Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 238

23701

A heart of devotion
Not only sweetens,
But also brightens
Our God-journey.

23702

When the mind
Ceaselessly boasts,
Death thinks
The proper time has come
To take the mind
In its clutches.

23703

My Lord,
I do not want to be famous,
But I would like to be precious
By serving You
In the heart of humanity.

23704

I do not know,
And perhaps I do not need to know,
The difference between
The perfection of the mind
And the satisfaction of the heart.

23705

God has many assistants,
But He heavily depends on
His peace-assistant.

23706

My Lord, I pray to You
To shake my disobedience-mind-tree
To its very roots.

23707

My prayerful heart
And my Lord’s merciful Heart
Have promised each other
To meet every day, without fail,
At least once.

23708

My Lord, do bless me
With sleepless dreams
Of ever-transcending
Beauty and fragrance.

23709

Every day
My Lord’s Compassion-Music-Eyes
Help me transform
My wild, unruly mind.

23710

I shall claim
Only two victories:
God’s Compassion-Flood
And my nature’s fire-pure transformation.

23711

When God invites
My soul and my heart,
He deliberately does not send
An invitation to my mind.

23712

My God-aspiration-dream
Was good.
My God-manifestation-reality
Is infinitely better.

23713

O my mind,
Everything gets old.
How is it that you
Do not get old and decay
So that my heart and I
May together peacefully live?

23714

My doubting mind
Every day
Tries to keep my aspiring heart
Knee-deep in confusion.

23715

God-reliance I need,
Not self-confidence,
Which is astonishingly fragile.

23716

My life’s God-surrender
And my heart’s God-gratitude
Are two most significant highlights
Of my spiritual journey.

23717

Unlike our mind-dictionary,
Our God-dictionary
Does not house two words:
Hopeless and useless.

23718

Each God-realised soul
Has three invaluable gifts
For humanity:
God-acceptance,
God-realisation
And
God-satisfaction
In God’s own Way.

23719

O my mind,
I want you to be
A full-time God-seeker.
O my heart,
I want you to be
A full-time God-lover.
O my life,
I want you to be
A full-time God-server.
And I myself
Want to be
A full-time God-dreamer.

23720

God accepts love-letters
Only from those
Who can swim
In their heart-river
With bravely powerful strokes.

23721

I wanted to pluck fragrant flowers
From my heart-garden.
Alas,
I am collecting only dry weeds
From my mind-jungle instead.

23722

In the morning
I pray to God the Light
To illumine my mind.
In the evening
I pray to God the Peace
To envelop my heart.

23723

Man’s unwillingness,
Man’s disobedience
And man’s ingratitude
Are prehistoric relics
From antiquity,
Yet we cherish them still.

23724

A moment
Embodies Eternity.
Eternity
Reveals itself through Infinity.

23725

God wants us to be
Practical and realistic
No matter which approach we take
To realise Him.

23726

The inner confidence
And the outer competence
Must go together
To make man perfect
In all spheres of life.

23727

God-awareness
Is my outer name.
God-fulness
Is my inner name.
One more name I need
In my inner world
And in my outer world:
God-satisfaction.

23728

The willingness of the mind,
The eagerness of the heart
And the selflessness of the life
Can make a seeker perfect.

23729

If you violate
Your God-manifestation-promise
To your soul,
Then you will be utterly ruined.

23730

If God forgets my phone number,
What can I say
And what can I do?
But if I lose God’s phone number,
I should and will remain
Inexcusable and inconsolable.

23731

O my Lord,
Do give me the capacity
To catch my gratitude-bird
At my heart’s door
When it wants to fly away.

23732

Alas,
Sometimes I do not know
The difference between
Cruelties and stupidities.

23733

To make the fastest progress,
We have to sweeten our heart
With prayerful tears.

23734

May my heart feed
On God’s Compassion-flooded inner Smile
At every moment.

23735

With a thunderbolt-determination,
I shall build my Heaven
Inside my heart’s despair-night.

23736

My Lord Supreme,
I need only
An unconditional surrender-triumph,
Not a series of earth-glories
Which are short-lived triumphs.

23737

My soulful smiles
Have an unmistakable source:
My gratitude-heart.

23738

I must not allow
My ancient fears and doubts
To haunt
My present God-hungry mind.

23739

Only when we are unconditional
In our aspiration-heart
And our dedication-life
Can we soar up
Into God’s ecstasy-flooded Sky.

23740

I do not want to become
A joy-billionaire.
I want only to have God
In every wisp of my thought.

23741

I saw the Face of God.
Alas,
My salvation remained a far cry.

I touched the Feet of God.
Lo, I have become
A salvation-smile-life.

23742

A fear-mountain
And a doubt-forest I was.
But now a confidence-sea
And a faith-fountain I am.

23743

If your aspiration is extremely strong,
Then ignorance is bound to fail
In its mission in your life.

23744

A real spiritual Master
Is he who has earned
The full support
Of the inner worlds.

23745

My Lord,
I do not want a mind
That desires to eclipse
The greatness and goodness
Of my fellow citizens of the world.

23746

When you do not care in the least
For the noise of popular acclaim,
You will be able to dance
With Heaven’s brightest and purest stars.

23747

Do not try to fool yourself
By thinking that you will be able
To please and fulfil God
At the final stroke of your life-clock.
If you want to please God in His own Way,
Then pray and meditate
Consciously, willingly and self-givingly
At every moment.

23748

Once more
My Lord Supreme will take birth
In my gratitude-heart-tears.

23749

Readiness, willingness
And eagerness
Have no occasion for remorse.

