Do you want to be happy?
Then do not overestimate
The power of your mind,
And do not underestimate
The light of your heart.
Sri Chinmoy, Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 37, Agni Press, 1982
Daily Poem
8 July
Self-investigation
Is a necessary light.
Self-criticism
Is an unnecessary burden.
Sri Chinmoy, Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 37, Agni Press, 1982
7 July
We do not know
Why we spend our time
Mercilessly speaking ill of others
Rather than divinely examining our own lives.
Sri Chinmoy, Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 37, Agni Press, 1982
6 July
Try to belong to your heart.
Perfection-flood will be all yours.
Try to belong to your soul.
Satisfaction-ocean will be all yours.
Sri Chinmoy, Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 37, Agni Press, 1982
4 July
As long as you live on earth,
In order to be happy and peaceful,
Just feel that the world belongs to God
And not to you.
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 69, Agni Press, 1984
3 July
Unreservedly strengthen the part of you
That wants God’s Love
Above everything else,
And soulfully see
The happy result.
Sri Chinmoy, Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 10, Agni Press, 1981
2 July
“Peace is something that we become. Once we become peace, then only can we give peace to the world and receive peace from the world.”
Sri Chinmoy, The oneness of the Eastern Heart and the Western mind, part 3
1 July
“Peace is something spontaneous; it is something that unites us. Peace is something that we have to spread. But unless and until we have peace deep within us, we can never hope to have peace in the outer world.”
Sri Chinmoy, Transformation-Night Illumination-Dawn
30 June
“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,
29 June
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
28 June
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
27 June
“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
26 June
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
25 June
“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
24 June
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
23 June
“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
22 June
Lose your ego
Completely.
God will embrace you
Immediately.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 8, Agni Press, 1998
21 June
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
20 June
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
18 June
“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
17 June
When we extend our arms
To humanity,
God immediately strengthens
Our hearts.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 32, Agni Press, 2003
16 June
We must totally forget
Our self-importance
Way of life.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 12, Agni Press, 1999
15 June
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
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
12 June
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
11 June
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
10 June
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
9 June
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
7 June
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
6 June
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