“In the heart of oneness, there is no superiority or inferiority; there is not even equality. There is only oneness-joy. It is not a competition-game, but a oneness-game.”
– Sri Chinmoy. 1
“Real peace
Lies in
Inseparable oneness.”
– Sri Chinmoy. 2
“The heart creates oneness,
And oneness is another name
For spontaneous joy.”
– Sri Chinmoy. 3
“Humility is a secret
And sacred way
To establish one’s universal reality.”
– Sri Chinmoy. 4
“How can you never have any fear?
Only by having
Oneness, oneness, oneness.”
– Sri Chinmoy. 5
“From oneness
We derive peace.
From peace
We derive oneness.”
– Sri Chinmoy. 6
“What I desperately need:
Oneness-heart-tears
And oneness-soul-smiles.”
– Sri Chinmoy. 7
“My heart needs
Only one thing:
Constant oneness-expansion.”
Quotes on happiness
“Do you want to be always happy?
Then give up fighting
For negativity
And learn the beautiful art
Of self-encouragement.”
– Sri Chinmoy, 1
“How to achieve happiness?
Not by giving, not by talking,
But by being.”
Sri Chinmoy, 2
“You want to end your unhappiness.
I tell you, there is one way
To end your unhappiness,
And that is to end your constant feeling
Of unpleasant unworthiness.”
– Sri Chinmoy 3
“When the heart is happy it embraces the whole world. When the mind is happy it accepts the world as its very own. When the vital is happy it offers its very existence to the world. And when the body is happy it serves the world the way the world wants to be served.”
Sri Chinmoy, 4
“Here is the secret of my happiness: I keep the mouth of my little self closed and the heart of my big Self open.”
Sri Chinmoy,5
“I do not calculate
Happiness.
I only cultivate
Happiness.”
Sri Chinmoy, 6
“Forgive to be happy.
Forget the sad experience
To be permanently happy.”
“Be happy, be happy!
Unless you are happy,
Your outer life will not succeed
And your inner life will not proceed.”
– Sri Chinmoy,[1. Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 58]
“He is happy,
Because every day he tries to do
And actually does
A little more than he thinks he can.”
– Sri Chinmoy,[1. Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 92]
“If you want to be
Unimaginably happy,
Then be an unconditional
Smile-giver.”
Sri Chinmoy, 8
“Judgement does not have
The capacity
To give us true happiness,
But illumination does have
The capacity.”
Sri Chinmoy, 9
“If you are happy, it will help you to a great extent. If you are unhappy, you won’t make any progress at all. On the contrary, you will be marching backwards. Real outer happiness is not self-deception. It does not come from wasting time and indulging in pleasure-life. Real outer happiness is something totally different. It comes from inner joy and inner satisfaction.”
Sri Chinmoy, 10
“If our happiness
Is not mutual,
It is meaningless
And worthless.”
Sri Chinmoy, 9
“Happiness
Is of supreme importance.
When I am really happy,
I have no time
To find fault with others.”
Sri Chinmoy, 12
“When we are unhappy,
We speak ill of others
And do things we should not do.”
Sri Chinmoy, 12
“Only happiness
Has the capacity
To accept the whole world
As its own, very own.”
Sri Chinmoy, 12
“My mind,
Do not try to complain,
Do not try to explain.
You will be unimaginably happy.”
Sri Chinmoy, 12
“There is only one time
To be happy,
And that time
Is now!”
Sri Chinmoy, 16
“Of all the gifts
I have offered to God,
My happiness-gift
He treasures most.”
“There is a special way
To thank God,
And that way is
To keep myself always happy.”
Sri Chinmoy, 18
“The lives of so many human beings
Are governed
By superficial happiness.”
