O Pilot of the New Year-Boat,
Do give my heart a new hope,
My life a new promise
And me a new assurance
That You are going to take me
To Your Golden Shore.
Published in My Christmas-New Year-Vacation Aspiration-Prayers, Part 11
Sri Chinmoy composed this poem about the New Year in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on January 1, 2002.
Uncertainty-supremacy assails the world.
God’s secret and sacred Will
In the world of the unknowable prevails.The New Millennium is humanity’s unhorizoned
God-surrender-victory
And
Divinity’s most glorious earth-blossom-discovery.— Sri Chinmoy
Sri Chinmoy held his annual New Year’s Meditation and Peace Concert on November 18, 2000, at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in Manhattan, New York.
The Absolute Lord Supreme
Tells the confusion-mind of the world:
“Take My Sadness-Heart and Madness-Eye
As the last and urgent Warning.
Come back Home immediately!”The Beloved Lord Supreme
Tells the aspiration-heart of the world:
“In you is
My World-Transformation-Hope-Dream,
With you is
My Self-Transcendence-Vision-Manifestation-Promise
And for you is
My Smile-Beauty-Fragrance-Presence.”The Year Two Thousand
Is a decision-examination for humanity:
Either
We bind and blind the old world, and retire
Or
We embrace the new world of the forward march.
The Smile of the Beyond
Is beckoning us
To come and play hide-and-seek.— Sri Chinmoy
Sri Chinmoy offers his message for the New Year at his Peace Concert on 30 November 1999, at Martin Luther King, Jr. High School in New York.
• In 1999, Sri Chinmoy’s book, The New Millennium, was published by Agni Press in New York. It contains poetry and songs dedicated to the New Millennium.
• On 27 December 1999, in Curitiba, Brazil, Sri Chinmoy gives some illumining answers to questions about the New Millennium. He discussed its meaning ... God’s Hour ... newness ... and the words of the New Year’s Message.
• On New Year’s Day, 1 January 2000, Sri Chinmoy composes a Bengali song about the New Year.
• In New York, on 13 July 2000, Sri Chinmoy is interviewed by the Italian magazine Armonia during which he was asked if he had a special wish for the New Millennium.
Sri Chinmoy: “My only wish in this New Millennium is to see everybody happy — happy while looking at the world, happy while helping the world, happy in becoming a true citizen of the world for the tremendous evolution and progress of mankind.”
He param pita nutan barashe karibo na kabhu bhul
Ami habo ek tomar hiyar sudha swapaner phul
O my Absolute Father Supreme,
In the New Year I shall make no mistake.
I shall be a flower of Your Heart’s Nectar-Dream.
Published in Giti Mala, song no. 192
My Lord Beloved Absolute Supreme
The sweet beginning of a new-dream-life —
The pure blooming of a new-hope-heart —
The sure blossoming of a new-promise-soul —Humanity’s self-discovery-boat shall ply
Between
Earth’s newness-cry-shore
And
Heaven’s Fulness-Smile-Shore.— Sri Chinmoy
Sri Chinmoy offered his message for the New Year at his Peace Concert on December 1, 1998, at Norman Thomas High School in New York.
Peace, Peace,
PEACE
My Peace is not the end of world wars.
My Peace is not the end of world-suffering.
My Peace is not the end of world ignorance.Peace, Peace,
PEACE
My Peace is the blooming beauty of my heart.
My Peace is the blossoming fragrance of my soul.
My Peace is my sleepless and breathlessONENESS
With the Will
of my Absolute Lord
Beloved Supreme.— Sri Chinmoy
On December 2, 1997, Sri Chinmoy offered a Peace Concert/New Year’s Meditation at Washington Irving High School in New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy set music to the New Year’s Message on December 1, 1997.
The slow and long years of humanity’s hope-heart shall begin to transform into humanity’s fulfilment-life.
The beauty of world-peace was a sweet dream.
The fragrance of world-peace shall begin to become a fruitful reality.
At long last the body shall offer its readiness, the vital shall offer its willingness, the mind shall offer its eagerness and the heart shall offer its oneness to the soul’s God-Light-Manifestation and God-Delight-Satisfaction-tasks here on earth.
Earth’s heart is smiling.
Heaven’s Heart is singing.
Earth’s breath is singing.
Heaven’s breath is dancing.I am saying to my Absolute Lord Beloved Supreme: “Father, my Father, I now have You.”
My Absolute Lord Beloved Supreme is saying to me: “Child, my Child, you now I am.”
— Sri Chinmoy
Sri Chinmoy offered his annual New Year’s Message at his Peace Concert at Hunter College in Manhattan on 7 December 1996, calling 1997 an inner turning point in humanity’s progress toward world peace.
