Category: Poem

Inner faith
Does have the capacity
To change
The outer mind’s course.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 24, Agni Press, 2002

Humility, my humility,
You are my Heaven-climbing
Staircase.

– Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 19

Self-acceptance
Is the dawn of satisfaction.
Self-confidence
Is the noon of perfection.

Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 168, Agni Press, 1992

Since you do not play
The foul game
Of blind negatives,
Yours will be the Consciousness-delight,
Here, there and
All-where.

Sri Chinmoy, Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 10, Agni Press, 1981

Now that I have
Become an explorer,
I shall explore
A new land:
The heart-land.

Sri Chinmoy, Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 10, Agni Press, 1981

Happiness and courage
Feed each other.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 23, Agni Press, 2002

Faith
Sings the song
Of self-transcendence.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 23, Agni Press, 2002

Do not be discouraged.
Give yourself a second chance.
You will succeed.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 23, Agni Press, 2002

The more we forgive,
The stronger we become.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 23, Agni Press, 2002

To change one’s life
Is to increase
The world-transformation-hopes.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 23, Agni Press, 2002

O my heart,
Never allow
The doubting mind
To darken your door.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 26, Agni Press, 2002

A good thought
Changes everything it touches
For the better.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 26, Agni Press, 2002

God is extremely pleased
Even with my heart’s
Tinier than the tiniest
Gratitude-blossoms.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 26, Agni Press, 2002

In my life
Only one road
Is sure and sunlit:
My heart-road.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 26, Agni Press, 2002

The cradle of self-love
Is made of
Illusion and delusion.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 26, Agni Press, 2002

In the inner world,
Only love-currency
Is valued.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 26, Agni Press, 2002

Love One
And
Become all.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 26, Agni Press, 2002

Each man
Has to be a man
Of formidable God-service.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 26, Agni Press, 2002

I live in between
Ancient spirituality
And
Modern velocity.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 26, Agni Press, 2002

God’s Compassion-Eye
Unites my prayer-heart
With Heaven’s Smile.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 26, Agni Press, 2002

Each new moment
Is a new
Golden opportunity.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 26, Agni Press, 2002

The reward of losing. I lost my anger. Joy, everlasting joy, came into my immediate possession. I lost my desire. The entire world has devotedly become mine. I lost my ignorance. Lo, my sweet Lord is proud of me.

Sri Chinmoy, Meditations: food for the soul, Aum Centre, New York, 1970

The idle cannot find God.
Therefore, God has to exert
Extra effort
To make the idle dynamic
So that God and they can enjoy
Mutual oneness-pride.

Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 43, Agni Press, 1984

For me there is no other way
To reach my goal
Than to claim God secretly
And openly
As my own, very own.

Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 43, Agni Press, 1984

When the power of love replaces the love of power, man will have a new name: God.

Sri Chinmoy, Meditations: food for the soul, Aum Centre, New York, 1970

To distrust others at every moment
Is no inconsequential inner crime.
Indeed, it is a very serious crime!

Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 43, Agni Press, 1984

God gave you the mind
To transcend itself
And not to engage in
A completely complicated analysis.

Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 43, Agni Press, 1984

Pray with fear. God sheds bitter tears. Pray with love. God smiles with the Beauty of the Golden Dawn. Pray with all that you have. God wings towards you to clasp you. Pray with all that you are. God becomes your Liberation.

Sri Chinmoy, Meditations: food for the soul, Aum Centre, New York, 1970

Do
What makes you happy.
Become
What makes God happy.

Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 43, Agni Press, 1984

His identity he will reveal
Not through the power
Of his mouth
But through the light
Of his heart.

Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 43, Agni Press, 1984