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Poem – The World

 

Poem – The World

by: Sa’adi

 

The world, my brother! will abide with none,
By the world’s Maker let thy heart be won.
Rely not, nor repose on this world’s gain,
For many a son like thee she has reared and slain.
What matters, when the spirit seeks to fly,
If on a throne or on bare earth we die?

 

Poem By: Saadi

Photo by Sharani Sri Chinmoy Centre Galleries

 

Sa?di (in Persian: ?????, full name in English: Muslih-ud-Din Mushrif-ibn-Abdullah) (1184 – 1283/1291?) is one of the major Persian poets of the medieval period. He is recognized not only for the quality of his writing, but also for the depth of his social thought.

The Story of Edgar Cayce

Edgar Cayce in 1910

Edgar Cayce was mystic who offered many "channelled readings" he hoped would be of spiritual benefit.

"Over a lifetime of giving at least two reading a day, Cayce branched out into discourses on the individual soul’s journey ("life-readings" detailing an individual’s past incarnations, personality, talents and karma), predictions of the future, and the origin and spiritual destiny of man and his relationship with God. The topics and answers given were only limited to the intention, imagination and need of the person asking them."

The Story of Edgar Cayce
By Thomas Sugrue from John’s Log

Edgar Cayce at Amazon.com

There is a River", the life story of Edgar Cayce, was the first book I read, and the spark that lit an all-consuming hunger for spirituality. I was practising self-taught meditation within a week, the result of reading a particularly resonant, life’s purpose answering passage: "What is the purpose of life? To realise God. How does one know God? Through meditation." With that I was off, my life consumed with a clear direction and meaning I had always known existed, but couldn’t articulate.

High praise indeed, but what of the book itself. There is a River was the very first book to be written about Edgar Cayce, and it’s release in 1943 catapulted him to a national fame and attention which he had never sought, attention which in part contributed to his death two years later from sheer exhaustion?he worked himself to death attempting to selflessly meet the nearly bottomless demand for his very special abilities.

The story begins with a highly religious youth of humble origins, normal in most respects aside from the fact, kept mostly to himself, that he held an ongoing conversation with his still visible dead grandfather, could see auras, and after sleeping on his schoolbooks could recite every word. Oh, and as a child he had "little playmates" who disappeared when others came around. He once enquired where they came from?"We are of the music, the light and the flowers…"

Quotes on Transformation by Sri Chinmoy

 

Quotes on Transformation

 

"Neither an individual effort nor an individual abnegation can bring about the transformation of your consciousness.
This transformation is possible only by the descent of a Higher Light. "

 

"Both the descent of Truth into the lower nature and the ascent of the lower nature into the higher Truth are capable of solving the problem of problems, the illumination of human consciousness. They are equally effective and have an equal speed. "

 

"Be Universal in your love.
You will see the universe to be the picture of your own being. "

 

Quotes By: Sri Chinmoy

From: Excerpt from Eternity’s Breath by Sri Chinmoy.

Photo by Kamalika Sri Chinmoy Centre Galleries

 

"To think of physical transformation without having some kind of realisation is to count your chickens before they are hatched. "

"Surrender has to look up with folded hands.
Transformation has to look down with palms facing the earth-consciousness. "

"The transformation of human nature in its completeness must unavoidably progress at the speed of a tortoise. "

"There is but one Knowledge. There is but one Realisation. You are at once the Seeker and the Fulfiller. "

"What is liberation? It is the extinction of a divided consciousness in the all-pervading oneness of the Supreme. "

"What is meant by spiritual perfection? It is the constant capacity to live in God and to reveal Him in one’s every moment. "

"In the field of true spirituality, Experience serves as breakfast; Realisation as lunch; Transformation as dinner."

 

by: Sri Chinmoy

Quotes on Aum

 

"AUM is the soundless sound. It is the vibration of the Supreme. It is called the Seed-Sound of the Universe, for with this sound, the Supreme set into motion the first vibration of His creation. The teeming universe is sustained perpetually by the creative vibration of the Divine AUM. "

 

 

By: Sri Chinmoy

Excerpt from Eternity’s Breath by Sri Chinmoy. at Sri Chinmoy Library

"The syllable AUM is indivisible, but each portion of it represents a different aspect of the Supreme. The Sanskrit A represents and embodies the Consciousness of the Creator, Brahma; the Sanskrit U. the Preserver, Vishnu; the Sanskrit M, the Transformer, Shiva. Taken together, A U M is the spontaneous cosmic rhythm with which God embraces the universe. "

"The universal AUM, put forth by the Supreme, is an infinite Ocean. The individual AUM, chanted by man, is a drop in that Ocean. It cannot be separated from the Ocean but nevertheless even the tiniest drop can claim the Ocean as its very own. Chanting AUM, man touches and calls forth the cosmic vibration of the Supreme Sound. When one can hear the Soundless Sound within oneself, when one can identify oneself with it, when one can live within the AUM, one can be freed from the fetters of ignorance and realise the Supreme within and without."

