Hope abides; therefore I abide.
Countless frustrations have not cowed me.
I am still alive, vibrant with life.
The black cloud will disappear,
The morning sun will appear once again
In all its supernal glory.
Sri Chinmoy, Supreme, teach me how to surrender, 1975
Happy New Year,
Happy New Year!
Go forward,
Fly upward,
Dive inward!
No fear, no fear!
Sri Chinmoy
God has infinitely more hope
For our lives
Than we have.
“How can I be a better human being if I do not think of the Source? Who makes me good? Who makes me better? Who makes me best? Somebody who is infinitely better than I am, and that is God.”
Sri Chinmoy, Realisation-Soul and Manifestation-Goal, Agni Press, 1974
Do not be proud.
Do not be ashamed.
Go forward with humility
And courage.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 27, Agni Press, 2002
Life needs courage,
Courage invincible.
Heart needs oneness,
Oneness universal.
Sri Chinmoy, My Christmas-New Year-Vacation Aspiration-Prayers, part 23, Agni Press, 2004
Your mind knows only
How to compile complaints.
Your heart knows only
How to sing oneness-song.
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 101, Agni Press, 1985
Do not neglect your body.
Lethargy can give birth
To ten million hostile forces.
Finally my God-love has arisen
Inside my heart,
And all my earthly sorrows
Are flying away.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 2, Agni Press, 1998
“When you have to defend yourself or protect yourself, try to use a higher weapon. If people say something and you retaliate on the same level, there will be no end to it.”
Sri Chinmoy, Flame-Waves, part 1, Agni Press, 1975
Your mind knows only
How to compile complaints.
Your heart knows only
How to sing oneness-song.
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 101, Agni Press, 1985
“If I had to summarise my earthly activities in one single word, then I would say that that birthless and deathless word is love. Love is oneness, oneness is perfection and perfection is fulfilment.”
Sri Chinmoy, Sacred Rock welcomes Sri Chinmoy, Agni Press, 1994
In your outer life
If you long for peace,
Then in your inner life
You must become energy-action.
Sri Chinmoy, Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 10, Agni Press, 1981
We must all try
To accumulate
God-serving capacities.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 12, Agni Press, 1999
The smallest act
Of self-offering
Can give us
An ocean-vast joy.
Fight! Fight again and again
To break down your mind’s
Unwillingness-wall!
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 227, Agni Press, 1996
Life is given to each human being
For a very special purpose.
This secret each human being
Must discover for himself.
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 227, Agni Press, 1996
How can your heart find peace,
When you allow your mind
To roam everywhere?
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 227, Agni Press, 1996
I am amazed to see
How my soul keeps God up-to-date
On everything in my life.
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 227, Agni Press, 1996
We must embrace
The beauty, light and joy
Of every moment.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 39, Agni Press, 2004
This moment I try to envelop
The human in me.
The next moment I try to develop
The divine in me.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 22, Agni Press, 2001
Knowledge
Is a very, very tiny
Mind-drop.
Wisdom
Is a mighty ocean.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 49, Agni Press, 2008
God does not want me to be
Curious all the time.
God does not want me to be
Serious all the time.
But God does want me to be
Spontaneous all the time.
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 204, Agni Press, 1994
Why do you pay attention
To the past?
The past is a dead elephant.
Why do you have to carry
Such a huge, dead elephant?
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 47, Agni Press, 2007
Death has no access
To the soul.
It only has access
To our weak and fragile body.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 15, Agni Press, 1999
I strongly feel that
The outer achievements
Are no match for
The inner achievements.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 41, Agni Press, 2004
Each sincere prayer
Embodies
A special Breath of God.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 43, Agni Press, 2005
When we are
Our eagerness-heart,
Nothing remains
Permanently impossible.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 10, Agni Press, 1998
For everything
There is an ideal time,
And that ideal time is now,
At this very moment.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 41, Agni Press, 2004
Ego soars and soars,
Only to be smashed
On reality’s
Solid stone floors.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 47, Agni Press, 2007
