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    Everest-Aspiration

    By Sri Chinmoy

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    During the first twenty days of July 1977, Sri Chinmoy delivered one hundred short talks. These talks were given at his public esraj performances, at picnics, even at a local high school playground after morning sports practise. In very few ways, though, can these pieces really be called talks. They contain a rhythmic, almost musical quality more like blank verse than prose. More important, they express a flow of ideas so subtle and melodic that they cry out to be felt and assimilated on an intuitive plane. Before speaking, Sri Chinmoy would enter into a high meditative state and then speak extemporaneously. These talks, then, are expressions of a state of consciousness far beyond the mind’s reach: short, illumining bursts of light from the Master’s boundless Realisation-Sun. This volume includes 99 of Sri Chinmoy's talks.

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    PublisherSri Chinmoy
    Release dateJul 4, 2016
    ISBN9781938599637
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    Sri Chinmoy

    Sri Chinmoy was born in the small village of Shakpura in East Bengal, India (now Bangladesh) in 1931. He was the youngest of seven children in a devout family. In 1944, after the passing of both of his parents, he joined his brothers and sisters at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, a spiritual community near Pondicherry in South India. He prayed and meditated for several hours a day, having many deep inner experiences. It was here that he first began writing poetry to convey his widening mystical vision. He also took an active part in Ashram life and was an athletic champion for many years. Heeding an inner command, Sri Chinmoy came to the United States in 1964 to be of service to spiritual aspirants in the Western world. During the 43 years that he lived in the West, he opened more than 100 meditation Centres worldwide and served as spiritual guide to thousands of students. Sri Chinmoy’s boundless creativity found expression not only in poetry and other forms of literature, but also in musical composition and performance, art and sport. In each sphere he sought to convey the diverse experiences that comprise the spiritual journey: the search for truth and beauty, the struggle to transcend limitations, and the supremely fulfilling communion of the human soul with the Divine. As a self-described student of peace who combined Eastern spirituality and Western dynamism in a remarkable way, Sri Chinmoy garnered international renown. In 1970, at the request of U Thant, third Secretary-General of the United Nations, he began the twice-weekly peace meditations for delegates and staff members at UN headquarters that continue to this day. He offered hundreds of peace concerts, always free of charge, in the U.S. and many other countries. He founded the World Harmony Run, a biennial Olympic-style relay in which runners pass a flaming peace torch from hand to hand as they travel around the globe bearing the message of universal oneness. And he established the Oneness-Heart-Tears and Smiles humanitarian organization, which serves the less fortunate members of the world family by supplying food, medical and educational equipment and other urgent support. On 11 October 2007, Sri Chinmoy passed behind the curtain of Eternity. His creative, peace-loving and humanitarian endeavours are carried on worldwide by his students, who practise meditation and strive to serve the world in accordance with his timeless teachings.

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      Everest-Aspiration - Sri Chinmoy

      Everest-Aspiration

      EVEREST-ASPIRATION

      by

      SRI CHINMOY

      AUM PUBLICATIONS • NEW YORK

      SMASHWORDS EDITION

      Copyright © 1977 by Sri Chinmoy

      Copyright © 2014 by Sri Chinmoy Centre (ebook)

      ISBN: 978-1-938599-63-7

      Cover photo by Pavel Novak

      All rights reserved. No portion of this book

      may be reproduced in any form

      without express written permission

      from the Publisher.

      Published by:

