“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,
“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
God tells me that
My happy heart
Increases the beauty
Of His universal Heart.
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
“Those who want to explore the heart
Will have no time
To indulge in the thought-world.”
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 2, Agni Press, 1998
When we extend our arms
To humanity,
God immediately strengthens
Our hearts.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 32, Agni Press, 2003
We must totally forget
Our self-importance
Way of life.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 12, Agni Press, 1999
When hostile forces attack you,
Have nothing to do with them.
Create a world of indifference
Within and around you.
Their own pride will compel them
To leave you.
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 12, Agni Press, 1983
“In the spiritual life, compassion is nothing other than oneness itself. Compassion does not mean a sense of pity. Compassion is the expansion of what one eternally is.”
Sri Chinmoy, Inspiration-garden and aspiration-leaves, Agni Press, 1977
Self-awareness and self-giving
Are two supreme gifts.
These two gifts
Are always their own God-winning rewards.
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 12, Agni Press, 1983
If you do not turn from your ignorance-life,
Then who will do it for you?
If you do not want to enjoy
Nectar-delight in boundless measure,
Then who will do it for you?
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 12, Agni Press, 1983
Your oneness-heart
Does not have to say anything,
For it at once embodies
Both earth’s ascending aspiration-hope
And Heaven’s descending
Compassion-promise.
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 12, Agni Press, 1983
Love the divine in yourself
Infinitely more
Than you have been doing,
So you will not have to imitate
The human in others.
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 12, Agni Press, 1983
God does not want to know from you
What you want.
He just wants to know from you
What you want to become
And what kind of help
You need from Him.
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 12, Agni Press, 1983
“Why do we want to transcend? We want to transcend because the life of ignorance, bondage, imperfection and death cannot satisfy us. We want to achieve something. We want to grow into something which is eternal; we want to grow into the very image of Immortality.”
Sri Chinmoy, The oneness of the Eastern heart and the Western mind, part 2, Agni Press, 2004
When you walk
With your fellow travellers
Along Eternity’s Road,
Like a magnet
You should try to draw
Inspiration and aspiration from them.
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 18, Agni Press, 1983
Cry and cry sleeplessly
If you want to change the world.
Love and love constantly
If you want to change yourself.
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 18, Agni Press, 1983
Just think of
Your life’s transformation.
God will then definitely love you
Infinitely more.
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 18, Agni Press, 1983
Keep swinging on
Your heart’s gratitude-gate.
God will before long
Transform your earth-bound fate
Into a Heaven-free smile.
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 18, Agni Press, 1983
Through his selfless service-offering
He at once
Smashed his outer pride
And expedited his inner illumination.
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 18, Agni Press, 1983
Do not cry.
I love you.
Do not cry.
The world needs you.
Do not cry.
God is still dreaming
Inside you and for you.
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 18, Agni Press, 1983
Your humility
Can and shall minimise
Many of your problems.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 13, Agni Press, 1999