God’s Power of Love in Today’s World
This talk by Sri Chinmoy
at the Dag Hammarskjold Auditorium
United Nations Secretariat, New York
Aum, Aum, Aum.
God's Power of Love has three gifts to offer: aspiration, liberation and perfection.
Man's power of love has three gifts to offer: possession, frustration and destruction.
God's Power of Love in today's world can be felt only by the special few who have discovered the inner truth that love is the beauty of our aspiring life and the duty of our manifesting soul.
Aum.
The body of today's world is a filthy pig.
The vital of today's world is a mad elephant.
The mind of today's world is a devouring tiger.
The heart of today's world is a timid deer.
The soul of today's world is a helpless lamb.In supreme silence, God's Power of Love is performing its eternal divine duty. Slowly, steadily and unerringly, it is transforming the body — the filthy pig — into the clean and pure child, the vital — the mad elephant — into a one-pointed dynamic runner, the mind — the devouring tiger — into a seeker of the highest Truth, the heart — the timid deer — into a brother of boundless confidence and concern, the soul — the helpless lamb — into a chosen instrument of divinity's eternity.
Aum.
Marguerite Blessington said, "Love in France is a comedy; in England a tragedy; in Italy an opera seria; and in Germany a melodrama."
Now I wish to add to that, "Love in America is at once a frightening and enchanting experience of a green life's red adventure."
The master-philosopher Plato remarked, "Love — a great mental disease." When our physical consciousness lives in the doubting, suspecting and unaspiring mind, this great utterance of Plato is to some extent undeniable. But if our awakened consciousness lives in the illumining soul, love is nectar, the very breath of immortality.
Napoleon Bonaparte has given us an amusing and interesting piece of advice: "The only victory over love is flight." Now, when our human emotions run riot, the necessity of flying away is perhaps indispensable. But when our divine emotion, the all-loving emotion, reigns supreme, we have to know that we do not need victory over love, but victory of love. This victory of love is self-expansion in God-Manifestation.
India's matchless leader, Mahatma Gandhi, has a special message. His inner message runs: "Love is the reverse of the coin of which the obverse is Truth."
In the life of aspiration we come to realise that love is truth embodied and that truth is love revealed.
Man's obtrusive ignorance of divine love results in a most damaging failure in the battlefield of life.
Man's power of love is constantly wanting in perspicuity and lucidity.
Man's love of power knows not how to procrastinate. Fast, faster and fastest it runs and finally when it reaches the goal, it is compelled to shake hands with bitter frustration.
Earthly experience, frustrated and shattered, convinces a lover that there is no such thing as love. It is all chicanery. Heavenly experience, illumined and fulfilled, reveals to a God-Lover the truth that love alone is here on earth, there in heaven.
Here at this august hall, the Dag Hammarskjold Hall, we are trying to throw light on love in today's world. My heart tells me that the love that the United Nations has is not a guarded and limited concern, but a soulful dedication to the Supreme Cause.
An unaspiring man loves God in a perfunctory manner. An aspiring man loves God in a soulful and ebullient manner. A God-Realised man loves God in an unconditionally surrendered manner. It is through him that God, the inner Pilot Supreme, reveals His Power of Love in today's world.
Published in AUM – Vol. 7, No. 5, 27 Dec. 1971
The Role of Humility in the Spiritual Life
A short talk by Sri Chinmoy
in the Chapel of the Church Centre for the United Nations, at the United Nations in New York
In our spiritual life, in our life of aspiration and in our life of dedication, humility is the root, divinity is the tree and Immortality is the fruit. Only when I am soulfully humble does God allow me to make a perfect estimate of His Universal Reality, His Transcendental Reality and my own life.
The perfect man is he whose inner being is flooded with humility. And it is he who eventually becomes God's Transcendental Choice and God's Universal Voice.
Humility and self-conceit are two real strangers to each other. Humility and God-awareness are two eternal friends. Humility and divinity's reality-expansion are eternally inseparable, inseparably one.
When I am humble to my inferiors, they adore me. When I am humble to my equals, they love me. When I am humble to my superiors, they appreciate me. When I am humble to God, He claims me as His best instrument on earth. To climb up God's Vision-tree I need only one thing: humility's beauty. To climb down God's Reality-tree I need only one thing: humility's magnanimity.
There are many roads that lead to God. There is one road which is undoubtedly by far the shortest and, at the same time, most illumining and that road is the humility-road.
Published in Reality-Dream
Independence
A talk by Sri Chinmoy
in Jamaica, New York
Independence, independence, independence!
The human in me thinks that it is dependent on the persons it agrees with. It thinks that it loses its independence as soon as it sees eye to eye with others.
The divine in me thinks otherwise. It thinks that when it agrees with others, it enlarges its vision and establishes firmly its oneness with the rest of the world.
The human in me feels that it loses its independence the moment it takes something from others or even expects something from others.
The divine in me feels otherwise. The divine in me feels that God's creation is for give and take. Give what you have and take what you need, for there is only one common Source, and that Source is God. This moment God is playing the role of the Giver through me, and the next moment He is playing the role of the Receiver through me. It is all oneness-game.
The human in me thinks that it loses its independence as soon as it starts thinking of others, whether they are good or bad. It feels the supreme necessity of thinking only of itself and not of anybody or anything else, because it feels that nothing belongs to it.
The divine in me feels otherwise. The divine in me thinks, feels and knows that the moment it thinks of God, it creates a thought-world that is the precursor of an action-world. Once we have established a reality in the thought-world, then the next step is to bring that reality into the action-world for manifestation. In our action-life only can we have true satisfaction.
The divine in me knows that there is and there can be no such thing as independence. It is all dependence, and inside dependence what looms large is the message of constant oneness. God gives us what He has — His Compassion. We give God what we have — our love. God gives us what He is — His Goodness. We give God what we truly are — our aspiration to become greater.
We depend on God for His Compassion. God depends on us for His Manifestation. This kind of dependence is actually mutual oneness playing different roles at different times, for constant satisfaction and constant perfection, for constant perfection and constant satisfaction.
Published in Aurora-Flora
Here and Now
Prayers by Sri Chinmoy
at the Peace Concert in Old Pine Street Church, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
HERE and NOW
I have just cancelled
My desire-land-journey.
HERE and NOW
I must conquer my mind's
Frustration-exasperations.
HERE and NOW
I have made a solemn promise:
I shall never, never enter
Into my mind's
God-disobedience-country.
HERE and NOW
I must love and serve
God the Supreme Guest
Devotedly, soulfully, self-givingly
And sleeplessly.
HERE and NOW
I have come to realise
That from God's Compassion-Eye
Every human being has
His own infallible origin.
HERE and NOW
I unmistakably feel
That God's Desire-Heart
To please mankind
Is infinitely stronger
Than mankind's desire-heart
To please God.
HERE and NOW
My God-worshipping heart-tears
Must reach God's Golden Shore
Of the ever-transcending Beyond.
HERE and NOW
I must offer
All my heart's aspiration-tears
And
All my life's gratitude-smiles
To my Absolute Lord Supreme.
HERE and NOW
I must keep
A soulful and prayerful eye
On all God's
World-transformation-actions.
HERE and NOW
With my God-devotion-tears
I must row my life-boat
To God's Nectar-Heart-Harbour.
Published in Here and Now