23750

Become a genuine seeker,
So you do not have to breathe
Shorter than the shortest
God-love-breaths.

23751

O my mind,
Sleep and sleep
If that is what you want.
O my heart,
Sleep is not meant for you.
You must always remain awake.

23752

Not one, but two saviours I have:
My tearful heart
And my cheerful smile.

23753

No, my mind,
You are, as usual, wrong.
It is your brother-heart
That God wants and needs
To assist Him.

23754

Breathless aspiration
Sweetens our Heavenward journey.
Selfless dedication
Brightens our Heavenward journey.

23755

Alas,
How can I please
My Lord Supreme
When I have
Such a self-infatuated mind?

23756

My heart says to God,
“My Lord,
In spite of all my weaknesses,
Do count on me
Whenever You need something.”

23757

The dissatisfaction-mind
And the satisfaction-heart
Always collide.
Alas, the satisfaction-heart suffers
Infinitely more.

23758

O my mind,
Remain not stupid any more.
Be wise,
And put an end to your doubt-life
As quickly as possible.

23759

Alas,
My life is still an unbloomed promise
And an unblossomed God-satisfaction.

23760

I am so happy that at last
My stronger than the strongest faith
Is able to place my mind’s doubt
On its deathbed.

23761

Every day I must desperately try
To address the task of perfection
With my earthly life.

23762

My heart’s promise
Is indeed good,
But my life’s fulfilment
Is infinitely better.

23763

If you are every inch
A God-lover,
Then God wants you to complete
Your inner education only,
And no other education.

23764

We are so fortunate
That it is God the Compassion
And not God the Justice
Who makes the rounds of inspection
Of our aspiration-heart.

23765

Every day in vain
My doubting mind tries
To keep my aspiring heart captive.

23766

Alas,
We live in a success-worshipping era
And not in a progress-loving era.

23767

O my body, vital, mind and heart,
I really want you to be
Not only related,
But also interdependent.

23768

Alas,
My self-indulgent self-congratulation
Has ruined my aspiration-beauty’s heart.

23769

If you have really done something
Worthwhile for God,
Then God will never allow you
To pass into oblivion.

23770

Nothing else
But a cheerful and sleepless obedience
Is the backbone of spirituality.

23771

I am so happy that my mind
Has at long last decided to participate
In my heart’s search for God,
And will not hide any longer
Behind a curtain of indifference.

23772

The mind’s helplessness
And the heart’s hopelessness
Have the unusual capacity
To spread like wildfire.

23773

Expectation is eventually forced
By the divine forces
To knock at the frustration-door.

23774

Alas, when I look within,
I see a mountain of dirt
In my mind,
And when I look without,
A temptation-tempest
Ruthlessly tortures my entire being.

23775

Only the multitude
Of God-hungry souls
Can and will save this world
From the destruction-blows
Of ignorance-night.

23776

My service to God
Paves the way.
My love of God
Makes the day.

23777

My Lord commands me
Not to be ashamed
Of myself,
But to face my weaknesses
And transform them.

23778

Trust not what you hear,
Trust not what you see,
But trust
What you feel.

23779

Today is the day
My mind has chosen to be
The child of sincerity,
My heart has chosen to be
The child of purity
And my life has chosen to be
The child of humility.

23780

O my mind,
Do not run away.
O my vital,
Do not hide.
You both can change
And will change.

23781

From kindness,
Goodness blooms.
From goodness,
Fulness blossoms.
In fulness, we transcend ourselves
And become the Satisfaction-Smile
Of God.

23782

Be pure,
My jungle-mind.
Be self-giving,
My garden-heart.
Be perfect,
My God-surrender-life.

23783

O my mind, be not stupid.
Do not run away
From your illumination-heart-home.

23784

Today I am caught in a flurry of fears
Because I neglected
My morning prayer-mind
And meditation-heart.

23785

My Lord is available
In all delicious flavours
Only when I most prayerfully
And most soulfully
Do Him little favours.

23786

We came into the world
To be dynamic for God-manifestation
And not to enjoy slumber-complacency.

23787

The mind is ready to pray to God
For God-satisfaction in God’s own Way
Only when life has lost
All its desire-charms.

23788

Is there anything forbidden
In our spiritual life?
Yes!
Our self-doubt-mind
And God-doubt-heart.

23789

My Lord,
Do bless me with a single boon:
Do allow me to decorate Your Feet
With my heart-tears.

23790

Like my soul,
I want my heart, mind, vital and body
To walk along
My Master’s compassion-light-road.

23791

You can love the world
Self-givingly
Only when your own life
Is fully God-activated.

23792

Alas, will the human mind
Ever be tired
Of playing with ignorance-desire-night?

23793

God never misses
His Forgiveness-Duty,
But we so often forget
Our aspiration-duty.

23794

When your love of God
Becomes unconditional,
Only then will God be interested
In all the details of your outer life.

23795

My Lord,
If You want to smash my pride,
Do smash it,
But do not allow me to forget
The beauty and fragrance
Of Your Compassion-Eye.

23796

O my physical pain,
I am all gratitude to you,
For you have intensified
My God-aspiration
And God-dedication.

23797

O my mind,
Are you not ashamed of aimlessly roaming
Inside your God-unwillingness-land?

23798

The mind that is a professional
World-fault-finder
Can never have even an iota
Of oneness-heart-life-satisfaction.

23799

The human in us
Knows only one thing:
How to acquire.

The divine in us
Also knows only one thing:
How to aspire.

23800

My Lord tells me
That all my sweet secrets
Are safe with Him,
All my mind’s uncomely thoughts
Are safe with Him,
All my life’s trembling insecurities
Are safe with Him.

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