Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 52

5101

If you want to put meditation
Into action,
Then allow God’s Love
To grasp every second
Of your life.

5102

This body is impermanent,
But inside the body
The message of Eternity
And the love of Infinity abide,
And in time
They come to the fore.

5103

An unconditional obedience
Can never be the mistake
Of human thinking.

5104

Eternity’s cry and Infinity’s smile
Shall always triumph
Over every thing
And over every human being.

5105

The truth that lies
Upward and inward
Can be carried into
The farthest Beyond.

5106

You can learn much
Even from a beginner-seeker,
Provided purity is your heart
And sincerity is your life.

5107

If you can have
Obedience, obedience, obedience,
Then you can have
A heart-home of peace.

5108

My Lord Supreme wants me
To look for Him
In His Face first,
And then He wants me
To look for Him
In every face.

5109

You do not need many Calls
From God.
Only one Call
Can awaken you, perfect you
And fulfil the divine
Within you.

5110

He is always looking
For a secret victory,
But God is always looking
For a sacred victory for him.

5111

If you are intent
On transformation-light,
Then never be out of
God’s inner circle of Delight.

5112

God promises
His Perfection.
Can you not promise
Your aspiration?

5113

You are always in the habit
Of wishing.
When will you be in the habit
Of willing?

5114

Unless your heart has
A free access to aspiration,
Your life will not have
A free access to perfection.

5115

If you prolong the human in you
And delay the divine in you,
How can you succeed and proceed
In your aspiration and dedication-life?

5116

Each aspiring heart
Is a new morning
In God’s new World.

5117

You are imprisoned
By the desire-life
Because
You have proved to be unfaithful
In your thought-life.

5118

God is eagerly looking forward
To seeing the final funeral
Of your earth-bound desire-life.

5119

Your life is in wild disorder.
Therefore
God will not grant you
A quiet heart-to-heart talk.

5120

God is ready to wait and wait
Until I invite Him to sit
On my heart’s love-throne.

5121

To create a new universe,
What you need is
The beauty of prayer
And the majesty of meditation
Every day.

5122

Unless you put an end
To the miseries
Of your doubting life,
Your mind will never be free
From inclement weather.

5123

Only an unfamiliar God
Can tell you that God-realisation
Is not meant for you
In this lifetime.

5124

Yesterday he lived
In his heart’s dear hope.
Today he is living
In his mind’s solitary sorrow.

5125

Now that he wants to be
Inundated with his soul’s
Wisdom-light,
He sees that his mind
Is nothing but an excessive
Knowledge-burden.

5126

The failure of the desiring mind
Is the march
Of the soul’s certainty.

5127

Many thanks for the interview,
My Lord Supreme.
“Many thanks for your obedience,
My sweet child.”

5128

If you refuse to try,
That means you are deliberately ruining
A lifetime of opportunity.

5129

If you declare
That you are a defeated life,
Then there can be nothing for you
Either in God’s Heart
Or in God’s Eye.

5130

I looked in my heart
Only to discover
An unflinching enemy:
Insecurity.

5131

If you take
God’s Affection and Love
With thankfulness,
Then you will indisputably become
Both great and good.

5132

If you have no eyes
To see God’s Grace,
God’s Face will always
Be denied to you.

5133

Time and death can be beaten
By the aspiration-champion
Within you.

5134

If you are wise,
Then you will always veto
Your mind’s absurd resistances.

5135

Why return to your old home?
Enter into your new home:
The home of sleepless
Service-light.

5136

Too many souls
Are apt to procrastinate.
Therefore, this world of ours
Will never be able to see
God’s Satisfaction-Smile
At God’s own God-Hour.

5137

I love to live
Only at one place,
And that place is
Where love eternally rules.

5138

You are a man of no dreams.
Therefore
You do not have the authority
To ask God to hurry up.

5139

If you are expert in diving
From the springboard of faith,
Then you will establish
The victory of your higher self
Over your lower self.

5140

In your heart-garden
There are many love-plants.
Can you not give away
Some of these plants
To truth-seekers and God-lovers?

5141

I shall take advice
Even from a failure-life,
But not from a despair-vital.

5142

What is faith?
Faith is the unmistakable fulfiller
Of human hopes.

5143

Each soulful prayer of yours
Has the capacity to help you
Soar far above the dust
Of your inner destruction-storm.

5144

Your indifference to mankind
Will never lead you to God.
On the contrary,
It will take you away
Farther and farther from God.

5145

Today you have realised
That you, too, need God.
Tomorrow you will realise
That God, too, needs you
To become another God.

5146

My Lord Supreme,
Do give me the capacity
To look at You at every moment
And not just whenever I would like
To look at You.

5147

Question-mongers surround us.
Answer-givers are not to be found
Either on earth or in Heaven.

5148

If you have patience,
Then God’s Compassion
Will find for you
Your misplaced excellence.

5149

Because your inner confidence
Is more distant than
A fading star,
God is unable to give you
His Infinity’s Smile.

5150

O my intellectual mind-chains,
Because of you
I have lost my heart’s love
And my life’s joy.

5151

Beyond the mind
And beyond the heart
Are his silver tears.

Beyond life
And beyond death
Is his golden smile.

5152

O my heart,
Run into God’s Vastness infinite.

O my soul,
Soar beyond, far beyond,
The skies of knowledge-light.

5153

If you have a soul,
Then ask your soul to promise.
If you have a heart,
Then ask your heart to love.
If you have a life,
Then ask your life to become.

5154

If you really want to become
A perfect disciple,
Then stamp out doubt
And bring in faith.