“The slow and long years of humanity’s hope-heart shall begin to transform into humanity’s fulfilment-life,” he said. “The beauty of world peace was a sweet dream. The fragrance of world peace shall begin to become a fruitful reality.”
Published in Anahata Nada, Vol. 26, November 1996-March 1997
Filmed and edited by Mridanga Spencer
On New Year’s Eve — 31 December 1996 — while in Japan, Sri Chinmoy holds a seven-minute meditation with his students until the fireworks start for the New Year. In response to the noise from a nearby party, Sri Chinmoy gives a particular concentration exercise to help deal with the outer disturbance.
Composed by Sri Chinmoy
on 1 January 1997 in Takamatsu, Japan
May the beauty of the New Year
Beautify my heart.
May the purity of the New Year
Purify my mind.
May the simplicity of the New Year
Simplify my vital.
May the intensity of the New Year
Intensify my body.
May the responsibility of the New Year
Glorify my life.
May only the divinity of the New Year
Fully satisfy me.
Published in My Sweet Father-Lord, Where are You?
This is the year of the soul’s dream-bloom-surprises and the heart’s reality-blossom-astonishments.
The helplessness of the mind is nowhere. The hopelessness of the heart is nowhere. The uselessness of the life is nowhere.
The readiness of the inspiration-world-mind says to God: “Lord, I shall come.” The willingness of the aspiration-world-heart says to God: “Lord, I am coming.” The eagerness of the dedication-world-life says to God: “Lord, I am come.”
God blessingfully and proudly asks the real God-dreamer-mind to sing, the real God-lover-heart to dance, and the real God-server-life to smile and fly, fly and smile.
— Sri Chinmoy
This recitation by Sri Chinmoy was recorded at a Peace Concert dedicated to the United Nations in 1995. It appears on the CD, ‘My Prayerful Salutations to the United Nations, Part 9-10’.
Duration: 3:07 minutes
Sri Chinmoy held his annual New Year’s Meditation and Peace Concert at Manhattan’s St. Paul the Apostle Church on December 7, 1995.
December 31, 1995
Sri Chinmoy gave a talk to his students at the Meikles Hotel in Harare, Zimbabwe.
Sri Chinmoy reads the New Year’s Message:
Some of you may think that “the soul’s dream-bloom-surprises” and “the heart’s reality-blossom-astonishments” are only beautiful words, very pleasing to the ear. But I wish to say that these are most powerful manifestations of my high, higher, highest vision. “The soul’s dream-bloom-surprises” and “the heart’s reality-blossom-astonishments” are not just poetic words meant only to please our ears or eyes. These are realities that are trying to manifest themselves in our heart of aspiration.
Bloom and blossom
Whenever the soul gives us something, it gives it to us as a single unit. It is like those Russian dolls in which two, three, four or five dolls fit inside each other. You open up one big doll only to find another doll inside it. I gave President Gorbachev and his wife a special Russian doll like that. If you see it from outside, there is only one doll. But if you look inside, you will find many others.
The soul gives us one good quality, but inside that good quality there are many other good qualities. In order to find these other good qualities, we have to look at the soul’s gift from this side and that side; we have to examine it very carefully, thoroughly and lovingly. Only then will we see that the soul has put many, many other divine qualities inside the one divine quality that it has given to us. When the gift blossoms, we will see the petals: one, two, three, four — like that.
Surprises and astonishments
There is a difference between a surprise and an astonishment. Something that is surprising our memory keeps inside our consciousness for a long time. It remains either inside our eyes or inside our head. But an astonishment penetrates our inner being. It goes deep within us and touches something deeper — a deeper existence. There it may remain in a subtle form for a few years or forever, or it may eventually disappear. So this is the difference: surprise remains in the earth-atmosphere, but astonishment goes deeper.
Most of you think that I am saying the New Year is only an encouraging year. But not all the surprises that occur will be positive ones. They can also come in a negative way. If you want to make a comparison, definitely more of the surprises will be inspiring, encouraging, enlightening and illumining. But there will also be a few very, very sad surprises.
Also, when I use the word “surprise,” some of you may think I am referring mainly to outer events. You may think, “Oh, some governments that have been undivine for many years will now become divine, or some Presidents or national leaders will become either absolutely divine or absolutely undivine.” When you think of surprises, you think of world events — of something the entire world will come to know or of something that will awaken the world or send shock waves through the world.
But since we are spiritual people, real surprises for us have to do with our spiritual progress. There are some disciples who unfortunately have not been doing well for the past 10 or 15 years. They have not been doing well according to their souls’ satisfaction or according to the Satisfaction of the Supreme. The love, devotion and surrender that for many years they had been receiving from their inner life, unfortunately, they have lost. Those divine qualities are buried in oblivion. But this year most of those disciples will be given the golden opportunity to bring forward their divine qualities again. This year, to their own surprise, even if they do not work hard to bring forward their divine qualities, still the love, the devotion and the surrender that they once had in their spiritual life will come back — even if it is unconsciously.
