Self knowledge

Excerpts from Sri Chinmoy's book - The Inner Promise

Let us try to know ourselves. Let us try to observe who we truly are. Very often we feel that we are insignificant creatures. We have nowhere to go, nothing to achieve and nothing to give. This is what we feel in our day-to-day existence.

But what we truly are is totally different from what we feel. We are God's children. At each moment, God is pouring into us something divine and something fruitful. He expects much from us, but nothing beyond our capacity. He knows what we can consciously offer to Him. Right now, we feel that we are weak, unimportant, useless. But in God's Eyes we are divine, we are fruitful, we are infinite.

We are constantly making mistakes. The root of our mistakes is our body, the physical. We feel that there is nothing beyond the physical and, at the same time, that there is nothing in the physical. It is here that we are making a most deplorable mistake, If we go beyond our body, beyond our physical consciousness, we see infinite peace, infinite joy, infinite bliss and infinite power all eagerly waiting for us.

Then, if we go deep within, deep inside our body, we see and feel the soul. This soul is the messenger of God on earth. If we can be in tune with the constant, spontaneous music of the soul, our lives will be free from suffering, misery, frustration, fear and worry. Our lives will be a constant fulfilment, a fulfilment that can and will be both inner and outer. ~ Sri Chinmoy


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