Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 230

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22901

To make constant progress,
We must dream a dream
Of the ever-transcending Beyond.

22902

God sympathises
With all my weaknesses
Except
My unwillingness.

22903

Alas, I do not know when
My heart’s aspiration-train
Will finally enter
My mind-station.

22904

My Lord, do bless me
With promise-flames
To help me arrive
At Your Satisfaction-Sun.

22905

Since my aspiration
Every day
Is becoming stronger and stronger,
I am sure that soon
Ignorance will give me up
For lost.

22906

Never cling to the ancient past
If you want to enter into
The beauty and divinity
Of the beckoning future.

22907

One can never
Jump the hurdles of life
Without aspiration from within
And Grace from Above.

22908

The aspiration of the heart
Can definitely change
Possibility’s sigh
Into reality’s life.

22909

O my heart,
You have every reason to be happy.
You are chosen
By the Absolute Supreme Himself.

22910

My Lord,
Do tell me the truth.
Have I completely exhausted
Your Forgiveness-Power?
“My child,
Rest assured, you can never do that.”

22911

Do not become isolated
From the world
If you ever care
To see God happy.

22912

God’s Compassion
Is not only older
Than God’s Justice,
But also more powerful.

22913

Gratitude is the youngest
And the strongest
Of all our divine qualities.

22914

You want to know
Who is the keeper
Of your heart’s dreams.
The keeper and the giver
Are one and the same:
Your soul.

22915

My Lord Supreme,
I have only one prayer:
May my heart’s gratitude-blossoms
Never wither.

22916

When I tell the truth,
I become my heart’s beauty
And my life’s prosperity.

22917

My prayer
Is the whisper of my soul.
My meditation
Is the beckoning of my soul.

22918

Every morning
My soul, either happily or sorrowfully,
Brings God the very latest details
Of my previous day.

22919

It seems to me that
God-satisfaction is quite near.
Yet it somehow remains unattainable.

22920

God asks Himself
How it is that man
Does not care for
His own transformation.
God’s question remains
Unanswered.

22921

If you are not ready
To shoulder earth-responsibilities,
How can God bless you
With His Heaven-Prosperities?

22922

If I have
Blazing aspiration-intensity,
I shall definitely arrive sooner
At my sunlit God-realisation-summit.

22923

My Lord says to me,
“My child,
I have most significant plans for you.”
I say to my Lord,
“My Father,
I have most important pleas for You.”

22924

Peace does not fill
The impure mind.
It fills only
The pure heart.

22925

Never miss
Your morning prayer and meditation
If you want to adorn
Your aspiration-temple-heart.

22926

Although God has Infinity’s Patience,
When He calls, drop everything
If you want to make Him happy
And thus make yourself really happy.

22927

O God-seeker,
Be not blind!
Just see how close God is
To your climbing aspiration-heart.

22928

If your heart can speak
In words of oneness,
Then your life will be
Flooded with fulness.

22929

The song God does not like at all
From my mind is:
I shall aspire tomorrow.
The song God likes most
From my heart is:
I am aspiring now,
And I shall always aspire.

22930

At sunrise
I meditate
On God’s Cosmic Sound.
At sunset
I meditate
On God’s Universal Silence.

22931

Even my mind is astonished
At its own
Stupidity-cyclones.

22932

If I have anything
To be proud of in my life,
Then it is the purity
Of my heart-temple.

22933

God’s Forgiveness
Does not depend on
My mind’s clever stories,
But on
My heart’s pure songs.

22934

Of all the planes that fly
In the inner world,
Surrender-plane flies the highest.

22935

In vain
God’s Compassion-Light
Has toured
My unwillingness-mind-world.

22936

God never drags me.
God never pushes me.
It is my soul that drags my mind
Towards God.
It is my soul that pushes my heart
Towards God.

22937

My mind’s determination
Means
My life’s transformation.
My life’s transformation
Means
My Lord’s complete Satisfaction.

22938

A spiritual Master
Is at once
The safest and the longest
Ladder
To climb towards Heaven.

22939

I am filled with fear
When I have to touch
God’s Eyes.
I am inundated with delight
When I am able to feel
God’s Heart.

22940

Love of God
Is my real name.
Desire-fulfilment-cry
Is my false name.

22941

God performs
His unconditional Duty:
He implores and implores.
I perform
My determined duty:
I ignore and ignore.

22942

O my Lord Supreme,
If You really love me,
Then take away my mind’s
False freedom,
And place me at Your Feet
To enjoy real freedom.

22943

My heart’s purity
Has finally silenced
My mind’s desire-storm.

22944

My Lord,
You want me to be happy,
But do You not see
That jealousy’s eye
Is still looking
Through me?

22945

If you do not bury
Your mind’s doubt-intruder
Once and for all,
You will be perpetuating
Your life’s mightiest mistake.

22946

My smiling eyes
Have only one source:
My crying heart.

22947

A self-giving heart
Every day
Can easily run
A God-satisfaction-marathon.

22948

Each world-loving thought
Of mine
Comes from my heart’s
Willingness-breath.

22949

My peace of mind
Is the shortest distance
Away from
My Lord’s Satisfaction-Smile.

22950

If we really take
Our spiritual life
With utmost seriousness,
Then we must realise
That each God-satisfaction-task
Is only a one-time opportunity.

