Posted under: Sri Chinmoy - Posted by Tejvan Pettinger on October 12, 2007
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I belonged to the sri Chimnoy group in Melbourne about !8 Years ago. I have sinced got married and my life has changed enormously.
I have alway carried with me the things I learned while I was with the group.
I have only recently learned of his passing and it makes me very sad. My husband was never apart of the group but things i have passed on to him he has remembered and learned from.
Thankyou for helping me find the inner peace i was looking for.
Kathy Croft
I am more than amazed when I first saw a documentary about him on TV. I think that his work is absolutely great, and I’m glad many of us let their selfs guided by him. It’ll do them just good.
Just a very small suggestion… I find that it would make more sense to number the tributes in the reverse order than what you have now. That way a tribute always has the same number associated with it rather than a changing number. Continue to display them in the same order as you do now.
from Ottawa
I have, only just now, learned of my Master’s passing.
Kindly join me in offering a few moments of silent meditation in honor of our Beloved Sri Chinmoy. . .
It is 5:52am on January 18th, 2008. My name is Joseph Cerna. I am an ex-disciple. Although I officially left Sri Chinmoy’s path many years ago. . . I never actually felt, inwardly, that my inner connection to Sri Chinmoy had ever been severed. To be clear, I left the path for personal reasons, not because I ever found fault in the path. Sri Chinmoy’s path was absolutely pure, innocent, and good. That period of my life was the greatest time of my life. I had the privilege to run with the Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team holding the peace torch high, as we ran through Amarillo, Texas in 1999, I joyously spoke with my Guru, face to face, in Jamaica, Queens, New York at Aspiration Ground as he handed me a blessed ice cream sandwich, I helped to advertise throughout Manhattan for a Peace Concert Guru held in Central Park, and I meditated with Aklilu Gebrewold, the Center Leader, in Austin, Texas as a member of the Sri Chinmoy Meditation Club. When the Buddha passed, he told Ananda, his greatest disciple, “Do not weep for me, be a light unto your self.” I know that Guru would have had similar sentiments. Guru was an Avatar. God descended to Man-status. He played the highest role a soul can play in the cosmic game of life. He lived solely to benefit the whole of humanity with his divine consciousness and surrendered will to our Absolute Lord Beloved Supreme (God). He was my Master. He is my Master. He will always be my Master. A great light has been extinguished only in physical form. For my beloved Guru, Sri Chinmoy, will never die. His teachings, like his fellow Avatars, Jesus Christ and The Buddha, will live on forever. As my Guru taught me, we are working with Infinity, Eternity and Immortality. Death is just like walking from one room to another. Guru, you are still alive in my heart and I will follow your teachings until the day, I too, return to my Absolute Lord Beloved Supreme. I am happy that I took a trip to visit you on your birthday a few years ago, in which I just happened to be standing outside of Aspiration Ground at the entrance when you arrived sitting in the passenger seat of the car which had brought you. And as you passed by me, with window down, only a few feet away from my face, you smiled and looked into my eyes with recognition and love. With folded hands, I, too, smiled as I mouthed, “I love you Guru”. This moment, I will never forget. I close this comment with an old Indian saying of which I feel Guru embodied perfectly, “When you were born you cried and the world rejoiced, live your life in such a manner, that when you die, the world cries. . . and you rejoice.”
You will be missed, but never forgotten. We love you Chinmoy Kumar Ghose, Sri Chinmoy, our beloved teacher, friend, and Master. Good-bye Guru.
Good-bye.
Mr Versatility.
… eternally.
la réalité ,c’est celle en laquelle nous croyons.et vous,maitre,vous croyez en l’eternité….merci encore pour votre lumiere.et merci a ceux qui m’ont rapproché de vous.Vous etes eternel dans ma réalité.
I feel blessed that I chanced upon Sri Chinmoy’s teachings. It has lent conviction to my perception of divinity and non-duality. I am eternally grateful for this opportunity to learn from a self-realized soul.
Jai Gurudev!
Soulful men like Sri Chinmoy are a catalyst to the evolution of the consciousness of mankind, to the point of liberation from all that holds us back from becoming divine.
What a wonderful experience it was being his disciple! Life provides many opportunities and I am so glad I answered his call. There are literally thousands of moments etched into my heart of being at many meditations with him, playing tennis and serving 100+ mph serves to him, running with him, laughing and joking over the littlest things! He would ask me to lift weights for him, competing with Teyjian and Bhima, and one time I was so nervous my arm went numb! In one photo I am struggling with a 200 pond dumbell just feet from him as he looked on, so charmed by the event! But the single day I reflect on most, was the dedication of Chinmoy Lane in Connecticut where I had the most spectacular experience of my life, completely inundated by his transcendental love. After months I can not believe he is no longer with us in the physical. So many visions and experiences! His gold aura filled the church at Stanford University! Many times I saw him encapsulated in blue light! I learned so much from experiences of his love and concern. Aspiration was so easy, just be there and enjoy his inspiration!
Love Prakash
Thank you for all.
sorry for any typos, etc in previous comments. LOVE still connects us all. Though I was saddened to hear of his passing from this plane of existence, which I am so very much attached to, I know he lives on beyond in realms I can only imagine the majesty of…Namaste, Jerry
Thank you for this opportunity to share my comments…on a great soul/being, I was fortunate enough to help illuminate my own life, and acknowledge the deepest longings of my own soul’s spiritual quest. Blessings forever, Jerry (please save this, and my previous comment) I feel forever indebted to this great man’s generous outreach to me, as a young, troubled man in his 20’s, who helped teach me how to live and practice a life of integrity…now in my 50’s, I only hope I can muster even a small portion of his grace and greatness in my own continued living…
I was fortunate to visit, meditate, and be blessed by the most honorable Sri Chinmoy as a young man in 1973 on a trip to New York and Connecticut. The integrity of his spiritual presence truly humbled my soul, and brought out my tears of longing to meet such a true embodiment of spiritual peace, love, humor, deep presence with dignified power, beyond the world’s definitions of power. I am forever grateful that this encounter, and abiding presence of his in my heart of hearts, which has stayed with me my entire life. I feel blessed to have had this encounter, and been shown the validity of true spiritual longings fulfillment. He was a true embodiment of his soul’s greatness. Much gratitude, and I know his presence lives on in the hearts and minds and spirits of all the beings he touched in his magnificent life. Words can not do justice to this great soul. May he live forever in the collective spiritual heart of humanity. Namaste, Jerry
My guru is still alive, in my heart, in my soul, where he always has been. He brings me the greatest peace I have ever known. peace, shanti, aum. Thank you guru.
I have come to know this day of Gurudev Sri Chinmoy transition from this earth. Sri Chinmoy’s bringing of Divine meditation & spirituality of the highest calibre in Oneness Heart unifying us under our Creator Supreme God message is now embraced by the whole world.
In the beginning of east being brought to west, spiritual aspirants had to seek refuge in heaven on earth places created by ascended Master Sri Chinmoy.
Now surrounding me are many gifted, enlightened souls easily available to me in daily life and many places to go that have spiritualized energy and there is a tremendous out pouring of light now on earth.
Heaven and earth have unified as are global aspiring humanity united in our belief and efforts to manifest Peace or our Creator in each heart on this earth.
We have achieved transcendence of Humanity, the beginning of a Divine Earth & Divine Humanity. As we transcend I know awaiting us, prepared is our new home where Gurudev is, ever beckoning us onward to the Eternal Beyond.
Thank You Sri Chinmoy
For You have kindle this flame within
Thank You Guru
For You have sleeplessly and breathlessly (as you like to say) show us the way
Thank You My Lord
For You have make us realise how close You were to us.
Just there deep in our heart
Thank You Master you make me realise that
My Master is my heart and My heart is my Master
We all know there is one way to thank you, it is to manifest to the world the authenticity of Your Light.
I admire this person because of his impact into the deal of peace
My Guru
When under golden wings I flew high
and when through troubled waters I did not sink
my Guardian Angel was there to push me up
…to pull me high
He was my Guru
When I seek enlightenment in the wild
and when through hard obstacles I survive
my Master is there to guide me
…to rescue me
He is my Guru
When I shall pass to another life
And when I shall face my sins
my Father will be there to lead me
…to save me
He will be my Guru
(to Sri Chinmoy with utmost love, Gennaro)
Guru, my beloved Guru, I am all gratitude, gratitude, gratitude heart……………….
Thank You!!
Your departure was so unexpected for me. Please forgive me that I was unable to accept all the light you had been giving me.
Dear Sri Chinmoy, these days I feel the whole Earth is saying goodbye to you and is giving endless thanks for your enlightening work. You are the aspiration of this Earth, and the blessings of poems, music, strength, peace actons and meditation you leave here are ever-vibrating in the hearts of humanity. Thank you so much for the Supreme beauty of your soul that had been incarnated on Earth.
There is sorrow and joy at the same time. Sorrow for you left the Earth and Joy for no more physical boundaries limiting you. It feels like an explosion of light.
Thank you, thank you, thank you… and oneness to all your children.
Master,
I feel you in my heart, but cry outwardly at your passing.
Gratitude and Gratitude
A very big Namaste,
R
You reached and moved me. Thank You.
Sri Chinmoy - rainbow in the sky!
Sri Chinmoy - soul who teachs us fly!
Dear Guru,
I’ll miss you but each time I look at your photo I feel your presence in my heart. You inspired the strongest devotion in me and your teachings changed my life forever.
You’ve been an amazing example of a life profoundly lived.
With Love and Gratitude,
Elizabeth
I had the honor of meeting Sri Chinmoy at a book signing.
His understanding of a higher realisation changed me forever for the better. Peace and God Bless.__TC
Thank you …
I always thought that knowledge will eventually help us overcome the world’s biggest problems, or, equivalently, the personal problems we have. Now I feel that wisdom is needed for that — wisdom from books that do not contain a single bad word, wisdom from songs that make neither sad nor agressive, and wisdom from paintings so peaceful and vivid. Without you, Sri Chinmoy, hope of the world, I would have remained a man blind in mind and heart.
Thank You
I learned how to meditate from his people and will be forever grateful. May all that mourn him feel blessed.
Dear Guru
Words alone cannot convey all that You are to the world. Guru Sri Chinmoy. His face and His smile lit up a room and awakened joy and awe.
His presence gave peace, light, love, grace, bliss,beauty,oneness,perfection that one only has to receive. He loved and will continue to love and guide His children and humanity in heaven. His Jharna Kala Art will live and shine eternally. Like a beacon of light He illumines The Path for all.
To know Him is to long be grow into His likeness and to know God.
I am grateful to share this with the whole world. I am grateful to have been in His presence and will always be grateful. Gratitude Guru your daughter Dudu
Thank you for helping me see that the perfect road is always ahead of me.
Run in peace forever.
Dear spiritual teacher, thank You for the most beautiful poetry I ever read and the most inspirational concerts i ever heard, You were truly spiritual supernova star on planet Earth!
Dear Guru
You showed me
that all things are possible with God - and more.
And that the mercy of God is beyond expectation.
For these no gratitude can ever be enough…
Yours
Ronnie
Dear Guru,
I was graced by your initiation in 1973, and will forever be grateful. You have changed my life, saved my life, really - in countless ways, seen and unseen. I have almost daily felt your Presence, your influence, your inspiration, your help. Early this summer in looking for songs of inspiration to perform at the local Vedanta Center where I live in Massachusetts, I happened upon some music tracks by Srinvantu, of which I was a member thirty years ago. I was immediately awash in tears of deep joy and gratitude. I remembered the melodies and sometimes every word of Your songs, ones we used to sing in the competitions, in times that I will treasure always, those years that were beautiful dreams. I cried every time I played or sang your music after that. Since then I have sung several of Your songs for kirtans and meditations, and these have always been very graciously received by the Vedanta Center members. In fact, it was during one of their ceremonies that I heard the news of Your Mahasamadhi - and I was so powerfully moved, on behalf of the disciples, my brothers and sisters for whom I felt such sadness - and because of my gratitude for Your bringing me so close before your passing from this world; another proof of Your Love and Compassion. I remember You as the manifestation of those qualities, and of genius; and as the unimaginable height of Consciousness.
Thank You, Guru. My whole life bows to You, is a song of gratitude to You - for sharing of Yourself, for coming to offer Your help, appreciated or not by this world; and really for giving us all a chance to sample the Nectar of Bliss, to inspire us all to go beyond our limitations, always. Namaste.
A few small poems in memory of Sri Chinmoy:
Soul Birds
Your joyous birds are singing a new life into being…
From the Heavens of an Avatar’s vision-eye they fly,
Far above the regions of the mind.
They are here for the manifestation of the Supreme’s height, to bring about the transformation of life.
Their divinity will soon rain down…
Right from the finger tips of their Creator.
I will find their fountain of creation and
Bathe my life in its eternal source of self-giving.
My life will be made new in His light;
Refashioned as bird of blue-gold light.
I will plant the seeds of a new creation;
My very bones will speak the truth of self-giving.
I shall follow the will of my Creator;
For I was fashioned in the state of His Rapture;
I shall place my life at his feet and be transported
Into his eye of Vision.
There we shall abide in sweetest union.
(You burned the seeds of events that I could not see, cleared memories of past and future lives that arose in dreams. Now you are making me a true human being. You placed a new heart in me, bathed with the breath of your Spirit. One simple prayer spreads out in the entire being, released from the cage of self, returning to you, in you. You will continue in those who love you, singing the God-surrender song for all eternity.)
Gratitude.
Life is just a game, we don’t choose who plays nor which way it sways .
We can not predict who wins or looses, only which
path our life cruises.
Patricia Jennison 2007
Hariom.
namaste, I had the privilage to meet SRI CHINMOY a few years ago. HE was very simple in apperance but
very exalted spiritually. He gave me an apple and
blessings . His physical pressence will be missed, but
his spiritual pressence will always be reachable .
HARI OM TAT SAT.
My Lord
It is by Your infinite grace that You have called me to You. Your power of Love, for me, has always been the strongest force that permeated all the outer endeavours. We are all so fortunate to bask in the ever shining sun of Your Love.
May we grow in this Love to be able to continue to serve
and Love as Your children to help build a world of harmony and oneness. Thank You so very much.
Yours Pranam
Guru Sri Chinmoy will forever be an inspiration
for pupils of all spiritual ways.Peace!
je me rappellerais toujours ces bons moments passés avec vous ou plutot en compagnie de la melodie de votre instrument…j’ai tant pleuré ma joie d’etre…seul je fétais l’existence….je vous remercis pour ces souvenirs.
(English Translation: I will always remember these good moments of the past with you or rather with the company of the melody of your instruments. I cried so much because of the joy of being….alone, I celebrated existence. I thank you for these memories.)
My Guru.
I have more to say,
but here is the poem Fireflies from Tagore where between the line is shining my ode for Guru,
this time only for Him, from all my heart.
Fireflies
Rabindranath Tagore
*In the quotation-marks is Tagor´s poem
‘I touch God in my song
as the hill touches the far-away sea
with its waterfall.’
Dearest Guru,
I touched God through Your songs
And will touch Him in the Eternity
With their flow.
’’The butterfly counts not months but moments,
and has time enough.’’
I still count and count my moments with you
to make my God beauty heart flower
ready
but they were not enough…
”Let my love, like sunlight, surround you
and give you illumined freedom.
Love remains a secret even when spoken,
for only a lover truly knows that he is loved.’’
My love
For the heart of God and for You
Will remain unspoken
And you only you will hear it.
”Emancipation from the bondage of the soil
is no freedom for the tree.”
I run and run away from Thee
To come back always
On a bended knee
”In love I pay my endless debt to thee
for what thou art.”,
My Guru.
When I have some problems wich I don’t understand it is best to think about Sri Chinmoy just without any reason.
My Lord Beloved Gurudev of my heart and soul,
Physically You are gone from us. Spiritually eternally You live among and within us deeply seated inside the temples of our hearts. Your Blue-Gold Soul of Light and Bliss Your gift divine. Your Heart of Love and Compassion-Feet our sheltering sky. Your Immortal Smile Transcendental the inner awakener of our gratitude-tears. YOUR MAGNIFICENT LIFE, DEEDS and LEGACY are our map, compass, reference point, guidance and guide, road, journey and Goal.
Grateful to the marrow am I for having been chosen by Your Grace. I carry in the very fiber of my being sweet, sweeter, sweetest memories of my life with You. You who were, are and forever will be all Kindness; all Goodness; all Sweetness; all Affection; all Concern; all Compassion; all Forgiveness and all Love to me way before my eyes and Yours met.
Before we met on the flesh I dream’t of You and saw Your Smiling Face every single day for a full year. At the appointed time the meeting of our souls occurred. That bright Sunday morn of the 21st December of the year 1969 in Miramar, Puerto Rico has been carved and sculpted in the deepest depths of my heart of hearts.
My heart and I were melted by Your Smile and transformed by the Light of Your Eyes. Your Divine Emanation engulfed me inside the Sweetest Love that could only come from a God-man. You showed me a tiny glimpse of HIM whom YOU ARE on that very first encounter. And I gave my all to You as You spoke Your very first words to me: ” I have been calling you for one year…” I felt quite convincingly the REAL in You. I knew in an instant that You were not an ordinary human being but a truly Divine Being. He whom I had been searching for since my teenage years and He whom I longed for in my childhood dreams. I saw in You my Eternal Friend, my Playmate, my Brother, my Father, my All. My faith in You and my love for You took birth that very day.
Thirty eight years later while in a trance-like state, among Your last words to me, You smilingly uttered:
“I love you! I love you! I love you!” Not mere words, for LOVE Itself spoke through You!
Your Sevananda
Guru You were always kind to me and my family. I appreciated that. You helped me in my life.
I will miss you very much and remember you always.
You were the best guru I ever knew !
gary
Hi! Although I only meditated with Sri Chinmoy in the early 1970’s for a short time he left me with a strong impression of his Samadhi states. Now he is blended into the World Soul and returned to the Source of All. Ashk (Spiritual Love) to All.
Sheikh Majid Buell al Mevlevi ar Rifai.
Sri Chinmoy - Ever deepest
Infinity in determination
Here grows the spirit of untouched inspiration towards peace for all
We live in the journey
(This tribute will be installed in a garden installation Anne and I are preparing on our property in Barkers Creek to accompany the “Sri Chinmoy Street” installation.)
My Dear Guru!
You are Light of the Earth
You are Consciousness of the Heaven.
We all very, very love You, Guru!
With love all our family - Zhanna, Larissa, Nina, Eldar.
Dearest Revered Guruji,
When you lifted me up on Nov ‘03 in Singapore,
I was inspired to perform in Raga Revathi a piece titled, “Manida Janmam”. After performing it on my Bansuri (flute) and having realised that the melody came not just through my fingers but from my heart instead. it was a radical change showered from YOU, the divine grace. You then lifted both my late mother (my source of inspiration in my musical journey) and myself again. How fortunate indeed I am to get this rarest opportunity by YOU who gave me an ‘ode to joy’ to perform everytime now from my heart. You not only being a great Guru, but all the human being in the highest senst of the term, much above and much nobler and who is the symbol of the glory of human life ~ Dearest Guruji, I’ve realised the devotion and dedication to music even more absolute self-surrender as my music is Thine.
Revered Guruji, as you attain Maha Samadhi, I shall venture further my musical journey with Thy Guidance and continue my humanitarian service to mankind that am always eagerly aspire to do so. That same Revathy piece which I performed in front of you was dedicated to you along with my senior students during the 9-day Dassera Festival in various temples here. as my tribute to YOU.
Hari Om!
The good old Yoga Masters are dead and gone today.
Beloved Sri Chinmoy was one of the last of the old Rishis from India. Old Narayananandaji (1902-1988) from The RamaKrishna mission, and Chinmoy (1931-2007), were the 2 best yoga teachers I have ever met personally. Chinmoy was a great musician too. We saw him in Oslo Norway two times.
God bless you people out there!
Long live the memory of Sri Chinmoy.
A very peaceful man with a good condition…
Om Tat Sat…
Guru Sri Chinmoy changed my life forever. Gratitude! Gratitude! Gratitude!
He was a gentle man with enormous strength. I had the wonderful opportunity to hear his poetry and see his drawings. His spirit will live on in all of us.
I was very surprised to hear of Guru Sri Chimoy’s Mahasamadhi.I personaly met him on 14th sept 2007 at New York.He told me “Everyones contibution makes the world more beautiful”.I belive his presence everywhere.
Love and blessings to all those who were touched by the life and love of Sri Chinmoy.
Arohanui
I have dipped into Sri Chinmoy’s daily readings for years now - the quality and subtlety of his mind never ceases to amaze me. His life was an inspiration to so many. A great soul has passed.
Dear Guru,
I love you with all my heart.
I have experienced no greater joy ever in my entire life than to be in your presence.
Out of my eternal gratitude to you for all that you have done for me and for so many others, i dedicate my life to you. You are my greatest inspiration, you are my eternal destination.
Let God’s Will be done.
mark english
Canada
Sri Chinmoy is a great man that inspire people around the world, he still live inside my heart and I wish to thank you for everything in my life! I will work to spread his harmony and inspiration. Thank you!!!!
GOD REST HIS SOUL
It was with sadness that we heard of Sri Chinmoy’s passing on. He was a source of great inspiration to my late Mum and of course to all his devotees. I know that although his physical being is not with us, his spirit resides with his many followers, who I hope will continue with his inspirational work and lifestyle. May Sri Chunmoy rest in peace and may he be in smiles in the afterworld, knowing that his work still continues with his through the many people he has inspired and given hope to.
I never saw Sri Chinmoy and also don’t know if he considered me a follower in any way but I miss him because he lived beautiful and light-hearted life.
for my Guru
Farewell
Sky`s quickly getting
deep dark blue
and rainy clouds begin to crowd
and raise up like giant crying waves
over my head.
Impatient taxi
waits at the gate
to kidnap me and take for my plane.
Again your face suprised at the gate -
yes, for a while I have to go there
and catch the last glimpse
of His earthly scene.
Look, Light alive is all present there,
singing , pulsating, silvering, flying
inside the Aspiration-Ground.
Dear Guru:
Just as you taught us to try to inspire others in harmony by showing that a spiritual life is something absolutely normal and practical, so in this moment I try to express my eternal longing for you in only a mere four simple English words: Thank you, my Beloved.
Israel Cordeiro
Brazil
My brother and I live in Cyprus and are not disciples of Sri Chinmoy. In 1981 we attended a group meditation in Queens New York. The Guru had just come back from his Christmas holidays. During the meditation he gave us the MOST important experience of our lives. A wave of light from his third eye filled the room, entered our bodies, our minds, our souls. It cleansed us and filled us with so much love. We felt like baloons filled with love. We think he gave us a glimpse of enlightenment. We loved everybody and everything. We felt so much full of wisdom. We even knew what infinity is. Our lives have never been the same since then. We still have his photos in our house and often pray to him. My father who is sick in hospital also has his photo by his bed. We never saw Sri Chinmoy since then but we both agree he was the most important person we ever happened to meet. Sri Chinmoy, even though we were not your disciples we love you and we want to thank you for everything. George and Petros, Cyprus
I’ll never forget everything I’ve learned with him. Let’s continue our philosophy: the acceptance of life for the transformation of life and also for the manifestation of God’s Light here on earth, at God’s choice Hour, in God’s own Way.
I am going to express my deep feelings of regret for th world, in these troubled times. as a disciple I EXPERIENCED A LITTLE BIT OF HEAVEN AT THE TENNIS COURTS. You changed my life, woke me up for that I will be forever grateful. deepest love and respect Nancy Mackay
Guru,
I is very grateful to you.
You are delightful in a huge measure.
You - the finest phenomenon which I saw.
What a sad thing to happen to such a great man. I hope one day he will be awarded the Nobel Price. I believe that the best way to remember him is to maintain the Harmony Torch Run all over the world.
