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May 1st, 2008 — sri chinmoy
These Flower Flames are from a selection of 207 Poems that Sri Chinmoy made from his series 10,000 Flower Flames.
Today I am Wise
Yesterday I was clever.
That is why
I wanted to change the world.
Today I am wise.
That is why
I am changing myself.
~
One Thing To Learn
Every day there is only
One thing to learn:
How to be honestly happy.
~
A Diplomatic Death
Since each thought
Is an atomic power,
You can give each thought
A diplomatic death.
~
I Am Not Needed
I am not needed
To say the right thing.
I am only required
To be the right thing.
~
Miracles Worth Seeing
Only two miracles are worth seeing:
The miracle of loving
And
The miracle of forgiving.
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January 31st, 2008 — ashrita, sri chinmoy
This August a team of builders, under the direction of Ashrita Furman, built the world’s largest pencil. Measuring 76 feet, the pencil was built to maintain the exact proportions of a standard pencil. You can read about the pencil’s building here
The Guiness Record Breaking pencil was built to honour Sri Chinmoy’s 76th birthday
The Pencil has been lying in Jamaica, Queens, but has now found a home at a museum in St Louis.
The pencil is so large it showed up on satellite screens, prompting a visit by local police officers; they were relieved to find it was a giant pencil, rather than a missile!
Bob Cassilly, the founder of the St Louis City Museum said he was happy to take the unusual pencil. He said: “We’re sort of like opportunists and we don’t have a plan, the museum just grows organically by whatever goes our way.”
The pencil had to be cut in half to be transported
January 12th, 2008 — music, sri chinmoy
Sri Chinmoy was a great admirer and friend of Leonard Bernstein - one of the greatest musicians of the twentieth Century. Fortunately Sri Chinmoy and Leonard Bernstein had the opportunity to meet on a number of occasion and could share their love of music
Extract From: Second Meeting with Leonard Bernstein
SRI CHINMOY: Our admiration for you is also boundless. Just recently in Central Park, you gave so much joy to 500,000 people-not for a fleeting second but for hours. It is beyond the flight of our imagination how a single God-lover can inspire, illumine and give joy to 500,000 people. For us, this is something unheard of!
LEONARD BERNSTEIN: I think the secret is what you said about not a fleeting second. The secret of music is that it makes time stop. We are all prisoners of clock time: “I have to be at my job” or “I have to see my wife” or “I promised I would be there at eight o’clock and it’s now that time.” What music does is release you from that, so that you can be in the time of the music.
The YouTube clip below is of Leonard Bernstein conducting Beethoven’s Ode to Joy. - I feel Ode to Joy is a fitting tribute to the musical life of Leonard Bernstein.
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October 25th, 2007 — quotes, sri chinmoy
“I do not give up,
I never give up,
For there is nothing
In this entire world
that is irrevocably unchangeable.”
- Sri Chinmoy
“Just make tremendous progress
And tremendous improvement
In your own life
Others will definitely be inspired
By the result.”
- Sri Chinmoy
Photo from Lake Rydal, Lake District
Related
Obituary of Sri Chinmoy at Independent (quite nice, although Sri Chinmoy never swam the English Channel. He did however, encourage people to try and complete the crossing.) - Nice tribute here: from Kevin Murphy ‘King of the Channel’ - 34 successful swims
October 16th, 2007 — sri chinmoy
When a yogi /spiritual master passes away, we often refer it to as their ‘mahasamadhi’
Mahasamadhi is a term used to describe the death of a fully realised Guru / yogi. Mahasamadhi is a yogi’s conscious decision to leave the body. This conscious decision to leave the body can be only attained by a yogi who has attained God Realisation.
For many death is a frightening experience, but, for a realised spiritual master, death is a natural transition from the one plane of consciousness to another.
Sri Sarada Devi said something most significant about death.
