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
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
We came into the world
To fight for Mother Earth
Against her countless enemies.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 9, Agni Press, 1998
If you want God to dine with you,
Never, never,
Even for a fleeting second,
Whine.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 9, Agni Press, 1998
Kindness and concern
Always find the shortest way
At the fastest speed
To God.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 9, Agni Press, 1998
God asks me to shut up
When I criticise ruthlessly
His beloved creation.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 9, Agni Press, 1998
My heart can never understand
Why my mind, vital and body
Are so attached
To the fleeting finite.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 9, Agni Press, 1998
A true meditation
Teaches us how to live
Without any expectation.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 9, Agni Press, 1998
Unless a seeker listens to
His heart-whispers,
He will make no spiritual progress.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 9, Agni Press, 1998
Mine is the wisdom-light
That tells me to ask
Not for a lighter burden,
But for a stronger heart.
Sri Chinmoy, Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 9, Agni Press, 1981
Without the Grace-Power,
Everything is out of reach.
With the Grace-Power,
Everything is within easy reach.
Sri Chinmoy, Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 9, Agni Press, 1981
A heart flooded with poise
Can alone take me
Beyond the horizons
Of my sleepless sorrow.
Sri Chinmoy, Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 9, Agni Press, 1981
The human life is nothing
But
A prison of misunderstandings.
How can we escape?
We can escape
Through the self-giving windows.
Sri Chinmoy, Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 9, Agni Press, 1981
There is a way
That has no negativities.
And that way is
Purity’s selfless way.
Sri Chinmoy, Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 9, Agni Press, 1981
Happiness is my name,
For the desire to appear right
Has been replaced
By the desire to be right.
Sri Chinmoy, Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 9, Agni Press, 1981
God’s Forgiveness finds me
No matter where I am.
God’s Compassion takes me
Where I ought to go.
Sri Chinmoy, Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 9, Agni Press, 1981
A soulful heart
Has discovered a supreme truth:
To meditate on God
Is a privilege
And not a duty.
Sri Chinmoy, Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 9, Agni Press, 1981
Nothing else is perfect
And
Nothing else can ever be perfect
Except the soulful cry
Of our fruitful gratitude-heart.
Sri Chinmoy, Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 9, Agni Press, 1981
I am saved at last,
For truth has unquestionably
Charmed me,
My entire being.
Sri Chinmoy, Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 9, Agni Press, 1981
The day I saved my oneness-light
From meanness-night,
I needed no more safety
From any human being.
Sri Chinmoy, Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 9, Agni Press, 1981
Accept the truth
Soulfully.
The higher worlds
Will inundate you
Immediately.
Sri Chinmoy, Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 9, Agni Press, 1981
Lose, lose the map
Of your mind.
The road of your heart
Will immediately appear
Before your vision-eye.
Sri Chinmoy, Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 9, Agni Press, 1981
There was a time
When I loved you,
O my thought-world.
But now I love
The beauty of a silence-mind
And
The purity of a gratitude-heart.
Sri Chinmoy, Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 9, Agni Press, 1981
One positive seed-thought
Has saved me,
My entire life:
My Lord Supreme
Will always love me
No matter what I do
Or what I say
Or even what I become.
Sri Chinmoy, Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 9, Agni Press, 1981
While walking along
The avenue of my aspiration-heart,
What do I do?
I harvest my heart’s sunlight.
How?
Slowly, steadily and selflessly.
Sri Chinmoy, Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 9, Agni Press, 1981
My physical death
Is not the end of my life —
I am an eternal journey.
Sri Chinmoy, My Christmas-New Year-Vacation Aspiration-Prayers, part 52, Agni Press, 2007
No matter who houses a bad thought —
A desire-man or an aspiration-man —
A bad thought is a dire challenge
To humanity’s progress-life.
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 24, Agni Press, 1984
Self-transcendence
Is the inner wealth
That pleases the Inner Pilot
More than anything else.
Sri Chinmoy, My Christmas-New Year-Vacation Aspiration-Prayers, part 52, Agni Press, 2007