“Every day there is only
One thing to learn:
How to be honestly happy.”
– Sri Chinmoy
In this selection of poems on happiness, Sri Chinmoy draws a compelling connection between happiness and spiritual progress:
“Be happy, remain happy.
The perfection of your nature
Is just a question of time.”
– Sri Chinmoy
“Be happy, divinely happy.
In your divine happiness
Is your unimaginable progress.”
– Sri Chinmoy
“If you want to make progress,
Only think of your heart’s happiness
And how you can keep
Your entire being happy.
Wherever you go,
Carry happiness with you.”
– Sri Chinmoy
“Inhale the breath
Of pure ecstasy.
You are bound to be happy.
Exhale the breath
Of wild fantasy.
You are bound to be happy.”
– Sri Chinmoy
“Do you want to be permanently happy
On the spiritual plane?
Then start crying
With your crying heart,
And start loving
With your loving heart.”
– Sri Chinmoy
“Don’t be in love with machinery.
There is no happiness there.
“Don’t be in love with money.
There is no happiness there.
“Be in love with your heart-life.
There, only there,
Is the flood of happiness.”
– Sri Chinmoy
“Ignore the pains of your body,
Ignore!
You will be unmistakably happy.
“Silence the demands of your vital,
Silence!
You will be unbelievably happy.
“Destroy the doubts of your mind,
Destroy!
You will be unimaginably happy.
“Remember the purity of your heart,
Remember!
You will be unceasingly happy.
“Remember God’s Pride in you,
Remember!
God will be unreservedly happy with you.”
– Sri Chinmoy
“Be happy, be happy!
Unless you are happy,
Your outer life will not succeed
And your inner life will not proceed.”
– Sri Chinmoy
This final poem is a happiness mantra:
“Be happy!
Be happy!
You will always have time
To be unhappy later.”
– Sri Chinmoy