Two God-Amusement-Rivals: my Heart-Song-Beauty and my Life-Dance-Fragrance, part 7

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601.

My soul is advising me
To astound my Lord Supreme
With my heart's aspiration-leaps.

602.

What I need
Is not a doubt-destroying light,
But a doubt-illumining
And faith-fulfilling light.

603.

How can a reasoning mind
Ever be happy?
How can an aspiring heart
Ever be unhappy?

604.

If you do not wake up
At God's choice Hour,
Then you will be
The inevitable loser.

605.

Although we are mortal,
God has given us
Ample capacity and opportunity
To sing immortal songs
To please Him.

606.

The life's simplicity,
The mind's sincerity
And the heart's purity
Are fellow pilgrims upon the path
That leads to God's Kingdom.

607.

God descends
With His Compassion-Feet
To rescue each aspiring human soul
From the chains of ignorance-night.

608.

My heart sings
With the rising sun.
My heart dances
With the rising sun.
My heart pleases God
With the rising sun.
My heart fulfils God
With the rising sun.

609.

This world of ours
Can truly progress
Only on a tidal wave
Of self-giving lives.

610.

Aspiration always has
A cheerful, full-time job:
To bring us to the goal
At a very fast speed.

611.

The delight of the soul
Takes birth on earth
To manifest God's Light
And to challenge death's supremacy.

612.

Alas, I sometimes forget
That my heart has wings
To fly to God.

613.

My heart always writes
God-letters
On its beautiful and soulful
Surrender-gratitude-stationery.

614.

The pride of disobedience
Is indeed the worst possible
Inner calamity.

615.

My life is blessed because
My God-manifestation-dream
Has now become
An unmistakable reality.

616.

The power
Of each God-fulfilling breath
Will always remain
Unfathomable.

617.

Every day
God enters into my heart-garden
To collect
My gratitude-heart-flowers.

618.

You are indispensable to God
Only if you feel
That you are dependent upon God
At every moment.

619.

An unaspiring mind
Is nothing other than
A complete failure
In God's Cosmic Game.

620.

A self-giving heart
Is indeed a blessingful gift
From the highest Heaven.

621.

May the fragrance-heart of Mother-Earth
Every day purify
My heart, my mind, my vital and my body.

622.

The wisdom of a oneness-heart
Is undoubtedly
Sweeter than the sweetest honey.

623.

To please God
Cheerfully
And to love God
Unconditionally
Is to satisfy and fulfil God
Completely.

624.

Is there any mighty soul
Whose life has not suffered
From sad experiences?

625.

There is no need of rest
For a truly God-serving life.
There is no need of rest
For a truly God-fulfilling heart.

626.

God's Compassion is ever ready
To help me meet Him
Inside His Heart-Home.

627.

When I please God
In His own Way,
He blessingfully invites me
To play in His Heart-Garden.

628.

What can silence your mind?
Your heart can.
Just give your heart a real chance.

629.

To reach the Highest
You must unconditionally
Help the lowest.

630.

Selfishness belongs
To the stone age.
Self-givingness belongs
To the divine age.

631.

Perfect teaching
Is nothing other than
Sharing with others
The knowledge
That we claim as our own.

632.

The more
I soulfully meditate,
The more
I unreservedly love God.

633.

When my aspiration seriously decreases,
My days and nights are nothing
But constant and hopeless torture.

634.

When I do not inspire the world,
When I do not aspire for the world,
My life becomes a series of ego-disasters.

635.

May all my days and nights
Become world-salvation
And world-liberation-longing.

636.

The journey from the body to the soul
Is indeed a very long one,
But we can shorten the journey
By loving God the creation
Infinitely more
Than we have been doing.

637.

When God whispers,
Man's mind gives no response.
But man's heart gives an immediate response.
Therefore, man's heart is always cherished
By God.

638.

Do not remain
In your mind's unhappiness.
Your mind's unhappiness
Will ruthlessly torture your life.

639.

God does not want me
To fly His Victory-Banner in Heaven.
He wants me
To fly His Victory-Banner on earth,
Here and now.

640.

More than anything else,
God wants me to be
His proudest Smile.

641.

True, there is an abundance
Of false teachers,
But who asked you not to use
Your heart's wisdom-light
To find a true teacher
Who can illumine your life?

642.

There are many pathways to God,
But I have chosen
The unconditional love-pathway to God.

643.

There was a time
When I worshipped God
In the hope that
He would make me happy.
But now I love God
Only to make God happy.

644.

When we live in the mind,
Our mind can at most give us
Transient happiness.
When we live in the heart
And for the heart,
Our heart gives us
Ever-blossoming happiness.

645.

A God-inundated heart
Each human being needs
To make himself really,
Divinely and supremely happy.

646.

O my Lord,
I am praying to You
To grant me the adamantine will-power
To completely loosen
My mind's possession-grip.

647.

God can easily remain forever untouched
By man's ignorance-eye,
But His Compassion-Heart allows
Man's ignorance-eye to touch Him
Whenever it wants to.

648.

The wiser man becomes,
The easier it is for God
To give to man,
And the more man can receive
From God.

649.

Who can satisfy
A selfish person?
No, not even God Himself.

650.

I do not need
A thought-provoking mind.
I need
A God-invoking heart.

