Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Sri Chinmoy (Indian Yoga Teacher, Writer)

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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God’s Compassion – Eye gives us
Not only one Chance
But countless chances
To change our wrong directions
Sri Chinmoy
Topics: Compassion

Excerpt from Prayer-World, Mantra-World And Japa
Sri Chinmoy
Topics: Meditation

I meditate So that I can inundate My entire being With the omnipotent Power of peace
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

If we know the divine art of concentration, if we know the divine art of meditation, if we know the divine art of contemplation, easily and consciously we can unite the inner world and the outer world
Sri Chinmoy
Topics: Meditation

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

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

Excerpt from Two Divine Instruments: Master And Disciple
Sri Chinmoy
Topics: Meditation

Ignorance is an enemy, even to its owner. Knowledge is a friend, even to its hater. Ignorance hates knowledge because it is too pure. Knowledge fears ignorance because it is too sure.
Sri Chinmoy
Topics: Ignorance

The stormy life can be braved only by the heart’s sunny meditations.
Sri Chinmoy
Topics: Meditation

Excerpt from My Heart’s Salutation To Australia
Sri Chinmoy
Topics: Meditation

Excerpt from Earth’s Cry Meets Heaven’s Smile
Sri Chinmoy
Topics: Meditation

You must direct your full, intense concentration on the heart. You must feel that you are not the mind. You have to feel that you are growing into the heart. You are only the heart and nothing else
Sri Chinmoy
Topics: Meditation

Do not try to entrap others with your haughty knowledge. To your wide surprise, they will entrap you with their lengthy ignorance.
Sri Chinmoy
Topics: Knowledge

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

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

Whether we meditate individually or collectively, there is one thing we absolutely must do: we have to meditate consciously. Making an unconscious effort is like forcing oneself to play football in spite of one’s utmost unwillingness. One plays, but gets no joy. Conscious effort is like playing football most willingly. One gets real joy. Similarly, conscious meditation gives us inner Delight from the soul
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

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

My meditation-silence Expedites My God-Peace-Home return journey.
Sri Chinmoy
Topics: Meditation

Sympathy has to be the first and foremost thing in one’s life, sympathy and the feeling of oneness. There cannot be anything greater than the feeling of oneness.
Sri Chinmoy
Topics: Sympathy

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

An unaspiring person believes according to what he achieves. An aspiring person achieves according to what he believes.
Sri Chinmoy
Topics: Beliefs

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

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

Meditation upon the unknown Thought He thought was real meditation. No, meditation is not and cannot be On any thought. Meditation is a conscious withdrawal From the thought-world. Meditation is the place Where Reality, Divinity and Immortality Can each claim their own Perennial existence-light.
Sri Chinmoy
Topics: Meditation

My meditation Is my soul’s Soundless sound-conversation With my Inner Pilot
Sri Chinmoy
Topics: Meditation

Cry within. Meditate within. Dive within. Your inner achievements will far outweigh your outer imperfections
Sri Chinmoy
Topics: Meditation

What you do not use yourself, do not give to others. For example: advice.
Sri Chinmoy
Topics: Advice

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