Some poems from two of Sri Chinmoy’s books
Many of Sri Chinmoy’s students read his poems and aphorisms as part of their meditation practice. Much of the time, people turn to his three major collections of aphorisms - Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, and Seventy-Seven Thousand Service Treees - but Sri Chinmoy also wrote many smaller collections of poetry as well. Here are some nice poems I found in two of these smaller collections:
From I Need only God:
How will you know
If you are divine?
You will know
If you are divine
When you discover
That without your body’s Himalayan achievements
The world can exist-
But not without your soul’s
One little smile.
I had many more lives.
I shall have many more lives.
But I have only one Master
And that is what I always want.
Who is my Master?
My own higher Self,
My Eternity’s All.
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From Every Day a New Chance:
I may not know what it means
To be perfect,
But I do know what it means
To be happy.
Forgive
If you want to regain
The full freedom-joy
Of your mind and heart.
Not a fear-prompted prayer
But a love-inspired meditation
Can and does
Gladden God’s Heart.
(Photo by Pavitrata Taylor: Last August, when I was in New York visiting my teacher, some doves were released as part of a ceremony - this one, instead of flying off, stayed around till the end and then went)