Frank Macha, Sports Development Officer
Ministry of Information, Culture and Sports, Tanzania
In this important moment all spiritual seekers must remember, that consiousness is eternal. Remember Master’s words of wisdom about life and death. Where it is death? We can find the eternal life only.
And Sri Chinmoy is here and there and everywhere. And He will help his disciples and all mankind in the future - and ever and ever.
I express my deep condolences to his community. I had the opportunity to meet him in New York and felt very touched by his wisdom and in particular by all his work in favor of peace.
It was a great pleasure to know Sri Chinmoy, first through his writings and his music, then in person, when he lifted me to thank me for my love and support of his on-going work. He was a great man, who gave his energy, creativity and love in abundance to humankind. The world is a better place for his having been here, and we are better human beings for having been touched by his love, his radiant bliss, and his astonishing creative abundance.
The man was and still is special person. The body may be gone but his soul is very much alive. He will have much to say in the spiritual worlds for a long time to come.
God Bless you on your journey into the spiritual worlds. The world will wait in anticipation for your next incarnation.
Guru always said that we are all the same, that we are all children of God seeking something deeper and more fulfilling in life. Now, like the gentlest drizzle of a soft rain, and perhaps more powerfully than ever, our Beloved Guru’s irrepressible Love-Light is paving the way not just for me or you, His dearest disciples, treasured friends and self-giving well-wishers, but for the entire humanity.
My Beloved Guru I love You for all time. May Your Love, Your Joy and Your unparalleled self-offering shine brighter, brightest in and through me.
Forever yours,
Anubha
I am very sorry to know of the passing on of Sri Chinmoy. He has done so much to awaken mankind to the higher paths of life that can bring harmony and peace. You are all dedicated to the cause which has to continue for the good of mankind.
Swami Nirliptanda
Bharat Sevashram Sangha, London, UK.
When I first met Sri Chinmoy, I was a shy boy of 10 years, who wanted to defeat everyone with the power of my mind. Guru wanted to celebrate my birthday, but somehow I was too shy to look at him.
Then either that same year, 1988, or the following year, Guru requested to see me play my favourite game - chess.
Now my physical contact with Guru has gone full circle: When Guru came back from Mongolia this year he brought back a beautiful chess set, which he gave me as a birthday present.
On October 18, we said goodbye to the physical Sri Chinmoy, the kindest, sweetest, most caring person I have ever and will ever know.
His soul lives on. It truly is everywhere. Still offering guidance to those who listen. Still caring. The noblest soul I have ever known.
All I want is to keep listening, keeping feeling grateful and keep on the right track.
Suren
Sri Chinmoy was a beautiful man. His compassion and care for humanity was boundless and truly inspiring. My love to all in his community.
My dear Beloved Guru,
it’s been 2 weeks since you left the body… oh, oh the time passes so mercilessly, so mercilessly…
I remember the Friday after we heard the news we still can hardly accept with our minds… The whole world, the faces, the people I saw, the trees, the sky so grey, the whole world seemed to be sadder that day…
But Your spirit , Your presence, the very you, I felt YOU so everlastingly here, Your consciousness almost tangible, and all eternally calm. No one could deny it that day, no one can deny it today.
It is still all very unreal, a very strange thing to accept. But that’s what You have taught us - to feel YOU and Your teachings with our HEARTS. And that’s what it is - you are in our hearts . Mind has no proper explanation because the real in us, The Heart in us feels no loss, knows you didn’t go anywhere, feels you within and without!! And both, the Heart and the Soul know YOU are the part and parcel of our very beings!
Thank You! Thank You! Thank You!
Om Shanti
Namaste
Dear Guru
Words alone cannot convey all that You are to the world. Guru Sri Chinmoy. His face and His smile lit up a room and awakened joy and awe.
His presence gave peace, light, love, grace, bliss that one only has to receive. I am He loved and will continue to love and guide His children and humanity in heaven. Like a beacon of light He illumines the path for all.
To know Him is to long be grow into his likeness and to know God.
I am grateful to share this with the whole world. I am grateful to have in in His presence and will always be grateful. Gratitude Guru your daughter Dudu
In 1964 June walking across the reception area of the Indian Consulate in New York during a conversation I asked my shy quiet compatriot.’what exactly is God”? He answered “Isn’t it consciousness”? I stepped back and looked at him holding by breath. Many years later when I read another great saint’s life this answer
shone with the clarity and stamp of truth-certainty of one only with direct experience of pure Consciousness could have given.
What all happened between 1964 and October 11, 2007 will fill many pages. On October 12 standing in front of Guru in Yoganidra, my heavy heart was comforted by those two eyes which gently opened a little several times as if to recognize the friend who asked that question more than 43 years earlier.
Gratitude is the word I have learnt to spell and the meaning of which I am learning a little deeper everyday, from Guru
Eternal gratitude from one who was called friend, brother, son and disciple - shivaram trichur
asato ma sat gamaya
tamaso ma jyotir gamaya
mrityor ma amritam gamaya
lead me from the unreal to the Real
lead me from darkness to Light
lead me from death to Immortality
Beloved Guru,
A million pranam’s to You. How can we ever realize and be grateful enough for Your most precious gift, the real path to the real Self-realization. The blessing and love of a genuine Master is indeed peerless.
On we march toward
that ultimate merging, Oneness. The Beyond.
but i will still miss your physical presence. Your eyes were magic wonders that always radiated an other worldly reality. And Your smile was an absolutely Transcendental Delight. Many cherished moments were spent in Your presence.
One could write for eons and never be able to adequately express Your spiritual Glory. And who am i to say anyway, being just a single compassion glance of Yours.
So to You Guru,
I bow, I bow and I bow
At Your Lotus-Feet
taking shelter there
humbled,
grateful,
and blessed
Heart is patient enough to wait until physical pain
pass away… and wise enough to cherish Gratitude over and over again.
View: SALUTATIONS TO MY GURU - A poem by Manatita
1992. Revised Oct 25, 2007—-Manatita—-
I have a mostly silent and deeply personal relationship with Sri Chimnoy that started at Cafe Rainbow Silence Heart in Melbourne about 10 years ago.
At the time I was using their kitchen in the evening, after hours, to make curries to sell for my business Vegie Curry Man.
Immersed in Tao practices, which have at their heart, the principle of respect for all masters, I would bow 3 times to Gurus’ picture up on the wall before I started work. And every year I would send one of my Christmas cakes to Guru, usually delivered by Prushphuttita or one of the boys to wherever Guru was that year. After some time I asked if I could have a picture of Guru eating my cake for the purpose of placing it in my commercial kitchen. Two years of requests led to the photo I now have. I would regularly glance up at that image and know why I was cooking. One of my highest values is expressed in nourishing others.
A couple of weeks before Guru passed on, I started thinking that I wanted to move that photo to the kitchen of my cafe to reinspire me . Meanwhile my partner, a writer of contemporary fiction, was planning to come to the States at the end of January next year for the Associated Writers Program to be held in New York, where she was invited to be part of a panel discussing short-short fiction.
The possibility existed that I might come with her. I started thinking, what would I want to do that was important for me, if I joined her.
I wanted to cook for Guru. I could close my eyes and be moved to tears of joy imagining cooking for him.
Finally I realized that I could cook for him now, by imagining that I was, when I was working.
And so this is my bond with the guru that I have not met. Every day in my cafe that I remember, which is most days, I get to cook for Guru .
http://pupil-ru.narod.ru/sri_chinmoy.wav
Sri Chinoy
Guru of Eternity,
Lovely heart of joy,
Kind bridge from poverty.
I feel sad and surprised of Gurus Mahasamadhi.
Two days ago i felt his smiling compassionate presence inmm meditation, and today i found that he left his body. Its incredible, his power is a s strong o r stronger than before.
My gratitude to my Guru for his compassion on me. Drona
Dear Guru,
I will never forget the concert You gave in 1984 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. You meditated and then started playing instruments like the flute. The hall became inundated with this energy. It was solide and tangible. It was Peace.
Then I went toYour concert at St. John the Divine in New York City in 1987. You played the pipe organ.
It was so powerful. It was like Heaven was speaking to us.
Thank you Guru for all Your Jharna-kala paintings and Soul birds, Your musical compositions, and all Your poems and writings.
We were blessed to be in Your Presence.
love and gratitude, Anurati
16 years student
A thank you to one of my favorite teachers.
At a time in my life when I was so lost and and searching for who I was there was a lecture being given in my city by a man with a strange name and even stranger music. I went to the lecture and something happened that helped to change my life forever. For over a year I went to his center in Montreal and learned to meditate and studied his teachings which helped me on my journey. In the years that followed I went to university at the age of 31 even though I was a high school dropout and graduated in psychology 5 years later. Became a volunteer head coach to over 100 athletes for the Special Olympics for close to 9 years even though I had never even had given that thought to working with people with special needs earlier in my life as a drug addict. Became a therapist/coach and helped change the lives of countless young people and their families who were going through troubles that I had earlier gone through in my life. All I know is that Sri Chinmoy helped me help myself in my transformation from an selfish addict into a selfless individual who really cares about this planet and the people on it. I still remember so vividly when one night he came to me in my dreams and told me to stop recovering and to start living life and I did and so much has happend and changed since that night. I will always be grateful for the time you were in my life and the influence you had on me which in turned helped so many others through the process of me finding my true self and soul
Rest in peace my dear teacher.
Lorne
There are so many things I can tell the world about my life with you:
how you called me to you, how you thought me secrets of life, how you inspired me, how you loved and served me and the world, how you cured me from terrible disease, how you saved my life…
But the lesson that I treasure most is the last experience you gave me :
During meditation on Aspiration Ground I felt so strongly Your Living Presence in every disciple’s heart, in every breath we take, in every blade of grass, everywhere. Your presence was so strong, I could almost touch You.
Furthermore, I experienced that You/Your Being exists inside us and that it is You who lives in and through us, that YOU are ME and US.
I read this in the books and heard it directly from You so many times. Finally after this revelation I now know what You meant to tell us. You are now closer to me then when You were in the physical.
I offer You my Deepest Gratitude for this great blessing.
Now I know I can never be alone.
You always lived and continuing to live in me and others, just a heartbeat away . . .
The guru, I is very grateful to you. I admire with you in the maximum measure. You - the finest phenomenon which I saw.
Приветствую вас, ищущие братья,
Воскликнем вместе сердцем, что есть сил,
Да здравствуют духовные объятья,
В которые нас Гуру заключил
И коль уж так случилось, то тем более,
Всевышнего восславим вновь и вновь,
Именно мы Творцу по Его воле
Должны нести служенье и любовь.
О братья, не ослабим устремленья,
И слово Гуру примем как наказ,
Пусть бесконечные отвага и терпенье
В исканьях света не покинут нас.
Hello, my seeking brothers,
Let your hearts shout together,
Let as praise Guru who has joined us
With his spiritual embrace
Remembering this forever,
Let us praise the Lord again,
It’s Him who we should
Serve and love by His will
Oh, dear brothers, let our aspirations be strong,
And let Gurus words sound as command,
Let our non-stop courage and stamina
Stay while were looking for the light
The sky is still…The air deepens with sanctity.
Slowly, from the core of our being
Breathing as one prayer
We pour white sands of eternal time.
O Harbinger of the Golden Future,
Saviour of the Spirit,
Painter of a new consciousness,
Your Eternal Journey is resplendent in full Victory.
While I bow to Thee,
Avatar of all Eternity…
It is my Beloved Guru’s Eyes of Love,
Heart of Sweetness and
Feet of Compassion
That I adore.
Your Pratibha
Our own gratitude heart are all that matter.
For he last 13 days there has been a mixture of sadness and joy. Today a page turned to offer me only Joy. Guru you once said to me ” so much joy, so much joy, so much joy”
Forever your Son
Chanakhya
In 1994 I left Sri Chinmoy’s path. There is not one day, I didn’t think about it. It felt as if I had fallen. Since that day, I’m fighting my way through ignorence to refind my path. I still feel he is my Guru and never in my life did I meet such sincere, lovable people as on Sri Chinmoy’s path. Guru Sri Chinmoy, and his followers, have changed my life. I am very gratefull for the two years I was a disciple, the two most happy and peacefull years of my life. I am glad I was able to visit a concert in Germany, two years ago. Your passing was a big shock to me. You’re in my heart! Thank you Guru! Love-light, always!
SRI CHINMOY: SALUTATIONS AND GOODBY, FOR NOW.
SRI CHINMOY WAS A UNIQUE CHARACTER WHO CHOSE PATHS THAT HAD UPBEAT EFFECTS AROUND THE ENTIRE WORLD.
SRI CHINMOY WAS PRODUCTIVE IN THE EXPRESSON OF HIS TALENTS. NO ONE MATCHED
HIS ARTISTIC AND PHYSICAL OUTPUT.
SRI CHINMOY AND HIS HELPERS DID A UNIQUE SERVICE IN THE CONDUCTION OF MANY LONG DISTANCE RUNS ALLOWING MANY RUNNERS AROUND THE WORLD TO EXPRESS THEMSELVES RUNNING. THEY HAVE SHOWN THE WORLD HOW IT IS DONE. THEY ARE UNMATCHED.
SRI CHINMOY EXPLOITED THE HOURS GIVEN TO HIM. HIS TIME ON EARTH IS UNFORGETABLE
AMONG THOSE WHO KNEW HIM.
WE CAN REMEMBER AND APPRECIATE THAT SRI CHINMOY WORKED HIS MANY TALENTS
AROUND THE WORLD, TO BE SHARED BY MANY GROUPS OF PEOPLE ON THE GLOBE.
SRI CHINMOY CHOSE HIS PATHS CREATING A WAY TO LIVE BETTER. THE NEVER ENDING DRIVE TO DO THIS WAS GENERATED IN HIS BODY.
SRI CHINMOY HAD ENERGY TO BURN AND HE HAD NO PROBLEM SELECTING HOW TO USE HIS BODY TO BENEFIT OTHERS.
HE DID TASKS THAT GOT THE ATTENTION OF PEOPLE NOT OTHERWISE LIKELY TO ENJOY THE FRUITS OF HIS EFFORTS IN THE AREAS OF ART AND PHYSICAL ACHIEVEMENTS. PEOPLE COULD THEN TRY AND APPRECIATE THE ACTIVITIES.
(From one who appreciated the upgrade in peoples lives provided by Sri Chinmoy’s efforts.)
Ted Corbitt
New York Pioneer Club
10/13/07
I will always cherish the very first time that I came to Aspiration Grounds over 10 years ago. Ironically, if I had found out ahead of time that Sri Chinmoy would play tennis all afternoon against local disciples I might not have attended. On the one hand, I barely knew Sri Chinmoy. I had seen him, in the flesh, only once before at his 1996 New Year Peace Concert and as a fairly new disciple I was eager to see him again. But, on the other hand, I did not know any of the New York disciples and tennis was far from my favourite sport. So, for me, this could easily have been a boring afternoon. Yet, as time went by, my usually serious face was gradually “deformed” by a large smile and my heart was bursting with more joy than I had ever experienced! What was going on? Where was this joy coming from? My mind was baffled. After 2 hours or so, Sri Chinmoy shook hands with the last player and said, “I get SO MUCH JOY when I play…”
There are a million ways in which Sri Chinmoy has touched the lives and hearts of people from around the world. His soulful music, his Jharna Kala paintings, his spiritual writings, and his amazing weightlifting feats are but the tip of the iceberg. These outer manifestations give us only a glimpse of the inner wealth within each and every one of us. Sri Chinmoy has said, “The most important thing that a spiritual master does for his spiritual children is to make them consciously aware of something vast and infinite within themselves, which is nothing other than God himself.”
Our lives has been greatly enriched by his presence among us. As he has so convincingly demonstrated, it is on the path of the heart that we can run fast, faster, fastest, towards our Lord Beloved Supreme… Each step for love and peace brings us a step closer to God.
Normand Veilleux
OTTAWA
It’s unfortunate to hear the samadhi of sri chinmoy.He always worked for world peace by emphasizing the unity of religions.I express my sincere grief at his samadhi.May his soul rest in peace.
Friends,
Having the opportunity to have a considered Avatar, a GOD-realized Soul, on the Planet as one grows up in College…and beyond….as a source to answer the mysteries of the BIG questions…..my Father’s death….should one be goal-oriented?..or just BE?..etc. was such a boon to this Life-cycle for me, personally. Guru’s love of children…and the childlike in all of us, brought a special smile and dialogue from him as I appeared on “Sesame Street”!..and returned from Tour of schools and prisons in Russia, etc…..speaking in places like the informal Tennis Courts or the Norwalk Centre. His legendary Power, his Humor and Wit…will be sorely missed on the Planet.
He radiated, and will continue to radiate I have no doubt…in silence….the Essence of Being….to all who were, and are, ready to receive. Many of my closest friends have been of his inner community, and my relationships with John McLaughlin, Narada Michael Walden, Clarence Clemmons, and Carlos Santana began with him. I believe Guru’s inner INTENT was of the Highest of the High. When he blessed me specifically one day, in private, blowing all my chakras completely open…like a dam bursting….he brought about a spiritual “anchoring” and change that has helped me be a force for GOOD for Children and Youth Worldwide. I am Sincerely indebted to him….and though I have met other Spiritual entities personally….Muktananda, Satchidinanda, etc….it will be Guru I will call on for assistance when I believe myself to be in the most imminent spiritual peril. THAT is the finest and most personal tribute one can give.
Travel well, my Guru.
ROB THE DRUMMER
My heart is all happiness and gratitude that I could meet Sri Chinmoy on the earth plane and spend with Him most precious moments in my life.
His unconditional Love changed and saved my life.He inspired me and helped me to do the things that I could never imagine be able to do it.
I never forget His deep Eyes like infinite oceans of love and concern for all divine creations. His divine presence will stay forever deep inside my heart.
Dear Guru,
When God created you he threw the mould away. You are unique. There wont be anybody like you.
Guru is deep within us always. He will keep on distributing his peace and light even more powerfully than when he was physically with us. He will visit us in vivid dreams. He will be smiling to us that lovely smile of the beyond that we have cherished so much in the depths of our hearts. Where ever we are, He is. Where could he go? He is here.
for my Guru
Osiris
Isis or I
cried and mourned
over the dead body
of the Man
and we travelled
together
to the abode of Death.
Now He sleeps in peace
and new Osiris
secretly and sacredly
is getting His
Sun-and-Moon Birth.
Wedding of Gods
takes place in me,
again and forever,
forever again.
Most Beloved Guru:
You accepted each of us who came to you unconditionally and for all time, no matter what our limitations and no matter how deep our ignorance. For each of us you have both been and manifested the Light Supreme, inviting us to drink at your well and to learn through you how to become in ourselves the Light and Love and Beauty that you so abundantly, repeatedly and infinitely have shared with us. May I always bow at your feet for this gift, may I always see through your eyes and your heart the Infinite source from which we all come, may I humbly grow closer to that Source, with your ever loving guidance. Your Sunanda always.
In August of 1996, (in time for his 65th birthday) I had the honor of being invited to interview Sri Chinmoy at his center in NY and enjoy the lovingly prepared food at his restaurant called Annam Brahma. He was gracious and welcoming, with a delightful sense of humor, as a friend and I had driven 3 hours from our home in Bucks County, PA.
Some excerpts from the interview that still tickle me:
When he entered the room, I recall a feeling of surprise.; my impression of him was not what I expected. There was a sense of serenity that emanated from him, yet an air of grounded-ness as well. Not merely concerned with cosmic matters, he had his mind on the practical. After he took my hands and bowed slightly, he asked if we had eaten since our arrival. I told him that I was anxious to conduct the interview. He nodded in agreement, but responded “Then you eat.” His physical body was not waht I had anticipated. He was not muscle-bound, as I would have envisioned a weightlifter’s physique to be. Decked out in a pale blue workout suit, he cut a rather compact figure. While we spoke, he sat across the table, lightly squeezing a grip strengthener., alternating hand to hand. His eyes were closed a good bit of the time, but on occasion, they would widen in surprise or delight.
Some memorable quotes: “Inside my body is a soul, inside my body is God. So, I have to feed the living presence of God, the Divine in me, my Inner Pilot. That is the highest attitude. I am all gratitude to my creator.”
“Peace is something I get not by possessing, but by sharing. If I have an iota of peace that I share with you, then I will be happy. By loving the world the way mother loves a child…I love a flower, I feel that the flower is also loving me. Why do I get joy? I am getting something from the flower and giving something to it.”
He then honored me with this statement:” I am glad to be given the opportunity to be of service to you, to your Inner Pilot, which is my God as well. God brought you here as an instrument of His. Two days ago, I met Mother Teresa. In this moment, she grabs my head like this (He makes a motion, placing one hand along either side of his head, as if to bring it down for a kiss on the top, as a mother would do for her child). The next moment, she is playing the role of a sister. The next moment she goes like this. (He folds his hands in front of his chest in prayer posture and bows his head) She knows we are on the same boat, the boat of peace on the river of peace.”
A few days ago, a friend was in my office, and I was showing her a poster that hangs on the wall from a concert he gave in Philadelphia that Fall. He is gazing upward, serenely, as if listening to a call that he alone can hear. I honor this man of peace and compassion with a huge heart that inspires me and helps me recognize that when tapped into that Source. At the time, I had not known that Sri Chinmoy had passed. He obviously is still speaking.
Namaste
Edie
they all came
the world’s strongest man came,
the world’s fastest man came,
the nobel laureate came,
the buddhists came,
the bishops came,
the councilman came,
the president came,
the vice president came,
the congressman came,
the filmaker came,
the rockstars came,
the producer came,
the actors came,
the mayor came,
the christians came,
the muslims came,
the hindus came,
the children came,
they all came with the same intention:
to place their gratitude at the feet of god’s servant-unparalleled.
virendra
Dearest Guru,
I love you!
I first read about Sri Chinmoy on the album cover of “Love, Devotion and Surrender” by Mahavishnu John McLaughlin and Carlos Santana - one of my favorite albums of all time.
I first learned to meditate at a Sri Chinmoy Center in Chicago back in 1974.
Although I never formally called myself a disciple of Sri Chinmoy - I consider him to be my first “Real” Guru.
I met him three times and each time I experienced a sensation like waves of peace and love flowing from his very presence.
I’m sorry to see him leave this earthly plane - but I know that he’s now united with eternity.
Thank you Sri Chinmoy.
I express my feeling with my poetry and composition (mp3 file)
to view long poem The Universal Peace Prize submitted by Elzbieta
Dear Guru,
At our meditation centre in Amsterdam, we held a service for you on the day of your burial.There were many flowers.
We we were very happy to receive your strength, grace and light after you have left your body.
There was great strength in that meditation
The day of your burial, two beautiful huge rainbows were appearing in the sky above Amsterdam.
Gratitude gratitude gratitude.
Greetje Hoekstra
For 20 years I glimpsed my ultimate Pied Piper, appearing and disappearing amid the intricacies of my life, faintly whispering an invitation to follow his unearthly and haunting life melodies. Finally, the most prolific life-musician who has ever lived chose His hour to call me for my life and soul’s shaping and aspiring elevation. I responded in disbelief, awe and gratitude. Now the flute is returned to its case; the music lives on in a never before seen world transformation rate of possibility. Still in awe and wonder.
Today I sought some refuge in on of your books. Oh, how beautiful. Spiritually restless after some reading and meditation I decided to visit this site and was made aware of your passing.
I had been longing to meet you, and for a moment today I was a bit sadden that I never had.
But the following instant there was great closure knowing that you are exactly where you belong.
Not only did you touched my heart, you taught me how to open it. There is no doubt that with your teachings I have made great spiritual progress, as have many others.
Eternal Thanks be to the Supreme for the gift of such a Loving and Compassionate Soul.
For your service to the Lord and to all life you have been Blessed to reside in His Divine Abode.
I Thank you, I Love You and I will see you someday, hopefully soon.
My thoughts are constantly with you and all who love Guru. His spirit drives us more than ever.
Peace and love to all.
