Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 42

4101

Remember your first and foremost
Promise to God,
That you will become at once
The breath of God’s Cry
And the life of God’s Smile.

4102

Don’t argue with God.
Why do you forget
That He is much older than you
And therefore
He has much more experience
Than you have?

4103

Even if you are a late arriver
At God’s Blessing-Feast,
God does not mind.
You must always join
God’s Blessing-Feast
When you are invited.

4104

If you are
Completely awakened,
Then for you
There is but one way:
God’s Way,
Only God’s Way.

4105

God will amaze you
By doing everything for you
Unconditionally,
And you will amaze God
Just by telling Him
That you will do one thing for Him
Unconditionally.

4106

At long last
Wisdom-light has dawned
In my aspiration-heart:
I shall make my Beloved Supreme
My conscious and constant
Decision-Maker.

4107

How much
Have I humbly done for God?
I do not know
And I do not want to know.
How much
God has compassionately done
For me
God does not want to know
Either.

4108

Happiness left his heart
Because his mind
Deliberately embraced
The sighs of loneliness.

4109

My Lord,
I have not been able
To please You,
True.
But I tell You
In all sincerity,
I have been all along
Meaning to please You.

4110

Alas,
I am waiting for the inevitable
Realisation-day
Without giving a peak performance
In my aspiration-dedication-world.

4111

Do you think only you
Are entitled to change
Your mind?
What is wrong if God also
Wants to change His Mind?

4112

Consciously ally yourself
With God.
You will see
That God’s Compassion-Eye
Will end the eclipse
Of your heart.

4113

My heart has such compassion
For my mind
That it never criticises my mind
Even when it is totally out of tune
With my heart’s God-songs.

4114

When God visited you last night,
How is it
That you forgot to ask Him
To grant you
A flood of surrender-light?

4115

He is competing
For his self-transcendence-trophies
After he has educated himself
At the university of surrender.

4116

If you are not obedient
To your concentration-coach,
You will never be able
To reach your destination
As a victor.

4117

Unless you have faith
In abundant measure,
Someday you may be paralysed
By suspicion-phantoms.

4118

Alas,
I really do not want
To shuttle
Back and forth
From a mind of sound
To a heart of silence.

4119

If your mind is anchored
In an agnostic abyss,
How will you ever be able
To bathe in the sea
Of gnostic light?

4120

A self-giving heart-flower
Neither withers
Nor perishes
With the passage of time.

4121

God has created
His Excellence-Delight in you.
How is it
That you are not using it
For yourself?

4122

A bigger problem
Than the mind’s non-acceptance
Of light
Is not visible on earth.

4123

God hears
The soulful prayers of a seeker
Not only with great Readiness
But also with immediate Oneness.

4124

The things that I do not know,
My Lord Supreme knows for me.
The things that He wants me to know
Are more than enough for me.

4125

You do not need
A long preparation
For God the Peace
To enter into you.
Just cheerfully claim Him
As your own
As soon as He enters.

4126

God’s silence-messengers
Are those
Who are commissioned
By God Himself
To manifest Him most powerfully
On earth.

4127

You will be defeated
In the battlefield of life
Unless you stop
Groaning and moaning
In your self-styled
Ignorance-sleep.

4128

God will show you
The map to Heaven.
Just cease to be
A talking mind
And become
A self-giving heart.

4129

I love your soul’s
God-entrusted promises,
But I never like your life’s
Opportunity-craving compromises.

4130

I surrender to the Supreme
Not because I feel I am helpless,
But because I feel
His Oneness-Delight is something
I have all along been craving
In my own life.

4131

A very sad case of unpreparedness
Tortured his entire being
When God came and stood before him
Uninvited.

4132

You are slow
In turning to God.
I tell you,
This can never be
Your real capacity.

4133

He who is a God-lover
Has already been entrusted
With faster-than-the-fastest speed
By God the Supreme Beloved.

4134

To realise God
In His transcendental Heights,
Each seeker must have
A very long-range
Aspiration-programme.

4135

If you do not break down
Your mind’s resistance-wall,
Then yours will be
A dry and dust-filled life.

4136

Good news for God:
Man loves Him.
Good news for man:
God needs him.

4137

A life of failure
Is an oft-told story.
Neither God’s Compassion
Nor man’s aspiration
Wants to hear it.

4138

If you have failed
In your heart’s gratitude-run,
Remember
That there are other races to run.
Why not try
Your life’s surrender-run
Immediately?
I am sure you will win it
Triumphantly!

4139

You may see the sun set
On your yesterday’s failures
If you want to.
But you must see the sun rise
On your today’s determined effort.

4140

God’s Compassion
Only hires,
And even His Justice
Does not fire.

4141

If you allow your vital and mind
To be hypnotised by desire-life,
There is nobody on earth
Who can liberate you
From this deplorable hypnotism.

4142

Yes, it is true
That God is always busy.
But He is never too busy
To listen to your heart’s cry.

4143

My Lord,
My outer promotions
Have taken away all my aspiration.
Please give me an inner promotion
So that my aspiration and I
Will never part.

4144

If it is really God’s Road,
Then the Road itself
Will help you to run on it
Instead of standing or walking.

4145

Alas,
My impurity-mind
Is always overweight.
Alas,
My gratitude-heart
Is always underweight.

4146

If Heaven is not ready
To give you its blessingful love,
Then how do you think
Earth will be ready
To give you its powerful appreciation?

4147

Because of your soul’s
Oneness-surrender to God’s Will,
God has allowed your soul
To cash His Satisfaction-Checks.

4148

My life is homesick
For Heaven.
My heart is homesick
For God.
And I am homesick
For silence-sea.

4149

There is still time
For my stupid mind
To unlearn
And for my sleeping heart
To learn.