If they tried to do something great and good over the past four or five years but failed to succeed, this year they are going to succeed. This year they will receive a very, very extraordinary Grace from our Lord Beloved Supreme to conquer the weaknesses that prevented them from regaining or increasing their love for the Supreme, their devotion to the Supreme and their surrender to the Supreme’s Will. Even if they were unwilling to surrender to the Supreme’s Will, this year some of them will do so willingly, happily and cheerfully.
Again, there will be a few unfortunate disciples who will get malicious pleasure — not only unconsciously but also consciously — in standing against light. If light is descending from above, you may wonder how seekers can revolt. But it is possible; in fact, it has been happening throughout the centuries. Why? When the light descends, if the vital is not reasonably pure, the vital sees that light as darkness. If the vital is very impure, even if you bring down the highest, brightest light, the vital’s impurity will see this light according to its own standard — as something dark. Again, if the vital has purity, even inside pitch darkness it will see light. (Of course, inside darkness there is light in very small measure.) So, in the cases of these unfortunate disciples, the vital will not only fail to receive the light, but it will actually become worse, and the disciples’ spiritual life will descend considerably. Either they will suffer on the path or they will leave the path and try to find happiness elsewhere.
The vital becomes impure when an individual cherishes wrong thoughts and wrong feelings, when he or she cherishes insecurity, jealousy and so forth. These reasons you know. But on the material plane, the vital also becomes impure when it deals with material power, mainly money-power. People who have a lot of money face additional problems in trying to keep their minds pure. That is why Sri Ramakrishna and other spiritual Masters were of the opinion that money-power immediately corrupts human beings. Jesus Christ said it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven, which is absolutely true. Wealthy people have to be very careful with regard to their money when they enter into the spiritual life.
This year, if wealthy people do not surrender to the divine light and the divine purpose, then they are bound to misuse their money-power. If they try to make more money from the stock market, or horse races or God knows what this year, they have to be very careful. I am advising people not to get involved in gambling this year. If they try to become very, very rich by investing and other risky methods, this year their surprise may come in a negative, very shocking way.
If you do not want to use your money for a divine purpose or for manifestation, no harm. If you want to hold on to your money, then hold on to it; keep it for yourself. But do not try to increase your money-power by doing the things that have brought you more money over the years. If you do, your problems will increase like anything because this year material wealth will stand in the way of your aspiration. So if you try to become rich this year, you may become the very unfortunate loser.
The helplessness of the mind is nowhere.
For the last 10 or 15 years, some disciples or seekers have been doing things wrong — unconsciously or consciously, willingly or unwillingly. Each time an individual does something wrong, he or she tries to muster the courage and determination not to do it again. But again and again, that person does it. Then, after doing the same wrong thing hundreds of times, they come to feel that it is impossible to stop doing it. The individual feels totally helpless, and he or she gives up.
For so many years you have been cursing your mind because it is so weak. But this year, if you try to discipline your mind, you will not be helpless. This year you can get enough strength in the mind to do the right thing and to become the right person. For everything there is a choice hour. Just as early in the morning is the best time for meditation, even so this year can be an extremely, extremely good year if you utilise each day in a prayerful, soulful way. In other years, even if you were exerting 70 per cent of your capacity, you became frustrated because you did not get the results you expected. But this year, I am assuring you, if you can exert even 20 per cent of your capacity — which is your readiness, willingness and eagerness — then your love, devotion and surrender will definitely increase.
These three divine qualities embody everything. Inside love is everything, inside devotion is everything, inside surrender is everything. Surrender is the top of the tree. If you can increase your surrender, if you can climb up to the topmost branch, then easily you can climb down to the middle of the tree, which is devotion, and to the foot of the tree, which is love. Again, if love is strong, then you will have the energy, dynamism, enthusiasm and eagerness to climb to devotion. Then, when you have come to the devotion-level and have very intense eagerness to do the right thing and become the right person, then easily you can climb up to surrender.
The hopelessness of the heart is nowhere.
After trying repeatedly to discipline the mind and failing, the heart feels it is a hopeless case. The heart itself becomes all hopelessness. Once you feel helpless and hopeless, at that time you give up everything. But this year you do not have to suffer in this way. To your helplessness-mind and hopelessness-heart you have to say, “I am going to strengthen you. I will bring from within my own inner power to make you strong, because I need you as my instruments.” Then you will transform your helpless mind and hopeless heart into divine instruments that you can use for your own spiritual progress.
The uselessness of the life is nowhere.
