Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 75

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7401

With a single surrender-step
He reached
God’s Satisfaction-Palace.

7402

Because you have
A purity-heart,
Nobody can force you to have
A life barren of beauty.

7403

God’s Heart-Boat
Always has room
For more passengers.

7404

The trickery of the mind
Never wins
Life’s lottery.

7405

A dedication-hand
Has the master key
To life’s mystery-rooms.

7406

Live with God’s
Aspiration-Boons
And not with man’s
Temptation-gifts.

7407

To save
The dying humanity,
What price
Is your heart ready to pay?

7408

God’s Satisfaction-Smile grows
Only in the soil
Of humanity’s oneness-heart.

7409

You have only one thing
To do:
Resurrect
Your buried aspiration-heart!

7410

No problem
Can dare to claim
An everlasting breath.

7411

I give
So that I can live.
I live
So that I can become perfect.

7412

Death
Is leaving my life
Because aspiration
Is calling my heart.

7413

Serve.
You will know how to survive.
Survive.
You will know how to thrive.

7414

The human mind is so weak
That in a fleeting second
It can seriously be affected
By the dangerous doubt-disease.

7415

Now that you have forgotten
How to display,
God is going to teach you
How to play
His Oneness-Game.

7416

Do not postpone
Your God-appointments.
Your God-oneness-soul
Will never forgive you.

7417

Alas,
He is totally lost
Between his heart’s need
And his mind’s greed.

7418

You have come to God
With your curiosity-mind.
God is giving you
His Divinity’s Luminosity-Heart.

7419

As possibility
Cannot be exhausted,
Even so, inevitability
Cannot be annihilated.

7420

No crying and climbing prayer-letters
From your heart
Will come back from Heaven
Unanswered.

7421

Peace you want
In your heart?
Then pray for silence
In your mind.

7422

Although your mind
Has given up the sunlit path,
The heart of the sunlit path
Has not given up on your mind.

7423

Not how you sing
But for Whom you sing
Is of supreme importance.

7424

God helped my heart
To soar.
I helped my mind
To sink.

7425

Forget not
Daily to count
The God-blessed, teeming miracles
In your dedication-life.

7426

An invincible determination-hero:
This is what
His aspiration-heart is.

7427

A new sun
Is for a new heart.
A new day
Is for a new life.

7428

Believe it or not,
Every day
My Beloved Supreme gives me
His Vision-Kite to fly.

7429

A self-seeking mind
Cannot fathom
A God-discovery-heart.

7430

Man wants your mind.
Be careful, you and your mind.
God needs your heart.
Be ready, you and your heart.

7431

Alas, I do not know why
I am spending so much time
With my mind-enemy.

7432

Expectation:
That is human.
Frustration:
That is not even human.

7433

He is unimaginably fluent
In God’s transcendental Language:
Satisfaction.

7434

Indeed,
It is a fruitful thing
To collect your golden dreams.

7435

Without God’s Grace
If you want to run
Faster and faster,
You will meet with one disaster
After another.

7436

God wants to teach my heart
How to speak.
My mind wants to teach God
How to remain silent.

7437

You do not know
What to do?
Then practise, at least,
How to wait.

7438

God commands
My stupidity-mind.
God wants my purity-heart
To command Him.

7439

Are you so stupid
To think that you are
Your yesterday’s
Puny failure-life?

7440

You have decided
Not to take a chance.
God does not approve
Of your hasty decision.

7441

My mind wants me
To be careful.
My heart wants me
To be soulful.
My Lord wants me
To be fruitful.

7442

A surrender-heart knows
That there is nothing
Difficult for it to achieve.

7443

You wanted to still your mind.
God has done it for you.
God wants to be fulfilled.
Can you not do it for Him?

7444

Your business
Is to take the first step.
God’s Business
Is to grant you a fast step.

7445

A man of purity
Enjoys free transportation
To God’s Palace
In God’s own Bus,
Driven by God Himself.

7446

God came,
But I forgot
To kiss His Compassion-Feet.

7447

One thing
I should not have said:
“I do not need
Any human being.”

7448

There is no difference
Between a frustration-lover
And a destruction-monger.

7449

Aspiration,
Still you are my boss,
Although
I have far surpassed you.

7450

Possessors
Of earthly ability
Are quite often unaware
Of Heavenly possibilities.

7451

Poor jealousy
Is forced to hear everything,
Although it does not want to.

7452

It is quite proper that God,
Being the Creator,
Has the right to be fully in charge
Of His creation.

