Unlike the ordinary life,
In the spiritual life
Every moment counts;
Every moment is extremely valuable.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 22, Agni Press, 2001
Daily Poem
26 May
The time to be really happy
Is now,
Here at the very place
Where you are.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 22, Agni Press, 2001
25 May
The world belongs
To the world-lovers
And not
To the world-preachers.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 22, Agni Press, 2001
24 May
Every day
You can be true to yourself
A little more.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 22, Agni Press, 2001
23 May
The music of the heart
Begins
Where the words of the mind
Stop.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 22, Agni Press, 2001
22 May
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
21 May
“How is it that a man does not know himself, something which ought to be the easiest of all his endeavours? He does not know himself precisely because he identifies himself with the ego and not with his real Self.”
Sri Chinmoy, Yoga and the spiritual life. The journey of India’s Soul, Agni Press, 1971
20 May
“No price is too great to pay for inner peace. Peace is the harmonious control of life. It is vibrant with life-energy. It is a power that easily transcends all our worldly knowledge. Yet it is not separate from our earthly existence. If we open the right avenues within, this peace can be felt here and now.”
Sri Chinmoy, Yoga and the spiritual life. The journey of India’s Soul., Agni Press, 1971
19 May
“We must not allow our past to torment and destroy the peace of our heart. Our present good and divine actions can easily counteract our bad and undivine actions of the past. If sin has the power to make us weep, meditation has undoubtedly the power to give us joy, to endow us with the divine Wisdom.”
Sri Chinmoy, Yoga and the spiritual life. The journey of India’s Soul., Agni Press, 1971
18 May
“What is Yoga? Yoga is self-conquest. Self-conquest is God-realisation. He who practises Yoga does two things with one stroke: he simplifies his whole life and he gets a free access to the Divine.”
Sri Chinmoy, Yoga and the spiritual life. The journey of India’s Soul, Agni Press, 1971
17 May
Sweetness-fulfilment
Shall dawn on your eyes
If you can empty your mind
Of all complaints.
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 151, Agni Press, 1991
16 May
God does not want you to suffer
From a guilt-stricken conscience.
He wants you to forgive and forget
Your past
Once and for all
And begin a new life
With a new promise-dawn.
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 151, Agni Press, 1991
15 May
“God is here where I am,
But my mind tells me
That He is elsewhere.”
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 33, Agni Press, 2003
14 May
If you deliberately keep teeming problems
Locked inside your mind,
What can your poor soul
And your poor heart
Do for you?
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 151, Agni Press, 1991
13 May
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
17 Jan
My morning begins
With the hope of enjoying
The exquisite beauty of God the creation.
Sri Chinmoy, My morning begins, Agni Press, 1996
16 Jan
My morning begins
By invoking, obeying and satisfying
God the Creator.
Sri Chinmoy, My morning begins, Agni Press, 1996
15 Jan
My morning begins
By washing, adorning and treasuring
God’s Forgiveness-Feet.
Sri Chinmoy, My morning begins, Agni Press, 1996
14 Jan
My morning begins
By energising my body,
Commanding my vital,
Directing my mind,
Feeding my heart
And serving my soul.
Sri Chinmoy, My morning begins, Agni Press, 1996
13 Jan
“My morning begins
With the thrill
Of my God-fulfilment-determination.”
– Sri Chinmoy
5 Jan
“God has infinite children, but the name of His fondest child is Peace.”
– Sri Chinmoy
8 Jan
“Do not go to extremes.
Accept the body
And the five senses.
Only use them spiritually,
Divinely and soulfully.”
– Sri Chinmoy
7 Jan
If you see good qualities in others,
Then claim them as your own,
For who knows when you will find
Those same qualities
In your own nature?
– Sri Chinmoy
6 Jan
I have been loving God unconsciously
For millennia,
But I shall love God consciously
From this moment on.
– Sri Chinmoy
5 Jan
“Devotion is the secret of secrets. It lets you establish the sweetest and the most intimate connection with God, who entirely belongs to you.”
Sri Chinmoy
4 Jan
“If we want to define spiritual wisdom in one short sentence, then we can say that spiritual wisdom is the spontaneous recognition of one’s inner Being, inner Reality.”
– Sri Chinmoy
3 Jan
Faith is wisdom.
Faith is power.
Faith is heart-fragrance.
Faith is the sun-child
Of the Beyond.
– Sri Chinmoy
2 Jan
Faith has the capacity
To pass through
The darkest tunnels.
– Sri Chinmoy
1 Jan
Happy New Year,
Happy New Year!
Go forward,
Fly upward,
Dive inward!
No fear, no fear!
– Sri Chinmoy
Dec 31
May the beauty of the New Year
Beautify my heart.
May the purity of the New Year
Purify my mind.
May the simplicity of the New Year
Simplify my vital.
May the intensity of the New Year
Intensify my body.
May the responsibility of the New Year
Glorify my life.
May only the divinity of the New Year
Fully satisfy me.
Beautify my heart.
May the purity of the New Year
Purify my mind.
May the simplicity of the New Year
Simplify my vital.
May the intensity of the New Year
Intensify my body.
May the responsibility of the New Year
Glorify my life.
May only the divinity of the New Year
Fully satisfy me.
Sri Chinmoy, My sweet Father-Lord, where are you?, Agni Press, 1999