“How can I be a better human being if I do not think of the Source? Who makes me good? Who makes me better? Who makes me best? Somebody who is infinitely better than I am, and that is God.”
Sri Chinmoy, Realisation-Soul and Manifestation-Goal, Agni Press, 1974
Do not be proud.
Do not be ashamed.
Go forward with humility
And courage.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 27, Agni Press, 2002
Life needs courage,
Courage invincible.
Heart needs oneness,
Oneness universal.
Sri Chinmoy, My Christmas-New Year-Vacation Aspiration-Prayers, part 23, Agni Press, 2004
Your mind knows only
How to compile complaints.
Your heart knows only
How to sing oneness-song.
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 101, Agni Press, 1985
Do not neglect your body.
Lethargy can give birth
To ten million hostile forces.
Finally my God-love has arisen
Inside my heart,
And all my earthly sorrows
Are flying away.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 2, Agni Press, 1998
“When you have to defend yourself or protect yourself, try to use a higher weapon. If people say something and you retaliate on the same level, there will be no end to it.”
Sri Chinmoy, Flame-Waves, part 1, Agni Press, 1975
Your mind knows only
How to compile complaints.
Your heart knows only
How to sing oneness-song.
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 101, Agni Press, 1985
“If I had to summarise my earthly activities in one single word, then I would say that that birthless and deathless word is love. Love is oneness, oneness is perfection and perfection is fulfilment.”
Sri Chinmoy, Sacred Rock welcomes Sri Chinmoy, Agni Press, 1994
In your outer life
If you long for peace,
Then in your inner life
You must become energy-action.
Sri Chinmoy, Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 10, Agni Press, 1981
We must all try
To accumulate
God-serving capacities.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 12, Agni Press, 1999
The smallest act
Of self-offering
Can give us
An ocean-vast joy.
See also: Happiness
Man’s life is the pendulum
Between division-night
And oneness-light.
Sri Chinmoy
Video edit: Adam Thornton
Music: Composed by Sri Chinmoy; performed by Arthada & Friends
My heart longs to be dissolved
In wings of air
And fly in the unhorizoned sky.
I long to open up
All my heart-doors
In the delight of my liberation-life.
May my life begin
With the breath of a new hope.
– Sri Chinmoy, From collection entitled, Selected Poetry of Sri Chinmoy
More poetry from ‘Selected Poetry‘
Video edit: Adam Thornton
Music: Composed by Sri Chinmoy. Performed Shindu.
Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, Part 12, Agni Press, Agni Press, Agni Press (1999) – Source »
photo by Menaka
Poem: Sri Chinmoy, Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, Part 173, Agni Press, 1992
Photo: Menaka, Sri Chinmoy Centre Galleries
