Two Prayers
by Sri Chinmoy
10:00 a.m.
When I pray to the Supreme, I pray with my sincerity-mind. When I meditate on the Supreme, I meditate with my purity-heart. When I love the Supreme, I love with my intensity's life-breath.
Three things we do: we pray, we meditate, we love. When we pray, meditate and love, everything is done.
The mind is so tricky. With this tricky mind, we can't do anything sincerely. But if we can sincerely pray, then we will get everything.
The heart is covered by weakness, garbage, rubbish. That is why the heart does not remain pure. But if we can meditate with a pure heart, we will get everything. And if we can love the Supreme with our intensity's life-breath, then the Supreme is caught forever.
11:15 a.m.
I pray because I need something from above. I meditate because I have something to offer below. Prayer is getting something which we do not have. Meditation is giving something which we have.
Published in O My Pilot Beloved
Two Questions Answered
by Sri Chinmoy
in Yangon, Myanmar
Question: Did you have any inner experience when you arrived in Myanmar?
Sri Chinmoy: I have been to many, many countries, and the soul of each country has offered me tremendous affection, love, appreciation, admiration and even adoration. But from the soul of Burma I got a new experience. Around 4:30 this morning, the soul came up to me with such affection and began scolding. She said, “Why did you not come to visit me at least fifteen years ago? What was wrong with you?” Such a powerful, emotional scolding she gave me, but it was full of affection! Like an aunt she was talking to me: “How many times you visited India, but not even once did you visit your aunt!” No other country ever has scolded me, but this one has really blessed me with her most affectionate emotional feelings.
Question: Do you feel the Buddha’s consciousness in Burma?
Sri Chinmoy: Lord Buddha was born in Nepal, but when it is a matter of Lord Buddha’s consciousness, I can say that the whole land of Burma is flooded with Lord Buddha’s compassion-tears. Here in Burma I feel the Buddha’s consciousness even when I walk along the street. God alone knows what is happening in the political sphere, but from the religious and spiritual point of view, Burma is the land of Lord Buddha’s heart.
Published in Sri Chinmoy Answers, part 10