Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 43

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4201

God’s golden Dreams
One by one
Have entered into my heart’s
Aspiration-cry.

4202

Even the cosmic gods
Are justly accused
Of envying the great awakening
Of superlative seekers.

4203

When are you going
To see and feel
That your vital-tiger
Has completely devoured
Your heart-lamb?

4204

My only capacity:
My Lord’s constant
Compassion-Receptivity.

4205

When are you going to stop
Existing like a useless human being?
When are you going to start
Living like a saint?

4206

God the Compassion
Always comes before
God the Love.
This is my unmistakable realisation.

4207

I want to live
Inside the rapture-palace
Of your heart
And not
Inside the torture-chamber
Of your mind.

4208

I seem to remember
That I was once
A most favourite instrument
Of God.
Alas, those golden days
Are no more in my possession!

4209

Far beyond my “Yes” and “No”
Is God’s
Infinite Forgiveness-Light
For me.

4210

What is faith?
Faith is obedience.
And what is obedience?
Obedience is
Conscious oneness-recognition
Of one’s highest height.

4211

My heart
Is a Heaven-blessed dream
And an earth-born reality.

4212

If you pray for others,
God will definitely ask you
To claim His Infinity’s Love
As your very own.

4213

Nothing can you call your own,
For you have not become one,
Lovingly one,
Inseparably one,
With the Owner of everything.

4214

Do you know
What my soul does?
My soul laughs and laughs
When I think ignorance-night
Is going to devour me.

4215

O eye of my soul,
Do help me
To be as wide awake
As you are
All the time.

4216

We can never love
God the Compassion
And God the Forgiveness
To excess.

4217

Where will I ever find
A true friend
Who will help me
In awakening my aspiration-sun
Inside my heart’s sky?

4218

There is no turning back
Once you accept God
For God-Satisfaction’s sake
And earth for God-Compassion’s sake.

4219

My Beloved Supreme
Offered me His All.
Alas, I foolishly declined it.
Now I have become a perfect stranger
Even to myself.

4220

Something that money
Can never buy:
God’s Satisfaction-Smile.

4221

The human mind
Knows doubt as a destination.
But this destination
Is nothing but confusion
Mixed with illusion!

4222

A wise seeker
Has a special kind of fear —
He is afraid of losing God.
Therefore
He does not do anything
Undivine.

4223

His identity he will reveal
Not through the power
Of his mouth
But through the light
Of his heart.

4224

You have recognised many things
In life,
But one thing
You have yet to recognise:
That you have betrayed yourself.

4225

You do not pray,
You do not meditate
Regularly.
How can you then expect
Your heart’s telephone line
To God’s Heart
To work?

4226

Unless you have a purity-life
And a sincerity-heart,
God will not keep you
On His Attendance List.

4227

If you gaze and gaze
Down the road of nostalgia-pleasure,
You will arrive at nothing.

4228

A doubting mind
And a strangling vital
Are two cunning agents
Of the dark forces in your life.

4229

God is always anxious
To measure
Your self-transcendence-steps.

4230

One noble thought
Can certainly conquer
The powerful strength
Of insecurity.

4231

Always
It takes time,
Energy
And practice
To become a very special truth-seeker
And God-lover.

4232

Your implicit faith in God
Is God’s Satisfaction-Smile
In His Perfection-Vision-Reality.

4233

If you do not compel
Your doubting mind
To starve to death,
How can you ever be happy?

4234

I shall keep my Beloved Supreme
Unconditionally happy
Inside my heart’s aspiration-flames.

4235

My aspiration-heart
Longs to be one with God’s creation
As a new friend,
An illumining brother
And a fulfilling soul.

4236

As tomorrow and never
Are two neighbours,
Even so,
Now and forever
Are two neighbours.

4237

If you do not force
Your doubts to retreat,
You will be forced
Not only to minimise
But also to diminish
Your heart’s receptivity.

4238

He has gone
Beyond, beyond, beyond
Virtue and vice.
Therefore
He has mastered the capacity
To leap over his ego’s hurdles.

4239

From the heart
Of his sweet sorrows
He is receiving
Nectar-peace.

4240

The wise man’s
Faithful and fulfilling friend
Is his own self-giving life.

4241

His heart of devotion
And his life of surrender
Every day are accustomed
To running together
Towards their supreme destination.

4242

Alas,
In spite of my heart’s pitiful cry,
I find my life
In a dizzy whirlpool of despair.

4243

Your attachment to pleasure-life
Is the cause of your losing
All your inner power of delight.

4244

A true God-lover’s mind
Must always learn
The language of his soul’s
Silence-joy.

4245

You have become blind
By your mental reasoning.
You have become lame
By not fulfilling
Your psychic awakening.

4246

Even when your mind
Is only a little hungry,
You die to feed your mind.
But when your heart
Is literally starving,
You have no time
And no willingness
To feed your heart.

4247

His heart’s aspiration-cries
Are private matters
Between him and his Lord Supreme.

4248

I am going to touch your feet,
Not because
You have done something very great,
But because
I see you clearly
Touching my Lord’s Feet
Every day.

4249

You do not have to walk
Down your mind’s anxiety-alley.
You can easily walk along
Your heart’s sunlit road.

4250

Try to fool your jealousy-feelings
By pretending every day
To be a oneness-heart.
I tell you,
A day will come
When you will be freed
From your jealousy’s division-world.

