Purity

Photo: Pavitrata

Question: Which sound or chakra would be best for me to meditate upon?

Sri Chinmoy: For you, and all of us here, the best chakra to meditate upon is the heart. The heart chakra is called Anahata , which means 'the soundless sound.' Here on earth we need some physical action to produce a sound. But in the spiritual heart nothing is required, yet we continually hear a sound. And inside that sound a new creation is constantly being born.

If you meditate on the heart chakra, gradually you will come to feel that your own spiritual heart is larger than the largest. At that time you will see that the universal consciousness is inside your heart, and not outside. If you want to grow into something infinite, divine, eternal and immortal, then the heart chakra is by far the best. There you are always safe. The other chakras have boundless capacities, but if you are not totally pure then many, many problems may arise from meditating on them. But the heart chakra itself embodies purity. When you meditate on the heart, your entire being is flooded with purity. And only in purity can divinity abide permanently.

Excerpt from Fifty Freedom-Boats To One Golden Shore, Part 2 by Sri Chinmoy.

The Song of Beauty: art based on photos of Sri Chinmoy

Photos by Karpani

When I Offer

"When I offer my heart's blossoming gratitude
To my Lord Supreme.
He shows me His Infinity's smiling Face.

When I offer Him
My Eternity's unconditional surrender-oneness,
He grants me His Immortality's Crown
While dancing inside
His ever-expanding universe."

Excerpt from Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, Part 64 by Sri Chinmoy
http://www.srichinmoylibrary.com/books/0535/52/

Joyfulness

One positive seed-thought
Has saved me
My entire life:
My Lord Supreme
Will always love me
No matter what I do
Or what I say
Or even what I become.

Excerpt from Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, Part 9 by Sri Chinmoy.

Our personal bird-drawings

Several years ago we got these wonderful birds on an love-offering-envelope.

The different stars can easily live in peace with creativity

Each moment man can create in the inner world. He can easily bring his
creation to the fore through his constant inner urge.
Without
creativity, man is no better than an animal. With creativity, man can
divinely claim that he is God's true and worthy son.
One who really
creates something, inner or outer, but especially inner, is God's true
Pride. Creativity man must cherish; creativity he must adore.



Each person is meaningless and fruitless if he or she does not enter
into the field of creativity.
Without inner and outer creativity, man
is nothing but a great failure, not only in the eyes of humanity, but
in the Eye of God, too.
Each soul is endowed with creativity.
But the
soul finds it extremely difficult to convince the mind, the vital and
the physical that they can consciously co-operate with the soul,
that
they all can create together and fulfill the Divine here on earth.

Excerpt from Illumination-Fruits by Sri Chinmoy.

http://www.srichinmoylibrary.com/books/0147/1/4/

There was an orphan boy

This is a detail of my painting "There was an orphan boy."
Sri Chinmoy asked us 10 years ago to illustrate it.
The poem was written 24 th of May 1998

Why do I not beg for Your Compassion?

I fear, I fear, I fear therefore I am always forced to accept defeats. Why do I not beg for Your Compassion? Your Forgiveness and Your Smile are my only identifications.

Bhoy kari bhoy kari bhoy kari bhoy. Tai jani sarbada mor parajoy. Kena ami nahi maga taba barabhoy. Taba khama taba hashi mor parichoy.

- Song by Sri Chinmoy

What a fool I am, I still prefer to be in fear.

Guru you are the distributer of joy and divine love.

Guru: Feel that you have discovered it just today for the very first time. Your climbing aspiration-flames are going to help you tremendously. So love yourself the most every second, like the bow of a violin that has to change direction constantly in order to be heard, renew the strength you received during your morning meditation.