Excerpts from Sri Chinmoy’s book – Songs of the Soul
Selected excerpts by Sri Chinmoy
MAN IMMORTALISED
To perfect our human life, by far the greatest necessity is our soul’s delight. When we live in the physical, the teeming clouds of desire are natural, necessary and inevitable. When we live in the soul, the ever-mounting flames of aspiration are natural, necessary and inevitable.
When we live in the soul, we spontaneously cultivate God. His Peace, Bliss and Power become ours, absolutely ours. We grow into our spiritual perfection. This perfection is at once our divine heritage in a human body and our unearthly birthright on earthly soil.
The human in us must live under the sheltering wings of the soul. The divine in us must fly and fly into the Beyond with the flying wings of the soul. The human in us must eventually need transformation. The divine in us must eventually need manifestation.
We expect everything from God. It is supremely good and perfectly reasonable, for who else can fulfil us, both in Heaven and on earth? God is our Face within: God is our Smile without.
MY BODY
O my body, you are a gift of the Supreme. Potentiality inexhaustible you have, deep within you. To misunderstand you means to misunderstand the chosen instrument of God.
You want not, you must not, you cannot conquer the length and breadth of the world with your physical strength. Offer your growing heart to the hearts far and near. Offer your glowing soul to the souls around, below, above. Then alone you become the conqueror and possessor of God’s entire universe.
O my body, invoke your soul always for you to lead. Invoke! Never shall the monotony of the uneventful life plague you. With lightning speed yours shall be the ceaseless march….upward to the highest, inward to the inmost, forward to the fartherest.
MY HEART
O my heart, I am divinely proud of you. You do not have the shameful and shameless disease – worry! Never do you drink the deadly venom – doubt! Nothing can be simpler than your pure longings. Nothing can be more spontaneous than your glowing feelings. Nothing can be more fulfilling than your selfless love. Nothing has a more immediate access to the Supreme than your inmost cry.
O my heart, your Heavenly day within an earthly day is for God-realisation. Your immortalising minute within a fleeting minute is for God-embodiment. Your revealing second within a vanishing second is for God-manifestation.
SELF-SACRIFICE
A human being has many divine qualities. But there has never been another unparalleled divine quality like man’s self-sacrifice, nor can there there ever be. God’s own soulful Message to humanity in all walks of life is self-sacrifice. The brightest self-sacrifice can easily ease and diminish the darkest trials and stresses of human life.
He who is all sacrifice can never go through life as a failure. His is the perpetual victory. His is the spontaneous inner joy. What is to be sacrificed? One’s life-breath. How to sacrifice? With the feeling on universal oneness.
~ Sri Chinmoy
I PRAYED
I prayed to God for Power.
He said, “Take it and use it.”
I prayed to God for Light.
He said, “Take it and spread it.”
I prayed to God for Peace.
He said, “Take it and unveil your divinity.”
I prayed to God for Bliss.
He said, “Take it and stay in your Source.”
I prayed to God for Love.
He said, “Take Me; I am yours.”
GOD’S VISITING HOURS
When I see God in reason,
He is Justice.
When I see God in faith,
He is Protection.
When I see my God in love,
He is Compassion.
When I see God in will,
He is Vision.
When I see my God in joy,
He is Perfection.
When I see my God in Truth,
He is Fulfilment.
My soul’s owner is divinity.
My heart’s owner is sincerity.
My mind’s owner is clarity.
My vital’s owner is capacity.
My body’s owner is purity.
~ Sri Chinmoy
Songs of the Soul is available from Heart-Light Distributors and published by Aum Publications in NY. Soft cover, 88 pages.
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