Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 94

9301

God’s Compassion
Is taking care of
My heart’s aspiration-plant.

God’s Satisfaction
Will take care of
My life’s reality-tree.

9302

Do not relax in your spiritual life.
Do not act like a fool!
Be wise at every moment
To get the utmost benefit
From your heart’s aspiration-cry
And from your life’s dedication-smile.

9303

Spiritual Masters —
Whether of the past, present or future —
All have the same opinion:
No sincere effort fails;
No sincere prayer remains unheard.

9304

My Lord Supreme,
How can I avoid
Disobeying You unconsciously?
“My child,
If you have constant eagerness
To please Me in My own Way,
Then automatically
Unconscious disobedience
Will disappear.”

9305

Do not forget
To ask your mind and heart
Every day, without fail,
How you can please God
In His own Way.

9306

My Lord,
You have given me a zero
On my progress report.
Have I not pleased You at all?
And do You think
I shall never make any progress?
Alas, alas!

9307

This morning my Lord Supreme
Told me an open secret:
When I do not please Him
In His own Way
He may still give me
His outer Smile,
But inwardly He sees a big black stain
On my aspiration-heart.

9308

With aspiration-flames
And determination-fire
You can increase your heart’s purity
And your life’s divinity
To please God.

9309

“My dear child,
Unfortunately you feel
That since you have pleased Me
In nine ways out of ten,
I will forgive you
If you do not please Me
In the tenth way.
But I know that you can please Me
In each and every way.”

9310

God appreciates that you have
Many good qualities.
But be careful!
Even one bad quality
Can take away all His Joy.

9311

If you can repeat from morn to eve,
“My Lord Supreme,
I want to please You
In Your own Way,”
Then you cannot
Unconsciously disobey God.

9312

Look deep within.
Are you expecting God
To please you in your own way?
If that is what you want,
You and your life
Will be total failures.

9313

In the inner life
And in the outer life
There is nothing as useless
And as destructive
As disobedience to God’s Will.

9314

God knows what is best for you:
Make this a psychic realisation
And not just a mental conviction.

9315

O my Lord Supreme,
Are You aware of my disobedience?
If so, what do You do
With my disobedience-life?
“My child,
It is easier for Me
To fulfil My Promise to your soul
To transform your nature
If I pretend
That I have not seen and felt
Your disobedience.”

9316

Alas, in his life
All good qualities
Are forced to surrender
To one bad quality —
Disobedience to God-Light.

9317

My sweet Lord,
I need many, many things from You.
“My child,
You do not need many things
From Me.
You only need one thing,
And that is My Satisfaction
In you, with you and for you.”

9318

A God-lover’s best attitude:
God cared for me,
God cares for me
And God will always care for me.

9319

God is cultivating
A garden of good qualities
In His seeker-children:
Security-trees, purity-flowers
And surrender-fruits.
And He will not allow
Any disobedience-seed
To take root.

9320

Yesterday
God cared for me
By giving me a powerful Smile.

Today
God cares for me
By not giving me an unwise Smile.

9321

If you really love God
And need only God,
Then give God the opportunity
To care for you
Always in His own Way.

9322

My Lord Supreme,
True, I have lost all hope,
But Your Eye of indifference
Ruthlessly tortures me.

9323

Do not feel
That yours is a failure-life.
Do you not know
That God has infinitely more hope
For your life
Than you do?

9324

If you do not have new hope,
New aspiration and new dedication
Every day,
Then where is your true awakening?

9325

My Lord Supreme,
Which of my difficulties
Looms the largest?
Is it impurity, doubt
Or insecurity?
“My child,
There is only one obstacle
In your life,
And that is disobedience.”

9326

When you accepted the spiritual life
Did God say to you,
“My child,
Now I shall please you
In your own way”?
Or did your heart and soul
Say to God,
“My Beloved Supreme,
I am accepting the spiritual life
Only to please You
In Your own Way”?

9327

Do you not realise
That God is too compassionate
To please you in your own way?

9328

I am sure that your purity-heart
Wants to give you confidence-light
To replace your mind’s arrogance-night.

9329

God does not want to prove
That He is right
And you are wrong.
He just wants you to be illumined
By His Perfection-Smile.

9330

Do not forget,
You have two hurdles to cross:
God-realisation first,
And then God-manifestation.

9331

You know inwardly perfectly well
That you are a beginner-seeker.
Is it not useless
To try to convince others
That you are very advanced?

9332

He aspired deeply and intensely.
Therefore, God’s infinite Bounty
Made him win the inner aspiration-race.
Do not envy him.
Try to surpass him
If you want to.
Or at least you can follow him.

