Sri Chinmoy meets with President Fidel Valdez Ramos of the Philippines at Malacañang Palace in San Miguel, Manila.
“We need the support of leaders like you for the peace process ... I hope you can help in the Philippines.” — President Fidel Ramos
Sri Chinmoy and Prime Minister Dr. Mahathir Mohamad hold the Peace Torch together at the U Thant Peace Award ceremony held at the Prime Minister’s office in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
A lecture by Sri Chinmoy
in the Dag Hammarskjold Auditorium, United Nations, New York
The court of human justice tells me that as I sow, so I reap. The Court of Divine Justice assures me that when I devotedly think of God, He smilingly and blessingfully appears before my heart’s eye.
The human justice wishes to offer me protection. The Divine Justice offers me protection, illumination and perfection. The human justice is fairness. The human justice is a threatening force. The human justice is a binding law. The Divine Justice is Love. The Divine Justice is self-giving. The Divine Justice is fulfilling.
The human judge is the problem-shooter. The human plaintiff is the problem-bringer. The defendant is the problem-maker and creator. The pleader is either the problem-lover or problem-nourisher; he cannot be otherwise, for that is how he remains on earth.
The Divine Judge is the Liberator. In the divine sense the plaintiff is the hungry seeker. The defendant is the devouring doubter in us, and the pleader is conscience. This pleader is the common friend, mutual friend of the plaintiff and the defendant. Under the threat of wild ignorance the pleader yields to the whims of doubt but inwardly in silence, it loves, cherishes and adores the heart of the seeker. In the physical and vital worlds conscience is helpless. In our inner world, conscience is constantly supported by the adamantine Will of the Lord Supreme. The Supreme Liberator liberates both the hungry seeker and the doubter.
Justice is impartiality. Impartiality is wisdom. Wisdom is the Divine Grace. The Divine Grace is the illumining Vision and fulfilling Manifestation of God.
A transformed and perfected human being is the duty of Divine Justice. A fulfilled and manifested God in man is the duty of Divine Justice. Duty performed on any level of consciousness is beauty blossomed forthwith. God’s Consciousness abides in the duty of His Divine Justice.
Here on earth we see that liberty and justice are two different things. They are like North Pole and South Pole. If one enjoys the joy of liberty, we feel that person has violated all the laws of justice. He is acting like a wild elephant. He is enjoying liberty, especially on the vital plane, and therefore he does not care for justice at all. But if one cares only for justice, then we feel that his life has no pleasure; there is no warmth, there is no feeling of enthusiasm in his life. This is all on the human level.
In the inner world, liberty and justice always go together. They are like the obverse and the reverse of the same coin. Only he who has inner liberty can hear the message of Divine Justice. Only he who has known what the Divine Justice is can be free and independent. There is no other way. Liberty and justice in the inner world are inseparable.
The Divine Justice is not a mere human idea. It is the divine ideal in each human being. When a nation is not awakened, when a nation is unaspiring, unillumined, it feels that might is right. This is human justice. But when a nation is illumined, all-loving and all-embracing, it feels that right is might. It feels that justice lies only in the divine right.
Now, what is this divine right? Divine right is the conscious feeling of universal oneness. God’s Justice can be seen and felt only when we have the feeling of universal oneness. If not, God will disappoint us and fail us at every moment. Our human mind will never be able to fathom God’s Justice. It will always be baffled by God’s Justice because of its limited knowledge and limited concern for humanity.
The Divine Justice is ready at every moment to be of help to us; to inspire us, guide us, mould us and shape us. But we are equally afraid of the Divine Justice and the human justice. When we do something wrong, we feel that we will be exposed. This is true in the case of human justice. But the Divine Justice will never, never expose us. The first time we do something wrong the Divine Justice will forgive us with its compassion. The second time we do something wrong it will offer us more compassion. The third time we do something wrong it will offer us infinite compassion. And then, when God sees that even His infinite Compassion is not solving the human problem, He will use His loving Divine Authority, Divine Power.