Aphorism cards on happiness
Related
- Short poems on happiness at Sri Chinmoy Poetry
- Poems on happiness at Sri Chinmoy Poetry
- Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 12 ↩
- Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, Part 04. ↩
- – Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 29 ↩
- –The Garland of Nation-Souls. ↩
- – Silver thought-waves, part 2. ↩
- Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, Part 07 ↩
- Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, Part 42 ↩
- Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, Part 05, ↩
- Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, Part 09 ↩
- The giver and the receiver. ↩
- Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, Part 09 ↩
- Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, Part 13 ↩
- Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, Part 13 ↩
- Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, Part 13 ↩
- Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, Part 13 ↩
- Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, Part 22 ↩
- 207 Flower-Flames ↩
- Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, Part 23, 22,484. ↩
- Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, Part 01 ↩
- I am happy United Nations Meditation-Flowers and Tomorrow’s Noon, ↩
- Excerpt from Be happy, Songs of the Soul, Agni Press, 1971 ↩
Aphorism cards
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Quotes about God
“God is with form; He is without form. He is with attributes; He is without attributes. If an individual wants to see God as an infinite expanse of Light and Delight, God will come to that person as an infinite expanse of Light and Delight. But if he wants to see God as a most brilliant, most luminous being, then God will come to him like that.”
Sri Chinmoy, 1
“God is infinite Consciousness, infinite Bliss, yet he can also assume a finite form. He is infinite, He is finite; and at the same time He transcends both the infinite and the finite. He is life, He is death; yet again He is beyond both life and death.”
Sri Chinmoy, 2
“God wants to express Himself in each individual in a unique way. When we become consciously and fully one with God, we not only fulfil Him but we also fulfil ourselves.”
Sri Chinmoy, 3
- The summits of God-Life: Samadhi and Siddhi, Agni Press, 1974 ↩
- The Vision of God’s Dawn, Agni Press, 1974 ↩
- Eastern light for the Western mind, Agni Press, 1973 ↩
Quotes on art
“Divine art cannot exist without spiritual freedom, but ordinary art can and does exist without spiritual freedom. Ordinary art is the art that plays only with colour and form, totally ignoring the supreme importance of the spirit and essence.”
Sri Chinmoy, 1
“Art is not something to be understood; it is something to be felt.”
Sri Chinmoy 2
“When I look at a painting, I try to feel its inner existence, which we call the soul. If a painting gives me an immediate inner thrill or a feeling of joy, if it touches my aspiring heart and makes me want to become a better person, then I feel that painting is meaningful for me.”
Sri Chinmoy, 2
“Art is human, art is divine. The artist, in his human art, wants nothing but success. He wants the rest of the world to be far behind him. He wants the rest of the world to extol him to the skies for his grandiose achievements. The artist, in his divine art, wants nothing but progress. He wants to make progress with the entire humanity. He wants to march along the road of progress with every human being in a oneness-smile. He does not want even one individual soul to lag behind. He wants all to run fast, faster, fastest towards the destined Goal.”
Sri Chinmoy, 4
“What is art? Art is simplicity in the body, purity in the vital, clarity in the mind, beauty in the heart and immortality in the soul.”
Sri Chinmoy, 4
“Art is at once evolution and revolution. Evolution is a slow, steady and unerring flight towards the ever-transcending Beyond. Revolution is a dauntless, sleepless and priceless fight against ignorance-supremacy.”
Sri Chinmoy, 4
“For me, birds have a very special significance on a spiritual level. They fly in the sky, and the sky is all freedom. So when the birds fly in the sky, they remind me of the soul’s infinite freedom. The soul has come from Heaven. When we think of birds, we are also reminded of our Source, and this gives us enormous joy.”
Sri Chinmoy, 7
“When you create a piece of art, immediately it adds to reality in terms of inspiration, in terms of capacity, in terms of beauty. If the artist is sincere and devoted, then each time he creates he is offering new life, ever-continuous and ever-transcending life, and entering into Immortality.”
Sri Chinmoy, 8
“If you enjoy art with your heart’s love, then automatically you are getting inspiration from it. But if you enjoy it with your mind, then you are stuck there. You are only measuring the art, judging it. At that time, even if you enjoy it, still the art does not come as an inspiration. But if you enjoy it with your heart, you are identifying yourself with the work.”
Sri Chinmoy, 9
“We can perform all our responsibilities as artists if we see the life-inspiring and life-fulfilling supreme Artist inside all our responsibilities. If we take all our responsibilities as opportunities and not as heavy burdens, then whatever we offer to the world is undoubtedly a devoted and glorious work of art.”
