I am determined to liberate
My life
From the burning attachments
Of my present and past life.
– Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 26, Agni Press, 2002
"I am so pleased with all the good work you are doing for world peace and for people in so many countries. May we continue to work together and to share together all for the glory of God and for the good of man."
Mother Teresa
1 October 1994
Rome, Italy
"All that you are doing is for God. How beautiful! Thank God! God is doing everything for us both. Pray for me."
Mother Teresa
17 October 1995
"May we continue to do God's Work together. How beautiful are all your works for world peace and for all mankind!"
Mother Teresa
13 April 1996
"Again I have read your book about me, page by page. I have enjoyed it very much."
"You have to pray for me every day. You have to pray also for my people - poor people and dying people. You have to pray for them."
"Now listen! I want to open up a Missionaries of Charity House in China. I want you to come with me."
Mother Teresa
27 June 1997
"Thank you for all you are to God, for the beautiful work you have done for the glory of God and the good of souls. I keep you in my prayer and I count on your continual support through your prayers and sacrifices that we may do God's work with great love for His greater glory."
Mother Teresa
27 June 1997
"All that you are doing for the world is for the Glory of God and the good of people! Pray for me, as I pray for you and for all of your many projects for world peace. Your works of love are works of prayer, and your works of prayer are works of God.”
Mother Teresa
27 August 1997
"From my personal feeling I can say that she is both the Mother of compassion and the Sister of affection. When I look at her heart, I see that it is all compassion. When I look at her eyes, I see that they are all affection. She herself is the embodiment of both affection and compassion; these divine qualities inundate her inner being. I have the highest admiration and deepest, deepest love for her. If we had more Mother Teresas on earth, this world of ours would definitely be a world of compassion and a world of oneness." 1
Sri Chinmoy
14 July 1995
Affection-Sister, Compassion-Mother
"Affection-Sister, Compassion-Mother Teresa divine,
Every day God's Smile, Joy and Pride with your soul dine.
Mother, your Calcutta's streaming tears
And bleeding heart you are.
To you the whole world bows and bows from near and far.
Your life is the fragrance of the world-peace-dream-flower.
Yours is the breath that builds God's Satisfaction-Tower." 2Sri Chinmoy
Words to song composed in Mother Teresa's honour
1993 Peace Concert Dedication
"Today’s Peace Concert I am most prayerfully and most soulfully dedicating to Mother Teresa, whose heart is all compassion, whose life is all sacrifice and whose soul is in universal bliss." 3
Sri Chinmoy
Eulogy for Mother Teresa
"Mother Teresa:
Calcutta's Soaring Bird
India's Sailing Moon
The World's Weeping Sky
Earth's Tearing Loss
Heaven's Dancing Gain
The Christ's Blossoming Promise
The Mother Mary's Harvesting Pride." 4*Sri Chinmoy*
Song composed 11 September 1997
"My sisters and brothers of the world,
Are we so blind that we cannot see
God's own Autograph
On Mother Teresa's forehead?" 5
“Mother,
To be in your blessingful presence
Is to breathe in
A breath of living compassion.”
“Mother,
A single whisper from you
Has transformed thousands of non-believers
And disbelievers.”
“If any dying sufferer on earth
Needs someone to cry for him,
With him and in him,
Then he can unmistakably see
Mother Teresa's all-embracing arms
Faster than the fastest
Approaching him.”
“Mother Teresa does many, many things
For the betterment of the world,
But when she washes away
The untold sufferings
Of the unloved ones
With her heart's streaming tears-
That is by far the best.”
“When Mother Teresa approaches
Ill-fated sufferers,
What does she say?
'Do not worry, my child, God is coming.
Indeed, I see in you the living presence
Of Jesus Christ Himself.”
“Mother Teresa is
The dreamer of happiness
In the heart of
Suffering, imprisoned humanity.”
“Mother Teresa, Mother, Mother, Mother:
Humanity's Flower-Heart,
Divinity's Fragrance-Soul.”
Continue reading: The friendship between Mother Teresa and Sri Chinmoy
Related
Sri Chinmoy, Mother Teresa: Humanity’s Flower-Heart, Divinity’s Fragrance-Soul, part 3, Agni Press, 1997↩︎
Affection-Sister, Compassion-Mother Teresa at Sri Chinmoy Songs↩︎
Sri Chinmoy, Mother Teresa: Humanity’s Flower-Heart, Divinity’s Fragrance-Soul, part 3, Agni Press, 1997. On 13 October 1993, Sri Chinmoy had dedicated his Peace Concert held at the Miyazaki Ishi Kaikan, Japan, to Mother Teresa↩︎
Sri Chinmoy, Mother Teresa: Humanity’s Flower-Heart, Divinity’s Fragrance-Soul, part 3, Agni Press, 1997↩︎
Sri Chinmoy, Mother Teresa: Humanity’s Flower-Heart, Divinity’s Fragrance-Soul, part 1, Agni Press, 1997↩︎