Archive | September, 2007

Immortality

By on September 30, 2007 in sri-chinmoy

 

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I feel in all my limbs His boundless Grace;
Within my heart the Truth of life shines white.
The secret heights of God my soul now climbs;
No dole, no sombre pang, no death in my sight.

No mortal days and nights can shake my calm;
A Light above sustains my secret soul.
All doubts with grief are banished from my deeps,
My eyes of light perceive my cherished Goal.

Though in the world, I am above its woe;
I dwell in an ocean of supreme release.
My mind, a core of the One’s unmeasured thoughts;
The star vast welkin hugs my Spirit’s peace.

My eternal days are found in speeding time;
I play upon His Flute of rhapsody.
Impossible deeds no more impossible seem;
In birth chains now shines Immortality.

 

By: Sri Chinmoy

Photo by: Jogyata, Sri Chinmoy Centre Galleries

 

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In the Seas of Love

By on September 30, 2007 in sufism

 

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I do not cease swimming in the seas of love,
rising with the wave, then descending;
now the wave sustains me, and then I sink beneath it;
love bears me away where there is no longer any shore.

 

 

From- (Diwan al-Hallaj, M. 34)

- Al Hallaj

Photo by: Unmesh, Sri Chinmoy Centre Galleries

 

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The Illumined Man

By on September 30, 2007 in india

 

Arjuna:

Tell me of the man who lives in wisdom,
Ever aware of the Self, O Krishna;
How does he talk, how sit, how move about?

Sri Krishna:

He lives in wisdom
Who sees himself in all and all in him,
Whose love for the Lord of Love has consumed
Every selfish desire and sense-craving
Tormenting the heart. Not agitated
By grief nor hankering after pleasure,
He lives free from lust and fear and anger
Fettered no more by selfish attachments,
He is not elated by good fortune
Nor depressed by bad. Such is the seer.

Even as a tortoise draws in its limbs
The sage can draw in his senses at will.
An aspirant abstains from sense-pleasures,
But he still craves for them. These cravings all
Disappear when he sees the Lord of Love.
For even of one who treads the path
The stormy senses can sweep off the mind.
But he lives in wisdom who subdues them,
And keeps his mind ever absorbed in me.

 

From Bhagavad Gita

 

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Videos of Sri Krishna

By on September 23, 2007 in sri_krishna
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Picture Stories of Krishna at Seattle Art Museum

"Sri Krishna was a teacher from the very beginning of his life. Even before he entered into the physical world he acted as a teacher. Before he entered into his mother’s womb, he came to his father who had been imprisoned by the king and said, "I am now going to enter into the physical world. As soon as I am born, you will take me out of this prison-cell and take me to Nanda" (one of his relatives). His father saw Sri Krishna vividly before he came into the world of manifestation, and to everybody’s surprise, all of a sudden all the doors and gates of the prison were wide open, and his father took him to Nanda’s place. Here he started his teaching."

From: Krishna – The Eternal Mystery by Sri Chinmoy

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Patience Quotes

By on September 22, 2007 in sri-chinmoy
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"We must realise that a life of failure is never permanent."

"Patience is the most sublime progress in disguise."

"Life needs these three things: effort, perseverance and patience."

- Sri Chinmoy

Photo by Tejvan, Sri Chinmoy Centre Galleries

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God’s Grandeur – Gerard Manley Hopkins

By on September 22, 2007 in poetry

 

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God’s Grandeur

 

The world is charged with the grandeur of God.
It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;
It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil
Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?
Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;
And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;
And wears man’s smudge and shares man’s smell: the soil
Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.

And for all this, nature is never spent;
There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;
And though the last lights off the black West went
Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs –
Because the Holy Ghost over the bent
World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.

 

 

By: Gerard Manley Hopkins

Photo from: Sri Chinmoy Centre Galleries

 

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Spiritual Links September

By on September 8, 2007 in spiritual-links
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World Harmony Run in Iceland

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Shivaratri at Belur Math

By on September 8, 2007 in swami_vivekananda

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From: Shivaratri celebration in Belur Math.

Brothers offering their Dance to Lord Shiva in the Main Temple of Sri Ramakrishna. Belur Math was founded by Swami Vivekananda. Swami Vivekananda became the leader of the early Sri Ramakrishna movement. Vivekananda had a close to connection to Lord Shiva, the cosmic God of renunciation

  • – Sri Ramakrishna
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    Forgiveness is Mightier

    By on September 8, 2007 in sri-chinmoy

     

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    Forgiveness

    Forgiveness
    Is mightier
    Than the mightiest.

     

    Negativity
    Eventually digs
    Its own grave

     

    No human being
    Shall remain
    Indefinitely unrealised

     

    By: Sri Chinmoy

    From: Seventy-Seven Thousand Service Trees part 33

    Photo by: Tejvan, Sri Chinmoy Centre Galleries

     

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    Sri Harmandir Sahib- Amritsar

    By on September 8, 2007 in videos

    Sri Harmandir Sahib- Amritsar – Shabad with Pictures by Ip Singh

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    Sri Aurobindo – A Tribute

    By on September 8, 2007 in sri_aurobindo

    Based on: Mohan Mistry’s song “Hey Ananta Divya Purush

    Biography of Sri Aurobindo

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