June 23
On 23 June 1986, Sri Chinmoy succeeded in raising 1300 pounds with a standing calf raise.
June 23
Venue: Jamaica High School Track, New York.
June 23
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the First Unitarian Church in San Francisco, California.
Peace Concert dedication by Sri Chinmoy:
Today’s Peace Concert I am prayerfully dedicating to the all-illumining soul and all-serving heart of the United Nations.
Published in My Prayerful Salutations to the United Nations
Sri Chinmoy plays the esraj at a ‘Lifting Up the World with a Oneness-Heart’ function at Aspiration-Ground in New York.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (190) and delivers a lecture at UNESCO in Paris, France.
June 23
Video by kedarvideo
During his European concert and lecture tour, Sri Chinmoy visits UNESCO headquarters in Paris, France.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Meditation and receives the Congressional Special Recognition Certificate for his service to world harmony from Congressman Benjamin A. Gilman (Rep. NY) at Rayburn House Office Building, House of Representatives in Washington, DC.
Building a Modern Juggernaut
At 1 a.m. on 30 January 1987, in his home in New York, Sri Chinmoy lifted 7,063¾ lbs. with his right arm. During a function in 2014 to commemorate the event, Unmilan Howard described the run-up to this miraculous feat:
I am very, very grateful to have been given the receptivity to please Guru in his own way in the weightlifting world. It was not something I did — I know where it came from. This is my account of what happened.
At the end of the Christmas Trip to South America, in the airport on the way back to New York, Guru asked me to build him a 3000-lb. dumbbell. With the 1,000-lb. dumbbell we had built, the bar bent in the middle when Guru lifted it — it was not strong enough. Now I had to do 3,000 lbs.
I am no engineer; I don’t even have a brain! I can only say I was lucky enough to be in the heart for all that time, and I did things from my heart. Previously, we had used 50-lb. plates. We thought if we could find 100-lb. plates then we could keep the weight closer to the centre of the bar and it would not bend. I got a very high tensile steel rod for the centre. First, we had to find 100-lb. weights, because Olympic weights and most others are 50 lbs. Databir found Dan Lurie, who had an exercise equipment shop. Dan had just gotten a container of new plate weights — 100-lb. weights. They had only arrived a month or so before. And where did they come from? India! We think we are doing everything, but it is all a big plan — plan or joke, I don’t know which!
We assembled it in Guru’s house. We put the bar up and then started to put the weights on. We only got about three-quarters of the way when the whole thing crashed — and it bent the rod. From that experience, we thought we would try a truss. As soon as someone — I think it was Himangshu — mentioned a truss I said, “Yes. Got it. That’s what we’ll do, and it will work.” The truss — the metal above the dumbbell — is to hold the rod straight, so it carries the weight, and it goes up with the dumbbell when it is lifted.
We made it. Everything with Guru had to be NOW! You work 16 hours or whatever, but you get one smile from Guru, and that’s all you’re working for — and it does everything. We assembled it in Guru’s house on the 8th of January 1987, and Guru was so happy. He said that we could never imagine his joy, and that Lord Krishna was in the room and he was overflowing with joy and laughter at the size of the weight. Lord Krishna thought it was funny!
I was so open to things when I came to the path. I was not looking for a path, but Guru found me. I never had any experience of any other Masters — I didn’t know they existed, but I was very clean and open to things. So when Guru talked about Lord Krishna being in the room, or Hanuman’s tail coming through — I couldn’t see it — but the minute Guru said it, I could feel it happen just like Guru said. There was no doubt, and it was just beautiful! There was a power around Guru at this stage, and an urgency to lift these things. It was as if the Supreme was saying, “Do it now. I am giving you the power now. Do it.”
So on the 20th — two days later — Guru lifted that 3,000-lb. weight. When Guru prepared for a lift, he’d hold the weight, he’d look at his arm, and so on. We asked him what he did because we don’t see flashing lights or thunder, but it was like he was channelling the energy up. Guru said he would do things like, imagine the weights are balloons; everything to trick the mind because Guru’s mind was as frightened as anyone’s. Guru said that if he was in the mind he would be frightened, but he did all these things — like imagine balloons or pump light into the weights — and then it would just go. He probably had help inwardly, too, from the gods and goddesses — I don’t know! It was powerful to be there with Guru. Guru is such a gentle person; you see Guru play the flute and there is this tiny, gentle hand that can reach these little buttons, but when Guru went into the weight room, he changed. You could see him just swell, and this power was percolating in him.