Sri Chinmoy, 10
“Art
Gives joy
To my searching eye.”
– Sri Chinmoy, 11
“Imitation
Is not art.
Newness in fulness
Is art.”
– Sri Chinmoy, 12
“My Art is no art
Without my heart’s purity.”
– Sri Chinmoy, 13
Footnotes
- Art’s life and the soul’s light, Agni Press, 1974 ↩
- Sri Chinmoy answers, part 03, Agni Press, 1995 ↩
- Sri Chinmoy answers, part 03, Agni Press, 1995 ↩
- The oneness of the Eastern heart and the Western mind, part 3, Agni Press, 2004 ↩
- The oneness of the Eastern heart and the Western mind, part 3, Agni Press, 2004 ↩
- The oneness of the Eastern heart and the Western mind, part 3, Agni Press, 2004 ↩
- Sri Chinmoy answers, part 03, Agni Press, 1995 ↩
- Sri Chinmoy answers, part 03, Agni Press, 1995 ↩
- Art’s life and the soul’s light, Agni Press, 1974 ↩
- Art’s life and the soul’s light, Agni Press, 1974 ↩
- Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, Part 05, Agni Press, 1998 ↩
- Sri Chinmoy, Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 19, Agni Press, 1981 ↩
- Sri Chinmoy, Sri Chinmoy answers, part 03, Agni Press, 1995 ↩
Quotes on tolerance
“It is in our liberal understanding of all religious faiths that we can hope to achieve tolerance. Tolerance helps us to a large degree to put an end to the age-old prejudices born of ignorance.”
– Sri Chinmoy, Source
“Tolerance is not conscious submission to a superior power. Real tolerance is compassion in disguise.”
– Sri Chinmoy, Source
Tolerance
Is a secret and sacred way
To enrich our human life.
– Sri Chinmoy, Source
I shall tolerate the world,
I shall.
Only by tolerating the world
Shall I be able to help
My mind to ascend
And
My heart to transcend.
Quotes about music
“To me, music is not something that we see. Music is not even something that we feel. Music is something that we must grow into.”
– Sri Chinmoy 1
“In the spiritual world, next to meditation is music, the breath of music. Meditation is silence, energising and fulfilling. Silence is the eloquent expression of the inexpressible.”
– Sri Chinmoy 2
“The excruciating pangs and universal pathos of music is the beauty of the earth-heart.
The transcendental music of liberating Light and immortalising Delight is the beauty of the Heaven-Soul.”
Sri Chinmoy, 3
“Music is psychic enlightenment. Music is the supreme fulfilment of the aspiring human soul.”
Sri Chinmoy, 4
“While playing, the seeker-musician in silence converses and communes with the Musician Supreme, his Inner Pilot. He learns from Him the music of the soundless sound. The music of the soundless sound is Eternity’s sheltering tree with Infinity’s inspiring flowers and Immortality’s nourishing fruits. What the music of the soundless sound has, is the involution of God the man, and what it is, is the slow, steady and unerring evolution of man the God.”
Sri Chinmoy, 4
“Music and religion are like the obverse and reverse of the same reality-coin. Music in its purest sense is religion and religion in its purest sense is music. Only music and religion can transform and perfect humanity. This music-religion, this code of life, this universal language of the soul, can only be offered; it cannot be purchased or sold. Music and religion are for the seekers, for the music-lovers, for the truth-servers. Money-power or earthly name and fame cannot lord it over these two immortal realities, these two earthly and heavenly treasures.”
Sri Chinmoy, 4
“Music can do much for the Supreme. It is a way to reach humanity and bring spirituality to humanity.”
– Sri Chinmoy, 4
“Music helps the spiritual seeker to go deep within to get the utmost satisfaction from life, from truth, from reality. The spiritual life, in turn, helps music to offer its capacity and its strength, which is the soul’s light, to the world at large.”
– Sri Chinmoy, 8
“When we listen to soulful music, or when we ourselves play soulful music, immediately our inner existence climbs up high, higher, highest. It climbs up and enters into something beyond.”
