Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 50

4901

My Lord,
You have given me
The capacity to cry.
My Lord,
You have given me
The capacity to smile.
Now please give me the capacity
To have purity inside my cry
And beauty inside my smile.

4902

If you want to be
The possessor of happiness,
Then you have to become
The cheerful renouncer of possessions,
If so is the Will of God.

4903

Your heart of implicit faith
Has the capacity
To increase God’s Inspiration-Joy
For a better creation.

4904

Many times
God has given you the opportunity
To prove to the world
That you are His choice instrument.
Alas, you are afraid
That you are not going to succeed!

4905

If you are going
To see God today,
Then please tell Him
That although the world
Does not want me
And does not need me,
It is not allowing me
To go and see Him.

4906

If you do not have
An inspiration-mind,
You will not be able to appreciate
The beauty of God the creation.

If you do not have
An aspiration-heart,
You will not be able to adore
The Divinity of God the Creator.

4907

He who wants
To be appreciated by God
Desires a mind of sound.

He who wants
To love God in God’s own Way
Desires a heart of silence.

4908

Search for the source
Of your smile.
You will see that the Source
Is God’s own Aspiration-Cry.

4909

Every human being
Has a special capacity
To create troubles for himself
In season and out of season.

4910

If you are suspicious
Of your friends,
You will be forced to destroy
Your purity-heart and oneness-life.

4911

If you can make
A spiritual comeback,
You will definitely have a way
To win Forgiveness-Light from God.

4912

His life has given him
An unforgettable experience:
The futility of austerities.

4913

God the Compassion
Gives us the opportunity.
Man the determination
Has to choose
The right thing to do.

4914

Each aspiration-second
Is a fast God-approaching day.
Indeed,
This is a supreme experience
In a seeker’s life.

4915

Wherever You go, my Lord Supreme,
Do not forget
To give me the capacity
To follow You
Not only cheerfully, but also selflessly.

4916

If you are the Buddha of today,
Why do I not see
Your compassion-eye?

If you are the Christ of today,
Why do I not feel
Your forgiveness-heart?

If you are the Krishna of today,
Why do I not see
Your life’s ecstasy-dance?

4917

Your sincerity
And your determination
Must not only fight with your ego
But also conquer it
Once and for all.

4918

If you fan the fires of temptation,
There will be no way for you
To receive help
Either from Heaven’s Compassion-Eye
Or from earth’s consolation-heart.

4919

You have started quickly.
Now you have to run fast,
Very fast.
So that you can reach
Your destination-shore
Sooner than you can possibly imagine.

4920

If you want to walk
Along the road of Immortality,
Then you must not allow
Your immortal life-faults
To accompany you.

4921

An insincere life
Is bound to experience
The unexpected collapse
Of its aspiration-edifice.

4922

God has promised you
That He will meet your needs
Alas, He forgot to tell you
That He will meet only your real needs.

4923

He is extremely happy
Because he has become
The marriage of his heart’s love
And his life’s service.

4924

Good things are never easy:
To think of God soulfully,
To love God devotedly,
To surrender to God unconditionally.

4925

His indifference
To the world’s praise and insults
Has made his heart
A garden of God-Beauty.

4926

The lion-pride of his vital
Was destroyed
By the thunder-voice of his soul.

4927

He prayed to God
For God’s Compassion-Light.
God’s Compassion-Light
Secretly prevented him
From catching the temptation-train.

4928

Every day
God takes your picture
With His Compassion-Camera
And develops it
With His Forgiveness-Light.

4929

Alas, I did not know
That I had to pay
Such a heavy debt
To my unconscious past.

4930

Your surrender-acceptance
Of God’s Will
Has created a new hope
For the entire world.

4931

Your gratitude-heart
Is your soul’s most valuable treasure,
And this treasure can never be stolen
By anybody.

4932

Cultivate your oneness-crop.
God will come to bless you
With His Infinity’s Satisfaction-Dance.

