Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 60

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5901

I live every moment
To please God.
God lives every moment
To illumine me.

5902

Humanity’s failure-cry
Is his partner
In his outer life.

Divinity’s victory-smile
Is his partner
In his inner life.

5903

Although
Yours is a desire-bound life,
God is inviting you
To sleep in His Compassion-Camp.

5904

If your heart is truly bleeding
For humanity’s need,
How can you have
Insecurity’s ugly face?

5905

If you want to discover
Delight-island,
Then be loyal
To your soul’s royalty.

5906

If you allow your dreams to die,
Then your life
Will run into the arms
Of destruction-night.

5907

If you have a heart of faith,
Then only can you expect
To have access to perfection-light.

5908

If you are always in the habit
Of desiring,
Then God cannot keep
His Himalayan Promise
To you.

5909

If you are unfaithful
In thought,
Your heart will never be able
To arrive at the threshold
Of Heaven.

5910

Your soulful prayers
And your powerful meditations
Will grant you
The all-seeing wakefulness
Inside sleep.

5911

To reach your soul’s highest height,
You must long for
A higher universe
Inside the heart of the Unknown.

5912

He loves one thing
More than anything else
In his life,
And that is the daily majesty
Of his sublime meditations.

5913

Alas, I did not know
That I would have to suffer so much
From the miseries
Of a doubting mind.

5914

A heart of faith:
What is it
If not a sleeplessly luminous
Companion?

5915

If you do not abandon
Your ignorance-thoughts,
Your life will be stranded
Without fail
On ignorance-island.

5916

Every morning I sing and sing
In God’s Compassion-Choir.
Therefore
God has given me the capacity
To run the fastest
Towards His golden Heart-Temple.

5917

If you can think
Golden thoughts,
That means already
You have changed the winter weather
Of your mind.

5918

Right now
You are a fallen god.
But do not give up
Your dear hope.
You will definitely once more become
The fully-risen God.

5919

You have to voyage
From the familiar to the unfamiliar,
From the known to the Unknown,
From the knowable to the Unknowable.
Indeed,
This is the God-ordained way.

5920

Make new inner friends:
Purity, humility and divinity
Are waiting for your invitation.

5921

How can God ever deny
A truth-loving and world-serving soul?
Impossible!

5922

Today
You are an intruder in the inner world
With your doubting mind.
Tomorrow
You will have to live
Inside the forest of fears.

5923

Is there anybody on earth
Who will not eventually see
The complete failure
Of the desiring mind?

5924

His is a mind
Of uncertainty.
His is a life
Of insincerity.
But his heart
Is constantly longing for divinity
And nothing else.

5925

Do not wait inactively
For progress-light,
Or you will always remain
A deplorable failure.

5926

A God-lover is he
Who is an explorer
Of God’s Vision-Worlds.

5927

Each doubt
Is an unmistakable maker
Of humanity’s incurable misery.

5928

If you are a hero-seeker,
Then you must destroy the pride
Of obstacle-walls
Ahead of you.

5929

If you think
That you are your own saviour,
Then why do you depend on others
To feed your exorbitant ego-life?

5930

A stainless thought
Shortens your Heavenward journey
And makes God real
More than ever.

5931

Nothing divine,
Nothing perfect,
Nothing worthwhile
Can ever be found ready-made.

5932

Where is the difference
Between your life of hatred
And your mind of desire?

5933

If you are lost
In your unaspiring past,
Who can give you
Your aspiring present?

5934

Who am I,
If not a boatman
Whose boat is completely sunk
In the sea of life?

5935

Do not be in a hurry.
God will definitely
Lengthen your time
If it is needed
For you to please Him
In His own Way.

5936

If you are not willing
To make the needed soulful effort
Every day,
You will be forced to suffer
Spiritual starvation.

5937

To be a superlative disciple,
You have to make friends
With faith
In your inner life
And with determination
In your outer life.

5938

Who says
That the purification of the mind
Is an extremely severe task?
No,
The illumination of the heart
Is infinitely more difficult.

5939

Every moment is the real time.
Every moment is the real God-Hour.
Every moment God comes
Only to go,
Because of my unwilling receptivity.

5940

You hate your hope
Because your hope is never fulfilled.
But can you not
Go beyond your hope
And make friends with your heart’s
Climbing flames?

5941

To cross the borderline
Of imperfection
Is only the privilege
Of the pure.

5942

Develop heart-power.
Why?
Because the power of the mind
Has now become obsolete.

5943

Since you are walking
The peace-path,
Your mind will totally forget
That once upon a time
It was overcrowded with dark thoughts.

5944

Look, look
What God has done for you!
He has unconditionally withdrawn
Your ignorance-death sentence.

5945

A spark
From the heart’s sacred fire
Can show you the way
To your soul’s eternal peace.

5946

Is it not unfair of you
To ask God to play
On your untuned life-strings?

5947

Self-giving
Is an act of God-revelation.
But before that,
A seeker must be on the lookout
For God.

5948

An impurity-mind
Illegally stays
Inside the heart
Of purity-life.

5949

The human mind
Wants to know the truth.
The divine heart
Longs to embody
The Possessor of Truth:
God.

5950

A heart of surrender
Is God’s constant
And cheerful
Responsibility.

5951

If you do not fulfil
Your outer obligations,
Your inner illumination
Will always remain a far cry.

5952

You have all along resisted
Temptation.
Therefore
Transformation
Is knocking at your life’s door.

5953

First become
A seeker-flower,
If you long to become
A God-lover-fruit.

5954

Only a heart
Of universal oneness
Can be freed
From the permanent ignorance-illness.

