Ego is illusion, delusion,
Self-aggrandisement
And many things more.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 37, Agni Press, 2004
Author: tejvan
15 March
Sterling service to God
Should be the dream and reality
Of a genuine God-seeker.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 37, Agni Press, 2004
14 March
Very long ago
God had a Dream.
The Dream is not yet fulfilled.
What is that Dream?
Humanity’s radical transformation.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 37, Agni Press, 2004
13 March
Whenever we are kind and compassionate
To a human being,
It must never be mere lip-service.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 37, Agni Press, 2004
12 March
Nothing can be more beautiful,
Nothing can be more meaningful,
Nothing can be more fruitful
Than God’s Forgiveness.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 37, Agni Press, 2004
11 March
First achieve mastery
Over your own life —
Then only can you be
A world-transforming hero.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 37, Agni Press, 2004
10 March
Self-control
Is of paramount importance
To see the Face
And feel the Heart
Of God.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 37, Agni Press, 2004
9 March
If I do not love myself
In a divine way,
Then my spiritual life
Will be a total failure.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 37, Agni Press, 2004
8 March
Finally
I have cast aside
My ego-pride.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 37, Agni Press, 2004
7 March
Forgiveness and happiness
Shall forever remain
Inseparable.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 37, Agni Press, 2004
5 January
God gave me the happiest news that He loves me even if I don’t care to love Him. I gave God the greatest news that I think of Him although ignorance constantly thinks of me.
Sri Chinmoy, Meditations: food for the soul, Aum Centre, New York, 1970
7 Dec
Do not neglect your body.
Lethargy can give birth
To ten million hostile forces.
15 June
“You can obtain purity by constantly feeling that you are a three-year-old child, or you can feel that you are a flower, a beautiful flower with fragrance, and nothing else. In this way you can obtain purity.”
Sri Chinmoy, Sri Chinmoy speaks, part 8, Agni Press, 1976
14 June
I take each failure as an opportunity
To increase my surrender
And destroy my frustration-life.
I take each success as an opportunity
To bring forward my gratitude-heart
And totally destroy my ego-life.
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 12, Agni Press, 1983
13 June
God’s Compassion
Has a way of
Working things out.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 32, Agni Press, 2003
28 February
Just be yourself.
Lo, God is running
Towards you.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 23, Agni Press, 2002
30 March
Purity awakens the real in me:
Oneness.
Humility strengthens the real in me:
Perfection.
Gratitude enlightens the real in me:
Satisfaction.
Sri Chinmoy, Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 10, Agni Press, 1981
12 June
My Lord,
Do teach me the message
Of universal love.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 34, Agni Press, 2003
11 June
Each peace-step of a human being
Is undoubtedly a progress-march
Towards God’s Satisfaction-Smile.
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 151, Agni Press, 1991
10 June
We can fulfil our destiny
Only by serving
And loving humanity.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 12, Agni Press, 1999
9 June
The power of humility
Has the capacity to simplify
The mind’s complicated ego-life.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 2, Agni Press, 1998
7 June
God can heal any suffering.
God can present Himself
In any uninspiring situation.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 25, Agni Press, 2002
6 June
Self-giving
Is
Its own reward.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 25, Agni Press, 2002
5 June
“The tree of life teaches us how to search desperately for true love, divine love and immortal love.”
Sri Chinmoy, Tree of life, Jharna-Kala Card Co., 1997
4 June
“If failure has the strength to turn your life into bitterness itself, then patience has the strength to turn your life into the sweetest joy. Do not surrender to fate after a single failure. Failure, at most, precedes success.”
Sri Chinmoy, Songs of the Soul, Agni Press, 1971
3 June
Our God-faith
Solves
All our life-problems.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 22, Agni Press, 2001
2 June
We must climb
Our life’s perfection-stairway
Slowly, steadily and unerringly.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 22, Agni Press, 2001
1 June
Holiness
Is good.
Selflessness
Is infinitely better.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 22, Agni Press, 2001
30 May
Self-offering
Is an unparalleled opportunity
To claim all as one’s very own.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 22, Agni Press, 2001
29 May
We are searching everywhere
For peace,
Which is already
Deep within us.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 22