Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 37

3601

Each life has to become
A surrender-river
Before it can give what it has
And what it is
To the satisfaction-sea.

3602

If you want to become
A first-class member
Of surrender-society,
Then pray to God
To grant you
His blessingful Gift:
Wisdom-Flames.

3603

If you do not carry
All the time
Faith-key inside your heart,
The Supreme will not allow you
To become a member
Of His Heart-Transformation-Team.

3604

Who wants to possess a secret?
No, not God!
Who wants to reveal a secret?
Who else, if not man!

3605

Your life is a mountain
Of mere words
And not a fountain
Of self-giving deeds.

3606

In the inner world
If you are not prepared
To meet resistance,
That means you are not taking
The inner world seriously.

3607

God’s loyal servants
Are the perfection-cry
Of man’s heart
And the satisfaction-smile
Of man’s soul.

3608

I wanted to shake hands
With a responsible mind.
Alas, a stupid mind
Came up to me instead
To shake hands.

3609

Burn, burn
Your desire-comfort-pillow
So that you do not
Have to wallow
In the pleasures of ignorance-mire.

3610

His arrival on earth
Was beautiful.
His return from earth
Was fruitful.

3611

What does God do
On His day off?
He sorrowfully watches
The fragile friendship
Between man and the cosmic gods.

3612

If you want to stop
The strong bite
Of insecurity-insect,
Then immediately turn your life
Prayerfully and consciously
Into confidence-lion.

3613

You have not lost
Your God-realisation-timepiece.
You have just misplaced it.

3614

Is there any place on earth
With no problems?
Yes, there is a place on earth
With no problems,
And that place is not
A man-discovered place,
But a God-invented place.

3615

God equally treasures
My success-life
And my failure-life.
This is the very beginning
Of my God-realisation.

3616

Your clever mind does not want doubt
Because doubt is too expensive.
Your wise heart does not want doubt
Because doubt is too explosive.

3617

The heart with no certainty,
The mind with no purity,
The life with no divinity
Will never be allowed
To claim God.

3618

Start your aspiration-life
Immediately
If you ultimately want to become
A God-hungry man,
Sleeplessly and unconditionally.

3619

I was born to serve
In God’s outer world.
I was born not only to love
But also to become
In God’s inner world.

3620

Your mountain-problems
Will always remain
Because you treasure your mind’s
Himalayan doubts.

3621

I was always waiting,
I am always waiting,
I shall be always waiting
Only for one thing:
God’s complete Satisfaction
In me.

3622

To leap over life’s hurdles
You must discard all the pieces
Of your mind’s puzzle.

3623

I do admire your patience-heart,
But your speed-life
Is altogether a deplorable story.

3624

Unless you reclaim
Your eagerness-heart
And intensity-life,
How do you expect
God’s consistent Concern?

3625

He has no friend,
Not even
His ever-approachable
Loneliness.

3626

The strength of your folded hands
Can only be appreciated
By your aspiration-heart
And not by
Your suspicion-mind.

3627

Your mind-hat is so heavy.
Your mind-hat is so ugly.
Nevertheless, you are so fond
Of your mind-hat.

3628

There is only one
Failure-life
And that failure-life
Is when I feel God loves someone else
More than He loves me.

3629

If you subscribe
To inspiration-magazine,
God will before long grant you
The enjoyment of Heaven-adventure.

3630

Your life has fallen
Into a well of self-oblivion.
Therefore
Your soul’s illumination
Is unable to offer you
Its God-oneness-ecstasy.

3631

The only place to discard
Your wild emotion-flames
Is in God’s Forgiveness-Heart.

3632

Away with my desire-mind!
Away with my bondage-life!
I have now become
My upward-marching quest.

3633

God’s motto is,
“Wake up!”
Man’s motto is,
“Lord, do not give me up!”

3634

The misdeeds
Of man’s mind
Gave birth
To God’s Headache.

3635

If you are confined
To the useless thought-room,
How can God’s Fondness
Reach you?

3636

He houses at once
In his own heart
Earth’s soulful dreams
And
Heaven’s powerful vision.

3637

Be devoted
To your prayer-life
And be not attached
To the success-results
Of your efforts.

3638

If you do not have
Cheerfulness-escalator
To use,
Then definitely sadness
Will heavily weigh on you.

3639

You call it
Your self-confidence.
I call it
God’s Compassion-Satisfaction.

3640

Who does not know
That ignorance-life
Is not only an old story
But also an ever-told story?

3641

Soulfulness is undoubtedly
The beginning
Of a beautiful success
And a fruitful progress.

3642

God’s Compassion-Eye
Is always ready
To come to your immediate rescue.

3643

You will receive
The will-power-trophy
Only for your sleepless self-offering.

3644

To make you exceptionally
Great and good,
God is first granting you
The receptivity-award.

3645

Every day study faith-lesson.
It will help sustain you,
Even through your life’s
Darkest disasters.

3646

Your mind at once
Makes and receives
An endless chain of complaints
Every day.

3647

Only faith-soldiers
Can fight against
Endless doubt-enemies
And be ultimately victorious.

3648

God’s Ultimatum:
Either God for God’s sake
Or man for man’s destruction-choice.

3649

If you cannot afford
To renew each day
Your meditation-permit,
God will not grant you admittance
To His Satisfaction-Heart-Room.

