Famous Sri Chinmoy Quotes
“World-peace can be achieved when the power of love replaces the love of power.”
Words of Wisdom (2010)
“Man forgets. God forgives. Man forgets God's Truth. God forgives man's ignorance.”
Songs of the Soul (1971)
#4029, Part 41
Ten Thousand Flower Flames Part 1-100 (1979)
Sri Chinmoy Quotes about love
Rainbow-Flowers (1973)
“If you really want to love humanity, then you have to love humanity as it is now.”
The Wings of Joy (1997)
“Love the world. Otherwise, you will be forced to carry the heaviest load: your own bitter self.”
#1908, Part 20
Ten Thousand Flower Flames Part 1-100 (1979)
“The waves of hatred-night can easily be dissolved in the sea of oneness-love.”
#170, Part 2
Twenty Seven Thousand Aspiration Plants Part 1-270 (1983)
April 25
Meditations: Food For The Soul (1970)
“Love is something that never cared to learn how to judge anybody.”
#7310, Part 8
Seventy Seven Thousand Service-Trees series 1-50 (1998)
Sri Chinmoy Quotes about life
Source: Songs of the Soul (1971)
Context: War forgets peace. Peace forgives war. War is the death of the life human. Peace is the birth of the Life Divine. Our vital passions want war. Our psychic emotions desire peace.
“To be true to oneself is the hardest test of life.”
#26570, Part 27
Seventy Seven Thousand Service-Trees series 1-50 (1998)
The Wings of Joy (1997)
Context: The very acceptance of the spiritual life demands enormous courage. This courage is not the courage of a haughty, rough person who will strike others to assert his superiority; it is totally different. This courage is our constant awareness of what we are entering into, of what we are going to become, of what we are going to reveal.
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“No religion is absolutely perfect.”
Mother India's Lighthouse: India's Spiritual Leaders (1971)
Context: No religion is absolutely perfect. Yet not only do we fight for religion, but also are we often willing to sacrifice our lives for it. And what we hopelessly fail to do is to live it. A true religion is that which has no caste, no creed, no colour. It is but an all-uniting and all-pervading embrace.
“Peace has a special friend: Joy. Anger has only one friend: Destruction.”
April 27
Meditations: Food For The Soul (1970)
Context: Anger has an enemy: Peace. Peace has no enemy. Peace has a special friend: Joy. Anger has only one friend: Destruction.
Songs of the Soul (1971)
Context: Now what should be the relation between science and spirituality? It should be a relation of mutual acceptance and true understanding. It is an act of folly on our part to expect the same truth, the same knowledge and the same power from both science and spirituality. We must not do that. Neither must we set up the same goal for science and spirituality.
Sri Chinmoy Quotes
Source: Service-Boat And Love-Boatman (1974), p. 2, Part 1
Context: Nothing can be greater than love. God is great only because He has infinite Love. If we want to define God, we can define Him in millions of ways, but I wish to say that no definition of God can be as adequate as the definition of God as all Love. When we say "God", if fear comes into our mind, then we are millions and billions of miles away from Him. When we repeat the name of God, if love comes to the fore, then our prayer, our concentration, our meditation, our contemplation are genuine.
World-Destruction: Never, Impossible! (1994)
Context: In my philosophy everyone, including the poor, sick and aged, belongs to one family — God’s Family. God is at once poor and rich, sick and healthy, young and old, for He exists inside each and every individual. Here on earth we are all God’s children.
Citation- ffb-132, Part 4
Fifty Freedom-Boats To One Golden Shore (1974)
Context: Where love is thick, faults are thin. If you really love someone, then it is difficult to find fault with him. His faults seem negligible, for love means oneness.
“Science depends on outer experiment. Spirituality depends on inner searching and seeking.”
Songs of the Soul (1971)
Context: Science depends on outer experiment. Spirituality depends on inner searching and seeking. A scientist discovers the power that very often threatens even his own life. A spiritual seeker discovers the power that guides and moulds his life into a life of divine fulfilment.
June 19
Meditations: Food For The Soul (1970)
Context: When we try to express the experience of the Infinite Consciousness, our human tongue loses all its power of expression. What shall we do then? We shall have to remain silent. Lo! In no time we shall realise that Silence is infinitely more eloquent and more fruitful than words.
Mother India's Lighthouse: India's Spiritual Leaders (1971)
Context: No religion is absolutely perfect. Yet not only do we fight for religion, but also are we often willing to sacrifice our lives for it. And what we hopelessly fail to do is to live it. A true religion is that which has no caste, no creed, no colour. It is but an all-uniting and all-pervading embrace.
“Because everybody feels superior, disharmony at every moment is entering into our lives.”
#337, Part 8
Sri Chinmoy Answers, part 1-33 (1996)
Context: Lack of harmony comes when I feel that I know how to do something better than you. Lack of harmony is the song and dance of superiority. Because everybody feels superior, disharmony at every moment is entering into our lives.
“Nothing can be greater than love. God is great only because He has infinite Love.”