4933

If you do not cross
Your mind’s hesitation-bridge,
You will never be able to reach
Your heart’s illumination-shore.

4934

His heart was playing
On his soul’s golden sweetness-flute.
Therefore
His life became
His divinity’s heart-shrine.

4935

If you know
How to love God’s creation,
God will teach you
How to live exactly the way He lives
In His Satisfaction-Delight.

4936

Death is running away from your life
Because
You have placed your heart-flower
At God’s Compassion-Feet.

4937

I cannot blame God
If He refuses to see me,
Since I am persistently and endlessly
Studying ignorance-courses.

4938

Each moonrise inspires me
To become beautiful.
Each sunrise creates in me
A beautiful perfection-promise.

4939

I want to live forever
Where I am living now:
On the summit
Of my hope-mountain.

4940

Faith
Is your life-preserver.
Surrender
Is your life-fulfiller.

4941

When he lives
In his heart’s faith-room,
He lives everywhere.

When he lives
In his mind’s doubt-room,
He lives nowhere.

4942

His clever nature has taught him
How to be consciously oblivious
Of his disobedience-life.

4943

Definitely
God is your Aspiration-Friend
And not
Your destruction-friend.

4944

I do not have to go anywhere else
To see you fall.
Your impurity-eyes have already announced
Your life’s deplorable fall.

4945

God’s Heart-Room
Is vaster than the vastest,
Yet He does not allow any doubt
To live inside His Heart.

4946

Who will be your mentor?
He who has the capacity
And is the capacity
To convince you
That your heart’s beauty
Will become tomorrow
Your life’s divinity.

4947

Every day make friends with hope
If you want to fulfil
All your God-promises
Here on earth
Before Heaven invites you.

4948

A mind of uncertainty
Damages the seeker’s
Heart-purity-plant.

4949

What were you doing
With your aspiration-life
When God came to you
To grant you His Satisfaction-Smile?

4950

It seems humanity’s
Perfect satisfaction-temple
Will always remain
Under construction.

4951

His heart-fort
Was destroyed
By his own
Giant impurity-mind.

4952

No flattery,
However delightful,
Can charm a true seeker
Of the Infinite Light
Even for a fleeting second,
For he has already escaped
The snare of temptation.

4953

I was born
In God’s immortal Dream-Boat,
And God is now steering His Boat
Cheerfully and proudly
To His immortal Reality-Shore.

4954

O world, do not bind me,
Do not blind me!
Just let me return
To my heart’s aspiration-home.

4955

Unless you break
Your mind’s indifference-shell,
You will not be able to spell
Your life’s satisfaction-smile.

4956

If you do not allow it,
No human being will be able
To close the iron gate
On your life’s freedom-light.

4957

If you avoid a collision
With your aggressive past,
You will easily be able to have
A progressive present
And also a progressive future.

4958

Your frustration-blanket
Is supposed to be discarded,
Not used to cover
Your entire body, vital and mind.

4959

God has not given you
Your depression-life.
Why, then, do you ask Him to carry
Your self-made depression-life?

4960

My heart,
I am extremely sorry to see
That you are suffering
From my mind’s voracious impurity-tiger.

4961

Enthusiasm
Rules his inner world.
Determination
Rules his outer world.
Therefore
Happiness has become
His real name.

4962

Love arrived at God’s Gate
Not only on time,
But also before everybody else.
Hatred came only to miss everything,
Long after God had gone back
Into His Heart-Room.

4963

Feed your possibilities
With your sleepless heart.
You will definitely win
In the battlefield of life.

4964

Unless you shield your mind
With your purity-breath,
Your life will die
Long before it reaches its destination.

4965

Your heart may not dare
To display its force
Against your mind,
But it can and it must,
If you want to see your soul
Happy.

4966

I am happy
Not because
I have seen the Face of God,
Not because
I have felt the Heart of God,
But because
God is happy with His creation-child.

