Daily Poem

To smile
Is to offer happiness
To the world.

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

When I accuse my mind of stealing away my heart’s joy, I always meet with flat denials from the mind. Lord, what am I to do?

“My child, do not accuse the mind. Just adore your soul. Your soul has the power to inundate your heart with infinite Joy.”

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

I am determined to liberate
My life
From the burning attachments
Of my present and past life.

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

The gratitude-heart-bird
Flies high, higher, highest,
Fast, faster, fastest,
To arrive at God’s Heart-Palace.

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

If a seeker of the Infinite Truth enjoys idle talk, then his mind’s determination, his heart’s inspiration and his soul’s aspiration are bound to starve.

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

God tells me that
If I want to claim Him
As my own, very own,
Then I must never lose
My child-heart.

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

A sun-bright happiness-life
Can be achieved
Through constant self-offering.

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

I asked God what He was looking for. He said, “I am looking for gratitude’s home in My vast world.

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

Let us pay no attention
To our indifferent mind.
Let us pay all attention
To our man-loving heart.

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

God cannot stop laughing
At the mind’s
Dire pronouncements.

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

In the spiritual life,
If you can advance even by inches,
Then you are accomplishing something
Really great.

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

An unaspiring person always complains. There is no end to his complaints. He bitterly complains even when the blessings of opportunity knock at his very door.

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

To vanquish negativity,
Only one thing
Is of paramount importance:
Love of the heart.

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

I want to be sincere. When I love the world, I complain of my poor capacity. When I love God, I complain of my sure insincerity.

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

A problem is not a burden
But an opportunity
In disguise.

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

When you live in spirituality, aspiration is what you expect, but realisation is what you get. When you live in humanity, admiration is what you expect, but admonition is what you get.

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

Keep your heart’s door open. You will become the purest man. Keep your ego’s door closed. You will become the surest man.

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

If you find something nice
To say about humanity,
Then God will have everything nice
To say about you.

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

Well done
Is infinitely more significant
Than well said.

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

Be a little more compassionate
Than needed.

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

I always say that beauty is soul-deep. Beauty in the outer world is the total transformation of one’s human nature. Beauty in the inner world is the perfect realisation of one’s divine Reality.

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

When we are happy,
We go far beyond
The limitation-boundaries.

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

Be happy!
Be happy!
You will always have time
To be unhappy later.

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

Everyone will ultimately arrive
At God’s Heart-Palace,
But those who aspire
Will definitely arrive
Infinitely sooner.

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

To make myself happy,
I live far beyond the domain
Of expectation.

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

God does not want us
To prove our love for Him
As long as we are loving ourselves
In a divine way.

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

I love my soul because it always inspires me. I love my vital because it always promises to be. My soul loves me for what I am. My soul loves my vital for what it can be.

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

Patience
Secretly and sacredly
Moves forward.

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

Joy, inner and outer, is a supreme necessity. Pleasure, outer and inner, is certainly a dangerous luxury.

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