Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 53

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5201

If your heart
Is one hundred per cent pure,
Then yours will be the life
Of sleeplessly unalloyed ecstasy.

5202

God’s Compassion-Heart
Has given him
A first-class
Sacred sainthood-life.

5203

O my mind,
When I think of you,
I feel nothing but the torture
Of unhappiness.

5204

You have done
Absolutely the right thing
By digging
Your self-discovery-tunnel.

5205

The height
Of your heart-flight
Has liberated you
From your murky mind-muddle.

5206

Do not play for a long time
With ignorance
Or you will one day be beheaded
By ignorance-guillotine.

5207

What your mind needs
Is the beauty of liberation
And not the unconsciousness
Of hesitation.

5208

Although his mind does not know
What is real and what is unreal,
His life’s continuous zeal
Is for the real.

5209

Be careful, be careful!
At any moment
Ignorance-dam can completely block
Your heart’s life-river.

5210

Eternity’s aspiration-art
Is a work
Of divinity’s heart.

5211

The animal in him was caught
While trespassing
In his heart’s love-empire.

5212

It does not take much time
For God the Listener
To become God the Giver.

5213

Your past failure-life
Is undoubtedly the prologue
To your future happy life.

5214

A fantasy-filled life
Cannot go very far.
It can never arrive
At reality’s door.

5215

There was a time
When I enjoyed expectation-joy.
Alas, now I am forced
To take the bitter pills
Of frustration.

5216

Take the oneness-step
And yours will be the life
Of supreme success.

5217

Your life’s conflicting loyalties
Are hypnotising
Your weak mind.

5218

If you have
A good heart of love,
Then make it better
By transforming it
Into perfection-delight.

5219

Because of his surrender-life,
Because of his purity-heart
He has won
The perfection-grand prix.

5220

Each awakened soul
Has only one mission:
World-family reunion.

5221

God has no private property.
His Property
Is for the hearts that love Him
And want to grow for Him.

5222

What you need
At every moment
Is a prayer-cure
For your unaspiring heart.

5223

Is there any day
When God is not anxious
To hear a “Hello” from you?

5224

Do you know
What you have become?
You have become
Your life’s vanity-tree.

5225

If you can wholeheartedly fight
For God,
God will appreciate you
Far beyond your imagination.
Then you will not need
Self-flattering imaginations.

5226

Questions asked by the mind
Can easily be answered by the heart.
Questions asked by the heart
Can rarely be answered by the mind.

5227

Even he who aspires
Is not exempt from ignorance-tax
All the time.

5228

He is expecting news
From a new world,
His heart-world.
God is definitely
Going to supply him
With new News.

5229

His only aim in life
Is to join the army
Of Eternity’s freedom-thoughts.

5230

It is you who have to make the choice
Whether you are going to live
In your sacred meditation-temple
Or inside your mind’s confusion-prison.

5231

Yesterday
I heard God
Walking in my heart-garden.

Today
I am seeing God
Walking in my heart-garden.

Tomorrow
God and I together
Will walk in my heart-garden.

5232

You simply cannot imagine
How deeply I admire
Your silver faith
In your sun-bright future.

5233

When will the world offer itself
To God?
The world will offer itself to God
Only when it realises
That it has nothing and is nothing
To be proud of.

5234

Do you know why God is dancing?
God is dancing because
Your life’s stupendous pretence-bubble
Has completely burst!

5235

God’s Perfection-Dream
Is definitely
Your heart’s Heavenly heritage.

5236

If you do not withdraw
The venom-shaft
Of your vital-impurity-arrow,
You will suffer
The most painful experience in life.

5237

My concentration is always crushed
When my vital and my mind
Start enjoying
Useless marathon conversations.

5238

Disappointment is tearing
At your heart
Because your life wants to embark
On a disobedience-career.

5239

Aspiration
Is the absolute beginning
Of permanent
Emancipation.

5240

A child’s truth-filled eyes
I saw in him
Right from the day I became
His ardent admirer.

5241

My aspiration-heart tells me
Only one thing:
God’s Tears are more real
Than God Himself.

5242

O error-torn humanity,
I have the heart
To sympathise with you.
Alas, what I need is the soul
To liberate you from making errors.

5243

The final lesson
Of ignorance-life is:
You can live without God.

5244

If you allow your mind
To be caught
In the currents of desire,
How can your soul
Fulfil its newness-hope
And its fulness-promise?

5245

During the intellectual period
Of his life,
Not only his mind
But also his heart
Was empty of peace.

5246

A heart of purity
Always has the capacity
To shine like the snow-white
And blue-gold peaks
Of aspiration-mountain.

5247

A doubtful mind
Kills the beauty
Of the unknown.

A prayerful heart
Kindles the flames
Of the Unknowable.

5248

My soul
Simply does not want to hear
That I have become so familiar
With earthly defeats.

5249

Now I see why
You have so many confusion-arrows
Of self-doubt.
You have all along been living
Inside your tangled jungle-mind.

5250

If you have a God-thirsty heart,
That means
God is all the time dreaming of you
In a very special way.

5251

Because your life has become
A sleepless selflessness,
God will be teaching you
His Infinity’s Fulness-Dance.

5252

Your soulfulness-heart
And God’s Illumination-Eye
Before long
Will greet each other.

5253

Why do you not cut down
The forest of your wild desires,
If you really want to free yourself
From the stark frowns
Of this dark earth?

