Fortune-Philosophy
by Sri Chinmoy
Some of Sri Chinmoy’s aphorisms and meditations (in italics) are placed inside fortune cookies, which he hands out to his disciples in the New York Centre. He then asks disciples to read out the meditation in their cookie and then proceeds to elaborate on each one. (A similar meeting is held at the Manhattan Centre on 14 September 1974.)
When I smile,
God is my manifesting experience.
Each second of my earthly existence is God's fulfilling experience in and through me.
My inner experience is God's continuous manifestation of His own perfection in and through me.
On earth my experience is helplessness, utter helplessness. In Heaven my experience is satisfaction, constant satisfaction. In God my experience is perfection, total perfection.
When I smile, God runs toward me and offers me His Immortality's Crown. When I cry, God runs toward me and gives me His Eternity's Dream-boat.
My manifested experience is God's ever-growing perfection, ever-glowing satisfaction and ever-fulfilling transformation. My manifested experience is earth-transformation, Heaven-illumination and life-perfection.
The soul is the
reality that seeks only God.
I am the soul, I am the body.
I am the soul when I claim God as my own.
I am the body when I claim myself as my own.
The soul in me is for God's constant use.
The body in me is for God's constant use.
My very life is for God's constant use.
I have these experiences only when I consciously and constantly claim God as my Eternity's own.
I meditate because I must.
I love because I am God's.
My life is the fruit of my meditation.
I know how to love just because I am God's alone.
My meditation invites God, the supreme Guest.
My love serves and feeds God, the eternal Beloved.
In the morning I meditate to empty myself.
In the afternoon I meditate to fill myself.
In the evening I meditate to offer myself.
My meditation tells me that I can eventually become God.
My love tells me that I am the Eternal God.
When I meditate, I realise my transcendental Self.
When I love, I become Eternity's Beloved Supreme.
A spiritual Master
is he who prays to God
to smile constantly.
To my spiritual Master I shall give gratitude.
For my spiritual Master I shall become gratitude.
My prayer is my heart's capacity.
My meditation is my soul's capacity.
My prayer tells me how great my Supreme is.
My Supreme tells me how indispensable my prayer is.
A spiritual Master is he who knows who God is, who he himself is and who his disciples are.
Who is God? The eternal Dancer.
Who is the spiritual Master? The eternal Fighter.
And who are his spiritual disciples? The eternal Criers.
God will love
you more if you smile.
The more I soulfully smile, the sooner God will triumphantly proclaim me to His creation as His very own.
I smiled. Therefore I was able to bind God.
I cried. Therefore God was able to bind me.
If you smile, God will give you what He has: Eternity's Light.
If you cry, God will give you what He is: Infinity's Delight.
I have in
God my supreme Reality.
My supreme Reality is the life of the Unknowable.
My God tells me who I am and where I am.
Who am I? God's universal Realisation.
Where am I? In His Eternity's Dream-boat.
My supreme Reality I have offered to God, and that supreme Reality of mine is my ever-increasing gratitude to the life of my Eternity's Pilot Supreme.
In man, I am Eternity's imperfection.
In God, I am Infinity's perfect Perfection.
My supreme Reality is God's ever-growing and ever-glowing illumination in and through me.
I have in God what I am looking for: Perfection-sea.
Compassion
is the Voice of God.
Compassion is the descending God.
Compassion I need at every moment of my life to become what I am not: Devotion's light.
The Voice of God is man's only choice to free himself from the sea of ignorance.
Compassion is humanity's perfect choice, Divinity's earth-transforming, God-revealing Voice and God's love-fulfilling, life-manifesting Perfection.
What we call compassion in human life is nothing short of unconscious and treacherous attachment.
What we call compassion in divine life is precious perfection-treasure for humanity's heart.
If you have compassion, then feel that what you have is God's most precious wealth that He has offered you for His use.
Let us smile
to see if God has
two big eyes.
My morning smile binds God.
My afternoon smile claims God.
My evening smile manifests God.
God has two eyes: inner and outer.
With His inner Eye, He forgives us.
With His outer Eye, He liberates and perfects us.
Let us smile because God has already done everything for us.
Let us cry because we still have many things to do for humanity's awakening.
God has two big eyes.
With one of His eyes, He tells me what I was: His Dream-boat.
With His other eye, He tells me what I shall become: His Reality-shore.
Let us smile to see who God is.
Let us cry to know where God is.
Who is God? My Beloved Supreme.
Where is God? In my acceptance-might and surrender-light.
To love God
I need one thing: Purity's Breath.
Purity is God's matchless Necessity in the heart of humanity.
At the end of my journey's close, my human breath and I shall become perfect strangers, and my divine breath and I shall be everlasting comrades.
I need one thing: inner beauty, the beauty that makes me an exact prototype of my higher Self.
Purity is my hidden divinity.
In my heart I need only one thing: confidence.
In my soul I need only one thing: promise.
In my life I need only one thing: surrender.
Our outer smile
is the giver of God as Love.
With our outer smile we touch the Feet of God.
With our inner cry we become the Crown of God.
When I am the giver, God the Purifier claims me.
When I am the receiver, I claim God the Saviour.
Who is the giver? Who is the receiver?
The giver is he who knows what universal oneness is.
The receiver is he who comes to learn what perfect Perfection is.
The giver in me and the receiver in me are inseparable.
The giver gives and becomes what he wants to become.
The receiver receives and becomes what his own imagination fails even to imagine.
My silence
is the highest pride of God.
Silence is God's highest Dream-Reality.
My mounting cry is God's pride.
My glowing smile is God's pride.
Silence I need to become perfect.
Silence I need to become God.
In my sound-life I become.
In my silence-life I am, I eternally am.
God is proud of me, not because I have given Him everything I have and I am, but because I claim Him as my own, my Eternity's own.
Yesterday I was the body of silence: aspiration.
Today I am the soul of silence: realisation.
Tomorrow I shall become the goal of silence: perfection.
My silence is the Bird of Infinity, the Light in the firmament of my Divinity's Immortality.
With the voice of sound, I eventually become.
With the eye of silence, I eternally am.
Law is not love,
but love is law.
Love is my only reality.
Man's law frightens; God's Law enlightens.
A man-made law attempts to perfect our lives.
A God-made law is the outer expression of our inner perfection.
Dive deep within. You will notice that there is no such thing as Divine Law. All that exists is the Divine Compassion crying for humanity's transformation.
Human law and imperfection study in the same school.
Divine Law and perfect Perfection study in the same school.
Humanity's law does not inspire me to become good.
Divinity's Law not only inspires me to become good, but aspires within me to make me become better and best.
Humanity's love makes me feel how insecure I am.
Divinity's Love makes me feel how meaningful, fruitful and indispensable I am.
Human love is the bosom friend of ignorance-law.
Divine Love is the perfect teacher of Divinity-law.
Published in Fortune-Philosophy
Sri Chinmoy reaches the halfway point (poem no. 38,500) of his epic poetry series, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees..
38500
Oh, My Journey's Half!
You and I are
the silver tears
Of a God-crying heart
And
the gold smiles
Of a God-serving life.
Published in Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 39