Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 69

6801

Surrender, surrender, surrender!
Let your life
Be a garland of surrender.
Your soul will grant you
Its satisfaction-tower.

6802

Ignorance-obstacles
Are bowing to you
Because
You have become a student
At the school of wisdom-light.

6803

Alas, I do not know
How long I shall have to continue
Loving my worthless mind
In my sleepless life.

6804

You have so many enemies
Because you do not live
In your soul’s universal
Oneness-delight.

6805

Do not turn
The pages of the past
If you want an inspiration-mind
And an aspiration-heart
To be your intimate friends.

6806

A God-lover and truth-seeker
Has the capacity
To save even those
Who have lost all hope.

6807

A fallen life
Need not be
And cannot be
A fallen life forever.

6808

Do not spread rumours
About your God-realisation.
Neither God nor man
Will appreciate them.

6809

Since faith is known
All the world over,
Can you not have
An all-illumining faith-heart?

6810

It is you who have dug
Your disobedience-grave.
It is you, therefore,
Who have to be buried
In that grave.

6811

Do not think
That everybody has the capacity
Or will have the capacity
In the near future
To correspond regularly with God.
Impossible!

6812

Can you not see
That you have become
A most deplorable victim
Of your own destruction-deeds?

6813

O my heart,
Do not become a blind agent
Of ignorance-night
The way my body, vital and mind
Have already become.

6814

I am a seeker-heart.
I have simply nothing to do
With my mind’s far-fetched fantasies.

6815

If you can keep
Pure thoughts in your mind
During the day,
Then at night you will be blessed
With the company of angels.

6816

Only one thing do I want:
Never to allow my mind
To be paralysed by impurity.

6817

Be alert, be alert,
If you want to be
A God-representative on earth.
Otherwise,
You will be forced to sink back
Into your life’s darkness-sleep.

6818

If your vital is brave
And your mind is pure,
Then I do not see why
You should be unwilling
To measure yourself
Against the Standard of the Supreme.

6819

Yesterday
The world invited desires.
Today
The world is preventing peace
From manifesting itself on earth.

6820

The difference
Between you and God
Is this:
God forgives
But does not forget.
You neither forget
Nor forgive.

6821

An unthinkable mind
Does not know
The beauty, purity and divinity
Of an unsinkable boat.

6822

When he gave God his heart
For safekeeping,
God saved his life from impurity,
A many-sided monster.

6823

Yesterday
Your ego asserted its existence.
Therefore, today
God has deserted
Your heart’s happiness-home.

6824

You must never step over
The disobedience-line,
For your soul of light
Has come into existence
For Infinity’s God-manifestation.

6825

Every morning
Before you pray and meditate
And after you pray and meditate,
Try to assess cheerfully
Your spiritual assets.

6826

Do you want to have
A time to be alone with God?
Then destroy your all-consuming
Desire-life
Once and for all!

6827

The mind does not see
Its own darkness.
The heart does not feel
Its own soulfulness.
The life does not know
Its own fruitfulness.

6828

As long as you live on earth,
In order to be happy and peaceful,
Just feel that the world belongs to God
And not to you.

6829

Why did you allow death
To tie its ropes around you,
Why?
Who will and who can
Save you now?

6830

There are many rules
On life’s battlefield.
If you do not abide by them,
Then you will become
A prey to destruction.

6831

God does not want you to offer
Row after row of excuses.
He just wants you to start
A new beginning.

6832

Your desire-life
Is about to destroy you
Completely.
Can you not quickly,
With your heart’s aspiration-flames,
Renew your passport
To celestial realms?

6833

Inner oneness is what I need,
Not outer familiarity.
Familiarity-capacity
Is the problem-maker.
Oneness-necessity
Is the problem-solver.

6834

Once we totally surrender
To God’s Will,
Even if we want
To withdraw our surrender,
God will not allow it.

6835

He was a champion,
But because he did not have
True oneness,
He felt miserable long before
His record was actually broken.

