Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 61

6001

God created a cry
Inside my heart
To love Him
More and more.

God created a smile
On my face
For Him to need me
More and more.

6002

At last,
A moment of peace!
My doubting mind
Has surrendered
To my illumining heart.

6003

A God-commissioned soul
Is always a fruitful mediator
Between earth and Heaven.

6004

When hesitation whispers
In your ear,
Even God’s Compassion
Flies away.

6005

No distinction
Between your heart’s minor disobedience
And your mind’s major disobedience!
Disobedience is self-destructive
Everywhere.

6006

As long as sincerity and purity
Linger on earth,
This world of ours
Will not be destroyed.

6007

O insecurity-orphan,
Will you ever enjoy
Your soul’s freedom-light?

6008

He cannot separate
His helpless life
From his mind’s
Fatal frustration.

6009

Give the world
A moment of your concern.
God will always listen
To your heart’s prayer.

6010

O my mind,
You only know two things:
You know how to be
Unpardonably proud
And unthinkably loud.

6011

At every moment
Your heart must try
To lose its earthly limits.

6012

How will you ever
Climb up the confidence-tree
If you do not go
To your heart’s aspiration-temple
Regularly?

6013

Not politely,
But vehemently,
You must refuse all the time,
When your mind’s doubts invite you.

6014

The heart’s purity-flower
Never fades.
The soul’s divinity-tree
Never dies.

6015

Your goals are high
Because of your soul.
Your consciousness is low
Because of your mind.

6016

No, it is not possible
For any inner cry
To remain unheard.

6017

God has been telling man
From time immemorial
That he is actually more
Than he appears.

6018

Be wise!
Every day sacrifice
What you are
For what you can eventually
Become.

6019

Man thinks
That his heart is waiting.
God knows
That His Eye is watching.

6020

If you are fast asleep
In ignorance-bed,
Then rest assured that death’s hour
Is upon you.

6021

He who has wisdom,
Light and delight
Will never be caught
In the world’s unhappiness-net.

6022

No good heart
Will ever shirk any challenge,
For a good heart
Is braver than the bravest
When it has to manifest
Its Beloved Supreme on earth.

6023

Yesterday’s God-Compassion
And today’s God-Love
Are dissolving all my problems,
Born and unborn.

6024

Two rivers do not run dry:
The river of God’s
Compassion-Life
And the river of God’s
Forgiveness-Heart.

6025

God wants every human being
To participate
In His Cosmic Theatre
Of time and space.

6026

Every day
God is more than willing
To tune your out-of-tune
Body-instrument.
Just give Him the needed time.

6027

If your heart
Can face the world unafraid,
Then your life-boat
Will reach Eternity’s Shore.

6028

Only a God-realised soul
Knows that it is quite possible
To conquer the relentless tide
Of desire.

6029

Since God Himself
Is steering your life-boat,
The fetters of self-doubt
Can no longer exist.

6030

A life
Of soulful faith
Is a native
Of Eternity.

6031

To win
The aspiration-academy awards,
Accomplish first
The task for which you came
Into the world.

6032

I do not want to be a slave
To the great Invisible,
But I wish to be a lover
Of the good Unknowable.

6033

As soon as you acknowledge
The limits of knowledge,
You become a student
Of the soul’s intuition-university.

6034

If you are afraid
Of human problems,
How can you ever have
Divine solutions?

6035

You can easily bear
The buffets of the world,
If every day you drink deeply
From Divinity’s Nectar-Cup.

6036

The heart’s
Oneness-yearning
Is God’s
Unrecognised hidden Power
In man.

6037

O my seeker-friend,
Your perennial doubt-dilemma will last
Unless you take shelter
In the heart of your self-giving peace.

6038

You must be strict
With your unruly mind,
For it is apt to run around
In confusion-circles.

6039

If you yourself
Do not slow down
Your greed-speed,
Who will do it for you?
Nobody!

6040

A soulful eye
Is bound to see
A fruitful world.

6041

Long, long ago
God’s Eye and my heart
Had a misunderstanding.
Now everything is totally resolved,
And both God and I
Are extremely pleased with each other.

6042

Your heart’s perfection-pictures
Can be taken
Only by God’s self-giving
Illumination-Camera.

6043

Do you want to be happy?
Then make your life
As soulfully simple
As sleeplessly breathing.

6044

Every day you submit
To your own stupidity.
Therefore
Your soul’s divinity does not knock
At your mind’s door.

6045

Your life will be changed,
Changed forever,
If you consciously take part
In God’s love-fulfilling
Satisfaction-Drama.

6046

When I inundate my life
With love,
I see deep inside me
The congress of giant souls.

6047

The Compassion
Of my Beloved Supreme
Every day dries
My heart’s surrender-tears.

6048

I am waiting eagerly and sleeplessly
For the arrival
Of my Lord’s Promise-Boat.

6049

Aspiration-life and destruction-death
Can never be linked
In the same chain.

6050

A soulfulness-heart
Can see and become
A oneness-life.

6051

God’s Compassion-Eye
And God’s Satisfaction-Heart
Arrive only when invited.