When Guru lifted 3,000 lbs., in the inner world, his mother was hitting him on the head and saying, “Enough, enough!” You might think Guru would just stop then — but we know our Guru. We celebrated the next day — a thirteen-hour meditation, and then Guru played 100 instruments. After killing himself doing something, he always went even further.
About the 25th of January, in private, Guru said to me, “I want to lift 7,000 lbs. Can you do it?” I said, “Yes, Guru.” Guru said, “It has to be stronger.” “Yes, Guru.” “It has to be twice as big.” “Yes, Guru.” When Guru first said to me, “Can you do it?” everything was inside of me; I knew I could do it. Guru put the whole thing there. I hear boys say now, “It’s got to be two inches and three quarters,” and that sort of thing, but I just felt what I had to do, I did not even know the size of the metal.
The next day I went to the steel merchants. I went with no measurements, I just looked at steel and then felt what I had to use. I bought all the steel that same day. When Guru asked me about this, he had said, “I want it in ten days, it has to be within ten days, because it is urgent.” Guru has never given me ten days to do anything! Guru wants everything now! He always did. I thought to myself, I’ve bought all the steel; it should take three days to make it, four days in all. Guru rang up and asked me when would it be done. I said, “Guru, I’ve bought the steel, four days altogether.” Guru said, “Very good, very good.” There followed three days and two nights with very, very little sleep — about an hour or so. I was working in a workshop about 8 feet across, by 8 feet, by 7 foot high, so when you flicked your helmet down to weld you were hitting the roof. In those days, Agni Press was very, very small; I only had a little area to work in, so I could not assemble it there. To build the length of the truss, I had to work in the passageway leading into the room.
Nothing was pre-assembled. Nothing was like I see Bishwas do things now — he gets it all to a fine measurement, all calculated out, and then he’ll make something and it will fit together. I just worked off stick drawings, and then made it, and if it went together, good. If it didn’t, I would have to quickly adjust it — but it did always go together! It just wasn’t that precise — I am not in that mind state. I had no idea of what I was building — weight, size, anything. Roughly I knew, in here [the heart] but not here [the mind].
There was a lot of cutting, a lot of welding. When you weld metal, you’ve got to see the two pieces of metal, you’ve got to see where the fire’s going, so you are down low. You’ve got to see the metal — both pieces— melt, and you’ve got to see the molten pool in the middle. If you don’t see that, you could be welding to the side and not joining the metal. One day I was welding away, and there was Guru smiling back at me. I swear Guru was smiling out of the weld — smiling away at me. It was such a nice feeling.
I have had beautiful feelings of gratitude, but I haven’t tried to express it before. The whole thing, the whole 7,000-lb. project, was like living in a dream because I knew I’d done it. I knew it was done. You know how Guru says that when he does things, in the inner worlds it’s already done. I knew this was done as if it was déjà vu and all I have to do is see it through. It felt like that the whole time. On the third day of building, Guru rang up in the morning because he thought I should have had it at the house that morning, and it wasn’t till later that evening that I could finish it. He was going to sue me in the court of the Supreme! We got to the house with all the metal, all the parts and all the weights — Databir was bringing them. I think he put so many weights in his car one time the springs just collapsed. Seven thousand pounds is like 3½ tons, and you don’t realise, until it is in one piece, just what that weight is. We got to Guru’s house, but I had forgotten there was a basement: we were assembling it on a floor with a hole underneath! We put down plywood to spread the weight. In the basement, we had to get floor jacks to make sure the floor would hold because the three and a half-ton weight was going to be right over that area — and then when Guru stood in the middle of it, it would be an even smaller area where the weight would be concentrated.
