Selected short poems and aphorisms by Sri Chinmoy.
World peace can be achieved
When, in each person,
The power of love
Replaces the love of power.
– Sri Chinmoy [1]
Love is not a thing to understand.
Love is not a thing to feel.
Love is not a thing to give and receive.
Love is a thing only to become
And eternally be.
– Sri Chinmoy [2]
If you have inner peace,
nobody can force you to be
a slave to the outer reality.
As long as your heart remains
An ever-mounting aspiration-flame,
It makes no difference
What your weaknesses are.
– Sri Chinmoy [4]
I did not come into the world
To prove anything.
I came into the world
To love everyone
And everything.
I love the present moment,
Now.
More than I love
Anything.
May each moment
Of my life
Be the sweetness-fragrance
Of my heart-rose
– Sri Chinmoy
In the outer life
Simplicity is beautiful.
In the inner life
Simplicity is invincible.
The sun shines for everybody.
Some people take advantage
Of it and some people do not.
– Sri Chinmoy [11]
Try not to change the world.
You will fail.
Try to love the world.
Lo, the world is changed.
Changed forever.
Unhorizoned is our inner peace;
Like the boundless sky,
It encompasses all.
– Sri Chinmoy [13]
Your heart must become
A sea of love.
Your mind must become
A river of detachment.
Sri Chinmoy [14]
There is only one way
To be successful in life:
Always look
On the bright, brighter, brightest
Side of life.
Do not allow any thought
To disturb your inner poise.
I must silence my mind
At every moment
To feel the blessingful Presence
Of my Lord Beloved Supreme.
Footnotes
[1] Sri Chinmoy, 1970, Meditations: Food For The Soul, Agni Press
[2] Sri Chinmoy, When God-Love Descends, Agni Press, 1975.
[3] Sri Chinmoy, Peace, Agni Press, 1995.
[4] Sri Chinmoy, Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, Part 17, Agni Press, 1981.
[5] Sri Chinmoy, My Christmas-New Year-Vacation Aspiration-Prayers, Part 33, Agni Press, 2005.
[6] Sri Chinmoy, I Meditate So That, Agni Press, 1982.
[10]Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, Part 133, Agni Press, 1990.
[12] Sri Chinmoy, Meditations: Food For The Soul, Agni Press, 1970.
[13] Sri Chinmoy, Yoga And The Spiritual Life. The Journey of India’s Soul., Agni Press, 1971.
[14] Sri Chinmoy, Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, Part 78, Agni Press, 1983.
[15] Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, Part 39, Agni Press, 2004.
[16] Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, Part 33, Agni Press, 2003.
[17] Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, Part 39, Agni Press, 2004.