Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 28

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2701

For me there is only one path
To Heaven,
And that path
Is my heart-purity’s self-giving
And self-ascending path.

2702

Unless you cherish
Your soul’s warrior-dream,
How will you be able to defend
Your freedom-life on earth?

2703

His soulful life lay prostrate
At God’s Feet
To have a vision
That does not carry yesterdays.

2704

He is totally lost
Between the lion-appetite
Of his mind
And the mouse-capacity
Of his heart.

2705

Fulness-fountain is flowing
Inside your heart.
When will you start glowing
Brilliantly and triumphantly?

2706

If you have retired from
The spiritual life,
Either you have decreased
Or increased
God’s Headache.

2707

If confusion is your mind,
What else can be your life,
If not all delusion?

2708

He has no particular desire
Either to live or to die.
His unconditional surrender
To God’s Will,
God is definitely going
To treasure.

2709

If it is God’s Pen,
It will never run out
Of Compassion-Ink.

2710

What is the meaning
Of self-giving?
Self-giving means
Life’s energising
Satisfaction-sunshine.

2711

The final destination
Of ego
Is the abysmal abyss
Of utter loneliness.

2712

He has recorded
God’s Compassion-Message
And God’s Perfection-Message
On the tape recorder
Of his aspiration-heart.

2713

Do not mislead yourself
Any more.
If your heart is not fit
For the perfection-life,
How can you expect your mind,
Vital and body
To be fit for the perfection-life?
No!
The heart has to be ready first.
Then only the mind, vital and body
Will follow it.

2714

Alas,
When will you get up
And not just remain lying down
Shamelessly and indefinitely
On lethargy-bed?

2715

O world,
I may accept
What you have to say,
But I really do not
Agree with you.

2716

When my heart’s silence
Knocks at God’s Door,
God immediately reveals
His Infinity’s Satisfaction-Smile.

2717

Whenever he is tired,
Due to heavy pressure of work
Inner and outer,
God comes and gives him
His Heart’s Affection-Massage.

2718

God cries only once:
When I tell Him
That I do not deserve Him.

2719

He gave his all to God
To become God’s
God-Satisfaction-Doll.

2720

The Silence-Smile
Of God’s Eye
Always serves as a microphone
To my heart.

2721

When are you going to realise
That your doubting, impure mind
Is a meaningless and worthless
Nuisance
In your life?

2722

The heart’s
Aspiration-preference
And the soul’s
Perfection-preference
Must be found
In a seeker’s Heavenward journey.

2723

If you become
A devoted instrument
Of my Beloved Supreme,
I shall make you
His Victory-announcer.

2724

If you want to be
A trouble-shooter,
You must first be
A divine warrior
In the battlefield
Of your own aspiration-life.

2725

A life of excellence-song
Can never wrong anybody,
For its excellence satisfies
The inner world
And the outer world
Alike.

2726

Why do you have to
Wait in line?
Since God is waiting for you,
Go immediately to God!

2727

Do not be afraid of reality!
If you are afraid of reality,
You will be caught
In the confusion-vortex.

2728

God’s Tears
Are flowing down my face
Because I am afraid
Of being carried by God’s Arms.

2729

What you need
Is a heart of purity
That will act as a buffer-zone
Between your doubting mind
And your strangling vital.

2730

Your heart’s aspiration-rocket
Will blast off
If you can take
Your meditation-exercise
Seven times a day.

2731

You want to know
How to forget your worries.
Just establish your soul’s
Guiding supremacy
In your outer life!

2732

If you are serving
Your desire-life,
How can you have
A crying heart
For God?

2733

God burst into applause
When He saw earth
Desperately trying to steal
His Sweetness-Smile.

2734

Where else can be
Your life’s satisfaction-fruits
If not inside the orchard
Of your aspiration-heart?

2735

The oneness-ascendancy
Of the inner world
Must stay the division-supremacy
Of the outer world.

2736

Who told you
That the mind does not
Acknowledge
The existence of truth?
The mind does acknowledge
The existence of truth
But it cleverly ignores
The necessity of truth.

