Chinmoy Kumar Ghose, comunemente noto come Sri Chinmoy è stato un filosofo, poeta e artista indiano.
Come maestro spirituale Sri Chinmoy, rifacendosi ad alcune tradizioni hindu, ha praticato e diffuso in Occidente la meditazione, la recitazione di mantra, la preghiera e la pratica sportiva anche estrema quali vie personali per aspirare all'illuminazione, intesa come realizzazione in Dio. Onorificato nel 1997 dell'Hindu Renaissance Award, Sri Chinmoy fu anche autore prolifico, e secondo stime fatte dai suoi seguaci egli avrebbe scritto circa 1.500 libri, composto 115.000 poesie e 20.000 canzoni, dipinto 200.000 quadri e dato quasi 800 concerti gratuiti finalizzati alla ricerca della pace interiore. Negli anni settanta Sri Chinmoy fu ispiratore e maestro di noti musicisti di quegli anni, fra i quali i chitarristi John McLaughlin e Carlos Santana. A Sri Chinmoy si ispira l'organizzazione internazionale Sri Chinmoy Centre.
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“E chi è Dio? Dio non è che la parte più illuminata in noi. Dio non è nient'altro e nessun altro.”
Origine: " And who is God? God is the highest illumined part in us. God is nothing and nobody else." Da The Master and the Disciple: Insights into the Guru-disciple Relationship; citato in Our Path http://www.srichinmoy.org/spirituality/our_path/our_path3, srichinmoy.org.
Origine: "We are all seekers, and our goal is the same: to achieve inner peace, light and joy, to become inseparably one with our Source, and to lead lives full of true satisfaction", da The Wings of Joy, Simon and Schuster, 1997, p. 13.
“Se vuoi davvero amare l'umanità, allora devi amarla per come adesso è.”
Origine: "If you really want to love humanity, then you have to love humanity as it is now." Da Earth's Cry Meets Heaven's Smile, part 1, Agni Press, 1974; citato in Quotes by Sri Chinmoy http://www.srichinmoycentre.org/sri_chinmoy/quotes#footnote4_clmr35h, srichinmoycentre.org.
“Avremo la pace nel mondo quando il potere dell'amore prenderà il posto dell'amore del potere.”
Origine: "World-peace | Can be achieved | When the power of love | Replaces | The love of power." Da Peace-Lovers, AUM publications, 1997; citato in Quotes by Sri Chinmoy http://www.srichinmoycentre.org/sri_chinmoy/quotes#footnote4_clmr35h, srichinmoycentre.org.
Origine: "Love is not a thing to understand. | Love is not a thing to feel. | Love is not a thing to give and receive. | Love is a thing only to become | And eternally be." Da When God-Love Descends, Agni Press, 1975; citato in Quotes by Sri Chinmoy http://www.srichinmoycentre.org/sri_chinmoy/quotes#footnote4_clmr35h, srichinmoycentre.org.
Origine: True religion has a universal quality. It does not find fault with other religions. [...] Forgiveness, compassion, tolerance, brotherhood and the feeling of oneness are the signs of a true religion. Da World-Destruction: Never, Impossible! Part 1, Agni Press; citato in World-Destruction: Never, Impossible! http://www.srichinmoylibrary.com/world-destruction-never-impossible-1/what-has-to-prevail-in-religion-reason-or-the-sentiment-of-the, srichinmoylibrary.com.
“Se hai ottenuto la pace interiore, nessuno potrà indurti nella schiavitù della realtà esterna.”
Origine: "If you have inner peace, nobody can force you to be a slave to the outer reality." Da Peace, Agni Press, 1995; citato in Quotes by Sri Chinmoy http://www.srichinmoycentre.org/sri_chinmoy/quotes#footnote4_clmr35h, srichinmoycentre.org.
“Il paradiso non è un luogo, è uno stato della coscienza.”
Origine: "Paradise is not a place; it is a state of consciousness." Da Fifty Freedom-Boats To One Golden Shore, part 3, Agni Press, 1974; citato in Quotes by Sri Chinmoy http://www.srichinmoycentre.org/sri_chinmoy/quotes#footnote4_clmr35h, srichinmoycentre.org.
“La corsa mattutina è la bellezza della purezza. La corsa serale è la luminosità della semplicità.”
Origine: "Morning running is purity's beauty. Evening running is simplicity's luminosity." Da The outer running and the inner running, Agni Press, 1974; citato in Sri Chinmoy library http://www.srichinmoylibrary.com/outer-running-and-the-inner-running, srichinmoycentre.org.
Origine: Songs of the Soul (1971)
Contesto: 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.
“No religion is absolutely perfect.”
Mother India's Lighthouse: India's Spiritual Leaders (1971)
Contesto: 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)
Contesto: Anger has an enemy: Peace. Peace has no enemy. Peace has a special friend: Joy. Anger has only one friend: Destruction.
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Ten Thousand Flower Flames Part 1-100 (1979)
Songs of the Soul (1971)
Contesto: 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.
Origine: Service-Boat And Love-Boatman (1974), p. 2, Part 1
Contesto: 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.
The Wings of Joy (1997)
Contesto: 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.
World-Destruction: Never, Impossible! (1994)
Contesto: 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.
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Fifty Freedom-Boats To One Golden Shore (1974)
Contesto: 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)
Contesto: 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)
Contesto: 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)
Contesto: 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.”
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Sri Chinmoy Answers, part 1-33 (1996)
Contesto: 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.”
Origine: Service-Boat And Love-Boatman (1974), p. 2, Part 1
Contesto: 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.
Rainbow-Flowers (1973)
“If you do not find peace inside your own heart, then you will not find it anywhere else on earth.”
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Twenty Seven Thousand Aspiration Plants Part 1-270 (1983)
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Seventy Seven Thousand Service-Trees series 1-50 (1998)
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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)