This Power is not the destructive power. This Power is not the threatening power. This Power is the Power that awakens the dormant lion in each human being. This Power does not dominate. It only arouses the spiritually hungry lion in each human being. The lion can roar, but the lion is fast asleep. This lion embodies our inner cry to see the ultimate Truth, to grow into the Absolute Reality.
Each individual seeker can claim, can feel God’s Justice if the seeker feels the necessity of loving humanity more than he expects humanity to love him. If he does not expect humanity to love him at all, yet he goes on loving humanity, then he is bound to feel God’s Justice in him, through him. Why? While he is offering his love to mankind, God will not remain silent. God will not remain asleep. God will immediately give him His boundless Peace, Joy, Light and Delight. God will empty His Infinite Consciousness into him.
What we have, we can give to mankind if we want to. But in God’s case, He gives to us not only what He has, but what He is. He feels that He is just only when He can give us what He has and what He is. We can also act like God and offer to mankind not only what we have, but what we are.
When we make an inner search, we come to learn that what we have is a dedicated heart; and if we ask what we are, we come to learn that we are the chosen instruments of God. We are the leaves and He is the Tree. Look at a tree from a distance or from any place. If you look at a leaf, a branch or the trunk, you can immediately recognise it is a tree. When we look at an individual leaf, we can immediately enter into its source, the tree, and feel that this individual leaf is the tree itself. When we look at the tree, we see that its manifestations are the leaves. The manifestation itself can be as important as the Creator Himself.
The Divine Justice is the breath of Reality. In the human court we see all kinds of crime; but in the Court of Divine Justice we notice only one crime every day, and that is human ungratefulness. Here the punishment is forgiveness. Constantly the game is being played between God’s Forgiveness and man’s ungratefulness. In the human way, human beings are justifying their cause by saying, “We are unconscious. Hence we commit crimes. We are not yet illumined. Hence we are ungrateful.” In the divine way, God is justifying His cause: He is Love. Hence He is all-Loving. He is Compassion. Hence He is all-Forgiving.
Published in The Garland of Nation-Souls
Dag Hammarskjold Lecture Series
by Sri Chinmoy
at the Dag Hammarskjold Auditorium, United Nations, New York
The outer message of the United Nations is Peace. The inner message of the United Nations is Love. The inmost message of the United Nations is Oneness. Peace we feel. Love we become. Oneness we manifest.
The United Nations has a mind, a heart and a soul. Its mind tries to offer flowing Peace. Its heart tries to offer glowing Love. Its soul tries to offer fulfilling Oneness. In the near future, a day will dawn when the message of the United Nations will be absorbing to the child, elevating to the common man, thought provoking to the highly educated and inspiring to the seeker.
Each delegate is a force. Each representative is a force. Each nation is a force. The source of this force is a particular will. This will can be either the Divine Will or the human will. The human will wants to be with the world and in the world only on one condition: that it will be able to gain supremacy over others and maintain this supremacy. The Divine Will wants to be in the world, with the world and for the world without expecting anything from the world. The human will, at most, tolerates the world. The Divine Will constantly wants to liberate and fulfil the world. The human will wants to control and lead the world. The Divine Will wants to transform, glorify and immortalise the world. The human will in us needs the soul’s expanding and illumining purity. The Divine Will in us wants the Goal’s blossoming divinity.
The League of Nations was a dream-seed. The United Nations is a reality-plant. The aspiring and serving life of man’s universal oneness will be the eternity-tree.
In his address to the United Nations in October 1965, Pope Paul VI said:
"No more war: war never again! Peace. It is peace which must guide the destinies of people and of all mankind."
The goal of the United Nations lies not only in thinking together, but in thinking alike. Each individual has every right to love his nation; but he must also dedicate himself in order to immortalise his nation’s relationships, inner and outer, with the rest of mankind, so that all can run together for the universal good of humanity.
In the words of Pope John XXIII:
"It is our earnest wish that the United Nations organisation may become ever more equal to the magnitude and nobility of its tasks, and that the day may come when every human being will find therein an effective safeguard for the rights which derive directly from his dignity as a person, and which are therefore universal, inviolable and inalienable rights."
