Daily Poem

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

Although it is extremely difficult
To tame the wild mind,
We must succeed.

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

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

I tell the truth. The world is hurt. I tell a lie. God is hurt. What am I to do? Silence. I must live in silence and become the smiling breath of silence. Lo, the world loves me, and God blesses me.

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

Where joy is wanting, love is wanting. Where love is wanting, everything is wanting. Where Truth is, Fulfilment is there. Where Fulfilment is, God is there, there alone.

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

“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

As you spend your money-power
Carefully,
Even so, spend your thought-power
Cautiously.
Each thought embraces
An atom bomb.

Sri Chinmoy, Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 9, Agni Press, 1981

May my peace-hunger
Every day, every hour,
Every minute, every second
Increase in measureless measure.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 9, Agni Press, 1998

How difficult it is
To come out of temptation-territory,
But a genuine seeker
Definitely can come out of it.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 9, Agni Press, 1998

God’s Compassion-Eye
Is all-where.
Only our awareness
Is missing.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 9, Agni Press, 1998

Each illumining Whisper from God
Shows my gratitude-heart
How to walk along Eternity’s Road.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 9, Agni Press, 1998

Devotion is needed
In boundless measure
To illumine my mind’s
Darkness-abyss.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 9, Agni Press, 1998