Sri Chinmoy Centre Links Page
Welcome to our links page – a directory of links to various aspects of Sri Chinmoy's inspirational life and activities; to vegetarian cafes, restaurants and other enterprises run by members of the Sri Chinmoy Centre around the world – and to various personal websites maintained by Sri Chinmoy's students. We hope you find these links helpful and inspiring.
Sri Chinmoy Links
Links to websites dealing with all aspects of Sri Chinmoy's life, activities and teachings.
- Sri Chinmoy: the official complete source. Sri Chinmoy is a spiritual teacher who has tirelessly dedicated his life to the fulfilment of the unlimited potential of the human spirit and to the pursuit of global harmony. This uplifting site shares information about Sri Chinmoy’s life and teachings; as well as his writings, music and artistic creations.
- Life of Sri Chinmoy – a web site dedicated to the remarkable life of spiritual teacher Sri Chinmoy. Life of Sri Chinmoy currently presents extracts from Sri Chinmoy's own writings in chronological order, drawing from the large but as yet unconsolidated volume of autobiographical material that he has published.
- Sri Chinmoy Library – through his many books of talks, questions and answers, poetry, essays, plays and short stories, Sri Chinmoy has conveyed the richness and diversity of the quest for inner harmony and self-understanding. Here is a wonderful online source for more than a thousand of Sri Chinmoy's books.
- Sri Chinmoy Poetry – a website offering a selection of poetry from Sri Chinmoy's prolific output which spans many decades and poetic modes. A 'must visit' for lovers of illumining poetry. As a professor of language studies at a prominent US university once stated, "Sri Chinmoy's poems are beautiful in their simplicity and profound in their significance."
- Sri Chinmoy Books – a website dedicated to the distribution of Sri Chinmoy's literature and music.
- Radio Sri Chinmoy – listen to spiritual music online. Experience the meditative and soul-stirring music of Maestro Sri Chinmoy. Select from Sri Chinmoy’s uplifting flute performances, soulful singing, resonant stringed instruments, magical keyboard, power-filled pipe organ and charming extemporaneous compositions. This site also offers poetry being read by Sri Chinmoy, performances of Sri Chinmoy's music by his students, news, interviews, plays, stories and more.
- Sri Chinmoy Songs – an online library that offers a vast collection of Sri Chinmoy's songs in both his native Bengali and English. These songs are devotional in nature and are based on Sri Chinmoy's direct experiences of God and the spiritual life. Sri Chinmoy Songs has a search facility, offers printable musical scores and recordings.
- Sri Chinmoy Concerts - since 1984, Sri Chinmoy performed his meditative music free of charge at 777 concerts worldwide. During these concerts, Sri Chinmoy played his own compositions and improvised on a variety of Eastern and Western instruments. He usually performed on a dozen different instruments and, on occasion, had played up to 150 instruments in a single concert.
- Sri Chinmoy Music – in Sri Chinmoy's words, "God is the Supreme Musician." This site celebrates music as a secret signature of the Divine; a sacred bridge between Heaven and earth and a choice manifestation of God.
- Sri Chinmoy TV – view video clips of Sri Chinmoy performing music, singing, reading poetry, lifting weights, painting and more. Sri Chinmoy TV also features Inspiration News, short films, plays and interviews.
- Inspiration-Lifts – the weightlifting feats of Sri Chinmoy.
- Sri Chinmoy Art – Sri Chinmoy once stated, "Both art and spirituality have a goal, and that goal is supreme joy, supreme delight." Sri Chinmoy Art takes you to the beautiful world of Sri Chinmoy’s vast meditative art works. View a selection of his Jharna Kala (Bengali for Fountain-Art), paintings of brilliant colours and harmonising designs. Soon to come are selections from Sri Chinmoy's extensive collection of soul-birds drawings.
- The Yoga of Sri Chinmoy – presenting Sri Chinmoy's teachings and philosophy.
Sri Chinmoy Biographical Books
- Madal The Child and A Shakpura Village Boy - biographical writings about Sri Chinmoy by Vidagdha Bennett.
Projects inspired by Sri Chinmoy
- Sri Chinmoy Centre – a website maintained by Sri Chinmoy's students from around the world with detailed information about free meditation workshops in many countries, inspirational editorial articles and Members Homepages, an extensive Photo Gallery, news, views and much more.
- Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team – an organisation created to offer the global running community a variety of running events from 2 mile fun runs through to the marathon and triathlons, and longer multi-day events such as the 1,300 mile race. Many members of the Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team are involved in channel swimming, mountaineering, competitive cycling, track and field and a host of recreational sports activities.
- 3100 Mile Race – a website for the Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team's 3100 Mile Race.
- The World Harmony Run – an annual global torch relay seeking to strengthen international friendship and harmony.
- The Oneness-Heart-Tears and Smiles Worldwide Humanitarian Service – a global project inspired by Sri Chinmoy in 1990 to be of service during the time of terrible food shortages in Russia. Since 2000, The Oneness-Heart-Tears and Smiles has developed a global network and have active centres in over 40 countries.
Related Inspirational Sites
- Sri Chinmoy Inspiration Group – sharing news, inspiration and encouragement.
- Sri Chinmoy Reflections – articles about the life of Sri Chinmoy.
- Sri Chinmoy Bio
- The Eternal Peace Flame - Oslo, Norway.
- Poetseers – the poetry of yogis, Avatars, saints, sages and transcendent poets.
