A Special Blessing and Power

 

During a question and answer session, Sri Chinmoy gives this short talk to the first few disciples of the AUM Centre who are meeting at his home at 3817 Fort Hamilton Parkway in Brooklyn, New York.

Sri Chinmoy asks each of the ten disciples present to place their hand on their heart. He concentrates intently on each person, then says:

“Today at about a quarter to three (one half-hour previously) the Supreme came to me and gave me a Special Blessing and Power. I was commanded to share it with all of you. The most effective way, I find, is when you place your hand on your heart. It becomes very easy to part with the inner Wealth, the Wealth that I received. So it is in order to give you something most valuable, invaluable, most precious, that I requested you to do this. That invaluable thing, the Blessing, the Power that the Supreme gives, I offered to all of you here now. And it is now working. All of you will make great progress by the very touch of the Supreme within your heart. You may not feel it right now, but within an hour, in the early evening or at night, you will feel that something most special has entered into you.

“And now I wish all of you to place your hand on your heart individually when I look at you. That is to say, I wish to concentrate on that particular person most intensely, spiritually and divinely. And that concentration and meditation will be meant only for him or for her. After that we will have a general meditation. In that meditation, all of us will aspire and invoke the Supreme and all of us will be benefited.

“Just one thing more I wish to say to Kalipada. It takes many, many years for a spiritual seeker to identify himself spiritually with what he was before, to get back his old realisation in his present incarnation. I know people in India who were once realised souls. They had achieved realisation. Now, although they have become aware of it, they have not been able to bring down their realisation into their mental and physical consciousness. In their deep meditation, they feel a kind of revelation, but they have not been able to bring their realisation, their highest realisation, back into their outer existence. In some cases, it takes forty or fifty years. In some cases, at the end of their lives or on their deathbed, they get back their realisation. In my case also, it took years.”

Published in Earth’s Cry meets Heaven’s Smile, part 3

 

Aspiration defeats Realisation

Remarks by Sri Chinmoy on his arrival in Melbourne Australia prior to his Peace Concert on 12 September 1984

 

Flying to Australia is really an arduous journey! I don’t know how my Australian disciples come to New York every year, sometimes twice a year! Had I been their disciple, I would have told God I could wait for a few more incarnations before coming to Australia to see my guru. The plane journey sincerely kills me — perhaps because I am an old man. Twenty-four hours — no, twenty-seven hours — we were on the plane.

I really admire my Australian children. Is this not a sign of their aspiration? Their aspiration has defeated my realisation! Of course the heart is very close. My children have a heart to know how much joy they can give me, and I do hope I give them a little joy as well. In the heart there is no distance, no distance, no distance.

Published in The world-experience-tree-climber, part 3

 

Here and Now

Prayers by Sri Chinmoy
at the Peace Concert at Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

56.

HERE and NOW
I must worship my Lord’s Feet
With my streaming heart-tears.

 

57.

HERE and NOW
I must claim my Lord Supreme
As my own, very own.

 

58.

HERE and NOW
I must realise that
There is no such thing
As a part-time God-seeker,
God-dreamer and God-lover.

 

59.

HERE and NOW
I must realise that my God-love
Without my God-faith
Is no love at all.

 

60.

HERE and NOW
I have realised that everything else
Will fail me in the end,
Save and except
My God-devotion-heart.

 

61.

HERE and NOW
God tells me that my relationship
With Him
Has to be always personal,
Private and confidential.

 

62.

HERE and NOW
I am telling God that His Commands
Are my only satisfaction-fulfilments.

 

63.

HERE and NOW
I must disappear
From the world’s view
To remain only in the Heart
Of my Absolute Supreme.

 

64.

HERE and NOW
I must make friends
With the flower-beauty
Of my blossoming heart.

 

65.

HERE and NOW
God wants His Heart to be
The Home
Of my aspiration-cries.

 

66.

HERE and NOW
May my aspiration-dreams
Make my life a faith-citadel.

 

67.

HERE and NOW
I must make my aspiration-heart
My life’s most prized possession.

 

68.

HERE and NOW
My soul wants to spotlight
All my
Surrender-life-stage-performances.

 

69.

HERE and NOW
God wants me to approach Him
With the sweetness-innocence
Of a child.

 

70.

HERE and NOW
I must never allow my mind
To be plagued
By countless doubts.

 

71.

HERE and NOW
God wants me to forget
All my faults.
He wants me to remember only
My God-gratitude-heart.

 

72.

God tells me,
“HERE and NOW!”
I tell God,
“Please, please give me
A little more time.”

 

73.

HERE and NOW
I want my life to be
In between
My aspiration-ascent
And
God’s Satisfaction-Descent.

 

74.

HERE and NOW
May God’s Compassion-Nectar-Eye
Engulf my aspiration-heart-tears.

 

75.

HERE and NOW
I clearly see
That God’s Compassion-Heart
Accomplishes everything
For me.

 

76.

HERE and NOW
My gratitude-heart-tears
And smiles
Are the most exciting things
For God.

 

77.

HERE and NOW
I clearly see that God
Does not want anybody to guard
The aspiration-flames
Of my heart-shrine.
He Himself wants to do it.

 

78.

HERE and NOW
May the beauty and divinity
Of faith
Surround my life all the time.

 

79.

Who will write God’s Biography
HERE and NOW?
Not my aspiration-heart,
Not my service-life,
But my gratitude-breath-tears.

 

80.

HERE and NOW
I have come to realise
That my surrender to God’s Will
Has no problem left to solve.

 

81.

HERE and NOW
I must see that God’s Love
Reverberates
In my God-oneness-heart.

 

82.

HERE and NOW
I must make a solemn promise
To myself
To listen to God’s daily Broadcast.

 

83.

HERE and NOW
I must not only enjoy
But become
The nectar-dust of God’s Feet.

 

84.

HERE and NOW
I must start marching
Towards my own heart-home.

 

85.

HERE and NOW
I realise that Eternity
Is too short
For me to please God
In His own Way.

 

86.

HERE and NOW
I unmistakably see
That each new peace nation
Is a new
God-satisfaction-blossom.

 

87.

HERE and NOW
God embraces my surrender-heart
And commands me
To go forward, to fly upward
And to dive inward.

 

88.

HERE and NOW
God and I are saying
The same thing to each other:
“Do not forget me.”

Published in Here and Now