Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 90

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8901

The heart that loves God
Unconditionally
Is the heart that radiates light
Eternally
Both in Heaven and on earth.

8902

Every day
Carefully and accurately
You must patrol the miles
Of your restless and senseless mind.

8903

God wants you to know
That He has not yet finished
Your life’s portrait
To His Satisfaction.

8904

Like his heart,
His mind, too,
Wants to be snatched by God
From ignorance-night.

8905

You and your old friend,
Jealousy,
Will never be invited
By the Satisfaction-Smile
Of God’s Heart.

8906

God reads your letters
Only when they are inspired
By the purity
Of your gratitude-heart.

8907

If you can silence the mind
And ask the heart
To speak to God,
Then only are you heading
In the right direction.

8908

If the employer and the employee
Can work together
On the strength of their
Selfless oneness,
Then their manifestation
Is God’s Perfection on earth.

8909

While you are on your way
To the highest Height,
You must not ignore
Your two old friends:
Simplicity and humility.

8910

If you want to enjoy a vacation
From the spiritual life,
Then God may forgive you,
But your soul will neither forgive
Nor forget you.

8911

Your life of ambition
Will, without fail,
Be a life full of regrets.

8912

Every day try to increase
Your love of God.
Then peace will automatically unfold
In your unquiet mind.

8913

The difference
Between you and God
Is this:
Deliberately you want to challenge
God’s Authority,
While God even unconsciously
Does not want to challenge
Your stupidity.

8914

You can escape
From everybody and everything,
But not from God’s
All-embracing Compassion-Net.

8915

God is
His sleepless Invitation.
Can you not be
Your soulful acceptance?

8916

When he asks God
For special favours,
God tells him
That he and God
Are the co-owners
Of the entire universe.

8917

Alas, he is a human being
Whose mind has been devoured
By doubt
And whose heart has been devoured
By insecurity.

8918

God’s sacred Secrets
Eventually become
Our life’s open books.

8919

There is still time for me
To regain my warrior-spirit
And to conquer once and for all
Ignorance-night.

8920

Your heart is the place
Where your soul’s highest height
And your life’s deepest depth
Can meet.

8921

A life of imperfection
Is not my problem.
A heart of unwillingness
Is my only problem.

8922

Every day the God-lover
Has an offering
Of a new life-song
For God.

8923

If you always take
Your soul’s side,
Then God will give you
A free ride every day
In His vast Heart-Garden.

8924

O truth-seeker,
You must stop walking
Along the corridors
Of doubt and suspicion.

8925

He is now
In the world of aspiration.
Even so,
His desire-days
Pain him deeply.

8926

The beginning of perfection
Dawns
When the seeker puts an end
To his critical mind.

8927

True progress begins
When one stops beating
His self-admiration-drum.

8928

My morning promise:
Today I shall not fail God.
My evening promise:
Tomorrow I shall become
An infinitely better instrument
Of God.

8929

Each time you think of mankind
Compassionately,
You add profusely
To man’s perfection-day
And God’s Satisfaction-Sun.

8930

If you can live
In your soulful experience,
Then you and God
Will have a common name:
Satisfaction.

8931

Do not think of the past.
Go forward with a silent mind
And stay not where you are
With your bondage-memories.

8932

Do you know how
I have strengthened my life?
I have strengthened my life
By daily disappointments.

8933

Far beyond
The bounds of sight
His heart and his promise-life
Abide.

8934

I am a chosen instrument of God,
And I have my own three instruments:
A purity-mind,
A surrender-heart
And
A humility-life.

8935

Every day his eyes
Are becoming more and more
Like his heart’s
Vision-fulfilling purity-flower.

8936

A selfless heart sincerely feels
That every human being
Is a selfless giver.

8937

Those who are inclined
To say no
To God’s blessingful Invitation
Will miserably fail.

8938

It is you
Who do not give God
A fair hearing,
And never the reverse.

8939

He does not want his life to be
An unfinished song
Of world-transformation.

8940

What can be more pathetic
Than the self-deception
Of the human mind!

8941

God has compassionately confiscated
The impurity-edition
Of your unaspiring mind’s book.

8942

Yesterday you enjoyed
Your yesterday’s dream-boat.
Today you must enjoy
Your today’s reality-shore.

8943

Even God is shocked
To see you living
Inside an indifference-heart.

8944

A true God-lover
Does not grow older.
He only becomes wiser.

8945

You are such a fool!
You keep your mind-circuits busy
All the time,
Yet you proudly blame
God the Compassion
For remaining silent.

8946

Forgive the outer world.
Be grateful to the inner world.
Lo, God is all ready to embrace you
With all His divine Pride.

8947

Time’s frustration cannot touch you
If your self-giving life
Has already touched
God’s Compassion-Feet.

8948

He lives no more
Inside the depths
Of a fathomable faith-pond.
He now lives
Inside an unfathomable faith-sea.

8949

O my Lord Supreme,
When You come to see me,
Please do not come alone.
Do bring with You
Obedience-rules
To make my life
The most perfect instrument of Yours.

8950

I beg my mind
To live in the society
Of truth-seekers.

I beg my heart
To live in the society
Of God-lovers.

8951

Even before I opened
My closed eyes,
God’s open Eye
Was smiling at me.