Dearest Guru,
Eternally we´ll remember You!
Maria Elena & Marcelo
Remembering the New York Disciples of Sri Chinmoy
Gratitude, Dearly Beloved Ones,
You have become One, have blended well.
Here you serve diligently, assiduously, lovingly and prayerfully,
For your Masters Cause.
Your sense of loss, I feel, even
Deeper than my own.
And yet, the paradox, of joy in mourning,
Burns stronger still
At the Aspiration-Ground.
O Bliss Supreme!! do permeate
Our Hearts and Souls divine.
Make us as brothers-sisters free,
Without repose, to serve you till Eternity.
—- Manatita —October 21st 2007
A Million Years
A million years ago, I danced around in the lustre of countless hallowed dreams. Why, then, do we cry? Why not go forward, remembering the message of the past.
No decay nor destruction nor the countless earthly toils of pain as we weather the storms within. Strive, strive towards the fulfillment of the children’s dreams and the ones who have seen.
I know, I was told once long ago, as the rolling green hill lay beyond me, I cast my shadow away, only to hear myself hearken back to the message of the past.
A million years from now, I will still remain, evergreen, as the echo of the words surround me. To serve Him throughout eternity, our souls a promise made. A promise kept.
And as we once were, now we still are, and will ever be.
In me the dream he breathes, now, and forever.
O Great Master, O Great Father Divine!
Only You dedicated Your entire holy earthly Life to the progress of Your dear spiritual children in this world.
Keep all of us inside Your vast and compassionate Heart forever.
Gratitude,
Lena
Dear Guruji,
I love you, love you, love you only…
For your Love-Light shines in my heart and will shine forever.
No words can express my feelings for You and Your World-Transformation Mission. Blessed are those who lived and still live in the spirit of Your Divine Teachings.
Aum. Aum.Aum.
O My Beloved Guru,
Though You breathe no more,
Yet, Your very life-breath keeps me alive.
Though You talk no more,
Yet, Your Transcendental silently speaks to strive.
Though You smile no more,
Your every memory is an eternal-joy-dive.
Though You draw no more,
Yet, Mother Earth today, has absorbed Jharna-Kala to thrive.
Though You sing no more,
Yet, Your Voice-melody-etch in my heart says:
“Keep singing, keep singing
God will soon be arriving.”
!!Jai Guru!!
This simple God-loving man served his countryman and his global family with his utmost love, sincerity and devotion. He spontaneously, soulfully and fearlessly challenged with all of his physical might, heart’s strength, creative ability and determination all that was placed before him, for only one reason: to show us all just what can be achieved when we live a prayerful and meditative life in full service to God and mankind through the soul’s infinite capacities. He devoted his life to serving his dream of promoting humanity’s oneness, unconditional love and compassion.
His selfless example inspired by an inner directive to constantly transcend all that he had previously achieved saw him lift the heart’s , spirit and aspiration of God-lovers. His lasting legacy shall endure for all time and be there as a constant reminder to us all, if we use the limited and separative mind and feel tired, lazy, unsure, hesitant or doubtful.
Full tribute at: http://www.srichinmoybooks.com/sri_chinmoy/tribute_sri_chinmoy
Sahayak Plowman
Only once in a thousand years comes a man truly dedicated to peace and harmony amongst nations.He gave hope where there was no hope.What is important now is not to stop but to continue to do the plan of life
that we were taught to do.Meet, Congregate, play his music,read his poems,meditate,strive for athletic fitness.
Remember the body is the Temple of God.May God Bless Sri Chimnoy.Be Happy for him.For Sri is in HIS hands.
How can we be unhappy? We could live on earth exactly at the time of Sri Chinmoy’s presence and his vision could and can be continuously devoured to our heart`s content. The reason why my soul took this most precious incarnation is that I can learn how to approach and love God sincerely, soulfully and unconditionally. I wish that the essence of Guru’s teaching will unfold like petals of a rose and that Mother Earth will absorb it fully over the time.
Dearest Guru Sri Chinmoy
You changed my life completely.
For this I will always be grateful to You.
Sri Chinmoy will be sadly missed by his disciples and anyone whose heart he has touched. Through his spiritual teachings, he has made us aware of our Supreme, our God and our inner pilot who are one and the same.
He ranks among the greatest spiritual teachers that have ever graced this earth.
He has recently been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, which in our opinion, he has earned many times over for his good works toward achieving lasting peace in the world.
He will live for ever in the hearts of his disciples and will continue to be concerned about our spiritual well
being as he has promised.
A righteous soul to earth descends,
Save for one purpose:
Manifesting divinity’s light.
God-seekers gather
To listen,
To learn,
To achieve the ultimate goal.
Their required passport —
Aspiration.
Light-flooded eyes arrow —
Longing hearts.
Peace-bound consciousness transmissible.
Joy attainment,
Happiness compass,
Imbued gratitude.
Your presence, our redemption.
Alas! Fleeting time has no compassion.
Too soon,
Too soon.
The silver thread disconnects.
Good-bye forever?
No, never, ever
Good-bye.
In golden light
God’s arms receive and enfold you.
Our oneness-hearts
Connect to your inner guidance,
Forever enjoying victory dance.
With gratitude, Anasuya
Montreal, Canada
Pearls of Light infinite radiate
This unique Truth
Sri Chinmoy’s love, devotion and surrender-life
Will reverberate in the heart of our planet earth
For centuries to come.
Like the seeds from so many Peace Concerts,
His musical Love-offerings will blossom
In life”s own timeline.
Sri Chinmoy’s artistic pen name
CKG the creative artist
Gave birth to the fountain-art “Jharna-Kala”
Producing and innundating the art world with
Millions of delightful Soul-birds.
His thousands of melodious songs will flow
Like an endless river
In the heart-core of every loving seeker.
The wisdom-Light of His mantric poetry
Will give hope, comfort and joy to present and
Future generations.
The silence of our beloved, Guru Sri Chinmoy
Will speak unendingly through the goodness
Of each and every human being.
The end of Sri Chinmoy’s physical life
Is the beginning of a very special descent
Of a new force-
Silent, free, and in essence
Of the Supreme’s consciousness
In its very nature.
We bow to the One full of divine-consciousness
In eternal gratitude.
Sri Chinmoy’s following quote summarizes
The depth of his message:
“Man eternal question is:
‘Who is God?’
God’s immediate answer is:
‘My child, who else is God,
If not you?’”
We His children of Light
Pray His message Supreme will be
With us forever and ever.
Vidura
Montreal, Canada
35 priviledged years with My beloved Guru
On Mother-Earth
As there is only light Sri Chimnoy is eternal and it is an honor to be represented here on the poetic pages of poetseers along side him in the oneness.
Sri Chinmoy,
I was so grateful to thank you in person in Munich for helping me when you visited Cape Town. I had lost hope and you gave me hope. Thank you for your friendship ,for putting your life down for the cause of Peace. Peace is not the absence of wars but a flood of love into the human family. You are that flood of love and may the peace that you radiated be reflected in the hearts of all those you have touched. The past is dust and my own gratitude heart is all that matters. Thank you for teaching me so much and enlightening me. Shanti Shanti Shanti
My Dearest Guru,
I gave you my children, my precious jewels, and placed them at Your Feet when they were one month and 2 years old.
Your Narendra, “King among men, Supreme among men,” whose golden curls fell gently to his shoulders, and Your Durdam, “Indomitable Divine Warrior,” who wrestled You into a headlock and later wiped away Your tears.
My joy knew no bounds as I watched them gaze into Your eyes, Your image reflecting on their young faces.
Two brothers, dressed alike, who belonged to You and to each other. You were more father than I was mother.
My boys are grown up now. Your Light is brighter in their eyes than my pride.
Thank you, Guru, for Your Love, Your Compassion, Your Concern, Your Pride, Your Blessings and Your Joy. We will share Your Love with the whole world. I will not fail You.
Your spiritual daughter of 37 years,
Gayatri
When I heard of Sri Chinmoy’s passing, a tremendous shock wave propagated through my entire being. I have been most fortunate to be his student for the last 17 years. Out of his unconditional love and compassion, he has done so very much in a tangible visible way for me and my family. I shall be eternally grateful to you, my beloved Guru.
Long will we miss our beloved Guru and his life of leadership by example of righteous God loving and God serving ceaseless devotion. Long will we cherish the memories of being with him in person. Long will we feel his eternal presence and guidance. Jai, Jai,and Jai Gurudeva.
I sent this letter to the New York Times :
The liberal Israeli novelist Amos Oz once wrote that, at the end of the 20th century, we had all expected to enter the 21st century, and what a surprise that instead we would head into the 9th, of religious war and extremism. And so it was a bittersweet pleasure to read in the Times its extensive generous coverage of the death of Sri Chinmoy, who recognized the
inherently peaceful nature of all the world’s religions.
For many decades, and even more urgently now in Oz’s strife-torn “9th century,” Chinmoy has been one of the world’s most exuberant and appealing voices, including through music and painting and poetry, for moderation and healing and reconciliation. He will be missed, and yet his universal message will be carried forward, both by his community and by all peoples of similar views — whether or not they have even heard of him — of all the world’s faiths and outlooks.
Guru Sri Chinmoy was the God man of All God men…He
lived and breathed for the Supreme every time All the
Time….He will be missed, His energy phenomenal. His
promise of love, devotion and Surrender the
best….Only we His Disciples will understand the
gravity of this loss, for we were with him on a daily
basis….We wish all God Lovers to pause and reflect
on the Heart love of the Good and Great Man Guru Sri
Chinmoy…There Will Be no More Like Him…We must
cherish his existence every day all day till the end
of time with a smile of love and heart of cries and a
life of Devotion to God…Eternally we will miss you
Guru, Love Your Narada Michael Walden
Narada Michael Walden
Gratitude Guru, Gratitude, I am always with you, more than ever. You blessed me and my life. Gratitude Guru
I wish to extend my deepest sympathies to everyone in the Sri Chinmoy centre. I was a former member and my father still is. I have many fond memories of him from my younger years and are sad that he has passed on.
Among the countless talents and gifts you have, the power to become one with others and the power to uplift the consciousness of others are the 2 main divine gift.
As you wrote, the death of the physical body is not the end. Your uplifting power remains in the consciousness world and is available to all mankind, thanks to the millions of traces you left in the earth sphere: your songs, books, talks and initiatives.
Meeting you on my life’s journey, “is” and not was the greatest gift, the greatest honor and the greatest delight.
With all my Smiles and Heart’s Gratitude Tears
Yours, Subimal
As a close friend of our family we call him chinmoyda, when ever he visited his spiritual home town of pondicherry i never missed to meet him in my in-laws house. i was gifted everytime to take him round in my car. Today i am honoured to live in his house and our whole family is grieved on his demise.
we pray to the Divine mother for his soul to rest in peace.
Jai Sri Hari.
Sri Chinmoy was definitely a divine personality who will live on in the hearts of many the world over. May he rest in peace, and may God bless and comfort his disciples during this time of need.
Janardana Dasa
Conyers, Georgia
Some tributes were posted on other posts. I will add them here, so that people who watch this comment thread can enjoy reading all comments
I am happy and sad. I am happy to have spent half of my life with the spiritual guidance, light and inspiration of a great master-soul. I am sad that he entered into Mahasamadhi on my birthday, October 11, and that he couldn’t get this year’s Nobel Price for Peace, for which he had been nominated by countless prominent figures from around the world.
When I attended a lecture by one of Sri Chinmoy’s students on October 27, 1978 together with my wife, I could not imagine, what impact this first contact would bring into my life. I can only witness that my relationship with Sri Chinmoy became stronger and deeper from year to year. Not only got my life a new and true meaning, I could watch myself being drenched with the infinite bliss of a great spiritual Master who brings humanity a big step forward towards infinite light - a goal, that seems to be very distant in current times, but inevitably will become reality in the distant future.
I am happy and I am sad. I am happy and full of deepest gratitude for all I could learn, experience and change to the better in my life. I am sad to have lost the outer being of Sri Chinmoy on October 11, 2007, when the message of his passing struck me and all his many thousands of students worldwide like a thunderbolt. After seeing him for a last time on his beloved tennis court area in Queens, NY, that he affectionately called “Aspiration-Ground”, my sorrow was immense. Then I remembered his last poem, that he released in book form the night before his passing:
My physical death
Is not the end of my life -
I am an eternal journey.
The journey goes on, and more than ever I will continue to transform my human weaknesses and strive for melting with his light that he so powerfully manifested through his 76 years on earth. I am sure that I will not be the only one who will try to multiply the accumulated inspiration, that Sri Chinmoy offered us all the years. I deeply hope that his goals to help this world to become a better and more peaceful place, will become reality before it is too late. Watch my continuous video and photo contributions on http://www.srichinmoy.tv and the Sri Chinmoy Centre Galleries.
Sri Chinmoy was the greatest entity I have ever met and still is and always will be .
Dearest sweetest Guru,
I cannot even begin to say how I feel.I was so shocked when I heard. It feels unreal and strange to know you are no longer here. I keep trying to write something that makes sense. Nothing does and yet everything does. Though our paths seperated a little some time ago.
Since I was 6 years old, you have been a light and strength and mentor and a sweet loving guru, and that never changed and never will change. Gratitude gratitude gratitude for everything you have done.
My dearest Guru, I am so saddened! but I know you will be watching over me, and you will be with my dearest mother and grandmother, and that you are now in a greater higher place. You are all behind a thin curtain, that is so close yet so far but one that is thin none the less. Perhaps I may hear you one day soon.
peace, love,light and gratitude.
You will be forever in my heart.
Great souls like Sri Chinmoy know not only the best moment to be born but also the best moment to leave the body. They finish their part in a great Cosmic Game when everything possible was already done. I am sure, Sri Chinmoy will use even his so-called death to give a special lesson for his students and to give more and new love, more and new inspiration for all human beings. It will be totally new expirience of following the part of heart, following the part of true love for each and every student of a great Guru. I can only say, everythng only starts now… Sri Chinmoy’s earthly life is just a beginning of totally new age that will last for a long long time on our beloved mother earth.
Dearest, dearest Guru.
My heart is broken. I have lost my beloved Guru and my best friend. Over the past 35 years you have asked nothing from me, and given, given, given. You gave me so many gifts, inner and outer, You always greeted me with a smile– “Ba, ba, Gariyasi ” This gave my heart immense joy.
You were completely unique in the world. No other human displayed such spiritual and physical power along with an unprecedented fountain of creativity. A light has gone out in the world. In our feeble way we will continue your work to the best of our ability.
You loved words, so I will end with a quote from the greatest wordsmith of them all.
Now cracks a noble heart. Good night, sweet prince,
And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!
With eternal love and gratitude
Your disciple and sister
Gariyasi
all the gratitude from deep inside my heart.
Beloved Guru of my life,
I place all my gratitude before you as I know that you have given every second of your life for us, that we may reach on day what you have already achieved.
You are still alive and will always be alive as your consciousness is living forever in you writings, your music, your pictures, your art and in each and every remembrance that is imprinted in our hearts.
When I look at a picture from you you smile at me as always. Your voice is whispering in my heart as always. You are the Inner Pilot in my heart. Forever.
One day mankind will know and treasure what you have done for it.
Gratitude, gratitude, gratitude.
I’ve no word to express my sorrow over demise of Sri Chinmoy, Dada Chinmoy Kumar Ghosh.
As his immediate neighbor for over three years in Briarwood-Jamaica, New York, I’ve experienced firsthand the charisma of Sri Chinmoy, through his peace-promoting activities and his impact on community. No doubt he was a remarkable human being with full of love and passion for peace around the world.
While interviewing him in 2001 at his sports facility in Jamaica, I asked him about his mission, the humble human from Chittagong (currently in Bangladeh), said: “To spread love and peace around the world.” And this is what exactly he was doing.
I would sorely miss Chinmoy da’s presence.
My Beloved Gurudev,
Forever you have returned to your eternal home,
the highest Consciousness-ocean of bliss.
The tears of my human heart I place at your feet,
The oneness-gratitude of my life,
Forever Yours humbly shall be.
Guru, I love You,
Guru, I adore You forever.
I have been in New York for a week now, having arrived from my home several hours north of Queens on the evening of the day of Sri Chinmoy’s passing. Over a thousand people have come together in a spirit of community, prayer, meditation, vigil and memorial tribute.
As I try to pull myself together from my sorrow today, the day after his burial, I find tremendous consolation and support in reading through these beautiful tributes shared here from around the world.
In the week before Sri Chinmoy’s death, I had been planning a prasad for my 22nd disciple anniversary to be made by Aranyani and given the end of this month. I hope that the spirit of gratitude that prompted this wish to make a small offering for the 22 years of guidance in my life can blossom into an offering for the rest of my life of the bottomless ocean of giving that I find in the blessing of being a disciple of Sri Chinmoy.
Shocked by the news of Sri Chinmoy having left our world so unexpectedly, we feel proud to have known this great guru, loyal friend and enduring supporter of our common efforts. We trust his positive influence on world affairs will be continued in his remembrance. Our feelings of sorrow are with his followers, who will miss him dearly.
Dunya Verwey, Comprehensive Dialogue among Civilizations (Netherlands)
Jurn Buisman, Maecenas World Patrimony Foundation
Im gonna keep calling you brother…
Guru, my heart is happy now. I think your life was unusual gift for the planet. For me, for my gratitude heart. Forever.
My Beloved Guru,
I clearly felt that you have not left us. Because everytime I think of you, i can feel your divine presense more than ever before. You merely discard the mortal frame, but you are still here with us, even more than ever before. You are truly not the body, you are beyond the body. Now that you have discarded the physical body, you are even more formidable to serve the Supreme in humanity. So long as we keep our consciousness on you, you will come to us. You are continuing to serve and fulfill your Lord in us. You are birthless and timeless. So long as we can keep our consciousness on you, you will come to us.
So dear brothers and sisters, Guru is still alive! He has not gone. He is still alive! He is more than alive, he is everywhere, he can be anywhere. His eternal cosmic game is going on. Guru is an eternal journey and his physical death is not the end.
Rejoice! Victory! Jai Sri Chinmoy Jai!
with your guidance I learnt more about gratitude, light and love.
Lighting stars without fear in big spaces?
Disappointment and sadness may be parts of a landscape we create and not only in our extremest situations we want to be better knowers of our heart melody.
Thank you for your creation
My beloved Guru Sri Chinmoy,
My heart is full of gratitude to you,
For your love, compassion and concern.
My heart is full of gratitude to you,
For all the inner gifts you are bringing,
My heart is full of gratitude to you,
Because in spite my imperfections,
There is a place for me in your heart.
My heart is full of gratitude to you,
For you made me realize your existence.
And your existence is my existence.
My beloved Guru,
My love for you is timeless, space less and endless.
My beloved GuruDev,
I will search for you,
I will cry for you,
Until I merge with you completely.
Your’s Jasmina
Guru, Thank You for Yourself.
Guru,you made us very strong.YOU have showed us how to transcend our weaknesses. It is very hard to believe.My life is all gratitude to you.Your blessings are with us and will always be with us.Our mind says YOU have gone and we feel unbearable pain but our heart says that YOU are here in our very heart and will be forever,forever our Beloved GURU.
Our beloved Guru, the perfect channel of the Supremes light and love. An embodiment of wisdom and eternal love.
“Gratitude for his service to the world.
Gratitude for the inspiration he left the world.
Gratitude for the love he bestowed on the world.
Gratitude for the peace he offered to the world.
Gratitude for the light he brought into the world.”
If a student has learnt anything from their teacher, it is to live the message that their master taught. It is to embody the teachings of their master, it is to spread the light that their master offered.
Our beloved Guru will always be remembered and honoured.
With oneness and love,
Jayita.
I cant belive that father chinmoy is gone and we will not see or hear him anymore .he had so much love for everyone .I am going to miss him always.
The human in me suffers from irreplaceable loss.
I love my Guru only.
Gratitude of my tearful heart forever for You , dear Guru.
I was blessed to meet Sri Chinmoy in New York for the Closing Ceremonies of one of the International Peace Runs. Also, I was with him in Hawaii for a concert that he was performing in which he played about 50 instruments during the evening.
He was such a inspiration of one deeply connected to Divine creativity. I have always been grateful for his gifts of pointing me to the transcendent while being immersed in creativity and using this creative connection to serve the heart of humanity. He dedicated his life to anchoring in more radiant levels of human expression.
I honor and thank him for his love and service.
Running Tribute to Sri Chinmoy
On Sunday, October 14, 2007, only three days after Sri Chinmoy’s passing, 130 ultra-distance runners gathered in beautiful Sunken Meadow State Park in Long Island, New York, for the 8th Annual Six Hour, 60th Birthday Race sponsored by the New York Ultra Runners Club. Rich Innamorato, who heads Broadway Ultra Society, another local ultra running club and offers his services to this 6 hour race, paid his respects to Sri Chinmoy on Saturday night.
I asked him if I could make an announcement about Sri Chinmoy’s passing and dedicate my race to Sri Chinmoy with a moment of silence. He gladly accepted and he introduced me at the starting line of the race on Sunday. He started with some kind words about the Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team and the inspiration of Sri Chinmoy in the running world, especially his contributions to ultra running. He said, “But Sri Chinmoy represents more than just running events, he was a spiritual leader and great humanitarian.”
As I offered my short tribute to Sri Chinmoy and his life of service, not only to runners but to seekers in many walks of life, the tears started to come. I stopped myself, reminding everyone that Sri Chinmoy had a series of races called ‘Runners are Smilers’, and I would try to smile with them as we ran for the next six hours. A woman named Mary then came up unexpectedly after I spoke. She went on to say that Sri Chinmoy also inspired people to run track and field. He sponsored Masters Track and Field meets that she participated in, never having run on a track before. She was so thrilled that she broke the tape in a 200m race in her age category one year and offered the credit to Sri Chinmoy who inspired her to run in these meets.
During the race, if I looked too somber, occasionally a runner would see me and tell me to smile. A few runners said they were touched by my speech and offered sympathetic appreciation for Sri Chinmoy during and after the race as well. While I ran I tried to invoke gratitude and compassion along with the energy of light and peace which Sri Chinmoy inspired through his creative, athletic and spiritual contributions to humanity. I think runners can especially feel this and relate to his philosophy of self-transcendence as they themselves challenge their own fears and limitations, especially in a long run such as this.
After the race, many runners came to me to offer their condolences and goodwill. Mary, who spoke at the start, offered a bouquet of flowers in honor of Sri Chinmoy. Some of the runners had tears in their eyes even though they may not have know Sri Chinmoy that well or never really met him. His influence in inspiring runners, especially long distance runners, reached far and wide in the hearts of those who challenge themselves to run.
As we begin to adapt to the loss of the physical presence of such a great man and spiritual leader, we realize that his legacy shall live on long after physically leaving this earth. As we run and move forward in positive and dynamic ways, we are reminded of one of Sri Chinmoy’s many running poems and songs, ‘Run and Become’. The words are as follows:
“Run and become.
Become and run.
Run to succeed in the outer world.
Become to proceed in the inner world.”
Indeed, Sri Chinmoy has run speedily in his long and illustrious life of service to humanity. He has also become the most prolific God-lover and God-server, as he inspired thousands upon thousands of people to transcend themselves in all walks of life, whether it is through sports such as running, or the arts and even in their own faith.
In gratitude for encouraging my running for all these years,
Arpan DeAngelo
the time I spent on your path was filled with love and devotion. thank you for being part of my life. a great soul has left this world and you will stay with love within my heart. I will try to give the people what you tought - to spread love and peace wherever I go and to make this world become a better place.
Love Patrick
Guru, you showed me a way to the deepest satisfaction and meaning of life I could ever dream of. As a matter of fact I always received from you much more that I even dreamt of. Your physical passing brought flood of tears coming from my repetence of chances missed in your physical presence and from my gratitude for your unconditional affection and concern during the years I knew you on the earth. That is what I strongly felt a few days ago when I stood in front of the physical frame you left. I also tangibly felt that you are not gone for me and for my disciple brothers and sisters because our connection with you is through the heart. I pray to you I never lose that cry my heart felt in that moment I stood there. I now feel happy and reassured that you are there always for me. With gratitude.
