“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
“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
Do not think
Of your own incapacity-tears.
Think only
Of real satisfaction-cheers.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 13, Agni Press, 1999
The sorrows of the outer life
Cannot touch
The unshakeable poise
Of the inner life.
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 179, Agni Press, 1993
I am looking for a new road
That will lead me
To God’s infinite Compassion-Light.
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 179, Agni Press, 1993
Who says
That all paths are difficult?
Try sincerely
The path of the heart.
To your wide surprise
You will see
That the heart’s road
Is extremely easy.
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 179, Agni Press, 1993
If you hesitate
To give yourself completely,
Then you will not be supplied
With new energy,
New light
And new perfection.
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 179, Agni Press, 1993
The mind’s negativity-capacity
Is no match
For the heart’s God-receptivity.
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 179, Agni Press, 1993
The dividing mind
Does not even want to know
That there is
A oneness-peace-school.
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 179, Agni Press, 1993
If you really care for
Your heart-enlightenment,
Then you must never be late for
Your God-appointments.
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 179, Agni Press, 1993
You have given chance after chance
To so many human beings
To help you improve your life.
Can you not give God
Just one chance?
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 179, Agni Press, 1993
Every day my heart sings
A new peace-song.
Every day my soul dances
A new peace-dance.
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 179, Agni Press, 1993
A gratitude-heart
Always takes very long strides
Towards God’s Compassion-Sea.
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 179, Agni Press, 1993
Each pure thought creates
A new heart-song
And a new life-story.
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 179, Agni Press, 1993
If you can wait
With the patience of the wise,
Then there is nothing
That you will not be able to achieve
In this lifetime.
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 179, Agni Press, 1993
You can thrive
In the face of adversity
If you have ceaseless faith in yourself
And if you are ready to play the role
Of the hero-warrior
At every moment of your life.
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 179, Agni Press, 1993
How I wish I could have
Only one flower
In my heart-garden:
Gratitude and nothing else.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 9
If you cannot love the unlovable,
Then you are not worthy
To become
God’s supremely chosen instrument.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 9
I shall no more allow
World-criticism
To destroy the beauty
Of my flower-heart-home.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 9
The heart that loves
Unites
All and sundry.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 9
I am all gratitude
To earth
For its boundless patience.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 24, Agni Press, 2002
We may not know where we came from,
But we do know that we are heading
Towards Heaven.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 24, Agni Press, 2002