5254

Who says
That you cannot conquer time?
Just try to satisfy
God’s Compassion-Heart.
Lo, you have conquered
Eternity’s immortal Time.

5255

My heart’s candlelight
And my life’s hope-flames
Are going to show me the way
As I walk along
Eternity’s God-Vision-Road.

5256

The purity of the heart
Compelled the impurity of the mind
To renounce its plot
Against God-Satisfaction on earth.

5257

Do you know what you are doing?
You are only enjoying
The fantasy of your pride.

Do you know what you can be?
You can be the hope and promise
Of your heart’s Absolute.

5258

Who am I?
I am my life’s
Unfinished God-work.

5259

His is an infallible animal instinct
To ruthlessly ruin
Others’ flower-hearts.

5260

You are always at war
With yourself.
Therefore, you are always forced
To show a sorrow-bowed head
To both Heaven and earth.

5261

If you have a sincerity-mind
And a purity-heart,
Then you can never seek gold.
You can only seek God.

5262

You are not the curse
Of your confusion-mind.
You are the blessing
Of your illumination-soul.

5263

Can you mind your own business?
When did God ask you
To transform humanity’s weaknesses?

5264

All vital demonstrations
Are almost incurable diseases
In the seeker’s inner life.

5265

Mine is the aspiration-heart
That loves only one land:
The land of silence-delight.

5266

In spite of our weakness-life
We can easily stand before God,
Because God is all Compassion.
But we cannot stand before Truth,
Because Truth is all justice.

5267

As long as your mind indulges
In mountain-pride,
Your heart will not be able
To grant your mind
The ecstasy of God’s Oneness-Delight.

5268

Not an easy task
To remove
The body’s heavy lethargy-load.

Not an easy task
To illumine
The mind’s dark destruction-doubts.

5269

God has already read
Your heart-poems.
Now either beg or force your mind
To read those precious poems.

5270

God sleeplessly fights
Only on the heart-battlefield
Of His supremely chosen
Instrument-children
For their permanent victory
Over the abysmal abyss
Of ignorance-night.

5271

A man of determination
Can easily prove to the world
That he is not a slave
To imperfection-monarch.

5272

True,
I never spoke with God,
But every day
My heart of love speaks
With His Eye of Compassion
And my mind of impurity speaks
With His Heart of Forgiveness.

5273

In oneness-love
The life of ego’s demonstration-dance
Comes to a complete halt.

5274

How will you recognise Heaven?
You will recognise Heaven
With your unconditional oneness-love
For the world.

5275

My Lord,
Will You give me another chance
To please You?

“My child,
I can give you as many chances
As you not only need
But also want
To please Me in My own Way.”

5276

Who is inside me?
Ah, I see it is my Beloved Supreme.
Who is running ahead of me?
Ah, I see it is my Lord Absolute.

5277

I want to prove to the world
That although my past was only mortal
My present and future
Will be absolutely immortal.

5278

At the high tide of his earthly triumph,
He went to Heaven
With his heart’s most soulful cry
To sit at God’s Compassion-Feet.

5279

O my mind,
Why do you blame God?
He has not forced you
To be an endless store
Of useless thoughts.

5280

Either you have to draw
The picture of your self-perfection,
Or everybody else
Will continue taking the picture
Of your mind’s deception-life.

5281

When God turns your heart-tears
Into your life-smiles,
Your heart reaches Heaven’s
Pinnacle-height.

5282

Your purity-born aspiration
Will definitely be able to play
With God’s Divinity-smiling Face.

5283

Mine is a soulful hope-boat.
How can I have you,
O doubt-passenger,
In my boat?

5284

Be careful
Of your absent-minded prayers.
They can easily cause
Very serious problems for you.

5285

I have been asleep
All my life,
Yet I want to know
How close I am
To Heaven’s gate.

5286

There can be
No better start in life
Than to surrender your expectations
To God’s Will.

5287

At last!
I am so happy to see
Your sunrise-heart
And sunset-mind.

5288

Simplicity is felicity.
Simplicity is God’s Beauty
In its pristine form.

5289

Am I a fool,
To enter into the desert
Of your desire-life?

5290

You want to be satisfied
With your life-position,
But God wants you to be satisfied
With your life-disposition.

5291

Fear is only a thought.
Courage is not only a thought
But also an adventure
To transform the unknown
Into a known reality.

5292

For a fearless life
God is his
Perfection-vision,
God is his
Satisfaction-reality.

5293

If your mind is in a collision
With your heart,
Everybody will know
That it is your mind
That wants to enjoy destruction.

5294

What is failure?
It is something that, in vain,
Loves to be loved
By success.

5295

Your prayers will transform your heart
And not alter God’s Vision-Plan.
Therefore, why do you not continue
To do the right thing
For yourself?

5296

Yesterday
My heart became
God’s Vision-lover.

Today
God has made my heart
His Vision-interpreter.

5297

Who says God has no desires?
God has desires
And His main Desire is
Humanity’s constant progress.

5298

If you want to live
Under the unclouded sun,
Then you must not allow
Your aspiration-heart
To sleep any longer.

5299

If you do not have faith
Either in God’s Compassion
Or in your own determination,
Then you will definitely become
An experienced loser
In the battlefield of your life.

5300

My Lord Supreme,
Now that You have given me
The golden waves of Your Love-Sea,
How can I ask You for anything else?
I do not need anything more.

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