Dearest Guru
An ocean of gratitude
For Your
Boundless Compassion
Countless Blessings and
Endless Love Divine
Aum Guru
Jai Guru Jai
Sri Chinmoy
Sri Chinmoy embodied the spirit of peace which the world so badly needs. He did this through his poetry, his paintings, his teaching, but above all through his life and spiritual presence. Through the World Harmony Run he helped people make friends across the differences of religion, race, language, colour and culture. He enabled many of us to see these differences not as barriers but as enriching for us all. His dedicated service to the Oneness of humanity should be lifted up and remembered as an example to us all.
I treasure the inspiring memory of meeting him and share the sadness of so many people that he is no longer with us in body, although still present in spirit. I also express the sympathy and good wishes of members of the World Congress of Faiths.
Rev Dr Marcus Braybrooke,
President of the World Congress of Faiths
Each day my heart swells with sorrow as I digest the news of Sri Chinmoy’s passing. He has been in my heart for nearly 30 years and will continue to be there for the rest of my life. My love for him grows each day. He is the human example of God’s purity and proof that God can be realized on earth by a human. I will miss seeing him on the occasions that I have had in the past. He is with me all the time, as always.
My love and condolences to all the disciples who were close to guru,
Lenny Balter
To You, to Your heart, to Your soul
I bow, and bow, and bow.
To my dearest Guru,
I have never met an amazing teacher like you before. I loved everything you have done for Thailand.
I have known many people in this world, but I have only a few who understand and truly love me, one of them is my Guru.
Because you are the shining star that brighten my life with hope. You are the strength that support
my life. The best time in my life is when I am in meditation, in my heart I have love, in my love I always have peace. You are our hero, so sweet and true. Don’t forget to remember me. You are in my heart, your are in my days, and in my soul always. Thank God for bringing our guru to this world. I hope one day our people in this world will realize who is our Guru. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to become your disciple.
Khetty from Chiangmai, Thailand.
in december 2006 ,sunday night in queens,driving full spid j smashed the car into a light pole and ended up in a hospital badly hurt.A broken bone in the left wrist,two spine discs in the neck moved and a meniscus torn in the right knee.In lot of pain j was suggested 2 operations by 2 differant doctors.Couldn’t walk ,bend my right knee,carry anything with the hand or move my neck to the left.at that time GURU was on the the other side of the world,and just got informed.Knowing j will never be able to run again and it would only get worst i felt as my life was over,totally helpless and hopeless.Going to therapy,taking supplements, working and all the time filing lost, scared,i cried like a child for help praying to Guru.2 months after,no operations, pain was going away,i did new mri scans and got a call from the orthopedic surgeon,2 days before Guru came back ,In his words he has never seen anything like it,the mri csan showed nothing,everithing was clear .My mind travelled to the night of the accident:3 seconds before i hit the pole in panic and disbelief i looked at the Guru’s transcedental picture and from the depth of my heart flying out came the cry SUPREME,SUPREME,SUPREME and a spark of light j could clearly see flew into the transcedental picture.J was saved at that moment,and heeled 2 moths later,by my GURU’S grace.2 days later when i saw Guru smiling,everything came to me,only becouse of his compassion and his love,j am still here. Thank you GURU,I LOVE YOU. ALEN
Dear Guru, as You were and are merged with the Supreme Consciousness - You represented and represent to us, Your disciples, all the divine qualities. But it was Your unfathomable, unimaginable Love that has bound us so strongly to You and that makes us crying so bitterly now. Let us not forget that You, our Only Friend, like an actor - just played the role of a human being. But in fact You were not the body - You are something else. And that “Something Else” will continue to love us and be our only real friend throughout eternity.
” My physical death
Is not the end of my life-
I am an eternal journey”
- SRI CHINMOY
GURU,
Gratitude, gratitude, gratitude,
Beth
Niterói- Rio de Janeiro- Brasil
Dear Beloved Guru,
All my love and Gratititude for all You make for me and for all the brasilians disciples.
Infinite Gratitude,
My heart is for You only,
Beth
Niterói-Rio de Janeiro-Brasil
My beloved Guru. My heart breaks with grief and the pain of separation. We are closer now. It is a sweet inner embrace. I am engulfed in your consciousness. Tears of sorrow mix with tears of joy. Come for me when the time is right. Until then I will keep my heart door open and pray you will visit often. I have been and will always be your devoted but useless disciple.
MY MASTER, MY HEART IS FOR YOU ONLY. I LOVE YOU SO MUCH
gratitude.
Sri Chinmoy, please, do a favour to me, be my heart ruler, not any more my life observer.
I have spent the last couple of days writing a tribute to Guru in Sri Chinmoy Books.com.
During this time I have repeatedly gone back as inspiration directs me to make adjustments, adding and subtracting where necessary.
In fact while my brother and sister disciples have been in New York with Guru I have been unable to sleep. My soul keeps waking me in the wee hours of the morning. I read all of the soulful posted articles and find myself once again re-visiting and re-editing my tribute.
Today I have returned once again to the article and I find that my overwhelming feeling about Guru is his constant and tireless unconditional Self-Giving. Never in my life have a ever witnessed in anyone self-giving that is so unabated.
But to draw comparisons is to use the limitations of the finite mind, whereas the power and energy of pure Self-Giving is from the soul, from the Infinite beauty and connectedness with the Divine.
Now looking at my article which I shall finally post I find that all my words about Guru have fallen away. Now the only lasting word that powerfully shines through that represent to me what Guru is in his embodiment, in his essence is - Self-Giving. And of course anyone who is so Self-Giving is also boundless in their Love, because they are the embodiment of God’s infinite all-embracing, all loving consciousness, and that is what sets apart all great spiritual Master’s.
Love,
Sahayak, Australia.
Immersed in the vast blue,
The bird-man soared,
Fly, fly, fly!
O spirit luminous
With sacred name: Sri Chinmoy!
The moments come and go
And You still travel
Bathed in morning dew.
You have become the dew itself.
I know I’ll always be with You
But I implore, You also stay with me.
You are the smile in my day
And the most beautiful star in my night.
Forgive me, Master, please, forgive me!
We err on our earthly path,
And yet I trust You will forgive me
Because You know my very human nature.
Fly on in peace and light,
You leave behind a sunlit trail
So that I can forever follow You,
Forever, for the whole Eternity.
From my heart, with love and deep bow to You, my Master!
At a time of confusion coping with the loss of our dearest Guru I have been inspired to share with you a beautiful passage written by a great soul. This passage I feel will help each of us better understand our brother and sister disciples and their incredible beauty and importance in manifesting our beloved Guru’s philosophy, when they may feel lost and be suffering from a lack of direction at their time of loss and uncertainty.
“The Buddhist sangha (the Buddhist community of monks, nuns, novices, and laity) is a garden, full of many varieties of trees and flowers. When we can look at ourselves and at others as beautiful, unique flowers and trees we can truly grow to understand and love one another. One flower may bloom early in the spring and another flower may bloom in late summer. One tree may bare many fruits and another tree may offer cool shade. No one plant is greater, or lesser, or the same as any other plant in the garden. Each member of the sangha also has unique gifts to offer to the community. We each have areas that need attention as well. When we can appreciate each member’s contribution and see our weaknesses as potential for growth we can learn to live together harmoniously. Our practice is to see that we are a flower or a tree, and we are the whole garden as well, all interconnected”. ~ The Most Venerable Thich Nhat Hanh (Thây) Founder of the Unified Buddhist Church.
Love to all,
Sahayak.
Beloved Supreme,
Wrap me in Your sweet and strong
Compassion embrace,
And transform, once and for all,
My earth-bound face.
Asatoma Sat Gamaya
Tamasoma Jyotir Gamaya
Mrityorma Amritam Gamaya
Aum, Shanti, Shanti, Shanti
From a doubter you made a believer.
From a cynic you made a sweet child.
From a frown you made a smile.
From a lost soul you made a self-finder and a God-seeker.
May I learn the depth of your love and your truth to the fullest that I can…and may I never cease to thank you.
I was 18 when our paths crossed. That moment was the beginning of a new life I could never have anticipated or imagined. Let us never part on our eternal jouney together towards the celestial beyond…
Oh Guru
A few days before You left, Your message entered my heart and lifted me yet again: ‘Never fall into the trap of thinking I do not love you’
O Master I love you We love you
These sweetness-tears are the tax happily paid by those whose you made close to you…
at this time only your words will do:
‘You are the identification of our hearts’
With eternal loving gratitude
My condolences to Sri Chinmoy’s disciples. I first met him through several of you at the UN in NY and attended a number of his peace meditations in the 1980s there. I was fortunate to have several powerful spiritual insights and experiences when meditating with Guru. Though physically gone, his power-radiant-soul- light will continue to inspire many of us to act more lovingly and be closer to God. Peace to all of you and peace amongst us all.
Beloved Guru! All my deepest gratitude for you have accepted me as your disciple and brought me closer to the Golden Shore of the Beyond. You were a perfect spiritual master.You gave me so much joy and happiness. You will live eternally in my heart. My soul bows to You.
Guru was part of my spiritual development in the early 70’s, I’m sad but yet I know he did everything he meant to do and I admired his devotion for humanity , my condolences to the many disciples.
Sri Chinmoy was an inspiration for me throughout my running career, as he helped advance the sport of “ultrarunning”. He will be missed, but his legacy of several gifts - including music, poetry, weightlifting and advocating physical activity will live on. But most of all, his love and message of peace superceded all his other endeavors.
Dear sweet Sri Chinmoy
Your divine soul is going back home,
now you still can manifest higher more
and will work further through us all.
We shall keep your work shining
thank you for everything you have done for us and me.
You’re in my heart,
thank you Sri Chinmoy.
Dear brothers and sisters,
I am inspired to offer you the following encouraging message. Please, accept it as my devotional service to you.
When I was informed on Sunday afternoon that Guru had left his body I was completely shocked. It was so surprising. I was not prepared for this news. I felt an enormous pain. I ran away to the mountain. I wanted to be alone. But while I was climbing the mountain I realized that Guru had not left us. He had just left his material body. But Guru is not this material body from flash and bones. Guru is the spirit inside the body. And a part of this spirit lives in each and every one of us. The spirit of Guru lives inside his books, poems and songs. We can always contact with him. If we enter the depths of our hearts we will see his smiling face constantly blessing us most compassionately. Guru will always take care for us from the higher worlds.
It is written in the Vedas that one can approach a spiritual Master in two different ways – through darshan (function, direct contact) and through following his instructions. The Vedas recommend the second approach. We are not able to use the first way anymore. So we should use the second way, recommended in the Vedas. If we follow Guru’s instructions he will be always with us and for us. The power of the spiritual Master is in his compassion. The power of the disciple is in his obedience to his Master. Now we should become more obedient, stricter in our spiritual practice. We should become more responsible. We should not behave like little children. We should be strong. We should not allow undivine hostile forces to enter our being. We should fight with grief, sorrow, despair, doubt, depression. If we are weak they will devour us. So be strong. Realization is for the strong, says the Upanishads.
Spiritual Master is like the sun. Sun is neither born nor dies. It just appears on the horizont and disappears from the horizont. Guru disappeared from our outer sight but he will always appear in our inner sight when we soulfully invoke him. Let us not say that Guru “passed away”, “is gone”, “left us”, because it will not be true. Spiritual Master is a perfect instrument of the Supreme. He does what God wants him to do. He appears when Lord wants him to appear and disappears when Lord wants him to disappear. As Guru wrote in a song:
“Amar jiban amar maran tomar charan lage
My life my death for your feet”
In a family when the father passed away the elder members of the family are supposed to take his responsibilities. Senior disciples should look after their brothers and sisters playing the oneness-heart-service-game and not the vital-supremacy-game. It is a very difficult moment for each and every of us. We should inspire and help each other.
Guru was teaching us with his life of unconditional self-giving what divine love is. He was a devoted servant to the divine in humanity. He was a transcendental fountain of inspiration and aspiration. Unfortunately the ignorant world had very little receptivity for Guru’s light.
Guru’s mission does not end with his phisical departure. We should continue his mission. We should continue serving him with love and devotion.
May Guru’s mercy be always with us.
Dear Guru Sri Chinmoy.
Thank you for everything that you have done for mankind. I’m not your disciple but I heard about you from my son. My son so love you and admire you.
Your head are planet of light.
Your Heart are planet of purity.
Your hands enshrine us.
Your legs lead us.
Thank you, thank you, thank you Sri Chinmoy.
My love to you Sri Chinmoy.
Master, my Master I’m and I’ll be ever gratefull for everything that you have done for me and for all the italian disceples.
You are and you will be forever in my heart, because thanks to your teaching my soul get closer to God.
With Love and Devotion
Franco
I’ve posted some ideas in a folder mySriChinmoy. The greatest tribute is to commit to evolve and continue his spirit.
Namaskar,
Representing Ananda Marga of UK, I wish to say that we send our deepest consolation to the devotees of Sri Chinmoy.
He was a man, as I understand, who gave his life to helping people to find a spiritual path and to encourage and help people to find not only inner peace, but to reach out to find their fullest potential and to work to make this world a better place to live for everyone.
I am sure that his good teachings and example will stay in people’s hearts for a long time.
My Dear Guru, You Are my life….Gratitude, Gratitude, Gratitude…
“His Holiness Sri Sri Ravi Shankar and the Art of Living
family are with you in this moment of grief. Sri Chinmoy’s philosophy of peace and his work of bringing people from all faiths together will continue to inspire the world.”
My Dear Guru!
Please take my cry, my sweetest cry
And give me sky, Thy golden sky!
Please be with me for all my time,
Do be inside my heart, my mind.
Please be my all from great to small,
Oh, be my all-in-all!
Please sing for me, please dance and play
Thy Cosmic game, Infinite game,
And keep for aye,
Please keep for aye
My love to you, to your Pilot.
You are one Way, one Light and World!
Please be my song,
Be sweetest dream
Like my Supreme.
Smile!
I would not tired to cry and cry
For golden sky,
Immortal sky of God and mine.
You’ll be inside my future fly.
My dear Guru smile!
“Enter we must into the core of the One
and breath the Eye of Sovereign Absolute.
Him we desire, and Him we love and serve,
and Him to manifest our earth descent.
No, not our choice nirvana’s heights and depths.
No, not our choice the superman’s world-surprise.
No, not our choice Heaven’s rare Splendor-Smile.
But God-Blossoms in the world throes and penuries,
God-Blossoms all-where on earth our choice supreme.”
unofficial transript from CD entitled My Prayerful Salutations to the United Nations 1996
Call has come, call has come, Lord Supreme’s call.
While not a devotee in recent years, Guruji Sri Chinmoy has remained one of my esteemed and respected teachers, to whom I owe so much. During the years as a student in the early to mid 1990s, his words and the music of fellow students were an indispensible part of mat daily nourishment.
In the ensuing years, his teaching have underpinned and informed much of what has been shared by our institution, in training and assisting hundreds of students and seekers throughout Australia.
Hearing this evening of Guruji’s passing into mahasamadhi has shaken us, but strengthened the resolve to ensure that his life’s dedication to each person’s ‘realisation’ is continued by those of us who feel the call.
Call has come, call has come, Lord Supreme’s call.
Cher Guru Sri Chinmoy
Vous resterez à jamais dans mon coeur, vous êtes La plus belle rencontre de toute mon existence, je penserais toujours à Vous avec gratitude.
(You stay always in my heart, you are the most beautiful incident in all of my life, I think always of you with gratitude)
Beloved Guru,
we spend 7 years in your presence, such Love, Concern, Compassion, Wisdom, in a way that only a special person can do, I can say that only a Divine person can do. Now there’s no longer your presence in the body, we are sad for it; but at the same time we’re happy because we feel your presence also if you are no more in this world, as you said, death is not the end, and for all those people that have had faith in you, your presence will be also more tangible than before.
May Guru’s Light Guides our steps.
Infinite Gratitude, Thank you Guru.
Giovanni & Sara
You opened and touched my heart, thank you!
Your students are also very much needed in making this world a better place, thank you also for your work.
With gratitude,
Maibi, Finland
16 October 2007
Most beloved emanation of Infinite Love,
Thank you for bestowing humanity with 76 years of God’s unique flavor that is you. This world is far richer, and My own embodiment ever sweeter, to have been kissed by the nectar of your eternal love.
The music of your immortal soul shall resound in My heart–and in all hearts–now and forevermore…
With My love and eternal blessing,
Bhagavan Sri Pranananda
(Louix Dor Dempriey)
Gracias Guru por todo ese gran amor,
por enseñarme a caminar por el sendero de luz, ya que
por ti siento a Dios en mi corazón.
Por la alegria y esa paz que siento cada dia,
porque a pesar de que no tuve la oportunidad de conocerlo en lo fisico, lo amo con toda mi alma.
Gracias porque veo con alegria todo lo que me rodea y siento que tengo todo y no me hace falta nada.
Gracias amado Guru.
(Thank you Guru for all this great love, for teaching me how to walk on
the path of light. Because of you I feel God in my heart. Thank you for the joy and that Peace which I feel every day. Even when I had not the oportunity to know you in the physical, I love you soulfully. Thank you because I see with joy everything around me and feel that I
have everything and I need nothing.
Thank you beloved Guru)
Tu hija Elida de Guatemala
Your Elida from Guatemala
Dear Guru/ Amado Guru,
All my love and gratitude for all that you make for me and my family for planting in our hearts the seeds of love that germinates every day for your blessings and guidence. Before meet your path I tried through many methods to experiece even a tiny drop of the Divine in my heart beyond the philosophical concepts, but I always failed. When I met the path you gave me the opportunity to experience the love and joy from the Supreme in my heart. Now the dark night of my past lives has finished and the rising Sun of the morning is shining for me.
Guru we love you and you are always in our hearts, now we feel more strong your omniscient presence.
Te quiero expresar todo mi amor y gratitud por haber sembrado en mi corazon las semillas del amor, por tus bendiciones y por guiarme en la busqueda eterna.
En el pasado traté de sentir a través de diversos metodos aunque fuera una pequeña gota del amor del Supremo en mi corazón y siempre fallé. No fue sino hasta que conocí el camino y tu me enseñaste a encontrar el gozo y amor del Supremo en mi corazón. Ahora se que la noche oscura de mis vidas pasadas ha terminado, dando lugar al brillante sol naciente de la mañana eterna. Aun me falta mucho camino por recorrer, pero con la diferencia de que buscar al Supremo es mi proyecto de vida. Supremo, gracias por habernos enviado un alma con tanto amor para la humanidad y de habernos dado el privilegio de ser sus discipulos.
Te amamos Guru ahora y siempre.
Tus hijos Jorge, Daphne y Jorgito de Guatemala
Your disciples Jorge, Elida, Daphne and Jorgito from Guatemala.
I didn’t think there could be any more tears than those I have already shed over the outer loss of my Beloved Guru. I was wrong. I am now shedding more tears, but they are of joy over the beautiful tributes of Oneness and Divine Love expressed here. Each message is a soulful testament as to how Guru touched each person in such a unique way, and how He will continue to permeate each of our lives in what ever way we need. Such is the True Divine Power of a God -Realized Soul. It is a great comfort to read and share these beautiful experiences. Gratitude to all my spiritual sisters and brothers -past, present and future. Devaki ( Montreal, Canada)
Dear Guru Chinmoy( our father/best friend)
We are ever grateful/fortunate to have you in our life and we will always love and remember you and know you will be with us forever.
with gratitude and love forever
uma,raj,manu and jaishree
I knew Sri Chinmoy when he first arrived in the US, He was a wise and kind man. Often I take out some of his writings: poems and such and go to the place that once seemed odd to me but peaceful. He is truly a great being.
Namaste, Kusumita:
How deeply moved are are to hear of our dear Sri Chinmoy’s departure to the Siva Loka, where he now reigns in his golden body of light, free from the limits and discomforts of the mortal sheath. In Guru’s poem, Nirvana, he wrote, “No mind, no form, I only exist; Now ceased all will and thought. The final end of Nature’s dance, I am It whom I have sought.”
For Bodhinatha and all of Gurudeva’s mathavasis at Kauai Aadheenam in Hawaii, he was a unique inspiration, living proof of the Divine possibilities within mankind. He was one of the few who spoke of God-Realization from his own experience in much the same profound manner as our Gurudeva. How he exuded love. How he showed the way of goodness and gentleness. How he lived so we might all live more perfectly, serve more selflessly. Our several encounters with him both in Kauai and New York were precious moments of joy. We are deeply appreciative to you for faciltiating these gifted moments.
To you and all the devotees of Guru who are gathering now in his honor, we send a knowing compassion born of our own Gurudeva’s Mahasamadhi which took place just 2162 days ago. Yes, people lose their family and friends, but it is not the same in its depth as when our Satguru departs. When our Gurudeva left us, the world itself seemed to perish. Loss on that day had no equal. Who can measure the Guru’s all-consuming place in our hearts?
Gurudeva consoled us during the final days of his fast, “Don’t be sad. Everything that is happening is good. Everything that is happening was meant to be.” Even in that final moment he knew with certainty that the Divine was at work, in death as in life.
We trust that the devotees who gained so much from Guru’s life will now continue his quest for the attainment of inner peace and the transcendence of external human limitations and will live with every action, every thought, every aspiration full of nothing but him.
With infinite love outpouring to you on this unforgettable day, our friend and fellow pilgrim on the Great Path,
Palaniswami
On Behalf of the Monks
of Kauai’s Hindu Monastery in Hawaii
founded in 1970 by Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami (1927-2001)
Thank you Guru. You changed my life. In fact, I feel that my life only really began when I met you. The depths of your writings, the soaring delight of your music, the mesmerising spontaneity of your artwork, your physical feats of unimaginable will power, and above all the ambrosial embrace of your infinite consciousness, brought forward the best in me, the divine in me. I am not yet perfect, but because of you, Guru, I am a good person, growing, blossoming everyday into something a little more perfect.
Guru, I love you with all my heart. I know you will be with us forever.
Christopher
-full tribute can be found at:
http://www.srichinmoycentre.org/tributes/christopher
Having read all the tributes on this site I wonder what more I can add? When I first heard the news, I felt shock, disbelief, then grief. A sense of personal loss. But since then I have been living in a strange state - often on the verge of tears, while somehow feeling blessed and even beatific. I can only imagine Guru is showering and showering us with his love and blessings to help us through this difficult time.
In time, perhaps history will come to recognise Guru for who and what he really was. I am sure all of us who were fortunate enough to have had him walk among us now feel acutely just just how blessed we were.
Guru, I cannot write you a worthy tribute because there are too many others much better with words than me who will do that and still never come close to doing you justice. I suppose all one can do is speak from the heart and say - Guru, I loved you dearly and you made me feel that you loved me too. And this love is somehow eternal. For that i am truly, truly grateful.
Harashita
“All Your Grace!
All Your Grace!
All Your Grace, All Your Grace!
My Lord Beloved Supreme,
All Your Grace, All Your Grace!
My Soul And I Are Able To Join
In Your Birthless And
Deathless Race.”
Sri Chinmoy
composed 4 July 2007
Once, towards the end of a function, I heard Sri Chinmoy make a promise–that He would definitely take us to the Golden Shore. Somehow I took it very personally. I know this promise will be fulfilled–in heaven and on earth. He will be our journey.
I came to know Guru when he turned 50, I was 20. This is such a fond memory as the birthday celebration is so vivid in my mind and one of his famed pictures of that day is still a favorite and used to this day. (B&W). Soon I became an avid runner and at a race in Connecticut, I was running the farm roads just outside the school which we used to stage the events of the day. In the distance, I saw a figure coming toward me. Being new to the group, I really didn’t know too many people. As the figure drew closer, my heart started to pound! Could it be? Clearly my eyes were blurred due to sweat…it was Guru, he was running and lost his way in all the farm roads…they all looked the same!
