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
Daily Poem
8 January
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
7 January
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
6 January
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
5 January
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
4 January
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
3 January
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
2 January
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
1 January
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
7 Dec
Do not neglect your body.
Lethargy can give birth
To ten million hostile forces.
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
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
13 June
God’s Compassion
Has a way of
Working things out.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 32, Agni Press, 2003
28 February
Just be yourself.
Lo, God is running
Towards you.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 23, Agni Press, 2002
23 Feb
“Your mind may not know
What will make you happy,
But your heart does know
How to make you happy.
Listen to your heart.”
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.”
30 March
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
12 June
My Lord,
Do teach me the message
Of universal love.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 34, Agni Press, 2003
11 June
Each peace-step of a human being
Is undoubtedly a progress-march
Towards God’s Satisfaction-Smile.
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 151, Agni Press, 1991
10 June
We can fulfil our destiny
Only by serving
And loving humanity.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 12, Agni Press, 1999
9 June
The power of humility
Has the capacity to simplify
The mind’s complicated ego-life.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 2, Agni Press, 1998
7 June
God can heal any suffering.
God can present Himself
In any uninspiring situation.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 25, Agni Press, 2002
6 June
Self-giving
Is
Its own reward.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 25, Agni Press, 2002
5 June
“The tree of life teaches us how to search desperately for true love, divine love and immortal love.”
Sri Chinmoy, Tree of life, Jharna-Kala Card Co., 1997
4 June
“If failure has the strength to turn your life into bitterness itself, then patience has the strength to turn your life into the sweetest joy. Do not surrender to fate after a single failure. Failure, at most, precedes success.”
Sri Chinmoy, Songs of the Soul, Agni Press, 1971
3 June
Our God-faith
Solves
All our life-problems.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 22, Agni Press, 2001
2 June
We must climb
Our life’s perfection-stairway
Slowly, steadily and unerringly.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 22, Agni Press, 2001
1 June
Holiness
Is good.
Selflessness
Is infinitely better.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 22, Agni Press, 2001
30 May
Self-offering
Is an unparalleled opportunity
To claim all as one’s very own.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 22, Agni Press, 2001