We jacked up the basement and kept our fingers crossed. Then we started to build the dumbbell in the house. This was the first time it was being assembled. Guru was there. There are a lot of people, always, involved in these things; Guru was always the happiest when Russians, Americans, Puerto Ricans, everyone, are all working together. Guru loves that — it is the happiest you can make Guru. I am bad at names, bad at remembering names, but every one of them I can see in my heart. A lot of people helped with these things, in the background. But this is my story! We were assembling it. I knew where I was in my consciousness — I was serious — I am always serious when I am doing big projects like that. A lot of people were happy and cheerful to be in Guru’s house and helping with the weights, but they were trying to go too quick. I couldn’t get the bolts to go in as we were getting to the end. This machine is four times my width; it went within ten inches of both walls of the gym; it was monstrous. We couldn’t put a weight on just one side of the dumbbell arm; you have to put on two opposites together. We put on five each side and then a little bar that hooked onto the truss, that would hold it straight at that point. Then another five at each end and another bar to hold the truss, and so on. But the people helping were trying to do it a little bit too fast, and it was a little noisy — I couldn’t concentrate. Guru came in at that time, and said, “Oi, oi, oi.” I was getting a little frightened of what could happen because there were boys everywhere, and if it fell — it was five feet up in the air — it was dangerous. But then Guru said, “Be very, very careful and be in a soulful consciousness.” I was trying to do these bolts up, and when Guru said that all the bolts just slipped into place, and all the finishing bolts went on. But it didn’t go smoothly until Guru said that; Guru put that energy there, and it went smoothly. When it was finished, we looked back, and we couldn’t believe what we’d built. We had to make sure it went straight up; the truss had to go straight up because if it tipped to the side, that truss wouldn’t hold anything, it would just fall and the whole lot would go. From experience, I knew that Guru always found the centre of the bar. Imagine that weight, it’s only hooked a little bit apart on rods and Guru has got to get his hand in the middle and then take it up evenly or else it will tip — and once it starts, that weight will just go. It was very dangerous. We finished around midnight. Guru said, “Go home, shower and come back.”
Guru was in the gym, we were in the next room, and I sat down. I’d been moving for three days and three nights, so when you sit down, of course, you go to sleep. I was very tired and dozing off. When Guru first started, his scream woke me up. The scream — then you look at Guru, and the power! You and me, we would go up to it and think this is a joke; you couldn’t move it; you couldn’t even dream of moving it. But here is Guru, with all his effort, 100 per cent effort, trying to push this thing into the air. Unbelievable! You’ve got to have no mind. Unbelievable! The strength that was there.
Anyway, I think it happened on the fourth attempt; I could swear I saw it go when I first woke up, I could swear I saw it move. I knew Guru would do it. And he did it. That was 1:00 a.m., and if the photos didn’t clearly show it, Guru was willing to lift it again at 7:00 a.m.
One thing about Guru — all the bodybuilders admired Guru for it — he’d do two workouts a day, seven days a week. You don’t do that! If you go to a gym, you work out your biceps one day, your legs the next day, have a rest and then go on. That’s how they all do it. Or they do upper body and lower body differently. But Guru would do two workouts every day, and because of his purity and meditation the energy just percolated into his body, just re-energised everything so that he could do it. His recovery was so quick. At 3:00 a.m., Guru told everyone to go home and come back for meditation at 6:30 a.m. I didn’t dare lie down; I went for a run, showered and then went back at 6:30. We had to sit in the meditation room, they let me sit on the spot where Guru stood to lift the weight —and I nicely went to sleep! Next thing someone is bumping me and telling me, “Come out to the porch. We’re having cake with Guru.” I didn’t feel guilty about sleeping. I was just pleasantly happy, and I couldn’t control it. It was exhaustion. But the gratitude that was inside of me wouldn’t stop, it wouldn’t leave. I was filled with gratitude. But with Guru, nothing stops. At 11 a.m., I went to sleep and at 3 p.m. we were to go to Madison Square Garden to see Carl Lewis — Sudhahota — run. Guru was non-stop. Before that, at 11 o’clock, when Guru said to go home and rest, Guru blessed me, and he said that I may never realise what I have done in this incarnation, but everything is recorded in the inner worlds.
