April 13
Sri Chinmoy celebrates the ninth anniversary of his arrival in the West, at the Unitarian Church of Weston, Connecticut.
April 13
Sri Chinmoy’s soulful tributes to his mother Yogamaya on her birth centenary year (born: 8 April 1894) are expressed in poetry and stories in his book, To the Streaming Tears of my Mother’s Heart And To the Brimming Smiles of my Mother’s Soul. It is Sri Chinmoy’s 975th published book.
Sri Chinmoy meets with President Gorbachev and Raisa Maximovna Gorbacheva (7th meeting) at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York, New York.
Sri Chinmoy lifts a stone fountain filled with 50 red roses, dedicated to all 50 States of America, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, Queens, New York.
April 13
April 13th 1967 message
3rd anniversary
My spiritual children,
If I have Love, if I have Compassion,
if I have Light,
If I have Power, if I have Peace,
if I have Delight,
Then it is all for you, all for you, all for you.
O my sweet children,
It is with you, for you and in you
that I exist here on earth.— Sri Chinmoy
Published in My Consulate Years
April 13th 1969 message
5th anniversary
We have one choice and one decision.
Our choice is to become one with God’s Life.
Our decision is to be the ever-dedicated breath in the fulfilment of God’s universe.— Sri Chinmoy
O Supreme, to Thee I offer what I am: my life’s soulful gratitude. O children of the Supreme, to you I give what I have: my life of selfless dedication and oneness. My love is my weight. My love is my height. My love is at once my weight and my height. My love for the devoted disciples, on the strength of my oneness with them, is my weight. My love for the Supreme, on the strength of my oneness with Him, is my height.
For the past few years, the disciples have been entering into my life and I have been entering into their lives. I am serving the Supreme in them; they are serving the Supreme in me. Together we are growing. Together we shall eternally grow. Gradually we give and take. I expect from you absolute dedication and you expect from me absolute realisation of the One Absolute.
According to grammar, “best” is the superlative degree. Everybody cannot be best in the ordinary life. Only one person can be best; others can be good, better and so forth. But here we are dealing with Infinity, Eternity and Immortality. Infinity has no bounds. We are all spiritual seekers, seekers of the infinite Truth. So each individual can have the aspiration to become one with the Dearest, the Supreme. Each individual can be a unique instrument of the Supreme on the strength of his absolute dedication and unconditional surrender to the Will of the Supreme. Grammar is written by mortals, by ordinary human beings. But our life is written by the Supreme, who can make each of us a unique instrument of His Will.
Each disciple can be like a petal of a divine lotus, a unique petal of the lotus. The whole lotus will be bloated with divine pride when it sees that each individual petal is helping and serving the whole to grow into the Supreme’s perfect Perfection here on earth.
We know that slow and steady wins the race. The hare lost the race to the turtle. But again, I wish to say that when we live in the Divine, when we live in the Supreme, in the Supreme Consciousness, at that time we do not have to follow this principle. In our case, quick and dynamic can win the race. The Supreme is our Pilot, our Eternal Pilot. According to His Will, at His choice Hour we have started our journey. It is He who is inspiring us to run towards the Golden Shore of the Beyond. It is His race He is running in and through us, so we are bound to reach the destined Goal.
Some of you have the wrong impression that the Supreme is unknowable. But it is not true. Right now He is unknown to all human beings. But, at the same time, those who have realised Him are fully aware of the fact that He can be seen, He can be talked to, He can be felt. When I speak to Him, I see Him more clearly than I see you here with my eyes wide open. So you can say that God is unknown right now, because you have not realised Him. But if you say, “God is forever unknowable,” then you are mistaken. God is our Father. How can our Father remain all the time unknowable? He can at most remain unknown for a short period of time, because now we are wallowing in the pleasures of ignorance. We are in a dark room that is wanting in light. But when our consciousness, our inner being, is flooded with the divine Light, then we are bound to see Him face to face.
So from now on, please change your opinion as regards God. God is unknown for the time being, but He can never be unknowable. He is our Father. He is our dearest, He is our closest. At His choice Hour He will open our third eye, the eye that actually sees the Truth. These two human eyes do not see the ultimate Truth. Only the third eye, which is the eye of our divine oneness with the Highest, with the Supreme, can make us see, feel and become one with the Supreme. The Supreme has inspired us to commence our journey. Our journey’s Goal is destined. We shall never fail because the Supreme is our Pilot, the Supreme is our Way, He is our Guide, He is our eternal Goal.
Published in Sri Chinmoy Speaks, part 10
April 13th 1987 message
23rd anniversary
A long twenty-three years ago my Beloved Supreme Absolute brought me to America to be of most soulful service to Him in the West. He blessed me with His infinite Hope, infinite Inspiration and infinite Aspiration to serve Him in the West.
You are my sweet children. You are my service-plants. You will one day become huge banyan trees. I am not only helping you; I will make you realise the Absolute Supreme and I will manifest Him in and through you at His choice Hour.
You are my choice children. With you and in you I see the perfection of humanity's heart and life. Love the Supreme in me infinitely more. Be devoted to the Supreme in me infinitely more. Lo, yours will be the sleepless joy and breathless satisfaction. Yours will be the complete perfection that humanity has been longing for centuries and centuries.
