thought.
Tomorrow I shall have
A God-fulfilling harvest.

22324

May my God-searching mind,
My God-loving heart
And my God-serving life
Radiate to ever-transcending horizons.

22325

I have caught God’s Feet
With my tears.
God has caught my heart
With His Cheers.

22326

My Lord,
I wish to please You.
Just tell me how,
Oh, only how!

22327

Only a divine thought
Can come down
From a supernal height
Without being obstructed and marred
By mundane absurdities.

22328

God does everything unnoticed.
Why?
Because His actual appearance
Might frighten us to death.

22329

The breath of unconditional surrender
Is proudly treasured
By both God the Love
And God the Power.

22330

Do not rationalise
But utilise
Lovingly and devotedly
Your Master’s outer activities.

22331

The comprehension of the mind
Is extremely limited.
Therefore,
God’s Affection for mankind
Remains unnoticed.

22332

You can climb the stairs of effulgence
If you constantly draw yourself
Towards God’s Heart.

22333

Around you is all darkness
Because
You do not liberate yourself
From the city of falsehood.

22334

My heart cries and cries
When it hears
A prayerful and soulful song
From a truth-seeker
And God-lover.

22335

Your life can be perfect
If you self-givingly listen
To the whispers
Of your Inner Pilot.

22336

Not for one day,
Not for two days,
Not for three days,
But every day
I have to place
A new surrender-garland
At the Feet of my Lord Supreme.

22337

In my spiritual life
When I do not fulfil God
In God’s own Way,
I see my own funeral
In my mind.

22338

He who does not aspire
Will have an unsatisfactory
And disheartening
Inner weather report.

22339

Do not be afraid of life;
Do not be afraid of death.
You can challenge them equally
And powerfully.

22340

A God-surrendering life
Never needs
Any explanation.

22341

The soul teaches the body
Never to accept
Any limitation.

22342

May I have a dream,
My Lord,
That I can always spread
With my heart’s
Sweet fragrance-love?

22343

Meditate daily, soulfully
And self-givingly.
No dream of yours
Will ever remain unfulfilled.

22344

If the eyes of life
Are purity-flooded,
The face of death
Is peace-flooded.

22345

Happiness in life I need.
But alas, without patience,
My happiness remains always
A far cry.

22346

Never give up, never give up!
Even if you lose your way
A great many times,
You must realise that your destination
Is sleeplessly expecting your arrival.

22347

A crisis-ridden life
I was.
A confidence-tower
I am.

22348

Every day
God expects to hear from us
At least one
Peace-heart-song.

22349

God has only one
Blessingful Command for me:
He tells me to look directly
At His Heart of Compassion.

22350

God is all ready to rewrite
The story of your life.
Just come and remain seated
At His Compassion-Feet.

22351

It is true
That you have chosen
The Hour of God.
But it is infinitely more true
That the Hour of God
Has chosen you.

22352

Not an impossible task,
Not even a difficult task,
To learn the heart’s oneness-song.

22353

Life is not
An unfulfilling hope.
Life is
An all-fulfilling promise.

22354

You need God for many things,
But God needs you for only one thing:
To spread His Dream
Here, there and everywhere.

22355

God asks you
Not just to face
But to embrace
Your Divinity’s Shore.

22356

You must realise that
Reality-worlds can be unshackled,
Just like dream-worlds.

22357

We run
From dawn to dusk
Timidly.
But God wants us to race
From dawn to dusk
Confidently, bravely and self-givingly.

22358

The suspicion of the modern mind
Has become
Almost an incurable disease.

22359

If you do not aspire,
You can have
Only a dying spark of hope
To realise God.

22360

Each time we delay
In our self-offering,
We just increase the length
Of our suffering.

22361

The rising sun of inner joy
Can easily sweep away
The dusty, ugly doubt-thoughts.

22362

Your mind’s unhappy reality
Can be transformed into
Your heart’s happy dream.
Just pray to God with ceaseless tears.

22363

No doubter
Can ever be cheerful.
No doubter
Can ever be powerful.
No doubter
Can ever be fruitful.

22364

Do not allow your mind
At any time
To invade your silence-heart.

22365

The darkest nights
Are behind us.
The brightest days
Are ahead of us.

22366

No miracle can be
As illumining and fulfilling
As the miracle
Of unconditional love.

22367

When I pray,
I marvel at
My own hidden divinity.

22368

Light will blossom
In the darkness of the mind’s jungle
If we just pray
And grow into a patience-tree.

22369

Each time I treasure
A divine thought,
I unveil a supreme Truth.

22370

O stupid mind!
Love your heart
Instead of trying
To rule your heart.

22371

When I live inside
The beauty of my heart,
I feel that there is nobody on earth
Who is unworthy of my love.

22372

War is only
An unanswerable question
And never
An illumining answer.

22373

The unaspiring mind
Quite often invites
And even orchestrates
A self-imposed disaster-life.

22374

If you are a true God-lover,
Then you will be sleeplessly eager
To reveal God’s Heart-Blossoms
On earth.

22375

My world
Was an ancient hope.
My world
Is a modern promise.
My world
Will be an eternal God-fulfilment.

22376

Fear and doubt
Are our powerful enemies.
We must not ignore them.
We must avoid them
Or conquer them.

22377

Obedience
Is highway-speed
To perfection-destination.

22378

Eradicate every trace
Of hatred and malice
From your God-blossoming heart.

22379

Every morning
Extinguish prayerfully and confidently
Even the very first flame
Of your desire-mind.

22380

Each man is drunk
With self-admiration,
And not
With life-transformation.

22381

When we do not pray
And do not meditate,
Fruitless hopes
Become our daily companions.

22382

Alas,
The fear of the mind
Is extremely powerful.
It so often incapacitates
The pure heart.

22383

Forget the thorny past.
Look at the fragrant future.
This future is all yours,
Only yours.

22384

If you really do not want
The emptiness of your life,
Then try to remain always
In the fulness of your heart.

22385

The age-old questions:
Does God really love me?
Does God really need me?
Oh, where is the answer?
Who can give the answer,
If not the real in me,
My own God-love?

22386

There can be no crisis
In the life of our faith
If we cheerfully surrender
To God’s Will
What we have and what we are.

22387

First insist that your mind
Be inside your inner boat.
Then assist your mind
To remain inside your heart-boat.

22388

God is eager
To clap His proud Hands
If you dare to smile at Him
Lovingly and self-givingly.

22389

To fly above
The clouds of the mind,
We need a heart
Of silence-flooded peace.

22390

God does not punish
My disobedience.
He just embraces
My obedience.

22391

Although God does not seem
To mind at all,
I do mind
When I hurt God consciously
Or even unconsciously.

22392

Where do I live?
Alas!
I live in my mind’s
Desolate and barren hopes.

22393

I want God to sing for me
From the highest Heaven.
But God wants to sing for me
From my lowest hell.

22394

Even when God
Is in a terrible hurry,
He does not forget
My heart’s love for Him.

22395

Alas,
I am not struggling
To run the fastest.
I am struggling
Just to wake up
And stand at the starting line.

22396

My heart tells me to be brave,
And it will definitely take me
Beyond, far beyond
The darkness of my mind’s
Thickest darkness-night.

22397

Today I want to gather
Peace and bliss-flowers.
But tomorrow I must scatter them
All-where.

22398

The seeker’s life
Can be young or old,
But the path is always
Long, illumining and fulfilling.

22399

What I need in the morning
Is a smiling joy.
What I need in the evening
Is a forgiving peace.

22400

God begs me
Day in and day out
To give Him
A self-offering smile.
He begs for nothing more.

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