9333

According to your heart’s receptivity-smile
God is trying and trying
To manifest Himself in and through you
In a very special way.

9334

God is not looking to see
Who stands first or last.
God is only looking to see
If your consciousness-light
Is bright.

9335

Read spiritual books
With your heart’s aspiration;
You will understand everything.
Read them with your mind’s suspicion;
You will understand nothing.

9336

God is not expecting you
To reach His inner Height.
But if you can reach
Your own height,
He will be more than happy.

9337

If you cannot reach your highest
When you stand before
Your Lord Supreme,
Then when are you going to
Reach your highest?

9338

Meditation is
The expansion of consciousness.
When you are meditating,
If you feel and know
That along with you
Someone else will benefit
From your meditation,
Then this is absolutely perfect meditation.

9339

The day you lose enthusiasm and joy
In your spiritual life
Is the beginning
Of your journey’s end.

9340

O sadness-night,
I shall never allow you
To enter into my aspiration-heart,
For You are ruthlessly destroying
My inner and outer capacity-smiles.

9341

O my vital,
You are worse than a mad elephant,
For a mad elephant has peace
At least some of the time,
Whereas you enjoy
Constant rebellion and destruction.

9342

Knock at your own heart-door
To see God and feel God.
Knock at God’s Heart-Door
To enter into His Heart-Room
And to sit there
With utmost joy, love and gratitude.

9343

My Lord Supreme,
Would You kindly make
All important decisions in my life?
I shall always ask You
Inwardly and outwardly what I should do.
My Lord,
Do make all decisions
In my life.

9344

Force yourself to believe
That someday you are destined
To become a choice instrument of God.
Once more your willingness-heart
Will come to the fore.

9345

God sees in you
Tremendous enthusiasm,
Eagerness and oneness.
That is why
He is lovingly and affectionately
Calling you His divine soldier
Who threatens the ignorance-tiger
All the time.

9346

God has given you
The capacity to please Him.
But if you do not exercise the capacity,
Then you are a failure,
And You make poor God feel
That He is also a total failure.

9347

The law of karma is one thing
And the divine Grace is another.
Remember,
Grace can nullify,
Grace can illumine,
Grace can expedite,
Grace can multiply —
Of course,
If you believe in Grace!

9348

The way of the heart
Is to conquer all oppositions
Inner and outer.

9349

When outer difficulties
Stand in front of you,
Just tell yourself,
“If I can meditate
In spite of this opposition,
I will become
A better and stronger God-seeker
And God-lover.”

9350

The mind may surrender
To opposition-wall,
But the heart can and will
Bring to the fore
The joy of overcoming all opposition.

9351

My Beloved Lord
Offered me a simple cure-all:
“Remain always happy and soulful.
Then easily you will be able to aspire
And dedicate your life to Me,
And your imperfection-life
Will come to an end.”

9352

On your birthday
Muster the courage to ask yourself
Two bold questions:
“Why did I come to earth?”
“Am I making satisfactory progress
In my spiritual life?”

9353

Everybody has to know
In the heart of his heart
How much God cares for him
If he wants to swim in the sea
Of progress-satisfaction-delight.

9354

You fool!
By blaming God
For what He has not done
Or what He has done,
You will never be able
To become another God.

9355

It is absurd to build
A manifestation-temple
Without an aspiration-shrine.

9356

My Lord,
Teach me how to speak to the world
About You
With real conviction.
“My child,
You will have conviction
Only if your aspiration
Has a volcano-intensity.”

9357

What he has
Is inner sweetness and charm.
What he needs
Is a heart of greater intensity
To please the Supreme
In His own Way.

9358

If you value opportunity,
Lo, opportunity will come
Again and again
In new forms.
All God-seekers
Have come to this conclusion!

9359

You are not your mind.
Why do you have to care
Whether your mind is tired
Of loving God or not?
Indeed, you are your soul.
Your soul can never be tired
Of loving God.

9360

True, you have been working
Very intensely.
But where is the sincerity
In your intensity,
Not to speak of purity?

9361

To raise the consciousness of the world
What is needed?
Intensity in your aspiration,
Immensity in the world’s receptivity.

9362

If your heart
Feels the necessity,
Then God’s Eye
Will give you the capacity
To love the divine in man
And transform the animal in man.

9363

God the Creator
Feeds my heart.
God the creation
Needs my life.

9364

It is God the Lover inside you
Who offers the world joy and love.
It is God the Beloved who receives it
In the world-heart.

9365

Today’s seeker
Does not want to become
A cave-dweller.
And God is completely satisfied
With the seeker’s decision.

9366

If you want to see
The infinite beauty of your face,
Then keep your heart always
Under the canopy of God’s Grace.