When the mind becomes helpless and the heart becomes hopeless, naturally the life becomes useless. After repeatedly failing every day for several years, we come to feel that our life is useless. We say, “I shall not try anymore because I know I will fail.” But this year no failure, no failure! Just use 20 per cent of your capacity and you shall regain the intense love, devotion and surrender that you cherished for years and years.
This is the year of surprises for all the disciples. You will say, “How did I get back my love? How did I get back my devotion? How did I get back my surrender? I do not know what I have done.” It is all because of extra Grace; it is because unsolicited, unconditional Grace has descended. I assure you, if you again want to have all your love, devotion and surrender, you are bound to regain it.
But if you do not control your vital, if you do not keep your vital reasonably pure, then you wilt not be able to accept the Grace when it is descending. Something will make you feel that the Grace is not something you need or want. But if you can keep your vital pure, you will see miracle after miracle occurring in your life. If you have been doing something wrong for years and years, and suddenly you stop doing it, is that not a miracle? If you can gain back your purest love, purest devotion and purest unconditional surrender, is this not a miracle? Again, if you have been doing something good for years and years, and this year you increase it, is this not also a miracle?
The readiness of the inspiration-world-mind says to God. ‘Lord, I shall come’.
Inside readiness is inspiration. If you are ready, then inspiration comes. Previously, there was no readiness. For the past 11 years, what I call the real readiness of the mind was missing; there was no readiness in the mind, therefore inspiration did not come to the fore. But now, that readiness is here.
The willingness of the aspiration-world-heart says to God, ‘Lord, I am coming’.
This year is also bringing willingness and eagerness. Readiness, willingness and eagerness: these three divine qualities are at our disposal. They are knocking and knocking at our heart’s door. Previously there was no readiness, willingness, or eagerness. The world had lost these divine qualities. Since we are part and parcel of the world, when the world loses something, we also lose that thing. Again, if we lose something, the world loses the same thing. For the last 11 years something has been wrong in the aspiration of the world and the aspiration of the disciples and seekers. For the last 11 years the divine forces were losing ground, and the hostile forces were gaining.
But now, with our help, the divine forces can gain ground again. Our best way of helping is to feel that we want and we need the divine forces. There are many things in life that we want but do not need. Again, there are many things we need but do not want. During the past 11 years we needed many divine things, but we did not want them. But this year we can once more feel that we both need and want them. We want to possess them, and we want them to possess us.
God blessingfully and proudly asks the real God-dreamer-mind to sing. the real God-lover-heart to dance, and the real God-server-life to smile and fly, fly and smile.
We are all God-lovers. But the real God-dreamers, the real God-lovers and the real God-servers are those who can claim that they belong to God and nobody else. If you are a real God-dreamer, a real God-lover and a real God-server, you have to convince your body, vital, mind and heart that you belong to God only. You have to repeat this hundreds and thousands of times. And each time you say it, you have to have the conviction that you do belong to God alone.
When we do something divine, not only the subtle parts of our being, but even the gross physical is elevated. When we do something for God happily and cheerfully, even our physical being goes up high, higher, highest. Here ‘God’ means our own divine life. There is no separation between our divine life and God; they are like the flower and its fragrance. So when we do something for our divine life, at that time our physical — which is the foundation of our spiritual life — flies and transcends. Along with the heart and soul, it sings the song of self-transcendence.
***
My Lord, my Lord, my Lord!
“My child, My child, My child!”My Lord, my Supreme Lord, my only Lord!
This year my heart’s streaming gratitude-tears have given me the unimaginable capacity to place at Your Forgiveness-Feet the sweet bloom of my love, the pure blossom of my devotion and the true fragrance of my surrender.“My child, My Infinity’s Dream-child, My Immortality’s Reality-child, this year I shall grow in you with My unfailing Newness Hope-Sky and I shall shine through you with My rising Fulness-Promise-Sun.”
My Lord, I am perfect only when I have Your Happiness-Heart as my sleepless Companion.
“My child, I am complete only when I have your oneness-life as My breathless companion.”My Lord, my only Lord, this year to You, only to You,
I shall offer My Victory’s crown.
“My child, you, only you, are My Victory’s Throne.”— Sri Chinmoy
On December 1, 1994, Sri Chinmoy offered a Peace Concert/New Year’s Concert at St. Paul the Apostle Church in New York, NY, USA.
The Year of Supreme Choice:
The aspiring heart’s confident forward march
orThe doubting mind’s imminent backward run.
Swim in the ocean of oneness-delight
or
Sink in the sea of separation-night.
From the higher worlds, the Divine Beings want to illumine, protect and perfect the earth planet.
From the lower worlds, the Ignorance-Titans want to dominate the earth planet. Let us make our wise choice Here and Now.
