Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 241

24001

The best way
To stay on any spiritual path
Is to claim the path as one’s own, very own
Unreservedly.

24002

The human in me thinks
That if I cry,
Then only will God smile.
But the divine in me knows
That if I offer God my heart-smiles,
Then only will God smile most proudly.

24003

My aspiring heart
Is the bridge between
Humanity’s tears
And Divinity’s Smiles.

24004

O God-seeker,
Be not afraid to take
A giant step forward.
God Himself is dreaming
His loftiest Dreams
In and through you.

24005

God’s Compassion-Eye
My aspiration-heart follows.
God’s Forgiveness-Feet
My clever mind follows.

24006

My mind is always the loser
Every time,
No matter how cleverly
It betrays the soul.

24007

A sincerity-mind and a purity-heart
Will never get lost
On their way to the God-destination.

24008

In my aspiration-heart
I always strongly feel
That the peace-seekers
Are the best God-lovers.

24009

The inner chaos
Will be infinitely worse
If we mix with
The outer darkness.

24010

A doubt-dominated mind
Will never be able to hear
The sound of God’s Doorbell.

24011

Each human being
Either consciously or unconsciously
Is a student of hope.

24012

If you constantly and deliberately
Disobey God,
God may forgive you,
But you will never be able
To forgive yourself
Until you allow God-awareness,
God-obedience and God-gratitude
To fully blossom in you.

24013

If there is no obedience-seed,
There can be no love-plant.
If there is no love-plant,
There can be no devotion-tree.
If there is no devotion-tree,
There can be no surrender-fruit.

24014

The beauty of my morning prayer
I treasure.
The fragrance of my evening meditation
I treasure.

24015

Our life is not
An opportunity-scarcity.
Our life is
A determination-failure.

24016

To establish our oneness
With God’s Will,
What we need
More than anything else
Is a thought-free mind.

24017

My Lord, I pray to You
To give me the capacity
To be always away from
Self-sufficient people.
My Lord, I pray to You
To give me the capacity
To be always near
Those who entirely and ceaselessly
Depend on You.

24018

My Lord Supreme,
I do not know how I dare to say
That I love You deeply
When I consciously and deliberately
Do not want to be one
With Your all-knowing and all-fulfilling Will.

24019

I enter into my mind-jungle
To paint it with rose-purity-colours.
I enter into my heart-garden
To paint it with lotus-divinity-colours.

24020

If you want to succeed in life
In any field,
Then you must cultivate
A razor-sharp concentration.

24021

Each time I have
A God-soaring thought,
I swim in the sea of happiness.

24022

Every morning I sing
At least seven heart-fragrance-songs
To please my Lord Supreme.

24023

Only when I surrender to God’s Will
Can I make friends
With the rising satisfaction-sun
Of my heart.

24024

I can escape
From my madness-mind,
But it is simply an impossible task
To escape from my sadness-heart.

24025

I do not get any joy
From my proud peace-possession.
I get joy only
From my soulful peace-invocation.

24026

May my heart have two achievements:
An aura of sacredness
And the fragrance of gratitude.

24027

Whenever anybody asks me
How I succeed in so many things,
I tell them that my heart has deep roots
In surrender-soil.

24028

Every day
My heart’s aspiration-intensities
Fight against
My mind’s complacency-absurdities.

24029

Each time I offer
My sweetness-gratitude
To my Lord,
My heart becomes
Infinitely more luminous
Than I can ever imagine.

24030

A tranquillity-mind
Is, indeed, a very rare boon
From God.

24031

There are many ways
To expand our aspiration-heart,
But the easiest way is to imagine
A flower-purity-presence
Inside our heart.

24032

What I need
At every moment
Is a gratitude-expansion-breath.

24033

Soulfully throbbing inspiration
From the heart
Can definitely show us
The way to our destination.

24034

What God is really looking for
Is not our capacity
But our willingness.

24035

Willingness knows
That there is no time to delay.
Everything has to be done at once,
Happily and self-givingly.

24036

Unwillingness thinks
It has plenty of time.
Therefore, it does not
Have to surrender itself to speed.

24037

The mind wants to exhibit
Its towering greatness.
The heart wants to hide
Its flowering goodness.

24038

My surrender-heart
And my life-happiness
Always go together.

24039

Morning dawns.
My life’s hope and my heart’s promise
Meet together
For a new fulfilment.

24040

Every day
I pray to my Lord Supreme
To help my faith blossom
To its fullest proportions.

24041

Alas, is there any day
That I do not torture
God’s Compassion-Eye
And His Forgiveness-Heart?

24042

My life’s delight
Never fails to amply reward
My willingness-heart.

24043

May my peace-hope
And my peace-promise
Extend from horizon to horizon.

24044

God will soon make it public
That the disobedience-seekers
Will never, never arrive
At the Goal.

24045

Do you really love God?
Then come and show the torrents
Of your God-longing tears.

24046

I am confident in my spiritual life
Because every day
I hear God singing
His Forgiveness-Song,
No matter what I do.

24047

Only the purity-breath
Of angels
Can purify the mind
Of human beings.

24048

When it is a matter
Of the Godward race,
It is always obedience
That wins.

24049

Alas,
Why do I allow my doubting mind
To spoil the beauty of my heart
And the fragrance of my soul
Every day?

24050

In the spiritual life,
Emptiness is preparatory to fulness.
Alas, the mind is frightened to death
When it experiences emptiness.

24051

Only the aspiring and self-giving soul
Can hear
God’s Footsteps.

24052

The wings of desire
Break down
Even before the flight begins.
The wings of aspiration
Fly and fly
Through Infinity’s Sky.

