Quotes - Self Transcendence

"Meditation is self-transcendence. Self-transcendence is the message of the Beyond. The message of the Beyond is God, the eternally evolving Soul, and God, the eternally fulfilling Goal."

Excerpt from Meditation: Self-Transcendence - The Garland Of Nation-Souls by Sri Chinmoy.

"In our life of self-transcendence, from the lower we grow into the higher. The lower is transformed into the higher, the less perfect is transformed into the more perfect. Things that have to be rejected, we reject; things that have to be transformed, we transform; things that have to be transcended, we transcend. This process of transcendence is beyond the thinking of the mental man. It finds its existence in the self-giving of the psychic man. The psychic man becomes part and parcel of reality by identifying with reality itself. "

 - From Self transcendence

"Self-competition is self-transcendence. World-competition is ignorance-performance."

- From Tomorrows dawn

"What is transcendence? Transcendence is a never-ending climbing process, a dynamic reality. The Goal also is a transcending reality. Why do we want to transcend? We want to transcend precisely because we need satisfaction within and satisfaction without. How do we achieve satisfaction? We achieve satisfaction by becoming a mounting flame of aspiration. And when we become a mounting flame of aspiration, satisfaction is achieved by the God-lover in us, the truth-server in us."

From: Transcendence and Perfection

"In the spiritual life also, we are always trying to transcend and go beyond. If today I do twenty things wrong, then tomorrow I will try to do only nineteen things wrong. I will constantly try to improve myself, and in this way I will get a tremendous sense of satisfaction. I am not competing with anybody other than myself. This is how I can feel that I am arriving at perfection. Again, today's perfection is only the starting point for tomorrow's higher perfection."

Excerpt from Sri Chinmoy Answers, Part 2 by Sri Chinmoy.

"Self-transcendence brings us the message of happiness. "

"Self-transcendence gives us joy in boundless measure. When we transcend ourselves, we do not compete with others. We do not compete with the rest of the world, but at every moment we compete with ourselves. "

Excerpt from The Vision-Sky Of California by Sri Chinmoy.

• Poems on Self Transcendence at Sri Chinmoy Poetry