In us is Divinity’s Peace-Lover. In us is humanity’s War-Monger. The one we do not want to feed and cherish we must bring to the fore immediately and cast aside ruthlessly.
Because of our conscious and continuous blunders, we have compelled our poor Lord God to sleeplessly cry.
Stop we must! From this very moment we must please God in His own Way, for there can be no other way if Happiness is our choice, Peace is our choice, Infinity-Immortality’s Fulfilment is our choice.
— Sri Chinmoy
• On December 9, 1993, Sri Chinmoy offered a Peace Concert and a New Year’s meditation at the New York Society for Ethical Culture in New York, NY, USA.
• On 24 January 1994, Sri Chinmoy offers the following talk about the New Year after returning to New York from the annual Christmas Trip with his disciples.
by Sri Chinmoy
My dear children, this is my most and most blessingful request to each and every one present here. Each night before you go to sleep, while seated on your bed, only for three to five minutes please pray and meditate. Also, please sing or recite the new song, Bhulite diyona. This is the translation:
My Lord Absolute Supreme,
Do not allow me to forget Your Feet.
Do not allow me to forget Your Eye.
Do not allow me to forget Your Message.
Do not allow me to forget Your Dream.
In my life and in my death,
O Lord of my heart,
Do accept my prayerful obeisance.
My Lord, do not allow me to forget You.
Do not allow me to forget You, do not.
Those who have learnt the song and those who are good singers can sing the song, and others can just recite it.
Once more I am making my most blessingful request to each of you. At six o’clock in the morning, please meditate for ten minutes. Only wash your eyes, face, nose and especially your ears. When we meditate, at that time the cosmic sound reverberates in the depths of our aspiration-heart, so our earthly ears may get some benefit from the cosmic sound AUM, the soundless sound.
Then at night, whenever you go to bed — at ten-thirty, eleven-thirty or midnight — please meditate for three minutes at least while seated on your bed.
My dear children, my sweet children, what I am saying applies also to those who are not physically here. This year either we will be able to offer our supreme victory to our Lord Beloved Supreme, our Eternity’s only Goal, or we will offer Him the worst possible defeat. Remember, it is up to you to offer Him the worst possible spiritual defeat or your supremely glorious victory.
Please remember this poem:
I never want to count
My heart’s aspiration-moments.
I just want to multiply
My life’s dedication-hours.
Your life’s dedication-hours please multiply this year. Make yourself worthy of your inner life, your spiritual life. Dear ones, it is up to you. Take every moment seriously.
When I came to America, when I came to the West, the Supreme in me did expect to have supremely chosen instruments to manifest His Victory here, there and everywhere. My oneness with your heart, my oneness with your life, I shall never be able to make you feel — never, never. But if you yourself dare to feel my oneness with your heart and with your life, then you are bound to feel that your victory is my victory, and your defeat is my defeat, for I am one with you, inseparably and eternally. Because I have accepted each of you, your defeat is my defeat, and your victory is my victory.
You have the golden chance to be the pioneers of this divine vision that I embody, the divine vision that I have entrusted you to spread all over the world. I am extremely, extremely fortunate to have your souls — such beautiful, such loving, such self-giving souls — for my supreme cause. There is not a single soul that is not one hundred per cent sleeplessly for me. All your souls, according to their individual development, are here on earth only to love the Supreme in me, only to serve the Supreme in me, only to fulfil the Supreme in me. If you can dive deep within and if you can get just a glimpse of your soul for a brief moment, then you will see the inseparable connection and oneness that your soul has established with me to manifest the Light, the Peace and the Divinity of our Lord Beloved Supreme. I want that Light, that Peace and that Divinity to manifest in and through your lives.
I beg of you, I beg of you, I beg of you not to fail yourselves, not to fail your souls. Make me the happiest person both on earth and in Heaven by pleasing me and fulfilling me here on earth, for I am your own highest. Your absolute highest is your Master, Sri Chinmoy. If you have faith in me, you have faith in your soul. If you have faith in your soul, you have faith in me. We are inseparable.
Swami Vivekananda gave his Inspired Talks at Thousand Island Park in 1895. The West may not have accepted, or could not accept his light, but I know that millions and millions of Indians received boundless inspiration, boundless encouragement and boundless enthusiasm from his Inspired Talks. Over the years, I have also given many, many, many inspired talks. I know that those talks have helped you enormously in your inner life of aspiration and in your outer life of dedication. Again I am telling you now, please take your life of aspiration and your life of dedication as supremely important. I am begging you to dedicate more of your life. If you have the capacity, then give talks, here, there and everywhere. Give classes and, in as many ways as possible, inspire people. Work together, work together.