All nations together can build a temple. All nations together can make a shrine. All nations together can worship a Deity. At the entrance of the temple, the Divine Protection shall smile. Upon the shrine in the temple, the Supreme illumination shall smile. Within the heart of the Deity, the Absolute Perfection shall smile.
Here at the United Nations, what I feel is an inner voyage. In its inner voyage, the United Nations has to brave many temptations and setbacks. As we all know, defeats and failures are mere steppingstones in our onward march to perfection. At the end of its voyage, there is every possibility that the United Nations will be the last word in human perfection. And then the United Nations can easily bloom in excellence and stand at the pinnacle of Divine Enlightenment.
Published in The Tears of Nation-Hearts
by Sri Chinmoy
at the Inter-Continental Hotel, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Before I left New York, I had a strong determination to write seven thousand poems for my Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees. There came a time, two weeks ago, when I was not at all inspired to dictate poems for about a week or so. I said, “It is a hopeless case.” When I say “hopeless case,” God laughs and laughs!
Now on a regular basis I am doing over one hundred fifty poems a day. On some days I compose two hundred, and on some days it is three hundred. In that way I have completed over 4,500 poems. Some people will soon go home to New York, so it is my wish to give them 5,000 poems to be typed by Kakali in New York. From Hawaii, 1,250 poems have already gone back to New York. Now I will be completing 5,000.
All those who serve me in my poetry-world deserve my very special gratitude and gratitude.
After I lifted her in our “Lifting Up the World with a Oneness-Heart” programme, the lady who cleans my hotel room gave such a soulful response. She stood in front of me and then knelt down very devotedly. Yesterday when I went upstairs to my room at about two-thirty, she was bringing flowers that somebody had offered me. She reached the door before me and said, “Father, let me open it.” She calls me “Father.”
She has received one of the pictures of me lifting her, but I thought that I would give her more pictures, so I kept them right next to the door of my room, on the table. They remained there for more than a week.
Finally I said to her, “Are these not the pictures of you?”
She said, “Yes.”
“Then why did you not take them?”
She said, “Oh, Father, how can I take them?”
I was so moved. When I offered her the pictures, she knelt down in front of me with folded hands and said, “Father.”
Then I requested her not to put so many pillows on my bed. Again she fell down on her knees and said, “Father, I will not do it.”
In the early days I never blessed people on their heads, specially ladies. After some years I started blessing people in this way. On this occasion I said to myself, “Now I have to bless her.” I did bless her. Then I said, “Kindly wait here.” I went into the next room and brought a twenty-dollar bill to give to her. When she saw that it was twenty dollars, her eyes became wide. I blessed her very nicely.
Whenever she gets the opportunity, she likes to kneel down and call me “Father.” In India everybody is “Uncle.” If you enter into a taxi, they call you “Uncle, Uncle.” They do not say “Father.” But this lady calls me “Father.”
We have been to many, many places, but I have never seen anybody on our Christmas Trips who is so devoted to me. This lady is really something. Look at her honesty! I left the pictures for her, but she did not take them. She waited for me to give them to her.
I never, never intended to bless Trishatur’s monk-friend.* He is a Buddhist monk, and he has taken the vow of renunciation. But inwardly somebody said to me, “Please bless my son.”
I said, “It will not be proper. How can I bless him?”
I clearly saw that the Lord Buddha was begging me to bless this monk, because the Lord Buddha knows who I am. The monk is so nice, and I am so fond of him, but when I asked him, “May I bless you?” he said, “No.”
I said to the Lord Buddha, “You see, I was right.”
But again, I was so proud of the monk, because he was doing the right thing in his own way. The Lord Buddha, knowing who I am, wanted me to bless him. But I was right — the monk did not allow me to bless him. I looked at him when we were standing face to face. With such compassion I was blessing him inwardly. I said, “Lord Buddha, the higher world and this world do not go together.”
He has followed his tradition, and in that way he has done absolutely the right thing. But sometimes we have to go beyond the domain of tradition so that we can make the fastest progress.
In all sincerity, it was at the Lord Buddha’s request that I wanted to bless him. I knew that his brother had not yet accepted the monk-life, so I blessed his brother. But in the case of this monk, it was far beyond my imagination. I did not have the intention to bless him, not at all, because I knew that, according to the monk’s understanding, it would not be the right thing.
