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Sri Chinmoy’s New Year’s Message for 1983

The year 1983
Will be the year of the seeker’s glory:
Glory within, glory without,
Glory illumining, glory abiding —
A oneness-glory
Between the self-giving seeker
And his life-transforming God.

— Sri Chinmoy

Notes:

The New Year’s Meditation for the public was held on December 12, 1982, at Washington Irving High School in Manhattan. At the end of the programme, Sri Chinmoy delivered his message for the New Year.

Sri Chinmoy during the New Year’s Meditation.

Sri Chinmoy chooses to begin his 57th volume of Ten Thousand Flower-Flames with seven poems (no. 5601-7) that relate to the year 1983 and the theme of meditation.

The year of meditation

This entire year, 1983,
Has a very special significance.
This is the year of meditation.
I most sincerely urge you
To meditate, meditate, meditate!
Alone or with others,
At home or anywhere,
Whenever you are free
Meditate, meditate, meditate!

The golden opportunity

As God’s choice Hour does not arrive
Every hour, every day, every week,
Every month or even every year,
Who knows, a year of this kind
May not appear again for a long time.
If you want to become God’s choice instrument,
Then avail yourself of the golden opportunity
That this year of meditation offers.

Meditate, meditate, meditate!

Meditate, meditate, meditate!
Pay more attention to your meditation.
Spend more time in meditation.
Meditate soulfully, prayerfully and devotedly.

If you do not meditate

If you do not meditate,
Then your heart will remain insecure
And your mind will remain impure.
With an impure mind
And an insecure heart
You will not be able to please
Your Beloved Supreme.

Purity and security

Security, which is confidence,
You badly need.
Purity, which is inner assurance,
You badly need.
Both purity and security can and will come
Only from your meditation.

Your Master’s inner guidance

Whether you are meditating
In your Master’s physical presence
Or somewhere else is unimportant.
No matter where you are,
If you think of your Master
And meditate soulfully,
You are bound to get his inner guidance.
And this inner guidance,
Which is his inner oneness with you,
Will last forever and forever.

Be regular, punctual and sincere

In your early morning meditation
Be regular, be punctual and be sincere.
If you do not meditate regularly and punctually,
The Supreme will forgive you,
Your Master will forgive you,
But you will never be able
To forgive yourself, never!
If you deceive yourself in your meditation,
There will eventually come a time
When you will spontaneously become
Absolutely sincere.
Then it is you who will not be able
To forgive yourself.

Published in Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 57

Sri Chinmoy’s New Year’s Message for 2005

2005
The New Year
Is the year of the
Mind-Astonishment,
Heart-Government
And
Life-Fulfilment.

          — Sri Chinmoy

Notes:

Sri Chinmoy offers the New Year’s Message on 1 January 2005. On the same day, he composes an English song and a Bengali song about the New Year.

Happy New Year!

Lyrics:

Happy New Year, happy New Year,
Be brave, be brave,
No fear, no fear.

Happy New Year, happy New Year,
Go forward, fly upward, dive inward,
No fear, no fear.

Happy New Year, happy New Year,
God the Eye you claim,
God the Heart you claim,
And God the Life you claim.
Claim, claim, claim, claim God
No fear, no fear.

Happy New Year, happy New Year.
I shall be my God-hope-joy.
I shall be my God-promise-fulfiller.
No fear, no fear.

Nabin Barashe Asim Harashe

Lyrics:

Nabin barashe asim harashe jagiya utheche pran
Prabhure tushite jiban amar sabare karibo dan

Prayers for the New Year

by Sri Chinmoy
very early in the morning
in Qingdao, China

31 December 2004

4.

The new year bravely
Wakes up.

5.

Happy New Year,
Happy New Year!
Be brave, be brave!
No fear, no fear!

6.

Happy New Year,
Happy New Year!
Go forward,
Fly upward,
Dive inward!
No fear, no fear!

7.

Happy New Year!
God the Eye you claim,
God the Heart you claim
And God the Life you claim.
Claim, claim, claim, claim God.
No fear, no fear!

1 January 2005

8.

Happy New Year,
Happy New Year!
I shall be my God-hope-joy,
I shall be my God-promise-fulfiller.
No fear, no fear!

Published in My Early Morning Prayer-Journeys, part 2

Sri Chinmoy’s New Year’s Message for 2004

The Year 2004
My prayerful message:

At the end of a very long and
uncertain Ignorance-flooded
Night-Road,
the Beauty of a New Hope and
the Ecstasy of a New Promise
shall unmistakably blossom.

— Sri Chinmoy

Listen to Sri Chinmoy reciting his New Year’s message...

Notes:

Sri Chinmoy offers a concert for the New Year in New York on 3 November 2003. Sri Chinmoy begins the concert by singing one of his favourite songs – Ami Jabo. After thirteen different musical performances, Sri Chinmoy concludes by offering his New Year’s Message for 2004. Listen to the complete concert at Sri Chinmoy Radio...

On 11 November 2003, Sri Chinmoy composes the following song.