A great Indian figure happened to be a disciple of a spiritual Master of the highest order. Once, at a time when this particular disciple was suffering from one of the worst possible attacks of doubt — doubting his Master, doubting himself and doubting the spiritual life — he was asked by a seeker to talk about his Master. He spoke so soulfully, so powerfully and so profoundly that, while speaking, he brought his own tears of gratitude to the fore.
Then the disciple wrote to his Master, “I have been doubting you, Master, so much. I have been doubting my spiritual life. I have been doubting the whole world. Even a few hours ago, my existence had no value; everything was negative. But in speaking about you, Master, I have made everything positive, and I have made myself happy. How can it be? Surely I am the world’s worst possible insincere person. I am a hypocrite!”
The Master replied, “My child, how proud I am of you! While you were speaking about me, your soul got the opportunity to come to the fore and manifest your own divinity and your own light in the heart of that sincere aspirant. When you feel that you are doomed to disappointment, when all the negative forces are coming to you, at that time if you speak highly of your Master, highly of your spiritual life, highly of your path, do not think that you are a hypocrite, that you are fooling yourself or fooling the sincere seekers—far from it! During your mind’s darkest hour or your life’s darkest hour, your soul, on the strength of its inseparable oneness with the Supreme and with your Master, got the golden opportunity to convince your mind, which was either in the barren desert or in the thick forest. Your soul was able to grab your body, vital and mind and bring them into your own heart-garden to see how beautiful you are and how fragrant you are.”
These are my interpretations. The Master did not use these exact words, but I know what that particular Master actually meant. I am telling you all this because I see that some of you are at times sad and depressed; you may have all kinds of vital and mental problems. The golden way to overcome these problems is to talk to people about the spiritual life. If you feel that your consciousness has descended, then sing my spiritual songs or talk to your friends about the spiritual life.
Like today’s song, Bhulite diyona, all my soulful songs are bound to help you. If you want your own light to come to the fore, sing a few songs or listen to a tape of my voice. My voice has a very special connection with your soul and with your heart. No matter whether I am singing well or not, my singing voice has a very, very, very special connection with your soul, with the divine in you. Please listen to my voice or my flute or some other instrument of mine that you like.
This is God’s universal Game. When we play a game, who wants to accept defeat? We will do our very best to be the winners. In this case, who is our opponent? It is the undivine, unlit, destructive forces that are trying to threaten us and devour us. We call them hostile forces. Again, the Supreme has kept inside each human being a roaring lion. We must bring to the fore the roaring lion in us, and roar and roar to manifest the divine light that we already have. The more we can be of service to mankind, even if we only offer an iota of light to an individual, the more the Supreme is bound to bless us with His abundant Light. And when we offer our abundant light to others, then He will be able to give us infinite Light.
In my heart-garden I have employed you with my boundless love, boundless affection and boundless fondness. You are my helpers, and I want each of you to bring a few more plants with your aspiration, with your dedication. Try to make our heart-garden as vast as possible, as beautiful as possible, as fragrant as possible. My children, you have the capacity and you are the capacity. I want each one of you to offer the supreme success, supreme glory and supreme victory to our Lord Beloved Supreme.
I do not mind if you are not proud of me, but in all sincerity, I want to tell you how proud I am of your souls, for they know who I am and they know what I stand for. Their soul-lives and soul-breaths at every moment are for me, for me, for me. Your outer life may not be for me. It may be for yourself, for other human beings, for your career or something else. But your soul has a breath, Eternity’s Breath. Your soul’s breath is for me, for me, for me, only for me. Therefore, how grateful I am to your souls, how proud I am of your souls, you cannot imagine. It is far beyond your imagination the love, devotion and surrender that your souls have for me, for they know who I am and who they are. They are my supremely chosen instruments. In your souls is my life-breath.
I am begging each and every one of you to give me the opportunity and to give me the assurance to be inside your life-breath at every moment. I have you inside my heart. Unfortunately, some of you do not have me inside your heart. If you see me and feel me, my living presence, inside your heart, you will not be able to do even one thing wrong, discouraging or displeasing. The moment you do not feel my living presence or my nectar-smile, the moment you fail to see me inside your heart, alas, alas, you fall victim to self-doubt, lack of faith, frustration and other undivine forces.
I am telling you, I see inside you the living Presence of my Lord Beloved Supreme. Him I see and Him I feel at every moment inside you. Therefore, at every moment I am dealing with my own Guru inside your heart. Please feel my smile, my tears, my gratitude, my pride in you.
