“What is Yoga? Yoga is self-conquest. Self-conquest is God-realisation. He who practises Yoga does two things with one stroke: he simplifies his whole life and he gets a free access to the Divine.”
Sri Chinmoy, Yoga and the spiritual life. The journey of India’s Soul, Agni Press, 1971
Sweetness-fulfilment
Shall dawn on your eyes
If you can empty your mind
Of all complaints.
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 151, Agni Press, 1991
God does not want you to suffer
From a guilt-stricken conscience.
He wants you to forgive and forget
Your past
Once and for all
And begin a new life
With a new promise-dawn.
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 151, Agni Press, 1991
“God is here where I am,
But my mind tells me
That He is elsewhere.”
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 33, Agni Press, 2003
If you deliberately keep teeming problems
Locked inside your mind,
What can your poor soul
And your poor heart
Do for you?
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 151, Agni Press, 1991
Do you want to be always happy?
Then give up fighting
For negativity
And learn the beautiful art
Of self-encouragement.”
– Sri Chinmoy, Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 12
“God has infinite children, but the name of His fondest child is Peace.”
– Sri Chinmoy
“Do not go to extremes.
Accept the body
And the five senses.
Only use them spiritually,
Divinely and soulfully.”
– Sri Chinmoy
If you see good qualities in others,
Then claim them as your own,
For who knows when you will find
Those same qualities
In your own nature?
– Sri Chinmoy
I have been loving God unconsciously
For millennia,
But I shall love God consciously
From this moment on.
– Sri Chinmoy
“Devotion is the secret of secrets. It lets you establish the sweetest and the most intimate connection with God, who entirely belongs to you.”
Sri Chinmoy
“If we want to define spiritual wisdom in one short sentence, then we can say that spiritual wisdom is the spontaneous recognition of one’s inner Being, inner Reality.”
– Sri Chinmoy
Faith is wisdom.
Faith is power.
Faith is heart-fragrance.
Faith is the sun-child
Of the Beyond.
– Sri Chinmoy
Faith has the capacity
To pass through
The darkest tunnels.
– Sri Chinmoy
Happy New Year,
Happy New Year!
Go forward,
Fly upward,
Dive inward!
No fear, no fear!
– Sri Chinmoy
Hope is sweet.
Hope is illumining.
Hope is fulfilling.
Hope can be everlasting.
Therefore, do not give up hope
Even in the sunset of your life.
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 112, Agni Press, 1987
To create a supreme atmosphere
On earth,
Each human being
Must grow into a soulful prayer
And fruitful meditation.
– Sri Chinmoy
The waves of hatred-night
can easily be dissolved
in the sea of oneness-love.
– Sri Chinmoy
“Life and hope are inseparable. Life is the body, and hope is the intuitive divinity in us, the divinity that wants to transcend the reality which we presently are. Hope is man’s seeking, hope is man’s inner urge, hope is man’s upward flight into the Beyond.”
Sri Chinmoy, Fifty Freedom-Boats to one Golden Shore, part 2, Agni Press, 1974
“Divine surrender is the surrender that we make to our own highest part. Each individual has two realities: the higher reality and the lower reality. The lower reality is still unlit, obscure, impure; whereas the higher reality is all divine, all perfection. So we consciously try to bring our lower reality into the higher one for its illumination. This surrender is not made to somebody else, to a third person. No, this surrender is made to one’s own highest self.”
Sri Chinmoy, Inner peace and world peace, Agni Press, 1992
“If I cannot find peace within myself,
How can I offer even an iota of peace
To humanity?”
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 33, Agni Press, 2003
Peace means joy;
Joy means peace.
Peace and joy can never
Be separated.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 16, Agni Press, 1999
Eventually peace must
Pervade our outer life
And
Permeate our inner life.
“A new year is a new life. A new life is a new second. A new second is a new opportunity. A new opportunity is a new blessing from the Infinite Supreme.”
Sri Chinmoy, Arise! Awake! Thoughts of a yogi, Frederick Fell, Inc., 1972
Hope abides; therefore I abide.
Countless frustrations have not cowed me.
I am still alive, vibrant with life.
The black cloud will disappear,
The morning sun will appear once again
In all its supernal glory.
Sri Chinmoy, Supreme, teach me how to surrender, 1975
Happy New Year,
Happy New Year!
Go forward,
Fly upward,
Dive inward!
No fear, no fear!
Sri Chinmoy
God has infinitely more hope
For our lives
Than we have.