We stopped and I was blessed with giving him direction back to the school and being so close to him, so soon in my tenure. Later at our mediation in the gym, he called me up and blessed me and gave me a gift. I have it to this day, as I do the gifts given some years later when Guru invited ex-disciples to come and meditate with him. I have been blessed with Gurus’ love in many ways, through the disciplines, omniscient visitations, the guidance of my peers and the truest experiences that shaped my life forever. It taught me how one can love and love many and share one common unending stream of light and did it ever shine it right through us. It could lift you up to the highest high so as to experience your inner and God given potentials.
This is our gift, this is our moment in time and we have been so blessed to have shared, been in presence of, touched and truly, truly loved by this being. Guru dev, We know you are still with us. I can feel you now and will always. I will love you and your dream forever. Your own, Lorene
Dear Guru,
Thank you for the most beautiful poem that you wrote
for your Mahasamadhi.
I will remember its beauty and I will keep it in my heart
forever.
I wish I could be on the court right now, to say goodbye to your physical body, my dearest love for you ,
your disciple
Greetje Hoekstra from Amsterdam.
My Lord Supreme,
I wish to place my heart-flower
At Your Compassion-Feet
So that I can become
My soul’s tears of delight.
Sri Chinmoy
Gurudev~Many of us came to Guru in the 70’s ~ dazed and confused,children of the 60’s. He gave us a shelter of love, compassion and boundless “light” He awakened and reminded us of our own souls promise to the Supreme before entering this earthly realm. He magnified our capacity, showed us how to achieve what seemed impossible, over and over and over again. He planted thousands of seeds which now emerge in the Conscious realm withen and around us. May God grant us the wisdom and the power to help nourish them on earth as he so lovingly does from heaven. His prescence eternal as is our Gratitude ~ Gratitude ~ Gratitude, Apeksha
Many days before the passing of Sri Chinmoy, I went to the house of some of his disciples in Toronto, as I was feeling inebriated by his presence. After talking with a disciples for some time, I gazed at Sri Chinmoy’s picture, I thought for the last time in this life. I walked out feeling much happier.
On the 10th, the dark night had caused me to wander around aimlessly around the city and walk into see a fortune teller who said my father would soon die. I didn’t know what she meant, and told he she was wrong. My father had just been released from the hospital. He did not have cancer, as the doctor had suspected.
On the 11th, I had a pain in my heart, an excrutiating physical pain as though my heart was being squeezed of all its life. I had to lie down as I thought I would die. I entered into it and saw that it was nothing but my own separative self, imprisoned like a fist, and later the sense of an impending release. An old disciple emailed me to inform me of Sri Chinmoy’s passing on that day.
I went to Little India with my partner and in the middle of our meal I started crying–not because he was gone– but because he was offering me his infinite gratitude from what he has once refered to as ‘the ever-transcending beyond,’ beyond the dualism of ‘heaven and hell.’ What greater gift could one human being offer another? There are no words, my mind falls away, baffled.
I understood at that moment what I had never understood before: Sri Chinmoy is gratitude embodied in human form. We cannot lay the claim of any other Master on earth embodying this precious/eternal quality. It is the true asana of the heart, available to those who are conscious of his presence.
There was a great implosion the following days, and in dreams Sri Chinmoy was gracious enough to visit my most small and utterly insignificant life and to infuse my inner world with his tenderness affection.
I have been all over the world. I have been to Ramana ashram and set my eyes on the terrifying red hill that burns all samskaras. I have been in the state of bewilderment which emerges when a dark night decends on the soul to purify me of ‘me’ and all the misdeeds of previous lives. I have sensed the decent of the blue light of transformation in Aurobindo’s ashram. I have studied with liberated yogins. No one, no one, came remotely near to Sri Chinmoy’s inner state.
It is this most precious and most sacred and wordless gratitude which has given me the push to emerge out of the dark, terrifying and utterly confounding night.
Please forgive us of our misdeeds and guide us beyond all separation.
Your son,
Arif/Asher
I am walking along the road of ecstasy.
My life has grown into
The delight of Cosmic Dance.
I have transformed
Even the meaningless dust of earth
Into the heights of God-Glory.
Behold! Heaven’s Beauty and Light
Are no match for my achievements
Sweetly here on earth.
My eternity’s companion
Is my Lord’s Existence-Delight.
(translation of Charan Pheligo - by Sri Chinmoy)
VICTORY VICTORY VICTORY to GURU!
No one who ever met him will ever forget him. He was a heavenly spirit that deeply touched everyone who met him. We would like to express our sincere sympathy for all the disciples and friends of Sri Chinmoy at this time of grief. We pray that his spirit will continue to be with us all now and in the future. Sincerely,
Connie and Bob Egemo
Ames, Iowa
The life of Sri Chinmoy was a life of humanity and for humanity. His complete surrender to God, His Father Supreme, made him an eternal child — absolutely simple, completely fearless and full of joy.
There were few who would leave his presence without feeling uplifted inwardly and often outwardly.
He taught us to be strong and yet gentle. He taught us to be reach for our highest height and yet remain humble. He taught us to love all and yet remain attached only to the Divine.
For his blessing-filled life that saturates my existence — my eternal gratitude.
I personally had decided not to come to Aspiration Ground in New York to mourn our great loss. I stayed back in Australia instead intent on celebrating Guru’s wonderful life, and all that he has given the world.
On reflection I was deeply shocked for only a short time, but now I feel no loss only love, gratitude and joy for what Guru has given me, love of God. I have happiness as my most powerful reality. In comparison the passing of both my parents last year (both disciples of Guru’s) left me in a state of grief, shock and emptiness that lasted easily one year.
I have read all daily postings and I feel in many ways that I am physically there in NY, but inwardly know that I am there with you all in spirit, and most importantly with Guru 24hours in each and every day.
I have been flooded with Guru’s sweetest, gratitude, love and joy most powerfully, so it seems like never before, perhaps Guru has made me more receptive! There is a revitalised inspiration within, and a new determination and purpose in continuing to manifest Guru’s Light and Love.
I wanted to remember Guru as I last saw him in August.
My memories of then and all of my visits to New York over the years are more vivid now than I could have ever imagined.
I worked on the final stages of construction for six months in the Temple at Aspiration Ground where Guru lay for a few days. That connection between Guru and myself is like no other I could ever describe.
My heart is with you all and I look forward to being with all my spiritual brothers and sisters as soon as possible.
Love, Sahayak, Australia.
finding one’s way in life is difficult even in the best of times
the presence of inspiring human beings is the surest way of receiving help and guidance in these matters
5 years of my life were spent under the direct tutelege of sri chinmoy
there are but a few real and true human beings to whom i will never ever be able to repay my debt of gratitude.
the principle reason for this is that they have transcended the merely human and attained the all.
sri chinmoy is one of these human beings my gratitude to him will remain forever endless
to my dearest guru
as i search for words i realize my tribute must be expressed in my deeds. first to love my spiritual brothers and sisters - they are you, and then mankind, for mankind is also you.
i must become the blessings you have bestowed upon me for the last 38 and a half years.
i must be the food and breeze to sustain and increase the sacred fire of your soul’s love
that your feet fell upon the earth is a miracle
your tireless self-giving is a miricle
perhaps one day we will be fortunate enough to fathom
a glimpse of your understanding
until that time i pray for my life to invite each and all to share and be a part of your triumph and the supremes victory to which you sacrificed your life.
as words fade the heart remains
your goodbyes are not goodbyes at all but the purest reminder that you will remain in our hearts forever as we walk with you on the journey of our soul’s love
forever harit
Today I wanted to call one girl (Sri Chinmoy follower) and unexpectedly light went off for a couple of hours. When I called I heard from her this sad news. This is exactly like put out light.
Sri Chinmoy’s name was introduced to us through World Harmony Run and we thought what a great man this was to initiate something so ’simple’ yet meaningful to pass the message of peace and harmony. We applaud his effort and may the Run continues on as an ongoing tribute to this great man. Our deepest condolence and sympathies to those close to him.
From Darussalam Mosque, Singapore
A Tribute To My Guru – Part II
By a broken-hearted but healing, once again sometimes smiling and irrepressibly hopeful Utthal (which means Indomitable Wave-Force)
When I pour over the myriad tributes posted here I am overwhelmed with joy at the loving evidence that my Guru touched so many lives. It is not only a great solace but also a vindication for the sacrifice he made. But then, he never considered it a sacrifice at all – not when you love someone, and above all he loved each and every one of us – not just his disciples. He once said that every day he meditated on each individual soul on earth. Impossible says the feeble mind. No, not at all says the oneness-heart, and his was a heart of universal oneness raised to the power of infinity. Impossible was not a word in his lexicon.
What was so heart-breakingly astounding about Guru is that he did it all as a mere human being. Inside beat the heart-soul of an Avatar (there I said it), but he never once used occult powers to ease the way for himself, only to come to the rescue of others. When he hoisted these “impossible” weights, groups of people and airplanes he did so as a man – not a superman – and then only to inspire us as to what is possible for a human being to do when they are flooded with light – not to show off how he was different. You know the story of the mother who lifted a car to save her child – that’s Sri Chinmoy pure and simple: a brother who just wanted to lift his fellow man in every way possible, with every fiber of his being and at every moment of his life. For that he suffered immeasurably.
In the most profound sense of what it means to be alive – far more than blood coursing through veins – Sri Chinmoy is alive, not only in his music, art, poetry and other writings; not only in the photographs, videos and voice and instrumental recordings we have of him, but in the lives of countless people all around the world who attended a concert, ran a race, went to a gallery, read a book, or encountered him – like the little girl on the streets of Briarwood – or otherwise came in contact with Guru.
The very last time I viewed the supine body of Guru as it lay in the casket at the memorial service on Sunday – late in the evening after all the dignitaries had departed and he was once again alone with his disciples – I perceived him impassively yet unmistakably smiling – beaming with delight and pride that his spiritual children, to whom he gave himself unreservedly, were finally understanding – were finally coming together as a family. If that is the case, and I feel it is, the world has not heard the last of Sri Chinmoy, and his so-called “death” will one day be seen not only as the ultimate sacrifice, but as a brilliant tactical move as well.
Five days after my whole world came crashing down, these philosophical musings are a feeble consolation – compared to the enormous grief which washes over me like a Tsunami every hour or so – but it’s something, and something is better than nothing. On the day I became a disciple Guru asked me if I was strong. I said yes, and always thought he was telling me that the spiritual life required strength. Now I know he was warning me about, and somehow preparing me for, something altogether different and far more difficult to endure. Guru, please help me to transform this life of mine into a mountain of strength – to be of service to the Supreme.
I sympathize very deeply with you beloved disciples of Sri Chinmoy.
Guru has connected my heart to the world of spirituality.
I never forget the eternity shining trough his blissfull eyes. I never forget his smiles of sweetness, I never
forget his glowing heart of compassion. His unbelievable
dynamism has touched me into new aspiration. Thank You Guru.
In my new works with mothers and children I have
your gift of encouragement.
I am still deeply contemplating how a great spiritual Master like him affected me as a young person during my years of tutorship with him in the early eighties. It provided me with invaluable “contrast’ about otherwise ‘no questions asked’ worldly choices we are presented with in Western life.
He was an incredible and great enigma and certainly no hypocrite. I still remember the gentleman , at the time in his late fifties , running marathons. He had extraordinary commitment, concentration and determination to see an idea through.Many monks are quite sedentary and sit long hours . Not this Master - he could and did both (meditation and vigourous athletics).
He never chose the easy way out for himself.
To try and inaugurate a monastic-like meditation centre in New York City of all places or near the downtown areas of other great cities was a challenge which he relished. He constantly sought ways to transcend himself and encouraged others to do the same. A powerful inner life and a dynamic involvement in the outer world were like 2 wings on a bird in his philosophy.
I would also say he was also like a human X-ray machine ! He could see right through you. And if there was a trace of ego or insincerity he would let you know he knows mostly without even saying anything to you directly. One time when I was with a group of a few hundred people on his private tennis court in Queens, New York, he did an unusual meditation where he looked at each and everyone of us in the eyes from 50 metres away. He looked directly at each person for about 5 seconds. I would swear when he looked at me I saw Laser Beams of Divine White Light coming out of his eyes. An incredible all-seeing power lovingly pierced through me. In all my years of studying healing and psychic phenomena i have seen many unusual things, but this level of “casual” energy mastery I have never see anyone else duplicate ! For it really all seemed just like playing with toys or , perhaps, playing tennis for him !
He was definitely a “Siddha” - a master of the great Yogic Powers and subtle energies. I have seen many amazing things in my travels, and especially in India, but his level of Mastery of the energies of bliss and light was quite extraordinary.However He stayed away from physically miraculous materializations that are the hallmark of many other saints and yogis in India.
The time I spent learning with him helped me to appreciate the inner mystical side of India much better. He masterfully crafted a powerful yet safe mystical experience for ordinary people in our overly dynamic big city western lives. I believe he not only “delivered ” but delivered “big” ! But we must also still do our small part as well and rise up to the challenge of self-discipline and a committed spiritual life of service and meditation.
I remain deeply and eternally grateful that he chose to sacrifice the peace and tranquillity of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in the village of Pondicherry , India for the West. He had no need of it for himself as the ashram afforded him everything he needed for his simple monastic life of long hours of blissful meditation.
Sri Chinmoy’s presence in the West was and still is a great “breath of fresh air “. He came to the West at the time of suffocating warmongering in Vietnam and leaves us at a time of more warmongering in the Middle East. I am so grateful he provided those of us who are slightly open and receptive with spiritual shelter and a solid alternative to the ever-expanding ratrace of this world.
For me personally, it was amazing how he could build sacred space in any busy city or city building and facilitate the experience of subtle joy and delight through meditation and music. Nobody else could do this so consistently and reliably. Most would not know where to start. But as a great Master of Meditation and one who was effortlessly and eternally anchored in Joy, sharing this Joy was simply second nature to him . He always made it seem so natural and easy to meditate !.
Sri Chinmoy - One Thousand and Eight Thank yous and Prostrations to you ! (Or in Sanskrit: “Sri Chinmoy Lakho Pranam” ). The world can not even begin to comprehend the majesty of your grace and the magnificence of your incarnation upon this planet Earth !
Raoul Bedi
Vancouver, BC
CANADA
As the SrimadBhagawatGita says “when a man gives up all varieties of desire for sense gratification,which arise from mental concoction and when his mind ,thus purified,finds satisfaction in self alone,then he is said to be in pure transcendental consciousness“. That was Guru’s life and his most important teaching for me. The soul is unbreakable, insoluble and can never burned nor dried. So Guru is everlasting,present every where ,unchangeable and eternally the same. PRANAM GURU
When we remember our beloved Guru, the sweetest person who ever lived, the universe itself is not big enough to hold our tears. But now we have to go deep within and try to realise Sri Chinmoy the Divine. He is here. He is inside every heart, inside our life-breath, whispering, “Go on!” We must not fail him.
om constant in the heart
yesterday, what is a day
listening grace. give me your ears
to hear, celebrations in heaven
sri chinmoy, friend of friends.
the friend. liberate me
from the peril of falling off
the path to be-loved. free
your blessing children
to embody you. when two
of you gather in my name.
when a master dies of this calibre,
scattering gifts to the earth,
what do you want
to be a yogin
your presence vibrating,
in the heart of the earth.
a tuning fork.
community
of god. god-head community.
friend to all. liberator
of the heart potential. outshining
through all sorrow. many days
ago before you left, i went to disciple
house. entrance. knowing that your
are forever the father. the friend father.
i knew the time had come for me
to move in. to the grace of knowing.
knowing remembrace of you.
friend of friends.
no sadness.
no heaven. no hell. only this moment.
bewilderment. where is the i, the center
of gravity lifted, and you see
without seeing.
you leave no trace in memory.
the very substance of memory.
the fire which burns through memory.
the memory which liberates memory.
timeless imprint in time.
the other day, i saw a reader who
said your father will pass away. but
my father was just released
from the hospital. feed me.
the eternal yes. i do not fear
darkness, opening, the chasm,
between separative self and
you, dissolve.
Sri Chinmoy, a great soul, a loud voice of Hinduism & Humanity, Love & Peace did not die; his work and his devotees will keep him alive. I am proud of him that he is from my country, Bangladesh. I had attended his funeral on Sunday & silently paid him my last Salute, Respect. May lord Krishna bless Sri Chinmoy.
For no apparent reason I started crying last Thursday. I woke up Friday morning feeling very sad. All day Friday and Saturday there was a great sadness in my heart and I didn’t know the reason why. I couldn’t stop crying. I asked my wife to forgive me and told her I didn’t understand the cause of my sadness.On Sunday I received an email from Richard telling me the news of Guru’s passing beyond the curtain of Eternity on October 11. My mind didn’t know but my soul surely did. Guru I will always love you.
Ram.
Your Eternal Presence
No Consolation
Can relieve the pain
Of Your absence.
Complete desolation
In my heart remains
From this loss immense.
My only Salvation
From Suffering’s Chains
Lies in the realization
Of Your Eternal Presence.
I have never been able to truly comprehend all that I know was done for me through Sri Chinmoy, but the one true thing I knew was that there was a miracle action moving through me from the first day that I met him. And because of his earthly presence my life was changed for eternity- to see clearly my soul’s mission, to know that there can be only one outcome in life; to one day know God as Sri Chinmoy has known God.
If Sri Chinmoy’s life were to be summed up in one word, I feel that word would be LOVE. He came to offer love to the entire world; to show us all how to love more consciously; to remind us that it is only love that matters - love for God and God’s beautiful Creation. I count myself as extremely fortunate to have been his disciple for the past 23 years and a direct recipient of the love, affection and concern that emanated from Sri Chinmoy in infinite measure. For that I am very grateful. May we all find something in his teachings and example that helps us to learn, grow and love in the golden light of our hearts and souls - if anything, that is all Sri Chinmoy would have wanted in return for his selfless offerings of love. Gratitude Guru - Shardul. (NZ)
I extend my deep condolences for sad demise of guru Sri Chinmoy who is no more among us but is inseparable from our hearts.
My deep desire to be your disciple in this life time has been buried with you yet you are my guru at my heart since i have realised you and always you will be my guru.
Maybe you are tired and resting or maybe the Supreme needed you, but how you can leave us so soon !!
Sri Chinmoy is the greatest spiritual master to grace the earth. His love, kindness and goodness inspired me to live a better life, just as it did countless others. I will be forever grateful to a man who suffered far more than one can imagine as he uplifted mankind. Those of us who were fortunate enough to be in the presence of Sri Chinmoy will always remember his light and love.
From Kevin O’Rafferty, Australia.
Thank you for strenghtening my believe in life, all being on earth and the mysterious power it keeps. There is a long way to go but with your help I met people that helped me starting it. Love, Inga
Having been a disciple of Sri Chinmoy for almost 29 years; I could not believe the news of his passing. I left a year and 4 months ago to follow Christ and am deeper into my faith because of the spiritual lessons and experiences I gained as a disciple of Sri Chinmoy. My name on the path was Parashita. I am distressed at Sri Chinmoy’s passing and my heart and love go out to all the faithful, devoted disciples who stayed with him to his last day. May God give you consolation, dearest students of joy!
Thank you so so much for the most precious gift ever that has been given to me. You opened my heart and soul and brought me in to the world of spirituality which has never left me since.
Your path crossed mine 33 years ago and I have been a better person because of it.
Thankyou for you.
From the age of 13, you were the most incredible inspiration in my life. I now sit, still, with heartfelt memories of great days gone by, full of inspiration, joy, fun and peace.
Thank you Prince Dipokusumo and your Royal Highnesses for such a joyful tribute to Sri Chinmoy. He was the kind of saint that looks at you and does not see caste, or highness or lowness, or rich or poor. He sees the soul, and sees his beloved Lord Supreme. Therefore, his love touched all hearts equally. When he would sing, play, recite, or meditate, all became entranced as if in a heavenly garden. Then, seeing all human beings as flowers in that garden, they would be inspired and motivated to do good, charitable works to relieve human suffering. His teachings were universal, but they were true to the Vaishnava ideal in which Divine Love is the unifying force that helps people work together for good.
May Saraswati grow up to be the flower of Yogyakarta!
I offer my hearts most soulful grattitude for Guru Sri Chinmoy’s life-soul’s vision and his unparalell gift to the world.His impact on my life and in the lives of countless other’s is immmeasurable.May the world come to recognize his Selfless Serivice,boundless love and soulful concern he so humbly offer to the world.My heart goes out to his devoted followers and fellow truth seekers,All Love Joy and Oneness…Eternally…..
Gurudev.
The Divine Mother’s Highest Climber.
You ceaselessly climbed Conciousness-Tree to bring down Her Nectar-Fruits for us Your Children.
You selflessly taught us how to climb as well.
You no doubt will always be Mother’s Highest Climber.
In the years to come philosophers and historians of the spirit will discover in Sri Chinmoy’s life and work the masterful completion of a revolution in spirituality which was started in India in the 19th century by Sri Ramakrishna, then continued by Sri Aurobindo. Without doubt one can say that in the future the new pathways for human aspiration paved by this revolution will have a central significance not only for those practicing spirituality but also for those trying to quench the age-old thirst of humanity for peace, cooperation and goodness in an instable and complicated world.
The great causes which await to be tackled in our young millennium have been addressed by Sri Chinmoy in a way that is not only universal and deeply human but also modern. For future generations, it will be impossible to seriously embark on the paths of peace, world-cooperation or spirituality without taking into account his life and work.
It is true for every human being that the body is only an outer cloak which should not be mistaken for the true person behind the outer appearance. In a certain sense this may be even more true for great Masters of the Spirit. But those who had the luck to meet Sri Chinmoy personally were not only witnesses to the tremendous power of Spirit which emanated from him, but equally to the unique sweetness and deep humility of his personality. Now that Sri Chinmoy has departed, his mighty achievements of the Spirit may become even more visible and appreciated on earth, but his loving personality will be a precious gem only in the memory and in the reality of the hearts of those who came to treasure and love this truly exceptional man.
Dearest Guru, 15-10-2007
Although you had left your physical body we will always
be one in the spirit with you, in our mind and also in our
our heart. I am very sure you are still as close to our
heartbeat and as near as our breath. I want to bow
to you for all your wonderful work all these years. Your
Books,Music,Poems have touch and lift so many people
including me. Please accept my million thanks to you.
I miss seeing you in person. I just joined for 14 months
as a disciple. Once again Thank You so much for accepting me as your disciple.
Jeffrey Wee Ban Oon
SINGAPORE
Dearest Guru,
I am gratful I had the opportunity to see you during your visit to San Diego in June 2007. I am deeply saddened by the fact your physical being is no longer with us. However, I take comfort in knowing your spiritual presence continues to watch over and protect us. Thank you for all you have done to help my son, Agragati, and me. My thoughts are with you every day and I feel honored to have known you during your sojourn to earth.
Yogyakarta, Indonesia,
October 15, 2007
Dear Our Beloved Guru Sri Chinmoy,
We can’t believe when we heard about you but we believe that you are still there as always for the whole word with your big love.
Thank you so much for your love and joy to our family and many people in our country, Indonesia.
Having a beautiful experience with you in Jamaica, New York in June 2006 is an unforgettable memory. We remember that we went to court everyday for meditating, singing, and listening your beautiful music; we followed you meditating in UN; we gathered with the others to celebrate Father’s Day; we took a nice picture in front of your house; we visited your wonderful museum and celebrated Prince Dipokusumo and also Adhityo’s birthday.
Then several months after we came back to our home town, a beautiful, cute and adorable baby girl was born. We name her Saraswati. It has so much bless we have that we can’t write one by one.
A beautiful memory on the Christmas trip in Penang, February 2006 that we were there for the whole family and you lifted us up. It was a remarkable experience. Another memory that keep in mind when you and your brother, Sinuhun met for the first time in the real world in the Surakarta Palace in 2003. Hopefully, you will meet him in the beautiful and peace place.