6052

Alas,
My prayers and my meditations
Have all become
Aching nights of despair.

6053

His mind is the reservoir
Of positive thoughts.
Therefore, he never fails
In anything.

6054

Because you doubt
God’s Forgiveness,
God is no longer
Proud of you.

6055

If you cling
To your ego-life,
Then God will definitely cling
To His withdrawal-life.

6056

Your life is in full bloom today
Because you have removed
Your existence-life from bondage-clay.

6057

God Himself is announcing
Your victory in Heaven,
For you have torn the ignorance-pages
From your life-book.

6058

Do not seek a lesser goal.
If you do that,
Yours will be a life
Of sombre dole.

6059

Whoever has told you
That your life will remain
Lost forever
In ignorance-vault
Is absolutely wrong.

6060

Do you want to become
A searcher of truth?
Then I tell you,
You will never remain alone
Either in Heaven or on earth.

6061

God lives
To give you everything.
God does not know
And will not know
How to give up.

6062

If you are giving your life to God
Unconditionally,
Then it will not be long
Before God claims you
As His very own.

6063

You can soar
Far beyond your life’s struggle.
Just pray to God soulfully
To meditate for you.

6064

God works for Eternity
To save humanity
From its unimaginable insanity.

6065

Divinity
Is humanity’s eternal heritage,
Believe it or not!

6066

Is there any time
When the temptation-theatre
Is not shockingly overcrowded?

6067

He does only one thing:
He daily walks along the road
Of the frustration-mind.

6068

Doubt-train arrives
At the mind-station
Only when
It is not vehemently rejected.

6069

Hold fast
To your life’s obedience-tree
If you really want
A real God-manifestation-life.

6070

Be always on time
For God’s appointed Hour.
If not,
You will never be able
To come out of
Your mind’s dark ego-cave.

6071

One day you will believe
That God’s Way is not only a better way,
But also the only way
To transform your entire life.

6072

Hope-plant grows
Only after aspiration-seed
Has been sown.

6073

The Master’s compassion-eye
Will light your devotion-candle
Only at God’s choice Hour.

6074

If you are ready to reveal
God’s Compassion,
Then only will God conceal
Your imperfections.

6075

Never stop learning!
Never hesitate to ask!
God wants you to be a self-knower
More than anything else.

6076

Like your heart,
Your mind, too,
Must learn how to dance
Sleeplessly
On the faith-floor.

6077

Disaster fell unexpectedly
From the sky
Because when God’s God-Hour struck,
You were not available.

6078

God’s Compassion-Eye
Is the source
Of my mind’s thought-stopping
Incantation.

6079

Each human being must know
That his prayer-life
And meditation-life
Are two most significant
Privileges.

6080

If you do not take help
From your sky-climbing heart,
Then your life-descending mind
Will never stop.

6081

If you want to expand
Your consciousness,
Then every day, at every moment,
Without fail,
Confront your life’s ignorance-foe.

6082

Just remember the day
You first met God.
How did you recognise Him?
You recognised Him
Because you became
Your life’s surrender-soul.

6083

Divinity’s fulness-race
And humanity’s oneness-race
Will be successful
Only when they need the Supreme
As their Compassion-Coach.

6084

If you wear
Your heart’s oneness-uniform,
Then God will inform the world
That you are His choicest instrument.

6085

Until you realise
That your earthly life-car
Needs Heavenly aspiration-fuel,
You will not be able to see the Face
Of God’s Satisfaction-Delight.

6086

Here on earth
When you do not have
Any impure thoughts
On a particular day,
There in Heaven
God celebrates a special day.

6087

Be not afraid of God.
Be always at your heart-home
So that you will meet God
When He compassionately calls on you.

6088

If your mind
Is a disobedience-runner,
Then your life
Will definitely run
On a collision-course.

6089

The sweet music
Of purity’s soulful smile
Can create a God-dream
In human life.

6090

If you keep your wisdom-light
To yourself,
You will never be able to please God
In His own Way.

6091

I am telling you
Once and for all,
Nobody has the right to force you
To own defeat,
Nobody!

6092

Why do you allow fear
To seize and freeze your heart?
Why do you allow doubt
To torture and conquer your mind?

6093

My life reminds me
Of teeming struggles.
My heart reminds me
Of God’s Salvation-Smile.

6094

An aspiration-boat
Will eventually land
On the perfection-shore
Of satisfaction-delight.

6095

No, you will not lose
Your existence-life for good
In the tide of temptation,
For God’s Compassion
Is infinitely more powerful
Than your temptation-life.

6096

God will show you the goal.
Can you not show Him
That you are most obedient
To your soul?

6097

Time does not beckon me.
It is I who beckon time
To carry me
Beyond the limits of time.

6098

His progress-life halted
The day he made friends
With his gossip-monger-mind.

6099

Again and again I have told God
That I love Him deeply.
Again and again God has told me
That He needs me desperately.
Finally we have decided today
To trust each other.

6100

What is human life
If not, right from the beginning,
A beautiful Vision-Flame of God?

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