Two God-Amusement-Rivals: my Heart-Song-Beauty and my Life-Dance-Fragrance, part 13

1201.

The only company
My heart needs
Is the fulfilling company
Of my illumination-soul.

1202.

May I be every day
My God-pleasing
Surrender-heart-rose.

1203.

I know that
God's Compassion-Eye
Is never finished working for me.
How I wish that
My God-satisfaction-heart
Will never stop fulfilling God
In God's own Way.

1204.

God and God's infinite Compassion
Always promptly answer
My heart's Heaven-climbing prayers.

1205.

My Lord, You have given me
A heart of love.
This heart of love must needs
Follow Your Footsteps
With devotion-magnet.

1206.

My Lord, I am turning my life
Into an ever-green heart
To love Your Compassion-Eye
And serve Your Forgiveness-Feet.

1207.

My Lord,
Out of Your infinite Bounty,
You have transformed
My inner heart.
Will You not also transform
My outer face?

1208.

O my stupidity-incarnate mind,
You do not know
Or you do not want to know
How lucky you are.
Sleeplessly God and God's Life-Breath
Are playing inside you
And around you.

1209.

My soul's ancient dreams
And my life's modern realities
Are shining side by side
In my heart-eye.

1210.

Time, you will always remain
My heart's oneness-friend.
Time, you will always remain
My mind's worse-than-the-worst enemy.

1211.

My Lord Supreme,
Our lack of aspiration displeases You.
Our lack of dedication displeases You.
My Lord, is there anything we have
That does please You?
"Yes, My child,
Your heart's soul-flooded smile."

1212.

The mind is the power
Of its imagination-flight.
The heart is the tower
Of its illumination-height.

1213.

I am absolutely certain
That each gratitude-breath
Of my heart
Is an unparalleled paradise.

1214.

My Lord Supreme commands me
To grow and glow
With the life-breath of the Life universal.

1215.

I am so proud of my soul,
For it enjoys
The immeasurably longest
And the intimately closest
Companionship
With my Lord's
Transcendental Will-Power.

1216.

O my doubting mind,
Do not try to bind the flight
Of my Heaven-soaring hope.

1217.

God loves me
In my wakefulness.
I love God
In His ever-new Fulness.

1218.

God proudly salutes
His great guest:
The ever-climbing aspiration-heart.

1219.

When our Mother-Earth
Was newly blossomed,
God danced His Infinity's
Ecstasy-Dance.

1220.

My mind loves God
The cosmic Magician.
My heart needs God
The cosmic Healer.

1221.

At every moment
My gratitude-heart is prayerfully enjoying
The universal Melody
Of God's Compassion-flooded
Life-Breath.

1222.

No human mind will ever be able
To minimise or annihilate
The perfection-beauty of the soul.

1223.

God renders Himself accessible
Only to those whose hearts pine
For His Compassion-Eye.

1224.

My simplicity-life
Is always radiant
With God's own
Unimaginable Lustre.

1225.

God has unconditionally given
My aspiration-heart
The job of unfolding
All His Heaven-cherished Secrets.

1226.

God deeply appreciates
My struggling life's sincere eagerness
For His complete manifestation on earth.

1227.

Even an iota of unwillingness
Brings disgrace
To the sincere seeker.

1228.

When my Lord's Victory-Song
I sing
In my heart's silence-depth,
God immediately shows me
That I come from
His Infinity's Peace,
And I am heading towards
His Immortality's Bliss.

1229.

Each aspirant has to cross beyond
The sound-life-horizon
To enter into the silence-kingdom.

1230.

O my mind,
Do you know why you are so unhappy?
You are unhappy because
You do not even want to know
How to doubt your doubts.

1231.

Each heart is a hope-flower
That blooms and blossoms
At God's choice Hour.

1232.

Nothing can make God smile
As quickly and wholeheartedly
As my enthusiasm-mind.

1233.

God's love for your aspiration
Is so deep
That God has opened for you
A galaxy
Of God-manifestation-opportunities.

1234.

O my mind,
I am telling you the absolute truth:
Our Compassion-Lord becomes
Whatever we truly need.

1235.

I have become
My heart's constant prayer
To open God's sacred Heart-Door.

1236.

O my mind, be patient.
Continue your self-research.
Your total illumination
Is inevitable.

1237.

The difference between
My mind and my heart is this:
My mind questions God's Justice;
My heart bathes in God's Compassion.

1238.

How does one become spiritual?
Not by exercising his mind's
Independence,
Not by exercising his heart's
Interdependence,
But by exercising his life's
God-dependence.

1239.

God came and gave him
The strongest Embrace
When God saw him embracing
The world's suffering-night.

1240.

My heart's secret and sacred
Friendship with God
Has made my soul
Unimaginably happy.

1241.

When my heart's aspiration-flames
Dance continuously,
God invites me to His Palace
To dine with Him.

1242.

A unconditional surrender-life
Is the most significant achievement
In spirituality.

1243.

I must fulfil God
Instantly and constantly
To claim Him as my own,
Very own.

1244.

Only when my heart cries
Desperately and helplessly
Does God appear
Blessingfully and proudly.

1245.

God's smiling Eye in my life
Is my boundless
God-manifestation-capacity.

1246.

The poise of my God-loving heart
Can definitely silence
My mind's doubt-hurricanes.

1247.

If I do not aspire,
My life is bound to be haunted
By my own failure-calamities.

1248.

O doubt,
The very thought
Of your imminent death
Is pleasing my heart
Beyond description.

1249.

A God-smiling heart
Is indeed
The greatest of all givers.

1250.

If I am not meant to win,
So what?
As long as I am meant to fight,
I shall fight for God's Victory.

1251.