4967

Simplicity saves my mind.
Sincerity illumines my heart.
Purity liberates my life.
Divinity immortalises my world.

4968

To me
A life of expectation
Is nothing short of
A satisfaction-devouring experience.

4969

Because you are
A sincere inspector
Of your life,
Your experience-path
Is not winding.

4970

If you are marching
With ignorance-night,
You will never be able to value
The power of your life’s self-control.

4971

Because he hides
His division-impurity-life
Not only from others
But also from himself,
He does not know
What the heart’s oneness-delight is.

4972

Can you not see
That your aspiration-lamp
Has no flame in it?
Are you so blind?

4973

One dynamic and profound action
Can easily nullify
All negative and evil theories.

4974

Your heart is now in silence.
That means
Your life is soon going to be happy.

4975

You have tamed your angry vital-tiger
With your heart’s God-hunger.
You have done
A supremely beautiful thing.

4976

Under your sentinel-eyes,
How do you allow your vital
To destroy
Your soul’s beauty-garden?

4977

Before you dare to sit
On the top of truth-mountain,
You must sit
At the foot of God’s Love-Tree.

4978

Leave nothing for tomorrow.
If today God does not
Come to you,
How can or why should God
Come to you tomorrow?

4979

God does not believe
In any secrets,
Either in His Life
Or in His creation’s life,
For each secret
Destroys the spontaneous blossom
Of vision’s reality.

4980

I sowed the seed
Of my life’s perfection-plant
Inside my Lord’s Heart.

My Lord has sowed the seed
Of His Satisfaction-Tree
Inside my aspiration-heart.

4981

Sound and silence
Never care for each other.
Therefore, they do not know why
They are asked by God
To live together.

4982

His life is lost
Between two opposing armies:
His mind’s “No”
And his heart’s “Yes”.

4983

It is you who have to choose
Between your heart’s
Aspiration-fire
And your life’s
Frustration-ash.

4984

God Himself
Wants to orchestrate your life’s symphony,
But you want to take the glory
Of orchestrating your life’s symphony.
Therefore
Do not blame God
For your deplorable performance.

4985

You simply cannot imagine
How proud God is of you
For your faith-sword
And surrender-shield.

4986

Every day God loves to predict
Your progress-smile.
But you have sealed
Your ignorance-ears.
Therefore, you do not hear
God’s Predictions.

4987

If your life is sheltered
In God’s Compassion-Grove,
Nobody will be able
To challenge you
Or capture your heart’s
Aspiration-breath.

4988

Take the oneness-initiative
If you want to offer to the world
Your heart’s fulness-embrace.

4989

I no more see the trouble-bridge
On my life’s turbulent river,
For God has built a bridge
With His Compassion-Light.

4990

If you have
An uncluttered mind-room,
Then your life will never see
The face of doom.

4991

How long
Will you foolishly stay
With your mind,
The joy-killer?
From now on
Stay with your heart,
The builder!

4992

Where is the difference
Between the joy-giver and the enjoyer?
No difference, none!
My heart is the indisputable witness.

4993

Temptation’s cleverly close companion
Is frustration.
Frustration’s cleverly close companion
Is destruction.

4994

Life
Can be made stronger
Than death
If man learns
Carefully and unmistakably
The language of love.

4995

Why do you have to think
Of living tomorrow
Satisfactorily?
Have you lived today
Properly?

4996

To be absolutely perfect,
Gather your soul’s dreams
Before your life asks you
To take part in God’s
Perfection-blossoming Scheme.

4997

Claiming,
And not begging,
Is the language of God-Satisfaction
On earth.

4998

If you bow daily
To your heart’s purity-altar,
Then your life will be flooded
With God’s Vision-Stars.

4999

Heaven is not really far away from you.
But every day
Your desire-life is forcing you
To stay farther and farther away
From Heaven.

5000

True,
I do not know
How great God is
And how good God is,
But I do know
That He will bless me
With His Greatness-Height
And He will embrace me
With His Goodness-Depth.

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