Also we still remember when you lifted up Prince Dipokusumo and his big family from Surakarta Palace in 2003 with the witness of Sinuhun. It was a remarkable memory that we never forget.
Guru,
You are our inspiration and motivator to create many beautiful things in this life.
Several weeks before you passed away, Princess Febri and her sister, Lia, with Michael and Abishek made several events “Silence Meditation” for students in Solo, Indonesia with the “peace birds”. We try to spread your vision and message for peace and harmony in the world. From the “Oneness Heart, Tears, and Smile”, you gave many joys to many people at many places in my home country, Indonesia when the earthquake happened.
We will continue your mission to make this world more peaceful and harmony.
Guru,
We won’t say good bye to you because we believe that you have a special duty from GOD. Your spirit, your love, your energy, and your soul will still leave in our heart, forever.
Many thanks for our beloved Guru, father, uncle, grandfather Sri Chinmony. We love you.
From Surakarta Palace — Indonesia
Prince Dipokusumo
Princess Febri
Adhityo, Maharani, Gayatri, Saraswati
Hartono Brotoasmoro
Lia
Haryo
Ama
Jojo
My sympathy goes out to the Sri Chinmoy community. May comfort and light surround your hearts and illuminate your next steps…
Dearest Guru,
All of my deepest love isend to you, you are the fountain of my life, I thank you so much for your Light and love ,as I breathe and live I will thank you every second of my existence, I live to receive and manifest Your Light, you are my dearest Guru, I walk on earth to represent and manifest You, my dear sweet Guru, I carry You in my heart forever I am your disciple, with every breath I will thank you, your child, rich navroth
I never stayed physically close to my Guru. And even now I know that Guru has just given up his physical body and will continue being in our hearts and keep watching over us for ever.
During my last fews years of living near Guru’s center in Jamaica, I have known him from close proximity. He lifted me and my mother. When he used to see me on the street or shops, he used to talk to me, in bengali. We used to talk breifly and say hello to each other. What a wonderful man !! I feel proud to be from Chittagong, where guru was born. Guru - Thank you so much for giving me a chance to know you, to talk you. Bless me from heaven. You will be missed, but not forgoten.
My Lord Beloved Supreme
May Thy compassionate guidance
help me to live Sri Chinmoy’s message of love
to always give love and give love and give love
conciously and unconciously
to make Sri Chinmoy’s rainbow soul
supremely happy
and divinely proud of me
I shall reply Sri Chinmoy’s message
of unconditional love divine
with a message of gratitude and a message of loyality
until I take
the last breath of my life
I’m just going to carry on as before. The transition is only from A to A+. Sing to me and you sing to him. Don’t disperse build more.
Dear Guru,
You made me cry, you made me smile
This will not be different now
Since you are freed from your physical burden
I feel your spirit even stronger than before
Your presence is real, your guidance is strong
And with your passing away you left me more mature
I am so grateful to have met you
Your disciple for ever,
Janneke
To offer Guru Sri Chinmoy a gratitude flame in the core of my heart, one to keep burning for the rest of my days on earth, is in itself an honour. Without His inspiration and guidance I would be only a fraction of the person I am. Victory Sri Chinmoy! Victory for Eternity!
Dearest Guru,
At the Khumba Mela of 1977 in Prayag (Allahabad) India, I gave a copy of your beautiful Jharna Kala rose to Ma Anandamoyee. She looked at it for a very,very long time while saying atcha, atcha,atcha which means wonderful,wonderful,wonderful.
Ram.
For me Sri Chinmoy is true Winner of Nobel Peace Price. His unique Wisdom, His path of the heart can bring Peace, Love and Hapiness to Mankind. It is very simple but how can it work? Just through opening our hearts in meditations, again and again, day by day…What a small price for solving all sorrows and dreads of this World!
So let us all follow Sri Chinmoy’s example and never give up!
Romana
i just got to know his work recently but he was great inspiration…….. me and my partner will miss him, but i do hope his work will still be alive in his disciples and in all of us
Namasté..
Dear Master, I know you are in the highest Delight receiving Heaven’s thunderous applause. From here, I am humbly joining with my heart and soul.
You embraced and served humanity with your vast heart and awakened us to an unkown kowledge of ourselves. You speeded up the progress of everyone you met . You never stopped and your message will never stop because you spreaded endless seeds that have grown in the heart of this planet. You reached a height and shared it with all those who believed it or not. You lifted the world with an embrace that will never vanish.
You didn´t like the word impossible, so my only wish is that somehow it will be possible to thank you for all you have done for me and the world.
Hareen
Beloved Guru, thank you. I felt you were going somewhere else, but I realised just today that you passed away. After some arrangements, I know that your spiritual guide will shine more than ever in my heart. From now on my meditation will become stronger, deeper, more peaceful, to listen to your beautiful singing voice, to feel the peace of your blissful soul and to cherish your presence forever in and with my soul. God is with you, you are, you were and always be with him, within him and him with you and within you. Blissful soul, thank you for bringing the beauty of a ray of light, early in the morning, that strikes my eyes and makes me feel more intensely their coulour, thank you for showing me the miracle of a blossoming flower, thank you for letting me listen to the singing of the birds and to the quietness of ancient oaks in gardens.
Dear guru, I am so happy that I had the chance to meet you in NY this year and feel the divine power all around you. You had been for me a tender grandfather too, that taught me the wiseness of forgiving and the responsibility of freedom. I am blessed guru, thank you. With love, Francesca
“Lord, allow me not to forget You.
If ever I forget You,
Do torture my heart ruthlessly.
If excruciating pangs shall compel me
To forget You,
Do awaken me with Your infinite Compassion.
My Lord,
If ever the sleep of death attacks me,
Do come and protect me.
Do remain inside my sleeping heart.
I have not asked You for anything
Meaningful and fruitful.
Do allow me not to forget You.”
- Sri Chinmoy
Guru, never allow us to forget you. That is my eternal request to you.
Sri Chinmoy has physically left us, and left a hole in my life that I am only beginning to comprehend. Spending time in New York with my Guru and spiritual brothers was a magical time - a time I never really expected to end. I cannot believe he has gone. I can only pray that God gives me the strength to do what He wants, and make Guru proud of me.
Love, condolences and blessings to my brother Salil and all his friends in the spiritual community. May your hearts be strong.
It is supremely true that death is not the end and that we are immortal soul in essence.
But now my eyes full of tears, my mind full of memories and my heart full of gratitude want to tribute to the beauty of Master’s physical presence.
I always enjoyed the most receiving inner wealth through ordinary things, and Sri Chinmoy was expert in that. It was so easy, so easy, so easy with Guru. He would joke with us and sea of joy would flaw upon us. He would shake his feet or rub his nose and that joy would double. He would silently walk among us or we would walk in front of him and we would immediately swim in peace. I adored that dark body, beautiful hands, childlike smile, sparkling eyes, the way he talked and walked. I was looking at him and couldn’t believe how naturally, spontaneously and beautifully divine reveals and manifest itself. Many times I lost a sense of difference between earth and heaven just by eating ice cream or a cake with my Master, smiling at each other, or singing with him or listening him joking and myself wholeheartedly laughing at those jokes. Gratitude, gratitude, gratitude my Beloved Guru for the most precious gift we could ever get and that was your earthly company.
I was moved musically and spiritually when I had the good fortune to see the Mahavishnu orchestra with John McLaughlin. it was under Sri Chinmoy that John and Santana pushed music to its farthest limits. Thank you Sri Chinmoy
Between Nothingness and Eternity.
To seekers who are still grieving, dive into your heart, you will still feel and smile with him.
We did not get to meet and I had so looked forward to meeting him this summer as I have been an admirer of his work. We travelled to New York this summer but the event we were scheduled to do was cancelled. I guess it was destined to not happen…how sad. We had a special Native American gift to recognize his lifetime achievement.
I want to thank my Guru for giving me guidance in all these 22 years. I just do not know how to express it in words. I am grateful to Guru for giving me countless opportunities in life to change my wrong direction and I know that this is really out of his infinite compassion. Sometimes I just feel that I do not really deserve this at all.
Guru’s sudden departure is a very sad loss to all of us. May he rest in peace.
I was a boy when I lived across the street (almost 40 years ago on 149th St. in Queens) from the Aum Center. Sri Chinmoy spent some time with me teaching me the basics of sprinting…I am thankful for the time he spent with me, and the track shoes he bought me. I went on to run track for Tulane.
We need such masters in our life to guide us to the right path. I have heard about him and listened several music he played but never fortune to get blessing directly from him. Guruve Nama ha.
I received the most sublime blessings of my life in luminous silence from Sri Chinmoy. I’m very deeply grateful to the Supreme for providing me in this life with what Sri Ramakrishna (1836-1886) called “the three greatest gifts a soul can receive: human birth, longing for God, and discipleship to an enlightened soul.”
Peace Be Upon the soul known as SRI CHINMOY (1931-2007) forever.
Some of these comments are all heart, heart, heart. That is what he would have wanted. Reading them is taking away all my sadness.
Thank you Tejvan, Shane and many others who are working even now to keep a flow of love going between those who loved the Master and need to find comfort in each other’s words.
Sahayak, you took things to the next level. That is so touching.
There is a song he wrote which is not much published, because it was only to be sung after he left the body:
When I Am Gone Away
When I am gone away
Remember me, O children sweet,
No, not because I failed,
No, not because I cried,
No, not because I tried,
No, not because I saw my Lord in you,
No, not because I served my Lord in you,
No, not because I fulfilled my Lord in you,
No, not because I was your Pilot true,
No, not because I was your Infinite blue,
Oh, but because my life was all gratitude,
Gratitude, gratitude
To you, to you, my sweet children, to you.
[unofficial]
* * *
In a 1976 book, Neil Vineberg tells this story:
Neil: One day during April, Sundari received a request from the Master to have one more song transcribed.
Sundari: Guru really had a bad cold when he called me. He was sneezing and coughing and he just sounded miserable. He asked me to write out “When I Am Gone Away” and he said to listen to the tape of the song at Tanima’s place. When I got to her place and told her Guru’s request, she suddenly became really worried and upset. It seemed that Tanima was told by Guru never to sing that song until he had left the body. So now I got really upset.
Neil: Tanima located the tape containing “When I Am Gone Away.” Sundari locked herself in another room and sadly began transcribing it.
Sundari: The poem is the saddest thing in the world and the way he was singing it was heartbreaking. I couldn’t stand it. I was crying the whole time writing it out. So I took the song over to Guru’s house and thought, “This is it! Guru is going to leave the body!”
Neil: Fortunately, Sundari did not hear another thing about the song for months. “So we all breathed a sigh of relief,” she said.
from Sri Chinmoy: The Silence-Sound, by Shambhu Neil Vineberg
Thank you Guru, for how much you have helped my life’s course…You are so special. Please continue to help the world from where you are. We need it.
Love, Lisa
Dearest Guru,
It is absolutely impossible for me to offer adequate gratitude for the infinite blessings and boundless compassion you have showered on me, my spiritual brothers and sisters, and the whole world, for all these years. Countless times you have protected, guided and saved all of us. Yet we must try our best to express our gratitude, and perhaps the best way is for all of us to become a life-long expression of your teachings, your love, your service to the world. From this moment on, let us all try.
Eternally,
Saral
This inspired me and brought a break to my sadness after finding out that Guru had left the body:
Guru passed away on a most auspicious time - exactly at the beginning of Navratri, which is a Hindu festival where God the Mother is adored and worshipped extensively. It is the holiest and best time out of the whole year to pass away according to Hinduism. Guru appeared in my dream the night he died and he started the very first prayer to the mother Supreme for Navratri.
-Guru you are eternal, all knowing and forever comforting.
While your passing has brought sadness, tears and much regret from myself, I can still feel you here. Your presence is very much alive in my heart as well as in your pictures, writings, art, music and of course your disciples. I am still in denial that these eyes of limitation will never see you in the physical again as it feels that you are still on earth with us.
Your ever flowing love and its continuing depth is an awe to my mind and ambrosia for my heart. I am so grateful that I have been blessed to be in your presence.
Aneeka.
It is my deepest hope that Guru’s Light and consciousness will be received by humanity in ever-increasing numbers on into eternity. And that his Light will illumine the hearts of our world’s religions to reveal our common cry for the divinity of oneness. And earth can become a sanctuary of peace within the universe.
May the blue of our sphere finally become a true reflection of our shared divinity.
Thank you, Guru, for touching our lives to make this so.
Dearest Guru,
Your most soul stirring song, Nami Juga Avatar, has become my life mantra. My deepest gratitude to you for all that you have done for me and the entire world. Trishatur
Dear Guru!
I came back on your path after 9 years because you were pulling me like a magnet to you with your infinite love and compassion.Your immortal smile gave a hope to my life. I know that You will guide me with your invisible hand .My gratitude heart , Toni K.
From Austin, Texas
My tears flow but my heart is not sad. Guru has passed through the veil beyond our sight, but the Sight of him is still in our hearts. I have only known his guidance for 10 years, but I hold that time most precious. The loss of him from this physical life only makes the spiritual connection more dear. He will continue to inspire and guide us, even in his rest.
just passing through to express my sadness of this world’s loss of him, i hope the works he started here continue on for a very long time
Your incredible musical instruments skills touched my heart during your complimentary concert in San Francisco, California. Regards.
Guru, lover of mankind, my life was changed to God due to you!! Thank you for all that you have done for me and for your spirit’s continual looking out for me. I love you. I so much appreciate all that you are. Sri Chinmoy is my Hero!!! In deepest sorrow, Bill Allard
Sri Chinmoy’a life was a shining example of the power of devout practice, personal devotion and a fervent inner spirituality. In his quiet, unassuming way, he helped inspire many others to follow along the same spiritual path. He will be missed by many.
This is a great loss for all peace loving people in the world. I have not personally met Guru but I have heard about him from his genuine followers and read about him in various articles. May god bless this saint’s soul. May god provide enough courage to all especially his close followers to co-op with this great loss of extra ordinary personality.
My heart was your disciple, and my sadness proves it.
I have read some of his books and I gathered so much wisdom and spiritual inspiration.
Thank you for your contribution to World peace and Harmony among all religions of the World.
Rest in Peace!
There are not anybody on Earth, who took part in Peace and Oneness determination between the people more than great teacher Sri Chinmoy. His dreams about Peace and Oneness always will live in our hearts.
I said and sang small time ago:
“Day after day
I enter into your heart
My sweetest Guru
I’m true living with you”
But now I say:
“I’m true living with your dreams, Guru”
Our Dearest Guru,
We had not got a chance to meet you, but Your smile and Your love-heart will be with us forever.
Thank you for everything.
Sri Chinmoy was an amazing person. I am so glad that he was a part of my life. Watching all those years of his “Llifting up the World” campaign, brought thousands of people together. Meeting his supporters and their true love for his teachings.
The world has lost a true peace-making person, he should have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. He traveled around the world bringing leaders to his side and each walked away with something more. If you had that opportunity to meet and be with Guru, you know what I mean.
Karen Clark
Dear Guru,
For the last 17 years (and even before, I am sure) you have been giving me your infinite Love and Blessings, but unfortunately only my soul could value it adequately. I do hope one day my soul will reveal it to me and will teach me to feel it and be your true disciple with all my heart, mind, vital and body, the way my soul has been.
my dear Guru
I can just say thank you, I can just feel deepest gratitude to you- that you touched my heart and my soul and showed me the right way.
Thank you for every moment you served the mankind, you inspired people to become better citizens of the world.
thank you for your selfless service, your inspiration, motivation, confidence, your love and smile.
I bow to you and every single one who keeps your message in their heart to continue your dream.
My Dear Beloved Guru, we love you eternally.
Nadezhda Galimova
Natalya Novikova
Sri Chinmoy; First and foremost, a God-Lover
In the coming days much will be written about Sri Chinmoy’s multifarious achievements: his 1,500 books, his 100’s of thousands of poems, his incredible and marvelous weightlifting achievements, his millions of drawings, his countless concerts and meditations, his friendships with the great men and women who have contributed so much to this world in every walk of life, Mikhail Gorbachev, Mother Teresa, Carl Lewis, Leonard Bernstein and so many, many more. But to me, Sri Chinmoy’s greatest gift was his all consuming, intense and passionate love of God.
I first met Sri Chinmoy in 1973. I was a young spiritual seeker looking for meaning and direction in life. I had been to churches, synagogues, temples and ashrams, seeking spiritual direction and had read many spiritual books. When I met Guru for the first time I immediately sensed that this was not a man who simply spoke of spiritual philosophy but someone who truly embodied a deep and profound spiritual consciousness. When he spoke of God, he wasn’t speaking as a learned man of knowledge but as someone with an unfathomable personal experience of God. He emanated this consciousness in every word, every deed, every breath, and every pore of his being. And, the most remarkable gift of all, he shared this deep love of God with all those who came to know him. His God-Love emanated from his being like the light of the sun and consumed and uplifted all those around him. For those fortunate enough to study with him as his students that loving, godly presence became an integral part of their own lives.
What Sri Chinmoy has given to me is absolutely the most precious gift that can ever be given; he brought to my life an intimate personal relationship to God and a constant awareness of the presence of God’s love in my own life.
Sri Chinmoy was many, many things; he was a poet, a writer, an artist, an athlete, a musician, an untiring advocate for world peace and harmony. But he was, above all a God-Lover and a vessel, to all those whom he touched, for the Infinite Love, Compassion and Grace of God, the Absolute Lord Supreme. He will be deeply missed, yet we can console ourselves in the awareness that he is truly at one with the love of God that he embodies and will continue, through what he has left in this world, to be a bridge to that Divine Presence that he remarkably had and shall eternally be.
I place my heart before you, Guru, with nothing but gratitude, gratitude, gratitude,
Amayik
i want to share a short experience with you.on friday night a student of sri chinmoy sent me a message that a lecture that is going to be next week is canceld,but he didnt mentioned why.the first thought i had at that moment was that sri chinmoy passed away,although i newer thought about that before
In You my lonely heart have found refuge.
On the hazy roads of life
It was Your smile showing me the way.
They told me that you are passed away.
But I still see you in my heart brighter then before.
They saying that you are died from the heart attack
But I know that you just moved back to our home.
You told me that I will not see you again.
But I will not let you to leave my hearts loves throne.
Dearest Guru,
Thanks for showing us the Paradise on earth and the Way how to reach the Paradise on Heaven . Gratitude forever.
At the age of 12 I had the good fortune to be accepted as one of Sri Chinmoy’s disciples,never before or problably never again will I feel as safe,loved or been as well in every area of my life.The things I did learn and receive were of infinite bounty.GURU will always live inside my heart.I love you all that read this.I hope his work will be continued as well as it has been over the years.Thank you Sri Chinmoy for touching my life.
His life, my gratitude
his compassion, my cry
his love, my inspiration
his devotion, my aspiration
his surrender, my pride
his transcendence, my goal
his immortality, my life
his eternity, my heart
his satisfaction, my realization
.
Guru - I am grateful for you, my Master.
Guru you are always in my heart.
a light gone to re-energise.
Life is a funny thing. Events happen everyday. Most things are forgotten almost just after they happen as we go onto the next event, encounter, relation and life issue.
In 1986 I went to see Sri Chinmoy at a San Francisco event. I still can remember that experience in some detail. I remember that I felt that Sri Cinmoy was relating to me personnaly, I felt his connection in a very powerful way, even though I was way up in the back in the balcony.
The only other time I had this experience was with the Dalai Lama.
I guess feeeling of connection is the result of being in his aura. I am not sure what it is but I felt blessed and was grateful. I know other who have expressed the same experience.
Humanity, our human family, has been blessed by the presence of Sri Chimnoy in way we may never really appreciate. I for one send him deep and loving heart felt gratitude to him for all he has done for poor, needy and suffering humanity.
David A. Anderer
My Beloved Guru,
My human mind says:
What does life mean now that You have left the body? Where will the world go now that You are gone?
My utterly broken heart sinks deeper into profound sadness now You are gone. The tears return and return.
Am I selfish to feel such loss? It has been too long since I have seen Your physical being, even though I meditate and pray to You every day. But now, no more chances. No more reason to write that letter I have been meaning to for ages. No more words, no more will my brothers and sisters hear Your beautiful voice.
But my soul tells me:
You have given us everything already. All of the answers have been given, and we only need ask our inner pilot if we forget. We will do as You have always asked of us. We will remain faithful and not fall away, now You have left the physical world. Soon we will once again find our joy and spread the message of love and peace throughout this world.
My dear Beloved Guru!
My heart of eternal gratitude will always be yours, for feeding my love of God, encouraging and supporting me in all my ultra-distance running, swimming and triathlon adventures, for giving me the strength and ensurance to organize big sport events and the most important for making me conscious of the beauty and luminosity of my own soul.
You finished your work on earth, now let us continue.
Yours forever
Prafulla
I’ve never met Sri Chinmoy, but I feel as if I know
him personally. I’ve been eating at his follower’s
restaurants in Evanston, Il, San Francisco, CA &
Melbourne, Australia since my college days (30 plus years) and a true sense of peace and serenity always
washes over me when I enter one of them -what
a respite from the madness of the “outside” world!
I’ve enjoyed reading Sri Chinmoy’s tribute to his friends Mother Teresa and Princess Diana, fellow peace-makers. I’m sure they are all together now in
a better place.
Peace and Blessings upon you, Sri Chinmoy and my
sympathy goes out to your family and followers.
Dear Guru, you will remain my heart’s utter cry..
My Sweetest Guru,
the first time when I heard about Your passing, I wanted to die. But now I feel that You live inside me. You are all in my life.
Dear Guru,
Gratitude for all you have taught me, for being with me during unbelievable trials after you told me “it was best to leave” your path. My experiences during these trials and at Celebrations and the Chicago concert will stay with me forever.
I’m so sad you have left your earthly body, and wish I could come to New York on the 17th, but can’t.
Thank you for the Light you’ve brought to this planet.
Love,
Evonne
To the great peace warrior Sri Chinmoy
personally i will always be grateful for all You did for me and my family and the earth consciousness. Hopefully, after the grief and sadness of our limited human understanding has passed, we will be aware of the welling inspiration you are transmitting to humanity unencumbered by the restrictions of the physical world and use it to make of ourselves better beings in a better world. Eternal victory to You.
Dear Guru, We are happy 14 years together with You. Gratitude, Gratitude, Gratitude. You will live eternally in our hearts.
Dearest Guru,
Heaven is rejoicing, smiling and dancing at your triumphant return. And Earth is crying, crying tears of sadness, but also tears of gratitude. God knows how long it will take before the world fully comprehends what you have done and what you have been. But assuredly the world’s love for you and the worlds gratitude to you is only going to increase and increase. More and more people throughout the globe will come to learn of you and your message. Your message of divine love, of a oneness-world, of aspiration, self-trancendence, self-fulfilment and much more are still but a seed in the earth-consciousness, which is bound to grow, bloom and victoriously blossom, spreading its bounty everywhere.
This world is a better place because of you and people like you. Your mission continues here on earth and there in heaven, and your loving concern will continue to guide, inspire and illumine the world throughout eternity.
Thank you.
Sri Chinmoy - dear GURU
Supreme - Supreme -Supreme.
Just three weeks ago I heard you performing in your last concert in St. Petersburg. Your message and wonderful radiation was of the same strenght as ever. Thank you again indeed for the many times I received your help in the inner world, under so many circumstances! Thank you also for letting me understand that you are not a competitor of Jesus Christ, but one of his most appreciated companion of highest order!
You have given a spiritual name to my son when he was only nine months old: Valendra. - May I and my family feel your guidance also in the future - real grace never ends! Most gratefully I remain
Yours endless admirer,
Heinrich Schweizer,
composer.
