Sri Chinmoy's Writings
With his soulful writings, Sri Chinmoy is trying to inspire mankind. Sri Chinmoy employs many forms of the written and spoken word, including poetry, essays, lectures, aphorisms, questions and answers, stories and plays. This variety of forms is matched by his range of subjects, from humorous tales of village life and plays on the lives of spiritual figures, to lectures on the philosophy of yoga and poetry of mystic rapture.
He has answered thousands of questions on spirituality from seekers travelling along the road of personal illumination and transformation. Kindly visit click the Sri Chinmoy Library link to go to an online source for more than a thousand of Sri Chinmoy's books. Also, writings of Sri Chinmoy that have been translated to Icelandic will also be published in English on this site. List of published writings:
Lecture - Aspiration and Dedication
Sri Chinmoy has lectured on spiritual topics at hundreds of universities around the world, including Oxford, Cambridge, the Sorbonne, Harvard and Yale. Through his writings and lectures, Sri Chinmoy shares in simple, clear language insights on the nature of the spiritual life and the aspirant's relationship with God.
On July 21st, 1974, Sri Chinmoy gave the following lecture at the University of Iceland in Reykjavik.
... I have felt the Indian consciousness here in Iceland. India's natural beauty I have observed here; India's inner peace I have felt here. My presence here makes me feel that my life of aspiration and your life of aspiration in the inner world have built a bridge between spiritual India and spiritual Iceland....
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Poetry and aphorisms
Poetry has always been Sri Chinmoy's first choice, as a natural medium for expressing mystical experience. His poems express a broad range of spiritual emotion, from the doubts and fears of the wavering pilgrim to the blissful realisations of the illumined master.
A spiritual Master was once asked: "Why do you talk so much?" His immediate answer: "It satisfies. It satisfies the human in me and it satisfies the divine in my spiritual children." United Nations Meditation-Flowers And Tomorrow's Noon aphorism 10 by Sri Chinmoy
May my life-boat ply
Between my heart's gratitude-shore
And my mind's illumination-shore. Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees nr.16020 by Sri Chinmoy
My heart needs only one thing.
It needs to be guided
Along the age-old path
Of life-blossoming self-awareness. Twenty-Seven-Thousand Aspiration-Plants nr.605
If you want to succeed
Divinely and supremely,
Then every day you must water
The green plants of your heart-garden.
A map of silence
What do I see in my Heaven-free mind?
I see a map
Of midnight-silence
With a stupendous Satisfaction-Smile. Ten-Thousand Flower-Flames nr.801 by Sri Chinmoy
Against my Heart's Climbing Cry
Against my heart's climbing cry
No opposition can dare
To have any permanency. Ten-Thousand Flower-Flames nr.4409 by Sri Chinmoy
To err is human, but only a special person has the God-given capacity to forgive. United Nations Meditation-Flowers And Tomorrow's Noon aphorism 4 by Sri Chinmoy
We shall eventually give to God what He has already given to us:
Eternity's soulful cry and Infinity's fruitful smile. United Nations Meditation-Flowers And Tomorrow's Noon aphorism 5 by Sri Chinmoy
To have cheerfulness in utter helplessness is to start climbing up the
Realisation-tree and to start climbing down the Manifestation-tree. United Nations Meditation-Flowers And Tomorrow's Noon
I have discovered two places where God is not. He is not in my ingratitude-heart and He is not in my non-acceptance of life. No matter how hard I try, I simply cannot be where God is not. United Nations Meditation-Flowers And Tomorrow's Noon aphorism 7 by Sri Chinmoy
Yesterday my cheerfulness was my unparalleled achievement.
Today my soulfulness is my unparalleled achievement.
Tomorrow my willingness will be my unparalleled achievement. United Nations Meditation-Flowers And Tomorrow's Noon aphorism 8 by Sri Chinmoy
No two friends are as intimate
as cheerfulness and confidance.
United Nations Meditation-Flowers And Tomorrow's Noon
I Am Waiting
What am I waiting for?
I am waiting for
A soulful smile from my heart
To save my hopeless And goalless life. Ten-Thousand Flower-Flames nr.2243 by Sri Chinmoy
I must not delay!
I must not delay!
My Lord Supreme Himself Is eagerly waiting for me.
I must not fear!
My Lord Supreme Himself
Is running speedily To my immediate rescue.
I shall quench His earth-bound Thirst
And He will feed my Heaven-free hunger.
Ten-Thousand Flower-Flames nr.4447 by Sri Chinmoy
Like the sleeping flowers
Like the sleeping flowers
Of the silence-evening,
My snow-heart shall rest
In the ever-blossoming Dawn. Ten-Thousand Flower-Flames nr.273
My soul sings
To unfold the heart-flower Of my life,
Every day my soul sings
A sun-song to my Beloved Supreme. Ten-Thousand Flower-Flames nr.5651 by Sri Chinmoy
My steady mind
My steady mind sits and dreams
At the foot of my Lord's Perfection-Tree.
My ready heart climbs up and devours
My Lord's Satisfaction-Fruits. Ten-Thousand Flower-Flames nr.6608 by Sri Chinmoy Lesið þetta ljóð á íslensku
The Supernal Mysteries
If you can weather danger-clouds,
Then the supernal mysteries
That lie behind the terrestrial vagaries
Will be all yours. Ten-Thousand Flower-Flames nr.3219 by Sri Chinmoy
The Transcendental Cure
Ignorance-mire is
The universal sickness of humanity.
When our heart starts singing
A new song,
The song of aspiration-cry
Then the universal sickness
Will be transformed into
The Transcendental cure Ten-Thousand Flower-Flames nr.2795 by Sri Chinmoy
The art of awakening
The art of awakening
Is the aspiring man's
Eternal pilgrimage. Ten-Thousand Flower-Flames nr.1936
The harvest of silence-delight
When the holy sages sing,
My heart's mounting cry
Collects the harvest of silence-delight. Ten-Thousand Flower-Flames nr.4921 by Sri Chinmoy
The song of beauty
The future poets
Shall sing only one song:
The song of beauty
Inside the simplicity-heart
Of a profundity-soul. Ten-Thousand Flower-Flames nr.4622 by Sri Chinmoy
Two supreme commitments
Two supreme commitments I have made:
I shall carry my heart to Heaven
To spread humanity's cry of helplessness.
I shall bring down my soul to earth
To spread divinity's light of fulness.
Ten-Thousand Flower-Flames nr.5098 by Sri Chinmoy
Where, O where, is God?
Where, O where, is God?
Is He inside my fondness-hope?
Where, O where, is God?
Is He inside my oneness-scope? Ten-Thousand Flower-Flames nr.205
To love is to see man in God.
To serve is to see God in man
United Nations Meditation-Flowers And Tomorrow's Noon aphorism
Ungratefulness strengthens the animal in us, weakens the human in us and shortens the divine in us
United Nations Meditation-Flowers And Tomorrow's Noon
Do you want to be happy?
If so, then either push your desire-life aside or pull your aspiration-life inside.
United Nations Meditation-Flowers And Tomorrow's Noon
God-Discovery
Art Is God-discovery.
God-discovery Is life-mastery.
Ten-Thousand Flower-Flames nr.1857 by Sri Chinmoy
Service-heart
Each service-heart
Sculptures the perfection-beauty
Of tomorrow's self-transcending
New world.
Sri Chinmoy - Ten-Thousand-Flower-Flames, 1272
You are inseparable
O my mind, You and cloud-clusters
Are inseparable. O my heart, You and moon-lustre Are inseparable.
O my soul, You and sun-rapture Are inseparable.
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