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Guru lit the inner flame in all our hearts. I would not be alive without him. Supreme, Supreme, Supreme.
My inner most love and condolences to all and my condolences. He will live on in my heart.
Brad (Bread) Farmer – Sri Lanka
Guru, Guru, Guru, oh Guru;
Oh Guru, oh Guru, oh Guru, Guru;
My Heart cries;
But my Soul knows;
You were here for us;
And now You are There, for us.
My Dear GURU! See You tomorrow in the mornings, and during the days and nights in my gratitude heart!
Our cousin Sutushti, a devoted follower of Sri Chinmoy, introduced us to him. We were blessed to read many of his writings and enjoy his little birds. When my husband developed a serious form of cancer, Sri Chinmoy was asked to please meditate for him and we believe he has been instrumental in John’s healing. We will miss him very much as he was a strong presence in our lives even though we would be considered “friends”, not devout followers. We sent heartfelt condolensces to all those who worked closely with him, loved him like a father and who are reeling in shock right now. May his peace surround you all. He will surely always be with you. Special love to Sutushti and thank you for bringing your Guru into our lives.
We have lost a great spiritual leader
The world is a poorer place without Sri Chinmoy
I am grateful he has left such a legacy of work and teachings with us and I am sure his spirit will continue to work through many of us
The Master’s passing away
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Silence.
No body, no face…
Only two eyes of light are looking at me
and through me.
Quietly.
Of my 47 years on earth, I’ve spent the last 21 years as a student of Sri Chinmoy. To say that he has had a profound influence on my life would be a tremendous understatement indeed. I am eternally grateful to Sri Chinmoy for so many things that I don’t even know where to begin.
For a start, he saved my life (in a literal sense) on at least a few occasions that I am aware of. Not to mention inspiring me to commence, and stay on, a spiritual path, during which he has been moulding and shaping me into my highest and greatest potential. Although there are hundreds of personal stories I could recount, space does not permit here.
For myself this is a tremendous loss; I’m only commencing to recognise the big gaps in my life which are now becoming apparent. Likewise, Sri Chinmoy’s departure from the physical plane will also leave gaping holes in the lives of his many thousands of students all around the globe, not to mention countless friends, admirers, well-wishers and those whose lives have, in some way, been positively impacted and affected by him.
The world is no longer the same place as when he was here amongst us in the physical.
Perhaps my biggest feeling of sadness results from the fact that he was not able to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. I feel that he deserved at least this much from the world for which he has worked ceaselessly and self-giving for his entire life, with a prolific outpouring of goodwill, love, creativity and accomplishments, the likes of which have never been achieved before even by a collective of individuals.
I shall keep my dearest Teacher, kindest Friend, and greatest Inspiration inside my heart forever. Thank-you, Guru, for all that you have done — and will continue to do — for me, and this planet and every living thing on it.
View a longer tribute by Prashputita on the Sri Chinmoy Centre site…
Sri Sri Sri Chinmoy***
You were true inspiration to consciousness of humankind.
Your pure breath blessed this earth, thank you for being with us in mortal form- now your form is immortal one.
with greatest gratitude
Laura
Finland
I am deeply touched again by this sad event of your death, Guru. I must apologize not to be with your closest disciples at Aspiration Ground in those days. Jahnabi and Marie-Soleil were there with friends from Toronto to offer you a last tribute. I thank you very much for taking me out of my truck this summer and putting me back in a good school in Halifax, with Muilan, Sarita and Daniel and Sebastien surrounding me at this Centre, I’m sure this will go fine for me. I owe you so much.
Guru is a way-star of the whole world. It will be very hard for us without your physical presence. We feel that your inner consciousness will be always with us. Thank you very much, dear Guru for Your boundless Concern, Compassion, Forgiveness, Love, for every second that we were with you.
The family from Karaganda: Tanya,Dima,Masha,Nastya,Julya
Jishu
With such tenderness you smile,
As if all the innocent hurts
Suffered by all the World’s Charlie Browns
Had made you stop
And ponder their misfortune.
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O Guru, I can’t believe you are gone. I can’t believe it.
I am happy though. Because I know you finally have the rest you deserve. I am so glad for you now that it is over and you can rest.
And finally be happy in Heaven, with Krishna and with Christ and your other friends. In these Infinite states of samadhi that we do not understand.
Grant comfort to those who weep at your loss…help them to feel that, as your brother Sri Ramakrishna said, you have just gone to another room.
