Sri Chinmoy's New Year's
Message for 2005

The New Year is the year of
The mind-astonishment,
The heart-government
And
The life-fulfilment.

Sri Chinmoy

Spirituality

The spiritual life:
Maintaining inspiration and aspiration

Saturday January 27, 2007 19:08

The 'Center' of the Universe is 'everywhere'

Without consciousness,
Time and space do not 'exist' ..

They appear within 'consciousness'
But have no 'reality' of their own.

It is like a screen on which
All this is cast as 'pictures'
And move - as in a 'cinema show.
The 'Absolute Consciousness' - alone
Is our 'real' nature.

Ramana Maharshi

Saturday December 16, 2006 7:57

There are no limits.
There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
If it kills you, it kills you.
A man must constantly exceed his level.

Bruce Lee

Wednesday November 8, 2006 6:18

Infinite Oneness

How can the 'infinite Oneness' ..
Be 'seen' ?

In beautiful forms ?
Breath taking wonders ?
In awe-inspiring miracles ?

The 'infinite Oneness'
Is not obliged
To 'present itself' this way

It is always present
And always available

When speech is exhausted
And 'mind dissolved'
It presents itself

When clarity and purity are cultivated
It reveals itself

When sincerity is unconditional
It unveils itself

If you are willing to be lived by it
You will 'see' it - 'Everywhere' ..

Even 'in' the most 'ordinary' things.

~ Lao Tzu-Hua Hu Ching 22 ~

Tuesday September 26, 2006 9:48

OUTER VOICE, INNER CHOICE

His outer voice
Ruthlessly frightens him.
His inner voice
Unreservedly enlightens him.
His outer choice
Triumphantly binds him.
His inner choice
Unconditionally liberates him.

Sri Chinmoy
From: Immortality's Dance

Friday June 2, 2006 11:35
New section starting for occasional inspirational, uplifting and fun stories, Self-Transcendence News

Thursday May 25, 2006 8:28

Where Do You Stand

Tell me
In a whisper
Now that you are blest
Are we to become strangers
Have the mountains lost their majesty
Now that all your fears have been laid to rest
Where do you stand when there is no longer a need to second guess
i have waited as quietly as the night that guards the desert
Was hallowed love truly the pinnacle
Of your quest

silent lotus

Sunday April 2, 2006 20:31

I want my mind to be
A God-lobbyist.
I want my heart to be
A God-specialist

Sri Chinmoy
From: My God-Hunger-Cry

Wednesday March 29, 2006 0:47

The source of truth is within one ..
he 'himself'
is the object
of his .. 'realization' ..

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Monday February 13, 2006 23:34
Best wishes to Jessica and Gerhard. Toi toi.

Monday February 13, 2006 23:32

The 'eternal Being'
is that state
where you have
disappeared .

~ Thayumanavar (1706 - 1744) ~

Monday December 5, 2005 7:37

The seed of all Things

Know me
as the eternal
seed of all beings.

I am intelligence
of the intelligent ...

I am the soul
that abides ..

in the 'heart'
of all beings.

By me is pervaded
all this universe ..

By me
in the form
of the unmanifest.

All beings rest 'in me' ...

Bhagavad Gita vii 8-10, 20; ix. 4

Monday November 7, 2005 19:47

11

The thirty spokes unite in the one nave; but it is on the empty
space (for the axle), that the use of the wheel depends. Clay is
fashioned into vessels; but it is on their empty hollowness, that
their use depends. The door and windows are cut out (from the walls)
to form an apartment; but it is on the empty space (within), that its
use depends. Therefore, what has a (positive) existence serves for
profitable adaptation, and what has not that for (actual) usefulness.

Lao Tzu (trans. Legge)

Friday November 4, 2005 23:20
This is my Song of the Week. Its called O kanai and is sung and played by Ranjit and Unmesh Swanson. I've been playing it for hours. Singing isn't perfect but there's something there that has touched me very very deeply.

