Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 35

3401

Those who love
God alone
Will be needed
By God alone.

3402

You fool,
Why do you love impatience?
Do you not realise
That your life of impatience
Means a shorter time
To achieve something great?

3403

I feel sorry for you
Because every day you are bitten
By a mad desire-dog.

3404

Unless you become a perfect stranger
To self-indulgence,
Your soul’s effulgence-delight
You will never be able to claim.

3405

I cannot imagine how you can allow
So many teeming ego-thoughts
To enter into your life
Every day.

3406

Let God take care
Of your hesitation-mind
From now on.

3407

Ignorance does not
Surrender to anyone
On its own.
You have to forcefully
Conquer ignorance.

3408

God never keeps
His Compassion-Eye
And His Forgiveness-Heart
Empty.

3409

Today he is celebrating
The death
Of his mind’s deception-night.

3410

Only a fool like you
Can think that self-torture
Is another name
For self-improvement.

3411

Next to a oneness-heart,
A purity-mind
Is the best protection.

3412

You may not be thinking of God
For His Satisfaction-Heart,
But God is thinking of you
For your perfection-life.

3413

He who misses obedience-opportunity
Will never be given the chance
To sing God’s supreme Glory.

3414

God will never
Reserve a seat for you
In Heaven
Because
You have never
Reserved a seat for Him
Inside your heart
On earth.

3415

He lives between
The living image
Of his heart’s gratitude
And the living image
Of his life’s surrender.

3416

God will hear
The tale of your tears
Only if you agree
To surrender your life’s
Fascinating falsehood.

3417

God sings the ultimate Vision-Song
Only inside the heart
That has grown into
An unconditional surrender-light.

3418

The noise of the world
Is determined to give God
Two deaf Ears,
A doubting Mind
And a tearful Heart.

3419

God will not allow you
To exclude your mind
From your heart’s
Oneness-dream-boat.

3420

I am not irritated,
I am not exasperated,
But I am extremely humiliated
When I see that my mind
Does not aspire every day
For its perfection-life.

3421

Silence is the emergency exit
To escape the world’s
Ruthless torture.

3422

The strength of an elephant
Bows to my patience-heart.
The speed of a deer
Bows to my surrender-life.

3423

The Infinity-increasing Delight
Of the Transcendental Consciousness
Was founded upon
The Eternity-spreading Light
Of the Universal Consciousness.

3424

Two pieces
Of sad and unexpected news:
I have failed God,
And God will not give me
Another chance.

3425

Your mind, the impurity-outcast,
Must be illumined.
This is the only way
Your mind can become
A choice instrument of God.

3426

If you do not keep your heart
Under heavy protection-guard,
Your heart may be ruthlessly conquered
By your aggression-vital.

3427

Alas,
My life’s inner vacuum
Can only be felt
And never described.

3428

The heart’s attachment-thickness
Is always founded upon
The mind’s ego-sickness.

3429

It is a difficult
But not an impossible task
To successfully lose
The heart’s sadness-weight.

3430

Unless you take surrender-nutrition
Every day,
You cannot make fast progress
In your inner life.

3431

Every day I watch
God’s inner Television
Only to adore
His Compassion-Eye
And worship
His Forgiveness-Heart.

3432

God does feel sorry
When your heart
Is not on speaking terms
With Him.

3433

Your life’s hungry ignorance-dragon
Forecasts the message
Of your life’s destruction-night.

3434

You are always trying to score
An easy success-goal.
Therefore
The supreme Heights of the Beyond
Will always remain unknown to you.

3435

Your oneness-soul feels miserable
When your mind enjoys
Rumours and counter-rumours.

3436

What can I expect
From your shallow mind?
And what can I not expect
From your deep heart?

3437

His heart’s inspired utterance:
“God does love me dearly
In spite of my mind.”

3438

First feel
That truth is lovable.
Then only will you feel
That truth is invincible.

3439

My God-identification card
God wants me to show
To ignorance-night
In inconscience-world.

3440

Unless your heart is stirred
By God’s sleepless Breath,
How can God’s Peace
Be your life’s property?

3441

The heart’s voiceless message:
God-realisation is not
An excitement-race
But it is
An enlightenment-goal.

3442

The turbulent weather
Of your mind
Is keeping you unprepared
All the time
For God’s Compassion-Arrival.

3443

Before God-realisation
Nobody is exempt
And nobody will be exempt
From the punishment
Of ignorance-tax.

3444

Alas,
I never thought
That my mind-thief
Would run away
With my heart’s purity-funds.

3445

Your vital knows how to export
Excitement-fire.
Your heart knows how to import
Enlightenment-flames.

3446

His heart’s
Aspiration-fire brigade
Is no match
For his life’s desire-fires.

3447

Even if you are fast asleep
In your heart-heaven’s waiting room,
Your life is definitely
Going to make some progress.

3448

I admire your hero-determination!
You do not want to be caught
Any more
In your mind’s confusion-quandary.

3449

If your life
Soulfully lies prostrate
At God’ s Protection-Feet,
Your life’s perfection-dream
Will not remain a far cry.

3450

If you are a real God-lover,
Then you will not carry with you
Your yesterday’s frustration-life.

