Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 46

4501

God unconditionally loves
Each and every human being.
Indeed, this is a divine mystery
That no human mind can ever fathom.

4502

Death will not delay its arrival.
Therefore
Play your cosmic game
And complete it as soon as possible!

4503

My Lord is thinking of me more
Because my love for Him
Is now flawless.

4504

God has not chosen
Your doubtful mind
To serve Him.
He has chosen only
Your aspiring heart
To love Him,
Serve Him
And fulfil Him.

4505

How long
Will you allow your heart
To remain discouraged?
Can you not energise your heart
To run faster than the fastest?

4506

Do you seek none but God?
Then definitely
God loves you most.

4507

God is sad
When He hears that you feel
There are divine things
In His creation
Which you cannot attain.

4508

First you need the strength
To be faithful in your heart.
Then you need the strength
To be perfect in your life.

4509

Alas,
My earthbound mind
Is suffering
From my heart’s
Ingratitude-life.

4510

You have strengthened
Your confidence in God.
That means
Your life has visibly become
God’s Satisfaction-Light.

4511

To please God in my own way
I go to God with empty hands.
To please God in God’s own Way
I go to God with an empty heart.

4512

Opportunity
Is going to touch your feet
If you are ready
To remain stationed carefully
In God’s Heart.

4513

He is his heart’s
Secret tears.
He is his life’s
Sacred mind.

4514

You have been invited
To attend a cosmic dance
In Heaven.
That means you are far above
The attack of ignorance-lance.

4515

When will the world-heart smile,
When?
The world-heart needs illumination.

When will the world-mind cry,
When?
The world-mind needs purification.

4516

If you ceaselessly seek
A simplicity-life
And a purity-heart,
You will definitely expedite
Your God-journey.

4517

Never be disappointed
If you see that your first steps
In your spiritual life
Are feeble.

4518

Alas, he no longer appreciates
His aspiration-course.
Alas, he is completely obedient
To his false inner messages.

4519

I live
Where Love divine lives,
And that is inside
My purity’s heart-garden.

4520

A doubting mind
Is an undeveloped
And unevolved state
Of consciousness-reality.

4521

An aspiring life
Never forgets
God’s Compassion-Light
And never regrets
Its past failures.

4522

When I think of God,
I feel that God’s Love for me
Is His unconditional Guarantee.

4523

Do you not see
That your vital is more insistent
Than a swarm of insects
In disturbing and ruining
Your heart’s poise?

4524

God can be seen
Even by the poorest fool,
But not by the self-styled,
God-arguing
Intellectual giants.

4525

If you do not have the courage
To be sincere,
How can you expect God
To be the Writer
Of your life-story?

4526

God is not going to pass through
The thick wall
Of your disobedience-mind.
No, never!
You may wait for Eternity,
But all in vain.

4527

True, your aspiration-elevator
Has come down
And touched the ground floor.
But you can easily bring it up
Once again
To the top floor.

4528

God’s biggest Headache
Is not my desire-life
But my unwillingness to accept
The aspiration-life.

4529

I agree,
You can easily scale
My heart’s aspiration-height.
But I tell you,
You can never scale
The whole height
Of my soulful life.

4530

Hell speaks
Through your suspicion-mind.
Heaven speaks
Through your aspiration-heart.

4531

Since you are drowning
In luxury-sea,
How can you be found
In God’s Ecstasy-Ocean?

4532

If you are a great God-lover,
Then every day
Your aspiration-heart
Needs a tune-up.

4533

Wherever your heart goes,
Do not allow your jealous mind
To follow,
For your mind can do great harm
To your soul’s perfection-beauty.

4534

You have travelled far
And you have found nothing.
Why?
Because you have walked along the path
Of your doubting mind.

4535

You fool!
Why are you still dragging
Your lifeless and useless
Vital-tiger
Along your soul’s sunlit path?

4536

My Lord Supreme,
May my heart’s surrender-life
Blossom every day
At Your Compassion-Feet.

4537

God has given me a new task.
He wants me to measure
Carefully and impartially
The depth of my self-giving heart.

4538

My heart feels miserable
When it has to live
With its strangling vital
And its doubting mind
Inside the body-room.

4539

Now that you have gone out
Of your heart’s obedience-room,
You will be devoured by the tiger
Of your mind’s doubt-forest.

4540

Because you guard your heart
With your soul’s illumination-power,
Yours will be the life
Of Himalayan triumph.

4541

Since you yourself
Do not trust your mind,
Quite often your service-life
Is God’s stupendous Satisfaction-Delight.
This is what God has been telling you
All the time.

4542

To humiliate a fellow seeker
Is to ruin
One’s own perfection-performance
On the life-stage.

4543

I love and need God sleeplessly.
This realisation is possible
Only in my perfection-dreams.

4544

God has given me a heart.
But alas,
I do not know how to teach my heart
To cry like an infant
For God’s Compassion-Eye.

4545

I am exceedingly proud of you!
At long last
You have brought your impurity-vital
Under control.

4546

You do not have to be
The fastest starter.
Just be a starter!
You will, without fail,
Reach your destination-sun.

4547

A true devotee knows
That inside his heart
Will always be found
The dance of his aspiration-sunbeams.

4548

Indifference
Is the last resort
When a spiritual Master sees
That a particular seeker
Is an absolutely hopeless case.

4549

A God-lover is he
Whose heart and life have become
A ceaselessly flowing
And self-giving river.

4550

O my mind,
You can do something infinitely better
Than suspecting my purity-heart.