      Aum Publications

      8610 Parsons Blvd.

      Jamaica, NY 11432

      www.srichinmoy.org

      Table of Contents

      PREFACE

      1. I PRAY, I MEDITATE

      2. GRATITUDE

      3. I DO NOT KNOW

      4. DREAM

      5. SECURITY

      6. THEORETICAL SURRENDER AND PRACTICAL SURRENDER

      7. SATISFACTION

      8. COMPASSION-HEIGHT AND JUSTICE-LIGHT

      9. MY DESIRE

      10. THE SHORTCUT, THE SHORTER CUT, THE SHORTEST CUT

      11. HAPPINESS AND UNHAPPINESS

      12. HUMAN REALITY AND DIVINE REALITY

      13. I AM GRATEFUL

      14. AUSTERITY

      15. SMILE, LOVE AND CLAIM

      16. IMAGINATION

      17. MY LIFELONG FRIENDS

      18. ASPIRATION

      19. REALISATION

      20. A FLEETING LIFE

      21. I WISH TO BE FREE

      22. EXPERIENCE AND REALISATION

      23. I AM A BORN PRAYER

      24. YOU ARE SPIRITUAL

      25. SPIRITUALITY

      26. ILLUMINATION

      27. EXPECTATION

      28. OBEDIENCE WAS MY WAY OF LIFE

      29. YOU AND YOUR PERFECTION

      30. YOGA AND ONENESS

      31. HATHA YOGA

      32. INTUITION

      33. PERFECTION

      34. IF YOU HAVE, THEN COME TO ME

      35. I AM PRIVILEGED

      36. I AM HELPLESS

      37. GET UP!

      38. DON’T SUFFER!

      39. DISCIPLES, FOLLOWERS, ADMIRERS AND WELL-WISHERS

      40. RELIANCE

      41. IT IS NOT ENOUGH

      42. AWARENESS, DEVOTEDNESS, SOULFULNESS AND SELFLESSNESS

      43. I DO NOT IMITATE; I DO NOT INITIATE

      44. WHY DO I HIDE?

      45. I AM IN PREPARATION

      46. HUMILITY AND COMPASSION

      47. OBEDIENCE

      48. I NEED MORE

      49. SALVATION, LIBERATION, REALISATION, PERFECTION AND SATISFACTION

      50. CHARITY

      51. EXAMINATION

      52. GIFTS

      53. WHO IS THE WINNER?

      54. TWO TRAINS

      55. WHO IS KNOCKING?

      56. DISOBEDIENCE AND PENALTY

      57. SECRETS

      58. SOMETHING IS MISSING

      59. OFF THE PATH

      60. THE RED STOPLIGHT

      61. YESTERDAY WAS THE TIME

      62. TO BE DIVINELY GREAT

      63. IF YOU WANT TO BE GREAT

      64. GRATITUDE

      65. IN THE HUMAN WORLD

      66. OUR BELOVED SUPREME

      67. GOD’S COMPASSION FLOWS, GOD’S JUSTICE GROWS

      68. TO LIVE IN THE DESIRE-WORLD

      69. I WAS ASTUDENT OF PRAYER

      70. I WANTED TO TELL GOD

      71. I LIVED ONLY TWICE

      72. I SHALL SING TODAY

      73. THE PURPOSE OF HUMAN LIFE

      74. WHAT MORECAN I GIVE YOU?

      75. MY DIVINE PILGRIMAGE

      76. LORD OF MY LIFE, FRIEND OF MY HEART

      77. ACCEPTANCE

      78. EMPTY MOMENTS

      79. DO YOU WANT TO BE PERFECT?

      80. WHERE ARE THEY?

      81. IT IS NEVER TOO LATE

      82. GOD HAS MADE THIS WORLD ROUND

      83. AM I A GIVER?

      84. IS IT MY FATE?

      85. WHAT AM I DOING?

      86. WITHOUT MAN AND WITHOUT GOD

      87. MY HEART-TO-HEART TALK

      88. NEVER MAKE AN OUTER PROMISE

      89. STRUGGLE

      90. SPECIAL MESSAGES

      91. TRANSFORMATION

      92. WHY DO I NOT SHARE?

      93. SUBSTITUTES

      94. NOW

      95. I KEPT PRAYING

      96. NEWNESS

      97. WHY ARE YOU IN A HURRY?

      98. DREAMING AND PLANNING

      99. ARE YOU THE LAMP OF GOD?

      PREFACE

      During the first twenty days of July 1977, Sri Chinmoy delivered one hundred short talks. These talks were given at his public esraj performances, at picnics, even at a local high school playground after morning sports practise. In very few ways, though, can these pieces really be called talks. They contain a rhythmic, almost musical quality more like blank verse than prose. More important, they express a flow of ideas so subtle and melodic that they cry out to be felt and assimilated on an intuitive plane. Before speaking, Sri Chinmoy would enter into a high meditative state and then speak extemporaneously. These talks, then, are expressions of a state of consciousness far beyond the mind’s reach: short, illumining bursts of light from the Master’s boundless Realisation-Sun. This volume includes 99 of Sri Chinmoy's talks.

      1. I PRAY, I MEDITATE

      I pray to God and meditate on God. I pray to God because God is my Lord, my sovereign Lord, my Lord Supreme.

      I meditate on God because God is my Friend, my eternal Friend, my only Friend.

      I pray to God because He is powerful and thoughtful.

      I meditate on God because He is beautiful and fruitful.

      I pray to God to see His Face of Height.

      I meditate on God to feel His Heart of Delight.

      I pray to God to grant me what He is.

      I meditate on God to regain what I have lost.

      I pray to God to show me the way.

      I meditate on God to transform my life of ignorance-night into a life of wisdom-light.

      I pray to God to become the sound-sky in my human life.

      I meditate on God to become the silence-sun in my divine life.

      In my desire-life I pray to God because I am my necessity’s slave.

      In my aspiration-life I meditate on God because God and I have become our necessity’s mutual satisfaction.

      My prayer breathlessly loves God’s Compassion-Power.

      My meditation unconditionally loves God’s Justice-Light.

      Salvation-gift I have received from my prayer.

      Perfection-gift I have received from my meditation.

      I pray to God and meditate on God.

      9:30 p.m.

      July 1, 1977

      Woodrow Wilson Hall

      Monmouth College

      Asbury Park, N.J.

      2. GRATITUDE

      Gratitude, gratitude, gratitude.

