Category: Poem

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

If you pray for others,
God will definitely ask you
To claim His Infinity’s Love
As your very own.

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

Pay no attention
To life’s storms.
Pay all attention
To the sunlit days
In your heart.

Sri Chinmoy, My Christmas-New Year-Vacation Aspiration-Prayers, part 43, Agni Press, 2006

Your mind, vital and body
Will be dumbfounded
When God’s Light descends.

Sri Chinmoy, My Christmas-New Year-Vacation Aspiration-Prayers, part 43, Agni Press, 2006

I never allow my mind
To enjoy negative thoughts
During the day,
Specially in the morning
And in the evening.

Sri Chinmoy, My Christmas-New Year-Vacation Aspiration-Prayers, part 43, Agni Press, 2006

I look upward. I earn time. I look forward. I utilise time. I look inward. I save time. I look backward. I waste time.

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

He is happy
Because every day he tries
And actually does
A little more than he thinks he can.

Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 92, Agni Press, 1984

Slowly and steadily
You have to silence your mind
So that the peace-dove
Can nest in it.

Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 92, Agni Press, 1984

Although he came to God,
Because of his Himalayan pride,
He did not accept anything from God.
He went away empty-handed!

Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 92, Agni Press, 1984

When you meditate,
Try to disconnect the thought-current.
You will see and feel
A torrent of God-Delight
Descending from Above
Into your aspiration-heart.

Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 92, Agni Press, 1984

God gave me the happiest news that He loves me even if I don’t care to love Him. I gave God the greatest news that I think of Him although ignorance constantly thinks of me.

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

Everyone loves to blame somebody else.
But who is that somebody else
If not a portion of
The unrealised universal Self?

Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 92, Agni Press, 1984

I do not compete with the world. I compete with my ignorance. I do not compare myself with the world. I compare myself with my soul’s perfection. I do not cooperate with the world’s stupidity. I cooperate with my heart’s purest sincerity.

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

When we speak ill of the world
Almost on a daily basis,
We undoubtedly give
A most painful headache
To God.

Sri Chinmoy, My Christmas-New Year-Vacation Aspiration-Prayers, part 43, Agni Press, 2006

 

The new year comes
To give you another opportunity,
Another hope.
But the new year will come and go.
So begin your self-transformation-play
Immediately!

Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 92, Agni Press, 1984

Just be yourself.
Lo, God is running
Towards you.

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

Purity awakens the real in me:
Oneness.
Humility strengthens the real in me:
Perfection.
Gratitude enlightens the real in me:
Satisfaction.

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

One of the main faults
Of a fool
Is that he never changes
His mind.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 22, Agni Press, 2001

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