After that, we had to move the plates to Progress-Promise. We undid them very carefully and got them all out of the house. So far, so good. Guru had a long day that day, and it wasn’t till late in the afternoon that Guru said to move the weights. So we got all the boys and trucks together, and we did it. But there was going to be a function that night at Progress-Promise, an early function. We had to carry all those weights upstairs. We had become very strong, 100-lb. plates we were taking up, plus all the equipment. We had to assemble it on the stage. When we got up there, we thought we’d better check the stage. Luckily it was strong — it could take the weight. We started assembling it, but we were racing, trying to do it quickly, because people were already coming into the meditation room at Progress-Promise. We got towards the end, and we were going a little too fast, and it started to fall. Luckily it wasn’t up five feet. Here it was just three inches off the ground, on a stand.
We realised then — there were five of us on the other side trying to stop it — and it’s like standing in front of a three and a half-ton truck running downhill, that you’re trying to stop. We couldn’t stop it. It tipped over and it bent the bar. That was the other thing, the bar was straight when we assembled it in Guru’s house. After Guru’s lift, that bar was bent. Where he pushed it, right in the middle, it was bent. I totally believe in my heart Guru could have lifted it right to the top if he wanted to, if he pulled on his whole strength — but how could we relate to that? Guru says he is our highest self, “Come with me,” and be like him. But I always felt, if Guru showed his true strength, we couldn’t compare ourselves with him, we couldn’t comprehend it.
But then when we asked Guru about that, why he just did that [short] lift, he said it was to create faith in the world, because there were people around the world who only had to be told that Guru had done it, and they totally believed it — there was no doubt. It was to create faith.
That falling over of those weights showed us how dangerous it was. If that had fallen over in Guru’s house — what would have happened to Guru?
At a celebration on February 14, Guru said (paraphrasing):
“Open your heart and you will be able to see the countless miracles that have been done. The heart is oneness, and this oneness-heart is all for you. And if you also have a oneness-heart, then I am sure it is all for me. Those who are with me, and for me, I am for them at every moment. Each heartbeat of mine is only for you.
“This is the happiest day of my weightlifting career.”
— End—
Notes:
See, Sri Chinmoy’s Miracle Lift
Copyright © 2020, Unmilan Howard. All rights reserved.
June 22
Sri Chinmoy, in bare feet, gets the feel of a newly laid track, near Aspiration-Ground in New York.
June 22
Sri Chinmoy with Peace Torch, UNESCO, Paris, France
Sri Chinmoy plays the flute at a ‘Lifting Up the World with a Oneness-Heart’ function at the Istropolis Theatre, in Bratislava, Slovakia.
June 22
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
A talk by Sri Chinmoy
at Botany Lecture Theatre, University College, London, England
Everybody knows about spirituality according to his own aspiration, according to his capacity and according to his receptivity. Since we are all seekers here, we are supposed to know something about spirituality and we do know a considerable amount. As a seeker of the Absolute, the Transcendental Supreme, I wish to share with you my own knowledge of spirituality.
In my view, spirituality means acceptance of life — acceptance of the inner life first and then acceptance of the outer life, the ordinary life. First we have to accept the inner life. Then, from the inner life, we have to discover and bring to the fore the light, peace and bliss from our soul, to inundate our outer life.
In my view, spirituality can never mean the rejection of life or the total negation of life. To me, spirituality means the true acceptance of life. We have to accept life as it is now. But we must not be satisfied with this life, we cannot be satisfied with this life as such. It is our bounden duty to change the face of the world. But how can we do it? We can do it only when we ourselves are changed within and without. When we are transformed, we are in a position to be of service to mankind. When we can live in the soul and not in the gross physical we are ready to offer our dedicated service to aspiring mankind.
According to my humble philosophy, spirituality should never take shelter in the Himalayan caves. Those days of the hoary past are buried in oblivion. Now we have to face the world. If we enter into the Himalayan caves to look for God, then we are deliberately ignoring the possibility of an integral change, the transformation of our physical, vital, mental and psychic life. Here on earth, amidst multifarious activities, we have to realise the Highest, we have to fulfil the transcendental Supreme.