– Sri Chinmoy, 9
“Music will play a most important role in bringing about world oneness, for music embodies the Universal Heart, the Oneness-Heart. Music transcends the barriers of nations, nationalities and religions.”
Sri Chinmoy, 10
“Music embodies universal Light and universal Truth, and music also embodies the oneness-reality which we see in universal Love, universal Light, universal Awareness and universal Wakefulness.”
Sri Chinmoy, 10
“Music has to play a most important role in bringing about world oneness, for music is the connecting link between the One and the many and between the many and the One.”
Sri Chinmoy, 10
“When we hear soulful music, or when we play a soulful piece of music, we feel a kind of inner thrill in our entire existence, from the soles of our feet to the crown of our head. A river is flowing through us, a river of consciousness, and this consciousness is all the time illumined.”
– Sri Chinmoy, 9
“If one can play soulful music or hear soulful music, the power of his own meditation increases. Music, soulful music, adds to our aspiration. Similarly, if a spiritual seeker wants to be a musician, even if he does not have a musical background, he will be able to be a good musician because prayer and meditation contain all capacities.”
– Sri Chinmoy, 9
“Soulful music is the music that wants to eventually transform our consciousness. It carries us into the Universal Consciousness and makes us feel that we are in tune with the highest, with the deepest, with the farthest.”
– Sri Chinmoy, 9
“If we really play soulful music, we will see that we are just an instrument, that somebody else is singing and playing in and through us, and that somebody is our Inner Pilot, the Supreme.”
– Sri Chinmoy, 9
“Music is the inner or universal language of God. I do not know French or German or Italian, but if music is played, immediately the heart of the music enters into my heart, or my heart enters into the music. At that time, we don’t need outer communication; the inner communion of the heart is enough. My heart is communing with the heart of the music and in our communion we become inseparably one.”
Sri Chinmoy, 17
To feel the music
Is infinitely more important
Than to hear the music.
– Sri Chinmoy, 18
The music of the heart
Begins
Where the words of the mind
Stop.
– Sri Chinmoy, 19
Music knows
How to soulfully become
The illumining fragrance
Of Nature.
– Sri Chinmoy, 20
Related
Footnotes
- Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, Part 10 ↩
- Sri Chinmoy, God the Supreme Musician, Agni Press, 1976 ↩
- Sri Chinmoy, God The Supreme Musician, Agni Press, 1976 ↩
- Sri Chinmoy, Sound and Silence, Part 2, Agni Press, 1982 ↩
- Sri Chinmoy, Sound and Silence, Part 2, Agni Press, 1982 ↩
- Sri Chinmoy, Sound and Silence, Part 2, Agni Press, 1982 ↩
- Sri Chinmoy, Sound and Silence, Part 2, Agni Press, 1982 ↩
- Sri Chinmoy, God the Supreme Musician, Agni Press, 1976 ↩
- Sri Chinmoy, God the Supreme Musician, Agni Press, 1976 ↩
- Sri Chinmoy, Flame Waves, part 10, Agni Press, 1978 ↩
- Sri Chinmoy, Flame Waves, part 10, Agni Press, 1978 ↩
- Sri Chinmoy, Flame Waves, part 10, Agni Press, 1978 ↩
- Sri Chinmoy, God the Supreme Musician, Agni Press, 1976 ↩
- Sri Chinmoy, God the Supreme Musician, Agni Press, 1976 ↩
- Sri Chinmoy, God the Supreme Musician, Agni Press, 1976 ↩
- Sri Chinmoy, God the Supreme Musician, Agni Press, 1976 ↩
- Sri Chinmoy, God the Supreme Musician, Agni Press, 1976 ↩
- Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, Part 36, Agni Press, 2004 ↩
- Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, Part 22, Agni Press, 2001 ↩
- Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, Part 08, Agni Press, 1998 ↩
Quotes about life
“What comes to me
Unmistakably
Is what I carefully
Or carelessly
Invite.”
– Sri Chinmoy, 1
“Life has no limits.
It is the mind that creates
Life’s so-called limits.”