"The unknown embraces ignorance with its self-limitation. The unknowable embraces AUM with His absolute Self-revelation. "

"Without birth is the Supreme; without birth is AUM. Without end is the Supreme; without end is AUM. Immortality is AUM’s universal Identity. "

"When we are in ignorance, AUM feeds us, for AUM is God. When we are in Knowledge, AUM still feeds us. When we are beyond both ignorance and Knowledge, AUM continues to feed us, for it is the nectar which gives life to creation, born and unborn."

 

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

 

 

Quotes by R.W. Emerson

"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common."

" What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. "

"People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. "

"Is it so bad to be misunderstood?
Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton,

and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh."

 

 

By:Ralph Waldo Emerson

Photo by Jogyata Sri Chinmoy Centre Galleries

 

Selected Verses of Emerson’s Poems

"Give all to love;
Obey thy heart;
Friends, kindred, days,
Estate, good fame,
Plans, credit, and the muse;
Nothing refuse. "

From: Give all to Love

Spring still makes spring in the mind,
When sixty years are told;
Love wakes anew this throbbing heart,
And we are never old.
Over the winter glaciers,
I see the summer glow,
And through the wild-piled snowdrift
The warm rose buds below.

From: "The World Soul"

If the red slayer think he slays,
Or if the slain think he is slain,
They know not well the subtle ways
I keep, and pass, and turn again.

From: "Brahma"

" Good-by, proud world, I’m going home,
Thou’rt not my friend, and I’m not thine;
Long through thy weary crowds I roam;
A river-ark on the ocean brine,
Long I’ve been tossed like the driven foam,
But now, proud world, I’m going home."

 

Related

"A thinker in the sublimest sense of the term is Emerson. His philosophy touches the core of all earthly problems. "Ends," said he, "pre-exist in the means." Hence what matters is to cherish our highest aspirations in all sincerity and determination and rest assured in the faith that these will realise themselves…  "

essay on R.Emerson by Sri Chinmoy

Running around the World

 

One Earth – 26000km – 2 years – 1 runner

 

Jesper Olsen is the first person to have successfully completed the unique feat of running around the world. Beginning on the 1st of January, 2004, from the Greenwich time meridian in London; Jesper successfully circumnavigated the world finishing nearly 2 years later in October 2005, in London. During his epic run of 26,000 Km Jesper kept a detailed log and even participated in local ultra distance runners. His extraordinary experiences have now been produced into a book. It is an epic tale of self transcendence and inspiration to others – World Run

Jesper Olsen is now preparing for World Run 2 which could be over 40,000 Km

“The route will in general lead from the Northern point of Scandinavia and in Europe to the Southern tip of Africa. After this first half of the total challenge is completed the run reverses direction and, hopefully, continues North from the Southern tip of South America to the Northern point of New Foundland in Canada, North America.”

Blog entry at Multidays – an informative resource on ultra distance running

Photo from Sri Chinmoy Races. This photo is from the last couple of days leading upto Jesper’s finish in London.

Meditation Video

 

"When you meditate, what you actually do is to enter into a calm or still, silent mind. We have to be fully aware of the arrival and attack of thoughts. That is to say, we shall not allow any thought, divine or undivine, good or bad, to enter into our mind. Our mind should be absolutely silent. Then we have to go deep within; there we have to observe our real existence. "

– Sri Chinmoy

 

 

 

Video of Meditation Silence featuring spiritual teacher Sri Chinmoy.

Produced by contributors to Sri Chinmoy TV

Subscribe to other editions at iTunes – Meditation Silence

 

Quote on Meditation from Excerpt from Earth’s Cry Meets Heaven’s Smile, Part 1 by Sri Chinmoy.

Quote on Meditation from Excerpt from Earth’s Cry Meets Heaven’s Smile, Part 1 by Sri Chinmoy.