The Difference between the Human Heart and the Spiritual Heart
Question: What is the difference between the ordinary human heart and the spiritual heart or anahata chakra?
Sri
Chinmoy: The human heart is a small muscle in the chest which the
doctors can show us. But the spiritual heart is something which a
seeker sees, feels and grows into. The spiritual heart is vaster than
the vastest. Right now, Infinity is an imaginary concept for us. But
when we discover our inner heart, our spiritual heart, Infinity is no
longer imagination; it is reality.
The universe, the
universal Consciousness, the eternal Consciousness, the infinite
Consciousness are all inside the spiritual heart. On the one hand, this
spiritual heart houses Divinity, Immortality, Eternity and Infinity; on
the other hand, it transcends everything.
The spiritual heart is here in the chest, here in the forehead, everywhere. Because it is infinite, it pervades the entire universe. God is omnipotent, not because He is larger than the largest, but because this moment He can be the tiniest and the next moment He can be infinitely vaster than the ocean. Him we call God precisely because He can be whatever He wants to be: vaster than the vastest or tinier than the tiniest. The spiritual heart also has the same capacity. Although it is infinite, eternal and immortal, it can easily reside inside the gross physical heart. Again, it has the capacity to take the physical heart into its Vastness, into its Infinity, into its Eternity. ~ Sri Chinmoy
See also: Spiritual Heart poems