Our spiritual philosophy tells us that today needs a man of action. Today’s man cannot build castles in the air. Today’s man cannot remain unillumined. But who are these men of action? If you say that men of action are only those who are practical, it is true to some extent. But really practical men of action are those who have the divine courage to drink of something vast, infinite, eternal and immortal. Men of action are those who challenge ignorance and are ready to fight against ignorance-night, those who want to establish the Kingdom of Heaven here on earth. Yesterday these men of action were all dreamers, but these dreamers were divine dreamers. In their case, dream and reality went together. Dream was the direct vision and reality was the manifestation of this vision. Yesterday’s divine dreamers are today’s men of action, today’s divine warriors. Tomorrow these men have something else to do — tomorrow they have to be the pathfinders and the harbingers of a new dawn, a new light. They have achieved Light; they have grown into Light. Now it is their bounden duty to reveal Light to the world at large. These divine warriors, these men of action, tomorrow have to offer Light to the suffering, bleeding and sinking humanity.
Today we are all seekers. What were we yesterday? Yesterday we were in the world of doubt, teeming doubt. Our mind allowed teeming doubts to enter into us, or our mind cherished teeming doubts and made us feel that doubting others or doubting oneself was the acme of self-discovery. Yesterday we doubted God’s existence, we doubted our friends, our relatives, we doubted ourselves, we doubted everyone.
When we doubt others, in the outer world we may not lose anything. When we doubt God, in the outer world we may not lose anything. But when we doubt ourselves, we lose everything. We lose in the outer world and we lose in the inner world as well. We become veritable beggars. The moment we start doubting ourselves we weaken our possibilities and unconsciously destroy our inner potentialities.
Today we are seeking infinite Truth, infinite Light and infinite Peace. Now where can we get infinite Peace, Light and Truth? Here, inside the spiritual heart. We talk about the Universal Consciousness; we talk about the Transcendental Reality. Where is the Universal Consciousness? Where is the Transcendental Reality? Where is the message of the eternal Beyond? They are not in the physical but in the spiritual heart. The spiritual heart houses the Universal Consciousness, the Transcendental Reality, the message of the eternal, ever-transcending Beyond.
Tomorrow, what will we become? Today we are seekers; tomorrow we have to become divine lovers. In human love we are bound to be frustrated sooner or later, but in divine love we establish our oneness with our Beloved consciously, devotedly, soulfully and unconditionally.
We have to offer to the Supreme in humanity everything that we have achieved on the strength of our today’s aspiration. Offering is our self-revelation. Self-revelation is our self-offering. When we offer our Peace, Light and Bliss, we have to know that we are offering it to our own ignorant, obscure, impure, unillumined part. We are not offering it to somebody else at all. Let us say that the heart is illumined. But we have to know that the feet are also an integral part of our body. The feet, legs, arms, hands, eyes and every other part complete the whole human body. Similarly, we can take the rest of the world as part and parcel of our being, the part that needs illumination. I do not mean to say that the rest of the world is our feet, far from it. I am only saying that a portion of our entire being is unlit or unillumined.
We have two rooms: the heart and the mind. The heart has achieved or received illumination. It is now obligatory on the part of the heart to enter into the mind to illumine it. We have to feel at every moment that the mind-room — which we can call with utmost simplicity, honesty and humility our unillumined part — is ours. We have to claim the mind-room as our very own, and the mind-room also has every right to claim us. It is we who have to offer Light from the heart-room to the mind-room. And from whom have we already received this Light? From the soul, which is the divine representative of the Supreme.
We who are here on earth have come from somewhere else — far, very far away — into the world arena. What did we do, what did we say to the Lord Supreme when we left our Celestial Abode? We made a solemn promise to the Supreme that here on earth we would realise Him most perfectly, and here on earth we would reveal Him, manifest Him and fulfil Him in His own Way. This was our solemn promise to the Supreme, and He was extremely proud of the soulful promise of His divine children.
