Two God-Amusement-Rivals: my Heart-Song-Beauty and my Life-Dance-Fragrance, part 5

401.

God blessingfully tells
The tired eyes of my hope
That it will energise them to look at
A new, illumining and fulfilling dawn.

402.

O my mind,
I shall never allow you to participate
In ignorance-sponsored competition.

403.

If you can shed
Devotion-flooded tears,
Then God will immediately claim you
As His own, very own.

404.

Each good thought
In my mind
Is a God-playmate-friend.

405.

My Lord Supreme
Happily and proudly salutes
My forward progress-march.

406.

The problems of a doubting mind
Can never be solved by the mind.
They always remain devastating.

407.

There was a time when my name
Was aspiration-fluctuation.
But now my new name
Is aspiration-perfection.

408.

My Lord does not care for
My mind's strength.
He cares only for
My heart's length.

409.

When we are in the heart,
We are all winners.
But when we are in the mind,
We are just survivors.

410.

I came into the world
To serve God,
Not to dominate the world.

411.

I wish to live
Either in my heart's gratitude-tears
Or in my soul's plenitude-smiles.

412.

My life's dedication-smiles
Are adorning
God's Illumination-Flower-Feet.

413.

O God-seeker,
Since you have come to me,
Let me immediately show you
My God-garden-heart.

414.

My doubting mind lives
In a barren desert.
My aspiring heart lives
In the thunderous Applause of God.

415.

A God-dreamer,
A God-lover
And a God-server
Live in God's
Satisfaction-flooded Affection-Ocean.

416.

My mind's doubt-boat
Is always
On the verge of sinking.

417.

My mind's outer story
Is always boring.
My heart's inner song
Is always soaring.

418.

I never thought
That my aspiration-heart
Would be powerful enough
To make the hostile forces
Totally and helplessly nervous.

419.

Your sleepless love of God
Is the only passport
That can expedite
Your upward journey.

420.

Out of His infinite Bounty,
God has completely detached my mind
From impurity-magnet.

421.

My meditation-life
Has finally initiated me
Into the ever-blossoming mysteries
Of the Beyond.

422.

God's Compassion-Eye
And my gratitude-heart
Are two eternal friends.

423.

God sadly and helplessly looks
From one seeker to the next
To discover a God-surrendering life.

424.

A single Tear
From God's Eye
Has finally perfected my mind.

425.

God has many times mentioned
The fragrance of my gratitude-heart
In His Autobiography.

426.

O my mind,
When did God ask you
To count the misdeeds
Of the world?

427.

I need a mind
That is always hungry to learn.
I need a heart
That is sleeplessly and breathlessly
Eager to run.

428.

Each heart-runner
With his devotion-speed
Can arrive at the destination
Long before he expected.

429.

God never interferes
With your ego-life.
Why do you interfere
With God's happy Manifestation-Life?

430.

What God wants me to forget:
My life's failure-cries.
What God wants me to remember:
My heart's victory-smiles.

431.

Alas, I do not know why
My willingness always tends to be
Lethargic and unaspiring.

432.

The confidence of the heart
Is always attainable —
Just try.

433.

The one thing
That gives God ceaseless pain
Is my unwillingness-mind.

434.

God never wants me to have
A roaring vital.
He only wants me to have
A soaring heart.

435.

O my mind,
Do me a colossal favour:
Do not look at my aspiration-heart
With only your curiosity and stupidity.

436.

A smiling heart is the royal road
That leads to
God's Delight-Kingdom.

437.

O my Lord Beloved Supreme,
It is getting so late!
Do come and rescue me and my heart
From ignorance-oblivion.

438.

I must help my soul
By showing my sincere eagerness
To arrest my ego-thief.

439.

Though I do not know
Where this next step leads,
I do know
An unseen hand
Will guide me blessingfully
To my destination.

440.

The Patience of my Lord Supreme
Has now become
A tormenting sadness.

441.

My entire life
Is indebted to God,
Especially to His Forgiveness,
For many things.

442.

My prayerful and soulful heart
Is indeed
My Lord's first and foremost Blessing.

443.

To preserve our heart's spirituality-mountain
From ruin,
We need God's Compassion-Eye
And His Forgiveness-Heart.

444.

God tells me
That He does not know when and how
He became the victim
Of my unready and unwilling mind.

445.

Every morning
God awakens my aspiration-heart-bird
To sing and dance
With the rising sun.

446.

At long last
The Hour of God has struck
For me to enjoy the fragrance
Of my God-surrender-heart.

447.

We can never go beyond
The limits of truth,
But we can and we must go beyond,
Far beyond,
The limits of falsehood
To satisfy our Lord Supreme.

448.

My Lord Supreme,
Do bless my heart
With ever-increasing sincerity-cries
And sincerity-smiles.

449.

My Lord Supreme,
Do bless me with a heart
That will keep on blossoming and blooming
Like a little child.

450.

