Friday, October 27, 2006



The Interest without the Capital

The lover's food is the love of the bread;
no bread need be at hand:
no one who is sincere in his love is a slave to existence.

Lovers have nothing to do with with with existence;
lovers have the interest without the capital.

Without wings they fly around the world;
without hands they carry the polo ball off the field.

That dervish who caught the scent of Reality
used to weave basket even though his hand had been cut off.

Lover have pitched their tents in nonexistence:
they are of one quality and one essence, as nonexistence is.

  • By: Rumi
  • Poems on Love
  • Photo by Abedan : from Sri Chinmoy Centre Galleries
  • Unesco have declared 2007 is the International Year of Rumi

    Bivouac On A Mountain Side

    I see before me now a traveling army halting,
    Below a fertile valley spread, with barns and the orchards of summer,
    Behind, the terraced sides of a mountain, abrupt, in places rising high,
    Broken, with rocks, with clinging cedars, with tall shapes dingily seen,
    The numerous camp-fires scatter'd near and far, some away up on the mountain,
    The shadowy forms of men and horses, looming, large-sized,flickering,
    And over all the sky-the sky! far, far out of reach, studded,
    breaking out, the eternal stars.


  • By: Walt Whitman
  • Poems on Mountains
  • Photo by Sergey : from Sri Chinmoy Centre Galleries
  • Tuesday, October 24, 2006

    Friendship Poems

    Friendship is
    No fragile human bond.
    Friendship is
    A strong oneness-bridge.

    ~

    I am so proud of my friends,
    For all of them are
    Genuine peace-prophets.

    ~

    Sincerity-bud-beauty
    Is my mind's safeguard-friend.
    Purity-blossom-fragrance
    Is my heart's safeguard-friend.



    Poems on Friendship by Sri Chinmoy

    Wednesday, October 11, 2006

    Sunrise Silence

    In Sunrise- Silence,
    Our waking mind
    Becomes the lover
    Of Peace.


    Sunday, October 08, 2006

    I Know That He Exists



    I know that He exists.
    Somewhere -- in Silence --
    He has hid his rare life
    From our gross eyes.

    'Tis an instant's play.
    'Tis a fond Ambush --
    Just to make Bliss
    Earn her own surprise!

    But -- should the play
    Prove piercing earnest --
    Should the glee -- glaze --
    In Death's -- stiff -- stare --

    Would not the fun
    Look too expensive!
    Would not the jest --
    Have crawled too far!



    By: Emily Dickinson


    Photo by Sharani - Sri Chinmoy Centre Galleries