I can see the Lord Buddha very clearly at any time, any second, and he wanted me to bless his son. Alas, higher wisdom does not always work with human knowledge, so what can we do? Again, I was so happy that he followed his tradition. With utmost love and compassion I blessed him inwardly. I was looking at him and pouring, pouring all my compassion and affection into him. I touched his heart. When I blessed him while looking at him, at that time I touched his heart. Absolutely unreservedly I blessed him.
I am very fond of him, very fond of him. The other day, how he grabbed me when I came out of the car, at the gate! He grabbed me from behind like a child. He was so happy and thrilled to see me!
For him and his monk-friends it was a very new experience, and for us as well. Trishatur is the synthesis, the bridge between the monk’s austerity and our modernism.
* As a United Nations staff member, Trishatur served with the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia for 18 months, from 1992-1993.
Published in Only One Power
This is a story about Lord Buddha. Lord Buddha was in deep meditation, very deep meditation, when two musicians passed by. The elder of the two was giving advice to the younger one, saying, “If you want to become a great musician, do not play on the higher strings. They will snap. And if you use only the lower strings, then there will be no music. Play in the middle.”
Lord Buddha said, “This all applies to me! I have taken up such an austere life. No, I must not continue!” Then Lord Buddha started eating in a normal way. He said, “This musician has saved my life. He has shown me the right path.”
It is said that Lord Buddha’s middle path came from these two musicians. The older one was advising the younger one to use the middle notes and then Lord Buddha started following the middle path.
Published in I Wanted to be a Seeker of the Infinite
by Sri Chinmoy
at Awana Kijal Golf and Beach Resort, Malaysia
France gave us some excellent experiences. France challenged our fate! There the former UN Secretary-General, Javier Perez de Cuellar, said that I am the heart of the United Nations. At the pyramid of the Louvre, the world-famous museum, we had our art exhibit, and this year also we shall have an art exhibit.
I received the Nehru Award from UNESCO in Paris. We had a concert in the Eiffel Tower — that we cannot forget. It was noise versus Sri Chinmoy! And we had a concert for 13,000 people, a concert at the Sorbonne and a concert at a circus!
I spoke at the Alliance Francaise. It is very famous.
Once when I was visiting France, it was ten o’clock at night and I wanted to go and eat with some disciples. A lady taxi driver appeared — I could not believe it! I was hesitating. How could it be? At that time I had not seen a lady driving a taxi, so I did not think it was a real taxi. A disciple said, “No, no, it is all right.” It was my first experience with a lady taxi driver!
Gabriel Monod-Herzen was in charge of all the high schools in Pondicherry. His mother was at the Ashram. Alas, alas, when I wanted to get permission to study in Pondicherry, outside the Ashram, I went to the wrong person, my French teacher. The Mother wanted me to go to another person, a Frenchman named Saint-Hilaire (Pavitra) who was the Mother’s foreign secretary. He and Gabriel were very close friends. She said, “If Pavitra takes you and tells Gabriel, who is an inspector for all the high schools, they will definitely accept you.”
By that time I had changed my mind. I said, “I am not going to study at a school in Pondicherry any more.”
Sometimes you want to go in a certain direction. You are absolutely sure that is the right way. But before long, you come to realise that it is absolutely the wrong way.
Published in Only One Power
Sri Chinmoy passes by the welcome sign in the lobby of the Midtown Hotel in Cebu, the Philippines.
Sri Chinmoy’s stories about his running experiences
Before the start of our five-mile race, a black man said to me, “So good to see you.” Afterwards, when I was at the two-and-a-half-mile point and he was at the same spot completing four miles, he greeted me again.
Today I was running and somebody said to me, “Oh, today you are running and not jogging.”
That means every day I jog.
Published in Run and Become, Become and Run, part 3
by Sri Chinmoy
At the start of our seven-mile race, even before one mile, inside my chest was a pumpkin hole. There was nothing inside my chest. I couldn’t breathe.