7453

If you know
How to disobey,
Then God also knows
How to forgive.

7454

Disdain your pain!
Your earth-chains
Will without fail
Disappear.

7455

Your faith-boat
Will definitely take you
To your and God’s
Satisfaction-Shore.

7456

God already has your heart,
The original.
He does not need your mind,
The carbon copy.

7457

Not God’s Justice-Hand
But His Compassion-Heart
Wants to discover
My mind’s hiding place.

7458

Who has told you
That you are under an obligation
To love your self-doubt?

7459

The searching mind’s
Favourite acceptance-songs
Are extremely challenging
And illumining.

7460

God-Day does not want you
To make friends
With death-night.

7461

His aspiration-credentials
Are all hidden
By his treacherous mind.

7462

Doubt’s eventual destruction
Is an oft-quoted story
In the spiritual life.

7463

Be conscious of the fact
That God has kept everything for you
Inside His Heart-Safe
For you to use
At His choice Hour.

7464

God loves you.
But do you love Him?
“No!”
Do you need Him?
“No!”
Do you even want Him?
“No!”

7465

I love God
Because He is perfect.
God loves me
Because I am not jealous
Of His Perfection.

7466

God wants you to fly
Like your soul.
You want God to be bound
Like your body.

7467

As God has given your soul
The capacity to fly,
Even so, He has given your heart
The rare capacity to cry.

7468

Because you live
In the garden of selflessness,
God the Gardener is coming to you
In His Infinity’s Fulness.

7469

Your vagabond-prayers
And your frustration-mind
Live in the room
Of nothingness.

7470

Your heart does have
The capacity
To step into tomorrow’s
Dire challenge.

7471

Your mind wants to reach
A roaring shore.
Your heart wants to reach
A smiling shore.

7472

His soul immediately
Came up to him
On hearing that
His heart was missing,
To help him search
For his missing heart.

7473

Do not play alone!
Your best Friend, God,
Does not like
Your isolation-game.

7474

Because
You trust clouds,
Sunshine
Does not trust you.

7475

You have failed
Because your heart has not cried.
You have failed
Because your mind has not tried.
You have failed
Because your life does not need God.

7476

Desires are truly fulfilled
Only when
They are perfectly transcended.

7477

Every day
You must practise humility
And fold your proud hands
In Heaven-climbing prayers.

7478

O my mind,
Do not be afraid
Of the outer bondage.

O my heart,
Do not be afraid
Of the inner freedom.

7479

My mind,
You must not blame anybody else
For your untold suffering
From your self-chosen
Responsibility-loads.

7480

Long before I proclaim
God’s Victory over my mind,
He claims my life.

7481

How can you see
God’s all-pervading smiling Face
Before you have given Him
Your loving heart?

7482

How can you ever fail
When your heart wants to try
Again and again?

7483

Are you hungry
For only favourable news from God,
Or are you hungry
For any news from God?

7484

Your miserable past
Wants you to surrender to it.
For God’s sake, do not!

7485

It is the mind
And not the heart
That is disturbed
When any soul comes
Uninvited.

7486

Who has manufactured
Your life-problems?
You alone!
Who is now cherishing them?
You alone!

7487

Your mind is telling
The same old baseless story:
God does not love you,
Yet you love Him.

7488

Suspicion is the mind’s
Invention.
Forgiveness has to be the heart’s
Discovery.

7489

The smile of your self-giving
Inspires God
To dance for you.

7490

From the quick inspiration
To the strong aspiration
Is a very short distance.

7491

Two things you daily need:
Mental disarmament
And
Psychic armament.

7492

Sincerity tells you
What to do.
Purity shows you
How to do.
Divinity does not tell or show;
It just does everything
For you.

7493

My Lord,
This time I can give You
Only my frustration.
When You come next time,
I shall give You
My aspiration.

7494

Today
I shall call my God
My ignorance-overlooker.
Tomorrow
I shall call my God
My illumination-giver.

7495

The world suspects you
Because
You have not loved the world
According to your heart’s capacity.

7496

Truth may be bitter at times
While you are practising it.
But it is always sweet
While you are offering it to others.

7497

Not only a purity-heart
But also a serenity-mind
Has the rare capacity to take
Peace-breathing exercises.

7498

While you were away
With your mind,
God came and left a message
With your heart
To call Him as soon as you come back.

7499

Only your aspiration-voice
Is entitled
To the greatest choice.

7500

Each heart knows
How to dream of fulness-beauty
Within God’s God-Reality.

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