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The Jewels of Happiness

Tejvan Pettinger — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 13:35:13 +0000

A new collection of Sri Chinmoy’s writings called The Jewels of Happiness is to be published – the book touches on themes such as inspired living, inner peace and creating inner joy.

The Jewels of Happiness is published by Watkins and includes a collection of poems, aphorisms and writings with wisdom for living a more peaceful and joyful life.

“Try not to change the world. You will fail. Try to love the world. Lo, the world is changed. Changed forever.”

- Sri Chinmoy (1)

“Joy, spontaneity and self-giving always go together. If one has a joyful heart, that means that one possesses spontaneity or a spontaneous heart and also that one is self-giving. Or we can say that self-giving is the hyphen, the connecting link, between joy and spontaneity.”

- Sri Chinmoy, The Jewels of Happiness

The Jewels of Happiness will be on sale from September 7th. In the forward to the book, Archbishop Desmond Tutu writes:

“These sweet gems of wisdom by my dear friend Sri Chinmoy are timeless truths full of encouragement, love and goodness.”

Everest Aspiration

Tejvan Pettinger — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 11:35:53 +0000

Everest Aspiration is a collection of talks given by Sri Chinmoy on the Spiritual life.

“Smile, my friends, my soulful friends, smile. Let us smile. True, this world of ours is full of suffering and excruciating pangs, but that is no reason why we should not smile. We must smile in order to unburden the world’s suffering-burden. We must smile in order to diminish its untold pangs.”

- Sri Chinmoy, Extract from Smile, Love And Claim – Everest Aspiration Part 1

You can also hear Sri Chinmoy read extracts from his book at Radio Sri Chinmoy – Everest Aspiration

Photo by Pranlobha, Sri Chinmoy Centre Galleries.

Featured Book – Emil Zatopek

Tejvan Pettinger — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 17:59:21 +0000

A photo capturing a meeting between Sri Chinmoy and the great Olympian Emil Zatopek

Sri Chinmoy meeting Emil Zatopek

Emil Zatopek was a great runner who achieved the unique feat of winning three gold medals at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics (5Km, 10Km and marathon). He had great determination and moral character. Sri Chinmoy admired the feats of Emil Zatopek and wrote a book in his honour.

Emil Zatopek: Earth’s Tearing Cry And Heaven’s Beaming Smile

“In the case of Zatopek, higher reality and higher divinity descended on him precisely because he had confidence in his own capacities and also an implicit faith in the vision and satisfaction of the higher worlds. On the strength of his unparalleled confidence in himself and confidence in God, he not only conquered the runners’ world but also illumined the consciousness of the runners’ world.”

- Sri Chinmoy

Excerpt from: Confidence is Good – Emil Zatopek: Earth’s Tearing Cry And Heaven’s Beaming Smile by Sri Chinmoy.

Photo by Kedar Misani Sri Chinmoy Centre Galleries