At the start of the seven-mile race, I saw Sarah go way ahead of me. I said, “Oh, she is so far ahead of me!” But she dropped dead before the one-mile mark. She had to stop running after one mile, but that I didn’t see.
At the one-mile mark during our race, one person said, “8:07.” Then, after one step, another person said, “8:11.” Peter’s soul is working through everyone! During one marathon he would say the timing, and four metres later he would say a completely different timing.
At the fifth mile, Dolores said the time, and I got mad at her. She saw that I was walking, so why did she have to tell me my timing and discourage me?
Before the first mile was over, I was ahead of Nirvik, and I was so delighted. Then, after two miles, he went ahead of me. I said, “Oh, he was fooling me.”
After three and a half miles, I was only looking for Nirvik, but I couldn’t see him. For five miles it went on like this. But later I surrendered. By the time we reached seven miles, he was following me.
Yesterday I had my dog problems again. At a certain place along my running route here in Tobago, if you run, they bark. If you walk, they bark. What can you do?
As soon as you come in sight, three or four dogs come from their houses. You have to walk as slowly as possible, pretending you are not even walking. Then they become frightened. Silence conquers sound; here is the proof. While you are running, they chase you. While you are walking, they bark at you. But when you stop walking, they also stop. This is the proof that our silence can conquer sound.
Published in Run and Become, Become and Run, part 4
Sri Chinmoy sprinting on a track in Tenerife, Canary Islands.
After visiting the Oriental Circus in Denpasar the day before, Sri Chinmoy invites all the performers — young orphans who were taken in and taught circus skills — to a luncheon at the Bali Garden Hotel. Afterwards, he lifts all the children and their manager. (Pictured are just three of the many young performers.)
Sri Chinmoy, notepad in hand, on Kuta Beach in Bali.
by Sri Chinmoy
in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Sri Chinmoy requests the disciples to offer him a spiritual word. He then spontaneously gives these twenty-seven commentaries.
In the spiritual life, acceptance of reality is of paramount importance — not rejection but acceptance. We have to accept the world, we have to accept our life, we have to accept all our weaknesses and shortcomings to transform them and illumine them so that we may become perfect instruments of God. If there is no acceptance, we cannot perfect ourselves and fulfil the divinity within us.
The divine beauty is not in merely observing the world in its sorrows and joys. The divine beauty is in becoming inseparably one with the sorrows and joys of humanity's life.
The animal in us has no compassion. Even the human in us has no compassion. We use the word compassion, but it is nothing other than attachment. Only the divine in us has compassion, and this compassion is for the human in us and the animal in us. Our compassion is the life-changing miracle-power in us. With our divine compassion, we can raise the standard of humanity far beyond our imagination.
Without courage in the outer life we can still walk, but in the inner life we cannot cover even one metre if we do not have courage. Courage is of constant necessity to take one step ahead. Courage is the divinity in us that can take us into the infinite realm of silence, peace and bliss.
Delight is the spontaneous revelation and manifestation of our all-illumining soul.
Determination needs two friends to arrive at the Goal: sincerity of the heart and purity of the mind. When we have a purity-mind and a sincerity-heart, then determination can play its role most effectively and most powerfully inside our inner life and also inside our outer life. Determination is the first convincing step that expedites our Godward journey.
Devotion is the magnetic power in us. If we use this magnetic power, then we can please God sooner than the soonest. God gives us a bridge, and the name of that bridge is devotion. Both the seeker in us and God frequently cross this bridge. God comes to us to take care of our aspiration. We go to God for peace, light and bliss. Devotion is the bridge between our receptivity and God's Divinity.
Effulgence we can have only inside our God-oneness-soul. Effulgence in infinite measure we can see inside our soul. When we see the effulgence of our soul, we become the choicest instrument of our Inner Pilot. Effulgence has the power to illumine our darkness and ignorance in the twinkling of an eye. Again, this effulgence is to be found only inside our all-loving, all-inspiring and all-giving soul.
Enthusiasm is our inner beauty. Enthusiasm is our inner determination. Enthusiasm is our love of God-oneness. Enthusiasm is the capacity to destroy the unaspiring past in us. Enthusiasm is the capacity to expedite our aspiration-journey. When we have enthusiasm in our body, vital, mind, heart and soul, God immediately starts playing, singing and dancing. Our enthusiasm is God's immediate Pride in us.