How many good things you have done for me over the years! I will not be able to count how many good things you have done for me. I am requesting all of you only to think of how many good things you have done for me, not how many good things I have done for you. I am begging all of you to think of how many good things you have done for me since you joined the path. Think of how many ways you have pleased me, how many ways you have loved me, how many ways you have served me, how many ways you have fulfilled me over the years. You will be so proud of yourself. Right from the day you joined our path, try to remember the special ways you have offered your love, devotion and surrender. Think of my oneness-divinity with your heart, with your life, with your soul. Then any discouraging forces that have now become part and parcel of your life are bound to disappear, for your golden moments are the most pleasing fragrance-perfume in your life and in my life. Forget about how many good things I have done for you. I am only telling you to remember and to count in how many ways you have pleased me over the years. Then all your divine qualities once more will come forward.
Do not think, even for a second, about whether you have disappointed me in any way inwardly or outwardly. I am begging you to take the positive side. Think in how many hundreds and thousands of ways you have pleased me with your love, devotion and surrender. Only remember where, when and how. I assure you, you will be inundated with your own divinity. It is you who are going to prove that you are, without fail, my supremely chosen instruments. You are not only for yourselves; you are for the entire Creation of our Lord Beloved Supreme. God the Creator is inside you, and He wants you to serve and fulfil God the Creation around you.
My dear ones, I am inspired and I shall remain inspired. I do hope my inspiration-light, which I have just now brought down from the highest Heaven to offer to you, has entered into you, and you have become a totally different person from this moment. I am a beggar for your smiling heart radiating on your face and from your eyes. The eternal beggar in me wants you to be happy, divinely happy, supremely happy, so that your happiness radiates on your face and from your eyes. From your outer life, it has to radiate all over the world to illumine the world.
I know who I am. Unfortunately, I cannot make you see and make you feel who you truly are, who you are to me, who you are to the Supreme. But if we work together, then I shall definitely be able to make you feel who you are to me and who I am to you. We need each other. I need you for the manifestation of the Supreme here on earth. You need me for the highest realisation. I will be known as the tree, and you will be known as the flowers and fruits. Immortality’s flowers and Immortality’s fruits I want to dedicate to aspiring humanity. Again, I am the bird and you are the wings.
Whatever I have said has gone very, very far, because it has entered into the Universal Consciousness. These words I get from the Transcendental Consciousness and I offer them to the Universal Consciousness. You are part and parcel of the Universal Consciousness, plus you are nearer than the nearest to me.
The most important thing I have said is for you to think of how many good things you have done for me. Only remember in how many ways you have shown your love, devotion and surrender to the Supreme in me. Think how readily, happily, cheerfully, willingly and eagerly you have pleased me over the years. You will be so proud of yourself. Just try to remember those golden moments. It will take a few months to count them! All your depression, frustration, feelings of uselessness and other negative qualities will disappear. Any kinds of spiritual fevers that you may have now, which are making you absolutely miserable and paralysed in the spiritual life, will disappear. You will no longer remain inside the dry, barren mental desert that you have been walking through, or the thick forest that you have created for yourself. You will come back again to your own heart-garden. Again you will be able to run faster than the fastest.
And also try to feel my presence. The way I feel your presence inside me, inside my heart, I want you to feel my presence inside your heart at every moment.
By remembering how many good things you have done for me, I shed tears of gratitude. I swim in the sea of my gratitude-tears. In how many countless ways you have served the Supreme in me, loved the Supreme in me and fulfilled the Supreme in me! Those are your possessions, your own divinity-manifestations.
Published in Live in the Eternal Now
God is dreaming,
Newness singing,
Oneness blossoming,
Fulness dancing.Hope no more gropes.
Life without slopes.
Splendid depths and heights
Transform bondage-nights.— Sri Chinmoy
Sri Chinmoy offered his annual New Year’s meditation and Peace Concert on December 9, 1992, in Alice Tully Hall at the Lincoln Center in New York, where he read out his message for the New Year.
Later in the month, he elaborated on the message, saying “God has taken many, many years to create ... this particular year.”
For centuries, he said, the mind-power has dominated, “but now the mind-power is surrendering to the heart-power” and “brightness and luminosity have already started blossoming.”
From now on, he continued, “we will only see the song and dance of the divine forces. The undivine forces are exhausted. They have already started surrendering to the divine forces and they are ready to abide by the will of the divine forces.” 1
Sri Chinmoy composed a special song for 1993 by setting music to the words of the New Year’s Message on December 6, 1992.
On December 4, 1992, Sri Chinmoy wrote a special Peace Song for 1993. Below is a copy of the words in Sri Chinmoy’s own handwriting and the score.
On January 1, 1993, Sri Chinmoy wrote the following Bengali song about the New Year.
Nabin barashe nabin sapath karechi
Turiya dhamer jatri hayite chalechi
Published in Gahite Chahi, song no. 17
On December 7, 1992, Sri Chinmoy gave a talk about the New Year’s Message to his students at Public School 86 in Jamaica, New York.