24053

Love is not life’s finished song.
Devotion is not life’s finished song.
Surrender is not life’s finished song.
Only a sleepless and breathless
God-oneness-heart
Is life’s finished and ever-fulfilling song.

24054

Return to your childhood’s
Forgotten dreams.
You will be able to expedite
The fulfilment of your life’s realities.

24055

The mind’s storms
At times we can weather,
At times we cannot.
But to weather the heart’s storms
Is almost an impossible task
Unless Grace divine
Descends from Above.

24056

My Lord, do not give me a mind
That in turn veils and unveils
Your divine Reality in me.

24057

If you have a simplicity-mind,
A sincerity-life and a purity-heart,
Then you are really ready
To walk along Eternity’s Road.

24058

My Lord,
I do not need Affection from You.
My Lord,
I do not need Compassion from You.
My Lord,
I do not need Concern from You.
My Lord,
I need only one thing from You:
Do allow me
Every morning and every evening
To kiss the dust of Your Feet.

24059

When others walk out,
My Lord’s Compassion-Eye
Secretly comes in
And my Lord’s Forgiveness-Heart
Openly comes in.

24060

God has no time
To build a road
Inside my mind
To reach Him.
But God is busy
Every day
Building a new road
Inside my heart
So that I can arrive
At my Destination
And forever live there.

24061

The best thing to have
Is an aspiration-heart.
The best thing to become
Is a forgiveness-soul.

24062

Every morning
God welcomes me
To drink as much as I want
From His own Inspiration-Fountain.

24063

Immortal happiness blossoms
From the divine hunger
To give and give and give.

24064

Giving
Is divinely sacred.
Serving
Is supremely sacred.
Self-giving
Is eternally sacred.

24065

He who has a heart of fragrance
Will give to others freely
The lustre-message
Of self-transcendence.

24066

God asks me not to remember
When I give
And not to forget
When I take.

24067

The Compassion-Heart
Of my Lord Supreme
May not be imminent
But it is always immanent.

24068

If you weep
At your yesterday’s grave,
How will you ever
Be able to stand
On your life’s victory-stand?

24069

Both in the inner world
And in the outer world,
Negativity blunts
Divinity’s Reality-Splendour.

24070

God constantly tells us
That an obedience-life
Has no equal.

24071

When we give our all
To God’s Will,
No more do we remain
A grain of sand
Upon Infinity’s Shore.
We just become
Infinity’s Shore itself.

24072

O my mind,
Do not refuse to follow
God’s Lead
If you want to immortalise
Your earth-sojourn.

24073

The best use of each second
Is to feel
That God not only knows everything
But also is growing
In and through us
In an unprecedented way.

24074

God’s endless Arms
Will embrace immediately
Whoever self-givingly
Turns towards God.

24075

What I need
Is not an unending talk
With God’s Will,
But an unending walk and run
With God’s Will.

24076

Not my greatness-mind
But my goodness-heart
Has a free access
To God’s Nectar-flooded Heart.

24077

Every morning
I pray to God
For an extra supply of Compassion.
Every evening
I pray to God
For an extra supply of Forgiveness.

24078

My gratitude-heart,
Believe it or not,
Has the capacity
To turn all my calamities
Into divine blessings.

24079

God and God’s Forgiveness together
Every day cultivate
Our heart’s aspiration-soil.

24080

My God-belief is not enough.
My God-faith is not even enough.
But my God-surrender is not only enough
But also more than enough.

24081

My gratitude-heart
Has a free access
To God-Perfection
And God-Satisfaction-Palaces.

24082

My gratitude-heart
Is a perfect stranger
To all my mind’s negativities.

24083

If we fulfil God’s Will,
We immediately become
God’s own loveliest blossom.

24084

Alas, I am longing and longing
For a temple-heart
And a purity-mind.

24085

When I pray,
I want to be chained
To God’s Compassion-Heart.
When I meditate,
I want to be chained
To God’s Justice-Eye.

24086

My mind is sleeping
Day and night.
My heart is weeping
Day and night.
My soul is envisioning
Sleeplessly and breathlessly.

24087

I can run away
From my heart
At my sweet will.
But alas,
When I want to run away
From my mind,
I find it to be an impossible task.

24088

O army of God-manifestation-soldiers,
Your task is to serve God
Unconditionally,
And God’s Task is to be proud of you
Unreservedly.

24089

When I try to find fault with the world,
God immediately shows me
That I am nothing other than
A towering pillar of imperfections.

24090

O my mind,
Do you not think it is high time
For you to have peace,
Even an iota of peace?
Then do not act like a rushing river
Of aimless thoughts!

24091

The birds in my gratitude-heart-garden
Are not only beautiful and pure,
But also constantly self-giving
While they are flying
And spreading the Message
Of my Lord Supreme.

24092

God can do anything He wants to.
To our widest surprise,
He may even rock His own Boat
To enjoy His self-chosen failure-life.

24093

What everybody needs
Is a path-finder.
What nobody needs
Is a fault-finder.

24094

My mind is always eager
To dominate the world.
My heart is always eager
To nominate God for everything.

24095

I now enjoy roaring laughter
When I think of my life
Which was once thoroughly drenched
By desire-monsoons.

24096

The mind always tries to negate
The pure feelings of the heart.
But the heart always tries to propagate
God’s Views
In the life of the unwilling mind.

24097

Why does God not care for me?
He does not care for me because
I have completely covered my heart
With ignorance-dust.

24098

Do not blame the world;
Do not blame even God.
Just blame yourself
For having now helplessly fallen
Into frustration-chasm.

24099

The outer school teaches me
Earth-bound information-confusion.
The inner school teaches me
Heaven-free illumination-satisfaction.

24100

At every moment you have to feel
That you are a tidal wave of readiness,
Eagerness and willingness
If you want to please God
In His own Way.

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