8952

You do your work:
You go on creating a new world.
God will ask the citizens
Of the old world
To applaud you, along with Him.

8953

The sunlit way to realise God
Is to cleverly forget
And wisely forgive
One’s past failures.

8954

God’s Compassion-Eye gives us
Not only one chance
But countless chances
To change our wrong directions.

8955

My mind’s
Daily self-indulgence-exercises
Are torturing and weakening
My love of God.

8956

Sooner or later
Your mind will be caught
If it is secretly affiliated
With the doubt-embassy.

8957

Why do you expect God to finish
Your unfinished transformation-task?
Have you completed
God’s unfinished Manifestation-Task?

8958

My heart-garden
Is absolutely the best place
For me to meditate
For my self-discovery.

8959

God sleeplessly gives
Only one thing
To him who loves Him unconditionally:
Satisfaction.

8960

His heart’s aspiration-flames
Have been taken over
By the temptation-terrorists
Of his vital.

8961

My heart tells me
That there is no difference
Between a retired seeker
And a fired seeker.

8962

Do not encourage doubt
To come near you.
It will immediately deplete
Your mind’s peace-funds.

8963

If you mock your soul’s vision,
God will shock you
With His immediate disappearance.

8964

Do not feed your mind
On fantasies
If you are hoping to enjoy
God-Ecstasies.

8965

Show insincerity
The “No Entry” sign
On your heart’s door.

8966

I do not know
Why and how
I have locked my mind
In empty dreams.

8967

Satisfaction-sea left him
The moment his heart’s hope-stream
Started to run dry.

8968

Even an iota of expectation
Can destroy
Your Himalayan-high ecstasy.

8969

Like your soul,
You are free to refuse
The lure
Of temptation-snare.

8970

O my mind,
You can magnify and multiply
Your self-importance
As much and as long
As you want to.
I am not going to remain with you
Any more.

8971

Do not lock, but unlock
And keep unlocked,
Your heart’s enthusiasm-door.

8972

You have practically completed
Your life-book.
Now pray to God to write
The last few pages
So that you will be able
To take pride
In telling the world
That you and God
Are co-authors of your life-book.

8973

Smile sleeplessly
And give unconditionally
So that with every heartbeat of yours
You can be worthy
Of God’s transcendental Pride.

8974

How can a God-loving heart
Be without a friend?
How can a man-possessing mind
Be without an enemy?

8975

Pay not undue attention
To your body-cage.
Make friends with
The immortal soul-bird
Inside your body-cage.

8976

O God-seeker, come out!
Come out and spread God’s Light!
Do not remain always seated
Inside the tiny cage of your heart.

8977

A clarity-mind and a purity-heart,
A humility-life and a luminosity-soul:
When they stay together,
They cannot be devoured
By the world’s anxiety.

8978

Even a faint whispering
Of your soul
Can awaken your life
And enlighten your life.

8979

His soul
Gives all the credit
To his heart
For the death
Of his strangling vital.

8980

What an unaspiring mind
Has and is:
A trivia-filled thought-train.

8981

For a long time
I have been longing
For a bouquet
Of God-gratitude-flowers
In my heart-garden.

8982

God does not want
To answer your questions
Because you have already
Answered your questions
In your own way.

8983

Even if you are a beginner-seeker,
You cannot indefinitely wait
At the threshold of spirituality.

8984

You may have declared
Your independence of God,
But God will always
Depend on you,
For He knows
Who you truly are.

8985

A God-lover
Does not know
What mind-miseries are.
He only knows
What heart-treasures are.

8986

A tiny devotion-heart
Can claim
The giant Satisfaction-Heart
Of God.

8987

The choice is yours:
Either you will please
God’s Heart
Or continue pleasing
Your mind.

8988

How can a jealous vital
Be separated
From its secret agony?

How can a oneness-heart
Be separated
From its sacred delight?

8989

Since God does not allow ignorance
To forge His Signature,
You also must not allow ignorance
To forge your signature!

8990

If you want the world
To smile at you sincerely
And generously,
Then do not extol yourself
To the skies.

8991

Nothing can be as certain
As the most glorious triumph
Of a seeker’s God-obedience-life.

8992

If you are your mind’s
Reluctance to change,
Do not blame God
For not enjoying
His Satisfaction-Delight in you.

8993

God has forgiven me.
That means
He has not yet forsaken me.

God has not forsaken me.
That means
For me to be His perfect instrument
Is not an impossible task.

8994

If you can become
Your seeker-heart,
Then God will definitely be
Your fruitful life-garden.

8995

Why do you indulge
In making predictions?
Can you not see daily
A million prediction-failures?

8996

You are such a fortunate seeker!
God the Compassion always arrives
Long before the fulfilment
Of your desire-hour.

8997

Only when you listen
To the dictates of your soul,
The path ahead of you
Becomes absolutely clear.

8998

Each conscious thought of yours
Must become an experience
Of pure delight.
This is what your soul-teacher
Has been telling you.

8999

When God invites you,
Do not forget to carry with you
Your heart’s gratitude-garland
To offer Him.

9000

Life’s battlefield
Will be all peace
When the sound of the mind
Gives way
To the silence of the heart.

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