Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 261

26001

Love, devotion and surrender,
Where are you all?
Come in please, come in.
My heart-door I have kept wide open.

26002

For a self-giving heart,
God is always
Cheerfully and proudly available.

26003

My path to God will unfold
If my eyes have a smile
Like a child
And if my heart has a cry
Like a child.

26004

Let it be known from this very moment:
I shall not keep my mind
As either my life’s inner mentor
Or my life’s outer guide.

26005

God loves both the good ones
And the bad ones.
But He definitely expects something special
From the good ones.

26006

You must try to conquer insecurity
At every moment in your life.
Lo and behold, insecurity itself
Will lose all its interest in you.

26007

Humour is the truth that tells us
That we can walk along the road ahead
Without fear.

26008

All my divine qualities meet
Not inside my body,
Not inside my vital,
Not inside my mind,
Not even inside my heart,
But inside my life-breath.

26009

Only the day
I obey God unreservedly
Will I become
Self-satisfaction itself.

26010

What I intend to say
Is that all are equal,
But what I tend to do
Is exercise my supremacy.

26011

Do not enjoy the beauty and splendour
Of the past
On the strength of your imagination.
Enjoy everything today
Living inside the heart of reality’s dream.

26012

Cleverness is so shallow
That it will never be able to touch
Even the feet of wisdom-light.

26013

Who has true concern?
No, not the man-instructor in me,
But the God-lover in me.

26014

Emotion expressed for God
With no expectation
Is, indeed, devotion.

26015

There is a constant battle going on
Between my numberless imperfections
And my Lord’s endless Compassion-Eye.
I am sure my Lord will definitely win.

26016

My Lord,
Frustration was my friend yesterday.
Frustration is my friend today.
My Lord,
Do give me a new friend,
A totally new friend — faith —
And let me see what it really looks like.

26017

God never wants us to be
All over,
But He wants us to be
All-rounded.

26018

If you do not unburden
All your secrets to God,
How do you expect God
To share His Secrets with you?

26019

My soul is not partial to my heart.
It is the other members of my family —
Body, vital and mind —
Who do not want to have anything
To do with my soul.

26020

My Lord, just bless me
With a little appreciation
So that I can immediately become
Nectar-drunk.

26021

When a seeker has tumbled
On his way,
Do not go alone to rescue him,
But take with you
God’s real Oneness-Heart.

26022

I shall allow neither my mind
Nor even my heart
To direct my life-course.
I shall beg my soul every day
To direct my life-course.

26023

It is you who have to increase
Your progress-speed
By virtue of your heart’s
God-loving tears.

26024

Either today or tomorrow
We must obey
Our God-representative-soul.

26025

Do not wait any longer.
The God-Hour has already struck.
Wake up!
Run towards your destined Goal.

26026

O my mind,
How do you dare to betray
My sleeplessly God-loving friend,
The soul?

26027

The destruction-blows
Of the doubting mind
Can be challenged
By the illumination-flute
Of God-crying hearts.

26028

Not your mind-book
But your heart-gospel
Every day you must read
If you want to please God.

26029

If you have a plethora of enthusiasm
Throughout,
Then eventually you are bound to win
In your spiritual life.

26030

A Compassion-flooded Touch
From God’s Eye
Is man’s life-transforming magic.

26031

O my heart, delay not!
Exercise at every moment
Your God-given rights.

26032

There is only one list,
And that list
Is my God-manifestation-list.

26033

Excitement
Is in the vital.
Enlightenment
Is in the heart.

26034

God’s heart-instruments are
Readiness,
Willingness
And eagerness.

26035

Simplicity, sincerity and purity-roads
Always lighten
Our mental-vital loads.

26036

When our inner life is empty,
We see in our outer life
Nothing but all-disturbing, nagging doubts.

26037

Our discrimination-sword
Can easily challenge and destroy
The mind’s negativity-thoughts.

26038

My Lord,
I love everything that I have
In my ignorance-life
Infinitely more than I love
Your Compassion-Eye.
Why?
Why?
Why?

26039

You call it God-discovery
And I call it self-conquest,
But they are the same.

26040

I had an appointment with Truth.
Truth told me
That it did not believe in compromise.

26041

O peace-dreamers of the world,
O peace-lovers of the world,
Do not hesitate.
Unite and unite and unite!

26042

God does come down every day.
Alas, we all try to understand Him
And not to feel Him.
Therefore, He goes back unfulfilled.

26043

Only one thing matters
In my life,
And that is God-Satisfaction.

26044

Only a silence-mind knows
Where God is, who God is
And what God is doing
For humanity and divinity.

26045

Only the day the mind believes
In the heart’s messages
Will the mind have happiness.

26046

In our life
Quite often successes
Follow our failures.

26047

My soul-bird is always flying.
My heart-bird at times flies
And at times does not.
My mind-bird never flies.

26048

No beauty can ever equal
Our heart’s
Surrender-beauty.

