“Ordinary human love with its fears, accusations, misunderstandings, jealousies and quarrels is a fire clouding its own brightness by a pall of smoke. The same human love, arising from the meeting of two souls, is a pure and radiant flame. Instead of smoke, it emits the rays of self-surrender, sacrifice, selflessness, joy and fulfilment.” By: [...]
Archive | February, 2007
Spinning Through Time
Ashrita Furman recently set a Guiness Record for spinning a top – fastest mile. Ashrita was on vacation in Antalya Turkey with his spiritual teacher Sri Chinmoy. Read short article about Ashrita’s exploits: “Spinning through Time” by Vidagdha Bennett
Poems on Difficulties
When troublesAttack you,Just smile them away. 39,162 AdversityIs a disguisedOpportunity. 39,156 Desires and worriesare extremely difficultTo separate. 39,073 DepressionHas its antidote:God’s Smile. 39,040 Poems by Sri Chinmoy. From 77,000 Service Trees volume 40
Sri Chinmoy weightlifting
Sri Chinmoy is currently 74 years old but he still continues to practise his weightlifting. Sri Chinmoy sees weightlifting as an opportunity to inspire others, especially older people, to keep trying and never give up. Sri Chinmoy believes in a philosophy of self transcendence. Self transcendence is the attempt to go beyond previous limits both [...]
Function with Sri Chinmoy
Morris Klein shares some thoughts and observations from a meditation function with Sri Chinmoy in New York. “Sri Chinmoy commented that he felt that we can expand our heart by first feeling like we belong to our parents, and our village, then our town, province, country and then the world. He said that “When we [...]
Eternity’s Breath
“When I love a man, I live within his ever-blossoming heart. When I hate a man, he lives within my ever-torturing vital. Love has a power of its own. It can be used to see and feel both the lowest and the highest. The noblest love of man constitutes his purest vision of God. Love [...]
Poems on Sound and Silence
Sound teaches meHow to accept the challengeOf the ruthless world. – 34,341 Silence teaches meHow to love the worldAnd become the world. These short aphorisms by Sri Chinmoy are from a recent version of his Seventy Seven Thousand Service Trees vol 35. Sri Chinmoy is more than half way towards his goal of writing a [...]
Sri Chinmoy on Music and Oneness
This interview is from a press interview in Stockholm, where Sri Chinmoy was giving one of his concerts of meditative music. During this interview Sri Chinmoy suggests how music can be a way to unite people in a spirit of oneness. “I am a truth seeker and God lover and I know there are many [...]
New Biography of Sri Chinmoy
A New biography about Sri Chinmoy has been written. This includes a look at Sri Chinmoy’s early life in India. Sri Chinmoy spent 20 years in the Sri Aurobinod Ashram in Pondicherry, before coming to the West in 1964. Sri Chinmoy has lived a very active life, showing that meditation can bring to the fore [...]
Welcome to Sri Chinmoy News
Recently a compilation of Sri Chinmoy’s aphorisms entitled “Sri Chinmoy’s Heart-Garden” was republished it includes a variety of short poems grouped into different themes. An overriding theme of Sri Chinmoy’s philosophy is the importance of harmony. If you develop harmony with all, Then yours will be a heart Totally free from sorrow. – Sri Chinmoy