9367

For those who are aspiring
All the time,
The life-elevator
Is only ascending and ascending
With their aspiration, dedication,
Love, devotion and surrender.

9368

God’s inner Call you will hear
Only when you are ready
To soulfully accept
His outer Commands.

9369

Against world-destruction,
Ours is the prayer for peace
And meditation for peace.
We pray to the Supreme
So that the world is not destroyed.
We meditate on the Supreme
So that the world gets illumination.

9370

Before you came to see him
You felt his inner presence.
Then when you came to see him
You immediately felt
Your own inner peace.

9371

He was such a fool!
He thought his insecurity
Was a tiny object
That he could easily crush.
But as soon as he tried to grab it,
He discovered that it was
Larger than the largest
And stronger than the strongest.

9372

When he tried to force God
To fulfil his desires,
Soon his anger, frustration,
Insecurity and impurity
Burned like wildfire
And reduced his aspiration-life to ashes.

9373

The mind’s separation-power
Never stops.
The heart’s oneness-hour
Ever remains.

9374

My sweet Lord,
When I am resting,
Please stay with me.
When I am talking to others,
Please speak through me.
When I am before my shrine,
Please pray and meditate for me.

9375

You are a fool
If you think that only your shrine
And no other place
Is visited by God.

9376

Food is God:
This is what the seers of the past
Taught me.

God is hunger:
This is what my heart
Is teaching me.

9377

It is so difficult to run,
Yet not only do I run
But I run for miles every day.
If I can run for miles,
How is it that You, my Lord,
Cannot even watch me?
“My child,
I am not only watching you
But also running with you,
In you and for you.”

9378

When I ask myself,
“Am I keeping God
Always inside my heart?”
And I can answer sincerely,
“Yes,”
Then I am perfect.

9379

When I enjoy my silence-life,
Keeping my concentration
On God,
Then I am a supremely chosen instrument
Of God.

9380

Let us have the conscious belief
That God is with us
At every moment,
Even when we are fast asleep
In ignorance-night.

9381

When I am in a good consciousness,
God’s Vision-Eye is watching.
When I am in a bad consciousness,
His Compassion-Heart is watching.
When I am meditating,
He is watching.
When I am serving,
He is watching.
God has always the Blessing-Time
To watch me.

9382

We must feel God’s Presence
In both divinity’s action
And humanity’s inaction.
As God is both
With form and formless,
Even so, He is both
Action and inaction.

9383

Although he prays to God,
He thinks there is no God.
Although she does not pray to God,
She thinks God is all for her.

9384

When his inner divinity came to the fore,
His mind of impurity was challenged
By his heart of purity.
Lo, his mind immediately surrendered!

9385

If you are wise,
Then anything that will add
To your aspiration-flames
You will immediately do.

9386

You may not know the best way
To please God,
But if you pray daily
To be able to please Him
In His own Way,
Your prayer will unmistakably
One day bear fruit.

9387

Your Lord Supreme may not ask you
To do something for Him every day
In the outer world,
But there is not a single day
When He does not ask you
To do something for Him
In the inner world.
Needless to say,
You must take His Requests
As your fast progress-delight.

9388

The seeker’s silence-thoughts
Are eternally beautiful,
Eternally powerful
And eternally God-manifesting
Smiles.

9389

Today’s failure-plants
Will tomorrow grow into
Success-trees.
Patience from below
And Compassion from Above
Can and will do the impossible
Easily.

9390

If you do not hear
Your own heart-cry,
How can you expect God
To show His Smile to you?

9391

By insulting your mind
You cannot change your mind.
By consulting your heart
For superior knowledge
You can and will be able
To transform your mind.

9392

The supremely gifted souls
Do not have to boast,
For they know that the Golden Shore
Is always within their easy reach.

9393

If you cling
To God’s Compassion-Heart,
Then God will allow you to ring
His Satisfaction-Bell.

9394

The heart does not need
The mind-knowledge
Either to increase
Its aspiration-life
Or to decrease
Its desire-life.

9395

Every morning try to greet God
With only one thing:
An ever-increasing
Gratitude-gift.

9396

As long as your heart
Will aspire,
There is no need for your life
To retire.

9397

My promises have touched the earth,
But remain unmanifested.
My hopes, and the fulfilment
Of my hopes,
Live with the farthest planets.

9398

He needed God
Only when his life
Was a sinking breath.
Therefore
God did not make Himself
Available.

9399

In his case
Hoping for light
And groping in the dark
Have become inseparably one.

9400

God the Dreamer,
I love You,
Your Beauty.

God the Lover,
I need You,
Your Duty.

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