Each man
Has to be a man
Of formidable God-service.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 26, Agni Press, 2002
Daily Poem
13 February
I live in between
Ancient spirituality
And
Modern velocity.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 26, Agni Press, 2002
12 February
God’s Compassion-Eye
Unites my prayer-heart
With Heaven’s Smile.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 26, Agni Press, 2002
11 February
Each new moment
Is a new
Golden opportunity.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 26, Agni Press, 2002
9 Feb
“I have two
Most significant friends:
My soul
And my soul’s unfinished task.”
7 Feb
“Beauty divine sings
Only for the illumining soul
And the self-giving heart.”
6 Feb
“May my meditation
Lose its heart
Inside God’s Silence-Eye.”
5 Feb
“The Infinite within Divinity
Is as sure
As the beauty inside a flower.”
4 Feb
Why do I meditate?
I meditate precisely because
My meditation proudly carries me
To the shore I seek.
1 Feb
“Who is a child?
A child is he
Who is his heart’s
Prayer-beauty.”
31 Jan
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 Jan
“No matter what happens,
I shall always remain
Inside my heart-nest.”
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 33, Agni Press, 2003
28 Jan
“Without willingness and eagerness,
Spiritual progress
Can never be made.”
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 33, Agni Press, 2003
27 Jan
“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 Jan
“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 Jan
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
23 January
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
22 January
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
21 January
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
20 January
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
19 January
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
18 January
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
17 January
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
16 January
Do
What makes you happy.
Become
What makes God happy.
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 43, Agni Press, 1984
15 January
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
14 January
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
13 January
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
12 January
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
11 January
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
10 January
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