God is always
Extremely pleased
With my heart's humility-light.

1252.

You must invoke
Either God or your own soul
To free you from
Your mind-prison.

1253.

I like the God
Who tells me
I am an ambassador of peace.
But I love the God
Who tells me
I am an eternal student of peace.

1254.

God tells the world
That only a self-giving heart
Is needed
For true God-manifestation
On earth.

1255.

To enter into the Kingdom
Of Peace, Light and Bliss
Is the real purpose
Of our aspiration-life.

1256.

Treasure the beauty of hope
And the fragrance of promise
At every moment.
With hope and promise
We fulfil the Message
Of our Lord Supreme.

1257.

Our mind's individuality
And personality-clouds
Are bound to disappear
In our soul's universality-sky.

1258.

O truth-seekers and God-lovers,
You are the children
Of the ever-illumining Body of the Supreme,
The ever-glowing Heart of the Supreme
And the ever-flowing Soul of the Supreme.

1259.

The mind has taken doubt as its guard,
To open and shut
Its iron non-progressiveness-gate.

1260.

When God comes to visit
My heart-home,
The only refreshment He expects
Is my gratitude-heart-tears and smiles.

1261.

When I look into my heart-mirror,
I see only God
And the Beauty of God's
Compassion-Eye.

1262.

O my heart,
Do not act like the foolish mind.
Do not gamble away
Your God-realisation-opportunities.

1263.

My mind is always
Its false majesty.
My heart is always
Its true humility.

1264.

When you hear God's Voice
Echoing and re-echoing
Inside your heart-garden,
Your God-realisation-day
Is fast approaching you.

1265.

O my mind,
With your very last breath,
Soulfully sing a gratitude-song.

1266.

Alas, my recent aspiration-famine
Has seriously alarmed
My God-loving heart.

1267.

An unaspiring life
Will always remain
A God-question mark.

1268.

My aspiring heart
Will always adore
My God-devotion-days and nights.

1269.

I bring my aspiration-heart
To God,
Not for my fulfilment
But for my enlightenment.

1270.

I keep only a collection
Of God's divine qualities
In my heart-museum.

1271.

O my mind,
Do not be jealous.
Come and join
My heart's peace-celebration.

1272.

One drop of pleasure-poison
Is enough to destroy
The beauty and purity
Of my aspiration-heart.

1273.

My aspiration-heart
And my dedication-life
Are always pleasing and fulfilling God
In myriad ways.

1274.

What I desperately need
Is a God-belonging heart
And not
A world-possessing mind.

1275.

Why do I love God?
I love God because He is
My life's all-fulfilling
Silence-flooded Partner.

1276.

Every day
If you do not dive deep within
In your God-discovery-expedition,
How can you ever be
The darling of Heaven?

1277.

Just as day
Claims our beautiful eyes,
Even so, night
Claims our soulful heart.

1278.

The mind has two exceptional qualities
Which the wise heart does not want to share:
It loves to debate;
It loves to berate.

1279.

The heart has two exceptional qualities
Which the doubting mind cannot appreciate:
It loves to surrender;
It loves to sing a oneness-song.

1280.

Wherever I go,
I carry my God-oneness-heart-thrill,
Not proudly
But self-givingly.

1281.

My heart never needs
A recommendation from anybody
To visit God.

1282.

My mind-life
Is full of contradiction.
My heart-life
Is full of illumination.

1283.

My Lord Supreme's
Compassion-Eye
Quite often works in and through us,
Even uninvoked.

1284.

Train your mind
For transformation.
Train your heart
For contemplation.
Train your life
For perfection.

1285.

When God's Heart cries,
Nobody knows.
When God's Eye smiles,
Everybody knows.

1286.

I offer my Lord
My life's trials and tribulations.
God gives me
His Life's inner Peace
And His Heart's inner Bliss.

1287.

I tell all my aspiration-comrades
They can reach me lovingly
Only at my heart-home-address.

1288.

God definitely needs more teammates.
Therefore, my heart's aspiration-cries
And my soul's illumination-smiles
Are trying out for God's Team.

1289.

Each time my mind
Has a pure thought,
I see God enjoying
His Happiness-Heart.

1290.

My Lord's Compassion-Eye
Is always anxious and eager
To be my life's sole spokesman.

1291.

My mind literally loves
Earth's colourful confusion.
My heart sleeplessly loves
Heaven's powerful illumination.

1292.

The day I start my morning
Without a prayer,
I become a hopelessly lost child
The entire day.

1293.

It is our heart's wisdom-light
That tells us to remain always
Outside our mind-gate.

1294.

My soul tells me
That my aspiration-journey
Is a one-way trip.

1295.

When we quote
Our Lord Beloved Supreme perfectly,
His Joy knows no bounds.
When we misquote
Our Lord Supreme consciously and deliberately,
His unhappiness, too, knows no bounds.

1296.

When I am in my heart,
I like to be as playful as a child.
When I am in my mind,
I like to be as prayerful as a saint.

1297.

My Lord's Compassion-Eye
Sleeplessly feeds
Humanity's light-hunger-cries.

1298.

When I please God
In God's own Way,
The Beyond beckons me
With unbounded pride.

1299.

A soulful aspiration-heart
Is indeed
A piece of the highest Heaven.

1300.

My Lord Supreme,
Are You not displeased
With my quantity-hunger-mind?
"My child,
I am not at all displeased
With your quantity-hunger-mind.
Your quantity-hunger-mind
Is helping Me in a unique way
To swim in the sea
Of ever-increasing Delight."

1301.

My Lord Supreme,
I vividly saw Your Compassion-Eye
At my marathon journey's start.
My Lord Supreme,
I throbbingly feel Your Satisfaction-Heart
At my marathon journey's close.

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