Swimming Inspiration
My heart swimming
In silver light,
My soul swimming
In ecstasy's height.
Sri Chinmoy, A Soulful Cry Versus A Fruitful Smile
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Question: Does swimming also help us to enter into a higher consciousness?
Sri Chinmoy: Yes. Swimming has its own symbolic value. I always say that we are sailing in the Golden Boat with the Golden Boatman towards the Golden Shore. The spiritual significance of water is consciousness. We are all eager to be in a good consciousness. As soon as we are in water, consciousness enters. So swimming has its own very special reality and divinity. While we are swimming, we can imagine that we are crossing from ignorance-sea into the sea of light and wisdom.
Sri Chinmoy, Sri Chinmoy Answers, Part 33
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Inside you is a divine swimmer
Who is all the time
Swimming inside your heart-river
With tremendous inner joy.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, Part 16
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O seeker,
Can you not see the vast expanse of ocean
Right in front of you?
Why then do you spend your life
Swimming only in the tiniest pond?
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, Part 35
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Songs
Forward to the shore!
God will offer you His silver Throne.
Upward to the stars!
God will offer you His golden Crown.
Inward to the source!
God will offer yo His diamond Heart.
Sri Chinmoy, The Goal Is Won [song #44]
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My heart is swimming and swimming
In the beauty-flood-dawn.
God's Compassion-Eye is beckoning me
From the farthest horizon.
Sri Chinmoy, Enthusiasm, Part 8 [song #72]
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I am running (swimming :)) a marathon.
Self-pity, self-doubt, all gone.
The golden Goal is beckoning me.
I am now ecstasy-flood-sea.
Sri Chinmoy, Run and Become, Become and Run [song #7]
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All Your Grace, all Your Grace,
All Your Grace, all Your Grace,
My Lord Beloved Supreme!
All Your Grace, all Your Grace,
My soul and I are able to join
In Your birthless and deathless Race.
Sri Chinmoy, Self-Transcendence Songs 3,100 [song #11]
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Triathlon Inspiration
Question: Does the triathlon have any spiritual or symbolic significance?
Sri Chinmoy: I have the deepest admiration for those who participate in triathlons. Swimming reminds us of our spiritual life. Right now we are swimming in the sea of ignorance, but we are praying to our Beloved Supreme and meditating on Him to be able to swim in the sea of Light and Delight. When we are running, we are reminded of our birthless and deathless journey along Eternity's Road. Then, while we are cycling, we are reminding ourselves of evolution, of how the world is evolving in cycles. Read more....
Sri Chinmoy, The Outer Running And The Inner Running
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