Sri Chinmoy is part of Light. It is a blessing to meet Guru, to be able to enjoy his inspiring and soulful music, poems, pictures. He stays alive for me and I feel his guiding presence even more today
‘By their fruit ye shall shall know them’ Jesus once said, and Sri Chinmoy left so many brilliant disciples! His life is a fulfillment of a dream for many of us.
Milla
Today I shed tears of joy that such a legend lived among us.
I am shocked by the very sad news. I feel very sad. I do hope he could sleep in peacefully.
Sri Chinmoy’s life has been dedicated to spread peace and harmony around the world. With his generosity and positive energy he has touched the hearts of millions. Like his soul his message will live forever.
Francois Gay – Mr. Olympia Natural Bodybuilding
Dearest Guru,
If not for you, I don’t know where I would be right now. I don’t know what I would be, right now. Guru, you had given me a life so full of purpose and direction that I felt it would have been so meaningless, otherwise.
I am forever indebted to Your Compassion, Forgiveness and Your ocean of infinite Love.
Many times I tried to tell the world about you, but only to be ignored and even misunderstood. I remembered very vividly when you played a video clip of yourself blessing the children of Chiangmai, Thailand, from inside your car, how much love you poured to those charming souls on the streets of Chiangmai, in the early hours, but… nobody out there knows you were blessing them. Yet, you went on tirelessly, selflessly, self-givingly blessing them, yet, they were not aware of your divine presence. I cried so much when I saw that because it reflects what you were trying to do for the world, and yet so few knew that in our midst, we are so fortunate to be living in the golden age of a very very very Enlightened Great Master who had come to bless us all, so self-givingly, so God-like.
Guru, I am happy for you that you finally can take this eternal rest. May you always continue to bless us, protect us and guide us, wherever you are right now.
My utmost gratitude, from Singapore, Urdhacheta
Sri Chinmoy – dear GURU
Supreme – Supreme -Supreme.
Just three weeks ago I heard you performing in your last concert in St. Petersburg. Your message and wonderful radiation was of the same strenght as ever. Thank you again indeed for the many times I received your help in the inner world, under so many circumstances! Thank you also for letting me understand that you are not a competitor of Jesus Christ, but one of his most appreciated companion of highest order!
You have given a spiritual name to my son when he was only nine months old: Valendra. – May I and my family feel your guidance also in the future – real grace never ends! Most gratefully I remain
Yours endless admirer,
Heinrich Schweizer,
composer.
Dearest Guru,
Heaven is rejoicing, smiling and dancing at your triumphant return. And Earth is crying, crying tears of sadness, but also tears of gratitude. God knows how long it will take before the world fully comprehends what you have done and what you have been. But assuredly the world’s love for you and the worlds gratitude to you is only going to increase and increase. More and more people throughout the globe will come to learn of you and your message. Your message of divine love, of a oneness-world, of aspiration, self-trancendence, self-fulfilment and much more are still but a seed in the earth-consciousness, which is bound to grow, bloom and victoriously blossom, spreading its bounty everywhere.
This world is a better place because of you and people like you. Your mission continues here on earth and there in heaven, and your loving concern will continue to guide, inspire and illumine the world throughout eternity.
Thank you.
Dear Guru, We are happy 14 years together with You. Gratitude, Gratitude, Gratitude. You will live eternally in our hearts.
To the great peace warrior Sri Chinmoy
personally i will always be grateful for all You did for me and my family and the earth consciousness. Hopefully, after the grief and sadness of our limited human understanding has passed, we will be aware of the welling inspiration you are transmitting to humanity unencumbered by the restrictions of the physical world and use it to make of ourselves better beings in a better world. Eternal victory to You.
Dear Guru,
Gratitude for all you have taught me, for being with me during unbelievable trials after you told me “it was best to leave” your path. My experiences during these trials and at Celebrations and the Chicago concert will stay with me forever.
I’m so sad you have left your earthly body, and wish I could come to New York on the 17th, but can’t.
Thank you for the Light you’ve brought to this planet.
Love,
Evonne
My Sweetest Guru,
the first time when I heard about Your passing, I wanted to die. But now I feel that You live inside me. You are all in my life.
Dear Guru, you will remain my heart’s utter cry..
I’ve never met Sri Chinmoy, but I feel as if I know
him personally. I’ve been eating at his follower’s
restaurants in Evanston, Il, San Francisco, CA &
Melbourne, Australia since my college days (30 plus years) and a true sense of peace and serenity always
washes over me when I enter one of them -what
a respite from the madness of the “outside” world!