Faith shows us the way to arrive at God's transcendental Palace. When we have faith, ever-blossoming faith in our heart, God shakes hands with us, God embraces us, God crowns us and makes us sit on His Golden Throne.
When we forgive the world, God proudly shakes hands with us. When we forgive ourselves and when we are determined to do the right thing, to become the right person, God immediately comes and embraces us, and blessingfully assists us to become what He wants us to become. To forgive the world is, indeed, a difficult task. But to forgive oneself is extremely, extremely difficult. In the spiritual life, we are trying to become conscious. When we become conscious, we see how consciously and deliberately we have done many, many things against our own divinity, against our Lord Beloved Supreme. So it becomes very difficult to forgive ourselves. Again, if we cannot forgive ourselves, if we cannot forgive the mistakes we have made, then God feels that no matter what He gives us — peace, light or bliss — everything will be either rejected or misused. So forgiveness of oneself is of paramount importance. That is where we must start. We must forgive the darkness in us in order to transform that darkness into peace, light and bliss.
We all need Grace in abundant measure every day, every hour, every minute and every second so that we can grow into God-manifestation and God-satisfaction-will.
If there is any short cut in the spiritual life to arrive at the Golden Shore, then gratitude is the short cut. If there is a secret and sacred way to love, please and fulfil God, then it is the way of gratitude. Gratitude embodies and reveals all our divine virtues. It is by virtue of gratitude that we can bring down God's infinite Power, infinite Light, infinite Love. Gratitude is the master key to open up all the doors of Divinity's Palace.
There are many types of power, but only heart-power knows when God's God-Hour will strike. When God's choice Hour strikes, at that time heart-power receives peace, light and bliss in boundless measure from the highest Height of Reality and Divinity.
The outer fire burns. The inner fire transforms. The outer fire burns and extinguishes everything. The inner fire burns not to destroy, but to help us to please God so that God can employ us. We feed God with our heart's inner fire. We become God's direct representative by increasing the beauty of our inner fire.
Light in the soul works most powerfully. Light in the heart sometimes works; sometimes it does not. Light in the mind on very, very rare occasions works. Light works more satisfactorily inside the physical body and inside the vital than inside the mind. Light cannot work inside the mind precisely because the mind is revolting all the time against our own inner divinity. The miraculous power of light abides inside our heart of self-giving to humanity, to God the creation.
Obedience is the source of our love, devotion and surrender. He or she who has cultivated obedience, sleepless and breathless obedience, is the Himalayan pride of our Absolute Lord Beloved Supreme.
Oneness in the heart is the fulness of life. The fulness of life is at once God's universal manifestation and God's transcendental Realisation. Today's oneness is tomorrow's fulness. Tomorrow's fulness is God's perfect manifestation here on earth.
If we have peace of mind, if our inner life is inundated with peace, God shares with us His infinite Secrets. If we have peace of mind in boundless measure, then God feels that we are becoming His representative on earth. Each peace-dreamer on earth is a special child of God. Each peace-lover on earth is a very special child of God. Again, each peace-distributor and peace-server on earth is a supremely beautiful, powerful and God-fulfilling child of God in a most surprising manner. Peace we need to become what God has in His universal manifestation and to become what God is in His transcendental Vision.
We all need perseverance in our dynamic vital to remain always under the direct Protection of our Lord Supreme and also to make progress not only in the vital but also in the body, mind and heart. If you have perseverance, then you can make fast progress.
Even by repeating the very word 'purity', one can develop adamantine will-power to protect oneself against ruthless attacks from the physical, vital and mental world.
In the spiritual life, the more we can accept responsibility, the more we can please our Lord Supreme in the manifestation of His Light here on earth. The more responsibility we accept, the more opportunity we get to manifest His Light here on earth.
When you are not one with God the Creator, when you are not one with God the creation, everything that you do for another individual or for other individuals, you feel is a stupendous sacrifice. But when you become one with God and with humanity's life, heart and breath, then there is no such thing as sacrifice. It is only a oneness-song that you are singing in the God-aspiring, God-revealing and God-manifesting universal family.