3451

When I enter into his heart,
I immediately enjoy watching
The delight-flow
Of his heart’s fulness-fountain.

3452

I admire your lion-hunger,
But how can I admire
Your mouse-capacity?

3453

Ecstasy-intoxication,
Unlike other intoxications,
Is always appreciated and admired
In all times and climes.

3454

Who says that it is
An impossible task
For you to extricate your life
From your hopeless futility-fate?

3455

Your mind has to do
Only whatever you allow it
To do,
And nothing more!

3456

My worst enemy on earth
Is my fear
Of God’s universal
And transcendental
Infinity.

3457

As you have a heart
Claimed by purity,
Even so, try to have a mind
Claimed by clarity.

3458

Sometimes you forget
To please God.
Therefore
You must not be surprised
If God forgets to think of you.

3459

Transformation is not destruction.
It is the fire-pure change
Of a human life
Into a divine breath.

3460

You are a champion
In progress-promise,
But not in progress-jump!

3461

You wanted to climb up
The desire-stairs,
But unfortunately the desire-stairs
Have brought you down
Into the abysmal abyss.

3462

His mind of desire
And his heart of aspiration
Every day play tug-of-war,
But the final results are not yet out.

3463

You must not be disheartened
By your imperfection-night.
You should only be brave
By having a sleepless perfection-cry.

3464

When you develop
A celestial and natural
Need for God,
God-realisation will not remain
A far cry.

3465

Frustration is man’s
Absolutely worst creation
In God’s beautiful world.

3466

Once you allow
Your desire-train to run
Speedily,
You will never be able
To stop it.

3467

You must realise
That even God’s Indifference
Can be His real Blessing
In disguise.

3468

From now on
My heart is going to treasure
Only one thing:
Celestial pleasure.

3469

God has not rejected you.
It is you who have rejected yourself
By rejecting your life.

3470

If you are in doubt,
Why do you not ask God
Immediately?

3471

Faith
Is the only instrument
That can easily discover
Truth.

3472

Your hunger for perfection
And God’s Satisfaction-Smile
Will definitely meet together
When God’s God-Hour arrives.

3473

His Silence-Eye
Cuts my ignorance-rope
Faster than my eyes
Can see.

3474

Why do you allow your stupid mind
To create insecurity
Between you and God’s Compassion?

3475

God devours
What your life has:
Sincerity.

God devours
What your heart is:
Purity.

3476

Human life is either
To conquer or surrender.
In between
There is nothing.

3477

The velocity of Love divine
My earth-life has to acquire.
The velocity of Compassion supreme
My Heaven-life has to acquire.

3478

He could not believe his eyes
When he saw this morning
On his body’s lethargy-head
A venomous mask
Left by his uninspired mind.

3479

My faith in God
Has taken up the challenge.
It will definitely transform
My confused mind’s confusion-room
Into God’s Illumination-Palace.

3480

Since you have thoroughly studied
The ignorance-history of man’s life,
Will you not start reading
The Compassion-History of God’s Love?

3481

Every day I am watching
A most soulful and powerful game.
It is a game that is played
By my heart’s consciousness-flames
And my Lord’s Consciousness-Sun.

3482

A poor seeker’s life
Goes up and down,
Topsy and turvy,
On the consciousness-trampoline.

3483

His days pass by
With futility’s
Helpless dreams
In the midst of God’s
Compassion-Rain.

3484

You are a real fool!
That is why you have purchased
A round-trip aspiration-ticket
Which will take you to Heaven
And return you to earth.

3485

When God rings your doorbell,
Go to answer the door
Immediately,
Carrying with you
Your mind’s hell.

3486

The impurity-mind
Of the outer world
And the insecurity-heart
Of the inner world
Are immediate neighbours.

3487

A life-division-hunger
Is nothing but a weakening
And crippling disease.

3488

What is an intellectual mind?
An intellectual mind
Is a mind that expedites
The arrival of futility.

3489

Look in your heart’s
Lost-and-found.
The unhorizoned Smile
Of God’s Vision-Eye
Is blossoming there.

3490

Who can demand
Your heart’s freedom-life
If you relinquish
Your aspiration-hunger?

3491

He has no particular eagerness
To live.
He has no particular eagerness
To die.
He has only one eagerness:
To see always
God’s Satisfaction.

3492

His life
And his life’s service-joy
Always remain inseparable.

3493

Every morning my Beloved Supreme
Teaches me a heart-melody
From His Compassion-Song.

3494

Why is your mind so critical?
Is it because your mind
Is empty of inner beauty
Or because your mind
Is full of outer ugliness?

3495

My Lord,
I have enough trouble
Of my own.
I really do not know
How I can solve others’ problems
While my own problems
Remain completely unsolved.

3496

This soulful world of ours
Desires constantly
Our prayerful efforts
To reveal our Inner Pilot.

3497

God has asked you
Not to worry.
He has not told you
To remain complacent.

3498

I always hear
A mountain-silence-song
Inside my soul’s heart-garden.

3499

Forgiveness and oneness
Are the two
Really satisfactory roads
That lead to peace-palace.

3500

I can be as beautiful
And as perfect as God.
This is a sweet God-secret
That God has revealed to me.

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