But now we do not remember our promise. Now we may consciously and deliberately try to deceive the Supreme and go back on our promise because we want to wallow in the pleasures of ignorance. But He knows that our promise was sincere and genuine, and He knows that we shall fulfil our promise to Him either today or tomorrow, either in the near future or in the distant future. He has that Vision. But we have eclipsed our vision by deliberately making friends with ignorance. We are fond of swimming in the sea of ignorance instead of swimming in the Sea of Knowledge and Light.
Once we actually enter into this world we make an inner promise to our soul and to the world at large that we will help mankind, serve mankind and illumine mankind. In silence we consciously make a solemn promise in the inner world that we will offer constant and conscious service to humanity. Like a beggar, the world looks to us to fulfil our promise. The world looks to each individual to fulfil his promise, but we do not do it. That is why the world is suffering, and still caught in the meshes of ignorance.
Is there anything on earth that can help us fulfil our promise to the Supreme and to the world? Yes. It is called experience, divine experience. Experience carries us into the past. It brings the message of the past and tells us how foolish we were yesterday. Yesterday we did not care for sublime realities, we did not care for God-manifestation. But today we do care for God-realisation, God-revelation and God-manifestation. How foolish we were yesterday! Today we are the same person, but now we earnestly pray and meditate for God-realisation, God-revelation and God-manifestation.
Experience tells us something more. The mistakes that we made in the past can easily be rectified by virtue of our inner awakening and self-discovery. A room can remain unlit for years, for centuries, but the moment we bring light into it, it is lit, it is illumined. We can see that our inner room has been unlit for millennia, but that is no reason why it cannot be illumined as soon as possible. We can illumine it and we haveto illumine it. How do we do it? We do it on the strength of our inner cry, which we call aspiration. In the outer life, when a child cries, the mother runs immediately to the child. Whatever the child wants and needs the mother brings. Likewise, when we cry inwardly for the highest Truth, Light and Bliss which we desperately need, the Transcendental Supreme runs to us and fulfils us in infinite measure.
Published in My Rose Petals, part 2
Life
A lecture by Sri Chinmoy
at ABF Huset Stockholm, Sweden
Dear seekers, dear friends, dear brothers and sisters, I wish to give a short talk on the subject of life. This subject is at once most familiar to us and most significant to us. Each individual can claim to be an authority on this subject. So I am grateful to you for having given me the opportunity to speak on this subject and be of service to you this evening.
There can be a philosophical approach to life, there can be a religious approach to life, there can be a spiritual approach to life and finally there can be God's approach to life. I wish to discuss each of these approaches from the spiritual point of view.
Philosophy is of two types. One is the outer philosophy; the other is the inner philosophy. The outer philosophy deals with some philosophical books and remains exclusively in the mental world. The inner philosophy deals with light and divinity, and with Heaven and earth. According to Indian tradition, philosophy itself is vision, for the Sanskrit word for philosophy is darshan, which means vision. We envision the inner world that is trying to come forward and manifest itself in our outer life. This inner world is the world of Peace, Light and Bliss. The outer world that we live in is full of conflicts and negativity and destructive forces. So we pray and meditate to bring to the fore the inner world and replace the outer world with it. But from the strict spiritual point of view, it is not a replacement but a transformation. The outer world is not replaced. It is transformed and illumined by the light of the inner world.
Now, let us deal with the religious approach to life. Usually there are two main religious approaches to life. One is the occidental approach; the other is the oriental approach. Eastern religion, especially the religion of the hoary past, tells us that we need only one thing: liberation. Western religion, mainly the Christian religion, teaches us the message of salvation; salvation from sin. In the East, we learn how to liberate ourselves from the finite consciousness and enter into the infinite Consciousness. In the West, we learn how to raise ourselves from the sin-reality and enter into Heaven to enjoy our salvation-light. Western religion tells us that our body, vital, mind and everything that we have is impure. In order to purify the body, vital and mind, what we need is constant prayer. When we sincerely and soulfully pray, our Heavenly Father listens to our prayer and grants us salvation. In the East, since our goal is to achieve liberation from the limited body, limited vital, limited mind, we have to practise meditation, for liberation we can achieve only through proper meditation.
What is meditation? Meditation is our conscious awareness of something vast and infinite within us. Meditation grants us Peace, Light and Bliss. With this Peace, Light and Bliss, we enter into our body, vital and mind and expand and transform them into vastness. Prayer and meditation are two approaches that lead to the same goal. This goal is called perfection.