3650

How can you make anybody happy,
How can you yourself be happy
When you are totally lost
On the island of indifference?

3651

Do not catch a falling star,
But catch the rising sun
And put it inside
Your aspiration-heart.

3652

Either you swim in the sea
Of soulful delight,
Or you will be caught in the grip
Of destruction-depression.

3653

The life that does not aspire
For God-realisation
Is not worth even
An empty eggshell.

3654

When you pray soulfully
And meditate powerfully,
You come to realise
That each heart
Is a beautiful bird of paradise.

3655

Surrender suffers no loss.
Surrender suffers no failure.
Surrender suffers no unworthiness.

3656

The mind’s main disease
Is that
It does not want to unlearn
Anything bad.

3657

Unless you have
A taste of aspiration-flames,
How will you value
God’s supreme Presence?

3658

Your sweetest dreams
Are founded upon
Purity’s oneness-heart.

3659

He enjoys
Only one thing:
The tide of his mind’s
Indifference-sea.

3660

Ignore your mind’s
Depression-cloud.
Dare to expect your heart’s
Cloudless satisfaction-smile.

3661

Aspiration is
A consciously widening opportunity
For golden possibilities.

3662

The death of division
And the breath of oneness
Mark the glorious beginning
Of liberation.

3663

Attachment-sickness-strings
Are extremely difficult
To break.

3664

Science secretly
Salutes nature
Without being seen.

3665

Believe it or not,
Insecurity is a sleepless hummingbird
In each unaspiring life.

3666

You chose death over life,
And now you enquire
Why life is not loving you
And why life is not
At your express command.

3667

Confidence is at once
A soulfully evolutionary force
In the inner world
And a powerfully revolutionary force
In the outer world.

3668

Truth-tree
Is not only unreachable
But also unbelievable
For the desire-bound mind.

3669

Never allow your mind
To misdirect
Your heart’s winged hopes.

3670

He started his spiritual journey
To be blessed
By illumination-shore.
But instead, alas,
He was embraced
By hesitation-shore.

3671

God places
His Heart’s Nectar-Crown
Upon the seeker’s
Selfless service-head.

3672

Your division-sickness
Has pained
Your inner life
And stained
Your outer life.

3673

Your fuzzy conceptions
Of God
Live next door
To your mind’s unruly deceptions.

3674

A heart of aspiration
And a mind of determination
Receive special Fondness-Blessings
From God.

3675

If you do not love God
Unconditionally,
There shall come a time
When you will have to surrender
To the brutal tyranny
Of ignorance-world.

3676

Love is
A universal tide
For a transcendental ascent.

3677

Every morning and evening
He runs
In the perfection-possibility-meadow.

3678

The world may forgive
Your crimes,
But the world will never forget
Your stupidity.

3679

Why are you threatening
Your life
Instead of illumining
Your heart?
Why?

3680

He lives in between
His changeable mind
And his unchangeable heart.

3681

He is ready to enjoy
Monarchy,
Even if it is the monarchy
Of misunderstanding.

3682

God allows only
The prayerful seekers
And soulful lovers
To eat free of charge
Every day
In His Consciousness-Bliss-Restaurant.

3683

God is begging you
To fill your mind-suitcase
With His supremely royal Garments.
And what are you doing?
You are just secretly hiding
Your teeming doubts
Inside your mind-suitcase.

3684

At last I am awakened,
Only to see my desire-life
Groaning in utter despair.

3685

He does not allow anybody
To accompany him
Except one permanent companion of his:
His heart’s inner poise.

3686

If you have a mind,
Then keep it always ready
To receive from God.

If you have a heart,
Then keep it always ready
To hold God.

3687

You may see yourself alone
When you are at the foot
Of the aspiration-mountain.
But you will definitely
Feel yourself alone
When you are on the highest peak
Of the mountain.

3688

You are looking for the place
Where hope is.
Do you know where it is?
It is inside the fire
Of your determination-eye.

3689

You can always do more.
This is what my Beloved Supreme
Tells me
Before I do,
While I am doing,
And after I have finished.

3690

In the four corners
Of my heart-garden
Whom did I see?
I saw God the Dreamer
And nobody else.

3691

Do not ignore him!
He has come from the Supreme’s
Golden Shore
To allow you to become a student
In his illumination-class.

3692

I really do not know
How I can believe God
When He tells me
That my mind has
The same capacity as my heart
In cultivating
Purity and divinity.

3693

Because you order
From ignorance-menu,
The satisfaction-eye of the Master
Remains utterly unavailable.

3694

Do not drag
Your doubt and despair
Into your aspiration-life
If you ever want to become
God’s sacred ambassador
On earth.

3695

You have triumphantly passed
Your life-examination
Because you have not ignored
Your poverty-stricken heart
Or your voracious vital-appetite.

3696

Along the heart-path
No hesitation-walker
Is permitted to walk.

3697

One of the many things
That the higher worlds deliberately
Do not show us:
Their indifference to the mortal world.

3698

What did you give God today?
I am sure you have given Him
Your heart’s insecurity-insect.

3699

God’s favourite meal
Consists of my heart’s
Gratitude-tears
And my life’s
Satisfaction-smile.

3700

God Himself will broadcast
Your inner progress
And outer success
If you just claim God
To be your only
Surrender-breath.

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