All the world’s a stage
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts.

- William Shakespeare, As You Like It

photo: Phoolanjaya, Sri Chinmoy Centre Gallery.

May each moment
Of my life
Be the sweetness-fragrance
Of my heart-rose

- Sri Chinmoy

photo – Pavitrata.

• Short Poems of Sri Chinmoy

The fault is in the blamer
Spirit sees nothing to criticize.

- Rumi

Related

• Biography of Rumi
• Rumi Quotes on Love

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken.
Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle’s compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

- William Shakespeare, Sonnet 116.

“Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so.
If there is sin, this is the only sin – to say that you are weak, or others are weak.”

 Swami Vivekananda

“The soul in man is greater than his fate.”

- Sri Aurobindo, Savitri

“The soul that can
Live alone with itself
Meets God..”

- Sri Aurobindo, Savitri

“Our soul has infinite potentiality and this infinite potentiality has to be manifested here on earth. The soul came from the Supreme to manifest Him. The more the soul manifests Truth or Divinity, the greater the achievement both for the soul and for the Supreme.”

- Sri Chinmoy [1]

The body was born and it will die. But for the soul there is no death. It is like the betel-nut. When the nut is ripe it does not stick to the shell. But when it is green it is difficult to separate it from the shell. After realizing God, one does not identify oneself any more with the body. Then one knows that body and soul are two different things.

- Sri Ramakrishna [2]

“Love is the song of the soul, singing to God.”

P.Yogananda [3]

“The soul migrates from body to body. Weapons cannot cleave it, nor fire consume it, nor water drench it, nor wind dry it.”

- Bhagavad Gita [4]

References

[1] Eternity’s Soul Bird at Sri Chinmoy Library

[2] The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.312

[3] Samadhi by P.Yogananda

[4] Commentary on the Bhagavad Gita

photo: Tejvan

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

- William Blake (extract from Tyger, Songs of Experience)

Photo, Tejvan

Jealousy
is a deep-rooted
Love-rejection-life.

- Sri Chinmoy [1]

Jealousy
And supremacy
Are always fond
Of living together.

- Sri Chinmoy [1]

There is a way to conquer jealousy.
Take jealousy as a piece of cloth.
Use your utmost power
To tear that piece of cloth
Into hundreds of pieces.
While tearing the piece of cloth,
Just think of all the jealousies you have.
Your jealousy is bound to disappear.

Sri Chinmoy [2]

Jealousy
Is an instant
Joy-killer.

- Sri Chinmoy [1]

Jealousy happily
Plies its boat
Between the inner tragedies
And outer tragedies
Of its rivals.

- Sri Chinmoy [1]

” Finally, the real spiritual way to conquer jealousy is to feel that you are one with the person who is the object of your jealousy. For example, if someone is a better actor than you are, feel that it is you who are acting. In this way, you can conquer jealousy and, at the same time, expand your own consciousness. “

- Sri Chinmoy [3]

Notes:

[1] My Jealousy Is My Madness-Burden, Agni Press, 1994.

[2] Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, Part 43, Agni Press, 2005.

[3] How To Overcome Jealousy

The temple of love is not love itself;
True love is the treasure,
Not the walls about it.
Do not admire the decoration,
But involve yourself in the essence,
The perfume that invades and touches you-
The beginning and the end.
Discovered, this replace all else,
The apparent and the unknowable.
Time and space are slaves to this presence.

- Rumi

photo Tejvan

Even pain and grief are garbs of world-delight,
It hides behind thy sorrow and thy cry.
Because thy strength is a part and not God’s whole,
Because afflicted by the little self
Thy consciousness forgets to be divine
As it walks in the vague penumbra of the flesh
And cannot bear the world’s tremendous touch,
Thou criest out and sayst that there is pain.
Indifference, pain and joy, a triple disguise,
Attire of the rapturous Dancer in the ways,
Withhold from thee the body of God’s bliss.
Thy spirit’s strength shall make thee one with God,
Thy agony shall change to ecstasy,
Indifference deepen into infinity’s calm
And joy laugh nude on the peaks of the Absolute.

- Sri Aurobindo

Photo: Pavitrata Taylor.

happiness

“The mind finds it difficult to be happy, precisely because the mind consciously enjoys the sense of separativity. It is always judging and doubting the reality in others. This is the human mind, the ordinary physical mind, the earth-bound mind.

But we also have the aspiring heart, the loving heart. This loving heart is free from insecurity, for it has already established its oneness with the rest of the world. This heart carries the message of self-offering, and self-offering is God-discovery.”

- Sri Chinmoy

From: Happiness My Salutations to Australia