2737

You fool!
Will there be no time
In your life
When you will discover
That your hallowed heart
Is always being massacred
By your suspicion-mind?

2738

No matter how high
Your opinion is
Of your mind,
I tell you,
Your mind can never be a match
For your sincerity-heart
In the inner world.

2739

Earth’s sad cry:
God is not approachable.
Heaven’s sad cry:
God is concerned more about earth.

2740

His heart has never told a lie.
Therefore
God has granted him
His Fulness-Fountain-Love.

2741

Who is there to depreciate
The taste of faith-food?
Who is there to digest
Doubt-food?
Do you want to try?
Then try!

2742

Your heart prays and meditates
Every day.
Your mind never prays
And never meditates.
It only enjoys vacation.
How then does your mind expect
To climb up the realisation-tree
Like your heart?

2743

He is a real fool
Who thinks a meditation-warm-up
Is enough every day
And a dedication-workout
Is redundant.

2744

Be careful!
Be careful with your aspiration-heart
And dedication-life!
Even angels, high in Heaven,
Go astray.

2745

Your heart’s faith-world
Is too strong to be destroyed
By the desire-hurricane
Of your vital.

2746

If you want to win
In God’s Satisfaction-Contest,
Then do not allow yourself
To be caught
By the trappings of success.

2747

If you consciously
Do not drop the curtain
Upon the past,
You will be paralysed
By the destructive presence
Of ignorance-titan.

2748

When your life-car
Is on the soul’s highway,
You will discover
That there are no speed limits.

2749

I want to be caught
By the net of my Lord’s Love.
I want to catch my Lord
With my self-giving breath.

2750

The past is dust.
Unless you have realised
This infallible truth,
God will not give you
A boarding pass
To enter into
His immortal Love-Airplane.

2751

God’s Bodyguard will not allow you
To enter into God’s
Sacred and secret Courtyard of Silence
Because you are on friendly terms
With earth’s destruction-sound.

2752

My heart’s sleepless cry
Is begging for my soul’s
All-liberating illumination-home.

2753

One day if you miss
Your morning aspiration,
Then try to feel
That you have torn deliberately
A petal from your heart’s
Perfection-lotus.

2754

O my doubting mind,
Your unwelcome arrival
At my heart’s door
Has disturbed my heart
Far beyond your imagination.

2755

Your mind’s ravenous appetite
For power
Has damaged your heart
And shocked your soul.

2756

Only an aspiration-heart
And a dedication-life
Can ultimately conquer
The nightmare of the mind’s
Perilous fantasies.

2757

Do you know why and how
You are making the fastest progress?
You are making the fastest progress
Because you have unconditionally disowned
Your life’s ignorance-tree.

2758

If you are a true heart-lover,
Then you will never be able
To abide by the dictates
Of your dictator-mind.

2759

Do you know
What I want to be?
I want to be the rising sun
Of tomorrow’s hope.

2760

God’s Compassion-Letter
And His Forgiveness-Message
Are saving my human life
From my animal life
And asking my divine life
To elevate my human life.

2761

If you want to bask
In God’s perpetual Gaze,
Then remove from your shoulder
Your self-imposed bondage-load.

2762

I play with God
Many games.
When I play with Him
My surrender-game
And when He plays with me
His Compassion-Game,
I feel that ‘earth’ is another name
For Heaven.

2763

As a beggar
When I knock at God’s Door,
He tells me to wait
And He keeps me waiting
Indefinitely.

As a seeker
When I knock at God’s Door,
He immediately opens the Door,
Lets me in
And asks me why I am so late.

2764

Every day I sing
My two favourite songs:
I love God the Beautiful,
I need God the Bountiful.

2765

If you do not consciously ignore
Your insecurity’s complaints,
God is not going to send you
His personal security-guards.

2766

You always ask yourself
If there is anyone to save you
And illumine you.
I tell you, deep inside you
There are God-intoxicated
Love-messengers
Who will not only save you
And illumine you
But also fulfil you in God’s own Way.

2767

You may not give serious thought
To God and God’s creation,
But God the Creation-Lover
Will always give serious thought
Not only
To your Heaven-free longings
But also
To your earth-bound desires.

