Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 93

9201

The secret of your spiritual progress:
A new kind of psychic enthusiasm —
Pure, sweet and delicate —
Is dawning every day in your heart.

9202

During your meditation
Challenge yourself
To reach your highest
Even for a fleeting moment.

9203

Concentrate and meditate on purity.
Lo, all your inner resistance
Disappears
And automatically your heart’s door
Is wide open.

9204

You want to establish a universal oneness
And an abiding peace.
I am telling you,
Only one thing is absolutely necessary:
Your willingness-heart.

9205

Two meditation-secrets:
Safest
Is the heart centre,
Fastest
Is the crown centre.

9206

In my deepest meditation
I feel a sea of peace, light and bliss
Within me.

In my highest meditation
I see my aspiration-flame,
Like a rocket, climbing up.

9207

What else is failure
If not an opportunity
To challenge my own incapacities
With joy and determination?

9208

When my consciousness
Is at the top of my head
And going even beyond,
I know that I am finally reaching
My highest height.

9209

O moon,
Your beauty and purity
My heart and I
Are invoking.

O sun,
Your power and luminosity
My life and I
Are invoking.

9210

It is not where you go
Outwardly
But what you do
Inwardly
That helps you climb up
The inner ladder.

9211

Krishna, Buddha and Christ:
All three
Came from the Highest Plane
Of Consciousness-Light-Bliss —
Like real brothers of one Family.

9212

May your daily aspiration-flames
Be far beyond the reach
Of temptation-world!

9213

First try to please your Master
On the outer plane.
Then it will be quite easy
For you to please him
On the inner plane.

9214

Do you know what you have done?
In the inner world
You have placed Himalayan obstacles
Between you and God
Just by carelessly not listening to Him.

9215

You failed
Because you were impure.
You are failing
Because you are insecure.
But I tell you,
It is you who can succeed
The moment you become
Your heart’s confidence-smile.

9216

If the spiritual life
Is the only life for you,
Then you are indeed
A supremely chosen instrument
Of the Supreme.

9217

He has realised the Highest.
Yet to the whole world
He offers only one message:
Self-transcendence.

9218

I shall no longer revolt
Against the higher Light.
Then there will everywhere
Be always harmony,
And disobedience-night
Will nowhere be found.

9219

You did something great,
And now you expect the world
To honour you and touch your feet.
But have you forgotten
Your own ancient message:
This moment expectation,
The next moment frustration,
And the following moment
Destruction?

9220

This world is very vast.
When an aspirant no longer wishes
To listen to God,
He can easily find his own boat
To sail in.
But for him,
No other destination
Save and except
Self-destruction.

9221

In his aspiration-life
He was more than successful
Because the divine in him
Helped him.

But in his dedication-life
He is more than a failure
Because the human in him
Is helping him.

9222

Each seeker must know
That he is the representative
Of his Master’s confidence,
And his Master is the representative
Of the Supreme’s Promise.

9223

God’s Justice-Light
Has made a final decision:
Inwardly if you disobey God,
Outwardly you will feel
His complete Withdrawal.

9224

A confidence-heart
The seeker can have
Only on the strength
Of his obedience-light.
There is no other way.

9225

When the soul is successful
In giving powerful messages
To the heart,
And when the heart is successful
In expressing these messages
To the world,
Then only is God successful
Inside His Creation-Heart.

9226

Opportunity-bird
Is not going to touch your feet.
Never!
It is you who have to clasp
The wings of opportunity-bird.

9227

As soon as expectation-snare appears,
I feel that God is examining
My sincerity-life
Seriously.

9228

You do not believe in meditation.
No harm.
But you do believe in prayer,
And what is prayer
If not another road
Leading to the Supreme?

9229

With his inner vision
He received God’s new Message:
“Humanity not only rightly deserves
But also urgently needs
Divine Authority and divine Justice.”

9230

He was just a carpenter’s son.
But when he achieved realisation,
He became the world-liberator.

9231

Anything is possible!
An ordinary man can teach
One who is destined to become
A world-saviour.
Anything is possible!

9232

If you alone want to be responsible
For your own life,
That means you do not need and care for
God’s Protection-Light.

9233

Modern science will discard
Whatever it wants to discard.
But definitely
Some of the old legends
Are absolutely true,
And the eternal truths
That they embody
Are indestructible.

