A New World

One beautiful, warm spring day I was walking – very happy with myself and the world – along the Salzach River, which runs through the city of Salzburg. (This sounds tacky, but it really was like...
18 November 2012
A New World

Celestial experiences

When I was seventeen, my first journey without my parents led me to North Africa – specifically to Morocco. I went there by train with one of my school friends. On a very hot summer day, we...
18 November 2012
Celestial experiences

A Dream

by Andrea Dahman
Augsburg, Germany It was in the year 1987 that I started to be interested in Eastern philosophy. After reading Buddhist scriptures, I made several attempts to meditate, but I...
18 November 2012
A Dream

A Flame in my Heart

My real spiritual awakening I owe to my father, who gave me Hermann Hesse’s book Siddharta to read when I was 15. This is the story of a Brahmin boy in India who leaves his home, joins a group...
18 November 2012
A Flame in my Heart

A Quest for Happiness

Abhinabha is a very good athlete; his marathon best time is 2:27 The spiritual life is a quest for happiness. From early childhood on, I was convinced that happiness is the meaning and purpose of...
18 November 2012
A Quest for Happiness

In the Battlefield of Life

There is a famous prayer of the Buddhists which Sri Chinmoy has put to music:

Buddham saranam gacchami
Dhammam saranam gacchami
Sangam saranam gacchami

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17 November 2012
In the Battlefield of Life

With loved ones

My father died 2 years ago, at the age of 76, after 10 years of increasing ill health due to Parkinson's disease and a leukaemia-type blood disorder. He worked as a scientist for all of his adult...
17 November 2012
With loved ones

Experiences on Sri Chinmoy's Path, part 2

Prayer Works by Gunthita Corda (Zurich, Switzerland) Many years ago, our music group Mountain-Silence was invited to give a concert tour in Hungary. It was wintertime and it was so extremely cold...
17 November 2012
Experiences on Sri Chinmoy's Path, part 2

A Master's guidance

I work at a museum in Warsaw, Poland, where I organise art exhibitions. Usually I tolerate my job, but at one time it was too much for me. I lost patience with my co-workers and manager. Whenever I...
17 November 2012
A Master's guidance

Is it unspiritual to care about winning?

Spiritual philosophy teaches us to be detached from the result of our actions. Sri Chinmoy writes that the right attitude is to take victory and defeat in the same spirit. “Who is the winner? Not...
16 November 2012
Is it unspiritual to care about winning?

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