“New Creation” by Sri Chinmoy

Dear friends, it is our joy today to bring you “New Creation”, originally released as an LP in 1972.

Sri Chinmoy‘s songs speak of an inner world of Peace, Light and Bliss. They speak of Infinity, Eternity and Immortality. But above all, they speak directly to the Supreme, with an intense inner hunger, which we call aspiration. This music can transform our consciousness.

These are devotional songs, and devotion is described as an intense love for God. In this intense love, there is a sense of closeness to the Supreme. The devotee has claimed God as his own, his very own. So he feels the need and the right to ask God for whatever he/she needs. Soulful music unites mankind, for it expresses our common inner cry for a higher, more meaningful life.

When the aspiration is pure, the devotee asks for oneness with the Supreme himself. The devotee asks to be shown the light; the devotee asks for more aspiration. And in singing and playing soulful music, the seeker feed both his own aspiration as well as humanity’s longing. Thus music becomes a pathway to the Infinite, taking us from our limited, finite reality to our own highest, boundless infinite reality.

We are fortunate to have Sri Chinmoy’s translations for some of these songs, as mystical poems with sincere inner feeling. We hope you enjoy both Sri Chinmoy’s singing and the poems these songs manifest.

Here are the translations for some of these songs (unofficial) :

ORE MOR KHEYA
O my boat, O my Boatman,
O message of Transcendental Delight,
Carry me, my heart is thirsty and hungry,
And it is fast asleep at the same time.
Carry my heart to the other shore.
The dance of death I see all around.
The thunder of destruction indomitable I hear.
O my Inner Pilot, You are mine.
You are the Ocean of Compassion infinite,
In You I lose myself,
My all in You I lose.

SHESH KATHATI
My last word You will hear:
With this hope I still exist on earth.
Let me dance in Your Heart always
In the nights of sorrow and in the days of joy.
I feel that the torture of happiness
Is more painful than the torture of sorrow,
For when I am in joy I forget You,
I hurt Your Heart.

AR KATOKAL KANDBO MAGO
How long more shall I cry, Mother?
How long shall I cry in a dark room alone,
loving You?
You know my secret thoughts;
You know my heart’s eagerness.
Why does dark death torture me every day?
How long will You delay, Mother?
How long will You delay?
As Jesus had Mary,
So are You my World-Mother.

EKTI KATHA EKTI SUR
One thought, one tune, one resonance -
Who calls me ever and anon?
I know not where I am,
I know not whither I shall go.
In dark amnesia, myself I buy, myself I sell.
All I break, again all I build.
All I hope to be mine, mine alone.
Alas, my heart is eclipsed by dark and wild destruction-night.
O Bird of Light, O Bird of Light,
With your glowing and flowing flames
Do enter into my heart once again.
You are calling me to climb up and fly into the blue,
But how can I?
My heart is in-prison in the strangled breath of a tiny room.
O Bird of Light, O Bird of Light,
O Bird of Light Supreme,
In me, I pray, keep not an iota of gloom.

SUNDARATAMA ANTARE MAMA SUSHAMA
O Beauty nonpareil, O Beloved,
Do burn the fire of beauty and splendour within my heart.
By loving You, eternally beautiful I shall be.
May Lord Shiva’s destruction-dance destroy all shackles of the finite.
May the Light of the Supreme inundate me, my heart, my heart, my all.
Having loved the infinite, the heart of gloom is crying for the bloom of light.
O Life infinite, give me the eternal hunger, aspiration-cry.
The tiniest drop will lose its raison d’etre in the heart of the boundless ocean.
In fire and air Your life of the Spirit I behold.
O Beauty, O beauty’s gold. O Light of the Supreme!

AMI GAHI GAN TUMI GAHA BALE
I sing because You sing.
I smile because You smile.
Because You play on the flute,
I have become Your flute.
You play in the depths of my heart.
You are mine, I am Yours.
This is my sole identification.
In one form You are my Mother and Father eternal;
And Consciousness-moon, Consciousness-sun all-pervading.

We are grateful to Sri Chinmoy for his most soulful and illumining offering.

Artist: Sri Chinmoy
Release year: 2008 (1972)A
Duration: 46 minutes
Acknowledgements: Sri Chinmoy
Format: Advanced Audio Coding