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Consciousness
The human in us Cries and climbs And climbs and cries. The divine in us Smiles and descends And descends and smiles.  Consciousness Is the connecting link, The golden thread that unites  Our heart's climbing cry    With  Heaven's descending smile.
Sri Chinmoy from the book Union and Oneness (1976) Photo by Bijoy
Human love says to Divine Love: "I can't tolerate you." Divine Love says to human love: "Well, that is no reason for me to leave you."
Sri Chinmoy (source)
This moment The mind can be an unreliable friend. Â The next moment The mind can be infinitely worse: Â A despicable enemy.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, Part 22
I wish to say that concentration is practical; meditation is practical. We have to know that God, who is all Light, is natural. Only what is natural can be practical plus practicable. So from now on please feel that concentration is something natural in your life. Meditation is also something natural in your life. Feel that when you do not meditate, you are doing something unnatural, abnormal, unusual, because inside you is God and the effulgence of divine Light.
Sri Chinmoy (source)
The function of a Guru is very simple. He tells you, âLook, you do not know what you have inside you. Inside you is a safe. Inside the safe you have the most beautiful, most expensive diamond, but you have misplaced the key. My job is to help you search for the key. I will search for the key and find it. Then I shall give you the key and you will open the safe. As soon as it is open, you will see the diamond inside you. This is your divinity.â
Sri Chinmoy (source)
Sri Chinmoy, from My Christmas-New Year-Vacation Aspiration-Prayers, Part 17, (2003)
Humility
 Humility Is the expansion of one's real reality In a sweet, illumining and fulfilling way.  Humility Is not the helpless surrender To something or someone else.  Humility Is not a frightened child.  Humility Is real receptivity in us.  If we receive with devoted humility, Then immediately our receptivity-vessel increases.  Humility Is the secret of secrets  For self-expansion,  For world-inspiration     And  For world-transformation.
Sri Chinmoy, from Union and oneness, 1976
Every morning, when the day dawns, only think of that day. Think of how many ways you can make yourself happy, really happy: by doing this and by not doing that; by doing that and by not doing this. By doing and not doing, you have to make your life happy today. Do not think of tomorrow.
Sri Chinmoy, Live in the eternal Now
Divine warriors
If we are real seekers of truth, like divine warriors we will face the world and brave the world here and now. Who escapes? He who has done something wrong, he who is a culprit. But we have not done anything wrong, so we need not and must not try to escape. We have to feel that the members of society are like the limbs of our body. If even one part of our being is not transformed, then we are not perfect.
Sri Chinmoy, from The Tears Of Nation-Hearts, a collection of talks given at the United Nations
Photo of Rama and Hanuman taken by Unmesh in Hrishikesh, India. Source: Sri Chinmoy Centre Galleries.
The Flight to Yoga
This is a transcript of one of the first newspaper articles to come out about Sri Chinmoyâs teachings, in the New York Sunday News, November 5, 1967 (48 years ago). At the time, Sri Chinmoy was 36 years old. by Ed Wallace
Aware that there are fakes and highbinders among yoga teachers, as with everything else, we asked Chinmoy the cost of taking instructions from him. âMy fee is aspiration, the desire to know God; it is not money,â Chinmoy explained. âAfter each meeting, here in my apartment, the student may leave a love offering according to his capacity. All offerings are voluntary. Some people have come here twice a week for six months without leaving a dollar, but their financial difficulty is my financial difficulty. God has made one rich and He has made one poor, and since I am here to serve the Supreme in each seeker, I give them all the same energy and attention.â
True meditation, when eventually achieved, is said to be the most sublime experience man can aspire to and success depends upon the ability to free the mind of thought and reach a state of tranquillity where a divine intelligence takes over.
âFirst I teach concentration,â Chinmoy explained, âthe ability to beam the mind upon a single object or idea. We clear the path to meditation through concentration.â
Chinmoy is an extremely mild young man with a handclasp like the touch of a baby birdâs wing, and a voice that is a clear, audible whisper. He appears little interested in money, or else he has the softest sell in town.
His living quarters at 504 E. 84th St. are modest, given over entirely to his work and the fragrance of pleasing incense rises from a burner in the corner. On the walls are the familiar religious pictures relating to the life of Christ and others depicting figures and scenes from the Hindu religion.
âI believe that Americans today are seeking the inner spiritual life of yoga because it simplifies their outer lives which are so filled with complexities and emergencies. They come to me, not because they are drunkards, or because they are having family troubles, but because they hunger for self-discovery. âThey seek a reason for their existence and I teach them to find it through meditation. I meditate with them.â
There are five kinds of yoga, he explained:Â Hatha yoga, the physical exercises, and ranging through studies of breathing and breath control, the pursuit of knowledge, the development of love and devotion, and finally, Karma Yoga, the striving for selfless action.
As with all unfamiliar ideas, each is difficult to explain, although Chinmoy was able to define for us one aspect of his particular field of yoga, the striving for selfless action, and how it is pursued.
Selfless action means that a person will do his work with devotion, but having done that he will not concern himself with the results. The object of his work will no longer be to make more money, or gain greater fame.
âThe person who has achieved selfless action will know that the fruit of his labor comes from God and the results should be offered to God. A person learns to work diligently, but not worry about the outcome.
