Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 64

6301

To see
A face of love
Is to feel
A heart of peace.

6302

You know how to converse
With your heart.
Therefore
You and your aspiration-life
Are definitely pleasing
Your Beloved Supreme.

6303

My Lord Supreme,
Your Heart beats
In my throbbing heart.
Therefore, all my questions,
Born and unborn,
Are answered.

6304

O seeker,
The joy of your desire-life
Is nothing but your sorrow
Masked.

6305

O my mind,
I pray to my Lord Supreme
To help you know
The sacred secrets
Of my soul.

6306

My outer awakening
Is my deep dream-existence
In my Lord Supreme.

6307

The inner heart
Can be made sweet, pure and perfect
Only with one thing:
The inner hunger.

6308

The more desires you have,
The more helpless a puppet
You become
In the hands of ignorance-prince.

6309

God does not want you
To remain alone.
He wants you to swim
With your heart’s swift hope-river.

6310

God will wait for you,
He will,
Although you are a worshipper
Of ignorance-night.

6311

The inner disaster will strike
Without fail
If you are not already disgusted
With your life’s insecurity-ant.

6312

If you have a seeker’s heart,
Then at the very mention
Of your Lord Supreme,
Your eyes of indifference
To the outer world of manifestation
Will be transformed into
A heart of sleepless concern.

6313

One willing breath.
Lo,
The question of centuries
Is answered.

6314

Centuries have rolled by,
Yet one question haunts him:
Does God know everything
Here on earth and there in Heaven?

6315

God paints you
With your aspiration-life.
You paint yourself
With your desire-mind.

6316

If you resign
From your God-appointed task,
Tomorrow’s sorrow
Will knock at your heart’s door
Powerfully today.

6317

Your God-search
Is accelerating.
Therefore, God Himself
Is celebrating
Your graduation in Heaven.

6318

God loves His unfinished
Vision-Eye
More than anything else.

6319

Every day you must shed tears
For this poor earth
If you really care for
God the man.

6320

God wants to write
Your aspiration-epic.
You just make friends
With your silence-mind.

6321

Do not allow your heart,
Like your mind,
To be cramped
In life’s insecurity-cage.

6322

You want to save
The world at large.
Do you not see
That you have already become
Your mind’s perfect and eternal slave?

6323

I love and I need
Only one word
In God’s Dictionary:
Forgiveness,
Sleepless forgiveness.

6324

If you give your mind
All the time
Undue respect,
How do you expect your heart
To give you
Its soulful love?

6325

Silence is not loved
By an ordinary man.

Sound is not loved
By an aspiring man.

But the soundless sound-life
And the soundless silence-life
Are loved
By a God-becoming man.

6326

Human thoughts
Are mortal dreams,
But human self-giving
Is an immortal Reality.

6327

Never wait passively
For progress-light,
For that is absolutely
The wrong approach.

6328

A doubtful mind
And a fearful heart
Are the makers
Of endless miseries.

6329

Satisfaction within
And satisfaction without
Come from the purity
Of inner aspiration
And from the beauty
Of outer dedication.

6330

Hesitation
Is an unpardonable intruder
In the seeker’s aspiration-world.

6331

Today I am celebrating
The complete failure
Of my desire-mind.

6332

Because you are a fool,
You have all along carried
Unnecessarily
An excessive ignorance-burden.

6333

Too many souls
Love to procrastinate.
Again, too many souls
Want a quick liberation.

6334

Why return to your old home,
Why?
A new home is waiting for you —
A home of perfection-light.

6335

A slumbering life
Will definitely meet
With an inglorious defeat
At the end of its earthly sojourn.

6336

He got
What he wanted,
Only to lose
His heart’s Inner Pilot.

6337

You have been knocking
At your mind’s door.
Are you not tired of it?
Can you not ask your soul
To teach you how to knock
At your heart’s door?

6338

I know you have
An indisputably great mind.
But can you not prove to me
That you also have
An indisputably good heart?

6339

A sincere seeker knows
That his aspiration-life
Is nothing short of
A lifetime opportunity
To realise God
And to become inseparably one
With God’s Manifestation-Light
On earth.

6340

Do not be baffled
By man’s ignorance.
Just tell humanity
That God is not finished
With His creation-experience.

6341

I have started dreaming
Of going back to my spiritual life,
For my present desire-life
Is like a pathless wood.

6342

An impossible task:
To satisfy God
With your self-styled surrender.

6343

You are hungry
For the rewards from Heaven,
But you are not willing to be one
With the earth’s hunger-cry.

6344

Because I am a slave
To my self-glory,
I am suffering from
A very high ignorance-fever.

6345

Now that you have pleased God
In His own Way,
God has made a special reservation
For you to stay
In His celestial Heaven-Abode.

6346

I have seen
Time and again,
My God, the Compassion-Lifeguard,
Saving me from drowning
In ignorance-sea.

6347

My heart-bird and soul-bird
In oneness fly
Towards the perfection-summit
Of Divinity.

6348

He who claims God as his own,
Very own,
Is going to win
The soulful seeker award
Of Eternity.

6349

Selfless service
Is man’s visible love for God
In God-manifestation on earth.

6350

Do not think
That you cannot do it.
Just think that God
Is definitely going to do it
In you, for you.

6351

If you travel all the time
On the wings of hope,
And not
On the wings of determination,
You are not going to succeed
In the battlefield of life.