“The difference between a spiritual man and an ordinary man is very simple. Easily you can know the difference between the two. An ordinary man cries and sheds bitter tears when death approaches him; whereas a spiritual man, if he is really spiritual, he will laugh and laugh when death approaches him, for to him death is fun, nothing else”.
Philosophy of death at Sri Chinmoy.org
Therefore, when the hour of God strikes - when their mission on earth is complete, a yogi is able to consciously withdraw his life-breath from his body. A yogi then enters his final resting place - the consciousness of nirvana / heaven.
However, when a spiritual master leaves the body, it does not mean that their mission is over. What it means is that now they work from a different plane of consciousness.
As mentioned here: The final poem in the last poetry book sold by Sri Chinmoy, offered these immortal lines.
“My physical death
Is not the end of my life -
I am an eternal journey.”
- Sri Chinmoy
Many of my fellow students of Sri Chinmoy, feel that the spirit of Sri Chinmoy is as visibly tangible now, as it was during his lifetime. If anything the meditative consciousness of Sri Chinmoy has been heightened by the atmosphere of veneration and dignified silence which has encouraged a profound peace to descend on our meeting place.
Quite often, students and well wishers would express their kind hopes that Sri Chinmoy would live to a 100 years. But, I remember on quite a few occasions Sri Chinmoy commenting that he really didn’t wish to live for such a long time!
Sri Chinmoy never worried about the future or made great plans as to what would have after his death. In this video, posted by Shambhu, we see Sri Chinmoy respond to a question about “What would happen after your death?”
In his later years, Sri Chinmoy was often in great physical pain, as his body slowly deteriorated. In this thoughtful essay, Tribute to Sri Chinmoy we can understand why Sri Chinmoy’s death was a natural progression.
Before Sri Aurobindo passed away in 1950, at the age of 78, he commented that he would be able to achieve more by leaving the body.
Some Recent Tributes from friends
October 13th, 2007 — sri chinmoy
My beloved spiritual teacher Sri Chinmoy died on Thursday 11th October.
October 11th, 2007 — sri chinmoy
“The power that dominates cannot solve world problems. The power that loves can solve world problems.”- Sri Chinmoy
This is a biography I wrote of Sri Chinmoy, from his early life in India to his later life in the West.
Photo by: Unmesh Swanson, Sri Chinmoy Centre Galleries.
October 11th, 2007 — quotes, sri chinmoy
” Hope is at once both simple and profound.
It is hope that binds Heaven and earth. Hope is the bridge between Heaven and earth.
It is hope that makes us feel, at the beginning of our spiritual journey, that we are of God and that we are for God. “
- Sri Chinmoy
Photo by Tejvan. View of Magdalen Tower and Christ Church Meadow Oxford, October 18th 2007
September 4th, 2007 — links, sri chinmoy
September 3rd, 2007 — spirituality, sri chinmoy
The idea of religious unity has strikes a chord with many people. I think that one of the great advances of the past century is that people have become more aware, tolerant and accepting of different faiths. True, there is still a long way to go. But, I feel that people are no longer inspired by the idea of only one path being correct. Sri Chinmoy has done much to try and promote the ideal of the underlying unity of the different world religions.
“No religion is absolutely perfect. Yet not only do we fight for religion, but also are we often willing to sacrifice our lives for it. And what we hopelessly fail to do is to live it. A true religion is that which has no caste, no creed, no colour. It is but an all-uniting and all-pervading embrace.”
Religion should not be a means to divide a separate people. It should be a vehicle to bring people together. As Sri Chinmoy suggests:
Man-made religions find fault with one another, whereas God-made religion is eternally a oneness-song — God-manifestation through human aspiration on earth.”
One of the great exponents of Religious Unity was the Hindu Yogi, Swami Vivekananda. This is an audio recording of his opening speech given at the World Parliament of Religions, Chicago, 1894.
Photo: Sri Chinmoy at World Parliament of Religions, Barcelona 2004
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