Passages from The Wisdom of Sri Chinmoy

Aspiration: What is most important is to try to develop a genuine hunger for God's love, God's compassion and God's blessings. There are two ways to increase one's inner hunger. One way is to cry for God like a helpless child crying for his mother. The other way is to offer one's actions to God while keeping a cheerful attitude. With both these ways the seeker will make real inner progress.

Death: There are two lives: one is the life that we are seeing here. We have a short span of life, say forty, sixty or eighty years; then we pass behind the curtain of eternity. Then there is an eternal life. This life existed before the creation, it exists now in the creation, then it passes through death and it goes beyond death and enters again into its own realm.

Ego: The ego always tries to possess things for itself. But when we transcend ego, we try to give everything for God's Satisfaction, for the world's satisfaction and for our soul's satisfaction. On the human level the ego tries to get satisfaction by using things for its own purpose. In the spiritual life we transcend the human ego and then we use those things for a divine purpose, for the satisfaction of the entire world.

Inner peace: Our greatest protection lies not in our material achievements and resources. All the treasures of the world are emptiness to our divine soul. Our greatest protection lies in our soul's communion with the all-nourishing and all-fulfilling peace. Our soul lives in peace and lives for peace. If we live a life of peace, we are ever enriched and never impoverished. Unhorizoned is our inner peace; like the boundless sky, it encompasses all.   ~Sri Chinmoy.

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