“My God-gratitude-heart
Is the most precious treasure
I have.”
– Sri Chinmoy
Question: How can we be most receptive?
Sri Chinmoy: “You can be most receptive on the strength of your own simplicity, sincerity, purity and humility. When you bring to the fore your own divine qualities — simplicity, sincerity, purity and humility — then you can receive the utmost. And inside simplicity, inside sincerity, inside purity, inside humility, please try to feel a sense of gratitude to the Inner Pilot, to your own Inner Pilot. Your gratitude-heart will be able to receive the utmost; it will bring down from Above Peace, Light and Bliss in boundless measure. It is a gratitude-heart that receives these divine qualities and also manifests them here on earth.”
Question: What is the easiest way to evoke our divine qualities?
Sri Chinmoy: “Through constant soulful gratitude you can easily invoke your divine qualities.”
Question: Does a seeker’s gratitude-heart truly carry more significance than his own personal transformation?
Sri Chinmoy: “Definitely. A seeker’s gratitude is infinitely more important than his longing for transformation. His gratitude will automatically give him the easiest, safest and quickest way to transform his personal life. Gratitude has more to offer us than our personal transformation.”
Question: Is there any short cut in the spiritual life?
“If there is any short cut in the spiritual life to arrive at the Golden Shore, then gratitude is the short cut. If there is a secret and sacred way to love, please and fulfil God, then it is the way of gratitude. Gratitude embodies and reveals all our divine virtues. It is by virtue of gratitude that we can bring down God’s infinite Power, infinite Light, infinite Love. Gratitude is the master key to open up all the doors of Divinity’s Palace.”
– Sri Chinmoy