Source: Service-Boat And Love-Boatman (1974), p. 2, Part 1
Context: Nothing can be greater than love. God is great only because He has infinite Love. If we want to define God, we can define Him in millions of ways, but I wish to say that no definition of God can be as adequate as the definition of God as all Love. When we say "God", if fear comes into our mind, then we are millions and billions of miles away from Him. When we repeat the name of God, if love comes to the fore, then our prayer, our concentration, our meditation, our contemplation are genuine.
“If you do not find peace inside your own heart, then you will not find it anywhere else on earth.”
#19822, Part 199
Twenty Seven Thousand Aspiration Plants Part 1-270 (1983)
#2861, Part 3
Seventy Seven Thousand Service-Trees series 1-50 (1998)
#106, Part 2
Twenty Seven Thousand Aspiration Plants Part 1-270 (1983)
“The atom has taught me that the little things do count — most.”
June 5
Meditations: Food For The Soul (1970)
June 23
Meditations: Food For The Soul (1970)
#9280, Part 93
Ten Thousand Flower Flames Part 1-100 (1979)
“The human mind is utterly stupid when it carries, quite willingly, the heavy burden of resentment.”
#16,575, Part 17
Seventy Seven Thousand Service-Trees series 1-50 (1998)
“Not the power to conquer others but the power to become one with others is the ultimate power.”
#8756, Part 88
Ten Thousand Flower Flames Part 1-100 (1979)
My Christmas-New Year-Vacation-Aspiration-Prayers Part 26 (2003)
“When the power of love replaces the love of power, man will have a new name: God.”
January 20
Variants: My books, they all have only one message: the heart's Power Of Love must replace the mind's Love Of Power. If I have the Power Of Love, then I shall claim the whole World as my own … World Peace can be achieved when the Power Of Love replaces the Love Of Power.
Cited to Chinmoy's book My Heart Shall Give A Oneness-Feast (1993)
In The Forbes Book of Business Quotations (1997) edited by Edward C. Goodman and Ted Goodman, p. 639 a similar statement has become attributed to William Ewart Gladstone, and is also cited in "The National Elementary School Principal" Vol 28 published in 1948: "We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace." A similar statement has also become attributed to Jimi Hendrix, though he could have been quoting or paraphrasing Chinmoy, or conceivably Gladstone: "When the power of love overcomes love of power the world will know peace."
Meditations: Food For The Soul (1970)
Variant: When the power of love divinely replaces the love of power, man will have a new name: God. Source: Sri Chinmoy (1971): My rose petals: the master's extemporaneous talks in Europe, Sri Chinmoy Centre, p. 31. Google Books link http://books.google.pt/books?id=I2pRAAAAYAAJ&q=%22+love+divinely+replaces+%22&dq=%22+love+divinely+replaces+%22&hl=pt-PT&sa=X&ei=fNb8UrPVGsTIhAeS54H4Dw&redir_esc=y.
"The Absolute", p. 1
My Flute (1972)
#40541, Part 41
Seventy Seven Thousand Service-Trees series 1-50 (1998)
“What you do not use yourself, do not give to others. For example, advice.”
May 11
Meditations: Food For The Soul (1970)
“Some seekers will do anything for their Self-realisation — except work for it.”
January 24
Meditations: Food For The Soul (1970)
“It is better to make mistakes than to lie idle.”
#13780, Part 14
Seventy Seven Thousand Service-Trees series 1-50 (1998)
“To be rich is to give a smile with no expectation of return.”
#26508, Part 27
Seventy Seven Thousand Service-Trees series 1-50 (1998)
On Martin Luther King, Jr.
America The Beautiful (2010)
“Is the world so unbearable? No! What we need is only a little more love for the world.”
#4386, Part 5
Seventy Seven Thousand Service-Trees series 1-50 (1998)
Mother India's Lighthouse: India's Spiritual Leaders (1971)
“I take the greatest lesson from compassion — it takes away all the conceit out of my life.”
February 27
Meditations: Food For The Soul (1970)
“Do not judge but love and be loved, if you want to be really happy.”
Words of Wisdom (2010)
“Be kind, be all sympathy, for each and every human being is forced to fight against himself.”
#12871, Part 13
Twenty Seven Thousand Aspiration Plants Part 1-270 (1983)
#26618, Part 267
Twenty Seven Thousand Aspiration Plants Part 1-270 (1983)
“Alas, why does my mind have to walk through the dust of the past every day?”
#14702, Part 15
Twenty Seven Thousand Aspiration Plants Part 1-270 (1983)
#233, Part 3
Twenty Seven Thousand Aspiration Plants Part 1-270 (1983)
“The difficulty is that we try to perfect others before we perfect ourselves.”
Words of Wisdom (2010)
“To deliberately criticise another individual may cause an indelible stain on the critic.”
#14805, Part 37
Twenty Seven Thousand Aspiration Plants Part 1-270 (1983)
"Between Nothingness and Eternity", p. 14
My Flute (1972)
“If you do the right thing, eventually you will inspire others to do the right thing.”
Source: Opportunity and Self-Transcendence (1977), p. 21
"Revelation", p. 47
My Flute (1972)
#14550, Part 15
Seventy Seven Thousand Service-Trees series 1-50 (1998)