Happy New Year

Lyrics:

Happy New Year, happy New Year,
Happy, happy, happy New Year!
My heart and I shall know
No, no, no, no, no tear.

Published in Enthusiasm, Part 8, song no. 99

On New Year’s Eve, 31 December 2003, Sri Chinmoy composed an English song to herald the New Year.

Smiling, the Breath of the New Year

Lyrics:

Smiling, the breath of the New Year
Has just entered into my heart
And has given me three spiritual names:
Excitement, enlightenment and fulfilment.

Published in Enthusiasm, part 7, song no. 16

Sri Chinmoy’s New Year’s Message for 2006

My Absolute Lord Beloved Supreme,
Please tell me what is going to happen
   In this New Year.
“My child, keep quiet.
With My Transcendental Vision,
I shall give humanity
A new hope,
A new promise
   And
A new receptivity-acceptance of life.
All the aspiring human beings here on earth
   Must join Me.
I shall succeed.
I am bound to succeed.”

— Sri Chinmoy

Notes:

On December 6, 2005, Sri Chinmoy wrote the following Bengali song about the New Year. The score is currently unavailable, however the lyrics are displayed below.

Bipul Harashe Nabin Barashe Jagiche Moder

Lyrics:

Bipul harashe nabin barashe jagiche moder pran

Banglar pran ek hok aji subishal sumahan

Khandita nahe banga hriday rayeche bishwa priti

Gupta danab brukuti moder parane kagai bhranta bhiti

Tamasi rajani haye jabe bhor udibe tapan purbachale

Sonar bangla amar bangla jagibe amar amita bale
Naba barasher hriday gabhire rayeche gopane mukti asha

Chira adrita arjya rishir phire pabo mora mauna bhasha

Published in Sundaratama Dekha Dilo Aji, part 1

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New Year’s Day Prayer

by Sri Chinmoy
in Kuantan, Malaysia
1st January 2006

My Lord,
On New Year’s Day
You are watching
The blooming New Year
With such Compassion, Concern,
Sweetness and Fondness.
May each and every human being
Place at Your Feet
A garland of gratitude,
Gratitude and gratitude,
My Lord, my Lord,
My Lord Supreme!

Published in My Early Morning Heart-Climbing Prayers

Sri Chinmoy’s New Year’s Message for 1973

The New Year is the year of our mind’s inspiration, our heart’s creation and our soul’s manifestation.

Inspiration will march onward to the Source.
Creation will sit at the pinnacle of Enlightenment.
Manifestation will at once prove its Divinity and Immortality.

The New Year is the year of Acceptance and Transformation.
The human in us will try to accept the Divine in us unconditionally.
The Divine in us will transform the human in us untiringly and unconditionally.

In the New Year, every day will be an opportunity for the God-believer to see the Truth-Light.

In the New Year, every hour will be an opportunity for the God-worshipper to achieve the Truth-Light.

In the New Year, every second will be an opportunity for the God-lover to become the Truth-Light.

— Sri Chinmoy

Notes:

Sri Chinmoy’s public New Year’s Meditation is held on the evening of 29 December 1972 in the main auditorium of New York’s Hunter College and is attended by well over two thousand people. The auditorium, which seats around 2,400 is full to capacity half an hour after the meditation begins, with people standing in the lobby and sitting in the aisles.

At the conclusion of the three-hour function, Sri Chinmoy reads out his New Year’s message for 1973. The event is filmed by Channel 13 television.

Sri Chinmoy wrote a special Bengali song for the New Year on 21 Decembe 1972, which is performed by Sri Chinmoy’s Bengali Singers on the evening of 29 December, at Hunter College. The score with the Bengali words and English translation by Sri Chinmoy is displayed below.

New Year’s Song

Nabin Barasha Nabin Barasha

Lyrics:

Nabin barasha nabin barasha
Parane enechho asim harasha
Amarar dak prashanti barabhoy
Alo saranir alor jatri
Abachetanar timir ratri
Bilupta aji mora chira akkhoy
Kothai dainya kothai klanti
Dure bahudure manas bhrant
Usha debabala samukhe moder raje
Ananda ghana kagol dipti
Moder akuti moder tripti
Param pitar banshari hridaye baje

Translation:

New Year, New Year
Into our heart you have brought
Infinite Delight, Peace and Compassion,
And the Call of Heaven.
We are the pilgrims of Light Divine
Marching along the road of Light.
The night of tenebrous gloom and stone-inconscience
Is extinguished today.
We now are growing into the everlasting life.
Where is poverty, inner and outer?
Where is the sense of depletion?
Where are the errors of the mind?
Far, very far are they.
Dawn, the daughter of the gods,
Before us stands.
The Light of Heaven, filled with Nectar,
Is our aspiration-cry and our satisfaction-smile.
The flute of the Absolute Father
Plays in the breath of our heart.

Published in The Garden of Love-Light, part 3, song no. 40
Originally printed in AUM – Vol. 8, No. 6, January 1973