      Gratitude is a miracle-action in us. This miracle-action strengthens our physical body, purifies our vital energy, widens our mental vision and intensifies our psychic delight.

      The seeker in us tries to be simple, sincere, pure and humble. Every spiritual seeker tries to cultivate these qualities in abundant measure. The easiest and most effective way to cultivate these qualities is to open the gratitude-flower and let it blossom inside our heart petal by petal. How can we do this? Not only do we have to give more importance to what we have, but we also must give all importance to what we do not have.

      What we have is wishful thinking, wishful seeking, wishful becoming. Wishful thinking: we think that we shall be great or successful in some way. Wishful seeking: we seek the truth and light in our own way, in the place where we think truth and light must abide. Wishful becoming: we want to become something that pleases us. This is the most deplorable mistake we make. If we want to please ourselves in our own way, then consciously or unconsciously we bring the vital-wolf to the fore.

      What we do not have is the breathless inner cry and the measureless outer smile. If we can develop the breathless inner cry, then automatically we develop the measureless outer smile.

      Either from within we come without, or from without we dive deep within. We can start our journey either from the soul’s capacity or from the body’s capacity. Ultimately these two capacities have to be united. Needless to say, the soul’s capacity is infinitely greater than the body’s capacity. But the little capacity that the body has, has to be united with the soul’s capacity. The body’s greatest capacity is the acceptance of the soul’s leadership. If the soul is accepted as the supreme leader, if the soul gets the opportunity to guide, mould and shape our destiny, then we get what we do not have right now: the sweet, pure, breathless, intense inner cry and the sure, measureless outer smile.

      5:30 a.m.

      July 2, 1977

      Sri Chinmoy Centre

      Jamaica, N.Y.

      3. I DO NOT KNOW

      I do not know. This is indeed an answer. This answer satisfies the sincere seeker in us, for the sincere seeker does not stoop to insincerity. But we have to know how far this answer can lead us. Can it lead us to our destined Goal? No, never! We have to be able to say, I know.

      In order to find the answer, first we look around us. But the outside world laughs at us, ridicules us and sometimes looks down upon us. It considers us to be the worst possible fools. Then we dive deep within in order to get the answer. At that time something deep within tells us that what we think of ourselves is what we truly are. What we feel ourselves to be is what we truly are. What we shall ultimately become consciously is what we truly are.

      What do we think we are? We think that we are devoted instruments and thoughtful seekers. What do we feel ourselves to be? We feel ourselves to be soulful lovers. And what shall we ultimately become? We shall become fruitful servers. Devoted instruments, thoughtful seekers, soulful lovers and fruitful servers of the Supreme: if we can think of ourselves in this way, if we can feel that we are all these things, then there can be no other answer for us either here on earth or there in Heaven.

      This is the answer: we are the devoted instruments, the thoughtful seekers, the soulful lovers and the fruitful servers of the Supreme. I do not know is now transformed into I do know. What do I know? I know that I have all along been seeking for the birthless Vision and the ever-transcending Reality of my experience-realisation, my realisation-revelation and my revelation-manifestation.

      8:30 a.m.

      July 2, 1977

      Jamaica High School Track

      Jamaica, N.Y.

      4. DREAM

      What is dream? Dream is creation. Creation is either division or union. Division is a complicated word. When we use division to divide the existence-reality, we enter into the world of ego and I-ness. But again, when we use it to divide work, labour, capacities, at that time it is a veritable blessing. If we divide and, through our division, get the result in a solid, concrete way to form one truth and one reality, then that division is good. But when we divide the reality into pieces and give supremacy to one piece and do not appreciate or value the other pieces, then we sing the song of separativity. This kind of division ends in destruction, the destruction of the little world that we claim to be ours.

      Union is also a complicated word. When we work together, it is a great blessing. When we mix together, it is a great blessing. But when it is the union of darkness and light, when it is the union of desire and aspiration, then it is a deplorable mistake. The aspiration-life must not mix with the desire-life. If it has to mix, always it must mix with the renunciation-life—the renunciation of unnecessary possessions, of the things that are not divine, illumining and perfect.

      With the aspiration-life we have to start our journey. But then there comes a time when we feel that our aspiration-life has blossomed considerably, and is ready to enter into the desire-life to transform it. The aspiration-life has to play the role of the bridge between the desire-life and the realisation-life. The seeker’s aspiration-life will enter into the desire-life for the immediate and total transformation of the desire-life. The seeker’s realisation-life will enter into the aspiration-life for the perfection of the aspiration-life and for the manifestation of the Absolute Supreme.

      Each dream is a creation. Each creation is either conscious aspiration or unconscious aspiration. Our aspiration enters into the desire-life, the little brother, and helps him clean his body, purify his mind and illumine his earthly existence. Each iota of aspiration also expedites the arrival of realisation. Our aspiration enters into the realisation-life or brings the realisation-life into the aspiration-life in order

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