February 12
February 12
Kundalini Power and Spiritual Power
by Sri Chinmoy
There is one gym owner in San Francisco by the name of Tom. Every day he reads my Kundalini book and then he tries to open up his chakras. He does not realise that kundalini power is nothing compared to spiritual power. Kundalini power is a form of spiritual power, true, but kundalini power will pale into insignificance when spiritual power, universal power, is used. I have the capacity to use universal power. I can say from my own inner experience that kundalini power is like a big wave, whereas universal power is the ocean. Kundalini power is connected with universal power, but it is not the universal power.
Let us say that kundalini power is like my arm. My arm is connected to my whole body. I can use my arm by itself, but if I can use the rest of my body as well, then I will be able to do much more. Universal power is definitely stronger than the kundalini power.
That is one point. There is also the question of book-knowledge and inner experience. An almanac can tell you everything: when it will rain and so forth. Everything is listed there. But if you squeeze the book, there is no water inside. Similarly, you can read books on kundalini power, snake-power, but that does not mean you will get the results. Where are the chakras? They are in the subtle physical. Just by reading about them, they will not open up. You have to go deep within to discover them.
The best thing is to meditate on God. He is the Owner of the kundalini-garden. All the trees and flowers and plants in it belong to Him. If we please God, will He not open up the garden for us? And then, if we please Him more, will He not give us the most delicious fruit in the garden? But if we do not please Him, why should He open up the garden for us and give us the fruits and flowers?
Again, if God sees right from the beginning that you are pleasing Him only with the idea of receiving the fruits, He will see that you are such a clever fellow. Perhaps He may open up the door to the garden for you so that you can go inside and get the fruits. But a day will come when you want God alone and then how will you recognise Him? If He comes to you, you will not know that it was He who allowed you to go into the garden and you may tell Him to get out.
Published in My Weightlifting Tears and Smiles, part 3
It is snowing at Aspiration-Ground in New York, and Sri Chinmoy continues his daily exercise regime.
Sri Chinmoy during indoor sprint training at JFK airport in New York.
February 12
Letter to Kofi Annan
12 February 1999
Highly esteemed Secretary-General,
I wish to congratulate you from the very depths of my heart on receiving the prestigious Jesse Owens Global Award for Peace. I know that you were an excellent sprinter in college, and I am sure that this has offered you a unique and significant preparation for your current service as a supremely chosen sprinter for peace…
Sri Chinmoy
An excerpt from a letter written by Sri Chinmoy to the Secretary-General upon hearing about his receiving the Jesse Owens Global Award for Peace.
Published in Kofi Annan: Cynosure-Eyes
Video by kedarvideo
Sri Chinmoy receives the Medal of Honour, the Cook Islands’ highest award, presented by Deputy Prime Minister Ngamau Munokoa at the Westin Hotel in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia. Just prior to receiving the award, Sri Chinmoy lifts her as part of the ‘Lifting Up the World with a Oneness-Heart’ programme.;
February 26
A half-hour interview with Sri Chinmoy on WCBS-TV’s ‘The Way To Go’ airs in New York, NY, USA. The interview is conducted by Dr. James P. Carse, professor and Chairman of the Religion Department at New York University.
Listen to the interview...
February 26
Sri Chinmoy celebrates a milestone in his artistic output — the completion of 10,000 Jharna-Kala paintings in 100 days — with his disciples in New York.
Sri Chinmoy meditates during an interview on WCBS-TV’s ‘The Way To Go’ in New York.
February 26
Concentration
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture
at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.
Concentration is the hero-soldier confidence of the third eye, the vision eye. Concentration is the fastest lightning speed. Concentration is the supreme secret of immediate and inevitable success.
Although determination and concentration have a close connection, concentration is infinitely, infinitely higher than determination. Determination comes from the silent mind proper. Concentration comes from the all knowing vision eye.
Concentration silences the destruction-loving animal in me. Concentration inspires the inactivity-cherishing human in me. Concentration manifests the all loving divine in me. Concentration expedites God's all fulfilling arrival at my heart's door.
Concentration secretly intensifies my heart's God-hunger. Concentration speedily clears my mind's thought-forest and gives me discipline-joy at every moment. Concentration indomitably tames my wild restlessness-vital. Concentration vigorously energises my sleeping lethargy-body.
Concentration smilingly and blessingfully asks me: "O seeker, do you want to accomplish ten most significant things in the short span of ten minutes, or do you want to accomplish only one thing?" I tell concentration that I would like to accomplish ten most significant things in the short span of ten minutes.
Concentration blessingfully and proudly tells me: "Then come and be in my boat. I am your only boatman."
Concentration has a most significant message for me. It tells me: "Be brave within, be brave without!" When I am brave in my inner life, I breathlessly love only God the Creator in His own Way. When I am brave in my outer life, I smilingly serve only God the creation in His own Way.
Concentration tells me that I have only one Master. That Master is transcendental delight and not ignorance-night.
Each human being on earth is a God-representative, but concentration, meditation and contemplation are the most powerful representatives of God here on earth. These three representatives of God are piloting humanity's aspiration-boat to the Golden Shore of the Beyond.
Concentration is the mind-divinity's swiftness. Meditation is the heart-divinity's vastness. Contemplation is the life-divinity's fulness here on earth.
Published in My Heart's Peace-Offering
Ten Prayers
offered by Sri Chinmoy
and recited turn by turn by various girls’ and boys’ groups at Public School 117 in Queens, New York
We must never dream
Of enlightenment
Unless and until we have
Prayerfully and soulfully offered
Our absolute loyalty
To our God-satisfaction-commitment.
The mind and the vital every day
Must go to the iron discipline-school
To be ready for the acceptance
Of God-Commands.
Do you want to know why
God has singled me out?
He has singled me out
Not because I love Him more
Than anybody else loves Him,
But because He has given me
More God-hunger
Than He has given to anybody else.
Self-mastery pioneers
To the outer world
Of surprising success-life.
God-discovery pioneers
To the inner world
Of astonishing progress-heart.
One powerful doubt of the mind
Can easily derail
The running, blissful train
Of the heart.
My desire-achievement-fame
Is
My aspiration-enlightenment-shame
To love God
Unconditionally
Is to appoint God
Permanently.
When I fear God,
God tells me that
I disappoint Him
Infinitely more
Than I can ever imagine.
Enthusiasm at once
Uproots my mind-jungle
And
Illumines my heart-temple.
God's Love and Fondness
For me
Become measureless
When my heart-tears
Blind His Eye completely.
Published in My Sunrise-Heart, part 1
February 12
Happy Birthday
Lyrics:
Happy birthday to you!
Happy birthday to you!
Happy, happy, happy birthday!
We love your soul’s rainbow-dream promise-play.
Published in Song-Flowers, Part 6
Sri Chinmoy sings his own ‘Happy Birthday’ song during a 1997 TV interview with Father Tom Hartman in Long Island, New York.
Listen to Sri Chinmoy singing...
Sri Chinmoy plays the esraj for the Deputy Prime Minister of the Cook Islands, Ngamau Munokoa, in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia.
February 11
Sri Chinmoy lifts Bali’s head Hindu priest, Ida Pedanda Gede Made Gunung, and 21 other notable Indonesians, at the Westin Hotel in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 23 monks and novices from Wat Chedi Luang, Wat Phra Singh and Wat Suan Dok, at the Imperial Mae Ping Hotel in Chiang Mai, Thailand.