651.

If we really want to make God happy,
Then we have to make a daring attempt
To scale God's Perfection-Peak.

652.

My Lord,
I pray to You
To make me my Master's
Constant joy-fountain-smile.

653.

There is a grand staircase
Between Heaven and earth.
You are allowed to use that staircase
Only when your life becomes
An unconditional surrender
To God's Will.

654.

My Lord Supreme
Definitely loves
Even my bullock cart-speed-progress.

655.

Indeed a major surprise:
Even my mind is now
Entirely dependent on God.

656.

My jungle-mind
Has surprisingly entered
Into my heart-garden-home
To sincerely become
A member of its family.

657.

The more
Man speaks unkindly
About God's creation,
The less
God listens.

658.

A sleeplessly God-loving heart
Is fully responsible
For my mind's radical and magical
Miracle-transformation.

659.

O my heart,
At every moment
Keep yourself away from the vital's
All-poisoning God-resentment.

660.

Each morning when I awaken,
I ascend
To a new God-fulfilling beginning.
Each morning I am pleased
To fulfil God
Only in God's own Way.

661.

My heart's confidence-strength
Blossoms
Only in my life's
Surrender-length-increase.

662.

Each forgiveness-prayer
Is the beginning
Of a perfection-dreaming life.

663.

Sincerity belongs to divinity.
Divinity belongs to God's
All-illumining Compassion-Eye.

664.

God breathed a sigh of relief
When I told Him
That I was finally ready to please Him
Always in His own Way.

665.

The mind and the mind's path
Will definitely end
In utter confusion-country.

666.

God is both anxious and eager
To attend humanity's
God-fulfilling willingness-festival.

667.

Twin brothers: life and death.
Life tells me:
"You can; you certainly can.
Therefore, do not give up."
Death tells me:
"You cannot; you certainly cannot.
Therefore, take rest."

668.

The delight of the heart
Has the power to bring
The distant near
Sooner than the soonest.

669.

Today my ignorance-mind-cloud
Has covered my entire being,
But tomorrow my entire being
Will bask in the sunshine
Of my soul's freedom.

670.

For an ordinary life,
Ups and downs are a requirement.
For an aspiring life,
The story can be totally different.

671. The Fragrance...

The fragrance
Of a gratitude-heart
Forever remains unsurpassable.

672.

When I meditate,
I see a peace-bird
Folding its wings
Over my heart-nest.

673.

In vain my noisy mind
Tries to claim a monopoly
On my Lord's Attention.

674.

Today the human life
Is a chorus of helpless tears.
Tomorrow the same human life
Can be a chorus of endless smiles.

675.

Since nothing human is everlasting,
O stupid mind,
How do you dare to think
That your pride can be everlasting?

676.

God wants my gratitude-heart
To plant His Victory-Banner
In my own oneness-life,
And nowhere else.

677.

A completely God-surrendered life
Can never be hidden
By time and space.

678.

A devotion-magnet-heart
Is a never-ending delight
To both the seeker
And the Lord Supreme.

679.

God's Peace
Is in search of a helper.
A God-server
Can come to its rescue.

680.

The garden of the heart
Is always frequented by God.
The jungle of the mind
Is never visited by God.

681.

God is never fond of
The mind's oldness.
God is always fond of
The heart's newness
And fulness.

682.

Cultivate a devotion-flooded heart.
Your life will be able to reap
A bumper crop of satisfaction.

683.

No, nobody can prevent me
From keeping
My God-manifestation-promise.

684.

An aspiring heart has the capacity
To enhance the quality
Of each blossoming moment.

685.

O my heart,
Dive deep within
And be the discoverer
Of your God-fulfilment-dawn.

686.

When I do not aspire,
My life helplessly becomes
An endless night of despair.

687.

O my heart,
Touch and feed the world
With your golden smile.
Lo, the world is advancing
Fast, very fast,
Towards the destined Goal.

688.

Wisdom-light
And nothing else
Is the seed
Of every virtue.

689.

My vital hopes
To feel excitement.
My heart hopes
Not merely to be enlightened,
But to become enlightenment itself.

690.

May my mind constantly dance
With divine eagerness-impatience
To see the Feet
Of my Lord Beloved Supreme.

691.

I thought God was
A strict disciplinarian,
But now I see that God is
A constant and compassionate entertainer.

692.

God wants you to give Him
Your silence-heart,
Which is His Heart's
Proudest Palace.

693.

Each child
Is a new wonder.
Each child
Is a new discoverer.
Each child
Is an ever-new dawn-harbinger.

694.

To my extreme joy,
My Lord has given me the capacity
To say a final good-bye
To two of my old friends:
Insecurity and selfishness.

695.

Alas,
At times the stupidity-mind
Is shamelessly proud
Of its own incapacities.

696.

The mind-world hungers
For God's Power-Sun.
The heart-world hungers
For God's Love-Moon.

697.

My heart's hope
And my life's promise
Can never be at variance
With each other.

698.

I run after
A brilliant mind.
God runs after
My pure heart.

699.

If you have
A single-minded devotion,
Then there is nothing
That you cannot achieve in life.

700.

When I pray to God
Self-givingly,
He blesses me by granting me
The loving depth of His Compassion-Eye.

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