6836

You want to be more spiritual
In your inner life.
Then why are you not daily
Praying to your Lord Supreme?

You want to be more spiritual
In your outer life.
Then why are you not daily
Serving humanity?

6837

Again and again
You are making the same mistake
And asking others to forgive you.
But what right do you have
To expect and demand their forgiveness
As long as you continue
Making the same mistake?

6838

Practise meditation secretly and soulfully
Wherever you are.
Soon you will gain the confidence
To meditate on God
Consciously and constantly.

6839

You are really good,
Yet you entertain
The lowest opinion of yourself.
He is really bad,
Yet he remains convinced
That he is extremely good.
What can poor God do?

6840

The world will value heart-power
Only when there are
Many more sincere seekers
Who will do everything
In the sacred spirit of self-giving,
And who will give up everything
For their Lord Supreme.

6841

The Lord Supreme wishes to play
Only one game
With His sweet children,
And that game
Is His Eternity’s Satisfaction-Game.

6842

His spiritual life has become
Nothing but a stagnant pool.
He will undoubtedly be washed away
When new seekers come
With a new hope
And a new promise
To manifest the Lord Supreme.

6843

The old year is dying.
The new year is bringing
A new life, a new beginning.
Now is the time
For the seeker-children
Of the Lord Supreme
To treasure a new hope
And a new promise.

6844

Do you think that God lives
All by Himself?
No, He lives with millions
Of secret and sacred plans
For you.

6845

Behold,
God’s Fulness-Heart
Wants to accompany
Your goodness-life!

6846

My Lord,
Out of Your infinite Bounty,
You have made me
Inseparably one with You.
Now, if even for a fleeting second,
I wish to enjoy my previous will —
Which is none other than
My undivine will —
Please do not allow it.
Never again do I wish to have
Any sense of separativity.

6847

You fool!
Not by studying books,
But by discovering
The spontaneous reality in yourself,
Will you experience the Highest.

6848

I do not like
The wild dance of your vital.
I only like
The sweet song of your heart.

6849

If you do not dare
To call your Inner Pilot
Your own, very own,
How can your Inner Pilot
Sing His Eternity’s Silence-Song
For you?

6850

Discipline
Is joy misunderstood.
Aspiration
Is satisfaction misunderstood.

6851

If you have the eagerness
To dominate your desire-life,
Then God will be true to you
At every moment.

6852

Divine love
Never has to cry.
Divine surrender
Never has to sigh.

6853

If you do not have sleepless faith,
Your life will be
An agonising marathon
Of unending miles.

6854

If you are cherishing
Your doubting mind,
You will never be able to run
In the progress-race
Sponsored by your soul.

6855

Something is missing.
What is it?
Peace, amid a storm of doubts.

6856

You have given so much joy
To your doubting mind.
Can you not give
Your remaining years
To God’s Satisfaction-Delight?

6857

If you are always thinking
Of being attacked
By this and that,
How will you ever dare
To develop a special relationship
With God?

6858

His life is lost
Between hope’s blue sky
And despair’s dark cave.

6859

You are so stupid!
How can you be jealous
Of your heart’s progress-life?

6860

Unless you uproot
Your deepest fears,
Your inner fate will remain
In the world of dark misfortune.

6861

My life’s self-giving
Is the sweetness
Born of my soul’s oneness.

6862

Just do the right thing!
Play the role of a divine seeker
Satisfactorily.
God will definitely help you
Hoist your victory-flag.

6863

Your desire-life knows
The sleep that lasts
For futile centuries.

6864

My Lord Supreme,
You forgive me
And give me another chance,
Not because
I deserve forgiveness,
But because
You want Your entire creation
To be absolutely perfect.

6865

Every day
I may not feel like
Serving others.
Still, I do serve,
Just for the purification
Of my body
And for the satisfaction
Of my soul.

6866

He accepted his life
As a challenge to himself.
He had no outer boss to please,
Only his own inner aspiration.