5155

If you want to be
God’s absolutely perfect instrument,
Then pray to God not to indulge
Even your innocent desires.

If you want to become
God’s breathless pride,
Then become sleepless obedience.

5156

At least God can rely on me
For one thing:
I shall not go
To ignorance-prince
To be his choice instrument.

5157

If you want to unload
All your self-styled burdens,
Then long for wisdom-light today
And cry for satisfaction-delight tomorrow.

5158

You can never be
An excellent inner player
If you do not participate
In God’s Compassion-Tournament.

5159

O my mind,
Nobody compelled you to suffer
From your jealousy-cancer.

O my heart,
Nobody compelled you to suffer
From your insecurity-thorn.

5160

Unless you compete
In the realisation-race,
God will not grant you
Your life’s transformation-trophy.

5161

How to melt God’s Heart:
Empty your earth-bound mind,
Fill your Heaven-free heart.

5162

You can enjoy sleeplessly
God’s Sweetness-Nectar
If you allow your heart to pray
For your soul-stirring dreams.

5163

Now that you have destroyed
The shackles of the finite,
You will be able to sail
On the river that flows
Towards Infinity’s ocean of Bliss.

5164

God Himself has given him
The biggest hope.
Therefore
He cries and tries,
Tries and cries,
To be God’s perfect instrument.

5165

Never blame anybody,
For he who blames others
Knows what a slippery slope is.

5166

Are you hopelessly tone-deaf?
If not,
Why are you not listening
To God’s sleepless Compassion-Songs?

5167

God is my constant Playmate.
Therefore
My heart is sailing directly
Towards His Silence-Home.

5168

Forgiveness begins with God.
Aspiration begins with man.
God’s Forgiveness and man’s aspiration
Are both fortified
By God’s supreme Light and Delight.

5169

Every day you have to be
A sky of wisdom-light.
Every day you have to tiptoe
Past teeming, sleeping doubts.

5170

Do you not see
What you have been doing?
You have been swinging
From branch to branch
On desire’s vital-tree.

5171

You call it disobedience.
I call it a birthless
And deathless
Destruction-experience.

5172

If your old hopes
Have not satisfied you,
Then strive for new hopes —
Illumining and fulfilling hopes —
Which are taking birth every day
Inside your heart’s aspiration-garden.

5173

If you want to see
The hidden treasures of your heart
Then first see the Footprints of God
In your heart’s purity-snow.

5174

He who aspires
Soulfully and sleeplessly,
Definitely knows how to organise well
His ascent to Heaven.

5175

When you breathe a pure prayer
To God,
Eternity’s life-transforming cry
And Infinity’s life-fulfilling smile
Become yours.

5176

I said what I meant:
“My Lord is all Compassion.”
I meant what I said:
“I shall definitely grow into
A perfect instrument of God.”

5177

O my stupid mind,
Do you know
What you have just said to me?
You have told me
That I have outgrown
My need for God.

5178

It is a mistake to think
That unconditional obedience
Will always remain unavailable.

5179

If you are shopping
In God’s Store,
Then God’s Compassion-Presence
You must try to buy first.

5180

God may not want you to know
When He is coming.
But He does want you to know
That He definitely is coming.

5181

Only an explorer of the dream-world
Can remember
God’s Compassion-Sea
And return to
God’s Satisfaction-Sky.

5182

You have enjoyed
Centuries of sleep.
Can you not now try to wake
In your soul’s Himalayan palace?

5183

Allow not
Impurity and insecurity-thieves
To enter into you.
Every day use a new padlock
On your heart-door.

5184

You are trying to flatter God.
You are trying and you will be trying
Forever in vain
To do an impossible task.

5185

There can be no debate
Between God’s Compassion-Eye
And man’s aspiration-heart.
They sing the same song:
The song of satisfaction.

5186

Surrendered love
Multiplied by gratitude-life
Equals
God’s supreme Satisfaction.

5187

There is death in his face
Because his heart’s love-boat
Has no room for his God-manifesting soul.

5188

Because he plays
God’s favourite Game,
Smile within and smile without,
He is able to destroy
The bondage-shackles of the finite.

5189

If I had waited another day,
Who knows?
Perhaps I would have more
Inspiration-mind and aspiration-heart
To walk along the road
Of God-realisation.

5190

Your unfortunate friendship
With ignorance-night
Will never allow you to turn
Your desire-life
Into destruction-death.

5191

Every day
If you take obedience-exercises,
Your inner life and your outer life
Will become two solid pillars
Of God’s Palace.

5192

When the cosmic gods meditate
In Heaven,
You can join them.
They will definitely be happy
If you do.
Do they have a special time
To meditate on special attributes of God?
Yes, they do!
In the small hours of the morning.

5193

If you are my true friend,
Then prove it
By remaining beside me,
By speaking well of me
And by speaking ceaselessly for me.

5194

Alas,
My faith in God
And my love of God
Have always been feeble.

5195

Who can escape
The supreme duty of self-giving
In God’s cosmic Play?

5196

Unless your eyes can weep,
Unless your tears can smile,
Your life will remain
Imperfect on earth.

5197

Return to your self
Before it is too late.
Do not knock at others’
Aspiration-hearts.

5198

If you always ask
God’s Benediction,
Then He will teach you
How to do your inner homework.

5199

God is not baffled
By man’s ignorance-night.
He just wants man
To carry the message
Of the future God.

5200

My Lord,
Your Compassion-Forgiveness-Flood
Is my name.
This name will be
My salvation on earth
And Your Satisfaction in Heaven.

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