22951

A soulful smile
Is a valid passport
To enter into
God’s Heart-Kingdom.

22952

My Lord,
Do give me the courage to believe
That Your Answers are always wiser,
Infinitely wiser,
Than my prayer-grasp.

22953

My Lord’s Compassion-Smile
Is always my mirror
When I see myself.

22954

God-Vision’s
Dearest, oldest and loveliest
Eternal child
Is peace.

22955

A seeker-heart never sleeps.
Neither does
A confusion-mind.

22956

My soul
Creates my inner beauty,
And my heart
Perpetuates it.

22957

The secret name
Of my gratitude-heart
Is my Lord’s constant Grace.

22958

Alas, how can I
Make rapid progress
In my spiritual life
When I so often allow my mind
To be rocked by doubt-waves?

22959

What hides inside my silence
Is God’s Smile.
What hides inside God’s Smile
Is my future perfection.

22960

God taught my soul
How to cross
The infinite sea of time and space.
My soul is teaching
My aspiration-heart
Exactly the same thing.

22961

Alas, sometimes
My stupidity-mind
Shockingly amazes
My soul and my heart.

22962

Fight, fight
For the Inner Pilot Supreme!
Lo, light is everywhere,
Both before you and around you.

22963

Human friends I have always had
And I will always have.
What I need is an absolutely new friend:
God, my Lord Beloved Supreme.

22964

My soul is always ready
To answer
My mind’s never-decreasing questions.

22965

Every day my soul
Most compassionately teaches my mind
The language of my heart.

22966

A sincerity-mind,
A purity-heart
And a self-giving life
Can definitely minimise
Our life-problems.

22967

God tells us
Inwardly and outwardly
That we all must live up to
Our divinity’s birthright.

22968

When I open my mouth,
I drown in noise-ocean.
When I close my mouth,
I swim in silence-sea.

22969

The tears of my eyes
The world sees.
The tears of my heart
Only the Compassion-Eye
Of my Lord Supreme sees.

22970

Man does not know
What a significant part
He is unconsciously playing
In God’s Cosmic Drama.

22971

What the world needs
More than anything else
Is not self-confidence,
But unconditional God-dependence.

22972

The compassion-eye
Of a spiritual Master
Is an ever-light-flooded stairway
To Heaven’s summit-heights.

22973

The prayer of my mind
Is God’s regular telephone line.
The meditation of my heart
Is God’s private phone number.

22974

God gives a full-time job
Only to those
Who have realised Him.

22975

If you always live in the mind,
Sooner or later
Even your heart’s devotion-flower
Is bound to wither.

22976

I bury my doubt-intruder
To enjoy the beauty
Of my Lord’s Satisfaction-Eye.

22977

My Lord,
Take away the restlessness
Of my freedom-craving mind
And make me all Yours.

22978

The determination of the mind
Is, indeed,
The transformation of life.

22979

You are now
In your heart’s devotion-lane.
Do not slow down!
God is eagerly awaiting your arrival.

22980

The fulfilment of peace
Is not an invention
But a discovery,
Along the way to
Self-discovery.

22981

When the mind has doubt,
That means the mind
Has been attacked
By the lower world.

22982

A self-giving heart
Constantly climbs upward
Into the satisfaction-light
Of inner freedom.

22983

My earthly desires
And my Lord’s Smiles
Are never to be found
Together.

22984

“I shall love God.”
“I shall please God
In God’s own Way.”
These are, indeed, my heart’s
Mountain-high promises.

22985

After crying for a long time
Breathlessly for God,
When I try to go to God,
God most proudly welcomes me.

22986

If God looked at me now,
Alas, how I wish He would see
That I am no longer
A desire-victim.

22987

My soul
Remembers my heart
From centuries ago.
My heart
Is trying desperately
To remember my soul
Exactly the same way.

22988

Lightning
Is faster than the fastest,
But my Lord’s Forgiveness-Heart
Is, indeed, infinitely faster.

22989

The mind’s
Hesitation-procrastination-key
Can never unlock the Truth-door.
But the heart’s
Aspiration-determination-key
Can easily unlock it.

22990

Since your mind is immersed
All the time
In worldliness,
How can you expect
God’s Satisfaction-Smile?

22991

Our soul’s
God-obedience-happiness
Can never be measured
By our mind —
No, not even
By our heart.

22992

God is always ready
To inscribe His Name
In your heart-book,
But your heart-book
Is nowhere to be found.

22993

God cries and cries
When we approach Him
With our doubt-caught mind
And our fear-tortured heart.

22994

A life of God-surrender
Has a sunflower-heart
That turns and gazes always
At the all-illumining God-Sun.

22995

God offered me His All,
But the human in me
Immediately declined.

22996

God tells us every day
Not to be satisfied
With our outer life.
But, alas, we fail to obey Him.

22997

My Lord Supreme moves around
Incognito
To see if I am purifying
My ignorance-night.

22998

Each time a self-giving thought
Enters into my mind,
I see a universe revolving
Happily and proudly
Inside my heart.

22999

God loves to sit
On the wings of my golden smiles
And fly all over the world.

23000

Not for nothing
Does my Lord Supreme suffer.
There is always a special reason.
My aspiration-heart
Must try to discover it.

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