9234

If the seeker has abiding faith
In his Inner Pilot,
Then there can be no temptation
That he cannot overcome.

9235

O fear, O doubt,
Why do I need you?
You are preventing me
From entering into
The kingdom of Vastness-Delight.

9236

My sweet Lord Supreme,
When I go to Heaven
Will You keep me
In Your special community
As You have kept me with You
Here on earth?

9237

For years the mind talked
About nothing but truth.
But when it saw its students,
Vital and body,
About to go beyond its territory,
What did it do?
It desperately tried to confuse them
And misguide them.

9238

When your Inner Pilot
Is in a serious mood,
That is the time for you
Also to be extremely serious
So that you can receive
The utmost from Him.

9239

He thinks of God
Because his mind
Is shockingly impure.

He meditates on God
Because his heart
Is hopelessly insecure.

He loves God
Because his soul
Is eternally strong.

9240

Here I am on earth!
O Heaven,
Send me not God,
But God’s Compassion-Eye
And His Forgiveness-Heart.

9241

God is eager
To perfect your ignorance-book,
But are you ready
To give Him the opportunity
To perform this unimaginable task?

9242

There are many things
You do not know.
One thing especially
You do not know,
And that is
The inescapable Command of Heaven.

9243

Your mind’s reluctance to change
Is ruining
Your complete acceptance of God.

9244

If your lethargic body
Does not want to budge an inch,
What can your poor soul do
For your ignorance-filled body?

9245

If you want to perform
On the world’s stage
To manifest God,
Your life needs
A humility-sky.

9246

When your heart needs a friend,
Heaven cheerfully supplies one.
When your mind wants an enemy,
Earth expressly supplies one.

9247

My Lord,
If I pray to You
To stop my future incarnations
On earth,
Will You listen to my heart’s only prayer,
Will You?

9248

You may feel that the world
Is just another part of yourself,
But alas,
Will the world ever share
Your oneness-delight?

9249

Realisation-light
Is always expanding.
In the beginning
Your prayer and meditation
Include only yourself —
Then your family, then your country
And finally, the whole world.

9250

Satisfaction is an achievement,
Joy is an achievement.
From these achievements
Man will become
A new God.

9251

A true seeker
Starts his daily life with meditation.
No matter how many activities
And responsibilities he accepts,
Meditation will always remain
First and foremost in his life.

9252

You feel that your inner light
Will never reappear.
But do not lose hope!
There shall come a time
When your life will be fully lit
Like a dark night
Flooded with moonlight.

9253

O sincere and powerful seeker,
Just look at the moon
And invoke the moon’s beauty and purity —
Your heart’s future treasures.

9254

If you do not want
To see God,
Then perhaps for you
God does not exist.
But I shall never sail with you
In your boat.
Never!

9255

Without prayer and meditation
Nobody can consciously
See and feel the soul,
Nobody can consciously
Do anything for God.

9256

My Lord,
How can I tell
If my meditation
Is the right kind
Of meditation?

“My child,
The right kind of meditation
Will always give you
A sense of satisfaction,
Peace and joy
On the inner plane.”

9257

You have kept your inner door
Tightly bolted.
How do you then expect to see
God the Liberator?

9258

The year has
Three hundred sixty-five days.
Have you meditated
Sincerely and soulfully
Three hundred sixty-five times
This year —
Even for just one minute a day?

9259

God’s Heart of Compassion
Sometimes feels miserable
When God watches His children
Ceaselessly playing ignorance-game.

9260

If your love for God
Is unconditional,
You can never be
A victim to insecurity.

9261

Do not worry
About your today’s meditation-failure!
Your heart’s Compassion-Pilot
Will give you again and again
Golden opportunities
To do your transcendental meditation.

9262

Every day look in the mirror
To see if your heart
Is a morning beauty-smile.

9263

If you can sing divine songs
Most soulfully,
You are bound to get the same result
As from your sublime meditation.

9264

What can keep you close
To your Master’s consciousness
And keep your mind free
From undivine thoughts?
A soulful song-delight!

9265

The vast universe
Is God’s Heart.
Again,
My tiny heart
Is also God’s Heart.

9266

There can be no conflict
Between your action-force
And your meditation-silence
If you can take them
As two inseparable friends
Fulfilling the Will of the Absolute Supreme.

9267

Only when the disciples
Have moon-pure faith
Can the Master tell them
Who he truly is
And what he will definitely do
For them.