5955

Do you know
That your mind’s doubt-partner
Is trying to destroy
Your heart’s oneness-friend:
Soul?

5956

If you want to silence
The turbulent waves of your mind,
Then become inseparably one
With the vastness-smile of the sky.

5957

Patience-light
Is the sleepless breath
Of my self-giving heart
For my Beloved Supreme.

5958

To talk to God sleeplessly,
Try to open your soul’s door.
If it is an impossible task,
Then open at least
Your heart’s door.

5959

If God’s Heart can smile
Through every flower,
Can you not have a heart
That can cry with every leaf?

5960

If you can have
A meditation-expanded life
And an ignorance-liberated heart,
Then you will be able to measure
The heights and depths
Of the Unknowable.

5961

If you can penetrate your mind
With your soul’s transcendental light,
Then you will be able to answer
The universal question easily:
“Who am I?”

5962

Because God’s Love-Sun shines
In each and every creation of His,
His Dream-Life is evolving
From mineral to man.

5963

Because you are a problem-creator,
Your life’s imperfection-crimes
Will never stop.

5964

When the soul opens
Its all-seeing eye,
The heart desires to be
Its faithful employee.

5965

The body
Always wants to sleep.
The vital
Always wants to fight.
The mind
Always wants to doubt.
The heart
Always wants to dream.
The soul
Always wants to witness.
The Supreme
Always wants to forgive and illumine.

5966

If your life is not surcharged
With God’s Compassion-Light,
Then your life will be poisoned
By ignorance-breath.

5967

A feeble ant-fear:
This is what his desire-life
Has always been.

5968

Your life’s inner weather
Is always unpredictable
Because of the emotion-storms
Of your tormenting, impure vital.

5969

He is all happiness
Because of the vision
Of a sweet, hope-filled tomorrow.

5970

If you do not like
What you do for the world,
Then the beauty, perfection
And satisfaction of tomorrow
Will not knock
At your life’s door.

5971

Man in man
Is forcefully imprisoned.
God in man
Is cheerfully imprisoned.
Man in God
Enjoys an undeserved freedom.
God in God
Enjoys the Freedom of the Beyond.

5972

God’s supreme Will
Will lead you
Only after His infinite Compassion
Has decided to keep you
At your transcendental Destination.

5973

He has kept
His silence-filled mind
Far above the grasp
Of this gossip-world.

5974

I know it is an impossible task
For you
To cancel your teeming worries.
But you can, at least,
Try to postpone them!

5975

You have tried today,
And you have failed.
But tomorrow you will not fail,
Because you are now begging God
To try for you.

5976

If you speak to the world
About your failure
And get more satisfaction
From your failure-life
Than from your success-life,
That means your Inner Pilot
Has completely withdrawn from you.

5977

You are not asked
To meet God halfway.
You are just asked
To come out of
Your tiny, dark mind-room.

5978

Will you ever realise
That all your mistakes in life
Will be unmistakably followed
By God’s Forgiveness?

5979

Nobody can destroy you,
Nobody!
It is you alone
Who have the capacity
To destroy yourself
Through your own self-neglect.

5980

The Fulness of God’s Heart
Can abide in you
Only when you allow joy to reside
Inside your life-activities.

5981

You do not belong
To your unfortunate failure-past.
You completely belong
To the happiness of tomorrow’s
Vision-reality.

5982

A heart of compassion
And a soul of forgiveness
Are by no means
Two unavoidable compromises.

5983

You may not do the right things
Either in your inner life
Or in your outer life,
But you will be given every opportunity
To succeed in the outer life
And to proceed in the inner life.

5984

Unless you realise
That your desire-life
Is nothing short of frustration-life,
How can God grant you aspiration-life
To please Him
In His Dream-filled creation?

5985

God’s Compassion-Delight
Is waiting and waiting
For you to succeed unmistakably
And to proceed unprecedentedly.

5986

You serve devotedly:
This is your own experience.
You give joy to others:
This is not only your own
But also the universal experience.

5987

The heart’s simplicity
Shall always succeed
When and where
The mind’s complexity fails.

5988

Each negative thought
Has the capacity
To destroy immediately
Your life’s happiness-core.

5989

One God-Call
Can grant a seeker-heart
Fathomless satisfaction-delight.

5990

When he meditates on earth,
He clearly sees
That Heaven does nothing for him.

When he meditates on Heaven,
He clearly sees
That earth has nothing to tell him.

5991

Slowly and unmistakably
You are climbing
Your heart’s gratitude-tree.

5992

As long as fear owns
Your body, vital, mind and heart,
God will not invite you
To stand on His Platform
And speak.

5993

Your doubt-balloon has burst.
Therefore
God is granting you
The Breath of His Nectar-Love.

5994

I always cheerfully accept
The decree of my conscience-pilot
To save my mind
From doubt-catastrophes.

5995

You do not know how to quit;
Therefore, I admire you.
Your mind does not know how to doubt;
Therefore, I admire your mind.
Your heart does not know how to fear;
Therefore, I admire your heart
Far beyond your imagination-light.

5996

You have aspiration,
And this aspiration
Is nothing short of
God’s Confidence-Delight
In you.

5997

Unless you have secured your place
In the sacred temple of timeless time,
How will you appreciate
The Silence-Vision and sound-creation
Of God?

5998

No matter how fleeting
Your smile is,
Your smile is the very beginning
Of your wisdom-light.

5999

There is a special place
For your heart-confidence to glow,
And that special place
Is in the silence-cry
Of your meditation-mountain.

6000

Courage powerfully grows,
Love soulfully grows,
Gratitude amazingly grows
When you share them
With the rest of the world.

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