Daily Poem

Humility, indeed,
Is infinitely greater
Than man-considered greatness.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 37, Agni Press, 2004

We must bring down Heaven
And feel its divine Beauty
And supreme Fragrance
Here on earth.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 37, Agni Press, 2004

Gratitude
Is an unimaginable joy
For both humanity
And Divinity.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 37, Agni Press, 2004

Ego is illusion, delusion,
Self-aggrandisement
And many things more.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 37, Agni Press, 2004

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Finally
I have cast aside
My ego-pride.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 37, Agni Press, 2004

Forgiveness and happiness
Shall forever remain
Inseparable.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 37, Agni Press, 2004

“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

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

God’s Compassion
Has a way of
Working things out.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 32, Agni Press, 2003

My Lord,
Do teach me the message
Of universal love.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 34, Agni Press, 2003

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

We can fulfil our destiny
Only by serving
And loving humanity.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 12, Agni Press, 1999

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

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

Self-giving
Is
Its own reward.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 25, Agni Press, 2002

“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