– Sri Chinmoy, 2
“The aim of life is to become conscious of the Supreme Reality. The aim of life is to be the conscious expression of the Eternal Being.”
– Sri Chinmoy, 3
“Life is evolution. Evolution is the unfoldment from within. Each life is a world in itself. Indeed, each life is a microcosm. Whatever breathes in the vast universe also breathes in each individual life.”
– Sri Chinmoy, 3
“Do not think of
Life’s failures.
Think of
Life’s successes.”
Sri Chinmoy, 5
“Nobody
Can properly understand
Life’s countless riddles.”
Sri Chinmoy, 6
“What is the meaning of life? Life is for the absolute satisfaction of God the Creator and God the creation.
The meaning of life is to become inseparably one with God the transcendental Bliss and God the universal Peace.”
Sri Chinmoy, 7
“Erase
Life’s blunders
With determination.”
Sri Chinmoy, 8
“Walk smilingly
Along life’s
Long road.”
Sri Chinmoy, 9
- Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, Part 187 ↩
- Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, Part 12 ↩
- Yoga And The Spiritual Life. The Journey of India’s Soul., Agni Press ↩
- Yoga And The Spiritual Life. The Journey of India’s Soul., Agni Press ↩
- Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, Part 48, Agni Press, 2007 ↩
- Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, Part 21, Agni Press, 2001 ↩
- A Peace-Collecting Pilgrim-Soul, Agni Press, 1971 ↩
- Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, Part 23, Agni Press, 2001 ↩
- Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, Part 31, Agni Press, 2003 ↩
Quotes on Courage
“Courage is absolutely necessary in the spiritual life. The very acceptance of the spiritual life demands enormous courage. It is only a divinely courageous soul, only a divinely inspired soul, that can swiftly reach the highest Goal.”
Sri Chinmoy, 1
“This courage is not the courage of a haughty, rough person who will strike others to assert his superiority; it is totally different. This courage is our constant awareness of what we are entering into, of what we are going to become, of what we are going to reveal.”
Sri Chinmoy, 1
“It takes great courage
To become sincere.
It takes greater courage
And greatest courage
To become holy.”
Sri Chinmoy, 3
“Our spiritual progress
Depends on
Our inner courage.”
Sri Chinmoy, 4
“To speak ill of the world
Needs courage,
But fortunately or unfortunately
Everybody has that courage.
To love the world
As one’s own,
Very own,
Needs courage.
Unfortunately, most of us are wanting
In that courage.
The courage of the heart,
The courage of the soul
We badly need,
And not the courage
Of the unruly,
Aggressive,
Impure,
Demanding vital.”
Sri Chinmoy, 5
- Rainbow-Flowers, Part 1, Agni Press, 1973 ↩
- Rainbow-Flowers, Part 1, Agni Press, 1973 ↩
- Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, Part 182, Agni Press, 1993 ↩
- Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, Part 42, Agni Press, 2005 ↩
- Union and Oneness, Agni Press, 1976 ↩
Quotes on humility
“Humility
Knows the art
Of pleasing
Every heart.”
Sri Chinmoy, 1
“When we become really humble, we offer more of our capacity, divinity and reality. Only by becoming humble can we become what we truly are. We become of greater use, of greater help to mankind.”
Sri Chinmoy, 2
“Humility is not a matter of touching the feet of somebody, no. It is something that has to be shared with the rest of the world. It is the God-life within us. The higher we go, the greater is our promise to the Supreme in mankind. The more light we receive by virtue of our humility, the more we have to offer to mankind.”
Sri Chinmoy, 2
“When you feel humble, you feel that your body, vital and mind are responding to your soul’s dictates.”
Sri Chinmoy, 4
“Don’t be a fool
And assume
That you already know
What you need to know.”
Sri Chinmoy, 5
- Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, Part 49, Agni Press, 2008 ↩
- Inspiration-garden and aspiration-leaves, Agni Press, 1977 ↩
- Inspiration-garden and aspiration-leaves, Agni Press, 1977 ↩
- The significance of a smile, Agni Press, 1977 ↩
- Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, Part 20, Agni Press, 1981 ↩