4551

You do not want to know
How much affection, love and surrender
You gave to God.
Indeed, this is a clear sign
Of your progress.

4552

It is unfair
To judge your life
Only by your today’s
Deplorable performance.

4553

Because you have shunned the company
Of your old friend,
Ignorance-night,
God is teaching you today
The Dance of His Beauty’s Life.

4554

Unless you shorten
Your life’s frustration-line,
Your heart can never be happy.

4555

Be careful!
Your inner progress
Is very fragile.
Carelessly
Do not destroy it!

4556

Your aspiration-passport
To paradise
Has definitely expired.
You must renew it
As soon as possible
If you want a free access
To delight-world.

4557

He lives inside
The citadel of purity.
Therefore
A life of divinity
Cannot remain a far cry.

4558

If you sincerely mourn
Your vanished inner progress,
Then God will definitely give you
Another chance to become perfect
And remain perfect.

4559

If you want to be
A choice instrument of God,
Then plant aspiration-dedication-virtues
In your soul’s inner soil.

4560

I can ignore everything
Except one thing:
The cry of my neglected heart.

4561

You are longing for the birth
Of a brighter future.
Then do not be afraid
Of your daily
Spiritual struggle-hurdles.

4562

Your new self
Is knocking at God’s Liberation-Door.
Indeed,
This is your supreme achievement.

4563

Mine is the aspiration-heart
That every day
Longs to sport
On my life’s progress-mountain.

4564

I shall see only two plants
In my garden of tomorrow:
My gratitude-heart-plant
And my surrender-life-plant.

4565

Impurity
And its suffocating embrace
Can never be separated.

4566

Each living breath of his
Is flourishing
In the rich soil of aspiration.

4567

What is uncertainty?
It is the false dance
Of the mind’s deplorable anxiety.

4568

The sound-life
Has many, many questions.
The silence-life
Has not only the answers
But also the best answers.

4569

The effulgence of Heaven
Is not for you,
For you have already fallen
Into the self-indulgence trap.

4570

Now that you have dethroned
Your doubt-king,
You have a new king
Who will guide you
And satisfy you,
And that new king
Is your heart’s faith.

4571

I deeply admire your capacity
To transform the frustration-jungle
Into a satisfaction-garden.

4572

Your insecurity-heart
Foolishly expects to be honoured
In the aspiration-academy.

4573

You are cultivating
Your progress-plants.
Therefore, God has invited you
To board the satisfaction-plane.

4574

Your aspiration-heart
Is the most adequate tranquilliser
To stop the trembling hand
Of fear.

4575

When will you be exhausted
From your useless,
Excessive self-thought,
When?

4576

If you shine from within,
You will never be attacked
By feeble human love.

4577

I march only
In my heart’s purity-parade
And my life’s surrender-parade.

4578

Now that you have thrown
Your doubt-ball
Far away,
Yours will be the heart that runs
From victory to victory.

4579

To say that I shall not try
To be perfect
Any more
Is an unforgivable offence
Against God the Compassion.

4580

Be quiet, O my mind!
God is now having a serious talk
With my surrender-heart
And my gratitude-life.

4581

What will you accomplish
By treasuring yesterday’s dreams?
You have to treasure
Only today’s reality.

4582

Alas, you do not realise
That your soul-bird is always ready
To shelter your heart
Under its beautiful and powerful wings.

4583

Nobody is going to buy
Your mind’s thought-fabric,
Nobody!
Everybody wants the adamantine will
Of your perfection-garden.

4584

God’s Compassion
And my aspiration
Have most cheerfully agreed
To become inseparably one.

4585

The deadline was
The day before yesterday,
But God gave you
Another chance yesterday,
And today He is giving you
Still another chance
Out of His infinite Compassion.
This time do not disappoint Him!
Please Him in His own Way
For your immortal satisfaction.

4586

It is indeed a great blessing
To take human birth.
It is indeed a greater satisfaction
When God can manifest Himself
Uninterrupted,
In His own Way,
In and through you.

4587

Instead of illumining the world-heart,
He confuses the world-mind
When he tells the world
That he has lost
His God-realisation.

4588

The hostile forces
Are untouchable!
This is what you have to convince
Your entire being.

4589

The same old story!
You are nothing
But the dissatisfaction
Of your dark desire-life.

4590

The greatest misery
In a seeker’s life
Is when he finds it impossible
To give up his disobedience-life.

4591

If you visit God’s cosmic Vision-Garden,
Will you not enjoy
God’s sacred Heart-Fragrance?

4592

If you do not
Come to the aid of your soul
When it fights against ignorance-night,
Then you and your soul
Will be equal losers.

4593

Where were you
When God so compassionately
Served His unconditional Delight-Meal?
Everybody else came.
Where were you?

4594

Since you have the strongest desire
To be invited by God,
Then breathe in
By far the greatest prayer:
Patience-light.

4595

Good news from Heaven:
Heaven will teach me
How to feel
God’s Heart on earth.

Good news from earth:
Earth will teach me
How to touch
God’s Feet in Heaven.

4596

It is entirely your own fault
That you are deliberately avoiding
The inner struggle
To discipline your life.

4597

Now that you have closed
Your mind’s complaint-door,
Your heart’s hunger
For God’s Satisfaction-Feast
Is bound to increase.

4598

A sincere mind
Dwells on God.
A pure heart
Dwells in God.

4599

I have come back
To my heart-country,
And I am feeding myself
With my soul’s
Selflessness-fragrance.

4600

You have claimed God
As your very own.
This is indeed
God’s greatest Satisfaction.

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