Data di nascita: 27. Agosto 1931
Data di morte: 11. Ottobre 2007
Altri nomi: Chinmoy Sri, Šrí Činmoj, Činmoj Kumar Ghoš, Chinmoy Kumar Ghose
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.
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.
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.
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: "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: "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.
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.
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.
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: "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.
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.
The Wings of Joy (1997)
Contesto: Life is nothing but the expansion of love. We can cultivate divine love by entering into the Source. The Source is God, who is all Love.
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.
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.
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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.
The Wings of Joy (1997)
Contesto: Life is nothing but the expansion of love. We can cultivate divine love by entering into the Source. The Source is God, who is all Love.
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.
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.
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.
Songs of the Soul (1971)
Contesto: Man invents war. Man discovers peace. He invents war from without. He discovers peace from within. War man throws. Peace man sows. The smile of war is the flood of human blood. The smile of peace is the love, below, above.