9268

Your Master’s way
Is the only way for you,
For his way is directly coming
From your Beloved Supreme.

9269

God will not throw back at you
The undivine qualities
That you throw into Him.
Luckily He has a special place
To throw them:
His Universal Consciousness.

9270

Every second
Take your Master’s physical presence
On earth
As a golden opportunity.
For when he passes behind
The curtain of Eternity,
You will have the regular experience
Of true hardship.

9271

God has told me
To forget about my capacity.
My willingness is the only capacity
That He needs to see in me.

9272

Drop from your shoulders
Cheerfully and bravely
The old dead elephant
Which you insist on carrying.
Immediately you will discover within you
The speed of a deer.

9273

Master,
I am extremely lucky
To be in your divine presence.
“My child,
I, too, am extremely fortunate,
For I have the opportunity
To manifest the Supreme
In you and through you.”

9274

Change your attitude towards life!
You will see everything
As a necessary experience.

9275

Now that his entire being
Lives only for God,
A breath of purity-bliss
Has awakened his entire reality-life.

9276

Your aspiration-heart
Daily needs your illumination-soul
Not only to encourage you
But also to perfect your life.

9277

Alas,
All his outer glories
Have sunk into the very depth
Of his past frustration-cave.

9278

Aspire more soulfully and more devotedly.
Otherwise
Your life will sink deeper and deeper
Into desire-darkness.

9279

Spirituality and religion
Are totally different.
Religion is a tiny mind-room,
Spirituality is a vast heart-room.

9280

Religion says,
If you accept me in my way,
Then you are good.

Spirituality says,
You do not have to follow my way.
Follow your own way soulfully
And reach your destined goal.

9281

This is his discovery:
The higher you go
In the inner world,
The more you ignore your earth-body
To help the outer world.

9282

There was a time
When his aspiration-heart
Wanted to measure
God’s Compassion-Sea.
But now wisdom has dawned in his heart.
He does not want to try
The impossible!

9283

Empty your mind
If you sincerely and desperately
Need God
For the illumination of your mind
And for the satisfaction of your heart.

9284

Even though he is a great seeker,
He has no idea
When his connection with ignorance
Will come to a total end.

9285

When he meditates on God,
His heart looks like an angel.
When he meditates on himself,
His mind not only looks like
But actually becomes
A devil.

9286

No matter how hard you try
To avoid the disaster-cave,
Your desire-life
Will lead you into it.

9287

If you allow your mind
To enjoy tangled thoughts,
How can you expect God
To share with you
His infinite Freedom-Delight?

9288

He who deliberately
Wants to deceive the world
Will eventually become
A most deplorable failure.

9289

You will not be able to perfect
Anybody else on earth,
No matter how little his imperfections are.
But you will be able to perfect
Yourself,
Because that is your God-ordained
Responsibility.

9290

In the spiritual life
Nothing, absolutely nothing,
Can be as important
As your self-offering meditation.

9291

If you can remain happy and soulful,
Then automatically you can aspire more,
Dedicate your life cheerfully
And become spiritually perfect
In your entire being.

9292

As you cannot remain alive
With yesterday’s food,
Even so, today you cannot remain
Spiritually alive
With yesterday’s inner cry.

9293

This time I shall not fail
To sit at the foot of peace-tree
To have a trance-delight-meditation.

9294

Be conscious and careful
While meditating with others.
One wrong inner movement
Can quickly spread
And disturb all your fellow seekers.

9295

He sees the faults of the world,
But because of his oneness-consciousness
He cannot bring himself
To speak against the world.

9296

The Master forgives
But never forgets
Those who have forgotten him.
How deeply it pains him
When he sees that his children
Are spiritually dead,
Although physically alive.

9297

Occult powers are available.
Miracles do happen.
But to see them happen every day
One needs ample faith
In one’s own inner life.

9298

When he showed his compassion-height,
The world ignored and discarded it.
Now he is showing his justice-light.
Believe it or not,
The world is accepting him,
Accepting him even beyond
His own imagination-flight.

9299

Why do you say
That you are on earth
And your Heavenly Father
Is somewhere else?
Do you not remember
The words of the Christ:
“I and my Father are one”?
Right from the beginning
The Father decided to be
Always with His creation.

9300

You are not where you think you are.
You are deep inside
The very depths of God’s Heart
As His choice Treasure.

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