God is dreaming, and then comes newness singing. Now, I wish to say a few words about newness. I feel that your newness will save you from spiritual disaster and catastrophe. There are inner ways to feel newness, to have newness and to walk with newness. Again, on the outer plane, there are two ways to increase newness, to feel the beauty of newness and to smell the fragrance of newness.
First, no matter how many years you have been on the path, whether it is fifteen years or twenty-three years, from now on just forget about the years. You have to allow your sincerity to speak, once and for all. When you joined the path, how sincerely and soulfully, how self-givingly you joined! At that time, eagerness was your true name, self-offering was your true name. But now the story has changed, it seems, completely. Those true names you don’t have now. The names you have got now are false names. It is my ardent wish that all of you, without exception, should feel that you have just joined the path. Please feel that it is a matter of a week or two, not even a month that you have been with us. As for years, they are out of the question. If you can think and sincerely feel that you have joined the path very, very, very recently, then those sweet moments, divine moments and illumining inner cries will come back to the fore.
There is another way to feel newness. Every morning, as soon as you look at your eyes or your head or any part of your body, please try to see yourself as a flower, the flower that you love most. There are so many flowers on earth, and each individual, I am sure, has a special flower to appreciate. Each person will enjoy the beauty and fragrance of a particular flower. You know which flower you like best. Every morning, consciously make yourself feel and see that you are that very flower, the flower that you love most. As you know, a flower means beauty, purity and divinity. If you have beauty, if you have purity and if you have divinity, then you do not need anything else. The divine beauty, the divine purity and the divine divinity: these things are eternally new. So as soon as you think of yourself, please feel that you are the most beautiful flower, the flower that you cherish most.
Again, please, please forget consciously about the years of your spiritual existence. As soon as you think of your spiritual existence, you feel that you are carrying a heavy, heavy load, a dead elephant, and you can’t get rid of that elephant which you have placed on your head or shoulders. From now on please think of yourself as a deer. When you joined the path, you wanted to run faster than the fastest, each of you. Now tiredness has become your name, unwillingness has become your name, self-destruction has become your name. These names are undivine names that you are either consciously or unconsciously cherishing. In most cases, consciously you are cherishing them.
So, dear ones, if you really want to make progress faster than the fastest, then think that your spiritual life is only a few days old. If you do not have newness, you will not be able to make any progress. But if you can consciously make yourself feel that your spiritual life is only a few days old, then tremendous newness will enter into your body, vital, mind and heart. Inside this newness will be eagerness and willingness. Eagerness, enthusiasm and all the divine qualities that you have deep inside will definitely, definitely come to the fore when you have newness. As soon as you feel newness, you will see that the heavy load, the dead elephant that you have been carrying will not be able to remain on your head or shoulders. Then you will be able to run fast, very fast, like a deer.
As soon as you think of your existence on the path for five, ten, fifteen, twenty or twenty-five years, you feel that you have accomplished everything. Now, others will have to work and you can enjoy retirement, because you are spiritually old. Physically one can be old, which is so true — I am the radiant proof — but not spiritually. Spiritually I am not old. Spiritually nobody can be old. God Himself is not old. He has and He is spirituality itself and, at the same time, He is the eternal Child in Eternity’s Garden. So if our Creator is always young, how can we be otherwise? How can we be old? Please think of your spiritual life as something you have just begun. Because you have just begun, everything is sweet and beautiful, everything is welcoming you. It is like my song, “Dake amai dake”. Everything positive is calling you, beckoning you.
This New Year is such a beautiful, significant year. God has again given us, out of His infinite Bounty, a golden chance to think of ourselves in a new way, to think of Him in a new way and to give our very existence to Him again in a new way. You will see. Just forget about your so-called existence on the path for five, ten, fifteen, twenty or twenty-five years. Think that you have been here for only five days. Then immediately you will feel that you are a new pilgrim with a new dream. You have embarked on a new journey. The road that you are following is the right road and your destination is certain. So please forget about your mental oldness. Do not cherish your mind’s opinion of yourself. Do not believe your mind’s opinion of yourself. Only have faith in God’s faith in you. God has not yet completed His role in and through you. He will eternally play His role in and through you, for His Game in and through all of us is birthless and deathless. You cannot, as a matter of fact, terminate your game. But if you are unwilling to act in God’s way once you have accepted the spiritual life, it will be the most, most painful experience that you will give to yourself. The spiritual life is undoubtedly a one-way street, with no U-turn. You are sleeping and snoring, but I am saying no, again wake up! Run, run and run!
Dear ones, once more I am saying this, and please listen to me. Please think that you have just joined the path. Then, from your own heart, everything that is inspiring, aspiring, illumining and fulfilling will come to the fore. To your wide surprise, you will feel once more that your life has a very special purpose. Once more you will feel that you have a very special role to play in the Cosmic Game of our Lord Beloved Supreme.