2768

Every morning
If you do not sign your name
When God leaves His Vision-Register
In front of you,
You will not be accepted
As a member of His immediate Family.

2769

Temptation is the world’s
Oldest disease.
Aspiration is at once
The world’s most ancient
And most modern medicine.

2770

If you want God to be
All the time inside your heart,
Then be purity’s breath.

If you want God all the time
To be beside you,
Then be humility’s life.

2771

The moment I think of you,
I see your face covered by
A used and soiled
Blanket of insecurity.

2772

My heart’s patience
Makes my life longer
And the calendar year shorter.

2773

Unless you banish the notion
Of reward
Whenever you do something
For God,
God will not allow you to become
A member of His inner Family.

2774

If you have the audacity
To play with the temptation-world,
How will you escape
Destruction-fire?

2775

Doubt is slow death.
This slow death
Is bound to drain
Secretly and unmistakably
Your aspiration-heart.

2776

You fool!
How do you dare
To split the universe
When you cannot split
Your own doubting mind
And searching mind?

2777

If you do not put an end
To your self-doubt-dance,
Then you will soon become a victim
To your own voracious vital.

2778

A seeker’s heart knows
That its surrender-song
Is at once beginningless
And endless.

2779

God is ready to give you
Some free space
In His Parking Lot
In Heaven,
But where is your life’s
Aspiration-car?
Where?

2780

To cure your mind’s
Jealousy-malaria,
What you need is not
The earth-produced quinine
But the Heaven-produced
Nectar-delight.

2781

In the morning he reads
His heart’s love-magazine.
In the evening he reads
His soul’s delight-magazine.
This is how he has made his life
Increasingly happy.

2782

Your mind-room has no door.
Therefore
You cannot come out
Of your room
And God cannot come in.

2783

He who speaks
Always in favour of God
Can never have an alliance
With ignorance-prince.

2784

If you champion
Your soul’s determination,
You will be the blue-gold colour
Of God’s Satisfaction-Delight.

2785

God wants each life
To be His Vision’s Doll,
Flooded with
Beauty, purity and surrender.

2786

Every day
His first task in life
Is to send a prayer-letter
To his Beloved Supreme
In Heaven.

2787

You always want God
To make the first move
In your life.
God can do that,
But because of your deep-rooted
Doubt-injuries,
You will not trust God
No matter what He does or says.

2788

Sever your frustration-friendship
If you want to enjoy
Your satisfaction-partnership
With God.

2789

My mind will eventually learn
The art of freezing.
My vital will know
The destruction-message
Of boiling.
My heart will know
The message of melting-oneness.

2790

Do not think
Of your suffering days.
Just think
Of God’s Rays
Which will illumine you
And liberate you.

2791

My life’s self-pity-songs
Have not only puzzled
My soul
But also astonished
The cosmic gods.

2792

Obedience has to be
Your first choice.
For that you do not need
A needle-sharp mind.
For that you need only
A purity-sanctified heart.

2793

The body is born helpless,
But not the soul.
The mind suffers from impurity,
But not the heart.

2794

My Lord,
I know You will never
Abandon me.
Therefore, I never give up
My hope for perfection-life.

2795

The heart needs
Purity-exercise every day.
Otherwise, the heart will become
As impure as the vital,
And poor God will feel extremely miserable
For His stupendous loss.

2796

Yesterday my interest was
In God-loving.
Today my interest is
In God-serving.
Tomorrow my interest will be
In God-becoming.

2797

The mind enjoys
Its opinion.
The heart enjoys
Only God’s Dominion.

2798

His love-life, devotion-life
And surrender-life —
Everything in him
And everything of him —
Will be a fiasco
Because of his devastating insincerity.

2799

Dethrone your mind-dictator
If you want God
To build a love-monument for you.

2800

My mind belongs to those
Who want to know and dominate
The world.

My heart belongs to those
Who want to love and serve
The world.

I belong to those
Who think and feel
That they are of God’s Compassion-Eye
And for God’s Satisfaction-Heart.

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