Dearest Guru,
If not for you, I don’t know where I would be right now. I don’t know what I would be, right now. Guru, you had given me a life so full of purpose and direction that I felt it would have been so meaningless, otherwise.
I am forever indebted to Your Compassion, Forgiveness and Your ocean of infinite Love.
Many times I tried to tell the world about you, but only to be ignored and even misunderstood. I remembered very vividly when you played a video clip of yourself blessing the children of Chiangmai, Thailand, from inside your car, how much love you poured to those charming souls on the streets of Chiangmai, in the early hours, but… nobody out there knows you were blessing them. Yet, you went on tirelessly, selflessly, self-givingly blessing them, yet, they were not aware of your divine presence. I cried so much when I saw that because it reflects what you were trying to do for the world, and yet so few knew that in our midst, we are so fortunate to be living in the golden age of a very very very Enlightened Great Master who had come to bless us all, so self-givingly, so God-like.
Guru, I am happy for you that you finally can take this eternal rest. May you always continue to bless us, protect us and guide us, wherever you are right now.
My utmost gratitude, from Singapore, Urdhacheta
I am shocked by the very sad news. I feel very sad. I do hope he could sleep in peacefully.
Sri Chinmoy’s life has been dedicated to spread peace and harmony around the world. With his generosity and positive energy he has touched the hearts of millions. Like his soul his message will live forever.
Francois Gay - Mr. Olympia Natural Bodybuilding
Today I shed tears of joy that such a legend lived among us.
Sri Chinmoy is part of Light. It is a blessing to meet Guru, to be able to enjoy his inspiring and soulful music, poems, pictures. He stays alive for me and I feel his guiding presence even more today
‘By their fruit ye shall shall know them’ Jesus once said, and Sri Chinmoy left so many brilliant disciples! His life is a fulfillment of a dream for many of us.
Milla
Jishu
With such tenderness you smile,
As if all the innocent hurts
Suffered by all the World’s Charlie Browns
Had made you stop
And ponder their misfortune.
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O Guru, I can’t believe you are gone. I can’t believe it.
I am happy though. Because I know you finally have the rest you deserve. I am so glad for you now that it is over and you can rest.
And finally be happy in Heaven, with Krishna and with Christ and your other friends. In these Infinite states of samadhi that we do not understand.
Grant comfort to those who weep at your loss…help them to feel that, as your brother Sri Ramakrishna said, you have just gone to another room.
Guru is a way-star of the whole world. It will be very hard for us without your physical presence. We feel that your inner consciousness will be always with us. Thank you very much, dear Guru for Your boundless Concern, Compassion, Forgiveness, Love, for every second that we were with you.
The family from Karaganda: Tanya,Dima,Masha,Nastya,Julya
I am deeply touched again by this sad event of your death, Guru. I must apologize not to be with your closest disciples at Aspiration Ground in those days. Jahnabi and Marie-Soleil were there with friends from Toronto to offer you a last tribute. I thank you very much for taking me out of my truck this summer and putting me back in a good school in Halifax, with Muilan, Sarita and Daniel and Sebastien surrounding me at this Centre, I’m sure this will go fine for me. I owe you so much.
Sri Sri Sri Chinmoy***
You were true inspiration to consciousness of humankind.
Your pure breath blessed this earth, thank you for being with us in mortal form- now your form is immortal one.
with greatest gratitude
Laura
Finland
Of my 47 years on earth, I’ve spent the last 21 years as a student of Sri Chinmoy. To say that he has had a profound influence on my life would be a tremendous understatement indeed. I am eternally grateful to Sri Chinmoy for so many things that I don’t even know where to begin.
For a start, he saved my life (in a literal sense) on at least a few occasions that I am aware of. Not to mention inspiring me to commence, and stay on, a spiritual path, during which he has been moulding and shaping me into my highest and greatest potential. Although there are hundreds of personal stories I could recount, space does not permit here.
For myself this is a tremendous loss; I’m only commencing to recognise the big gaps in my life which are now becoming apparent. Likewise, Sri Chinmoy’s departure from the physical plane will also leave gaping holes in the lives of his many thousands of students all around the globe, not to mention countless friends, admirers, well-wishers and those whose lives have, in some way, been positively impacted and affected by him.
The world is no longer the same place as when he was here amongst us in the physical.
Perhaps my biggest feeling of sadness results from the fact that he was not able to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. I feel that he deserved at least this much from the world for which he has worked ceaselessly and self-giving for his entire life, with a prolific outpouring of goodwill, love, creativity and accomplishments, the likes of which have never been achieved before even by a collective of individuals.
I shall keep my dearest Teacher, kindest Friend, and greatest Inspiration inside my heart forever. Thank-you, Guru, for all that you have done — and will continue to do — for me, and this planet and every living thing on it.
View a longer tribute by Prashputita on the Sri Chinmoy Centre site…
The Master’s passing away
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Silence.
No body, no face…
Only two eyes of light are looking at me
and through me.
Quietly.
We have lost a great spiritual leader
The world is a poorer place without Sri Chinmoy
I am grateful he has left such a legacy of work and teachings with us and I am sure his spirit will continue to work through many of us
Our cousin Sutushti, a devoted follower of Sri Chinmoy, introduced us to him. We were blessed to read many of his writings and enjoy his little birds. When my husband developed a serious form of cancer, Sri Chinmoy was asked to please meditate for him and we believe he has been instrumental in John’s healing. We will miss him very much as he was a strong presence in our lives even though we would be considered “friends”, not devout followers. We sent heartfelt condolensces to all those who worked closely with him, loved him like a father and who are reeling in shock right now. May his peace surround you all. He will surely always be with you. Special love to Sutushti and thank you for bringing your Guru into our lives.
My Dear GURU! See You tomorrow in the mornings, and during the days and nights in my gratitude heart!
Guru, Guru, Guru, oh Guru;
Oh Guru, oh Guru, oh Guru, Guru;
My Heart cries;
But my Soul knows;
You were here for us;
And now You are There, for us.
Guru
Although I never met you in your final incarnation, I know you will be forever with me. I cried tears of sadness (for myself at my feeling of loss) though I know you want my happiness. I AM happy to know I will continue to follow your guiding light. I have many words of yours to read, many songs of yours to sing, many notes of yours to hear and many colours of yours to view. But of course I also know that these are my words, my songs, my notes and my colours because you expressed them for all mankind that they be inspired. I am so grateful for your inspiration which gets stronger in me everyday and will never diminish.
Thank you for your continuous love and guidance.
Your loving follower Jonathan
Guru lit the inner flame in all our hearts. I would not be alive without him. Supreme, Supreme, Supreme.
My inner most love and condolences to all and my condolences. He will live on in my heart.
Brad (Bread) Farmer - Sri Lanka
Sad news I received yesterday from a friend who informed me of the Sri Chinmoy’s passing. I shall keep a found souvenir of my various ultra races in New York, including the 1 000 miler world championship in 1988, when Guru’s presence and support were key to my personal success. Sri Chinmoy certainly deserves respect and admiration for the good he has done and for the inspiration he provided to other individuals in the achievement of their own personal goals. He knew how to motivate people.
Dearest Guru, I am so proud of you, your life was 100% God serving, God loving and God fullfillment. Who can say they walked the walk and led totally by example as you have. You have earned Heavens highest praises. All our gratitude and love, Niribili and Nicholas File, Auckland centre, NewZealand
Thank you Sri Chinmoy for everything you did for me and my relatives and the whole humankind. You still exist in my heart. Forever and forever.
I am happy that you got away from earth sufferings. Heavenly home is welcoming you warmly after hard work you did here.
Gratitude! Gratitude! Gratitude!
Dearest Guru,
Eternal Gratitude I feel in my heart and soul for the inspiration you gave me to change my life from darkness into Light, way back in 1974. Since that moment I experience God in my life day and night and it changed my life for the better,including the life of my dear brother Unmukta. May you continue to work for humanity and all the souls of Light from the realms of Light. Thankfulness I AM forever! Robert Gerretsen,Den Haag,The Netherlands.
I am very greatful for your blessing in my life.
Dear Guru, always in our prayers… love you.
I will miss you, even though I have been far away and you have been so close.
Happy he has finally found peace, Kailash
We, all Your Russian children - we love You so much! And our love will be always with You!
“No mind, no form, I only exist;
Now ceased all will and thought.
The final end of Nature’s dance;
I am It whom I have sought.” - The Absolute, by Sri Chinmoy
Our heartfelt prayers and condolences are extended to all the students of Sri Sri Chinmoy at this time of his passing. His was a truly divine life dedicated to humanity. Tonight ¨Yoga in Daily Life¨ members dedicated one minute´s silent prayer in his memory.
Dear Guru, thank you for everything you have done for me… I love you forever…
I am very sad at this moment to hear of the passing of the Great Sri Chinmoy.
He has influeneced my life greatly.
I use his books to inspire myself and others.
Just yesterday I quoted Sri Chinmoy “We are the body of our Beliefs”
My hope is that his followers will be able to carry on his mission of Peace.
Vic Lindal
Former National Volleyball Coach Canada.
TV broadcaster .
May the Lord Jesus Christ, the supreme King and Judge of all mankind, have mercy on the soul of Guru Sri Chinmoy.
As someone who has received Sri Chinmoy’s blessings in the past, it is my heartfelt prayer for the continual acceleration of the spiritual awakening and spiritual evolution of all of Sri Chinmoy’s past, present and future disciples - as well as all beings aware of him in any way. Namaste
The world has lost one of the most influencial human beings of the last century and this century.
He was a true leader of humanity and a true brother/friend to all his students.
I have had the privilege to have been inspired by guru Sri Chinmoy and his enduring message of peace and transcendence over the past three decades . In these days of spiritual turmoil, the world has lost a great leader. I hope his disciples will carry his message forward and continue his vital mission.
Kaylen Dhira
Let us not be sadden by the passing of a great sprititual leader, but rather rejoice in his life and the message he leaves us. His body may no longer be in this realm but his spirit lives on in all who he touched. His unconditional love of the Supreme and humanity transends death and so does our love for him. May we all each in our own way, carry forth his message of peace, love and harmony to all we come in contact with and work together to create a better world. Gurudev, may the influence of your great heart, speak to us from beyond the veil of eternity.
Peace be upon you.
Beloved Guruji
Thank you for taking me on your path
To guide me to the golden shore
Every breath of my Aspiration-Heart cries
Gratitude
I will never give up
since you are still with us in oneness-love vibration
Gratitude Gratitude Gratitude
What you have given my brother whilst he has been your disciple, I see a model for what you have given to humanity. Your message and gifts have done much to bring the earth closer to a sense of oneness. I hope those you have touched in your time here are inspired to open their hearts even more and sing your message even louder with your passing from the physical world.
Eternal gratitude for the inspiration, peace and love you have given the world and me.
We lost another great soul who selflessly spread his message of peace, love and harmony. What a great life he lived !! He will be remembered forever.
I bow to the life of Guru Sri Chinmoy. I will be eternally grateful for his infinite blessings in my life. The Lord blessed me with a wonderful dream recently where I saw Guru surrendered at the feet of the Divine Mother, which is where he is right now.
My condolences and heart felt empathy to all Guru’s disciples around the world for the physical loss of the divine being, Guru Sri Chinmoy.
Love and Light,
Robert (”Bob”) March
Beloved Guru, we who mourn your loss are now blessed by your divine presence.
You have given us all in our own unique way the capacity and wisdom to continue your work here on earth. We have the strength to support those who are weak, to love those who are troubled, to bring compassion to those who are suffering, to inspire those who are down, to bring joy to those who are sad, to bring oneness to those who are alone and to open our hearts to those who have erred.
You are our dearest Guru, always in our prayers and hearts. Gratitude, gratitude.
Dear Guru,
thank you, thank you, thank you… I love you forever…
“I have peace of mind only when I see everything from God’s point of view.” - Sri Chinmoy
It was a few years back when my dog, Umbra, and I were “lifted” in downtown Chicago. I will always remember his eyes lighting up in surprize for the strobe light Umbra gave him. A wonderful, serious, person.
Guru,
I’m so grateful to have known you, meditated with you and performed for you. You taught me so much through your own light, joy, creativity and kindness. I see you through the eyes of purity’s beauty. My deepest, sincerest and heartfelt thanks.
Dear Guru,
thank You for changing my life in the best possible way
With love,
Rose
My Dear Guru, I do not know how to say about my gratitude to you. I know that we are the happiest spiritual children in the world. You touched our lives, our souls. You transformed us into a oneness-family. I feel deep love in my heart! My heart is all gratitude to You.
i am wery gratefull for everything that sri chinmoy has done for humanity.
hey sri…i know your energy is floating free and joyous somewhere in the universe…i just want to say thanks for making promoting healthy living and creating sporting activities a part of your life. i competed in some of your events and i never thanked you personally but i am sending you this positive thought now..on news of your passing to another plane…peace. al nakas
For me there was a change of sadness and joy.
But this sadness can turn into an even stronger urge to aspire for the good and absolutely best in us,our core and real truth.
Guru returned to where he and we all belong.
He showed me to listen to silence more carefully,behind the gates there is a world flooded with love and peace.
Let us play our role with utmost soul-power and one day we will totally forget all quarrells and seperativity and there will remain an ocean of everywhere extending light.
i try my best to keep connection with you with a glowing heart.
i can only say i appreciate mostly all your activities which are a blessing for all mankind.
Oh Dear Chimoy,The Guru of millions,
May your soul reach the lotus feet of Lord Siva,
It is so heartening to note you lived in SouthIndia for 20 years when young and learned a Spirutual Life here to spread the Light of Knowledge to the World Citizens. We are proud of you. We all salute you. We assure you we will surely carry on the torch you left us, through The United Nations.
This sad news reached me on this day when I am working tirelessly to spread the Millanium Campaign to END POVERTY-2015. We will dedicate to you this PLEDGE to be taken on 17thOct,2007 through out The World by UNMC and Art of Living Foundation.
We all, millions and millions of ordinary people will pray for you on this 17th Oct, Thursday,2007 and Pledge to carry on the task left by you through The United Nations in the most peaceful manner. We will fulfill all the 8 Millanium Goals by 2015.
Oam Namasivaaya,
C.P.Kumaresan, Tirupur, TN, India.
last 6 years i was not formaly Sri Chinmoy’s student,but i was between1995-1999. And now again i planed to come back to his path,hoping to see him physically again when suddenly i heard that he passed away,at first i felt a kind of emptines in myself and felt sad,but than i remembered what i read in one of gurus books,he said, when a spiritual master dies we can be sad for a short time because we will not see him physically any more,but than we have to remember that he lives in all our hearts. thank you guru
There are no words to describe the profound impact that Guru had in my life. My dearest love and deepest admiration will be offered to you always. Thank you Guru… Thank you…
My Dear, Dearer, my Dearest Guru! Your paintings are at their usual places - on the walls of my room, Your pictures are on my table, your books are on the shelves - that means You are with me and never left. So, why is it so painful? I know You are happy now, then I am happy too. You and me are One and will be One forever.
If there is one word that encapsulates what Sri Chinmoy taught me, it is gratitude. In gratitude, he suggested, the heart blossoms and the past and the future are non-existent. The presence of the be-loved is stirred and one is alive for the first time. I carry this teaching in my life like an imperishable fragrance. The novelty of his teaching, for me, resides in the realization that gratitude reveals all those moments of existence, which are eternal. In their condensed and secret way, these moments of grace implode in ones life. Sri Chinmoy was a living embodiment of this core element in his teaching. He imbibed it and transmitted this imperishable fragrance that is beyond the restless search for fulfillment in heaven or on earth. In his blessing gratitude, Sri Chinmoy bridged the two and revealed to others a blue print for their soul, regardless of the shifting moods and desires, that buffet human life. Whenever I desire, or seek to grasp a past and a possible future, I turn back to this imperishable fragrance in order to reorient myself to the presence of the be-loved here and now. This is the enlightenment of the heart, mind, and vitality. In embodying this quality, Sri Chinmoy was able to show others the path towards the interior of a rose.
“A self-giving heart-flower
Neither withers nor perishes
With the passage of time.
…
His is the heart
That owns the beauty
Of sunlit silence.”
Sri Chinmoy Heart-Garden
About the poem THE ABSOLUTE (quoted in an earlier comment) - Guru said to a group of us in the 70’s that this one poem alone would truly stand the test of time, as we know he shall. I feel so blessed to have basked in the light, love and compassion of my beloved Guru, spiritual father, brother and true friend along with his loving disciples. It has truly been a glorious journey and now the torch is passed to those who loved him to let the “light”/ creativity / generosity and compassion he awakened in us shine. Let it shine! Lifelong gratitude, Apeksha
It is very sad to accept the fact that our Beloved Guru in not any longer with us in this physical universe. He completed His cosmic game and jumped into mahasamadhi, showing us that now it is our turn to continue his work here on Earth.
We know that He will be all the time (and more than before) with us helping and inspiring us along our path…
Dear guruji
I was deeply shocked and lost to hear you leaving this earth. Every day you came to my life and changed everything. You gave me lots of love and joy , difficult to let you go , but i know your place is now in the heavens.
You are my light , you always in my heart.
Thank you Guru , thank you for everything.
My Love ( by Sri Chinmoy )
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My Sweet Lord Beloved Supreme ,
You are my Love for you
And
You are your Love for me .
All my love ,
Of you , from you and in you ,
Being you ,
Can be only ever
For you.
your JYOTI
Sri Chinmoy Centre from Yogyakarta Indonesia.
Dear Guru! We are happy 14 years together with You! Gratitude! Gratitude! Gratitude! You will live eternally in our hearts.
My heart goes out to Sri Chinmoy’s students, particularly those I had the pleasure of meeting in Ottawa, and in particular, my sweet lovely daughter. Each one of you is a living embodiment of his teachings, and he will live forever through what you have done and continue to do. Keep the faith and know that you have inspired others. With deepest respect for your loss, Laurel
I love you, Guru
A Love Like No Other Transforms—with a Magical Makeover
Dearest Guru,
How my world crashed down when friends called about your passing on—on that fateful October 11th, 2007 around noon-time, in our town. And, it was so incredibly painful to bear my first-ever family loss. (As other loved ones are still enjoying the earthly plane.) Yet, amidst the ever-ready flow of tears and constant choking up, I had to carry on my responsibilities. I showed up for my weekly Thursday volunteer bookstore stint at our library sheepishly trying to hide my hugely swollen eyes behind a pair of sunglasses. But patrons were not fooled, and offered silent support.
The next morning, still uncontrollably sobbing at realizing how you are my first-ever loss, dearest and closest to my heart, I still had to face another public appearance—at the first local launch of my latest book, “Spa Living: Ideas, Tips & Recipes for Revitalizing Body-Mind-Spirit.” By the way, Your inspiring encouragement of living a radiant life of beauty blessed with happiness and good health that is filled with Love, Light, and Truth are copiously sprinkled throughout this book.
Still swollen-red-eyed, I had to at least fake some cheerfulness at the bookstore. But, before I knew it, You so enabled me to throw heart and soul into greeting well-wishers that I emerged from my book signing laughing and no long teary-eyed.
What happened? Had I turned into a callous non-grieving soul? Upon returning home, I meditated on the amazing course of events. Just 27 hours ago, I had experienced the most nightmarish nadir of my earthly existence thus far—only to be replaced with such joy, soothing serenity, and sense of purification?
Could it be similar to Irving Stone’s biographical novel, “The Agony and the Ecstasy: A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo?” And of how divine grace transforms with unconditional love?
It’s been the most amazing 27 years of meditating with you, Guru! It’s been a life filled with constant new adventures and self-discoveries. For example, would I have ever thought of being a writer? Or, of facing a lone, frontier-like existence in the southwest after 20 years in the “Pacific Northwet” collectively manifesting with other members of our larger Seattle Center?
Our courageous “assistantmummer” had earlier posted the story of Ananda grieving at the loss of his Master, The Buddha. However, the Buddha requested Ananda to, “Proceed on your inner strength, and you will receive liberation.” http://www.srichinmoylibrary.com/siddhartha-becomes-buddha/31.html
Let me close with your poem reprinted on the inside jacket flap of “Spa Living,” Guru.
If there is inner purity,
Then the outer beauty
Will be unparalleled.
~ Sri Chinmoy
Help me please to continue consciously fulfilling my soul’s mission. After all, living a life filled with Love, Joy and Beauty are but some ways to manifest Your Light in very tangible, practical ways.
Eternal Gratitude for A Love Like No Other,
Sunamita
Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
I’m grateful to you for participating in one of your concerts.
Thank you light up my soul.
Loved Guru, thank you for your light in this Planet. I have you with me for ever.
I am in embarrassment.
But I feel and know only one:
You are in my heart forever.
After hearing of Guru’s passing, for 2 days I felt physically sick. It is like withdrawal — someone important in my life is no longer on earth. But last night, I meditated and Sri Chinmoy’s picture was so ALIVE.
Don’t resist; Be flexible. Don’t be rigid; Be supple. Welcome change! Each change Is an illumining opportunity To knock at the door Of fulfilling progress sweet. -Sri Chinmoy
This news just put a sudden stop to the activities I was just doing. It’s a time now, that I can be grateful and thank Guru for all that he tried to do to help me. I thank him for having transformed my life. All of a sudden, I am remembering being there with everyone at the tennis court or at the centers. It was unique and unforgettable.
At the same time, I’m going to take this opportunity to thank the center leaders for all the work and dedication that they have all given to allow his work to continue. We had some great experiences together.
Love - Manishi
Guru, my Sun, I love You so much… I know You are happy there but it’s just unbelievable… so suddenly I still can’t believe that It happened… it’s so sad… I regret i have wasted so much precious time… every single moment with You was more than paradise…
Dearest Guru,
You are the eternal smile in our hearts. Your body is lying serenely at the Temple on the Aspiration Ground, with glowing smile on Your beloved Face, but You are the immortal Love, Grace, Compassion and Guidance for us, your children.
We will make you proud of us, Guru!
Abhisar
This is a great loss for those who have been working for the world peace. We have known him for the last 20 years and shared his views all along and will do so for ever. Let us hope we keep drawing inspiration from his life. Guru! please bestow your blessings on us for ever.
‘My own gratitude-heart is all that matters.’ - Sri Chinmoy
I LOVE YOU GURU
A thousands gratitudes to you my guru!
Dear Guru,
I have heard the news, that you left your body.
To me it came so suddenly and I do not know wheter to be happy or sad.
I am grateful to you, for what you did, the last 10 years and I am glad that I have met you.
You gave so much light and grace.
I will miss you, you are in my heart for ever,
your student
Greetje Hoekstra from Amsterdam, the Netherlands
My deepest and deepest gratitude for everything you did, and you will always do for us.
my heart felt note is this
MAY HIS SOUL REST IN PEACE SEEMS TO ME TOO SHALLOW FOR A SOUL WITH THE DEPTH OF THE OCEAN’S QUIETUDE ,AND PEACEFUL PEACE OF THE TRANQUIL LAKE.
MY KOTI KOTI VANDANAS
TO THIS SAGE AS I WOULD ADDRESS HIM.
My Master,My Master, My Master
You are always in my heart.
such a soul that he is ever eternal
never for once forgotton
as he lives in the minds and hearts
of countless
whom he taught to think rightly
whom he made to feel rightly
he has touched the souls
of many
me am one of them
dearest Guru
I love You and will love You for ever; You are an incredible and amazing spiritual Master who nourrished my spiritual life during 1977 until now; even if I left the Path two years ago I continue to receive from You, your Light and Compassion, and I mean it. For me You were the Supreme incarnate giving all around him, to every body ,his Light, the Light of the Supreme incarnate totally in You.
“Guru’s Heart is mine and my heart is Guru’s” , for ever.
my dearest GURU
my mind is suffering from his own ignorance because you left the body
and i never had the chance to thank you for receiving me on your Boat
but my heart is all gratitude and eternal love and devotion for You
wipe my sorrow and guide me to the Golden Shore
Dear Guru,
I am full of gratitude for all that you have done for me, for your love, light, inspiration and joy.