I’ve enjoyed reading Sri Chinmoy’s tribute to his friends Mother Teresa and Princess Diana, fellow peace-makers. I’m sure they are all together now in
a better place.
Peace and Blessings upon you, Sri Chinmoy and my
sympathy goes out to your family and followers.
My dear Beloved Guru!
My heart of eternal gratitude will always be yours, for feeding my love of God, encouraging and supporting me in all my ultra-distance running, swimming and triathlon adventures, for giving me the strength and ensurance to organize big sport events and the most important for making me conscious of the beauty and luminosity of my own soul.
You finished your work on earth, now let us continue.
Yours forever
Prafulla
There are not anybody on Earth, who took part in Peace and Oneness determination between the people more than great teacher Sri Chinmoy. His dreams about Peace and Oneness always will live in our hearts.
I said and sang small time ago:
“Day after day
I enter into your heart
My sweetest Guru
I’m true living with you”
But now I say:
“I’m true living with your dreams, Guru”
My Beloved Guru,
My human mind says:
What does life mean now that You have left the body? Where will the world go now that You are gone?
My utterly broken heart sinks deeper into profound sadness now You are gone. The tears return and return.
Am I selfish to feel such loss? It has been too long since I have seen Your physical being, even though I meditate and pray to You every day. But now, no more chances. No more reason to write that letter I have been meaning to for ages. No more words, no more will my brothers and sisters hear Your beautiful voice.
But my soul tells me:
You have given us everything already. All of the answers have been given, and we only need ask our inner pilot if we forget. We will do as You have always asked of us. We will remain faithful and not fall away, now You have left the physical world. Soon we will once again find our joy and spread the message of love and peace throughout this world.
Life is a funny thing. Events happen everyday. Most things are forgotten almost just after they happen as we go onto the next event, encounter, relation and life issue.
In 1986 I went to see Sri Chinmoy at a San Francisco event. I still can remember that experience in some detail. I remember that I felt that Sri Cinmoy was relating to me personnaly, I felt his connection in a very powerful way, even though I was way up in the back in the balcony.
The only other time I had this experience was with the Dalai Lama.
I guess feeeling of connection is the result of being in his aura. I am not sure what it is but I felt blessed and was grateful. I know other who have expressed the same experience.
Humanity, our human family, has been blessed by the presence of Sri Chimnoy in way we may never really appreciate. I for one send him deep and loving heart felt gratitude to him for all he has done for poor, needy and suffering humanity.
David A. Anderer
a light gone to re-energise.
Guru – I am grateful for you, my Master.
Guru you are always in my heart.
His life, my gratitude
his compassion, my cry
his love, my inspiration
his devotion, my aspiration
his surrender, my pride
his transcendence, my goal
his immortality, my life
his eternity, my heart
his satisfaction, my realization
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At the age of 12 I had the good fortune to be accepted as one of Sri Chinmoy’s disciples,never before or problably never again will I feel as safe,loved or been as well in every area of my life.The things I did learn and receive were of infinite bounty.GURU will always live inside my heart.I love you all that read this.I hope his work will be continued as well as it has been over the years.Thank you Sri Chinmoy for touching my life.
Dearest Guru,
Thanks for showing us the Paradise on earth and the Way how to reach the Paradise on Heaven . Gratitude forever.
They told me that you are passed away.
But I still see you in my heart brighter then before.
They saying that you are died from the heart attack
But I know that you just moved back to our home.
You told me that I will not see you again.
But I will not let you to leave my hearts loves throne.
In You my lonely heart have found refuge.
On the hazy roads of life
It was Your smile showing me the way.
i want to share a short experience with you.on friday night a student of sri chinmoy sent me a message that a lecture that is going to be next week is canceld,but he didnt mentioned why.the first thought i had at that moment was that sri chinmoy passed away,although i newer thought about that before
Sri Chinmoy; First and foremost, a God-Lover
In the coming days much will be written about Sri Chinmoy’s multifarious achievements: his 1,500 books, his 100’s of thousands of poems, his incredible and marvelous weightlifting achievements, his millions of drawings, his countless concerts and meditations, his friendships with the great men and women who have contributed so much to this world in every walk of life, Mikhail Gorbachev, Mother Teresa, Carl Lewis, Leonard Bernstein and so many, many more. But to me, Sri Chinmoy’s greatest gift was his all consuming, intense and passionate love of God.