6352

What good
Are all the multiple glories
Of the world
When you have lost
Your soul’s smile?

6353

God has lent you
His ready Heart.
Can you not lend Him
Your ready ear?

6354

He has failed
In his search for God,
For he has allowed his mind
To be crushed
By the jaws of jealousy.

6355

First place yourself
Before God’s Compassion-Eye,
And then place yourself
At God’s Transformation-Feet.

6356

Follow your inner sun
While walking through
Your mind’s ignorance-night.

6357

If you can give up
Your earth-bound desire-life,
Then God will grant you
His Heart’s Ecstasy-Empire.

6358

Why do you not ask God
To drive your life-car?
He will not only drive you
Safely,
But also take you
To your satisfaction-destination
Swiftly.

6359

Which master do you want?
The doubting mind.
Which master do you need?
The loving heart.

6360

You have lost the inner race,
Not because you are slow,
But because you have been looking behind
All the time.

6361

You hide
From God’s Compassion-Light.
Therefore
You are the greatest fool
In God’s entire creation!

6362

Do you not see
That your ignorance-shadow
Is following you everywhere,
No matter where you go?

6363

O my heart,
You have lost your inner key.
Therefore
You will not be able to open
Your life’s realisation-door.

6364

To reach
The pinnacle of perfection,
Every day try to compose
A God-pleasing, soulful song.

6365

There shall come a time
When your life will definitely escape
From the torture of ignorance-night.
Soulfully wait for God’s choice Hour.

6366

Doubt, the aspiration-strangler,
Has finally been captured.
Therefore
I shall celebrate my God-victory
Inside my heart-garden.

6367

You are all mind
And no heart.
Therefore, you are missing
Your soul.

6368

In my heart’s hour of need
I dived deep
And discovered
The eternal, self-illumining Sun.

6369

You do not have to decide
Whether you should hide or abide.
Just cry with your heart,
Just smile with your soul.
In your soulful cry and powerful smile
All decisions will be made for you
By God Himself.

6370

Do not allow insecurity
To kidnap your heart.
Sooner or later
You will definitely be blessed
With God-Vision.

6371

His is a thankless heart
And his is a thoughtless mind.
What he enjoys
Is the pride
Of his little ego-possessions.

6372

You are unloved and unremembered
Because
You do not want to participate
In God’s Cosmic Play.

6373

Your ignorance-era
Will come to an end
Because
Your sun-vast aspiration-life
Has just begun.

6374

An impurity-thief
Has stolen all your joy.
God’s Compassion invoke
To grant you His own
Universal Vision-Light.

6375

Who says
God does not hear your prayers?
He does hear your prayers,
Provided they are
Your silence-prayers.

6376

If you keep your heart-room clean
Every day,
God will force your mind
To sleep for good.

6377

I do not know
Why I am crying
And for whom I am crying,
But I do know
Why I am smiling
And for whom I am smiling.
I am smiling to see
God’s Compassion-Face.
I am smiling for God’s
Satisfaction-Manifestation on earth.

6378

You have fallen prey to impurity.
Your moment of colossal satisfaction
Has indisputably passed.

6379

Because of his life’s
Extraordinary transformation,
He is impervious
To all ignorance-attacks.

6380

A life of meditation
Can be pleased
Only with one thing:
The ecstasy of the soul.

6381

My aspiration-heart knows
How to cry for God.
My dedication-life knows
How to smile at man.

6382

You must never think
That your life and heart
Are unprepared to meet with God.

6383

Do you want to conquer
Your time-bound mind?
Then grow into
Your soul’s patience-tree.

6384

Do you want
To deserve God’s Love?
Then serve God the man
In God’s unfinished creation.

6385

A bitter truth-pill
Has cured
His illness of millennia.

6386

Alas,
Once to cry for God
Is not enough.

Alas,
One perfect soul on earth
Is not enough.

6387

Your life
Is God’s responsibility
If you care for
The divinity within you only.

6388

If you are
An ordinary human being,
Then you will try to hide
From the world.

If you are
A special being,
Then you will try to abide
In God’s Heart
For man’s transformation-life.

6389

Alas,
Purity has been hiding
For a long time
From the world’s fearful eyes.

6390

Time will not wait for you.
Do not waste your precious life
In searching for the best road.
Start walking along any road,
For eventually
All roads will lead you
To your goal.

6391

First become the worshipper,
Then become the lover
And finally become the explorer
Of God’s Vision-World.

6392

You have begun
Your Eternity’s journey
In Heaven.
Now you must continue it
Here on earth.

6393

Because of his centuries
Of sleep,
He has forgotten to value
God-realisation.

6394

Have new inner friends,
Especially your heart’s purity
And your soul’s divinity.

6395

My heart tells my mind,
“O my searching mind,
Do not be satisfied
With your present achievement.
You want to love the Inner Pilot most,
But that is not enough.
You have to love
The Inner Pilot only.”

6396

He who is neutral
Cannot be
A promising and fulfilling soul
To God.

6397

My mind thinks
God is beautiful
Because
My heart loves God.

My heart knows
God is beautiful
Because
My soul loves God.

6398

There shall come a time
When your mind will be freed
From ignorance-fetters.
And then you will realise
That God is
A colossal Compassion-Heart.

6399

If you are
A peace-supplier,
Then God will come to you
As a Supreme Lover.

6400

If you are a seeker
Of silence-light,
Then God will grant you
An eternal dawn
In His universal Heart.

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