Two God-Amusement-Rivals: my Heart-Song-Beauty and my Life-Dance-Fragrance, part 8

701.

My all-illumining soul
Wants my all-loving heart
To be a supreme authority
On Heaven's history.

702.

A God-Beauty-hunger-soul
Cannot accept a failure-life.
No, never!

703.

The mind's negativity
Is an open door
To the life's self-destruction.

704.

There is something
God has not seen or heard before.
And what is it?
It is the world's loving
And unconditional surrender
To His Will.

705.

My earth-existence is divided
Between
My mind's God-rejecting fears
And my heart's God-welcoming smiles.

706.

God passes easily through
My heart's wide-open
Smile-door.

707.

To carry a doubting mind
And an unaspiring heart
On the path of God-realisation
Is absolutely impossible.

708.

Finally my heart has not only seen
But has also become
The affluence of God's Influence.

709.

O my mind,
You have all along been a slave
To restlessness.
Can you not become a true child
Of God-loving selflessness?

710.

No doubt,
One day all my doubts will die.
But alas, when and how?
I am all eagerness to know!

711.

The outer beauty leads us
Nowhere.
The inner beauty leads us
Directly to God.

712.

Once you are caught by desire-snare,
It is almost impossible to free yourself.
But God's unconditional Grace
Can easily do the impossible.

713.

My soul's profundity-light
Is at once
Wordless and endless.

714.

O my heart,
Hearken to my soul's melody
To illumine and fulfil yourself.

715.

God's Compassion
Is always anxious and eager
To remove my mind's mountain-fears.
Alas, where is my mind's receptivity,
Where?

716.

O my mind,
Faithfully and devotedly
Obey your heart,
Or your life will be damaged
Beyond repair.

717.

My Lord asks my heart
To tell Him all its troubles —
Every one of them —
And He promises to remove them
One by one.

718.

The fragrance of a God-dreamer's
God-manifestation-promise
Is treasured by God Himself.

719.

My Lord,
May my entire life become
An ever-climbing aspiration-flame.

720.

The same God who blessed my life
With Olympian dreams
Will definitely help them blossom
Into Olympian realities.

721.

God has no time to answer
Even one question out of millions
From unaspiring minds.

722.

The mind deliberately loves to roam
In ever-brooding, ever-increasingly
Dark cloud-land.

723.

The heart's plenitude
Can easily challenge
The life's poverty.

724.

I have permanently transplanted
My aspiration-heart
Into God's Heart-Beauty-Garden.

725.

A sincere seeker always takes
His Lord's inner warnings to heart
To make the fastest progress
In his aspiration-life.

726.

My heart and I are one.
Together
We are bravely going against
The mind's doubt-current.

727.

If you do not have burning zeal
Inside your heart,
You will never be able
To please God.

728.

O tearful eyes of soulful gratitude,
Where are you?
I am eagerly waiting for you
To appear in my life.

729.

Complete surrender
Is indeed
A once in a lifetime,
All-fulfilling experience.

730.

My heart and I are so proud
That we are able to welcome
The peace-heralds.

731.

My devotion-heart
Stems from
My life's love of God.

732.

O my mind, do not worry
If you take a false start
In your spiritual life.
God will give you chances
Again and again
To take a good start
In your spiritual life.

733.

O seeker, be careful!
Never allow your heart-shrine
To fall into utter neglect.

734.

When I live in my mind,
I am addicted to power.
When I live in my heart,
I am devoted to love,
God-love.

735.

You have not only to diminish
Your pleasure-seeking activities,
But to eliminate them completely
To serve God and please God
In God's own Way.

736.

If you constantly cherish doubt,
Then you will be ruthlessly exiled
From God's Compassion-Favour.

737.

My heart's cries
And my Lord's Smiles
Daily exchange telegrams.

738.

If you truly and sincerely love God,
Then you do not have to
Resign yourself to your fate.

739.

Every day during my meditation
God comes and blessingfully gives me
A private lecture
On how to please Him all the time
In His own Way.

740.

God consoles the broken-hearted
Only when He sees
That they are going to become sincere,
Self-giving and God-aspiring.

741.

There was a time
When I joined my mind
In its self-congratulation.
But now I join my heart
In its God-invocation.

742.

A self-disciplined life
And a God-caring heart
Are treasured by God Himself.

743.

A self-giving life
Is indeed
Man's peace-freedom-fighter
On earth.

744.

It is only with the heart-eye
That we can see the truth
Correctly and perfectly.

745.

O seeker,
Enter into the chamber of your heart.
Lo and behold!
Your Inner Pilot will powerfully bless you.

746.

A God-surrender-heart
Can definitely stop
The Himalayan blunders
Of the mind.

747.

The heart-aircraft
Flies and flies
In love-skies.

748.

O my mind,
Do not misunderstand me, please.
I am all for your transformation.
I am all for your perfection.
I am all for your divine satisfaction.

749.

My aspiration-heart has the capacity
And is the capacity
To challenge and defeat
My God-unfaithful mind.