O my mind,
Can you not see
That God is not paying any attention
To your ego-performances?

451.

If the world tells me
That I look beautiful today,
It is all due to my prayerful mind
And soulful heart.

452.

There is only one place
To find peace,
And that place
Is in our life's oneness-dream.

453.

The mind dances
With the old familiar stories.
The heart dances
With the unheard God-songs.

454.

My Lord, until I become
Your Satisfaction-Reality,
I would like to remain
Your Satisfaction-Imagination.

455.

Every morning God blesses me
With the Oneness-Smile
Of His Sweetness-Heart.

456.

To live inside
An unaspiring mind
Is to breathe in
A God-empty breath.

457.

O my heart,
To successfully run
God-satisfaction and God-fulfilment-races,
Remain always happy and self-giving.

458.

To solve the riddles
Of life and death,
Self-doubt must be banished
Forever and forever.

459.

Today,
Why am I so happy?
Today,
Why am I so proud of myself?
I am happy and proud
Precisely because I clearly see
That God's Compassion-Heart
Is navigating my life-boat.

460.

I try to surprise my Lord
With my ever-new face.
God surprises me
With His Eternity's
All-embracing and all-fulfilling Heart.

461.

My doubting mind
Was finally expelled
From God's
Dream-Reality-Perfection-School.

462.

My heart vehemently dislikes
My soulless jungle-mind-noise.
My soul painfully dislikes
My heart's hesitation-delay.

463.

Before I entered into the spiritual life,
I was a mind-traveller.
But now
I am a heart-messenger.

464.

Before God appoints me to serve Him
All day and night,
He wants to examine
My silence-peace-credentials.

465.

I do not know how long
I shall remain an unopened bud
Of earthly hope.

466.

In the solitude of my heart
I see nobody
Save and except God the Smiler.

467.

The meditation of the heart
Begins
When the domination of the mind
Ends.

468.

There can be
No compensation
For missing a God-service-day.

469.

My Lord's Forgiveness-Heart
And His Compassion-Eye
Guard my days and nights.

470.

To my great surprise
I find myself mirrored
In God's Satisfaction-Heart.

471.

God tells me that
Each and every prayer of my heart
Must be saturated
With deepest love.

472.

Our strongest adversary
Is our unwillingness
To love and serve God
In His own Way.

473.

Each time I offer God
A soulful smile,
His Beyond beckons me.

474.

My heart's devotion
Inspires my mind's enthusiasm.
My mind's enthusiasm
Makes my vital dynamic
And my heart alert.

475.

A cloud of mind-confusion
Is covering my eyes
Because I am not feeding
My aspiration-heart.

476.

I finally escaped
From my mind-prison
To enjoy a vacation
In my heart-garden.

477.

"God, give me what I want"
And
"God, make me what I want"
Are indeed
Two worthless and useless prayers.

478.

O my Lord Supreme,
Do shower Your choicest Blessings upon me
So that I can easily move out of
My self-indulgence-neighbourhood.

479.

I must put
God's Name
Always before
My fame.

480.

I need a mind
That challenges the pride
Of uncomely thought-intrusions.

481.

My Lord Supreme,
I am telling You most sincerely
That I do not want to neglect
My heart's aspiration-plant.

482.

Today I am determined
To snap all
My earthly temptation-ties.

483.

It is an unaspiring mind
And never an aspiring heart
That can be mesmerised by fame.

484.

I shall continuously pass on
The oneness-torch.
This is the only way
My selfless service-life
Will always remain unlimited.

485.

This morning I entered
Into my mind's cave.
I was astonished to find
A staggering amount of ignorance therein.

486.

My Lord,
It is so good that You exist.
Otherwise, whose Compassion-Hand
Would navigate my life-boat
The way You do every day?

487.

No more shall I permit my heart
To be blinded by false words,
False teachers and false truths.

488.

The life of aspiration
Does not come from
The mind's emptiness,
But from the soul's fulness.

489.

There is no power on earth
That can permanently block
Humanity's salvation-road.

490.

Alas, I do not know
How my mind has left my heart
And disappeared into the arms
Of ignorance-night.

491.

I have drunk deep
The sorrows
Of an unsearching mind
And an unaspiring heart.

492.

May my God-realisation-hope
Spread from me
To each and every human heart.

493.

No one can prevent you
From leaving your mind's prison cell
If you want to leave.

494.

With any forward step you take
You are bringing yourself
Nearer to God.

495.

How I wish I could have
The electrifying beauty
Of a purity-heart!

496.

My heart-tears
Have always resolved
My mind-problems.

497.

I am praying and praying
To my Lord Supreme
To bless me with
A roaring
Perfection-manifestation-life.

498.

The power of concentration
Can easily silence
All the clamours of the mind.

499.

I enjoy it immensely
When my gratitude-heart
And God's Compassion-Eye
Have their endless conversation.

500.

God and God's Compassion-Eye
Will never leave anything divine on earth
Undone.

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