“To serve humanity is good. Better is it to serve Divinity. Better still is it to serve Divinity and humanity together. Best is to serve Divinity first and then serve humanity.”
Sri Chinmoy, Meditations: food for the soul, Aum Centre, New York, 1970
Category: daily quote
9 February
“To help humanity I want my life to be a life of ceaseless duration. To serve God I wish my life to be a life of selfless donation.”
Sri Chinmoy, Meditations: food for the soul, Aum Centre, New York, 1970
7 February
“Because I love mankind, God loves me. Because I love God, Truth loves me. Because I love Truth, I really and truly love myself.”
Sri Chinmoy, Meditations: food for the soul, Aum Centre, New York, 1970
6 February
“May my meditation
Lose its heart
Inside God’s Silence-Eye.”
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 192, Agni Press, 1993
5 February
“The Infinite within Divinity
Is as sure
As the beauty inside a flower.”
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 192, Agni Press, 1993
4 February
Why do I meditate?
I meditate precisely because
My meditation proudly carries me
To the shore I seek.
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 192, Agni Press, 1993
2 February
“Nobody can overestimate
The beauty,
The power
And the delight
Of self-conquest.”
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 193, Agni Press, 1993
1 February
“Who is a child?
A child is he
Who is his heart’s
Prayer-beauty.”
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 193, Agni Press, 1993
31 January
Although I am far, very far from my Goal,
When I think of my Goal
Or imagine my Goal,
I get boundless joy.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 33, Agni Press, 2003
30 January
“No matter what happens,
I shall always remain
Inside my heart-nest.”
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 33, Agni Press, 2003
29 January
“God has infinite children, but the name of His fondest child is Peace.”
– Sri Chinmoy
28 January
“Without willingness and eagerness,
Spiritual progress
Can never be made.”
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 33, Agni Press, 2003
27 January
“If you are sincerely aspiring, you will never expect anything from God, even in your imagination. Your sincere aspiration will tell you that God loves you infinitely more than you can understand, and that God, out of His infinite Love and Compassion, has already provided you with everything.”
Sri Chinmoy, Inner peace and world peace, Agni Press, 1992
25 January
“True freedom is not an isolated or independent thing. True freedom is oneness with the Infinite. It cannot operate in isolation, as a separate thing. God is both universal and individual, both unity and multiplicity. Just because we do not feel oneness with others, we do not have true freedom.”
Sri Chinmoy, Inner peace and world peace, Agni Press, 1992
24 January
Love is never alone.
Divinity’s blessings
And humanity’s gratitude
Always stay with love.
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 151, Agni Press, 1991
19 October
Nothing else is perfect
And
Nothing else can ever be perfect
Except the soulful cry
Of our fruitful gratitude-heart.
Sri Chinmoy, Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 9, Agni Press, 1981
12 October
While walking along
The avenue of my aspiration-heart,
What do I do?
I harvest my heart’s sunlight.
How?
Slowly, steadily and selflessly.
Sri Chinmoy, Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 9, Agni Press, 1981
11 October
My physical death
Is not the end of my life —
I am an eternal journey.
Sri Chinmoy, My Christmas-New Year-Vacation Aspiration-Prayers, part 52, Agni Press, 2007
10 October
No matter who houses a bad thought —
A desire-man or an aspiration-man —
A bad thought is a dire challenge
To humanity’s progress-life.
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 24, Agni Press, 1984
9 October
Self-transcendence
Is the inner wealth
That pleases the Inner Pilot
More than anything else.
Sri Chinmoy, My Christmas-New Year-Vacation Aspiration-Prayers, part 52, Agni Press, 2007
20 June
God tells me that
My happy heart
Increases the beauty
Of His universal Heart.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 8, Agni Press, 1998
18 June
“Those who want to explore the heart
Will have no time
To indulge in the thought-world.”
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 2, Agni Press, 1998
17 June
When we extend our arms
To humanity,
God immediately strengthens
Our hearts.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 32, Agni Press, 2003
16 June
We must totally forget
Our self-importance
Way of life.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 12, Agni Press, 1999
15 June
“You can obtain purity by constantly feeling that you are a three-year-old child, or you can feel that you are a flower, a beautiful flower with fragrance, and nothing else. In this way you can obtain purity.”
Sri Chinmoy, Sri Chinmoy speaks, part 8, Agni Press, 1976
15 June
When hostile forces attack you,
Have nothing to do with them.
Create a world of indifference
Within and around you.
Their own pride will compel them
To leave you.
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 12, Agni Press, 1983
14 June
I take each failure as an opportunity
To increase my surrender
And destroy my frustration-life.
I take each success as an opportunity
To bring forward my gratitude-heart
And totally destroy my ego-life.
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 12, Agni Press, 1983
14 June
“In the spiritual life, compassion is nothing other than oneness itself. Compassion does not mean a sense of pity. Compassion is the expansion of what one eternally is.”
Sri Chinmoy, Inspiration-garden and aspiration-leaves, Agni Press, 1977
13 June
God’s Compassion
Has a way of
Working things out.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 32, Agni Press, 2003
13 June
Self-awareness and self-giving
Are two supreme gifts.
These two gifts
Are always their own God-winning rewards.
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 12, Agni Press, 1983