26049

When I smile,
I see God the Beauty in Nature.
When I cry,
I hear God the Song inside my heart.

26050

Be not afraid of clearing
Your mind-jungle.
God Himself will come to assist you
Happily and proudly.

26051

Human love
Either unconsciously or consciously
Loves confines.
Divine love
Knows no boundaries.

26052

Self-pity: what is it,
If not a self-imposed,
Heaviest burden?

26053

A God-obedience-examination
In itself
Is a beautiful illumination.

26054

The spiritual Masters
Do two things:
They conceal and reveal
To follow the Dictates
Of their Lord Supreme.

26055

The vision that has
No determination
Cannot be manifested
On earth.

26056

Your mind’s illusion you can transform
Into your heart’s reality
Only by having
An adamantine will-power.

26057

By nature,
Consciousness is Heaven-free
And not earth-bound.

26058

Tolerance
Is a secret and sacred way
To enrich our human life.

26059

We have to wake up
To God’s God-Hour
If we want to expedite
God’s God-Hour.

26060

My heart desperately tries to avoid
All wrong forces,
Whereas my mind welcomes them
Lovingly and happily.

26061

The fool in us always wants
To understand the Will of God —
A thing impossible!

26062

The absolute Truth
Remains undiscovered
In almost all human beings.

26063

The souls come around
To give divine purposes
To each human being.

26064

Be careful of your doubting mind!
It may take away every vestige
Of your divinity.

26065

Do not allow resentment to rise.
If you do so,
Your aspiration will fall down.

26066

If you cannot kill your ego
Altogether,
Make it at least ineffective.

26067

If you are exclusively devoted to God
And nobody else,
Then God will help you
In domesticating your animal vital.

26068

You will enjoy
God’s loving and untiring
Heart-Embraces,
If you consciously unburden yourself
Of your selfishness-unwillingness-burdens.

26069

If you can strengthen your faith-roots,
Then God will bless you
With a world-service-tree.

26070

Each human being
Is so impatient
For his pride-manifestation.

26071

Our mind is always satisfied
To live by partial truth
And does not crave full truth.

26072

The mind rejects ruthlessly
And totally
The innocence, simplicity and sincerity
Of the heart.

26073

Your self-esteem-fondness
Is nothing short of
Your undivine vanity.

26074

God tells His children:
“Take everything from Me
And squander as much as you want,
For as long as you want;
But do not have greed
For others’ possessions.”

26075

O my heart,
Do not resign yourself to your fate.
Try again and again.
God’s Compassion will be on your side
Someday.

26076

The fantasy-mind cannot arrive
At God’s Gate.
Only the ecstasy-heart can arrive there.

26077

Alas, he has gone again
To visit
His old desire-home-life.

26078

If you are following a path,
Then you must be aware
Of all the twists and turns
On the path.

26079

My Lord,
May my aspiration-train
Never halt anywhere.

26080

The tears that are shed
Are beautiful.
The tears that are unshed
Are beautiful and powerful.

26081

Anything that we see
That is inexplicable today
Will eventually become
Totally transparent.

26082

If you have an unaspiring mind,
Sooner or later you will be
In a state of constant inner turmoil.

26083

God uses His Compassion-Eye
Unconditionally.
Even then, when He fails,
He uses the sharp edge
Of His Justice-Sword.

26084

If you develop harmony with all,
Then your heart will be freed
From anxieties and worries.

26085

Where God is
And who God is:
These are the only things
Worth knowing.

26086

If you allow your thoughts
All the time
To rustle in your mind,
You can never have silence
As your friend.

26087

O my mind, I am so happy
That you can no longer run away
And that you can no longer hide.

26088

O my mind,
I shall never allow you to crucify
My heart’s sincerity and purity.

26089

O my mind,
Are you not ashamed
Of your constant narrowness
And selfishness-hunger?

26090

I am happy at last
Because I have completely relinquished
My ego-offences
And my ego-defences.

26091

Our pride is never appeased.
It always waits for another chance
To attack.

26092

God’s final Decision:
He will never end the world,
No matter how bad the world becomes.

26093

My Lord, You came to me
With Your Vastness-Compassion-Sea.
Alas, I do not come to You
Even with my tiniest gratitude-drop!

26094

My Lord tells me
That the Beauty of His Eye
And the Fragrance of His Heart
I can easily feel
Inside my aspiration-heart-flames.

26095

Self-offering is something
That we can never
Wear out.

26096

Music is the fragrance
Of the soul.
Music is the perfection
Of the aspiring heart.

26097

My Lord, I have begged You
For many things.
Now I am begging You
To come to me
With Your Forgiveness-Heart-Fountain.

26098

In our surrendered God-dedication-life,
Freedom is a reality
And not a mere dream.

26099

The things that give us happiness
We get
Only from our selflessness.

26100

When we cry to God
For His Compassion-flooded
Wisdom-Light,
He immediately comes and garlands us
And guides us.

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