Daily Poem

A single thought
Has the power of a bullet:
Either it can destroy you
Or it can help you
Immensely.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 16, Agni Press, 1999

Just change your thought-pattern!
Lo, the entire world loves you,
Needs you and claims you
As its very own.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 16, Agni Press, 1999

Imagine the whole world could recognise that it is God’s creation.

Sri Chinmoy, Imagine, Jharna-Kala Card Co., 1999

Do not waste
Your precious time.
Every day
Try to make it a point
To make real sense
Out of your life.

Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 163, Agni Press, 1991

When I am the voice of my heart,
Wisdom immediately comes
To shake hands with me.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 14, Agni Press, 1999

“When we are meditating, we always try to go beyond the mind. When we want to expand our consciousness, our physical reality, we have to enter into the soul.”

Sri Chinmoy, The summits of God-Life: Samadhi and Siddhi, Agni Press, 1974

“Heaven and God are not high above us, somewhere far away; they are deep within us, inside our hearts. Heaven is not a distant country where there are trees and houses and other objects; it is a plane of consciousness within us.”

Sri Chinmoy, The summits of God-Life: Samadhi and Siddhi, Agni Press, 1974

The secret of satisfaction
Is in knowing
Not what you think of yourself,
But what God feels about you.

Sri Chinmoy, Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 37, Agni Press, 1982

Do you want to be happy?
Then do not overestimate
The power of your mind,
And do not underestimate
The light of your heart.

Sri Chinmoy, Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 37, Agni Press, 1982

Self-investigation
Is a necessary light.
Self-criticism
Is an unnecessary burden.

Sri Chinmoy, Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 37, Agni Press, 1982

We do not know
Why we spend our time
Mercilessly speaking ill of others
Rather than divinely examining our own lives.

Sri Chinmoy, Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 37, Agni Press, 1982

Try to belong to your heart.
Perfection-flood will be all yours.
Try to belong to your soul.
Satisfaction-ocean will be all yours.

Sri Chinmoy, Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 37, Agni Press, 1982

True happiness
Always wants to live
Without attachment-ropes.

Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 66, Agni Press, 1984

As long as you live on earth,
In order to be happy and peaceful,
Just feel that the world belongs to God
And not to you.

Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 69, Agni Press, 1984

Unreservedly strengthen the part of you
That wants God’s Love
Above everything else,
And soulfully see
The happy result.

Sri Chinmoy, Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 10, Agni Press, 1981

“Peace is something that we become. Once we become peace, then only can we give peace to the world and receive peace from the world.”

Sri Chinmoy, The oneness of the Eastern Heart and the Western mind, part 3

“Peace is something spontaneous; it is something that unites us. Peace is something that we have to spread. But unless and until we have peace deep within us, we can never hope to have peace in the outer world.”

Sri Chinmoy, Transformation-Night Illumination-Dawn

“Peace does not mean the absence of war, peace means the presence of harmony, love, satisfaction and oneness. Peace means a flood of love in the world family.”

Sri Chinmoy, The Garland of Nation-Souls,

Unless and until you have developed
A heart inundated with compassion,
Do not sit on the seat of judgement.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, Part 3

Humanity can move forward
Fast, very fast,
If it can listen to the dictates
Of the Divinity within.

Sri Chinmoy, My Christmas-New Year-Vacation Aspiration-Prayers, part 38

“If the intellectual mind, the negative mind, is not illumined by the heart, dryness will reign supreme. The intellectual mind loves dryness. In the spiritual life, we never want dryness!”

– Sri Chinmoy, God made, God moulded, God shaped, Agni Press, 2013

If you are wise,
You will pay all attention
To the light
And pay no attention
To darkness.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 8, Agni Press, 1998

“What is the meaning of life? Life is for the absolute satisfaction of God the Creator and God the creation. The meaning of life is to become inseparably one with God the transcendental Bliss and God the universal Peace.”

Sri Chinmoy, A Peace-Collecting Pilgrim-Soul, Agni Press, 1971

A self-giving life
Is ranked by God Himself
To be absolutely the best.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 8, Agni Press, 1998

“In meditation we dive into the vast sea of Consciousness. We do not have to ask God for Peace or Light because we are swimming in the sea of divine qualities. At that time God gives us more than we can ever imagine.

Sri Chinmoy, Prayer-World, Mantra-World and Japa-World, Agni Press, 1974

Lose your ego
Completely.
God will embrace you
Immediately.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 8, Agni Press, 1998

No outer noise,
No matter how loud and destructive,
Can disturb the soul’s inner poise.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 8, Agni Press, 1998

Meditation is man’s thirst for the Infinite Real, Eternal Real and Absolute Real. The secret of meditation is to achieve conscious and constant oneness with God.

– Sri Chinmoy, Eastern Light for the Western mind, Agni Press, 1973