âAnd when we come to realize that with our failures we please God, and with our successes we please Him, then we have achieved Selfless Action.â Since such a philosophy is at the very opposite of attitudes that rule the earth today, I asked Chinmoy to explain what he does when he teaches his disciples to meditate, and through meditation to achieve such yogic concepts as Self-Realization, God-Realization and Selfless Action.
âOne method is the use of a word, some aspect of the divine, and it could be such a word as PEACE, JOY, LOVE or BLISS.â he said. âNow think of an endless train rushing past you, a train racing forever and ever into infinity, and as you concentrate on this passing train you repeat the word over and over until you can stop repeating it, yet you will continue to hear the word inside your being.
âAt this point you begin to have a realization of God and no longer think of him as a multimillionaire who could easily give you all the money you want to buy all the things you imagine you need.
âA few minutes of meditation can make the mind calm and when a person has learned meditation he can enter into a new existence here on earth, a condition where all is tranquillity.
âBut meditation must always be an alert experience, and we must be vigilant never to mistake drowsiness for meditation. For that reason it is best not to meditate in bed for you may fall asleep and, later, assume that you meditated half the night.
âWhen man has achieved the divine quality of meditation he can change his own fate. And when he can remain joyous in the face of both success and failure, then he is truly God's child.â
Some of which manages to sound at least a little like good old-fashioned horse sense, dished out in a more easy-going and productive era.
Transcript courtesy of Sri Chinmoy Reflections
Why do we disbelieve? We disbelieve because we are afraid of oneness, afraid of the vast. We feel that when we enter into the vast we lose our identity, we lose our individuality, we lose our very existence. But we forget the true truth that when we enter into the vastness, this entering is not mere entering, it is nothing short of enlargement of our divinised consciousness.
Sri Chinmoy, from a talk âWhy it is easier to disbelieve than believeâ
from Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, Part 42 (2005)
Sri Chinmoy was asked by a student of another spiritual Master to give his opinion regarding something the other Master had said. This was his response:
I do not want to pronounce my judgement when it is a question of something your Master has said. If you follow a path, you have to have implicit faith in what your Master says. I am a Master, and I expect the same kind of implicit faith from my students. When a Master says something, it is absolutely correct according to his understanding for his own followers and disciples, just as what I say is absolutely correct for my followers and disciples. So I cannot pronounce any judgement. If you have a question which concerns your own aspiration, I will say what is best and what is not. But if you follow another Masterâs path, you should have implicit faith in what he says. I have no right to encourage you to doubt him. If you do not follow his path, naturally you have every right to suspect or doubt a Master. There are some teachers who indulge in judging other Masterâs teachings, but I am not one of those. If he is a Master, he has every right to offer his views, because God is expressing Himself through this particular Master in a unique way. God is expressing Himself not only through this Master, but through each of us in a unique way.
My name, my age, my home
At last I know my name. My name is God's eternal Game. Â Â At last I know my name. Â Â Â
At last I know my age. My age is Infinity's page. Â Â At last I know my age. Â Â Â
At last I know my home. My home is where my flame-worlds roam. Â Â At last I know my home.
- Sri Chinmoy
from My Flute, a collection of Sri Chinmoyâs first poems in English. The photo shows the cover of the first edition, 1972.
World Peace
I have spoken about peace at many, many places; I have written many books about peace. But my writings and my talks, I feel, are of no avail. It is only when I meditate soulfully that I feel I am of true service to my peace-loving brothers and sisters of the world.
So please allow me to meditate on world peace. I wish all of you to join me. Let us together meditate on world peace, for it is only our prayers and meditations that will definitely bring about world peace. For our prayers and meditations come directly from our heart â the heart that unites us and makes us feel that we all belong to a oneness-world-family.
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Text: Sri Chinmoy - excerpt from Sidney Albert Interfaith Lecture, College of Saint Rose, Albany, New York, 18 March 1996 (source). Video: Sri Chinmoy holds the opening meditation at the Parliament of the Worldâs Religions in Chicago on August 28, 1993 (source)
It is good to be compassionate, But to whom? To the one who is still trying And not to the one who has given up.
Sri Chinmoy (source)
Advice on keeping the mind under control
You want to keep your mind under control. There are a few ways, but the easiest and most effective way is to bring the heart to the fore. The soul can control the mind, but it is difficult, extremely difficult, for us to bring the soul forward. If we can bring the soul to the fore, then in the twinkling of an eye the soul can tame the mind. Since it is extremely difficult for us to be in touch with the soul, we can try to feel the existence of our spiritual heart. Then we can invoke the heart to come to the fore and tame the mind.
In the circus there are elephants and many other wild animals, but there is also someone who can control them. In your case, if you can feel that your heart has infinitely more power than your mind, then it is easy to keep the mind under control. You have to feel that the heart is definitely, definitely stronger than the mind.
Each time the mind says something negative, immediately you will take the other side. Always be positive, positive, positive! Again, if the mind says something positive, please try to increase the height, the length and the depth of the positive thought. If you have any positive thought, immediately try to expand that thought. Please try to feel that your positive thought is going higher than the highest, farther than the farthest and deeper than the deepest.
Sri Chinmoy, from the book Only gratitude-tears, published in 2012. Photo by Sopan Tsekov, Sri Chinmoy Centre Galleries
