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.
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“The human mind is utterly stupid when it carries, quite willingly, the heavy burden of resentment.”
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“Not the power to conquer others but the power to become one with others is the ultimate power.”
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“When the power of love replaces the love of power, man will have a new name: God.”
January 20
Variants: My books, they all have only one message: the heart's Power Of Love must replace the mind's Love Of Power. If I have the Power Of Love, then I shall claim the whole World as my own … World Peace can be achieved when the Power Of Love replaces the Love Of Power.
Cited to Chinmoy's book My Heart Shall Give A Oneness-Feast (1993)
In The Forbes Book of Business Quotations (1997) edited by Edward C. Goodman and Ted Goodman, p. 639 a similar statement has become attributed to William Ewart Gladstone, and is also cited in "The National Elementary School Principal" Vol 28 published in 1948: "We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace." A similar statement has also become attributed to Jimi Hendrix, though he could have been quoting or paraphrasing Chinmoy, or conceivably Gladstone: "When the power of love overcomes love of power the world will know peace."
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Variante: When the power of love divinely replaces the love of power, man will have a new name: God. Source: Sri Chinmoy (1971): My rose petals: the master's extemporaneous talks in Europe, Sri Chinmoy Centre, p. 31. Google Books link http://books.google.pt/books?id=I2pRAAAAYAAJ&q=%22+love+divinely+replaces+%22&dq=%22+love+divinely+replaces+%22&hl=pt-PT&sa=X&ei=fNb8UrPVGsTIhAeS54H4Dw&redir_esc=y.
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“What you do not use yourself, do not give to others. For example, advice.”
May 11
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“Some seekers will do anything for their Self-realisation — except work for it.”
January 24
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“Love is something that never cared to learn how to judge anybody.”
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“It is better to make mistakes than to lie idle.”
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“To be true to oneself is the hardest test of life.”
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“The waves of hatred-night can easily be dissolved in the sea of oneness-love.”
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April 25
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“To be rich is to give a smile with no expectation of return.”
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“Love the world. Otherwise, you will be forced to carry the heaviest load: your own bitter self.”
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“Is the world so unbearable? No! What we need is only a little more love for the world.”
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“I take the greatest lesson from compassion — it takes away all the conceit out of my life.”
February 27
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“Be kind, be all sympathy, for each and every human being is forced to fight against himself.”
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