At a time of great personal loss and the inability to fully express what this loss means, I draw strength, gratitude and happiness from all that Sri Chinmoy has brought into my life and the live's of his students, and his friends from the international community who gather in New York at this moment to pay their respects to the heart and life of this greatly admired and loved peace advocate and humanitarian.
Some immortal words spoken by Sri Chinmoy's I share with you all.....
"I know that God can be seen. I know that God can be felt. I know that God can be realised. I know that each human being, with no exception, will grow into God's transcendental Vision and His Reality absolute."
"When the soul's will power is expressed, it is like a huge wave in the sea. Immediately it inundates the entire consciousness. Once the soul's will is expressed, you are bound to feel that your inner consciousness is inundated with divine energy, inner joy, inner delight, inner power and confidence. Everything negative is swept away by the surge of the soul's force."
"God has chosen the conditions under which you are living your present life. It is like a play. The stage is set and the curtain has been raised for you to perform your part and advance along the spiritual path. Your present conditions are the best possible ones for your advancement."
"A spiritual person has found his work. His work is selfless service. His work is dedicated action. Indeed, he has no need of any other blessedness. His action is the divine acceptance of earthly existence. For this he needs a sound body, a strong mind, a soulful heart and a supremely inspired life of inner receptivity and outer capacity."
"At the beginning of our spiritual journey, we feel that meditation is self-effort. At the end of our journey's close we realise that meditation is God's Grace, His Compassion infinite."
"You are the soul, which is unlimited. Your soul is infinitely powerful. Your soul defies all time and space. It is your soul that represents the natural state of consciousness."
"An ordinary person loves the body infinitely more than he loves the soul. A spiritual person loves the soul infinitely more than he loves the body. Why? He knows that his body will last only sixty, seventy or eighty years, and then he will have to give it up. Each time he reincarnates, he is doning a different body; but he has the same soul throughout all his lives. He knows that the soul is the conscious representative of the Supreme, revealing and manifesting, in each incarnation, the embodied Truth on earth."
"I live on earth not because others are living here. I live on earth precisely because I have a special purpose, a mission on earth. Each individual has to feel that he or she has something special to offer, and this message has to come directly from the soul and enter into our physical consciousness."
"We have to feel that we were chosen from among countless people to run towards the Light. Others are still asleep. It was sheer Grace, God's unconditional Grace, that inspired us to come out of ignorance and look towards the Light. Since it was He who inspired us and invited us to join consciously in His cosmic Game, we have to feel that the one percent of faith we had in the beginning of our journey also came directly from God, the Absolute Supreme. We who have started walking the spiritual path are the forerunners. All will eventually run towards the same transcendental Goal. The majority of mankind will not always lag behind. All children of God, even those who are now unconscious and unaspiring, will one day run towards humanity's common Goal. This Goal is the supreme discovery of our Divinity and the constant and perfect manifestation of our everlasting Reality."
"A human being has many divine qualities. But there has never been another unparalleled divine quality like man's self-sacrifice, nor can there ever be. God's own soulful Message to humanity in all walks of life is self-sacrifice. The brightest self-sacrifice can easily ease and diminish the darkest trials and stresses of human life. He who is all sacrifice can never go through life as a failure. His is the perpetual victory. His is the spontaneous inner joy. What is to be sacrificied? One's life-breath. How to sacrifice? With the feeling of universal oneness."
"You want not, you must not, you cannot conquer the length and breadth of the world with your physical strength. Offer your growing heart to the hearts far and near. Offer your glowing soul to the souls around, below, above. Then alone you become the conqueror and possessor of God's entire universe."
"Everybody wants to succeed. Everybody wants to achieve personal goals in his inner life or his outer life. Everybody wants to be a better person, to make progress, to go beyond. And the best and fastest way to do these things is to use prayer and meditation along with the outer things that are required to achieve the goal."
"Real joy means immediate expansion. If we experience pure joy, immediately our heart will expand. We will really spread our wings, and we will feel that we are flying in the divine freedom-sky. The entire length and breadth of the world becomes ours, not for us to rule over, but as an expansion of our consciousness. We become reality and vastness."
"What we need is inner happiness. When you are inwardly happy, then you see that you are really making progress. Again, from inner happiness you can get outer happiness also. When outer happiness comes due to inner achievement, inner progress, then that outer happiness is real happiness."
"Deep within us there is eternal silence, peace and poise. When we are absolutely calm and quiet, we see that the inner life offers us its own energy. Our human mind may not understand this energy, because it does not originate in the mind, but our heart receives this energy from the soul."
“The world is for newness, not for oldness. New, new things we have to create. Then only the world will progress. If not, we will come to feel that there is nothing new under the sun. We have to create new things to keep our joy. If there is no newness, how can we have enthusiasm? And if there is no enthusiasm, do we make any progress?”
"There is no fundamental difference between one religion and another, because each religion embodies the ultimate Truth. Each religion is right, absolutely right, because each religion conveys the message of Truth in its own way."
"Each seeker is destined to reach the Goal, the Goal of the ever-transcending Beyond. Each seeker has an hour of his own, which we call God's Hour, God's Choice Hour. At God's Choice Hour, each seeker becomes a conscious instrument of God. He becomes inseparably one with God's transcendental Vision and universal Reality. The seeker prays, he meditates, he aspires; aspiration is his prayer, aspiration is his meditation. When he aspires through his prayer, he elevates his consciousness high, higher, highest to the transcendental height of Reality. When he aspires in and through his meditation, he brings down the high, higher, highest Reality for manifestation here on earth. Prayer, soulful prayer, reaches the highest Height; and fruitful meditation brings the highest Height here to earth."
"Life after death is inevitable. If there were only one life on earth, then it would be impossible for us to accomplish the things that we have to accomplish. God, being all Satisfaction, will not allow us to remain unsatisfied. He will always want us to be fully satisfied. In one incarnation we cannot fulfil our aspiration; we cannot reach the highest. So here we have life and then we pass through a tunnel which we call death. There we take a little rest and then we come back again."
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