Wednesday November 2, 2005 7:44

40,541

Those who run after happiness
Will never be happy.
Happiness is something
That has to come to the fore from within.

Sri Chinmoy
77,000 Sevice-Trees

Monday October 17, 2005 20:58


Shun asked Ch'eng saying, ‘Can one get the 'Way' so as to have it for ‘one's own?

Your very body, replied Ch'eng, is not your 'own.'
How should the 'Way' be?

If my body, said Shun, is not 'my own,' pray 'whose' is it?
It is the delegated image of .. the 'Way,' replied Ch'eng.

Your life is not your own. It is the delegated harmony
of the 'Way.' Your individuality is not 'your own.'

It is the delegated adaptability of the 'Way'. You move,
but know not how. You are at rest, but know not why.

These are the operations of the laws of the 'Way.'
How then should you get the 'Way' so as to have it
for your 'own?

Chuang-Tzu

Tuesday October 11, 2005 17:43

I the fiery life ..
of divine essence
am a flame ..

beyond the beauty
of the meadows ..

I gleam in the waters
and I burn
in the sun
moon and stars....

I Awaken everything to Life ..

Hildegard Von Bingen

Friday October 7, 2005 17:32
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Thursday October 6, 2005 7:33

The tiny particles
which form the vast universe
are not tiny at all

Neither is
the vast universe vast

These are notions
of the mind ..
which is like a 'knife'

Always chipping away
at the integral'Way' ..

Trying to render it
'graspable'
and 'manageable'

But that which is'beyond'
'form'
is ungraspable

And that which is'beyond'
'knowing'
is unmanageable

There is, however
this consolation ..

She who lets go of the 'knife' ..

will find the'Way'
.. at her fingertips ..

Lao Tzu - Hua Hu Ching 13

Saturday October 1, 2005 17:08

How can the divine Oneness
be seen?

In beautiful forms
breathtaking wonders

Awe - inspiring miracles?

The 'Way' is not obliged
to present itself this way

It is always present
and always available

When speech is exhausted
and mind dissolved

It presents itself

When clarity and purity
are cultivated

It reveals itself

When sincerity
is unconditional

It unveils itself

If you are willing
to be lived by it

you will see it .. everywhere
even in the most ordinary things ..

Tzu-Hua Hu Ching 22

Friday September 23, 2005 9:11
All in the Family Two men swim 200 miles in a 25 yard pool.

Thursday September 22, 2005 6:28

Man..
'what' thou are
is 'hidden'
from thyself

Know'st not that morning
midday, and the eve
Are all 'within' Thee?

The ninth 'heaven' art Thou
And from the spheres ..
Into the roar of time
Didst fall ere-while

Thou art the brush
that painted ..
the hues of all the world ..

.. The light of life

That ranged its glory
in the nothingness ..

~ Sufi Faridu 'd-din Shakrgunj - A.H. 662 ~

Monday September 19, 2005 9:14

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Monday September 12, 2005 0:03

Cambodia, 07 September 2005 -
Sri Chinmoy Honored with Doctorate Degree in Humanities in Peace Studies by International University

Sunday September 11, 2005 11:18 PM

Vedanta claims that man is divine. To quote the words of Vivekananda: “Man is like an infinite spring, coiled up in a small box, and that spring is trying to unfold itself.” All struggles, individual or social are the result of this attempt to unfold. When the struggle becomes a conscious effort, it is spiritual. As long as the ideal of life and of life’s struggles remain unknown we waste our effort and go round in a circle; and howsoever we may attempt to find happiness or freedom in our individual lives, or to bring the millennium on earth, the result is failure and disappointment. Through our failures and disappointments, however, we at last wake up to our spiritual heritage.

Swami Prabhavananda

The dart wherewith He wounded me
Was all embarbed round with love,
And thus my spirit came to be
One with its Maker, God above.
No love but this I need to prove:
My life to God surrender’d is
And my Beloved one is mine
And I at last am surely his.

St. Theresa of Avila

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Saturday March 31, 2007 6:31