4251

Every day try to practise
Your heart’s gratitude-lesson
To lessen God’s Burden.

4252

Your mind should feel sorry
For its over-population
And your heart should feel sorry
For its under-population.

4253

I may not know many things,
But of one thing
I am absolutely certain:
God will someday give me the capacity
To end my desire-game.

4254

I feel sorry
That you have been bitten
So mercilessly
By the temptation-snake.
But I tell you,
Your heart’s illumination-sun
Will someday cure you.

4255

He who is conquered
By desire
Is immediately invited
By the temptation-life
Of hell.

4256

Unless you have
Fierce determination-fire
Inside you,
Your mind’s confusion
Will not be able to arrive
At any solution.

4257

Unless you have the authority
To command your mind,
How are you going
To expand your heart?

4258

I admire
Your untiring progress-march.
I love
God’s Satisfaction-Delight
In the heart of your perfection-journey.

4259

You must always keep
A discriminating eye
On your mind’s thought-door.

4260

I want to celebrate
God’s Victory-Day.
My Lord wants to celebrate
My life’s surrender-day.

4261

Your mental life
Is blundering.
Your vital life
Is thundering.
Your psychic life
Is crying.

4262

Where will it take you,
Your sincerity-life?
You want to know.
It will not only take you
To God’s Palace,
But also place you
Inside His Satisfaction-Heart.

4263

A doubtful mind
And a fearful heart
Are two danger signs.
Do not disregard
These two danger signs
In life.

4264

Have no compassion
For ugly thought-flies.
As soon as you see them
Nearing you,
Brush them away!

4265

Your mind’s criticism-crimes
Have removed
Beauty’s rainbow-dawn
From your heart.

4266

Why suffer?
Can you not ask God
To grant you His Oneness-Delight?
I tell you,
He is all ready!

4267

My faith in God
Has enormously helped me
To terminate my close relationship
With insecurity.

4268

The dawn of my new life
Is helping me
To climb over
My unknown fear-mountain.

4269

The day I surrendered
My life’s division-ego-mind
To God’s Compassion-Eye,
I became a passenger
In God’s fast-sailing
Satisfaction-Boat.

4270

Do
What makes you happy.
Become
What makes God happy.

4271

Not only things human
But also things divine
Lose their fruitfulness
If they are not used.

4272

To surrender to God
Is to hear God
Practising His Vision-Melody
In your aspiration-heart.

4273

Bring your contradiction-mind
Only to God,
For He alone has the capacity
To grant you an illumination-mind
The way He has already given you
An illumination-soul.

4274

My faith and I have decided
To inspire my doubt
To commit suicide
To lessen the world’s confusion.

4275

I have two new desires:
One is to serve
Divinity in humanity,
And the other is to love
Humanity in divinity.

4276

In the garden of my heart’s gratitude,
God is performing His supreme Role
Of watching me, loving me
And liberating me from ignorance-dream.

4277

I am learning something important
About humility:
Humility is man’s conscious
Divinity-oneness
With God’s entire creation.

4278

You must break the chains
Of your old thoughts
If you want your heart to reach out
And touch the Satisfaction-Tree
Of God’s Life.

4279

Gladness tells me
That time is faster
Than the fastest consciousness-plane.
Sadness tells me
That time is slower
Than the slowest inconscience-snake.

4280

The seeker’s aspiration-flames
Are bound to arise, shine
And touch the Saviour’s
Salvation-Feet.

4281

God gave you the mind
To transcend itself
And not to engage in
A completely complicated analysis.

4282

He has kept a truth-protecting guard
On his mind’s
Deplorably stupid carelessness.

4283

What I need
Is an inspiration-voice
To call me back
To my aspiration-life.

4284

What is integrity
If not the flowering
Of the soul’s beauty
In the entire being?

4285

You must not waste your time
In weakling hopes of happiness
Any more.
Always look for powerful hopes
And happiness will be all yours.

4286

God does not mind
When you spy on Him,
But He does mind
When you spy on any creation-life
Of His.

4287

He has thrown open
His hope-door
And compelled
His failure-life
To fall into
A deep oblivion-chasm.

4288

The lovers of Infinity and Eternity
Are always instructed
By their inner teacher:
Faith.

4289

This unaspiring body
Is weighing down my poor soul
Far beyond my imagination.

4290

Your delinquent desires
Have unfortunately created
False confidence in you.

4291

To distrust others at every moment
Is no inconsequential inner crime.
Indeed, it is a very serious crime!

4292

Don’t hide your doubts.
Illumine them for the benefit of the world.
The world will not only
Admire your mind
But also love your heart.

4293

The agony of uncertainty
Is apt to frustrate
All human beings,
Either in the spiritual life
Or in the ordinary life.

4294

For a human mind
To live inside a chaos-cave
Is not an unusual experience.

4295

The clever mind
Observes.
The pure heart
Serves.

4296

Unless you realise
That your earth-bound mind
Is not competent to realise God,
You will not become
A most intimate friend
Of your heart.

4297

Mental developments
Quite often prove to have
Very shallow and shabby foundations.

4298

If you are starving
For God,
How can the world’s gossip-food
Ever satisfy you?

4299

Your thirsty expectations
Are all ruined
Because your vital
Is a wall of stubbornness.

4300

My Lord,
When You forgive me,
What happens, You know:
I not only feel Your Heartbeat
Inside my heart,
But I also feel
That Your Compassion-Universe
Is my salvation-universe.

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