In the spiritual approach to life, we have to know that there is a true approach and a false approach. If it is a false approach, then we want to give up life. If it is a real approach, a divine approach, then our spirituality teaches how to accept life and be fulfilled in life. If the approach is not real, we want to leave aside the members of our family, we want to discard society and the world itself. We say that the world is full of suffering, that it is all illusion; therefore, we want to leave the world. But the real approach is totally different. In this approach we accept life as such and we love life. We know that the world we live in is far from perfection, but if we give up life, if we shun life, we know that the world will always remain imperfect. Therefore, we feel it is our duty to accept life, love life and transform life.
How do we transform life? We transform life with our inner cry. There is an outer cry and also there is an inner cry. When we cry outwardly, we cry for name and fame and material prosperity. When we cry inwardly, we cry for divine Love, divine Peace and divine Light. When we get Peace, Love and Light from above, we start transforming the world around us.
Finally, I wish to deal with God's Vision-approach to our life. There is no difference between God's Vision-approach and God's Reality-approach to life. We feel that vision is one thing and reality is something else, that vision is at one place and reality is at another place. I am sitting here and you are facing me. You are the reality and I am the vision. We are not sitting together and we are not inside one another; therefore, you as reality and I as vision are two totally different things.
But this experience is only on the physical plane. On the inner plane, we get a totally different experience. There we see God's Vision and God's Reality together; there we see God's Silence and God's Sound together. For us, God the Creator and God the creation are two different things. But when we pray and meditate, we see that there is no difference between the two; both are part and parcel of God the Infinite, God the Eternal and God the Immortal.
Our physical mind tries to understand what God is on earth and what God is in Heaven. For this reason, we have created two separate existences for the reality and the vision. The mind cannot truly understand or even conceive of two things at the same time. One thought must follow another. We cannot at the same time observe two things with the same kind of concentration; one is bound to get more attention than the other. But when we pray and meditate, not only two things, but countless things we see simultaneously. Also, our focus of concentration will be equally distributed. And what are these countless things we see? They are nothing but God the creation. It is through our prayer and meditation that God the Creator makes us feel that His creation and He Himself are absolutely one. We cry inwardly to go up and be with our Heavenly Father and then He gives us a smile and sends us back to do His work here on earth in His way.
Published in My Rose Petals, part 7
Video by kedarvideo
Determination
A prayerful message by Sri Chinmoy
given during a Peace Concert at Salle de Concert in St. Denis, Greater Paris, France.
Aum... Aum... Aum...
Determination. Determination.
My soul is determined to manifest God’s Supreme Victory here on earth — now!
Determination.
My heart is determined to love God the Creator unconditionally from this moment on until I breathe my last.
Determination.
My mind is determined to send my doubt, disbelief and suspicion into an eternal exile.
Determination.
My vital is determined to transform my undivine, restless vital into a supreme, peaceful and fruitful poise.
Determination.
My body is determined to liberate itself from its bondage-slavery.
Determination.
My life is determined to serve God the Creation at every moment in His Own Way. And I am determined to smash the pride of ignorance-night, once and for all.
Determination.
Enthusiasm feeds my determination and this enthusiasm-flood comes from the inner worlds.
Compassion feeds my determination. This compassion-rain descends from the higher worlds.
When my entire being is surcharged with adamantine determination, Mother Earth blessingfully says to me, “My son, you have my divine joy and you have my supreme pride.
Again, when my entire being is surcharged with adamantine determination, Father Heaven blessingfully says to me, “My son, claim me as your own, very own. I am all yours.”
Determination. Determination
Two Other Prayerful Messages
given by Sri Chinmoy
during a Peace Concert at Salle de Concert in Paris, France
Start 2:14
Peace...
Peace is my aspiration heart's perfection jubilee.
Peace...
Start 4:20
My Lord Supreme is telling me that when I cross the long river of self-oblivion, he will immediately bless me with His Infinity's peace, peace.
All three prayerful messages are previously unpublished; they are unofficial transcripts from the video.