Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 247

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24601

My God-blossoming heart,
My Lord Supreme has planned
Your golden future
In every detail.

24602

O divine Musician Supreme,
Do tune my heart-strings every morning
Before I begin to play on the world-stage.

24603

My morning surprises:
I still love God,
And God still needs me.

24604

You want your glorious deeds
To be applauded.
If so, what about your glaring misdeeds?

24605

Disappointment-proof detachment
Is the fastest way to make progress
In the spiritual life.

24606

There is always a tug-of-war
Between life’s expectation
And the mind’s frustration.

24607

The unaspiring heart
And
The desiring mind
Are in no way better
Than a marketplace.

24608

Darkness definitely there is.
But my aspiration-heart
Has no room to hold it.

24609

I shall have to dethrone
By any means
The king of my jungle-mind:
Doubt.

24610

If we cannot stamp out
God-disobedience from our mind,
Then spiritual progress
Will forever remain
A far cry.

24611

A gratitude-heart
Is a divine ascent
To the summit-peak.
An ingratitude-mind
Is a continuous descent
Into the deepest abyss.

24612

Only one giant need remains
In my life:
The total transformation
Of my mind.

24613

There was a time when my vital
Was nothing short of God-defiance.
But now the same vital
Loves God-reliance
More than anything else.

24614

To liberate ourselves
From the slavery of earthly desires,
There is no other way than to cry,
Sleeplessly cry,
For the arrival of all-illumining light
From Above.

24615

Realisation approaches you
Only when you continually fan the flames
Of your aspiration.

24616

If you cannot safeguard
Your faith in God
Inside your own heart,
Then who can do it for you?

24617

Help me, my Lord,
I am falling!
“Surrender, My child, surrender!
I am watching.”

24618

Only a self-giving heart
Can establish friendship
With God’s Peace and Light.

24619

Every day I must sing
A new faith-song
For the transformation
Of my earth-bound life.

24620

My God-obedience
Is the fragrance
Of my aspiration-heart.

24621

Suspicion is not for me.
Doubt is not for me.
I refuse to be blinded
By suspicion and doubt!

24622

God eagerly volunteers His time
To give us private lessons
To help us pass
The examination of life.

24623

Nothing and nobody can stop me!
Cheerfully and proudly
I shall walk along Eternity’s Road
To please my Lord Supreme
In His own Way.

24624

I am taking
My love-devotion-surrender-heart-vehicle
Non-stop
To the Lotus-Feet
Of my Lord Beloved Supreme.

24625

If you want to speed
Towards the core of God’s Will,
Then cry like an orphan-child.

24626

You can ascend all the way
To the highest heights
If you can go beyond
Your mind’s negativity-frown.

24627

While travelling
Along the God-obedience-road,
I have become
The beauty of my heart
And the fragrance of my soul.

24628

O seeker, can you not see
That your mind is not allowing
Your happiness to come to the fore
And play with your body, vital,
Heart and soul?

24629

My Lord Supreme,
May I be as happy
As a wave of delight
Dancing on the sea of ecstasy.

24630

My surrender-heart-flower-garden
God not only appreciates,
But also treasures.

24631

My storm-tossed boat-mind
Knows
No destination.

24632

What do I do
With my God-Compassion-salary?
I buy good thoughts and good feelings.

24633

Increase your devotion a million times
If you want to receive the Sweetness-Smiles
From your Lord’s Eye and Heart.

24634

Do not despair, do not despair!
God’s Compassion-Eye
And His Fragrance-Heart
Are bound to illumine you and fulfil you.

24635

My Lord Supreme,
At every moment
May I say to You, “Yes,”
An enthusiastic “Yes!”

24636

O seeker, I am so happy
And so proud of you
Because your aspiration is speeding
Towards the Golden Shore.

24637

A constantly self-giving heart
Is highly regarded
By the denizens of the higher world.

24638

The myriad prayers
Of humanity’s heart
Will certainly satisfy God
At God’s choice Hour.

24639

There are many miracles,
Countless miracles,
But humanity’s gratitude-heart-flames
To the Lord Supreme
Are, indeed, the best miracle.

24640

God-obedience
Not only leads us speedily
Towards our destination,
But also offers
A new God-fulfilment-promise
To the world.

24641

Spirituality
Is not only to love God,
But also to love God’s
Ever-expanding family.

24642

O my mind,
Exactly like my heart,
Can you not also cling
To God’s each and every Word?

24643

Each self-giving step
Is beckoned
By God’s Universal Life
And Transcendental Pride.

24644

Every morning
Angels gather together
To hear my heart’s
God-gratitude-songs.

24645

My Lord Supreme every day reads
My unconditional surrender-stories
Over and over again.

24646

Humanity’s peace-dreams
Are highly prized
By Divinity’s highest heights.

24647

Because of his implicit faith in God,
He is moving from worry-torture
To confidence-rapture.

24648

When the new day dawns,
My Lord Supreme breathes
A new hope and promise
In and through my aspiration-heart.

24649

Unfortunately, most God-seekers
Have a distant relationship
With their souls.
Therefore, their inner progress
Is astonishingly slow.

24650

My aspiration-heart
Is a problem-shooter.
My gratitude-breath
Is a man-transformation-miracle-maker.

24651

God definitely sings
Inside our heart-garden.
To appreciate, admire and adore
His Songs,
We must listen with our heart-ears.

24652

The beauty
Of experience universal
I have.
The fragrance
Of realisation transcendental
I am.

24653

If we really want to go onward,
Fly upward and dive inward,
There is nothing
That can ultimately resist us.

24654

Only when I soulfully pray to God
Does He bring to the fore
My inner sun.
Otherwise, it remains dormant.

