Where Do I Live?
A talk by Sri Chinmoy
at the University of California, Irvine, California
Where do I live? I live in my heart. I live in my heart-muscle. I live in my heart-cave. I live in my heart-room. I live in my heart-home. I live in my heart-palace. I live in my heart-universe.
When I live inside my heart-muscle, I go back to the stone age; I embody my stone-consciousness.
When I live inside my heart-cave, I sing only one song day in and day out. I sing the song of I-ness: I, my, mine.
When I live inside my heart-room, at times I open my windows and see the world around me, but I am afraid of welcoming the world. I am afraid that whomever I allow to come in may be an intruder; therefore, I do not allow anybody to enter into my heart-room.
When I live inside my heart-home, I allow the members of my immediate family and my friends to come inside. Together we play. together we mix, together we throw ourselves into multifarious activities. But my heart-home is only for in near and dear ones.
When I live inside my heart-palace, I welcome only big celebrities, famous people, great personalities. I invite them to come into my heart-palace to receive some inspiration-light to offer to their many admirers and followers.
Finally, when I live inside my heart-universe, I feel the Presence of my Beloved Supreme constantly. Out of His boundless Bounty He appears before me and I see His Face. Him I see with my human eyes. Him I feel with my human heart. I ask my Lord Supreme to grant me His constant Blessings. He says that He has already granted me His Blessings infinite. He tells me to give Him what I have and what I am devotedly, soulfully, unreservedly an unconditionally. I give Him what I have and what I am: ignorance. He, out of His infinite Compassion, gives me what He has and what He is: Delight in infinite measure.
Published in The Vision-Sky of California
Dear Brother, Sweet Sister
A message by Sri Chinmoy after a morning sports practice and meditation at Jamaica High School track in Jamaica, New York
January, my dear brother January,
Please give me an inspiration-flower.February, my sweet sister February,
Please give me an aspiration-flame.March, my dear brother March,
Please give me a determination-bull.April, my sweet sister April,
Please give me a luminosity-mind.May, my sweet sister May,
Please give me a purity-heart.June, my dear brother June,
Please give me an ever-new
Concentration-arrow.July, my sweet sister July,
Please give me a deer-speed.August, my dear brother August,
Please give me a meditation-mountain.September, my sweet sister September,
Please give me a surrender-lamb.October, my sweet sister October,
Please give me a sacrifice-horse.November, my sweet sister November,
Please give me the realisation-sun.December, my dear brother December,
Please give me my Lion-Lord's
Satisfaction-roar.
Published in Aurora-Flora
Ambition
A message by Sri Chinmoy after a morning sports practice and meditation at Jamaica High School track in Jamaica, New York
Ambition, my precious ambition, it is you who untiringly help me to transcend my capacities.
It is you who help me to transform my inordinate pride into sacred humility.
The seeker-heart in me, with your help, can sing the song of universal oneness.
Nobody else but you alone can make three most rare, sleepless efforts. By virtue of your sleepless efforts, you pull God the Compassion down, you push man the aspiration up and every day you inspire and energise my seeker-heart.
Ambition, my precious ambition, your victory-palace is my Lord's and my meeting place.
Published in Aurora-Flora
Comments
in the evening by Sri Chinmoy about his morning message on Ambition
Ambition is not a good thing according to many. Especially when one enters into the spiritual life, one gives up one’s ambition; one does not try to shine in one’s particular field. But I wish to say that this is only the human ambition, the ambition that wants to surpass others by hook or by crook. One must give up ambition in the desire-world. But ambition in the aspiration-world is totally different. Divine ambition is to become good, and not great, for goodness always embodies greatness, but greatness need not embody goodness.
Our spiritual ambition is to transcend ourselves, to conquer our own limitations, to become perfect instruments of our Lord Supreme. When we have ambition of this type, we are perfectly safe. And when we cry for this kind of ambition, we are doing the right thing. Human ambition is in the desire world — to defeat others, to be always on the highest pinnacle of success. But the divine ambition is to feel a universal oneness constantly. And in order to feel this universal oneness, we have to transcend our own limitations. Our incapacities must be transformed into capacities. So what we are crying for is divine ambition — the sincere necessity to be the best possible instruments of our Lord Supreme — to transcend our limitations so that we can eventually feel and grow into universal oneness.
Published in AUM – Vol. 6, No. 10, October 1980
My Connection with the Lord Buddha
comments by Sri Chinmoy
at Aspiration-Ground un Jamaica, New York
My Connection with the Lord Buddha is stronger than the strongest. It is all oneness, oneness. The Lord Buddha and I are on very, very good terms.
Only last year, when we were in Borobudur, the Lord Buddha came out from his highest stupa and started playing on the drum for my victory. He said, “You are the only one who appreciates other spiritual figures so openly, so sincerely.” The Lord Buddha was playing my victory-drum.
My connection with the Lord Buddha in the inner world is inseparable.
Published in My Golden Children