I first met Sri Chinmoy in 1973. I was a young spiritual seeker looking for meaning and direction in life. I had been to churches, synagogues, temples and ashrams, seeking spiritual direction and had read many spiritual books. When I met Guru for the first time I immediately sensed that this was not a man who simply spoke of spiritual philosophy but someone who truly embodied a deep and profound spiritual consciousness. When he spoke of God, he wasn’t speaking as a learned man of knowledge but as someone with an unfathomable personal experience of God. He emanated this consciousness in every word, every deed, every breath, and every pore of his being. And, the most remarkable gift of all, he shared this deep love of God with all those who came to know him. His God-Love emanated from his being like the light of the sun and consumed and uplifted all those around him. For those fortunate enough to study with him as his students that loving, godly presence became an integral part of their own lives.
What Sri Chinmoy has given to me is absolutely the most precious gift that can ever be given; he brought to my life an intimate personal relationship to God and a constant awareness of the presence of God’s love in my own life.
Sri Chinmoy was many, many things; he was a poet, a writer, an artist, an athlete, a musician, an untiring advocate for world peace and harmony. But he was, above all a God-Lover and a vessel, to all those whom he touched, for the Infinite Love, Compassion and Grace of God, the Absolute Lord Supreme. He will be deeply missed, yet we can console ourselves in the awareness that he is truly at one with the love of God that he embodies and will continue, through what he has left in this world, to be a bridge to that Divine Presence that he remarkably had and shall eternally be.
I place my heart before you, Guru, with nothing but gratitude, gratitude, gratitude,
Amayik
My Dear Beloved Guru, we love you eternally.
Nadezhda Galimova
Natalya Novikova
my dear Guru
I can just say thank you, I can just feel deepest gratitude to you- that you touched my heart and my soul and showed me the right way.
Thank you for every moment you served the mankind, you inspired people to become better citizens of the world.
thank you for your selfless service, your inspiration, motivation, confidence, your love and smile.
I bow to you and every single one who keeps your message in their heart to continue your dream.
Dear Guru,
For the last 17 years (and even before, I am sure) you have been giving me your infinite Love and Blessings, but unfortunately only my soul could value it adequately. I do hope one day my soul will reveal it to me and will teach me to feel it and be your true disciple with all my heart, mind, vital and body, the way my soul has been.
Sri Chinmoy was an amazing person. I am so glad that he was a part of my life. Watching all those years of his “Llifting up the World” campaign, brought thousands of people together. Meeting his supporters and their true love for his teachings.
The world has lost a true peace-making person, he should have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. He traveled around the world bringing leaders to his side and each walked away with something more. If you had that opportunity to meet and be with Guru, you know what I mean.
Karen Clark
Our Dearest Guru,
We had not got a chance to meet you, but Your smile and Your love-heart will be with us forever.
Thank you for everything.
I have read some of his books and I gathered so much wisdom and spiritual inspiration.
Thank you for your contribution to World peace and Harmony among all religions of the World.
Rest in Peace!
My heart was your disciple, and my sadness proves it.
This is a great loss for all peace loving people in the world. I have not personally met Guru but I have heard about him from his genuine followers and read about him in various articles. May god bless this saint’s soul. May god provide enough courage to all especially his close followers to co-op with this great loss of extra ordinary personality.
Sri Chinmoy’a life was a shining example of the power of devout practice, personal devotion and a fervent inner spirituality. In his quiet, unassuming way, he helped inspire many others to follow along the same spiritual path. He will be missed by many.
Guru, lover of mankind, my life was changed to God due to you!! Thank you for all that you have done for me and for your spirit’s continual looking out for me. I love you. I so much appreciate all that you are. Sri Chinmoy is my Hero!!! In deepest sorrow, Bill Allard
Your incredible musical instruments skills touched my heart during your complimentary concert in San Francisco, California. Regards.
just passing through to express my sadness of this world’s loss of him, i hope the works he started here continue on for a very long time
From Austin, Texas
My tears flow but my heart is not sad. Guru has passed through the veil beyond our sight, but the Sight of him is still in our hearts. I have only known his guidance for 10 years, but I hold that time most precious. The loss of him from this physical life only makes the spiritual connection more dear. He will continue to inspire and guide us, even in his rest.
Dear Guru!
I came back on your path after 9 years because you were pulling me like a magnet to you with your infinite love and compassion.Your immortal smile gave a hope to my life. I know that You will guide me with your invisible hand .My gratitude heart , Toni K.