Sri Chinmoy (1931–2007,) born Chinmoy Kumar Ghose, was a yoga teacher and writer.
Born in Shakpura, East Bengal, now Bangladesh, Chinmoy entered the Aurobindo Āśram in Pondicherry, India, at age 12 after various childhood religious experiences. In 1964, he left India for America, where he established meditation centers, including one at the United Nations.
Chinmoy’s spiritual teachings blended Hindu meditation, Vedāntic yoga, and Vaiṣṇavism. He spread his message of world peace through his meditative art, recital, and extreme sport.
Chinmoy was a prolific writer, painter, and composer. His works, including Yoga and the Spiritual Life (1974) and Beyond Within: A Philosophy for the Inner Life (1985) amalgamated philosophy and western popular culture. He also wrote plays and commentaries on classical Hindu texts.
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During meditation if you can really make yourself feel that you have only the heart, or if you can feel that you do not even have the heart, but that our whole existence from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head is the soul, then you will see that the mind does not exist. But if you annot feel the presence of your soul, you can easily feel your heart’s presence and your heart’s glow. When you see light glowing in the heart or n the soul, you can rest assured that you have already transcended the intellectual mind. At this stage you have entered into the illumined mind, hich is very different from the reasoning, intellectual mind
—Sri Chinmoy
Topics: Meditation
Every second a seeker can start over,
For his life’s mistakes
Are initial drafts
And not the final version.
—Sri Chinmoy
When you meditate, what you actually do is to enter into a calm or still, silent mind. We have to be fully aware of the arrival and attack of thoughts. That is to say, we shall not allow any thought, divine or undivine, good or bad, to enter into our mind. Our mind should be absolutely silent. Then we have to go deep within; there we have to observe our real existence
—Sri Chinmoy
Topics: Meditation
How do we meditate silently? Just by not talking, just by not using outer words, we are not doing silent meditation. Silent meditation is totally ifferent. When we start meditating in silence, right from the beginning we feel the bottom of a sea within us and without. The life of activity movement and restlessness is on the surface, but deep below, underneath our human life, there is poise and silence. So, either we shall imagine this sea of silence within us or we shall feel that we are nothing but a sea of poise itself
—Sri Chinmoy
Topics: Meditation
God’s Compassion – Eye gives us
Not only one Chance
But countless chances
To change our wrong directions
—Sri Chinmoy
Topics: Compassion
Excerpt from Earth’s Cry Meets Heaven’s Smile
—Sri Chinmoy
Topics: Meditation
The meditation that gives you immediate joy or continuous joy is the best meditation for you. Everyone will not have the same meditation. Your meditation will not suit me, my meditation will not suit you. You like a certain food, I don’t like it. You are right in your own way I am right in my own way. But once you know what your best meditation is, please stick to it
—Sri Chinmoy
Topics: Meditation
My meditation Is my mind’s Instant ignorance-illumination And Bondage-liberation.
—Sri Chinmoy
Topics: Meditation
I love my enemies for two reasons: They inspire me to recognize my weakness. They also inspire me to perfect my imperfect nature.
—Sri Chinmoy
Topics: Enemies
Responsibility is the possibility of opportunity culminating in inevitable fulfillment.
—Sri Chinmoy
Topics: Responsibility
When we go deep within, into the deepest recesses of our hearts, we commune with God through meditation. It is through meditation that we can know that God is both with form and without form, with attributes and without attributes
—Sri Chinmoy
Topics: Meditation
Cry within. Meditate within. Dive within. Your inner achievements will far outweigh your outer imperfections
—Sri Chinmoy
Topics: Meditation
True meditation can never be done with the mind. Very often we make a mistake when we say that we are meditating in the mind and utilising the mind. Real meditation is done in the psychic being and in the soul. It goes hand in hand with flaming aspiration, the burning flame that wants to climb up to the Highest.
—Sri Chinmoy
Topics: Meditation
My meditation-silence Expedites My God-Peace-Home return journey.
—Sri Chinmoy
Topics: Meditation
Choose a friend. He will help you. Alas, he deserts you. Choose an enemy. He will fight against you. Lo, he corrects and perfects you.
—Sri Chinmoy
Topics: Enemies
My meditation Is my soul’s Soundless sound-conversation With my Inner Pilot
—Sri Chinmoy
Topics: Meditation
When we meditate we expand, spreading our wings like a bird, trying to enter consciously into Infinity, Eternity and Immortality, welcoming them into our aspiring consciousness. We see, feel and grow into the entire universe of Light-Delight.
—Sri Chinmoy
Topics: Meditation
Excerpt from Prayer-World, Mantra-World And Japa
—Sri Chinmoy
Topics: Meditation
Why do we meditate? We meditate precisely because this world of ours has disappointed us and because failure looms large in our day-to-day life. We want fulfilment. We want joy, peace, bliss and perfection within and without. Meditation is the answer, the only answer
—Sri Chinmoy
Topics: Meditation
When we meditate, what we actually do is enter into a vacant, calm, still, silent mind. We go deep within and approach our true existence, which is our soul. When we live in the soul, we feel that we are actually meditating spontaneously.
—Sri Chinmoy
Topics: Meditation
When the time arrives for you To leave this life for another life, If you wish to go To a beautiful and soulful world, Then you will need a valid passport, And that passport is your meditation Here on earth
—Sri Chinmoy
Topics: Meditation
Meditation is silence. Silence is God In His Infinity’s Smile
—Sri Chinmoy
Topics: Meditation
In your outer life If you can feel Consciously and soulfully happy Even while doing Ordinary, mundane things, God will consider this Your real meditation
—Sri Chinmoy
Topics: Meditation
We meditate for various reasons. Peace of mind we all badly need. Therefore, when we meditate, either consciously or unconsciously we aim at peace of mind. Meditation give us peace of mind without a tranquilliser. And unlike a tranquilliser, the peace of mind that we get from meditation does not fade away. It lasts for good in some corner of the inmost recesses of our aspiring heart
—Sri Chinmoy
Topics: Meditation
Meditate Silently. You will be able to create A totally new life For Yourself
—Sri Chinmoy
Topics: Meditation
My meditation Is my heart’s God-Perfection-Satisfaction-song
—Sri Chinmoy
Topics: Meditation
My meditation Is my life’s Intensity-profundity- Experience-delight
—Sri Chinmoy
Topics: Meditation
Excerpt from My Heart’s Salutation To Australia
—Sri Chinmoy
Topics: Meditation
An unaspiring person always complaints. There is no end to his complaints. He bitterly complains even when the blessings of opportunity knock at his very door.
—Sri Chinmoy
Topics: Problems
At times to think of one’s outer helplessness is good, but to think always of one’s inner strength is infinitely better.
—Sri Chinmoy
Topics: Strength
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