Published in Twenty-Five Aspiration-Flames
God-devotion, God-realisation
39th anniversary
A talk by Sri Chinmoy
at West Colden Auditorium, Queens College, Flushing, New York
We shall chant “Supreme” thirty-nine times. Each time we chant “Supreme,” we must feel gratitude inside our hearts, and this gratitude we are offering to our Absolute Lord Beloved Supreme.
My Guru is my Lord Beloved Supreme. Your Guru is the same Guru, the Lord Beloved Supreme. Everybody’s Guru is the Lord Beloved Supreme. The Guru of the entire Universe is the Lord Beloved Supreme. From our soulful and prayerful songs, we come to learn how to increase our devotion to our Absolute Lord Beloved Supreme.
No God-devotion, no God-realisation. No God-devotion, no God-realisation. No God-devotion, no God-realisation.
Published in Our Sweetest Oneness
April 12
AUSTRALIA BECOMES FIRST PEACE CONTINENT
Citing “the importance of leaving a valuable legacy for all future generations,” the Government Whip of Australia, Kay Elson, proclaimed Australia the world’s first “Sri Chinmoy Peace-Continent” on April 12.
The Government Whip speaks on behalf of the Australian government.
FIVE COUNTRIES JOIN PEACE-BLOSSOM FAMILY IN TWO-DAY PERIOD
On April 12 and 13 five countries officially became “Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossoms.”
Prime Minister Said Musa named Belize as Central America’s first “Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation” on April 12, the same day Australia became a Peace-Continent.
The following day, Prime Minister Mart Laar of Estonia and Bulgaria’s Deputy Minister of Culture, Panteley Tsankov, also proclaimed their countries “Peace-Blossom Nations.”
That same day, in a proclamation jointly signed by five National Party and Parliamentary Group Chairpersons, Sweden became the 21st “Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.”
Published in Anahata Nada, Volume 27, August 1998-April 1999
April 12
Sri Chinmoy meditating at April Celebrations in New York.
April 12
Sri Chinmoy lifts Olympians including Bob Beamon, 1968 gold medallist in the long jump; Ottis Davis, 1960 gold medallist in 400m and 4 x 400m relay; Diane Dixon, 1984 gold medallist in 400m, 1988 silver medallist in 4 x 400m; Lindy Remigino, 1952 gold medallist in 100m and 4 x 100m; and Jose Torres, Light Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the World – Jamaica, NY, USA.
April 12
Sri Chinmoy honours the eminent sarangi player Ustad Sultan Khan with the ‘Lifting Up the World with a Oneness-Heart’ Award at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, New York.
The God that he Can See
Sri Chinmoy’s comments:
Ustad Sultan Khan: where can one find such a kind, compassionate heart, such a loving heart?
Once when he was performing at the Royal Albert Hall, Yehudi Menuhin came up to him after he had played for ten minutes and said that he could not prevent himself from shedding tears. Such appreciation Ustad Sultan Khan has received for his music!
We became such close friends. So much affection, love and oneness he offered to me. He said that his wife had recently passed away, after a long illness. Then what did he say? When you have affection, love, sweetness and fondness, you can say anything you want to say! He was telling me that the God that he cannot see is not God for him, but the God that he can see is God for him. Then he said, “I am so happy. I have not seen God, but I have seen somebody who has seen God.” This was his feeling. The last thing he said to me was, “You are my God, for I can touch you, I can feel you. The God that I cannot see, wherever He is — how can He be my God? If I cannot touch Him, if I cannot feel him, then He cannot be my God. But the God whom I can touch, whom I can feel, He is my God. You are my God.”
When one has such affection, love, oneness and fondness, one can say anything he likes! My heart was so deeply moved.
When Ustad Sultan Khan started playing, right from the beginning his music was so soulful, so haunting. Some musicians take a long time to perform their real music. But Ustad Sultan Khan immediately, in just a few minutes’ time, brought us into the ocean of music. I am so grateful to him.
Published in His Compassion is Everything to Us
April 12
The Supreme Necessity of a Oneness-Heart
A talk by Sri Chinmoy
at Aspiration-Ground, Jamaica, New York
In many countries we have been able to spread the Light of our Lord Supreme. At other times, the inner heart of a country we were able to conquer, but the outer life as such we could not fathom. Their inner heart, their love, their sweetness and their eagerness for a new life: those very things we were able to approach. The inner existence of the country we were able to approach, but the outer existence we could not approach, because they did not want anything. They felt they were self-sufficient. At times the inner heart is open, but the outer mind is stronger.
Everything happens at God’s choice Hour. At God’s choice Hour, the outer life of those countries also will open up. Right now they may think that something new will be harmful for them. I am sure one day that opinion will change.
We are all together. We belong to one family, so we cannot go on suspecting our brothers and sisters. Otherwise there will be no peace, no harmony. We shall accept the world with all its weaknesses. Everybody has weaknesses. In spite of our weaknesses, we love one another. The rest of the world is like our brothers and sisters. We stay together in spite of our weaknesses. We have come here to become happy. If we want to be happy, then we must have an open heart. Nobody can be happy without an open heart, an all-embracing heart.
A day will come when everyone will consciously feel the supreme necessity of a oneness-heart. But the inner heart, the heart that we need to pray to God, to meditate on God, to love God and serve God, that heart is beautiful, always beautiful.
Published in His Compassion is everything to us.