Patience
Secretly and sacredly
Moves forward.
– Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 26, Agni Press, 2002
Daily Poem
21 November
Joy, inner and outer, is a supreme necessity. Pleasure, outer and inner, is certainly a dangerous luxury.
Sri Chinmoy, Meditations: food for the soul, Aum Centre, New York, 1970
19 November
Although it is extremely difficult
To tame the wild mind,
We must succeed.
– Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 26, Agni Press, 2002
17 November
Pray with fear. God sheds bitter tears. Pray with love. God smiles with the Beauty of the Golden Dawn. Pray with all that you have. God wings towards you to clasp you. Pray with all that you are. God becomes your Liberation.
Sri Chinmoy, Meditations: food for the soul, Aum Centre, New York, 1970
16 November
I tell the truth. The world is hurt. I tell a lie. God is hurt. What am I to do? Silence. I must live in silence and become the smiling breath of silence. Lo, the world loves me, and God blesses me.
Sri Chinmoy, Meditations: food for the soul, Aum Centre, New York, 1970
15 November
Where joy is wanting, love is wanting. Where love is wanting, everything is wanting. Where Truth is, Fulfilment is there. Where Fulfilment is, God is there, there alone.
Sri Chinmoy, Meditations: food for the soul, Aum Centre, New York, 1970
14 November
“I do not compete with the world. I compete with my ignorance. I do not compare myself with the world. I compare myself with my soul’s perfection. I do not cooperate with the world’s stupidity. I cooperate with my heart’s purest sincerity.”
Sri Chinmoy, Meditations: food for the soul, Aum Centre, New York, 1970
13 November
As you spend your money-power
Carefully,
Even so, spend your thought-power
Cautiously.
Each thought embraces
An atom bomb.
Sri Chinmoy, Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 9, Agni Press, 1981
12 November
May my peace-hunger
Every day, every hour,
Every minute, every second
Increase in measureless measure.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 9, Agni Press, 1998
11 November
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
10 November
God’s Compassion-Eye
Is all-where.
Only our awareness
Is missing.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 9, Agni Press, 1998
9 November
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
8 November
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
7 November
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
6 November
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
5 November
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
4 November
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
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
23 Feb
“Your mind may not know
What will make you happy,
But your heart does know
How to make you happy.
Listen to your heart.”
9 Feb
“I have two
Most significant friends:
My soul
And my soul’s unfinished task.”
7 Feb
“Beauty divine sings
Only for the illumining soul
And the self-giving heart.”
25 November
You have lost nothing in losing your outer capacities and achievements. Simplicity lost, something is lost. Sincerity lost, much is lost. Purity lost, more is lost. Humility lost, your entire inner world is lost.
Sri Chinmoy, Meditations: food for the soul, Aum Centre, New York, 1970
18 November
A spiritual life means:
It is now
Or never.
– Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 26, Agni Press, 2002
3 November
Intelligence does not know
When and how it becomes
Belligerence at times.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 9, Agni Press, 1998
2 November
Today’s impossible achievements
Tomorrow may appear
As inevitability.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 9, Agni Press, 1998
1 November
O my mind,
You yourself are empty of peace.
How do you dare to bring about
World-peace?
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 9, Agni Press, 1998
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