- World Festival of the Heart - Meeting place of spirituality, science and the arts.
- Meditation Workshop – an introduction to meditation and spirituality.
- WriteSpirit – a collection of writings about great spiritual personalities.
German language web sites
- Links – Sri Chinmoy Centre, Germany.
More Links
- Please feel welcome to visit Sri Chinmoy Centre Links – Part 2 – more links to a selection of enterprises and personal websites offered by Sri Chinmoy's students from around the world.
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Effective Technique and the Spiritual Heart
If the first secret of learning meditation correctly is the seekers sincerity – an indispensable commitment to regular practise and to creating a special place and time for this purpose, without which no effort to learn meditation is likely to survive – then the second secret is concerned with the most effective technique.
While most forms of meditation deal with the human mind, Sri Chinmoy's teachings place great emphasis on the importance of the heart. Secret number two: learn to meditate in the spiritual heart. This technique bypasses the mind altogether and shifts the focus of our meditation efforts into the centre of the chest. This is called Anahata, the heart chakra, and this centre houses many of our most powerful spiritual qualities and meditation capacities.
This from Sri Chinmoy's Meditation: Man Perfection in God-Satisfaction:
There is a specific place where the soul resides most of the time and that is in the heart. If you want illumination you have to get if from the soul, which is inside the heart. [...] Suppose you have the opportunity to work at two places. At one place [mind] you will earn two hundred dollars and at the other place [heart] five hundred dollars. If you are wise, you will not waste your time at the first place.
While the mind by it's very nature is restless, untranquil and usually uncooperative during attempts to bring stillness into our being (like the waves on the surface of the ocean) the heart is inherently peaceful and calm – the bottom of the ocean. The heart is an egoless, unhorizoned consciousness – Sri Chinmoy's description of just how vast it is, is absolutely startling, for the heart embodies the entire universe. His book The Summits of God-Life: Samadhi and Siddhi gives a tantalising and fascinating glimpse into these realms of consciousness that will unfold at some point in our development – within us extraordinary worlds lie waiting to be discovered!
Sri Chinmoy's vast literary legacy is filled with writings and reflections about the spiritual heart and it's capacity to solve all of the world's problems – for one of it's major qualities is oneness. If you can live 'in the heart' you are a part of all life and all life is a part of you – there is no separation between self and other. Out of this, oneness, concern, compassion, love and sympathy flower – the sufferings of others are your sufferings, their joys and triumphs are your own.
In Kundalini: The Mother Power, Sri Chinmoy writes:
"The power of the heart centre is unbelievable. A seeker with mastery over the anahata centre has free access to both the visible and the invisible worlds. Time surrenders to him; space surrenders to him. In the anahata centre, one can enjoy the deepest bliss of oneness; one can have pure joy [...] The spiritual heart is larger than the largest. We always say that there cannot be anything superior to the Universal Consciousness, but this is a mistake. The spiritual heart houses the Universal Consciousness."
The ancient Greeks described four types of love and these include eros (physical love), agape (self-sacrificing love), caritas (charitable love) and divinitas. This last is the soul's love of God, and from our heart meditation practise, this wonderful gift with it's intuitive wisdom; it's expanding, unconditional and pure love; it's sweetness-delight; it's devotion to God will blossom. God love, eternal in the soul, flowering into a conscious feeling through the heart, becomes a personal experience.
"We have to start our journey in the heart. Inside the heart is the soul. The consciousness of the soul permeates the entire body, but the special dwelling place of the soul is inside the spiritual heart. If pure love, heart's love, soul's love, can permeate your entire being, it can purify and divinise your whole existence [...] All the centres have love, but the heart centre has more than any other centre. Love is the special province of the heart centre; other centres are for other spiritual and occult powers."
Speaking of divine love, the highest flowering of pure love, Sri Chinmoy comments:
"You can keep your heart's door wide open all the time if you can value the presence of God. You have to feel that without the conscious presence of God you cannot exist, not even for a fleeting moment [...] Cry for your Beloved Supreme the way a child cries for a doll, then you are bound to open your heart's door."
Sri Chinmoy's principle meditation guidebook, Meditation: Man Perfection in God-Satisfaction, contains innumerable guided heart meditations and commentaries on the significance of the heart centre and fast-tracking our progress. It describes the aspects of our humanity – body/vital/mind/heart/soul – as resembling sisters or brothers in a family. Each has it's role, with ascending levels of illumination and wisdom, the soul being pre-eminent. The soul and the spiritual heart must guide our self-discovery and the evolution of our planet – they hold the keys to both personal and world transformation.
"World peace, world harmony, world perfection will take place only when all the parts of the being accept the soul's light that flows through the heart [...] But mind-power and heart-power also need one another. Manifestation has to take place through mind-power. If the mind does not accept the light of the heart, the heart itself cannot reach fulfilment and will not be able to manifest the Consciousness of the Supreme on earth."
Sri Chinmoy describes his own path as 'the path of the heart' – a path of divine love, devotion and surrender to God.
"Human love means to bind and be bound. But divine love means to love God in the way God wants to be loved. When we love God, devote ourselves to God and surrender to Him unconditionally, our finite self grows into the Infinite in exactly the same way that a drop enters the ocean and becomes the ocean itself. When we become one with the infinite, and claim it as our very own, then we can truthfully say that we ourselves are infinite."
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