Self-mastery comes not from exercising our mental will-power. Self-mastery comes from God-obedience. Self-mastery comes through constant and conscious self-giving to the Will of God. There can be no fulfilment of God on earth if we do not have self-mastery. But this self-mastery has to come from our God-obedience, God-dependence, God-surrender, God-willingness and God-fulfilment. We can never develop or acquire the power of self-mastery unless our goal is God-discovery. Self-mastery is the very, very first step and God-discovery is the very, very last step of our God-climbing ladder.
The soul cannot be separated from delight. Delight cannot be separated from the soul. The soul is the universal Beauty of God the creation and delight is the transcendental Fragrance of God the Creator. So if we want to swim in the sea of the soul's delight at every moment, consciously we have to increase our love of God, our devotion to God and our surrender to God and God's Will.
When I pray, I feel that I am a chosen, supremely chosen instrument of my Lord Supreme. When I meditate, I know that He is going to be successful eventually in turning me into another God.
The mind wants to dominate us, but if we surrender to the mind, then we only add more confusion to our life. If we surrender to our heart, which is in tune with the soul, then at every moment we surprisingly and perfectly grow into the universal Consciousness of our transcendental Reality. When we surrender to our heart, we know what God's Will is. Our conscious, constant, sleepless and breathless surrender to God's Will definitely expedites our God-manifestation-task here on earth.
Published in Rainbow-Flowers, part 2
by Sri Chinmoy
in Curitiba, Brazil
My divinity’s heart
Lives far beyond
The sea of time.
My life loves the beauty
Of the finite.
My heart enjoys the fragrance
Of the Infinite.
When life knocked
At my door,
Joy accompanied my life.
When death shall knock
At my door,
Peace shall accompany my death.
God's Forgiveness-Heart
Perhaps has time to waste,
But not God's Justice-Eye-
Never!
God Himself cradles
My devotion-heart
In His Power-Blessing-Arms.
Mine is the life
Of sleepless and breathless surrender.
God's is the Heart
Of priceless and tireless Satisfaction.
May my mind always remain empty
Of freedom.
May my heart be always full
Of God-surrender
And God-oneness-freedom.
A universe of book knowledge
Cannot quench even an iota
Of the heart's thirst for God.
I must trumpet
My soul-
The ignorance-challenger
And ignorance-conqueror.
My mind,
The impossibility-sower,
Must finally surrender
To my heart,
The God-manifestation-fulfilment-grower.
Published in My Christmas-New Year-Vacation Aspiration-Prayers, part 2
by Sri Chinmoy
in Yogyakarta, Indonesia
From the higher worlds
The spiritual Masters,
Out of their infinite bounty,
Come down to visit me,
Bless me most powerfully,
Speak to me most affectionately
And appreciate my God-service
To humanity
Most unreservedly.
Published in My Christmas-New Year-Vacation Aspiration-Prayers, part 28
by Sri Chinmoy
in Varna, Bulgaria
Hope is at once
Sweeter than the sweetest
And
Stronger than the strongest.
Time
Destroys
The human in us.
Time
Employs
The divine in us.
The mind
Wants war.
The hand
Supports it.
Open your heart!
Close your lips!
This is how a seeker
Must speak to God.
Explore, explore!
Very soon
You will be able to knock
At God’s Heart-Door.
Each day is my
Heart-blossom-opportunity-day.
As the highest height
Is for us,
Even so, the lowest abyss
Is against us.
Published in My Christmas-New Year-Vacation Aspiration-Prayers, part 57
Sri Chinmoy greets Chakravarthi V. Narasimhan, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Inter-Agency Affairs and Co-ordination, at a meeting of the Meditation Group at the United Nations, in New York.
Sri Chinmoy: On behalf of the Meditation Group at the United Nations, I would like to garland you with my heart's deepest gratitude and my ever-increasing gratitude. An insignificant son of Mother India is offering his deepest love, joy, gratitude and pride to a most illustrious and supremely chosen son of Bharat Mata. This garland is our humble offering of ever-increasing gratitude for what you have been doing for the world at large through the United Nations with your all-loving heart and your ever-mounting inner cry, which is the purest aspiration. To your climbing cry to bring about a new world, a world of peace, harmony and love, we offer this with our heart's ever-increasing gratitude.
