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Lion: Sovereignty

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Lion: Sovereignty

Lion, my lion,
To your stupendous sovereignty
Impotent lives quickly surrender.
Your sovereignty
Has not destroyed your sense of necessity.
You do not roam
Beyond necessity's door.
Therefore
Yours is the golden shore.

From: Animal Kingdom, by Sri Chinmoy

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Maitree Express: the train uniting hearts

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Sri Chinmoy's only ambition as a child was to become a train ticket collector or an inspector like his father. To have a train promote oneness between India and Bangladesh, what a piece of good news!

India and Bangladesh are divinely meant to be one once again, hopefully sooner rather than later.

Because my father was a train inspector, we could travel free all over India. I used to enjoy riding on the train so much. The trains were long, with many seats inside. In those days they were not so crowded. Now they are very crowded; there is no room. Indian trains were like bullock carts - thirty miles per hour. Whenever we went on the train, everybody in the family used to fall asleep during the trip, but I couldn't wait to see the next station. There people used to carry things on their heads, and they had a peculiar way of shouting, 'Tea!' and other things.

Awakening - by Sri Chinmoy

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Awakening by Sri Chinmoy, Citadel Books, 1988

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Sri Chinmoy - Like a Father

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In US, Father's day is celebrated in June, in Europe it falls on the 19 of March; Europeans are lucky to be able to celebrate it twice.

John Keats, poet-seer lover of beauty

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Today, 23 February, is John Keats' passing anniversary. He was snatched away at the young age of 26 (he would have been 27 on 31 October 1821).

I have to thank Sri Chinmoy for knowing Keats. Because of Guru's work Philosopher-Thinkers: The Power-Towers Of The Mind And Poet-Seers: The Fragrance-Hours Of The Heart In The West I became quite sensitive to Keats poetry.

One day I will write about how that book touched and changed my life. For now, here is a section from the volume related to Keats:

United with the Universal Consciousness

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The following excerpts by Sri Chinmoy have been selected by Jogyata and Sahayak from Sri Chinmoy's book Death and Reincarnation, the Sri Chinmoy's Inspiration Group and the Sri Chinmoy Library.

Bob Dylan recites: "The Lock And The Key" by Sri Chinmoy

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Aparajita pointed out a very nice recording, a short segment from a Radio show called Theme Time Radio Hour, conducted by Bob Dylan.

In the episode aired on 30 January 2008, Bob Dylan recites The Lock And The Key , one of Guru's poem published in The Dance of Life.

Inspiration-pearls: "Home" - a poem by Michael

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This poem is one of the most beautiful I read. It's dolefulness and yearning sparkle with Guru's light all over. This is what it means, to me at least, to be a hero on the battlefield that is our life.

Thank-you, Michael.

Concentration is the Arrow. Meditation is the Bow.

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From: Eternity's Breath by Sri Chinmoy

Concentration is the Arrow.
Meditation is the Bow.


When you concentrate, you focus all your energies upon the
chosen phenomenon in order to unveil its mysteries.
When you  meditate, you rise into a higher consciousness.


Concentration wants to penetrate into the object it strives for.
Meditation wants to live in the vastness of Silence.