24655

My Lord, Your Sunrise-Smiles
Quench my thirst
And feed my hunger
Every day.
I need nothing more.

24656

I know that my mind
Will one day surrender
To God’s Will.
But alas, when and how?

24657

God has shown me
Obstacle-thorns
Only to make me long for
Progress-roses.

24658

Yesterday God allowed me
To overlook Him.
Today God is allowing it again.
But He will not allow Himself
To be overlooked by me
Forever.

24659

Every day
My Lord Beloved Supreme saves me
From my voracious desire-hunger.

24660

I have been on the spiritual path
For so many years.
Alas, still I deliberately enjoy
A whirlpool of confusion-mind.

24661

Each seeker
Definitely is a reservoir
Of stupendous
God-manifestation-possibilities.

24662

In my life-house
I find difficulties
That can never be surmounted.
But in my heart-home,
Freely I move, freely I sing,
Freely I dance.

24663

Like my heart,
If my mind does not want
To surrender to God’s Will,
My God-satisfaction-life,
Alas,
Will never blossom.

24664

Every thought of God,
No matter how insignificant,
Is, indeed, a life-transforming prayer
To God.

24665

O my temple-heart,
Where are your
Heaven-climbing tears?
O my temple-heart,
Where are your
World-covering smiles?

24666

My soul tells me
That if I am not in a desperate hurry
For God-satisfaction,
Then my life will end
In most deplorable frustration.

24667

Alas, how long,
How many more years,
How many more centuries
Shall I have to remain
Under the spell of desire-life?

24668

This world of ours
Still has hope,
For the soul of the world
Has not yet ended
Its peace-pilgrimage.

24669

God smilingly, sincerely
And proudly tells me
My ever-blossoming gratitude-heart
Has no parallel.

24670

There was a time
When I kept my heart-door open
And I saw only ignorance-night
Swiftly rushing in.
But now
When I keep my heart-door open,
I see only light and delight
Proudly marching in.

24671

God does His Duty:
He makes His Home
Inside my heart.
Alas, I do not do my duty:
I do not make my nest
Inside His Heart.

24672

He who seeks happiness
In the distance
Will never find even an iota
Of happiness.

24673

God wants to lead humanity,
But humanity does not want
To be led.
It wants to take full responsibility —
Proudly and stubbornly!

24674

My Lord Supreme,
When I look into Your Eyes,
I always see
The impossible is already done.

24675

We can easily shine
With angelic purity
If we allow our heart
To cry sleeplessly
For God’s Compassion-Eye.

24676

Unlike my body,
My vital and even my mind,
Every day my soul reaches
A new height-delight of excellence.

24677

Not only God’s Compassion-Eye,
But also God’s Perfection-Eye
Is at work
In each human being.

24678

It is so difficult
For the heart’s goodness
To make friends with
The greatness of the mind.

24679

My insincerity-mind
Can at best amuse God.
It can never please God.

24680

How can we escape
From the mind’s confusion-jungle
If we do not cultivate
Prayerful and tearful cries
Deep within us?

24681

There was a time when I prayed more,
Because I loved God more.
But now, alas, I do not know why
I do not love Him the way I once did.
I do not know whether to blame
My doubting mind
Or my unaspiring heart.

24682

Alas,
My poor soul is suffocating
Inside my self-importance-mind
And self-conceit-vital.

24683

My Lord,
Do give me the capacity
To count once and for all
The number of times
You have saved me from myself.

24684

I do not need anybody else,
For God Himself is more than eager
To safeguard
All my sweet aspiration-dreams.

24685

Obedience, obedience, obedience
At each hush gap,
If you want to go to the shore
Of your own delight-existence!

24686

God wants to see me
As I am today,
Not as I was yesterday,
And not as I will be tomorrow.

24687

Alas, I do not know why and how
I have become so stupid.
Why do I not stop fanning
My desire-flames?

24688

Only in the depth of my silence-mind
Can I hear the whispers
Of my Lord’s Compassion-Eye.

24689

My prayer-mind
Is nothing more than a candle of hope.
My meditation-heart
Is nothing less than a sun of promise.

24690

Yesterday, who was I?
Yesterday I was
A frustration-mind-noon.
And today, who am I?
Today I am
My heart’s fragrance-blossom-joy.

24691

I have committed repeated offences
Against God’s Will,
Yet God has forgiven me
Without fail.
But will my sincerity-heart and I
Ever be able to forgive ourselves?

24692

If we cannot accept
The breath of the surrender-life
As our own, very own,
How can God ever make us
His ambassadors
Of world-illumining love?

24693

If we are afraid
Of even starting our journey
At the aspiration-shore,
How will we ever be able to arrive
At our life’s perfection-shore?

24694

O my Lord,
I torture You,
I torture Your Heart,
I torture Your Breath
Consciously, even deliberately.
My Beloved Lord,
May the loneliness You feel without me
Torture me
Far beyond my endurance-capacity.

24695

God and I are having
A serious competition.
God is counting
The tears of my heart,
And I am counting
The Smiles of His Eye.
Let us see who wins!

24696

O my prayer-country-village,
How beautiful you are!
O my meditation-nation-kingdom,
How powerful you are!

24697

Happiness
Is our heart’s perpetual journey,
And not a remote destination.

24698

Thousands of years ago
My illumination-soul was handcuffed
To God’s Compassion-Satisfaction-Eye.

24699

God smilingly and unconditionally
Blesses me
For being who I am now,
And not for what I am going to become.

24700

The excellence of a seeker’s life
Comes from God’s own
Nectar-Fragrance-Heart.

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