Jai Guru
My Dearest Beloved Guru! You are my heart’s wealth and Love, Love and Gratitude forever. All my family loves you very, very, very much. We will never be able to express everything You have done for us.
Dear Sri Chinmoy, may Your Peace voyage beyond this world inspire many to change for the better.
Dear Guru, may we follow Your Heart and Your Dream about the Love and Lord Supreme.
I wish You above all Lord Supreme’s company.
Yours in Faith and lasting Love.
This is one of the saddest moments. One feels as if earth has become an orphan. The continuous presence of truly great spiritual masters, starting in 1836 with the birth of Sri Ramakrishna, has suddenly been broken.
Yet the surety remains with us that the work accomplished by a great men like Sri Chinmoy will continue to guide humanity.
Sri Chinmoy has offered to those that were able to hear and see Infinity in a poem, a song, or in deep meditation. He has opened my eyes and touched my life in the truest spiritual sense.
Such a pain. Guru had to leave the world unrecognized and unaccepted by the world. Again the earth rejected its illumination and transformation.
Love, compasion, happiness, force and the joy of life are some things that you showed me. Thank you so much.
The Absolute (by Sri Chinmoy)
No mind, no form, I only exist;
Now ceased all will and thought;
The final end of Nature’s dance,
I am it whom I have sought.
A realm of Bliss bare, ultimate;
Beyond both knower and known;
A rest immense I enjoy at last;
I face the One alone.
I have crossed the secret ways of life,
I have become the Goal.
The Truth immutable is revealed;
I am the way, the God Soul.
My spirit aware of all the heights,
I am mute in the core of the Sun.
I barter nothing with time and deeds;
My cosmic play is done.
Guru, we were saddened by Your sudden passing. But we know that You will ever be here with us, guiding the world-consciousness.
Guru,
I cannot fathom all you have done for me, and all you will continue to do. But the most wonderful gifts you gave were your unconditional and eternal Love, and returning me to my true home - God’s Heart . . . gratitude, and may that gratitude grow and blossom every day in this life and all beyond.
To all my dear brothers and sisters around the world my love and oneness. Let us each celebrate Guru’s Life in every moment of our lives.
“You have completely changed my life. Now I can’t even imagine how much You love all of us. I will always keep You in the very depth of my heart.
Thank You, Thank You, Thank You, Guru.”
My condolenses to the Sri Chinmoy community.
Sri was a big inspiration to me and I think to the whole Ultramarathon World. He may rest in peace.
Markus
My Dear, Dear Guru!
I love You even more.
I feel You even more.
My body is crying
but my heart is always with You, and it is happy.
Very unexpected our beloved Guru left his body.
Tears of sorrow for this great loss on the outer plane are mixing with tears of joy on the inner plane for Guru’s infinite achievements that can never be described, for my own 31 fulfilling years of being his spiritual child, for His final homecoming to Heaven from where He will bless us seekers with His Love and Light throughout Eternity.
Thank you, my Beloved Guru for coming into my life.
Thank You, Guru, for everything….
I can´t say more…. Thank you.
“Last night I had a VEry, VEry, VEry significant dream.
I saw my Lord, Clasped His Eye, and kissed His Feet Supreme.”
With these words, Guru, and the way you emphasized “very” in the song you wrote to it, perhaps you dropped the first gentle hint to us that you would be joining your Lord in Heaven.
With your love, concern, kindness and compassion, we shall forever grow and glow. We shall always feel you in our hearts. With you we shall try to live our lives.
Love,
Nayana
A Tribute To My Guru – offered by Utthal, a disciple of 35 years who briefly celebrated his birthday October 11th, until news of his master’s passing that very morning cast him into a sea of endless tears.
Oh my Beloved Guru, Oh my Sweet Master, I bow to you and offer the flood of Gratitude-Tears, which has become my life. Although you no longer walk amongst us, you are forever living within our hearts. Indeed you are our very hearts’ breath. We are eternally inseparable – melded in an ocean of love and delight. This is our true reality and our glorious inheritance from you!
Regarding his so-called death, Sri Chinmoy said it best in the final poem of the last book offered during his life on earth, “My Christmas-New Year-Vacation-Aspiration-Prayers” – part 52, which he gave out the night before he left the body: “My physical death is not the end of my life – I am an eternal journey.”
To me death is a cruel hoax – a sham and an illusion. “Oh death where art thy dominion?” It certainly has nothing to do with the imperishable and magnificent spirit which was, is and shall eternally remain Sri Chinmoy, the most humble and self-giving being who ever graced this earth – and my most beloved Guru. For me the pain of the loss of his physical presence is almost unbearable, but my gratitude-flooded heart will somehow go on and I shall make my life a tribute to this kindest, gentlest, most beautiful and most loving soul. – Utthal
Love You Guru. Gratitude! Gratitude! Gratitude !
Dear Guru
your passing was unexpected yet we knew about your suffering in the body . We hoped you would stay longer with us but we know you are happier at your eternal home
We had many good and fruitful gatherings in your present
and we are grateful for the opportunity that you gave us
Anugraha
I never met Him. I have only seen one person, who’s life was changed by His love. I never even meditate in my full- empty life. And Sri Chimnoy helped me, only becouse I asked- unknown soul lost somwhere asked and he found me. I will never say how gratitude I was and I am. It was first time in my all life, when my heart was truly calm.
My shock it’s nothing for other souls, who have known him, loved him for years and will never stop. I will try praying today for all his students- I will see your pain in a face of each one of you.
I will always treasure the moments I was in His presence. He opened my heart and showed me how to find my inner connection to God. I am forever grateful and filled with love. I feel his passing away as a great loss to humanity.
Dear Guru,
I know this is not the end. As you said that after a great master leaves the earth his mission starts to bear fruit. This is a new begining. Now we’ll seek Your Inner Guidence even more intensly.
For Your Infinite Compassion, Light and Aspiration I can only humbly offer my deepest gratitude and my soulful promise.
You are always in my heart.
Namo namo namo.
Your Baridhi
Guru, Father
Thank to you for your love and care
You will live eternally in my heart
He will be forever in my heart!
Thank you for everything!
I am sad to hear of Yoghi Sri Chinmoy’s passing, I met him once and I felt that Yoghi a man of great power and love. I know your soul will always bless us.
I love you, and i will love you forever, forever, forever and forever.
Thank You Very Much for your ….everything.
With tears in my heart and gratitude in my Soul I am so happy for Guru, that He finally could retire back into the realm from whence He came.
His earth-journey of endless service and tremendous sacrifices was long and arduous, and the earth will be forever a different one, only thanks to His stay on this planet of ours.
The pains and pangs of the bodily existence are behind Him - the supreme bliss and supreme release are His forever.
Gratitude, Gratitude, Gratitude Supreme.
With gratitude for the lielong experience o love, joy, compassion and broad-mindness i farewell Thee, the light of journey. As most of those who have ever been touched by your physical presence i will keep my inspiration and aspiration within myself, still missing you on physical plane. Peace to all grieving for my Master has never been His body only, He has been the soul o the whole world. I can tell that or sure, at least from the site of those who have been his followers and students.
Infinite gratitude, Amir.
Dear Guru,
Very sad news, but you always spoke that our true “I” is not a body, but our soul.
In Heart-oneness we always one.
In 1931 boy Madal who became Chinmoy was born.
Per 1961 to America has arrived Sri Chinmoy.
In 2007 Sri Chinmoy, has finished the Way-Earth and has begun Travel-Heaven.
You will be always in our memory, your precepts will be in our acts, your ideas will be in our life.
GURU! You always be in my heart, in my life, in my soul, in “My journey’s Goal”!
One who lives with love and light carries that blessing with them always. Peace and comfort to all those who grieve around the world.
I was deeply shocked to hear of Sri Chinmoy leaving this earth. I was informed by a friend who got a phone call in the early hours of the morning only a few hours after it happened. It was completely unexpected and for a long time I did not believe it was actually real. I had only weeks ago arrived back from New York, where I was attending the celebration of his 76th birthday.
To his spiritual children who know him affectionately as “Guru”, Sri Chinmoy will live eternally in our hearts. We, his students, do not believe that physical death is the end of life. May his mission of peace and divine transformation continue to spread the length and breadth of this suffering world.
“I came into the world to do only one thing: to radiate Love Divine in all directions”
– Sri Chinmoy
See you in somewhere, but not in this time. Good job!
Eternal Love beloved Guru. You are woven into the fabric of my spiritual life and my heart. I will miss you on the outer plane and never forget in this world and the next the wonderful times, the fun we had. Thank you - Eternally.
And all my love and condolences to the most beautiful people on this planet, my brothers and sisters on the Path who I never forget and have never stopped loving. May our love for our beloved Guru and each other help us get through this sad time.
-Wally - Pavika-
I grew up in Jamaica Hills - down the street from Sri Chinmoy. I was fortunate to have met him as a child when he performed several concerts at night in my elementary school (one with Carlos Santan). It was a very moving experience. My whole family was saddened to learn of his passing because of the years we spent living in the same neighborhood as he and his followers, who we always found to be peaceful and kind people. May he be forever at peace.
I hadn’t thought about him in a long time, and suddenly he entered my mind on the way home from a workout October 11. He was an inspiration to me throughout undergrad and grad school. I think he was telling me Thursday not to ever forget that inspiration. I’m grateful to him for reaching out to all the world. He’s one of the rare souls who can make a connection to someone he’s never personally met. He has earned the right to expect all of us to take up and share his call to go beyond self-imposed limitations.
We know that thus great guru has found eternal peace. His exemplary life has uplifted the world and it is by us living his teachings that he may live on. I remember reading a quote of his that has truly changed my life, telling us that we are the only ones with the power to fulfill our golden dreams. May God Bless this great soul.
Om Shanti Shanti Hari Om.
Thank you Sri Chinmoy for your devoted service to humanity and the love and light that you brought to this world. You leave behind a legacy of peace and love that will be carried forward through the many people that you have touched and inspired with your deep wisdom and grace.
May you rest in the supremes hands.
Namaste
Having attended Sri Chinmoy 1st Friday of the month meditation sessions only three times, I am astounded at how my life began to change. Upon picking up his book titled Beyond Within, doors of understanding just flew open. The spirit and energy of the wisdom which poured forth from these pages enabled immediate changes in my life…I began just doing things that, previous to this, my own will power could not motivate towards accomplishment. Knowledge and understanding of the spiritual heart is beyond value to me.
Upon visiting his site I was even further moved upon reading of Sri Chinmoy’s early life (orphaned at age 12…monetary wealth definitely not a factor of his success). In reading, I gained even further knowledge of his truly lifelong, unwavering dedication to a spiritual path. I am awed and so grateful for all that he was able to share…to accomplished in this lifetime. He was giving to “us” …all of us…working to aid us in our trials, tribulations and discovery towards a path of lasting joy and enlightenment. His writings are truly a testament of an enlighten understanding. He makes what was before difficult ‘simple’ to understand. Though no longer physically with us on this plane he will continue to speak…to share his love and wisdom though his writing, his art, music and living spirit.
“I am so fortunate” to have been able to experience his presence. I know life is not the same.
My heart pours out to all of his followers/disciples…words fail me here.
Thank you. You’ve taught me to meditate and fill my mind with peace.
I’ve made a page of Sri Chimoy’s photos. If you have more to add, please help me celebrate in his grace: http://www.respectance.com/SriChinmoy
One is both saddened and inspired that Sri Baba Chinmoy is now outside…looking from the light of infinite wisdom…into our mortal and painful darkness of humanity…
May his honour…his esteemed patronage continue from beyond our mortal bonds.
Love…
Skycrosser111
I WAS DEEPLY TOUCHED WITH HIS MESSAGES ON VARIETY OF SUBJECTS. HE HAD IN DEPTH UNDERSTANDING OF ANCIENT SPIRITUAL LITERATURE-HE HAS DONE A GREAT JOB OF BRINGING IT IN THE LIGHT FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE ENTIRE MANKIND.
MY HEARTIEST TRIBUTES!
SUNIL DATTATRAYA GANPULE
BORIVALI, MUMBAI
I’m sending my love to Sri Chinmoy and to all his
disciples from Sedona, Arizona. I was playing harp
today at an opening Peace Ceremony & thinking of
Sri Chinmoy and how his heart is so full of Love and
Light that he was promoted for all of his Great Work
and Love he always Shares with One and All in so many
beautiful ways.
I feel that Sri Chinmoy is now on his Cosmic Vacation
I’m very sure he is very happy and wants us all to be happy too.
He is still with us only on another vibration. We are so very blessed to have all his beautiful blessings.
I am so happy to have met him and have been so graced and inspired by him in so many ways.
Saw Sri Chinmoy lift a man sitting in a chair at Harvard in 1988, always have and always will remember that. Saddened by his passing.
Although Sri Chinmoy was not my spiritual leader, I have witnessed over the past 20 years, his profound gracious, loving and peacful effect he has on his followers. My only wish is that Sri Chinmoy be an exception, and be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize this year, that he is a front runner for, posthumously. My sincere condolences to all his disciples worldwide, with extra heartfelt sympathies for his disciples in San Francisco.
For 35 years I was supremely privileged to be in our Beloved Guru’s ‘Golden Boat’, as he lovingly referred to his Path. From the time I joined at the age of 19 until now, he was truly not only my spiritual guide but my father and my dearest friend . When I accepted his path, he told me that there was nothing on earth or in heaven that he would not do for me, and he never broke that promise. I came to understand that this love was completely unconditional, and that this was a promise he made to everyone. Even though he is no longer on the physical plane, I know and feel that this unconditional love he has for all his spiritual children and for all of humanity is a force that will continue to shine within all our lives. On the outer plane I will miss him terribly, but on the inner plane he will be eternally with us. MY gratitude to all those who have taken the time to honour this most special Being. He was unique among men. My gratitude infinite for His Light that will never dim.
Love has only one purpose - to bring God to earth. Sri Chinmoy was the greatest exponent of real unconditional love the world has ever seen.
i will always and always feel my heart is his and his, mine.
Love and love and love to all my brothers and sisters in oneness and love.
We will celebrate his life and the wave he has created for thousands and thousands of years.
Diving from Sri Chinmoy’s Platform
Timid toes touch shallow shoals of bliss.
In the vast, bottomless river of the Divine,
Mother and Sri Aurobindo coax us
From somnambulist shores.
Teaching us to swim,
They carry us floating through floods,
Drowning only our fears.
Surfing on his flute,
Sri Chinmoy says the water is warm.
I dive in—
Breathing the ambrosian waters.
I was not a follower of Sri Chinmoy, but years ago, when I lived in Boston, he came to play at a local cathedral and I went and heard. In that part of the world, to hear and see anyone with a scrap of celeb status costs an arm and a leg, but Sri Chinmoy played for free. He spoke before playing, saying that his purpose there was not to amaze us with musicianship, but to facilitate our meditation, so meditate I did while he played. I could say that I enjoyed the experience, but I understand that enjoyment was not his purpose.
I am saddened by his passing. He was one decent chap.
Sri Chinmoy and all his followers have been a great inspiration and support to all of us in multiday running. May his example of peacefulness and determination live long in the future.
A great soul warrior in the inner worlds,
A smiling child of love in the heart-world of Universe,
allow me not to forget You.
Dear Teacher,
Although I did not know you, your radiance reverberates forever in the hearts of my friends who did. I cannot wait to meet all the others, for I feel a part of your tribe of love and light and peace. Truly your legacy is immortally enshrined in the now and future human spirit.
He inspires
As a comet in the evening sky.
The gratitude i feel at having come to New York to see my dear guru, Sri Chinmoy for the first time this August, will be with me forever. Thank-you Guru for the many many blessings I recieved and for the years of wisdom-light that you have given to our world. Peace.
I remember knowing Guru from the time I was a child — I lived directly up the street from him on 85th drive. I remember mostly, his warm and engaging smile when he would be on his walking regimes and wave to me. He was always very kind to the neighborhood children!
I now live out of state, and just received the sad word of his passing. He is in my thoughts and prayers, as is the entire community of Sri Chinmoy’s followers.
May God bless you all at this time of loss. Be at peace; he will continue to guide and inspire you!
Many blessings, Donna
I’m you and you are me from all where to every where, from ever to ever, and for that i can be only extremely grateful and happy.
Everywhere You walked, will be Holy land,
Your beauty and perfection shall be eternal,
May my heart forever mourn You,
Teach my eyes the art of seeing beyond physical,
Were You forever belong…
WHAT A SAD LOSS FOR ULTRA-RUNNING AND ULTRA-RACING !!!!!!!!!!
My BIG BIG condolenses to all in the Sri Chinmoy community !!!
Was fortunate to meet disciples and Sri Chinmoy during different occations at world run 1. Allways made a deep impression to carry your warmth with me forward on the endless roads - I’ll carry it with me however long I may last on world run 2 !
With best wishes of enjoyable running to all, whereever You are
jesper
http://www.worldrun.org
I want to express my strong feeling of gratitude for my time as Sri Chinmoy´s student. How inspiring and loving he was. His achievements are astonishing and his love of mankind and tireless work for peace is just so beautiful.
My personal condolences to my friends in the Sri Chinmoy Marathon team. You have always had a smile on your face. Please keep it.
You made my soul sing
You made my heart ring
You came to me in moments of sorrow
You came to me in moments of love
You came to me in moments of bliss
You are the You are
Amen
Dear Guru,
May we all find the same source of infinite love, compassion, joy and light from which You have been blessing us always unconditionally and unreservedly.
My most humble obeisance and gratitude and gratitude and gratitude for my life.
Tejal
Sri Chinmoy was a great example of the harmony between body and spirit and strived sleeplessly for a world founded on peace and Harmony.
We feel saddened by the abrupt loss, but, remain deeply enrinched by his life and works.
Many Thanks to the kind words of the visitors to this site, - at a time when it is difficult to express our inner feelings.
Tejvan Pettinger
Oxford, Sri Chinmoy Centre
Jai Jai Jai Sri Chinmoy!
Jai Jai Jai This World and all its Inhabitants, Reformed Forever, Changed Unimaginably and Irrevocably towards Goodness by this single humble human life.
Let the Echos Resound.
~Gratitude~
My heart’s deepest deepest gratitude. The seed of peace you blessingfully placed in my heart still blooms and reverberates into my everyday life. May the peace you planted in each of us and in mother earth continue to grow in all expansiveness and imbue earth with its fragrance-love and light.My hearts Gratitude gratitude gratitude.
Dear Guru,
After 15 years of joy and happiness with you, I feel that our connection have just started and my spiritual live turn more serious. Love and gratitude.
Ekalabhya
I AM HAPPY 15 YEARS TOGETHER WITH GURU.
YOU TEACH ONLY POSITIVE THINGS,PEACE,JOY,
ENTHUSIASM.LIVE IN HARMONY AND ONENESS.
YOU ARE ALL.
Guru, your work, your message and your peaceful heart live on. Thank you for all you have given us.
I have no words to express how sincerely grateful I am with the Supreme, for the blessing to know Guru, He change my life, two years ago… He is a True Spiritual Master, who dedicate his luminous life to inspire us, through music, poetry, sports and many many things, to live an enthusiasm fulfilling life, and serve with love at the Supreme in all. Thank you Master for your Wisdom, Onenesses, Happiness and Self-transcendent life… that is who I´m remembered you, My Beloved Supreme. My life is and always will be at your service.
Since 1986 I have had a picture of this inspiring and inspired man, this Avatar of Peace, in my home; and privileged too on a number of occasions to have met and experienced his unique presence.
It was life changing.
Sri Chinmoy’s abiding love, compassion and humility is indelibly etched on my life experience and, like so many others, I owe a debt of gratitude for his life.
In particular for imparting his eternal values of oneness, for his teachings and for his total understanding of the human condition.
My hope for us all is that the Smile of the Beyond which is now his will soon be enjoyed by all humanity.
Dear Guru, thank you for all the things that You have done for the world, for the universe, for God.
You are immortal, Your Manifestation is immortal.
You are the Hope of my life, Inspiration of my life, Aspiration of my life and The Goal of my life.
I bow to Thee.
I am forever grateful to Guru for being able to spend a decade of my life in his physical presence.
He gave so much inspiration, joy and meaning to my life and will continue for eternity.
Jai Guru
We at Sri Chinmoy News, on behalf of all the students of Sri Chinmoy and those who treasured him dearly, would like to offer our heartfelt gratitude to those who have posted.
Some of the posts come from people of different spiritual traditions, and are a touching testament to the fact that the goal of harmony and oneness between all of mankind that Sri Chinmoy worked so hard for is one that is shared by people of all faiths, cultures and walks of life.
We will try to provide as many updates to this blog as possible as events unfold.
Once again, thank you for your support and heart’s goodwill at this time.
I am sad to hear of Sri Chinmoy’s passing, although iI never met him. He seemed like a man of great power and love. We need more men like him, to guide us though sadness.
Remembering your illumining teachings, all the inspiration, with grattitude.
“These tears are not for you, but for myself for I have not yet reached the Mahasamadhi” said Gauthama Buddha’s disciple.
I saw Sri Chinmoy in Chicago in summer 2002, and found it be be a very memorable experience. He has touched a lot of people, and his memory will endure, especially his feats of strength. RIP
Guru we are loving you!!! And happy to share this love with others!!! We are so grateful for the God Light which You are bringing into our heart. These days the ocean of seeker ‘ grateful teers will make our world more kind.
Although He was not my Guru I admire and respect Him as one of the gratest spiritual leaders and geniuses of our times. I cannot feel anything else but an immense gratitude for everything He has done for every and each of us.
Though I was not invloved in the center; I have always admired his followers and their sence of peace.I live in the Jamaica Hills area where Sri Chinmoy also lived and have been very fourtunate to see him once at a local resturant that a group of his devotees operate. He will be truly missed; Peace be unto all.
Gratitude, gartitude, gratitude for the happy 9 years together in this incarnation! Guru, you are always our sweetness, joy, peace, inspiration, hope and promise! We love you.
Dearest Guru and God , thankyou , with all that I am and all that I have. You are the best part of me; the greatest gift of my life.
A good example never dies, and I wish more people (particularly Christians and alleged Christians) would follow his. Religion shouldn’t divide us… if it does, it’s bad religion, pure and simple.
Namaste
Thank you Guru you gave me inner and outer inspiration of my life. I gratitude to you Guru. You will be my Guru all my life.
My sincere condolations to the whole SCMT - Sri Chinmoy has found his personal final peace!
I am infinitely proud and at the same time infinitely humble and grateful to have shared my lifetime on earth with this luminous person whose seeds of peace will one day germinate in humanity’s heart, thank you dear Sri Chinmoy. It is up those who continue on this earthly plane to carry on his mission, now ours.
Last 6 years I was not involved in Sri chinmoy centar activity but I was wholeheartedly involved from 1991-2001.
Sri Chinmoy, my Beloved Guru, gave me peace of mind, joy of heart, love of life and humanity, determination to achive goals I set, in one word He made me a man ready for the wide word. My deep, deep, deep, infinite gratitude to the Greatest Spiritual Master of all time, born and yet to be born. I love you Guru and will love you forever.
I know that life and dead are just two rooms. You are now in that other room and your disciples will simply continue your beautifull work for the better world. No sorrow, no worry, no fear, no doubt, only joy, only love, only will power and courage. I salute You and bow to Thee with most humility.
The entire Integral Yoga organization and all the students of Sri Swami Satchidananda join in loving and respectful remembrance of Sri Chinmoy. Sri Chinmoy continues to be a great inspiration to so many and his message of peace and unity will always be in our hearts.
We extend all our love and prayers to the sangha of Sri Chinmoy. May all continue to feel his blessings, guidance and spiritual presence always. OM Shanthi.
thanks
He was a blessing for this world in his body, only the Gods can measure. He’s soul will be a blessing for this universe for eternity. Namaste
Guru,
i am thinking of you. peace from the heart center.
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