4150

If you scatter indecision-dust
Before you,
How can you speedily run
Towards your satisfaction-destination?

4151

Because of your disobedience
Your mind cannot separate itself
From guilt.
Because of your disobedience
Your heart feels
That God lives without it.

4152

You are your sick mind.
Therefore, you do not realise
That you are living
In the inferno of sweltering pride,
And nowhere else.

4153

God’s Compassion-River
Never runs dry.
This is a common experience
Of each and every passenger
In God’s Golden Boat.

4154

Desire-road
Is full of dead-end signs.
Aspiration-highway
Does not believe in a speed limit.

4155

My mind’s doubt-car
Had a very serious collision
With my heart’s faith-train.

4156

The shadow of sorrow
Descended upon his life
Right after he entered
Into a turbulent vital-sea.

4157

In human life
Self-pity-prison-experience
Is common and universal.

4158

If you have to whisper
In God’s Ear,
Then whisper only one thing:
That you are going to please God
Unconditionally.

4159

The human mind is scared to death
When it is asked
To tune in to God’s Silence-Station.

4160

If you really want to succeed
In your outer life
And proceed in your inner life,
Then keep your life’s dedication-door
Wide open.

4161

He was a favourite hero-soldier
Of the Supreme.
Therefore, he was invited to come
To Heaven’s palace
Through Heaven’s back door.

4162

There shall come a time
When humanity’s pride
Will be dwarfed
By its humility-giant.

4163

Since the day I increased
My willingness-mileage,
God has given me the capacity
To completely ignore
Ignorance-glance.

4164

Although he started
His spiritual journey
With a very poor background
In self-giving,
Now constant self-giving
And his life
Have become synonymous.

4165

A gratitude-heart
Is only a very short distance away
From God-Victory.

4166

An uncertainty-mind
Is immediately followed
By its worst possible failure-foe.

4167

Because you trust God
In everything that you do and say,
You have God the Treasure
And God the Treasurer
At the same time
At your disposal.

4168

The length of God’s Smile
Shall always remain
An uncharted Vision-Reality
In God’s Garden
Of Heaven-free Delight.

4169

Remember your promise!
You are determined to break
Your mind’s resistance-wall.

4170

Soulfully you must step
Into your new future,
Where your expectation-life
Has completely surrendered
To God’s Satisfaction-Delight
In God’s own Way.

4171

God’s commitment is to give you
Everything that He has and is
Provided you and your heart
Become prayerful longings.

4172

What can the poor human life do
When the death-hour arrives?
It has to lie hopeless and helpless
Before death’s door.

4173

You are waiting for God
To arrive.
But do you not think
That by going to God yourself
You can give God
A great surprise?

4174

The ancient world’s
Silence-light
Is still guiding the modern world
Of sickening suspicion-night.

4175

How can you forget
That your life came to nothing
Because you treasured blindly
Your limitation-life?

4176

If you are not well-prepared
For God’s arrival,
No harm!
Just keep your heart’s door
Wide open.
God will be satisfied.

4177

Each God-thought
Eventually awakens a God-seeker
To God’s transcendental Vision.

4178

You have simply no idea
How sad you have made God
By allowing yourself to be hit
By the torpedo of self-doubt.

4179

You can buy God back
With only one gift,
And that gift is
Your heart’s gratitude-flower.

4180

The hardest thing
For man to give up
Is his conscious feeling
Of his life’s insecurity.

4181

Now that you have learnt
To be occupied spiritually,
Nobody will see you floundering
In the outer life.

4182

Any good thing,
Any divine dream,
Can never be hidden
From humanity’s big eye.

4183

I shall definitely
Cease to be sad,
For my sadness
Makes my Beloved Supreme mad.

4184

Can I ever do this?
Can I ever say that I live
Only for God’s Life
And God lives
Only for my heart?

4185

The soul is all compassion,
But when it sees
That the mind has become
Total unwillingness
And the heart has become
Total cheerlessness,
Then the soul complains to God.

4186

Nobody will accept you
In his aspiration-dedication-boat
If you are going to carry with you
All your ignorance-baggage.

4187

If I cannot feel you on earth
Inside my heart,
Will I ever find you in Heaven
With my soul?

4188

You have an outstanding mind.
But from your outstanding mind
I am not going to get
Anything soulful.

You have an astounding heart.
From your astounding heart
I shall not only get
Everything soulful
But also everything fruitful.

4189

If you sow gratitude-seeds
Inside your heart,
Then definitely you will see
Dedication-flames
That will grow up and up
And eventually grow into
A perfection-sun.

4190

Your soon-to-be-successful life
Will before long be
The only cause
Of your destruction-death.

4191

In God’s God-Manifestation-Army
Everybody has
A cheerful, powerful and fruitful
Volunteer-force.

4192

Deliberately you have allowed
Confusion to stab you,
So it is absurd for illumination
To try to befriend you.

4193

A God-realised life
Is the only satisfaction-fruit
Of God’s Promise-Tree.

4194

Why have you allowed your mind
To play host to uncomely thoughts?
Can you not see now
That ignorance-prince
Is intimidating you
To make you his intimate friend?

4195

Imperfection’s overdressed
Self-indulgence-ego
Has capsized his life-boat
Long before it was due
To reach its destination.

4196

Humanity’s thickening
Unwillingness-web
Is saddening the compassion-willingness
Of divinity.

4197

If you are assisted
By your soul-assertion,
Then the complete revelation
Of your inner life
Cannot remain a far cry.

4198

How can you ever wear
Victory’s crown
When you keep your enthusiasm-flag
At half-mast?

4199

Because you do not have
An iota of love for God,
Your future happiness-hope
And your mental hallucination-reality
Will always go together.

4200

One thing I ask God:
Am I not His?
One thing I tell God:
I am all for Him.

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