You are at once the embodiment of humanity's cry and divinity's grace. This Meditation Group would like to be with you and for you, to serve the world along with you, according to our limited capacity. You have blessed our Meditation Group today by your spiritual and divine presence and for that I shall remain eternally grateful to you and to the Supreme in you.
Today I wish to offer a most special prayer to the Supreme, the Author of all good. My prayer is that my most revered brother, Sri Narasimhan, will ascend to the ultimate height of the United Nations. You have been working for the world most sincerely from the penultimate height for a long time, and it is my most fervent prayer to the Supreme in you that one day in the near future you will ascend to the highest rung of the United Nations ladder. This is my prayer and the prayer of our small Meditation Group.
Sri Chinmoy then garlanded Mr. Narasimhan.
Mr. Narasimhan: I am deeply touched. I did not expect to be so received by you. I just wanted to be here at the first meeting of the Meditation Group in the New Year to express my personal support for the work you are doing here. ln the Eye of the Lord, there is no such thing as an illustrious son of India and a non-illustrious son of India. There is no such thing as an important person and an unimportant person. One of the first precepts of the Lord is that all are equal. And so far as I am concerned, I am very happy where I am and I am very glad that I have been spared many of the headaches that some of my superiors have had.
I also offer my hopes for the New Year, that 1975 will be better than 1974; it certainly could not be worse. Many of you know that music is my second passion. I would like to sing something for you, if I may.
Mr. Narasimhan sang an Indian song.
Sri Chinmoy: I never knew that you had such a haunting voice. I would be deeply honoured if you would come and sing for my students some time.
Mr. Narasimhan graciously accepted this offer.
Published in ‘Meditation at the United Nations’ Vol. 3 No. 1, 27 January 1975, pages 32-34.
Leonardo da Vinci Institute is inaugurated as the world’s first Sri Chinmoy Peace Institute, in Catania, Sicily, Italy.
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert at the Blaisdell Center in Honolulu, Hawaii.
How can a bird of sorrow
Fly in a dream-sweet consciousness-sky?
Published in Journey’s Ecstasy
Sri Chinmoy composes his 17,000th song in Christchurch, New Zealand, just before departing for Australia.
Sri Chinmoy practises sprint training in Manila, the Philippines.
From a public relations news release: “A 5-foot-8-inch East Indian gentleman has been spreading inner peace and yesterday raised one ton of weight with one arm using what he describes as ‘the power of inner peace.’
“Leader of regular meditations at the United Nations and U.S. Congress and honorary citizen of more than 20 states, Sri Chinmoy was recently invited to inaugurate a series of meditations for members of Great Britain’s Houses of Parliament. ...
“Sri Chinmoy led the members in silent meditation and answered a number of questions. At the conclusion, Lord Ennals remarked, “This is a great honor for us. In a place where there is often too much noise, it’s good to have this kind of silence.”
“A few days later Sri Chinmoy returned to his New York home and applied his meditative capacities to raising 1,317 pounds overhead with one arm, just over 17 months after starting weightlifting. Then the 160-pound spiritual leader went out of town for a week.
“Upon returning a few days ago he lifted 1,515¼ pounds with one arm. Then, just yesterday, as a Thanksgiving day tribute, Sri Chinmoy lifted 2,039 pounds on his first day attempting that weight. This represents nearly 13 times his body weight, far beyond the 600 pounds that ·anyone else has been reported to lift overhead with one or two arms.” — Roundup, C3
Published in the Religion section of ARIZONA REPUBLIC, Saturday, January 3, 1987
Video by Sri Chinmoy Centre, Brazil
In an interview at the end of the Peace Concert in Curitiba, Sri Chinmoy speaks about his reasons for visiting Brazil and the importance of peace in the New Millennium. In response to the interviewer, Sri Chinmoy also summarises his philosophy in a few words.