750.

When I aspire sincerely and self-givingly,
My heart and I are given the opportunity
To swim in the sea of oneness
And arrive at God's Fulness-Shore.

751.

Surrender does not mean
Helplessness.
Surrender means
A God-fulfilment-life.

752.

When I cry ceaseless surrender-tears,
God's ever-brightening Smiles
Embrace me in my totality.

753.

The desire of night for light
Is not only possible,
But also inevitable.

754.

You will be freed
From the fetters of birth and death
Only when God is able to use you
As a choice instrument of His.

755.

If you are unable to obey God
At every moment,
How do you expect God to love you
At every moment?

756.

The only God I worship
Is the God
Of Compassion-flooded Love.

757.

When ignorance is bliss,
Life is nothing short of
Unconscious, ruthless torture.

758.

When I love God
In God's own Way,
He immediately blesses me
With His Satisfaction-flooded Smile.

759.

My gratitude-heart
Is the beauty
Of God's transcendental Victory.

760.

My soul proudly smiles
At my heart's
Deeper than the deepest
Meditations.

761.

My soul's dynamism
Has finally found a way
To throw out my body's lethargy.

762.

The sweetness of a devotion-heart
Can easily counteract
The bitterness of a cynical mind.

763.

God is always anxious and eager
To answer man's
Surrender-gratitude-inspired questions.

764.

Like the outer sun,
The inner sun is always radiating
Its divinity's beauty in all directions,
Although at times we may not see it.

765.

The Sweetness-Flute of God's Voice
Enchants not only the aspiring heart,
But even the doubting mind.

766.

At long last
My aspiration-heart
And my dedication-life
Are all ready
For our Lord's Compassion-Arrival.

767.

What is the mind's negativity?
The mind's negativity
Is a poisonous mushroom
That is found in the mind-jungle.

768.

The edifice of goodness
Is built upon
A firm oneness-foundation.

769.

The easiest way to God-realisation
Is the way
Of sleepless and breathless surrender
To God's Will.

770.

An ordinary life:
What is it?
It is a dry desert of desire.

A spiritual life:
What is it?
It is the blossoming of a heart-garden.

771.

Only my heart's silence-sea
Can stop my mind
From racing around.

772.

Just because the mind
Is an impossible fool,
It wants to trample the truth.

773.

The human mind wants to know
All the myths about God.
The divine heart wants to realise
An iota of God's Love.

774.

To have a heart of aspiration
And a life of dedication
Unquestionably means
Doing God's Will.

775.

When I aspire self-givingly,
I become the sunrise-smile
Of my inner life.

776.

There is a way to look beyond
The fear-curtain,
And that way is
Sleepless love of God.

777.

If you cannot see God
In someone,
That is definitely your own
Incalculable loss.

778.

Since the beginning of creation,
Each century has been blessed
With only a handful of realised souls.

779.

O my mind,
God is not going to accept
Your reluctant gratitude.

780.

God really loves
My life's perpetual
Self-enlightenment-effort.

781.

To love the unaspiring mind
Is to be satisfied
With a totally imperfect paradise.

782.

My Lord,
I constantly feel Your Love,
Yet self-indulgence
Is my sorrowful name.

783.

God will never condescend
To visit my mind-doubt-department.
God is ever ready
To enter my heart-faith-home.

784.

Truth can never be trapped
By the mind.
Truth can only be embraced
By the heart.

785.

My God-surrender-life
Has finally found the key
To my heart-home.

786.

Aspiration can speak
Constantly.
Realisation can whisper
Sleeplessly and breathlessly.

787.

From God I desire
A God-realised life.
From me God needs
A heart-perfection-life.

788.

Our minds must kneel
In order to rise.
Our hearts must dream
In order to fly.

789.

I am truly free
Only when I am
God's Heart-Home-prisoner.

790.

When my aspiration is at its best,
I see God's Beauty
Not only inside my heart-garden,
But also inside my mind-jungle.

791.

I cry
For my life to be moulded
By God's constant Concern-Touch.

792.

Everything in life is a choice.
Either I choose God's Heart
Or I choose man's mind.
Let me be wise
And make the right choice.

793.

My heart is all eagerness
To explore God's Compassion-Majesty
Within and without.

794.

The one who dares
To sit for God's Examination
Is the one God will definitely choose
To be His divine instrument.

795.

The sleepless aspiration
Of the heart
Can cut asunder
The mind's attachment-strings.

796.

I was born to be
A God-manifestation-champion
Here on earth.

797.

I do not want to be
My mind's failure-frustration-carrier.
Never!
I want only to be
My heart's God-Victory-Banner-carrier.

798.

If you are a genuine truth-seeker
And God-lover,
Then you can never belittle
Other truth-seekers
And God-lovers.

799.

O my heart,
You have to be extremely careful.
The clever vital can fool the world
In your name.

800.

My heart's tears
And my soul's smiles
Every day enjoy
Their shuttle service
Between Heaven and earth.

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