6867

Truth does not have to be
Always soft.
If necessity demands,
Truth can be harsh as well.

6868

If you fail to attain
Peace,
How will you regain
Your Inner Pilot?

6869

He has studied
In God’s Illumination-School.
Therefore
He has vehemently discarded
The mind’s division-caste system.

6870

You are your heart’s gratitude-breath.
Therefore, every day
God grants you the opportunity
To swim in His Satisfaction-River.

6871

Great
Is the art of beginning.
Good
Is the art of ending.
But for you, best
Is the art of continuing
And transcending.

6872

You are not a fool.
Why then, in your inner life,
Do you not mind
When you run backwards?

6873

The human mind
Is always aiming at some conclusion,
And that conclusion
Is giant confusion!

6874

Because of his inner blindness
And unwillingness to see God’s Light,
He is totally denied
The illumining flower-garden
Of his life.

6875

Do not allow,
Either consciously or unconsciously,
The layers of impurity-dust
To cover the brilliance of your soul.

6876

If you are not careful,
Even the smallest temptation-drop
Can destroy
Your aspiration-heart.

6877

Your heart’s oneness-delight
Loves the special messenger
From God:
The prince of delight.

6878

What is wrong with you?
Be not ashamed,
Be not embarrassed
To look at your own failure-creations.

6879

For the lost seekers,
There is no encouragement
From Heaven
And there is no determination
From earth.

6880

Unswervingly march inward!
Your Beloved Supreme
Is eagerly awaiting your arrival.

6881

The spirituality
That does not believe
In God-manifestation
Will always look like
A half-empty house.

6882

I see you are totally lost
Between
Your mind’s human despair
And your soul’s divine dreams.

6883

Your heart’s full moon
Is rising.
Your soul’s morning sun
Is rising.
Therefore, yours will be a life
Of tremendous progress
In the inner world.

6884

You cannot capture
The realisation-prize.
You have to earn it.

6885

With eyes clear of confusion
If you look within,
God will converse with you
Lovingly and proudly.

6886

It is not what you have already done,
But what you are going to transcend
In your immediate future
That is of paramount importance.

6887

In my tiny heart
God the infinite Beauty
And man the constant necessity
Eternally abide.

6888

Your eyes are full of expectation.
But tell me if your heart
Is all aspiration.
If not, all your expectations
Will end in vain.

6889

I admire your heart-house,
But I shall love your heart-house
Only if you build it
A little higher.

6890

What can your prayers do?
They can help you enter
The world’s closed heart,
And they can help you bring down
God’s Smile from Above.

6891

Behold!
The body, the vital and the mind
Are campaigning
To conquer earth’s insecurity.

6892

How can you be happy
When your heart has become
A helplessly fast-dying hope?

6893

Only one thing
I would like to see
In my lifetime:
God’s Voice echoing
In every heart.

6894

Do not think
Of a success-future,
For your lack of faith
In yourself
Has made you friendless,
Helpless and homeless.

6895

What does your faith
Do for others?
Your faith
Brings their best to the fore
All the time.

6896

You have the capacity
To control your vital rebellion.
Just use your aspiration-heart’s
Sleepless oneness-power.

6897

For God-realisation
You need not acquire anything special.
You have only to become aware
Of what is already
Deep inside you.

6898

How to know
When you have realised God?
The day you can look in the mirror
And use your inner will-power
To see not only your face
But countless other faces
In and around your face,
And know that these faces
Are all yours —
On that day you will know
That you have realised God.

6899

On the strength of our present
Concentration on the physical,
In the process of evolution,
Humanity will achieve
More confidence-light,
More success-might
And more progress-delight
In the body-consciousness.

6900

My Lord Supreme,
When I realise You,
Will I be different?
“Yes, My child!
Previously you thought
You were meant to live
An ordinary human life.
But when you realise Me,
You will feel that you have
Something very special
To do for Me on earth.”

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