“Every day there is only
One thing to learn:
How to be honestly happy.”
– Sri Chinmoy
Aside from our daily spiritual discipline, in these poems Sri Chinmoy offers several practical pathways to happiness to apply in our everyday lives:
“We can never be happy
If we close our eyes
To life’s difficulties.
We can only be happy
By challenging and conquering
The pride of difficulties.”
– Sri Chinmoy
“Happiness is my name,
For the desire to appear right
Has been replaced
By the desire to be right.”
– Sri Chinmoy
“Just try one day
Without finding fault
With any human being.
You will see that happiness
Will become your name.”
– Sri Chinmoy
“We can become happy
Only by seeing
The good and divine qualities
Of each and every human being.”
– Sri Chinmoy
“Judge nothing;
You will be happy.
My own personal experience
I am sharing with you.
“Try to forgive everything;
You will be happier.
My own personal realisation
I am sharing with you.
“Love everything;
You will be happiest.
God’s own personal Secret
I am sharing with you.”
– Sri Chinmoy
“Do not judge,
But love and be loved,
If you want to be really happy.”
– Sri Chinmoy
“Stop talking.
You too can be happy.
Stop frowning.
You can easily be happy.
Start giving.
Lo, you are already happy.”
– Sri Chinmoy
“To be happy,
Do not try to understand
The world,
But try to be useful
To the world.”
– Sri Chinmoy
“Serve the crying earth.
You will be happy.
Love the smiling Heaven.
You will be happy.”
– Sri Chinmoy
This final poem perfectly describes the attitude of a spiritual hero:
“You can be truly happy
Only when your life-tree
Touches the vaulted skies
While standing deeply rooted
Inside the heart
Of the lowly earth.”
– Sri Chinmoy